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The 2025 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show saw HVC Cigars showcase a pair of tenth-anniversary releases. These were not cigars for the company's tenth anniversary, as that release came out in 2023. Instead, Reiner Lorenzo showcased tenth anniversary releases for two of the earliest HVC lines: HVC La Rosa 520 and HVC Edición Especial 2015. Full PCA Report: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-wlm
The 2025 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show saw HVC Cigars showcase a pair of tenth-anniversary releases. These were not cigars for the company's tenth anniversary, as that release came out in 2023. Instead, Reiner Lorenzo showcased tenth anniversary releases for two of the earliest HVC lines: HVC La Rosa 520 and HVC Edición Especial 2015. Full PCA Report: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-wlm
Red, red wine goes to my head—come on, you know the song! This week on Flavor Odyssey, we're diving into a cigar and drink pairing that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Your Flavor Odyssey hosts are on a mission to find the ultimate cigar and red wine combinations, and we invite you to join the fun with your own pairings! Pairings Robby: True Grit Petite Sirah & HVC 10th Anniversary
ACHP Episode 371: Trending Topics & Cigar News In this action-packed episode, we dive into the latest news and headlines making waves across the country. TikTok made its highly anticipated return to U.S. shores after a temporary outage, crediting former President Trump's "clarity" for the resolution. The Washington Commanders make a major statement by putting the Detroit Lions "back in their cage" in a hard-hitting victory. Meanwhile, in Ohio, a 15-foot-tall bronze statue of Donald Trump is set to tour the nation before being permanently installed at a future Presidential Library. In other political news, President Biden has issued preemptive pardons for key figures including General Milley, Dr. Fauci, and several members of the January 6th committee. We discuss the implications and the reactions from across the political spectrum. Cigar News: The cigar world is heating up as Florida Senator introduces a public smoking ban, with cigars getting an exemption. Chip Goldeen joins the team at Cayman Cigar Co., bringing exciting new developments to the brand. HVC's Hot Cake line is expanding in 2025 with two new vitolas featuring Broadleaf. Meanwhile, McAuliffe Cigars teases their Black Firecracker, set to hit the market in June. Chat GPT Editorial: This week's editorial dives deep into the controversial topic of Generational Tobacco Bans, particularly looking at movements in Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Indiana. Are these bans a necessary step for public health, or a slippery slope that threatens the future of the cigar industry? Presented by Roz's Cigar Emporium in Ocala, Florida, where we'll be hosting a Cut n Light event on February 7 from 3pm to 7pm. Tune in for all of this and more on ACHP Episode 371!
Those who listen to this show likely either manage or invest in rental properties. There are several different types of real estate to choose from, but have you ever considered self-storage units? In today's episode of the #DoorGrowShow, property management growth expert Jason Hull sits down with the “OG” of self-storage real estate investing, Scott Meyers to talk about an opportunity to invest in real estate without the common challenges of residential properties. You'll Learn [01:22] Switching from residential investment properties to storage units [08:35] Investing in self-storage without the management [12:15] Pros and cons of self-storage [14:51] Self-storage education Tweetables “When you have just a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” “Be honest with yourself, and sometimes the best cook in the world can't fix a broken recipe.” “Once you get behind in habitational real estate and rental real estate in general, you know, it takes double the effort to get caught back up again.” “The more valuable you are to your property management business the less valuable your property management business is to everybody else.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive TalkRoute Referral Link Transcript [00:00:00] Scott: Self-storage really found me instead of me finding self-storage. Which I just felt it's a simple, predictable business model that you can replicate over and over again without as many moving parts and that human factor. [00:00:11] Jason: Welcome DoorGrow property managers to the DoorGrow show. If you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, make a difference, increase revenue, help others, impact lives, and you're interested in growing in business and life, and you're open to doing things a bit differently, then you are a DoorGrow property manager. [00:00:28] DoorGrow property managers love the opportunities, daily variety, unique challenges, and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it. You think they're crazy for not because you realize that property management is the ultimate, high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships and residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. I'm your host, property management growth expert, Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow. [00:01:09] Now let's get into the show. All right. So. I'm hanging out here with Scott Meyers. Welcome Scott. [00:01:18] Scott: Thanks. And so good to see you again. How are you? [00:01:20] Jason: Good. Good. It's good to have you. So, why don't we get into your background, how you kind of into this, but Scott, you're a self storage investment expert. Is that fair to say? [00:01:33] Scott: That's fair to say. They call me the OG in self storage now. And I guess I can step into that role. [00:01:38] Jason: All right. The OG, the original gangsta. All right. So tell us a little bit how you got into this. [00:01:44] Scott: So like many people got into real estate by buying one single family rental house. Of course, this is a back a little ways now back in 1993, I bought a single family house. with an assumable VA mortgage on it. So I took out a home equity loan from my own home and bought this one, no money down, just like Carleton Sheets, the other OG in the real estate space taught me how to do. And so I bought that house, we rehabbed it to refinance it, rented it out. [00:02:11] So the BRRRR method before everybody called it the BRRRR method. And then we went out and bought two more. And then that turned into four, six, eight, and my wife and I got married along the way and brought my wife into this hobby. I was working for a fortune 500 company at the time, and this was really just to supplement retirement until it kind of took on a life of its own. [00:02:29] And that was because in 1999 with the dot com crash, when all of our tenants were then able to buy a house shortly after that, because the presidential administration at the time reinstituted the Community Reinvestment Act and allowed anybody who could basically fog a mirror to buy a house while all our tenants left and they were doing so. [00:02:49] And so at that time, we were now rehabbing a second time so that we could sell our houses just to be able to keep up with what the market trend was at the time. Well that just about broke us. And so we decided then to get into multifamily and all we needed to do was get some economies of scale, work a little harder, work a little smarter, and we'll make this all happen. [00:03:08] But really what I found is that we just had more doors, we had more tenants, we had more toilets. And to be honest with you, Jason you know, we made a lot of money in residential real estate and growing that side of the business. I mean, we were very big, we got up to just shy of 450 doors. But I realized that I don't think I was cut out for this. [00:03:24] I understood the math, you know, the real estate math and everything that went into it. But I found even though we had property managers and property management companies, I was finding that I was becoming less loving of my fellow man and women, because they were destroying our properties and stealing from us, as well as our contractors and some of our staff. [00:03:40] And so at that point, I began to look around the landscape and, you know, we love real estate because of all the reasons to love real estate. It appreciates, we can depreciate it. We can borrow money to buy it. And then our clients pay down our basis. I mean, there's no other investment like that. So as I looked at the landscape and real estate, that really only left parking lots and self storage if I really didn't like the tenant and toilet business. [00:04:01] So. I looked into storage and loved what we saw in terms of the fundamentals of the historical, the track record of performance of the asset class. And it was right under my nose all the time. It's just this ugly, you know, stepchild of commercial real estate that nobody was really talking about. So I researched it and spent a lot of time understanding the nuances bought my first self storage facility in a partnership. [00:04:22] And then yeah, the light bulb went off and recognize after owning it from the operation standpoint, that It was truly what everybody had said that it was. And what we found is it was all the benefits of real estate without the hassles of tenants and toilets and trash. And so we began simultaneously selling off our houses and our apartments and then going forward into self storage. [00:04:41] And here we are today at about just shy of 5 million square feet of self storage, 28, 000 doors nationwide and growing. And then along the way, also built a sizable education and consulting and mentoring and coaching and event business that only not only teaches people how to get into the business, but also became a funnel, a conduit for a lot of partnerships and a lot of deal flow into our organization. [00:05:01] So that's either the long winded version on a podcast or the short winded version however you want to look at how we got started in the business. [00:05:07] Jason: Yeah, love it and qualify yourself help everybody understand like where are you at right now with storage and rentals. I mean you got some impressive numbers. [00:05:17] Scott: Yeah, so we're sitting at about we've done over 5 million square feet We're sitting at about three and a half just maybe three and three quarters million square feet right now assets under management So we're right now jason, we're basically a syndication company where we're a financial services company that raises capital and layers that on top of debt and then deploys it in nothing but self storage. [00:05:37] And so many of these projects, these partnerships, these joint ventures in our funds, they have a shelf life and they expire in four to five years because that's when we can capitalize and pull our chips off the table, if you will. And we have a capital event by way of sometimes a refinance, but usually a sale of the property or properties within that fund. [00:05:55] And then we just go out and buy more. So it ebbs and flows when some are going out the door, we have more projects coming in the door as well. I only own two residential properties. One of them is an Airbnb and the other one is the one that I live in. And that's it. Everything else is 100 percent self storage at this point. [00:06:10] Jason: Got it. How many units of storage do you represent then? [00:06:14] Scott: Yeah, so 28 to 29, 000 overall is what we've invested in and we're sitting at about 20, between 20, 000, 21, 000 right now in asset center management. Awesome. [00:06:25] Jason: Wow. Okay. So for those listening that are in residential property management, and they're listening to you what would you say to them? [00:06:34] Like, maybe there's some of them that they're like, "man, I don't want to deal with toilets, tenants and trash anymore." And, you know, "I'm starting to love humans less. And I love real estate," but what's kind of your message? [00:06:49] Scott: You know, in the education side of our business, Jason, of course, when there's a room full of folks interested in self storage, it's really easy to say that you know, I think everybody should have a self storage facility, one in their portfolio, if you're in real estate and, you know, all roads lead to self storage eventually, because I think everybody gets to that place where they do get frustrated and it could be just a day. [00:07:06] It could be, you know, in terms of, "wow, that was a whole lot coming at us." But it doesn't mean that, you know, my recipe is the catch all, you know, when you have just a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And I'm not saying that anybody should go out and do what I have done because we made a lot of money you know, on the residential side and commercial multifamily. [00:07:21] I just found for me, that this self storage really found me instead of me finding self storage. Which I just felt it's a simple, predictable business model that you can replicate over and over again without as many moving parts and that human factor. And so for a knucklehead like me, I think it was the perfect fit to be able to go out and just master this practice and that business model and the standard operating procedures. And then just at scale and at speed go out and just make a go of it. And we grew really fast and never really get over our skis. It was just it's a manageable model as well. And so it just fit for myself. But I would say Jason, when business gets so difficult that it's just absolutely no fun anymore, and it's drudgery... I see many people doing it right now, they're just throwing good money after bad. Well, you know, be honest with yourself, and sometimes the best cook in the world can't fix a broken recipe. And if they find that is the recipe is your business model or just your business in general, then get help. [00:08:13] Or, you know, maybe it's time to take a look at some of their asset classes like self storage. [00:08:17] Jason: So if somebody's an investor and they're wanting to get into this, there's probably a learning curve. There's probably potential pitfalls. So like, yeah, I've tried my Airbnb. That was kind of difficult. I didn't like having to mess with pricing constantly. Like maybe I should try self storage. I'm curious about what you would say to them and then, you know, if somebody's just an investor and they're just looking to just invest, but they're not wanting to really actually manage storage units, then what path would you recommend? [00:08:45] Scott: So sure. Two paths, but also some folks just take a one and end up achieving the same result. So if this is something that you're looking to do actively you know, of course, Jason, I own, you know, I run an education company. And so we're always going to tell you to get education because the cost of not, you know, you pay the dump tax. [00:09:03] And sometimes we've seen people pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the dump tax. And that just means that they've gone out and they've watched a couple of videos read a book and all of a sudden they're experts in masters and this is commercial real estate. There's a lot of nuances to it, no matter what the asset class you pick within commercial real estate, but also because it's commercial real estate, there's lots of commas and zeros to profit from it, which is fantastic. [00:09:23] But also if you make a mistake. Those mistakes in underwriting and in other areas also come with commas and zeros behind them as well. And we've seen many a good investor that maybe it was a little prideful or maybe thought that, "Hey, this is an easy asset class compared to what I've been doing. You know, I can do this with one hand tied behind my back." And then they find out that this is an operating business on top of real estate. And there's more nuances to this and they need to dig in and understand what that looks like, because as you know, once you get behind in habitational real estate and rental real estate in general, you know, it takes double the effort to get caught back up again, and if that goes on for a quarter, sometimes people just can't recover. So, you know, we can go into all the reasons why and the mistakes that people have made, but I think just understanding you need to educate yourself. Now, if you're looking to do this passively, in other words, you don't want to take on the credit risk, you don't want to take on, say, the construction risk or a lease up risk of a turnaround or a development project then you can invest passively. [00:10:20] There's a number of REITs out there and we have funds and individual syndications and joint ventures that we do with folks where they come in as a limited partner. They still get equity. They still have ownership. They have a piece of ownership of this property. So they get the depreciation, they get a share of the cash flow, and then the profits upon the sale. [00:10:38] But they don't take on the lease up risk, the development risk, the risk of a project going south no matter what, and or have to go out and create a business, you know, and a team to be able to do so. And along the way, many folks, Jason, they start as passive investors either with one of our projects or others, and by, by just following along, you know, you get that education. [00:10:59] You know, we hold webinars once a quarter and we send out monthly reports and we send out updates as to what's happening with our projects. And so by def facto, our passive investors are getting an education and they earn while they learn the business. [00:11:11] Jason: Got it. Earn while they learn. Like it. [00:11:15] And that's probably a better path to start out as is to first explore doing it passively to figure out should they jump in and do it more actively. [00:11:24] Scott: I don't know better. That's not my decision to make. I think some folks, if they have a team in place, you know, they can make that pivot just by learning the business, but it just really depends on where they're at. [00:11:34] I would say that it's It's certainly the safest. And if you have a small amount of capital to set aside to invest in a project, that's the best way about doing it. Because once it comes time to do your own, it's going to take a larger chunk of capital to be able to do so unless you're raising private equity. [00:11:49] So you know I can say that is the best and probably is for most people, but not everybody. [00:11:54] Jason: Got it. Yeah. Well, a lot of people listening already have some sort of business, a lot of them, they won't just throw it in, jump right into storage units, maybe. But I think a lot of them, it would resonate with them. [00:12:06] "Hey, then maybe this is another way to diversify my portfolio, another way to invest. I would love to do, try it out passively, and then maybe even get some education." for those that maybe heard the beginning of this and they're like, "Man, I don't have to deal with toilets, tenants, trash, and it's real estate. And it sounds so easy." What are some of the things that maybe they have a blind spot to? That somebody, you know, they would learn once they start doing this, it's not all, you know, stars and rainbows and roses with this as well. [00:12:38] Scott: Right. So, you know, outside of the front end and the due diligence that needs to be done just to make sure that you've bought a solid property from an operational standpoint, which is what you're referring to, you know, what we found is that, you know, a million bucks, 5 million bucks goes a lot further, meaning you buy more doors you buy more square footage and it allows us more doors because these are metal boxes on concrete slabs and they're not, you know, multifamily that has drywall and plumbing and, you know, a lot of HVC, it just goes further. [00:13:03] So that means that there are more units to be able to keep track of. You know, the good news is there's software and we do have property management companies and property managers to handle that and a lot of it is automated, but at the end of the day, you know, it's a large amount of units and a large amount of rental tracking that needs to be done to make sure that the dollars come in the door. On the flip side of that, just because I am a bright side up, kind of guy, you know, we have the ability with our leasing structure within self storage that, you know, it's a 30 day lease automatically renewable. And so anytime that we want to raise the rates, we don't have to wait. It's not an anniversary. It's not an annual lease. It is a month. And so that means on month seven, if we see that the market is changing and the demand is higher and there's a whole lot of development going on, then we can raise the rates in seven months. [00:13:46] We can do it in four months. We can do some nuisance increases in between, you know, either way, and we're very flexible when it comes to that. But then also, the good news is even if people do fall behind in the rent, you know, we have the ability to, or we have the power behind us of the lien laws instead of habitational or versus habitational real estate in which you have tenant and toilet courts. And so when I used to walk out of there, I had a pink piece of paper and very little ability to be able to get my money back and to be able to you know, execute on getting that the money back in the door. [00:14:18] But with self storage and the lien laws. We can put a lock on their unit, lock them out and we don't have to go to court within 60 or 90 days depending upon the state, my manager or an auction company will cut the lock off and open it up for bids on the date that we have an auction and I can recoup my back rent to my late fees and, you know, we are the judge and jury so we don't have to wait. [00:14:36] I know you asked for the pitfalls but, you know, the good side is that you know, even though there's a lot of units to manage the, just because of the nature of the industry and the safeguards that we have in place, it's much, much easier and simpler to handle. [00:14:48] Jason: Awesome. Cool. Well, yeah, this is very informative. [00:14:51] Tell us a little bit about your education company, what you do there and and maybe how people can get in touch if they're curious. [00:14:58] Scott: So on the education side, you know, when I got into business, you know, there wasn't an education company out there. There wasn't anybody that I could go to to learn the, you know, the A to Z to the nuts and bolts of the business. [00:15:10] I could certainly go to the trade shows and some of the industry events and I can learn about doors and how to build these facilities and some of the, you know, the bolt on property management software. But there wasn't anybody teaching about the investment side of the business. And so, you know, we scraped as much as we could, you know, leaning on and building on the foundation that we had in commercial real estate already by owning multifamily and office buildings and warehouses. [00:15:30] But just digging into this business and talking to as many people as possible. And I hired a consultant to fill in the gaps and spend a day with him touring his facilities and others that he managed for other investors. And, you know, that's how we grew our you know, bank of knowledge and created our standard operating procedures, at least the foundation of it. [00:15:48] But then after we got into the business a little further down the path and buying facilities I used to run the Real Estate Investor Association here in Indianapolis. And we had 600 folks in the association. And about 300 of them wanted to know about self storage after they saw what we were doing. [00:16:04] And so we started holding workshops and then some of the agents that represent the national speakers in the industry, again, there wasn't a person speaking and experts on the industry. And so they contacted me and one of them assisted me in setting up presentations, the ability to sell tools and resources for folks, and then helped us to create a live events, and thus, our education industry was born. It was really just out of a, I guess, like any good entrepreneur, you see an opportunity in the marketplace and a hole to be filled, and we stepped in and filled that. And so it's evolved from just a home study system, which is, you know, that's such a guru, you know, term to use that what we developed, what we put together was a very extensive business plan with all the tools, the resources and links and software, you know, and everything you need to find, manage, purchase a self storage facility. And that is the name of our home study system. And then that evolved into live events, three day events, which is an immersive workshop and then also for folks that are looking for either one on one or a group coaching and mentoring, you know, begin offering that. And to this day, still offer that. And so we have you know, we're the nation's leading education company in the space. [00:17:14] We've taught more people how to get into the business and grow and scale the business and than anybody else out there in any other organization out there and still going strong at this is what we'd love to do is, you know, we love to take people from zero to 55 miles an hour in storage. [00:17:26] And then in our mastermind and in our other areas, we like to take them from 55 to a hundred and build partnerships and do syndications with them as well. Awesome. [00:17:35] Jason: Yeah. Sounds very much like our goal here at DoorGrow for the residential space. So what's the name of your education company? [00:17:44] Scott: Self Storage Profits is the name of the education company. [00:17:46] SelfStorageInvesting.com is the website for all the tools and the resources, a ton of free information, pull downs, white papers, a whole lot to not only just dip your toe in the water, but really to help you get started, and then anything else that you would want or need with regards to coaching, mentoring, attending our live events, it's all located on that page as well, including access to our passive investments as well. [00:18:11] Jason: Very cool. Awesome. Cool. Well, I appreciate you coming on the show, hanging out with us here on the DoorGrow show. It sounds really interesting. I think there's a lot of our clients that are involved in different types of management. And so this may be another one that everybody should maybe take a look at that could be interesting. I think it's fantastic. Or as to do management, you know directly so very cool. Scott, thanks for coming on the show. Appreciate you. [00:18:39] Scott: My pleasure, Jason. Good to see you again [00:18:41] Jason: Good to see you. All right So if you are a property management entrepreneur and you're dealing with frustrations, you can go start a storage unit business as well. So appreciate Scott for being on the show. If you would like our help in cleaning up your business so that you don't hate it and getting you out of that first level of exit of doing the frontline work and getting out of the next exit and the next exit until maybe eventually you decide to sell that business, we can help you with that because the more valuable you are to your property management business the less valuable your property management business is to everybody else. And what I find with clients is as we ascend them through these levels of exit, It becomes more and more business that they would enjoy keeping perhaps And so let's see if we can ascend you and get you past that first exit at least, maybe the next exit where you're out of managing the people in the team and you've got an operator and things are really smooth and so if you would like our help here DoorGrow reach out to us at DoorGrow.com And until next time, to our mutual growth. Bye everyone. [00:19:45] you just listened to the #DoorGrowShow. We are building a community of the savviest property management entrepreneurs on the planet in the DoorGrowClub. Join your fellow DoorGrow Hackers at doorgrowclub.com. Listen, everyone is doing the same stuff. SEO, PPC, pay-per-lead content, social direct mail, and they still struggle to grow! [00:20:11] At DoorGrow, we solve your biggest challenge: getting deals and growing your business. Find out more at doorgrow.com. 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Hey du wundervoller Mensch und willkommen zu Episode 3 und somit unserer letzen Folge von MANIFEST! Heute endet unsere gemeinsame Secret Podcast Reise hier, und du kannst wirklich stolz auf dich sein, dass du bis hierher konsequent zugehört und deine Tagesaufgaben erledigt hast. In der letzten Episode erkläre ich dir, wie ich konstant und in Leichtigkeit manifestiere. Ich werde meinen Schritt-für-Schritt-Prozess mit dir teilen – denselben Prozess, den bereits Tausende meiner Absolventinnen im HVC erfolgreich angewendet haben. Du hast in den letzten Tagen so viel Flow kreiert, und jetzt geht es darum, diesen Flow und das erworbene Wissen in die Praxis umzusetzen und dauerhaft beizubehalten. Ich erkläre dir, wie es für dich zur Normalität wird, kontinuierlich an dir und deinem Traumleben zu arbeiten. Fang an, wie deine beste Version zu fühlen, zu handeln und zu leben und verlieben dich Tag für Tag mehr in diese Version von dir. Sei stolz auf jeden noch so kleinen Fortschritt, den du bereits erzielt hast. Im heutigen Q&A beantworte ich folgende Fragen: Nadine möchte wissen, wie sie ihre Manifestationstools kontinuierlich nutzen kann, ohne sie in Vergessenheit geraten zu lassen, und wie sie diese dauerhaft in ihr Leben integrieren kann. Ingrid fragt, wie sie sich erfolgreich und dauerhaft umprogrammieren kann, um wie ihre beste Version zu handeln. Wow, wie magisch und kraftvoll waren diese drei Tage bei MANIFEST! Ich hoffe, du fühlst dich voller Energie und so bereit wie nie zuvor, dein Traumleben zu leben. Deine Zeit ist jetzt! Auf dich und deine Manifestationen! Deine Dijana Hier gehts zur VIP Warteliste des High Vibe Clubs: https://highvibeminds.com/high-vibe-club-warteliste
Nate hits the road to Hunter-Tannersville for the first of two interviews recorded at HTC. In this first session, Nate visits with Hannah Esslie. She is the owner of the Hudson Valley Crusaders. Members of United Women's Soccer, HVC is a professional team with talent from all over the northeast. Hannah is only 20 years old and also plays in college at Buffalo State. Hear how she balances her time and energy as she follows her dreams of building a soccer empire.
