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If you're feeling frustrated and overwhelmed by the lack of engagement and customer growth on your social media platforms, despite your efforts to leverage them for business success, then you are not alone! Many direct sales professionals find themselves stuck in a cycle of posting consistently, engaging with their audience, and yet not seeing the desired results. Instead of attracting new customers and seeing their business grow, they are left feeling discouraged and questioning the effectiveness of their social media strategies. About Katy Martin:Coming from both corporate and small business worlds, Katy Martin has built and trained several teams in every area of business. Managing different leadership and personality styles over the years has given her the wisdom on what types of company cultures jive with certain personalities. Having a proven method to find the RIGHT people will speed up your growth plans, reduce turnover, and solidify your company culture. In this episode, Jennie and Katy discuss:Strategic Social Media PlanningSuccessful direct sales communication requires a clear and deliberate social media strategy. Maintaining a Steady Social Media PresenceConsistent social media activity is key for direct sales professionals who wish to maintain a robust online presence. Regular posts keep your business at the front of the audience's mind, fortifying your relevance in a sea of competitors. Meaningful Engagement with AudienceGenuine engagement with your followers, from responding to comments to initiating discussion, fosters a sense of community and boosts your business's visibility.  In this episode, you will be able to:Discover how strategic social media planning can skyrocket your direct sales.Explore the significance of maintaining a steady social media presence and how it boosts your brand image.Understand how meaningful engagement with your audience can foster trust and loyalty.Learn to harness the power of social media analytics in order to optimize your growth strategy.Realize the tremendous potential of fostering a vibrant community through effective social media communication. "One of the biggest mistakes solo entrepreneurs make on social media is inconsistency. Your business is part of your life, so find the balance between personal and professional content." – Katy Martin CONNECT WITH KATY:Facebook Name: Katy Martin (https://www.facebook.com/katy.martin.1232) Facebook Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/ninetyninecreativesFacebook Group Name: https://www.facebook.com/katyemartin81LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-martin-097065b/  Instagram Handle: https://www.instagram.com/katy_e_martin/Instagram Business Handle: https://www.instagram.com/_99creatives/Website: https://www.bestemploymentassessment.com/ CONNECT WITH JENNIE:Website: https://badassdirectsalesmastery.com/Email:  jennie@badassdirectsalesmastery.comFacebook personal page: https://facebook.com/jbellingerPLFacebook podcast page: http://facebook.com/BadassDirectSalesMasteryFacebook group for Badass Crew: https://facebook.com/groups/BadassDirectSalesMomsInstagram: https://instagram.com/BadassDirectSalesMasteryPersonal Instagram: https://instagram.com/jenniebellingerLinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/BadassDirectSalesMastery  Show Notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

Hey there! As the school bells ring and our calendars overflow, I've got the ultimate magic spell to halt those hunger pangs and rescue your tight schedules. Dive into my ocean of 10 delightful, grab-n-go meals that'll have your taste buds doing the cha-cha! Imagine a world where your sandwich doesn't just rest between two slices of bread. It dances, twirls, and sings with flavors, offering you over a million delectable combinations!  Whisk yourself away to the picturesque French countryside with tantalizing charcuteries. Every bite feels like a mini-vacation!  Or, perhaps you'd like to nestle into the comforting embrace of simple bowls? They're like a warm hug on a busy day. But wait, there's more! Craving a cheat sheet for these mouth-watering delights? My '10 Best Meal Ideas For On The Go' blog has your back. Treat it like your culinary compass for those frantic days. For those seeking an extra sprinkle of organization, here are two golden tickets just for you: Enroll in the Master Your Meal Plan email series. Zero dollars, infinite flavor wisdom. Dive into our showstopper: the Best-Selling Meal Planner. Your roadmap to mealtime mastery! Cheers to delectable dishes and stress-free days!   

Dr. Salva recommends co-creating text with newcomer students. It is no-prep and high return on investment. Key for accelerating language acquisition is to reuse that text! This episode is full of ideas for what teachers can do to support language acquisition through the re-purposing of co-created text.

