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In recent years, UrbanStems has grown from operating its online flower ordering and delivery business in a few markets to processing and delivering orders from coast to coast. It’s a DTC success story, but it was by no means an easy road to get to where the company is now. Scaling is one of the most challenging parts of running a business. Where do you allocate your resources? How do you enter new markets? And what do you do when disaster strikes in a way that could topple your business?Seth Goldman had to answer those questions and more when he took over as the CEO of UrbanStems in 2017. On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, he spilled the tea on everything he learned along the way. Seth explains how to navigate through the process of scaling, finding bottlenecks in your operations, and breaks down the ways to look at ROI when trying to break into a new market. Plus, he gives some insight into best practices when adding headcount. Main Takeaways:Finding the Bottleneck: There is a tendency for everyone to think everything is the problem, so it’s important to use data to prove that you have an actual bottleneck rather than anecdotal experiences. With the data as a guide, you can zero in on the actual bottlenecks and fix them at the source.Tipping The Scale: There are various hurdles to scaling. Doing it successfully is about finding the right level of balance when it comes to allocating resources. Are the current processes failing? Is there new technology that can create efficiencies? Or maybe you should be allocating headcount in a different way. Answering those questions is the best way to determine how to stimulate sustainable growth.Welcome To [Enter City Here]: When expanding your business into new markets, understanding the ROI of moving into those cities is the first step. It’s not enough to figure out if there are potential customers. Other factors such as supply chain, cultural considerations, and non-financial benefits also need to be taken into account.For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length.---Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we’re ready for what’s next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce---Transcript:Stephanie:Hey everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Up Next In Commerce. This is your host, Stephanie Postles, co-Founder at mission.org. Today, on the show, we have Seth Goldman, the CEO of UrbanStems. Seth, welcome.Seth:Thank you, Stephanie. Great to be here.Stephanie:Yeah, I'm excited to have you. For anyone who does not know UrbanStems, can you tell me a bit about it?Seth:Sure. UrbanStems is a six-year-old old company that is the premier provider of direct to consumer florals.Stephanie:That's awesome, and how long have you been with the company?Seth:I've been at the company for about three and a half years.Stephanie:Cool. What brought you to UrbanStems and what was your background before?Seth:Yeah, so it was a person actually that brought me, the founder, Ajay Kori is a dear friend of mine, and we both worked at a company called Quidsi together, which was acquired by Amazon back in 2011, and we remained very close friends from that point on. I went off to a company called HelloFresh. He went off to found UrbanStems, and we reunited in 2017.Stephanie:That's great. What did you do at HelloFresh?Seth:Yeah, I was the CEO of the US business, helping to grow HelloFresh from its near infancy in the US to a much larger business, and it was a wild ride and I had a lot of fun doing it.Stephanie:That's great. It seems like a good company to get a lot of lessons from, to bring to UrbanStems, like similar problems maybe, or things to tackle.Seth:Absolutely, both in terms of the apps, specific product, a perishable product, and a complicated supply chain, as well as I'd say the softer skills in terms of scaling a business, scaling a team and the challenges that come along with that.Stephanie:Very cool. When you came into UrbanStems, what was going on back in 2017, and how has it changed since?Seth:Yeah. When I came on board, it was great. Ajay brought me in and asked me to help beef up the operations of the company. I'd say, as a consumer, the biggest difference between now and then is that you could only get UrbanStems in a few select cities across the US at that point, and we made a big decision to go nationwide in early 2018, and that's really helped us scale the business since then. Although, we really still love our city delivery method that we still have in New York and DC. It creates that really intimate relationship with the customer and their recipient. We hope to be able to do more of that going forward.Stephanie:Tell me a bit about how do you pick cities? Of course, if it's started in a certain city, you're probably going to launch there, but how would you go about picking which cities to start in and having that city method that you're talking about, is developing a good relationship in that city?Seth:It's a pretty simple exercise of figuring out which cities are likely to have enough revenue and an ROI on that city to get in there. We believe there probably around 30 cities that we could identify today that likely makes sense. In terms of which cities we'd prioritize next, we would really rely on data. That data would help us understand what would be the revenue opportunity, how quickly we might get there. From there, we would also layer on supply chain and we would try to figure out if that city was easier or more complex from a supply chain standpoint. Finally, we'd overlay brand. We'd try to understand if there were any idiosyncrasies of that city that made it more or less attractive. Then finally, we might say, does that city have any sort of non-financial strategic importance to our business?Stephanie:Oh, great. Okay. This is a very interesting topic that I actually have not talked to many people on the show, so I want to double click into all of those, if you're happy to go there with me.Seth:Sure, let's go.Stephanie:All right. When you're picking your cities, you're talking about developing which ones have an ROI, and then of course, looking into a bunch of data for rolling out to the next cities. How do you go about developing which cities will have a good ROI?Seth:Yeah. The great news is that we have data to show what revenue we have in those cities currently. We would have to do a deep dive analysis of what zip codes we thought we could actually deliver to, depending on the city, if it's a city that we could get in with bike messengers, as we currently do in New York and DC, or if it's a city that would force us to rely exclusively on cars, which is not a major concern although we really love our brand promise of delivering via bike where we can.Stephanie:That's fun.Seth:Yeah, we would then use analytics to understand where we stand in each city revenue versus where we think we might be able to get to, where we start to have to look at some proxy data. For example, Google can help us understand what we believe our penetration in that city is versus a benchmark say of New York or DC, where we currently have our strongest brand recognition. That could give us some guidance as to whether, if we're doing X dollars of revenue, do we think if we jump in, we can increase that by 25%, 50% or more than 100%? Then we have to partner with the marketing team to understand what sort of a marketing effort would be required to get us there within a year or 18 months to break even, which is sort of, not a hard rule, but it's sort of a general proxy of what we're going to be looking for.Stephanie:Okay. When it comes to that marketing effort, what kind of channels do you look for, especially when you're launching in a new city where maybe you're not well-known and it's like, this seems like a city maybe similar to DC, but we've never been there before? What kind of things do you explore to get those new customers and brand awareness?Seth:We have to probably devote certain on the ground marketing campaigns. It could be as simple as going to street fairs, it could be that we would take some sort of local radio or other sort of top of funnel awareness advertising out. Each city though, is really going to be unique. I think that's something that we've learned, even just having New York and DC, we see small differences in the average order value. We see small differences even between, say Manhattan and Brooklyn, in terms of the percentage of flowers versus plants that the consumers purchase. So, we'll have to do some research that helps us understand the consumer and then that would help us figure out which marketing channels would make sense. But we almost certainly would be more comfortable getting aggressive in awareness marketing when we jump into a new city, because the return on that investment should be pretty strong, given that when we get into a city, the conversion rate, we would expect to be higher on our ecommerce platform.Stephanie:Yeah. That's cool. I can also imagine if you have bike deliveries, like if they had the backpack with your logo and beautiful flowers sticking out of it. That in and of itself could be a great marketing tactic to spread word of mouth.Seth:Absolutely. That is an entire romantic vision is true, except hopefully for the flowers sticking out the back, because they should be in contained packaging.Stephanie:Oh yeah. I guess I would just buy all over the place if they're just sticking out. Huh.Seth:But we do have branded everything for our couriers, t-shirts and vests, the coveted sweatshirts and hoodies. In fact, one of the downfalls of our sort of head of delivery was that he designed a hoodie that was too well loved that, not to accuse our corporate team, but they started taking them in numbers that they shouldn't have so we had to place an extra order. It really is the most comfortable hoodie.Seth:But it accomplishes two goals. The first, as we discussed is, it's really nice branding and advertising for the company. The second is it helps make these employees in these remote locations feel more part of our broader and greater team and brand.Stephanie:Yeah. I love that. Are there any other on the ground methods like that, that you're experimenting with or that you are hopeful of to promote word of mouth in maybe a new and different way?Seth:It's interesting in, especially the last nine months, we probably pulled back on a lot of that for obvious reasons. I think that it's an area where we would experiment, but I think you also have to be careful because it's hard to measure the effectiveness of that spend it takes, not just monetary resources, but really time. One of the things that I noted when I came on board in 2017 is that my city managers were being asked to do a lot of these in-person events. We hadn't really thought through how much of their time was being taken and how to think about them as an operations manager versus a marketing manager when we had a lot of work to do to scale the operations of the business. I think people just have to be thoughtful and careful about the KPIs that they're going to measure people against.Seth:But the people who are responsible for budget, but also the people whose time is going to be taken during these events. The good news is that the people love doing the events. These small scale events were very popular for the staff that, even after I told them that they should pull back, I found out months later, they were still doing them because they enjoyed them, but then they would complain that they didn't have time for other things. It did have to lead to some alignment meetings.Stephanie:Yeah. That's a really good point. So, thinking about the next piece that you mentioned was layering on supply chain when rolling out into new cities. It seems really difficult of course, with fresh items. So, how do you all go about thinking about that in a new city and building out a good supply chain that makes sure the flowers don't just die in a warehouse or something?Seth:A very sort of blocking and tackling for our goods is that you have to have a refrigerator. It has to be something that you have confidence is going to maintain temperature at around 35 degrees. And you, say very simple things like just like you're developing any real estate, make sure you give enough time to build it out, so you're not under pressure, because it's hard to come back from that if you're forcing yourself to open up on January 1, but you just can't have the refrigerator installed before then, you're going to fail. Making sure you understand your lead times. But for our business, I'd say the most important thing is understanding the notes in our networks. We have a larger facility in the Greater DC Area that helps service our New York and DC same day delivery locations.Seth:We have to think through as we branch out to more cities, if so for example, Philadelphia, we could certainly service from the same Maryland facility with limited additional CapEx, with limited additional complexity added to our supply chain. As we think to the West Coast, or as we think to, say the big populations in Texas or in the upper Midwest, if we have a facility nearby, there may be synergies where we can pull product from there and deliver it to a local facility. I would say that the farther we get from our home base, in terms of miles, in terms of being three hours and three time zones behind, you have to just ... it's hard to model it out on paper, but you have to start to acknowledge that the difficulties, things that could get lost in translation. You go from having everyone on the same eight hour, 9:00 to 5:00, to only overlapping for five hours, that can just sort of add strain to the systems.Seth:If you're going to go to the West coast, have you hired someone, did you decide that you're going to spend three months having them on the East Coast, training up, learning your culture before you send them to the West Coast, or you're going to take a gamble and just hire them on the West Coast and through more Zoom calls and maybe someone flying to California, try to build them into the culture and the brand of the company? I think those are really important decisions that don't sound like supply chain decisions, but ultimately, really help you down the line when someone is going to have to make a lot of executive calls that will impact your supply chain and will impact your ability to be successful or not on a day-to-day and week-to-week basis.Stephanie:Yeah. I think that's so important around building culture and a team. I mean, especially right now, where everything is digital and companies are still having to hire and find the right people, and it's kind of hard over Zoom. I've interviewed some people over zoom and it's like, you don't really know if you know them or how many notes they have in front of them, or what's really going on. How do you guys go about building a relationship