This week the boys are joined by former MLB player, cigar aficionado, and Syracuse Mets Coach J.P. Arencibia. We got to talk about what it was like to make it to the pros and what it was like to make MLB history in his debut. We then got into how his love of cigars developed after his playing career. J.P. Also shared the story of how he met his now wife. (Here's a hint shoot your shot boys) This all went down while we reviewed the 2024 rendition of the Espinosa Knuckle Sandwich Chef's Special. Patrol Gone Wild this week is back with another child star in trouble with the law, an online gamer taking the rivalry way too personal, and a Gold digger murder plot foiled! Caleb's got more news this week with PCA announcing their new man in charge, a new release from HVC, and Maker's Mark dropping a new expression! Cigar: Espinosa Knuckle Sandwich "Chefs Special 2024" Whiskey: Bulleit 95 Rye 12yr, WLW 2023 (donated by in studio guest) Cigars donated by Espinosa Cigars and Whiskey was purchased by Down To Herf Podcast! A huge thank you to our show sponsors Crowned Heads Cigars and Dunbarton Tobacco and Trust! Make sure you're checking them out for all of your cigar needs! https://www.crownedheads.com https://www.dunbartoncigars.com SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL AND WATCH ALL OF OUR EPISODES IN STUDIO! Join The After Herf Show on Patreon Now! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/DownToHerfPodcast Visit our Social Media Pages for News and More! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/downtoherfpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/downtoherfpodcast/
This week on Smoke Night LIVE, Reinier Lorenzo of HVC joins the show to discuss his new cigar releases and how things are going with his new factory in Estelí. We will also ask Reinier to help us (remotely) make the world's best mojito. What's the over/under timeframe until Reinier loses his voice? You'll have to tune in to find out.
In this week's episode of the Long Ash Podcast, we welcome Reinier Lorenzo, founder and master blender of HVC Cigars. Reinier talked to us about his unorthodox journey to becoming a cigar blender, and what we can look forward to from HVC this year! Enjoy!
Hey du wundervoller Mensch! Ich bin unfassbar stolz auf dich, dass du dich die letzten Tage zur Priorität Nr. 1 gemacht hast. Wow, was bin ich beeindruckt von deinen Erkenntnissen und Durchbrüchen. Nachdem du dich bereit gemacht hast, in YOUR BEST VERSION ERA zu treten und die ersten Schritte gegangen bist, nehmen wir nun heute an Geschwindigkeit auf! In der heutigen Folge wirst du unter anderem lernen: Meinen Schritt für Schritt Prozess, um deine Best Version Era zu leben Was die grösste Lüge über das Manifestieren ist Wie du dein Potenzial nutzen kannst, um deine Träume und dein bestes Leben zu leben Wie du dieses unglaubliche Momentum, das du die letzten Tage aufgebaut hast, weiter aufrechterhalten kannst Die Warteliste des High Vibe Clubs ist offen und du kannst deinen Namen jetzt unverbindlich eintragen, damit du als eine der ersten erfährst, wann der High Vibe Club seine Türen zum voraussichtlich ersten und einzigem Mal für dieses Jahr wieder öffnet. Dies ist nämlich schon ganz bald der Fall, nämlich bereits am Montag, 06.05.2024. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, dich im HVC zu sehen und deine Erfolgsgeschichte zu feiern. Lass dich jetzt auf die HVC Warteliste setzen. Auf dich und deine Manifestationen! Deine Dijana
HVC Cigars had three new offerings at the 2024 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. It's been almost two years since HVC opened its own factory, Fabrica de Tabacos HVC S.A. The factory has proven in a short time that it can deliver quality products and allowed HVC to expand its horizons regarding the tobacco it uses. PCA 2024 Report: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-sy0
HVC Cigars had three new offerings at the 2024 Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show. It's been almost two years since HVC opened its own factory, Fabrica de Tabacos HVC S.A. The factory has proven in a short time that it can deliver quality products and allowed HVC to expand its horizons regarding the tobacco it uses. PCA 2024 Report: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-sy0
Reinier Lorenzo and HVC Cigars have been rising up the charts of the most loved and smoked cigars on our Dojoverse all-time leaderboard. This week, we highlight the HVC brand and seek out the best HVC drink pairings. As usual, we ask the audience to join the fun and pair right along with us as we explore hits such as: Selección No. 1, Hot Cake, Serie A, and the 500 Year Anniversary. Pairings Randy: HVC 500 & Sabbatical Straight Bourbon
In this episode, we dive into the latest news and updates from the cigar industry and beyond. We start with STG's 2023 financial report, revealing a slight increase in revenue but a dip in profits. The highly anticipated Liga Privada Year of the Dragon has finally hit the shelves, and we explore the Year of the Dragon-themed cigars from various other brands like Davidoff, General Cigar Co., and Gurkha, among others. Next, we discuss the latest announcements from the Premium Cigar Association (PCA). Rocky Patel is set to debut the Gold Label at PCA 2024, while Cavalier Genève is adding a Petit N2 vitola to three lines and showcasing Tempura. My Father's El Centurion H-2K-CT is expanding with a new size, and Don Pepin's Vintage Edition is adding two vitolas and expanding to all retailers at PCA 2024. We also highlight the $150 Montecristo 1935 Anniversary Edición Doble Diamante and Fratello's Arlequín Connecticut, both debuting at PCA 2024. B.A.M.F. Cigars is adding "Ptsita" and Area 51 Alien, and HVC is releasing the Hot Cake Fresh Out of the Oven Broadleaf at PCA 2024. In a more sobering segment, we discuss the recent incident involving Arnold Abbott and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who were charged for feeding the homeless in public. This comes as the city enforces a new ordinance banning public food sharing, sparking debate and criticism. Tune in as we unpack these topics and more, offering our insights and perspectives on the latest happenings in the world of cigars and beyond.
Pastor Derek shared some exciting new news about a new direction for our church. Sharing some miraculous happenings here at HVC. Support the show
Welcome to Episode 317 of A Cigar Hustlers Podcast! This week, we dive into the well-deserved recognition of Roma Craft Tobac as Halfwheel's Company of the Year, exploring the remarkable st reak of achievements since 2018. From consistent excellence to their recent triumph, we dissect why Roma Craft Tobac stands out in the cigar world. In a special segment, we connect with Mathew Tobacco of Smokin Tobacco to express our gratitude for our spot on his Top 25 Cigar list – cheers to the hustle! But that's not all! Luciano Cigars is making waves in New Zealand, HVC and E.P. Carrillo announce price adjustments, and Howard G Cigars shares updates on pricing and sales strategies for 2024. And of course, don't miss the exciting news from Drew Estate about the 2024 Barn Smoker dates and locations, along with a sneak peek at their upcoming Freestyle Live Pack. Tune in for your weekly dose of the latest cigar industry insights, laughs, and all things smokin'!
Join us as we feature Founder and Head of Happiness Pam Victor. HVC has been a mainstay in Hadley since 2014 and teaching us to be present in the moment all the while. Pam and Scott Braiden have teamed up for yet another twist in their offerings. A campaign to raise funds for the space next door so that HVC can be more and do more for others. Listen as we learn about Pam's why and how you can join in the laughter and support your movement of emotion from the internal to the external environment. As Pam says, it's cheaper than therapy. Join us!
和詹同学一起回顾了OpenAI首次Dev Day，简直是一次里程碑式的发布了！OpenAI完整的呈现了它的野心和路径：chatbot -> AI Agent -> AGI，并且坚定的产品化的不断实践在竞争对手还在做chatbot的show cases时，OpenAI已经完整展开了两个生态：一个是ChatGPT+GPTs，以chat为核心交互的全新体验；一个是以Assistants API为核心的能融入现有任何产品形态做AI+的模式目前GPTs及GPT Builder都已对订阅用户开放，来体验下我做的小东西吧：https://chat.openai.com/g/g-O8VXL4opJ-emoji-sparklesOpenAI开发者大会 DevDay 2023 直播视频（中英文精校）】 https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15e411X75q/?share_source=copy_web&vd_source=1dc1940899d23c495584b2398c77593a00:49 OpenAI 2023回顾2022.11 GPT-32023.03 ChatGPT; Whisper; plugins2023.04 GPT-42023.05 ChatGPT app for iOS2023.06 Function calling2023.07 Custom instructions for ChatGPT2023.08 GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning2023.10 多模态：语音，图片，DALL-E3ChatGPT Enterprise2M Developers， 92% HVC，1亿WAUHow people use the product, how people use AI26:27 GPT-4 Turbocontext length to 128k: 16X comparing to GPT-4. 300 pagesmore control: JSON Mode; call multi-functions at once; reproducible output using seedbetter world knowledge: up to 2023.04new modalities API: DALL-E3, GPT-4 Turbo with vision, TTS, Whisper V3Customization, Custom Models: fine-tuning for long context GPT-3.5 and GPT-4Higher rate limits: 2x tokens per minuteCopyright ShieldPrice: 3x less for Input tokens(1 cent for 1000 input tokens) and 2x less for output tokens(3 cent for 1000 output tokens); lower cost for GPT-3.5 and fine-tuning as wellPartnership with MicrosoftAzure: Infrastructure buildingMissionSafety50:19 ChatGPTNow using GPT-4 TurboAll in one 可以使用现有tools ChatGPT会自己选择使用什么tools → AI AgentTell AI what you need and it'll do all of these tasks for you.GPTs: 针对特定用途定制的ChatGPT三个最重要的自定义组件: instructions; expanded knowledge; actions在执行操作和数据交互时的用户确认三个主要场景: private; public; businessGPT Builder: 使用NLP构建GPTsGPT Store: for public GPTsRevenue sharing 头部GPTs62:13 Assistants API (API version AI Agent)Threading: 对话历史记录Retrieval: expended knowledgeActionsCode interpreter: If there's no proper toolsFunction callingPlaygroundNameInstructionModelToolsThreads and Messages: keep adding messages into a thread67:27 谈谈感受与未来两个生态：ChatGPT+GPTs & Assistants APIbenchmarkAI颠覆娱乐业
HVC welcomes Special Guest, Brigette Metcalf!There is sweetness in the struggle!"And he started to share. He was so like it was like I was talking to a winemaster or something like that. And he starts to tell me all about it. He said, Bridget, it's not about being in Italy. It 's not being in Napa Valley. It 's not about these different locations. He goes, It 's all about the struggle. And I was like, what? He goes, It 's all about the struggle. So Jeffrey starts to say, Bridget, the best wines the vine had to go through the biggest struggle. He goes, if the soil is too soft and it doesn't have any adversity in it, he goes, the grape is not as sweet. He goes, but it has a little rocks and it has a little bit of a hard time getting through the soil and stuff like that. It has to fight to go down into the soil to be stable. He goes, that makes the sweetest grape. And I was like, can I use that for a sermon? I literally started writing this down as he was telling me this story. And I thought, wow, is that not what our life is like? We think that the struggle is going to take us out. We think that it's going to wipe us off the map. But guess what it does? It actually makes us stronger. It makes us sweeter. It makes us appreciate life more. It makes us kinder. And you know what? It makes us more attractive. People want to be around those sweeter people. When I'm bitter, nobody wants to be around me. When I'm ugly, nobody wants to be around me. But when I give it to Jesus and I go through the struggle, it doesn't say that he'll take us out, takes us through takes us through the struggle. That 's what God is wanting to do in our lives. He wants to make us sweeter. He wants to make us more generous. He wants us to care about things that are beyond us, not just in our own little world."Support the show
Over the past two years, HVC Cigars made a couple of significant moves toward vertical integration. In June 2021, the company announced it would be handling its own distribution which includes warehousing and order fulfillment. Almost a year later in June 2022, the company announced it was opening its own factory – Fabrica de Tabacos HVC S.A. It has continued expanding production out of the factory since then. Earlier this year, there was an expansion to the HVC Selección No. 1 HVC Selección No. 1 Natural. At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, an expansion was done to the HVC Hot Cake line in the form of a Connecticut Shade cigar known as the HVC Hot Cake Golden Line. The HVC Hot Cake Golden Line would be the first Connecticut Shade cigar by HVC. Both of these cigars would come out of the HVC factory. Full PCA Report: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-qeX
Over the past two years, HVC Cigars made a couple of significant moves toward vertical integration. In June 2021, the company announced it would be handling its own distribution which includes warehousing and order fulfillment. Almost a year later in June 2022, the company announced it was opening its own factory – Fabrica de Tabacos HVC S.A. It has continued expanding production out of the factory since then. Earlier this year, there was an expansion to the HVC Selección No. 1 HVC Selección No. 1 Natural. At this year's Premium Cigar Association (PCA) Trade Show, an expansion was done to the HVC Hot Cake line in the form of a Connecticut Shade cigar known as the HVC Hot Cake Golden Line. The HVC Hot Cake Golden Line would be the first Connecticut Shade cigar by HVC. Both of these cigars would come out of the HVC factory. Full PCA Report: https://wp.me/p6h1n1-qeX
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.25.550508v1?rss=1 Authors: Koparkar, A., Warren, T. L., Charlesworth, J. D., Shin, S., Brainard, M. S., Veit, L. Abstract: Complex motor skills like speech and dance are composed of ordered sequences of simpler elements, but the neuronal basis for syntactic ordering of individual actions into sequences is poorly understood. Birdsong is a learned vocal behavior composed of syntactically ordered sequences of individual syllables. Activity in song premotor nucleus HVC (proper name) has been linked to the control of syllable sequencing, but sequencing may also be affected by its recurrent inputs. We here test the contribution of one of HVC's inputs, mMAN (medial magnocellular nucleus of the anterior nidopallium), to the variable songs of adult male Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata domestica). The syntax of Bengalese song includes several patterns: 1) chunks, where syllables follow stereotypical order 2) branch points, where a given syllable can be followed by two or more different syllables in a probabilistic manner and 3) repeat phrases, where an individual syllable is repeated a variable number of times. We found that after bilateral lesions of mMAN, the acoustic structure of syllables remained largely intact, but sequencing became more variable for each of these patterns, seen by 'breaks' in previously stereotyped chunks, increased uncertainty at branch points and increased variability of repeat numbers. This increase in sequencing variability highlights the potential importance of regions projecting to HVC in the ordering of vocal elements. Previous studies on zebra finches found little effect of mMAN lesions on their relatively stereotyped adult song. In contrast, our results suggest that mMAN contributes to sequencing the variable songs of Bengalese finches and highlight the utility of species with more complex song syntax in investigating neuronal control of ordered motor sequences. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.07.14.548876v1?rss=1 Authors: Shvedov, N. R., Analoui, S., Dafalias, T., Bedell, B. L., Gardner, T. J., Scott, B. B. Abstract: Neuron migration is a key phase of neurogenesis, critical for the assembly and function of neuronal circuits. In songbirds, this process continues throughout life, but how these newborn neurons disperse through the adult brain is unclear. We addressed this question using in vivo two-photon imaging in transgenic songbirds that express GFP in young neurons. In juvenile and adult birds, migratory cells were present at a high density, traveled in all directions, and made frequent course changes. Notably, these dynamic migration patterns were well fit by a superdiffusive model. Simulations revealed that these diffusion-like dynamics were sufficient to disperse new neurons throughout the song nucleus HVC. These results suggest that diffusion-like migration may underlie the formation and maintenance of nuclear brain structures in the postnatal brain and indicate that transgenic songbirds are a useful resource for future studies into the mechanisms of adult neurogenesis. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC
More details emerging on the passengers aboard the missing submarine. This may be a whole new conspiracy theory JT can sink her teeth into. Plus tonight's the night at HVC! Details below! Two live podcast recordings in one night at Hail Varsity Club! Tonight starting at 4:30, we'll be recording our podcast with special guest Malia White from Below Deck Mediterranean on Bravo and host of "Total Ship Show" & "30, Flirty, And Flying" on the Hurrdat Media Network. Then at 7:00, Brian Mcfayden, from MTV, and Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC, will be recording the FIRST episode of their new podcast called "Name Drop." We're pumped to add that show to our ever growing stable of shows on the Hurrdat Media Network! Register HERE! You have to register for both events if you want to attend both! Thanks to our podcast partner Centris Federal Credit Union! You can rep our show! Buy some Pat and JT Podcast swag HERE! Subscribe, rate, and review our podcast wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss an episode! Also follow up on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram A Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a digital media and commercial video production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network and learn more about our other services today on HurrdatMedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of the HighView Podcast, Pastor Tyler, Pastor Chad, and Pastor Josh reflect on their experience during HighView Church's season of "mobile church." They discuss the challenges HighView faced and the valuable lessons they learned from taking worship gatherings on the road. The guys share their thoughts and insights into the impact that mobile church had on the congregation, and what they are most looking forward to as HVC enters the next season. Tune in to this insightful episode to hear more about their reflections on this unique season in HighView Church's history. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/highviewpodcast/message
Tijdens de Nacht van Gebed (9 op 10 juni) bidden honderden christenen in Nederland en Vlaanderen voor de vervolgde kerk. In de nieuwe aflevering van Sprekend RD vertelt Open Doors-directeur Maarten Dees hoe kerkmuren -die soms torenhoog kunnen lijken- wegvallen in de steun voor vervolgde christenen. En een christen uit Jemen die voor zijn geloof gevangen zat, legt uit waarom bidden zo belangrijk is. Reacties, vragen of tips? Mail naar podcast@rd.nlMeer Reformatorisch Dagblad?Eerdere afleveringen zijn ook te vinden op: https://www.rd.nl/sprekendrdNieuwsbrief: https://www.rd.nl/nieuwsbriefInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rdbeeldFacebook: https://nl-nl.facebook.com/refdagYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/refdag
Hey du wundervoller Mensch,das Jahr 2022 war das Jahr voller Entscheidungen für Lena. Sie wusste, sie hat so viele Ideen und Träume, die nur darauf warten umgesetzt zu werden, wäre da nicht diese große Angst und das fehlende Selbstvertrauen. Lena hatte diesen Traum ein eigenes Buch zu schreiben und eine Weltreise zu machen. Ihre Angst jedoch hat sie buchstäblich gelähmt und sie steckte fest in ihren Limitierungen.Im November 2022 hat Lena die Entscheidung getroffen, dem HVC beizutreten. Lena atmete bereits einige Zeit vorher schon Persönlichkeitsentwicklung, jedoch fehlte ihr der rote Faden und die Struktur zu wissen, was wirklich wichtig ist und wie sie wirklich in ihrem Wachstum vorankommen kann.Lena hat sich zu 1000 % auf den HVC eingelassen und ist Schritt für Schritt einzelne Workshops durchgegangen. Sie merkte zunehmend wie viel stärker sie wurde und wie ihr Selbstvertrauen mehr und mehr zunahm. Sie wusste, es ist endlich an der Zeit sich und ihre Träume in den Fokus zu stellen und hat den Entschluss gefasst, das Schreiben ihres Buches und ihre Weltreise endlich aktiv anzugehen. Sie hatte schließlich so viel Vertrauen aufgebaut, dass sie wusste, dass sich für sie Wege finden werden, um ihre Projekte umsetzen zu können. Lena hat sich durch den HVC eine für sie dienende Morgenroutine aufbauen können und hat Momentum kreiert, so dass sie einen Schritt nach dem anderen manifestierte. Es kamen plötzlich Menschen in Lena's Leben, die sie dabei supportet haben, ihr Buchprojekt umzusetzen.Für Lena ist der HVC eine Inspirations- und Wissensquelle, eine Community, in der die Erfolge anderer gefeiert werden und zeigen, dass alles möglich ist im Leben. Lena ist voller Dankbarkeit sich selbst gegenüber und dem Leben.In der heutigen Episode erfährst du: ✨Wie Lena ihr erstes Buch und eine Weltreise manifestiert hat✨ Wie Lena durch den HVC für sich dienende Routinen aufgebaut hat✨ Wie Lena es geschafft hat, Momentum zu kreieren und einen Durchbruch nach dem anderen erfahren hatWir verlosen unter allen Bewertungen unseres Podcasts auf iTunes und Spotify exklusive Plätze in einem HVC Q&A LIVE, welches alle 2 Monate im High Vibe Club stattfindet.Wenn du in den Lostopf möchtest, dann darfst du uns eine schriftliche Bewertung auf iTunes schreiben oder uns eine Sternebewertung auf Spotify geben, einen Screenshot davon machen und den Screenshot via Mail an podcast@highvibeminds.com senden.Ich wünsche dir super viele Insights und Learnings aus der heutigen Folge, denn wie immer darfst du auch heute erwarten, viel für dich mitzunehmen, um dein persönliches Wachstum umzusetzen.Auf dich und deine Manifestationen!Deine DijanaTrete JETZT dem High Vibe Club bei!https://highvibeminds.com/Folge Dijana für alle juicy Nuggets und sehr viel Input zu Manifestation, Mindset & Money:Instagram http://www.instagram.de/Diana_Delo TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dianadelo YouTube https://wwwFolge Dijana für alle juicy Nuggets und sehr viel Input zu Manifestation, Mindset & Money:Instagram http://www.instagram.de/Diana_Delo TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dianadelo YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DianadeloFolge Dali auf Instagram und hole dir London und Palma Vibes nach Hause:http://www.instagram.de/perfectscorner
In the latest episode of the Cigar Hustlers Podcast, episode 280, several stories are covered in the cigar industry. Firstly, Fuerte y Libre will be increasing their prices on June 1st. Additionally, the dates for the 2024 PROCIGAR event have been announced for February 18th to 23rd, and tickets usually go on sale in the summer. The OpusX BigB is returning for the 2023 Fuente Aged Selection releases. This humidor comes with 102 cigars and a copy of the book “Arturo Fuente: Since 1912”. The humidor is made of red sycamore and okume and can hold up to 300 cigars. Each humidor costs $11,000, and a portion of sales will be donated to the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation. 50 humidors will ship in June, and the remaining 50 will ship in December. HVC is celebrating their 10th anniversary with the release of the HVC 10th Anniversary 54, which will be shipping tomorrow. My Father is also releasing their new Don Pepin Vintage Edition, which will be shipping this week. Sinistro is releasing the El Burro Connecticut this week as well.
