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To receive new posts and to support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.WhoTrent Poole, Vice President and General Manager of Hunter Mountain, New YorkRecorded onMarch 19, 2025About Hunter MountainClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Hunter, New YorkYear founded: 1959Pass affiliations:* Epic Pass, Epic Local Pass – unlimited access* Epic Northeast Value Pass – unlimited access with holiday blackouts* Epic Northeast Midweek Pass – unlimited access with holiday and midweek blackouts* Epic Day Pass – All Resorts, 32 Resorts tiersClosest neighboring ski areas: Windham (:16), Belleayre (:35), Plattekill (:49)Base elevation: 1,600 feetSummit elevation: 3,200 feetVertical drop: 1,600 feetSkiable acres: 320Average annual snowfall: 120 inchesTrail count: 67 (25% beginner, 30% intermediate, 45% advanced)Lift count: 13 (3 six-packs, 1 high-speed quad, 2 fixed-grip quads, 1 triple, 2 doubles, 1 platter, 3 carpets)Why I interviewed himSki areas are like political issues. We all feel as though we need to have an opinion on them. This tends to be less a considered position than an adjective. Tariffs are _______. Killington is _______. It's a bullet to shoot when needed. Most of us aren't very good shots.Hunter tends to draw a particularly colorful basket of adjectives: crowded, crazy, frantic, dangerous, icy, frozen, confusing, wild. Hunter, to the weekend visitor, appears to be teetering at all times on the brink of collapse. So many skiers on the lifts, so many skiers in the liftlines, so many skiers on the trails, so many skiers in the parking lots, so many skiers in the lodge pounding shots and pints. Whether Hunter is a ski area with a bar attached or a bar with a ski area attached is debatable. The lodge stretches on and on and up and down in disorienting and disconnected wings, a Winchester Mansion of the mountains, stapled together over eons to foil the alien hordes (New Yorkers). The trails run in a splintered, counterintuitive maze, an impossible puzzle for the uninitiated. Lifts fly all over, 13 total, of all makes and sizes and vintage, but often it feels as though there is only one lift and that lift is the Kaatskill Flyer, an overwhelmed top-to-bottom six-pack that replaced an overwhelmed top-to-bottom high-speed quad on a line that feels as though it would be overwhelmed with a high-speed 85-pack. It is, in other words, exactly the kind of ski area you would expect to find two hours north of a 20-million-person megacity world famous for its blunt, abrasive, and bare-knuckled residents.That description of Hunter is accurate enough, but incomplete. Yes, skiing there can feel like riding a swinging wrecking ball through a tenement building. And I would probably suggest that as a family activity before I would recommend Hunter on, say, MLK Saturday. But Hunter is also a glorious hunk of ski history, a last-man-standing of the once-skiing-flush Catskills, a nature-bending prototype of a ski mountain built in a place that lacks both consistent natural snow and fall lines to ski on. It may be a corporate cog now, but the Hunter hammered into the mountains over nearly six decades was the dream and domain of the Slutsky family, many of whom still work for the ski area. And Hunter, on a midweek, when all those fast lifts are 10 times more capacity than you need, can be a dream. Fast up, fast down. And once you learn the trail network, the place unfolds like a picnic blanket: easy, comfortable, versatile, filled with delicious options (if occasionally covered with ants).There's no one good way to describe Hunter Mountain. It's different every day. All ski areas are different every day, but Hunter is, arguably, more more different along the spectrum of its extremes than just about any other ski area anywhere. You won't get it on your first visit. You will show up on the wrong day, at the wrong time, in the wrong parking lot, and the whole thing will feel like playing lasertag with hyenas. Alien hyenas. Who will for some reason all be wearing Jets jerseys. But if you push through for that second visit, you'll start to get it. Maybe. I promise. And you'll understand why one-adjective Hunter Mountain descriptions are about as useful as the average citizen's take on NATO.What we talked aboutSixty-five years of Hunter; a nice cold winter at last; big snowmaking upgrades; snowmaking on Annapurna and Westway; the Otis and Broadway lift upgrades; Broadway ripple effects on the F and Kaatskill Flyer lifts; supervising the installation of seven new lifts at three Vail Resorts over a two-year period; better liftline management; moving away from lettered lift names; what Otis means for H lift; whether the Hunter East mountaintop Poma could ever spin again; how much of Otis is re-used from the old Broadway lift; ski Ohio; landing at Vail Resorts pre-Epic Pass and watching the pass materialize and grow; taking over for a GM who had worked at Hunter for 44 years; understanding and appreciating Hunter madness; Hunter locals mixed with Vail Resorts; Hunter North and the potential for an additional base area; disappearing trailmap glades; expansion potential; a better ski connection to Hunter East; and Epic Local as Hunter's season pass.Questions I wish I'd askedI'd wanted to ask Poole about the legacy of the Slutzky family, given their founding role at Hunter. We just didn't have time. New York Ski Blog has a nice historical overview.I actually did ask Poole about D lift, the onetime triple-now-double parallel to Kaatskill Flyer, but we cut that segment in edit. A summary: the lift didn't run at all this past season, and Poole told me that, “we're keeping our options open,” when I asked him if D lift was a good candidate to be removed at some near-future point.Why now was a good time for this interviewThe better question is probably why I waited five-and-a-half years to feature the leader of the most prominent ski area in New York City's orbit on the podcast. Hunter was, after all, the first mountain I hit after moving to the city in 2002. But who does and does not appear on the podcast is grounded in timing more than anything. Vail announced its acquisition of Hunter parent company Peak Resorts just a couple of months before I launched The Storm, in 2019. No one, including me, really likes doing podcast interviews during transitions, which can be filled with optimism and energy, but also uncertainty and instability. The Covid asteroid then transformed what should have been a one-year transition period into more like a three-year transition period, which was followed by a leadership change at Hunter.But we're finally here. And, as it turns out, this was a pretty good time to arrive. Part of the perpetual Hunter mess tied back to the problem I alluded to above: the six-pack-Kaatskill-Flyer-as-alpha-lift muted the impact of the lesser contraptions around it. By dropping a second superlift right next door, Vail appears to have finally solved the problem of the Flyer's ever-exploding liftline.That's one part of the story, and the most obvious. But the snowmaking upgrades on key trails signal Hunter's intent to reclaim its trophy as Snow God of the New York Thruway. And the shuffling of lifts on Hunter East reconfigured the ski area's novice terrain into a more logical progression (true green-circle skiers, however, will be better off at nearby Belleayre, where the Lightning Quad serves an incredible pod of long and winding beginner runs).These 2024 improvements build on considerable upgrades from the Peak and Slutzky eras, including the 2018 Hunter North expansion and the massive learning center at Hunter East. If Hunter is to remain a cheap and accessible Epic Pass fishing net to funnel New Yorkers north to Stowe and west to Park City, even as neighboring Windham tilts ever more restrictive and expensive, then Vail is going to have to be creative and aggressive in how the mountain manages all those skiers. These upgrades are a promising start.Why you should ski Hunter MountainThink of a thing that is a version of a familiar thing but hits you like a completely different thing altogether. Like pine trees and palm trees are both trees, but when I first encountered the latter at age 19, they didn't feel like trees at all, but like someone's dream of a tree who'd had one described to them but had never actually seen one. Or horses and dolphins: both animals, right? But one you can ride like a little vehicle, and the other supposedly breathes air but lives beneath the sea plotting our extinction in a secret indecipherable language. Or New York-style pizza versus Domino's, which, as Midwest stock, I prefer, but which my locally born wife can only describe as “not pizza.”This is something like the experience you will have at Hunter Mountain if you show up knowing a good lot about ski areas, but not much about this ski area. Because if I had to make a list of ski areas similar to Hunter, it would include “that Gwar concert I attended at Harpos in Detroit when I was 18” and “a high-tide rescue scene in a lifeguard movie.” And then I would run out of ideas. Because there is no ski area anywhere remotely like Hunter Mountain.I mean that as spectacle, as a way to witness New York City's id manifest into corporeal form. Your Hunter Mountain Bingo card will include “Guy straightlining Racer's Edge with unzipped Starter jacket and backward baseball cap” and “Dude rocking short-sleeves in 15-degree weather.” The vibe is atomic and combustible, slightly intimidating but also riotously fun, like some snowy Woodstock:And then there's the skiing. I have never skied terrain like Hunter's. The trails swoop and dive and wheel around endless curves, as though carved into the Tower of Babel, an amazing amount of terrain slammed into an area that looks and feels constrained, like a bound haybale that, twine cut, explodes across your yard. Trails crisscross and split and dig around blind corners. None of it feels logical, but it all comes together somehow. Before the advent of Google Maps, I could not plot an accurate mental picture of how Hunter East, West, North, and whatever the hell they call the front part sat in relation to one another and formed a coherent single entity.I don't always like being at Hunter. And yet I've skied there more than I've skied just about anywhere. And not just because it's close. It's certainly not cheap, and the road in from the Thruway is a real pain in the ass. But they reliably spin the lifts from November to April, and fast lifts on respectable vert can add up quick. And the upside of crazy? Everyone is welcome.Podcast NotesOn Hunter's lift upgradesHunter orchestrated a massive offseason lift upgrade last year, moving the old Broadway (B) lift over to Hunter East, where the mountain demolished a 1968 Hall Double named “E,” and planted its third six-pack on a longer Broadway line. Check the old lines versus the new ones:On six-packs in New York StateNew York is home to more ski areas than any other state, but only eight of them run high-speed lifts, and only three host six-packs: Holiday Valley has one, Windham, next door to Hunter, has another, and Hunter owns the other three.On five new lifts at Jack Frost Big BoulderPart of Vail Resorts' massive 2022 lift upgrades was to replace eight old chairlifts at Jack Frost and Big Boulder with five modern fixed-grip quads.At Jack Frost, Paradise replaced the E and F doubles; Tobyhanna replaced the B and C triples; and Pocono replaced the E and F doubles:Over at Big Boulder, the Merry Widow I and II double-doubles made way for the Harmony quad. Vail also demolished the parallel Black Forest double, which had not run in a number of years. Blue Heron replaced an area once served by the Little Boulder double and Edelweiss Triple – check the side-by-side with Big Boulder's 2008 trailmap:Standing up so many lifts in such a short time is rare, but we do have other examples:* In 1998, Intrawest tore down up to a dozen legacy lifts and replaced them with five new ones: two high-speed quads, two fixed-grip quads, and the Cabriolet bucket lift (basically a standing gondola). A full discussion on that here.* American Skiing Company installed at least four chairlifts at Sugarbush in the summer of 1995, including the Slide Brook Express, a two-mile-long lift connection between its two mountains. More here.* Powder Mountain installed four chairlifts last summer.* Deer Valley built five chairlifts last summer, including a bubble six-pack, and is constructing eight more lifts this year.On Mad River Mountain, OhioMad River is about as prototypical a Midwest ski area as you can imagine: 300 vertical feet, 144 acres, 36 inches of average annual snowfall, and an amazing (for that size) nine ski lifts shooting all over the place:On Vail Resorts' acquisition timelineHunter is one of 17 U.S. ski areas that Vail purchased as part of its 2019 acquisition of Peak Resorts.On Hunter's 2018 expansionWhen Peak opened the Hunter West expansion for the 2018-19 ski season, a number of new glades appeared on the map:Most of those glades disappeared from the map. Why? We discuss.On Epic Pass accessHunter sits on the same unlimited Epic Local Pass tier as Okemo, Mount Snow, Breckenridge, Keystone, Crested Butte, and Stevens Pass. Here's an Epic Pass overview:You can also ski Hunter on the uber-cheap 32 Resorts version of the Epic Day Pass:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

How do you find and book fantastic experts to interview? And how can you use expert interviews to create content that stands out?To add value to our recent five-part miniseries on expert interviews, we're bringing back a fantastic conversation from 2023 with Sarah Goff-Dupont, prev. Principal Writer for Work Life by Atlassian, executive ghostwriter, and public speaker.Sarah delivered an insightful talk at Content Marketing World in 2022, Your Words, Not Mine: How (And Why) To Spice Up Your Content With Expert Interviews, which caught host Amy Wood's attention – so much so that she invited her onto the podcast to dig deeper into the topic. In this episode, originally recorded in early 2023 but still just as useful today, Amy explores the art of expert interviews with Sarah, covering everything from preparation to execution and repurposing. If you've been following our recent series, you'll know we're passionate about expert interviews and how they help create unique, high-value content. This episode ties in perfectly, providing a real-world perspective on how expert interviews are conducted in-house, why they're so powerful, and how they open up a world of content opportunities.Find out:Why expert interviews are a great way to create standout contentHow to find the right experts and get them to agree to an interviewThe best way to prepare and conduct interviewsHow to repurpose an interview into multiple pieces of valuable contentImportant links & mentions:Sarah Goff-Dupont on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahgoffdupont/Sarah on X: https://x.com/sarahgoffdupont/Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com/The Ultimate Guide to Impactful Video Interviews: https://www.content10x.com/video10x-exec/Watch our Expert Interviews Miniseries on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVwaHzx-z4d5RjYsCkPsQb2CrmIRTauIL&feature=shared Listen to our Expert Interviews Miniseries: https://player.captivate.fm/collection/e9615e3d-b2fe-4895-9329-11b8cdd449fdThe Ultimate Guide to Planning, Recording & Repurposing Expert Interviews to Fuel Your Entire Content Strategy: https://www.content10x.com/expert-interviews-ultimate-guide/Amy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/amywoods2/Amy's book: www.content10x.com/book (Content 10x: More Content, Less Time, Maximum Results)Amy Woods is the CEO and founder of Content 10x, a creative agency that provides specialist content strategy, creation and repurposing support to B2B organizations. She's also a best-selling author, hosts two content marketing podcasts (The Content 10x Podcast and B2B Content Strategist), and speaks on stages all over the world about the power of content marketing.Join hundreds of business owners, content creators and marketers and get the latest content marketing tips and advice delivered straight to your inbox every week

IntroductionLIVE from your ESG and DEI Teeth Bleaching Kit, it's a Business Pants Friday Show here at February 21st Studios, featuring AnalystHole Matt Moscardi. On today's weekly wrap up: Canada still cares, Rupert Murdoch knows how to text, the illusion of meritocracy, and an important new announcement from YouTubeOur show today is being sponsored by Free Float Analytics, the only platform measuring board power, connections, and performance for FREE.Story of the Week (DR):ESG Week MMBlackRock and Vanguard halt meetings with companies after SEC cracks down on ESGBlackRock resumes stewardship talks after reviewing new ESG guidanceProxy vote support for ESG drops to record low in 2024Clarification: ShareAction analyzed how 70 of the world's largest asset managers voted on 279 ESG shareholder resolutions during the 2024 proxy voting season:In 2024, only four (1.4%) out of the 279 resolutions we assessed received majority support, less than half of the percentage that gained a majority vote in 2023 (3%), and far lower than the 21% which passed in 2021.This is reflected in an ongoing downward trend in the average percentage support that these resolutions received, which was 20.6% in 2024 compared to 40% in 2021.Vanguard, the world's second largest asset manager, performed the worst of all the managers we assessed, voting in favour of 0% of shareholder proposals.Top 26 all in Europe1 GenAM (Italy) 982 BNP Paribas Asset Management (France) 973 PGGM Investments (Netherlands) 9728 Federated Hermes (top in US) 80BlackRock at #67 with a score of 5; Vanguard to out of 70 with a 0.Tesla Targeted With Worldwide Protests, Vandalism Tesla showrooms are being hit by a wave of anti-DOGE protestsSheryl Crow says goodbye to her Tesla and donates to NPR: 'You have to decide who you are willing to align with'Sign That Says “We Hate Him Too” Appears in Window of Tesla DealershipEconomist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession"Jesse Rothstein, DOL's chief economist at the start of the Obama administration: "This is going to be very, very bad."James Murdoch lays bare his relationship with ‘misogynist' father amid succession fight in rare interviewThe interview, published in the Atlantic, reveals James Murdoch, now 52, regarded his father, now 93, as a “misogynist” and described Fox News as a “menace” to US democracy.A series of “withering questions” put to James by Rupert's lawyer in a nearly five-hour session at a Manhattan law office. According to the Atlantic, the questions included:“Have you ever done anything successful on your own?”“Why were you too busy to say ‘Happy birthday' to your father when he turned 90?”“Does it strike you that, in your account, everything that goes wrong is always somebody else's fault?”The lawyer also referred to James and his sisters as “white, privileged, multibillionaire trust-fund babies”.James realised Rupert, who was seated silently, was texting the questions to the lawyer. “How fucking twisted is that?” he asks Coppins.UnitedHealth's rough stretch continues, with buyouts, a reported DOJ probe and a 23% drop in three monthsUnitedHealthcare is in hot water again as the insurance giant grapples with a reported government investigation of its Medicare billing practices, pursues employee buyouts and potential layoffs and faces sharp criticism from billionaire Bill Ackman.It extends a tumultuous period for its parent company, UnitedHealth Group, marked by the killing of a top executive, a costly cyberattack against its subsidiary and high medical costs.The Department of Justice has launched a civil fraud investigation in recent months into UnitedHealth's billing practices for its Medicare Advantage plansThe probe specifically examines whether diagnoses were routinely made to trigger extra payments in those plans, including at physician groups the insurer ownsGoodliest of the Week (MM/DR):DR: Canadian banks must reveal diversity of board, top managers under new rulesCanadian banks and other national institutions have to disclose information about the diversity of their boards of directors and top management under new rules published on Saturday, in sharp contrast with the U.S. Trump administration which is ending such practices.Federally regulated financial institutions must also disclose policies to increase diversity while sending out notices of annual meetings to shareholders."Investors lack transparent and standardized information on the representation of women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities in senior leadership positions … Diversity is fundamental to creating a thriving and successful financial sector that reflects Canadian values."DR: DEI is good for our business, Coca-Cola saysIn an annual filing, the company said its business could be adversely affected if it was "unable to attract or retain specialized talent or top talent with diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds."DR: REVERSAL: Trump rescinds DOT approval for NYC congestion toll, condemns city to pollutionDR: REVERSAL: Amazon workers reject union in vote at North Carolina warehouseOf the 3,276 ballots cast, there were 2,447 votes opposing the union and 829 in favor, according to the National Labor Relations Board.CAUSE was founded in 2022 by RDU1 employees Mary Hill and Rev. Ryan Brown to voice concerns about the company's response to the Covid pandemic, which they viewed as inadequate. The group sought to organize RDU1 to boost wages and secure longer breaks.Starting pay at RDU1 is $18.50 an hour. CAUSE has pushed to negotiate for wages of $30 an hour.Unions have enjoyed increasing support across the country, with 67% of Americans saying they approve of labor unions, according to Gallup.North Carolina had the lowest union membership rate in the country last year, with only 2.4% of workers in the state represented, according to the BLS.MM: NASA Has Some Good News About The Asteroid That Could Hit EarthMM: Finally, a future lawsuit against return to office mandates is here: Afternoon Naps Boost Your Problem-Solving, Study Finds110 minute nap!!MM: What's in that drink? Starbucks becomes less Instagrammable. MM DRAssholiest of the Week (MM):Meritocracy, the new buzzword DRExxon Swaps 'Diversity' for 'Meritocracy' in Report to InvestorsAccording to our data, ONE of Exxon's TWELVE directors meets relatively unimpeachable “merit” measures: advanced knowledge of the industry, network power, economic interest in the company, performance (earnings and TSR) at any company board they sit on, and CEO or leadership positions in the past.The ONE member that hits three of the five is Kaisa Hietala, who was a dissent director put there by Engine No 1 in an activist voteHere's why merit's missing: 7 of 12 directors are white menThere are no people of color anywhere except the two twofers - the woman born in Egypt who lived in Texas her whole life and was part of Trump 1.0, and the black guy on three other boards?Our data shows on average black women have more merit on paper than any other cohortNew plan: companies need to announce “increased meritocracy targets” - increasing the number of employees, executives, and directors meet meritocracy requirements by 2050The result will be: 100% of every company is black womenYou're welcomeIt's your job, assholeBoeing CEO praises Elon Musk for helping with the delayed Air Force One delivery: 'He's a brilliant guy'Your literal job is to build that thing for a client - imagine if we developed sucky director data, then said we hired ISS to build it because, “they're better at it!”Investors - you elected this board, this fool, and it's your money - is your job as owner the company to keep on a board and management team that needs help to do its basic job?Just a reminder: Ohio AG sued Boeing's board for safety failures - they can't keep their planes safe, they can't build new planes, they can't figure out how to deal with their employees… and the lowest vote against wasn't for prior CEO Dave Calhoun, it was for the guy who chaired the safety committee… for one year!Ohio voted FOR THEM ALLWhat it was always aboutThe worst version of fuck, marry, kill… fuck anyone with a vagina since you're a middle school boy, marry money, and kill… peopleAn Influencer Says She Had Elon Musk's Baby and the Drama Is Pretty Spectacular, Even by His StandardsElon Musk has a problem with X's Community Notes when he disapproves of the resultsElon Musk Is Flagrantly Gutting an Agency in Charge of Regulating TeslaTesla recalls more than 375,000 vehicles due to power steering issueHeadliniest of the WeekDR: Zuckerberg's New Metaverse Ad Is So Bad That the People Who Created It Must Be Secretly Trying to Embarrass HimMM: YouTube picked a new shade of red for its logo because the old red was too red - because the old color, hex code #FF1B1B was super loud and diverse, they made it a less diverse woke red, hex code #EB2F3BWho Won the Week?DR: NYC pollutionMM: Investor Relations Teams: BlackRock and Vanguard halt meetings with companies after SEC cracks down on ESG. BlackRock resumes stewardship talks after reviewing new ESG guidance. Not said but implied: “don't worry, we totally can't actually do stuff now, we're just talking here”PredictionsDR: Robbie Starbuck sues Coca-Cola because color of Coke is “too DEI”MM: Apple, prior to their upcoming meeting, sues Inspire Investing and Wayne Franzten, who copy pasted a shareholder proposal submitted by Bowyer Research, the company propped up by ISS, to Deere for a meeting in the same week. The lawsuit is on the grounds that Wayne Franzten doesn't exist (the only search result for his name is the Apple proposal, not even in voter records or political donation or real estate records can I find him - and this is his ONLY shareholder proposal in our database EVER), and on the grounds that a religious investor cannot sue on the grounds of financial materiality since Jesus said, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” | Mark 10:24b-25 and “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” | Luke 12:13-15, which means churches are anti-shareholder value.

