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Heat waves don’t get as much attention as blizzards, floods, and hurricanes, but extreme heat is one of the deadliest weather events on average. Research: National Weather Service. “Weather Related Fatality and Injury Statistics.” https://www.weather.gov/hazstat Last, John. “This Summer’s Drought Is Europe’s Worst in 500 Years. What Happened Last Time?” Smithsonian Magazine. 9/8/2022. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-summers-drought-is-europes-worst-in-500-years-what-happened-last-time-180980711/ Wetter, Oliver; Seneviratne, Sonia I. et al. “The year-long unprecedented European heat and drought of 1540 - a worst case.” Climatic Change 125(3-4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1184-2 Orth, Rene et al. “Did European temperatures in 1540 exceed present-day records?” Environmental Research Letters. 11 (2016) 114021 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/11/11/114021. United Nations Environment Programme. “Impacts of summer 2003 heat wave in Europe.” Environmental Alert Bulletin. https://www.unisdr.org/files/1145_ewheatwave.en.pdf Pfister, Christian. “The ‘Black Swan’ of 1540: Aspects of a European Megadrought.” From Climate Change and Cultural Transition in Europe. Brill. 1/1/2018. doi:10.1163/9789004356825_007 Grodzinsky, Ewa, and Märta Sund Levander. “History of the Thermometer.” Understanding Fever and Body Temperature: A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Clinical Practice 23–35. 23 Aug. 2019, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21886-7_3 John Huxham, Dr. Watson. “Remarks upon the Heat of the Air in July 1757. in an Extract of a Letter from John Huxham, M. D. F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. F. R S. Dated at Plymouth 19th of That Month. With Additional Remarks by Dr. Watson.” Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 50 (1757 - 1758), pp. 428-430 (3 pages). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/105279. Huxham, John. “An Account of the Extraordinary Heat of the Weather in July 1757, and of the Effects of It. In a Letter from John Huxham, M. D. F. R. S. to Wm. Watson, M. D. F. R. S..” Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 50 (1757 - 1758). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/105292 Smeaton, John. “Remarks on the Different Temperature of the Air at Edystone, from That Observed at Plymouth, between the 7th and 14th of July 1757. By Mr. John Smeaton, F. R. S.” Philosophical Transactions (1683-1775), Vol. 50 (1757 - 1758). https://www.jstor.org/stable/105286 Sunderland, Helen. “The Great British Summer? A Historical Heatwave.” Doing History In Public. 8/12/2025. https://doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/08/12/the-great-british-summer-a-historical-heatwave/ Scott, John. “Four elegies, descriptive and moral.” London J. Buckland. 1760. The Western Flying Post; or, Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury. Page 3. 8/15/1757. Lind, James. “An essay on the most effectual means of preserving the health of seamen in the Royal Navy.” 1774. Walpole, Horace. “The letters of Horace Walpole, fourth earl of Orford.” Vol. 3: 1750-1756. Oxford. 1903. Zwierlein, Cornel. "Chapter 3 The Danger between Nature and Culture: The Quotidian Threat of Urban Fires in the Premodern Era". Prometheus Tamed. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004431225_004 Web. Luterbacher, Jürg et al. “European Seasonal and Annual Temperature Variability, Trends and Extremes since 1500.” Science 303, 1499 (2004). DOI: 10.1126/science.1093877 Beniston, Martin. “The 2003 heat wave as an example of summers in a greenhouse climate? Observations and climate model simulations for Basel, Switzerland.” Global and Planetary Change. Volume 44, Issues 1–4, December 2004. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921818104000980 Franck, Marcy. “Heat waves and annual death rates in older adults in the United States.” Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 3/16/2026. https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/heat-waves-and-annual-death-rates-in-older-adults-in-the-united-states/ Poitras, Colin. “Warming U.S. climate linked to rising deaths from heat.” Yale School of Public Health. 11/7/2025. https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/warming-us-climate-linked-to-rising-deaths-from-heat/ World Meteorological Association. “Western Europe has hottest June on record.” 7/9/2026. https://wmo.int/media/news/western-europe-has-hottest-june-record Cole, Deborah. “Germany records nearly 100 drowning deaths, many of them young men, in June heatwave.” The Guardian. 6/12/2026. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/12/germany-drowning-deaths-heatwave-paris-france-spain PBS News. “Europe swelters under an early heat wave as France records 40 drowning deaths.” 6/23/2026. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/europe-swelters-under-an-early-heat-wave-as-france-records-40-drowning-deaths See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It feels like there's never a water break when it comes to seeking God. The journey to find God and know God is endless and full of unknowns. Today, we've invited fellow seeker and choir enthusiast, Father Martin George, to help us ponder the ever-elusive question: "How do I find God?". Martin, who is a priest at Kate's church St. George's Anglican in Berlin, is a theology professor, world traveler, linguistics-lover, and outdoorsman whose life has taken him from Minnesota to Switzerland and from the Lutheran to the Anglican church. Together, we discuss the value of learning from other denominations, how we can find God in coffee hour, and why the best thing to say about God is often nothing at all. Can't get enough of the Average Episcopalian? Visit our website & shop for merch: theaverageepiscopalian.com Follow us on Instagram: @average.episcopalian Sign up for our monthly Substack newsletter: averageepiscopalian.substack.com More questions? Send us an email: average.episcopalian@gmail.com
On 1 August, Switzerland celebrated its 735th birthday. The festivities are yet to come in Melbourne, when the traditional Swiss Festival will take place in Seaworks (Williamstown) on Saturday, August 8. We spoke to the President of the Swiss Festival, Rolf Huber. - Am 1. August hat die Schweiz ihren 735. Geburtstag gefeiert. In Melbourne stehen die Feierlichkeiten noch bevor, denn am Samstag, den 8. August, findet das traditionelle Swiss Festival in Seaworks (Williamstown) statt. Wir haben mit dem Präsidenten des Swiss Festival, Rolf Huber, gesprochen.
He spent five years delivering groceries in California, ten hours a day in his car, when an idea hit him on a train between Switzerland and Liechtenstein — documentaries about tattoo artists from all over the world. Dakota Weik aka Inked Abroad tells Seb how a failed clothing brand, 200 videos that went nowhere, and an account he almost deleted turned into one of the biggest voices in tattooing — and why a globe he spun tens of thousands of times handed him 110,000 followers practically overnight. Dakota is refreshingly honest about the flip side of those numbers, about buying a camera on credit without ever having filmed anything in his life, and about why he can't stand the word "influencer" even though he knows it sticks to him.The second half goes deeper: Dakota talks about his new six-part series "Indigenous Revival" and the journey to Apo Whang-Od's grandnieces high up in the Philippine mountains, about why he builds friendships instead of conducting interviews, and why 500 of the right viewers mean more to him than millions of views. Plus: his unfiltered take on the Ignorant Style, the reality of his apprenticeship under Philo, hours spent on fake skin, the passport stamp signature style he's building for himself — and the upcoming Bosnia documentary on Sicanje, an almost forgotten tattoo practice Christian women used as protection against the Ottoman Empire. An episode about obsession, self-doubt, and the question of who a story really belongs to.@inkedabroad[ ADVERTISEMENT ]You can save big with our advertising partners — including Neonsfeer, Murostar, Killer Ink, Cheyenne Tattoo Equipment, CoalBlack and Caos Nero! All the info at www.tftn-podcast.com.
AWAKENING, VOL. 1: FAITHFUL BEGINNINGS is a full Christian worship album and lyric-video discipleship journey by GEMS STUDIOS™.These eight original Worship Experiences lead listeners through compassion, prayer, courage, obedience, perseverance, purpose and hope. The journey travels through stories connected with South Africa, Kenya, India, Ireland, Argentina, Japan, Switzerland and Canada.Listen prayerfully as one continuous journey for personal devotion, Bible study, prayer meetings, small groups, discipleship gatherings and quiet reflection.
Hello you beautiful people!The show begins with not quite a version of A Christmas Carol, called Jeff Dunham's Scrooged Up Holiday Special. The premise is that ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is going to do a version of A Christmas Carol and in this show he is casting the characters using some of his different characters. I watched it on Amazon, but this link gives you some more info:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33746385/Then it's Do You Hear What I Hear and our resident barman, Bob Baker, talks about the British term 'Gaffer',Next up is The Christmas Quiz and we've changed things a little bit.Then it's Where Are You Christmas? and this time Bob has found it in Switzerland, home of a huge diorama of the Christmas story.Check out Bob's podcast here: https://4fpodcast.buzzsprout.comThis episode I have something a little different, and I share with you some of my favourite Christmas tree ornaments a tell you a little history about them. If you want to tell me about your favourite ornament send me an email.Get in touch:Email: totalchristmas@gmail.comMerry Christmas!
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Today's show is the first episode of our new season about Swiss-Type CNC machining. Our guest is Marc Klecka, founder and president of Concentric Corporation, a prominent distributor of Citizen-Cincom CNC Swiss lathes in Cleveland, Ohio. Scroll down to read more and listen to the podcast, or listen with Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts or your favorite app. Main Points Marc talks about his company, Concentric, which has been distributing Citizen Swiss machines for 31 years and Miyano for 10 years (after Citizen acquired the company). (2:20) Marc gives his “5-year-old explanation” of Swiss CNC Machining (sliding headstock machining). He says the original technology of “Swiss style machining” was developed in Switzerland over a hundred years ago for producing high precision watch components. He says what differentiates CNC Swiss machining from conventional CNC turning is that a CNC Swiss machine grips the part with a collet and also supports the part with a guide bushing. This eliminates the vibration that normally occurs when machining bar on a a conventional CNC lathe. (3:00) Marc says a traditional Swiss part has a length to diameter ratio of 3 to 1 or more because that is the point where you start sacrificing the rigidity and accuracy on a conventional CNC lathe. He tells a story about a Citizen customer who produced a 10-foot part out of aluminum tubing. (4:40) Marc talks about the importance of running ground bar stock on Swiss machines, particularly for running lights-out. However, he says that says in the 31-year history of Concentric, he estimates that only 30% of the material run (in Swiss mode) on the machines he has sold has been ground bar stock. He says it is a misconception that Swiss Style CNC machines are only good for running ground stock. (7:25) Marc says that during 2020 Concentric's business did ok, but the pandemic made it more difficult to sell machines because it was harder to have in person contact with customers. (11:00) Marc says that there are lots of good brands of machine tools on the market, but he sees the support and service of local distributors as something that sets Citizen apart. He says that many years ago Marubeni Citizen made a point of having all of its local distributors become self-sufficient for servicing customers. He says that all the Citizen sales engineers also are applications engineers. He says it is important to have sales people who can get in the trenches with customers to solve their problems. (12:00) Marc talks about Citizen's proprietary LFV (low frequency vibration) technology, which is featured in many of the latest models. It enables operators to control the geometry of the chip coming off the machine using the machine's CNC control. He says this capability is significant for manufacturers who want to do lightly attended or unattended machining. (17:20) Marc talks about the significance of the medical sector for Citizen machines. He explains thread whirling for making long bone screws. He discusses a bone screw that was made on a Citizen featuring a laser that performed a cut on that part while still inside the machine (see video). (21:45) Marc talks about diverse markets where he sees Citizens being used. He says during COVID-19 woodworking has become more popular and Citizen machines are making tools used for the art. Also, he says tattoos have become more popular during the pandemic and Citizen machines are making parts that go into the tattoo gun pens. He says demand continues to grow for parts for the electric car markets. (26:00) Noah asks Marc tell him something he learned the week before. Marc jokes hat he learned it probably was not a great thing to break into the Capital building. He also said that he learned about the new LNS chip conveyors that are being put on some of the newest Citizen machines equipped with LFV technology. (31:00) Question: Which Swiss machine do you prefer to use and why? The post Best of Swarfcast: Talking Citizen CNC Swiss Lathes with Marc Klecka – EP 109 appeared first on Today's Machining World.