Hey du wundervoller Mensch,Kennst du das? Du stehst an der Kasse, der zu zahlende Betrag erscheint im Display der Kasse und in dir drin kommt ein ungutes Gefühl auf? So geht es hunderten, tausenden von Menschen und unter anderem erging es so auch Karin, unserer HVC Absolventin, bevor sie dem High Vibe Club beigetreten ist. Karin drehte sich beim Bezahlen an der Kassen buchstäblich der Magen um. Ihre Gedanken drehten sich um das Thema Geld - allerdings im negativen Sinne. - Eines Tages hat Karin's Tochter ihr die Augen geöffnet, als die so unfassbar von dem permanenten Geld-Struggle genervt war. Sie sagte: "MAMA, EUERE LOW MONEY SITUATION NERVT!" Dies war einer der ausschlaggebenden Momente, in denen Karin wusste, dass sie etwas gravierend verändern will.Sie wollte es nicht mehr akzeptieren, mit Mitte 40 im ständigen Geldmangel zu leben. Sie traf eine Entscheidung!Durch den High Vibe Podcast erfuhr sie zum ersten Mal überhaupt, was das Thema Money Mindset bedeutet. So kam sie auch auf den HVC und meldete sich zur nächsten Runde im High Vibe Club an. Der Room 111 war einer der ersten Räume, den Karin besuchte. Sie wusste, das Thema Money Mindset bekommt ihre volle Aufmerksamkkeit. Aber nicht nur das Thema Money Mindset konnte Karin zum positiven verändern. Durch den HVC hat sie sich entschlossen, ihr Textil Gewerbe aufzugeben und sie manifestierte einen wundervollen Job an einer Schule als Kunstlehrerin. Karin kann ihr Wissen sowohl aus ihrer Kunstleidenschaft als auch aus dem HVC an die Kinder weitergeben.Was für ein unglaublicher Gewinn für die Kinder! ✨Ich könnte dir endlos weiter berichten über all' die wundervollen Veränderungen in Karin's Leben, aber hör' am besten selbst in diese grandiose Episode. In der heutigen Episode erfährst du: ✨Wie Karin ihre negative Beziehung zu GELD durch den HVC shiften konnte✨ Wie sie durch den HVC gelernt hat, GELD in ihr Leben zu ziehen✨ Wie Karin ihre Leidenschaft zum BERUF machen konnteWir verlosen unter allen Bewertungen unseres Podcasts auf iTunes und Spotify exklusive Plätze in einem HVC Q&A LIVE, welches alle 2 Monate im High Vibe Club stattfindet.Wenn du in den Lostopf möchtest, dann darfst du uns eine schriftliche Bewertung auf iTunes schreiben oder uns eine Sternebewertung auf Spotify geben, einen Screenshot davon machen und den Screenshot via Mail an podcast@highvibeminds.com senden.Ich wünsche dir super viele Insights und Learnings aus der heutigen Folge, denn wie immer darfst du auch heute erwarten, viel für dich mitzunehmen, um dein persönliches Wachstum umzusetzen.Auf dich und deine Manifestationen!Deine DijanaFolge Dijana für alle juicy Nuggets und sehr viel Input zu Manifestation, Mindset & Money:Instagram http://www.instagram.de/Diana_Delo TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dianadelo YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DianadeloFolge Dali auf Instagram und hole dir London und Palma Vibes nach Hause:http://wwFolge Dijana für alle juicy Nuggets und sehr viel Input zu Manifestation, Mindset & Money:Instagram http://www.instagram.de/Diana_Delo TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dianadelo YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DianadeloFolge Dali auf Instagram und hole dir London und Palma Vibes nach Hause:http://www.instagram.de/perfectscorner
Hey du wundervoller Mensch,Julia ist bereits seit langer Zeit im High Vibe Club und konnte Runde für Runde ihr Leben auf ein nächstes Level bringen. Heute berichtet sie über ihr Traumleben, welches sie durch den High Vibe Club manifestiert hat. Ich bin mir sicher, dass Julia dich mit ihrer unglaublich positiven Energie mitreißen wird und dass auch du nach diesem Podcast absolut on fire bist, dein Leben auf das nächste Level zu bringen.Als Julia sich aufgrund einer Krise ein zweites Standbein aufbaute, lief ihr Business zunächst sehr schleppend. Ihre negativen Glaubenssätze, wie zum Beispiel, dass sie nicht gut genug sei, ihr viel Geld nicht zusteht und sie es nicht wert sei, all' das Gute zu verdienen, blockierten sie massiv. Sie wusste aber, dass sie etwas verändern muss, um aus ihrem Job mit einer 80-Stunden Woche rauszukommen.Zu diesem Zeitpunkt kam der High Vibe Club in Julias Leben. Als sie sich dazu entschlossen hat, dem HVC beizutreten, ahnte sie noch nicht, wie stark der HVC ihr Leben und das ihrer Familie zum Positiven verändern wird. Julias Business ist Dank des HVC buchstäblich durch die Decke gegangen. Sie arbeitet in ihrem Hauptjob heute nur noch 1-2 Tage, somit ist dieser zum Nebenjob geworden. Julias positive Veränderungen haben sich auch auf ihre Familie ausgewirkt. Julia konnte das Gelernte aus dem High Vibe Club ebenfalls an ihren Sohn weitergeben und ihr Sohn hat dadurch mit Leichtigkeit seine Traumausbildung manifestiert.Ich könnte dir endlos weitere Manifestationen von Julia aufzählen, aber hör' am besten selbst in diese grandiose Episode.
Niet praten met de bezette Bobby of de Bundesliga, even niemand van het Deense Odense en ook geen nieuws van eigen bodem. Spielmacher maakt een uitstapje naar Spanje. International Pipy Wolfs en Tessa van Zijl hebben verlengd bij Elche en daar wil de host alles van weten, want de datum van de Final4 van de Champions League zit in Stijn's mijn hoofd, maar over de Spaanse eredivisie weet de HVC'er heel erg weinig. Aarde aan Pipy en Tessa, como estas?Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this episode, Pastor Chad, Pastor Josh, and Pastor Tyler share their thoughts on 2022 at HighView Church and what they're excited about for 2023 at HVC. Find us online and Follow us at @highviewchurch_ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/highviewpodcast/message
Mike'l and Josh kickoff the new "Let it Fly Show" at Hail Varsity Club in La Vista.Breaking down the Creighton and Nebraska game, CFB playoff team announcements and new Husker HC Matt Rhule's travels around the state. Also Creighton Bluejay Arthur Kaluma joined the guys at HVC just a few minutes after the game to chat about his team's performance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
This week, #ELOsoFumarTakes welcomes the return of Reinier Lorenzo of HVC Cigars. Our #229thTake promises to be a good one as we dive into what it takes to open your own factory, the "new new" from HVC, and what we can expect from HVC in the next few months. It's more than that, as we dive into an all-new This or That, plus I want to know what cigars Reinier smokes when he celebrates. Enjoy! Reinier and I, along with our friends at Cigar Dojo would like to spotlight Cigars for Warriors Check out the Fumar & Fundraiser: Support the Troops here: https://dojoverse.com/members/eric/activity/4077625/?q=news-feed%2Fp%2F4077625%2F Black Friday 2022: https://cigar-coop.com/2022/10/cigar-news-hvc-black-friday-2022-limited-edition-release-announced.html PCA 2022: https://cigar-coop.com/2022/07/pca-2022-report-hvc-cigars.html HVC 500 Salomon: https://cigar-coop.com/2022/06/cigar-news-hvc-500-years-anniversary-salomon-to-debut-at-2022-pca-trade-show.html HVC Opens Factory: https://cigar-coop.com/2022/06/cigar-news-hvc-cigars-opens-factory-and-announces-hvc-seleccion-no-1.html
Hello du wundervoller Mensch,in der heutigen Episode berichtet HVC Mitglied Jasmin über ihre unfassbaren Manifestationen, die sie mit Hilfe des High Vibe Clubs geschaffen hat. Jasmin hat sich ihr persönliches Traumleben kreieren können und lebt heute eine völlig andere Realität.Noch vor wenigen Monaten war Jasmin sehr unglücklich in ihrem Job und auch nicht zufrieden mit ihrem Leben in Deutschland.Was das Universum für Jasmin bereithält, ist schöner als jeder Traum, den sie je hatte.Sie lebt heute ihr ganz persönliches Traumleben und wacht jeden Morgen in Dankbarkeit auf, diese neue Realität, die sie selbst erschaffen hat, leben zu dürfen. Für Jasmin ist das scheinbar Unrealistische real geworden. Jasmin hat beschlossen zusammen mit ihrem Freund Deutschland zu verlassen, um auf Mallorca ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Sie manifestierte in kürzester Zeit jedoch nicht nur ihre Auswanderung auf ihre Trauminsel, sondern auch ihren Traumjob sowie eine Traumwohnung. Für Jasmin ist klar, dass das Universum auch in der nächsten HVC Runde nur das Beste für sie bereithält.Babe, dies bedeutet nicht, dass du unbedingt auswandern musst, um ein Traumleben zu führen. Es bedeutet aber, dass ALLES möglich ist!Lass dich von Jasmin's Geschichte inspirieren und sieh, was auch für dich möglich sein kann. In der neuen Episode lernst du:⭐️ Wie Jasmin mit Hilfe des HVC es geschafft hat ihren Traumjob zu manifestieren⭐️ Warum sie dem HVC beigetreten ist und was der HVC in ihrem Leben zum Besten gewendet hat ⭐️ Welche Tools aus dem HVC ihr geholfen haben, ihre Vorhaben zu manifestieren⭐️ Wie sie ihre scheinbar (unrealistischen) Ziele innerhalb von nur 6 Monaten durch den HVC manifestiert hatTrete JETZT dem High Vibe Club bei!https://highvibeminds.com/high-vibe-club-2022-2023Wir verlosen unter allen Bewertungen unseres Podcasts auf iTunes und Spotify exklusive Plätze in einem HVC Q&A LIVE, welches alle 2 Monate im High Vibe Club stattfindet.Wenn du in den Lostopf möchtest, dann darfst du uns eine schriftliche Bewertung auf iTunes schreiben oder uns eine Sternebewertung auf Spotify geben, einen Screenshot davon machen und den Screenshot via Mail an podcast@highvibeminds.com senden.Ich wünsche dir super viele Insights und Learnings aus der heutigen Folge, denn wie immer darfst du auch heute erwarten, viel für dich mitzunehmen, um dein persönliches Wachstum umzusetzen.Auf dich und deine Manifestationen!Deine DijanaFolge Dijana auf Instagram für alle juicy Nuggets und sehr viel Input zu Manifestation, Mindset & Money auf Instagram http://www.instagram.de/Diana_Delo - auf TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dianadelo und auf YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DianadeloFolge Dali auf Instagram und hole dir London und Palma Vibes nach Hause http://www.instagram.de/perfectscornerFolge Jasmin auf Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jas_elhori
Hello du wundervoller Mensch,in der heutigen Episode spricht Julia über ihre Transformation durch den HVC.Babe, lass dir gesagt sein, diese Transformation hat es in sich, denn:Julia ist Mama, Ehefrau und selbstständig und hat es mit Hilfe des HVC geschafft, ihren Hauptjob auf 2 Tage/Woche zu reduzieren und konnte sich innerhalb kürzester Zeit eine finanzielle Stabilität aufbauen.Arbeiten am Wochenende, 60, 70 Stunden-Woche, kaum Zeit für ihre Kinder und Schulden waren die Realität, die Julia vor dem HVC lebte.Julia erlitt einen Zusammenbruch, weil sie irgendwann völlig erschöpft war. Sie gelang an den Punkt, an dem sie das "ES REICHT MINDSET" fühlte.Sie bucht den HVC.Was sich dann an Möglichkeiten für sie entfaltet und was das Universum für Julia bereithält, ist schöner als jeder Traum, den sie je hatte.Sie ist heute eine entspannte Mama und Ehefrau und hat das Unrealistische real werden lassen. Sie konnte ihren Hauptjob auf 2 Tage/Woche reduzieren. Kann sich mehr als 10 Wochen im Jahr frei nehmen und lebt eine finanzielle Stabilität, indem sie ihre Schulden vorzeitig abbauen konnte.Das ist nur ein Teil der Erfolgsgeschichte von Julia. Und ich kann es kaum erwarten, dass du die neue Episode anhörst, in welcher du lernst:⭐️ Wie Julia es geschafft hat ihre grössten Herausforderungen in Stärken umzuwandeln ⭐️ Warum sie dem HVC beigetreten ist und was der HVC in ihrem Leben zum Besten gewendet hat ⭐️ Welche Tools aus dem HVC ihr geholfen haben in ihre Kraft zu kommen und ⭐️ Wie sie ihre (unrealistischen) Ziele innerhalb weniger Monate durch den HVC manifestiert hatHöre dir die Episode gleich an und schaue was alles auch für dich möglich ist, wenn du dich, dein Mindset und deine persönliche Weiterentwicklung zur Priorität Nummer 1 machst. Denn was für Julia möglich ist, ist auch für dich möglich!Wir verlosen unter allen Bewertungen unseres Podcasts auf iTunes und Spotify exklusive Plätze in einem HVC Q&A LIVE, welches alle 2 Monate im High Vibe Club stattfindet.Wenn du in den Lostopf möchtest, dann darfst du uns eine schriftliche Bewertung auf iTunes schreiben oder uns eine Sternebewertung auf Spotify geben, einen Screenshot davon machen und den Screenshot via Mail an podcast@highvibeminds.com senden.Ich wünsche dir super viele Insights und Learnings aus der heutigen Folge, denn wie immer darfst du auch heute erwarten, viel für dich mitzunehmen, um dein persönliches Wachstum umzusetzen.Auf dich und deine Manifestationen!Deine DijanaFolge Dijana auf Instagram für alle juicy Nuggets und sehr viel Input zu Manifestation, Mindset & Money auf Instagram http://www.instagram.de/Diana_Delo - auf TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@dianadelo und auf YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/DianadeloFolge Dali auf Instagram und hole dir London und Palma Vibes nach Hause http://www.instagram.de/perfectscornerTrete JETZT dem High Vibe Club bei!https://highvibeminds.com/high-vibe-club-2022-2023
Join us for this episode of "Put Your Heart Into It" and meet HVC's newest provider, Dr. Ben Goins. Get to know Dr. Goins and his passion for Cardiology as well as some interesting stories from his time with the U.S. Air Force.