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You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoJustin Steck, owner of Steeplechase ski area, MinnesotaRecorded onJanuary 7, 2025About SteeplechaseOwned by: Justin SteckLocated in: Mazeppa, MinnesotaYear founded: 1999, by Kevin Kastler; closed around 2007; re-opened Feb. 4, 2023 by SteckPass affiliations: Freedom Pass, which offers three days for Steeplechase season passholders at each of these ski areas:Reciprocal partnersClosest neighboring ski areas: Coffee Mill (:45), Welch Village (:41)Base elevation: 902 feetSummit elevation: 1,115 feetVertical drop: 213 feetSkiable acres: 45 acresAverage annual snowfall: N/ATrail count: 21 (9 easy, 7 intermediate, 5 advanced)Lift count: 4 (2 triples, 2 doubles – view Lift Blog's inventory of Steeplechase's lift fleet)Why I interviewed himThey seem to be everywhere, once you know where to look. Abandoned ski areas, rusting, fading. Time capsules. Hoses coiled and stacked. Chairs spaced and numbered along the liftline. Paperwork scattered on desks. Doors unlocked. No explanation. No note. As though the world stopped in apocalypse.America has lost more ski areas than it has kept. Most will stay lost. Many are stripped, almost immediately, of the things that made them commercially viable, of lifts and snowguns and groomers, things purchased at past prices and sold at who-cares discounts and irreplaceable at future rates. But a few ski areas idle as museums, isolated from vandals, forgotten by others, waiting, like ancient crypts, for a great unearthing.Who knew that Steeplechase stood intact? Who knew, really, that the complex existed in the first place, those four motley cobbled-together chairlifts spinning, as they did, for just eight years in the Minnesota wilderness? As though someone pried open a backlot shed on a house they'd purchased years before and found, whole and rebuilt, a Corvette of antique vintage. Pop in a new battery, change the sparkplugs, inflate the tires, and it's roaring once again.Sometimes in the summer I'll wander around one of these lost ski areas, imagining what it was, what it could be again. There's one a bit over an hour north of me, Tuxedo Ridge, its four double chairs stilled, its snowguns pointed skyward, holes in the roof and skis scattered about the lodge. To restore a ski area, I sometimes think, is harder than to build one whole from the earth. Most operators I speak with recoil at the very idea.Which is why, I think, most lost ski area rebuilding or revitalization stories are led by outsiders: Norway Mountain, Holiday Mountain, Tenney, Teton Pass, Paul Bunyan. By the time they realize they're doing an impossible thing, they've done too much to surrender. When Steck acquired the Steeplechase property around 2016, he didn't really know what he'd do with it. He wanted land, and here was some land. Except the land happened to hold a forgotten-but-intact ski area.Bit by bit, he rebuilt the business: restoring the chapel for weddings, then the tubing lanes, then the chairlifts. He didn't ask permission. He didn't make any big proclamation. Suddenly, one winter day in 2023, a ski area that everyone had forgotten was a ski area reappeared in the world. And isn't that interesting?What we talked aboutA much stronger start to the 2024-25 Midwestern winter; big expansion potential and when that could happen; the mental march through the rough 2023-24 winter; considering future non-holiday midweek operations; snowmobile racing; how a house-flipping career led Steck to Steeplechase; a snapshot of the ski area lost in time in 2016; rebuilding a ski hill is “a big logistical nightmare on a regular basis,” especially during Covid; the fuzzy origins of Steeplechase's four chairlifts; Midwest tough; Steeplechase's founding; Freedom Pass; why Steeplechase isn't on Indy Pass even though a spring announcement indicated that the ski area would be; and potentially America's first 2025-26 season pass sale.What I got wrongMy ski-areas-that-double-as-snowmobile-areas breakdown was not quite right. Cockaigne was, as far as I know, the only New York ski area to explicitly turn a portion of its trails over to snowmobiles, and only during the ski area's short-lived resurgence (2020 to 2022-ish). Check out the circa 2020 trailmap - all the green-laced trails have been set aside as a snowmobile fun park:That whole section was once ski trails, and the Hall double that served them is, as far as I know, still standing (lift E below):Cockaigne is not currently an active ski area.I also mentioned Snow Ridge, New York as being a snowmobile-friendly ski area, but what I meant by that was that snowmobilers often use the ski area's parking lot to access trails that happen to connect there. The same dynamic seems to play out at Royal Mountain, which sits a bit farther south in the Adirondacks.Why now was a good time for this interviewThe typical ski area re-opening story is public, incremental, tortuous, and laced with doubt. See: Saddleback, Hatley Pointe, Cuchara, Granite Gorge, Norway. Will they or won't they? Haters and doubters commandeer the narrative. “Never gonna happen.” Then it happens and I'm all like phew. High fives and headlines.But Steeplechase just… reappeared. It was the damnedest thing. Like a Japanese ghost ship bumping onto the Oregon shoreline years after its dislodge-by-tsunami. Oh that thing? We'd forgotten all about it. One day Steck just turned two lifts on and said come ski here and people did.When I spoke to Steck a couple of months after that February 2023 soft opening, he underscored his long-term intention to fully re-open the bump. The following ski season – last winter – was the worst in the recorded history of Midwest skiing. Steck somehow punched his way through the high temps and rain that challenged even the most seasoned operators. He'd restored all the lifts, amped up the snowmaking, cleared the old trails. Steeplechase, a ski area that was barely a ski area to begin with, had, improbably, returned. Permanently, it seemed.The story doesn't make a lot of sense in a 2025 U.S. ski world dominated by national ski passes, consolidation, and the exploding cost of everything. But it happened: a guy who'd never worked in skiing and didn't know much about skiing bought and restored a Midwest ski area with little fuss and fanfare. And now it exists. And there's a lot we can learn from that.Why you should ski SteeplechaseConsider the ski-area-as-artwork. One person's interpretation of wilderness bent in service of ordered recreation, with the caprice of winds and weather intact. Run a lift up one face, hack a trail down another. A twitch and a bend, re-ordered by machines. Trees left over there. Go ahead and ski between them if there's snow. A logic to it, but bewildering too, the manifestation of a human mind carved into an incline.Context is important here. Crazy old Merls were hacking trails all over the country in the decades after World War II, stringing inexpensive lifts from valley to summit with little concern for whether the snow would fall. But it's incredible that Steeplechase opened in 1999, near the end of the Ski Area Extinction Event that began in the mid-70s, with four cobbled-together chairlifts and a surprisingly broad and varied trail network.Imagine someone doing that today? It's hard to. At least in North America. That makes Steeplechase one of the last of its kind, the handmade ski area willed into being by good ole' boys nailing s**t together. That is failed once is unsurprising. That it returned as a second-generation, second-hand relic is a kind of miracle. There aren't a lot of ski areas left like Steeplechase – unfussy, unfrenzied, improvisational works-in-progress that you can pull up to and ski without planning two election cycles in advance. You're unlikely to have the best ski day of your life here, but it's pretty cool that you can ski here at all. And so why not go do it?Podcast notesOn expansion potentialThe Google Earth view of Steeplechase hides the little ski area's big expansion potential, as it's hard to tell where the earth rises and dips. Looking at the topo map side-by-side, however, and you can see the ridgelines rising off what may be an ancient riverbed, leaving plenty of hills to build into:On Midwest toughI grew up in the Midwest and moved away a couple of decades ago. Transplanted onto the East Coast, I can appreciate some inherent Midwestern character traits that are less prevalent outside the region, including an ability to absorb foul weather. One of the best articulations of this that I've read was in this 2006 New York Times piece, on Wyoming industry recruiting workers from Michigan:Wyoming recruiters say there is another element to their admiration for Michigan. Not only are the people there akin to Wyomingites in the ways and wiles of work, but they also have an inner toughness, they say, that can only come from surviving harsh northern winters.The state tried a job campaign in the South last fall after Hurricane Katrina, hoping to draw displaced oil industry workers. But the effort largely flopped when people who were used to working on the balmy Gulf Coast got wind of what life can be like in Wyoming in January.On Steeplechase's season passSteeplechase may have launched America's first 2025-26 ski season pass: for $300, ski the rest of this winter and next. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Send us a textThere are major challenges for international students recruiting into consulting in the U.S. But Thomas Poloniato beat the odds, landing at McKinsey and working his way up to Engagement Manager.At McKinsey, Thomas focused on ESG issues for clients and also stood up an ESG-focused "internal start-up" at the firm. He interviewed 150+ candidates and knows exactly what McKinsey looks for.Now, he's a Management Consulted case coach. Listen to learn:Important mindset shifts to give yourself an edgeHow to go all-in on networkingWhy live casing beats videos/books every dayHow many cases Thomas practiced to land his interviewThe 2 traits that set top candidates apartThomas' approach to case coachingCoaching with ThomasSee Thomas' coaching calendarRead more about ThomasPurchase CoachingNeed case interview help? Purchase 1, 4, or 8 hours of MBB coaching hereJoin the Black Belt case prep program to become a confident caser (8 hours 1:1 coaching, resume edits, and more)Partner LinksMore info on Palm Tree careersConnect With Management Consulted Follow Management Consulted on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok for the latest updates and industry insights. Schedule a free 15min consultation with a member of the Management Consulted team. Join an upcoming live event - case interviews demos, expert panels, and more. Email our team (team@managementconsulted.com) with any questions or feedback.

It's hard to believe, but Claim Your Confidence has now released over 80 episodes since our launch as a podcast in 2023. To celebrate this milestone and thank our audience who has tuned in from the very beginning, this episode was recorded from a live call-in Q&A session where I answered all of your burning questions about confidence, career-building, and everything in between. If you're thinking about making a big leap or are just looking for some extra motivation in your day-to-day life, be sure to listen in to hear my advice on:Remembering to celebrate the big and small wins in every aspect of your lifeHow to prepare for and ace any interviewThe ins and outs of networking, whether it be within your company, through a shared interest, or via social mediaReclaiming and maintaining your confidence at work and as a parent, and what I do on days when I don't feel confidentUnderstanding the landscape of your life and knowing how to optimize your productivityFollow Lydia:www.lydiafenet.comIG: @lydiafenetLinkedIn: Lydia FenetIf you enjoyed this episode and you'd like to help support the podcast, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on Apple or Spotify or where ever you get your podcasts. Feel free to record a question here so I can answer it on the next episode of Claim Your Confidence.To stay up to date with Claim Your Confidence and get all the behind-the-scenes content, you can follow us on Instagram and on YouTube.Recorded at The Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center.Thank you for listening.

What would you do if your job ended tomorrow? Even though you might want to say, “Take this job and shove it,” that won't help build stepping stones to your next job.In this episode, we discuss: what it's like for physician coaches who regularly work with docs in this situation, getting fired, dealing with unexpected events that shake up professional stability, planning for career disruption, the importance of networking, and finding your clinical practice N plus one.

