Podcasts about International Business School

Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.  None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the democratic backsliders' playbook. To secure long-term power rather than short-term office, rulers must take over the institutions that check and balance majority rule and bend them to their will. Trump has tamed Congress and inserted his people into the Supreme Court, law enforcement, intelligence, and competition regulation but - to his great frustration - the Federal Reserve is holding out. It was the same story in Hungary after Viktor Orbán returned to the premiership in 2010. Bound by EU law and the mandates of the governor and his deputies, Orbán had to wait three years to break the national bank. One of those deputy governors, Júlia Király, experienced state capture from the inside and resigned with a public protest at the loss of institutional independence. Now an associate professor of finance and monetary economics at the International Business School in Budapest, she began her career under socialism at the statistics and planning offices. As deputy governor, she was part of the team that managed the Hungarian economy through the post-2007 financial crisis – an experience she chronicles in Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Turbulences to a Global Hurricane (Springer, 2020). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors, who also writes and podcasts at www.242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.  None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the democratic backsliders' playbook. To secure long-term power rather than short-term office, rulers must take over the institutions that check and balance majority rule and bend them to their will. Trump has tamed Congress and inserted his people into the Supreme Court, law enforcement, intelligence, and competition regulation but - to his great frustration - the Federal Reserve is holding out. It was the same story in Hungary after Viktor Orbán returned to the premiership in 2010. Bound by EU law and the mandates of the governor and his deputies, Orbán had to wait three years to break the national bank. One of those deputy governors, Júlia Király, experienced state capture from the inside and resigned with a public protest at the loss of institutional independence. Now an associate professor of finance and monetary economics at the International Business School in Budapest, she began her career under socialism at the statistics and planning offices. As deputy governor, she was part of the team that managed the Hungarian economy through the post-2007 financial crisis – an experience she chronicles in Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Turbulences to a Global Hurricane (Springer, 2020). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors, who also writes and podcasts at www.242.news on Substack. 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

Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.  None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the democratic backsliders' playbook. To secure long-term power rather than short-term office, rulers must take over the institutions that check and balance majority rule and bend them to their will. Trump has tamed Congress and inserted his people into the Supreme Court, law enforcement, intelligence, and competition regulation but - to his great frustration - the Federal Reserve is holding out. It was the same story in Hungary after Viktor Orbán returned to the premiership in 2010. Bound by EU law and the mandates of the governor and his deputies, Orbán had to wait three years to break the national bank. One of those deputy governors, Júlia Király, experienced state capture from the inside and resigned with a public protest at the loss of institutional independence. Now an associate professor of finance and monetary economics at the International Business School in Budapest, she began her career under socialism at the statistics and planning offices. As deputy governor, she was part of the team that managed the Hungarian economy through the post-2007 financial crisis – an experience she chronicles in Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Turbulences to a Global Hurricane (Springer, 2020). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors, who also writes and podcasts at www.242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.  None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the democratic backsliders' playbook. To secure long-term power rather than short-term office, rulers must take over the institutions that check and balance majority rule and bend them to their will. Trump has tamed Congress and inserted his people into the Supreme Court, law enforcement, intelligence, and competition regulation but - to his great frustration - the Federal Reserve is holding out. It was the same story in Hungary after Viktor Orbán returned to the premiership in 2010. Bound by EU law and the mandates of the governor and his deputies, Orbán had to wait three years to break the national bank. One of those deputy governors, Júlia Király, experienced state capture from the inside and resigned with a public protest at the loss of institutional independence. Now an associate professor of finance and monetary economics at the International Business School in Budapest, she began her career under socialism at the statistics and planning offices. As deputy governor, she was part of the team that managed the Hungarian economy through the post-2007 financial crisis – an experience she chronicles in Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Turbulences to a Global Hurricane (Springer, 2020). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors, who also writes and podcasts at www.242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

Donald Trump is putting liberal democracy through its greatest test in 80 years.  None of it is original. His style of rule is straight from the democratic backsliders' playbook. To secure long-term power rather than short-term office, rulers must take over the institutions that check and balance majority rule and bend them to their will. Trump has tamed Congress and inserted his people into the Supreme Court, law enforcement, intelligence, and competition regulation but - to his great frustration - the Federal Reserve is holding out. It was the same story in Hungary after Viktor Orbán returned to the premiership in 2010. Bound by EU law and the mandates of the governor and his deputies, Orbán had to wait three years to break the national bank. One of those deputy governors, Júlia Király, experienced state capture from the inside and resigned with a public protest at the loss of institutional independence. Now an associate professor of finance and monetary economics at the International Business School in Budapest, she began her career under socialism at the statistics and planning offices. As deputy governor, she was part of the team that managed the Hungarian economy through the post-2007 financial crisis – an experience she chronicles in Hungary and Other Emerging EU Countries in the Financial Storm: From Minor Turbulences to a Global Hurricane (Springer, 2020). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors, who also writes and podcasts at www.242.news on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/finance

7 april. Regeringen vill utreda invandringens kostnader. I själva verket är det fråga om en vinst. Det menar Tony Johansson, doktor i ekonomisk historia, i en ny rapport från tankesmedjan Katalys. Han och Johan Eklund, professor i nationalekonomi vid Jönköping International Business School, gästar Andreas Ericson.

20 mars. Ägarstrukturen på den svenska tidningsmarknaden har koncentrerats. Hur påverkar det innehållet? Andreas Ericson diskuterar med Anders Malmsten, författare och journalist, och Mart Ots, docent vid Jönköping International Business School, som låtit AI granska tidningarnas kvalitet.

Är du intresserad av att lära dig mer om hur samhället påverkar vår ekonomi i stort eller företaget i smått? Är du nyfiken på entreprenörskap, ledarskap och internationalisering, så kanske något av Jönköping International Business School´s ackrediterade högskoleutbildningar kan vara ett alternativ för dig! Anna Nordén och Johan Larsson berättar om Ekonomi-programmens likheter och skillnader på JU. 

Robert Meier präsentiert im Wochenrückblick ausgewählte Beiträge aus „Kontrafunk aktuell“. Im Gespräch mit dem AfD-Bundestagsabgeordneten Jürgen Braun ging es in dieser Woche um den Klimasubventionsbetrug in China, Journalist Bastian Barucker sprach über die weitere Auswertung der RKI-Protokolle und die Verknüpfung zwischen Politik und Wissenschaft in der Impfkampagne. Und „Weltwoche“-Korrespondent Pierre Heumann gab seine Einschätzung zur Lage im Libanon ab. Außerdem zu Gast waren die ehemalige sächsische Politikerin Antje Hermenau, der Softwareentwickler Andreas Ziegler, der Bauunternehmer Thomas Echterhoff, Olof Brunninge von der Jönköping International Business School in Schweden, der österreichische Umwelttechniker Gerhard Fallent, die AfD-Abgeordnete im Europaparlament Christine Anderson und Dr. Beate Strehlitz.

In dieser Ausgabe berichtet Shams Ul Haq, Journalist im Mittleren Osten, über die Verbindung zwischen der deutschen Bundesregierung und der Taliban in Afghanistan. Um die zunehmende Clankriminalität in Deutschland und Schweden geht es im Gespräch mit Olof Brunninge von der Jönköping International Business School in Schweden. Wie sicher Deutschlands Brücken sind und wie marode die Infrastruktur ist, beantwortet der Bauunternehmer Thomas Echterhoff. Und Markus Vahlefeld beschäftigt sich in seinem Kommentar des Tages mit der Migration und der Frage: Wer kämpft hier politisch eigentlich gegen wen?