Have you ever had a disruption in your routine – moving to a new house, taking a new route to work – and found yourself exhausted every day?  This is common when our habits are upended (the subconscious can't use its rules anymore so your conscious is having to do a lot more work!). And while it may feel annoying, this is also a great opportunity to innovate and change your life for the better.  Today, I'm joined by Adam Hansen, VP of behavioral innovation at Ideas To Go and coauthor of Outsmart Your Instincts who happened to be in the midst of a move, so we talk about how to reframe an annoying disruption in habits to make it work for you. We also discuss the curse of knowledge and how it impacts businesses, risks of omission versus risks of commission, and other fun behavioral goodness sprinkled throughout (including my new favorite term of being an “omnivore of information”). Listen now... Show Notes: [00:07] In today's episode, I'm excited to introduce you to Adam Hansen, VP of behavioral innovation at Ideas To Go and coauthor of Outsmart Your Instincts. [03:18] Adam shares about himself and his background. He always knew that innovation would be part of his career.  [05:18] When working on the book, they started looking at all the cognitive biases to figure out which ones were causing most of the mayhem in innovation.  [06:16] If you adopt the behavioral innovation approach, you can see three to four times improvement in performance and quality of ideas very early on in innovation. You can get to better ideas faster.  [09:01] All of the thousands of small decisions we make every day that have been automated are lost when you move. Each little thing is so minor that we don't realize what the cumulative effect of all those small decisions is.  [10:02] It is important for us to automate everything we can.  [12:19] It is impossible for us to place ourselves fully back in the shoes of our first-time clients. Our version of dumbing things down to meet them where they are is still going to be more advanced than where we need to get to. We can work on this by following up with first-time clients and asking what you could have done better.  [13:46] There is so much more jargon in your business than you think there is. [16:10] Our need for tangibility is much greater than we assume. Most people need help to break down abstraction. The more tangible you can be the better.  [18:13] The curse of knowledge is the idea that once you become knowledgeable in a given area, you can't unknow what you know and you can't fully place yourself back in the shoes of the subject.  [23:27] Negativity Bias is the idea from our ancestors of thinking of all novelty as threat and not opportunity.  [25:12] Especially in innovation, we need to be as opportunity minded as possible. We need to be aware of threats and take smart action to minimize and mitigate those threats.  [27:43] When we are in moments of threat, to still be able to take swift decisive action is fantastic (and sometimes life-saving!)  [28:29] The research shows that negativity can appear super profound. Too often we are shooting down ideas and not coming up with alternatives. That is not progress.  [30:31] We are predisposed to go toward the negative any time a new idea comes up.  [31:38] The more you can value ideas early on for their provocative value rather than for their immediate merits the better. Then you are in a better frame of mind to take on the negatives.  [33:54] When you approach challenges to problems in this way, there is real value. The language is brilliant, priming to get people to deal with problems and concerns in a much better way.  [35:10] If you are an optimistic person it doesn't mean that you don't have a negativity bias and pessimistic people still have optimism bias.  [36:44] Go in understanding that there will be some differences and then the task becomes “How do we get the most out of the differences?” The more you can approach differences with curiosity than defensiveness...the better.  [37:48] Curiosity is very smart and super adaptive. Be curious even when it is hard to be curious.  [39:07] Curiosity kills the cat, satisfaction brought it back. (Did you know there was more to that saying?!) [41:49] It is hard to gather data on what you don't do.  [43:42] Every year to 18 months every person should “fire themselves.” If you fire yourself and come into your job as if you had new eyes...what would you do differently? When you start a new job you are looking for all these opportunities of growth and then you become stagnant.  [45:07] We need to be more intentional and realize we can choose better because we have all these nonconscious instincts so we can choose otherwise.  [46:49] Meaning is created dialogically not monologically.  [47:35] Melina shares her closing thoughts.  [47:42] One of Melina's favorite things is this idea of being an “omnivore of information.” It's such a great way to think about learning and essentially devouring all kinds of topics from various origins. [50:07] Melina's award-winning first book, What Your Customer Wants and Can't Tell You is available on Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository, and Booktopia.  Thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Android. If you like what you heard, please leave a review on iTunes and share what you liked about the show.  I hope you love everything recommended via The Brainy Business! Everything was independently reviewed and selected by me, Melina Palmer. So you know, as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. That means if you decide to shop from the links on this page (via Amazon or others), The Brainy Business may collect a share of sales or other compensation. Let's connect: Melina@TheBrainyBusiness.com The Brainy Business® on Facebook The Brainy Business on Twitter The Brainy Business on Instagram The Brainy Business on LinkedIn Melina on LinkedIn The Brainy Business on Youtube Join the BE Thoughtful Revolution – our free behavioral economics community, and keep the conversation going! Get the Books Mentioned on (or related to) this Episode: Outsmart Your Instincts: How The Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward, by Adam Hansen Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick, by Wendy Wood How To Change, by Katy Milkman Connect with Adam:  Ideas To Go Adam on Twitter Past Episodes & Other Important Links:  Top recommended next episode: Good Habits, Bad Habits: an Interview with Wendy Wood (episode 127) Already heard that one? Try these:  Availability Bias (episode 15) Familiarity Bias (episode 149)   Status Quo Bias (episode 142) Confirmation Bias (episode 102) Framing (episode 16) Stressed and Overcommitted? Tips to Tackle Planning Fallacy (episode 114) 95% Of Decisions Are Habitual – Which Side Is Your Business On? (episode 21) Priming (episode 18) How To Change, an Interview with Katy Milkman (episode 151) Curse of Knowledge - coming soon! Negativity Bias - coming soon! Risk of Omission vs. Risk of Commission - coming soon! Check out Melina's award-winning book, What Your Customer Wants and Can't Tell You on Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository, and Booktopia