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Dec. 8. It dropped for free subscribers on Dec. 15. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoBenjamin Bartz, General Manager of Snowriver, MichiganRecorded onNovember 13, 2023About SnowriverClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Midwest Family Ski ResortsLocated in: Wakefield (Jackson Creek Summit) and Bessemer (Black River Basin), MichiganYear founded: 1959 (Jackson Creek, as Indianhead) and 1977 (Black River Basin, as Blackjack)Pass affiliations:Legendary Pass (also includes varying access to Lutsen Mountains, Minnesota and Granite Peak, Wisconsin)* Gold: unlimited access* Silver: unlimited access* Bronze: unlimited midweek access with holiday blackoutsThe Indy Base Pass and Indy+ Pass also include two Snowriver days with no blackoutsClosest neighboring ski areas: Big Powderhorn (:14), Mt. Zion Ski Hill (:17), Whitecap Mountains (:39); Porkies Winter Sports Complex (:48)Base elevation:* Jackson Creek: 1,212 feet* Black River Basin: 1,185 feetSummit elevation:* Jackson Creek: 1,750 feet* Black River Basin: 1,675 feetVertical drop:* Jackson Creek: 538 feet* Black River Basin: 490 feetSkiable Acres: 400 (both ski areas combined)* Jackson Creek: 230* Black River Basin: 170Average annual snowfall: 200 inchesTrail count: 71 trails, 17 glades, 3 terrain parks* Jackson Creek: 43 trails, 11 glades, 2 terrain parks* Black River Basin: 28 trails, 6 glades, 1 terrain parkLift count: 11 (1 six-pack, 6 doubles, 1 T-bar, 2 ropetows, 1 carpet)* Jackson Creek Summit: 6 (1 six-pack, 2 doubles, 1 T-bar, 1 ropetow, 1 carpet)* Black River Basin: 5 (4 doubles, 1 ropetow)View historic Snowriver trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed himI could tell this story as a Michigan story, as a young skier still awed by the far-off Upper Peninsula, that remote and wild and snowy realm Up North and Over the Bridge. I could tell it as a weather story, of glacial bumps bullseyed in the greatest of the Great Lakes snowbelts. Or as a story of a run-down complex tumbling into hyper-change, or one that activated the lifts in 1978 and just left them spinning. It's an Indy Pass story, a ski area with better skiing than infrastructure that will give you a where's-everyone-else kind of ski day. And it's a Midwest Family Ski Resorts (MFSR) story, skiing's version of a teardown, where nothing is sacred and everything will change and all you can do is stand back and watch the wrecking ball swing and the scaffolding go up the sides.Each of these is tempting, and the podcast is inevitably a mash-up. Writing about the Midwest will always be personal to me. The UP is that Great Otherplace, where the snow is bottomless and everything is cheap and everyone is somewhere else. Snowriver is both magnificently retro and badly in need of updating. And it is a good ski area and a solid addition to the Indy Pass.But, more than anything, the story of Snowriver is the story of MFSR and the Skinner family. There is no better ski area operator. They have equals but no betters. You know how when a certain actor or director gets involved in something, or when a certain athlete moves to a new team, you think, “Man, that's gonna be good.” They project excellence. Everything they touch absorbs it. Did you know that one man, Shigeru Miyamoto, invented, among others, the Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, and Star Fox franchises, and has directed or produced every sequel of every game for four decades? Time calls him “the Spielberg of video games.” Well, the Skinners are the Spielberg – or perhaps the Miyamoto – of Midwest skiing. Everything they touch becomes the best version of that thing that it can achieve. What we talked aboutSnowriver's new six-pack lift; why Snowriver removed three chairlifts but only added one; the sixer's all-new line; why Midwest Family Ski Resorts (MFSR) upgraded this lift first; the rationale behind a high-speed lift on a 538-vertical-foot hill; knocking 100 vertical feet off Jackson Creek Summit's advertised vertical drop; “Voyager” versus “Voyageur”; swapping out the old Poma for a handletow; the UP snowbelt; the bad old days of get out of the trees you blasted kids!; Gogebic Community College's ski area management program; Mt. Zion, Michigan; Giants Ridge, Minnesota; the Big Snow time capsule; why MFSR purchased Snowriver; Mount Bohemia; changing the name from “Big Snow” to “Snowriver”; where an interconnect lift could run and what sort of lift it could be; why Snowriver renamed all the lifts and many trails on the Black River Basin side; potential future lift upgrades on both sides of the resort; potential terrain expansion; new and renamed trails and 17 new glades on the 2023-24 trailmap; the small parcel of Snowriver that sits on U.S. Forest Service land; why Black River Basin is only open Thursday through Sunday; and a joint pass to Snowriver, Granite Peak, and Lutsen.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewThe entity now known as Midwest Family Ski Resorts has been running ski areas for decades. I've been running The Storm for four years. So by the time I launched in 2019 and then expanded out of the Northeast in 2021, MFSR had already transformed Granite Peak and Lutsen into modern Midwestern giants. Their work on Granite had been particularly impressive, as they'd transformed Wisconsin's beat-up and decrepit Rib Mountain into a sprawling and modern ski area.I mean look at this dump:And here's the same ski area in 2023:So what a gift when, last year, the company announced the purchase of the side-by-side time capsules then known as Indianhead and Blackjack. A rare chance to see that Skinner magic uncorked on a beat-up backwater, to watch, in real time, that transformation into something humming and hefty and modern.Most multi-mountain operators buy diamonds, ski areas already streamlined and upgraded and laced with modern machines. MFSR digs deeper, finds coal, then pounds it into its final form. It's a rough and expensive way to go, but the strategy carries the great advantage of maximum flexibility to sculpt a mountain into your daydream.The dream at Snowriver is straightforward but impossibly complex: modernize the snowmaking, chairlifts, bedbase, trail network, and grooming; connect the two ski areas with an aerial lift; and establish this snowy but remote complex as a legitimate midwestern destination ski resort. MFSR has, as expected, moved quickly, rebranding the resort; removing five(!) lifts from the Jackson Creek Summit side and building an outrageously expensive six-pack; and making dozens of subtle tweaks to the trail network, adding new runs, renaming lifts and trails, and dropping more than a dozen marked glades onto the trailmap.This period of rapid change, pronounced as it is, will likely be viewed, historically, as a simple prelude. MFSR is not the sort of operator that lays out grand plans and then glances at them through its binoculars every three years. They plan and tear s**t apart and build and build and build. They act how every skier thinks they would act were they to purchase their own ski area. The difference is that MFSR has money, ambition, and a history of transformational action. Watch, amazed, as this thing grows.Questions I wish I'd askedBartz started Ben's Blog, a cool little update series on Snowriver's goings-on. I wanted to get into his motivation and mission here, but we were running long.I also wanted to get into a unique feature of Snowriver a bit more: the huge amount of onsite lodging, which was a big motivating factor in MFSR's purchase, and a large part of the vision for building a sustainable destination ski resort in a region that has struggled to support one.What I got wrongI said that the four Black River Basin Riblet chairlifts dated to the 1970s, and then corrected myself to say that “I believe” one dated to the ‘80s. Ascender, Brigantine, and Draw Stroke date to 1977; Capstan was installed in 1983.Why you should ski SnowriverEver wonder what it's like to ski in 1978? Pull up to Black River Basin, boot up, and walk over to the lifts. There, you just time traveled. Centerpole Riblet doubles, painted ‘Nam chopper green, squeaking uphill, not a safety bar in sight. There's snowmaking, but most of the snow you're skiing on blew in off the big lake 11 miles north. Skiers in their modern fat skis and helmets would blow the illusion, but there are no other skiers to be found.Then a kid skis by, backpack speaker booming, and you're like, “OK phew for a second I thought I'd really time-traveled and would be forced to do things like drive around the block without navigation assistance and carry around a camera that was not also a supercomputer and required $15 to purchase and develop 24 photographs.”If Black River Basin is the past, then Jackson Creek Summit is the future. That sixer landed like an Abrams tank on a Civil War battlefield. I took this video of the old summit double last February:Now look at the top of the six-pack, which sits on more or less the same spot:Wild, right? Snowriver is going to keep changing, and it will keep changing fast. Go see it before you miss what it was, so you can truly appreciate what it will become.Podcast NotesOn the four removed chairlifts on the Jackson Creek Summit sideSnowriver's new six-pack directly or indirectly replaces four old lifts. The resort also switched up the trail network, with a bunch of new glades and a handful of reconfigured trails. Check out the Jackson Creek Summit side of the resort's trailmap from pre-sixer and then today (note, also, all the newly marked glades and renamed trails):On the new trails on the Black River Basin sideMFSR has also renamed most of the lifts and trails on the Black River Basin side, and removed a handle tow (which is now on the Jackson Creek Summit side). Here's a side-by-side of the ski area's 2018 and 2023 trailmaps:On Gogebic Community College and Mt. ZionSo you can actually earn a college degree in ski area management. There are a few schools that do this, one of which is Michigan's Gogebic Community College. From the program's overview page:OverviewThe Ski Area Management Program at GCC is one of the nation's most comprehensive training programs for individuals interested in pursuing a career in the snow sport industry. Technical and academic study is combined with a practical internship which is conducted at major resorts throughout Coast to Coast.  A valid driver's license is required for completion of this program.Unique FeaturesStudents spend their freshman year and the first eight weeks of their sophomore year completing prerequisite courses. During this period, the Mt. Zion Recreation Complex is utilized as a training laboratory. Mt. Zion is our college-owned and operated winter sport complex located on campus which is open to the public.  Co-opThe Cooperative Work Experience assignment (Co-op) is the capstone of the Ski Area Management Program. All sophomore Students participate in the five month internship where they gain important operational experience in an actual resort environment.The huge advantage that Mt. Zion has over similar programs is that it owns an on-site ski area, Mt. Zion. While this is just a 300-vertical-foot bump served by a double chair, it's laced with some twisty fun little runs fed by 200 inches of annual lake effect:On Giants RidgeBartz really launched his career as Mountain Operations Manager at Giants Ridge, a 500-footer in the Northern Minnesota hinterlands. Here's the most recent trailmap:On the UP snowbeltFor such a remote area, the UP is home to one of the densest concentrations of ski areas in America. Five ski areas sit within a 21-mile stretch along the Wisconsin-Michigan border: Whitecap (in Wisconsin), and Mt. Zion, Big Powderhorn, and the two Snowriver ski areas, all in Michigan. Here's how they line up:On the proximity of MFSR's portfolioMFSR's three ski areas are, as a unit, really well positioned to serve the major Midwestern cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Milwaukee, and Chicago. Here's where they sit in relation to one another:And here's the distance table between them:On Rick SchmitzRick Schmitz – who owns Little Switzerland, Nordic Mountain, and The Rock Snowpark in Wisconsin – once owned Blackjack, now Black River Basin. He relays that experience, and why he ultimately sold his interest in the ski area, starting at the 39:40 mark of this podcast we recorded together last year:On Mount BohemiaBoho is, as I've written many times, one of the most amazing and unique ski areas in America. It has no grooming, no snowmaking, and no beginner terrain. It's lodged at the ass-end of nowhere, on a peninsula hanging off a peninsula in the fiery middle of Lake Superior. While regional lore credits (or blames) the renaissance of MFSR's Granite Peak with looting Snowriver's skiers, the rise of Bohemia, which opened in 2000, surely drew more advanced skiers farther north. Here's a trailmap:And here's a conversation I recorded with Boho owner, founder, and president Lonie Glieberman last year:On two ski areas becoming oneFor decades, the two Snowriver ski areas now known as Jackson Creek Summit and Black River Basin were separate, competing entities known, respectively, as Indianhead and Blackjack. Observe the varied style of trailmaps of recent vintage:At some point, the same entity took possession of both hills and introduced the “Big Snow Resort” umbrella name. Each ski area retained its legacy name, as you can see in this joint trailmap circa 2018:Then, last year, MFSR changed the umbrella name from “Big Snow” to “Snowriver,” and changed the name of each ski area (though they framed this as “base area renamings”) from Indianhead and Blackjack to Jackson Creek Summit and Black River Basin, respectively. I broke down the name change when MFSR announced it last September.On the Snowriver interconnectBartz provided outlines of four potential interconnect lines. In all cases, Jackson Creek Summit sits on the left, and Black River Basin is on the right:On US 2The Snowriver ski areas both sit off of US 2, a startling fact, perhaps, for skiers who use the same road to access ski areas as far-flung as Stevens Pass, Washington and Sunday River, Maine. US 2 is, in fact, a 2,571-mile-long road that runs in two segments: from Everett, Washington to St. Ignace, Michigan; then breaking for Canada before picking up in northern New York and running across Vermont and New Hampshire into Maine. It is the northernmost cross-country east-west highway in America. Ski areas that sit along or near the route include Stevens Pass and Mt. Spokane, Washington; Schweitzer, Idaho; Blacktail and Whitefish, Montana; Spirit Mountain, Minnesota; Big Powderhorn, Mt. Zion, Snowriver, Ski Brule, and Pine Mountain, Michigan; Bolton Valley, Vermont; and Sunday River, Titcomb, and Hermon Mountain, Maine; among others.On the Legendary PassFor the 2023-24 ski season, MFSR dispensed with offering single-mountain season passes, and combined all three of its properties onto the Legendary Pass. The gold tier, which is now sold out, debuted at $675 last spring. The Silver tier ran $475 early bird, which is not a material increase from the $419 Snowriver-only 2021-22 season pass (which did not include any Granite or Lutsen access):The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 106/100 in 2023, and number 491 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Getting an interview for a dream role is great news, but it's easy for nerves to take over. If you aren't sure how best to prepare for interviews, or have been going to interviews and not getting job offers then this episode is for youWe share our tips based on years of both recruiting candidates and helping people prepare for interviews Key points from this episodeWhy preparation should start before you get offered an interviewThe best approach to advance preparationHow to anticipate the questions you might be askedThe importance of researching the company and marketBeing memorable by asking the right questions of hiring managersUseful LinksConnect with Pam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelalangancoaching/ Connect with Jacqui on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqui-jagger/ Follow Jacqui on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@practicalleadershipcoachInterested in working with us? Book a virtual cuppa to talk to us about recruitment support, leadership development or outplacement / redundancy supportEnjoyed this Episode? If you enjoyed this episode, please take the time to rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or SpotifyMake sure you're first to hear about new episodes, along with bonus content and free career and leadership tips by signing up on the Career & Leadership Real Talk website

Go behind the scenes of HR Coffee Time and learn what to expect if you're a guest on the show, and how to set yourself up for a successful interview. In this episode, Fay explains:The benefits of being a guest on HR Coffee TimeOvercoming nervousness and preparing for the interviewThe interview processTips for a successful interviewTechnical aspects of the interviewTips to reduce filler wordsThe importance of keeping the audience in mindHow to become a guest on HR Coffee Time Useful LinksConnect with Fay on LinkedInFay's website: Bright Sky Career CoachingThe HR PlannerLooking For the Transcript?You can find transcripts for all episodes on the HR Coffee Time section of the Bright Sky Career Coaching website.Rate and Review the PodcastIf you found this episode of HR Coffee Time helpful, please rate and review it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. This video shows you how to rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts (because it isn't very intuitive). If you're kind enough to leave a review, let Fay know so she can say thank you. You can always reach her at: fay@brightskycareercoaching.co.uk. Enjoyed This Episode? Don't Miss the Next One!Be notified each time a new episode of HR Coffee Time is released and get access to other free career tips, tools and resources by signing up to receive the free weekly HR Coffee Time email.Mentioned in this episode:Get Your 2024 HR PlannerSet yourself up for the best year of your HR career with the 2024 HR Planner. Order your copy today. 2024 hardback HR Planner

Welcome to the next discussion in our special series of  Heart and Hustle interviews! Inspired conversations with several of the Global Caravan Master Teachers and Leaders who are sharing their history, their dance, their workshops, and their ideas for The Gathering- Strong Roots, 2023 Today with Amanda Starshine, from Oregon #170

In Episode #020 I discuss 5 jobs scientists can do away from the lab, debate the evolving nature of remote work, and provide 2 concrete strategies to create career capital for your next role. Oh and I (stupidly) try to respond to your conspiracy theories about science.Chapters:* (0:00) Introduction * (1:38) 5 jobs scientists can do away from the lab * (8:33) Zoom cancels working from home * (10:54) Is it legal for employers to ban remote work? * (13:03) How to get better at job interviews * (17:40) Stand out with a Digital Visual Resume * (20:38) Scientist reacts to your conspiracy theoriesShow notes:5 Jobs Scientists can do remotely/work from homeZoom forces employees to come back to the officeCan your employer force you back to the office?Tell me about yourself in a job interviewThe value of Digital Visual ResumesThanks for reading BioLab Collective with Jack Wang! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Get full access to BioLab Collective with Jack Wang at biolabcollective.substack.com/subscribe

Almost everyone we know is interviewing for a new job right now. Lay-offs are rampant, job dissatisfaction is at an all-time high, and the application process has gotten OUT OF CONTROL with so many rounds of interviews and case studies. In a sea of applicants, how do you stand apart? How do you show up with confidence, in the driver's seat, and with experiences you can use to answer ANY question? We've done our fair share of job interviews and wanted to share our most successful tips for standing out in the process. Join us as we chat about:How to stay in control of any job interviewThe importance of asking about the hiring processPracticing examples to leverage for any questionWhy you should come with a list of questionsThe key questions and suggestions to impress your interviewerWe hope this episode helps prepare you to crush your next job interview — you've got this! PS: If you've been toying with the idea of launching a podcast but aren't sure where to start or how to grow, check our consulting services at teachmehowtoadult.ca/howtopodcast!Check out our episode with Emily the Recruiter: Teach Me How To Land My Next Job, Prep For Interviews and Crush Applications, with Emily The RecruiterSign up for our monthly adulting newsletter:teachmehowtoadult.ca/newsletter Follow us on the ‘gram:instagram.com/teachmehowtoadultmedia @yunggillianaire@cailynmichaan