This time we get to hear from Paige Lewis, a clearly unstoppable leader and executive coach. Paige grew up in the Phoenix area until she went to college at the University of Texas where she learned about advertising and business. After college she spent a year in Japan selling products for Estee Lauder after which she returned to the U.S. Through an introduction from a friend she secured a position at Disney in Home Entertainment. Later she moved to DreamWorks and then to Universal where again she specialized in Home Entertainment. At Universal she rose to the position of Senior Vice President.   Paige thought she had reached the “pinnacle of her career”, but over a short time she became seriously ill and was hospitalized for a week. As she describes that time now, she experienced serious burnout. She quit her position at Universal and began an analysis of her life which lead her to realize that she truly enjoyed mentoring people. She became a certified coach and has spent the past six years with her own business coaching and helping mainly senior level women to not “make the same mistakes she made”.   I think you are going to hear some good observations from Paige. She has wonderful life advice we all can use. I hope very much you enjoy what she has to say.     About the Guest:   Paige Lewis is a leadership coach who spent over two decades as a highly regarded leader in marketing, building some of the world's most iconic entertainment brands for Disney, DreamWorks and Universal Pictures.  After being promoted to Senior Vice President of Marketing at Universal Pictures, Paige had reached what she thought was the pinnacle of her career.  But she ended up in the hospital with a deadly infection brought on by extreme burnout.    Soon after, she left the corporate world to heal her body and figure out why she had reached a breaking point without realizing what was happening along the way. She has turned her experience into her mission: turning executive burnout into career success. With a unique ability to transform complex challenges into actionable insights and the real-world business experience as a former executive, Paige is a trusted guide for leaders seeking to excel without compromising well-being. She is dedicated to helping organizations and people realize their greatest purpose and impact without sacrificing their productivity, health, values and most meaningful relationships.     Paige is one of the elite Founding Los Angeles coaches at CHIEF, a network recognized by Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list, created to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. She has coached over 200 individuals and groups across Fortune 100 companies, nonprofits, media and marketing agencies, and start ups. She holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a Bachelor of Science in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin. ** ** Ways to connect with Paige:   Website: ** https://paigeonecoaching.com; PaigeOneCoaching.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paige-lewis/;  Paige Lewis Sandford | LinkedIn     About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below!   Subscribe to the podcast   If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app.   Leave us an Apple Podcasts review   Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.     Transcription Notes:** Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi, and we want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset. This is our latest episode, needless to say, and we're really glad that you're here with us today we get to chat with Paige Lewis Sanford and I'm sure you're all familiar with Paige. Oh, you're not? Well, you will be by the time we're done here. Paige is a fascinating individual. She's worked to help improve and greatly increase the brands of organizations such as Disney and DreamWorks universal and my gosh, I don't know what all and hopefully, her influence will rub off and help unstoppable mindset but we're gonna see about that. So Paige, welcome to unstoppable mindset. And whatever happens, we're glad you're here.   Paige Lewis ** 02:07 Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 02:11 it'll be a lot of fun. And we'll, we'll make it useful and fun in some way or another. And as I told you earlier, one of the rules of the podcast is we got to have fun. So that's as good as it gets. Well tell me a little about kind of the early page growing up and all that sort of stuff.   Paige Lewis ** 02:28 Well, I am a Phoenician, I grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. So I am a lover of the sun to this day, and had a really a really lovely childhood. I have a younger brother. He's 14 months younger, we were very close. And we spent a lot of our days inventing things and laughing a lot. My parents instilled a lot of curiosity in us. I'm grateful they exposed us to a lot of things. So whatever we wanted to try. We got to try even gymnastics, which I failed at. I was terrible. But thanks to my parents, I have a strong love of music. I have a lot of curiosity. And yeah, I am they made me who I am today.   Michael Hingson ** 03:15 So you grew up in in Phoenix in Arizona who have been there a number of times we've spent part of our honeymoon my wife and I a long time ago, at the point Tampa to hotel.   Paige Lewis ** 03:29 Oh, yes, I think I had a prom there.   Michael Hingson ** 03:35 Well, and our last night of the honeymoon, we went to the restaurant. At the point HEPA to which was up on the top of a mountain. And I think one way you look in there you see Phoenix and the other way, I think a Scottsdale if I recall,   Paige Lewis ** 03:50 a Scottsdale or Paradise Valley. Yes.   Michael Hingson ** 03:53 And I think it was a restaurant called a different point of view, which was cute.   03:58 Yes, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 04:00 I've been there. My wife bought a lobster and she thought it would just kind of be a typical. So it ended up being a three pound lobster. And she didn't know what to do with it all.   Paige Lewis ** 04:10 Oh, my goodness. That's a lot of lobster was   Michael Hingson ** 04:12 a lot of lobster. But it was our honeymoon. So it was worth it. And the other thing is that that was when they made Caesar salad right at your table and actually created the dressing right at the table using rye eggs and everything's still the best dressing I've ever had.   Paige Lewis ** 04:27 Amazing, amazing. Well, I hope you were not there in the summer, because that can be brutal.   Michael Hingson ** 04:33 It was no Well, we got married on November 27 1982. So it would have been we'll see that was a Saturday. And so it would have been probably the well the third or the fourth that we went so of December so No it wasn't. It wasn't in the hot part or the hottest part.   Paige Lewis ** 04:57 That's good. That's actually a person Big time of year to beat. Yeah. Yeah, it   Michael Hingson ** 05:01 was great. We very much enjoyed our time there. So. So did you go to college in Arizona? Or did you go to college or what? I   Paige Lewis ** 05:10 did not stay in Arizona. I was 17 when I graduated high school, and I really, really, really wanted to leave Arizona. And I was very interested in getting a degree in advertising. And I'll tell you why. And it sounds silly now. But I was very determined and stubborn at that age. I always know. I know. I know, ask my mother she uses could not change my mind. So I was fascinated with how people described products. So if you looked at a box of cereal or a bottle of suntan lotion, how did they come up with the coffee? I was fascinated by how they would construct that, which seems very simple, but so I was really determined to find a good school and advertising. And one of them was the University of Texas at Austin. I also wanted a very traditional college college experience. I wanted the football I wanted to, you know, big Grecian looking buildings and grassy lawns and never thought I would like Texas, but fell in love fell in love with the campus. And so that is what I what I chose. In retrospect, it was way too big for me was 49,000. undergrad. I knew nobody. This is a this is a theme in my life is I put myself in situations where I don't know any anyone. It's uncomfortable. But I loved it. I did. I did enjoy it. I learned a lot. I had a minor in Japanese at that point, too. And after I graduated, I wanted to become conversationally fluent in Japanese. And surprisingly, in college, we didn't do a lot of speaking Japanese. It was a lot of fun and writing. Yeah. So I had an opportunity to go to Tokyo and work for one of the divisions of Estee Lauder, so cosmetics company. And some of you may remember the line prescriptives. Michael, I would not assume you would know this line. They had just opened in Japan. And so I got a job working in a department store selling makeup in Japanese. My Japanese was not very good. So it was trial by fire. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 07:37 my wife loved white linen. And when I worked in the World Trade Center, I discovered that there was an Estee Lauder second store in the tower one on the 46th floor. I think it was so little bit familiar with Estee Lauder and invaded the store often. Okay,   Paige Lewis ** 08:02 yes. So. So yeah, so I did that I knew nobody. And this was before the time of cell phones or even relatively affordable international phone plans. So I took two giant duffel bags, and my parents put me on a plane. And I showed up and they arranged for someone to meet me, a friend of a friend of a friend and I spent a year in Japan.   Michael Hingson ** 08:30 So why Japanese in the first place? Well, when I was   Paige Lewis ** 08:34 think I was a senior in high school, my high school turned into an international magnet program. And they offered what they thought were going to be the emerging important business languages of the world, which were Japanese, and Russian, in addition to what they already had French and Spanish. So I decided to Japanese my brother took Russian, I thought it would be handy no matter what I ended up doing. So that's why I went with it.   Michael Hingson ** 09:03 I took a year of Japanese in college as well. I did it was in graduate school. It was one year and we talked some but you're right. It was a lot of reading and writing. And I actually learned Japanese Braille, which was was kind of fun. I don't remember a lot of that now. But still, it was fascinating to you know, to take and people said it was simpler than Chinese and given everything I've learned I think that's probably very true. But I've spent time since in Japan when thunder dog our book was published. I was also published in Japanese. So in 2012 I went and spent two weeks over there and literally with the publisher of the book in Japan we traveled all around Japan took the bullet train from Tokyo to Hiroshima and all sorts of places in between which is a lot of fun.   Paige Lewis ** 09:53 Did you use any of your Japanese while you were there?   Michael Hingson ** 09:56 No, I didn't remember enough. It had been way too long. So, so I didn't didn't practice up enough to keep it going all that well.   Paige Lewis ** 10:06 I understand that 100% Yeah, but that's okay.   Michael Hingson ** 10:11 But I understood a lot about the customs and the people. And that was a big help as well.   Paige Lewis ** 10:16 Yes, absolutely.   Michael Hingson ** 10:18 So what did you do after a year in Japan?   Paige Lewis ** 10:23 Well, I came back. Yeah, it was a, it was a great growing experience. But it was challenging. And I missed, I missed America. So I came back. And I worked for a promotions company. And while I was there, the CEO introduced me one to Disney and to to his graduate school, which was an internationally focused MBA program. So I ended up going to Thunderbird. Some of you may have heard of it. It's the International Business School of International Management. It's now part of ASU and finished my International MBA studied more Japanese. And then at the end, when I was interviewing for jobs, there was a job at Disney. And I really thought I was going to do international business and work with Japanese companies. And you know, maybe Toyota or something like that. But this job at Disney came up. And I was fascinated by it. So luckily, I ended up getting it. It was in the home entertainment division of Disney, which was back then it was VHS tapes. You gotta remember those VHS? I do? Yes. The very, very beginning of DVD. So I took the job and I moved to LA and again, didn't didn't know anyone that my brother was there, but really didn't know anyone   Michael Hingson ** 12:01 and VHS and not beta. Yeah, that VHS had won   Paige Lewis ** 12:05 the war. So beta was gone. Yes. It was VHS. Yes. Thank you for remembering that   Michael Hingson ** 12:11 show. Your brother was in LA. He was in LA. Yes, it was he.   Paige Lewis ** 12:18 He went to school at Loyola Marymount to study Recording Arts. So he's a composer and he writes music for commercials. Okay. Yeah, he has a very cool job. Very successful.   Michael Hingson ** 12:33 So what did you do in home entertainment at Disney.   Paige Lewis ** 12:37 I started out in retail marketing, which means I was helping selling movies to the big brick and mortar retailers. So Walmart, Toys R Us, target all of those. And I did that for a few years. And then I moved into brand management, and was actually working on the strategy for selling some of the new releases. And I was there a couple of years and then a few of the Disney people moved over to DreamWorks. Everyone remembers DreamWorks. When DreamWorks started, Jeffrey Katzenberg went over there. And then a couple of people I knew from Disney, and they recruited me to come over to their home entertainment division, which was very small, very entrepreneurial, but a very exciting time to be there. As they were building the business and figuring out I got to work on track and the prince of Egypt and Gladiator Saving Private Ryan, a lot of those really great fun movies.   Michael Hingson ** 13:39 So that that kept you busy for a while.   Paige Lewis ** 13:44 And then I moved over to universal and spent 16 years at Universal Pictures and home entertainment. et   Michael Hingson ** 13:53 phone home.   Paige Lewis ** 13:56 Yes, exactly. Exactly. I didn't get to work on that movie. But I mainly worked on the family movies, so a lot of animated movies. Shrek continue with Shrek and Despicable Me. I actually worked on a lot of the Barbie movies, which was which was really fun. And I eventually worked my way up into to senior vice president which was my pinnacle, which was what I really wanted to achieve in my career. But then, as we talked about a little bit, some bad things happened at that point in my career,   Michael Hingson ** 14:34 what kinds of things happened that you want to talk about? Well,   Paige Lewis ** 14:40 I ended up in a very dangerous burnout situation. So I had been promoted to senior vice president. And soon after that a couple of major things happened in my life. My father died and then a couple of very close friends passed away So that sort of shifted how I approach life and what I thought about my priorities. At the same time, universal was having its biggest year ever. So it was the year of Jurassic World and the latest Fast and Furious movie. I think another Despicable Me It was, it was just a very, very busy year. And I noticed I started having these symptoms, so I was getting sick a lot. I was really irritable and cranky. People actually had to come mention to me that I was acting a little out of character. I was getting strange things like I had this rash on my face for no reason. And then, you know, I just ignored all this and kept, kept working because I was an achiever, and I just wanted to get the job done. So then I started having I had this pain, and I'll just say it on my butt on my right, but and it got so painful that I couldn't sit. And I thought, Okay, well, maybe a spider bit me or something. And then at one point, it got so bad that I couldn't I had to work from home, lying down. And at that point, a kind colleague said, you know, Paige, I think you might want to have that looked at. So I was like, alright, and you know, it was getting bigger and more and more painful. And so I went to my dermatologist, she took a look, she called in her colleagues to get a second opinion. And then they said, Alright, we've called the er, at the hospital next door, we need you to go there right now. So what I learned is that I had contracted Mersa, which is, yeah, an anti bot, antibiotic resistant staph infection. And it's so dangerous that if it gets into your bloodstream, it can kill you. So I was admitted to the hospital for a week, they gave me a very heavy duty antibiotic that works on this. It's so strong that it made my veins collapse. So they had to put in a PICC line. And it really, it was, you know, like they say, it was what it was my wake up call.   Michael Hingson ** 17:20 What year was this? That this was 2016. Okay, so that was your wake up call? That was   Paige Lewis ** 17:28 my wake up call. And then I went, and I had to take a month off of disability? Well,   Michael Hingson ** 17:34 certainly, that's understandable, given the severity of it, and so on. And what did you do her think about during that month, and then going forward?   Paige Lewis ** 17:45 Well, I realized, as I you know, wine there in the hospital, that something wasn't working, obviously. And I really, I really didn't understand how this happened. How did I get a staph infection on my butt. And I just, I just figured I really needed to make a change I wanted to live, I did realize that. And I wanted to get healthy. I mean, something was really, really out of whack. So this is what really did it for me. I came back in January. And this was the time when Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds had passed away. And I went into the meeting into a meeting. And this was the first meeting my first day back. And what was brought up was, you know, Debbie Reynolds just died. Do we have any movies we can put out and leverage this. And that just hit me as being so distasteful. And I realized, this is not the business I want to be in anymore. This doesn't fit. So about a week later, I went in, I quit. I quit my job, nothing lined up. No idea what was I was gonna do. But I knew it was the right thing to do. Yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 19:08 that, that just certainly seems like a pretty insensitive thing to say. I understand. Some people do that. But gee, when do you draw the line and recognize maybe it's a time to just let people mourn? I mean, look at Debbie Reynolds for such a long time, and I are going to do is try to promote you in the brand. T does that really make sense?   Paige Lewis ** 19:33 Yeah, it just it just seems a little gross to me. So I quit and then I realized that I needed to figure things out. So the antibiotics I realized, after doing a lot of research had completely wiped out all the good bacteria in my gut. And I learned that you have to have that good bacteria to stay healthy. So and I also was a diet coke addict, big time diet coke addict. And I learned that one Diet Coke can destroy your gut biome. So I quit. I quit Diet Coke, it was not easy. I will tell you. I don't know if you drink it. It's   Michael Hingson ** 20:18 no, I'm more of a water drinker. I got to say, Okay. I've never been that much of a soda drinker.   Paige Lewis ** 20:24 That's a lot better for you. Yeah. So I figured out my health. And then I started trying to figure out why this all happens.   Michael Hingson ** 20:33 Now, I was just gonna ask you what you decided about why it occurred? Well,   Paige Lewis ** 20:38 one, I learned a lot about burnout. And that stress can kill you. And that this staph infection was a literal sign, it was a literal pain in my butt that my work was a pain in my butt. And I needed I needed to find something different and, and after really thinking about things, I realized my values had shifted. So my values were no longer aligned with the work I was doing. And that caused a lot of friction, and disengagement, and stress. And so then I wanted to figure out, okay, all right, I understand that this job. Marketing movies isn't a good fit anymore. But what is, so I let curiosity kind of leaves me and I did some research. I found this great book, I don't know if you've heard of it. It's called What color's your parachute? It's been around forever, I think, in my 20s, forever. And so I picked it up again. And it had me really think about what am I good at doing? How do I use my brain? What really drives me? And I also did some work, figuring out what my new values were. And I realized, I really like the mentoring part of what I do at work. I like solving problems. And I like helping people rise to their full potential. So then I started looking into, well, do I want to become a therapist? I'm not sure I want to go back to school again for that long and spend all that money. So then I started talking to coaches, executive coaches, and I realized, well, they do a lot of what I think I want to do. And they also can give you specific direction, and steps to take. So unlike the therapist model, where it's just a lot of questions, you can actually draw upon your experience and share that to help people. And so So I actually, because every day, what I would do is I would get up and I would read, I would read articles, and I would just sort of follow the breadcrumbs. And I stumbled upon a woman who wrote a really great article, I reached out to her, she was a coach. And she was so motivating in that one conversation, that I ended up writing an article and ended up deciding I wanted to go get my coaching certificate. So this was this was end of 2017 into 2018. So I ended up getting my coaching certificate and started working with women so that they wouldn't end up like, like I was, I really don't don't, there was no reason I needed to hit that level of burnout. Tell   Michael Hingson ** 23:46 me? Well, first of all, a little bit about why do you think you actually contracted versus and why do you think that? Or how do you think that happened? Do you really know?   Paige Lewis ** 23:58 I think my immune system was so beaten down and compromised. That it happened. I don't know how it got there. I honestly don't know. I promise you I'm a clean person. I take showers. I know like wandering around rubbing myself and dirt. I just I just think, you know, there were there were signs leading up to it other smaller illnesses and my body fine was like, Okay, you're done. But I don't know, I don't know the source. Good question. Well, so   Michael Hingson ** 24:31 you went off and you started to study about being a coach and so on. What does it mean to get a coaching certificate? What's the process?   Paige Lewis ** 24:39 Oh, that's a good question. Well, there are lots of different coaching programs and the one I chose is based on human needs psychology and behavior. So I had been through a lot of leadership programs through my my days as a marketing executive. So I knew a lot of the traditional Leadership, procedures, methods, whatever you models, whatever you want to call them. So I really wanted to get into almost kind of going back to why I got into marketing, why people do what they do what's driving them. So I learned all about the six core needs and what motivates people and really had to get into their brains and change behaviors and habits. So it was 100 hours of training. I think I did it pretty quickly. I was motivated, I think I did in about four months, and then was and then was certified. And then there are all different types of coaching programs, some people do mindfulness route, some people just do a very traditional corporate route. So I wanted to kind of balance out what I already knew.   Michael Hingson ** 25:47 Well, so you went ahead and did that. And you got certified, and have been coaching ever since. I have, I've   Paige Lewis ** 25:56 been coaching for about six years, and also doing excuse me marketing consulting, because I like to keep my toe and in that part of the world also.   Michael Hingson ** 26:06 So what Tell me a little bit about the the coaching program or what you do, then how do you help people? And where do you where do you help people all over? Or where does that all come from?   Paige Lewis ** 26:21 Well, luckily, I do everything virtually. So I can help people no matter where they are. My specialty is helping women executives, I want to help them excel in their careers without impacting their well being. Someone once told me, when you become a coach, your message becomes your message. So clearly, yeah, my my story of burnout is something that really drives me and it's a passion, a passion of mine. So I typically work with women executives, who are director level all the way up to C suite. And they come to me one because they aren't loving their job anymore. They don't know why they want a career change. They're in some sort of toxic work environments and don't know how to manage it, they are experiencing signs of burnout, they don't have the tools or skills to deal with it, I help a lot of people who are wanting just to jump jump a level or two in their career. So helping them with executive presence and managing teams, a lot of your traditional leadership development skills. So I love it tremendously. And it fits really nicely with my values.   Michael Hingson ** 27:44 I had a conversation yesterday with two women who also are very heavily involved in leadership and, and coaching. But a lot of corporate leadership training, they have developed a program that they describe basically is, well the company is missing logic. And the program is based on polarity, they talk about the fact that everything is really about polarity, and like breathing is polarity exhaling and inhaling, you got to do them both. And whether you're dealing with work, or life and polarity, again, you've got to really understand that both are part of what your world ought to be. And so many people get stressed out because they don't really look at trying to balance polarity, which is really pretty fascinating. We had a great discussion about it.   Paige Lewis ** 28:42 That's an interesting way to think about it. I have stopped saying work life balance, and I call it work life harmony, because it's never equally balanced.   Michael Hingson ** 28:52 Right. But at the same time, what what Tracy and Michelle would say is that you need both poles. And it's a matter of finding how to, to have a well, I keep saying balance, but to have some sort of that making both poles work to help each other because one or the other isn't going to work.   Paige Lewis ** 29:19 That's that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I agree with them.   Michael Hingson ** 29:22 It's a lot of very fascinating discussion, but in your case. So you do that and you don't necessarily use those terms, but it sounds like you end up getting to the same place. So you've been doing that now. Six years. Yes,   Paige Lewis ** 29:36 that is true. Six years. It's gone quickly.   Michael Hingson ** 29:40 So you think you have now found a niche that's going to last a while?   Paige Lewis ** 29:46 I think so. We still have a long way to go and getting women to an equal playing field as men. Unfortunately it isn't. It is improving. But there are a lot of things that still Need to improve. So, for example, women experienced burnout much more than men 43% of women or executives experienced burnout men only 31%. And I think it just it has to do with the kind of silence responsibilities a lot of women take on, whether that's Child Care caring for elderly parents, it's taking more on at work, that's sort of outside the your job responsibility or your job description. And women also don't think that corporations are quite there yet. And having good strategies and good programs to have gender equity in the in the workplace. I mean, 92% of women don't believe that companies are kind of walking the talk in that area. So yeah, I think there will be a need for a while it would be my dream, if there isn't a need. For this, that means that women women are equal in the workplace in terms of opportunities and roles and pay. Yeah, that's a good piece of news. I have a good piece of news, though, that I just learned, sorry to interrupt you is that there was there were, you know, people would say for a really long time, and there were stats to back it up that women were afraid to negotiate for salary or promotions, it's actually changed. And women are just as likely, if not more, to negotiate for increased salary or promotion, whatever. So. So that's some good news. And a common belief that is now has now changed. And   Michael Hingson ** 31:42 should, by any standard, we haven't seen a lot of that yet, in the world of persons with disabilities, where we're still even though we're by any definition, the second largest minority, or maybe the largest minority will be the second because there are more women than men, although people keep saying women are the minority, but in physical sense, there are more women than men. So either way, you look at it disabilities as the second largest minority, but the most excluded from any of the conversations or any of the real involvement in the workforce, which is why we continue to face an unemployment rate in the 60 to 70% range among employable persons with disabilities, like, especially with blind people. And the reality is, it's fear, it's a lack of education. And it's not understanding that, just because we may do things in a different way, it doesn't mean that the technology and the tools that we need shouldn't be part of the cost of doing business. But yet, that's what happens. Those   Paige Lewis ** 32:49 are staggering numbers, Michael, but your company is doing a lot to help with that. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 32:54 accessiBe is doing a lot to help with that and is being pretty successful. And the number of people using the technology are are growing, or is growing, and excessive. He's working on some programs to really teach more people about Internet access and website development with access and accessibility. So hopefully, that will continue. And we'll be able to make more strides, but it is a thing that we face on a regular basis.   Paige Lewis ** 33:24 Yes, it is. So for   Michael Hingson ** 33:27 what you're doing and so on. You've talked a little bit about burnout, are there different kinds of burnout? And do you deal with them all the same way? How does that address get addressed?   Paige Lewis ** 33:39 Yeah, that's a great question. I think people generalize the term burnout and and the, you know, when someone is just stressed, they'll say I'm burned out that the actual technical definition of it from the World Health Organization is that burnout is chronic stress in the workplace that hasn't been successfully managed, which puts a lot of onus on on the person, right? If you haven't successfully managed it, the company's not really helping you set up any systems to help you with that you person has to have to deal with it. But   Michael Hingson ** 34:15 which is also I'd seems to be not totally fair either. Right?   Paige Lewis ** 34:19 Right. And there's not a lot of progress in that area. Everyone is going to be burned out at some point in time. Everyone, everyone's going to face it. But there are different types. There's physical burnout, which is you're tired, you're getting sick a lot like I was you're not moving around a lot. You've kind of forgotten to exercise or even stand up from your desk and those those signs can show up like headaches or just different physical things. And then there's emotional, which I also had, that can show up as being you're cranky, you're short tempered, you're impatient. and you're not spending time with the relationships that you know are strong. Yeah, just maybe a little bit of a change in your demeanor. Then there's there's mind, there's mind related burnout, which is, when you're kind of in that fight or flight mode, and you're spending a lot of time putting out fires at work, you're distracted. You can't focus. That's that type. And then the last one is burnout of the Spirit, which often can show up as being bored. So a lot of people get really bored or uninterested in their job or whatever is important to them, and they don't realize that it's burnout. And so that could be you're doing a lot of things at work that just really aren't aligned with what you do. Well, what you like doing. And so you just kind of just kind of check out.   Michael Hingson ** 35:59 Do you find, though, that people that are, that are in that situation? Oftentimes haven't really sat down and analyzed what they really want to do or analyzed? Am I really doing the right thing? And that contributes to that? Yeah, yeah.   Paige Lewis ** 36:17 100%, like, I didn't know, I had no idea. I just kept a lot of people, you know, they're on the treadmill. They just keep going every day. And it's rare that people stop and they reflect and they reassess. It's only when people get into a state of burnout, sadly, that they need to wake up and realize, okay, something isn't working. But there are always signals, they're always signals. And oftentimes, it's more than one one type of burnout that's hitting at the same time.   Michael Hingson ** 36:50 But you just you distinguish between emotional, mind and spiritual, if you will, they're they're all three different even though in one sense, it seems like they're all sort of mental in one way.   Paige Lewis ** 37:03 They are sort of mental in one way, but they come out in different ways. And they the route of them is different. So there are two main ways to, to sort of manage burnout, the traditional way that everyone thinks is how you, you manage burnout, unfortunately, this is what companies kind of latch on to is just go take some time off, go to a spa, get a massage, and that'll cure everything. This self care really only works for the body and the emotional burnout. Because that's you're just exhausted, those two are fall under exhaustion. And with that, you actually do need to take a timeout, and take care of yourself. You only need 15 minutes, but it could be you know, take a walk, walk away from your computer, or your phone, don't take your phone with you on your walk. You know, just leave it alone. Don't let anyone interrupt you. Call call a friend, just do something that's enjoyable for you that is, will reboot your system. For the mind in the spirit burnout, which you know, is you're just distracted and you're or you're bored. Or you're in fight or flight mode, you actually are having cynical detachment. So, okay, yeah, it's different. So you so self care actually does not work. Because when you're in this space, you're focused too much inward, and on yourself, and you've lost perspective. So what you do when you have that type of burnout is you need to clarify things. And it could be clarifying your role. So role clarity, write down the three to four most important things in your job. And then ask yourself are you spending time on the high value activities, because you may not be the other. There are three parts of this. The second one is relational clarity. So you may have lost perspective about other people in your life. So a way to break yourself out of this is write a note of thanks to someone, maybe someone on your team, remind yourself that you are not alone and all this. And then the last one is perspective, clarity. So a lot of people just completely lost perspective. So go do something totally different. Go watch a or listen to a comedy video. Call your mom and ask about you know, bring up an old memory just something that reminds you that work isn't everything because these two types mind and spirit burnout, as these are a lot of the workaholics too, and they keep working, working, working and they've just lost complete perspective about everything else in the world.   Michael Hingson ** 39:55 One of the things that I realized during In the pandemic is that although, on September 11, I escaped and wasn't afraid. And I knew why I wasn't afraid, which is that I prepared and knew what to do in the case of an emergency. And as I now say, that created a mindset. But what I realized is that, the fact is, we can control fear, and we can control a lot of what we do. But we have to be mindful. And we really need to keep things in perspective. And one of the best ways to do that is to be introspective in our lives. And really practice that, until it gets to the point of being a habit, and you develop that whole introspective and self analytical muscle. And I, so we're writing a book about all of that. And we're going to, I'm going to, it'll be out next year, and we're going to talk about how to control fear and not let it as I would say, blind you or paralyze you or overwhelm you, but how do we get people to start to be more introspective in their lives and in what they do, and recognize that that's an extremely valuable thing to do.   Paige Lewis ** 41:08 You make a really, really good point. I think a lot of it like, to your point about habits, a lot of us have, you know, that inner critic, who is just saying, you know, you're not good at this, you shouldn't try to do this. You always done it this way. If you can take yourself out of that, and almost become an observer. And look at your thoughts and what how you talk to yourself as just another person, you can even name it, that kind of helps you take yourself out of it so that you can change your habits. Because a lot of the what we tell ourselves are just habits. They're not even true anymore. They're based on beliefs that you you made up a long, long time ago and had value back then. But they're not even true anymore. So I think we just need to be aware and stop ourselves. And remind ourselves, when we're thinking things, you ask yourself, Is this really true? Or is this just the habit?   Michael Hingson ** 42:14 Good point. And I also learned that along the way, I always used to say, and I still do this, but I record presentations that I give, so I can go back and listen to them. And I always say that, I love to do that. Because I'm my own worst critic, I'm nobody's going to be as hard on me as I am. And I learned, that's the wrong thing to say. And that's the wrong way to approach it. Because in reality, even teachers can't teach me they can present me with information. But ultimately, I have to teach myself. And in fact, it's not that I'm my own. I'm my own worst critic. I'm my own best teacher. And if I turn it around and use that terminology, then it becomes more of a positive process, to look at things and think about them and teach yourself even when something doesn't go well. And even when it does go well. What can I better learn to even make it go better next time. I'm my own best teacher is such a more positive thing to say.   Paige Lewis ** 43:19 I love how you reframe that, that's a great way to look at it. And, and also, you know, we talked ourselves worse than we would talk to our friends. Yeah. Which is just crazy.   Michael Hingson ** 43:32 In reality, we should talk to ourselves and really get better at thinking about things and saying, Okay, well, how do I deal with it? Don't hide from it. And no matter what it is, allow yourself to teach yourself how to deal with it.   Paige Lewis ** 43:50 And it's practice it. And then it will become a habit. Yeah. And just like we talked down to ourselves and criticize ourselves. It's just the habit. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 44:05 And it is a habit that we can break.   Paige Lewis ** 44:08 Absolutely. And it's just practice. It's just practice, and it's micro micro steps. You don't have to get it perfect the first time. And we forget, you know, we're not supposed to be perfect beings. We're supposed to be in this world to try new things and learn from them. And we just are so hard on ourselves that we have to be perfect at every single thing we do. And oftentimes, other people aren't even paying attention. And they forget about it   Michael Hingson ** 44:38 much more quickly than we do. And yes, there's a lesson there too.   Paige Lewis ** 44:42 Yes, and I always I always tell my clients like when they're all worked up about something or ruminating and countless something go, Well, this really matter. In two weeks. Will this matter in three months in a year? No. No one will remember you probably won't ever remember To your point, learn from it, and just let it go. It's hard, it's practice, I get it. But just to put things in perspective, it usually is not as important as we think.   Michael Hingson ** 45:12 And if it really affects you, and you're thinking about it a lot, then take a step back, as you said, and think about why is this affecting me so much? It's appropriate to do that. It's appropriate to help to understand you better.   Paige Lewis ** 45:31 Yes. And I'll give you a tip that I give my clients that I actually learned from my dad, for people who ruminate a lot of worry a lot. Actually schedule worry time in your day. And don't do it right before bed? No, no, because then you won't sleep well, but schedule it at a time. Have no distractions, sit there for 20 minutes and worry about everything. And you have to sit there even if you've run out of things to worry make it up like, my my sock is starting to unravel, you know, stupid things. My dog is panting more than usual. Whatever it is,   Michael Hingson ** 46:14 I can't figure out anything to worry about. I'm worried about that. Right? Exactly.   Paige Lewis ** 46:18 I'm worried about that I have to sit here. And Paige said I can't move for 20 minutes. So you do that every day. And what'll end up happening is one, you'll realize you don't really have that much to worry about to you train yourself that you can only worry during a certain period of time. So you're not spending your whole day worrying and ruining your day. And if you start thinking about something out, or you're worried time you say, okay, Paige, no, you're scheduled to worry about that at 10am, from 10am to 1020. And it's remarkable how people improve with the ruminating and the worrying.   Michael Hingson ** 46:56 So what mostly do you coach about what what is your specialty, if you will, overall,   Paige Lewis ** 47:01 my specialty is helping women leaders excel in their careers without impacting their well being. So a lot of that is what we've talked about today, how to handle burnout, how to manage your thoughts, how to improve your leadership skills. You know, I mainly work with pretty senior women who don't have anyone else to talk to, and this is this is a theme that I've come across a lot, and I felt myself is a lot of women leaders don't think that they have people they can talk to at their companies or within their industries.   Michael Hingson ** 47:44 Yeah, that was what I was gonna get to. Is it true that they don't, or they just don't think they do have people to talk to?   Paige Lewis ** 47:54 Well, a lot of times, it's difficult to talk to people, I do work with an amazing organization called chief. And they're a private network for women. But what they've done is they have put together peer based groups, they curate these groups of women at similar points in their career, similar levels, so that they have a safe space of peers from whom they can learn, get different perspectives. Because I, when I was first, you know, talking with Chief about coming on, as one of their first coaches, I said, if this had existed when I was at Universal, and burning out, I would not have burned out, because a lot of a lot of the struggle is feeling like you're the only one and not having the tools and the skills to manage through it.   Michael Hingson ** 48:46 And a lot of times we don't look for people to talk with, because we just feel that we're an island in the middle. And oh, I don't want to talk to people who work for me because that that wouldn't be good. I mean, there are just so many excuses that we can come up with.   Paige Lewis ** 49:05 Yeah, or you're embarrassed and you are you're embarrassed. You know, I'm the only one who's dealing with this, I must be crazy. Imposter Syndrome comes in a lot. So, no, almost everyone is going through the same things. And it's just really reassuring and helpful to know that other people are going through it, and can share some ways that they have managed it. It's these these meetings are so powerful, I can't even tell you they really, really are amazing.   Michael Hingson ** 49:39 What do you say to people who are thinking of a career change or who don't know where to start? You know, because I'm sure that comes up and what you do?   Paige Lewis ** 49:48 It does and it can be really scary. And I think I think people don't give themselves enough credit. What what helps most of my clients and help me is having a having a mindset of curiosity. Because I know for a fact that people have transferable skills, it's just getting curious and following the breadcrumbs to find out what else is out there that aligns with my values that motivates me. And that uses my skill set I can do. So one, one of the exercises I have people do is to think about sample some activity that they're doing. It doesn't have to be related to work where they are completely what you would say in flow, meaning they lose track of time they forget to eat, they know that they're kicking ass and what they're doing. And they are loving it. So it could be for example, gardening. Who knows it could be gardening. And so then what I asked them to do is, okay, really, really dissect what you're doing. What, like, how are you using your brain? Maybe you are researching the different kinds of plants that work in your soil, maybe you are laying out where they go, maybe you are looking at the different seasons? And what works best and what time of year? And then how are you interacting with people? are you collaborating with the you know, the gardener at the nursery? Are you talking with friends who have who've made great gardens? And then what skills are you using, researching, maybe strategizing, maybe organizing, and then what you'll end up seeing, and it's something totally unrelated to your job is here, all the things? And the way here are all the different ways of thinking parallel the skills I use, and here's what I love doing, and you find this intersection. And then you use your curiosity to find out okay, what industries are interesting, and what are the jobs? You reach out to people, it's curiosity. If you lean into curiosity, you cannot go wrong. And   Michael Hingson ** 52:16 all too often, we don't.   Paige Lewis ** 52:21 Correct, we kind of block ourselves. And   Michael Hingson ** 52:24 many times were discouraged from it. I mentioned earlier, the whole concept of if I've been talking to people this morning about people with disabilities, and then somebody said, What can we better do to improve the world for people with disabilities, and my response was, include us in the conversation and so many times, I can be somewhere and when when I went to my wife was live with her, she was in a wheelchair, and people would come with their children, and we'd be in a store, whatever. And a child would ask a question and say, I want to go meet that person, I want to go look at that wheelchair. And the mother would say no, don't do that. They might not like it, or that dog might bite you. And we we we discourage curiosity, especially in children, who are the most curious people of all? Mm hmm.   Paige Lewis ** 53:12 Yes. And wouldn't it be great if we could bottle that curiosity and take it with us? Our whole lives? Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 53:20 It's important to do that. I think I think you use the term superpower, everybody has a superpower? Or how do you how do you teach people to to find their superpower? What does that mean?   Paige Lewis ** 53:34 Yes, this is this is an important piece of finding a career that works for you. And so if you think about a Venn diagram, I'm a big fan of Venn diagrams, there are three components. So they're, they're your values, you have to get really clear on what your values are, what you are good at doing and what you love doing. So when what you love doing intersects with your values, you have a passion for what you're doing. So let's say your values are adventure, and learn learning and experiencing new cultures, you may be passionate about traveling. So you can kind of see how those work. Now, when your values connect with what you're good at doing, you're going to be engaged. So if you're really connected and aligned with your values at what you're doing for work, you'll be engaged, you'll be interested, you'll be connected, you'll still be excited to go in every day and do your job. And then what you what you love doing and what you're good at doing intersect. And I've mentioned this a little bit for you're in flow. So that's when you just are just completely happy because you're doing what you love and you know you're doing your best at it. So the superpower comes in when those three things connect, when your values, what you're good at doing and what you love doing connect. And I truly believe everyone can figure this out. Once you know that, you can find a career that meets that 80% of the time, if you have that, you will be happy, you'll be happy in what you're doing. So it's a little bit like the Japanese term of ek guy, which is finding your purpose. I don't know if you're familiar with that. Remember that. And that actually has been attributed to longer life. So this idea of IKI guy or finding your superpower, and living to that will make you happier. But it also helps extend your life because you're getting up every day, and you're doing what you love doing and what you're good at doing.   Michael Hingson ** 55:56 And I find that when people are happy, they self motivate themselves. And in general, they have better days. Yes,   Paige Lewis ** 56:06 yes. And the bad days can roll off a little easier. Yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 56:11 You need to learn to live more like dogs, you know, and live in the moment and forget all the other things. And there are so many things we can't control. And we worry about them. Dogs don't   Paige Lewis ** 56:20 write, I would like to come back as a dog. Dogs have the best lives. And I think we we also have this culture of busyness being the new status quo. And we forget that we're human beings and not human doings. And I think that's where people get in trouble.   Michael Hingson ** 56:44 We so greatly overanalyze everything and not necessarily in the right way. And again, as we talked about, we don't step back and really look at it, which is part of the problem.   56:55 Yes, yes.   Michael Hingson ** 56:58 Have you written a book or anything about all of this?   Paige Lewis ** 57:01 I've written some articles. I have not written a book. I have not written a book? Well, if   Michael Hingson ** 57:06 you do, you'll have to let us know.   Paige Lewis ** 57:08 I will, I will do that. Well, if people   Michael Hingson ** 57:11 want to reach out and get in touch with you, maybe explore using your services and skills. How do they do that?   Paige Lewis ** 57:19 Well, you can reach out via my website, which is page one coaching.com. And it's spelled out I'll spell it. It's P a i g e o n e. c o a c h i n g.com. And you can also find me on LinkedIn at Paige Lewis Sanford, my new married name, yeah, you can. Yeah, you can also email me at page at patreon coaching.com.   Michael Hingson ** 57:44 So what is your husband do?   Paige Lewis ** 57:45 He is a naturopathic doctor. Oh, so he focuses on root cause? And getting to you know, the bottom of what is causing your symptoms and, and managing that and addressing that versus just throwing things like antibiotics all the time, which, you know, don't always work out. Not very good for you overall, long term. No.   Michael Hingson ** 58:10 And ultimately, we have to take a little bit more mental control over ourselves. And that's another whole story. Yes,   Paige Lewis ** 58:20 I totally agree with that. Well, gee,   Michael Hingson ** 58:21 maybe we should explore getting him to come on and chat sometime. Oh,   Paige Lewis ** 58:25 I think he would love it.   Michael Hingson ** 58:26 I'll leave that to you to set up. Yeah. I want I want to thank you for being here. And I know, you've given us a lot of really wonderful ideas. And I'm very grateful for you being here. I'm glad we had the opportunity to meet and hopefully we will do more of this anytime you want to come back on. You just need to let us know.   Paige Lewis ** 58:46 Right? I would love it. Thank you for having me. It's been great talking with you.   Michael Hingson ** 58:51 Well, this has been fun and I hope that you enjoyed it listening out there. Reach out to Paige she I'm sure we'd love to hear from you and if she can help you in any of the decisions that you need to make. That's what coaches do. So reach out to Paige. You are also always welcome to reach out to me, we'd love to get your thoughts on what you heard today. You can email me at Michael M i c h a e l h i at accessibe A c c e s s i b e.com Or go to our podcast page www dot Michael hingson.com/podcast and Michael Hingson is m i c h a e l h i n g s o n.com/podcast. Of course as we asked and I really appreciate y'all doing it, please give us a five star rating wherever you're listening to us. We love your ratings. We appreciate your reviews, and any thoughts that you have and for all of you listening and Paige, as we sort of alluded to just now if you know of anyone else who would be a good guest for unstoppable mindset. love to have you let us know. We're always looking for guests. I believe everyone has a story to tell and this is As a way to get the opportunity to tell your story and help us all learn that we're more unstoppable than we think we are. So again, Paige, I want to just thank you one last time. Really appreciate you being here and hope that you had fun.   Paige Lewis ** 1:00:14 I did. Thank you so much.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:20 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. 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In recent years, Diversity along with Equity and Inclusion have emerged as key elements of organisational and people strategy. It is now essentially a “taken for granted” assumption that DEI initiatives are a good thing and that they in turn play an important role in reducing bias and inequality in the workplace. But is this really the case?To explore this further I am delighted to be joined today by Professor Karin Hellerstedt and Professor Timur Uman, both of Jönköping International Business School in Sweden, who were co-authors with Karl Wennberg of Linkoping University of a recent paper published in Academy of Management Perspectives.About our guests...Karin Hellerstedt is a Senior Associate Professor at Jönköping International Business School.Karin has conducted research on entrepreneurship in knowledge intensive industries, and on how firms and teams are formed and develop over time.She has been involved in several research projects dealing with different aspects of entrepreneurship such as academic, rural and knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. Karin Hellerstedt has written and published several research reports and published in international peer review journals.Her current research centers around ownership transitions and the succession of privately held businesses. Timur Uman is a Professor in Accounting and Control at Jönköping International Business School.Timur's research deals with corporate governance and management control in stock listed corporation, hybrid and public organizations and new ventures. His work has been published in premier journals in Business Administration such as Corporate Governance: An International Review, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of World Business and Long-Range Planning among others. Prior to joining academia Timur worked in executive positions in Latvian and German companies dealing with financial management and planning.The paper discussed in the interview is available here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4308670 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Kate Baucherel shares her journey from an interest in technology to specialising in blockchain and cryptocurrency. She shares her early fascination with tech, transitioning from an accountant to a tech expert, and eventually authoring books, including fiction that integrate her tech knowledge.Kate helps newbies get started with cryptocurrency and blockchain in layman's terms, addressing misconceptions and highlighting the practical applications of these technologies in various sectors beyond finance, such as supply chain management and decision auditing. The conversation touches on the future integration of blockchain into everyday life, the importance of understanding the technology for professionals, and the potential of central bank digital currencies.Kate's aspiration for a superpower that abolishes train fares and journey times for a day underscores her value for face-to-face interactions despite appreciating the virtual world's opportunities.Chapters:00:00 Introduction to the Episode01:22 Cryptocurrency: The New Digital Currency01:41 Introducing Kate: A Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Expert02:46 Kate's Journey: From Accountant to Blockchain Expert07:45 The Impact of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency on the World09:46 Understanding Cryptocurrency and Its Value21:58 The Future of Banking and Blockchain Technology25:49 Advice for Technology Professionals on Crypto36:32 Exploring the Book: A Guide to Cryptocurrency and Blockchain38:20 Closing Thoughts and ResourcesKate Baucherel (Crypto Expert)Kate Baucherel BA(Hons) FCMA CGMA is an author, speaker and consultant specialising in emerging technologies, with a focus on the use of blockchain and cryptocurrency. She consults with clients from startup and scaleup businesses to blue chip multinationals and is a member of The Fintech & Payments Advisory Network and several Web3 consulting groups. Kate also teaches part time at the University of Teesside in both the International Business School and the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies. Her subjects include fintech, blockchain and cryptocurrency, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence and emerging tech in enterprise.Kate graduated in business from Newcastle University and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Kate has held senior technical and financial roles in businesses across multiple sectors including utilities, construction, manufacturing, leisure and software, leading several enterprises through their start-up and growth phases.Her books include Getting Started with Cryptocurrency: An introduction to digital assets and blockchain (BCS Publishing, 2024), Blockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (BEP/Harvard 2020), What's Hot in Blockchain and Crypto (2020, 2021) and the SimCavalier series of cybercrime thrillers. She has spoken at events across the world and online, as keynote, panellist, mentor and chair, and regularly appears on BBC radio as a cryptocurrency expert.Links:https://www.linkedin.com/in/katebaucherel/https://www.facebook.com/GaliaDigitalhttps://twitter.com/KateBaucherelhttps://instagram.com/KateBaucherel (but more fiction stuff)https://galiadigital.co.uk/blog-and-news/Books:Getting Started with Cryptocurrency: An introduction to digital assets and blockchain https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CNLWV4JDBlockchain Hurricane: Origins, Applications and Future of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blockchain-Hurricane-Kate-Baucherel/dp/1951527364The SimCavalier series https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G8QY1HZ⚡️ In each episode, Paddy Dhanda deep dives into a new human Superpower to help you thrive in the age of AI.