Part two of Matt SmolenHere's a sneak peek at what you'll hear:Imagine running a successful film production business where you're totally off the tools to the point where you don't even go on shoots. Wouldn't that be nice? (Well, that's Matt's situation now, thanks to Den's VBA coaching program which helped Matt put systems and procedures in place so Matt can work on... well... hear it from Matt himself at 2:00)Matt's clever litmus test knowing which clients to take on and which ones to pass on. Taking on the wrong client can be a nightmare. (It's simply not worth the trouble, no matter how good the money is. Here's how Matt guards himself against nightmare clients. - 3:00)Why you're already sitting on your next bunch of new business. (That's right. There is new business sitting right under your nose. This no-brainer (yet overlooked by most people) way to pick up new clients is revealed at 5:00)The marketing noob's guide to online lead generation. - 7:00A crafty marketing "tool" that can do all the sifting and sorting for you when looking for clients, so you only hear from the ones who are pre-sold and keen to hire you! - 9:40What the "Marketing Triangle" is... and... how understanding it can make you a far more effective marketer. -11:00What an "HVC" offer is, and... how to use it to turn ice cold leads into hot new business. Do this correctly, and you can get a horde of new clients rushing to your doorstep without even having spoken to them! - 10:00A dignified way to repel tire-kickers, lookie-loos, and flaky prospects who love to waste your time. Not only does the method send the low-quality prospects running for the hills, but it has a way of attracting high-quality prospects. - 12:00Attention All Film Production Companies: Are you saying this on your website's homepage? If so, you might wanna change that right quick! Hear the full story at 13:00A secret way to turn one piece of marketing content into multiple pieces. - 14:00A "just plain silly" mindset many video freelancers have when it comes to marketing their business. Thinking this way will undermine all your marketing and sales efforts. - 15:20A little-talked-about reason why you should get your prospects on the phone. (And no, this is not so you can hard sell them on your services, although that's a possibility. Nope. There's another reason that's of immense value. -15:50)Little-known psychological insights into today's online consumer, and how this affects those who promote their video production business online. - 18:00A "stealth" online marketing technique that, when done right, can convert far more online leads into new paying clients. - 19:00How to make your video business almost omnipresent so that no matter where your prospects go or how busy they get - there you are! - 23:00A marketing goof almost all business owners make when they get new leads. Doing this is like throwing money away. But don't be too quick to scoff. There's a good chance you're making this blunder, too. - 24:00Connect with Den on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/denlennie/Get more great resources over at https://www.denlennie.com/Support the show
Sean Fuin is a formally trained mechanical engineer who specializes in automation with python and dynamo. On episode 59 of Fire Code Tech we discuss Sean's career and roles in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Sean gives great tips and resources for professionals interested in getting into coding and automation. Sean's Consultancy: https://www.sigma-aec.com/ Testfit: https://testfit.io/ Hypar: https://hypar.io/ Expert Systems: Principles and Programming: https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Systems-Principles-Programming-Fourth/dp/0534384471 [00:00:00] Hello, all welcome to the show. I'm Gus Gagliardi, and this is fire code tech on fire code tech. We interview fire protection professionals from all different careers and backgrounds in order to provide insight and a resource for those in the field. My goal is to help you become a more informed fire protection. Professional fire code tech has interviews with engineers and researchers, fire marshals, and insurance professionals, and highlights topics like codes and standards, engineering systems, professional development, and trending topics in the industry. So if you're someone who wants to know more about fire protection or the fascinating stories of those who are in the field, you're in the right place. Construction industry. In this episode, we're talking again about automation. This episode specifically talks about automation that can benefit engineers, contractors, but the topic of automation and how machine learning AI and other big technology concepts can apply to professional life in general is really ubiquitous in the discussion of how to become more efficient as a professional. Sean is a trained mechanical engineer and he gives great tips for people who are interested in the cutting edge of technology. And if you have a proclivity for coding automation, BIM Revit, or any of the above, you're gonna really enjoy this episode. don't forget to subscribe and follow us on social media. Also, if you could do us a huge favor, give us a five star review on apple podcasts. Let's get into the show. Really enjoy this episode. Don't forget to subscribe and follow us on social media. Also, if you could do us a huge favor, give us a five star review on apple podcasts. Let's get into the. Well, Sean, welcome to fire code tech. Thanks for speaking with me. Hey, thanks for me. It was good to talk about automation. yeah. Automation. I'm gonna talk about automation. Who's not talking about automation. I don't know. It seems like AI. And I keep thinking about AI and machine learning and automation and how that's going to apply to our industry. But. Yeah, I don't know. We could just get right into it. If you have thoughts on that. I like have been trying to pick up a little bit of Python in my spare time and thinking about machine learning and it's not so like clear to me, you know, automation part's clear to me how that would apply to our industry. But do you have any thoughts on like AI and machine learning? What we'll see in the future for those kind of buzzwords for what you and I do on a daily basis. Yeah. I don't know. I've never, I haven't jumped on the machine learning bandwagon. I think it's more of a buzzword. No one really understands the amount of data that you need to make it work. So we have to get a lot better at other things before we can start machine learning our way to success. We have to right. Yeah. I was thinking like, if you had thousands of projects and thousands of device layouts, you know, like really you need like, you know, like 10,000 plus would even, I bet would be a small data set for some of these machine learning projects. Right. So you would need so many projects in order for it to be meaningful. So yeah, it seems like just the baseline automation stuff. Yeah. Makes a lot more sense. I got in debate with a friend of mine, who's working at a firm that's really aggressive, progressive, and they are working on starting to implement some machine learning stuff. And they're just like trying to identify like plumbing fixtures. So we have a fun conversation about that, but I'm like, it's only giving you like this five more percent. And like, so all this work has to go in just to get that extra, like 5% success, but it's like, wouldn't it just be easier if the architect called to sync a. Standardized way. I think that's the approach that we should take. Yeah, but obviously that's had struggles too, so yeah. That's yeah, to my point, I don't think we can get to machine learning if we can't even call a sync, a sync in a consistent manner. That's true. Yeah. I think that it, as with most things in automation, the true value of it is to be found in like the. Repetitive tasks that you do every day. And then eventually you can get to these kind of like highminded ideas about really complicated stuff. But I will say, I think there is a lot of potential there. So should maybe like auto routing and stuff like that. Right. You can almost turn that into a simpler, like 2d problem. [00:05:00] So yeah, there's so many algorithms out there. Like maybe that I just heard something about. They're trying to map the what is it called? The galaxy like web and they're using some type of algorithm that's based off of some type of mold, I think. Huh. And so I saw that like YouTube video on that and I was like, oh, maybe that could work for like auto routing. Do you know? Yeah. That makes sense. I mean, so yeah, that like that auto routing is a really interesting topic. Yeah. It's a really hard one, especially fire protection, right? Oh yeah. Fire protection and fire sprinkler. You guys usually like the last ones to go. Yeah. It's, it's a dynamic. We talk about a lot in inside the firm that I work for is. Fire protection is such a, an odd burden in the sense that, you know, there's so much delegated design that's baseline in our industry. So the engineers by and large will just like shove off the task of actually routing to the contractor so frequently. So it just causes more consternation in the field and between disciplines and H V a C guys mad. Sprinkler guy got in first and routed wherever he wanted it to. And then just said tough. You know, even though we do our best to try to make sure that people coordinate contractors coordinate and we require coordination drawings and our specs, but it's always a pain. Yeah. I personally think we kind of design buildings completely wrong. Right. Like we try to lay out. the architecture first, which of course there needs to be like a form, but we sh like we, you know, as mechanical engineer, I'm used to getting a detailed architecture model before I even start running duct work with ceiling Heights already in the model. And then right. It's always the battle of, I need more room for my ceiling and then not when I do it where right. If you. Kind of have the form of the building, obviously kind of, you know, generically what spaces are, but then you could start to route maybe like the mains, at least using algorithm and even doing plumbing, fire protection, all that together, and then build the architecture's job should be around billion around the infrastructure. Right? Yeah. And making it look. you know, have them, alternatively, how do we hide this infrastructure? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It seems like a chicken or the egg problem. Exactly what needs to come, what needs to come first and speaking with the biology, you know, metaphor. I mean, again, I don't think if you watch a baby grow, right. It starts with like the spinal cord, like the brain, the spinal cord, and like the limbs and everything grow out from there. You know, so you almost have to like, think of the building as having like the spinal cord for the infrastructure and then build around that. That's an interesting thought. I've never, I mean, that makes sense from a that I, I would think that an engineer would think that though. Yeah, it did the battle between the architects and engineers over, you know, it, I worked at a startup called I. and it was kind of a disaster and this was one of the reasons why. And so I came in late in the game, but also I was in charge of like all the mechanical stuff and they had me design the mechanical stuff around their structural stuff and around just, it was a modular. So just around all these co. I was assigned to figure out the mechanical and I kept on saying, right, like, no, the mechanical is you should be designing structural architecture around the mechanical, not the opposite way around. And yeah, the owner of the company never really got that. I could see that I've never been able to. I mean, at least you could have that conversation. I feel like fire protect. Unless it's just like some really specific instance, you know, like with storage sprinklers, sometimes we get into situations where we're pushing around the structural engineers columns and, and Joyce layout. Because if you can't fit these storage sprinklers into this space, you can't build the space. Like you can't sprinkler it. You can't get a code compliant, build it layout, but arm that. One of the things that modular was like, alright, how are we gonna bring fresh air in? Like, [00:10:00] that was the number one question, at least in my mind was like, how are we gonna bring fresh air into this space? And so my idea was to go to the outside wall and now we, again, we're trying to modular and keep it all tight. So then it was like, okay, we, so we're like, we're trying to design these things, the modules, right. So like how can we have repeatable pieces that come together? Right. So like a kitchen module might. A closet in it. And my idea was to put, like, try to get really small HVC equipment, but to maybe go in that closet, that would act as like the also act as the washer and dryer closet. And then we'd have to go out in the wall. Well, my idea was like first put ideally where the H HP equipment should be and then build all the structure around. They were doing the opposite where here's the structure. Tell me where I need to put the H V C. So yeah, those working with those seems like there's always constraints, but the more heavy the building in, or site constraints, just the more difficult the entire process is. So I think modular is like the extreme of. Constraint. I mean, you're like the whole idea is to get it as confined as possible or, you know, just kind of these succinct little pieces. So that's, it's interesting. It's almost like putting right. If you always have the analogy of like, if you put, if you're trying to like pull of Legos back in a box in ways, if you put all the small Legos first, then the big Legos aren't gonna fit. Yeah. Okay. So it's almost like that with the structural, the architecture first before the H V C. Hmm. Yeah, I think that's a interesting way to think about it. I guess we'll just have to get faster in the automation and the prototyping to where that is. Like we can have a conceptually generated layout that's quick so that we can raise that red flag fast, but there's so many options for. Mechanical engineers. I mean like fire protection sprinklers are straightforward. Like you got like what maybe, maybe two most common system types, you know, wet are dry sprinkler systems. There's no like manufacturers really that are driving these big configuration changes. But how much variation do you guys get with building. I mean a lot, a lot of barriers. That's another huge right thing to tackle. Yeah, for sure. The, the jurisdictional stuff is the biggest variability. Just as far as like military versus commercial versus, you know, you could work for department of defense or you. VA or what, you know, all these different government, high rise Highrise, you know, so all that like has a big impact. Yeah. Not auditoriums and stuff, but, but yeah. So I know that we we've had for the listeners just tuning in we've, you know, we had some technical difficulties on the, on the first go around. My, my recording program just was given us fits, but I wanted to. Yeah. That's classic problem for technology. I can't open up laptop walls today with rabbit, so oh yeah. Clap. Wait, what is it? What kind of walls with rabbit? I'm having trouble opening up Autodesk docs models right now. Oh man. Yeah. It's like that one day when everything Autodesk's cloud client went down, it's like, I was like, well, Autodesk never goes down. Surely it's not that. And then you get the email and it. There whole cloud servers down for a day or whatever. I forget when that was, but seems like there's always something it's harder. It makes things harder. Yeah. But I wanted to let people know a little bit about your background and you could keep it abridged, but, you know, tell, tell the listeners about kind of your working history and kinda how you found your role map. So I am a mechanical engineer degree. Got my EIT T still wanna get my PE so work on that. Just one more test to take. Yeah. So going through school, I had my first internship at a H V C firm in St. Louis. And I hated it. They were still, they were just starting to play around with Revit. I actually remember, I somehow I got access to Revit and to get the internship, I like pretty much printed out a model of somebody else's work and threw some ducks in there and was like, look, I know Revit guys. But yeah, I was left doing a whole bunch of CAD stuff there and like, dude, they had me getting photocopy [00:15:00] stuff. So I saw a lot of manual. You know, I was the lowest man on the ton pole. So was a lot of manual tedious stuff and I hated it. Then I got like a year and a half long co-op at a place called tech manufacturing, which they like are a C C shop for aerospace parts. And so that was really, really cool. So at tuck manufacturing I guess I should back up the. In college. I started learning Excel. That's I think where the story should begin. So in college I started learning Excel and we got really good at it. Me and my buddies that we had to do labs with. So we had labs. You have to make these Excel spreadsheets and, you know, before, even the lab, we were doing it. So I was starting to get good at Excel. The firm that I had, my internship was used in a lot of Excel and there's this old, old timer. Awesome. Dude taught me even more. He was always showing me little tricks in the. Excel. So that's been really good, which led me to, I think, in the co-op job, cuz they had an Excel spreadsheet. That was just the most insane thing I've ever seen. So they would bring in so like Boeing or Lockheed would like give these packets of all these parts. And my job was to like find the boing box of the part, right. For the raw things, get out what material it is. So it might be aluminum might be titanium. The grain, which way the grain runs. You just had to like pull all this information out and then put it into this Excel document. And then at that point it would just kind of do its thing. And you did some other stuff to try to get an estimate on the CNC time, but like do this thing and sew many formulas and so many sheets at the end of it. It even calculated like shipping cost and all this. And it made what was called, like the red sheet, I think, is what they called it. And it would be like this big review of all the parts and they'd say, yay or nay. So all the higher ups would come in and we'd review all the parts. After all this information's populated in Excel. And like I said, it's given you cost. It's like it's gave you everything you need to know to say the part is if they're gonna bid on the part, what they're gonna bid and if they'll move forward or not. So I was just like, this is really. So I learned even more Excel there that internship or co-op was up and I needed a job and guess where I landed H VC designer, the thing that I thought I would hate. So yeah, luckily the time dynamo was starting to become a thing and began my Excel. I was like, oh, DMO can get stuff from Excel into Revit. So that started. And then I realized you could do stuff with geometry and then snowballed from there. Now I've been consulting for three years, four years building custom workflows for clients. That's very cool. That's neat that you had that saw the power of this kind of streamlining of, of very difficult and unique process. And so you kind of had that seed planted early in your career for the, the possibilities. Yeah, for sure. Before all that, by the way I worked at restaurants for like my early twenties and I worked under this guy, Vita Elli, who's now the executive chef's chef for Anheuser Bush, but he's like a Gordon Ramsey type. And he, he was all about, I started with him when I was 16. And so he is all about efficiency. So I. I think that's maybe when it was really embedded in my mind, but then just got reinforced in all these, you know, other little adventures I had. Huh. Interesting. When you're talking about, you know, you make custom kind of like dynamo and Python, like solutions, is there anything like you don't have to get specific? Specific projects or tools, but like, can you give examples or maybe talk a little bit about your project work and give the people listening some ideas of these applications? Yeah, I mean, I guess there's anytime the big, the first big success I had with dynamo, I think was studying up projects. So I missed a softball game one night and I was really disappointed, but the night was literally spent we behind it was a huge hospital. I forgot the sheet count, but my, I, I had to work overtime, literally dragging sheets and legends on art dragging views in legends on the sheets. Like it was so silly. So yeah, dynamo again was starting to mature. Yeah, just automating that whole process down to a couple clicks was like, whoa, this is crazy. So that's first. So any like little [00:20:00] things like that, especially in things that have like a very defined recipe is good for that. So now I've done that with like setting up electrical panel schedules, sheets, and doing a whole bunch of stuff. Like the annotations, like there's like this annotation. I guess another advanced thing that I did was that was really cool, was working for electrical contractor. So we made a thing called room in a tote. So it'd go into the Revit model and you'd pretty much section the building off by essentially rooms. And the whole idea was we'd get those elements. We'd make cut sheets for all those elements, fill the materials for all those elements. And then in the warehouse. All the elements, the instructions and the tools, like all the materials, I should say, not elements. So actually the materials, the instructions, how to install the materials, the tools need to install those materials would all go in a tote and be shipped to the construction site. And that tote would make its way into the room. And then the room would, the tote would open up and the electrical guys would do their installations. Wow. So you were doing like material. Material stock listing basically from yeah. Revit model. Right. So right from directly from the rev model and these guys the company hired a lot of people from the field to do the detailing work inside Revit. So like they were doing detail work downs, like the bolt. Wow. Which we were pushing our computers so hard to do this. Yeah, it's really cool. That was very advanced. So, yeah, so we'd go through and like make cut sheets, essentially, like get the front view, the side view, the 3d view, the back view, you know, of every electrical panel and then boom, bill of materials. And then, yeah, there's multiple layers of it. So stuff would build up from like, you know, bolt level to component level. And I forgot that little details of how we did it, but yeah. In other words, you went from Revit model to. All the parts that you needed in a tote that got shipped to the construction site. That's really cool. That's for people who maybe aren't as aware of like Revit and the common detail level, I mean, like that's like detail level 500 for, I mean, there's kind of like different gradients of how much detail is you can go from like a 2d annotation with no. Information tied to it all the way down to where Shawn is saying where the bolts and the RTS on a piece of equipment are detailed. And so there's kind of a sliding spectrum and, and that is on the extreme end of like, I'd say most commonly in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. You're at like the middle of that spectrum, probably like 200 or 300. Level of design, you know, you have either 3d models with a limited amount of information or 2d models or at least that's in my experience, what I've seen in the industry. Well, I like they do have analytical models, right? So I've seen more of that happening where I haven't physically modeling stuff, but you're starting to use Revit more as a design tool rather than a documentation tool. Interesting. Yeah. That's if I add on another thing I've done. So my favorite script I've ever wrote in for mechanical engineering is like zoning a building, and it's just speaking of machine learning so that like uses some clustering algorithms, like canines clustering, and it was a silly problem to solve of just how do you like group these things? And that was the solution was clustering. Interesting. Yeah. I think that can snowball. To whole bunch of other stuff, but also just allows you to start doing, using Revit as a design tool. Huh? That's really interesting. So you would establish H V a C zones based on your automation. Yeah. So it's all about data, right? So you have a whole bunch of spaces in a building to zone a building like common spaces usually get grouped together. So spaces like the same thermostat set points, right. Could be grouped together. Exhaust might be grouped together, excuse me. On exhaust fan exterior spaces, right? So north exteriors would be grouped together. South exteriors could be grouped together. Different windows sizes. Right? If you have a, you know, two rooms next to each other one has a lot more windows, then they wouldn't be grouped together, but right. So you can use all this data to kind of start grouping these things together. And then you're left with like these clusters of spaces that now you have to divide evenly. And so you can't just like draw a line in the middle. You have to like try to find the right [00:25:00] clusters of spaces. So that's where the clustering comes. And then yeah. So then you can actually do like a decent zoning and yeah, it got to a point where we took this to production and we actually put like sliders on stuff. So you could limit how much area is on one zone, you know, set a max into that. You could set a maximum to like. The load difference into the spaces you're comparing. There's a whole bunch of sliders on it, so you can start to generate different zone layouts with the same script. Yeah. What I'm trying to get to, what I think is really cool and kind of my north star right now is then taking those zones and going to energy modeling. So now you could run in theory, right? A whole bunch of different. Run energy models on whole bunch of different systems and, you know, even get you know, upfront cost and life cycle cost and all that sounds really familiar to what I was doing at the manufacturing plant. So, Hmm. That's awesome. It