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on May 2. It dropped for free subscribers on May 5. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe for free below:WhoTom Fortune, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Heavenly and Vail's Tahoe Region (Heavenly, Northstar, and Kirkwood)Recorded onApril 25 , 2023About Heavenly and Vail's Tahoe RegionHeavenlyClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Stateline, Nevada and South Lake Tahoe, CaliforniaYear founded: 1955Pass affiliations: Unlimited access on Epic Pass; Unlimited access with holiday blackouts on Epic Local Pass, Tahoe Local Pass, Tahoe Value PassClosest neighboring ski areas: Sierra-at-Tahoe (30 minutes), Diamond Peak (45 minutes), Kirkwood (51 minutes), Mt. Rose (1 hour), Northstar (1 hour), Sky Tavern (1 hour, 5 minutes) - travel times vary dramatically given weather conditions and time of day.Base elevation: 6,565 feet at California Lodge; the Heavenly Gondola leaves from Heavenly Village at 6,255 feet – when snowpack allows, you can ski all the way to the village, though this is technically backcountry terrainSummit elevation: 10,040 feet at the top of Sky ExpressVertical drop: 3,475 feet from the summit to California Lodge; 3,785 feet from the summit to Heavenly VillageSkiable Acres: 4,800Average annual snowfall: 360 inches (570 inches for 2022-23 ski season as of May 2)Trail count: 97Lift count: 26 lifts (1 50-passenger tram, 1 eight-passenger gondola, 2 six-packs, 8 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 5 triples, 2 doubles, 2 ropetows, 4 carpets)NorthstarClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Truckee, CaliforniaYear founded: 1972Pass affiliations: Unlimited access on Epic Pass; Unlimited access with holiday blackouts on Epic Local Pass, Tahoe Local Pass; unlimited with holiday and Saturday blackouts on Tahoe Value PassClosest neighboring ski areas: Tahoe Donner (24 minutes), Boreal (25 minutes), Donner Ski Ranch (27 minutes), Palisades Tahoe (27 minutes), Diamond Peak (27 minutes), Soda Springs (29 minutes), Kingvale (32 minutes), Sugar Bowl (33 minutes), Mt. Rose (34 minutes), Homewood (35 minutes), Sky Tavern (39 minutes), Heavenly (1 hour) - travel times vary dramatically given weather conditions and time of day.Base elevation: 6,330 feetSummit elevation: 8,610 feetVertical drop: 2,280 feetSkiable Acres: 3,170Average annual snowfall: 350 inches (665 inches for 2022-23 ski season as of May 2)Trail count: 106Lift count: 19 (1 six-passenger gondola, 1 pulse gondola, 1 chondola with 6-pack chairs & 8-passenger cabins, 1 six-pack, 6 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 2 triples, 1 platter, 5 magic carpets)KirkwoodClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Vail ResortsLocated in: Kirkwood, CaliforniaYear founded: 1972Pass affiliations: Unlimited access on Epic Pass, Kirkwood Pass; Unlimited access with holiday blackouts on Epic Local Pass, Tahoe Local Pass; unlimited with holiday and Saturday blackouts on Tahoe Value PassClosest neighboring ski areas: Sierra-at-Tahoe (48 minutes), Heavenly (48 minutes) - travel times vary dramatically given weather conditions and time of day.Base elevation: 7,800 feetSummit elevation: 9,800 feetVertical drop: 2,000 feetSkiable Acres: 2,300Average annual snowfall: 354 inches (708 inches for 2022-23 ski season as of May 2)Trail count: 94Lift count: 13 (2 high-speed quads, 1 fixed-grip quad, 6 triples, 1 double, 1 T-bar, 2 carpets)Why I interviewed himFor decades, Heavenly was the largest ski area that touched the state of California. By a lot. Four drive-to base areas serving 4,800 acres across two states. Mammoth? Ha! Its name misleads – 3,500 acres, barely bigger than Keystone. To grasp Heavenly's scale, look again at the new North Bowl lift on the trailmap above. A blip, one red line lost among dozens. Lodged near the base like the beginner lifts we're all used to ignoring. But that little lift rises almost 1,300 vertical feet over nearly a mile. That's close to the skiable drop of Sugar Bowl (1,500 feet), itself a major Tahoe ski area. Imagine laying Sugar Bowl's 1,650 acres over the Heavenly trailmap, then add Sierra-at-Tahoe (2,000 acres) and Mt. Rose (1,200). Now you're even.Last year, Palisades Tahoe wrecked the party, stringing a gondola between Alpine Meadows and the resort formerly known as Squaw Valley. They were technically one resort before, but I'm not an adherent of the these-two-ski-areas-are-one-ski-area-because-we-say-so school of marketing. But now the two sides really are united, crafting a 6,000-acre super-resort that demotes Heavenly to second-largest in Tahoe.Does it really matter? Heavenly is one of the more impressive hunks of interconnected mountain that you'll ever ski in America. Glance northwest and the lake booms away forever into the horizon. Peer east and there, within reach as your skis touch a 20-foot snowbase, is a tumbling brown forever, the edge of the great American desert that stretches hundreds of miles through Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.When Vail Resorts raised its periscope above Colorado for the first time two decades ago, Heavenly fell in its sites. The worthy fifth man, an all-star forward to complement the Colorado quad of Vail, Beaver Creek, Keystone, and Breck. That's not an easy role to fill. It had to be a mountain that was enormous, evolved, transcendent. Someplace that could act as both a draw for variety-seeking Eagle County faithful and an ambassador for the Vail brand as benevolent caretaker. Heavenly, a sort of Vail Mountain West – with its mostly intermediate pitch, multiple faces, and collection of high-speed lifts cranking out of every gully – was perfect, the most logical extra-Colorado manifestation of big-mountain skiing made digestible for the masses.That's still what Heavenly is, mostly: a ski resort for everyone. You can get in trouble, sure, in Mott or Killebrew or by underestimating the spiral down Gunbarrel. But this is an intermediate mountain, a cruisers' mountain. Even the traverses – and there are many – are enjoyable. Those views, man. Set the cruise control and wander forever. For a skier who doesn't care to be the best skier in the world but who wants to experience some of the best skiing in the world, this is the place.What we talked aboutRecords smashing all over the floor around Tahoe; why there won't be more season extensions; Heavenly's spring-skiing footprint; managing weather-related delays and shutdowns in a social-media age; it's been a long long winter in Tahoe; growing up skiing the Pacific Northwest; Stevens Pass in the ‘70s; remember when Stevens Pass and Schweitzer had the same owner?; why leaving the thing you love most can be the best thing sometimes; overlooked Idaho; pausing at Snow King; fitting rowdy Kirkwood into the Vail Resorts puzzle; the enormous complexity of Heavenly; what it means to operate in two states; a special assignment at Stevens Pass; stabilizing a resort in chaos; why Heavenly was an early snowmaking adopter; Hugh and Bill Killebrew; on the ground during the Caldor Fire; snowmaking systems as fire-fighting sprinkler systems; fire drills; Sierra-at-Tahoe's lost season and how Heavenly and Kirkwood helped; wind holds and why they seem to be becoming more frequent; “it can be calm down in the base area and blowing 100 up top”; potential future alternatives to Sky Express as a second lift-served route back to Nevada from California; a lift-upgrade wishlist for Heavenly; how Mott Canyon lift could evolve; potential tram replacement lifts; the immediate impact of the new North Bowl express quad; how Northstar, Kirkwood, and Heavenly work together as a unit; paid parking incoming; and the Epic Pass.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewThe first half of my life was dominated by one immutable looming fact: the year 2000 would arrive. That's how we all referenced it, every time: “the year 2000.” As though it were not just another year but the president of all years. The turning of a millennium. For the first time in a thousand years. It sounded so fantastical, so improbable, so futuristic. As though aliens had set an invasion date and we all knew it but we just didn't know if they would vaporize us or gift us their live-forever beer recipe. Y2K hysteria added a layer of intrigue and mild thrill. Whatever else happened with your life, wherever you ended up, whoever you turned out to be, this was a party you absolutely could not miss.This winter in Tahoe was like that. If you had any means of getting there, you had to go. Utah too. But everything is more dramatic in Tahoe. The snows piled Smurf Village-like on rooftops. The incredible blizzards raking across the Sierras. The days-long mountain closures. It was a rare winter, a cold winter, a relentless winter, a record-smashing winter for nearly every ski area ringing the 72-mile lake.Tahoe may never see a winter like this again in our lifetimes. So how are they dealing with it? They know what to do with snow in Tahoe. But we all know what to do with water until our basement floods. Sometimes a thing you need is a thing you can get too much of.In March I flew to California, circled the lake, skied with the people running the mountains. Exhaustion, tinted with resignation, reigned. Ski season always sprawls at the top of the Sierras, but this winter – with its relentless atmospheric rivers, the snows high and low, the piles growing back each night like smashed anthills in the driveway – amplified as it went, like an action movie with no comedic breaks or diner-meal interludes. How were they doing now, as April wound down and the snows faded and corn grew on the mountainside? And at the end of what's been a long three years in Tahoe, with Covid shutdowns leading into a Covid surge leading into wildfires leading into the biggest snows anyone alive has ever seen? There's hardship in all that, but pride, too, in thriving in spite of it.What I got wrongI said that the Kehr's Riblet double was “one of the oldest lifts in the country.” That's not accurate. It was built in 1964 – very old for a machine, but not even the oldest lift at the resort. That honor goes to Seventh Heaven, a 1960 Riblet double rising to the summit. And that's not even the oldest Riblet double in the State of Washington: White Pass still runs Chair 2, built in 1958; and Vista Cruiser has been spinning at Mt. Spokane since 1956.Questions I wish I'd askedFortune briefly discussed the paid-parking plans landing at Heavenly, Northstar, and Kirkwood next winter. Limited as these are to weekend and holiday mornings, the plans will no doubt spark feral rage in a certain group of skiers who want to pretend like it's still 1987 and Tahoe has not changed in an unsustainable way. The traffic. The people. The ripple effects of all these things. I would have liked to have gotten into the motivations behind this change a bit more with Fortune, to really underscore how this very modest change is but one way to address a huge and stubborn problem that's not going anywhere.  Why you should ski Heavenly, Northstar, and KirkwoodFrom a distance, Tahoe can be hard to sort. Sixteen ski areas strung around the lake, nine of them with vertical drops of 1,500 feet or more:How to choose? One easy answer: follow your pass. If you already have an Epic Pass, you have a pre-loaded Tahoe sampler. Steep and funky Kirkwood. Big and meandering Heavenly. Gentle Northstar. The Brobots will try steering you away from Northstar (which they've glossed “Flatstar”) or Heavenly (too many traverses). Ignore them. Both are terrific ski areas, with endless glades that are about exactly pitched for the average tree skier. Kirkwood is the gnarliest, no question, but Northstar (which is also a knockout parks mountain, and heavily wind-protected for storm days), and Heavenly (which, despite the traverses, delivers some incredible stretches of sustained vertical), will still give you a better ski day than 95 percent of the ski areas in America on any given winter date.It's easy to try to do too much in Tahoe. I certainly did. Heavenly especially deserves – and rewards – multiple days of exploration. This is partly due to the size of each mountain, but also because conditions vary so wildly day-to-day. I skied in a windy near-whiteout at Kirkwood on Sunday, hit refrozen crust that exiled me to Northstar groomers on Tuesday, and lucked into a divine four-inch refresh at Heavenly on Wednesday, gifting us long meanders through the woods. Absolutely hit multiple resorts on your visit, but don't rush it too much – you can always go back.Podcast NotesOn Schweitzer and Stevens Pass' joint ownerFortune and I discuss an outfit called Harbor Resorts, which at one time owned both Stevens Pass and Schweitzer. I'd never heard of this company, so I dug a little. An Aug. 19, 1997 article in The Seattle Times indicates that the company also once owned a majority share in Mission Ridge and something called the “Arrowleaf resort development.” They sold Mission in 2003, and the company split in two in 2005. Harbor then sold Stevens to CNL Lifestyle Properties in 2011, where it operated under Karl Kapuscinski, the current owner, with Invision Capital, of Mountain High, Dodge Ridge, and China Peak. CNL then sold the resort to the Och-Ziff hedge fund in 2016, before Vail bought Stevens in 2018 (say what you'd like about Vail Resorts, but at least we have relative certainty that they are invested as a long-term owner, and the days of private-equity ping pong are over). Schweitzer remains under McCaw Investment Group, which emerged out of that 2005 split of Harbor.As for Arrowleaf, that refers to the doomed Early Winters ski area development in Washington. Aspen, before it decided to just be Aspen, tried being Vail, or what Vail ended up being. The company's adventures abroad included owning Breckenridge from 1970 to 1987 or 1988, developing Blackcomb, and the attempted building of Early Winters, which would have included up to 16 lifts serving nearly 4,000 acres in the Methow Valley. Aspen, outfoxed by a group of citizen-activists who are still shaking their pom-poms about it nearly four decades later, eventually sold the land. Subsequent developers also failed, and today the land that would have held, according to The New York Times, 200 hotel rooms, 550 condos, 440 single-family homes, shops, and restaurants is the site of exactly five single-family homes. If you want to understand why ski resort development is so hard, this 2016 article from the local Methow Valley News explains it pretty succinctly (emphasis mine):“The first realization was that we would be empowered by understanding the rules of the game.” Coon said. Soon after it was formed, MVCC “scraped together a few dollars to hire a consultant,” who showed them that Aspen Corp. would have to obtain many permits for the ski resort, but MVCC would only have to prevail on defeating one.Administrative and legal challenges delayed the project for 25 years, “ultimately paving the way to victory,” with the water rights issue as the final obstacle to resort development, Coon said.The existing Washington ski resorts, meanwhile, remain overburdened and under-built, with few places to stay anywhere near the bump. Three cheers for traffic and car-first transportation infrastructure, I guess. Here's a rough look at what Early Winters could have been:On Stevens Pass in late 2021 and early 2022Fortune spent 20 years, starting in the late 1970s, working at Stevens Pass. Last year, he returned on a special assignment. As explained by Gregory Scruggs in The Seattle Times:[Fortune] arrived on Jan. 14 when the ski area was at a low point. After a delayed start to the season, snow hammered the Cascades during the holiday week. Severely understaffed, Stevens Pass struggled to open most of its chairlifts for six weeks, including those serving the popular backside terrain.Vail Resorts, which bought Stevens Pass in 2018, had sold a record number of its season pass product, the Epic Pass, in the run-up to the 2021-22 winter, leaving thousands of Washington residents claiming that they had prepaid for a product they couldn't use. A Change.org petition titled “Hold Vail Resorts Accountable” generated over 45,000 signatures. Over 400 state residents filed complaints against Vail Resorts with the state Attorney General's office. In early January, Vail Daily reported that Vail's stock price was underperforming by 25%, with analysts attributing the drop in part to an avalanche of consumer ire about mismanagement at resorts across the country, including Stevens Pass.On Jan. 12, Vail Resorts fired then-general manager Tom Pettigrew and announced that Fortune would temporarily relocate from his role as general manager at Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, California, to right the ship at Stevens Pass. Vail, which owns 40 ski areas across 15 states and three countries, has a vast pool of ski industry talent from which to draw. In elevating Fortune, whose history with the mountain goes back five decades, the company seems to have acknowledged what longtime skiers and snowboarders at Stevens Pass have been saying for several seasons: local institutional knowledge matters.Fortune is back at Heavenly, of course. Ellen Galbraith is the resort's current general manager – she is scheduled to join me on The Storm Skiing Podcast in June.On Hugh and Bill KillebrewFortune and I touched on the legacy of Hugh Killebrew and his son, Bill. This Tahoe Daily Tribune article sums up this legacy, along with the tragic circumstances that put the younger Killebrew in charge of the resort:By October of 1964, attorney Hugh Killebrew owned more than 60 percent of the resort. … Killebrew was a visionary who wanted to expand the resort into Nevada. Chair Four [Sky] allowed it to happen.In the fall of 1967, [Austin] Angell was part of a group that worked through storms and strung cable for two new lifts in Nevada. Then on New Year's Day, 1968, Boulder and Dipper chairs started running. Angell's efforts helped turn Heavenly Valley into America's largest ski area. …On Aug. 27, 1977 … Hugh Killebrew and three other resort employees were killed in a plane crash near Echo Summit.Killebrew's son, Bill Killebrew, a then-recent business school graduate of the University of California, was one of the first civilians on the scene. He saw the wreckage off Highway 50 and immediately recognized his dad's plane. …At 23, Bill Killebrew assumed control of the resort. A former youth ski racer with the Heavenly Blue Angels, he learned a lot from his dad. But the resort was experiencing two consecutive drought years and was millions of dollars in debt.Bill Killebrew began focusing on snowmaking capabilities. Tibbetts and others tinkered with different systems and, by the early 1980s, Heavenly Valley had 65 percent snowmaking coverage.With a stroke of good luck and several wet winters, Bill Killebrew had the resort out of debt in 1987, 10 years after bankruptcy was a possibility. It was now time to sell.Killebrew sold to a Japanese outfit called Kamori Kanko Company, who then sold it to American Skiing Company in 1997, who then sold it to likely forever owner Vail in 2002.When he joined me on The Storm Skiing Podcast in 2021, Tim Cohee, current GM of China Peak, called Bill Killebrew “the smartest person I've ever known” and “overall probably the smartest guy ever in the American ski industry.” Cohee called him “basically a savant, who happened to, by accident, end up in the ski business through his dad's tragic death in 1977.” You can listen to that at 26:30 here.On Sierra-at-Tahoe and the Caldor FireMost of the 16 Tahoe-area ski areas sit along or above the lake's North Shore. Only three sit south. Vail owns Heavenly and Kirkwood. The third is Sierra-at-Tahoe. You may be tempted to dismiss this as a locals' bump, but look again at the chart above – this is a serious ski area, with 2,000 acres of skiable terrain on a 2,212-foot vertical drop. It's basically the same size as Kirkwood.The 2021 Caldor Fire threatened all three resorts. Heavenly and Kirkwood escaped with superficial damage, but Sierra got crushed. A blog post from the ski area's website summarizes the damage:The 3000-degree fire ripped through our beloved trees crawling through the canopies and the forest floor affecting 1,600 of our 2,000 acres, damaging lift towers, haul ropes, disintegrating terrain park features and four brand new snowcats and practically melted the Upper Shop — a maintenance building which housed many of our crews' tools and personal belongings, some that had been passed down through generations.The resort lost the entire 2021-22 ski season and enormous swaths of trees. Here's the pre-fire trailmap:And post-fire:Ski areas all over the region helped with whatever they could. One of Vail Resorts' biggest contributions was filling in for Sierra's Straight As program, issuing Tahoe Local Epic Passes good at all three ski areas to eligible South Shore students.On wind holdsFortune discussed why wind holds are such an issue at Heavenly, and why they seem to be happening more frequently, with the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this year.On the pastI'll leave you with this 1972 Heavenly trailmap, which labels Mott and Killebrew Canyons as “closed area - dangerous steep canyons”:Or maybe I'll just leave you with more pictures of Heavenly:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 40/100 in 2023, and number 426 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com. 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To support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. The discounted annual rate is back through March 13, 2023.WhoChristian Knapp, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Pacific Group ResortsRecorded onFebruary 27, 2023About Pacific Group ResortsPacific Group Resorts (PGRI) owns and/or operates six North American ski areas:While they don't have a single unified pass like Vail Resorts or Mountain Capital Partners, PGRI's ski areas do offer reciprocity for their passholders, largely through their Mission: Affordable product. Here are the 2022-23 exchanges – the company has not yet released 2023-24 passes:Why I interviewed himThere are more than a dozen companies that own three or more ski areas in North America. The National Ski Areas Association itemizes most of them* here. Everyone knows Vail and Aspen, whether they ski or not. The next tier is a little more insider, but not much: Alterra, Boyne, Powdr. These are the ski companies with national footprints and Ikon Pass headliner resorts. If skiers haven't heard of these companies, they're familiar with Mammoth and Big Sky and Snowbird. Everything else on the list is regionally dense: Invision Capital's three California ski areas (Mountain High, Dodge Ridge, China Peak); Wisconsin Resorts six Midwestern bumps (Alpine Valley, Pine Knob, Mt. Holly, and Bittersweet in Michigan; Alpine Valley in Wisconsin; and Searchmont in Ontario); the State of New York's Belleayre, Gore, and Whiteface. Some – like Midwest Family Ski Resorts' trio of gigantors – align with Indy Pass, while others stand alone, with a pass just for their mountains, like Mountain Capital Partners' Power Pass.PGRI doesn't fit any of these templates. The company has a national footprint, with properties stretching from coastal BC to New Hampshire, but no national pass presence (at least before the company inherited Jay Peak's Indy Pass membership). Its properties' season passes sort of work together but sort of don't. It's all a little strange: a small ski area operator, based in Park City, whose nearest ski area is more than a 400-mile drive away, on the edge of Colorado's Grand Mesa. PGRI is built like a regional operator, but its ski areas are scattered across the continent, including in improbable-seeming locales such as Maryland and Virginia.Despite the constant facile reminders that American Skiing Company and SKI failed, small conglomerates such as PGRI are likely the future of skiing. Owning multiple resorts in multiple regions is the best kind of weather insurance. Scale builds appeal both for national pass coalitions and for banks, who often control the cash register. A larger company can build a talent pipeline to shift people around and advance their careers, which often improves retention, creating, in turn, a better ski experience. Or so the theories go. Independence will always have advantages, and consolidation its pitfalls, but the grouping together of ski resorts is not going away. So let's talk to one of the companies actively growing on its own terms, in its own way, and setting a new template for what corporate skiing balanced with local control can look like.*Missing from the NSAA's list is the Schmitz Brothers trio of Wisconsin ski areas: Little Switzerland, Nordic Mountain, and The Rock Snow Park; the list also includes Sun Valley and Snowbasin, which are jointly owned by the Holding Family, but excludes the other two-resort groups around the country: Berkshire East/Catamount, Labrador/Song, 49 Degrees North/Silver Mountain, Homewood/Red Lodge, Perfect North/Timberline, and Mission Ridge/Blacktail - there may be others).What we talked aboutThe bomber western winter; closing Wintergreen early; the existential importance of Eastern snowmaking; why Mid-Atlantic ski resorts are such great businesses; growing up in the ski industry; Mt. Bachelor in the ‘90s; Breck in the early Vail days; why founding the Mountain Collective was harder than you probably think; the surprising mountain that helped start but never joined the pass; how essential the existence of Mountain Collective was to Ikon Pass; why Ikon didn't kill Mountain Collective; the origins and structure of Pacific Group Resorts (PGRI); reviving the historically troubled Ragged Mountain; the two things that PGRI did differently from previous owners to finally help Ragged succeed; the Mission: Affordable pass suite; how Jay Peak turbocharged reciprocity between the company's resorts; how reciprocity for Jay Peak may shape up for 2023-24 passes; why we're unlikely to see a Mission: Affordable pass at Jay Peak; why Mount Washington Alpine hasn't had a Mission: Affordable pass; the future of Jay Peak – and, potentially the rest of PGRI's portfolio – on the Indy Pass; the fate of Ragged's Pinnacle Peak expansion; how and why PGRI started running and eventually purchased Wisp and Wintergreen; wild and isolated Mount Washington Alpine; could that Vancouver Island resort ever be a destination?; thoughts on replacing the West End double at Powderhorn; why PGRI has not prioritized lift replacements at the rate of some of its competitors; priorities for lift upgrades at Wisp; winning the bid for Jay Peak; reflecting on receivership; the chances of getting a new Bonaventure lift; and whether PGRI will buy more ski areas.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewThe lazy answer: PGRI just bought Jay Peak, and while writing the various stories leading up to and after the auction in which they acquired the joint,  I established contact with PGRI corporate HQ for the first time. My first impression was not a great one (on their side), as I managed to not only jack up the company name in the headline announcing their opening bid, but get the fundamentals of the story so wrong that I had to issue a correction with a full article re-send for the only time in Storm history. Which apparently created a huge PR pain in the ass for them. Sorry.Maybe the stupid jokes eventually disarmed them over or something, but for whatever reason Knapp agreed to do the pod. As you know I don't typically host marketing-type folks. I work with them all the time and value them immensely, but that's just not the brand. The brand is talk-to-whoever-is-in-charge-of-whatever-mountain-or-company-I'm-talking-about. But Knapp is a unique case, the former CMO of Aspen Skiing Company and the creator of the uber-relevant-to-my-readers Mountain Collective Pass. So Knapp joins the equally impressive Hugh Reynolds of Snow Partners as the only other marketing lead to ever carry his own episode.Ahem. What I was trying to get to is this: yes, this was a convenient time to drill into PGRI, because they just bought one of the most important ski resorts on the Eastern seaboard and everyone's like, “Now what, Bro?” But this is a company that has been quietly relevant for years. It cannot be overstated what an absolute shitshow Ragged Mountain was for five decades. No one could get that thing right. Now it is one of the most well-regarded ski areas in New Hampshire, with knockout grooming, a killer glade network, one of the state's best lift systems, and a customer-friendly orientation that begins with its ridiculous Mission: Affordable season pass, one of the few all-access season passes under $400 at a thousand-foot-plus mountain in New England.Which set them up perfectly to glide into the Jay marquee. Almost any other buyer would have ignited mutiny at Jay. No one I've spoken to who skis the mountain regularly wanted the place anywhere near the Ikon Pass. So no Alterra, Powdr, or Boyne. Epic? LOL no. Locals have seen enough downstate. Another rich asshat cackling with cartoon glee as he shifts hundreds of millions of dollars around like he's reorganizing suitcases in his Escalade? F**k no. Jay will be shedding the scabs of Ariel Quiros' various schemes for decades. PGRI hit that Goldilocks spot, a proven New England operator without megapass baggage that has operated scandal-free for 15 years, and is run by people who know how to make a big resort go (PGRI CEO Vern Greco is former president and GM of both Park City and Steamboat, and the former COO of Powdr Corp).PGRI is just good at running ski areas. Wisp opened Thanksgiving weekend, despite 70-degree temperatures through much of that month, despite being in Maryland. Visitation has been trending up at Powderhorn for years after steady snowmaking improvements. It's hard to find anyone with a bad opinion of Ragged.But PGRI has never been what business folk call a “consumer-facing brand.” Meaning they let the resorts speak for themselves. Meaning we don't know much about the company behind all those mountains, or what their plans are to build out their network. Or build within it, for that matter. PGRI has only stood up one new chairlift in 16 years – the Spear Mountain high-speed quad at Ragged. Powderhorn skiers are side-eyeing the 51-year-old, 1,655-vertical-foot, 7,000-foot-long West End double chair and thinking, “are you kidding me with this thing?” Five years into ownership, they want a plan. Or at least to know it's a priority. There are lesser examples all over the portfolio. It was time to see what these guys were thinking.Questions I wish I'd askedI had a few questions teed up that I didn't quite get to: why is Ragged still owned by something called RMR-Pacific LLC (and operated by PGRI)? I also wanted to understand why some PGRI ski areas use dynamic pricing but others don't. I'm still a little confused as to the exact timeline of Pacific Group purchasing Ragged and then PGRI materializing to take over the ski area. And of course I could have filled an entire hour with questions on any of the six ski areas. What I got wrongWhen I summarized Ragged's traumatic financial history, I said, “ownership defaulted on a loan.” It sounded as though I was suggesting that PGRI defaulted on the loan, when it was in fact the previous owner. You can read the full history of Ragged's many pre-PGRI financial issues on New England Ski History.I said that Midwest Family Ski Resorts had announced two new high-speed six-packs “in the past couple years.” They've actually announced two within the past year, both of which will be built this summer: a new Eagle Mountain lift at Lutsen, and a new sixer to replace three old Riblets on the Jackson Creek Summit side of Snowriver.Somehow though I got through this entire interview without calling the company “Pacific Resorts Group” and I would like credit for this please.Why you should ski PGRI's mountainsWell let's just fire through these real quick. Jay: most snow in the East. Nearly 300 inches so far even in this drab-until-the-past-two-weeks New England season. Some of the best glade skiing in the country. Just look:Ragged: Also strong on glades, though it gets maybe a third of Jay's snowfall if it's lucky. When the snow doesn't come, Ragged has some of the best grooming in New Hampshire:Wisp and Wintergreen: you know, I take my kid to Mt. Peter, a small ski area outside of New York City, every Saturday for a seasonal ski program. I'd say 80 percent of the parents arrive in street clothes, drop their kids, and sit in the lodge zombie-scrolling their phones for 90 minutes. Why? Why wouldn't a person ski every opportunity they have? This is what Wisp and Wintergreen exist for. Sure, you live in the Mid-Atlantic. No one is trying to pretend it's Colorado. But these are good little mountains. Wisp is a zinger, with terrific fall line skiing. Wintergreen sprawls, with a fun trail network and two high-speed sixers. If you live anywhere near them, there's absolutely no reason not to pick up their sub-$400 season passes (though Wintergreen's is not a true season pass, excluding Saturdays and holidays, which are reserved for club members) to supplement the Epic or Ikon Pass you use for those Western or New England vacations:Powderhorn: If you live in Grand Junction, you can fight your way east, or stop on the Mesa and go skiing:Mt. Washington Alpine: I know you'll all tell me this is for locals, that no one would bother trekking out to Vancouver Island when they can reach Whistler in a fraction of the time. But I don't know man, I've done enough wild voyages to the ass-ends of the earth to have convinced myself that it's always worth it, especially if skiing is involved:Besides, you're not going to find Whistler crowds here, and this is about enough mountain for most of us.Podcast NotesOn Wisp and Wintergreen opening and closing datesI mentioned on the podcast that Wisp opened in November. The exact date was Nov. 25 for Wisp. The resort is still open today, though on “limited terrain,” and I imagine the season is winding down quickly. Wintergreen opened on Dec. 20 and closed Feb. 26. Ugh.On the world's largest snow fortKnapp said he helped start this tradition when he worked at Keystone:On the Mountain CollectiveKnapp and I had an extensive discussion about his role founding Mountain Collective, which debuted in 2012 with two days each at Alta, Aspen-Snowmass, Jackson Hole, and Palisades Tahoe. At $349, it's underwhelming to today's ski consumer, but it's impossible to overstate how miraculous it was that the product existed at all. I won't give away the whole story, but this 2012 Powder article crystalizes the shock and stoke around the realization that these four resorts were on the same pass, Brah!On Pinnacle Peak at Ragged PGRI is probably hoping I will stop asking them about this stalled expansion at Ragged sometime this century. No luck so far, as I presented Knapp with the same set of questions that I'd asked Ragged GM Erik Barnes on the podcast last year. Here's what I was talking about: in 2007, PGRI took over Ragged. From 2014 to 2019, the mountain teased this future expansion on its trailmaps:Then, without explanation, the expansion disappeared. What happened? “The expansion does not make financial sense,” Knapp told me last year. But I wanted a more thorough explanation. Knapp delivered. This is still one of the most talked-about projects in New England, and its sudden abeyance has been a source of curiosity and confusion for Ragged skiers for a few years now. Listen up to find out what happened.The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. The discounted annual rate is available until March 13, 2023.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. 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We're talking the November 6th and 13th episodes of Raw and Nitro! On the WCW side we deal with the fallout of Halloween Havoc and start the build for World War 3. On the WWF side it is  lackluster effort getting the fans hyped for Survivor Series.But there are a few bright spots along the way:The Renegade gets reduced to just plain old RickThe Giant as World Champ for 2 minutesHogan's descent into the darkness leads to a role as Phantom of the OperaThe Dark Side of Venice Beach ain't no place for the weak of heart Henry Godwinn gets a taste of his own slop...twiceAhmed Johnson's first interviewThe 1-2-3 Kid finally turns heelSid and Razor put on a 5 star classicAll that plus so much more!Did you watch along? Let us know your memories of this debut episode of Nitro and whether we were on the money with our assessment.Episode sponsored by Betstamp!Betstamp is a sports bet tracker & odds comparison tool built by people who bet every day. Verify lines & records, manage multiple books & more. Download the app and use promo code WWTT to take your game to the next level!https://betstamp.app/============================================================⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ We would also appreciate it immensely if you could take the time to give us a five star review on whichever podcasting app you use. Make sure you include your Twitter or Instagram handle because we will shout out every five star review received on the air the following episode! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐============================================================Did you know we are now on YouTube? Go check us out at https://www.youtube.com/c/WrestlingWithTheTruthWe can also be found on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/WrestlingWithTheTruthTwitter:https://twitter.com/wwttpodhttps://twitter.com/JayMyersWWTThttps://twitter.com/BCHunterWWTTInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/wwttpod/https://www.instagram.com/JayMyersWWTT/https://www.instagram.com/BCHunterWWTT/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wrestling-with-the-6/message