8 april. De senaste åren har sysselsättningsgraden bland utlandsfödda ökat. Vad beror det på och vad betyder det? Hör Andreas Ericson diskutera med Johan Eklund, professor i nationalekonomi vid Jönköping International Business School, och Mats Hammarstedt, professor i nationalekonomi vid Linnéuniversitetet.

Under hösten och vintern visades utställningen Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion på Design Museum i London. Den var ett samarbete med British Fashion Council vars satsning NewGen firade trettio år. NewGen är – ett onekligen framgångsrikt – initiativ som stöder unga designtalanger och vars målsättning är att hjälpa dem bygga upp globala  premiummodemärken. Lee Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Christopher Raeburn, Erdem, Peter Pilotto, Jonathan Saunders, Henry Holland, Kim Jones, J.W. Anderson, Mary Katrantzou, Molly Goddard, Roksanda, Simone Rocha, Priya Ahluwalia, Saul Nash, Grace Wales Bonner, Bianca Saunders är bara några designers som stöttats av NewGen genom åren. Hur kommer det sig att London varit så bra på att få fram unga nya designers? Och hur hänger kreativitet, mångfald och städer ihop?I dagens avsnitt vänder vi blicken mot kultursidan av mode. I en tid då så mycket kring mode bara handlar om shopping, hur kan mode bli intressant igen?  Vi träffar Sarah Mower, mångårig kritikchef på Vogue.com, Ambassador for Emerging Talent vid British Fashion Council och ordförande för NewGen. Hon var också curator för utställningen Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion. Vi pratar också med Charlotta Mellander, professor i nationalekonomi vid Jönköping International Business School och expert på städer, kreativitet och regional utveckling. Jordana Guimaraes, grundare till FashinNovation , berättar hur hennes företag arbetar aktivt mot olika städer och länder för att med kombinationen mode och tech få fart på hållbarhetsutvecklingen. Här utlovas samtal om designskolor, om en mångfald som berikar, om unga stjärnskott, om att vända det ohållbara ryggen, om vad staden och staten gör och inte gör för att stötta mode, om städers livskraft och om platsers önskan att profilera sig. Programmet leds av Jenny Lantz, docent i företagsekonomi med inriktning på kulturekonomi vid Handelshögskolan i Stockholm. Inslaget med Jordana Guimares görs av modejournalisten Sofia Hedström de Leo. Tack för att du lyssnar! Följ oss gärna på Instagram.

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Andy Molinsky, a distinguished professor at Brandeis University's International Business School. With a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and a master's in psychology from Harvard University, Andy is renowned for his expertise in cross-cultural communication and global workplace dynamics. His research and writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal and his latest book Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce: Build Rapport, Camaraderie, and Optimal Performance No Matter the Time Zone. Key Takeaways Join Andy Molinsky as he navigates the complexities of global relationships, emphasizing the pivotal role of cultural understanding in fostering effective collaboration across time zones. Through genuine curiosity and respect for cultural differences, individuals can transcend barriers and cultivate authentic connections. Andy highlights the importance of making informed first impressions, navigating small talk nuances, and addressing hidden biases to foster mutual understanding. By integrating cultural awareness into business practices, particularly in distributed teams, organizations can promote inclusivity and harness the power of diverse perspectives for enhanced collaboration and resilience in today's globalized world. More About Andy Molinsky: Connect with Andy on LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/andymolinsky/ Visit his Website - andymolinsky.com/ Grab a copy of Forging Bonds in a Global Workforce: Build Rapport, Camaraderie, and Optimal Performance No Matter the Time Zone - amzn.to/3Pl7xZX  

SEGMENT‌ ‌1 with Guy Kawasaki,‌ ‌‌starting‌ ‌at‌ ‌0:00‌:‌ ‌ ‌As we get more experienced in our careers, some of us give up on truly making a difference in our work and other people's lives. That has never happened to my next guest. He's here to help us transform our lives and make a difference.Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast. He was the chief evangelist of Apple and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. His new book is called Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference.SEGMENT‌ ‌2 with Andy Molinsky,‌ ‌‌starting‌ ‌at 17:45‌:‌ ‌ At a time when people of different cultures around the world seem less and less united and are seemingly working against each other, my next guest says that building relationships across cultures is now critical for business success.Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School. Andy helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. He is the author of the book, FORGING BONDS IN A GLOBAL WORKFORCE: Build Rapport, Camaraderie, and Optimal Performance No Matter the Time Zone.--Visit Barry's Blog for complete show notes.

In this episode of the Value Creators Podcast, dive deep into the classic battle between market-driven innovation and centrally planned industrial policy with our esteemed guest, Christian Sandstrom, a leading voice for individualism and free-market solutions and author and professor at Jönköping International Business School and the Ratio Institute in Sweden.In this conversation, we unpack the government's grand “moonshots” and “missions” which claim to solve societal challenges but always miss the mark due to bureaucratic inefficiency and a central planning approach that negates the potential of market dynamics.Learn why centralized missions such as the cancer moonshot or the war on homelessness can become drains on public funds while failing to deliver meaningful progress, and the importance of fostering an entrepreneurial society where markets create value and select the best solutions organically, rather than imposing 'one-size-fits-all' government-led directives.This episode is a treasure trove for anyone interested in the interplay between innovation, the economy, policy, and technological advancement! Christian Sandstrom's Books:Moonshots and the New Industrial PolicyQuestioning the Entrepreneurial StateEpisodes Mentioned: Christian Sandström: Why Governments Can't Act Entrepreneurially

Zong Qinghou, the founder and chairman of Hangzhou Wahaha Group, China's leading beverage manufacturer, passed away on Sunday at the age of 79.中国领先的饮料制造商杭州娃哈哈集团创始人兼董事长宗庆后于周日去世，享年79岁。As one of the most respected representatives of China's first generation of entrepreneurs since the country embarked on reform and opening-up in 1978, Zong's down-to-earth style and innovative spirit greatly impressed the public.作为1978年改革开放以来中国第一代企业家中最受尊敬的代表之一，宗庆后的脚踏实地的作风和创新精神给世人留下了深刻的印象。Experts said Zong's rags-to-riches life story will surely inspire more Chinese entrepreneurs to focus on the real economy and run their businesses in a pragmatic and steady manner.专家表示，宗庆后白手起家的人生故事必将激励更多中国企业家聚焦实体经济，务实稳健地经营企业。Born in 1945 in Suqian, Jiangsu province, Zong took over a small grocery store at a school in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, in 1987, and worked as a distributor of soft drinks and popsicles for children.宗庆后1945年出生于江苏宿迁，1987年接管了浙江杭州一所学校的一家小杂货店，从事儿童软饮料和冰棍经销。In 1989, he founded Hangzhou Wahaha Nutritional Food Factory, which became Hangzhou Wahaha Group two years later after the acquisition of a local canned food factory on the verge of bankruptcy.1989年，他创办了杭州娃哈哈营养食品厂，两年后收购了当地一家濒临破产的罐头厂，成为杭州娃哈哈集团。In 1996, Zong launched Wahaha AD calcium milk, which became a great hit with Chinese consumers.1996年，宗庆后推出娃哈哈AD钙奶，受到中国消费者的欢迎。The company's products now cover more than 200 categories, including purified water, milk and yogurt drinks, carbonated drinks, fruit and vegetable juice, tea and coffee drinks, with its sales revenue reaching 51.2 billion yuan ($7.1 billion) in 2022. It has nearly 30,000 employees and 81 production bases nationwide.该公司产品目前涵盖纯净水、牛奶及酸奶饮料、碳酸饮料、果蔬汁、茶和咖啡饮料等200多个品类，2022年销售收入达到512亿元人民币。全国81个生产基地，雇佣 3万名员工。As one of the most iconic figures in Chinese business history, Zong was ranked as the country's richest person in 2010, 2012 and 2013 by business magazine Forbes.作为中国商业史上最具标志性的人物之一，宗庆后在2010年、2012年和2013年先后被商业杂志《福布斯》评为中国首富。However, Zong led a simple and thrifty life. He lived frugally, and it was common to see him dressed in a white shirt and black cloth shoes. He once said, "I am an ordinary person, but luckily I was born in such an era." He said that Wahaha would not exist without reform and opening-up.然而，宗庆后却过着简朴节俭的生活。他生活俭朴，经常看到他穿着白衬衫和黑布鞋。他曾说过：“我是一个普通人，但幸运的是我出生在这样一个时代，没有改革开放就没有娃哈哈。“He said that Chinese entrepreneurs should fulfill their social responsibilities, and create wealth for the people, adding that they should create more employment opportunities and participate in public welfare activities, contributing to the country's economic and social development.他表示，中国企业家要履行社会责任，为人民创造财富，创造更多就业机会，参与公益活动，为国家经济社会发展作出贡献。Zong was a deputy to the 10th, 11th and 12th National People's Congress, China's top legislature.宗庆后是中国最高立法机关第十届、第十一届和第十二届全国人民代表大会代表。Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said, "As a representative of the first generation of Chinese entrepreneurs after the start of reform and opening-up, Zong always focused on the real economy and was not involved in finance and property."浙江大学国际商学院数字经济与金融创新研究中心联席主任盘和林表示：“作为改革开放后第一代中国企业家的代表，宗庆后始终关注实体经济，不涉足金融、地产。”Zong turned a small drinks business into a beverage conglomerate, and his down-to-earth entrepreneurial spirit, perseverance and courage to face difficulties will encourage further generations of Chinese entrepreneurs to expand their businesses step by step, Pan said.宗庆后将一家小型饮料企业发展成为饮料集团，他脚踏实地的创业精神、坚忍不拔的毅力和迎难而上的勇气，将激励一代又一代的中国企业家一步步拓展事业。Guo Tao, deputy head of the China Electronic Commerce Expert Service Center, said Zong's deep understanding and insightfulness regarding the real economy not only laid a solid foundation for the company's development, but also made a contribution to the development of China's manufacturing sector. Moreover, Zong attached great importance to technological innovation, which was conducive to ensuring the quality and diversity of Wahaha's products in a highly competitive market, and providing strong impetus to the company's sustainable growth, Guo said. "Zong's management philosophy has set an example for the development of China's private economy."中国电子商务专家服务中心副主任郭涛认为，宗庆后对实体经济的深刻理解和洞察不仅为公司的发展奠定了坚实的基础，也为中国制造业的发展做出了贡献。此外，他高度重视技术创新，有利于在激烈的市场竞争中保证娃哈哈产品的质量和多样性，为公司的可持续发展提供强劲动力，宗庆后的管理理念为中国民营经济的发展树立了榜样。rags-to-richesadj. 白手起家的down-to-earthadj. 脚踏实地的；接地气的

The emergence of text-to-video artificial intelligence technology has the potential to revolutionize advertising, movie trailers and short video industries, as Sora, a new AI model developed by US-based AI research company OpenAI — creator of chatbot ChatGPT — has recently become a global sensation, experts said.美国人工智能研究公司OpenAI，即聊天机器人ChatGPT的创建者，开发的新人工智能模型Sora最近引起了全球轰动。对此，专家表示文生视频人工智能技术的出现有可能彻底改变广告、电影预告片和短视频行业。They added the multimodal large language model, which possesses the ability to generate high-resolution video clips based on given text prompts, is an undeniable future development direction for generative AI, and will inject strong impetus into a new round of industrial development.专家补充道，多模态大语言模型能根据给定的文本提示生成高分辨率视频片段。不可否认，这将是生成式人工智能未来的发展方向，会为新一轮产业发展注入强劲动力。Chinese tech firms should pool more resources into accumulating more training data, improving computing capacities and cultivating talent in the field of AI-powered video generation models, said industry observers.行业观察人士表示，中国科技公司应集中更多资源来积累更多训练数据、提高计算能力并培养人工智能视频生成模型领域的人才。AI-related stocks continued to rally in the A-share market, with Chinese cloud video solution providers Hangzhou Arcvideo Technology Co Ltd and BizConf Telecom Co Ltd seeing their shares surge by the daily limit of 20 percent on the Shanghai bourse's STAR Market on Tuesday.A股市场人工智能相关股票继续上涨，中国云视频解决方案提供商杭州虹视科技有限公司和会畅通讯有限公司的股价周二在上海证券交易所科创板涨停，涨幅达20%。Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to user prompts, OpenAI said. It is able to generate complex scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and accurate details of the subject and background. The model understands not only what the user has asked for in the prompt, but also how those things exist in the physical world.OpenAI表示，Sora可以生成长达一分钟的视频，能按照用户输入的提示产出视频并确保视频质量。它能够生成包含多个角色、特定类型的运动的复杂场景，并能准确展示主体和背景的细节。该模型不仅能理解用户在提示中提出的要求，还了解这些东西在物理世界中的存在方式。Liu Xingliang, director of the Beijing-based Data Center of China Internet, a research institute specializing in the internet industry, said Sora is undoubtedly a major breakthrough for AI.专门研究互联网行业的研究机构中国互联网数据中心主任刘兴亮表示，Sora无疑是人工智能的重大突破。"It not only demonstrates AI's advanced ability to understand and create complex visual content, but also brings about unprecedented opportunities and challenges for content creation, entertainment and film and television production industries. The video-generation model will help video content creators to turn their ideas into reality at a faster speed and at a lower cost, and offer audiences richer and more diverse visual experiences," Liu said, adding that AI is expected to play a more important role in all aspects of human lives in the future.刘兴亮表示，Sora不仅展示了人工智能理解和创建复杂视觉内容的先进能力，也为内容创作、娱乐和影视制作行业带来了前所未有的机遇和挑战。视频生成模型将帮助视频内容创作者转变想法，人工智能未来有望在人类生活的各个方面发挥更重要的作用。He said with advancements in AI technology, traditional film and TV production processes along with related business models will likely be reshaped, but it does not necessarily mean the demise of legacy industries, and more efforts are needed to explore new artistic forms and expression methods by integrating AI technology.他表示，随着人工智能技术的进步，传统影视制作流程以及相关商业模式可能会被重塑，但这并不一定意味着传统产业的消亡，还需要更多努力实现人工智能技术与已有技术融合，探索新的艺术形式和表现方式。Chinese AI firms have stepped up the push to expand their presence in the AI video generation sector. Cloudwalk Technology said it has a layout in text-to-image and text-to-video multimodal LLMs and launched a digital human generation platform, while Sumavision said it has invested heavily in video content production, and will continue to explore AI-generated content technology.中国人工智能公司努力扩大在人工智能视频生成领域的影响力。云从科技表示在文生图像、文生视频多模态大模型领域有所布局，并推出了数字人生成平台，而Sumavision则表示在视频内容制作上投入了大量资金，并将继续探索AI生成内容技术。Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said as a disruptive technology and milestone in AI progress, Sora will improve the efficiency of video creation, and have an impact on short-video editing and advertising industries.浙江大学国际商学院数字经济与金融创新研究中心联席主任盘和林表示，Sora作为颠覆性技术和人工智能进步的里程碑，将提高视频创作效率，并对短视频产生影响编辑和广告行业。"Talent, data and computing power are key to video generation models," Pan said, adding the process of developing such models necessitates higher requirements for computing capacity, algorithms and high-quality data, and more efforts are required to bolster the circulation of data elements.盘和林表示，人才、数据和算力是视频生成模型的关键。模型的开发过程对计算能力、算法和高质量数据提出了更高的要求，需要加大力度促进数据的流通。Meanwhile, the use of text-to-video AI models raises concerns about ethics, copyright protection, personal privacy leakage and data security, experts said. How to ensure the authenticity and transparency of the content has become an important issue, and more efforts are needed to formulate rules and regulations to ensure the healthy development of such technology.与此同时，专家表示，文生视频人工智能模型应用引起了人们对道德、版权保护、个人隐私泄露和数据安全的担忧。如何保证内容的真实性和透明度成为重要问题，还需要加大力度制定规章制度来保证此类技术的健康发展。Zhou Hongyi, founder of Chinese cybersecurity company 360 Security Group, said: "Sora might bring a huge disruption to the advertising industry, movie trailers and short video industry, but it may not necessarily beat TikTok quickly. It is more likely to become a creative tool for TikTok."中国网络安全公司360安全集团创始人周鸿祎表示：“Sora可能会给广告业、电影预告片和短视频行业带来巨大颠覆，但它不一定能很快击败TikTok。它更有可能成为TikTok的一个创作工具。”LLMabbr. Large Language Model大语言模型movie trailers电影预告片

East Buy, a subsidiary of private tutoring giant New Oriental that successfully transitioned to a live­streaming e-commerce company, removed Sun Dongxu as its executive director and CEO, and named New Oriental's founder Yu Minhong as its chief executive.新东方由教育公司成功转型为直播电商公司，其旗下的东方甄选免除了孙东旭的执行董事兼首席执行官职务，并任命新东方创始人俞敏洪为首席执行官。The appointment, which was confirmed by the Hong Kong Stock Exchange late on Sunday, came after a dispute involving the company's most influential livestreamer, Dong Yuhui, intensified last week, leading the Hong Kong-listed company to suffer billion-yuan losses on the stock market within days.香港交易所于周日（12月17日）晚间证实了这一人事变动。此前，新东方与其头牌主播董宇辉的纠纷愈演愈烈，导致新东方的股票市值在几天内蒸发数十亿元人民币。Industry experts said it is time for companies to reevaluate their star-oriented business model and strengthen internal management, in order to drive the country's burgeoning livestreaming e-commerce sector to be more rational and healthier.业内人士认为，企业应该重新评估明星主导的商业模式，加强内部管理，推动中国的直播电商行业朝着更加理性、健康的方向发展。Dong, who was formerly an English teacher at New Oriental Group, went viral as a livestreamer in June last year thanks to his insightful and humorous hosting style. He soon amassed a huge number of followers, who bought products from East Buy just because of him. His followers on Chinese short-video platform Douyin hit a staggering 20 million as of Sunday.董宇辉曾是新东方集团的英语老师，去年6月，凭借富深入浅出、幽默风趣的主持风格，他以网络主播的身份走红。他很快就聚集起庞大的粉丝群体，粉丝们因为他而购买东方甄选的产品。截至周日，他在短视频平台抖音上的粉丝数量已经达到了2000万之高。The latest dispute started after the editorial team of East Buy said on Dec 6 that the script used by Dong during livestreaming was written by the team and not by the star alone. It quickly prompted a group of online shoppers and many of Dong's fans to question the company for taking credit for his work and longtime efforts.本次纷争始于12月6日，东方甄选的编辑团队表示，董宇辉在直播中的台词是由团队攥写的，而不是他自己。这很快让一些直播购物消费者和董宇辉的粉丝质疑新东方不认可董宇辉工作和长期努力。On Tuesday, Sun Dongxu, then CEO of East Buy, said in a livestream that neither the editorial team nor Dong had behaved appropriately, adding that Dong is treated well by the company and draws a steep annual salary.周二，时任东方甄选首席执行官的孙东旭在一次直播中表示，编辑团队和董宇辉的行为都欠妥，并补充说董宇辉在公司的待遇良好，年薪不菲。Sun also condemned the "fandom culture", noting that netizens often attack a company because of their idol. He triggered a wave of anger among netizens with his remarks and aggressive approach during the livestream, including hurling his cellphone onto a table.孙东旭还谴责“粉丝文化”，指出粉丝们经常因为他们的偶像而攻击其公司。他在直播中言论激烈，咄咄逼人，还将将手机摔在桌上，引起网友们的不满。Many netizens said they felt offended by Sun's behavior. They said they felt like employees being rebuked by their boss, instead of being respected as consumers.许多网友表示，孙东旭的行为冒犯了他们，让他们觉得自己像是被老板斥责的员工，而没有受到消费者该有的尊重。Later, both Sun and Yu, the founder of New Oriental, as well as Dong, apologized for the incident and clarified that the script used for the livestream was written by both the editorial team and Dong.后来，孙东旭、新东方创始人俞敏洪，以及董宇辉都为此事道歉，并澄清直播使用的台词是编辑组和董宇辉共同攥写的。However, this didn't stop the stock price of the Beijing-based company from plunging to HK$26.25 ($3.69) per share on Friday from HK$32.75 on Dec 6. The number of followers on Easy Buy's Douyin account was 28 million as of Sunday, a significant drop from over 31 million a week ago.然而，新东方股价的下跌仍然没有停止，从12月6日的32.75港元暴跌至周五（12月15日）的每股26.25港元（3.69美元）。截至周日，东方甄选抖音账号的粉丝数量为2800万，远低于一周前的3100余万。Zhang Yi, chief analyst at market consultancy iiMedia Research, said, "The incident is basically an internal strife over making a balanced profit distribution between leading live­streamers and companies or MCN (multichannel network) agencies that manage livestreamers."艾媒咨询CEO兼首席分析师张毅表示，“这起事件本质上是一场内部冲突，即在头牌主播与其管理主播公司（MCN）之间利润分配的问题。”The East Buy case is not a stray incident, Zhang said, adding that many livestreaming e-commerce companies are star-oriented and rely hugely on a top livestreamer to attract customers and make profits, as can be seen from the emergence of Li Jiaqi, a top beauty and cosmetics livestreamer well-known as "lipstick king".张毅说，此次东方甄选的风波并非偶然事件，许多直播电商公司都是以流量主播为导向，特别是头部主播，以此来吸引客户和盈利。有“口红王子”之称的李佳琦是美妆产品直播行业的头号主播，他也曾卷入类似的纠葛。Livestreaming has become deeply entrenched in people's lives in the country over the past years. Data from iiMedia Research showed that the market scale of China's live­streaming e-commerce sector reached 1.43 trillion yuan ($200 billion) last year, up 19.5 percent year-on-year.过去几年，直播已经成为中国人民日常生活的重要组成部分。艾媒咨询的数据显示，去年中国直播电商行业的市场规模达到1.43万亿元人民币（2000亿美元），同比增长19.5%。On Saturday night, Yu and Dong appeared in a livestream in order to prevent the incident's impact from further spilling over. Yu admitted that East Buy had been plunged into "chaos", and removing Sun from his current position was due to a series of mistakes he made while performing his management duties.周六晚上，俞敏洪和董宇辉“合体”直播，以防止事态进一步恶化。俞敏洪承认，东方甄选内部已经陷入“混乱”，撤销孙东旭当前的职务是出于他在履行管理职责时犯下一系列错误的考虑。"Sun will continue to work in other positions in New Oriental," Yu said, emphasizing that Dong had never been asked to leave.“孙东旭将继续在新东方的其他职位上工作，”俞敏洪表示，并强调从未要求董宇辉离职。There were rumors in the market that Dong was being courted by other livestreaming e-commerce companies and some tech giants.市场上有传言称，其他直播电商公司和一些科技巨头正在“挖”董宇辉。Recalling the past week, Dong said the dispute was "painful" and hoped it would end soon. He added that he was staying with East Buy.回顾过去一周，董宇辉用“痛苦”形容这次争端，并希望能尽快结束。他补充说，他将留在东方甄选。Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School, said that China's livestreaming e-commerce industry is a unique and emerging business, and that it is not surprising that the consumers' trust in a top livestreamer makes all the difference.浙江大学国际联合商学院数字经济与金融创新研究中心联席主任盘和林表示，在中国，直播电商行业是一个独特的新兴行业，鉴于消费者对头部主播高度信任，这场闹剧不足为奇。The Beijing Consumers Association conducted a survey, in which nearly half of the respondents said their "fondness" for a particular livestreamer was the main factor motivating them to watch the live online programs.北京市消费者协会进行了一项调查，其中将近一半的受访者表示，他们对特定主播的“喜爱”是促使他们观看网络直播的主要因素。"On the one hand, we have to admit that the market value of such an engaged user traffic from a livestreamer is immeasurable. On the other hand, the country's livestreaming e-commerce sector needs adjustments, and fans need to be more rational to avoid extreme fandom culture," Pan said.“一方面，我们不得不承认，参与用户流量给网络直播带来了巨大的市场价值。另一方面，中国的直播电商行业也需要调整，粉丝需要更加理性，避免极端的粉丝文化。”盘和林说。Zhang, from iiMedia Research, said: "Companies should also beef up management and avoid risks. Also, the sector can be more technology-driven with the rise of artificial intelligence-based virtual livestreamers."艾媒咨询的张毅表示：“企业也应该加强管理，规避风险。此外，随着人工智能虚拟主播的兴起，主播行业可以更多地由技术驱动。Hurl英/hɜːl/ 美/hɝl/v. 〔用力〕投掷〔尤因生气〕；猛摔

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Fossilfri vätgas pekas av både näringsliv och politiker ut som en avgörande pusselbit för att kraftigt få ner utsläppen av växthusgaser och rädda klimatet. Men kommer det verkligen att fungera? Med Christian Sandström, biträdande professor, Jönköping International Business School och Ratio. Jan Blomgren, professor i tillämpad kärnfysik och egen företagare inom rådgivning och utbildning på kärnkraftsområdet, Gustav Green, forskare inom förnybara energisystem och vätgassystem på forskningsistitutet RISE och Mikael Nordlander, utvecklingschef för Vattenfalls industrisamarbeten, bland annat Hybrit. Programledare: Magnus Thorén

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英语新闻｜消费者带来节日经济刺激Chinese consumers splurged during the Spring Festival holiday, not only on things like duty-free commodities, jewelry and health-related products, but also on experiences such as travel and entertainment, fueled by the optimization of COVID-19 prevention and control measures, industry experts said.业内专家表示，在预防和控制措施优化的推动下，中国消费者在春节期间大肆挥霍，不仅购买免税商品、珠宝和健康相关产品，还购买旅行和娱乐等体验。They added that China's consumer market, which plays a fundamental role in bolstering the country's economic growth, is expected to gain momentum this year, and the consumption boom during the weeklong Chinese Lunar New Year holiday showcased the enormous vitality and strong resilience of the nation's economy.专家还补充道，中国消费市场在支撑国家经济增长中起着基础性作用，今年有望回暖，春节长假期间的消费热潮彰显了中国经济的巨大活力和强大韧性。Statistics from the Department of Commerce of Hainan province showed that the total sales of 12 offshore duty-free shopping malls on the tropical island reached 1.69 billion yuan ($249.1 million) from Jan 21 to Wednesday, an increase of 20.03 percent compared with the first five days of last year's Spring Festival holiday.海南省商务厅统计数据显示，从1月21日到周三，岛上12家离岸免税商场总销售额达16.9亿元（2.491亿美元），与去年春节假期的前五天相比，增长了20.03%。Chinese e-commerce platform JD reported that between Jan 21 and Wednesday, the turnover of rabbit-themed jewelry skyrocketed more than tenfold over the last Spring Festival, while transaction volume of precooked dishes rose more than six times.据中国电子商务平台京东报道，1月21日至周三，以兔子为主题的饰品的营业额比去年春节飙升了10倍多，而熟食类商品的交易额增增长了6倍多。Health-related and nutritional products to boost the immune system are increasingly favored by Chinese shoppers, with the turnover of amino acid oral liquid and protein powder soaring 215 percent and 70 percent year-on-year, respectively.增强免疫力的保健品和营养品越来越受到中国消费者的青睐，氨基酸口服液和蛋白粉的营业额分别同比增长了215%和70%。While global economic growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3 percent in 2022 to 1.9 percent this year, China's growth is expected to moderately improve this year, said a report issued by the United Nations on Wednesday.联合国周三发布的一份报告称，虽然全球经济增长预计将从2022年的3%放缓至今年的1.9%，但中国的增长预计将适度改善。With the authorities adjusting COVID policies in late 2022 and easing monetary and fiscal policies, China's economic growth is forecast to accelerate to 4.8 percent in 2023, said the report.报告还称，预计到2023年，中国经济增长将随着当局在2022年底疫情防控政策的调整加速至4.8%，并相应放松货币和财政政策，。China's GDP expanded 3 percent year-on-year in 2022 to 121.02 trillion yuan, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Consumption contributed to 32.8 percent of China's economic growth last year, driving GDP growth by 1.0 percentage point.根据国家统计局的数据，2022年中国GDP同比增长3%，达到121.02万亿元。去年消费对中国经济增长的贡献率为32.8%，推动GDP增长1.0个百分点。Analysts said that Spring Festival spending has been a barometer of China's consumption vitality, and the recovery of consumption will become the main force boosting China's economic rebound in 2023.分析人士表示，春节消费一直是中国消费活力的指标，2023年消费复苏将成为推动中国经济回升的主要力量。"The Spring Festival is the traditional festival that Chinese people attach the most importance to, and it's also a peak season for consumption," said Bai Ming, deputy director of international market research at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.中国国际贸易与经济合作研究院国际市场研究副主任白明表示，“春节是中国人最重视的传统节日，也是消费旺季。”China's consumer market has seen "recovery of growth" during the holiday, which indicates the vitality of domestic consumption and the restoration of consumer confidence, thanks to the optimized COVID-19 control measures, he said.他说，由于优化了新冠病毒防控措施，中国消费市场在假期期间出现了“恢复增长”，这表明国内消费的活力和消费者信心的恢复。The domestic tourism market also witnessed a robust recovery during the holiday. According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, domestic destinations and attractions received 308 million visits, up 23.1 percent year-on-year. The number was roughly 88.6 percent of that in 2019.假期期间，国内旅游市场也出现了强劲复苏。据文化和旅游部统计，国内旅游目的地和景点接待了3.08亿人次，同比增长23.1%。这一数字约为2019年的88.6%。Cinemas welcomed crowds of moviegoers, with the country's box office revenue for the holiday exceeding 6.5 billion yuan as of 4 pm on Friday, data from box office tracker Maoyan showed.票房追踪公司猫眼的数据显示，截至周五下午4点，电影院迎来了大批影迷，全国票房收入超过65亿元。Chinese shoppers unleashed their pent-up purchasing demand during the Spring Festival, and their consumption level has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels, said Pan Helin, co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at Zhejiang University's International Business School.浙江大学国际商学院数字经济与金融创新研究中心联合主任盘和林表示，中国消费者在春节期间释放了被压抑的购买需求，他们的消费水平几乎恢复到了疫情前的水平。Wu Chaoming, deputy director of the Chasing International Economic Institute, said the continued optimization of COVID-19 policies will significantly boost consumption growth and stimulate people's appetite to travel and spend this year.财新国际经济研究院副院长吴朝明表示，今年新冠疫情政策的持续优化将大大促进消费增长，刺激人们的旅游和消费欲望。Splurge英 [splɜːdʒ] 美 [splɜːrdʒ]v.挥霍Resilience英 [rɪˈzɪliəns] 美 [rɪˈzɪliəns]n. 弹性Monetary 英 [ˈmʌnɪtri] 美 [ˈmɑːnɪteri]adj. 货币的

英语新闻∣虚拟数字人进军时尚直播领域前景广阔A group ofdigital models dressed in sports outfits strutted down the runway in an onlinevirtual fashion show during China Fashion Week in September. Led by Xijiajia,tech company Baidu Inc's virtual spokesperson, they presented the latestgarments by homegrown sportswear maker Anta Sports in different virtualscenarios — stadiums, snowfields, the GobiDesert and even outer space.今年9月，在中国国际时装周期间，一群穿着运动装的数字模特在一场在线虚拟时装秀上昂首阔步地走上T台。在百度公司旗下的虚拟代言人希加加的带领下，他们在不同的虚拟场景中——体育场、雪地、戈壁沙漠甚至外太空——展示了国产运动服装制造商安踏体育的最新服装。Virtualhumans and fashion shows, unbounded by time and space in the way a physicalevent would be, offer myriad benefits to the fashion industry, bringing toaudiences a fresh, immersive and interactive experience.虚拟人及虚拟时装秀不像实体活动那样受时间和空间的限制，为时尚产业带来了无数好处，给观众带来全新的沉浸式互动体验。Thanks to AIadvances, digital avatars bearing a close resemblance to real humans in appearance andbehavior have been put to service in not only fashion and livestreaming, butalso a wide range of other activities, industry experts said.行业专家表示，由于人工智能的进步，在外表和行为上与真人非常相似的数字人不仅在时尚和直播中得到了应用，还广泛应用于其他领域。Li Shiyan,head of Baidu's digital human and robotics section, said that by leveraging thereal-time calculation and animation rendering technologies offered by Xiling — the company's digital avatar platform — the production cost of virtualclothing has been reduced dramatically, and production periods shortened frommore than one month to just a week.百度数字人与机器人业务负责人李士岩表示，通过利用该公司的数字云平台”曦灵”的实时计算和动画渲染技术，虚拟服装的制作成本大幅降低，生产周期从一个多月缩短至短短一周。Li noted thatan increasing number of brands are looking to use virtual beings inlivestreaming and other marketing campaigns, which is expected to helpenterprises reduce at least 50 percent of operational costs by cutting spendingon brick-and-mortarlivestreaming locations, hardware andhiring real human anchors.李士岩指出，越来越多的品牌正在寻求在直播和其他营销活动中使用虚拟人，这有望帮助企业通过削减实体直播场所、硬件和雇佣真人主播的支出，减少至少50%的运营成本。"Thevirtual human industry is still in an early stage, and there are somechallenges, such as how to produce low-cost digital assets and digital content,and how to make digital humans interact with real people more naturally,"Li said.李士岩说：“虚拟人产业仍处于早期阶段，还存在一些挑战，比如如何生产低成本的数字资产和数字内容，以及如何让数字人与真人更自然地互动。”Resolvingthese issues relies on iteration oftechnologies such as natural language processing and computer vision, Li said,adding that the company will continue to pour capital and manpower into thedigital human industry.李士岩说，解决这些问题依赖于自然语言处理和计算机视觉等技术的迭代。他补充说，公司将继续向数字人产业投入资金和人力。The size of China'svirtual human market is forecast to reach 270 billion yuan by 2030, accordingto an industry report released by Qbit-AI, an industry services platformfocusing on AI and other cutting-edge technology.根据专注于人工智能和其他前沿技术的行业服务平台Qbit-AI发布的一份行业报告，到2030年，中国虚拟人市场规模预计将达到2700亿元。According toexperts, the fashion landscape is rapidly expanding its virtual horizon toprepare for a future populated by digital avatars, and the most accessible wayfor fashion brands to engage with virtual replicas is by dressing them in theirlatest collections.据专家称，时尚界正在迅速扩大其虚拟视野，为数字人的未来做准备，而数字人在时尚品牌中得以应用的最便捷方式是让他们穿上最新系列的品牌服装。"Theapplication of virtual humans in the fashion field has distinctive advantages.Holding virtual fashion shows doesn't just mean moving real-world shows online;more importantly, we can utilize digital space to expand our interpretation offashion and imagination for what is possible," said Chen Duan, director ofthe Digital Economy Integration Innovation Development Center at the CentralUniversity of Finance and Economics.中央财经大学数字经济融合创新发展中心主任陈端说：“虚拟人在时尚领域的应用具有独特的优势。举办虚拟时装秀不仅仅意味着把现实世界的时装秀搬到网上，更重要的是，我们可以利用数字空间扩展我们对时尚的解读，以及对可能性的想象。”Chen said,for example, people can make use of textures that do not exist in the physicalworld, and digital humans are able to go beyond the physiological limits ofreal humans and present new fashion styles in new ways.陈端说，例如，人们可以利用真实世界中不存在的布料，数字人也能够超越真实人类的生理极限，以新的方式呈现新的时尚风格。Digitalhumans are increasingly being used in brand promotion, advertisement,livestreaming, gaming and entertainment, said Zhu Xiaowen, an analyst atLead-Leo Research Institute. However, she added that a new set of problems havealso emerged, such as personal privacy protection and data security. Expertssaid unregulated use of digital humans might open a way for fraud, given that digital humans can bedifficult to distinguish from real people.Lead-Leo研究所的分析师朱晓文（音）表示，数字人正越来越多地用于品牌推广、广告、直播、游戏和娱乐。但她补充说，这也导致了一系列的新问题，比如个人隐私保护和数据安全。专家表示，不受监管地使用数字人可能会导致欺诈，因为数字人可能很难与真人区分开来。China's firstvirtual influencer Ayayi, who debuted on social media platform Xiaohongshu inMay 2021 and garnered over 20,000followers overnight, has attracted the attention of well-renowned fashionbrands such as Louis Vuitton and Guerlain.中国首位虚拟网红Ayayi于2021年5月在社交媒体平台小红书上亮相，一夜之间吸引了两万多粉丝，引起了路易威登和娇兰等知名时尚品牌的关注。Pan Helin,co-director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center atZhejiang University's International Business School, said he is optimisticabout the business prospects of virtual humans in fashion and livestreaming,and called for more efforts to improve 3D modeling, rendering and motioncapture technologies to bolster the development of the country's digital humansector.浙江大学国际联合商学院数字经济与金融创新研究中心联席主任盘和林表示，他对虚拟人在时尚和直播领域的商业前景感到乐观，并呼吁付出更多努力改进3D建模、渲染和动作捕捉技术，以支持我国数字人领域的发展。resemblance英[rɪˈzembləns] 美[rɪˈzembləns]n.相似，形似avatar英[ˈævətɑ:(r)] 美['ævətɑr]n.化身iteration英[ˌɪtəˈreɪʃn] 美[ˌɪtəˈreʃən]n.反复；重述fraud英[frɔːd] 美[frɔːd]n.欺诈；骗子garner英[ˈɡɑːnə(r)] 美[ˈɡɑːrnər]vt.获得；贮藏，积累

Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy's work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing have been featured in top media outlets like the Harvard Business Review, Psychology Today, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR. In 2016, Andy was honored as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education. Andy is an accomplished author. His first book, Global Dexterity, received the Axiom Award for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others. His new book Reach was published by Penguin Random House in January 2017. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University.

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"How do we create a better free speech culture? How do students learn things like the first amendment in school and in their peer groups? What if at sports events before we sing the National Anthem we recite the first amendment?" First amendment specialist Stuart Brotman joins the podcast, new book in hand. The book, called The First Amendment Lives On: Conversations Commemorating Hugh M. Hefner's Legacy of Enduring Free Speech and Free Press Values, is a series of interviews between Brotman and some of the leading free speech figures of the past half century. From Geoffrey R. Stone to Floyd Abrams to Nadine Strossen and others, Brotman paints a picture of some of the free speech pioneers of recent history. What is the state of free speech today? What is the difference between free speech in a legal sense and a culture of free speech? What are universities doing -- or not doing -- to protect that which we hold sacred? And what does the future hold, as we look to exercise the freedoms of the first amendment in new and robust ways? If you like what we do, please support the show. By making a one-time or recurring donation, you will contribute to us being able to present the highest quality substantive, long-form interviews with the world's most compelling people. Stuart N. Brotman is the inaugural Howard Distinguished Endowed Professor of Media Management and Law and Beaman Professor of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Brotman is an honorary adjunct professor at the Jindal Global Law School in India and an affiliated researcher at the Media Management Transformation Centre of the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden. He serves as an appointed arbitrator and mediator at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, and as a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, where he was a Visiting Scholar in its Academy on Media and Global Change. He also is an Eisenhower Fellow. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Federal Communications Law Journal, Journal of Information Policy and the Journal of Media Law and Ethics, as a director of the Telecommunications Policy Research Institute, and on the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board. He is the first Distinguished Fellow at The Media Institute, where he also serves on its First Amendment Council. At Harvard Law School, he was the first person ever appointed to teach telecommunications law and policy and its first Visiting Professor of Law and Research Fellow in Entertainment and Media Law. He also served as a faculty member at Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy and the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program. He served as the first concurrent fellow in digital media at Harvard and MIT, at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and the Program on Comparative Media Studies, respectively. He held a professorial-level faculty appointment in international telecommunications law and policy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He also chaired both the International Communications Committee and the International Legal Education Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of International Law and Practice.

Hogyan kommunikálhatnak a különböző érintettséggel rendelkező nagyvállalatok a háború alatt? Hogyan lehet krízisre felkészíteni a jövő cégvezetőit, marketingeseit? Hogyan írja át a tananyagot a háború?  Nagy Bálint, a Magyar Reklámszövetség volt elnöke, az International Business School marketing tanszékének a vezetője volt vendégünk. ARANYKÖPÉS: Margaret Thatcher. Mi értelme lenne a gyerekszámhoz és taníttatáshoz kötött szülői nyugdíjnak? Bencsik János képviselő javaslata szerint szerint minél több, és minél magasabban iskolázott gyereket nevelt fel egy szülő, az annál nagyobb mértékben fogja növelni majd a jövőben a nyugdíját. A javaslattevő szerint jelenleg két nagy problémája van a magyar nyugdíjrendszernek, makroszinten a fenntarthatatlanság, mikroszinten a méltánytalanság. Ez a javaslat elsősorban az utóbbit szeretné orvosolni, de hosszútávon a makroszinten is javulásokat hozhat. Farkas András, nyugdíjszakértő, a Nyugdíjguru. ÉSZJÁTÉK - LOGISZTIKA ROVAT: hírek a logisztika világából.

Nagy Bálint az International Business School marketing karának vezetője. Eredeti végzettsége jogász, de az egyetem után rögtön a marketing osztályon találta magát. A rendszerváltás előtt dolgozott a Malévnál, később dolgozott például a Pizza Hut vagy a Douwe Egberts márkák hazai bevezetésén. A kétezres években viszont kiszállt, elege lett a pénz és a növekedés hajkurászásából és a katedrát választotta. Miért hagyta ott a vállalati marketinges világot?  Miért hisz a metaverzumban? Miért gondolja, hogy a nemnövekedés csak egy utópia? A beszélgetés előtt pedig Carlota Perez sztoriját meséljük el.

Nagy Bálint az International Business School marketing karának vezetője. Eredeti végzettsége jogász, de az egyetem után rögtön a marketing osztályon találta magát. A rendszerváltás előtt dolgozott a Malévnál, később dolgozott például a Pizza Hut vagy a Douwe Egberts márkák hazai bevezetésén. A kétezres években viszont kiszállt, elege lett a pénz és a növekedés hajkurászásából és a katedrát választotta. Miért hagyta ott a vállalati marketinges világot?  Miért hisz a metaverzumban? Miért gondolja, hogy a nemnövekedés csak egy utópia? A beszélgetés előtt pedig Carlota Perez sztoriját meséljük el.

In Folge #4 geht es um Corporate Entrepreneurship. Zu Gast ist Professor Dr. Oliver Plum von der CBS International Business School in Köln. Oliver fordert Unternehmen auf, den unternehmerischen Mut der Mitarbeiter gezielt zu stärken, um neue Geschäftsfelder zu erschließen und die digitale Transformation zu beschleunigen. Diskutiert wird die Bedeutung von Corporate Entrepreneurship als Quelle von neuem Wachstum, die Herangehensweisen, um Mitarbeiter und Organisationen auf den transformativen Weg zu führen und der Einfluss von externen Impulsgeber – wie StartUps oder Universitäten – auf die Dynamik und Glaubwürdigkeit der neuen Prozesse, die meist auch frische Talente an das Unternehmen heranführen. Vernetzt euch mit uns und diskutiert die Folge mit: - Ulrich Irnich: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrichirnich/ - Markus Kuckertz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markuskuckertz/ - Dr. Oliver Plum: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-plum-55147319b/ Die erwähnten Links dieser Folge: - CBS International Business School, Köln: https://www.cbs.de - VUCA World = Volatility (Volatilität), Uncertainty (Ungewissheit), Complexity (Komplexität), Ambiguity (Mehrdeutigkeit): https://www.vuca-world.org Mitwirkende - Hosts: Ulrich Irnich & Markus Kuckertz // Produktion: Daniel Sprügel & Anna-Lena Behringer, Maniac Studios (https://maniacstudios.com) // Redaktion: Marcus Pawlik // Kommunikation & Community: Anna-Lena Sodies // Team behind the team: Sonja Uller & Stephanie Nguyen Gia © Digital Pacemaker Podcast 2022

Ben Gomes-Casseres has worked on partnership strategies for thirty years, as a researcher, teacher, and advisor. He is the Peter A. Petri Professor of Business and Society at Brandeis University, where he directs the Asper Center for Global Entrepreneurship and teaches courses on alliances and acquisitions, strategy, and innovation. At Brandeis, he has helped build the business programs and faculty of the International Business School and has twice received the Excellence in Teaching Award. Ben began his academic career as a student and then professor at Harvard Business School, working on international strategy, and in particular on the use of joint ventures in international business. Before that, he worked as an economist at the World Bank. Ben received the Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award in 2000. His work has also appeared in Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Strategic Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, The New York Times, and in other journals and periodicals. His book Remix Strategy: The Three Laws of Business Combinations (Harvard Business Press, 2015) won the Silver Medal from Axiom and was a finalist at Thinkers50. He has two popular online courses on LinkedIn Learning, on “Strategic Partnerships” and on “Ecosystems and Platforms.” Ben is a speaker and advisor to global companies seeking to create value through partnerships and ecosystems. He holds a DBA from Harvard, an MPA from Princeton, and a BA Brandeis. A native of Curaçao, he speaks four languages. Visit https://www.aib.world/frontline-ib/benjamin-gomes-casseres/ for the original video interview.  

Vi surfar vidare på inspirationsvågen efter våra senaste gäster och fortsätter med vårt framtidstema.P.O. har lekt VD på Chalmers och föreläst på Jönköping International Business School. Nina har gjort ett studiebesök i snön och skrivit en krönika i Kvalitetsmagasinet. Vi pratar också om cirkularitet, examensarbetare och årets logistikskräll.Vad innebär egentligen en atomisering av transportsystemet? Vilka likheter finns det mellan den mänskliga hjärnan och våra logistiksystem? Finns det någon vetenskaplig förklaring till vår naturliga förändringsskepticism? Missa inte allt detta och mycket mer i veckans avsnitt av Logistikpodden.   Redigering, mix och master av https://littlecabincreatives.com Foto: Cheyenne Olander—Avsnittet görs i samarbete med Bring som presenterar fulfilmenttjänsten Shelfless.  Shelfless är Brings erbjudande av effektiva och gröna logistiktjänster för alla nätbutiker med kunder i Norden. Det är en totallösning som tar hand om alla utmaningarna från det att kunden handlar på nätet tills varan levererats. Läs mer om tjänsten här: https://direc.to/h1NL

This is the second of two episodes that deal with topics I discussed with the organizers, workshop leaders and participants at the “Music Leadership Summit“ which was held by the Musicians Without Borders (MWB). In this episode, music trainer and workshop leader Juan-David Garzón talks about the project “Soy música“ in El Salvador, where MWB train local music teachers. Michał Zawadzki is an Assistant Professor at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden who decided to use drumming in his classes. And Ágata Ricca is a choir leader from Portugal who currently works in Mozambique and focuses on choral practice in communities in her doctoral studies. In our conversations, we talk about these questions: In what way can we use music-making for peace-building? What role does creativity play here? In what way can we use music-making to strengthen other people's self-confidence? How can we reduce hierarchies in musical groups and learn to work together? How can a choir work on an own interpretation of a score?

Northvolts etablering i Skellefteå saknar motstycke i svensk historia, menar stadens kommunalråd. Men på vilket sätt? Batterifabriken öppnar snart och Skellefteås 73 000 invånare ska bli 100 000 år 2040, en tillväxt med 40 procent. Men klarar kommunen att leverera bostäder, skolor och kommunal service till alla som behöver? Skellefteås kommunalråd Lorents Burman (S) är gäst i Ekots Lördagsintervju. Kommentar: Charlotta Mellander, professor i nationalekonomi vid Jönköping International Business School. Programledare: Monica Saarinen  Producent: Viktor Mattson/Maja Lagercrantz  Tekniker: Jesper Timan 

A Podcast created to help you find a career in Sports, Esports and Fitness. In today's episode, our guest is Jordi Estera. Managing Director at ESEI International Business School in Barcelona, Ex-professional tennis player. Jordi also achieved the top 200 at the ATP Association. “Sports is no longer just a physical activity. It has evolved into an immensely complex industry that incorporates business, technology, medicine, nutrition, media, marketing, and much more and I am passionate about it! Sign up and learn more from ESEI and connect with Jordi - www.sportinglobal.com Join like-minded sport professionals in their pursuit of building valuable connections, gaining industry knowledge and finding their next career step. Join our community and find jobs and internships in the sports industry, find some of the best sports programs, universities and business schools in the world and connect with like-minded people. All in one place. Tailor-made for you!Join our SportIn Global Community: www.sportinglobal.com Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SportInGlobal Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SportIn_Global Follow us on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/sportinglobal Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sportinglobal/ #barcelona #sports #career

Our guest for today's podcast is Eric Nierenberg, Chief Strategy Officer for the $80 billion Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (MassPRIM) where he has been responsible for hedge funds and low vol strategies and over time,  became the CSO.  He is a “jack of all trades”, leading a team in asset allocation, risk mgmt., research, Real Assets and the Portfolio Completion Strategies effort.  PRIM is known for a more active investment approach oftentimes including more esoteric strategies but also direct investments and SMAs allowing them to invest with and  support highly talented but smaller, emerging managers.    Eric is well known in the industry and has received numerous awards as a top allocator and rising star, CIO Magazine's “Forty Under 40”, Institutional Investor "Allocator Voice", the list goes on.   While a top investment allocator, he is also a prized professor at Brandeis' International Business School.    Eric takes us through his personal and professional path from equity portfolio manager to public service as an allocator at a public plan to academia.  Hear how he his experiences growing up in a diverse community in Miami and working at large international academic institution at Brandeis ingrained in him the importance of diversity and being a strong mentor and sponsor.   He is clearly passionate about the value of diversity.   I found my conversation with Eric to be enlightening and endearing as he talks about the importance of helping others to achieve greatness. He is extremely intelligent, thoughtful and caring and while viewed as a highly talented investor, he is also well deserving of the moniker “ fantastic mentor and Best boss ever!”    Without further ado, here is my conversation with Eric Nierenberg.

In a world that seems to be addicted to taking shortcuts, hacks and taking the easy path, this week's guest pushes back on that narrative. He believes that we should strategically seek out times to do "necessary evils." He explains why getting out of our comfort zone is fundamental to our growth. Why is it beneficial and when should we do it? Show notes: Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University. Andy's work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education. His first book, Global Dexterity (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others. His new book Reach was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences. https://www.andymolinsky.com/ Book: "Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence" Book: "Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures Without Losing Yourself in the Process" Reach Andy at: personalchangesystems@gmail.com Learn more about Forging Mettle: www.forgingmettleacademy.com

Today's guest on The Other Side of Potential is Dr. Massimo Bau, Senior Associate Professor in Family Business and Ownership at the Jönköping International Business School in Sweden and Director of the Centre for Family Entrepreneurship and Ownership (CeFEO). Dr. Bau's focus on family embeddedness and entrepreneurial entry is likely not something that family business owners in the United States are accustomed to thinking about, but it is very relevant to the practical aspects of how to run your business sustainably. His research interests are related to the entrepreneurial process in three very specific research areas: family dynamics and the influence of family members on the actor's decision of entry and exit into the entrepreneurial process, academic entrepreneurship and factors enabling new ventures startup and technology transfer, and a firm's growth path through collaborative agreements and interfirm networks, all of which we touch on today.In this episode, Dr. Bau explains why embeddedness is such an important concept for family business owners to understand, how the COVID-19 pandemic has called for a greater focus on longevity and sustainability, and the importance of educating the next generation about the complexities of the family business structure they will one day inherit. Dr. Bau has a wealth of knowledge and information to share that is a welcome addition to our ongoing conversations about family business and entrepreneurship, so you don't want to miss this episode! Tune in today to learn more.What you'll learn about in this episode:Dr. Bau explains how he became interested in family business and entrepreneurship.Learn about embeddedness and why it is important to the family business owner.The value of an owner or CEO being embedded in the community in which they operate.Why owners who are actively involved in their businesses are better connected with their communities than owners who are purely financial investors.The biggest challenges that Dr. Bau has seen family businesses experience during COVID.How the pandemic has inspired educational programs focused on longevity and sustainability.Hear about the global network that the Jönköping International Business School forms part of.Find out what drew Dr. Bau to Jönköping University in Sweden.Dr. Bau shares his perspective on the future for family businesses: why nothing will change.Why it is not about how family businesses change but how the global economy is changing.The benefits of having clearly defined business ownership roles and responsibilities.Dr. Bau emphasizes the importance of educating the next generation on the complexities of the family business structure they will inherit.Where to learn more about Dr. Bau, CeFEO, and their broader international network.Click Here To Download Transcript

On this week's episode we are speaking with Dave Shaby, the Chief Operating Officer at RAIN Group. The global sales training and performance improvement company was founded in 2002 and has become a Top 20 Sales Training Company. To date, they have helped hundreds of thousands of salespeople, managers, and professionals in more than 75 countries. Dave is also a co-author of the best selling book, Virtual Selling, and is an acclaimed adjunct faculty member at both Babson College and Brandeis University where he teaches digital marketing courses for MBA students and the International Business School.Dave has been researching the new virtual sales reality for his book and working with both buyers and sellers in order to take full advantage of emerging virtual sales technology and best practices. He gives us a deep explanation of where virtual sales is headed and what successful virtual sellers are doing. Our discussion topics include: Where the virtual buyer/seller relationship breaks down How to make a virtual meeting more impactful by doing the advance work Simple ways to build rapport even when you are remote The importance of practice video calls with colleagues And so much more Virtual sales is not new, but having everyone needing to go fully virtual so quickly last year, and without all of the proper technology in place, made it a daunting proposition for a lot of sellers and buyers. Dave is reframing the new virtual reality for us. If others aren't going to be as proficient at utilizing new virtual sales tech, take the opportunity to be amazing at it.Listen now and start today!

Would you willingly step out of your comfort zone? Staying inside our “comfort zone” can make us feel safe and in control, but is it truly the best thing for us? Being in the Zoom existence that Covid-19 brought, it's easier to just stay where you are comfortable and not challenged. There are some people who help others develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones. Andy Molinsky, a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School, is one of them. In this episode of The New Nomad, Andy joins Andrew Jernigan and Allen Koski for another knowledge-filled episode about being comfortable outside your cultural comfort zone. They also shared their experiences in being out of their own comfort bubble and the good and not so good things they got from it. This episode teaches people how to adapt and adjust their behavior in a new culture - an interesting episode that brings light to cultural flexibility necessary in this digital day and age.[2:52] Working out your resilience[10:16] Creating trust and intimacy, virtually[12:16] Embracing the uncomfortable: conviction, customization, and clarity[18:59] Accepting our differences[20:22] Not everything about culture matters[25:49] Passing our stories to the next generationGUEST BIO:Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology.  Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University.  Andy's work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His research and writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education. His first book, Global Dexterity (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others. His new book Reach was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017.  He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences. Andy Molinsky Links:Website: https://www.andymolinsky.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andymolinsky/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andymolinsky?lang=enFollow Insured Nomads at:Instagram: @insurednomadswww.insurednomads.com 

I veckans sommarpodd från Vertikals så samtalar Charlotta Mellander, professor i Nationalekonomi på Jönköping International Business School, Jönköping University, med Josefina Syssner, biträdande professor på Linköpings Universitet. Samtalet handlar om stad och land, om glesbygd och urbanisering, utflyttning och inflyttning och försöker svara på den ofta ställda frågan om vi ser en början på en ny grön våg.

Hosted by: Dr. Ulla Saari, Senior Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland, and extended team member of the Media, Management & Transformation Research Centre (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School (JIBS). Company in focus of the discussion: IKEA Company representation: Åsa Skogström Feldt, Head of Social Entrepreneurship at IKEA  Guest from Academia: Asst. prof. Mark Edwards, Jönköping International Business School

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Barbra Batshalom is the Founder & CEO of the Sustainable Performance Institute. She is a social entrepreneur, educator and change agent. She works with a variety of governmental, institutional and private sector organizations to help them institutionalize sustainability and achieve portfolio-wide measurable improvements in performance and profitability. With a diverse background of fine arts, social psychology and 20+ years in architecture and sustainability consulting, she brings a variety of skills to her work and a unique perspective engaging the human dynamics of decision-making and creative collaboration to technical work. Her work focuses on the intersection of systems, processes and culture. Barbra also teaches sustainable RE development in Brandeis University's International Business School. We talk about how SPI works with companies to prepare organizational strategy and do the right things culturally that support a sustainably focused organization. You can find Barbra Batshalom at: http://www.sustainable-performance.org/ (Sustainable Performance Institute ) https://www.linkedin.com/in/batshalom/ (LinkedIn ) https://twitter.com/Batshalom (Twitter ) Resources: http://www.sustainable-performance.org/resources/ (SPI's Resources Page) http://architecture2030.org/ (Architecture 2030) https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-Without/dp/B004YZ4NCI/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507027449&sr=1-1&keywords=getting+to+yes (Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury) https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini ) https://www.kotterinternational.com/8-steps-process-for-leading-change/ (Kotter Change Management Info ) https://wmbridges.com/ (William Bridges Associates) https://www.amazon.com/Partnering-Manual-Design-Construction-William/dp/0070536694 (Partnering Manual for Design and Construction by William Ronco and Jean S. Ronco ) Music by: Epic Music Supervision Show Notes: Constructrr.com/ep43

Does fat make you fat? Or does eating too many carbohydrates? What if the answer is BOTH, but only when you do them at the same time! In this eye-opening segment, Tony and I break down the science for why combining high levels of fat AND carbs at the same time in any diet creates weight gain, and how to understand the right range for your body so you stay healthy and fit. In the second segment, I interview Andy Molinsky, who is a Professor of organizational behavior and psychology and an author. Andy helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. Listen in as he shares challenges that affect our behavior and how to identify and close the gap between work and life. [BULLETS] Tony and I discuss the popular topic of whether "fat can make you fat"... Why people need a degree of carbohydrates for optimal brain functioning... What happens when you combine fat with protein and how that affects your health... How food combining principles can help in gaining optimal health... Whether sugar and refined carbs have an effect on insulin levels... Andy explains why it so easy to get stuck in our comfort zones and why are so many people afraid of change... We cover the three C's: (Clarity, Conviction, and Customization), and how they can help identify and close the "gap" in our behavioral style in work and life... Why is it so important to develop your own unique sense of purpose... We talk about Global Dexterity, what is that and why is it becoming more important in today's society...   [FEATURED GUESTS] About Andy Molinsky Andy is a professor of organizational behavior and psychology at Brandeis University's International Business School, and an expert on a number of topics, including organizational behavior, cross-cultural interaction in business settings, and self-help and improvement.  Andy regularly writes for the Harvard Business Review and Inc, and his work has been featured in The Economist, Fast Company, Fortune, Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and NPR. His first book, Global Dexterity has been used widely in organizations around the world including Boeing, AIG, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the Clinton Foundation, among others. About Anthony Flores, or "T" as Kimberly affectionately refers to him: He is a long-time friend of hers who, after graduating from Stanford University, began researching and writing professionally in the health space full-time. He has a passion for natural health, especially Beauty Detox, and loves to share exciting new studies and insights he learns with Kimberly and the community! He can be found writing spiritual/inspirational words on Instagram @poetrybyanthony. [RESOURCES / INFORMATION]                    Science of carbs and fat together: https://www.metaboliceffect.com/worst-food-combination-for-weight-loss/ Food separation:http://undergroundhealthreporter.com/food-separation/ Simplified science: http://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-carbs-fats-obesity-1697376 Beauty Detox Take On 'What The Health'!:https://kimberlysnyder.com/blog/2017/03/22/beauty-detox-take-on-what-the-health/ Diet Myths They Don't Want You To Know: Part 1.:https://kimberlysnyder.com/blog/2011/06/28/diet-myths-they-dont-want-you-to-know-part-1/ Is High Fat, High Protein the Best Way to Lose Weight?:https://kimberlysnyder.com/blog/2014/06/09/high-fat-high-protein-best-way-lose-weight/ 5 Sneaky Diet Myths to Watch Out for in 2015!:https://kimberlysnyder.com/blog/2015/01/06/5-sneaky-diet-myths-watch-2015/ The Beauty Food Pairing Cheat Sheet! (INFOGRAPHIC):https://kimberlysnyder.com/blog/2015/06/25/the-beauty-food-pairing-cheat-sheet-infographic/ Questions and Answers About Beauty Food Pairing!:https://kimberlysnyder.com/blog/2014/10/01/questions-answers-food-combining/...

Andy Molinsky (@andymolinsky) is a professor of organizational behavior and psychology at Brandeis University's International Business School and author of Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process and Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge, and Build Confidence. The Cheat Sheet: You know it's important to step outside your comfort zone for the sake of growth -- but are you doing it regularly? Understand why it's hard to act outside your comfort zone, how you (perhaps unknowingly) act to avoid stepping out of your comfort zone, and what it takes to successfully act outside of your comfort zone. Learn the five psychological roadblocks to exploring outside of your comfort zone. Discover the three key tools for systematically attacking your limitations in order to grow: conviction, customization, and clarity. Harness the power of props (or kangaroo costumes, as the case may be). And so much more... Are you trying to hire the right person for your business, but the best candidates keep slipping away? Let ZipRecruiter -- the fastest way to hire great people -- help you screen only the best here! Does your business have an Internet presence? Now save a whopping 50% on new webhosting packages here with HostGator by using coupon code CHARM! Hate grocery shopping but you love to cook? Blue Apron delivers recipes and farm fresh ingredients to you. As an Art of Charm listener, you get your first two meals free here! To truly thrive in all areas of your life, you can't ignore the importance of good health. Try Organifi Green Juice for 20% off using code "charm" when checking out at organifi.com! Free yourself from typing notes, reports, and documents by going with the transcriptionists we trust here at AoC: TranscriptionOutsourcing.net -- 99% or higher accuracy guaranteed! Find out more about the team who makes The Art of Charm podcast here! Show notes at https://theartofcharm.com/612/ HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dig the show, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from the crowd and help people find the credible advice they need. Review the show in iTunes! We rely on it! http://www.theartofcharm.com/mobilereview Stay Charming!

What often sets successful people apart is their willingness to do things most of us fear. What's more, we have the false notion that successful people like to do these things, when the truth is that successful people have simply found their own way to do them. Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University's International Business School helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life. His work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the Boston Globe, NPR and Voice of America. During the show we will be talking about Andy's new book Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge, and Build Confidence. Join us to take the thing you are most afraid of doing and make it a proud part of your personal repertoire!