that's such a time consuming process. I'm sure. Oh, crazy. All those. When I was a designer again, when I was low on the totem pole, just watching all this stuff, I'm like this, cuz they're doing all the calculations to like, you know, decide which system to pick. And then you have to like write, you know, we, we went through system a, B and C and we're picking system a because of X, Y. and yeah, it was really time consuming. Yeah. So Revit has access now to energy plus, which, which is what I've been working a lot on. That's awesome. Yeah. That's and I can't see, you know, application to this for really so many engineering systems, like, I mean easily for electrical, definitely for fire protection and you know, other disciplines where, you know, Zoning equipment zoning based on whatever parameters you wanna build in, you know, whether it's a voltage drop or, you know, friction loss you know, all that I could see just so much potential for that. Right. It's kind of cool is too. Yeah. I've thought about it with electrical a lot and I haven't done it yet, but like, you know, taking receptacles and grouping those for panels, right. So, yeah, that's why I seen doing the stuff that I was doing with the electrical contractor. Like when I was doing that, I was really interested in like automating the process before the processes that we were automating there. Cause we were just automating the documentation and already I was looking at like, how do you guys know what? Like, cause they were having to put in a lot of information, right. To make room in a tote work. So it's like you just keep on knocking. Let's keep on knocking chunks out of the thing. And that's why the zoning algorithm was so exciting to me, cuz it, it was a huge whole bunch of people told me it couldn't be done. I was like, and I didn't believe that. So, you know, it was just like, it was this huge gap in the workflow and to solve that gap was just really. Isn't that the start of any good story that they told you that it couldn't be done. I 'em there yet. I haven't won the, the automation princess yet, but oh, does that, did they have awards? Is that a thing? I'm just saying the, you know, you're always, oh yeah. A struggle. Virtual, the virtual automation princess. You haven't gathered her out of the castle. Hopeful it'll happen in my career. Right. I mean, you're off to a good start. That's fun. I like thinking about these big ideas and yeah. Holistically looking at how can you take the whole process and kind of make it into discreet chunks for everything to run smoothly is a really fun idea. Yeah. I think that's what I'm really good at. I'm made a dyslexic. And so if you read stuff about like dyslexic and what they're good at. Exactly. What we just said is exactly what like typically dyslexics are good at. And so, yeah, that's kinda like my superpower now is being able to zoom in and out of like these big problems and just make the connections. Yeah, it's fun. I love it. It's solving, it's solving puzzles and problems. All the. Yeah. So I'd like to, you know, hearing your big thoughts on like the future and what you'd like to, to do with your consultancy, but yeah, like what what, what else is getting you excited? And do you want to do with, with automation or like what kind of gets you charged up on a like a project level or just like an, an automation conceptually I'd like to keep chasing that thread. Yeah, I think I, I mean the whole reason I started the consultancy was not to get rich or anything. The whole reason was I wanted to do what I wanted to do and [00:30:00] work on the stuff that I wanted to work on and I couldn't find that avenue. So yeah, I, cause I didn't mention this earlier, but yeah, I quit my job as a mechanical designer cause I knew I wanted to like pursue automation and I, I tried to find a job around Dallas. to do that. And I couldn't find one. So that's when I started the consultancy. As far as motivation, I think my Northern light has always been this vision. I've kind of already described of getting an architect model and then being able to quickly generate a whole bunch of different options for the H VC. I guess branching that off into plumbing and electrical would be awesome. And then I guess the biggest, the like end game would be, if you could do that and start to optimize with all the systems and architecture and structure all in one algorithm. Which man there's a right. I'll know we get there, I think in theory, but of course it's just like, like computational time is a struggle. Maybe with quantum computing, right? Throw another buzz. There's computers are getting bigger and bigger and faster and faster, so right. That is how we're doing buildings. The super computers and just algorithm. Yeah, I guess it gets into like kind your thing of like where the industry's going. And I don't know. That's where I'm, that's where I see it going. That's my Northern light. It's also kind of scary. Right. Once if someone beats me to writing that algorithm, am I a job? But so far it's been kinda proven not to be the case. Right? So. Automation's gonna take her job south park in reference there . Right, but it hasn't, and we are still talking about, you know, we started off talking about the struggles of data and data entry. And so there's like these two forces, there's these entrepreneurial spirits that are pushing really hard for automat. But then there's just like this force holding it back due to like, I almost wanna say like people problem with just understanding, right. Just understanding, you know, how databases work, understanding computer science. Building code, I think is holding us back. Right. I think we need to digitize building code if we're ever gonna. Right. An algorithm like that. Cause right. If you, like, we were talking earlier, if you change one thing that changes the other. Yeah. That's an interesting thought. You know, in something that I've thought about a decent amount, because you know, like if you take a look at this company up codes who is a definitely super somebody. Yeah. So they want to like make the, kind of take a tech angle on the building code. And there's been a lot of litigation over that. Yeah. That is about saying that was huge. The fact that they won, that was huge. Yeah, definitely. So, and I was watching that closely because that kind of, you know, if you don't have free license to work with that data set, then like, what are you gonna do? How can you, how can you innovate on top of that? It's like even upgrades though. Isn't really there to what we need. Like I played around with up codes a lot. And it's great. Yeah. I know they're doing, trying to do some compliancy checks, audience, compliancy checks, but not the, so I've been thinking a lot about, and I was, I went to bill recently and I was asking everybody it's, it's hard to even formulate the question, but like, You start having all these databases connecting, and we all know the pictures that you see, but it's like, how do these things really connect? And then it's like, how do you take that stuff to scale? And so the example is, let's say I have an algorithm that is diffuser is already, I'm gonna make it real simple. That's not how it's written, but like diffusers are placed 10 feet apart, right? That's algorithm supply diffusers based tend to feet apart code. So then you're reading you go, now you're doing a project somewhere else. And this one says a supply diffuser will be placed in the center of the room and the exhaust diffuser will be placed by the door. Right. Human language. How can you build a system at scale where you can just keep on adding those rules in?[00:35:00] Right. So next, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Next rule is. Code or whatever, for whatever reason, rule number three is slot diffuser goes on window. You know what I mean? Yeah. The flow control for the such a big process is really difficult. Snowballs on you so quick. And I ran up diffusers cause I was thinking of'em a lot about this with just diffusers recently and yeah, so I've so yeah, bringing back to bill, I asked a whole bunch of people, this question of like, how can we start to do this stuff at scale? And. Make a system that you can just add more layers on top of really simple, right? The only person to give me an answer or a path to even start to go down was Ian from high park. Who's actually the creator of dynamo. I forgot his last name. Sorry, Ian. . Yeah. And so they're working on this thing called Hy par, which is really cool, but they essentially build things that are functions and the functions wrapped inside the functions is kind of like that design logic is the elements that, you know, use that design logic that get placed. And so then their kind of workflows to layer function on top of function, which again is kind of getting back to the idea of. Function a will make floors function. B will divide the floors into offices and corridors and whatever right function maybe Q would be right now put in diffusers function. Z might be right now, route ducks. Yeah, so they have a point and his thing was talking about is he recommended that I look at at the book, I forgot what it's called expert systems. So I've done a little bit look at expert systems. I think that's kind of a route and that's a lot older, the machine learning by the way, expert systems, the book. Yes. There's a cool book. You wanna know the principles of programming principles are programming. I mean, it's not, or it's not even just program. It's more of like a way to structure data in a way. Who's the author expert systems, principles and programming. Josh C G I a R R a T a N O author link up in the show notes. But it's also another thing that I've been thinking a lot about is right. We have a lot, like the turnovers happening in the industry so bad and like, so a lot of senior engineers that have all this knowledge in their head. And, and again, that's another just like building code. Like there's also this database of knowledge. It just like we have building code that's in written word. Right. And that has to be translated into some type of algorithm. There's also the knowledge in all of these engineers heads that has to be translated. Oh, no, sorry. I keep interrupting. I was gonna say, I read a terrible article today. They were posting, they said 25% of the professionals in fire life safety think that their knowledge transfer is being completed from people aging outta the in industry. So like, there's just this terrible. Loss of industry specific knowledge. And like you were saying, this turnover, this, this, this exiting of this longstanding knowledge base from the industry is a huge problem. So yeah, I guess back to the question of like, where do we go or what's gonna look like in a few years, I think it's an open ended question. When I was at built last time, I actually left pretty pessimistic cause. I'm fairly new to the industry on like five, six years experience now and right. COVID happens. So we all didn't see each other for a good two years. It's a tight knit community at that conference and we all come back and we're all talking about the same problem about data and standardization. And how do we implement this in our firm? And I'm just sitting there. Thinking if I retire and I'm still having these conversations, I'm gonna be very disappointed in my life. like, you know what I mean? And I see other people there that have been there for have way more experience than me. I mean, there has been some success of going from like AutoCAD to Revit, but yeah, I Don. I hope we're on like the, you know, exponential path right now. It seems pretty flat, but soon we're gonna take off. So I guess that's to wrap up that question two options, right? We either stay [00:40:00] linear pretty much linear flat as we have been with our efficiency in the AC industry, are all this technology that we've been talking about finally gets us to, you know, go off exponentially. . Yeah, that's interesting. Everything. We need that exponential to happen, right. With everything going on in the world. Yeah. I believe that it's gonna happen. And to, to me, what makes me excited is just like how I can finally see companies or individuals like you even existing, like the fact that they, you and March do exist and you are making good content and automation and like, and then you have companies that are becoming. You know huge, critical successes, like D roots and stuff. So I mean, look back 20 years ago and we didn't even have companies doing custom software. I mean, like in our, in the AEC industry for as a business, right. I consider myself so lucky. It's like, it's incredible. It's just crazy. I came in at the right time for like, there to be this opportunity. Yeah, that's awesome. And so that part about it just makes me think that we're just at the launching point of this automation trend and, you know, 20 years, you know, test it, test it. Mm-hmm wow. You need to look at test it. You should, they should be on your podcast too, by the way. Shout out to them, but they just got 20 million in funding or something. Oh, wow. Yeah. I mean, that's just one example of last start. You brought up up codes co tools kinda working on energy model stuff I'm working on. Actually. Yeah. Another question to ask. Will Autodesk always be the top dog in the game, man? I stop test fit, audit desk, stop test fit from having a booth at this. Esque university. Oh, wow. That's incredible. I I was talking with mod about who's gonna be the Autodesk killer or if there was going to be one in our lifetime and he, you know, kept boiling it down to like, whoever can really captured the holistic picture of the building and all the engineering disciplines would be the, the one to roll them. All right. I think H park there again, Hy Park's another one. They have it. What's really cool to me about test fit. What I've always seen is they're pretty much doing like, like they're doing test fits. That's the name where it comes from mm-hmm . So they're like, you know, you give a site, you draw out a polygon and it just starts like creating multi-families and they keep the ratios between like you know, units and parking stalls and stuff like that. But what I see is this really simple geometry. And back to my original thing about like how routing MEP stuff, how we're doing it wrong with trying to do it. When it's really complex, we have a really complex maze. Well, what test fit's output is, is just like, pretty much like massing. So then I've always wanted to layer MEP on top of that. Cause I, I know what their output's gonna be. Like, I know what I'm getting. Yeah, and it's simple. So those two things right there, those two things makes energy modeling a lot simpler makes you know, like auto writing algorithms, a lot simpler. So I see someone like that's why I see with test fit is because they started the very beginning stage, but now they can just keep adding. One of the things is engineer to build custom softwares and engineers. You don't know what you're getting from the. Right. So that's like the biggest struggle that I see with writing tools for, or writing tools for engineers is right. We all know what the, a architects come through and I'm like writing the input is so variable from what the architect can provide. Right. It's, it's a very frustrating thing. Again, one of those times where I always get told I'm wrong, but I'm always like, or like they don't have control, but I'm like, write it into your bid execution plan. Hey, architect. We expect this brand to carry our fodder wall rating. Is that how you guys do it? If not. Okay. Let's change it. Or can you please do it that way? Here's why, cause I'll save you so much time on the back and forth. You know what I mean? So there's, there's countless countless examples of that. When you go from architect to engineering, you know that the data drop the model transfer. Oh, yeah. It's it can be done just like a hundred different, like a thousand different ways. Why is machine learning when you can just write a simple execution plan, find an architect that understands automation and what's needed. Right. So, yeah, I don't know. I guess the business models have to change. And I'm not an expert on the business models, so yeah, but it's fun to think about, I think that's funny that you're like, let's start with mechanical, cause maybe it's good to be naive and not think about, not understand the [00:45:00] business models. Cause then you can come at it clean perspective. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think that's awesome. It makes me really excited to see things like test fit. And for those who are interested in taking a look it's looks like it's mostly kind of residential and building development projects for. Developers and kind of this blocking and programming sort of early design phase, like even before schematic design, kind of programmatic design phase, and you know, anybody who is aware of the money involved in the development for these type of facilities would quickly realize how much market capture and money there is for this type. Service. I mean, it's, it's immediately seems like a no brainer from, you know, whatever three minutes looking at it. I keep on bringing up. Ian Ian told me when, well, like one of the first times was met when he was starting high par was, and I use it all the time in so many presentations. It's like, why are we starting off projects with a blank screen? Right. And test fit's a perfect example. What we could be starting projects off with what is high bar? What do you keep saying? I don't know what that is. A company. It's hard to explain what high is. I think they're struggle explaining what it is. Another person podcast would love to I'll leave. I'm gonna leave it there. I tried to explain it earlier. The business model kinda. I've always looked at the business model as like, huh. Cause they're trying to bring like a community kinda like DMO sense to it, but it's like, huh, it's weird. that's interesting. Well, maybe I'll do a solo cast or something about it, but interesting stuff. Well, I like, you got a lot of different perspectives and people so far that I've never even heard of. So I appreciate all that perspective, but so for people who want to get started. Dynamo or for automation, like where would you suggest that they start or resources that they should investigate? I would start with having a problem and trying to solve it in a simple problem. Not a hard problem. I say this story real quick, or just thing I learned through consulting. I'll like when I first decide to work with a client or not, one of the big red flags that I get is when someone. I want you to auto route MEP for me, like, to me, that's a huge red flag, because if that's just that simple of a statement, they have not taken the time to think about the complexity of that problem, the amount of data that's needed to even start thinking about that problem. Right. Cause what are you, where, where are your sources and where are your targets? Is that data in the model? What do you wanna avoid? How is that data in the model? Are we gonna do it in 3d 2d? Why not 3d? Because it's really com you know what I mean? Like, just, if you ask for something like that, that complex, then you don't have a grasp on what it takes to build tools and you don't have understanding of the data are the geometry behind. So again, if you're gonna, if you're trying to get into automation, start with a task, don't have it be auto routing, have it be like getting data from Excel to rev. That's where I started setting up projects putting legends on sheets, something that's relatively linear, you know? And there's a lot of tools out there. There. There's VBM Excel. There's dynamo. There's Python. Dynamo. If you're working in Revits probably your easiest best shot get hooked. And then yeah, just keep on learning until you can never stop learning. So I guess that's what adds say. Well, I think that's a beautiful point to end on keep learning to never stop learning. Cause that says something that I'm throttling myself. That's gonna be the guarantee, right? The Northern star is to. Northern star. I wanna have the, you know, in star wars when they have like the death star plan, that's what I would, that's what I picture. It's what you want for your flow chart for your process and your dependency. I want, I want a hologram in the middle of a desk where I can flip some knobs and just the MEP infrastructure, right? Just like you say, the generative design stuff just switches and you get. Again, just like the red sheet at manufacturing facility that tells you the critical information. And then you, we all sit around that desk and we debate and we have conversations about, [00:50:00] you know, the right choice and to get there. Yes. Never stop learning. Hmm. Cause it takes so many hats to pull that off. Probably hats that we haven't thought exist. Yeah, I like that. Well, that's a good note, Sean. Well, where can people find you if they want to reach out to you about custom rev solutions or if they wanna learn more about your company? So within email website, YouTube, Twitter usually my name, our Sigma AAC. Cool. Well, I'll throw some links to your consultancy down in the show notes. If people want to come find you, but yeah. Thank you for coming on the show, Sean. Thank you. Good conversation. Thanks for listening, everybody. 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This episode explores Wojciech's recent progress with the Fire Science show as well as his new chapter on Fire and Smoke Modeling in the "Handbook of Fire and the Environment". Tune in to hear about modeling fire and smoke in environments as big as city blocks. Fire Science Show: https://www.firescienceshow.com/ Handbook of Fire and the Environment https://bit.ly/3bCId0I Transcription Gus Gagliardi: [00:00:00] Hello, all welcome to the show. I'm Gus Gagliardi, and this is fire code tech on fire code tech. We interview fire protection professionals from all different careers and backgrounds in order to provide insight and a resource for those in the field. My goal is to help you become a more informed fire protection. Professional fire code tech has interviews with engineers and researchers, fire marshals, and insurance professionals, and highlights topics like codes and standards, engineering systems, professional development, and trending topics in the industry. So if you're someone who wants to know more about fire protection or the fascinating stories of those who are in the field, you're in the right place. Hello, all welcome to episode 58 of fire code tech. On this episode, we're speaking once again with Wojciech Węgrzyński WOIC is a friend of the podcast and the host of the fire science show. In this episode, we get some updates on what has been happening with the fire science show and wojak details his chapter in the new published handbook titled the handbook of fire and the environment by S F P. Wojciech chapter in specific talks about fire and smoke modeling. He evaluates how we can use fire and smoke modeling to better understand how fires impact the environment and what methods we can use to predict and protect individuals from the hazard of fire and the pollutants that are. If you enjoyed this episode, please go check out the fire science show. He has a wide variety of topics, and he really gets at some fascinating scientific points of view that we don't as often cover on fire code tech. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button for fire code tech and the fire science show. And give us a follow on social media. Also, if you enjoy the content and you wanted to give us a big favor, give us a five star review on apple iTunes podcasts. Let's get into the show. welcome back to fire code tech. Thanks for coming on the show, sir. Thank you so much, GU thank you so much, GU very happy to be here with you again. Nice. Well, yeah, the fire code tech. Goes round two, I guess. Yeah. Or what is it? The fire science code tech show. That was, that was a good one. I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed that. That mashup was nice. One. It was fun. It was fun. Yeah. Well, I wanted to just, you know, start off by getting a update of like what you've been thinking about the podcast. We were chatting a little bit off air, but I'm sure everybody is interested about, you know, How you been feeling about it and what's been going on and just like a little bit of background on the, behind the scenes for Roja. Wojciech Węgrzyński: Yeah. Cool. I'm not, not very often sharing behind the scenes on fire sand in the fire science show. So I guess it makes more sense to share it in, in here. It's been fun. It's been a great year. Definitely a chance to meet and talk with people that I would not usually talk to. And that was, that was really good discovering a lot of new, super smart, super intelligent people who do groundbreaking research in fire for me as an academic broadening my, my field of view. So that has been excellent. And. I really like it, a lot people seem to like and enjoy it. So makes me very happy to, to get feedback from outside of my closet. and yeah, I, nowhere close to stopping doing that quite opposite. I'm I'm very. Happy to, to do this project, continue this project. And my head is buzzing with ideas, how to make it better, how to grow it. Gus Gagliardi: So many, so many new roots open up and I, I hope that. It's the early days of the fire science show. And you're gonna hear a lot more from it. Hopefully , we'll see. I would bet on it. I would bet on it with you behind the wheel, but no, that's awesome to hear about. Yeah. I, I definitely know what you mean about the podcast opening up new doors, but yeah, I was wondering with your newest riding endeavor that you were sharing with me. But like what kind of, how has the, like the symbiotic relationship of the podcast? Like how has that influenced other areas of your career? Because I know for me, it's, I've seen it have subtle and not so subtle influence on knowledge and just opportunities. Yeah. That's kind of an intriguing question, I guess. Wojciech Węgrzyński: I mean first, first things first I'm a scientist and an engineer I'm I'm podcaster is, is a third hat if I may. And definitely my, my prime career is as is the VO, the [00:05:00] scientist. I I'm the guy who does fire experiments and measures stuff and tries to publish that and shares the knowledge through academic papers mainly. So. It's difficult to say to what extended this world's overlapped that much. I would say that podcast is I found podcast as an excellent way to communicate the research. Like this is something absolutely. Great. And it it's working like magic and it, it was one of the reasons why I've started podcast. You know, sometimes you go to a conference and there's a person they're talking about their research. They're giving a 10 minute presentation and it's like, you can go asleep. Sometimes it's really difficult to. To capture all the knowledge that person is trying to share, giving their best. And I'm not saying people are lazy or something or, or unskilled, but it's just the way how it is in conferences. And then after the conference, you go for a beer with that person and you can spend like three hours in the pop talking about that research. And it is fascinating. And I couldn't get that out of my head. Why, you know, the same person, the same topic, the same thing in one place. It's very difficult to. On the other hand, it's so approachable. So nice. So juicy, like you can learn so much from talking to people and I figured out the context makes the difference and this human to human interaction makes the difference. And I've bet on that while starting the podcast and it worked out, it really seems to be the thing, like when you talk to people, they open up. When you ask them questions, they, they light up inside and they want to talk, you know, I, you may know the feeling of talking to a 200 people in the room and you don't really have a good idea if any of them is listening. like, you know, People on their phones. People were watching around someone talking with somebody else on the side, someone leaving the room, middle of the talk. You didn't know if they left because it's horrible talker. They just received a very important phone. You know, you don't know that it's stressful and here Once you forget, this is being recorded. Once you forget, this is going to be shared with hundreds of thousand or thousands of people you open up and, and you can just, you know, give the science to the world. And, and this is the interaction between podcasting and academia that. I enjoy the most, I must say I'm not taking that big advantage of, of my podcast with my research because there's a lot happening at ITB and, and at my research group, which I guess I could have a whole podcast about research. We are just doing, but I, I, I wanted my show to be a venue for everyone else and whole community of people, scientists. So yeah. That's number one. Influence. Yeah. Well maybe in one day you'll have. Media network, where you can have a whole litany of fire scientists talking on different podcasts on a channel one day. We don't know. I won't, I won't sell you short yet. I think you got it in you. Yeah. Media empire. That that'll be great. There you go. I, I thought at understand, I thought the fire science is too small, even for a podcast. So, but I was very wrong. I was very wrong. It's so niche. It's so niche. And like, I wonder that same thing sometimes I'm like, is it so. is it such a, like a small subset of an audience? Like, is there enough people? Gus Gagliardi: I really didn't even know. Like I was excited when I was having 10 or 12 people listen to the podcast. I was excited on a weekly basis. I was like, this is awesome. I can't believe that people are even listening to me right now. Like what, what the heck even is happening. So I, I love all what you're. I when thinking when, considering that I thought it is a small audience, but it's an audience that deserves a great, great shows, great content. Wojciech Węgrzyński: And let's do this and see what happens and, and it turned out cool. Yeah. From the opposite side, like how does podcasting influence my work as a scientist? I get the chance to listen every single episode of fire science here, because I record them. I edited them. I listen to them. So I'm a very solid consumer of my own content. And I, I honestly think listening to podcasts like. Yours and, and mine and there's others is probably the easiest way for passive career development. Like there, there is no other as easy investment of your time. Even in time it can be considered even entertainment in a way. And yet you learn so much. So from every interview, I, I learn something that eventually gets implemented in my science. But I would get that by listening to podcast. I wouldn't have to make the podcast to, to have that if I was just listening to, to the podcast, which I am, I, I would still benefit in a very, very similar way. So yeah, I think it's a great medium [00:10:00] and one that's very easy, but very rewarding. Gus Gagliardi: Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Well, I wanted to ask, I feel like I'm just getting selfish here and I'm asking you all the podcast questions up front, but I wanted to ask just like, and I think you've like spoke a little bit about, you know, how it's been and. How things are going, but yeah, I mean, like, I love hearing about your, you saying you're, you're scheming, you're thinking about ways to grow it, but like what dreams do you have, if you could share any for what you would like to do with the fire science show? Like yeah. Where would, where do you see it going? Yeah, first and foremost, I would like it to continue. Very long time. Like I would love to one day wake up and think about, I dunno, 10 years of interviews I've done with the fire scientists, you know, see in the podcast reflection of how the field grown, how it evolved, how one thought fueled another. Wojciech Węgrzyński: I, I mean, doing it for a year, I can already I, I can already see Repository of hours of, of interesting interviews, but I really wonder how will it look after like five or 10 years of doing that? How big it'll be? What, what great thoughts will be in it? I would love to know interview today. Some. Undergraduate student learned that 10 years forward their famous professor and, and it was first communicated. These are the dreams, you know, really they're very down to earth. I, I don't dream about building a tycoon of, of podcasts or, or having I don't know, the number one show on the planet or so that I don't care that much. I'm reaching my goals with what I'm doing. I would honestly like really love to continue and just like reflect on how it influences lives of others. That's. That's very rewarding on, on its own. Obviously I would love to get the show sponsored one day or, or, you know, get something rolling that. And I think it's important for, for podcast long longevity, you know, it's, it's it's, it's, it's a thing that definitely helps, but it's not a goal on its own. Gus Gagliardi: It's something that would be nice as an, as an added part of this routine. Yeah, I think it's, I, I mean, I'm sure you're already at a place where if you just started going and chasing sponsors, you could get 'em it's just the time to do all that on top of yeah. Your, your three other jobs. You got your you're an engineer, you're a scientist you're podcast. You're a father like, yeah, you got, maybe you spare a couple seconds left in the day that you probably need for your sanity. So if you, if you're really one of those sponsors, I'm sure you could go get 'em, but I love. I feel like you have like a philosopher's soul when you speak about these things that, oh, thank you. Wojciech Węgrzyński: I always enjoy listening to. But I find myself just like going into, I'm listening to a wojak podcast mode, even though I'm supposed to be interview interviewing you. So I need to be careful about listening to you. okay. That's cool. I'll I'll I'll just pop a three minute timer to not exceed you just make sure you start snapping. Gus Gagliardi: If I look like I'm glazed over and I'm just like listening to you too. Intently kill man. No I wanted to talk to you. You shared with me like a new project that she had just finished. And I saw that Brian Meachum was sharing it on link two, LinkedIn too, after we were talking about it and super exciting, but I really wanted to dive in in this conversation and talk about your new chapter in the handbook of fire and the environ. Wojciech Węgrzyński: It was, is such an exciting project. And I was delighted to be invited by Brian to participate in, in that project. It's a handbook it's called a handbook of fire and environment. It's within the, let's say environment of, of SF P handbooks. So it's, it's a completely new development that hopefully will be sustained and growing as, as it as its own thing. It's. Large. Well, handbook is a large book. It it's large book many chapters with, with great, great people, all focused around the environmental impact of fires on the environment, but also in a cultural way, in a social economic way. So all the, all the different ways, how fires impact society. Editors of the book are Brian Mitchum, who you've mentioned, and professor Margaret Magna me from Sweden. So they're, they're, they're both co-editors of the, of the book. They were leading the whole thing. And I even had, I had Margaret on my podcast some time ago, we were talking about sustainability in build environment. And this is also something that, that fits into the puzzle of, of fires and the environment. So the book itself, [00:15:00] it started, I know three, maybe four years ago. It takes a long time to publish a handbook, man. It's like you and me are on a tight schedule with the podcast and almost a weekly. It takes years to publish a book of this magnitude. And it it's, it's amazing. It's even if you do your best job and at the moment when it's published, the, the references in it are already two years old because it takes so much time to process the book, but ah, it's, it's cool. The book is, the book is out there and the knowledge there is is worth sharing. Absolutely. If you want sorry. The, the story of the handbook like goes, goes far back and it's it has been triggered by the how fires do damage environment. We we've been more and more. You know, aware of the effects fires due to environment in terms of smoke, polluting the air in terms of the soil and water damage that is done from fire and extinguishing actions. We had some huge, like petrochemical fires, huge chemical plant fires that. Their ethics on the environment around was very profound, but we also had fires like the tragic gr tower or the Notre Dame, par cathedral fires, which were just buildings inside of a city. And yet they had environmental consequences. If you look through that layer on them. So it it's something we are becoming more and more aware. And this handbook was a way to answer this need for the society to be able to quantify, measure, model that, to better understand this impacts. So yeah, that's the handbook. Yeah. Wow. That's that's incredible to hear you talk about like the scope of a document like this. Gus Gagliardi: I mean, I guess it makes complete sense when you have this many authors this much like peer review and, and this much just process to compile it all, you have thousands of pages probably. Or I don't know how roughly how long it is, but it's it's like 500, but it's, it's, it's a massive work. Yeah. 500 man. That's still like a dense, dense, but man, so much to be gleaned about it too. And so I, you know, was But, yeah, it's exciting and cool to see a little bit of your, your wind talk. You know, I didn't get through the entire chapter over that you wrote, but, oh man. It's it's it's way through and probably take with me. Take me months to get through it, but I was like trying to read it and UN not just read it, but understand it, you know, I could read it and just like go through it and my eyes go over and be like, yep. That went inside my brain for a moment. Or just like go through it, try to pick it apart. I was taking notes, but it was really interesting to. Get like a little bit more on your, on your wind talk. And I feel like that's your baby, you know, like this, this idea and this thing that you really love to. So it was cool for me to get a little bit of a peek behind the, the curtain for. For that lecture and that discussion that we had talked about. And honestly, when we were doing our first talk, you were given hints about the win talk when you came back. Yeah. So it was like perfect timing. Perfect timing. yeah. So, but yeah, but I'll, so let's get into that. Let's talk about like, you know, I guess let's get into. So like who would benefit from reading this book? Like, who's kind of like the, the audience or the target. I mean, I can definitely see. People who like yourself and, and like the firm I work for at times, like performance based design professionals are people who deal with fire and the, you know, just the sociology of it, the science of it, all the parameters, like they can benefit by reading your chapter. But yeah, maybe you have a greater sense of who's a good audience for this document. It's it's a tough question, you know, because I would love to say everybody and that's a horrible answer to such post questions, which I now know being a content creator, if your content is for everybody, it's for no one. Wojciech Węgrzyński: So, so I'll try to Wrap up who would be a perfect recipient of this chapter, like who I would like to give this book in a president and tell them you would really, really benefit from reading this. And I, I think it would be an engineer, not necessarily dealing with the building design, but one that wants to understand a bigger picture or because of the work they're doing. They have to. Understand the bigger picture, the context of what they're being designing, be the building, a tunnel, a road, a system you know a bigger community even. If, if you are involved in, in [00:20:00] design and you would like to understand another layer of perception of your. If you're in the building, we usually care. Okay. Is your ISA time higher than your required time? And if that is you're good, if not, then you're bad. What are your concentrations inside? But as soon as you know, the smoke is exhausted outside of that compartment, you don't think about words going to fly. How far can it fly? Who's going to be vulnerable to that smoke. And actually even how much will there be? Eed out of your fire. It's not something we consider today that much while designing buildings or other systems. I'm not saying we should always do that, but I am also sure that in certain cases we would benefit from understanding what our what our buildings, what, what threats our building pose to the surroundings. As I mentioned the cases of Grandful or, or Nord Dame, it was a single building burned down. And yet it had some environmental consequences in its nearest surroundings outside of all the other damage that was caused by these tragedies. So even as a fire of a single building can do a lot of harm to the surroundings. And to understand that, like how can you. Understand what the impact will be. You, you have to calculate it in a way like we're engineers. We, we are supposed to not give a random answer based on our feeling or intuition, but we are all to calculate and then measure and, and model. So this is what. We were invited for in this chapter previously, as you've mentioned, we've been known for our work in wind and fire, coupled modeling and environmental modeling of the fire outcomes is largely related to the atmospheric winds. I mean, winds will be driving force for the, for the contamination. So it was very Easy to find a link between our work that was focusing on the winds and fires inside the buildings and extending it to understand how the winds affect the, the, the consequences of the fire outside of the building. We were focused on the inside, but it was very easy switch to also take a look at the greater picture outside now. One thing that we were doing, we were usually focusing on numerical modeling with CFD computational fluid dynamics, which is something that gives you great answers, but in the very near proximity of your building, because it's very detailed simulation. You can do a simulation of a whole city, but it's quite expensive and you probably don't want to do that all the time. So we thought with Karth or Thomas Thomas Lipsky from the Lulin technical university we thought, okay, so we have this understanding of the great model CFD on, on the near. There's plenty of other models being used, which I also do to my personal career and other developments previously, I have known we should like broaden it. So, so this is why in this in this chapter, we take the reader into a journey. First we try to discuss what. Is a fire mission. And there's a great chapter in the handbook about that as well. Like what is a fire? What does it emit? What can you expect from it as a source of heat and smoke, then we go through multiple types of of models with growing complexity. We start with something that's called the box models. Where you just assume a whole space is just one thing and you average things out within it. And that's the, that's probably the simplest way you can model contamination within an area, but you're. You are constrained by the size of the box. So, so it works only in, in certain scenarios. Then we go into Gian plume models where you have a single equation, AIAN distribution equation that allows you to calculate. If I admit this amount of smoking here, given that PSIC conditions around me, wind blowing in this direction, how much will go like 500 meters AF away, a kilometers, five kilometers away, 10 kilometers away. You can calculate this distribution. Now the problem with this is, is a very simple, easy calculation. It's just one equation you solve. You assume that the weather is not changing. Like, you know, you have one wind direction, one wind velocity, and it's constantly changing. And the bigger scale you go, like if I model a vehicle on a car, That's probably okay-ish to model it like that. But if you model like McMurray fault fire, where you have hundreds of square, hundreds of thousands of [00:25:00] square meters burning together, and the plume will take days to reach a different place in the us. You cannot model it like that. So you need to take this different things into account. So we go into more complex models there's models. I, I love them. They're called puff models where you it's more or less like Gian plume model, but you emit puffs of your fire and you model where the puff will go. So let's imagine. And each hour of a fire is a single puff and you just measure, okay, this puff goes here. This one goes here. This one goes here. And based on that, you, you have a more or less. Overall image on, on where the smoke will go. Then you can go into very complicated models. Laurian particle models, where you emit Laurian particles into, into three dimensional setting and you track where they go with allows you for very high, detailed investigation or where the smoke will go. and because of howing particles work, you can add chemistry to them. It's you can play a lot with them and ULA in models where you basically do more as a CFD of a, of a continent where you can really model the dispersion with a, with a complicated topography, complicated Windfield weather. At the cost, obviously it's not easy, but you can do that. So you have a hierarchy of, of models that you can use for a particular problem at hand. And of course, CD, which we many of these models, like there's their weakest thing is the nearfield, like what's happening directly near to the fire so that we cover with the CFD. So if you would like. Learn about this, the, the, the, the chapter and the handbook would be just for you. do you need this immediately in your life? I'm not sure, but if a day comes and you will need it, it's there waiting for you. So there's also a point of having a handbook. So if you, one day, find out yourself in the need for modeling things like this. Here you go. It's all there. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah. Gus Gagliardi: I think it's stunning rooting through your chapter and just like skimming through a little bit. How many modeling examples are in this chapter that you produce? I just was thinking about how much time it must have taken to even a symbol, all, all of these like different modeling examples and all that. I was like, man, I've seen CFD before and I saw like some of those. Like the cutouts and the nice renderings and like artistic renderings of the wind cityscape and stuff, which was neat that I'd seen from something you presented before. But lots of great. It's not just. Text. It's like a beautiful imagery of modeling and, and a lot more information and charts and, and, you know, distributions for what's happening with this material. Wojciech Węgrzyński: So thank you very much. We, we wanted it to like if, if this is the first and only piece of research, you. On this specific topic, modeling environmental impact of fires. We wanted it to at least give you a fairly complete overview. Obviously we're talking about a whole field of science. There's hundreds of people writing papers of that. There's dozens of models. We, we were, it was even, it would, it would be even impossible to give a list, a complete list of models, not, not even to go and, and, and discuss them. So we focused on the ones that we knew are most popular or the ones we had some experience in. I mean, it, it is not an exclu exhaustive list. I, I guess, at, at some stage we'll build up on that and then present a more complete image. I think for, well, it took a few months of work. So for the time associated to make this chapter happen, I think we did a, a fairly good work completing all of this together, compiling it into, into one one piece of content. Gus Gagliardi: The chapter that that now is, is in the hands of engineers to. Yeah. So like how long did it take to like physically write it? Because I've been doing more technical writing recently and I'm so bad at it. I'm not good at all. and so I was just looking at this document and how like, Nice and polished. It is, and like the, the terminology and everything flowing and having nice little poetic phrasing in there. And I'm like, this would take me forever to write this. I can, I can tell you, let me find a manuscript folder on my, yeah, from the first draft till the one that we've sent. To [00:30:00] Brian. It was four months of work. Wow. Yeah, it was four months. I remember quite vividly. I I've spent my entire Christmas break reading literature and, and writing that it was fun. Wojciech Węgrzyński: Like 10 hours a day reading it. Oh my God. And writing, I like this. It's not it was not Pain. I, I, I, to some extent enjoyed, enjoyed it. It was nice to learn. The more pain comes when you have to like rephrase stuff and then put it into context. So, yeah, it, it was few months. And then obviously it was like two years in editing, you know, many people having it in their hands. Criticizing making changes, editorials and, and stuff like that. So the final product is a product of, of the work of many people. And it's not something you just go in and ride overnight, but yeah. Okay. Just writing it was months . Wow. That's incredible. That's cool. I don't think I've ever written anything that should have taken months in months. Gus Gagliardi: oh, I mean maybe a term paper as a student that I put off for too long, took me months to write, but I guarantee I wasn't writing that whole time. No, no. It's like, and I don't think I would have time to write it now again with the podcast on, on the, with the podcast project on my back. So I'm not sure if I'll ever author another. Piece like that. Well, maybe I will. We'll see. I'm sure you will. I'm sure you will. Maybe you'll get that patron one day and then you'll be able to outsource some of this editing but no I wanted to talk about like, it's such a complex process of, you know, Just like, I'd like to talk with you about just like some of the basic factors for like these modelings, but I know that that's just like, what's the basic factors of fire, which, you know, but also a topic I'd like to discuss with you is just like, so if we. Had infinite computing power mm-hmm like, what would we be able to do with these like models? You know, like a CFD for a whole city. Like if you could like model whatever, pick a reasonable sized city, but if you could model a reasonable size city and you had infinite computing power, could you get a, like a reasonable approximate approximation of like, Wind distribution of pollutants over a city from a fire. Wojciech Węgrzyński: I mean, like. I was seeing you having some examples of the different mm-hmm zone modeling and like near and the, the different compartments. But yeah, I just wanted to ask that. So my brain always jump. So what's the extreme, yeah, we, we, we don't have to go into abstract thinking, I, I, I think I can give you examples of, of citywide simulations, because we are actually doing them right now. Maybe not on a moderately size city, but on like a square kilometer of a city which is like quite a large chunk of a large city. So, so it takes us using our 128 cars of 128 CPUs. It takes us 24 hours to, to simulate a fire with all the distributions around it. So. It's not it's not something that will come in the future. It's something that we will already have. It's just not, not that many people are using that yet. If you wanted to seem like what would we do if we had crazy amount of power and like infinite infinite resources. I'm not like you can spend whatever amount of resources you want to increase the fidelity of your simulations. You can always use the smaller resolutions of your mesh. You can always use more complicated models. Does it translate to a better simulations? Not necessarily it's it's not such a direct link. I mean, it it's, it's a complicated, I'm actually gonna have a whole podcast episode with Jason Floyd about that, like in a month. so there's an, an, the answer is, is it's complicated, but not so easy. One thing that we like the, the. Issues are with the problem definition, not with the solution. You know, if you think about wind, like what's wind, like what direction, what velocity, what gusts, what we, we there's even a thing called the atmospheric stability. And based on that, you get different wind profiles. If you have a