and hiring? I think earlier you mentioned having this connection economy, where everyone's on digital tools, but people still want to connect in the real world, but maybe you can't right now. How do you think about that with teams and cultures and hiring new people?Seth:Yeah, that's a great question. We actually have hired probably about half a dozen people since the lockdowns were initiated and since our corporate staff for the vast majority of folks have not gone into the office. I'd say that we had one key advantage, which was that, before March, we did have a team that was split between New York and DC, so it was not uncommon for us to be on video conferencing. That transition was, to some degree, at least natural. In terms of the hiring process, I'd say the hardest part, and one that we definitely still have not right, and I'll be honest, for some small company, we didn't have it right necessarily before the pandemic was the onboarding. That the team though has started to make headway, we've gotten our swag. We've actually pulled it from the various physical locations and people are getting a care package now when they are in their first week at the company.Seth:I make sure to reach out to new hires during their first week to just welcome them with a warm email and then tell them when they're feeling no longer overwhelmed that we'll have a 30 or 45 minute call with no specific agenda other than really getting to know each other. I can try to sprinkle a few of my thoughts around company mission and values into those calls. Seth:I think for hiring managers and/or senior executives out there, I would also say, it's not just you making sure you know them. If you have someone that you really like, how are they getting to know you and feeling it on both sides? That you have an easier time convincing them to come on board.Stephanie:Yeah. Are there any best tips that you recommend to make sure that the candidates get to know you because, especially over Zoom, it seems like people are always talking over each other, even with ... I was talking earlier about internet, the video's not on, I had to turn it off. Is there anything that you guys practice to make sure that, not only are you getting to know the candidates, but also that they feel comfort with you and can ask questions and feel confident about that?Seth:Yeah, so we do as much as possible try to do video rather than just phone call interviews. I guess you could make arguments that that's better or worse, but it certainly allows people to respond to facial expressions, queues when it looks like someone is about to speak so you can try not to talk over them. I do reserve the last 15 minutes of every interview to allow the interviewee to ask me questions. That's both for them, and also, I secretly am looking to see how prepared someone is by the quality and thoughtfulness of the questions that they ask. If anyone is local, I will try to meet with them in person. We have to be thoughtful about that. Let's say we have two candidates and one is in New York and one is in DC, and we haven't crossed this bridge yet, but how do we make sure there's no implicit bias that we're pushing for the person that we met in person? But we try to have a variety of interviewers for each role. I think we've done a pretty good job with that.Stephanie:Okay, cool. Thinking through bringing on new employees, the first thing that's coming to my mind is scaling companies, something you've had quite a bit of success with around HelloFresh and now UrbanStems. I wanted to hear a little bit about how you think about scaling companies, whether it's at UrbanStems or HelloFresh or anything in the past that you've worked on.Seth:Yeah. I think what I try to do is, when I do have a moment to step back, is look at each function within the business, or I look what our plan is, where are we expected to get to over the next year? Whether that's our revenue mark, whether that's improvement along other KPIs or important metrics, and I try to pair that against each function. Is each function at a point where they can make that leap without any additional people? Are they at a point where they can make that leap but they'll need to improve just process? Do they need technology investments in their function in order to be more successful? We are nowhere near perfect on this, but each year we've gotten better. Our planning process is in the sort of June/July timeframe, of talking through what that plan is, and each team trying to think through what they will need to be successful there.Seth:I would say that stepping back where you run into problems, and it's sort of dual-edged sword, is if you put cash out and investments ahead of growth, you can get yourself in trouble. But you can also get yourself in trouble if you put growth ahead of investment. It is a dangerous game. I think, when it comes to hiring people we try to be thoughtful. It's also, what level are you hiring at? That's something you'll often hear me say to the team if they ask for another resource. To me, it's most important that we get that right level right. Very different to hire an associate versus even someone with two or three years of experience where you're saying, we just could not be successful, we hired someone just out of college. My next question will almost assuredly be, why?Seth:And managing the specific work that someone needs to do against the experience that you're saying is required. You don't want to hire someone too senior to do junior level work. They won't find it satisfying. There is such a thing as overqualified. Then on the flip side, you have to be careful what you can expect of someone more junior and what level of accountability and ownership you can place on them. I think, to me, that's the most important thing, is making sure you're hiring it to the right level, that everyone is aligned, that this role is needed. The reality is, in almost any startup, you're going to have a whole slew of resources that are not yet hired that people think are necessary, and trying to at least agree on alignment on when those might get prioritized.Seth:If something comes up that accelerates something, that happens too. That can throw a wrench in plans and you have to walk people through that that's happening and have conversations, well, hey, how did this new role cut in line ahead of the others? That can be hard, but you have to do it.Stephanie:I've definitely seen that in the past. At previous companies I've been at, I worked in finance, and every team always wanted headcount. Everyone always had a reason and were pretty good at justifying why they need those people. How do you go about spotting those opportunities of like, this is an area that obviously needs investment and I see growth coming after that? How do you actually think through finding the opportunities when they seem like they're pretty hard to spot? What's holding what up to create growth or to create exponential growth in the future?Seth:Yeah. I would say that you're sort of hiring for two reasons. One is growth, like you said, we're truly, there's a revenue or a profit or a customer experience opportunity that's not yet ... We can't go after because we don't have someone on the team. The other is that we're, I don't want to say things are crumbling, but sort of this more fixing the foundational type hires that you have a critical process that's not being executed the way you want. That's where you have to start to lean in and understand, is that a process technology or a resource issue? Once you get comfort that that's a resource issue, from my standpoint, typically that's a pretty easy hire, because, unless you have invested in something that's causing friction, that itself is not worth investing in, that hire will pay for themselves financially, because they're going to unblock something that, that is important to be unblocked.Seth:That's how I get comfortable with those kinds of hires. On the revenue side, if it's creating something new, you can run ROI models. Sometimes you can do those in your head. Sometimes you put them down on paper. Then for other functions, sometimes it is a little bit of taking a risk. For example, it was about a year or 18 months ago that we decided we needed a stronger social presence. We weren't sure exactly what that meant financially, but we brought someone on board on our brand director, Megan's team. After a few months, we started to really see results. We were really impressed. We managed to, in the last 18 months, five X on our Instagram following, not that that's the be all and end all of KPIs. Then for the sort of CFO in me, we started to see revenue, directly attributable revenue follow that.Seth:I think the other thing that, this is where managers have to do, is they have to sometimes take a risk. They say, there's a resource I'm really asking for, this is what I think it will return, and when they have something pan out, they are able to probably come to that next meeting with an ask with a little more confidence themselves, and with the, me again wearing my CFO hat, and me having more confidence to say yes to that opportunity.Stephanie:That's cool. I like you wearing your CFO hat. I appreciate that with a background in finance. You just mentioned, which I'm now I'm sure a lot of people are like, well, tell me how you grew your social, because that is an avenue that obviously a lot of brands are relying on and it's becoming even more important with the ability to click and buy on social, or at least it's headed in that direction. What did you guys do to grow your social presence?Seth:Yeah, so the very first thing we did is, like I mentioned, hire a dedicated resource, someone who spends probably 75% plus of her time thinking through our social channels and how we can become more influential there. Second is, once we started to see some results there, we added a SaaS software platform that helped us assess which visuals were going to be more engaging for our customer base. We did, though still have conversations, interestingly enough, the photos that I'd say I prefer from a brand perspective, those with people in them significantly underperform those of just flowers.Stephanie:Oh, interesting. This is a piece of tech that you guys were utilizing to figure out which ones like, which images would you best?Seth:Yeah. I actually don't know how precise it is, but it certainly helped us. We didn't need that to tell us that people underperformed flowers, but even just different variants of a similar image, they were able to pretty convincingly predict which one was going to outperform. Obviously we are betting on engagement, at least these measurable engagement statistics mattering. I think one of the hardest things in social is understanding what matters and what doesn't. Like I said, having our Instagram following at 150,000 versus at 30,000, where it was, we think that is directionally very good, is that, can I quantify what that means for our company? No. Will we continue to push to increase our reach. Absolutely. Are we seeing that increased reach is translating into direct revenue? Yes. Is that our only goal? No.Seth:Do we know the relationship between directly attributable revenue and non-attributable revenue? No, we have no idea if that even is the same month over month. But these investments that we made in a resource, training her, we actually had some, at one point also gave a green light to bring on an intern so that our full-time hire could manage up and start to add strategy to how she was thinking through, not just executing every day, and that's been great. We talked about that. How much is this going to cost? What is this person going to do? It was a pretty quick decision. But because it wasn't a ton of money, but even there, what I think is still critical is that someone comes to the table with that analysis done that's thoughtful, and that they seek to justify any investment, whether it's $100,000 or $1 million or $1,000.Seth:It just gets people in the discipline habit of understanding that money is going to be invested or not across teams, and it's not ... there's not an infinite amount of it. Stephanie:That's very cool. Now that your social person is able to start managing up, what kind of tactics or strategies are they hoping to implement over the next couple of years? What are they saying they believe in, or they want to try or test out?Seth:Yeah. I think a big buzz word in social is influencer. One of the things I've said is, if Oprah came out and endorsed UrbanStems, I don't know if that would even help us because our website would probably crash. We'd be out of stock on inventory in the next 20 minutes, and we'd enrage all of our good customers who came back and sold out. So, we have to think through how we would even execute that, but the team is bullish that, that matters. So, we're trying to think through that. I certainly also believe in content. The team believes in that. So, expect the we'll invest more in content. It's no secret that video content outperforms static photo content. So, looking at that, but it's also no surprise to anyone that videos are a lot more expensive to make than taking photos.Seth:You have to figure out what your budget is. You have to still be able to test very scrappily. I still will always believe in that, some of the best content is always going to be UGC. Some of the best content is going to be filmed in an iPhone, or for suckers like me, Samsung Galaxies. It's about mixing that with the more professionally created content, figuring out where and when to spend bigger, both from a photography standpoint and from a video. For example, the team did a wonderful job. This Thanksgiving, we have a dedicated lining page, which features video for the first time on the site.Stephanie:Oh nice.Seth:I'm really excited about that, testing it and testing more of that. With everything digital, the best thing is that you can always AB test that. Even if you spent a ton of money on something, I still encourage you to AB test it, to ensure that it's working. If you want to AB tested at 80% with the video and 20% control without so that you get more out there, that's fine. It'll just take a little longer to get the results of that test.Stephanie:Yeah, that's great. I appreciate you letting us look into the future with you and your team. I'm sure that you're probably like, ah, I don't want people bringing this up anymore. That's so three years ago. However, it came to my mind when you were talking about Oprah and if she were to endorse you guys and you could sell out, and their website will crash. It brings me back to, of course what happened in 2017 that I think a lot of people could learn from, who are listening, around, I think there was like a Valentine's day snafu where you had too many orders and the website maybe crashed or something. Tell me a little bit about that and what you guys have ... what actually happened, what are the details on it? I know you weren't there, but what are the details? What have you learned from it? And what do things look like today?Seth:Yeah. No, I wasn't, but I don't think that's the sort of important part of the story. I think, in three short words, we messed up. We did not fully understand how we were going to execute the holiday. It was unfortunate that it was on Valentine's day, which is one of these two days a year that everyone looks to flower companies to sort of solve their buying need, which is to get flowers delivered. We were better at marketing than we were at executing that year. We learned a lot. I think that that's the most important thing, which is we learned that we needed a more sophisticated plan. That plan needed to be backed by data. To be honest, this is why I came in. This is why Ajay asked me to come into the business, which was to help figure it out for the next year.Seth:The first thing I did was I talked to people. I got the stories. I started sharing those stories around to make sure that they matched with what people thought went wrong. I started to look at data, and data helped me craft a plan. One thing that I actually think I did really well is that we had the data and we had the plan, and we just kept going over the plan. I think that is one of those things that, for people who would like to move quickly, can infuriate you. It's infuriated me at times. The number of times that I think we had to go over the plan or that we went over it was well into the double digits, just reviewing and reviewing, but we were successful and it wasn't just that we fixed everything from the previous year.Seth:In fact, we had to make changes that had nothing to do with people making mistakes. We had just pushed too many orders into certain physical facilities than we could handle. Our tech had not been robustly tested to meet the peak needs by a combination of looking at data and incorporating feedback from people who had gone through it. We were able to create a plan that was, again, based in numbers and efficiency metrics, and a realistic execution, still stretched by all means. We did not pull back. But to the credit of Ajay, he brought me in, and he gave me the green light to bring in some additional resources, which I did. We did some new things. We delivered for the first time in the company's history via a third party parcel carrier that allowed us to take orders that we otherwise wouldn't have been able to take.Seth:We had an on-time rate of about 98% to 99%. So, it was a nice reversal from the previous year. The way we phrase it with the team is, it's three and a half years ago, so it's, we don't dwell on it. But we do remember it, and we remember it as a way of motivating ourselves to make sure that our plans have been vetted, thought through, are based in data and have been shared with the team well enough in advance so they feel confident in their ability to execute them.Stephanie:Yep. What are some of the biggest data points that you looked at? When you were coming in or when you reviewed what actually happened, what were some of the biggest things that stood out where you were like, oh, was it the website crashing because it was the tech stack? Was it the supply chain? What specific things were the biggest contributors that maybe any new company can learn from of like, oh, if I'm setting up a similar type business, I need to look for this, this and this. If Oprah decides to come out and give me a shout out.Seth:Yeah. And Oprah, if you're listening, we will still take the shout out.Stephanie:Yeah, send it our way.Seth:But I think the challenge was, when I got ... everyone thought it was everything. It was really important to help people compartmentalize. It actually brought me back to a course in business school. I feel like, in many respects, I was one of the only people, one of the only ones of my friends who actually learned something in business. I remember taking an operations course and it talked about a factory that made, I forget if it was chocolates or chairs, it almost doesn't matter, and they said it was an assembly line and it took a minute to make the first chocolate. The chocolate had to go through, it doesn't even matter, let's call it six steps that each took 10 seconds, and it said, how many chocolates can you make in an hour? I got it wrong.Seth:I said, well, you can make 60. It takes a minute to make each chocolate. It turns out that there were six, like I said, six steps, each were 10 seconds. So, you can actually make six a minute, or 360 an hour. My mind was blown. It was really cool to figure out how an assembly works, what throughput is. I went to a Chipotle just to observe it in action, to find out what the bottleneck was and to figure out actually how a company like Chipotle does an amazing job at lunchtime. It's actually the cashier who typically is the bottleneck. So, you can see they add an extra cashier. Sometimes it's the first person who has to do both your burrito and the meat. So, you'll see they have an extra person who just does the meat. If you ever want to understand operations one-on-one in action, go to a Chipotle at peak time.Stephanie:Oh, that's good. I'll be looking at police so differently now.Seth:What really I just had to understand, and what was clear to me is they hadn't really done that kind of analysis to look at throughput, how many orders can be packed out. We also have to ... people kept telling you what the bottleneck is. The bottleneck is basically where your business chokes, what's the slowest part of your operation. People kept telling me things that ... and then I would say, well, how long does it take to do this? And I would write down the answer, and the numbers they gave me did not match with it being a bottleneck, which either meant that it wasn't the bottleneck, or that it took a lot longer than what they thought.Seth:The key thing was keep digging, keep trying to understand, is it ... because at the end of the day, the math will be the truth that you can use. But if your assumption is based on faulty math, then it's just garbage math. So, you have to look at the operation in action and you have to understand, so for example, with us printing out these custom note cards, whereas it's the note that you wanted for your mother for Mother's Day, right? That's what makes every UrbanStems order unique, besides the fact that you get to pick the bouquet you want and the ad-ons that are specific to your order, which took a lot of technological build hardware and software, to be honest, but it's that note card.Seth:I was told, "This is our bottleneck," and I said, "Well, how long does it take to print a note card?" And they said, "Five seconds." I said, well, it takes a lot longer to pack out an order than five seconds. That can't be. But then I started to lean in, and it turns out that they would print 20 of these note cards at a time, and then they would organize these into a folder, and then they would put the folder away, and then they would bring the folder back out when they were ready to pack out. What was five seconds, when I did all the math, ended up being a minute, and you couldn't even do them one by one, like in the chocolate example, because you had to get 20 chocolates assembled at once. You had to wait for 20 of those chocolates to go down to the end of the assembly line before. So, if you ever got behind, the time to catch up was significant.Stephanie:Oh, wow. That's really Interesting, about like something where you're like, oh no, that's not the problem. Then being like, oh, actually your process is the biggest part of the problem.Seth:Exactly. This is a very cool evolution. People who have not been at the company for at least two years, don't understand. With a bottleneck, you have two solutions. You either make it more effective or you add resources to the bottleneck. The first year that's what we did. We had five of our most analytical people, five very smart people who just on Valentine's day helped us print them. As absurd as that sounds, that's what we did. We just overwhelmed the process with resources. This past year, the tech team and the supply chain team got together and they completely reinvented. Now, every single order is sent to a specific person's queue that ties to their physical desk, and there's a printer at every station and that printer prints out one note card at a time that's tied to that a specific order. Now, it takes five seconds to print an old card, and it is no longer a bottleneck.Stephanie:Yeah. That's great. It seems like there'd be a lot less room for things to get lost. I mean, if everything's in a folder and you're trying to sort through it, [crosstalk] maybe picking up the wrong notes and you'd be like, hey grandma, and be like, oh, this is the wrong note that got sent out. It seems a lot more. Yeah. You're not going to have any errors doing it this way now.Seth:Yeah. The error rate, both reported and for sure, actual declined. We also saw that our throughput overall went up by 50%, 60%, 70%, and we could train people on this new system much faster. Those five people that I mentioned that had to be in that room on Valentine's day now don't have to be in that room.Stephanie:Yep. That was very good reminders about bottlenecks. I think it's very encouraging for every new brand to kind of look into that and really dive deep. So, yeah, I love that example. All right. The couple of minutes left, let's jump over to the lightning round brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. This I'm going to ask you a question and you have a minute or less to answer. Are you ready, Seth?Seth:I am ready.Stephanie:All right. We'll start with the hardest one first. What one thing will have the biggest impact on ecommerce in the next year?Seth:The one thing that'll have the biggest impact on ecommerce is FedEx and UPS.Stephanie:Okay. Tell me a bit more.Seth:Yeah. Their ability to grow and sustain their supply chains and deliver on time is going to be critical to, in the next 13 months, they're going to have two holiday seasons, and either a lot of happy customers or a lot of unhappy customers. It'll be really interesting, your 800 pound gorilla. Amazon is highly confident because they've largely disintermediated their over-reliance on UPS. In fact, FedEx and Amazon, they're divorced for the most part. I think that their ability to continue to shift to ecommerce to add Saturday and Sunday delivery nationwide to do FedEx, and UPS delivery to do ground deliveries next day, seven days a week, based on a previous day pickup, all of these things are going to either allow ecommerce to continue to blossom or hold it back. Also, what's very unclear is how much they're going to raise rates in January. Typical years call it 3% to 6%. There is a lot of concern that they could be above, and potentially well above that 6%, and what does that do to demand?Stephanie:Yep. Yeah, that's a really good answer. What one topic or thing do you wish you knew more about?Seth:One topic or a thing.Stephanie:[crosstalk] technology or ...Seth:I've been in and around physical product ecommerce businesses. I think getting more in the data and technology side is always the right ... that is always the future. I love being in consumer businesses. I love the ability to ask almost anyone about the product or service that I'm working with and trying to lead forward and getting their opinion and having that opinion matter. That's the joy and the challenge of ecommerce, but certainly getting deeper into data, getting deeper in technology is something I'm going to encourage anyone, especially anyone young, certainly what I'm going to get my kids into.Stephanie:Yep. I love that. If you were to have a podcast, what would it be about, and who would your first guest be?Seth:I think it would be about brands that do it right. I think that I so admire people who build iconic brands, and it goes back to this consumer side of things, but to me, it's looking at these revered brands and whether they are the Phil Knights, Nikes of the world, Reed Hastings and Netflix, or some lesser known smaller brands. I'm always so impressed with people who take the leap to do it. Those, especially who do it without raising significant amounts of capital and create something that just clicks and resonates with consumers, because I think we can all learn that. I find that I've been around companies that have done a nice mix of brand and execution, that have focused so much on execution. I think it's something that I'm good at, and I've been around other people that have been good at it. Maybe it's because of that, that I so admire the folks, those creative, just truly creative visionaries on the branding side.Stephanie:I love that. And who would you pick to bring on as your first guest?Seth:Who would I pick to bring on as my first guest? I guess, not that Reed Hastings would agree, but Netflix ...Stephanie:He might.Seth:Netflix so transformed and based on an industry that could have gotten there, had they seen it coming. In fact, I think at some point he had discussed with them with blockbuster buying out the business, and they dismissed him. I'm sure he has fabulous stories. I'm not so interested in actually the last three years where they've been a powerhouse. I'm really interested in those first years when he struggled, when he kept the faith when things were not going well, how he saw the future when others didn't, how he pivoted from CDs delivered, when he knew it was the time to digital and build something big and special, how he hired people in those early years and got them convinced it was going to be big and special. Those are the questions that are ... and/or now getting the best and the brightest is easy, given the company that they've built. But it's those early years that I'd be really excited to learn about.Stephanie:Yep. Yeah, I love that. I think we have the same kind of passion, and you would probably like one of our other podcasts called the story, because it's about people like that. We did retastings Phil Knight, We do Elon Musk, and it talks about the early days, how they got started and then you guess their identity at the end, because you wouldn't actually all the things they went through to build the companies that they did. You have to check that out.Seth:Very good. I will.Stephanie:All right, Seth. Well, this has been a great interview. Where can people find out more about you and UrbanStems?Seth:Yeah, UrbanStems is the company name and it's also our website, so urbanstems.com will get you there. If you want, you can also reach out to me, seth.goldman@urbanstems. I'd be happy to chat with you. I'd be happy to provide you with a promo code on your first order. We love people enjoying flowers, and more importantly, we love people sending gratitude to people that they care about.Stephanie:Awesome. Love that. Thanks so much, Seth.Seth:Thank you so much, Stephanie. Bye.

A special PZP spotlight series featuring interviews with all the authors exploring the guiding question: “Are we moving toward Jesus, the peaceful One?” in a Herald magazine article series running June/July 2020 – April/May 2021. Elray’s article is titled “Jesus as Sanctuary" Click here to read Elray's article, "Jesus as Sanctuary."Click here find more resources related to the Guiding Question Host: Karin PeterGuest: Elray Henriksen

A special PZP spotlight series featuring interviews with all the authors exploring the guiding question: “Are we moving toward Jesus, the peaceful One?” in a Herald magazine article series running June/July 2020 – April/May 2021. Andrea’s article is titled “Jesus, the Development Worker"Click here to read Andrea's article, "Jesus, the Development Worker."Click here to find the video reflectionClick here find more resources related to the Guiding Question Host: Karin PeterGuest: Andrea Read Davis

A special PZP spotlight series featuring interviews with all the authors exploring the guiding question: “Are we moving toward Jesus, the peaceful One?” in a Herald magazine article series running June/July 2020 – April/May 2021. Matt’s article is titled “Jesus Christ in Restoration Perspective”Click here to read Matt's article, "Jesus Christ in Restoration Perspective"Click here to find the recorded online discussion group with Matt and Janne' GroverClick here find more resources related to the Guiding Question Host: Karin PeterGuest: Matt Frizzell

A special PZP spotlight series featuring interviews with all the authors exploring the guiding question: “Are we moving toward Jesus, the peaceful One?” in a Herald magazine article series running June/July 2020 – April/May 2021. Ron’s article is titled “Looking Back to See Ahead.”Click here to read Ron's article, "Looking Back to See Ahead." Click here to find the recorded online discussion group with Ron and Janne' GroverClick here find more resources related to the Guiding Question Host: Robin LinkhartGuest: Ron Harmon

Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and the Museum’s latest curator Alice Levine are joined by comedian and podcaster Suzi Ruffell, chef and presenter Ainsley Harriott and writer and creator of Bridget Jones, Helen Fielding. This week, the Museum’s Guest Committee donate a Dutch upright bicycle, the welwitschia mirabilis plant and the Victoria Falls. In this series of The Museum of Curiosity, John and Alice are recording from various locations around their fictional Museum. This week they’ve climbed up to the top of the Museum’s roof. Over the series they will also visit the canteen, the lost property office and get stuck in the Museum lift. This series was recorded remotely in June/July 2020. The Museum’s exhibits were catalogued by Mike Shephard, Mike Turner and Emily Jupitus and Lydia Mizon of QI. The Producers were Anne Miller and Victoria Lloyd. The Production Coordinator was Mabel Wright. Edited by David Thomas.

Lone Jespersen is the principal at Cultivate, an organization dedicated to helping food manufacturers globally make safe, great-tasting food through cultural effectiveness. Lone has significant experience with food manufacturing, having previously spent 11 years with Maple Leaf Foods. Following the tragic event in 2008 when Maple Leaf products claimed 23 Canadian lives, Lone led the execution of Maple Leaf's food strategy and its operations learning strategy. She holds a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Syd Dansk University (Denmark), and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in food science from the University of Guelph (Canada).   Marie Tanner joined the Dairy Farmers of America in 2017. She is currently the senior vice president of food safety and quality. Prior to that, Marie was the global chief food safety and quality, health, safety, and environment management at Kerry. Before Kerry, Marie held various quality leadership roles at PepsiCo and Godiva (Ulker). Marie holds an M.Sc. in food science from Rutgers University. She formally served on the board of SSAFE, a global nonprofit working to integrate food safety, animal health, and plant health across food supply chains.  Neil Coole is the director of food and retail supply chain at BSI Americas. In 2015, Neil joined BRC Global Standards to head up their global key account strategy, engaging key industry brand owners, manufacturers, and retailers to understand their requirements from a risk solutions perspective. He was the subject matter expert on BRC Global Standards' new strategy on food safety and quality culture excellence, working with manufacturers on how to embed a culture of food safety and training food manufacturers, brand owners, and suppliers on the important topic of food safety and quality culture excellence.  In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to the panel [11:46] about: Organizational culture and how it influences food safety How a company's culture is created from the top down  How food safety culture can and should give an organization a competitive edge COVID's impact on food safety culture Why the idea of "implementing" a food safety culture is problematic Some wrong ways to go about creating change within an organization's culture Diversity and inclusion, and how they play a role in changing a company's culture How to begin undoing a history of complacency within a company's current culture Tips for improving and sustaining a positive culture Food Safety Culture Articles  Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture - Feb/March 2017  The Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture: Primary Production - April/May 2017  The Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture: Distribution - June/July 2017  The Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture: Processing - Aug/Sep 2017   The Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture: Foodservice - Oct/Nov 2017   The Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture: Retail - Dec/Jan 2018  Supply Chain and Food Safety Culture: Sector Leaders Sharing Their Challenges and Recommended Practices - Feb/March 2018 Resources Cultivate Maturity Model BSI - Cultivate Food Safety Culture Postcard  BSI - COVID-19 Safe Working Guidelines  BSI - Workplace Hygiene Solutions Brochure  BSI - Workplace Hygiene Solutions Video BSI - UK's National Standards Body - COVID-19 Response  News Mentioned in This Episode EU's Draft Amendment of Hygiene Legislation Includes Focus on Food Safety Culture [2:07] - see official draft regulation document  FDA Announces the Voluntary Phase-Out of by Industry of Certain PFAS Used in Food Packaging [3:46] | The Growing Challenge of Safe Water Use for Food Processing Operations UMASS Food Scientist Secures Grant to Develop New Method for Cleaning Peanut Butter Off Food Processing Equipment [7:42]  Keep Up with Food Safety Magazine Follow Us on Twitter @FoodSafetyMag and on Facebook  Subscribe to our magazine and our biweekly eNewsletter We Want to Hear From You! Please share your comments, questions, and suggestions. Tell us about yourself—we'd love to hear about your food safety challenges and successes. We want to get to know you! Here are a few ways to be in touch with us. Email us at podcast@foodsafetymagazine.com Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to us at podcast@foodsafetymagazine.com

Listen now! It's En Sabah Nur - time has no meaning. It's 2020, so why not talk Apocalypse? How does Doc handle someone who bends timelines to his will? SHOW NOTES: Intro Shoutout to I Understood that Reference - Rob & Ross are two Irish friends who cover movies, comics, games Still taking nominations for award show Background (01:52) Apocalypse created by Louise Simonson and Jackson Guice in X-Factor #5-6 (June-July 1986) Apocalypse is believed to be the first mutant - over 5,000 years old, born in Egypt - his name, En Sabah Nur, is translated as “The First One” Abandoned as an infant because of his looks, he adopted a survival of the fittest mindset Mutant powers manifested after having his heart broken as a young man - combined with Celestial technology uncovered by Kang the Conqueror, he had incredible power, and became immortal Fostered war throughout the centuries, seeking the strongest warriors Put himself into suspended animation to wait for further developments - awakened by Cable’s arrival and summons a guard, known as the Four Horsemen - the original group included Warren Worthington, aka Angel Tries to kill Nathan Summers, who he believes will become strong enough to defeat him - inadvertently ends up responsible for turning him into Cable Age of Apocalypse - Legion travels in time to kill Magneto, but accidentally kills his father, which disrupts the timeline - with no Xavier, Apocalypse awakens and takes over the world - he is opposed by Magneto, leading a team of mutants Learns from Uatu that Onslaught is going to destroy the world, and temporarily allies with Cable to help defeat him, but ends up focusing on Franklin Richards, which allows Onslaught to escape Battles X-Force, and nearly killed by Archangel Resurrected as a child, and the new X-Force team debates what to do with him before Fantomex shoots him dead Another young clone, named Evan Sabahnur, joins the Jean Grey School for a time, and works on becoming a hero instead of what he is destined to become Currently living on Krakoa as part of the Quiet Council, helping oversee the laws on the island for all mutants Issues (14:09) Savior complex for mutantkind Survival of the fittest mentality Longevity’s impact on mental planning (29:14) Break (39:12) Plugs for Frigay the 13th, I Never Saw That, and Chris Claremont Treatment (40:47) In-universe - Befriend one of the Horsemen and convince Apocalypse to stay in his pyramid Out of universe - treatment of old racists stuck in their ways (45:42) Skit (54:45) Ending (60:23) Recommended reading: Age of Apocalypse Next episodes: Quipping, Baphomet (Wicked + Divine) with special guest Jered from Fantom Zone Podcast, Killer Croc Review read: Pittsburghnerd, 07/07/2020 Great idea - This is a great show with a wonderful concept. Extremely entertaining and worth a listen. I highly recommend you give it a try Plugs for social References: Marvel Mythos AoA breakdown - Anthony (05:25) Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men - Anthony (05:40) Legion episode - Anthony (05:55) Uatu episode - Anthony (08:06) Deadpool episode - Anthony (11:19) Four Horsemen - Doc (27:50) Evolution - Doc (28:10) Ra’s al Ghul episode - Anthony (29:22) Colonel Sanders/KFC - Doc (31:33) Stanford marshmallow experiment - Doc (34:25) Friends - Smoking and Hypnosis - Anthony (44:20) Stuart Smalley - Anthony (45:34) Vandal Savage episode - Anthony (45:54) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter Facebook Patreon TeePublic Discord

In this episode, Residential Tech Today Executive Editor Jeremy Glowacki chats with Robbie Cabral, inventor, CEO, and founder of Los Angeles-based BenjiLock, a finger-print enabled padlock manufacturer that was introduced to the tech industry at CES 2017 and soon after was made famous on ABC’s SharkTank. Padlocks for gym lockers and bikes aren’t typically the focus of Residential TechTalks, but Cabral is expanding his focus into the smart home, so we’ll discuss that development and more in this episode. Visit to learn more, visit https://benjilock.com/ and check out our interview in the June-July 2020 issue of Residential Tech Today. Today’s episode of Residential Tech Talks is brought to you by SONY Visit Sony.com

This week, about 1,100 people died every day in the US from COVID-19. While #coronavirus deaths have caught up with the June/July spike, COVID19 cases and hospitalizations are going down - 10%. Good news, but there are reasons we're not sure the decline is lasting trend. Our team of doctors explained the numbers and latest science on COVID-19 and high blood pressure, including the mixed evidence, and COVID timeline of the progression of the disease, from exposure to incubation to recovery or death.

God gave us the sense of touch for all the moments of our lives. What will this look like after the COVID-19 pandemic? Listen as host Dr. Steve Greene addresses the loss of touch during this time in history and how Jesus never wanted us to keep our distance from Him or each other. For more on this topic, see his articles in the June/July issue of Charisma magazine.

Brindolyn and Karson are back after a short sabbatical with their June/July reviews. This episode, Karson discusses the overwhelming book "The Great Along" by Kristin Hannah, while Brindolyn shares her thoughts on the audiobook "Real Queer America: LGBT stories from Red States." Needless to say, they both had very different summer reading experiences.For August, they'll be tackling reads by an author of a different religion or spirituality. Brindolyn will be diving into the graphic novel "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi, and Karson will be exploring the fantasy novel "City of Brass" by S.A. Chakraborty.Shout out to SquadCast for allowing us to continue to create new content while maintaining a responsible social distance.Read along and let us know what you think on Twitter at @ThatsLitPodcast, on Instagram at @ThatsLitPodcast and on Facebook or email us at thatslitpodcast@gmail.com. You can find Brindolyn on Twitter at @Brindolyn and on Instagram at @Brindolyn. And you can find Karson on Twitter at @kgaylet.

Dr. Teshamae Monteith discusses the article, "Managing Anxiety in the Face of a Pandemic" from the June/July issue of Brain & Life. Show resources: https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/managing-anxiety-in-the-face-of-a-pandemic/

Jacqui Chiari (@tfg.jacqui) is the Founder + CEO of Tidy for Good, Spiritual Organizing and Sustainability Coaching, and KonMari Consultant In-Training. In this episode she shares how her mental health + money blocks almost stopped her from starting her business, how she found the courage to finally invest in herself, and her journey of creating her organizing + sustainability coaching business. In this episode, we chat about: The relationship between the tidying + organizing movement and sustainability How she brings Human Design + spirituality in to her business How she’s healing anxiety around money and the importance of taking care of your mental health The moment she decided to invest in her first coaching program and how that helped her embody the role of business owner and CEO Why community is so important when you’re just starting out Connect with Jacqui at https://www.tidyforgood.co/, on instagram: @tfg.jacqui, on Facebook www.facebook.com/tidyforgood and join her private Facebook group ABUNDANT: The Tidy for Good Community for more community + support! If you loved this episode, share it on social or with a friend and tag me @melinacharis and Jacqui @tfg.jacqui. I’d love to connect and hear what you thought of this episode! To work with me, you can head to bookwithmelina.as.me - I’m currently offering 15% off Human Design readings, breathwork sessions, and one-time coaching sessions all through June + July to celebrate the launch of the podcast! Use coupon code “MAGIC” to redeem. Offer expires July 31. As always, I’d be so grateful if you subscribe, rate, and review the show if it resonates with you. Thank you thank you thank you! I’m so glad you’re here. Xoxo

In this episode, Residential Tech Today Executive Editor Jeremy Glowacki chats with Brandon White, director of new product development at Vanco International, a U.S. manufacturer of premium audio/video products and electronic accessories. In this week’s episode, we learn more about an article Brandon wrote for the June/July 2020 issue of Residential Tech Today, where he shares how he has followed in his father’s footsteps in the AV business and how his own young son is already showing interest in tech. Visit: https://www.vanco1.com/ to learn more.   Today’s episode of Residential Tech Talks is brought to you by ELK Products. Visit https://www.elkproducts.com

A short 46-minute anime film about a high schooler and a teacher falling having a similar problem in their life. They are both troubled with life and what is going on and they skip their work/school on rainy days to go to a Japanese garden. The two characters grow a bond for one other as they see each other every rainy morning during the month of June-July when the raining season stops they feel incomplete without one other. Luckily faith is a blessing and curse for these characters as they both want to grow stronger and be the best they can be in their professional. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/spielanime/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/spielanime/support

In the latest issue (June/July) of Fortune magazine, the CEOs of the 2020 Fortune 500 list were asked how the world is going to change due to the COVID pandemic. Here are our big takeaways and how they may impact the hotel industry - with just a smidge of Fueligan humor. SHOW NOTES:

There is SO much you could do the rest of the year, so much and so many you could give to, but what really matters to you??  Given the current level of intensity and uncertainty, how can you create stability and sustainability for yourself and those you love and lead financially, emotionally, mentally, physically?   How can you work with the transformational energy happening to create more of the reality you desire for yourself and this world?  These are some of what we will explore together in this power pause, so you can gain clarity and focus for the next part of this year. One of the smartest things we can do at the mid year point is to pause, reflect, realign and redesign what we are going to focus our life force, resources and time on. This is true for how you run your work life - business, team, organization, career, classroom, etc. And how you run your personal life - wealth, health, home, relationships. For SO many reasons.  This is what I call taking a Power Pause. It's a feminine wisdom way practice and a feminine leadership sustainable success principle. It's how we make sure we create realities that are both successful in what we desire to create and cause AND that are sustainable.  It's also a best practice for getting out of overwhelm and the feelings that you are never doing enough or have enough.  I've been doing Power Pauses myself for a decade and every year at this time I teach mid year power pauses, which I call FLOW for focus your life force on what matters, in many different forms. A virtual program/retreat, in person retreats and for women's leadership groups and teams within organizations.  For you beloved Feminine Power Time listener, 4x a year I do these special Power Pause episodes that include a series of inquiries that are like a Power Pause appetizer. They give you a taste of the full process, and enough of a taste to give you some wisdom bytes about what you truly desire this coming year.  In this episode, "POWER PAUSE: It's Mid-Year, Time to Reflect & Redirect: 6 Inquiries to Get Focused On What Really Matters to You the Rest of the Year" I will share with you Why especially this year we are personally feeling so much pressure and how to make sure you don't react in ways that distract and drain you.  The 3 realms of focus we are being called to consciously work with now in these intense times - focusing on the past to HEAL, the now to SUSTAIN, and the future to CREATE.  Why our productivity, health and impact increases when we work with the natural flow of the earth In the Feminine Power Time, I'll take you through 6 inquiries focused in 3 realms of past, present and future -  which I also listed below. I invite you to journal on them. Invite a friend or your partner to share about them. And then if you want to really receive the benefit of the mid year Power Pause, take the online version, you can do at your own pace. INQUIRIES: 1. HEAL: What inside of you is calling for a deeper healing and wholeness, so you can be more free to create the reality and world you desire?  2. HEAL: What in your relationships is calling to be released or redesigned, to free up emotional and mental space and open up your capacity to receive the support, connection you desire?  3. SUSTAIN: What do you need in place for your physical body to be strong, sustained and healthy? What practices / rituals are in place you preserve, keep doing? What new ones do you need?  4. SUSTAIN. In your work, what is already in place that you can maintain and preserve, and in doing so will create more stability and sustainability for you? You can receive from the energy you've already created?  5. SUSTAIN: In your relationships, what and who could you give life force and energy to this next half of the year, that would support, nurture and sustain you?  6. CREATE: What are you being called to create - bring into form, call, cause - for yourself or the world? How and on what do you choose to use your co-creative power this second half of the year.    For more on working with Christine  1. FLOW Mid Year Power Pause - do in July to get focused on what matters - www.FlowPowerPause.com  Do from home.  2. Feminine Wisdom Way - 6-month feminine wisdom training includes Power Pause, which is the path of living, leading and succeeding in a way that supports you to achieve what matters AND be sustained. www.FeminineWisdomWay.com  We only open enrollment in January or June/July for this.  3. Personal Mentoring - Harmonize and Rise. learn more at www.HarmonizeandRise.com   

Em Scimeca (@emscimeca) is an Animal Intuitive, NLP Practitioner, and certified Life + Success Coach. She’s magical, hilarious, down-to-earth, and I know her story will resonate with many of you. In this episode she shares her journey from growing up in a religious household to discovering her gifts as an animal intuitive to now teaching others how to communicate with animals in her new program, Animal Magic. In this episode, we chat about: How she realized she could communicate with animals when her beloved guinea pig, Winnie, passed in April 2019 The self-doubt she felt when she discovered her gifts and how she’s finding the confidence to own her magic How she channels messages from animals in her Sacred Animal Intuitive Sessions How to follow what feels good to you + strengthen your connection with yourself to tap into your unique gifts  For information on having a Sacred Animal Intuitive Session with Em or if you want to learn to communicate with animals yourself in her #AnimalMagic program, visit www.emscimeca.com or follow her on Instagram at @emscimeca. If you loved this episode, share it on social or with a friend and tag me @melinacharis and Em @emscimeca. I’d love to connect and hear what you thought of this episode! To work with me, you can head to bookwithmelina.as.me - I’m currently offering 15% off Human Design readings, breathwork sessions, and one-time coaching sessions all through June + July to celebrate the launch of the podcast! Use coupon code “MAGIC” to redeem. As always, I’d be so grateful if you subscribe, rate, and review the show if it resonates with you. Thank you thank you thank you! I’m so glad you’re here. Xoxo

June-July 2020 BLACK CLOCK AUDIO TALES   PGttCM.com is about weird fiction for all, the P stands for people, and we stand by everyone who is an ally. Be an ally and engage in anti-racism. Here are some resources. Help the family of George Floyd HERE. Fight for Breonna Taylor HERE. Help the family of Ahmaud Arbery HERE. Want to help protesters? Donate to one or more community bail funds HERE. Visit Movement For Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause. Want to connect with leaders building grass roots campaigns? Click HERE. Please continue to donate in support of organizations fighting against racism and police brutality. Here's where you can donate.   This month will be WEB DU Bois/Batrachian Gods/Stregoicavar This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher, maybe google. Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt. Carcosa Records? Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at peoples_cthulhu_podcast and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm. Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.

“Every goodbye calls for preparation, but most times, life takes us by surprise.”- Elisabetta GnoneRepatriation after an expat assignment is hard for everyone. It's even more difficult when your move back home is unexpected, unplanned, and unwanted.This time of year (June/July) is traditionally the time expat families move on. But this year, the COVID19 pandemic has forced many expats to move back home suddenly, without notice and with little time to plan. So, this first Expatability Chat episode is all about repatriating and therefore, I'm starting at the end of expat life!Lots of sympathy, advice, information, and insights so you’re realistically prepared for expat, and ex-expat life. For a quick, free introductory chat, please look here To book an hour's call with me, please check out my diary, here: Expat Espresso HourVisit ExpatChild.com for tons of articles about expat life!Find me on FacebookSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=GFFFL9Q32WKGY)

The Quest of the Silver Fleece was W.E.B. Du Bois' first novel. Published in 1911 by A.C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, the novel combined literary realism with some romanticism and political-economic analysis to provide a story of two Black protagonists, a man and a woman, who eventually work together to build an economic community -- a community that provided a way to overcome both the overt and the systemic racism of a fictional post-Reconstruction Alabama town and county. The silver fleece of the title referred to cotton, which was the valuable crop that, as Du Bois suggested in the novel, would help rural African Americans become self-sufficient.Du Bois mentioned The Quest of the Silver Fleece in a few of his later works. In his 1915 book The Negro Du Bois included Quest under the bibliographic heading "The Future of the Negro". In Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois wrote "In 1911, I tried my hand at fiction and published "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" which was really an economic study of some merit." (1940: Ch.9 [1968 Schocken edition: p.269]). June-July 2020 BLACK CLOCK AUDIO TALES   PGttCM.com is about weird fiction for all, the P stands for people, and we stand by everyone who is an ally.   Be an ally and engage in anti-racism. Here are some resources. Help the family of George Floyd HERE. Fight for Breonna Taylor HERE. Help the family of Ahmaud Arbery HERE. Want to help protesters? Donate to one or more community bail funds HERE. Visit Movement For Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause. Want to connect with leaders building grass roots campaigns? Click HERE. Please continue to donate in support of organizations fighting against racism and police brutality. Here's where you can donate.   This month will be WEB DU Bois/Batrachian Gods/Stregoicavar   Podcast Schedule(bcat/pgttcm): PGttCM 1105:  PGttCM 1106: Toad Gods/Stregoicavar BCAT: Algernon Blackwood   This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher, maybe google.   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt. Carcosa Records? Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at peoples_cthulhu_podcast and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm. Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece was W.E.B. Du Bois' first novel. Published in 1911 by A.C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, the novel combined literary realism with some romanticism and political-economic analysis to provide a story of two Black protagonists, a man and a woman, who eventually work together to build an economic community -- a community that provided a way to overcome both the overt and the systemic racism of a fictional post-Reconstruction Alabama town and county. The silver fleece of the title referred to cotton, which was the valuable crop that, as Du Bois suggested in the novel, would help rural African Americans become self-sufficient.Du Bois mentioned The Quest of the Silver Fleece in a few of his later works. In his 1915 book The Negro Du Bois included Quest under the bibliographic heading "The Future of the Negro". In Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois wrote "In 1911, I tried my hand at fiction and published "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" which was really an economic study of some merit." (1940: Ch.9 [1968 Schocken edition: p.269]). June-July 2020 BLACK CLOCK AUDIO TALES   PGttCM.com is about weird fiction for all, the P stands for people, and we stand by everyone who is an ally.   Be an ally and engage in anti-racism. Here are some resources. Help the family of George Floyd HERE. Fight for Breonna Taylor HERE. Help the family of Ahmaud Arbery HERE. Want to help protesters? Donate to one or more community bail funds HERE. Visit Movement For Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause. Want to connect with leaders building grass roots campaigns? Click HERE. Please continue to donate in support of organizations fighting against racism and police brutality. Here's where you can donate.   This month will be WEB DU Bois/Batrachian Gods/Stregoicavar   Podcast Schedule(bcat/pgttcm): PGttCM 1105:  PGttCM 1106: Toad Gods/Stregoicavar BCAT: Algernon Blackwood   This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher, maybe google.   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt. Carcosa Records? Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at peoples_cthulhu_podcast and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm. Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece was W.E.B. Du Bois' first novel. Published in 1911 by A.C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, the novel combined literary realism with some romanticism and political-economic analysis to provide a story of two Black protagonists, a man and a woman, who eventually work together to build an economic community -- a community that provided a way to overcome both the overt and the systemic racism of a fictional post-Reconstruction Alabama town and county. The silver fleece of the title referred to cotton, which was the valuable crop that, as Du Bois suggested in the novel, would help rural African Americans become self-sufficient.Du Bois mentioned The Quest of the Silver Fleece in a few of his later works. In his 1915 book The Negro Du Bois included Quest under the bibliographic heading "The Future of the Negro". In Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois wrote "In 1911, I tried my hand at fiction and published "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" which was really an economic study of some merit." (1940: Ch.9 [1968 Schocken edition: p.269]). June-July 2020 BLACK CLOCK AUDIO TALES   PGttCM.com is about weird fiction for all, the P stands for people, and we stand by everyone who is an ally.   Be an ally and engage in anti-racism. Here are some resources. Help the family of George Floyd HERE. Fight for Breonna Taylor HERE. Help the family of Ahmaud Arbery HERE. Want to help protesters? Donate to one or more community bail funds HERE. Visit Movement For Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause. Want to connect with leaders building grass roots campaigns? Click HERE. Please continue to donate in support of organizations fighting against racism and police brutality. Here's where you can donate.   This month will be WEB DU Bois/Batrachian Gods/Stregoicavar   Podcast Schedule(bcat/pgttcm): PGttCM 1105:  PGttCM 1106: Toad Gods/Stregoicavar BCAT: Algernon Blackwood   This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher, maybe google.   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt. Carcosa Records? Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at peoples_cthulhu_podcast and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm. Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.

The Quest of the Silver Fleece was W.E.B. Du Bois' first novel. Published in 1911 by A.C. McClurg & Co. of Chicago, the novel combined literary realism with some romanticism and political-economic analysis to provide a story of two Black protagonists, a man and a woman, who eventually work together to build an economic community -- a community that provided a way to overcome both the overt and the systemic racism of a fictional post-Reconstruction Alabama town and county. The silver fleece of the title referred to cotton, which was the valuable crop that, as Du Bois suggested in the novel, would help rural African Americans become self-sufficient.Du Bois mentioned The Quest of the Silver Fleece in a few of his later works. In his 1915 book The Negro Du Bois included Quest under the bibliographic heading "The Future of the Negro". In Dusk of Dawn, Du Bois wrote "In 1911, I tried my hand at fiction and published "The Quest of the Silver Fleece" which was really an economic study of some merit." (1940: Ch.9 [1968 Schocken edition: p.269]). June-July 2020 BLACK CLOCK AUDIO TALES   PGttCM.com is about weird fiction for all, the P stands for people, and we stand by everyone who is an ally.   Be an ally and engage in anti-racism. Here are some resources. Help the family of George Floyd HERE. Fight for Breonna Taylor HERE. Help the family of Ahmaud Arbery HERE. Want to help protesters? Donate to one or more community bail funds HERE. Visit Movement For Black Lives for additional ways you can help the cause. Want to connect with leaders building grass roots campaigns? Click HERE. Please continue to donate in support of organizations fighting against racism and police brutality. Here's where you can donate.   This month will be WEB DU Bois/Batrachian Gods/Stregoicavar   Podcast Schedule(bcat/pgttcm): PGttCM 1105:  PGttCM 1106: Toad Gods/Stregoicavar BCAT: Algernon Blackwood   This episode is brought to you by  www.bunnyslippers.com Subscribe to PGttCM with DB Spitzer wherever you subscribe to podcasts, we use podbean and apple podcasts some folks use stitcher, maybe google.   Check out our new website over at WWW.PGttCM.com! Check out new PGttCM merch over at PGttCM.threadless.com Three new shirts, new Zak shirt! Check out our RAT FINK inspired Tsathoggua shirt, and our new “Join A Cult” shirt. Carcosa Records? Follow us on facebook, twitter, and instagram at peoples_cthulhu_podcast and youtube at “Black Clock Audio” and listen to Black Clock Audio Tales, our daily podcast about spooky stories, stories of the gothic tradition, folklore, and more. Produced and Edited by DB Spitzer Help the show by sharing/rating/liking or 5 star giving wherever you listen to or rate podcasts Support the show by hitting the patron button at PGttCM.podbean.com or by going to PayPal.me/pgttcm. Recorded at Badger's Drift Studio in Portland, Oregon.

John G. Keogh is a strategist, advisor, and management science researcher with 30 years of executive leadership roles as director, vice president, and senior vice president in global supply chain management, information technology, technology consulting, and supply chain standards. Currently, he is managing principal at Toronto-based, niche advisory, and research firm Shantalla Inc. He holds a post-graduate diploma in Management, an MBA in Management, and a Master of Science in Business and Management Research in Transparency and Trust in the Food Chain. He is currently completing doctoral research focused on transparency and trust in global food chains at Henley Business School, University of Reading, using the lenses of agency theory, signaling theory, and transactional cost theory. Carl or ’’C.J.” Unis is a Systems Engineer with expertise in Continuity of Operations, Continuity of Government, devolution, infrastructure, supply chain logistics, and emergency management. He has a Master’s Degree in Systems Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology. C.J. was formerly the critical infrastructure protection program manager for the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. He has served as a federal agent in the capacity of providing classified transportation for the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration—Office of Secure Transportation, as well as holding numerous positions for the U.S. Marine Corps in the capacity of performing internal embassy, dignitary, motor transport specialist, and classified material security duties. In this episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak to C.J. and John [18:48] about: What the food industry may experience after the pandemic How the food industry's "new normal" will need to incorporate and adapt digitization Changes that supply chains and product fulfillment centers may go through Problems that the food industry experienced at the onset of the pandemic How military-style training can help foster a more proactive approach within food companies Technology-based "trip wires" Bob Ferguson's Food Safety Insights [9:07] Bob joins us to discuss his article featured in our June/July 2020 issue. That article will be shared here once it's available. Want more from Bob Ferguson? Find more of his articles and podcast segments. News Mentioned in This Episode USDA FSIS to Expand STEC Testing to Additional Raw Beef Products [2:21]   AFFI Responds to Officials Linking COVID-19 to Imported Seafood [5:32] Keep Up with Food Safety Magazine Follow Us on Twitter @FoodSafetyMag and on Facebook  Subscribe to our magazine and our biweekly eNewsletter We Want to Hear From You! Please share your comments, questions, and suggestions. Tell us about yourself—we'd love to hear about your food safety challenges and successes. We want to get to know you! Here are a few ways to be in touch with us. Email us at podcast@foodsafetymagazine.com Record a voice memo on your phone and email it to us at podcast@foodsafetymagazine.com

Alex Dafner with the weekly Yiddish reportJewish Care and other social welfare organisations in Australia expressed concerns over the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic in relation to domestic and family violence among the Jewish community, a trend that my begin to show up more once the isolation and restrictions are loosened and the victims feel freer to attend community functions and feel more confident to report it.The Palestinian woman who drove a suicide bomber to the Sbarro Pizza restaurant in Jerusalem, where 15 young people including Australian and US citizen Malki Roth e”h were killed in 2001, may face extradition from Jordan, to be tried in the USA for the murder of Roth and another American citizen.Jewish schools and youth organisations in Victoria are quickly organising winter camps and activities for children and young people over the June-July vacations, following the announcement by the government that such camps may again be held, with precautions, after the 22nd of June 2020.

Karla and I discuss leaving a toxic work environments without plans or new jobs in place. This episode was previously recorded in June/July 2019.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adulting-with-wine/message

KICKS ONLY BABY! On this episode I talk about my EXTREMELY accurate price predictions that I made last month - then I make some new predictions and give my thoughts on what the rest of June/July has to offer release wise. I also talk about my new Jordan 1 collection & we review VIRGIL ABLOHS 50 F***KIN DOLLAR DONATION ***eye roll*** Thank U all for listening :)

Welcome back to Overtakes guys!!Alright we are here with our OWL 2020 NA Power Rankings in this one we break down the OWL NA region after the break and give our opinions on where these teams will be for the June/July tournament! We recorded this on Saturday, and we haven’t gotten all the news on Scheduling and all the breakdowns of how things are going to shake out quite yet. Do not forget to comment below! We want to get this conversation rolling!!! Please Stay Safe guys and Thanks for joining us!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Streamer friends: (Alexander) imclutchbob: https://www.twitch.tv/imClutchBob Icehamjello: https://www.twitch.tv/icehamjello Streaming Channels Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/overtakeowl Mixer: https://mixer.com/OverTakes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOWNLOAD or LISTEN to us on Sound cloud: https://soundcloud.com/overtakes Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6tP1JMu... Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/o... Join Our Patreon Page!! https://www.patreon.com/Overtakes ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/OverTake_OWL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OverTakes-Ov... Discord: https://discord.gg/t6fTrdg Music by CULTIST Check them out at: https://cultistworship.bandcamp.com/

On this current events episode hosts Jayden Minnick and Jake Laskonis discuss new game releases for the months of June/July, various gaming news, and how terrible of a person Woody Allen is among other things. Follow us on social media and listen to our other network podcast NeoLiteral.  Stay tuned for more content including streams and rage inducing NBA 2k20 tutorials. Ohh and Dragon Ball Z fan fiction........not the erotic kind. 

What makes Prescott (and the rest of the Quad Cities) strong? What makes us unique and successful when things get tough? Our first collaborative episode attempts to answer those questions. This week we are really, stupendously pleased to share with you the first episode of a whole new podcast series. A couple months ago, after interviewing Breeanya Hinkel on this podcast and then partnering with her and her posse of engaged business leaders on the Women in Science episode, we hatched this new project, a new, separate podcast that will feature some of the same stories and interviews from the Prescott Woman print magazine. For the June/July issue, the writers and staff at Prescott Woman Magazine started collecting stories of resilience and creativity in the face of Covid 19. They called the resulting cover story “Prescott Strong.” This first episode of the Prescott Woman Podcast is an expanded audio version of that story. We trust that you will find it inspiring and meaningful because the voices are those of your neighbors and friends. Show Notes: The following women and men contributed quotes: Deputy Police Chief Amy Bonney Claire Louge - executive Director of Prevent Child Abuse Arizona Deputy Fire Chief Cory Moser Kerry Johnson - Special Education Teacher Tina Rose - Parent Jim Cabral - Owner of Gabby’s Grill Rachel Whisenand, Emergency Department Nurse, Yavapai Regional Medical Center Ariana Bennett - Parent The following people shared their trials and triumphs with us in extended interviews. Kaia Kordossky-Herrera, Physicians Assistant and owner of Prescott Complete Care Sasha Naasz, owner of The Movement Studio Carissa Johnson - English and Language Arts Teacher at Bradshaw Mountain Middle School The following local musicians provided the music you heard throughout the episode. Follow these links to more of their music: Drew Hall & Anton Teschner on Facebook Candace Devine on Spotify Rachel Plays Guitar on Spotify Sugar and the Mint on the web. Kaileena Martin on Spotify Subscribe to the monthly Prescott Women Podcast. Get ready for next week’s episode: Check out Matt Ruff here. Watch the trailer for the HBO Series. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rocketfeather/message

A new single that is going to be release in June / July 2020. If you love chill out, drum & bass, downtempo and lounge - I think that you'll appreciate this homage to genres that are uniquely innovative and highly influential in my life. I hope this song brings flow, wonder, happiness and inspiration to you - especially during these dynamic times (this was released on SoundCloud on 5/31/30).

In this week's episode. From Canon Rumors Canon EOS R5 will be Below $4,000 USD https://www.canonrumors.com/canon-eos-r5-launch-price-will-be-below-4000-usd-cr3/ Major Canon Announcements coming in June/July 2020 https://www.canonrumors.com/major-canon-announcements-coming-in-june-july-cr3/ SD Express Delivers Gigabit Speeds https://www.canonrumors.com/industry-news-sd-express-delivers-new-gigabyte-speeds-for-sd-memory-cards/ Aurora Aperture New Rear Filter System on KickStarter https://www.canonrumors.com/kickstarter-aurora-aperture-next-gen-rear-mount-filter-system-now-live/ Wireless File Transmitter Certified for Canon EOS R5 https://www.canonrumors.com/wireless-file-transmitter-for-the-canon-eos-r5-appears-for-certification/ From Nikon Rumors Ending this week, Nikon US Only Lens Rebates https://nikonrumors.com/2020/05/26/ending-this-week-nikon-us-lens-only-rebates.aspx/ Ending this Week, "I'm Back" digital back for Nikon film cameras https://nikonrumors.com/2020/05/26/ending-this-week-im-back-digital-back-for-nikon-film-cameras-raised-400k-on-kickstarter.aspx/ Sigma 70-200mm F/2.8 DG OS HSM Sports lens on sale $500 off https://nikonrumors.com/2020/05/25/deal-of-the-day-sigma-70-200mm-f-2-8-dg-os-hsm-sports-lens-now-500-off.aspx/ From Fuji Rumors Capture One 20 deals https://www.fujirumors.com/deal-get-capture-one-20-for-169-and-fuji-version-for-129/ Fujifilm X firmware coming in June 2020 https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-firmware-updates-coming-in-june-for-x-t4-x-a7-gfx100-and-more/ Fuji X-Pro3 Firmware 1.05 released https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-x-pro3-firmware-1-05-released/ Fujifilm releases Fujifilm Webcam https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-launches-fujifilm-x-webcam-to-run-your-fujifilm-x-gfx-cameras-as-a-webcam/ New Fujifilm Camera Remote 4.5.1 released https://www.fujirumors.com/fujifilm-camera-remote-4-5-1-released/ From Sony Rumors Sony ZV-1 available on Pre-order https://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sony-zv-1-available-for-preorder-on-amazon-us/ 2 Cameras and 1 lens released in June? https://www.sonyalpharumors.com/now-its-getting-serious-two-cameras-and-at-least-one-lens-to-be-announced-in-june-will-the-new-a7s-match-or-beat-the-eos-r5/ Amazon Spain customers save $160 Euros on the 20mm F/1.8 G https://www.sonyalpharumors.com/still-hot-save-160-euro-on-the-new-20mm-f-1-8-g-at-amazon-spain/

With Spain now flagging June/July openings, could we be headed to the skies sooner than we think? Pol O’Conghaile, Travel Editor at The Irish Independent, speaks to Pat about our travel prospects for 2020.

Dennis R Wiles FBC Arlington May 24, 2020 SPRING 2020 Find Your Shelter Find Your Place "It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!" Galatians 5:13-15 Find Your Shelter Find Your Place "It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood!" Galatians 5:13-15 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. Love your neighbor as yourselves! JUNE/JULY 2020:One Another AUGUST 2020:As Ourselves A Beautiful Neighborhood is the result of intentional, neighborly behavior!

In this episode Jill discusses the astrological influence of Eclipses and what you need to know to prepare for the Upcoming Eclipses of June-July 2020. Eclipses are big game-changers and we start feeling their energy a month before and for several months after the Eclipses occur. They affect us personally and collectively. If you have a birthday near an Eclipse, you're in for a wild ride! Eclipses usually occur in a cycle of 2-3 in a one month period, followed by a companion cycle six months later. "Eclipse Fall-out" continues for several months after an eclipse, and many souls choose to leave their bodies around eclipses.Jill discusses the difference between Solar and Lunar Eclipses.In astrology, it's good to know if an eclipse cycle will be affecting any planets in your birth chart. Consult your Astrologer, Jill Jardine, M.A. Counseling/Psychology to see if you will be affected by the upcoming eclipses.www.jilljardine.com"Cosmic Scene with Jill Jardine" is also a radio show broadcast live on WATD 95.9 FM in the Boston area. Streaming live on www.959WATD.com at 8:00 pm on Monday nights. Call in for a mini-reading to 781-837-4900!

Kent Sterling and Alex Golden discuss the Top 5 moments of the Pacers 2019-2020 Season. In the process, they share some stories about The Last Dance, The Pacers success in the 90's, what a few deep playoff runs with the current Pacers roster would mean for the city, Bankers Life Fieldhouse compared to Market Square Arena and their expectations from this Pacers squad, with the likelihood of play resuming in June-July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 2 of the Green House Healthy Podcast, hosted by Heather and Antonio DeRose! In this destination episode we recorded in Port Antonio, Jamaica, at a private resort named Go Natural Jamaica, where we hosted the Green House Healthy Retreat. We had the pleasure of talking with two world traveling yoga instructors, Jelena Devi and Deon Pfisterer. Please rate us and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform!Support Green House Healthy for free by following us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, and Pinterest!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube to experience the show on video!Visit our Website and sign up for our Newsletter to stay updated on everything Green House Healthy!Connect with Heather on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN.Connect with Antonio on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN.Thank you to this episode's Sponsor, The Cannabis Science Conference. The Cannabis Science Conference is the world's largest and fastest growing cannabis science event. Their events have a specialized focus on analytical science, medical topics in cannabis, cultivation and hemp science. The conference pulls together cannabis industry experts, instrument manufacturers, testing labs, research scientists, medical practitioners, policy makers and interested novices. Their semi-annual event is aimed at improving cannabis science. Join us in Baltimore, MD this June/July and Portland, Oregon in August/September, for exciting conferences with keynotes, presentations, round table discussions and exhibits.

Oh my worddddd you guys this is the last episode for SEASON ONE!And man, I have learned so much about you all, as well as myself. I am currently in the process of organizing season two and all the amazing real and candid content. We are getting a huge brand makeover and CONTENT make over. Ugh so much to reveal but, not yet!We should resume publishing in June/July -- hopefully the stay home order will be lifted in Michigan by then right? I made this episode full of conversational tips and well, let's be honest...what else do we have to do right now? haha++++Did you sign up for the free Live Masterclass: Showing up on Social + Creating ConnectionDon't leave without your Free Workbook: The Social Media Connection Guide and workbook so you can fill it in and follow along with the class! ++++If you loved this episode and want to hear more like it, please subscribe and give us a 5-star rating and if you want to hear more from me send a DM on the 'Gram!! I appreciate your support so much and I can't wait to serve you more this year!xo, Alora

Welcome to Episode 1 of the Green House Healthy Podcast, hosted by Heather and Antonio DeRose! In this introductory episode we discuss who we are, what we do, and what you can expect from future episodes.Please rate us and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform!Support Green House Healthy for free by following us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN, and Pinterest!Subscribe to our channel on YouTube to experience the show on video!Visit our Website and sign up for our Newsletter to stay updated on everything Green House Healthy!Connect with Heather on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN.Connect with Antonio on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN.Thank you to this episode's Sponsor, The Cannabis Science Conference. The Cannabis Science Conference is the world's largest and fastest growing cannabis science event. Their events have a specialized focus on analytical science, medical topics in cannabis, cultivation and hemp science. The conference pulls together cannabis industry experts, instrument manufacturers, testing labs, research scientists, medical practitioners, policy makers and interested novices. Their semi-annual event is aimed at improving cannabis science. Join us in Baltimore, MD this June/July and Portland, Oregon in August/September, for exciting conferences with keynotes, presentations, round table discussions and exhibits.

There are credible reports out of the United States that the NHL is looking at hosting playoff games in June/July at four sites, including Edmonton. David Staples and Bruce McCurdy of the Cult of Hockey dig in, along with Dave Tippett's use of top two lines, and the Oil's PK.

The energies of 2020 are requiring us to be open to change, so we'll take a look at what that means for you specifically by understanding the Fixed, Mutable, and Cardinal signs. We have all 3 personal planets going retrograde this year, so we'll take a look at the significance of change through Venus Retrograde, Mercury Retrograde, and the June/July eclipses. Mars will also be retrograde beginning in September. The more you know yourself, the more you can tap into your strengths and power during this powerful year and make the best possible choices for your desired dreams and future. More to share in this episode.   ~~~ 2020 Soul Growth Astrology Webinars ~ The major astrology of 2020 and how it will show up in your natal chart. Use code RARE to get it for $25 USD. Check it out: https://www.mollymccord.online/2020-astrology-energies    ~~~ Learn Transits In Your Astrology Chart ~ Discover how the transiting planets are working with your natal chart and planets through 6 teaching videos, including understanding the 12 astrological houses, aspects, and how to read an ephemeris. Use code TRANSITS to get 50% off ~ only $44 USD. More details here: https://www.mollymccord.online/learn-astrology-transits     .

Part 5 of Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu's seminar entitled, "Spiritual Foundations for Reform." Originally recorded in June/July 2000 at Radhadesh in Belgium on cassette tape; there is a slight break around 47:00.

Part 3 of Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu's seminar entitled, "Spiritual Foundations for Reform." Originally recorded in June/July 2000 at Radhadesh in Belgium on cassette tape; there is a slight break around 47:05.

Interview with Simon C. Dyakowski, President and CEO of GSP Resource Corp. (TSX-V:GSPR)This is a classic example of an exploration play for investors. It reveals the extremely high level of risk, the many difficulties management teams face, and the possibility of big returns.GSP Resources Corp. is a metals explorer, based in the "not top 10, but tier-1" mining jurisdiction of British Columbia, Canada. The company was focussing on its copper project, the iron, palladium and magnesium 'rich' Olivine Mountain Project, but it has since farmed it out, and optioned a past-producing copper mine, the Alwin Mine Project.The Alwin Mine Project lies in the shadow of the vast Highland Valley Copper project, which produced 101,000t of copper in 2018. The focus moving forward is Alwin Mine. However, with capital at such a premium right now, and with GSP Resource Corp. only holding C$300,000, it remains to be seen how the company can finance Alwin without needing to raise capital soon. Pre-COVID-19, Dyakowski saw June/July as a potential start date for drilling at Alwin Mine, but market conditions have obviously rendered any copper exploration untenable for the time being.After drilling at Olivine Mountain, GSP Resource Corp. clearly didn't get the results it wanted, or the results necessary to excite the market. Dyakowski explains what happened. It's not unusual in exploration, and a pivot in the business model is often the resolution to such difficulties. The company has farmed out Olivine Mountain to Full Metal Minerals in a 40:60 venture, should the company spend C$250,000 on the property, pay GSP C$250,000, and issue some shares. Does this modest option mean the problem is solved? Dyakowski is hoping the "well-financed" Full Metal Minerals can apply its expertise to bring potential to the surface, with a focus on palladium anomalies. Palladium is hot right now, so could this be helpful for GSP Resource Corp's financing efforts?New focus, Alwin Mine is a copper project that is more advanced in that it has produced within the last century, with an underground mine constructed in the 1960s leading to 3-years of production. The project was shut down and then reopened in the early 1980s, then shut down, reopened and shut down again in the 1990s. Can modern technologies and favourable copper prices help buck this disappointing trend? The historical data should certainly help, but how will GSP Resource Corp. finance it? The C$300,000 isn't a lot, but Dyakowski thinks that it is sufficient relative to the size of GSP Resource Corp. The cost of core drilling is around C$175 p/m, which would likely necessitate a small equity raise. The share structure is reasonable, will only 12M outstanding, so a raise could be feasible, even if the timing is far from ideal. Dyakwoski calls Alwin Mine low-risk and low-cost, but we heard this about Olivine Mountain. He insists that scout drilling was always going to carry more risk, but was this 100% clear to investors at the time? In hindsight, Dyakowski maintains he made the right decision to go for the bullseye with Olivine rather than farming it out straight away.What is the long term vision for creating value with Alwin Mine? Dyakowski hopes the Summer phase 1 drill program will deliver favorable results and solidify the copper potential of the resource. After this point, it comes down to the team managing finances effectively, favourable copper prices, and how well GSP Resource Corp. can position itself for a takeout. Is GSP Resource Corp. a buzzing fly in the face of surrounding majors, or can Alwin Mine provide copper investors will more growth than they might realise? As is always the case with exploration, only time will tell.What did you make of Simon C. Dyakowski? Company page: https://gspresource.com/Make smarter investment decisions, subscribe here: https://www.cruxinvestor.comFor FREE unbiased investment information, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook:https://twitter.com/cruxinvestorhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/crux-investor/https://www.facebook.com/cruxinvestorTake advantage, hear it here first: https://www.youtube.com/CRUXinvestor

Part 1 of Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu's Radhadesh seminar entitled, "Spiritual Foundations for Reform." Originally recorded in June/July 2000 on cassette tape; there is a slight break around 47:19.

Part 2 of Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu's Radhadesh seminar entitled, "Spiritual Foundations for Reform." Originally recorded in June/July 2000 on cassette tape; there is a slight break around 47:01.

This Sunday Talk was given on 7 September 1986. Since 1986, Amaravati Buddhist Monastery offers Sunday talks during the traditional three-month rains retreat which runs from June/July until to the full moon of October. Please check www.amaravati.org for the schedule around this period of the year. The post Personal Responsibility and The Nuclear Age appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.

Interview with Scott Williamson, Managing Director of Blackstone Minerals (ASX:BSX)Blackstone Minerals: a nickel-cobalt-gold (battery/precious metals) company looking to get into production within the next 3 years. Ambitious.Blackstone Minerals is an ASX-listed junior, exploring the Ta Khoa Nickel Project in Vietnam, the BC Cobalt Project and gold and nickel projects in Western Australia. The primary focus is on Ta Khoa, which previously operated between 2013 and 2016. Williamson claims the previous owners sunk over A$130M into the project; this creates an obvious disparity with Blackstone Minerals' market cap, A$27M, which had been steadily falling away but has made a comeback in the last few weeks. The share price stands at A$0.14 today. Blackstone Minerals is looking to bring the project back into production and take advantage of the inbound EV revolution, by feeding the nickel concentrate into the nickel sulfate for the Li-ion battery industry.What's the big news recently? A deal between EcoPro, the largest cathode manufacturer in Korea, and second-largest globally, and Blackstone Mineral was announced. The binding share purchase agreement outlines a commitment for A$6.8 million at a 62% premium to Blackstone Minerals’ 30 day VWAP. EcoPro will end up with 17% of Blackstone Minerals shares. Looks like a smart piece of negotiation.Williamson thinks the market will take a while to process the significance of this transaction and is perhaps a little unaware of how large a player EcoPro is. Williamson sees EcoPro as the "perfect partner," and will reveal its value over time.Blackstone Minerals is on track for its maiden resource in June/July. This will be followed by a PEA in August/September. Williamson sees this as a catalyst moment where the market will realise just how much nickel has been left behind, and how economic the first ore body will be. The money will also be used to explore other ore bodies, but the main focus is to move all the studies through to a bankable Feasibility Study. Blackstone Minerals is fully funded to this point. The cost structure at the Ta Khoa Nickel Project is impressive; to put this into context, drilling costs A$60 per metre, as opposed to A$300 in Australia and A$500 in Canada. The nickel ore body itself is twice the grade that Blackstone Minerals was expecting at 1% nickel. Williamson describes this nickel as a "significant tonnage..." that will "deliver a 20-year mine."Williamson is currently conducting metallurgical test work in order to assess the potential monetisation of the byproducts (platinum, palladium, gold, rhodium, copper, cobalt) at Ta Khoa, but he is confident all the metals will be economic and add an extra 20% revenue on top of the nickel.What is the CAPEX looking like at Ta Khoa? c. US$100M for a downstream processing facility, plus additional capital to upgrade the concentrator. Williamson is confident Blackstone Minerals will "land below" A$200M total. Williamson claims this is very competitive. He also insists that EcoPro will not accept anything less than achieving production within 3 years. Will this additional pressure help or hinder Blackstone Minerals?What did you make of Scott Williamson? Is Blackstone Minerals in for 2020? When is nickel going to experience the kind of growth that EV/battery metal investors are craving?Company page: http://blackstoneminerals.com.au/Make smarter investment decisions, subscribe here: https://www.cruxinvestor.comFor FREE unbiased investment information, follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook:https://twitter.com/cruxinvestorhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/crux-investor/https://www.facebook.com/cruxinvestorTake advantage, hear it here first: https://www.youtube.com/CRUXinvestor

Spider-Man: Alien Costume Saga Part 3 Welcome back to Ultimate Spider-Cast!  This time Phil and Lilith review Amazing Spider-Man #254, Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #92 (July 1984), and Marvel Team-Up #142-#143 (June-July 1984) featuring team ups with Captain Marvel and Starfox. Show Notes: Spider-Man: Alien Costume Saga Part 3: Ultimate Spider-Cast Episode #67 Find all of our Social Media here: https://linktr.ee/capesandlunatics Follow Phil Perich on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nightwingpdp Follow Lilith Hellfire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LilithHellfire Produced by: http://www.southgatemediagroup.com Production Team: Phil Perich SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY SUPPORTING OUR SPONSORS Order our book Pod Life: Podcaster Stories orderpodlife.smgpods.com  When you shop at Amazon.com using this link, every dollar you spend supports our podcast network and doesn’t cost you a penny more. amazon.smgpods.com Hunt a Killer – Get 20% off on your first box with Coupon Code SOUTHGATE www.huntakiller.com Tweaked Audio Headphones – Get 30% off, Free Shipping, and a Lifetime Warranty with Coupon Code – SOUTHGATE www.tweakedaudio.com Support the SMG Podcast Network on Patreon www.patreon.com/SouthgateMediaGroup