In today's episode, we spoke with Solange Peters, MD, PhD. Dr Peters is a full professor, and chair of medical oncology and the thoracic malignancies programme in the Department of Oncology at the University Hospital of Lausanne in Switzerland. In our exclusive interview, Dr Peters discussed the rationale for pairing antiangiogenic activity with checkpoint inhibition upfront in non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), rather than sequencing them. She noted that prior attempts to combine or sequence bevacizumab (Avastin) with checkpoint inhibitors yielded only modest signals, hampered by bevacizumab's long half-life and class-specific toxicities including bleeding risk that historically excluded patients with squamous cell carcinoma. By contrast, PD-L1/VEGF bispecifics such as pumitamig carry a significantly shorter half-life of approximately 5 to 6 days, resulting in a similar toxicity category but with lower rates of high-grade events and a broadened eligible population.She highlighted the mechanistic rationale for this combination, explaining that VEGF and PD-L1 co-targeting appears to remodel the tumor microenvironment cooperatively, bringing cancer cells into closer proximity with T cells. In the case of PD-L1/VEGF bispecifics, a macromolecular structure forms in the tumor microenvironment that leads to internalization of PD-L1, creating a dual blockade of the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway beyond simple receptor occupancy.Dr Peters then discussed data presented at the 2026 ASCO Annual Meeting from the phase 2/3 ROSETTA Lung-02 trial (NCT06712316) evaluating pumitamig plus chemotherapy in the first-line setting. She described the activity observed across all PD-L1 expression strata, including in PD-L1–negative patients, who comprised up to 70% of the nonsquamous population and achieved response rates above 50% as particularly compelling. She also addressed the dose selection rationale, noting that the 1500-mg dose demonstrated the optimal pharmacodynamic activity and favorable risk-benefit profile for phase 3 advancement.Finally, Dr Peters offered broader perspective on the increasingly competitive PD-L1/VEGF bispecific landscape, including the parallel development of ivonescimab. She suggested that differences in clinical trial design including patient population, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and end point ambition may ultimately differentiate agents more than mechanism alone, and emphasized that global data will be essential to shaping regulatory and clinical practice decisions.
Susanne Mueller Zantop is a communications technology entrepreneur and high altitude mountaineer based in Switzerland, working with senior leadership in high pressure-situations. She founded her first company at 24, worked in large corporations on senior leadership levels, later co founded CEO Positions AG to support C-Level executive teams to convey strategic messages in their markets. Susanne has climbed some of the world's highest mountains—including Mount Everest—and uses the lessons from extreme environments to explore leadership under difficult circumstances, setbacks, and transformation. Today, she joins us to tell the story how she managed to continue leading her company while she was undergoing cancer treatment over the last 24 months. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannemuellerzantop/ ***********Finalist "Women in Cloud - Podcast of the YEAR" - #empowHERaccess Global Prestige Awards 2026Susanne Mueller / www.susannemueller.biz TEDX Talk, May 2022: Running and Life: 5KM Formula for YOUR Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_5Er1cLvY Join Substack: https://substack.com/@susannemuellernyc?Enjoy one coaching session for free if you are a yearly subscriber. 800+ weekly blogs / 500+ podcasts / 1 Ironman Triathlon / 5 half ironman races / 26 marathon races / 4 books / 1 Mt. Kilimanjaro / 1 TEDx Talk
The US and Israel are considering a land blockade of Iran to increase economic pressure, senior Israeli sources told The Telegraph. The plan could involve urging neighbouring countries and regional partners to restrict border crossings and trade.Iran's IRGC said two offending tankers were hit and stopped, and four offending tankers quickly changed course. Additionally, the IRGC said the Strait of Hormuz is closed, and any transit and movement will be possible only with the coordination of the IRGC Navy. BoJ kept rates unchanged at 1.00%, as expected, through an 8-1 vote, with board member Takata the dissenter who proposed a 25bps rate hike. Little move seen in Japanese assets following the announcement and Governor Ueda press conference. US equity futures are firmer, with Amazon surging pre-market (+12%) after reporting faster AWS growth.Fixed income benchmarks are mixed and way off best levels as energy prices rebound following recent reporting of a land blockade and hit tankers (Brent +0.3%).Looking ahead, highlights include Canadian GDP (May), US University of Michigan Final (Jul). Speakers include BoE's Pill, Fed's Hammack, Logan & Kashkari. Earnings from AbbVie & Chevron. Scope Ratings update on Switzerland.Read the full report covering Equities, Forex, Fixed Income, Commodites and more on Newsquawk
US Treasury Secretary Bessent said the yen has substantially overshot equilibrium and the US views excess yen volatility as unhealthy, while he added that the yen is very undervalued and that Japan may have intervened in currency markets on Thursday.Nikkei sources said Japan's government and BoJ intervened in the FX market yesterday by buying yen and selling dollars, while desks conducted rate checks.BoJ kept rates unchanged at 1.00%, as expected, through an 8-1 vote, with board member Takata the dissenter who proposed a 25bps rate hike; little move in Japanese assets on the announcement.After-hours US earnings saw Amazon (AMZN) rise almost 10% whilst Apple (AAPL) fell over 6%.APAC stocks were mostly higher following the tech-inspired momentum stateside; European equity futures indicate a positive cash market open with Euro Stoxx 50 futures up 0.8%.Looking ahead, highlights include French/Italian/EU Inflation Flash (Jul), German Unemployment Rate (Jul), Canadian GDP (May), US University of Michigan Final (Jul). Speakers include BoJ Governor Ueda, BoE's Pill, Fed's Hammack, Logan & Kashkari. Earnings from AbbVie, Chevron, Credit Agricole & NatWest. Scope Ratings update on Switzerland rating.Read the full report covering Equities, Forex, Fixed Income, Commodites and more on Newsquawk
Have you ever felt an unexplainable pull towards a place, only to discover it was awakening a completely new version of yourself?In this episode of The Sacred Travel Podcast, Julia sits down with Carolin Föll, founder of ELLELIZA Coaching & Consulting and creator of ELUMINA, a transformational retreat experience in Lombok, Indonesia. Together they explore how Lombok and other islands become catalysts for expansion, why true leadership begins with the nervous system rather than relentless striving, and how the frequency of Lombok invites ambitious women to embody greater success, visibility, and impact—without losing themselves in the process.
Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty. Dr. Vincent Covello directs the Center for Risk Communications, and is a nationally and internationally recognized trainer, researcher, consultant, and expert in emergency, crisis, risk, and change communications. Deanna Leonard is a futurist, executive coach, and AI transformation leader. Her career has spanned senior leadership posts across a wide range of Fortune 500 companies. In this freewheeling, one-hour roundtable discussion, the focus is on the Customer Experience through the lens of both the opportunities and misuses that AI involves. The topics addressed include the following: 1) the importance of active listening, 2) the 20 words that can make or break an exchange with a customer, 3) how front-line CX employees can be enabled to do their jobs better, and 4) the need for training budgets to be protected, if not increased. In emotional terms, two feelings rise to prominence in this session: fear (of not being heard and responded to) and trust (rooted in the demonstration of caring before knowledge gets shared or an action-step taken). The answers as to who people trust, and why, when experiencing stress will be sure to surprise you. Real Transformations: Business Change That Works from the Inside Out is co-hosted by Julie Anixter and Dan Hill, PhD, entrepreneurs with deep experience as corporate change agents, devoted to helping companies make continuous change work for everyone through clarity and connection. To learn about their keynote talks, workshops and labs, check out Real-Transformation.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
It's time to continue the work from 2024 and keep ranking the winners of Eurovision! This time, we're turning our attention to the top tunes from the end of the 20th century, starting with the 1980s. From Johnny Logan to... well, Johnny Logan, there's a whole decade of great songs to check out this week, but ours aren't the only opinions that matter! Listen along with us, vote via the form below for your favorites, and help us determine the champion of champions! Jeremy wonders if this song is a gift, Dimitry makes an uncool appeal for peace, and Oscar loves a shy boy. Watch the performances by the 80s & 90s winners on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVhbji3NU0&list=PLOkEuXDlyT_k Vote for your favorites of the 80s & 90s: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1K5ke1rSPkmhfyulC3uYIB6y8iS_lK8Zd9SFx1UvsbuQ/ Watch Johnny Logan's McDonald's ads This week's companion playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gLmfzp0ZxYe8pj5GuVDnb Help support this show and unlock bonus content! Become a member at https://maximumfun.org/joineurovangelistsEurovangelists is an American Eurovision podcast, made in the US for Eurovision fans worldwide. The Eurovangelists are Jeremy Bent, Oscar Montoya and Dimitry Pompée.The theme was arranged and recorded by Cody McCorry and Faye Fadem, and the logo was designed by Tom Deja.Production support for this show was provided by the Maximum Fun network.The show is edited by Jeremy Bent with audio mixing help was courtesy of Shane O'Connell.Find Eurovangelists on social media as @eurovangelists on Instagram and @eurovangelists.com on Bluesky, or send us an email at eurovangelists@gmail.com. Head to https://maxfunstore.com/collections/eurovangelists for Eurovangelists merch. Also follow the Eurovangelists account on Spotify and check out our playlists of Eurovision hits, competitors in upcoming national finals, and companion playlists to every single episode, including this one!
Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty. Dr. Vincent Covello directs the Center for Risk Communications, and is a nationally and internationally recognized trainer, researcher, consultant, and expert in emergency, crisis, risk, and change communications. Deanna Leonard is a futurist, executive coach, and AI transformation leader. Her career has spanned senior leadership posts across a wide range of Fortune 500 companies. In this freewheeling, one-hour roundtable discussion, the focus is on the Customer Experience through the lens of both the opportunities and misuses that AI involves. The topics addressed include the following: 1) the importance of active listening, 2) the 20 words that can make or break an exchange with a customer, 3) how front-line CX employees can be enabled to do their jobs better, and 4) the need for training budgets to be protected, if not increased. In emotional terms, two feelings rise to prominence in this session: fear (of not being heard and responded to) and trust (rooted in the demonstration of caring before knowledge gets shared or an action-step taken). The answers as to who people trust, and why, when experiencing stress will be sure to surprise you. Real Transformations: Business Change That Works from the Inside Out is co-hosted by Julie Anixter and Dan Hill, PhD, entrepreneurs with deep experience as corporate change agents, devoted to helping companies make continuous change work for everyone through clarity and connection. To learn about their keynote talks, workshops and labs, check out Real-Transformation.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty. Dr. Vincent Covello directs the Center for Risk Communications, and is a nationally and internationally recognized trainer, researcher, consultant, and expert in emergency, crisis, risk, and change communications. Deanna Leonard is a futurist, executive coach, and AI transformation leader. Her career has spanned senior leadership posts across a wide range of Fortune 500 companies. In this freewheeling, one-hour roundtable discussion, the focus is on the Customer Experience through the lens of both the opportunities and misuses that AI involves. The topics addressed include the following: 1) the importance of active listening, 2) the 20 words that can make or break an exchange with a customer, 3) how front-line CX employees can be enabled to do their jobs better, and 4) the need for training budgets to be protected, if not increased. In emotional terms, two feelings rise to prominence in this session: fear (of not being heard and responded to) and trust (rooted in the demonstration of caring before knowledge gets shared or an action-step taken). The answers as to who people trust, and why, when experiencing stress will be sure to surprise you. Real Transformations: Business Change That Works from the Inside Out is co-hosted by Julie Anixter and Dan Hill, PhD, entrepreneurs with deep experience as corporate change agents, devoted to helping companies make continuous change work for everyone through clarity and connection. To learn about their keynote talks, workshops and labs, check out Real-Transformation.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology
Denize kıyısı olmayan, doğal kaynakları kısıtlı ve etrafı dev imparatorluklarla çevrili dağlık bir ülke, nasıl oldu da dünyanın finans merkezine dönüştü? İsviçre mucizesinin arkasında sadece tarafsızlık mı var, yoksa çok daha karmaşık bir tarihsel ve finansal mühendislik mi? Bu videoda, İsviçre bankacılığının doğuşunu, yükselişini ve günümüzde yaşadığı kırılmaları tarihsel ve ekonomik bağlamıyla ele alıyoruz. Ömer Özgen bu videoda şunları anlatıyor:Neden İsviçre? Protestan göçü, paralı askerlik, düşük kamu harcamaları ve erken sermaye birikimi İsviçre'yi nasıl bir finans ülkesi yaptı?Gizliliğin İnşası: 1713 Cenevre servet gizliliği yasasından 1934 Bankacılık Gizlilik Yasası'na uzanan süreçte, gizlilik kavramı nasıl bankacılığın merkezine yerleşti?İki Dünya Savaşı Arasında İsviçre: Büyük Buhran, güçlü İsviçre Frangı ve tarafsızlık algısı bankacılığı nasıl bir güvenli limana dönüştürdü?Nazi Altınları: İsviçre'nin Nazi Almanyası ile altın ticareti, üçgen ticaret mekanizması ve İkinci Dünya Savaşı'nda RolüSavaş Sonrası Altın Çağ: Bretton Woods sistemi, Soğuk Savaş ve güçlü frank döneminde İsviçre bankacılığı neden zirveye çıktı?1990'lar ve Sonrası: Aşırı finansallaşma, gizliliğin aşınması, ABD baskısı, otomatik bilgi paylaşımı İsviçre modelini nasıl değiştirdi?Skandallar ve Çöküş: LIBOR skandalı, vergi kaçakçılığı davaları ve 167 yıllık Credit Suisse'in 72 saat içinde çöküşü bize ne anlatıyor?Bugün İsviçre Bankacılığı: Gizlilik sonrası dönemde İsviçre artık ne vadediyor? İsviçre modeli sürdürülebilir mi?Kaynakça: Switzerland and Its Banks: A Short History, Nils Herger, 2023Swiss Finance: Banking, Finance, and Digitalization, HB Meier et al., 2023 Switzerland, Gold and the Banks: Analysis of a Crisis, Jacques RossierCapitals of Capital A History of International Financial Centres, 1780–2005, Youssef Cassis, 2006The Swiss Banking Sector, Oliver Wyman, 2025 The Meltdown, Duncan Mavin, 2024Swiss Made, James Breiding, 2012Zurich and Geneva: The End of the Golden Age, Tobias Straumann ,2018Safety in Numbers: The Mysterious World of Swiss Banking, Nicholas Faith ,1982Swiss Banking: An Analytical History, Hans Bauer, 1998 00:00 Giriş1:39 Altın Çağ4:24 Bankacılığın Tarihi Kökleri14:21 Endüstriyel Bankacılığın Doğuşu20:00 Gizlilik Yasaları26:57 İkinci Dünya Savaşı ve Nazi Altınları34:40 Soğuk Savaş Sonrası Altın Çağ'ın Sonu38:36 Gizliliğin Bitişi41:39 Skandallar ve Credit Suisse'in Batışı46:05 Bankacılığın Güncel Risk ve Avantajları51:21 Kapanış
Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty. Dr. Vincent Covello directs the Center for Risk Communications, and is a nationally and internationally recognized trainer, researcher, consultant, and expert in emergency, crisis, risk, and change communications. Deanna Leonard is a futurist, executive coach, and AI transformation leader. Her career has spanned senior leadership posts across a wide range of Fortune 500 companies. In this freewheeling, one-hour roundtable discussion, the focus is on the Customer Experience through the lens of both the opportunities and misuses that AI involves. The topics addressed include the following: 1) the importance of active listening, 2) the 20 words that can make or break an exchange with a customer, 3) how front-line CX employees can be enabled to do their jobs better, and 4) the need for training budgets to be protected, if not increased. In emotional terms, two feelings rise to prominence in this session: fear (of not being heard and responded to) and trust (rooted in the demonstration of caring before knowledge gets shared or an action-step taken). The answers as to who people trust, and why, when experiencing stress will be sure to surprise you. Real Transformations: Business Change That Works from the Inside Out is co-hosted by Julie Anixter and Dan Hill, PhD, entrepreneurs with deep experience as corporate change agents, devoted to helping companies make continuous change work for everyone through clarity and connection. To learn about their keynote talks, workshops and labs, check out Real-Transformation.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
René Bollier is the President and Executive Chef of André's Confiserie Suisse. Grandson of founders André and Elsbeth Bollier, Bollier began his training at age 11 under his family's guidance. After attending the University of Kansas, René continued his culinary education training at some of the top chocolate and pastry shops in Switzerland. He and his wife Nancy returned to Kansas City in 2002 to lead the family business into the third generation. The Bollier family remains focused on continuing the André's tradition, producing only the highest quality gourmet chocolates, pastries, tortes and baked goods using time-honored production methods. Nothing inspires René more than simply being in the kitchen, perfecting classic recipes and creating new ones for the community that has made André's a tradition since 1955. Website: AndresChocolates.com Instagram: @andresswiss In this episode we discuss: How Rene's grandparents opened a Swiss chocolate shop in Kansas City in 1955 How they introduced mid-Westerners to hand-crafted Swiss chocolates Back to the homeland: Rene's training in Switzerland What makes Swiss chocolates unique Hot items: Engadiner nusstortes, chocolate-covered almonds and lackerli cookies Rene's best kitchen tip and advice for budding entrepreneurs And much more!
The Sanna family of Chicago saw the end of the milkman and needed adapt their dairy business for the future. Hello Swiss Miss. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those. [Seaside Plumbing Ad] Dave Young: Welcome back to the Empire Builders Podcast. I’m Dave Young and Stephen Semple sitting here. And he just told me what the topic is. And it took me back to, gosh, it took me back to my young teens sitting in a ski lodge drinking some hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: There you go. That’s a good one. Dave Young: This was the innovation in hot chocolate, and we’re going to talk about Swiss Miss. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: All right. And I’m trying to think of when that would’ve come out. Probably, I’m guessing the ’60s, ’70s? Stephen Semple: Yeah, it was ’60s. Dave Young: And it wasn’t long before my mom had a recipe for it would make a giant tub of it. It wasn’t Swiss Miss obviously, but it was like it’s powdered milk and cocoa and whatever else. I would just eat it by the spoonful dry. Stephen Semple: Wow. Really? Okay. There you go. Dave Young: Sure. I was doing those kinds of YouTube challenges before YouTube was around all by myself in my mom’s kitchen. Stephen Semple: Well, Swiss Miss was actually launched in 1961. 1961. It was created by the Sanna family, as you’ll learn in this. And it’s a bit of an interesting story. It’s almost like a seven-act play in terms of- Dave Young: The Sanna Family? Stephen Semple: Sanna family. S-A-N-N-A, Sanna. Dave Young: Sanna. Okay. Stephen Semple: Yeah. And it said it’s a bit of an interesting journey. It’s almost like a seven-act play in terms of the stuff that happened. Dave Young: And I don’t know where this is going. I’m going to throw a weird guess out. Stephen Semple: Okay. Dave Young: One of the things that my mom put in her hot cocoa recipe was a powdered milk. And we used to drink this, a powdered milk called Sanalac. Stephen Semple: You’re right on the money, Dave. Dave Young: Is that right? Okay. Stephen Semple: Yep. Once again, ding, ding, ding. Dave nails it. Dave Young: All right, continue. Stephen Semple: Okay. Well, we’re done. We’re done now. Dave Young: For some reason, I saw it with one N, but yeah, it was weird. There was a period of a couple years where she didn’t buy milk at the store. She bought powdered milk and we had these jugs that had these plungers that stirred it up and we had powdered milk. It was almost like war rations in the ’70s or something. I don’t know why we did it. Stephen Semple: So this is a big part of the story. Now, Swiss Miss was started in ’61. It was sold in 1967 to Beatrice Foods. Now, the price wasn’t disclosed, but it’s estimated it was somewhere in the $10, $12 million range, which is not bad for 1967. Today, they’re owned by Conagra, and it’s estimated that they sell 50 million boxes a year of Swiss Miss hot chocolate, which is pretty- Dave Young: That’s a lot of hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: That’s a lot of hot chocolate. Our story starts with Anthony Sanna, who’s an Italian immigrant in Chicago, who starts Sanna Dairies, which is a milk distribution company. And at the time, milk was a really regular delivery. There was the milkman who came to the neighborhood delivering bottles of milk. Dave Young: Yeah. And we had a milkman. Maybe she didn’t like him and decided, “Sorry, we’re going the powdered route.” I don’t know. I don’t know. Stephen Semple: Interesting. Dave Young: We’ll never know. Stephen Semple: Following World War II, US consumers start going through a large transition. Suburbs, boom, refrigeration in the home becomes common, grocery stores emerge. Guess what? The writing on the wall for home milk delivery is there. Dave Young: The refrigerated section of the grocery store. Yep. Stephen Semple: Right. So Anthony sees this opportunity to create maybe what he should do instead of he’s got to pivot the business away from whole milk delivery to, “I’m going to build a shelf-stable milk product.” Dave Young: Okay. Stephen Semple: So now at the time, powder milk existed and had for generations, but the problem was it wasn’t convenient. It tended to float on the surface, formed like these stubborn lumps. It created a lot of dust. It required really vigorous mixing and it didn’t dissolve well in cold water. So shelf-stable, but not convenient. What Anthony Sanna developed was this milk drying. He did this more of this milk drying that turned it into Sanalac, which is one N. Dave Young: Sanalac. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: Oh, is it? Okay. Stephen Semple: Yeah. It’s spelled with one N, but the family name is two Ns. And basically promote it as the first instant dry milk. And the word instant is important here because the milk was very fine, dense particles that when it hit the water, it blended better. Dave Young: I don’t remember there being anything wrong with it. It was like, “Oh, you dump the powder in, you put the water in, and the pitcher, it was a plastic pitcher and it had a plunger agitator thing, and now it’s milk. Have some cereal now.” Stephen Semple: The powdered milk previously was when the water hit the powder, the outside would become wet and sticky, trapping the brown powder inside, so it was all this work to break it down. Dave Young: It’s kind of like stirring up a protein drink today, right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Where the Sanna process from Sanalac produced a powder that was more porous, less dusty, easier to wet, quicker dissolving. Great. Dave Young: Love it. Stephen Semple: So now what you’ve got is this patent that Charles Sanna put together was described as being instantly soluble, free-flowing, relatively dust-free, non-fat, dry milk. So the first act- Dave Young: Put that in a song. Stephen Semple: Exactly. So act one is we basically pivot away from the milkman. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: So challenge to the business was milkman’s going away. That’s a powerful idea. Dave Young: Yeah, absolutely. Stephen Semple: Because my business is changing, I pivot. But I didn’t pivot away from the milk business, pivoted away to how the product is done. On its own, we could do a whole podcast on that, but we’re not done yet. So war breaks out with Korea. Korean War breaks out. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: And Charles takes the product and packages it in the small individual packets. Dave Young: Oh, okay. So you could have a cup of milk. Stephen Semple: So now it’s easy to transport and use it. You could have a cup of milk, you could use it as a creamer for coffee, all the other stuff. And he gets a huge contract with the government, but in order to meet the delivery requirements, he has to have a large inventory on hand of the milk powder. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: Korean War ends. What do you do with all the inventory? Dave Young: Oh my gosh. Stephen Semple: So he’s sitting on this massive amount of inventory. So what Charles notices is that there’s a lot of hot chocolate mixes at the time where cocoa and sugar, but required hot milk. Dave Young: You added milk. Yeah, yeah. Stephen Semple: Hot milk, he had to heat up. And as we know, heating up milk, it’s a bit of a pain in the neck because you can get the film on the top. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: It’s one of those things that goes from warm to boiling over instantaneously. It’s crazy. Dave Young: I can’t remember the last time I even tried. Stephen Semple: Right. Well, I’ve done it for some creams, things like that. It’s pain in the neck so, “What if the milk was part of the mix?” He asked himself. So he started experimenting with mixing in cocoa and sugar with his instant milk. Now you have a hot chocolate without heating milk. Dave Young: You could just use hot tap water. Stephen Semple: Exactly. Dave Young: Right? Yeah, a kid can make their own cup of hot chocolate. Stephen Semple: So act one, we make the powder milk. Act two, we put it in packaging. Act three, we now invent hot chocolate. So what’s the next act? So in 1959, they launch it, but they call it Brown Swiss. Dave Young: Brown Swiss, that’s not good. Nobody wants Brown Swiss. Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this. [Using Stories To Sell] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off, and trust me, you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: So act one, we make the powder milk. Act two, we put it in packaging. Act three, we now invent hot chocolate. So what’s the next act? So in 1959, they launch it, but they call it Brown Swiss. Dave Young: Brown Swiss, that’s not good. Nobody wants Brown Swiss. Stephen Semple: So here they are. They didn’t invent hot chocolate, they didn’t invent hot beverages, but what they really created was this new thing, hot chocolate instant beverage. I’ll just open the pack, add hot water, ready to go. Now, where are they going to sell it? So what they decide to do was sell it to airlines because they could individually pack it. Dave Young: Airlines. Oh, yeah. Stephen Semple: Because remember, it’s late ’50s, airline travel’s glamorous. And so they approach the airlines and they say, “Hey, you should do this because this’ll be really easy for you to give people hot chocolate.” Dave Young: And nobody’s going to be boiling milk on an airplane. Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: Nobody wants to do that. So yeah, perfect. Perfect target. Stephen Semple: Right. But our story’s not quite done because they lose the airline contracts. And the reason is, here’s the ironic twist, they lose the contracts because the product is so popular, people are stealing packets and taking it home with them. Dave Young: That’s just good market research. That’s what that is. Stephen Semple: So it becomes way too expensive for the airlines to do this. But what they know is, “We got a hit. When that’s happening, we’ve got a hit.” But what they also realize is Brown Swiss is not really a good name. So in 1961, they rebrand it to Swiss Miss. And in the packaging, they lean heavily into the halo effect of Swiss and Swiss chocolate. Dave Young: Sure, sure. Yeah. And then there’s a little alpine girl in the logo, right? And she’s the Swiss Miss. Stephen Semple: Exactly. And the interesting thing is the product has nothing to do with Switzerland. It really doesn’t. Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: But what they understood is there’s the halo effect of Swiss, which they understood with Brown Swiss, they understood Swiss has got this halo effect, but Brown Swiss was almost too weird and on the nose. Swiss Miss allowed them to create this lovely feeling, right? Dave Young: Sure. Stephen Semple: And when you looked at the early packaging, there was Swiss lodges and this character, this Swiss character. Dave Young: We’d much rather think of our milk as coming from a happy cow with a bell around its neck in Switzerland than a modern day dairy operation. Stephen Semple: Right. Well, if you think about it, we often use these shortcuts to judge products. If something comes from Italy, we assume fashion. Germany, we assume engineering. Japan, we assume electronics. France, luxury. Switzerland, chocolate and watches. Dave Young: And holes in cheese. Stephen Semple: And holes in cheese. Yeah. So the company literally borrowed these decades of reputation and attached to it for that halo effect. And it just worked better when they did it with the name Swiss Miss than Brown Swiss. But what I loved is the path this went down is think about the innovations that Charles Sanna did. “I’m in a milk delivery business. Delivery’s going away. What do I do? I’ll make a shelf-stable product. That way I don’t have to deal with the delivery man.” Korean War comes along. “Oh, I’ve got an opportunity. Let me individually package it. Great. Oh, I’ve got all this inventory. What am I going to do with it? I’ll make hot chocolate.” He continually pivoted. And it wasn’t a pivot of leaving his industry. This is the other thing that gets me is when people are like, “Oh, I’m going to go over and do this other industry thing.” No, it was still all inside a consumer consuming a milk-like product. Dave Young: I wouldn’t be surprised if the hot chocolate mix that my mom made wasn’t a recipe from Sanalac. Stephen Semple: Maybe. Dave Young: Because the main ingredient is powdered milk. Stephen Semple: Right. That’s interesting. Dave Young: And you just add your own cocoa and sugar, but they’re still selling her powdered milk. Stephen Semple: Right. Yeah, they’re still selling their product. Yeah. Dave Young: Right? And if you want it more convenient, you want to take it on the road or take it on a ski trip or to the cabin in the woods or whatever, to the ice rink, you’d fill a Thermos with hot water and grab the packets and go. Stephen Semple: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Here’s the reason why I found this interesting is I want to think about where we are today. How much change is going to be happening due to AI, changes in population, things along that lines? And there’s going to be this temptation to go into different businesses. You don’t need to go into different businesses. Just look at the opportunity around the edges of your own industries because you already have a lot of knowledge about that industry. But what I really like is any one of these challenges, how many companies got wiped out following wars when the war ended and they were stuck on industry? In the motorcycle, so many companies, things like that would wipe out, didn’t wipe them out. Or things like a whole business pivoting in terms of what the business model is, like milk delivery man. Unbelievable innovations and pivots that I think really just shows how brilliant a business person Charles Sanna was. Dave Young: I think you can absolutely pare this down to he had a focus on removing friction. Stephen Semple: Yes, there you go. Dave Young: Right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: And if you focus on removing friction between you and your customer, in the case of the milkman, right? The friction point as well [inaudible 00:15:47]. Stephen Semple: The milkman was removing. Yeah, but even getting into milkman- Dave Young: The guy dropped off the milk and I had to remember to pick it up off the porch before it spoiled and put it in the fridge, and then put the bottles back out. Stephen Semple: Right. But if you even think about the milkman, when it first came out, it was removing friction because it was brought to your home. Dave Young: Sure. Yeah. Stephen Semple: So the first removing of friction was bring milk to the home. Second removing of friction was remove the milkman. Next friction was put it in individual packages. It was that constant thinking because that’s even what landed them in the milkman business in the first place, I’m going to guess. Dave Young: Sure. Yeah. Very cool. Very cool. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: And that’s something you should think about in your business is- Stephen Semple: Absolutely. Dave Young: … what’s getting in the way of my customers? What’s between me and my customers? Stephen Semple: Constantly make it easier for the customer. Constantly make it easier. Absolutely. Oh, and later on, of course, after the business was sold, I think when it was under Beatrice, the next little giggle that they did was putting the dried marshmallows in, so then all of a sudden you’d have the dried marshmallows in with the package. Dave Young: Oh, sure. Yeah. They’ve got all the different… There’s dark chocolate Swiss Miss. There’s all kinds of product fair issues. Now, we’re at about 16. Can I pull on another thread that might lead to somewhere else? I don’t know. It’s probably a dead end, but my understanding, this might be an American versus Canadianism, but this is only strangely interesting to me because I’m from Nebraska. Stephen Semple: Okay. Dave Young: So the name is Beatrice or- Stephen Semple: Beatrice. Dave Young: … the company here we would call it Beatrice. There’s a town in Nebraska, which is also where, that’s the Conagra folks. It’s Beatrice. The town is named Beatrice. Stephen Semple: Beatrice. Okay. Dave Young: And I don’t know if that’s where the food company got its start, but it’s like, “Here’s a word that’s got three different pronunciations.” I told you this was going nowhere, but we’re at 17 minutes now. Stephen Semple: Conagra bought Beatrice, whatever you want to call it. So yeah. Dave Young: If it was a woman, you’d just call her B. Stephen Semple: B. There you go. That’d be easier. Dave Young: Beatrice. All right. Well, now you’ve solved another one of my childhood mysteries, Stephen. Stephen Semple: There you go. Dave Young: Shed new light on why my mom was feeding us powdered milk all those years. Stephen Semple: There it is. Dave Young: All those years. Stephen Semple: There it is. Dave Young: All right. Stephen Semple: All right. Dave Young: Thanks, looking forward to next time on the Empire Builders Podcast. Stephen Semple: All right. Thanks, David. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and leave us a big fat, juicy five-star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute Empire Building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.