sunny clear day, or if you have a very. Cloud layer you'll have completely different atmospheric conditions. In, in those two days, you can have a wind in the winter. You can have a wind in, in the summer. So, you know, the, the amount of different wind context you can run into is, is endless, like in endless amount of fires you can. So if I had an access to infinite Computational power. [00:35:00] I would do infinite number of simulations, like concurrently to each other to really work out probability distributions and see a risk based image of on how Wind and fire go together. Like I would love to know with probability of this amount of percent, the wind impact will be this. And with this probability, it will be like this. And if the wind is extreme, but the probability is very low, the impact is extreme. Or maybe it's not, I don't know. Maybe with the wind that is very highly prob. Low velocity flow that occurs every other day. Maybe the impact is the biggest. I don't know that it's something that we're currently actually researching in, in a project that we're carrying at ITB. And we're somewhere in the middle of it. We are in the numerical calculations now to really measure. Impact of wind different types of wind, different, different directions in our context on how the consequences of the fire in an urban settlement are. And then we'll be able to, to say to what extent extended this something important or, or not based on risk. So yeah, I would, I would spend. Infinite resources on being able to do risk. not necessarily, you know, doing the fanciest simulation. I can. Mm, that makes sense. Yeah, I guess that's the whole thing is like understanding the very fluid and variable nature of the, the wind and just how quickly things can change the probabilistic. You know, kind of distribution of what could happen and the dispersion of the pollutants, I guess that makes sense of, you know, You know, like, do we even know enough about like the way that the wind and the atmosphere to even make that model? Yeah. Even if you had infinite like resources you know, like you're saying the valuable use of those of that. I I'll give you. I'll I'll give you for a context, a nice example. Like a few weeks ago, there was a severe drought in, in, in Europe heat wave. And there was like one of the hottest days ever in, in, in UK. They had a massive number of fires in London that day, like massive number. Like they, they compared it like it was the worst days. Sinces world war II in London in terms of the amount of fires. Wow. And because I'm involved in the biolife project I'm on the WhatsApp there. And there was a discussion there, like, and Gilman was mentioning and the wind was like very low that day, like four meters per second. And I checked it for London and it seems to be somewhere around the average or median wind and We understand, or we know that stronger wind usually leads to worse outcomes of fires. Like fire can spread, can grow bigger. It's it's usually connected with the worse outcomes. So if on the west day, since world war II, we had wind that was like around 50% chance and it was a wind that. Possibly not contribute that much to the damage. Like it could have been much, much worse with the worse wind. And if the probability of that was 50%, we essentially won a coin us, you know, like if it was not, the outcomes could have been so, so much worse. So this is why we need to. Understand that, and then be able to, to model that, to predict that because if this time we won a coin, us, what's gonna happen on the next worst day. Since world war II, will we lose the coin us? And how horrible will it be? What should we. What should we be ready for? Like, do we understand that as a society? I don't think so. So to, to gain insight into these questions, you first have to solve the fundamentals, which is how do you model them both together, wind and fire. Gus Gagliardi: Yeah. And that's what we're trying to do. Yeah, that's awesome. I like that real world context that Shere providing, you know, I think that's something that over the, like the history of our discipline has always been such a useful teaching tool and just way to ground the importance of what we do. You. It seems like society. It's very easy to forget, you know these tragedies when you exist, you know, most of your daily life is not impacted. And then you'll see a flash of something like this on the news. Mm-hmm like what you're just saying about London and. It having its worst day for fire since world war II. And it's like, you know, when you can bring to mind something so visceral like [00:40:00] that, it really has a great brings home. The meaning of like what we do and Notre Dame and gr fell. I mean, two tragedies that. They're still talking about to this day. I mean, they're still litigating Grandville. It would've happened in like 20 17, 20 16, something like that. Yeah, I can't remember, but it's just incredible how much impact and cultural significance that these fires and this subject has on people and it just kind of. Goes under the radar for the culture of how we exist. We just kind of forget about it. Go back to, we are dealing with very real problems in fire, like we're in. I mean, it, it, in a way it is abstract in a way it is something very. Weird complex difficult to understand. You start to realize the complexities, they, they prevent you from answering most of the questions usually, but in the end you have down to earth problems like real buildings that burn down real environments that suffer real people that suffer and, and yeah, that's what, that's why we are doing this difficult work to. To, to, to help that and, and, you know, being down to earth and being able to relate the, the science to the real world problems. I think it's an engineering science for a reason. Yeah. We, we have to solve the problems without knowing everything first. Yeah. So I feel like I you've talked, you've covered it pretty well, but just like, so why. I guess I'll just ask, instead of trying to put words in your mouth. Yeah. Why, what do you find compelling about like wind engineering or like the computational aspect of wind engineering or trying to be better about not like asking fully loaded questions and just like, obviously pushing my thoughts or opinions on people. When I am trying to do an interview. It's cool. Yeah, I, I, I like computational wind engineering is is something that I find. Interesting. I mean, we are using the same tools for, for fleet mechanics in, in fire safety engineering and in computational wind engineering. But the culture is very different. Wojciech Węgrzyński: They approach their problems in a different way. Like you have different scales in, in, in space. For example, like in wind engineering, you would consider a building and you can go away with two meter mesh on the building because it's a big block. But if you consider fire you, like, you need to model like these tiny details that will influence the fire. So here we, we are in a kind of different world than when wind engineers in terms what we are expected from our models to be in time scale. In wind engineering, you can most likely go away with with steady state simulations, something you never see in fire, because fire is a transient event. You have to like the time, the time aspect of a fire is fundamental to the fire, to the safety to E everything happens on the timeline. In winds, not, not really. It's like probability and just a single, single thing that happens at the time. So, so you go away with steady. So in, in the end, I mean, the tools are the same. I mean, we're also talking about building, so the thing you're modeling is the same, but you're doing it in a different way. And. This is compelling. You know, if you are a, if you're a guy who's been doing fire modeling, they're all professional career, you know, building these buildings, putting fires inside modeling, HVC systems, smoke control systems, doing the same thing over and over and over again, and then comes someone and tells you, now you have to do it. Like I forget about this interior. It's not relevant. It's, it's kind of refreshing, you know, to do something in a completely different way. And when you try to combine both, that's where the magic starts because you cannot simply combine them. Like you cannot put a fire analysis inside of wind analysis. It will not work. It, it it's, it's, it's a different thing. You cannot just drop wind randomly on your, on your fire. By ex you just extend the domain by 10 meters and drop wind. It's not gonna work. It's not wind that you're modeling. It becomes pretty interesting when you try to model the interface between them. It's not so simple. And I, I mean, I, I like dealing with difficult problems, so I, I really enjoyed being exposed to this one and trying to maybe not solve, but at least Try to work in this difficult setting. So yeah, that, that is rewarding and compelling and interesting for sure. For me using the, the fundamentals of computational wind engineering in fire safety engineering. Gus Gagliardi: Yeah, I think that's awesome. That's funny that you're like, oh, well, it seems like you guys are playing on easy mode over here with [00:45:00] steady state equations and yeah. You know, just like, I mean, I know it's a different set of problems, but, but then again like, and they can look at us and they, they, they can Ask us, like what's your time steps? Wojciech Węgrzyński: What's your what, how, how do you solve the, the chemistry of fire? Oh, we simplify that. Oh, you are playing easy mode. You're simplifying it. It way too much. They do take significant care in, in boundary layer problems, which we all. Like not everyone at ologists boundary layers in, in fire safety engineering yet to solve with boundary layers in mind when you're solving your flows. And these, these guys would be very serious about them. So, so it's like we oversimplify something horribly in fire as well. That is very exotic from the view of the other field and vice versa, I guess, I guess that's with the, every field of engineering, the users model. Right. Yeah, that's definitely true. Gus Gagliardi: Yeah. We just know the set of parameters and the distributions that we've simplified our equations around and, you know, you can't account for everything. So that makes sense. Well, I wanted to just ask you to zoom out a little bit and just speak more broadly about your career experience and just ask you like, you know on top of this endeavor you had going, what kind of trends have you been seeing just in your professional career? Wojciech Węgrzyński: It could be in the lab or in your project work. I, I guess I can talk broadly about, Hm, fire engineering as I view it. One trend that is really emerging is, is artificial intelligence. And. it's it's a thing that's in one way it's a black box. No one really understands how it works. It opens a whole world of possibilities that you would not even imagine without it yet. It's difficult to, to handle interpret and make sure that you have it under control when you're using it. So. It's definitely something growing and it, it will be growing and it will be amazing in the future, but together it's gonna be a hell of a challenge, you know, to make sure we are doing it in a great way. Like, think about how people can misuse CFD. Without understanding it and then multiply it by a hundred. That's how that's how difficult the AI can be if you, if you misuse it too much. So, yeah, it's, it's, it's a challenge, but it's an emerging trend that I see more and more in the years. And there are great people working on ITZ last year in Clemson. There's CNN, Wongan in Hong Kong, protecting university and many others. Who are carving the path for everyone else in, in fire to, to use these magnificent tools, you know? So yeah, that's, that's a trend for sure. Yeah, it's so wild. I you're right. I mean, I think AI is just in such the early days, you know, I was looking at like Microsoft outlook documentation and I was looking, they had like little e-learning and I was looking through their courses yesterday, looking for how to do something. And like they had. Like 80% of their documentation was about like, or their little courses were about AI. And it was like, what really is this? Why is it like, like how to, how to create a culture within your company? That's AI ready? And like all this talk about AI and I'm just thinking, as you're saying this, like this is coming and it's going to be a huge part of probably like society. Within our lifetimes. And then the next, probably, I don't know how long wouldn't hazard a guess, but I mean, guess if we don't screw up, it's going to be magnificent. Like you will like if we make it work and validate it and make sure we are using the correct tools for correct problems, AI could take over significant amount of repetitive and Non-critical tasks, fire safety engineers are doing. To allow them to focus on the things only they can solve, you know, viewing, building as a holistic sociotechnical system, right? No one, but fire safety engineer can do that. No algorithm will ever be able to do that. You need a human being with a great understanding of fire building building physics to comprehend. And we will meet these engineers on the same end. You don't want these engineers to focus on simple things that can be solved by an algorithm. So if we can find this beautiful golden center of having the tool, not misusing it and benefiting from it fuel. It would be a beautiful world. [00:50:00] I'm just not sure if we can get to that point before we either break it or ban it, you know? Gus Gagliardi: So yeah. Well, I'm a, I'm a cynic by nature and all I can think about is your commentary in your chapter about the error percentages before we developed some of the more. Modern models for CFD and how it was like 20 to two to 200% or something. Yeah. You know, scatters on. Yeah. But I can just, I don't know. I think that. Maybe I'm just cynical for human nature, but about how people will use a tool with that kind of horsepower behind it. But I'm sure just as in everything in life, there will be people who do it the right way and people who do it the wrong way. Exactly. Yeah. And that's at the same time, it's, it is one of the biggest opportunities and perhaps one of the biggest challenges we have, you know, because we know it's powerful. Wojciech Węgrzyński: We know you can use different like a, a iOS of course, just a name. Tons of different techniques and tools. And it's just, just, just a catch phrase. It's wider than CFD. Even like it, it has multiple flavors, multiple ways how you can implement multiple places in which. You can use computer to help you understand your data sets and problems at hand. So we really need to learn how to use it. We need to learn how to control it. We need to learn how to know that the predictions of it are credible or not. This will be very difficult to solve, but if we get there, it's gonna be fun. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure we will gotta figure out how, how I, how we fit into that. Gus Gagliardi: But it sounds like you got a good idea with still providing that critical large scale oversight for the, that can't easily be reproduced with the algorithm. Yep. But yeah, I guess just thinking about like What kind of resources do you like to use? Wojak it could be professional or I'd even take a non-professional podcast recommendation. If you like to listen to podcasts or whatever you'd like to offer up to the viewers. Or if you've been watching something good lately, I don't, it's up to you. Dealer's choice at this point. You've done outstanding so far. So yeah. Cool, man. Shameless plug. Like there's the reasons right now, you know, I produce it. Wojciech Węgrzyński: it's, it's a great reason. But if you ask me where I get my resources, I I'm a scientist. I, I mainly rely on scientific papers which is very difficult to recommend to people who are non scientists, because you will be very frustrated by the way, how they are written and their hard to understand and comprehend. It's very rarely you find an answer to a problem in your paper, in the, in the scientific papers. So yeah, that's what we scientists have to work with. And I guess there's a. Space for people like Gus, me and others who try to, to build a bridge between engineers and scientists. So there's, there are credible journals, fire sector, journal, fire technology, which are great sources of knowledge, inspiration. As I said, difficult to, to comprehend that points. And and obviously behind the paywall, I can go whole day about how paywalls are destroying the scientific environment and how much I had hates that. But yeah, that's, that's how it is my. I really I think it benefit a lot from being a member of like SAP and IFSS organizations. These memberships like give me the, the ability to be part of engineering community and what they produce is, is absolutely outstanding. And I must say I learn more from being part of their projects, like being part of committees, being part of even, you know, writing that hand. I would never, never learn that much about modeling. As I did, when trying to summarize my knowledge and write the, the handbook chapter and the same goes into committees. If you join a committee and you have to work at a problem and try to convey that knowledge to others, you learn so much your own on your own. So. Not just consuming content and knowledge, but trying to create new knowledge, maybe a best way to, to gain new knowledge. So I would absolutely recommend participating in in the efforts of this bodies and Possibilities are endless because the needs are so huge. There's always a committee to join and participate. So, so these are these are great things. And outside of firearms, outside of engineering, I'm a huge fan of, of fin and smart, passive income podcasts. That is an amazing ecosystem of, of very positive [00:55:00] way of thinking. About entrepreneurship and just life in general, it I've gained so much from listening to patents. He's been an amazing mentor even though he I've never met him, he doesn't know about my existence. So I view him as, you know, a God in the podcast world, but yeah, it's, it's, it's been I I'm sharing, I I'm on his journey. For years now. And I enjoy every step of that all the way. I highly recommend smart, passive income and, and just Google path. You'll find him. Awesome. Well, I appreciate that Woj. I feel like that's a nice, neat bow on the podcast. I thank you for coming on. That was awesome. Yeah. Thank you so much guys. Gus Gagliardi: Looking forward to the next one. Sounds good. Thanks for listening. Everybody. Be sure to share the episode with a friend, if you enjoyed it, don't forget that fire protection and life safety is serious business. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are by no means a professional consultation or a codes and standards interpretation. Be sure to contact a licensed professional. If you are getting involved with fire protection and or life. Thanks again, and we'll see you next time.
How do you judge a cigar? Focus on a cigar's flavor, balance, construction and clean finish suggests HVC founder Reinier Lorenzo. A cigar with a clean finish won't leave you with a weird taste in your mouth afterward—what smokers call ashtray mouth. Native Cuban Reiner founded the small-batch cigar house HVC in 2011, as a homage to hand-made cigars in Havana. “To me, Cubans, when they are right, when you have a really good Cuban cigar, there's nothing that you can compare with. So now in Nicaragua, we at HVC, we want to replicate that.” Filmed on location at HVC headquarters in Doral, Florida with Boveda's Rob Gagner. Snow, cows and how to start your own boutique cigar company: 00:00 Cold open 03:05 Blending cigar tobacco is like creating a recipe 03:19 Look for flavor over strength when choosing a cigar 03:48 What cigars does HVC make? 05:56 A Cuban moves to Wisconsin 10:33 From Wisconsin to Nicaragua and AGANORSA 12:55 Why rolling a cigar at home is never as good as the premiums 14:14 Starting a business? Observe like an entrepreneur 16:53 What was the first broadleaf wrapper AGANORSA cigar? 20:55 Why you can't create a cigar from just one tobacco farm 23:20 Look for flavor, balance, construction and clean finish in a cigar 23:29 No more cigar ashtray mouth! 30:28 How losing his dad at an early age affects a man 36:37 As a small business owner, you have to keep going after a failure 40:11 Giving up the security of a job to start your own company 46:41 Best advice for launching a family business 47:19 Best response when someone says no to a sales pitch 53:29 Is it better to smoke a cigar alone or with friends? 54:41 Cigars vs. cigarettes—no comparison To get great taste out of cigars, keep Boveda in your humidor. Using Boveda packs makes storing premium cigars easy. Makers of 2-way cigar humidification, Boveda also makes seasoning packs for wood humidors, travel cigar humidor bags and one-step hygrometer calibration kits. Looking for a gift for a cigar smoker, dad or other important guy in your life? Check out the Boveda Humidor Starter Kit and other cigar care accessories. Shop Boveda here: https://store.bovedainc.com/collections/boveda-for-tobacco (https://store.bovedainc.com/collections/boveda-for-tobacco) Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives: A Cuban Cigar Collection | What's in Your Humidor? HVC, Reinier Lorenzo https://youtu.be/eF6c-3BjfeM (https://youtu.be/eF6c-3BjfeM) When the U.S. Rolled More Cigars Than Cuba (Feat. Big Sky) https://youtu.be/tEBjL44vXF0 (https://youtu.be/tEBjL44vXF0) The Man Who Taught Me All I Know About Cigars (Feat. Crux Cigars) https://youtu.be/T8rUALdjkO4 (https://youtu.be/T8rUALdjkO4) Talking Family & Matilde's Origin Story w/ Enrique Seijas (feat. Matilde Cigars) https://youtu.be/n2OjLXbbAsI (https://youtu.be/n2OjLXbbAsI)
Take a trip to Cuba in less than five minutes with HVC founder Reinier Lorenzo. See first editions, Cigar Aficionado top cigar of the year and more as Reinier opens up his personal humidor to Box Press host Rob Gagner. Reiner founded the small-batch cigar house HVC in 2011, as a homage to hand-made cigars from Cuba's capital city, Havana. Filmed on location in Miami, Florida. Full interview with HVC Reiner Lorenzo is coming soon. Cigar lovers, subscribe to the Boveda Box Press channel, so you don't miss it! What's in his humidor along with Boveda? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=0s (00:00) Cold open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=56s (00:56) What's the most flavorful Cuban cigar on the market? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=81s (01:21) What is Rob Gagner's favorite Cuban cigar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=109s (01:49) Is it true that this cigar has no aftertaste? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=150s (02:30) What is Reinier Lorenzo's favorite Cuban cigar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=174s (02:54) What's a good Cuban cigar with morning coffee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=194s (03:14) Is there a stick in his Cuban cigar collection that he WON'T smoke? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6c-3BjfeM&t=242s (04:02) 3,000 archival Cuban cigar bands! Which Boveda to Use to Store Cuban Cigars: If you smoke Cubans or other cigars with oily wrappers, you can customize the moisture in your humidor with Boveda. Cigars like these do best at a slightly lower relative humidity with Boveda 65% RH. (65% RH is great for aging premium cigars, too.) Before you add cigars to a new wood humidor, always season it first with the Boveda Humidor Starter Kit, a great Father's Day gift for cigar smokers. Shop Boveda for cigars here: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazVJc1dwenkzMC0wYjB2djdpQW5JdFo0MWFEQXxBQ3Jtc0ttVmxkS2JVemdLNlZvZjN5TlpOcXhtcGJZV2JjVk55V2dBYW9MenFneW5HOW40T0ZoeEVjSXFDNWRqMDhlUDdKWTYyQTBvOXpKU2NCTl9QNHUxN0VlNUxwQnp6WTNBdWJyQ293c2tZSjVnV1cxaC1JWQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.bovedainc.com%2Fcollections%2Fboveda-for-tobacco&v=eF6c-3BjfeM (https://store.bovedainc.com/collectio...) Check Out More of Boveda Cigar Exclusives: Is This a Cuban Cigar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsHXwyrxxAg&t=0s (https://youtu.be/wsHXwyrxxAg) How To Spot A FAKE Cuban Cigar! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiD5qFgSpqc&t=87s (https://youtu.be/qiD5qFgSpqc?t=87) Busting 4 Myths About Cuban Cigars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zRZEjeZfU&t=0s (https://youtu.be/A2zRZEjeZfU)