The Iowa Idea: Adam Hansen “The brain is a great goal-seeking instrument.” In this episode of The Iowa Idea Podcast, I sit down with Adam Hansen. Adam is a Principal and VP of Behavioral Innovation at Ideas To Go, Inc. and a career-long innovation leader, and student. He is co-author of Outsmart Your Instincts: How […]

As a new product and innovation professional, Adam Hansen has always believed in the power of possibility – accepting new approaches, questioning conventional wisdom, and being open to anything. This impulse led him to a career in developing new products for innovative companies such as Mars, Melaleuca and American Harvest, before joining the innovation firm, Ideas To Go, in 2001. Now as a facilitator, Adam is passionate about helping clients understand their own possibilities—even beyond the scope of their projects—so they take the innovative energy and momentum they gained at ITG back to their own organizations. Adam is the co-author of Outsmart Your Instincts – How The Behavioral Innovation™ Approach Drives Your Company Forward, which explores the intersection of behavioral science and innovation, revealing simple ways to get past the nonconscious cognitive biases that make innovation unnecessarily difficult. Adam’s path to innovation process started with an MBA in product management from Indiana University. He also cultivated his passion for New Product Development on the board of the Product Development & Management Association and serving as a volunteer innovation advisor for the National HIV Clinicians’ Network at UCSF.   Links Adam Hansen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adhansen/ “Outsmart Your Instincts”: https://www.amazon.com/Outsmart-Your-Instincts-Behavioral-Innovation/dp/0997384506 M&M Mars: https://marschocolate.com/ Ideas to Go: https://www.ideastogo.com/ Metacognition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition Biases & Heuristics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XHpBr0VFcaT8wIUpr-9zMIb79dFMgOVFRxIZRybiftI/edit?usp=sharing Teresa Amabile, PhD “Brilliant but Cruel”: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6409 “Yes, and…”: https://bigthink.com/experts-corner/why-yes-and-might-be-the-most-valuable-phrase-in-business Viktor Frankl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl Kurt Lewin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Lewin Johan Huizinga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Huizinga Homo Ludens/The Playful Ape: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens System 1 / System 2 Thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow Assumption Busting: https://www.ideastogo.com/articles-on-innovation/assumption-busting-with-ikea Functional Fixedness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_fixedness Conformity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformity Progress Principle: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40692 Blood Harmony: https://www.deseret.com/1999/6/10/19449890/sibling-harmony-br-family-members-often-have-tight-vocal-harmony Hammond Organ: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_organ Leslie Speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker Rap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping Rock n Roll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll Major Third Chord: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_(chord) Major Ninth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth Two-Seventh Resolving to Five: https://www.hearandplay.com/main/resolve-dominant-seventh-chords Linnea Gandhi episode: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/linnea-gandhi-crushing-on-statistics/ John Sweeney episode: https://behavioralgrooves.com/episode/john-sweeney-everything-is-a-story/ NY Times – Overcoming Your Negativity Bias:  https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/overcoming-your-negativity-bias/ John Cacioppo: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/200306/our-brains-negative-bias Homo Ludens, by Johan Huizinga: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens    Musical Links Iron Butterfly “In A Gadda Da Vida”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4 Deep Purple “Smoke on the Water”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUwEIt9ez7M Doobie Brothers “China Grove”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udSHItTjWyQ Steely Dan “Don’t Take Me Alive”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gV1sxB8TxI Monkees “Pleasant Valley Sunday”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUzs5dlLrm0 The Thorns “Among the Living”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh-aL6FCvMY Crosby, Stills & Nash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMJug2iz3NA The Beatles “Rubber Soul”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_Soul The Beatles “Revolver”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolver_(Beatles_album) Crowded House “Don’t Dream It’s Over”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20 The Beach Boys “God Only Knows”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8qZMFFDYa0 Louis Prima “Yes, We Have No Bananas”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hF05ik5TFQ