Discover why autumn is the best-kept secret for Switzerland travel. In this episode, my guest Oliver Weibel from Switzerland Tourism, shares essential tips for planning the perfect Switzerland fall itinerary.From scenic hikes in the Swiss Alps in autumn to watching a traditional alpine cow descent, we cover must-do seasonal experiences and share tips on savoring seasonal cuisine.We discuss seasonal closures, what weather conditions to expect in Switzerland in autumn, and which activities to seek out.If you love the idea of attending a Swiss wine festival in the picturesque Lavaux vineyards, fancy soaking in a thermal spa, or exploring authentic mountain villages without the summer crowds, tune in now and get inspired to plan your unforgettable autumn trip to Switzerland!Happy travels,Carolyn
Today's episode leads with FIFA's proposal for a roughly $20 billion commercial entity that would sell minority stakes in World Cup commercial rights to private investors, reportedly including the Kushner family. UEFA is furious and preparing an emergency meeting where a World Cup boycott has reportedly entered the conversation. Second story: IFAB confirmed the VAR process used to send off Switzerland's Breel Embolo against Argentina was wrong; Argentina won 3-1 in extra time. Third story: U.S. Soccer offered Mauricio Pochettino an extension through the 2030 World Cup cycle after the USMNT's round-of-16 exit to Belgium. Closer: Real Madrid continue pursuing Manchester City midfielder Rodri.Subscribe for Premier League, MLS & Champions League coverage.AI was used for news gathering and production assistance.#FIFA #UEFA #Infantino #WorldCup2026 #Kushner #VAR #IFAB #Embolo #Argentina #Paredes #Pochettino #USMNT #Rodri #RealMadrid #ManchesterCity #Football #Soccer #CalorogaSharkMediaAI gave us an assist in the creation of today's podcast, but the hat trick is our own.
She built an empire supporting Uganda's youth and women entrepreneurs, and what she reveals about the system working against them will make you angry.Did you know Ugandan innovators sometimes have to fly to Zimbabwe or South Africa just to buy a certification standard... for a product THEY invented? Or that Kenya buys our raw materials, repackages them, and sells them back to us at triple the price?In this episode, Hadijah Nankanja, founder of the Community Women's Enterprise Network — pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to build a business from nothing in Uganda.From a 19-year-old girl with no national ID who now runs seven products and employs eight people, to a customer who flew in from Switzerland just to verify her tea was real, this conversation is full of moments that will stick with you.We talk about;✅ Why "informal" doesn't mean incapable, and the hidden cost of staying that way✅ The information gap that's silently killing brilliant ideas before they start✅ How government bodies working in silos are strangling entrepreneurs✅ Why Uganda's youth are more advanced than anyone gives them credit for✅ What it will really take to get products made by youth and women onto our shelvesThis is a conversation about dignity, trust, and what happens when you finally believe your work, and your country, is worth building on. If you care about Uganda's future, if you've ever doubted whether your idea was "big enough," or if you just want to understand what's really happening beneath the surface of our economy, you need to hear this.
This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome sisters Zoey Deutch and Maddie Deutch! Zoey and Maddie talk about their incredibly close sibling bond, how years of childhood fights eventually gave way to a deep friendship, and Maddie serving as her legal guardian at one point! They also share stories about growing up with lots of rescue animals, memorable family trips to Montana with a dog and an African gray parrot, and why food is still the centerpiece of how they travel today. Plus, they recount adventurous sister trips through Switzerland and Africa and chat about Zoey's latest project, Voicemails for Isabelle! Watch this episode on the Family Trips YouTube or Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 ------------------------- 00:00 Introduction with Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers 07:20 Meet The Deutsch Sisters 08:07 Sister Bullying And Bonding 28:13 Childhood Trips And Montana 30:42 Switzerland Sister Getaway 32:52 Africa Trip Gorilla Trek 43:16 Food First Family 44:02 Games: Mahjong Cribbage 53:39 Growing Up On Set 01:00:13 Castles Are Overrated 01:02:10 Ghosts Chelsea Hotel 01:06:03 Speed Round Farewell ------------------------- Support our sponsors: Hero Bread Hero Bread is offering 10% off your order. Go to https://hero.co and use code TRIPS at checkout. Cash App Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/4aafc4yf #CashAppPod Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement, for the Sutton debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-sutton and for the Bancorp debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-bancorp. Savings and Offers provided by Cash App, a Block Inc. brand. Offers may not be affiliated with third party merchants. Parents and legal guardians can open a managed account for kids 6-12. Cash App will pass through a portion of the interest paid on your savings balance held in an account for the benefit of Cash App customers at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC. To earn interest on your Cash App savings balance, you need to have sponsor approval. Exceptions may apply. Savings yield rate is subject to change. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. ------------------------- Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. ------------------------- Executive Producers: Rob Holysz, Jeph Porter, Natalie Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Video Editor: Josh Windisch Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen #familytrips #sethmeyers #joshmeyers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
How did Jess use points and miles to plan her family trip to Italy? In this episode, Jess shares how she planned a trip to Milan, Lake Como, and the Dolomites with her family. She walks through how she booked flights and accommodations using points, and the decisions she made to create an itinerary that worked for her group. Jess breaks down her strategy for booking flights, maximizing hotel benefits, and deciding when a vacation rental made more sense than traditional hotel stays. She also shares practical travel tips from the trip, including navigating Italy with a rental car, planning activities in the Dolomites, and how the region compares to Switzerland for families. You'll hear highlights from the trip, including memorable stays, challenging hikes, and how Jess used points strategically throughout the planning process. From deciding where to use points to choosing when to pay out of pocket, this episode shares practical ideas for planning international trips and making the most of your rewards. You can find links to resources mentioned in this episode plus the transcript here: pointstalksquad.com/191 If you're looking for even more Points Talk®, featuring the latest news in points, miles, and credit cards, behind-the-scenes insights, and a monthly Ask Us Anything episode—subscribe to Points Talk® Premium: https://pointstalk.supercast.com/ Ready to get started with NEARLY FREE travel? Click here for the exact offers we would sign up for this month: https://pointstalksquad.lpages.co/bestoffers/ Points Talk® is also on YouTube! You can watch this episode here: youtube.com/@pointstalksquad Let us know what you want to hear on the podcast by sending us a DM on Instagram: instagram.com/pointstalksquad
James Hollis, Ph.D., was born in Springfield, Illinois. He graduated from Manchester University in 1962 and Drew University in 1967. He taught humanities at various colleges and universities for 26 years before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zürich, Switzerland, from 1977 to 1982. He is currently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He served for many years as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas, and was Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington until 2019. He now serves on the Jung Society of Washington's Board of Directors. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training at the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. Additionally, he helped create the Jungian Studies program at Saybrook University in California, where he served as a professor. He lives with his wife, Jill—an artist and retired therapist—in a suburb of Washington, D.C. Together, they have three living children and eight grandchildren. He has written a total of 23 books, which have been translated into Swedish, Russian, German, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian, Korean, Finnish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Farsi, Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Serbian, Latvian, Ukrainian, Czech, Estonian, and Arabic. Topics Discussed In This Episode: Exploring loneliness, isolation, and solitude (00:03:48) James's journey into Jungian Psychoanalysis (00:09:36) Navigating life's forks: decisions and changes (00:15:18) Understanding the face of suffering (00:19:03) Discipline in creative practices (00:33:23) Understanding and embracing anxiety (00:37:59) Facing childhood fears and emotional growth (00:43:43) The significance of dreams in self-discovery (00:46:27) Finding meaning throughout life's journey (00:52:10) artistdecoded.com jameshollis.net
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Send us Fan MailWho does AI really serve in the end? Is it the people? The companies that profit from this technology? Or is the truth more nuanced? On this episode of the Swiss Connection podcast, Swissinfo science journalist Sara Ibrahim talks to Tammy Mackenzie, co-founder of The Aula Fellowship, a think tank and NGO with the mission to ensure that everyone can access the conversation on how AI is being implemented in society.Journalists: Sara IbrahimHost: Jo FahyAudio editor: Michele AndinaDistribution and Marketing: Xin ZhangSWI swissinfo.ch is a public service media company based in Bern, Switzerland.
Lara Nuchowicz is the Principal at AR Capital, a next-gen allocator at the family office, where she manages the private markets portfolio. She started attending investment meetings with her father at fifteen, sitting across from Chase Coleman at Tiger, Steve Cohen at Point72, and Jim Simons at Renaissance. In 2017 she deployed her first capital, and today she owns sourcing, diligence, and monitoring across a portfolio of more than 80 venture funds, with the family screening around 500 managers a year. She has also launched her own fund-of-funds platform, now on its second vehicle, and hosts an invite-only family office retreat twice a year in Spain and Switzerland. Almost every manager she backs runs a fund under $100M and is under thirty.⭐ Sponsored by Podcast10x - Podcasting agency for VCs - https://podcast10x.comWe cover:→ Why there was no single moment she knew, and what actually changed in 2017→ The family philosophy: back people, back them early, stay twenty years→ Why venture doesn't scale, and what that forces you to do→ Funds vs directs, and why the two are not a trade-off→ Running 80+ funds with a three-person team→ The invite-only family office retreat, and why there's no membership fee→ Building a fund-of-funds that isn't a blind pool of capital→ How mixing directs into the vehicle answers the double-fee critique→ Why she'd rather back an emerging manager than write a check to Sequoia→ Fund size as the return lever: under $100M, ideally under $50M→ Tracking talent before thesis, and backing managers under thirty→ The consumer fund she passed on that's now at 7x MOIC and 3x DPI→ What emerging managers get wrong when they pitch family offices→ Why a family office is a resource, not a check→ The next gen's real edge, and where most of them go wrongLinks:Connect with Lara: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-nuchowicz/Connect with Prashant: https://linkedin.com/in/choubeysahabVC10X newsletter - https://vc10x.beehiiv.comYouTube - https://youtube.com/@VC10XApple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vc10x-investing-venture-capital-asset-management-private/id1632806986Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7F7KEhXNhTx1bKTBFgzv3kVC10X website - https://vc10x.comTimestamps:(00:00) - Why emerging managers are a better fit than brand-name funds like Sequoia.(00:45) - Common mistakes emerging managers make when approaching family offices.(01:02) - Introduction to the episode and guest, Lara Nuchowicz.(02:28) - Lara's gradual journey into the family's investment business.(04:42) - The family's core investment philosophy of backing people early.(06:51) - Balancing fund investments vs. direct investments in companies.(09:33) - Lara's role and autonomy within the family office.(10:45) - The exclusive, invite-only family office retreat Lara hosts.(13:29) - Managing a lean team and internal processes at a family office.(14:55) - Launching a fund of funds platform with a family office mindset.(18:23) - Addressing critiques of the fund of funds model like double fees and liquidity cycles.(21:48) - How family offices handle tax implications in venture investing.(24:10) - The strategic reasons for backing emerging managers over established brand-name funds.(27:14) - Investment Strategy: Prioritizing talent over a specific thesis.(29:49) - The right and wrong ways for emerging managers to approach family offices.(32:43) - The story of a fund she passed on that returned 7X and the lesson learned.(34:41) - The evolving role of the next generation in family office investing.(37:17) - Lara's approach to raising her child in a family of investors.(41:04) - Final advice for emerging managers on building long-term relationships.(42:43) - Start of the Rapid Fire round.(43:02) - Investment focus: Regions and sectors.(43:21) - Typical check size for fund investments.(43:38) - Ideal investment stage for fund managers.(44:06) - How to connect with Lara.