Nick Simpson joins us today to talk about going big in real estate. Nick is the founder and CEO of Mentis Capital Partners and has been involved in multiple commercial and residential projects valued at more than $50M in the greater Salisbury, Maryland market, including ground-up construction. He currently leads a team of talented real estate professionals who specialize in student housing, multifamily, and opportunity zone investments. Tune in if you want to know how they are gaining success in the large-scale development and heavy value-add space! [00:01 - 05:42] Getting into Heavy Value-Add Deals Nick discusses the work they do in the $10 million range Using their experience in construction for heavy value-add How they pick properties and manage risks Finding opportunities The more deals that you do, the more contacts you'll have Joining JVs [05:53 - 17:53] Scaling to Larger Developments The importance of local expertise Building a track record in the community Having a feel of what the local market wants Starting small before going bigger Nick breaks down their current project's partnership structure How they are hedging against the changes in the market Putting no escalation clauses on contracts and offsetting risks with suppliers [17:54 - 20:33] Closing Segment Nick shares the projects they have in the Southeast Reach out to Nick! Links Below Final Words Tweetable Quotes “Development is a whole another animal. And before you get into it, you really need to have local expertise.” - Nick Simpson “There's so much more that goes to the development piece. It's not something I would get into lightly. You really need to have strong backing. There's quite a bit of money that is required upfront… You've got to have a thick stomach.” - Nick Simpson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Nick! Shoot him an email at nick@mentiscp.com and follow him on LinkedIn. Know more about his company at Mentis Capital Partners website. Connect with me: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns. Facebook LinkedIn Like, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on. Thank you for tuning in! Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: [00:00:00] Nick Simpson: There's no secret to, getting to large-scale. I mean, if you look at any of these large companies who are getting it's very large developments, you wind, the clock back enough, and whether it be second or third generation to go back to its origins probably was quite humble. [00:00:13] Nick Simpson: And just one after another, after another. getting started, is always my biggest recommendation if you want to get into, like, we started with home building and, you know, obviously those are much more manageable bite- sized deals and you carry that forward and you can get into bigger stuff. [00:00:29] Sam Wilson: Nick simpson's an active real estate developer and investor focused on multifamily student housing and mixed- use properties. Nick, welcome to the show. [00:00:49] Nick Simpson: Thanks for having me, Sam. [00:00:50] Sam Wilson: Hey man, pleasure's mine. Three questions I ask every guest to come to the show: in 90 seconds or less, where did you start? Where are you now? And how did you get there? [00:00:57] Nick Simpson: I started in Salisbury, Maryland doing single family houses right after the recession. One house led to two, then three, so on and so forth and then got into commercial and then multifamily. And now we're doing a larger development and value-add deals throughout the Southeast. [00:01:15] Nick Simpson: And we are typically in the 10 to $50 million range. And having a great time doing that. [00:01:22] Sam Wilson: That is awesome. So the 10 to $50 million range, what are you doing? I want to hear the lower end of that number. What are you guys doing right now in the $10 million range? [00:01:33] Nick Simpson: Sure. Probably 70 to 120 unit complex is probably just a little bit above that, might be a hotter market where you're getting, maybe it's a little bit more expensive per unit, but you're in a really good market. And you might be, you know, paying 17 to 20 or 25 million. And you're still getting around that 125 units. Really, you have to kind of balance between making sure you have economics and the deal to get the proper staff on site and oversight to it. But I do think that you're kind of an area where maybe the institutional folks aren't quite pouring a ton of money and you might be able to peel one away and get a good deal. [00:02:14] Sam Wilson: Yeah. No, that makes a heck of a lot of sense. And those are more than I would assume when your value add side. [00:02:19] Nick Simpson: Absolutely. So those value add deals are typically heavy value add. So you had mentioned where developers, so we like to use our heavy value, use our experience in construction and really to that heavy value add or heavy lift type of property. [00:02:33] Nick Simpson: It really means a large tenant reposition. You're going to be getting in and doing a lot of the interiors, but also the exteriors of the property. And, you know, you might be doing foundation issues or fixing groups, but we typically are doing that type of property. It might scare away other people just because we have experience in getting it. [00:02:51] Sam Wilson: Talk to us about that. How do you define, or how do you find a project that you say, Hey, you know what, because I mean, a heavy lift or heavy value add comes with a lot of risk. I would assume not. I don't have any firsthand experience in this, come a lot of risk, I would assume, because like you said, you're doing a heavy, not just the heavy lift, but a heavy tenant reposition. [00:03:10] Sam Wilson: How do you pick a property? Cause I think there's plenty of those properties out there. How do you pick those that make sense and those that you're like, Hmm, no, we can't turn this one, but we can turn that one. What does that look like? [00:03:19] Nick Simpson: I think it always starts with location and that's, I think obvious, you know, the rule in real estate, you've got to make sure that you're kind of in the pathway of progress, that you're not like the first project that's of that type, getting into that reposition. Maybe you're seeing some new product getting built nearby and then that kind of helps bring your comp set up. the other part of that is when I say heavy value add, I don't mean the property is in disarray completely. I mean, there's still people living there. There is still a, having robust enough cashflow to support making distributions to investors, but also paying for the property management. [00:03:54] Nick Simpson: And I think it's that niche that we're looking forward. It's still sustainable, but with our large construction work that we do, we really see a big pop on the other side. [00:04:04] Sam Wilson: Right. Yeah. You're looking for something where, like you said, it's sustainable. It is, you're able to turn it, but yet it's still needs a lot of TLC such that you guys can then collect, like you said, on the other side. So that sounds kind of like a unicorn deal. I mean, are those hard to come by right now? [00:04:22] Nick Simpson: No, you know, I think everybody talks about how difficult it is to underwrite deals because there's a lot of capital in the markets right now. I think there's a lot of, you know, shift you know, during the pandemic, we saw a lot of shift away from the hotels, and we saw the office folks coming into the multifamily space, but I still think deals are out there. [00:04:38] Nick Simpson: It just comes down to a numbers game, whatever your number is of how many deals you need to underwrite to get done. And the more deals that you do, the more contact you'll have that are going to be calling you about off-market deals, how your bankers might have off-market options for your brokers are going to know that you can execute and slowly but surely you kind of build that pipeline. [00:04:59] Nick Simpson: And I think if you're really struggling to find a deal, don't be afraid to do a, you know, a JV deal with somebody else where you provide a lot of value to that other person and do a lot of the work yourself. But that way you're at least getting a deal done. [00:05:11] Sam Wilson: Right. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's something that, again, I don't specialize in multifamily at all, but certainly if you have plenty of know, plenty of friends and people like yourself that, you know, will call me with opportunities and I'll say, you know, do you want to help us with this? [00:05:23] Sam Wilson: Well, sure. By all means. I mean, if it's a home run deal, it makes all the sense in the world. Yeah. I want to participate. What I always say to, to other people is like, look, if you're fishing in that pond, Nick, I don't need to go through another line in the water. I just need you to call me when you've got a fish on the line and I'll help you reel it in. [00:05:36] Nick Simpson: So that's exactly what we do. Yeah. [00:05:39] Sam Wilson: That's a hundred percent. I love that. So that's absolutely awesome. Talk to us about your development side and you told us a little bit about your value add project. What are you guys developing right now? And what makes you decide whether or not to go into a market and develop versus just look for existing stock? [00:05:54] Nick Simpson: Sure. Well, development is a whole another animal. And before you get into it, you really need to have a local expertise, I guess, really need to understand the local politics, the local boards, the local zoning rules. What are the demand economic drivers, you know, is there going to be just this crazy unicorn law that you didn't know about is just going to kill the project? [00:06:17] Nick Simpson: You know, Maybe your competitor has gotten past in the past, like in previous legislation, all of those things really matter deciding when and where to develop. So we do our development in Salisbury, Maryland, where we have a lot of the local connections. We don't really do any development, multi states away, but we have a really good set of contacts here where we can get our projects to move forward. [00:06:43] Nick Simpson: Those projects out currently are, one's in the pipeline is multifamily really large scale and multi-family. We have a student housing project that's currently coming out of the ground. And in this market, the partner is the owner of the general contracting company. And they've done hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in construction in our market and know all of the subcontractors really help control schedule and pricing. [00:07:09] Nick Simpson: And those things are really important. I mean, all the way from the day when you think about the idea to the day that you open the project in the student housing cases, it was a five-year timeline before we actually opened the building. There are so many things that can stop you and having the right people in the right seats is critical. [00:07:27] Sam Wilson: A five-year timeline. I want to dig into that project, I guess a little bit more. But walk us through, maybe even take it back a few steps on the development side. Are these projects that people come to you and say, Hey, this is entitled, we think you should take it and build it out. Is this something where you guys go out and find the raw land, get it entitled and build the project? What's that process? [00:07:49] Nick Simpson: Well, I think more people are starting to call us about projects now that they've seen us execute on a couple of larger scale ones. I think to start though, we had to build a track record in our community and that. Just doing houses in the beginning. And then it was getting into commercial space and then it was multi-family space and not being a jerk to the building department, you know, the people who are issuing permits and making sure that the boards like the historic district boards and every time you're in front of those people, you're building rapport with them. So that when we came to this larger project called The Ross, which is a 358 bed student housing project, which is actually two buildings right in downtown, one of which is the tallest building in our area. It's like a 14 story building the other one's seven stories. And it really turned into a pretty large complex in the downtown area. And all of that took a ton of zoning. And that was a lot of leaning on the local representatives to get those types of projects done. [00:08:44] Nick Simpson: But to answer your question more specifically, on that project, we had to acquire three separate parcels, combine them together, get the zoning for the height, the density, the historic approvals. We had to keep some historic facades. We actually ended up passing a tax law that had to go from local government state government. [00:09:00] Nick Simpson: Even the governor had to sign off on our tax legislation, but it phases in our taxes over a 20 year period so it really saves, you know, really saves returns. All of which was started because of the coronavirus. If would get a gone without the coronavirus, the product would've been great. But you know, when you get stopped, just got to figure out a way to make the deal work. [00:09:19] Nick Simpson: And that case we had already acquired everything. And the coronavirus came out of left field and we decided to make some tax legislation that not only helped our project, but helped other projects in the area continue to grow. And you can kind of hear like there's so much more that goes to the development piece. [00:09:34] Nick Simpson: It's not something I would get into lightly. You really need to have strong backing. There's quite a bit of money that is required upfront. And, you know, I think there's just a lot of opportunity in it. You've got to have a thick stomach. [00:09:46] Sam Wilson: Yeah, you do. And when I hear all of that, and again, I'm not a developer. [00:09:49] Sam Wilson: I hear risk. I hear, you know, a lot of heartburn and a lot of pivoting is probably what I hear like, oh wait, now it sound like you're constantly in flux trying to figure out the right way to get this done. Is that a fair assessment? [00:10:03] Nick Simpson: It can be. And that's where it comes down to your, again, having a feel of what the local market wants. [00:10:10] Nick Simpson: If you have somebody who's really tuned into downtown Charlotte development. They might be able to quickly put together a project that's just going to check all the boxes and get through the zoning, cook your timeline, right? Have all the contacts, the architects, and quickly there they've got a development ground. [00:10:26] Nick Simpson: That's a pretty tight knit shop, but there's probably not too many of those shops out there. And that's probably our group here in Salisbury, Maryland. The new products we have that are coming down the line are pretty easy for us to get on the board. But it takes time to get there. And that's why we balance that out with a value add approach. On the other side of the business, that we're not all eggs in one basket, especially the most risky portion of the real estate world that I know which is development. [00:10:52] Sam Wilson: At what point in time did you know for certain that you had a viable project. You said, Hey, we're there. This is going forward. And you know, every all systems, you know, go, when did you know that? [00:11:05] Nick Simpson: I think you have to know that kind of early on. And when you say all systems go, I mean, I think you're probably referring to the shovels going in the ground and you're closing up financing and, you know, investor capital's coming in. Well, I see it as, not from the development perspective from our seat, all systems were go and we started really investing in like the contract level documents or the blueprints for the property. [00:11:30] Nick Simpson: A lot of people don't realize you're doing larger scale development. You can do millions of dollars into soft costs before you start and before you pull the trigger there, I think that's when you know that, okay, zoning's in place. We have a pretty compelling idea here. We've done some feasibility studies and checked it, you know, on appraisals and there's going to be a bank and good financial backing to it. [00:11:50] Nick Simpson: It can be quite stressful if you don't have those contacts in place and building those take time. And again, I think that's where starting smaller was probably critical for us. If we hadn't had done multiple smaller projects in our area, I don't know that we would've been able to do the larger. [00:12:06] Sam Wilson: Yeah. And that, to me, my question was how did you gain the experience on the development side to then have the courage someday to take this down? That sounds like your answer. [00:12:14] Nick Simpson: There's no secret to, getting to large-scale. I mean, if you look at any of these large companies who are getting it's very large developments, you wind the clock back enough, and whether it be second or third generation to go back to its origins probably was quite humble. [00:12:28] Nick Simpson: And just one after another, after another. Getting started is always my biggest recommendation. If you want to get into, like, we started with home building and, you know, obviously we were, those are much more manageable bite sized deals and you carry that forward and you can get into bigger stuff. [00:12:45] Sam Wilson: Got it. Talk to us about the owner or your general contractor slash partner relationship. How did you structure that and why did you structure it that way? [00:12:56] Nick Simpson: So we kept it pretty clean lines. He has to wear the general contractor hat. He still has to deliver the product on time and in the guaranteed maximum price. [00:13:08] Nick Simpson: But he also, became an investor which included him on the general partnership and when he agreed to sign on the loan for the deal, that really kind of gave us some additional comfort because that's a lot of risk that he's taking on saying, yep, I'm going to deliver this project on time. This is well within my wheelhouse. [00:13:27] Nick Simpson: This is something we've done a hundred times before. No problem. We've got it. That kind of just organically happened. What he first asked for was, let me join the project, just as your general contractor, I'd like to earn the business that way. And that just happened to kind of blossom into more of a additional partnership. [00:13:44] Nick Simpson: And he's part of the general partnership. Key members of that general partnership. We have other partners as well, pull down a large development deal, but in this case, it really, I think was beneficial to have the full transparency on the construction side, especially if what we've got going on with the inflation and labor shortages and material issues that's our currently plaguing all the real estate. [00:14:08] Sam Wilson: What are you guys doing on that front? A love that, thank you for breaking that down. I think that's kinda method before bringing the general contractor on as just an investor, but in this case, and it also loan guarantor, that's a pretty strong bet on their capabilities or capacity to deliver, you know, I don't think there's fantastic way to structure that kind of really aligns incentive between you and the actual general contractors. That's really cool. I love that. Talk to us though, about the labor and materials, shortage, inflation. I mean, a five-year project gives you a long exposure to whatever in the world's going on and inflation right now. How are you guys hedging that? [00:14:45] Nick Simpson: There's a couple of different aspects. The construction period is about a 24 month period. So we have a two year exposure on the actual construction. And certainly from the day that we started this to now, prices have gone up. The good news is rents on the other side have gone up as well to offset a lot of it. Right. Trying to not count on that is the mindset I continue to keep everybody in. Let's not count on a higher rent down the road. Let's not count on interest rates coming back down because of a recession or whatever. Let's just manage the problem, the best we can right now. As the a value engineer of the project let's take away things that aren't absolutely critical. [00:15:21] Nick Simpson: Let's not hurt the integrity of the building, like what keeps thenoise qualities of the building good. Let's give the waterproofing qualities top of mind. We can maybe cut some of the frills, maybe some of the finishes that are in maybe the lobby we can do more with better design and more flashes of color with paint, rather than relying on a fancier floor or a marble wall of some sort. [00:15:43] Nick Simpson: We took a lot, took a really close look at what we could do on the scope to dial it back. We worked with our property manager to see what they were doing cause they're kind of a best in class developer in this case, there's a student housing project so we're working with American campus communities, one of the largest owners and operators in the country. [00:16:00] Nick Simpson: So that's kind of relying on the experts to kind of give additional feedback. And then this is where we really rely heavily on that partnership with our general contractor who is locking in a lot of major subs like the HVC and plumbing, we've put no escalation clauses on those contracts. So they must hold the pricing throughout the duration of the project. [00:16:22] Nick Simpson: And I don't think they would do that just for anybody on the street. They're going to want some kind of guarantee that the product is going to be funded and they're going to be on schedule and they can count that this is going to be a real job that's going to be profitable for them provided they stay on, on time and on track, what you think our general contractor can do. [00:16:40] Sam Wilson: That's really interesting. You're not putting any escalation clauses in your subs, bids, and I guess that's offsetting some of the risks from you to your subs. Of course, it's incumbent upon them to figure out how they're going to offset their own risk. And you can't obviously fix everything downline, but you can fix it on your own side of the equation, it sounds like. [00:16:56] Nick Simpson: Do the best you can to take care of your portion of the deal. And those are large company. I mean, these are not large multi-million dollar companies that have sophisticated people at them who can go to their suppliers and pass it along because the suppliers are giving a lot of difficulty back to them. [00:17:12] Nick Simpson: It's just right now, it's a very interesting dynamic. I think developers have typically been in the driver's seat, just getting to bang the table and now make it cheaper, make it cheaper. And everybody was giving in. Right. That's not quite the case right now. You might just have to accept the pricing, but maybe you could add, Hey, we'll take that pricing, but can you at least lock it in? [00:17:32] Nick Simpson: Like right now that seems like even just a big ask. So that's kind of where at, in this current market and hopefully we can get back to more of a stable time. You know, gas prices don't help and you name it. There's always going to be pressures on it and hopefully we can see it all kind of smooth out here soon. [00:17:50] Sam Wilson: I love it. No, that's great. Thanks for kind of explaining that for us. Tell us about your value add deals that you have going on down, in the Southeast right now. What are some fun things that you are going forward to on those projects? [00:18:01] Nick Simpson: Yeah, so we have a couple of deals going on in Atlanta, specifically in like Decatur and our larger, heavy value add deals and they have been going exceptionally. The market is extremely strong. We're seeing really quite a robust rent growth that we didn't quite expect. We're seeing a lot of the people who have potentially, I think a lot of the folks who have held these properties for a long time, kind of feel like it's the time and that there's probably not a lot of runway left. But when we look at the economics of these deals, they're still under market from where they should be. And there's still additional population growth coming. And there's a value add that we can add to the property like washer and dryers in the units that are landscaping. [00:18:44] Nick Simpson: And I'm not just talking like light landscaping. I'm talking like cut the trees away, added some, you know, like amenities that are really nice, like really nice playgrounds and grilling areas and stuff that really make it a home that can thrive up the rents. And that's what we're seeing. And that that's no different than any other market, but we're really excited about what's going on down there. Have a couple of deals that are in the pipeline. Hopefully be closing network on track to close another one by the end of this quarter, and pretty excited about just the continued rent growth of Atlanta like we are in many other places. [00:19:16] Sam Wilson: Right. Nick. That's absolutely fantastic. Thank you for taking the time to really break down the two sides of your business. They're unique and they are as different from each other as they could be. I can really imagine the development side, especially in the student housing, all the way to value add there in Decatur, Georgia. That's loads of fun. Appreciate you taking the time to break all that down for us today. If our listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you and the projects you are involved in, what is the best way to do that? [00:19:40] Nick Simpson: Certainly you can check us out on our website at mentiscapitalpartners.com. You can email me at nick@mentiscp.com. I'd be happy to jump on the phone or zoom call and touch base with whatever questions you might have. Awesome. [00:19:53] Sam Wilson: And Nick, can you spell your website there for us real quick? [00:19:56] Nick Simpson: Sure. Mentis is M E N T I S. And then, you can do capital partners or you could just do cp.com. [00:20:03] Sam Wilson: Awesome. Nick, thanks so much for your time, but I do appreciate it. [00:20:06] Sam Wilson: Likewise, have a good one.
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It's everyone's favorite day of the week! On this weeks #talkurshittuesday Atina Rose is joined by Founder of High Vibes Consulting, healing and herpes advocate Brenda! TUNE IN to hear everything from GETTING ENGAGED YOUNG, DATING OLDER MEN, DEALING WITH A HSV DIAGNOSIS & STEPPING INTO YOUR MOST AUTHENTIC SELF!?!To find out more about Brenda & HVC click here:To find out more about TalkUrSh!t follow us on Instagram at:@TalkurshitpodHost:@Whereisatina If you have any Questions/Stories of your own and want to TalkUrSh!t You can Dm or Email us at:talkurshitpod@gmail.comInstagram @TalkurshitpodINTRO & OUTRO PRODUCED BY THE DEANTO HEAR MORE FROM HIM CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW:https://soundcloud.com/mason-dreiling-1TO FOLLOW MASON ON IG YOU CAN FIND HIM:@prod.mason
Eind vorig jaar reisde Jan Dirk van Nifterik naar Pakistan. De directeur van collega-organisatie HVC ontmoette tijdens zijn reis de 23-jarige Kiran. Ze werd ontvoerd en gedwongen om met een moslim te trouwen. Ze wist te ontsnappen. Van Nifterik vertelt waarom deze ontmoeting zo'n indruk op hem maakte. Ook vertelt hij over de ontmoeting met de familie van Stephan Masih, een christen die al ruim twee jaar onschuldig in de gevangenis zit wegens vermeende blasfemie.
One of HVC's echo techs had a few great questions that probably many of us also have so we posted these on this podcast. We cover sudden cardiac death in athletes, Takasubo's cardiomyopathy, and a few other topics.
Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs continue their journey into the salty flavor component with a pairing that, on paper, should be smash hit. We will be smoking a HVC 500 Years Anniversary and drinking Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale. Will the subtle salty notes of the HVC pair well with the malty nut brown ale? Tune in to find out.
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