***This episode first aired in February, 2019.***For more info on increasing self-awareness, see this post.See this post on Emotional Management.The five strategies discussed include include:Identifying the difference between things you can control, and things you cannot.Becoming conscious of your thought and behavioral patterns.Managing your emotions.Taking action instead of complaining.Looking forward, not backward, in your life. Support the show (https://the-adhd-enclave.mn.co)

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The Columbus Think Tank is a group I helped create to network and fellowship with like minded individuals. This is a quick 20 minute episode with 2 other members along with Adam Hansen. Adam is an Innovation Process Facilitator at Ideas To Go, an innovation agency that works with Fortune 500 companies in ideation and concept development to incorporate the voice of the consumer. He also wrote a book called Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward. Support the show: Contribute with Paypal! Become a Patron! Affiliates Get a free audiobook! Free Course on Pawpaws Save 10% and get free shipping! With code word Sample! Reboot Your Body! Save $100 off the Profitable Urban Farming Course by Clicking! Or do the payment Plan! Start your own podcast! Download.

Beth Storz, President of Ideas To Go, joins colleague and co-author Adam Hansen on Episode 2 of the Outsmart Your Instincts Podcast. Listen as they discuss examples of—and define—Availability Bias and provide techniques to overcoming it during innovation. Availability Bias: how our minds retrieve information from the most recent memories first. Along with the most recent events, emotionally charged memories are also easily retrieved. In other words, what’s available is what’s easy to recall. Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

Beth Storz is President and Innovation Process Consultant at Ideas To Go with a rich history of helping companies and brands to be more innovative. Beth's experience ranges from managing large flagship brands to smaller strategic portfolios. Beth is the co-author of the recent book, “Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward.” What you’ll learn about in this episode: What cognitive biases are The cognitive biases that impede innovation How to overcome the cognitive biases and get your business to the next level How the negativity bias holds back innovative thinking The power of using positive words to trick the brain into problem solving What the curse of knowledge is and how it puts constraints on innovation How the fear factor can hold you back from trying new ideas Understanding that you alone do not have all the answers is a critical skill to master The impact of surrounding yourself with those who are smarter than you The importance of continuous improvement within your business Ways to contact Beth: Website: www.ideastogo.com Twitter: @bethstorz LinkedIn: Beth Storz Book: "Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your   Company Forward"  

Ed Harrington, CEO of Ideas To Go, talks with his colleague and co-author, Adam Hansen, about how to spot, deal with, and even combat Negativity Bias. It’s not just about being kind when you hear a far-out idea. It’s also about being mindful. Negativity Bias refers to the brain giving more weight to negative events, even in the presence of equally important positive events. In this sense, bad is stronger than good. Be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on everything Cognitive Biases and innovation!