To support independent ski journalism, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Dec. 10. It dropped for free subscribers on Dec. 13. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription.WhoJoel Gratz, Founding Meteorologist and CEO of OpenSnowRecorded onNovember 17, 2022About OpenSnowOpenSnow is a snow and weather forecasting service. It gives you all this, depending on whether or not you want to pay for it:Gratz founded OpenSnow 11 years ago with an email list of 37 people. The company's list now numbers 3 million. Or so. It's like counting flakes in a storm. There are lots of them. The service pinpoints snowfall everywhere on the planet. So Backcountry Bro, you're covered. Lift-Served Larry (that's me), you're covered too. Uphill Harvey – we really wish you'd just pick a side and stop f*****g up the grooming before the lifts open.Anyway, if you love snow and want to know how much of it is going to fall, and where and when, then this app should be your Excalibur. Wield it wisely, Fellow Snowbum.  Why I interviewed himYou know how some people want to live in Florida and make exasperated sounds when more snow materializes on the radar and plan wintertime vacations to places like Aruba? Well I am not one of those people. And neither is Joel Gratz. Wintertime is for skiing. And to enjoy skiing as much as possible, it helps to follow the snow around. That's what Joel, and his brilliant website/app/service, OpenSnow, do.Everyone reading this newsletter is programmed in a different way from Human V1.0. We run toward storms that most humans flee. With urgency. Like some snowy version of a firefighter. Like insane people. Because we know what the genuflecting and hysterical weatherman does not: that snow is potent and intoxicating; that it changes the world and everything in it, including the people who immerse themselves within. If an adult charges into a sandbox or waterpark or ballpit, we regard them suspiciously. That stuff is for kids. But if they spend the day bouncing through snow and enter the bar boot-clicking and semi-dazed and white-draped and grinning madly and asking for a tallboy, we ask them to stand up at our wedding.No one gets this but skiers. And so no one could make a truly ski-centric weather app other than a skier. Someone whose headline, upon analyzing an incoming storm, isn't DEAR GOD DO NOT STEP OUTSIDE STOCK UP ON AMMUNITION AND DRY RATIONS BECAUSE THIS IS IT PEOPLE, but rather DEAR GOD IT'S ABOUT TO SNOW 90 INCHES IN TAHOE GET THERE AS FAST AS POSSIBLE!There are plenty of ways to track the weather, of course. Lots of apps, lots of weather services, lots of social media groups. I haven't found one better than OpenSnow, where I can look up any specific ski area and see an hour-by-hour and day-by-day snowfall and weather forecast for 10 days into the future. And that's all I really care about: where will it snow, how much, and when? With a meteorology degree on his wall and a couple decades in his mad-scientist's snow lab, Gratz is as well-equipped to deliver this information as anyone on the planet.What we talked aboutHow early a ski weather guy wakes up; Joel's wintertime and powder-day routine; the secrets of good powder skiing; how a meteorologist was born; Shawnee, Pennsylvania; do they even want snow in the Poconos?; Penn State meteorology; skiing Tussey; an Alpine Meadows powder day on racing skis; Boulder as innovation incubator; how a Vail old-timer outsmarted the guy with the fancy meteorology degree; the mystery of mountain microclimates; the missed Steamboat powder day that inspired the creation of OpenSnow; an email goes out to 37 people on a Tuesday night; a fortuitous conversation with Chris Davenport; how long it took OpenSnow to really establish itself; “a lot of your good fortune is just being born when and where you were”; the several simultaneous tech innovations that enabled widespread online weather forecasting; breaking down the various global weather services (GFS, Euro, etc.), and how they work; “modern meteorology is a miracle of cooperation and funding from taxpayers like us all around the world”; translating raw data and forecasts into the thing skiers most care about: how much is it going to snow, when, and where?; removing the human from the forecasting equation; why and how OpenSnow scaled from Colorado to the rest of the world; why OpenSnow doesn't capture every ski area in the world (yet); snow forecasts for any mapdot on the planet; why OpenSnow shifted to a subscription model and what it meant for the business; La Niña; breaking down the strong early start for the West and the weak weather in New England; dumb meteorology jokes; the two things you need to make snow; breaking down the unique weather systems that determine snowfall for the Cottonwoods, Mt. Baker, Keystone, Tahoe, the Great Lakes, and northern Vermont; how wind impacts snow quality; and America's snowiest places.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewThe image in the “About OpenSnow” section above distills the benefits of the paid subscription tier succinctly: to tap the service's best features, you need to pay. It's worth it. I subscribed long before our partnership, and I continue to.But OpenSnow wasn't always so arranged. For years, Gratz and his team lived on advertising. At some point, they activated a paywall to access certain features, but much of the site remained free.That changed last year, when OpenSnow migrated the majority of its content to its paid tier. Gratz explains why in the podcast, but this business decision resonated with me for obvious reasons. To remain relevant and useful, most digital ski-focused media platforms require an intense and consistent focus. That requires time, energy, passion, and commitment – all attributes that our capitalist society has deemed worth paying for in the form of labor. Labor, we decided a long time ago, cannot be free. Thus, products produced with labor – and media is a product – require a pricetag to access.This is easier to understand when you're purchasing a toaster or a car than when you're buying access to a podcast or a snow forecast. It helps to remember that, in the scope of history, the internet is still pretty new. I grew up without it, and I'm not that old. We're still figuring out how to price the considerable volume of information that we find there. Most of it, I'll admit, is worthless, but some of it is worth quite a bit. But several generations of Americans arrived at the internet with the understanding that it was a frivolous add-on, a place to waste time and get in trouble, a soul vacuum that was the domain of creeps and morons. They have a hard time acknowledging the evolution of the web into a utility, an essential pipeline of connection and information, a place of intangible things with tangible value.That was the challenge OpenSnow faced in finding a path to long-term sustainability. And it is the challenge I face with The Storm. I did it for free for as long as I could. The first 2,076 hours of labor were on me. Then I asked for money. The transition went beyond my expectations. Hundreds of people upgraded their subscriptions right away, and hundreds more have upgraded since. New paid subscribers join just about every day. The Storm is now a sustainable operation. And so, having made the same decision – on a much larger scale – is OpenSnow.I'm sure you've read about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a rat's nest of floating plastic refuse covering more than 600,000-square-miles of the Pacific Ocean. Most of its contents are microplastics – the smashed-up bits of water bottles and medicine containers and candy-bar wrappers. You just know that floating somewhere in there is a Yeti cooler and fully intact G.I. Joe hovercraft (I keep waiting for Disney to release: Toy Story: Tales of the Garbage Patch, featuring a scrappy band of discarded toys who A-Team their way back to the mainland), but most of it is useless garbage.The internet is a lot like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: an unfathomable well of junk, sprinkled with a few treasures. There's a reason I occasionally step out of my ski-area-manager lane to interview journalists or individuals running ski-related websites: I want to help you find the G.I. Joe Killer W.H.A.L.E.s, the things worth scooping out of the water and taking home.Why you should use OpenSnowWhile OpenSnow is a Storm advertising partner, this podcast was not part of, and is not related to, that partnership. OpenSnow did not have any editorial input into the content or editing of this podcast - which is true of any guest on any episode. I don't do sponsored content. The Storm is independent ski media, based on reporting and independently verified facts - any opinion is synthesized through that lens, as it is with any good journalism outlet.That said, it's a great service, and one that I use every day of the winter – that's why I partnered with them. And part of our partnership is this special link where you can get two free months of OpenSnow. So you should probably take advantage of that so they want to keep working with me:Podcast NotesJoel references Baker's record snowfall year – it was 1,140 inches from 1998 to '99. You can read about that and some other big snow totals here.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 133/100 in 2022, and number 379 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Want to send feedback? Reply to this email and I will answer (unless you sound insane, or, more likely, I just get busy). You can also email skiing@substack.com.The Storm is exploring the world of lift-served skiing year-round - join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Buckle up and get ready to take notes because this episode is a masterclass. The tools you're about to learn will help you become more confident, influential, and even make more money. Today, we're talking about The “It” Factor. Some people just seem to have IT, right? When I think of The It Factor, people like Oprah, The Rock, Taylor Swift, the Dalai Lama, and Martin Luther King, Jr. come to mind. These people make you want to lean in, join in, and learn more. So today we're asking… What is “It” that some people have that makes us automatically trust and like them? And, more importantly, how can you get it? Here to answer that question is Vanessa Van Edwards, a best-selling author, researcher, and founder of the behavior lab The Science of People. I cannot wait for you to dig into what she has researched. Turns out The It Factor has another name: charisma. And the good news? YOU can learn how to have charisma, starting today. You're going to want to. Research finds that charismatic people are more influential, earn a higher income, and have a bigger impact at work, in their communities, and in their relationships. The secret to hacking it? Social cues, like body language and the way you speak. That's why today's episode is a masterclass. You'll learn… Shocking research from Princeton about how people size you up3 things you must do in the first 10 seconds of a Zoom callTips for nailing an interviewThe major mistake you're making as you speakHow to ask for a raiseA simple test that will help you figure out how charismatic you areWhy you never want to fake a smileTips for charisma for introvertsWhy a second impression is as important as the first That's just the tip of the iceberg. Today's episode is jam-packed with simple, tactical research and tools that will help you and anyone you care about develop the skill of charisma. And you deserve that.  Xo Mel  Join the free 5-day Wake Up Challenge with me and master your morning routine here. All show notes for this episode can be found at melrobbins.com/podcastCheck out the video version of this podcast on my YouTube channel here.

In this episode of the Noob School podcast, John Sterling talks to fellow The Citadel Alumnus, John Harrision. John and John talk about how you can ace any job interview, coming from a manager's perspective. Their advice includes doing the easy stuff well, being well-prepared, and maximizing your personal network to get the interview. And no matter what you do, never ever be late.  HIGHLIGHTSBe vulnerable, be yourself in job interviewsMost managers don't get interview training It always helps to be prepared for an interviewThe most successful people are the ones who deliver under pressureDo all the obvious and easy stuff well If you're well prepared, you won't be too nervous Use your personal network to gain an entry pointMistakes that can get you disqualified for a job interview Everyone should have an elevator pitch ready to go QUOTESJohn H. on earning your interview skills through trial and error: "It's something you learn over time by making mistakes. But you also learn when you hire the right person."John H. on coming prepared for a job interview: "The most important thing that I look for is preparation. When someone comes into an interview, they may not be the most skilled of the applicants. But you can always be the most prepared. You come in with the list of questions that you've put together based on what you know about the opportunity. You know who I am. You know my background. It's easy to get on LinkedIn."John H. on using your personal network to find a job: "If you get a job where someone has gone to bat for you and been a reference for you, and then your entry point into that company, they have a vested interest in your success. If you go apply for everything on Indeed and LinkedIn and every other site out there where you can apply for jobs, you might get a job. But most of the time, it's going to be absent of that person that truly has a vested interest in you being successful." Follow John through the link below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johngharrison/ Connect with Noob School and John by visiting the following links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnsterling1/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnsterlingsalesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnsterling_/Twitter: https://twitter.com/johnsterling_TikTok: https://twitter.com/johnsterling_Website: http://salestrainingfornoobs.com/

In this episode you will learn what to expect in consulting fit interviews and in McKinsey PEI.Most people underestimate fit, and some overestimate it. Now it's time to learn the real deal.You will learn...What's behind every PEI and fit interviewThe differences between themWhat questions management consulting firms will ask youWhat they're looking for in each one of them-------------------------------If you've enjoyed this or previous episodes, the #1 thing you can do to help us promote the show is leaving a rating and review.This would mean the world to us. Thank you! (Click here to review if you're on iOS.)-------------------------------If you're looking to improve your case solving skills, make sure you check out our free course at www.craftingcases.com/course. Inside this free course, you will learn...How to identify and answer each of the six (and only six) types of questions that you will have in your case interviews (these happen in ALL types of cases!)How to structure ANY case with a customized structure and how to stay structured throughout the case (even if you've never seen a case like that before)Tons of practice drills to optimize your learning (this helps you put theory into practice and focus on your weaknesses, even if you don't have the time to do mock interviews every day)

What's the strangest interview you've ever been a part of?Have you ever interviewed anybody who's been in the middle of ordering a sandwich or taking a shower? Probably not.Lately, we've been talking about interviewing revenue roles. There's so much information out there about how to ask the right questions and make yourself look professional, but where do we start?So we recruited a new hire. Jared Franklin is in his fourth month as an account executive here at PandaDoc, and we wanted to get the low down on interviewing from someone who had just gone through it. We talk all about: How to research your interviewThe deciding factors that should play into a new sales roleWhy you should ALWAYS ask how many sales people are hitting quotaWhy you should believe in the product you're selling (seems obvious, we know)

TM News 113 - UFOs Stay Classified, Queen Elizabeth II, Polio in NY, AI Code of Ethics, NASA DART...http://www.troubledminds.org Support The Show! https://rokfin.com/creator/troubledminds https://troubledfans.com/ https://patreon.com/troubledminds https://www.twitch.tv/troubledmindsradio #aliens #conspiracy #paranormal-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------U.S. Navy Says ALL UAP/UFO Videos Are Classified And Exempt From Releasehttps://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-says-all-uap-ufo-videos-are-classified-and-exempt-from-release/Queen Elizabeth live updates: King Charles delivers speech to nation - ABC Newshttps://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/queen-elizabeth-health/?id=89519988Jeff Bezos under fire after tweet about Queen's death: ‘You should probably stay quiet' | The Independenthttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-under-fire-after-tweet-about-queen-s-b2163071.htmlJumping Gene Found to Be Strongly Linked to Depression, Fear, and Anxiety - Neuroscience Newshttps://neurosciencenews.com/tob-depression-anxiety-21383/Cancers in Adults Under 50 Have Increased Dramatically Around The Globe : ScienceAlerthttps://www.sciencealert.com/cancers-in-adults-under-50-have-increased-dramatically-around-the-globeResearchers Discover a Gene That Makes Your Muscles Significantly Strongerhttps://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-a-gene-that-makes-your-muscles-significantly-stronger/New Manicure Robot Spells Potential Doom for Nail Salonshttps://futurism.com/the-byte/robot-doom-nail-salonsPhysicists Struggle to Unite Around Future Plans - Scientific Americanhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/physicists-struggle-to-unite-around-future-plans/‘Idea Pathogens, Parasitize Our Minds': Professor Gad Saadhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/idea-pathogens-parasitize-our-minds-professor-gad-saad_4716399.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=digitalsubMilitia records and FOIA obfuscation: FBI edition | The Hillhttps://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3636258-militia-records-and-foia-obfuscation-fbi-edition/'Vampire' grave in Poland shows 17th-century fears of women - The Washington Posthttps://archive.ph/fmV7vNorth Korea passes new law authorizing its military to 'automatically' launch nuclear strikes if the country's leadership is threatened - NewsBreakhttps://www.newsbreak.com/news/2738463545214/north-korea-passes-new-law-authorizing-its-military-to-automatically-launch-nuclear-strikes-if-the-country-s-leadership-is-threatened

Together, Matter and Thread are the new software and networking standards that promise to make all of your home automation and IoT gear work together, regardless of manufacturer. After Home Assistant's Paulus Schoutsen piqued our interest on the FOSS Pod, we decided to do a deep dive this week to demystify exactly what the two standards are and how they relate to one another, how they'll (hopefully) make things better, what they mean for your existing smart home equipment, and more.NOTESOur FOSS Pod ep about Home Assistant with maintainer Paulus Schoutsen: https://fosspod.content.town/episodes/home-assistant-with-paulus-schoutsenThe Connectivity Standards Alliance's Matter page: https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/The Verge's very helpful interview on Thread and Matter: https://www.theverge.com/23165855/thread-smart-home-protocol-matter-apple-google-interviewThe requisite XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

Nishanth Chopra is a young, innovative Indian entrepreneur who in 2016 founded a unique sustainable brand and collective called Oshadi (pronounced aw-sha-dhi, which means ‘essence of nature' or ‘healing plant' in Sanskrit - @oshadi_collective)In this interview with Anne Muhlethaler, Nishanth tells Anne about growing up in the textile town of Erode and how, after returning from university in the UK, he decided to carve a new path for himself by breaking with the expectations of his family and launch a small sustainable ready-to-wear brand. In his pursuit, Nishanth came to realise the depth of problems that were underlying the traditional fashion production model, even when trying to do it sustainably. He explains to Anne how, out of a desire to look after the earth after creating clothing, from printing and dyeing to weaving and spinning cotton, the collective started cultivating a new fashion system with a 50-acre regenerative cotton farm.Nishanth says that if he has any talent it's really just connecting the dots — right time, right place, right people — and that's how he was able, step by step, to launch this 'seed to sew concept'. And Oshadi doesn't just look after not just the soil or think of the finished product. Instead, Nishanth shares his vision with the farmers and artisans who collectively work on this project. He says his aim is that the complexity (of figuring out this new respectful way of working with the earth) should end with ‘us' — making it possible for anyone else in the future to replicate this radically transparent model. Nishanth also tells Anne how meaningful change can happen when there is collaboration through real respect for someone's work — something that's not always shown to Indian craftsmen and women from a Western point of view. A unique voice and gifted entrepreneur, who hopefully will leave you inspired. Happy listening! *** Selected links from episode: You can find out more about Nishanth work and Oshadi at https://oshadi.in/on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/oshadi_collective/And selected press at https://oshadi.in/pages/pressErode, in Tamil Nadu, where Nishanth grew up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ErodeFibershed's Rebecca Burgess - https://www.eco-age.com/resources/fibershed-rebecca-burgess-interviewThe film Merku Thodarchi Malai that Nishanth talks about on every podcast - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merku_Thodarchi_MalaiThe myth of Sisyphus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SisyphusSapiens - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_HumankindThe article about soil from the Guardian posted on the Oshadi Instagram - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/07/secret-world-beneath-our-feet-mind-blowing-key-to-planets-future***If you enjoyed this episode, click subscribe for more, and consider writing a review of the show on Apple Podcasts, we really appreciate your support and feedback, thank you  so much for listening! For all notes and transcripts, please visit Out Of The Clouds on Simplecast - https://out-of-the-clouds.simplecast.com/  Sign up for Anne's email newsletter for more from Out of the Clouds at https://annevmuhlethaler.com. Follow Anne: Twitter: @annvi  IG: @_outoftheclouds  

My guest this week is Andrea Dewhurst an acupuncturist based in Hertfordshire, UK. who has a particular interest in female health and disparities they may face in healthcare.In our conversation, we talk about the various aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine including acupuncture, cupping and qi gong. And how TCM can support women going through perimenopause and menopause.The top takeaways from this interviewThe importance of understanding and listening to our own bodies. No one will know us, as we know ourselves. Trust yourself.We can make changes in our 30s, 40s and 50s. At any time that will help us.Track everything. We think we will remember what happened 3 weeks ago. But we won't. And it really helps us understand our triggers.You can learn more about Andrea and her work by going to her Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/thechannelproject/If you enjoyed this conversation then head over to https://www.thrivethrumenopause.com/ and rate and review this episodeSIGN UP TO PREORDER THE POTENT POWER OF MENOPAUSE https://clarissakristjansson.com/booksSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/thriving-thru-menopause/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Looking to sharpen that ax before your interview? Learn more about the group mock interview coaching we do with our students inside CRNA School Prep Academy through today's sneak peek episode!Richard Wilson, CSPA's expert contributor and program faculty director for over 11 years, conducts these powerful coaching sessions inside the academy. He has sat through and ran hundreds of interviews for future and current CRNA candidates, and today he is spilling the tea! In today's episode, you'll find out more about-How an actual program interview would be conductedThe small details that make a HUGE difference in your interview successHow early you can start practicing your answers to questions (It's earlier than you think!)A detailed look at possible interview questions and their structureSuccess tips for a virtual OR in-person interviewWhat programs are really looking to learn about YOU throughout the interviewThe importance of eye contact and tone of voice We always believe in you, future CRNA! So on your next interview go get that YES! We're rooting for you!Join CSPA for a group mock interview session & sign up for a One-on-One Mock Interview Here!https://calendly.com/mock-interview-2Get your list of Interview questions here!https://www.cspaedu.com/QuestionsPodcastGet access to planning tools, mock interviews, valuable math courses, and more! Become a member of CRNA School Prep Academy here!https://crnaschoolprepacademy.com/join Join the CSPA email list here!https://www.cspaedu.com/podcast-emailJoin our exclusive community with CRNA Program Faculty Guidance:https://www.cspaedu.com/communitySend Jenny an email or make a podcast request!Hello@CRNASchoolPrepAcademy.com

Highlights:- How to find your spirit animal guide?- An Oracle Card reading - How Shaman extraction works- The power and message of your spirit animalThis episode is about spiritual wisdom on Spirit Animals. My guest is Dr. Steven Farmer is a licensed psychotherapist, soul healer, and author of several best-selling books and oracle cards, including Animal Spirit Guides, Earth Magic, Earth Magic Oracle Cards, Children's Spirit Animal Cards, Healing Ancestral Karma and the recently released book Animals: Personal Tales of Encounters with Spirit Animals and the oracle cards Shaman's Path. To learn more: www.DrStevenFarmer.comAward-winning "Dare to Dream" podcast, enjoyed by listeners for over 14 years with host, Debbi Dachinger, offers strong conversation on metaphysics, quantum creating, law of attraction, healing, and extraterrestrials. Subscribe! Leave a review; we read and appreciate them all! Join me on Instagram: @daretodreampodcast and @debbidachingerDebbi Dachinger is a certified Visibility in Media coach. She coaches people to write a page turner book, takes their book to a guaranteed international bestseller, AND teaches clients how to be interviewed on radio and podcast for massive results. Get your free media visibility information and start now: https://debbidachinger.com/gift#podcast #DebbiDachinger #DareToDream #Instagood #instalove #instawork #instapeople #instatime #health #quantum #Book #spiritual #consciousness #metaphysical #et #transformation #meditate #medicine #ceremony #alien #love #beautiful #happy #tbt #followme #nofilter #life #yoga #amazing #FBF #media #podcaster #apple #paranormal #listening #psychotherapist #EarthMagic #Ancestral #karma #magic #OracleCard #AnimalSpiritGuide #ShamansPath #author #book #highvibetribe #spirituality #Hypnotherapy #EMDR #trauma #DebbiDachinger #DrStevenFarmer #snake #wolf #whale #monkey #interviewThe show is sponsored by DrDainHeer.com and Access Consciousness.

Want to be a guest on podcasts but not sure of what to do? After being on hundreds of podcasts over the years I've boiled it down to eight pro tips. In this episode you'll discover:The 3 things you MUST do before the podcast interviewA secret tip to answering questions on the interviewThe 2 things you SHOULD do after the podcast interviewAnd much more! BONUS: Have you grabbed your FREE copy of my new book, Your Message Matters? Just go to: https://go.marketyourmessage.com/freebookWhat's Next? Whenever you're ready... here are 3 ways I can help you: Step 1. Get the Book Your Message Matters Book: https://jmill.biz/MqjYJPStep 2. Discover Your MessageTake the 14-Day Discover Your Message Challenge: https://jmill.biz/pfeonPStep 3. Get Personal Help & Mentoring Apply to Jonathan's Mentoring Program: https://jmill.biz/pNzhrB

The Storm Skiing Podcast is sponsored by Spot and Mountain Gazette - Listen to the podcast for discount codes on subscriptions and merch.Support The Storm by shopping at our partners: Patagonia | Helly Hansen | Rossignol | Salomon | Utah Skis | Berg’s Ski and Snowboard Shop | Peter Glenn | Kemper Snowboards | Gravity Coalition | Darn Tough | Skier's Peak | Hagan Ski Mountaineering | Moosejaw | Skis.com |The House | Telos Snowboards | Christy Sports | Evo | Hotels Combined | Black Diamond | Eastern Mountain SportsWhoJon Weisberg, Co-Founder, Publisher, and Editor of SeniorsSkiing.comRecorded onJanuary 11, 2022Why I interviewed himBecause when I started skiing as a teenager in Michigan, it quickly became apparent that this wasn’t a sport you aged out of. All the kids around me played pickup basketball and football or ran or hell even tossed a Frisbee. None of the adults I knew did any of these things, ever. I figured sports was something you did until age 30 (remember, I was 17, that sounded ancient), and then stopped.Not skiing (and not a lot of those other things, either). With the help of gravity and forgiving gear, you can arc your way down 8 a.m. groomers for as long as your body and health hold up. Skiing is a bit of a time machine that way: as you lay one sideways and pop from turn to turn down the mountain, muscle memory engages, and you glide. It’s amazing. On dry land, people slow down, lose a step. They can’t run as fast or jump as high or jump at all. Skiing, somehow, transcends that.That’s probably why, as Jon points out, 20 percent of U.S. skiers are over the age of 50. That’s 2 million people, and they are some of the most passionate skiers. Retirement, after all, is the great weed-out. Many folks pack up their cubicle and move to Florida, tired of the snow and the cold. God bless them, but I have no use for these people. Why flee the snow when you can move to Park City and ski 100-plus days per year? Retirees – many of them – are the ones among us with the money to afford it and the time to catch up on years of missed pow days because they couldn’t miss the 9 a.m. with Mr. MacGregor. This is why, at every ski area in America, you will find tables full of wisecracking 60-somethings booting up and sipping coffee at 8 a.m. They’re done with the b******t, and they’re going skiing.What we talked aboutSkiing in Utah this season: “These Vail Resorts crowds are insane”; growing up skiing the East; what you miss about Northeast skiing when you’re drowning in Utah pow; when and why Weisberg founded SeniorsSkiing.com; escaping Manhattan for Park City in retirement; the “phenomenon” of older skiers; the size and significance of the over-50 skier demographic; what ski areas and the ski industry get wrong about older skiers; why there isn’t seniors-specific ski gear and why that’s a missed opportunity for equipment manufacturers; how to get around the stigma of seniors-branded gear; the pride of defying popular perceptions as an older skier; skiing as a true lifelong pursuit; the difference between chronological and perceived age and how skiing skews that downward; the three technological advancements that have made life easier for older skiers; the 99-year-old legendary skier who finds it “much easier to ski than to walk”; why skiing matters as a generator of community and purpose; finding a ski buddy as your friends age out of the sport; the “vortex” of the spouse who wants to spend the winters in Mexico or Florida; the “lot-to-lift” commute; the quality of the toilets matters; thoughts on on-mountain collisions and safety; the problem of accident reporting; thoughts on the expensive-day-ticket-cheap-season-pass dynamic; the insanity of Park City crowds this season and the “downside of the inexpensive pass”; is a reckoning coming for Vail Resorts?; the Indy Pass and the trend toward independent ski areas; why Utah skiing is “too much of a good thing”; the surreal Salt Lake City boom; thoughts on the Little Cottonwood gondola or bus; and the abandoned mining railroads beneath the Wasatch and whether that could ever connect the existing ski resorts.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewThe pandemic has disordered much of American life. Our routines, habits, sense of safety. And, in many cases, our social circles. People are moving. People are dying. People are freaking the hell out and staying inside. The consequences of this are vast and varied, but an overlooked one is that some people are left skiing alone.One of the main missions of SeniorsSkiing.com is to mitigate that loneliness with an online community of like-minded skiers (the site, I should point out, long predates Covid). Here, they can find each other and, possibly, connect for a day of skiing. That social part of skiing is maybe as important as the act itself, right? Just to feel a part of something. In sprawling, car-centric, polarized, screen-obsessed America, it’s easy to feel alone. Ski resorts are like mini-cities, interesting and slightly chaotic gathering spaces for folks of all kinds. They are one of the best engines capitalism has created to unite people around a healthy activity.There is this scary but very real phenomenon that we discuss in the podcast: many people, defined for decades by their work, die within a year of retiring. A simple Google search will reveal dozens of studies confirming this. Absent 40-plus hours of weekly TPS reports, people need something to do. What better thing is there than skiing? SeniorsSkiing.com is an important website that makes sure people who want to form a community on the snow can do it. Check it out.Additional ReadsWeisberg mentions legendary ski journalist Lloyd Lambert in our interview - here’s a New York Times piece on him and senior skiers from 1982. Subscribe at www.stormskiing.com

Krissy Buck built a rewarding, and highly successful career in digital marketing travelling the world while having just a two-year degree.If you've been discouraged when others have told you a four-year degree is required to be successful, Krissy's story will encourage and motivate you.She's been an entrepreneur, helped build a startup technology company, and taught others how to achieve success through careers in digital marketing. And, she's done even more.Each of us has a unique career journey. Some of us will have advanced degrees. Others will have no college education. Krissy has demonstrated how to be successful with no formal training as well as with a two-year associates degree. Now she is pivoting and continuing her education so she can help even more people be successful through digital marketing.Her work history that took her around the world and then back home is fascinating and inspiring to me.Check out this week's episode and see if you agree.Today's GuestKrissy BuckKrissy Buck is the Department Chair for Digital Marketing for WSU Tech. Prior to that she served as Digital Communications Director then Chief Community Officer for QuiCC.Krissy is also active in the Wichita, Kansas community where she serves in multiple ways including helping local, aspiring entrepreneurs as a 1 Million Cups Organizer.You'll LearnHow to build a powerful, global career network (and lasting friendships) through digital marketingThe power of community to produce amazing growth for startup companiesWhat Millennials and Gen X workers value when building their careersHow digital marketing can enable a digital nomad lifestyle with multiple income streams and freedom that doesn't come with a 9 to 5 jobWhy having a bachelor's degree is still important to get an interviewThe importance of a strong network of authentic relationships to get a jobThe value of taking risks to learn failure is beneficial and beautiful3 Fundamental Career Skills from Today's Guest1. Build your networkSeek and nurture strong, authentic relationships. The people you know, and those who know you, are critical to building your career. 2. Always be learningHumble yourself and learn from other people. Also learn from any resource you can find. Always be looking for and learning about the next thing.3. Be disruptiveYou don't have to be loud. You just have to be different.Links and Resources from this EpisodeConnect with Krissy Buck on LinkedInEngage with Krissy and others on Digital Marketing on Twitter using #dmkchatExplore career building opportunities in digital marketing at WSU TechListen to Krissy Buck on the Wichita Chamber Business Accelerator podcastListen to the story of Quicc from the foundersLearn more about Quicc video captioning and search toolFor More InformationCheck out the show notes at GregHarrod.com.

"Wake up, stay focused, celebrate your wins, and believe in yourself." - Dan GoodwinAfter finishing a 19-year career in 2007 with Sprint Corporation, Dan Goodwin embarked on his entrepreneurial journey and transitioned to business ownership and entrepreneur. During his tenure at Sprint. Dan completed both his Bachelor's Degree in Human Resource Management and a Master's Degree in Business Administration.Upon leaving Sprint, Dan used his corporate skills and immediately founded CYA Consulting. A coaching and consulting company, which specializes in helping business owners during startup and scale-up of their businesses as well as a proactive response to crisis events, such as security and personnel issues.Dan also teaches at his Alma Mater as an adjunct professor for a Master's course in Entrepreneurship. Dan brings his skills to business and advises everyone to Think Like an Investigator.Trained in interrogation and interview techniques, Dan uses his skills and expertise to assist his clients to examine all available information, to make the best possible decisions in the present moment. Dan's unique approach to research engagement and investigative technique serves him well, as he draws upon the thousands of interviews, he completed over his corporate and entrepreneur life.Dan believes everyone can improve their skills when it comes to research, interviews, and better business decisions by preparing and being armed with a structured method to obtain information.This information along with other observations allows the business owner or department manager to make better decisions.Dan is a connector of people and has built an extensive network as he works to build relationships with the entrepreneurial community in Kansas City as well as all over the world. Dan is excited about his continuing opportunities as he helps a launch business, real estate ventures, and working towards generational wealth. He also connects business owners and invites a select few to become members of a private invite-only mastermind group.Dan has a heart for people who are focused on education, personal growth, and impacting the world for good.The Deep Wealth Experience has you learn the 9-step roadmap in 90-days. At the end of the 90-days, you create a blueprint to help you optimize your business value. You also have the certainty of capturing the maximum value for your liquidity event.‍SHOW NOTESDan shares how he learned the same system that the Feds use to interrogate and interview peopleWhy as a business owner your actions must be congruent with your wordsHow focusing on your vision prevents rifts in the businessSpecific screen practices that let you know if a candidate is lying in an interviewHow there are 14 baseline questions that set the bar for normal and honest answers in an interviewWhy 80% to 90% of the time people are honest in an interviewWhy you need to find out the secrets that people may not be telling youHow creating uncertainty in the interview can shake people up to have them tell you the truthWhy you must ask open-ended questions in an interview to discover the truthThe importance of direct, honest communication and conversation Why you must allow up to 24 months to prepare for your liquidity eventHow to perform background checks to reveal the hidden information about a candidateWhy you must perform DTFW (Do The Fantastic Work) for background checksThe importance of performing three to four reviews of candidates before hiringWhy you must ask thought-provoking pattern interrupt questions in an interviewThe importance of following the motto of trust but verify with candidatesHow AI for interviewing candidates is good but still needs the human tou

Jessica Richey, Founder of Richey Workforce Inspires, hosts today's podcast.  In this episode, we cover several key topics including: A recap of August's episodes and a preview of September's episodesWhat to do when you are waiting for an interviewThe steps you need to take when you have multiple interviews  Connect with Jessica www.richeyworkforceinspires.com And if you want more tips, follow us @richeyworkforceinspires on Instagram!

In Season 2, Episode 9 of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Indrajit Khare on what it's like to be at a startup acquired by Google.Indrajit was a lead engineer at Bump when it was acquired by Google, where he led the engineering team that built Google Photos and scaled it from 0 to 1 billion users.Indrajit and Jean discuss:Only having a day or two to prep for a standard Google engineering interviewThe multiple factors, including clear purpose and mission, that led to a successful acquisition and integration of the Bump team into GoogleStartup mindset of doing things that don't scale, and what that looks like at a big companyInner workings of Google's acquisition of Bump, integration of the team, internal dog-fooding of Google Photos v1, and public launch.The vast difference of launching a product as a startup vs at Google  

After being drawn to the company by a promise of free ice cream seventeen years ago, Bethanie Baynes is now Google's Director of Strategic Partnerships. She is also the founder of Breadwinning Women and the host of the Working Wife, Happy Life podcast. Today, Bethanie joins us to share how she climbed the corporate ladder over the years by establishing and nurturing relationships and how she's giving back with Breadwinning Women. She talks about the community she wishes she had when she first started at Google and the career-changing piece of advice her first manager at Google ever gave her. She discusses the difference between being reactive and proactive in an interview and shares impactful ways you can share your accomplishments with your manager. She also discusses how you can make running your own business and being the breadwinner work for you. “People make different choices in life that lead to different outcomes. It doesn't mean they're better or worse. It's just why people are interesting, and that's why life is interesting.” - Bethanie Baynes This week on SocialFly's Entreprenista Podcast: Being the breadwinner for your familyClimbing the corporate ladderThe importance of relationshipsHow to be proactive in an interviewThe value of unique experiences Connect with Bethanie Bethanie's LinkedInBethanie's InstagramWorking Wife, Happy Life Podcast on Instagram Join the Entreprenista League! Hey Entreprenistas! We're launching the Entreprenista League, our very own members platform and community just for you! We listened to your feedback and the support you're looking for to start and build your business, and we're here to provide you with all of the resources you'll need! As part of the Entreprenista League, you'll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day. You'll find special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, and the opportunity to have your story featured on our website and social channels! Whether you're looking to scale your existing business and want to make the right connections, or you're thinking about finally taking the leap to launch your business, we're here to give you access to a community of women who will celebrate your every step, and with whom you can share the candid reality of building a business from scratch. Join the Entreprenista league today at entreprenista.com/join. We can't wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Check out eCornell! Are you looking to take your brand to the next level or brush up on today's most cutting edge social media strategies? If you're a regular listener, you know that these strategies are key, and they all start with an efficient and results-driven strategy. That's why I've partnered with Cornell University to build the eCornell Social Media Marketing Certificate Program, with one of Cornell's top marketing professors! Not only will the program provide you with valuable skills you can implement right away, but the content is based on real world examples from my experience creating social media strategies for our clients at socialfly. Cornell also offers incredible flexibility, all through eCornell's intuitive and highly interactive online platform. And you won't be learning alone. You can enjoy peer-to-peer engagement with students and receive feedback in real time from expert facilitators. Plus, we're giving our listeners 30% off the course!

In episode 25 of the Certified Steppaz Podcast, we have a special guest @louisianahood Topics in the interviewThe transition from Radio to TouringMount Rushmore of Louisiana ArtistManaging His Work Life BalanceAdvice for Someone New in MusicBro TalkAND MORE!!Follow Certified Steppaz on Instagram @certifiedsteppazpodcast Subscribe to Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Play, iHeartradio, YouTube, or PocketCast. Please rate, review and subscribe! 5 stars or nothing

While people go back to school for a variety of reasons, in many cases it's to enhance their career prospects with the long-term goal of landing a great job upon graduation. But what goes in to getting that dream job? What are the steps in the hiring process? Should you pursue an internship first? What exactly are potential employers looking for in candidates and what can you do to stand out from your competitors?To help answer these and other questions about the corporate recruiting landscape, we turn to special guest Jemima Makis, Director of Human Resources at Senior Aerospace. With 20+ years of experience in HR and corporate recruiting / hiring, Jemima knows exactly what results in some applicants being hired and others not. During this wide-ranging conversation, we discuss:Different avenues for identifying job openings, and why it's so important that you choose to apply to companies that align with your valuesHow interning at a company can give you a leg up in landing a full-time job down the roadThe importance of having a "wow factor" beyond just meeting the minimum job requirements so that you stand out in a competitive hiring environmentRésumé do's and don'tsWhen it makes sense to submit a cover letter, and what it should includeThe mindset to adopt heading into your first interviewThe value of the school you attend, and what your advanced degree says about you as a potential employeeTraits of new hires that "stick" with the company long-term, and conversely why certain employees don't end up working outWhat to do if you don't get hired for the specific job you're applying forAnd more!Whether you're still on the front end of your academic career, you're nearing graduation, or you're already out in the workforce and looking to land your next great job, the insight Jemima shares in this episode will help you put your best foot forward and dramatically improve your chances of getting hired. Enjoy!RESOURCES / LINKSConnect with Jemima on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemimaalvarado/Prepare for your standardized test with Dominate Test Prep's industry-leading prep courses: https://www.dominatetestprep.com/storeSIMILAR EPISODESIf you enjoyed this episode, we encourage you to check out these other relevant episodes of The Dominate Test Prep Podcast:Episode 28: The Value of an MBA, with Tim MunyonEpisode 16: Is Harvard Really Worth It? with Jake TaylorEpisode 42: GMAT vs. GRE for MBA AdmissionsA DOSE OF MOTIVATION"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” — e. e. cummings“When the opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.” — John Wooden

An interview podcast — a host speaking with a guest or two, over Zoom or in-person — is the easiest way to start building your authority, and get to grips with the medium of podcasting. In the countless hours of podcast editing I've done, hearing the work people want me to advise on, and being a rabid listener with a large backlog, I've found some common principles, tips, and mistakes that will apply to just about any podcast in the genre.These tips will apply to you whether you're the host of a podcast, someone who helps in pre-production, or a podcast editor at any level. When I refer to “you”, I'm talking about anyone with ownership over the success of the podcast.How to conduct a podcast interviewThe person conducting the interview has essentially one job: set the guest up for success. That means making them feel comfortable beforehand, ironing out any pre-production issues, and confirming how much time they have available.PROTIP: Contrary to the title of this piece, you're not conducting an interview, but more a conversation: an exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints. The host isn't pumping the guest for information, there are no consequences for giving the wrong answer, other than it being cut in the edit, so loosen up.Some other things to consider: Be communicative over email or DM in the days running up to the interview. Show up early, so you can set everything up at your end before they join. Make sure you know how to pronounce the guest's name. If there's any doubt, ask the guest to say their name while you're recording, as part of a sound check. Find the guest on social media and check if they specify a preferred gender pronoun. Many people declare their pronoun within their social media bio or their profile name. If you don't have that info, try and normalise asking for it. It's ruder and more uncomfortable to make a bad assumption than it is to ask. If the guest is using wired earbuds, help them clear anything that might brush against the cable, like shoulder-length hair, shirt buttons, or a scarf. Apple EarPod mics are pretty serviceable, but that rustling sound — we've all heard it — is pretty maddening, and really hard to treat in post. Make sure the guest is wearing headphones. If you can, insist on it. You don't want you or your editor trying to compensate for Zoom or Skype trying to compensate for the feedback created when their mic picks up your voice and ping-pongs it back and forth between you. Everyone has headphones — /everyone/ — so there's no excuse not to pop them on for the interview. How to structure an interview podcastLet's assume your podcast has one host, and each week you have a new guest. You've recorded your interview, so now what to do with it?The best format I've found is the host-read wrap-around. That's where the host delivers an intro to the episode, hands over to the interview, then back to the host for the outro. These bits should be recorded after the interview, and as close to publication of the episode as possible.PROTIP: After the host's intro, the next voice the listener hears should be the guest. This is an old radio journalism trick, and works wonders. An example transition is “I began by asking my guest how he got started making widgets”. If you have transition music, put it there, then open with the guest answering that question.My show List Envy deviates very slightly from this formula. I start with what the TV industry calls a /cold open/: a brief snippet of audio, usually from the guest, with a punchy end that takes us into the short theme tune. I do my intro, hand over to the guest, then instead of doing my outro right at the end of the episode, I record a segment where I thank the guest, handle my listener calls-to-action, do any ad reads or paywall plugs, briefly push the next episode, and then hand back to the pre-recorded chat for the last segment of the episode, usually giving the guest the final word.Some podcasts do an intro, mid-section, and outro, some do an intro and no outro, some have pre-recorded bits. Your mileage may vary, but a host-read intro and outro will serve you well if you're just getting started.How to start each episode of an interview podcastThis is really simple and often mishandled by newcomers. Simply welcome the listener to the show, explain briefly what the show is, introduce the guest, then hand over to the interview. That's it. No “hey guys”, “what is up my peeps”, “this one's for all you MailChimp fans out there”.PROTIP: Podcast and radio listeners like to be referred to in the singular, not the plural, so when you record your intro and outro, imagine you're sat in a comfy chair on stage in a tiny theatre, and you're having a chat with a friend. The audience can hear your conversation and are enjoying it, but all your attention is focused on your friend: a single person, rather than the audience as a group.In this scenario, the friend you're talking to is your listener. It's a way of helping you think about the way you address that person, and avoiding phrases that feel unnatural or slipping into an approximation of a radio voice… something I'm still guilty of from time to time.A good structure works like this: Hello and welcome to the podcast, where we talk about the stuff. This week's guest is this person, who does this thing or has this specific knowledge. I started by asking them a question. If you're the host, then you're in charge, and you should do what feels natural and fits your audience and personal style best. These are just guidelines.And finally, no voice-over artist should come anywhere near your podcast in any professional capacity, other than as a guest. This is the host's space, and the listener is here for the authority the host brings. Intimacy is based on authentic connection, and an over-slick intro, however good the voice artist is, puts a barrier up between the host and the listener. (I often work with voice-over artists, and love doing so. They do great work — they just don't belong in podcast intros.)How to end each episode of an interview podcastJust as with the intro, it works best if you transition from one person to another, so let the guest have the last word before you insert any transition music and wrap up with your closing remarks.Podcast listeners are used to the transition, and understand — if subconsciously — that the intro and outro are probably recorded separately from the interview, so don't feel you have to fake a smooth transition. In many cases, it actually sounds unnatural to thank the guest as if they're still on the line and then carry on with your calls-to-action without the guest getting another word in. Put a full-stop in as soon as possible, politely closing the metaphorical door on the guest, and then handle the admin.If you have ads, it might be that a middle section works best for you here. It's entirely possible listeners will skip the outro, especially if it's formulaic, so if you have something you want to mention in the outro that is important to you and of value to the listener, tease this in your intro.Each valuable nugget of conversation between the host and guest builds a little trust capital, so spend this wisely. Try and leave the listener having received more value from the episode than you have from them listening. You also don't want to dilute any calls-to-action you want them to perform, by asking too many things of your listener. Focus on the best outcome you'd like from the episode (subscribing to a newsletter, buying the accompanying book, etc) and make that your main ask.A good structure for an outro works like this: Thanks to my guest for being on the show. Links to their work are in the show notes, which you'll find at mywebsite.com. You can support me by doing this thing (backing this Patreon, going to buymeacoffee.com etc). If you can't do that, tell a friend about the podcast. (If you like, and if it's applicable) Next week I'll be talking to so-and-so about such-and-such. Thanks for listening, and talk to you next time. Again, this is a guide, not a collection of rules to live and die by. Of course, you don't have to have the same call-to-action each week, and running an experiment over a few weeks, then switching your call-to-action can be a handy way of finding out which ones work best.How to edit an interview podcastPreferred editing software and styles differ across the board, but here are some useful rules-of-thumb.If you use music, have no more than 5 or 6 seconds before the host's voice comes in. You want just enough to set the tone, and not so much that the listener is drumming their fingers waiting for the show to start.Although not an interview podcast, the best example I have of this is Back to Work, with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin. Each episode starts with a drum hit and two strummed electric guitar chords, then straight into the discussion.If your music is longer, it should duck (reduce in volume) by a few decibels just as the voice comes in, then fade out over a few seconds. You can do this manually or using dynamic compression. You can hear a good example of this in the design-focused podcast Presentable.Finding a natural point at which the music should duck out of the way of the host will vary entirely on the piece of music, and the style of the intro. Editors with a good grasp of music theory can usually find this point, as it's about locating a phrase in the music that suits. This is very much an art rather than a science.Apply enough EQ and effects to make the sound uniform between the people speaking, and to promote clarity of speech. Interview podcasts are about packing knowledge and insight into a relatively tight space, so make the voices as loud as they can go, without causing distortion or making them sound over-processed. Again, this is a sweet spot and needs to be judged by ear, and it will differ depending on who's speaking, and the platform you're recording on.Being able to hear every word is more important than creating a beautiful soundscape, so don't overly stress about sound quality, as long as the words are clear through inexpensive headphones, and the listening experience is comfortable. Background noise reduction is good, but should be used sparingly so it doesn't make the person speaking sound like they're underwater.When it comes to editing the meat of the interview: Reduce the satellite delay effect you get with remote calls by looking for gaps of longer than half a second where no-one's talking, and trim them back, just a bit. Like a sculptor carving a statue out of a block of marble, the editor's job is just to chip away the bits of the call that don't serve the episode. That doesn't mean removing every “um”, “err” or stumble; just giving the conversation a little buff and sparkle. What you should end up with is an MP3 file between 64kbps and 96kbps, in mono (stereo episodes waste bandwidth, and there's no benefit to having each person on a different channel — sometimes it's a detriment).Around 45 minutes to an hour is a great length for an episode, but really the duration should be served by the content of the episode, not the other way around. If it takes two hours to have the discussion, then the episode is two hours long. Again, your mileage may vary.How to publish and promote an interview episodeI'll cover writing show notes in more depth another time, but good show notes — the descriptive text that accompanies an episode — should be visible on the web and in-app, link to the guest's bio and to relevant topics of discussion, describe briefly the content of the episode, optionally include quotes from the guest, have artwork that uniquely identifies the episode or the guest. Each episode needs its own home on the web, what techies call a canonical URL or permalink. That URL points to a page that contains an embedded player for the episode, and all the accompanying show notes. I've seen podcasters host their show on one platform, and then put show notes on an entirely different website. All the relevant content for each episode should be in one place, that can easily be referred to. Also, show notes should always appear in full — as much as possible — in the listener's app. Your hosting company can help with this, if you're unclear.Once you have that URL for your episode, pass it to your guest so they can help you promote it. Their social proof, and the proof of other listeners, is your most valuable marketing asset. Audiograms (videos with animated waveforms) are fun, but they don't really move the needle in terms of driving listenership.As with many of the marketing techniques pushed at podcasters with smaller audiences, social audio clips can suck up a not inconsiderable time that could have been spent on the show itself. After all, sometimes the best podcast marketing tool is making a really good episode in the first place.– Caroline Crampton, Hot PodThe best way to promote episodes on social media is with short, concise, enticing posts that link directly to the episode's canonical URL (not Apple Podcasts, or Spotify or any other platform — you should always link directly to the webpage with the episode player and the show notes, and encourage others to do so).Episode promotion is an ongoing experiment. In my years working on my own podcasts, I find that the occasional tweet or Facebook message can drive a little interest, but what really helps is your friends and fans sharing your content. People — and I suspect algorithms — are weighted against self-promotion, even when humble and well-meant, and weighted heavily towards social proof. So if your podcast is small, concentrate on asking your listeners to share your episodes, and make your episodes truly worth sharing.There are many like it, but this one is yoursThis is your podcast, your audience. You have the knowledge, as do your guests. I'm not trying to fundamentally change the personality of your podcast, but suggest formulas and practises that I know work. Ultimately you'll choose the ones you feel are worth implementing, and discard those that don't apply.Also don't feel you have to implement all of these things from the get-go, especially if you're new to podcasting. You can apply them in layers, building up bit by bit, until your podcast is a well-oiled machine.I wish you loads of luck in your continued podcast journey. Let me know if I can help in any way.Take the guesswork out of making, launching, and growing a successful podcast. Join the Podcode School.

Dan McCarthy, Editor at Large of The American Conservative, joins Bob to discuss his view that conservatives and libertarians should stop heaping contempt on democracy. McCarthy argues that the elites are the real threat to liberty, not the masses. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this interviewThe homepages for Modern Age and The American Conservative For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com. The Bob Murphy Show is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and via RSS.

S. Kamalanathan – Head of Operations for the MJF Charitable Foundation speaks about his experiences working with estate communities over the last four and a half decades. He speaks candidly about how leaders, educators, estate managers, policy makers, and the communities can work together to create lasting change on the estates. 34 mins

I have Jason Humphrey on the show and I met Jason online originally because he creates a ton of value-packed content on LinkedIn. And when you create awesome content, people tend to like it and share it. And that's how it came across my feed. Jason helps coding Bootcamp, students to land their first high paying job as a professional software developer. And in this episode, Jason talks about his own personal journey where he wasn't as career-focused early on in his career. And how advice from one of his mentors transformed his career! He also shares tips on prepping for your interview and how crucial emotional intelligence is in your career. Driving value in communicationPower of one good questionCoaching's impact on Jason's careerUnderstand what the market is telling you (market analysis)Mine LinkedIn for DataWhat words to use on LinkedInHow to be confidentControlling the 24-hour window before an interviewThe importance of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) in your careerjason@codingcareerfastlane.comhttps://www.facebook.com/jasonhumphreyofficial/(5 places spending time will drive results)https://www.linkedin.com/in/meet-jason-humphrey/

Peter Schiff famously called the housing crash but thinks the real crash is still on the way. He talks with Bob about his background in the financial sector, and why the networks no longer book him for interviews. They also discuss minarchism vs. anarcho-capitalism, and Peter's decision to move to Puerto Rico. Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest: The YouTube version of this interviewThe website for Peter's books. Peter's books Crash Proof and The Real CrashThe YouTube compilation, “Peter Schiff Was Right.” Peter's YouTube channelThe Peter Schiff Show For more information, see BobMurphyShow.com. The Bob Murphy Show is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and via RSS.

After Jesse reveals yet another shocking secret about his mysterious life, the hosts discuss the case of Jessica Krug, a George Washington University professor who appears to have admitted to pulling a Rachel Dolezal: she pretended to be black. What a mess! But perhaps not all that shocking in our identity-obsessed age. Then the hosts respond, in depth, to an email from a reader who wants to be talked out of voting for Donald Trump, sparking an uncharacteristically earnest discussion about the upcoming election and why the right choice isn't a close call.Medium: The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies - https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9621401f85The Cut: There’s a New Rachel Dolezal - https://www.thecut.com/2020/09/historian-jessica-krug-admits-to-posing-as-a-black-woman.htmlVice: In Rachel Dolezal's Skin - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvz79j/rachel-dolezal-profile-interviewThe weird right-wing rally Jesse stumbled upon next to City Hall in Manhattan: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DvdsAiHR1P4bfbED8 This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at www.blockedandreported.org/subscribe

In this audio-masterclass, Jeff talks with Master Copywriter and Branding Expert David Halperin who walks us through his strategies of how to clearly identify your unique intelligence when seeking a new position in your craft.David explains how to use the proper tools as leverage to secure the career that’s right for you as we recover from the economical impact of the coronavirus pandemic.Listen in to learn about:How to stand out and cut through all the noiseWhat you must have in your cover letterUsing the job description to land the interviewThe biggest mistakes made in a resumeThe perfect time to brag about yourselfWhy the job should fit youBeing meditative as a job applicantBuilding self confidence with copyHow to answer for your pandemic downtimeAnd so much more!Listen through to get a special discount for 3PHASE RADIO Listeners.Contact David HERE!Check out your exclusive Resource Center built just for you.Join the 3 PHASE RADIO Facebook group!Check out FieldPulse, our show sponsor. The all-in-one, mobile first small business management software to help Electrical Contractors succeed and give their customers the ultimate experience.Use coupon code 3Phase20Annual for 20% off!Support the show (https://patreon.com/3phaseradio)

Today I had the please of speaking with a career and life Coach behind Caffeinated Kyle.com, Kyle Elliot. Kyle finds happiness in helping people find a career or help get unstuck, own their fabulous, and achieve what they have never imagined was possible.Let’s dive into his story of how his side hustle turned into a thriving coaching practice.Things you will learn in this episode:[00:01 - 08:24] Opening SegmentI talked briefly about valuable information that you can take advantage of in this episodeI’m introducing guest Kyle Elliot into the showKyle shares where his journey began He loves coaching people back thenHis other plans before he started taking a full time-business as a coach [08:25 - 16:25] Kyle’s transition journey began How he started his full-time business as a coach The advantage of working at an early age How he overcomes age discrepancy [16:26 - 22:29] How can Kyle help you land a job/career?Kyle’s mission is to help people like you find a career that you love!Resume writing career coaching Polarization component How important to find passion vs just doing what you are good at Finding what’s true for you[22:30 - 29:28 ] Key to Powerful InterviewLinkedin Profile strategy Kyle shares an interesting story about carrying a cup of coffee into an InterviewThe importance of connecting each other in an interview Sticking to peoples mind [20:29 - 34:41]The FOCUS FIVE SegmentWhat book have you gifted most often?Present over Perfect by Shauna Niequist see below for link If you can get an hour of somebody's time and ask questions, who would that be and why?Hillary Clinton, she’s such an interesting personKris Jenner, truly amazing when it comes to personal brandingWhat is one thing that you believe that most people would disagree with you on?Everyone is truly fabulous Morning routine, How do you start your day?Checking emails and social media.What is the best place we can connect with you online?See below for social linksFinal words from meTweetable Quotes: “Break the rules but don’t be an A-hole.” Kyle Elliot Resources mentioned in the episode:Break the Rules but don’t be an A-hole Present over Perfect Hillary ClintonKris JennerSchedule a call with HansYou can connect with Kyle on Linkedin, You can also see check him on his Twitter, and Facebook or visit his website CaffeinatedKyle.com (Company Website)LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their business growth by sharing this episode or click here to listen to our previous episodes.Are you working HARD but not really moving the needle on anything? You should check out my POWER LIST and find out how you can get more done to move your business, project, or relationship closer to where you want it to be. Let’s go!To know more about me and all the real estate opportunities you can find, check out my website at Hansstruzyna.com. Get the chance to talk with me for FREE. Set up a call using this link https://calendly.com/h-struzyna/15min See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Topics CoveredThe Career Builder's Podcast is 6 months old!This was an "Ask Us Anything" episode, and questions covered lots of great career topics along with a few about podcastingAdvice for people who want to rebrand themselves What is Imposter Syndrome and how to overcome itHow can I innovate if I've lost my job and is it possible to become an entrepreneur now?How to leverage LinkedIn and other online tools for your professional lifeThe importance of showing appreciation and kindness in a physical way during difficult timesHow to address a furlough situation on a resume and in an interviewThe unexpected good surprises of launching a podcastAdvice for those interested in starting a podcastThe best thing about having a co-hostHow we got into coaching

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H1B Visa Rejection ReasonsHere are some of the common factors of H1B Visa Rejection Reasons that you must know and prepare to avoid itWhen petitioning Employers failure to meet requirementThe denial of the visa occurs if the employer who is filing the petition for the candidate does not seem to be well established If the embassy finds the employer unreal then it has the power to reject the visa of the candidateThe visa of the candidate is refused because the employer has failed to justify the requirement needed to give the proof The employer should demonstrate the hiring capacity and have the earning enough to be capable to pay the hired employeeAn established petitioner can give documentation like a tax number tax returns or monetary statements Insufficient documentation can sink the application right on spotThe petitioning employer should even be able to offer documentation of getting an established location This could embody website printouts brochures pictures of the employers premises and any licenses or stock certificates if necessaryInadequate showing of employeeemployer relationshipIf there is lack in showing the proper relationship between the employee and the employer then the US embassy can doubt the intentions and may refuse to approve the visa The Visa office would doubt if whether the employee will actually work for the petitioning company or not There may well be misconception that the employer is making an attempt to get around the rules by acting as job shop inserting workers on subcontracting assignments The evidence like purchase order contract agreement or a clear statement intending that only the petition filer employer has control over the employee should be submitted by the petitioner as a proof Failure to incorporate any of those within the initial visa petition might lead to a denial of visa applicationBased on workerbeneficiary lack of specialized knowledge or skillsAn H1B visa is often denied or refused because the workerbeneficiary does not have the required education or the offered employment does not meet the specialized knowledge requirement The beneficiary is needto have at a minimum a bachelors degree preferably in the field of offered employment The beneficiary should also establish with assistance from the employer that he or she has specialized knowledge related to the job that has been offered Although evidence of the BA is sometimes enough by itself in other cases the employee may need to provide such evidence as a thorough resume and experience letters from previous employers to avoid visa rejectionEmployee inadmissibilityThe candidatewho applying for the H1B visa has to prove the admissibility to the country the legal proof for having the valid entry in the country whether they have applied for direct H1B petition or COS of opt students jobs after opt completion in USAEvidence request is the most common point for the H1B RejectionIf the employer has submitted the H1B visa petition the agency would definitely issue Request for Evidence RFE before a denial of the visa The VO has always given up the visa to the maximum visa seekers but minor chance lead to the visa rejection USCIS request will ordinarily either state a listing of documentation that has to be provided or a list of questions to justify in a letter response The request will give a deadline by which the response is due If the recipient does not respond by the deadline the USCIS will deny the case and reject the visa applicationPoor presentation during H1B visa interviewThe applicant should always be well prepared for their H1B visa interview in the same way as a job interview Everything from their overall attire to their tone of voice will be critiqued during the interview Candidate must have good communication skills and confidenceThe more professional you present yourself the more you have the chances to get passed And if you are worried about getting the H1B visa and want to appear there as fully prepared follow some H1B visa interview questions amp tips One should be prepared to answer questions irrespective of whether the interview is to Consulate for a new H1B visa or for an H1B renewal or extensionRead more at H1B Visa Rejection Reasons Why H1B Visa gets Denied

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 3 business story worth talking about.A company that encourages bartering finds it needs ... currencyhttps://www.marketplace.org/2019/05/21/bunz-btz-cryptocurrecy-canada/Toronto company Bunz create a barter Network. To complement their system of bartering they have created a currency for when people don't have something that they want to trade but still want to do business. The currency they've created is not a cryptocurrency but there are crypto exchanges where currency is traded for cryptocurrency.Paid off game show on tue TVhttps://www.teenvogue.com/story/paid-off-host-michael-torpey-student-loan-game-show-interviewThe game show that you answer questions and if you win they pay off all or some of your college debit. The host and creator of the show Michael Torpey say the how should piss you off.Why your next Jeep could be electric: What Fiat Chrysler-Renault merger means for youhttps://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2019/05/28/fiat-chrysler-renault-merger-proposal-consumer-implications/1256498001/Highlighting the story mostly because I love Jeep Wranglers. It was the best  vehicle I ever owned  and every single time I see somebody  riding in one I have to resist the urge to wave at them.  I also want to point out car manufacturer Renault it's also partnered with Mitsubishi and Nissan in Japan so if this merger deal goes through they will be Fiat Renault Mitsubishi Nissan I'm not leaving anybody out.  At some point enough with the  mergers.

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Greetings everyone, my name is Julie Masters and welcome to another episode of Inside Influence. In which I delve into the minds of some of the world’s most fascinating influencers – or experts in influence - to get to the bottom of what it really takes to own your voice - and then amplify it to drive an industry, a conversation, a movement or a nation.In this episode, we are going to be fusing the world of influence and rock n roll...A few months ago - I had the huge privilege of being introduced - and being able to spend some time with the incredible Mark Schulman - who at the time of this interview was in the middle of touring as the lead drummer for multi platinum - global phenomenon - Pink. In addition to having performed for over 1 BILLION PEOPLE during his career - alongside world class performers such as Cher, Billy Idol, Simple Minds, Beyoncé and Tina Turner. Mark is also the author of the very fitting Conquering Life’s Stage Fright. In which he interviews global powerhouses like Tony Hsieh (CEO of Zappos), Jeremy Piven (well known Actor from the Entourage) and Alan Bean (Apollo 12 Astronaut) - out of sheer determination - and a personal commitment - to decode the magic of world-class performance.In other words what it takes to show up, reframe your fears and own what you’ve got with every cell in your body.What I loved about listening to Mark talk about the learnings from - and the process of writing - that particular book. Is that it’s a philosophy that sums him up entirely. While others are partying hard on the tour bus - Mark is sat with his headphones on - trying to unpack what makes masterful performers great - so he can show up even harder at the next location.I first met him on a cold winter’s morning in Sydney - I’m not sure what I was expecting - maybe someone vaguely (and understandably) tired after performing in front of an insane 21,000 people the night before. But the man that burst through the door - and quickly shot out again determined to make me a coffee - literally lit-up-the-room. As I would soon find out - this is one of the most engaged, curious and energised human beings that you could ever spend time with.Which speaks to the heart of this concept of the rockstar mindset - that attitude and energy are the PRIMARY fuel of any kind of world class performance - and everything, down to the phone call you just took - and the Tweet you’re about to send - is a form of performance.Like any field, mastering performance at a world-class level - isn’t about faking it. Or just putting a show. It’s about choosing your state, harnessing your energy, commiting to a lifetime of consistency, showing up and leaving everything you’ve got in the arena.So what did we talk about. During our conversation, we went rockstar hard into so many questions I had since first starting to learn about Mark’s career - including:Why what we perceive as fear - can be reframed as something manageable with some simple mental tools - One of those that I really want you to listen out for is the question ‘Am I free to fail…?’ - which I have literally used a hundred time since this interviewThe habits and rituals that literally transform paralysing fear into excitementWhat it means to ‘pick the stick back up’ and carry on - after any major set backHow to embody 'real' confidence - and the difference between that and rockstar certaintyHow to get out of your own way - and be of service - choosing the words ‘I get to do this’ rather than ‘I have to’ do this before any performanceWhat he took from interviewing some of the most incredible performers of our time - and the moment that motivated him to seek them outAnd why to him having a rockstar mindset is less about fame - and more about understanding that there are no small moments - every moment is criticalSo… get ready to flex your rock star muscles and soak up the insights of the insanely intelligent and insightful human being. Whether you’re a musician, a parent, a CEO, a doctor, a carpenter - or someone contemplating the next great leap. This episode is for the that moment - that moment when you have to choose between showing up with every shred of what you’ve got - or letting an opportunity to make real (and memorable) impact pass you by.So please - sit back - and enjoy my once in a lifetime conversation with Mark Schulman. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's episode of the Blazer's Edge podcast Tara Bowen-Biggs and Danny Marang review (begrudgingly) Game 4 and the series as a whole between the Portland Trail Blazers and the New Orleans Pelicans, wonder if the Blazers forgot how to play the game they dedicated their lives to, analyze where the Blazers went wrong (and where Damian Lillard didn't), sing the praises of Al-Farouq Aminu, and put a final bow tie on the playoffs before taking a deep dive into the exit interviews.  IntroOpening commentsReviewing Game 4, regrettably Did the Blazers forget how to play basketballPelicans ability all series to break and build momentum easilyDrive. Kick. Score. Repeat.Difference between passing to a player and passing a player openDamian Lillard in this series- piece by pieceAl-Farouq Aminu showed up big timeWhere does the blame fall? Players, coaches and/or match up?How do you figure out Anthony Davis?Will what the Pelicans do next round change how you feel about the Blazers?Zach Collins the enforcerExit InterviewsWade BaldwinZach Collins, professional question answerer Meyers LeonardEvan Turner, knows not to get as thick this summerTurner: we have to be more consistent…building an identity outside of our two strong scorersCJ McCollum and allergiesNeil OlsheyThe irony of back handed complimenting Al-Farouq AminuOlshey on the defensiveOlympic analogies“C’mon Joe”Overall takeaway from Olshey’s interviewThe need for “sweeping changes”“Nobody was talking about sweeping changes 10 days ago”Evaluating this team for what they did during the regular season and not for their playoff performanceBridging the talent gap between Dame and everyone elseNurkic disappoints in the playoffsThe awkwardness of the Nurkic press conferenceNBA purgatory Favorite moments from the seasonClosing commentsOutro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I am an extrovert. My body is an Introvert” — Lauren Selfridge Show notes from Remitting MS and Interview With Lauren Selfridge from This Is Not What I Ordered A Chronic Illness PodcastLauren Selfridge had remitting MS is a therapist in the SF Bay Area and runs a wonderful chronic illness podcast called This Is Not What I Ordered.To be VERY clear Lauren is on the calmer side of the spectrum of MS that though has bad days at this time she is still able to continue to work and run a GREAT Podcast This Is Not What I Ordered Great tech explanation of MSSome VERY good information about MS diagnosis and testsStress is the doctors new go to instead of “hysteria”Don’t be afraid to DEMAND a test that you know you needSpinal Tap is much more fun as a movie than as a medical test, click here to see what I mean. HERESorry real life barking pug decided to be a “helper dog” and be a part of the interviewThe amazing kryptonite of the white coat that can turn the feistiest of us into terrified childrenCall to Drs. for interviewees I would love to see the other side of sick world.Yes, Monica is a complete Neil Gaiman. There is no denying it. Someday Dr. Who will sponsor this podcast when they know how many of us spoonies watch obsessively on our stay in bed days.All about taking advantage of the good low symptom times. The ups and the fears of positive low symptom times.What is it like when you are different than most of the people who have your disorder, hint it makes it difficult to make long-term choices.Changing your views of what a successful fulfilling life to redefine not around what the body will do.Some really awesome advice Monica’s dad gave her maybe a tad too young. Yay, my dad!Some great career choices for the chronic spoonieMonica’s mom is awesome and might be a future guest to talk about being a caregiver for an adult disabled child.Spoonie decisions for one’s work and social life, hint a bit like Sophie's ChoiceChronic illness and the kick in the tail for life experiencesPublic transportation and chronic illness Thank you Uber and LyftUber’s new medical serviceThe epic fight with a Benadryl IV trust me it is chronic illness gallows humor hilarious Google Image search is not always your friend when you have a chronic illnessThe calming effects of watching aquariums or paint on YouTubeWhat it is like to hope on horizons with a well-funded disorderTherapy and chronic illness some of the up and downsides of group therapy and online support groups Lauren's Facebook Group This Is Not What I OrderedThe importance of social media and access to others for chronic illness and for teens.The physical and social isolation of chronic illness The body perfection model as the body is a reflection of who you are as a person and what happens when your body goes rogueLoving What Is Byron Katie. My new favorite quote, "It’s not your job to like me it’s mine.”"You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." CS. Lewis. This is the real quote I mangled. Til We Have Faces Chronic illness is transformative and not always in a bad way. Enjoy the show? Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you! Grieving your health and living a full heart at the same time. A real talk about grieving, grieving a lifestyle, a person, or a healthy body. Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Pierre Couvillion is a rare expert in Sanskrit, mantras and using sound to pierce the veils of your mind, body and soul. Most of us do not know how to use our own voice to express what we honestly feel. Even fewer of us know how to use sounds to heal, relax and fuel personal growth. With over two decades of live experience in Sanskrit, Pierre takes this ancient mystical knowledge and makes it easy to understand and easy to benefit from in modern living. He offers clear practices and techniques for accessing the power found in mantras. Sanskrit mantras are encoded with specific vibrational frequencies. When you use a particular mantra correctly you can tune into its specific energy and its power. Mantras can be used to gain higher perspective, calm the nerves, steady the mind, and clear dullness, to active the body, connect to your soul, for holistic healing and many more real world applications. Sanskrit has no traceable history and is considered the oldest recorded language on Earth. The power of Sanskrit is in allowing the individual a personal journey through sound from the inside out. This journey creates an opportunity to discover your own voice; to reclaim the power of your own sound. Sanskrit is a technology where words are organized based on how the palette strikes the brain. The meter and tones used in Sanskrit are designed to help you learn sounds which already are inside you. This is stored energy most of us are not using. We are literally missing out on resources already at our disposal. The use of mantras becomes the activator for this stored energy, stimulating its flow in our life. Pierre shows us how to produce sounds which match the vibrations of what generates authentic fulfillment. His expert voice guides the practice of cultivating your own sound using the underlying current of frequencies and the ancient wisdom of Sanskrit. When using this technology the powers a mantra contains become available to you. Pierre offers a practice to awaken your native spiritual energy and have it flow with ease. Traditionally mantras are thought to be a key part of stimulating higher levels of consciousness. They help deepen self understanding and the connection to all life. Sanskrit teaches using language to become more aware. Sound opens the doors to life around us leading to ultimate living and fulfillment. Pierre believes you need to go try it for yourself and not take his word for it. Listen in with Pierre as he pulls back the esoteric veil of Sanskrit, mantras and reveals the keys to using this ancestral technology in your own life…Here’s What Else You Will Get From Pierre’s InterviewThe windows of language and how to look through themHow to step into a culture in its true manifestationAn easy to follow mantra for removing your own inner obstaclesWhy singing is important to lifeWhy you should be singing no matter how you think you soundThe five mouth positions and how sounds affects the brainWhat happens when you have achieved everything you have ever wantedHow to wake up your inner child and why it’s so important to do soWhat are the gardening traditions and how you can benefit from themWhy tones in Sanskrit carry more meaning and powerTools to disconnect from thinking and connect with what you are feelingMantras you can start with and what vibrations they carryThe first steps to activating your own true voiceWhat steps you can take to connect to the greatness of your personal lineageThe real reason why every person should know the Sanskrit alphabetA great tip for yoga teachers to apply in classA map for your own inner experience with soundWhat is the true language of sacred spellsRealizing the importance of elders on your pathUsing sound meditation to invoke the best process for your lifeWhy different sounds come from different parts of the paletteThe first three basic mouth positions for any mantraHow you can better understand the subtleties and nuances of mantrasDiscover the tool of sound to help invoke health and wealth for your business and familyWhy deers shake after near death encounters and what this has to do with human lifeHow to go beyond limits to be truly happyAnd much, much more…Books, Links, Movies and Other Resources Mentioned In This Episode:www.ayurveda.comAwaken (Movie about Yogananda’s Life)Books by Vasant Lad

DIABLOCAST EPISODE 20 - THE ROSEDALES - CARLYNN CARNAGE - INTERVIEW WITH SATANIC HORROR PUNK LEAD MAN LES HERNANDEZ FROM THE QUINTESSENTIALS NEW TO YOU BY HORRORWOOD ENDING AND BLACK ANGEL ANDY AND THE PIT!!!DOWNLOADGreetings Freaks, I am about a week off on this one, I am trying to do my best to put a podcast out every other friday, this is another kick ass show.. Internet horror Vixen CARLYNN CARNAGE  picks the Double Dose band, as well as the New To You Band... My interview with bad ass guitar singer frontman, LESS HERNANDEZ   from the band  THE QUINTESSENTIALS!!  plus Black Angel Andy with another edition of THE PIT.. man this one Andy is kicking out some bad ass jams, and is swilling tons of Vodka and Red Bull... this is a High Fuel kick ass show!!!As always you can download this podcast the following ways and a new one, via Megaupload.1.subscribe to Diablocast on Itunes and they will be delivered to you uppon release.2.stream the show and listen now, click the "Listeners" link on the right side of the Diablocast Site, then click the play now button.3.With you Mouse, right click on the subject line of this post and click "Save As" that will allow you to download it to your computer..4. Megaupload you can download this episode via  EP20: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J3YP9ZPZDIABLOCAST BRINGS YOU THE BEST OF HORROR PUNK, PSYCHOBILLY, PUNK AND METAL WITH A DARKSIDE.DIABLOCAST EPISODE 20 PLAYLIST..___________________________________________DEATH RIDERS - THE WRONG WAY OUTKILLSWITCH ENGAGE - MY CURSETHE LIVING END - CARRY ME HOMEL7 - EVERGLADEVICTIMS WILLING - HOME IS WHERE THE WAR ISFRIDA - I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ONKILLING JOKE - TENSIONJACK OFF JILL - VIVICAWWW.FACEBOOK.COM/CARLYNNCARNAGECARLYNN CARNAGE: DOUBLE DOSE BAND::THE ROSEDALES1.COLD COLD HEART2. IT'S MIDNIGHThttp://www.therosedales.com/ALICE COOPER - GO TO HELLTHE CRIMSON GHOSTS - NECROBABETHRICE - BLOOD CLOTS AND BLACKHOLESVOIVOD - THE X-STREAMTIGER ARMY - NOCTURNALTHE CRAMPS - HUMAN FLYMARYLIN MANSON - THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLELEATHERFACE - I WANT THE MOONSCREAMING LORD SUTCH - JACK THE RIPPERTHE 69 EYES - BENEATH THE BLUENICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS - I LET LOVE INTHE QUINTESSENTIALS - THIRTEENINTERVIEW: LES HERNANDEZ FROM THE QUINTESSENTIALShttp://www.thequintessentials.com/WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/THEQUINTESSENTIALSTHE QUINTESSENTIALS - PENTAGONAL REVISIONISMOTHERS - TO WALK UNDEADALKALINE TRIO - CALLING ALL SKELETONSHELLBILLYS - BONDAGE A GO GOKISS - HOTTER THAN HELLSCUM OF THE EARTH - GET YOUR DEAD ONSHE WANTS REVENGE - SISTERSONIC YOUTH - INCINERATECARLYNN CARNAGE:: NEW TO YOU BAND: HORRORWOOD ENDING1.WAITING FOR A HEARTBEAT2.HELLS TO GOOD FOR HERhttp://www.horrorwoodending.com/BLACK EYES & NECKTIES - TOMBSVOLBEAT - FALLENREZUREX - DIA DE LOS MUERTOSPAIN - SHUT YOUR MOUTHTHE FUZZTONES - THIS SINISTER URGEHIM - RIP OUT THE WINGS OF A BUTTERFLYFAR - AT NIGHT WE LIVEDIEMONSTERDIE - SHE LOOKS LIKE YOUANDREW W.K. - SHE IS BEAUTIFUL::THE PIT WITH BLACK ANGEL ANDY::CRANK COUNTY DAREDEVILS - HAMMER DOWNBARNBURNER - HOLY SMOKEJUDAS PRIEST - ONE SHOT AT GLORYVOLBEAT - SAD MAN'S TONGUEFASTER PUSSYCAT - BATHROOM WALLEZO - FIRE FIREW.A.S.P. - 95 NASTYGUNS N' ROSES - NIGHTRAINMOTORHEAD - ACE OF SPADESJUNKYARD - SIMPLE MANMOTLEY CREW - LOUDER THAN HELLMERCYFUL FATE - INTO THE COVENTHE CULT - EDIEOVERKILL - HELLO FROM THE GUTTERACCEPT - PRINCESS OF THE DAWNSAVATGE - SCREAM MURDERDANZIG - TIRED OF BEING ALIVEMEGADETH - MARYJANEW.A.S.P - SLEEPING IN THE FIRE Thanks again all, please support us, tell some friends, share this on facebook. thanks to all of you that tune in, and keep me doing this lil corpse and pony show every other week...all hail satan. hugs n kisses..ggabye

Our 1st Dynamic Forces Sponsored Show!!!ReviewsCivil War #5Astro City: The Dark Age, Book Two #1The Lone Ranger #3 (To be released 12/06)InterviewThe legendary John Romita joins us to discuss his epic career! Also joining us, Nick Barrucci, President of Dynamic Forces, gives us the low-down on all things Dynamic!