After we covered World's Toughest Mudder we went to Paris to experience France for the first time! We then took a train to Geneva, Switzerland and drove down to cover the Spartan Ultra World Championship in Morzine, France! This is part 1 of 2 for our coverage which is everything from Friday! Some interviews were more difficult to conduct due to language barriers. That is the fun part of going to new countries but it makes it difficult when covering it as a podcast. Due to this, there is a lot of announcer audio in both English and French in addition to our interviews! Hope you enjoy hearing about this amazing event and consider checking out one of the most beautiful Spartan Races there is! Translation of Mike (M) and Gregory (G) Basilico's Interview: M: How did your race go today? G: It's my first Ultra, it was in a world championship. I was starting a bit in the unknown because I didn't know how to manage this type of race. The gap increased as the race went on. I really had a lot of difficulties on the second lap but I surged far far far away at the mental level and said let's do our best and I think that today it's my mind that made the difference to go and get this beautiful victory. I was really really really looking forward to this and I think that today it's my mind that made the difference to go and get this great victory with the first World Championship title and the 6th overall title M: How does it feel to take 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as French athletes in your country G: Well I am really happy that we can do a triplet. Especially since it has been two years since the Italian Luca Pescullderungg won. At least now we are putting things back in place. We are in France, three frenchmen. M: You're no stranger to World Championships, how does it feel to win the ultra? G: What it is, is an accomplishment. It is a lot of effort and a lot of work. Translation of Mike (M) and Jonathan (J) Garcia's Interview: M: How did your race go today? J: Very good, I finished third so I am very happy, in addition my French compatriots who were much stronger today, very happy with the race. M: How does it feel to take a podium on a big stage? J: It was the first time I have had a hard time doing it, and I wanted to but I wasn't mentally ready but I am happy M: Total sweep from France on the podium, how does it feel to have that in your country? J: Yeah, that is it, great! It is our home and we are on the podium, very great so we will enjoy it now M: What did you think about the course with the obstacles today? J: I found it a little easier than the other years. Maybe I was more fit but it felt easier. I just missed the multirig twice but otherwise everything went well M: What is next for you for the rest of the year? J: Other European Championships, and maybe the Trifecta World Championship at Sparta Start – 5:34 – Intro 5:34 – 13:12 – Quick News 13:12 – 14:08 – Content Preface 14:08 – 20:26 - Start Line Audio 20:26 – 1:11:20 - Finish Line Audio and Interviews 1:11:20 – End – Outro Next weekend we will be celebrating 500 episodes! ____ News Stories: Badass of the Week: Nathan Lambert Nicodemus Injury Support Group Spartan Elite License Beer Mile Road World Record Boston Marathon Qualifier Selection Alisa Petrova and Sergei Perelygin 3 Year Anniversary Josh Fiore Moves to Florida Spartan Series Races ARE Included in Spartan Season Passes Help Kris Rugloski Race Across Mongolia GoFundMe Neighborhood Ninjas Community Build Day DEKA FIT Boston Podiums DEKA FIT Manchester Podiums Two Face Secret Link Dance Battle Secret Link Falling Drink Secret Link Gay Brother Secret Link Chocolate Bike Secret Link ____ Related Episodes: 393. 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Starting in mid August… a Swiss town will fine those who don't wash up dog pee.Chiasso, Ticino in Switzerland, will fine dog owners who don't dilute urine left in public places.An Illinois maintenance worker was trapped inside a 130-foot-tall gas station sign for around six-and-a-half hours. Denver radio legend G-Man did that in Colorado for 33 days… so not that impressive, sir.The International Medieval Combat Federation's annual world championship roared into gear in northern Denmark this week.As he heads to the Philadelphia 76ers, what's more damaging to LeBron James' legacy - Flopping or team hopping?Dwayne Wade has another street named after him - first was in Miami, now one in Chicago. What would the vibe be like for a Scott DeHuff Blvd?Chiefs fans shouldn't worry about Patrick Mahomes' health.Bison popped a tourist's car tire then just walked away. They're lucky the dude didn't flip the car!Also, Jimothy the raccoon is taking the internet by storm.
A quick news note: On Friday, July 24, Collective, along with New York spice importer Burlap & Barrel, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging the federal government's latest Section 301 tariffs. We'll dig into the details on our next episode. In the meantime, you can read more here. On this episode of Openwork, Gabe Reilly and Asher Rapkin talk with Karel Bachand, founder and chief engineer of Barrelhand, the San Francisco brand rethinking American watchmaking. Karel reverse-engineered an Urwerk as a teenager and cut his teeth on microgravity devices at NASA Ames before building Monolith — a mechanical watch designed from first principles as an aerospace tool, and one that couldn't be made in Switzerland. The conversation digs into the question the industry avoids: after sixty years of luxury and heritage, what does a watch brand look like when it picks substance over story? Karel breaks down building an American supply chain from scratch, why decentralized manufacturing beats bringing it all in-house, and why a mechanical movement — not quartz or digital — is the right call for the harsh reality of a spacewalk. It's also a frank take on collector blind spots, like the assumption that a modified Sellita movement is a cop-out instead of a deliberate, reliability-driven choice, and on growing the independent watch community by drawing in people from outside it. Explore Karel's work at barrelhand.com. Openwork is a weekly podcast about how the watch industry actually works. An unfiltered look behind the scenes — no press releases, no hype, and no sponsored takes. Hosted by Asher Rapkin and Gabe Reilly, co-founders of Collective Horology. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube Music, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can find us online at collectivehorology.com. To get in touch with suggestions, feedback or questions, email podcast@collectivehorology.com.
Susanne Mueller Zantop is a communications technology entrepreneur and high altitude mountaineer based in Switzerland, working with senior leadership in high pressure-situations. She founded her first company at 24, worked in large corporations on senior leadership levels, later co founded CEO Positions AG to support C-Level executive teams to convey strategic messages in their markets. Susanne has climbed some of the world's highest mountains—including Mount Everest—and uses the lessons from extreme environments to explore leadership under difficult circumstances, setbacks, and transformation. Today, she joins us to tell the story how she managed to continue leading her company while she was undergoing cancer treatment over the last 24 months. Follow her on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannemuellerzantop/ ***********Finalist "Women in Cloud - Podcast of the YEAR" - #empowHERaccess Global Prestige Awards 2026Susanne Mueller / www.susannemueller.biz TEDX Talk, May 2022: Running and Life: 5KM Formula for YOUR Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_5Er1cLvY Join Substack: https://substack.com/@susannemuellernyc?Enjoy one coaching session for free if you are a yearly subscriber. 800+ weekly blogs / 500+ podcasts / 1 Ironman Triathlon / 5 half ironman races / 26 marathon races / 4 books / 1 Mt. Kilimanjaro / 1 TEDx Talk
ATLP Rewind - Originally Released July 10, 2025Even when you're thousands of miles away from your prototype, you might not be that far from your people. That's what we find out on this episode of Around The Layout as we talk to Robin Felder from Switzerland. Robin tells how his love for American railroading began and how he's been able to satisfy that big layout desire with a large group of friends and dual purpose modular layouts. Robin also shares how the group shares each of their unique talents to help each other.Learn more about this episode on our website:aroundthelayout.com/rewindThank you to our episode sponsor, Broadway Limited Imports:https://broadway-limited.com/Thank you to our episode sponsor, ScaleSigns.com:https://scalesigns.com/Thank you to our episode sponsor, Oak Hill Model Railroad Track Supply:https://ohrtracksupply.com/Visit our website at aroundthelayout.comBecome a member of our Operating Crew for chances to win and much more!aroundthelayout.com/crewAround The Layout Podcast is a production of Thirty Five Productions LLC©2026 Thirty Five Productions LLC. All rights reserved.The views and opinions expressed by hosts and guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Thirty Five Productions LLC or our sponsors.Use of any trademarks or trade names is for identification purposes only and does not imply endorsement.No portion of this podcast may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of Thirty Five Productions LLC, except for brief quotations used for purposes of review, commentary, or promotion.
Join Jenn Dawson and Mitchell Hanson for some quick-hitting "research hot takes!"Topical Therapies Supporting Links and Articleshttps://nextstepsinderm.com/derm-topics/expanding-the-treatment-landscape-for-atopic-dermatitis-hidradenitis-suppurativa-and-chronic-hand-eczema/https://www.dermatologytimes.com/view/advancing-topical-stewardship-and-expanding-nonsteroidal-optionshttps://www.arcutis.com/arcutis-announces-publication-of-positive-long-term-safety-and-efficacy-data-with-zoryve-roflumilast-cream-0-05-for-treatment-of-mild-to-moderate-atopic-dermatitis-in-children-ages-2-5/Social Unrest Leads to Access Barriers Supporting Links and ArticlesC. L. Presley, J. Meisenheimer VII, C. W. Rundle, S. Maguiness, I. A. Maher, and A. J. M. Anderson, “Social Unrest and Its Implications on the Pediatric Dermatological Patient: Lessons From a Single Center Academic Dermatology Department,” Pediatric Dermatology (2026): 1–2, https://doi.org/10.1111/pde.70260.Mukerjee K, Shah S, Falusi O. State Policies and Access to Care for Immigrant Children—Implications for Pediatric Health Outcomes. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(12):e2545833. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.45833Skin of Color in Pediatric Dermatology Supporting Links and ArticlesDondi, A., Ranieri, A., Andreozzi, L., Leuzzi, M., D'Alanno, G., Pierantoni, L., Zama, D., Battelli, E., Calegari, R., Borghesi, A., Lanari, M., & Neri, I. (2026). Skin of Color in Pediatric Dermatology: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Analysis Addressing Inclusive Diagnosis and Care. Life (Basel, Switzerland), 16(4), 578. https://doi.org/10.3390/life16040578Fagan E, Reagen C, Ituarte B, Shet P, Shaver-Dominguez N, Harter N, Wei EX, Oudenhoven M. Trends in Pediatric Representation Within Skin of Color Dermatology Literature: A Decade-Long Analysis. Pediatr Dermatol. 2026 Jan-Feb;43(1):95-97. doi: 10.1111/pde.16038. Epub 2025 Aug 13. PMID: 41611238.This episode is presented by Disc Medicine. Although Disc Medicine provided funding for this PeDRA Pearls Podcast, the contents of the podcast were developed independently by PeDRA. Learn more about Disc Medicine.
