Podcasts about kindercare

In today's episode, we sit down with independent investigative journalist Edwin Dorsey to discuss his recent, disturbing investigation into KinderCare, one of the nation's largest day-care providers. Edwin tells us about how he unearthed evidence of horrible child abuse and neglect, including children escaping day-care centers, staff abandoning children after hours, and one tragic instance of a toddler overdosing on cocaine found in a worker's backpack. And horribly, our tax dollars are funding these day-care centers. We also discuss a similar investigation Edwin published years ago about child-care provider Care.com, where he uncovered that the platform was lying about doing background checks. We also talk about the dangers of Roblox and how the platform isn't actually as safe for kids as it might advertise. Read Edwin's publications on "The Bear Cave": https://thebearcave.substack.com/ Share the Arrows 2025 is on October 11 in Dallas, Texas! Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sharethearrows.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for tickets now! Buy Allie's new book, "Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion": ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://a.co/d/4COtBxy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Timecodes: (01:18) Edwin Dorsey introduction (03:15) KinderCare investigation (36:25) Care.com investigation (43:11) Dangers of Roblox --- Today's Sponsors: Shopify — Shopify is the commerse platform behind millions of businesses around the world. Get started with your own design studio to turn your big business idea into profit. Go to shopify.com/allie to sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling with Shopify today! Fellowship Home Loans — Fellowship Home Loans is a mortgage lending company that offers home financing solutions while integrating Christian values such as honesty, integrity, and stewardship. Go to fellowshiphomeloans.com/allie to get up to $500 credit towards closing costs when you finance with Fellowship Home Loans. Pre-Born — Will you help rescue babies' lives? Donate by calling #250 & say keyword 'BABY' or go to Preborn.com/ALLIE. NetSuite — Gain visibility and control of your financials, planning, budgeting, and inventory so you can manage risk, get reliable forecasts, and improve margins. Go to NetSuite.com/ALLIE to get the CFO's guide to AI and Machine Learning. --- Related Episodes: Ep 577 | Resist Toxic Motherhood & Get Your Kids Off TikTok https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-577-resist-toxic-motherhood-get-your-kids-off-tiktok/id1359249098?i=1000553216640 Ep 989 | Nickelodeon Has a Predator Problem https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-989-nickelodeon-has-a-predator-problem/id1359249098?i=1000653246789 Ep 761 | Is Public School the Best Choice for Christians? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-761-is-public-school-the-best-choice-for-christians/id1359249098?i=1000601944722 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://alliebethstuckey.com/book⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All week, we've been diving into the mindset of proactive problem solving—and today, we bring it full circle. This episode unpacks the why behind the theme, the real stories that inspired it, and the leadership lessons that emerged from it all.In this session, I'll share:

On this episode of the Move Swiftly Podcast, I'm diving into a leadership moment that flipped the switch for me—straight from my days at KinderCare Learning Center.Back then, I thought passion meant volume… until I realized the real leaders are the ones who anticipate problems, not just react to them. You'll hear the real story behind how daily tantrums and parent complaint calls nearly broke me—until one simple piece of advice from my boss changed my leadership style forever.

Welcome back to another episode of Crawfordsville Connection! This week we are joined by Kelly Taylor and Lisa Walter from the Montgomery County Community Foundation. We dive into the details of the new Montgomery County Early Learning Center. This facility will be operated by KinderCare and will offer childcare for 124 children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Listen to learn more details about the facility's offerings & programs. Enroll your child or apply for a job by calling (765) 376-6372 or by going to this website: https://www.kindercare.com/our-centers/crawfordsville/in/081097  Yodel Community Calendar & News Feed https://events.yodel.today/crawfordsville  To ask any questions about this podcast or to submit topic ideas, please email Sarah Sommer at ssommer@crawfordsville-in.gov 

Tony Amandi, CFO of KinderCare, joins Nicole Petallides at the NYSE to talk about the company just before it began to trade publicly today. He says headwinds for the company are light with the IPO process out of the way, adding that lower rates "got to help" with KinderCare's growth. @kindercare ======== Schwab Network ======== Empowering every investor and trader, every market day. Subscribe to the Market Minute newsletter - https://schwabnetwork.com/subscribe Download the iOS app - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/schwab-network/id1460719185 Download the Amazon Fire Tv App - https://www.amazon.com/TD-Ameritrade-Network/dp/B07KRD76C7 Watch on Sling - https://watch.sling.com/1/asset/191928615bd8d47686f94682aefaa007/watch Watch on Vizio - https://www.vizio.com/en/watchfreeplus-explore Watch on DistroTV - https://www.distro.tv/live/schwab-network/ Follow us on X – https://twitter.com/schwabnetwork Follow us on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/schwabnetwork Follow us on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/schwab-network/ About Schwab Network - https://schwabnetwork.com/about

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Dr. Marquita Davis, Ph.D., is KinderCare's Chief Academic Officer, overseeing the development of KinderCare's high-quality educational programs, educator professional development, quality and accreditation initiatives, research and evaluation, inclusion services, and public policy. Marquita has more than 20 years of experience in early childhood education, non-profit leadership, government and philanthropy, including nearly six years as deputy director of Early Learning at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she led the foundation's multi-state early learning strategy which aims to ensure all young children have access to high-quality, effective and affordable preschool. Listen to this Parenting With Impact episode with Marquita Davis about your child's first and forever teacher. Recommended Treatment for Children and Teens with ADHD Tip-Sheet So -- your child has ADHD. Want to get past the confusion and the stigma really fast? This FREE Guide explains, in the simplest terms possible: What is recommended treatment for children and teens Ten things to consider when trying to make a decision about medication Exactly what to look for in a behavior therapy training program. Short, sweet, and to the point -- don't spend hours on the internet scouring. ImpactParents gives you exactly what you need to know without wasting any time or effort. https://impactparents.pages.ontraport.net/adhd-recommended-treatment-freebie?utm_campaign=Podcast&utm_source=episode&utm_medium=cta&utm_content=recommended-treatment Here is what to expect on this week's show: Marquita explains Kinder Care provides comprehensive care and education for children from six weeks to twelve years old, including traditional center care, before and aftercare, and a thriving aftercare program. Parents are recognized as their child's first teachers and are supported in early learning settings through mental health and educational assistance, empowerment, and tools for transitioning into traditional settings Marquita discusses the emphasis on the partnership between parents and providers in early learning settings, with shared responsibility for supporting the child's development and creating a supportive environment. Community support plays a crucial role in empowering parents to advocate for their children's well-being, access necessary resources for their development, and develop relationships with providers to effectively address concerns. Related Links: 10 Self Care Tips: https://impactparents.pages.ontraport.net/self-care-tip-sheet?utm_campaign=Podcast&utm_source=episode&utm_medium=cta&utm_content=self Parenting Young Boys with Difficult Behaviors: https://youtu.be/FAyRk-Ta_z8 Undefinable Brilliance: Brain Development Essentials: https://youtu.be/AqZ_LAqNWDw When the School Says No -- How to Get to the Yes: https://youtu.be/LZAJ5bhSJgk The What and Why of Parent Behavior Training: https://youtu.be/8VTKfgpPVdE Accommodations vs. Remediation - What's the Parent's Role?: https://youtu.be/2tfQ4nZDs2E?si=Ysl6UyqmxyZyIIUd When Parenting Feels Like a Burning Building: https://youtu.be/VsW674HfSMI Connect with Marquita: Website: https://www.kindercare.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marquita-davis-ph-d-bb623171/ Get your FREE copy of 12 Key Coaching Tools https://impactparents.com/gift Connect with Impact Parents: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impactparents/ @impactparents Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ImpactParent @impactparent LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impactparents/ @impactparents X (fka Twitter): https://twitter.com/ImpactParents @impactparents Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

B'Ivory Lamar joins in representing a family who is suing KinderCare after their child's urine tested positive for cocaine...

In this episode, Jonathan talks with Milo Spector about opportunities for investors with early childhood assets. The two discuss opportunities for value-add, what makes a good tenant, and due diligence items. Some blue-chip tenants in this asset class include Kindercare, Learning Care Group, Busy Bees, and Bright Horizons. Connect with Milo:https://www.linkedin.com/in/milospector/TakeawaysThe early education asset class, which includes childcare and preschool centers, has gained increased interest due to its essential nature and the realization of its importance during the pandemic.Investors should consider the creditworthiness of the tenants, lease terms, location demographics, and financials when evaluating early education properties.Strong guarantors in the early education asset class include well-known operators like KinderCare, Learning Care Group, and Busy Bees.State programs that provide funding for early education can impact the demand for these assets, but it is important to consider the level of subsidy and the fit of the brand within the community.Investors should conduct thorough due diligence, including analyzing enrollment trends, property condition, and potential value-add opportunities.There is demand for vacant early education properties, especially from operators looking to expand their presence in certain areas.Investors should be aware of the nuances of debt financing in the early education asset class, including the prevalence of recourse debt and lower loan-to-value ratios.The future outlook for the early education asset class is positive, with increasing demand and potential for growth in certain markets.Chapters00:00Introduction and Background03:00Defining Early Education Assets04:17Impact of the Pandemic on Child Education Assets06:12Increased Interest in the Early Education Asset Class08:41Nuances of Valuing Early Childhood Properties10:45Lease Expectations for Early Education Assets12:08Strong Guarantors in the Early Education Asset Class13:48State Programs and Their Impact on Child Education Assets16:40Due Diligence for Early Education Asset Investments18:26Value-Add Opportunities in the Early Education Asset Class20:16Demand for Vacant Early Education Properties22:34Analyzing Supply and Demand in the Early Education Market24:30Higher Barrier to Entry Markets and Potential Opportunities27:37Considerations for Debt Financing in the Early Education Asset Class29:34Future Outlook and Connecting with Milo SpektorSupport the podcast by making a monthly donation through Patreon. When you contribute, you'll get access to bonus content not available anywhere else. If you enjoyed this episode, you would probably enjoy reading my weekly newsletter. Every Friday, you'll get a behind the scenes look at my investing, including current events in commercial real estate, deals I'm working on, and random personal things going on in my life. It's a super quick read and you can unsubscribe anytime. - Jonathan Subscribe to the newsletter here: www.thesourcecre.com/newsletterEmail Jonathan with comments or suggestions:podcast@thesourcecre.comOr visit the webpage:www.thesourcecre.com*Some or all of the show notes may have been generated using AI tools.

This is the second time we've had the privilege of having Sean on Talking Cloud. Now Sean is the Head of Information Security and Compliance at KinderCare Education. With over 1,400 KinderCare centers in 40 states and more than 200,000 enrolled children, Sean has his hands full. Hear all about it in this episode. *NOTE* This is the second of the three final programs with my co-host (Episodes 51, 52, 53). Unfortunately, he can no longer continue as my co-host and won't be on the program with me after episode 53.

In this episode of Elevating Brick and Mortar, Sid interviews Mark Warren about how valuable physical spaces are to the entire childcare industry. Mark describes the importance of a well-maintained brick and mortar to establish trust with his clients–parents of young children. TIMESTAMPS**(00:23) - Mark's beginnings **(05:48) - Buildings and brand perception**(09:08) - Mark's expanding role**(10:53) - The importance of KinderCare Teachers**(13:00) - Thinking about location**(13:48) - The labor shortage**(18:42) - Supply chain issues**(21:25) - Emerging technologies**(26:27) - Making KinderCare sustainableSPONSORServiceChannel brings you peace of mind through peak facilities performance.Rest easy knowing your locations are:Offering the best possible guest experienceLiving up to brand standardsOperating with minimal downtimeServiceChannel partners with more than 500 leading brands globally to provide visibility across operations, the flexibility to grow and adapt to consumer expectations, and accelerated performance from their asset fleet and service providers.LINKSConnect with Mark on LinkedInConnect with Sid Shetty on LinkedinCheck out the ServiceChannel Website

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Kris welcomes Shonali Harrison, school owner and director of Eden Prairie Montessori in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Shonali talks about her journey from growing up in Sri Lanka to becoming the director of Eden Prairie in 1991, and what she fell in love with about the Montessori school system. Shonali discusses her leadership style and how she stays present and engaged with her team, leading with an open heart, what has made her the proudest about her time in early childhood, and what she has found challenging. Shonali and Kris highlight the importance of mentorship and marketing your strengths to the right audience. Then, Shonali also lets us in on a fun fact about her party-planning skills, and talks about what's next for her team in 2023 and beyond.   Key Takeaways: [7:50] Shonali discusses transforming a KinderCare building into her Montessori school and tells us a little more about Eden Prairie Montessori. [8:20] What is the education system like in Sri Lanka, where Shonali grew up? [11:31] Fun fact: Shonali is a great party planner and she can whip out an awesome event in a few hours. And… she can hula hoop while at the party! [12:02] What was Shonali's journey into purchasing her first school? [18:37] Shonali discusses some of her program's unique strengths including no screens, concrete learning, and teacher training. [23:51] How do the staff get certified for Montessori training? [25:15] What qualities and values does Shonali embody as a leader? [30:53] The people that have had the biggest impact on Shonali. [35:15] What has been the most challenging part of her journey? [36:52] The tools that Shonali uses for success include Brightwheel and Intellikids. [40:00] It's a huge skill (and critical for success) to find ways to get along and jive, despite differing personalities.   Quotes: “Every time I walk into a Montessori school, I just love the energy of it, because I feel like it feels calmer, it feels less chaotic, and it feels more focused.” — Kris [10:41] “Teachers are so dedicated and truly have their heart in it.” — Shonali [19:53] “I love for my staff and people who have been with me, or coming into our programs to be able to learn from me, as a mentor. I feel like this is something that I can pass on to them. And I want to teach them what I know.” — Shonali [21:02] “I just love to show people what I think they could do, and to help them in certain situations.” — Shonali [26:09] “I can definitely say I'm an awesome teacher. I know that about me because I've been told it and I know I have the passion for that.” — Shonali [26:56] “You're like a frog in the well. You don't know what you can do when you have all these voices and people telling you how to do it.” — Shonali [30:27] “People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.” — Kris [32:49]   Sponsored By: ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI) Use the code CCSC5 to claim a free course!   Mentioned in This Episode: Kris Murray The Child Care Success Company The Child Care Success Academy The Child Care Success Summit Grow Your Center Childcare Education Institute: use code CDARenewal22 to get $100 off your renewal Eden Prairie Montessori

Wei-Li Chong is the Founder and Managing Partner of Culture Playbook Partners (CCP), a company that helps organizations make their culture a tangible lever that drives business performance. He spent almost 30 years successfully leading human capital and culture transformations, driving business performance in billion-dollar-plus organizations.  Before CPP, Wei-Li was the SVP of Human Resources at ANN Inc. and served in multiple leadership positions at KinderCare Education. As the previous US President of MindGym, he helped the company weather the pandemic and rebuilt its operational infrastructure for scalable growth. In this episode… In business, it can be all too easy to get wrapped up in the numbers and miss out on what matters most. Rules and procedures are important, but they can often eclipse the more vital aspects of running a company. This is especially true for businesses built on compassion and the people who provide it. Wei-Li Chong was brought into KinderCare during a season of steady decline. During his time there, he helped the company regain its footing and enter a new period of success. Much of this was based on his approach to people, transforming culture to transform the business. Dov Pollack has a powerful interview with Wei-Li Chong, the Founder and Managing Partner at Culture Playbook Partners, to discuss how to lead a company and its culture authentically. They talk about what can be learned from poor leaders, listening to employees, and connecting with others to encourage change. They also walk through the personal approach Wei-Li used to help bring KinderCare out of its descent. Hear the rest on this episode of Next Wave Leadership!

Do visits from your state licensing consultant stress you out?  Is the workplace culture in your child care business not what you'd hoped it would be? Our next guest may help ease your mind on these topics. Ronnae Williams is a former licensing inspector in the state of Georgia.  She has worked for KinderCare, Kids R Kids, and is now an adjunct professor with the Child Care Genius University. Today we're going to be discussing improving your workplace culture and how to be better prepared for licensing visits. Ronnae discusses how workplace culture can impact compliance. "When you're in a space where the culture is honesty, integrity, wellness, compliance then that's the tune that everyone's marching to." As a child care owner, you can feel empowered knowing you can adjust the workplace culture in your child care business. Ronnae shares some strategies owners can use to set the culture. What kind of workplace culture do you want to create? Define it. Write it down & hang it up where others can see the direction you're going.  Then implement it with your team. Ronnae points out that communication with your staff is key to creating a positive workplace culture. Having guidelines and setting expectations can help your team be successful.  It's important to point out the positive things that team members are doing and not just criticize.  As we like to say, catch your team members doing things right.  Ronnae expresses the importance of "knowing your team as people and not just your workers.  Meet them where they are as people and that helps with building the culture."  Ronnae started a child care consulting company called Culturally Yours Consulting and Training.  She can assist child care businesses in obtaining a license. Ronnae also offers state approved training for Georgia and Florida. If you have any state compliance issues you'd like to discuss, Ronnae has a wealth of knowledge to share.  Ronnae is excited to be a part of our Child Care Genius University. If you need help in your child care business, consider joining our coaching programs at Child Care Genius University. Learn More Here. https://childcaregenius.com/university     To contact Ronnae Williams: www.culturally-yours.com https://m.facebook.com/CulturallyYoursConsultingandTraining?_rdr More About Ronnae Williams: An Early Childhood Education expert and professional, with over 15 years of experience including: Lead preschool teacher Child Care Center Management State Licensing Consultant Regional Manager for a nationally recognized child care franchise Marketing Project Manager for a nationally recognized Child Care franchise Strategic Partnership Sales Manager And so much more… I have a Bachelors of Science in Child and Family Development and a Masters in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Management. My experiences within the early childhood industry along with my education, has allowed me to support hundreds of child care facilities across the U.S with licensing compliance, compliance for accreditation, licensing complaint investigations, civil actions, franchising, and so much more. Mentioned in this episode: ALEAF Insurance (Official Child Care Genius Podcast Sponsor), Specializing in child care insurance) Contact Blake Sanders for more information: (972) 866-4065, blake@aleafinsurance.com https://www.aleafinsurance.com/child-care Connect with us:  Child Care Genius Website Submit a Podcast Question Here Like us on Facebook Join our Owners Only Private Mastermind Group on Facebook    Join our Child Care Mindset Facebook Group Follow Us on Instagram Connect with us on LinkedIn Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Buy our Books Check out our Free Resources

Parents are facing a shortage of pain medication for children and infants, plus a shrinking supply of antibiotics like amoxicillin. Guest host Duncan McCue talks to Neesha Hussain-Shamsy, who couldn't find medication after her son was bitten by a dog last week; pediatrician Dr. Daniel Flanders, owner and executive director of the Kindercare clinic in Toronto; and Mina Tadrous, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.

Martin Amanya aka Mwalimu is the founder of Mwalimu Consults an organization focused on consultancy, training, and capacity-building. It has been in existence since 2017 and has worked with national and international organizations. He is also a teacher of Kiswahili, he has taught in elementary schools such as KinderCare and worked at Cafe pap. Additionally, he is passionate about youth mentorship.

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David and I sit down, as I share my story about being handed LGBTQ curriculum from Kindercare.

Are you shaking in your boots when you see your licensing inspector pull into your parking lot? If your heart rate sped up, or your mouth went dry just reading that sentence, this episode is for you!    Our guest on the Podcast, Ronnae Williams, a former licensing inspector for the State of Georgia, brings us insights for building a great relationship with your licensing rep. Ronnae has also worked for Kindercare, Kids R Kids, and the Child Care Success Company.  She knows the industry very well and has bundled all of that valuable knowledge into her new consulting business, Culturally Yours. Her mission is to help child care owners navigate child care licensing issues so that they are always in compliance.   She also opens up on how school culture impacts your program quality and correlates to licensing citations. There are key indicators of a good culture and a poor culture that are almost always present and discernable by your evaluators. Ronnae shares her advice for building a positive culture in your child care center.   Ronnae divulges a couple of humorous stories of how poorly run programs tried to hide or get away with blatant violations. She says there's no covering up your lack of systems or processes when the inspector arrives. If it wasn't in place before, it won't magically fall into place when they arrive. The kids will tell on you, a staff member will tell on you, or it will be so obvious that systems aren't in place that you just can't hide it. You will always get caught if you aren't following rules or trying to get away with something you shouldn't. Instead, just make quality and being in compliance a priority.   Ronnae applauds schools that have a collaborative environment. She says, “You can't singlehandedly run a center by yourself. It's a team effort.”  When the team works together to bring ideas and complete projects together, it's almost always a sign of a positive culture. This means a better, safer, higher-quality environment for the children.    This is why she is so passionate about helping child care business owners start winning with licensing. If she can help more centers get ready and stay ready, and help them get out of licensing quicksand, it means better, safer environments and experiences for young children!   To contact Ronnae Williams, email Ronnae@culturally-yours.com   Tune in to hear the answer to this week's listener question: Dear Brian & Carol, Our licensing inspector hates us.  She is always hitting us for the littlest things.  I cringe when she walks in the building.  Is there a way I can request a new inspector?   (Guest Ronnae Williams answered this question live on the podcast, and you don't want to miss her answer - her advice might shock you!)   Child Care Owners: Join our private Child Care Millionaire Mastermind Facebook Group to network with other business owners like yourself. Ask questions, get tips, share stories, network. https://www.facebook.com/groups/childcaremillionaire   Learn more about Brian and Carol Duprey at https://www.childcaremillionaire.com

This week on The Preschool Podcast, we are honored to have revisited a previous episode with Dr. Elanna Yalow, Chief Academic Officer at KinderCare. We discuss how educators can support children as they learn through play. She highlights how play and academics are not separate from each other. Instead, play is the instinctive way that young children learn how to problem solve and develop skills. We discuss some strategies that educators can use to incorporate play into their practice.

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Please consult your own independent financial adviser before making any investment decisions.Unedited TranscriptHappy Monday, everybody, the markets are back open. Let us know in the chat. What y'all are watching and trading today. A B here, Spencer with me as always Spencer, how are we doing today?We're doing well. We're doing well. Uh, how do we want on the new intro? I saw I saw a new intro. I think it, I think it's, it's part of the way there. I don't think it's all the way there. Do you want to run with the, uh, part of the way there and new intro, the old intro, or just roll? Why don't we roll? No intro today.Let's just rolling. No intro. This is the show it is starting actually already has started. Somy question may be is what has taken a bigger haircut? My head or my portfolio? I don't know. I mean, hopefully your, your portfolio is not taking too big of a haircut. Considering cannabis stocks are all up nicely today. They are, um, using some of my handy-dandy metrics out of the top five trending tickers on social media.So Reddit, Twitter, all the whole investing sphere, two out of the top five trending stocks are in the cannabis space. Spend six. Guess what those two stocks are. Okay. Okay. Without looking two of the top five trending, trending on social media stocks today, um, Uh, are they both stocks? Are any of them? ETS?Are they both? Stocks is one of them kind of be growth? Nope. Damn. Okay. Oh, for one is one of them Grogan. Nope. One for two. Okay. Is one of them, are they both? Are they OTC? No. Uh huh. A Tilray would be the third, the third guest. So Ray's one of them. I see the other one in the chat sundial. Yep. Tiller and sundial are two of the top five trending tickers.Uh, the non-cannabis stocks in that top five are Tesla, Nvidia and Vivian. Okay. So, um, we're, we're going to talk about all this today. Let's talk about everything so that, you know, Tilray and the rest of the cannabis stocks are up on the news that the Republicans are bringing forth a bill to legalize cannabis in the United States.Um, Spencer, do you know anything more about that bill? Uh, another due to present it today, uh, I got to give the, give it to the Republicans. They just basically just hijacked and one of the key issues on the democratic platform and said, well, we'll take that. Thank you very much. Yeah. They're basically saying, Hey, if you guys aren't going to do this, we will and we'll get the credit for it because it's one of those measures that's widely popular throughout the, um, you know, all voters in the United States.So it's, it's. You know, one of those things that'll be a good, easy political win for the Republican so we can get it through which we will see. Um, but either way, I mean, even if they don't, because then if the Democrats step in and have problems with the bill and they can say, oh, Hey look, it's the Democrats holding up, um, you know, legalizing cannabis, which again is something that's, that's very popular.Um, solar up saying, yeah, they, they want to legalize the profits, but we'll see. I mean, I assume there will be, you know, we'll see if, if there can be bipartisan, um, support and work done on the bill. I'm not very bullish on that. We should probably save this discussion for later on, on this show, because we're going to have a cannabis related CEO, uh, on Doug Drysdale was a CEO of Simon to your CYB N related to cannabis, uh, kind of right.Tangentially. It's the same idea of legalizing a drug. It's the same idea, uh, surviving, um, psychedelics are a few years behind cannabis. Um, in everything, right? In terms of regulatory changes, legalization and capital markets a few years on cannabis. So, um, I would be curious to get Doug's thoughts on all this, but I, that being said, speaking of guests, uh, we skipped it on here.Cause our first guest will be on here joining in, in a minute or so. Um, Matt Hamon from IPO warriors is going to recap, uh, last week in IPO lane and preview what is to come this week in IPO's. I'd be curious to hear how Matt played a reveal. And last week I mentioned our Drysdale, uh, from Simon. That'll be at 1245.Love Jake, would you ask Dick from transporter on the show one and Chris Capri from seconds guys trading on the show at one 30. So do as a favor, hit that like button, tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, neighbors, dog. And, uh, we can get ourselves off to a good show today. Good start to the week.So like you said, markets in the green, at least last I checked I'm in the green. You're in the green row on the green. What about Dylan? What about Igor? What about bear for one of the chats? I actually took a little thump ski it's in the red right now, but it looks like it's coming back up. I don't know.Yeah, I know it dropped about a quarter for cent out of nowhere at around 11:40 AM Eastern. So that's interesting that 20 minutes ago, I know we'll keep an eye on that. Uh, Q Q kind of same thing, but yeah, Spencer, so big headline over the weekend was of course, Elon Musk on Twitter, uh, you know, took a shot at Bernie Sanders, which some people love.Some people didn't love. Uh, but, but overall, the, the bigger story here is just Tesla's price action in the last week. Um, the stock let's pull up a chart so we can wait, I'll pull my, while you talk, this stock is down more than 15% in the last week. So we're used to seeing Tesla stock, you know, take rips up.Of course, nothing goes straight up. There will be dips along the way, but usually with Tesla, those are followed by bigger rips. The question is, will we get that bigger rip or what will we see the weakness continue? And Tesla's chart. What is test on a bear market? Is that what this is? Where, uh, let me, I'm going on a different chart here by standard definition of going down 20% or more, um, from its all time highs yesterday in a bear market.Oh my God. Yeah. I mean, we, like I said, we will see, cause a lot of times these dips are followed by bigger rips. And that will be the question with Tesla stock. I think this week will be very, very important to see, um, who knows by the end of the week, we could be back at all time highs at around 1200 or we could come all the way back down to 800.So anyone out there that's trading Tesla, let me know how you are trading it in the chat. I'm very curious, you know, are you, are you playing it with the options? Are you buying the stock? Are you buying the dip? Um, let us know what you think about Tesla, because right now it just seems like there's a lot of wins being taken out of the sale.Of course, Elon Musk has a lot of different reasons to sell stock. Part of it is that if he doesn't sell any now than a lot of his options can expire, um, without him exercising them because you can only exercise so many each quarter. So if he doesn't start doing it now, um, he literally needs money to pay the taxes, right.And, and like, and she doesn't have the money they're there. They're the adage goes, there are a bunch of reasons to sell a stock, um, paying taxes, being one of them. There are only a few reasons to buy one reason to buy. There's only one reason. One reason to buy. Well, yeah, we'll say there's only one reason buy what's the other reason using the one, one reason why talking to.Well, if you're like a inset. Yeah. But if you're say short a stock, you need to buy it to cover. You know, there, there are multiple reasons you can buy something. If you're an insider, like Elon Musk is, and you're going to buy the stock. There really is only one reason because you think it's going higher.There are a multitude of reasons is why you would want to sell a stock. But I think regardless of what that reason is for Elan, um, for Tesla, shareholders and Tesla fans in general, seen him sell stock is a bear sign. So we shall see. But right now, Tesla down about 4% on the day, continuing, uh, uh, bear trend for the stock, which we haven't said in a while.So, um, again, let us know in the chat, how you guys are trading it. Um, etc. Same Tesla just approved to sell electricity and sexist. We'll see if that can be a catalyst for the stock, but who knows, Dave is saying he's buying the dip every time it's on sale. So it has been proven right? Time and time again, buying the dip always works.Isn't that the rule, it always works except in some stocks. Yep. So Spencer, before we get to Matt Hammond, we've got one more headline, this one in the restaurant space. Um, so if you're a, you know, a fan of fast food chains, whatever this may interest you, uh, QSR. Yeah. We know it. Owners of burger king and Timmy hoes over owners of burger king, Tim Horton's, Popeye's just acquired another brand today and an all cash deal, a sandwich.Franchise, you know which one that is Spencer? I, well, I saw the headline, it was firehouse subs. It was $5, billion dollars for firehouse. So some expensive subs. So that just goes to show you guys, if you open a sub shop and you do well and you franchise it out a little bit, you can sell it for a billion dollars.A restaurant brands goes out, buys, firehouse, and then a $1 billion cash meal, uh, you know, will, it looks like the markets like the move for QSR up about a percent, but nothing crazy. So we will see how prior house is able to impact, uh, restaurant brands is, you know, revenue, balance sheet overall, but just some, just some headlines in the restaurant space.That is, that is a, those are some expensive stuff. That's all I'll say by Shelly, congrats to the firehouse subs, seriously, that company donates a portion of their profits to firehouses. So, so congrats to them. Great job. Yeah. Who knows? Maybe they'll stop that. Now that they're under new ownership. I doubt it.I hope not. Um, Shelly pointed out another headline in the, in the restaurant, fast food space. So McDonald's announced a partnership is still relevant. It's about to be holiday season. So every time Mariah Carey she's and it's here, it's here. It makes it come back every year around Christmas time. So we've seen, McDonald's do this with a few other artists have, have, you know, deals.They have one with BTS the popular, uh, K-pop Korean pop band. They have one with Travis Scott. Um, so now they're doing the same with Mariah K. Yeah, I know. So anyway, uh, so we know it's approaching Mariah Carey's season. Uh that's that's in a couple of weeks though. Uh, you know what season is now? It's Manhattan season.It's IPO season. Let's get mad at him and all the total talks to my POS. Is he at? Nah. Hey, I'm doing great. How are you guys doing it is IPO season. Um, we had an off season there and, uh, some, some pretty big ones. So, uh, okay, excellent. I can't wait to hear how you put revealed last week. So here you go. I told you I was going to watch for Vivian, but it did play out what we'll get to that one in a second.Um, first thing I wanted to say is thanks to everybody who contributed to the fundraising campaign. I said, I wanted to get some better streaming equipment. I want to live stream. Some IPOs have been talking with Benzinga they've at least indicated. Maybe we'll do a little bit more switching out to watching some of these actually go live.I think it would have been pretty fun to watch some of what ribbon did, uh, you guys have, you know, talking to Rowan, he's going to kick me out some gear as well. Uh, but we, uh, we got $2,000 in under one week. Um, and I really appreciate all the support. Some of the things I'm gonna use that for is improving the presentation quality of these, uh, kind of weekly shows.I would like to do some live streaming of the IPO debuts. And if time allows, I will do some video breakdowns of the IPO as before, uh, before they go live. Um, really appreciate that. It's not too late to contribute more, I'll buy more stuff and, um, you know, improve things even better. You should have some equipment on the way, man.Yes. So I've heard and I, and I'll ask for some, if you guys have some t-shirts or stuff, I'll wear those on the, on the show and with what I'm doing. So, you know, uh, yeah. Yeah. Well say what's on your waist. Some schwag sweats. Okay. So we actually had a lot of really good ones. Um, we talked about sent a one off 25%.We'll just run through these real quick. I didn't like this as a play. I don't generally like, uh, anything that dumps like that anyway, uh, dumped off the debut. If you did say, Hey, wait, this is below the IPO price. It's dip this far. How, you know, how bad could it get? Um, you know, you were rewarded not just with a retracement up to , which is a lot of times all that we see.Um, but if you held through that and said, okay, well, I'll give this some room to run. Uh, it just for no real reason blew up, uh, head up to 2250. And you know, one of the things about trading is you're looking for, uh, stocks with catalysts. You're looking for volatility. That's what you're looking for in day trading.And that's why I like IPO is not, all of them are going to do this. Uh, but if you have, if you like this company, I guess a lot of people do like this company, um, you know, your catalyst is, Hey, it's IP. Uh, the momentum, the volatility, the volume are all going to be about as high as you can ask for on the days that they IPO, which is what make these attractive targets for a day traders.So St was one society pass. If you remember last week, I said, Hey, this kind of, you know, a crappy, uh, Asian e-commerce ish, you know, S IPO that really looks sort of weird with a pretty low float. This could be a stealth IPO. Um, I tried to get in on this, and unfortunately we will hit the indication price rate before it debuted.So I had mindset at 1350 and it debuted at 1550 and then dropped to 15. So if I had been a little bit more aggressive out of caught this ride from 15 through four halts, top tier, like 42 or something, um, came back here around 30 and we see these just run the same pattern, ran up to 52. Uh, the next morning ran up to 70 and we saw these with thanks.Uh, C pop, um, TRS. Why do you suppose that is? I don't know if we've ever, if I've ever acted that before. Yeah. So there's different theories about this. Um, Having talked about it with a bunch of people and putting our heads together. The thing that makes the most sense to me is that, you know, whoever's buying it way up here is not trying to buy low and sell high.They're almost like trying to buy high and sell low, um, or really just buy high and not give a crap. I was going to say, buy high and sell higher. I thought, well, I mean, who's buying, I mean, they are pushing this up through halts on day two, you know, and somebody paid somebody up at $60 for a garbage company.I mean, we saw EJH was one of them that did this and it's like a cleaning company in China. Uh, w and w which spiked yesterday through some Holtz off some random, I mean, they're, they're low float to begin with. They tend to try to do things to deter us from seeing them or for wanting to play them.They're so bad that, um, you know, no one in their right mind is going to pay this thing. The IPO price was a $99, you know, who is going to say, okay, well, this company has no revenue or barely any revenues. The, uh, the, the platforms that they run are garbage. Uh they're they're just losing money. You know, who's going to pay $15.It's so bad that it's good. It's so bad. That it's good. That's what I think. I know. I mean, my, my answer and for this until proven otherwise is that they're all, they all have ties to China. I mean, we saw FCU. The was a uplifting. They all have a similar on underwriters. This one was max. We've seen a lot of them that were, uh, boasted securities.We saw a bunch that were network one financial Sutter, and a lot of these companies have done IPOs together. They've co-written, um, you know, been the co-writers on IPOs as the underwriters. So there's sort of like, they must happen my theory and they use the same lawyers and they have, uh, my opinion is that they're helping Chinese and other wealthy Asians, especially Chinese follow money out of China.So if you have a whole bunch of money in a bank account in China, and you're trying to get it into Hong Kong or Singapore or into the Western markets, what you can do is you can issue shares somehow out to, you know, if you can hand shares cheaply to your cousin or your uncle or some affiliated partner outside of China then, and just tell them, Hey, I will control the, you know, control it, just control the float.And I will buy, you know, as much of this stuff as I can, uh, with this say $200 million I have in a bank account here in China, you know, that money as I buy those shares that no one else has no. You know, who else is participating in this market? Not a lot of people. So if I'm the only one buying your shares, I'm basically giving you that money and moving that money from China to, um, you know, to the west.And I talked about last week, pets, pets was one that I had called out a month ago and sent out to my newsletter when it was about a dollar 30 or a dollar for. Because they had the same underwriter do a direct offering of 30 million shares basically at about 60 or came out to about 30 cents a share when you factored out the warrants and the profits.And you're like, well, that should just sink the share price, but it didn't, it did a little bit, um, but it came right back up and now it's up at $6. You know, it was at $4 when we talked about it on the show last week. So why are they doing this? Why is hoodie H UDI? Why has that got to $45 in the last, you know, few months?Why has, why did TRX go all the way up to a hundred dollars? And then in one day lost 90% of its value with, you know, with no headline, no new news, no nothing. Um, why does, uh, w and w sometimes randomly pop, why do, uh, you know, why do these go well? Because in my opinion, they're moving money. They're using these as vehicles to get money out of Asia and into, you know, Western markets and the seat after, after this happened, I went back and said, geez, you know, Y you know, what, what did I miss here to not make me just put my limit order at like 16 or 20 for that matter?And I went back and I looked up, the CEO is, you know, extensive experience doing startups in Shanghai. The CFO, you know, is Chinese. So, um, you know, there are hands FCU V when we look back at it, we said, oh, we had our eye on it. And it took a day before they ran it from like five or $6, all the way to 25. Uh, in one day after their up listing, and then now it's come way back down, but what was up there?Oh, the whole, like the only three employees are all very, very Chinese as in, they don't even have American alias names. They're Chinese engineers. So this tie back to China, and that makes sense if you're a wealthy Chinese person with tons of money in China right now, given what, you know, president Xi is doing over there, he is basically cracking down on the wealthy and if I was a rich person, uh, or a rich person in China, more specifically, I would be trying to get my money out of there too.And it's not easy to do that. So even if you're paying a 30, 20, or 30% premium on the shares that maybe get bought out or sold by other people, um, and this is an effective way to, and it's not the first time that the stock market has been used as a way to funnel cash out of a country. The Russians were doing this in the nineties.Um, and that's, that's the only answer that I have. How does, you know, how do completely garbage companies make insane runs? Uh, that all of a sudden, I mean, this one's still kind of holding on, but I don't, it's, it's, it's nowhere near any reasonable valuation and all of these tend to Peter out, or they all do Peter out eventually.And when I look at pets and what they're doing there, I'm just like, okay, I'll just, I sold enough. You know, I bought in at basically a dollar 20 and I sold enough when I reached eight on one of these days where it gets by. That I've already paid for my position. And now I can just sit back and if they run it, I think they're still running it because it hasn't fallen out yet.And when it does fair enough, fair enough. Anyway, I try to call these out when I I've made huge profits on some of these, uh, I made 30,000, $33,000 on a thousand shares of TRX. When it debuted, it went opened at 17, went into a three-hour hall and opened up again at $50. You know, so if you can spot these and you take kind of a, okay, well, you know, I'll, I'll give it a shot approach to it.I mean, the, the returns have been massive. UTME that was another one. Anyway, back to the more traditional kind of fun and boring ones that are also profitable. If you play them right. Expensify, we said we liked, uh, we got in here at the debut. I do like taking a $2 profit rate off the run. Um, it's sort of, kind of the easiest, I would say two hours and trading is defined a good, you know, a good company with these guys had to have a positive baseline financials.They're somewhat brand recognized the float wasn't too big and it gave you exactly what you expected right off the debut. So you buy a thousand shares, get in it, you know, say 39 75, sell it at 42. That's like a really pretty comfortable, easy 5% win, uh, right off the bat. Uh, the market. Wasn't really rewarding.These IPO's on day one, the way that we've seen maybe three or four weeks ago. So this one pulled back a bit. You could try to double dip. I generally don't do that. Uh, but where the real money was in these plays and I'm taking notes for kind of the next set of, uh, of IPOs is a, these day two runs. Uh, this one actually touched $50 today.You talked about that a lot. So especially for brand name IPO's, a lot of people are starting to kind of come into the IPO. I'd say that the number of followers I've got has been much higher over the last two weeks than the, you know, the previous six months. And I think a lot of people are keying in on it and it's, in some ways you have to adjust because if everybody's buying in pre debut, that's less demand once it actually goes live.But a lot of people are kind of catching that overnight media cycle where the, you know, the headlines say, you know, Expensify pops 50% on its debut, and they're not talking about this move. They're talking about the IPO price was like 18, and then it debuted at I. Yeah, I, and you know it, wherever you can do the same thing.I I'm hoping we can get to that because I, I was taken aback at the ferociousness of the day to run in green river. And I guess I shouldn't have been, but I was cause. Because it seemed to go straight down, skip through the, to that one that, or, you know, black ways, again, $2 taker just right on the debut, $2 in your out hole, you know, and you can hold these and they come back in.I wanted to show you one thing about holding IPOs. And again, I don't consider playing a debut to be super risky is, um, okay. People who played this cocoa water, uh, you guys were talking about it this morning and that was a, it was actually not a good debut play. Uh, and which is why, you know, when people ask me, oh, what do you think of this company?I'll say, well, you know, for a long-term position, I don't, I wouldn't suggest buying debut. Um, but you do want to start watching it then, because then you kind of know where it's ranges, where it trends. But if he did say, oh no, this one's going to do great. Uh, everyone loves it. Uh, I'm gonna, I'm going to buy the debut and you got stuck in it and you didn't get any kind of day to run.I've held IPO debuts for, you know, usually it's about a month before you're gonna see what it's going to turn around or not. And the catalyst you're looking for after the debut is the end of the media. Um, or the, uh, press release kind of silence, period. I guess they call it. And the first earnings report.Now, these guys happen to come in with a very strong earnings report. And if you had liked this company enough to buy the debut and you have the conviction to buy it there, why not hold it here? See what it does. And. You know, today you finally gotten, you know, today was the first day after a month, basically a trading that you got an opportunity to take your profits.Do you stop there? Probably I do. If I'm holding a bag and I'm given the opportunity to cut it for a non loss, I'm out, um, very rarely will I hold longer than a day to have it come back and then say, no, I'm going to get greedy. Uh, that's only hurt me when I've tried to be pigs, get slaughtered anyway, a vaccine city by the halt, uh, by the debut, this had a ton of buzz, low float, sell the halt right there.Easy as pie and take your profits. Say thank you. Uh, derm debut below. Where did I put ribbon? Okay. I would love your thoughts here. Cause it seemed like he just went straight down and I, and I want to pull it up on, um, give me a second. I'll pull it up and we can look at the, uh, the chart here. So ravines pretty much exactly what I said.It would do two things. One, I had just taken a win on a. What was it? The, uh, Backblaze or the one before that was earlier in the day and after take a win off and just be like, okay, that's the one I wanted. I am, you know, I can try to keep playing more, but I ended up starting to make bad decisions and, uh, try to control against that.Uh, Ratheon was on one hand, a great a, you know, I mean, how much more social media buzz and momentum could you ask for than any V play when Tesla just broke a thousand and it had a lot of other great, uh, you know, I had a lot of good storylines to it. The Amazon deal it's Ford as an investor, um, but had a huge float and I don't like huge floats the floats 153 million shares.And we S I think I said on the show that it reminded me a bit of snowflake and Coinbase. And my, and my, uh, theory was that we'd get about 10, 15 minutes of upward momentum and then correction, which is exactly what we saw. And for me, I'm not long EVs. I still think that, you know, at some point in the not so distant future, the market is going to realize that selling vehicles is only so profitable that not everybody, um, is just going to buy one model.And, uh, you know, they got supply chain issues. It's just the valuations on these don't line up with what automobiles have traditionally sold for. And I think eventually we see that I don't know when it's going to happen. Clearly it wasn't this week. Um, w I did, you know, so I was in the gym and I was watching, you know, ticker in between sets.And when I saw it kind of come here, I think I'd got off my run and it was a hundred. I thought I already missed that dip here, but, you know, maybe that's the, maybe that's the place to buy for the day to media run, because this is clearly going to get a ton of media hype. And then it started moving down again.And I kind of said, um, maybe, you know, maybe it's not as hard as I thought it was, but clearly if you saw this and bought in for the day too, and I mean, you're in an excellent position. It's a one, I mean, Clayton has pointed out. I, I, I, I lost sight of it. Yeah. I mean, w w w we did, we hit one 50. Yeah, we did.We hit one 50. Holy cow. Holy moly. So if I had pulled that day, you know, that day one trigger down here, I would have sold it, maybe one 20. Anyway, I just don't like I went through over the weekend. I went through and I really needed to do a bit of a self evaluation of Metro. And I make so much more on IPO and sort of like, you know, I like to stack guys like Mitch, uh, and the, you know, the blanking on his name there, the guy that does the, the selection.I mentioned Chris. So they have, I mean, the, the, the, the amount of money that they've made for traders in their spec, like the spec catalyst to me, is kind of similar to the IPO. It's like, you know, what's coming up, you know, that it's going to have a merger vote, you know, that it's going to DCE back and become, you know, a name and that's going to be immediate, you know, the next door.That was pretty obvious media catalyst. And I went from like 11 to 18 in one day. Uh, so these, you know, I like specs and IPO's because no, where, you know, it's so easy to time what's going to happen with everything else in FDA announcement, that's going to come off market. Or, you know, whoever gets the news first is going to get it.And some, a spike right up, you know, you don't know that that's coming or these other plays. And I looked back and I just I've done so well on these words, swing trades, where you're trying to find the bottom and, you know, read the trend and you have to wait, you know, a long time to make your money.Whereas an IPO, I want to make money in like one or two days at keep my, you know, my money in cash. You know, the market can crash one day and I'm not exposed. And I'm just in a, to me, it's it fits my style. Uh, if you can't sit there and play these in real time, would your screen all day, you know, then it's not a great trade.If you're good at day trading and reading charts and all that stuff, you know, maybe that's better for you. I'm not. Uh, I ended up, you know, with a long list of bags, waiting for them to turn around. I like to get in, get out, hold for one or two days, maybe three, if I really think it's hot and maybe I should have read this one a little bit more.It's also, is it a price where it could come down a lot more as well? So, um, never been great with EVs, but we'll see this week, there's a lesson to take forward from this week that maybe we will, uh, be able to catch. So, um, let's, uh, jump through affinity. I think we've recovered, uh, covered those. So this week's featured IPOs.Do you want to say anything more about ribbon? No. I was just curious to hear how you played it. I mean, I sorta lost sight of it today, so I was surprised to see it at one 50. I realistic. I felt like going in, we were, we were Jones in for, for a rock pole on the way that was wrong. That was wrong. Uh, but it just sorta had those vibes near, but Hey, sometimes the obvious place to play.So, uh, what do we have this week? Ooh, she was asking me when I became a speck fan. Uh, the first fact that I really banked money on was, um, what was that? Uh, Nicola. So I've been in SPAC since pretty much the second one. That was it. That was the second big one of this. Yeah, that was yeah. After fan do. And I got FanDuel like the day after it disrespect or not FanDuel or DraftKings drafting.So I got, I got dressed and that was like, I didn't really know what a SPAC was. And I think a lot of his back was that in, in may of 2020, so that put them on the maps, put us up, put us on the map. And since then I've played a TMC Michonne. Uh Chris's you know, uh, I got high on cue. I got, uh, they're they're, they're a handful they've been, they've been pretty good.Uh, and it just, you know, don't get greedy, take your profits and, uh, you know, look for the next one. I'm actually almost always sell out, but by the time I see, you know, 20 to 30% up, I'm just like, yeah. So thanks, bye. You know, and, uh, raise up the cash. And then they run up to like a hundred percent gainers, but that's okay.My room, I have two rules and trading. They are, uh, written here. So I don't forget. They are take like you can't read them, take profits without regret. And don't chase. Those are my two rules. As long as I stick to those, every time I break those and get myself in trouble, when I stick to those rules to do pretty well.You got the calendar. I saw one, the other jumped out to me, but so, so let's run through the boring ones. Sure. Uh, sonar group is not so boring when you consider solar coding for. And they do have, this has sexy all over it. Yeah. And they have, so they don't have any revenues, no point in going over financials, they do have 50 million in customer deposits for their sign-on vehicle.Um, as I understand, those are deposits that, uh, I don't know what the refundability is on those, but when you combine two hot, you know, you're talking about eco solar and Evy and that's, you know, how, how much more do you want there? Right. And you can't put Bitcoin in it's can you, um, so not, yes. Yeah. Right.But you can buy with Bitcoin. That would be the next catalyst. Um, but, uh, yeah. Uh, they, if they mined Bitcoin with the spare solar power, then maybe you could, you could pump this up even more than it is, but this is about as much, um, kind of hype buzzwords. You can cram into something right now. And I got to try this one because, you know,yeah, Wednesday, we don't have any until Wednesday kind of a little bit thinner week. This week, Iris energy. This is a Bitcoin miner. Uh, they don't hold Bitcoin on its balance sheets apparently. But if Bitcoin, how is that possible? Uh, maybe they just sell it right away. I'll on mine and they sell it. Okay.That's something new. I gotta, I gotta research a little bit more, but they do have positive cashflow and operating profit, which leads me to believe that they are selling these, um, And they're basically they're using IPO money to buy more hardware. So if they're successful in mining, why not scale up? Uh, especially when the price of Bitcoin, at least a lot of people believe it's headed to, um, you know, to a hundred thousand.So if the, unless Bitcoin crashes before Wednesday, uh, this looks like a pretty hot play. S D I G, and a couple of the other, all the other Bitcoin IPOs have done pretty well. So 8.27 million shares. That's pretty low float. I like this. Uh, you know, the trend is your friend Bitcoins are trending. So we got my point, right.With all these IPO's. So we've got Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. None of them have priced yet. Right. Do we have an expected w we have the ranges, but we don't have the pricing until, and the pricing can change, especially for the hot ones can change dramatically. Can you give the range on these if you have them?Okay. For, I don't know, they might've pulled as C S E V already. That's too bad. Let me see a Sono price range. 14 to 16. Okay. Um, we've got, uh, IRN 25 to 20. So for the hot ones, we often see them get bumped by, you know, a dollar or two price out of range, a price at the high end and things start pricing at the low end then, unless, you know, if you get a discount to that then, okay.Maybe that's interesting. Uh, in other words, the debut comes live below the IPO price. That's been a pretty safe, uh, play, as it works its way back up to the IPO price, you would expect not a lot of IPO price, uh, buyers are selling, uh, for an immediate loss. So, um, but kind of pricing in the middle that has not been a very good, a sign of strength and I'm generally sitting on the sidelines for those.Okay. Um, but yeah, I mean, solar, Evie, and Bitcoin to lead off the schedule, those, you know, once they should be fun, uh, user testing, this is a platform for companies to test user engagement processes. Uh, maybe it's a good business revenues up 44% last nine months gross profit up 51%. Um, but negative cashflow, negative operating loss, negative income.This is kind of just one of those SAS plays where I've never heard of this company before. It reminds me a little bit of this company was like internet advertising program IAP or something. I don't know the. If you, if there's no brand recognition, they have to be really strong to get, you know, people to come in and buy them.And there's also a sort of odd follow on offering lurking in the, this is not the, it's not a lock of expiration, but they have the right to sell an additional 27 million shares. If the price is 10% above the IPO price, you know, it's something like over 10 days in the previous week or something like that, the point is that the debut price will likely be over 10% to begin with.So if the IPO price on this is, uh, 15 to 17, let's say they debut at 17 or 18, and then it actually debuts at 20. So if they IPO price at 17 or 18 and debut at 20, you already at that 10% level, and then it's, it's think it's a hundred days or something 90 days, then they can, you know, then they can sell them 27 additional shares, which almost doubled, you know, it's more than doubles the float.And I don't really like it when I see those kinds of things just gives me shivers, like remembering what coping had hidden in its, uh, lockup period, which was probably the worst IPO I can recall. Um, playing that was the day was you'd have like 60 or 65 and miss now at 27 and never even gave you like a.Courtesy rebounded any point, really? It just was a downward downward dumpster fires. Alright, super interesting here. Um, res, now this one is, I mean, a similar customer engagement and communication. Revenue's up 2.6% gross profits up 60% again, negative baselines. And unfortunately it comps to Weaver, which last week did not do well on its debut and brace has a higher valuation, but I think it might appeal to more businesses.So I don't know, 8 million shares. It's just, I don't feel super good about these. And given that there are others that I do like more this week, I probably just let these pass. I can't play every single IPO. There are people who have that approach, you know, for them and they really manage those trades.They're better at day trading than I am. They buy on the dip and just hold it for ever sometimes. But, uh, this one to me, both of these sort of user cutting and Braves, both in customer engagement, if user testing, somehow those, well, maybe that changes my opinion on Brays, but I'm looking forward more to this one.It's a sweet garden. Now we talked before about how restaurant chains have done really well on their IPO's. And I kind of include bros in that, uh, you know, in that group because it's a chain. It does well on. You know, on a limited number of locations, the theory being well, if you raise a bunch of money and expand it nationwide, it'll do even better.So this one is like, kind of, I guess they say plant forward, which I read as vegetarian, but I guess they probably have some meat in there somewhere. Maybe they do. I'm a little bit deeper. I'm not a vegetarian, but Hey, you know, everybody wants to go out to eat how they want to. But, uh, interestingly, they acquired this company called spice food and this company looks pretty interesting.They're basically like a robotic powered restaurant system. So you're kind of getting a technology angle on a restaurant chain and given what bros did given what Portillo's did even, uh, F w R G, which is some, you know, breakfast restaurant that I'd never heard of a chain has done, you know, did well off of its date, IPO debut.So these guys are article last week that robot sales like industrial robot sales are at an all time high. I didn't see that. And that, and that kind of makes me feel like this is in alignment with some of the trending topics in the market right now. Okay. So the rebounding out of COVID revenues up 50%, I mean the revenue numbers mean nothing.We've talked about this before. If you're going to compare how a restaurant did for any P you know, the last six months, nine months, 39 weeks, whatever, uh, to the year before we're still making comparisons to. And I just kind of have to throw those out the window, uh, negative cashflow, net income, and operating loss.I don't love though to see that in a restaurant industry, others have been, I think a, you know, Portillo's was, you know, positive and its financials. Um, but I said, I don't want, I'm not going to miss the next chain restaurant play and, uh, bros, Portillo and F WRG. They all did well for IPO's it's 12.5 million shares.It's got healthiness to it. It's got the sort of, and although, you know, Oatley did badly today and beyond meat hasn't done well, there is still a demand for in health forward plant forward eating. And I want to give a, you know, I want to give a restaurant chain, um, you know, I'm going to stick with the trend there and try the rest of the rest.Ha ha healthy food. Alternate is not hot right now though. So, well then maybe we get a reasonable entry price on this as well. All right. That's the glass half full approach. Okay. Fair enough. KinderCare. Yeah, the main thing is just again, so KinderCare learning, um, education centers, blah blah, blah, 1500 locations reopening momentum.They make revenue. This is something this should not be allowed to be a public company. I'm sorry, just to not, no, no. Forget to forget that this should not be a for profit. Like childcare in the, in the U S is so unaffordable. And now we have companies that are going to be publicly traded. They have to answer to investors and the answer to wall street about their stock price and their, their margins and their, and China just made that move a few months ago and killed all the private.This should not, I, this I, that might not be a popular opinion, but I mean, this should not be a publicly traded company. I missed we're talking about childcare, whatever. Just tell us, tell us about the IPO. Ah, yeah. W gross profits are up 3534%, but again, we're talking about comps to lock down, so I can't count much in there.They do have positive baseline financials. So cashflow income operating profit are all positive. So it's a big company. I mean, you're talking about 1500 locations and I mean, we're a capitalist society. If our social different socialistic approach to working, you know, the private market's gonna, you know, is the only, it's our only hope of we can otherwise we're just gonna have, you know, who's going to be the educated future.I mean, I agree with you. I th but we're talking about the holistic approach. We have the socialistic approach to K through 12. It's just pre-K that people versus this is ages six to 12. So this competes with, um, with public school. Okay. Yeah, I do six to 12. I think it's a lot of like preschool and afterschool.I kind of skipped over because I just sort of like, nah, maybe this company is pissing me off next change the subject. All right. Six weeks to 12 years old. Oh, six a week. Wait. Okay. Whatever I, I w oh yeah. Yeah. We've been filling a need there. I have an 18 month year old kid and a child. And, you know, there are days when we would like to just put her in someone else's care if we found someone trustworthy.I bet. All right. Um, no, I love my daughter. I love spending time with her, but it's a lot better. Anyway, uh, Austin gold, this one is sort of like, Hmm, well maybe, uh, it's a gold exploration company in Nevada with corporate offices in Vancouver. Uh, they are revenue, which means they basically just are exploring right now.And the website is horribly lacking. Uh, it looks like something a kind of intern might build as a test project and a web development company. And for me, that's a red flag. I, uh, you know, I mean there's pages where it says like, uh, error content missing on their press releases. Uh, their investor page is basically blank.Um, and since I am a designer developer, I do find that, especially for these sort of low float under the radar IPO's unless I'm looking for it to be terrible. Uh, not having a strong, solid website is sort of like, I don't know how seriously I can take this company if, um, you know, if they don't even have an updated website, uh, I want to I'm with you.One interesting thing though, is that, uh, some people I know who have some knowledge of Nevada and gold mining said that these guys are operating before areas that they're operating in are the right areas to be operating in. Um, and the CEO just last week sold his previous company for $2.8 billion, which was it's really M resources.And he sold it at a, something like a 30, 40% premium to the share price. So Cheryl, you know, shareholders are happy with that. Uh, the float is 3 million shares, but Roth capital is not a particularly loved underwriter. Uh, they must've done something. I still haven't nailed it down, but they have sort of a reputation for screwing, uh, IPO buyers and people tend to avoid them.Um, we've also seen a lot of their, IPO's just seem to get terminally rescheduled and we're up against the clock. We, we, we got, oh, that low. We're on time. Yes. Awesome. That Hammond runs IPO warriors joins us every Monday to run through the weeks late an IPO. And we appreciate that Matt, or as a pleasure and go to the newsletter.I get the newsletter. I feel warriors.com. I'm going to start adding some more, uh, kind of featured breakdowns on individual IPOs. Um, my kind of longer-term vision is to have time to make videos, to put on there as well, to break down some of these with a little bit more in-depth analysis of the actual financials, uh, when I'm reading on Twitter, that kind of thing.So, uh, stay tuned, sign up for the newsletter. Follow me on Twitter. Thanks guys. Have a good week. All right, let's keep it going here. Our next guest has been waiting patiently backstage dog Drysdale. I've mentioned him at the top of the show. He was the CEO of Sayven ticker. CYB N a B. It's bringing him on the show.How are we doing Doug? Happy Monday. Thank you for taking time out of your day to join us here on Benzinga live. How are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thanks gentlemen. Thanks for having me today. You're welcome. So real quick, before we get started for some of our audience that may not be familiar, do you mind just giving us a quick rundown of what it is that Simon does and what the mission is there?Yeah. So Simon is a biopharmaceutical company and we're working to transform psychedelic drugs that we've known about for decades now into actual therapeutics for mental health disorders, like depression, addiction, and anxiety disorders. Got it. So last week, I know we saw some news about M C Y B 0 0 3.So that's one of your guys's PR proprietary drugs. Do you mind just overviewing that news real quick? Yeah. Last week was actually an historic week, uh, in the many decades that people have been working on trying to transform these molecules into actual therapeutics. Two pieces of data came available. One was from one of our peers that for the first time in a 200 plus patients study unequivocally proving that siliciden, which is the active ingredient that comes originally from magic mushrooms, proving that it works in depression and they're paid in helping treat people, people with depression, both the solid and robust resolve at the same time.Simon released data showing that finally after decades, we're able to completely transform this molecule and turn it into something that's actually useless as a therapeutic. The downside visceral assignment historically has been that clinic times are eight hours. So your patients are in the clinic for eight hours a day.And significant side effects and adverse events and would see why B3 we've shown that we can cut this clinic time in half and we can reduce potential for side effects like nausea and headache and other adverse events in half as well. So a major breakthrough. So essentially you're saying that so psilocybin on its own, which, which, like you mentioned, is, um, what's found in magic mushrooms has been proven to help with depression, but there've been downsides, um, to just take an oral.So psilocybin, so with CYB three, you were able to kind of address some of those downsides, um, to, to the actual psilocybin. Exactly. So we've taken psilocybin, we've made it synthetically in the lab and then we've modified it to improve the profile so that it's has a safer profile for patients and pay spend half the time in the clinic.Got it. So, so for some people out there that may have, um, some of these psychological disorder, major depression disorder, um, bipolar, and I know some of them have, have tried a lot of different things and, um, you know, different medicines on the market don't work. So, so is this something that, uh, can be seen as an alternative to helping these patients when those other medicines don't seem effective?Yeah. And once approved they have. So when you look historically back at how we treat depression, we typically use drugs called SSRS, which unlike Prozac. And when you look back over the last couple of decades, on average, a SSRI is typically I know better than placebo in patients with mild to moderate depression and many patients try two or three or more of those Sri's before running out of options.And so a CYB three now provides once it's approved another option for patients to tackle their depression and addiction and anxiety disorder. Did Doug, this has Spencer here. I want to ask you, um, about the, the headline we got late last week, and we're getting again here today about just through the Republican, a bill to legalize cannabis.Uh, I sort of grew up these two things together. I know they're not really technically the same thing, but I sort of look at, um, psychedelics as, as sort of following the cannabis lead in every respect in terms of just regulation and capital markets. Um, I'm wondering if, if, if the move by, by the GOP, if that has sort of changed your, um, changed the, the, the equation at all for a psychedelic regulation at large in the U S.No, not really quite different. So I see that there's a general sentiment change towards looking at these alternative types of treatments and that's all positive. We're looking at drug development that needs to go through the FDA and we're planning studies plan that are coming up in early, early next year.Um, FDA has granted breakthrough therapy status to sub assignment. So they've indicated that this molecule was really potentially important in mental health and da just, uh, came out and said that manufacturers should be making more of these substances to allow more research to be done. So I think we're seeing very positive signs, but DEA and FDA, when it comes to turning these molecules into actual therapeutics that can be prescribed by a physician.So, so Doug is there, uh, you know, a lot of opposition from, I guess, you know, what you could call like big pharma, some of the producers of these SSRS that see, uh, this field as maybe something that's emerging as a competitor to them. So are there, are they, do you see that opposition for big pharma? No. I think the big pharma will see this as an opportunity.When you look across the big pharma space, many of their psychic psychiatry departments have gone over the years. They've become neurology departments. And so there's really been very little innovation in psychiatry in maybe 30 years. So when you look at the total addressable market of all these indications that psychedelic companies are working towards, it's around $300 billion annually.So I think the big pharma will absolutely be interested in this is a space where there's been very little innovation for separately. So Doug for Simon. I mean, I, you know, the namesake comes from psilocybin and mushrooms, but I understand that you're working on other drugs as well. Which other, uh, you know, drugs are you working with outside of psilocybin?Yes. We're working on some other molecules that are related. Uh, these molecules are called tryptamines, which are all like serotonin, which is a naturally occurring. You're a transmitter in your brain. As we're working on some other tryptamines for anxiety disorders. We're also working on a range of molecules called phenethyl means.And these are molecules that are related to MGMA or masculine that might help with PTSD in the future. So we have about 50 molecules in our library currently, and we're taking our lead two candidates into the clinic very shortly. Wow. So, so for investors, you know, our, our, our audience here is mostly retail investors some day traders.What could they be looking out for just in the end, not with cyber in particularly, but just in the industry as a whole, like, are we so early stage that maybe, um, you know, we continue to see some of these names get beaten down or do you think it'll be pretty quickly once we start seeing, okay. People are really noticing that, Hey, look in the psychedelic space, this has actual value and potential, and we can see those investors start coming.Yeah, there has been a bit of a rush over the last couple of years, companies rushing into this space. Uh, but I think we're moving from a period of news to a period of Qaeda. So Simon was one of the first companies sort of the state of this last week. And I think those data points will start to really separate companies from each other and differentiate them.So look out for data. That's coming out of clinical studies over the next six to 12 months, and that'll reset some of these companies apart, I think from some earliest stage organizations that are not quite up to speed yet. Good question here from our chat. Um, how does the FDA's new designation for, for a Simon's work, uh, affect the timeline for commercialization?This is from solar up. Yeah, potentially the breakthrough therapy status, uh, could accelerate the timeline to, to commercialization. There's two things really, uh, the first is that, uh, FDA provides a rolling review. And that just means that they're looking at the data that you submit in real time, not, not in lumps at certain time points, and that's much more efficient.You also get to collaborate with that day and ask questions, which means that instead of guessing what they're looking for, you can take advice on what they're looking for. And typically we breakthrough therapy status to FDA requires perhaps just one phase three study, which are the big expensive studies rather than two.So that can save time and cost of coming to market as well. Got it. So do you have any like ballpark timeline on when you hope to get some of these drugs through the pipeline that the approval? Yeah, so unfortunately drug development is quite slow. Um, but for a reason, the good regaining payments have to be, have to be safe and they have to be tested well so that they can be prescribed for patients.So from where we are today, we're looking at those kind of four to five-year timeframe, still to get through those major critical studies with the first one kicking off in early 20, 22. And then from Brando, likewise, with cannabis or as well as what happened to cannabis, do you foresee it being a case of we get a medical first and recreation and then, and then later on some states doing both at the same time, or, yeah, I don't think so.These are very much going down the pharmaceutical route. And the concept here is that they will be given under supervision or clinical setting and combined with psychotherapy. So patients will go through a period of therapy associated with the treatment, and it seems to be the combination of psychotherapy and the molecule of the drug itself that lead to these good outcomes.Uh, in some studies we've seen that four times, the effect size of SSRI is a four times greater effective at treating depression when combining the psychotherapy, uh, with the molecule. So it's hard to see with this current generation of molecules, uh, that there'll be a recreational. Okay, that makes sense.So, Doug, have you seen a big shift over the last couple of years, just in sentiment regarding, uh, some of these drugs becoming, you know, uh, like viable treatments, because I'm sure, you know, five years ago there would be doctors that scoffed and said, oh, this isn't real medicine, et cetera, but now it seems like more and more people are taking this field seriously.And it's not just doctors. I mean, first of all, psychiatrists are typically fairly open-minded about trying new treatments for their patients, but then you add in the FDA and the DEA throwing their support behind this work. And then also major chip biotech funds. Many of which have invested in Simon are really getting behind this as well.And when you start to see the smart money getting into the space and we know that there's real potential. Got it. So I think one of the, you mentioned that in the last 30 years there hasn't been that much, uh, you know, development or improvement in psychiatric care. Um, and I think one of the problems is that a lot of doctors, you know, see it as, okay, I'm going to prescribe someone, uh, you know, this SSRI and that should help alleviate the symptoms or help solve the problem.But, um, you know, oftentimes a lot of psychiatrists talk about some more holistic measures on top of the medicine. Uh you know, looking at some of these other holistic, you know, things people can do to improve their mental health outside of the drug, or is it simply, um, you're just trying to develop this molecule that you think will be a better.Well, it sounds for the molecule. Let's make sure that these molecules are, have realistic duration that can be scalable and let's make sure they're safe and well tolerated. So we minimize the side effects, but you also want to make sure given the nature of these molecules that they're given in a safe environment.So we've created a psychotherapy program called embark. It takes in six domains of best practice, like a therapy. And we using that to train therapists that will apply to therapy in our clinical trials. And we're making that open source. So therapists can get trained. They want to do that, but also to make sure that we're applying it's like therapy in a consistent way and putting patients in a safe environment.Yeah. I was just curious if that was part of the, I guess quote unquote treatment plan is like, okay, we'll, we'll get, um, this patient on say C Y C Y B3, but that patient should also be getting, I don't know, X amount of hours of sleep a week or exercise, you know, having the other things that help factor into someone's mental health outside of just what drugs they're taking.Yeah, of course. I mean, exercise, eating well, getting good sleep are all good contributors to mental health. When we look back at some of the academic studies that have been performed using psychedelic drugs, uh, those that have reduced or eliminated the psychotherapy have been shown to be less effective.So really does seem to be a combination of the psychotherapy and the drug together. So it forms a kind of a package that helps people overcome the trauma. That's underlying that depression, all. So Doug, what drew you to this industry? I mean, do you have more of a psychiatric background or more of a chemistry background?You know, how did you get here? Yeah, I started out my career in a lab, uh, but I've been in, in, uh, pharmaceuticals in the healthcare industry for 30 years. So I've been developing drugs for, for that time. And, uh, you know, like most of us, you guys too, I'm sure we all know someone in a loved one, family, friends has been affected by depression or addiction.It's tragic as soon as it's all around us. So in 30 years of drug development, I don't think I've had an opportunity in that time to help as many people in such a profound way as we can with the psychedelics. So, so our mission to really turn these into therapeutics once and for all. So, but do you have anything that drew you particularly to psychedelics or was it just that you identified that, Hey, this is a good opportunity here to maybe help tackle some of these problems once and for all the truly groundbreaking.I mean, I can set, I have family and friends have been deeply impacted by this and to be able to combine your work with helping the people that you love is never a bad thing. And it's red, you see data like we see with psychedelics and how profound the effect can be. Literally patients who have spent years of addiction walking away from a psychedelic session and free from those addictive cravings for weeks or months at a time from just one session.I not seen anything like that in my career. So this is an enormous. Got it. Well, Doug, thank you for coming on the show today, we will have to get you back on as Sabin announces more data and news. Um, I know a lot of us here at Benzinga are kind of, you know, following this industry closely and very fascinated by the, um, you know, the progress that has been made so far.Uh, so Doug, thank you again for coming on. Thanks for having me guys. Um, all right. It's one. O'clock we're going to have our next guest on, in his second before I bring them on, though. Uh, AB did you see what Luminari is doing today? L a Z R L a Z R. We had them on the show on Friday and we're up 11% today.Let's go. I'm not saying Benzinga is why Luminari is up 11% today, but I'm also not saying ending is not why. Yeah. I've heard some kids on the street are calling the Benzinga bump. Um, oh, I thought that's something different.I got both errands to live for that one. Oh man. All right. Well, I, I don't even know how to follow that up, so I'm just gonna bring my man Jake on the stream. Jake, how we doing? Hey, how are ya? Thanks for asking what's up. Jake? Who Jasick from trend spider. Jake. I thought of you this morning because we're talking about Grogan and I know that's one of your favorites.So I'm sure you're happy today. I do like it. Yeah. Now I have it as a long-term investment. It's not something I actively trade, so I just keep dollar cost averaging in, but yeah, definitely a nice day kind of a weird market out there. Honestly, got a lot of, uh, what I like to call Christmas colors in the watchlist.You don't really have, you know, a lot of green, a lot of red, it's just kind of just every other stock I have in the watch list is either red or green. So getting the Christmas color vibe there right now, but definitely kind of weird with, with spy is a weekly candle from last week. That's something that does have me a little cautious.I do kind of lighten, lighten some of my positions today. It was a definitely a huge week for me last week in the trading arena. So I definitely don't want to be giving back profits. So, um, I did lighten things up. I still, I think marijuana is probably just getting started, but you know, uh, we have to kind of look at the broad markets before we look at individual names too much.And, and yeah, so with, with spy, I'd really want to, to get above last, week's hide for this to be a little bit of a more risk on sentiment, but Bitcoin is, well, you have this weird pump last night, and now all of a sudden you're back to where we started. So just kind of a weird market. It is OPEX this week.So that's something to keep in mind. Uh, Yeah. So that's, yeah, I'm not in any options positions this week, uh, for that reason, just you, you have some crazy mo

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Tracey & Allyn welcome Derek Murphy-Johnson from Kindercare Education to the Rebelcast. Derek unpacks the concept of one size fits one, a message on the importance of treating each candidate as a unique individual and addressing each recruiting challenge with a unique recruiting solution.

This week the Making Afterschool Cool podcast focuses on Champions Before and AfterSchool services.  Champions is backed by the resources and expertise of Kindercare, and with more than 25 years of experience, Champions is recognized for delivering extended learning programs that are tailored specifically to a school’s  and parents’ needs. To speak on Champions programs in our area is today’s guest Max Madero.  This episode, you will learn more about: How Champions was able to continue to provide services despite all of the 20-21 obstacles The benefits of the after school programs kids, parents and the school The vision of what programs and services may look like in the future Guest Max Madero has worked 19+ years in Youth Development. He is currently  Area Manager for Champions in Pasadena and has previous experience serving Houston and LaPorte ISDs   Resources Champions Before & Afterschool https://www.discoverchampions.com/ Harris County Department of Education https://www.hcde-texas.org/ Case For Kids https://www.hcde-texas.org/Page/17  

Today Business Property Pro Mike Gioioso heads to the "City of Brotherly Love" for a Retail Market update from Commercial Real Estate thought leader, Rob Samtmann. Rob Samtmann has been active in the commercial real estate industry as a Tenant Representation Broker or Landlord Representation Broker in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area since 1995. At present, he is now a managing Principal with Equity Retail Brokers - www.equityretailbrokers.com In Rob's career at Equity Retail Brokers he has been fortunate to work with retailers including ShopRite Supermarkets, Shoe Carnival, Gander Mountain, BJ's Wholesale Club, Babies R Us/Toys R Us, Lowe's Home Improvement, Starbucks, Friday's, Party City, Sleep Number Beds, Vitamin Shoppe, Pep Boys, Firestone, FedEx, Pet Supplies Plus, Quaker Steak & Lube, Wendy's, PDQ, Wells Fargo, Travinia, Ten Thousand Villages, Thirsty Lion, Rite Aid, Alton Lane, Capriotti's, Empire Beauty, Arby's, PNC Bank, Verizon Wireless, Sleep Number, Lou Lou Boutique, Pet Valu, Primrose Schools, Red Robin, Rumble Boxing, Applebee's, Lime Fresh, Pancheros, Outback Steakhouse, Ruby Tuesday, TGI Friday's, STS Tire, Banfield Pet Hospital, Blue Pearl Pet Hospital, C2 Education, Oportun, Rumble Boxing, Noah's, and Kindercare. Rob and Mike frequently collaborate through their participation in the Retail Brokers Network (RBN) - www.retailbrokersnetwork.com , an association of 60+ Independent Commercial Real Estate firms throughout the United States and Canada. In today's episode we chat about what's on trend in the retail drive through and pad universe, what Rob witnesses working in the current Pandemic-hobbled state of Retail, and we collect some beginner tips on Rob's favorite tech toy.... his DJI Drone! For more Business and Commercial Real Estate insider insight, please subscribe! or follow me on social @businesspropertypro. www.businesspropertypro.com Business Property Pro is the blog of Mike Gioioso, Vice-President of Brokerage at MacKenzie Commercial Real Estate Services. Mike is committed to serving clients in hopes of achieving their customized goals, whether or not those goals require brokerage assistance. IT'S ALL ABOUT FULL SERVICE MacKenzie's seven firms provide clients a competitive, full-service platform of offerings in leasing, sales, investment sales, tenant and landlord advisory services, corporate and business consulting, development, general construction, property and asset management, multifamily management, debt and equity capital placement, and GIS/data analytics. With more than 225 employees, MacKenzie is one of the largest, non-affiliated full-service commercial real estate firms in the Mid-Atlantic. Together, our associates prove time and again why we are the company you keep. Let's chat : hello@businesspropertypro.com

Episode Notes As organizations across the nation prepare to reopen in some way or another, the pressure is on to get talent back to work—quickly and safely. The million dollar question: how? On this episode of Talent Experience Live, Derek Murphy-Johnson, Sr. Manager, Talent Attraction at KinderCare revealed how he’s using his CRM, email, SMS, and video to successfully campaign to talent pipelines—past and present—to fill positions quickly and at scale. Learn more about Derek on LinkedIn and check out KinderCare's career site at https://www.kcecareers.com/. Want to watch the full session? Check out the video here: https://www.phenom.com/blog/talent-recovery-how-kindercare-is-getting-employees-back-to-work Check out Phenom's Preparing For Talent Recovery Playbook here: https://www.phenom.com/playbooks/prepare-for-talent-recovery Subscribe to the show using your favorite podcast listening app or platform and stay tuned for future episodes. We'll be diving into talent experience management and the end-to-end talent journey with the greatest in HR, recruiting, talent acquisition, and management. The Talent Experience Show is a weekly podcast proudly brought to you by the team at Phenom.

As a previous licensing consultant herself and now part of the Child Care Success team, Ronnae Williams has some great insight into how child care leaders can make the best of licensing. She shares practical tips to get organized and in a positive mindset, both of which will set up a good foundation for a visit from a licensing representative. Ronnae also has helped large chains and franchise organizations with everything including marketing to enrollment and stresses how not just knowing the rules, but really understanding them can make a world of a difference.   Key Takeaways:  [11:33] Ronnae started working for KinderCare and Kids R Kids but found her way into Licensing after helping in a multitude of positions and roles. The expertise of working with large chains and franchisees helped give her different perspectives on the industry. [16:00] Fun Fact: Ronnae is a new gardener and even just braved the Georgia heat to plant her first pear tree! [17:16] One of the best practices for a successful licensing visit is clear communication and not just knowing the rule book, but understanding the information and general rules. If you have questions, Ronnae recommends emailing them so there is a saved thread of information. [21:10] A positive mindset before a licensing visit is crucial, so you aren’t stressed or nervous but instead assured and confident. [23:57] Organization is key! You can be the binder queen like Ronnae, or use electronic filings if your state allows it. The more you have the information easily accessible and organized, the more confident you will feel. [31:20] Two sets of fresh eyes on your building may be better than just one. That way, they may see things you aren’t able to. [32:18] A few of the areas where issues tend to pop up are supervision and ratio, the playground, and medicine. [38:22] We assume that parents understand quality, and it’s our job to really step up and educate parents on what they should look for throughout their journey of finding the right school for them. [43:33] To Ronnae, a rockstar is someone who sets goals with passion and focus, and then continues to hit those goals and exceed even their own expectations.   Quotes:  “People that did better had a grasp of the rule book.” “You want to understand the rule, not just understand previous actions.” “Visit day is test day.” “Parents know child care, but they don’t really know quality.”   Mentioned in This Episode: Kris Murray The Child Care Success Company Child Care Success Academy Child Care Success Summit — offering $1 ticket Grow Your Center Child Care Authority Child Care Exchange The 5-Day Crush Your Fall Enrollment Challenge  KinderCare 1Place Kids4Kids EntreLeadership The Magic (Secret), by Rhonda Byrne  

Ryan and his wife became accidental foster parents. They took his great-niece into their home when she needed a place to stay. They already had a daughter and it changed the face of their family. Foster care created some difficulties for their family, but it also created a relationship that will they will all challenge for the rest of their lives! Ryan is also a podcaster! Check out his links below. Remix the Dad Podcast: iTunes Google Play Stitcher You can find Jason and Amanda at: Website Facebook Group iTunes

Tom Wyatt, CEO, KinderCare Education - “[Our teachers] write me, they call me, they are so taken aback by the grateful comments they get, the emotional letters and emails they get from the doctors and nurses and others saying that they could not be doing their work without our support.” With more than two-thirds of his 1,500 KinderCare centers now closed, Tom Wyatt feels it is his civic duty to keep the remaining ones open to serve the children of parents who must work—including those on the frontlines. That sense of responsibility—to community and to nation—is to be expected from Wyatt, who left his highly successful leadership career in retail to pursue a calling in early childhood education. Surveying the consequences of the current pandemic, Wyatt points to a significant impact that's often overlooked: “The emotional stress on children today,” he tells Mike, “may be even more critical than the academic loss.”

In this episode, Kindercare's Dr. Elanna Yalow shares how the childcare giant is navigating this unprecedented situation. We cover everything from safety procedures for centers that are still open at this time, to maintaining a connection with families, as well as what the “new normal” might look like for the industry after lockdown is lifted. Kindercare's social media:  Facebook Page Instagram LinkedIn

This episode contains stories that allude to sexual violence against children. If you have children in the area or are strongly affected by this content you may want to listen to this episode when you are away from small children or not at all if it will affect you negatively. Trauma and childhood sexual abuse are an all-too-common occurrence for kids in foster care. This episode is no different. Janielle is a 14 year old girl with a story that she wanted to share. We were amazed at her willingness and ability to share such a personal story in the hope of helping others to find their strength to speak up.  Her harrowing story and impressive resilience is a testament to the strength of the human soul. 

Squaring off against high demand, retention challenges, and reputation management are all part of the talent attraction game for this education and childcare provider. Derek Johnson is Talent Attraction Manager at KinderCare Education. Connect with Derek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/503recruiter KinderCare Education online: https://www.kcecareers.com Talent Brand Alliance: https://www.talentbrand.org Subscribe to this podcast: https://employerbrandingpodcast.com Measure your employer brand: https://employerbrandindex.co Thanks for tuning in!

Join us for part 2 of an interview with my business coach Kristine Mehler, the CEO and founder of TLG Financial Foundations. Kristine transformed me into the successful preschool owner I am today. Through my work with Kristine, I realized that I couldn't afford not to hire her. She taught me how to think like a business person while honoring my passion and commitment to research based quality standards in early childhood education. Is your childcare center struggling? Do you find it hard to run a business and long for the days you were in a classroom?  You can find success in your daycare business. You can find information about Kristine at: www.tlgff.com or www.tlgconsultinginc.com. You can email her at: Kristine@tlgff.comFor more information about my company, check out www.childcarebusinessprofessionals.com Join the conversation on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/childcarebusinesscoach

Research shows that ­­­early learning (from birth to 5) not only supports children’s success in school, but it also impacts a child’s future earnings, workplace productivity, and has long-term health benefits as well as multi-generational benefits. In this episode, Elanna Yalow, Chief Academic Officer of KinderCare Education, spoke with Bernard Bailey, CED President, about the critical components of high-quality early learning experiences and how parents can be confident that they are selecting the most appropriate setting for their child and family. Among the most important areas that support quality is ensuring that early childhood educators have the dispositions, skills and ongoing development needed to provide an enriched learning environment for young children.

Episode 169 - Play is how children learn and develop in their early childhood years. In this episode, we interview Dr. Elanna Yalow, Chief Academic Officer at KinderCare, on how teachers can support children as they learn through play. She highlights how play and academics are not separate from each other. Instead, it is the instinctive way that young children learn how to problem solve and develop skills. We discuss some strategies that educators can use to incorporate play into their practice. Resources:  KinderCare Children Do Better The Longer They're With Us What Will They Find Next? Sensory play for babies builds their brains  Want to light up your baby's brains? Talk, coo and smile too  Expert infant teachers share what to look for in a daycare KinderCare celebrates 50th Portland anniversary

What You'll Hear: He always remembers going to church, at the age of 4 or 5 he knew God was calling him to preach On 9/11, he heard God audibly tell him to run (which he knew to mean surrender) and on the following Sunday he gave his life to Christ He has heard from God audibly 2 or 3 times, normally God gives him visions and dreams.  It's an unction so even when he's mentally unsure, he knows When you're a kid and your parents call you, depending on how hard they called you knew what the level of requirement was going to be, in the same way you need to get to know God before knowing if you're hearing from Him He was working full-time and making a 20 hour drive from Biloxi, to Charlotte every week for 2 months Right after they arrived Charlotte to pastor the church there, riots happened in Charlotte Earlier he had worked for the YMCA and then was managing Kindercare, but stopped doing that so he could work full-time with the Police Department, he continued pastoring full-time with no income from the church "My passion, my gifting, is people. I love people" By summer, 2017, he stopped pastoring that church They've galvanized 160 partners that work together including 30-40 pastors and churches that normally don't work together "You can launch a church, ... a mission... a ministry, but if people don't believe in you or what you're doing, because you have not sown equity or earned credibility..." you'll fail If your ministry were removed, would your community know you were gone The focus needs to get back to Jesus Christ alone There's becoming a separation of believers and Christianity "When we allow our passions or the moves of the day (politically, socially, economically whatever it may be) to supercede our view or our behaviors and the mission of Jesus Christ (winning souls, making disciples)... we have stepped out of the boundaries of being believers and stepped into the boundaries of being religious" "If the State, if the secular, if the corporate wants to see transcendent profit, result, growth, and success, it would be strategic of them and wise to invest their resource in staffing believers" "There's so much prosperity that can take place if the church is utilized" To make your secular job a part of your overall ministry, you need to know your spiritual gifts "Balance means my family is first...it's a fundamental life principal to make sure your house is solid. to make sure your family is solid" "Life is like music, sometimes life is on-beat and sometimes it's off-beat.  You're not fighting to stay on-beat, you're fighting to stay in rhythm" Contact theopelis.schaffer@cmpd.org Grand opening day is Sunday, Oct. 20 for Grace Charlotte, www.graceclt.com PastorTheo@graceclt.com @theoschaffer for Twitter and Facebook

For most kids, summer means school’s out…but for some younger high-risk children in Georgia, it’s a critical time for them to prepare to enter Georgia’s Pre-K Program or Kindergarten in the fall. Our Summer Transition Program is currently underway and continues through July 12. Our guests are Meghan McNail, Summer Transition and Outreach Manager, and Julie Barnett with Kindercare, a childcare provider offering the program in multiple locations. Support the show (http://www.decal.ga.gov)

Dr. Tanjia Coleman: Chief Human Resource Officer at YWCA Metro Chicago and President of Reimagine Organizational Development. Dr. Coleman is an International Award Winning Researcher and Public Speaker, Leadership Development Strategist, Organizational Culture Expert and Diversity Champion with past experience at Kindercare, Devry University, Starbucks, Microsoft, Hometown America and Sears Roebuck. We learn what Dr. Coleman has to say about the impact of organizational culture and what leaders can do to earn respect beyond their title, and more. Reflecting upon the recent workplace violence tragedy in Illinois, Dr. Coleman also provides recommendations for organizations to implement that can prevent violence in the workplace. KMB Talk is a new talk show that launched February 2019. We interview leaders to discover what is on their mind. Please subscribe, share and help us grow. Learn more at KMBTalk.com. Music licensed from and produced by AYD Beats  

Derek Murphy Johnson popped up in my LinkedIn feed the other day I figured he might make a good guest. Little did i know he is also a frequent listener of the RecTech podcast. By day he is the Corporate Talent Acquisition Manager for Portland Oregon based Kinder care education and he is also a board member of the newly formed Talent Brand Alliance. TOPICS Describe the recruiting team at Kindercare.  Biggest challenge right now? Lets talk tech---what’s your ATS? Taleo What other tools are part of your HR tech stack? Phenom People, The Muse Plans for Employer Branding Creative Sourcing Stories RecTech Sponsored by Workhere.com and Hiretual.com

Sharon Foster, owner and operator of Bells Ferry Learning Center, joins Kris today for a conversation on how to build positive parent relationships, customer service, and how owners and staff can protect themselves during bad reviews or negative social media comments. They discuss strategies on enforcing policies, the proper mindset regarding payment, and when it’s okay to respond to a negative review, and tips of what to say so you stay responsive and professional, yet firm in your own values and vision. Sharon also shares the ways she has had to pivot her vision as both a leader and business owner over the years to make sure her product was meeting the needs of the market.   Key Takeaways: [2:52] As a special thank you, Kris will be choosing comments left on the podcast page, blog or iTunes and mentioning them on this show! If you want your school to be mentioned, be sure to write it in the comment. You can check out the podcast page on the website here. [6:24] Another special thank you gift! Just for listening to this episode, you can save $100 off when you use the code “rockstar” for the Child Care Success Summit. [7:33] Sharon entered the field with Kinder Care in 1979 and became a Kids R Kids franchisee in 2001, and is now the owner and operator of Bells Ferry Learning Center, which has two locations. She is also working with a partner on a new venture called Georgia Afterschool Program. Sharon is the author of Ready? Set? Kindergarten!, a month-by-month guide for preparing your child for Kindergarten. She is currently serving as the President-Elect of the Georgia Child Care Association. Sharon’s schools are in the suburbs of Atlanta, within a four-mile radius. [10:07] At the age of 12, Sharon volunteered at KinderCare, where her younger brother attended. She kept at it and was earning a paycheck by the young age of only 13. She continued on to other jobs but always knew that her heart was in child care. Flash to a few years later, when she became a franchise owner for Kids R Kids, which then became rebranded Bells Ferry Learning Center. Rebranding made a huge difference due to the location she was in, as many of her potential customers were intimidated by the prices of a large national chain. [14:42] Sharon is a huge fan of the Zac Brown Band, has been to three different countries to see them, and celebrated her 50th birthday by seeing them in Austin, Texas! [16:12] The tagline for Bells Ferry is “Love is Spoken Here.” [17:24] Your message and product both need to match what your market wants, the results they are interested in, and what they are able to afford. [19:19] The original location stays at about 175, year round, as they have three state-funded Pre-K programs that keep summer attendance up. The Marietta location is about 60% of their 198 enrollment. [21:39] Sharon’s first coping mechanism for a negative review or feedback is to contact Kris. Finding a trusted colleague or mentor to rationally talk things over can help immensely. [22:38] A common thread of Sharon’s negative reviews has been with the family has owed money. They may even try to use a bad review as a type of blackmail to have their debt lowered or erased. Sharon and Kris recommend enforcing the payment rule and continuing to work on the mindset that you deserve to be paid in full and on time. [24:52] Surround yourself with the people that love you and your business, and they will help you through the negative reviews. Also, the energy around the reviews tends to dwindle off after about 48 hours. [27:02] Sharon shares a story on how responding to one negative review ended up gaining her 12 new enrollments. [28:45] Sharon does not try to spend time and energy online pleading the case of an invalid review. One suggestion of how to model good customer service language is to look at hotels’ responses that are proactive and positive towards their customer concerns and complaints. [33:41] While Sharon jumps in and helps out in almost every aspect of the business, she focuses on the payroll, online advertising and supporting the directors and delegating the rest. She is always available to her staff as a sounding board but takes pride in setting them up to be self-sufficient and confident in their own independent leadership decisions. [37:14] Sharon and Kris recommend being sure you have at least six months of operating capital and three cycles of payroll before starting the business officially. Start marketing earlier and more than you think to get a good flow of enrollment within the first six months. If you need help finding a business and marketing resource, check out the Child Care Marketing Boot Camp. [40:29] Sharon sees a rockstar as someone that dedicates themselves day in and day out to child care, no matter what position or level they are at! [46:19] Sharon wrote Ready? Set? Kindergarten! with her teachers as a month-by-month hands-on activity guide for parents. Mentioned in This Episode: Kris Murray Child Care Marketing Solutions Child Care Success Academy Sign Up for Enrollment Bootcamp Waiting List KinderCare Kids R Kids Bells Ferry Learning Center Ready? Set? Kindergarten!: A month-by-month guide for preparing your child for Kindergarten, by Sharon Foster Georgia Child Care Association Zac Brown Band Child Care Marketing Boot Camp Move Your Bus: An Extraordinary New Approach to Accelerating Success in Work and Life, by Ron Clark Canva  

Episode Summary Here is another Sponsor Spotlight episode, where we interview an employer who took a different approach or strategy to change participant behaviors and outcomes.  In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Sarah Redgrave, the Vice President of Total Rewards at KinderCare Education.  Sarah shares a unique approach she and her team took to integrate the 401(k) plan communication into their new total rewards strategy.  While the campaign had some surprising and positive results, the real benefit of this episode is Sarah’s introspective, honest and motivational thoughts she shares with employers on finding your north star, blazing new trails and bravery in business.  Finally, be sure to stick around after the interview for a new closing segment called the 401(k) Fridays Fiduciary Fact and Folly.   Guest Bio Sarah has over 15 years of international experience in benefits, compensation, internal communication, and change management.  Currently she is accountable for the Total Rewards programs within KinderCare Education, a provider of early chilcare education with 30,000 employees across the United States. Previously, she was accountable for Eddie Bauer’s Benefits, Compensation, Employee Communication, and Recognition Programs across the US, Canada, and Hong Kong.  Prior to Eddie Bauer, she helped to build and lead the Communication and Change Management Practice at Hymans Robertson, a UK-based HR consulting firm. She spent five years as a communication consultant for Eckler Partners in Toronto, a pension and benefit consulting firm, where she consulted to clients across a wide variety of industries; and provided solutions that helped keep employees informed and engaged through times of significant cut-backs.  401(k) Fridays Overview Welcome to the 401(k) Fridays Podcast, where employers come to learn and retirement industry leaders come to share their unique stories, experiences and perspectives.  My name is Rick Unser, and I am your host.  Each episode leverages my nearly two decades of experience as a retirement consultant and features a candid interview with an industry expert to help enhance fiduciary protection, streamline plan operations or improve participant retirement readiness.   For more information please visit www.401kfridays.com

Holly Hamann is an indefatigable entrepreneur who has helped launch six start ups.  Her latest venture, Blog Frog, was just named one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s “100 Brilliant Companies.” Blog Frog, whose clients include national brand companies – such as Intuit, KinderCare, Shutterfly and Subway – connects clients with popular bloggers and other social media influences to generate peer-driven content on topics including food, fashion, parenting, fitness and technology.  Blog Frog leaps past the clutter of Internet ads to harness the power of more than 100,000 social influencers. Everyone benefits. Ribbit. Ribbit. Hamann, who personifies the cutting-edge, unconventional thinking taught at the Wizard Academy, is interviewed by Academy faculty member and graduate Dean Rotbart and by David Biondo, a veteran financial planner and successful entrepreneur. Rotbart and Biondo produce Monday Morning Radio and serve as co-hosts in cooperation with Business Unconventional on 710 KNUS AM in Denver. Be sure to follow B. Unconventional on Twitter: @BUnRadio and subscribe to Roy H. Williams's Monday Morning Memo.  The best things in life really are free! Run Time:  33 min  19 secPhoto: Holly Hamann, Blog Frog

Join Maria as she speaks with Hungry Girl - Lisa Lillien, who tells us about debunking the myths behind healthy eating habits. Megan Riede, the Senior Director of Education Programs at KinderCare talks about their Spring Camps and Open House. Susan Stiffeleman, author of Parenting without Power Struggles. The Mom's Roundtable discusses great books and book series for your children! Matt Cherry founder of Time Dog. This show is sponsored by Lands' End and Family Circle.

We are excited to meet with the UFood Grill franchise opportunity.  The most important thing at UFood Grill is taste, hands down! Their chef has designed a broad menu of better-for-you versions of traditional favorites and innovative original creations. They take a back-to-basics approach to tasty, healthful cooking, where everything we serve is rooted in quality—from choice meats, to natural and organic ingredients, fresh produce, whole grains, and light cheeses and dressings. All of their menu items are baked, grilled or steamed. Nothing is fried—we don't even have fryers in their restaurants!   We have the pleasure of speaking with George Naddaff – Chairman and CEO to UFood Grill. George Naddaff is considered by many to be the “Guru of Franchising”. He developed Boston Chicken/Boston Market into a national franchise brand and in 1992 sold it to a group of Blockbuster Video executives. In 1993 he shared in its record-setting IPO (143% first-day increase). Naddaff has founded and/or been significantly involved with several other successful concepts including: Mulberry Child Care Centers, which had over 90 company-owned childcare centers when it was sold to KinderCare; Sylvan Learning Centers, the nation's leading after-school learning facilities; Ranch*1, a New York-based chain of grilled chicken sandwich restaurants; Living and Learning Schools, which operated more than 50 upscale childcare facilities and was sold to KinderCare; VR Business Brokers, the nation's largest business brokerage franchise with over 350 offices, which was acquired in 1986 by Christies, London. Naddaff began his career in food service when he co-founded International Foods, which operated 19 KFC franchises in the Boston area and was sold in 1970.