As you navigate the #Jobocalypse, one of the most important skills to learn is how to be innovative. Fortunately, in that regard, we are incredibly lucky to have Adam Hansen as a sensei in the dojo. He's literally an innovation expert at a company that is all about helping companies innovate called Ideas To Go. How cool is that?!? Even cooler, he's using his innovation expertise to help evolve the Mixed Mental Arts project forward. [mbm_book_grid id="6552"] You may remember Adam's voice from the podcast he, James Miller and Drew Sample recorded as part of the Columbus Meet Up episode. You can listen to that here. You can also read the #knowledgebomb in text form here. You can also find Adam Hansen in the MMA Facebook Group. We're going to be getting the world's experts in every field to break down their core insights for you for free! As Bryan Callen would say, "Hope you're ready to learn EVERYTHING!"  

Brought to you By: Self Publishing's Dirty Little Secret! --------------- Ed Harrington is the author of Outsmart Your Instincts: How the Behavioral Innovation Approach Drives Your Company Forward and CEO at Ideas To Go. He has spent twenty-five years helping a who's who of corporate America come up with new and innovative ideas.  He serves on the Yale Center for Customer Insights board of directors. Related: Crunch Time with Rick Peterson  

As a new product professional, Adam has always believed in the power of possibility—accepting new approaches, questioning conventional wisdom, and being open to anything. This impulse led him to a career in developing new products for innovative companies such as M&M/Mars, Melaleuca and American Harvest, before joining Ideas To Go in 2001. His path to innovation process started with an MBA in product management from Indiana University. He also cultivated his passion for New Product Development as the VP of Association Development for PDMA, and has also enriched his own practice through training in Innovation Engineering. In this interview, we discuss how our biased hold us back...and how to hold them back in return.

Adam Hansen identifies eight inherent cognitive biases, how they developed, and what we can do to overcome them.You'll Learn:When you can still trust the wisdom of your instinctsThe massive power of taking six extra seconds to breathe and thinkHow to apply the “for-ness” mindset to overcome negativity biasAbout AdamAdam Hansen is VP of Innovation/Innovation Process Consultant at Ideas To Go and a career-long innovation leader, student and devotee. He received his MBA in product management at Indiana University. He has served on the board of the Product Development and Management Association and as an innovation and strategy expert with select causes in education and public health care.Items Mentioned in this Show:Book: Outsmart Your Instincts by Adam Hansen, Beth Storz & Edward HarringtonWebsite: sixseconds.orgBook: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanTheory: Barbara Fredrickson's broaden and build theoryBook: If You Want to Write by Brenda UelandBook: Humility is the New Smart by Edward Hess and Katherine LudwigApp: EvernoteView transcript, show notes, and links at https://awesomeatyourjob.com/ep123See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Adam Hansen identifies eight inherent cognitive biases, how they developed, and what we can do to overcome them.   You'll Learn: When you can still trust the wisdom of your instincts The massive power of taking six extra seconds to breathe and think How to apply the “for-ness” mindset to overcome negativity bias   About Adam: Adam Hansen is VP of Innovation/Innovation Process Consultant at Ideas To Go and a career-long innovation leader, student and devotee. He received his MBA in product management at Indiana University. He has served on the board of the Product Development and Management Association and as an innovation and strategy expert with select causes in education and public health care. View transcript, show notes, and links at http://AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep123

Adam Hansen identifies eight inherent cognitive biases, how they developed, and what we can do to overcome them.   You'll Learn: When you can still trust the wisdom of your instincts The massive power of taking six extra seconds to breathe and think How to apply the “for-ness” mindset to overcome negativity bias   About Adam: Adam Hansen is VP of Innovation/Innovation Process Consultant at Ideas To Go and a career-long innovation leader, student and devotee. He received his MBA in product management at Indiana University. He has served on the board of the Product Development and Management Association and as an innovation and strategy

In this episode Josh speaks with Adam Hansen, Partner and VP of Innovation at Ideas To Go. They discuss behavioral science, cognitive biases, looking for the "emotional why" for your product or service and what constitutes innovation.

Workshop Wednesdays with Host Tony Gambone with special guest Tom Crawshaw and John Sparks: Tom Crawshaw also know as The Adventure-preneur helps entrepreneurs and business owners face their fears, change their story and create abundance in their life and business through a transformative adventure experience with his company The Rise-Up Academy. Business - The Rise-Up Academy I have a 3-day Adventure Breakthrough Experience that I offer and other online coaching programs. Everything starts with a discovery call. John Sparks is author of the exciting new book, “365 Ideas To Go From Good To Great On TWITTER!”  (CreateSpace, 2015).  Sparks (@IAmJohnSparks) has earned the distinction of being the “Go-To Man For Twitter”. He grew his account from less than 800 followers to almost 200,000 followers in just two years. He did not buy any of his own followers! Sparks provides one on one & group Twitter consulting/coaching to celebrities, media personalities, corporations, businesses, and schools wanting to amplify their brand, develop better social media strategies & build quality connections. He is also available to speak to large/small groups, businesses, civic/community groups, and schools on everything you need to know about Twitter.  Contact John to speak with you about Twitter today!

Workshop Wednesdays with Host Tony Gambone with special guest Tom Crawshaw and John Sparks: Tom Crawshaw also know as The Adventure-preneur helps entrepreneurs and business owners face their fears, change their story and create abundance in their life and business through a transformative adventure experience with his company The Rise-Up Academy. Business - The Rise-Up Academy I have a 3-day Adventure Breakthrough Experience that I offer and other online coaching programs. Everything starts with a discovery call. John Sparks is author of the exciting new book, “365 Ideas To Go From Good To Great On TWITTER!”  (CreateSpace, 2015).  Sparks (@IAmJohnSparks) has earned the distinction of being the “Go-To Man For Twitter”. He grew his account from less than 800 followers to almost 200,000 followers in just two years. He did not buy any of his own followers! Sparks provides one on one & group Twitter consulting/coaching to celebrities, media personalities, corporations, businesses, and schools wanting to amplify their brand, develop better social media strategies & build quality connections. He is also available to speak to large/small groups, businesses, civic/community groups, and schools on everything you need to know about Twitter.  Contact John to speak with you about Twitter today!  

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Sales and the Art of Motivational Interviewing I recently had a conversation with Dan Pink for Inbound To Go. We spoke about: Motivational Interviewing The NEW ABC’s of Selling The “problem finding” sales method. The importance of ambiverts on your sales team. Crowd Control Have a listen…

In this week's episode, I engage in an epic, manic conversation about the creative appeal and history of comic books and superhero storytelling with Patrick Hawkins. TEXTS DISCUSSED Thor by Walter Simonson - Volume 1 (Thor (Graphic Novels))" target="_blank"> Four important panels that John came across early in his reading life: from The Incredible Hulk #182. NOTES Patty Hawkins is a geek theorist & humorist which is politer and more marketable than calling himself a fatuous gasbag who has seen & read far too much media involving capes, swords & ray guns. He makes no claims other then speaking the truth as he sees it about geek culture without sucking up or snarking down. Sometimes he succeeds. He is the producer & host of Come Get ∑ [pronounced 'come get sum'] a new TV/webcast set to debut in 2015 focusing on geekdom as a social culture instead of an exploited clichéd demographic of basement dwellers & cosplayers. He is one of the founding members & manager of The Geeks Of Comedy, a touring confederation of geek comedians who hack into all facets of fandom & fanDUMB with blistering honesty & self-effacement instead of lame ass Aquaman jokes. He is also Patrick The Uneducated Critic and reviews films at his own caprice when they roll over on his Netflix queue (YES I'm one of the weirdoes that still pays to get the damn discs mailed to me). He is a contributing panelist on the MarkWho42WHOniverse, a Dr. Who discussion podcast that bridges the generational gaps between Whovians which is not as easy as it sounds... In his day jobs his is co-owner of TyFy Studios, an audio production facility, an Ideator at Ideas To Go, & is an Equity actor for Walt Disney World. Go back and listen to Patrick perform some geek comedy as part of The Drunken Odyssey's Nerd Love live show back on episode 47.