How can leaders move forward when pressure is high and the way is not clear? Blind adventurer Hiro Iwamoto and his 'seeing eye Doug" guide Doug Smith sailed across the Pacific in 55 days, from San Diego to Fukushima. The two share key strategies for leaders in taking action despite uncertainty and what's needed to pick the right partners to make impossible projects a reality. Hiro also shares how he stays calm in moments of extreme adversity, like when whale sank his boat during an earlier attempt leaving him in a life raft for 11 hours amid five-metre waves. Key takeaways: Courage means moving forward without waiting for 100% information. Find people who can solve problems, not just point them out How thinking in the present can prevent panic and enable decision-making Hiro is an adventurer, keynote speaker and the first totally blind person to sail across the Pacific. Doug had no previous sailing experience but became Hiro's crewmate and navigator for that extraordinary trip. Their lessons on crisis leadership, teamwork, overcoming fear and innovation can motivate any leader during difficult moments. Recorded January 2026 at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. About this episode: Hiro: https://hiros-choice.com/ Transcript: https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/meet-the-leader/episodes/hiro-iwamoto-blind-sailor-lessons-fear-decision Related Episodes: Nick Thompson, The Atlantic: Why one CEO sets 'non -goals' - and what ultramarathons taught him about focus and mental toughness Watch here - YouTube: https://youtu.be/Xh9PLsyptgA Listen here - Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/bdbrspj7 Read here - Listen: https://tinyurl.com/mtdhe37w Adam Grant: Future leaders won't succeed without this key trait Read here - Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/fbym95jy Listen here - Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/ys2dtftj Watch here - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buVVIpttzUA
We are discussing the World Cup Quarterfinal refereeing decisions that stood out as well as VAR interventions. How do you feel the refereeing has been so far in the World Cup, what has been a success and what needs to be improved? 00:00 Welcome 00:29 Intro 01:32 A Fruit in the Beer
It may be a little taboo to talk about it, but there are a lot of people out there who, for a variety of reasons, don't have as much sex as they would like, or arguably need. And there's actually a form of therapy out there which is specifically designed to help people become more comfortable with sex and intimacy. The idea of sex surrogacy started catching on in Europe in the 2000s, and these days it's actually regulated and even covered by social security in some countries, like Switzerland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Still, in many places it's a legal grey area, and raises a number of ethical questions to boot. For example it became a subject of debate in France in 2013, when a proposal was put forward to cover sex surrogacy expenses for disabled people. Why would someone need to use the services of a sex surrogate? What's the difference between a sex surrogate and a sex worker? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions ! To listen to the latest episodes, click here: Will Star Wars: Andor live up to the hype? Why were the queen's bees told of her death? Do I have poor blood circulation? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. First Broadcast: 24/9/2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of The Meditation Podcast, Roy sits down with Jon Paul Crimi — Breathwork pioneer, celebrity trainer, and sobriety coach based in Bend, Oregon. Jon Paul shares how his late friend Matthew Perry first introduced him to Breathwork, how a single session sent him "down the rabbit hole," and how he transformed a niche, mystical practice into a grounded, results-driven method that's now certified over 3,000 instructors worldwide. The conversation covers the science behind "tetany" (the hand-cramping sensation common in circular breathwork), why Jon Paul's mouth-breathing technique differs from nose-breathing methods like Wim Hof, how trauma stored in the nervous system gets released through the breath, and why he believes breathwork produces results comparable to psychedelics — without the logistical downsides. He also opens up about his own sobriety (26 years), his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, his experience bringing breathwork into corporations like Nike and LinkedIn, and how to spot unqualified instructors in an unregulated industry. What we Discussed 0:02 – Introduction and welcome 0:53 – How Jon Paul got into breathwork through Matthew Perry 2:08 – What "breathwork" actually means (it's an umbrella term) 2:48 – Jon Paul's mouth-breathing technique vs. nose-breathing methods 7:41 – Full-circle moment: teaching at a Tony Robbins Life Mastery Seminar 8:16 – Leading the largest in-person circular breathwork class (900 people, Switzerland) 10:20 – What causes "tetany" (the hand-cramping) — and how to stop it 14:25 – Why trauma surfaces during breathwork (and why that's a good thing) 17:13 – How long sessions should last, and why headphones matter 19:03 – Transient hypofrontality — quieting the inner critic 20:43 – Breathwork vs. psychedelics (ayahuasca, microdosing) 24:18 – Recommended frequency of practice 25:13 – Age recommendations for breathwork with children 26:21 – Alzheimer's, PTSD research, and where the science currently stands 28:05 – How to spot underqualified or unsafe instructors 31:02 – Inside his certification process (in-person vs. online, pricing) 43:57 – Bringing breathwork into corporations (Nike, LinkedIn) 51:03 – Breathwork's pop culture moment — the show Flaked with Will Arnett 54:24 – Where to find Jon Paul and closing thoughts Contact Details
We're delving into the CrowdScience archive to give you another chance to hear an award-winning show from 2025. CrowdScience listener Dorit has a problem. She wants the tiles in her new bathroom to be arranged randomly but, no matter what she does, it still looks like they form some kind of pattern. This has got Dorit thinking about randomness – what is it, how do you create it, why do we find it so hard to recognise, and is anything really random at all? And if nothing is truly random, does it mean that everything is theoretically predictable? Tiling your bathroom is a much more existential problem than you might have thought. Never afraid of a question, whether big (is everything pre-determined?) or small (how do I tile my bathroom?), CrowdScience is on the case. Anand Jagatia heads to Switzerland to meet Hugo Duminil-Copin, a mathematician at the University of Geneva who specialises in probability theory. On the top floor of an old bank, Hugo has Anand flipping an imaginary coin in a random order. Hugo explains that randomness is something that cannot be predicted by any means – so why is it so easy for Hugo to guess what Anand's next move is? Meanwhile, at the National Institutes of Mental Health in Maryland USA, Susan Wardle is a cognitive neuroscientist who researches how the human brain processes visual information. Can neuroscience help Dorit with her tiling problem, and is there a reason why the human brain likes to put random objects into some kind of order? Geneva is also the birthplace of the first Quantum Random Number Generator for smartphones, and CrowdScience has persuaded some of the University of Geneva's finest quantum physicists to hook a photon detector up to a synthesiser. Thanks to Tiff Brydges and Nicolas Brunner, we can actually hear quantum particles behaving randomly. But is quantum randomness truly random, or just a pattern that we can't see? And could quantum physics help Dorit tile her bathroom? Presenter: Anand Jagatia Producer: Ben Motley Editor: Cathy Edwards(Photo: Many wooden dice - stock photo- Credit: akiyoko via Getty Images)
One of the world's great writers looks death in the face! Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Holbein and The body of the dead Christ in the tomb - Basel, Switzerland, 1867 To help support this Podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver on Patreon.comhttps://www.patreon.com/neiloliver To Donate,go to Neil's Website:https://www.neiloliver.com Gold Bullion Partners,for more info about buying gold & silver go to this affiliate link,https://goldbullionpartners.co.uk/download-our-complimentary-guide-neil-oliver/ Shop:https://neil-oliver.creator-spring.com Neil Oliver YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/@Neil-Oliver Rumble site – Neil Oliver Official:https://rumble.com/c/c-6293844 Instagram - NeilOliverLoveLetter:https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverloveletter Podcasts:Neil Oliver: News Comment HistoryNeil Oliver: HistoryNeil Oliver: InterviewsAvailable on all the usual providershttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-oliver-news-comment-history/id1513737418https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-oliver-history/id1871225730https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/neil-oliver-interviews/id1869660872 #NeilOliver #Dostoyevsky #Holbein #Russia #ThebodyodthedeadChristinthetomb #Basal #epilepsy #Nietzsche # #history #travel #culture #ancient #historyfact #explore Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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“It's like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.” — Ricardo Semler on why bosses won't let their workers vote on them Ricardo Semler might be the most anti-boss boss in the history of corporate bosses. Thrown into his Austrian immigrant father's São Paulo manufacturing firm at seventeen, the young Brazilian ripped up the rulebook — no dress codes, no time clocks, a ten-page cartoon manual instead of HR — and grew the company from 110 employees to more than 5,000. In the mid-Eighties he was already inventing hybrid work, shipping Telex machines to his workers' homes. One of them even squeezed one of these 150-pound machines into his bathroom. Now, in his upcoming e-book The End of the Boss, the author of the iconoclastic autobiography Maverick argues that the corporate pyramid — an inheritance, he says, from West Point via the railroads — is as dead as a cuckoo bird (as the Swiss would say). Nothing good has been done with it since World War Two. Not in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, his native Brazil, and certainly not in corporate America where Elon Musk's current pay package equals the wages of all his employees for the next five years. Semler's alternative is disarmingly simple: groups of ten who validate their leader every six months. Fail the vote and you're not fired — you go back to being one of the nine. His Netherlands-based consultancy has brought versions of the idea to 208 companies, including the giant Dutch bank ABN AMRO, which agreed to do away with 399 branch managers. So why don't more bosses follow? Because, says Semler, asking executives to be elected from below is like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas. Even the self-styled “fearless” Elon Musk would be terrified to end up as the roasted centerpiece of the Xmas table. That same maverick idea (his first ex-wife joked he's only ever had one) runs through everything Semler has ever proposed — from the rotating district presidents of São Paulo, to the untethered MBA whose cohorts hire their own professors, to the schools that grade Call of Duty and map it to the curriculum. Switzerland, he points out, has been governed by seven rotating nobodies since the fourteenth century. No, The Third Man's Harry Lime was wrong. Rather than the cuckoo clock, it's this anti-boss invention which explains Switzerland's five hundred years of democracy and peace. Five Takeaways • The Pyramid Came from West Point — and It's Dead. The corporate hierarchy, Semler argues, is a military inheritance that reached business from West Point via the railroads — and nothing good has been done with it since World War Two, from Korea to Vietnam to Afghanistan. The numbers agree: the average company's lifespan on the stock market has collapsed from 61 years to 21, which makes the classical pyramid, not self-management, the biggest gamble of all. Jack Welch's GE is a shadow because he prepared it for nothing except Jack Welch. And when one Alexander Wang is valued like 20,000 engineers, or a CEO's package equals five years of everyone's wages, something structural is wrong.• Turkeys Voting for Christmas. Semler's system is cells of ten that choose or validate their leader by anonymous survey every six months. Fail the vote and you aren't fired — you return to being one of the nine. His consultancy has brought the idea to 208 companies, including ABN AMRO, which agreed to eliminate 399 branch managers. The reason it doesn't spread is not that it doesn't work; it's that nobody at the top wants it — turkeys don't vote for Christmas, and Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg would be terrified of their employees deciding whether they keep their jobs. His model is Switzerland: seven rotating councilors nobody can name, working out fine since the fourteenth century. The alternative ends, sooner or later, in Kim Jong Un.• Cycles, Not Failures. “Until death do us part,” Semler says, is about the silliest question anybody could ask. His own eighteen-year marriage with three children wasn't a failure — it was a cycle that ended, ten beautiful years out of eleven. Children born today will live to 100 or 110, with time for three full careers and still a retirement, so asking a seventeen-year-old what they want to be for the rest of their life is the wrong question. His daily metric is simpler: was today a valid day — like getting your parking ticket validated — or a dues day? When the dues days outnumber the valid ones week after week, the marriage or the job is already finished, whether you admit it or not.• The Untethered MBA. Semler taught MBAs at MIT and spent four years at Harvard Law School, so he knows exactly what he's calling outmoded, outdated, and obsolete. His replacement: cohorts of ten who work through a dashboard curriculum at their own pace, study the case of the day rather than decade-old case studies — is SpaceX worth a trillion dollars, or nothing? — and spend credits to summon former CFOs or Stanford professors on demand. The same logic runs his schools, which grade TikTok and Call of Duty and map them to the curriculum. The smartphone panic, he says, is mostly nostalgia: what the screens are ruining is your ability to memorize the periodic table.• AI Is Electricity — and He's Losing the Argument. AI, Semler says, is irrelevant the way electricity is irrelevant: a tide rising for every boat, pointless to oppose and impossible to live without. He runs everything through four LLMs — “there's nothing left of slop or hallucination at the end of that” — and confesses that when he tells his AI to push back, he now has trouble keeping up intellectually, which wasn't true a year ago. His hope is that we don't become “domesticated pets” over the next fifteen years. The deeper obstacle to everything, though, remains human: the cattle aspect of fear. There is no Trump and no Putin, he says — there is thirty percent of the population willing to support them, and one person who understands what populism can do. About the Guest Ricardo Semler is the chairman and majority owner of Semco Partners, the São Paulo company he took over from his father at 21 and transformed into the world's most famous experiment in industrial democracy. His book Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace (1993) was an international bestseller published in sixteen languages; The Seven-Day Weekend followed in 2003. He is the founder of the Lumiar schools and the Ralston Semler Foundation, has taught at MIT's Sloan School and Harvard Law School, and his TED talks have been viewed millions of times. His new e-book is The End of the Boss (endoftheboss.org, 2026). References: • The End of the Boss by Ricardo Semler (2026) — the e-book, and its “Round Pyramid” alternative: self-managing cells of ten with leaders validated from below.• Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace by Ricardo Semler — the million-copy classic whose Brazilian predecessor, Turning the Tables, was rejec...
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A 2023 book collects accounts of shapeshifting strangers, reptilian visitors, and living doubles, arguing the aliens John Carpenter put on screen may have been walking among us all along.EPISODE BLOG PAGE (includes sources): https://weirddarkness.com/TheyLiveREAD or DOWNLOAD the full transcript of this episode: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/ycktrfu5FEATURED STORIES IN THIS EPISODE: Have you ever felt like something was off about someone you met? What if the truth was more bizarre than you could imagine - that aliens walk secretly among us, perfectly disguised? (Mimic In The Mirror) *** The short story “Eight O'Clock In The Morning” by Ray Nelson – the inspiration for the movie “They Live!” *** Left-handedness: once a mark of the devil, now a unique trait celebrated across the globe. From the Salem Witch Trials to modern-day challenges with spiral notebooks, left-handers have been forced to navigate a world designed for righties, despite the historical stigmas, surprising advantages, and the evolving recognition of left-handers in combat, culture, and commerce. (Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil) *** In the shadow of Switzerland's majestic Eiger mountain, 29-year-old Aidan Roche vanished without a trace during a solo hiking trip. Despite an unlocked camper-van and one last eerie messages sent from the trail, his disappearance remained shrouded in mystery. Months later, a grim discovery brought more questions than answers. (The Disappearance of Aidan Roche) *** In the summer of 1948, a series of inexplicable fires ravaged the Willey farm near Macomb, Illinois, destroying the family's home and barns. Despite the efforts of local authorities and the U.S. Air Force, no logical explanation could be found for the hundreds of mysterious blazes that seemed to start spontaneously. At the center of this baffling case was 13-year-old Wanet McNeil, whose alleged confession to arson left many unconvinced. Was Wanet truly responsible? Could she have been starting the fires with her mind? (The Macomb Firestarter) *** In 1991, 63-year-old Vasile Gorgos left his home in Romania to visit a cattle market and never returned, leaving his family to believe he had met a tragic fate. But 30 years later, Vasile shocked everyone when he mysteriously reappeared, wearing the same clothes as the day he vanished and carrying an unused train ticket from 1991 in his pocket. With no memory of where he'd been for three decades, Vasile's strange case has left people wondering if his disappearance could be tied to supernatural phenomena like portals, alien abduction, or shifts in time and space itself. (The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos)CHAPTERS & TIME STAMPS (All Times Approximate)…00:00:00.000 = “Eight O'Clock In The Morning” (short fiction)00:12:38.092 = Show Open00:15:46.852 = Mimic In The Mirror: Are Aliens Among Us? ***00:26:13.246 = Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil00:32:35.305 = The Disappearance of Aidan Roche ***00:38:57.889 = The Macomb Firestarter00:48:20.167 = The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos ***00:55:50.605 = Show Close*** = Begins immediately after inserted ad breakLISTEN ON PODCAST APPS: Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://weirddarkness.com/wdapps*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*SOURCES and RESOURCES:“Eight O'Clock In The Morning” by Ray Nelson: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mu7tmynm“Mimic In The Mirror” source: Sean Casteel at Spectral Vision: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yckjpyz8BOOK: “Mimics – The Others Among Us” by Sean Casteel and Tim R. Swartz: https://amzn.to/3Ws07IJBOOK: “Sky Crash Throughout Time (A Cosmic Conspiracy)” by Philip Kinsella and Brenda Butler: https://amzn.to/3WlE2v2“Left-Handers Are In League With The Devil” source: Baiily Benningfield at Ranker's Graveyard Shift:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/2p8acbdh“The Disappearance of Aidan Roche” source: Strange Outdoors: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/mrxvj87r“The Macomb Firestarter” by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/5n7dbzmh (used with permission)“The Mysterious Vanishing of Vasile Gorgos” source: Marcus Lowth at UFO Insight:https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/jxztu8nd(Over time links may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.Originally aired: April 30, 2024In this episode of Weird Darkness, listeners move through alien impostors, the long history of left-handed stigma, a hiker who vanished in the Swiss Alps, a farm besieged by fires no one could explain, and a Romanian cattle trader who came home after thirty years.It opens with the mimics. Ray Nelson's 1963 story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" — the basis for John Carpenter's 1988 film "They Live" — imagined reptilian aliens ruling Earth from behind human faces, and the 2023 book "Mimics: The Others Among Us" argues that scenario may not be fiction. The book collects accounts like that of Brenda Butler, co-author of a book on the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, who in 1984 met a tall, blue-eyed man calling himself David Daniels and claiming to be from the Pleiades star cluster, then watched his skin turn scaly and reptilian before he shifted back to human. It recounts author Chris Holly's memory of a strikingly similar white-haired, blue-eyed family she later connected to the extraterrestrial "Tall Whites," alongside cases of living ghosts, doppelgangers, and a 1970s poltergeist blamed on a mimic wearing a teenage girl's face.From there the episode traces why left-handedness was treated as sinister for centuries. During the Salem Witch Trials, favoring the left hand could bring an accusation of witchcraft, and as late as the 1970s schools still forced left-handed children to write with their right. The Book of Matthew places the righteous on the right and the cursed on the left, the Zulu scalded children's left hands to stop their use, and communities along the Niger River tied left-handed cooking to witchcraft — while the ancient Celts prized left-handed warriors, Rome read left-side omens as favorable, and the Inca chief Lloque Yupanqui was admired for his left-handedness. The stigma softened by the late 1960s, when William Gruby opened Anything Left-Handed, Ltd. to sell scissors, kitchen tools, and watches built for lefties.Next comes the disappearance of Aidan Roche, a 29-year-old chemical engineer from Middlesbrough who vanished on June 22nd, 2023, while hiking the Eiger Trail in Switzerland's Bernese Oberland. His campervan sat unlocked and abandoned near the trailhead with everything inside intact, and his final messages placed him two hours from Grindelwald in clear weather on a well-traveled path. Swiss police, mountain rescue teams, dogs, and drones searched for five days, and his brothers Connor and Niall raised over £30,000 for helicopter surveillance and screen advertisements in twenty-four locations, yet found nothing until September 24th, 2023, when Aidan's body was discovered near the trail with the cause of death still unreleased.The episode then settles on the Willey farm outside Macomb, Illinois, where hundreds of fires broke out in the summer of 1948. They started on August 7th as small brown spots that appeared on the living room wallpaper, spread, smoldered, and burst into flame — more than 200 of them in one week, igniting curtains, an ironing board, and newspapers sealed inside a closed cupboard, often erupting on walls and ceilings while witnesses watched. The blazes consumed the farmhouse on August 14th and both barns soon after, drew over 1,000 spectators on August 22nd, and even brought in the U.S. Air Force, which floated directed radiation from the Russians as a possible cause. Officials declared the case solved on August 30th by pinning it on 13-year-old Wanet McNeil, who confessed to using kitchen matches after hours of questioning despite never being seen holding any; psychiatrist Dr. Sophie Schroeder found her mentally normal, researcher Vincent Gaddis called it poltergeist activity, and Fire Chief Fred Wilson retired still convinced something unexplainable had happened.The episode closes with Vasile Gorgos, a 63-year-old cattle trader from Bacău, Romania, who left for a market in 1991 and disappeared for three decades. His wife reported him missing, an extensive police search turned up no trace, and his family eventually held a ceremony and accepted that he was dead. On a Sunday afternoon in August 2021, a car pulled up outside his old house and drove off before anyone could read the plate, leaving behind a 93-year-old Vasile in the same clothes he had worn in 1991, carrying an unused train ticket from that year and an old identity card listing an address in another part of Romania. Doctor
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Former USMNT forward Herculez Gomez joins Mike Ryan to recap an epic weekend of quarterfinal action that included England's comeback win over Norway and yet another controversial win for Argentina over Switzerland. Plus, Spain and France both advanced convincingly to set up a dream semifinal between arguably the two best teams in Europe. The pair tell us who they believe comes out on top in that clash of giants, and how England can exorcise their international demons against Argentina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices