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From a childhood dream of becoming an inventor like Louis Pasteur to leading commercial due diligence for private equity funds like KKR and HIG, Josh Emington shares how his team sizes markets, calls real customers, and spots the growth opportunities other investors miss. In this episode of the DealQuest Podcast, host Corey Kupfer sits down with Josh Emington, a partner at The Martec Group, a boutique strategic consulting and market research firm. Josh leads Martec's value creation team, working with lower middle market and middle market private equity funds including KKR, HIG, Granite, Rotunda Capital, and Everglades Equity. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN How commercial due diligence tests whether a deal's growth story actually holds up, why customer concentration can erase a company overnight, and what a free pre-diligence memo can flag before a client spends real money. Josh also explains why his team still picks up the phone to call a target's real customers, and how AI has compressed Martec's research timelines from seven days to two. JOSH'S JOURNEY Josh's path into research started at a scholastic book sale, where his parents picked up a chemistry kit and a book about Louis Pasteur. He decided he wanted to be an inventor who saved lives the way Pasteur had. His first real deal came as an Eagle Scout, selling popcorn door to door to earn a trip. The professional turning point came on a customer journey project for a top manufacturer of toilet seats. When his team learned that customers had no idea who to call when a seat broke, they recommended putting the brand name on the back. Two years later Josh saw the brand on a hotel toilet seat and, as he told Corey, "just making an impact in a business like that doesn't get any better." Over the past decade Josh has executed hundreds of global research and consulting engagements at Martec, focused on commercial due diligence, M&A funnel support, target identification, and customer due diligence anchored in primary research. KEY INSIGHTS Commercial due diligence looks at both the risks that could blow up a deal and the opportunities a buyer might be paying for without realizing it. Josh shared a southern Florida example where his team helped a client acquire a lawn care installation business alongside a separate maintenance company, turning one time jobs into recurring revenue. Skipping pre-diligence is a common mistake. At least three times a year, Josh's team will deliver a short, free memo that sometimes recommends an investor not proceed at all because a technology is about to obsolesce or a competitor is far more advanced than the marketing suggests. Customer concentration is the biggest single risk Josh's team flags. As he put it, if 10 customers or even one customer accounts for 70 percent of revenue and that relationship ends, you do not have a company anymore. Corey pushed back from his seller side perspective, arguing buyers should consider structural protections tied to retention rather than discounting valuation outright. About 10 percent of Josh's M&A work happens on the sell side through exit planning. In one engagement, his team interviewed 2,000 rug buyers for an upper middle market online rug company to give a skeptical buyer the confidence that the brand really commanded its prices. AI has also compressed Martec's research timelines from seven days to two, and Josh's team now applies a triple AI lens to every deal, assessing how AI will affect the target's market, its workforce, and its own customers. Perfect for private equity investors, business owners preparing for sale, and dealmakers who want to understand what really gets tested before a deal closes. FOR MORE ON THIS EPISODE: https://www.coreykupfer.com/blog/joshemington FOR MORE ON JOSH EMINGTON: Website: https://martecgroup.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshemington/ FOR MORE ON COREY KUPFER https://www.linkedin.com/in/coreykupfer/ https://www.coreykupfer.com/ Episode Highlights with Timestamps [00:00:02] - Introduction and Josh's background at The Martec Group [00:03:21] - The toilet seat project that made Josh fall in love with research [00:09:01] - The southern Florida lawn care deal that turned one time jobs into recurring revenue [00:13:39] - The free pre-diligence memo that can stop a bad deal before it starts [00:16:04] - The last bastion of human value and how customer due diligence really works [00:23:13] - Sizing the prize and spotting customer concentration risk [00:38:46] - How AI has compressed research timelines from seven days to two [00:46:56] - What freedom means to Josh Guest Bio Josh Emington is a partner at The Martec Group, a boutique strategic consulting and market research firm serving private equity funds and Fortune 1000 leaders. Over the past decade he has led hundreds of global research and consulting engagements focused on commercial due diligence, M&A funnel support, target identification, and customer due diligence anchored in primary research. He leads Martec's value creation team, supporting clients from thesis validation through pre-LOI and into post close growth strategy. Publicly known clients include KKR, HIG, Granite, Rotunda Capital, and Everglades Equity. Host Bio Corey Kupfer is an expert strategist, negotiator, and dealmaker with more than 35 years of professional deal-making and negotiating experience. Corey is a successful entrepreneur, attorney, consultant, author, and professional speaker deeply passionate about deal-driven growth. He is the creator and host of the DealQuest Podcast. Show Description Do you want your business to grow faster? The DealQuest Podcast with Corey Kupfer reveals how successful entrepreneurs and business leaders use strategic deals to accelerate growth. From large mergers and acquisitions to capital raising, joint ventures, strategic alliances, real estate deals, and more, this show discusses the full spectrum of deal-driven growth strategies. Get the confidence to pursue deals that will help your company scale faster. Related Episodes Episode 332 - John Martinka. Financial due diligence and why messy financial statements can kill a deal or cost a seller real money on valuation. Episode 324 - Sejal Lakhani-Bhatt. Technical and cybersecurity due diligence, and how a company's IT history follows it into a sale. Episode 351 - Corey Kupfer Solocast. A breakdown of the different types of due diligence that apply across every kind of deal. Keywords/Tags commercial due diligence, private equity due diligence, customer due diligence, voice of customer research, market sizing, TAM and SAM analysis, customer concentration risk, exit planning, M&A due diligence, value creation, buy side due diligence, sell side due diligence, AI in market research, deal thesis validation, competitive market mapping, business combination strategy, recurring revenue acquisition, pre-LOI diligence, lower middle market private equity, Martec Group
Are you letting AI decide what you share with your clients and audience? Are you trusting artificial intelligence to represent your unique voice and judgment? In this episode I ask whether you're using AI as a tool—or handing over your creativity and critical thinking. I'll share why it's essential to review, revise, and take true ownership of everything that represents your business, and how you can use AI to help brainstorm and generate ideas without losing your personal touch.Listen to this new 9-minute episode for ways to use AI to support your business—without ever letting it replace your judgment or your voice.If you have any questions about anything in this, or any of my podcasts, or have a suggestion for a topic or guest, please reach out directly to me at Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com or visit my website Podcast.AlanBerg.com Please be sure to subscribe to this podcast and leave a review (thanks, it really does make a difference). If you want to get notifications of new episodes and upcoming workshops and webinars, you can sign up at www.ConnectWithAlanBerg.com View the full transcript on Alan's site: https://alanberg.com/blog/Are you going to Wedding MBA? Use the promo code - Alan - to save $20 off your tickets, at www.WeddingMBA.com And don't worry, if you can't use your tickets this year, they're transferrable or you can hold them to use next year. I'm Alan Berg. Thanks for listening. If you have any questions about this or if you'd like to suggest other topics for "The Wedding Business Solutions Podcast" please let me know. My email is Alan@WeddingBusinessSolutions.com. Look forward to seeing you on the next episode. Thanks. Listen to this and all episodes on Apple Podcast, YouTube or your favorite app/site: Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/weddingbusinesssolutions YouTube: www.WeddingBusinessSolutionsPodcast.tv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3sGsuB8 Stitcher: http://bit.ly/wbsstitcher Google Podcast: http://bit.ly/wbsgoogle iHeart Radio: https://ihr.fm/31C9Mic Pandora: http://bit.ly/wbspandora ©2025 Wedding Business Solutions LLC & AlanBerg.com
Appsec has seen machine identities from daemons and processes to services, microservices, and cloud accounts. And now we have agents. Ev Kontsevoy talks about what it means to have engineers and agents interacting in an environment, and why a focus on actions can be more effective than roles. One of the biggest challenges in securing agents along with all of the other identities that organizations manage is how fragmented that management has become. But a unified engineering view of identities is just a start. Once you're able to shift to a practice where access is granted based on attributes and limited durations, then your environment becomes more resilient to mistakes and unexpected actions, not to mention the security concerns that come with agents acting on their own. Who Is Responsible for an AI Agent's Actions? As AI agents gain the ability to access systems, invoke tools, and take action on behalf of users, organizations need clear frameworks that define responsibility for machine-driven decisions and outcomes. This segment examines how accountability, delegation, and attribution can be established across users, developers, security teams, and business stakeholders. Neha will explore how governance models support transparent, auditable agent-driven workflows while helping organizations manage risk and maintain trust. This segment is sponsored by P0 Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/p0idv to learn more about them! The rapid rise of agentic AI and non-human identities is fundamentally reshaping the future of identity security, challenging traditional IAM and PAM models built around predictable human behavior. In this executive interview at Identiverse 2026, Amit Masand discusses how autonomous systems, AI agents, and machine identities are creating new operational and governance challenges for modern enterprises. Drawing from more than two decades of industry experience, the conversation explores the growing complexity of continuous governance in a world where identities increasingly operate at machine speed. Segment Resources: https://www.idmexpress.com/post/preventing-cybersecurity-incidents-through-managed-services https://www.idmexpress.com/post/cyberark-securing-aws https://www.idmexpress.com/post/turning-roadblocks-into-breakthroughs-a-custom-oracle-pam-integration-story Contact IDMEXPRESS! Secure Your Tomorrow, Today: https://securityweekly.com/idmidv Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-388
Mailing checks to pay off a credit card in 2026 sounds like a joke, but it is still a real debt consolidation workflow at scale. Greg Myers sits down with Jose Bethancourt, Co-Founder and CEO of Method, to unpack why liability payments are uniquely messy and what it takes to make them feel as seamless as modern fintech promises.Jose shares his path from growing up in South Texas near the Mexico border to building products at UT Austin, then turning a personal problem into a company. GradJoy started as a way to help new graduates understand student loan debt, interest rates, and payoff strategies, but it quickly revealed a deeper issue: people often cannot even locate their liabilities, and credential-based financial data access is brittle. Method tackles that with an identity-based financial connectivity API that, with consent, can find student loans, credit cards, mortgages, auto loans, and personal loans, then enable two-way flows that support both reading data and sending payments to creditors.We also get into what this unlocks for underwriting, personalization, and better customer outcomes, plus how it can reduce errors and fraud compared to manual PAN entry and back-office check operations. Jose lays out a forward-looking view of AI in payments, agentic payments, and a world where an AI agent can securely analyze your debt, shop for a better APR, and execute payoffs. Finally, we step back to discuss consumer demand for speed, why ACH still shapes reality, and how RTP and FedNow may push expectations even further.
Join Dima Romashin, CEO and Co-Founder of Efferon, for an unvarnished examination of the execution bottleneck threatening modern life sciences. While the biotech sector is experiencing an unprecedented boom in discovery, an industry-wide crisis looms at the industrialization layer: brilliant therapeutics and medical devices frequently fail not because the science is flawed, but because it cannot be reliably replicated at scale. Bringing a background as a manufacturing executive at a $100M+ enterprise to the deep-tech ecosystem, Dima argues that true clinical impact only occurs when a breakthrough can be successfully manufactured by the millions. In this episode, we explore how Efferon is scaling its revolutionary blood purification platform and redefining the rules of biotech capital formation.
As I look back on my childhood and my very first music studies, I realize that I was incredibly fortunate, blessed, actually. Not because I was gifted or because my parents were not only willing but were able to support my harp lessons. Not because I was in one of the music capitals of the world and had access to world class teachers. Not because I had so many opportunities and people that encouraged me along my journey. Well, yes, I was blessed because of all those things, certainly. But I want to talk today about a different gift that was given to me, one I didn't realize the value of until much later. The gift was this: I was always encouraged to play music outside the box. Let me explain. I started piano lessons when I was four years old, and my piano teacher was not only a fabulous musician, but a creative and generous teacher. My lessons included all the usual piano exercises - which I hated - and sonatinas - which I loved - and she also made sure that she gave me performance-worthy arrangements of popular music. I played arrangements of "Blue Moon" and "People" from Funny Girl and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that were written by pianists like Roger Williams. These were fancy arrangements that took quite a bit of technique and a lot of practice to play well, and I enjoyed them. But my teacher never stuck exactly to the printed page. She always had some alterations to add a little more pizzazz to the arrangement. We were always taking bass notes down an octave or playing another part up in the high register like a music box, or changing dynamics and tempo. What she taught me was that music was self-expression. It was about so much more than just playing the written notes. It was about making the notes say what you thought they should say. Please understand; we didn't take liberties with the classics. She made sure I played absolutely every note that Bach wrote on the page. But I learned very early on how to be creative in my music-making, and that has been a tremendous gift. I've never shied away from arranging, and in fact, it's one of my favorite things to do. I'd love every harpist to learn the freedom of making their music their own, and that's what this show is about. I actually went back about two years into the podcast archives to pull out this episode which speaks directly to this. If you've ever wondered about what it takes to make an arrangement, or how to go about it, this is the episode for you. And afterwards, I want to tell you about an opportunity - a new challenge, in fact - to work with me on your own arrangement. Links to things I think you might be interested in that were mentioned in the podcast episode: Get creative with the Compose for Christmas Challenge Go even further at the Chrysalis Music Workshop Harpmastery.com Get involved in the show! Send your questions and suggestions for future podcast episodes to me at podcast@harpmastery.com Looking for a transcript for this episode? Did you know that if you subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts you will have access to their transcripts of each episode? LINKS NOT WORKING FOR YOU? FInd all the show resources here: https://www.harpmastery.com/blog/Episode-267
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Ever feel like your marketing plan is the rope in a tug-of-war match? The sales team is pulling one way. The owner is pulling another. Someone's daughter took a marketing class in college and has opinions. And the person who's actually responsible for the campaign is standing in the middle, trying not to get dragged through the mud. That's why my conversation with Beth Trejo really struck a chord with me. Beth is the CEO and co-founder of Chatterkick, and she works with franchise organizations, multi-location businesses, and other companies where marketing decisions rarely come from just one person. While her examples came from large organizations, I couldn't help thinking about all the small businesses I've worked with over the years. Sometimes a "multi-layer brand" is just a family business with three generations around the conference table. A few things stood out from our conversation: Marketing isn't just about customers. Sometimes you need to market your ideas internally. Beth pointed out that marketers spend a lot of time building buy-in inside the organization. If stakeholders don't feel included, they'll grab the rope and start pulling in their own direction. Not everyone has to participate the same way. Some people love being front and center. Others would rather hide behind the camera. Beth's advice was simple: meet people where they are and help them contribute in ways that feel natural. Stop arguing and start testing. This might have been my favorite part of the conversation because it brought back memories of my corporate days. When someone insisted my idea would never work, I'd ask for a small test. Data has a wonderful way of settling arguments without bruising anyone's ego. Local voices make brands stronger and easier to find. For franchise and multi-location businesses, there needs to be consistency. But there also needs to be room for local personality. That's good for customer relationships and good for SEO. Search engines, just like customers, want signals that you're connected to the community you serve. Remember that you are not the customer. This sounds obvious, but it's amazing how often we forget it. The things we like, dislike, click on, or ignore may have nothing to do with what our customers want. The strongest marketing teams stay curious and let customer behavior guide the decisions. Ultimately, it isn't about winningt the game of tug-of-war, it is about .getting everyone to pull in the same direction, the customer's direction!
Explore how the latest advancements in AI are shifting from traditional training to inference-focused efficiencies, and how companies like Adaptation Labs are pioneering adaptive, full-stack AI solutions that democratize control across industries.Key topics:The evolution from compute-heavy training models to efficient inference layersHow inference costs are changing despite increasing AI demandThe role of adaptive, gradient-free learning in democratizing AI customizationChallenges with the last 5% reliability gap and continuous learningThe importance of full-stack optimization—from data to interfaces in AI systemsFuture trends: decentralized AI, edge computing, and ongoing innovationTimestamps:00:00 - Introduction to AI trends: scaling vs inference efficiencies01:01 - Sudip's background: Google Brain, DeepMind, and inference infrastructure01:34 - The rapid growth of foundation and large language models02:36 - Comparing traditional ML project timelines to large foundation models04:20 - The transformative potential of foundation models in enterprise and underserved communities05:33 - The shift from task-specific models to general-purpose foundation models07:07 - How inference costs have evolved: the rising demand vs falling per-token costs08:37 - The challenge of inference in trillion-parameter models and the move towards smaller, verticalized models10:14 - Factors driving high inference costs: model size, reasoning, agentic workloads12:13 - The probabilistic nature of inference and API pricing complexities13:07 - Variability in inference costs and demand in real-world scenarios14:14 - The autoregressive, sequential nature of LLM inference and system challenges16:45 - Cost implications of autoregressive inference and the move to more efficient, localized models18:18 - The motivation behind Adaptation Labs: democratizing AI control and customization19:47 - Adaptive, gradient-free continual learning and environment interaction21:26 - Co-optimizing full-stack AI: systems, interfaces, and models22:34 - How interface design impacts AI adoption and continuous learning23:55 - The evolution of techniques: from foundational training to open-source innovations26:18 - Handling the ‘last 5%' reliability challenge in enterprise AI deployments28:02 - The importance of system feedback and adaptive learning in coding and decision-making31:12 - Adaptive Data and AutoScientist: seamless data transformation and model co-optimization32:55 - Use cases: finance, low-resource languages, long context data34:13 - The role of inference techniques and creating high-quality data for customization36:10 - Future of adaptive, task-specific interfaces and continuous, real-time learning38:49 - Full-stack AI: data, models, interfaces, and their iterative feedback loops41:18 - The competition between fine-tuning and adaptive inference techniques43:29 - The origin of new inference techniques: industry labs, open source, and innovation hubs45:27 - The “last 5%” reliability gap: why it's critical and how dynamic learning can help48:27 - Hardware vs software optimization in AI systems and the future of systemic efficiency51:25 - Growing AI demand, hardware constraints, and the opportunity for systemic innovation52:48 - The shift from training to inference and decentralized AI models at the edge54:12 - Final thoughts: the evolving landscape and long-term AI innovationConnect with Sudip:LinkedInConnect with Nataraj:LinkedIn
The conversation covers updates on DevNet 5, issues with PTC attestations, the impact of the peering bug, the transition to using QUIC as the default transport, and proposed changes to the beacon API and builder execution requests. The conversation covers a proposal for pre-aggregating attestations at the source, addressing concerns about network efficiency, validator privacy, and impact on large operators. The discussion also delves into the potential impact on aggregators and the need for further study on the number of aggregators and committee size.TakeawaysDevNet 5 updates include issues with Prism and Grandine, triggered by a malicious lost start client.PTC attestation issues stem from determining duties with the head state and sending attestation for different branches.The peering bug led to isolated nodes and incorrect attestation from Nimbus blocks.The transition to using QUIC as the default transport is a topic of discussion, with concerns about the impact on network stability.Proposed changes to the beacon API and builder execution requests aim to address issues with deposits and caching.Pre-aggregating attestations at the sourceImpact on network efficiency and validator privacyChapters00:00 DevNet 5 Updates29:52 Transition to Using QUIC as Default Transport50:21 Proposed Changes to the Beacon API and Builder Execution Requests01:00:24 Introduction to Pre-Aggregating Attestations01:10:28 Discussion on Large Operators and Aggregators01:20:47 Considerations for Committee Size and Aggregator Numbers
The conversation covers updates on DevNet 6, discussions on adding EIPs to DevNet 6, ELP 7928 access restructuring, compute repricing, state growth EIPs, EIP 8304 trustless log index, and EIP 7645 alias origin descender.TakeawaysDevNet 6 updatesEIP discussionsChapters00:00 Glamster Dam and DevNet Updates26:50 Compute Repricing and State Growth EIPs33:24 EAP 8304 Trustless Log Index48:02 EIP 7645 Alias Origin Descender
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Sarika Garg, GM of Revenue Hub, has spent 26 years solving hard B2B problems—and she'll tell you this one is the hardest. Revenue data is trapped in disconnected systems, go-to-market has never been more complex, and the old way of knitting it together simply doesn't scale. Revenue Hub changes that. In this episode, Sarika breaks down why CPQ and billing belong in the CRM, not the finance stack — and what that shift unlocks in an agentic world. Revenue context isn't just data; it's what tells an agent what happened, why it happened, and what to do next. Early movers in Revenue Hub won't just serve the market—they'll shape it.
Host: Alex Cameron, Founder & CEO, Decarb Connect Guest: Bilal Hussain, Co-founder, Artio CarbonCarbon markets have a credibility problem, and most of the proposed fixes sit on the same side of the transaction. Bilal Hussain is building on the other side. As co-founder of Artio Carbon, he's spent years assessing carbon projects from the inside, and what he found was a market where capital was circling projects it couldn't trust, and projects couldn't scale because no one would stand behind them. Insurance, done properly, solves that.In this episode, Bilal walks through what underwriting a carbon project actually looks like, from biochar machines with 24-hour test histories to abandoned well projects where the leak has been visible for decades. He explains why execution and counterparty risk are the real questions insurers should be asking, not methodology quality, and what that distinction means for how climate finance moves from promise to delivery.Key TakeawaysWhy better due diligence still isn't enough - what can insurance due diligence uncover that analysts sometimes miss? The one question that separates a financeable project from an unfundable one. It's not about credit quality or methodology - find out what insurers are actually asking, and why that question matters more than any ratings report. How to spot a project that will fail before it does. From unproven machines to developers promising 100% of expected output, Bilal walks through the specific red flags his team uses to walk away, and what good looks like by comparison. Why the projects landing on Artio's desk right now are the most investable they've ever been. If you've had a tough 12 months in the energy transition space, this perspective is worth hearing. What carbon tax regimes in Asia mean for your pipeline. CBAM is creating a downstream effect that most people haven't fully mapped yet - find out where the financing gap opens up and where insurance fits in. The deal structures where insurance changes the outcome. Not every buyer or developer needs the same product - find out who actually carries the risk in different transaction types, which changes who should be buying cover. What a mature carbon insurance market looks like, and how far away it is. Links: · Follow Alex Cameron on LinkedIn and find how to get involved with the membership and work of Decarb Connect· Connect with Bilal Hussein, Co-Founder of Artio· Artio at London Climate Week 2026: “Bridging the Disconnect” – connecting nature to finance and Step into the data· Access Artio's recently published CORSIA Market Forecast 2026· Join Alex and a network of hardtech investors and series B+ tech disruptors at Decarb TechInvest in Boston (September 2025) Want to learn more about Decarb Connect?We provide insights and introductions that derisk decision-making and support industrial leaders in deploying decarbonization and low carbon product strategy. Our global membership platform, events and facilitated introductions support commercial decarb planning and business models around the world. Our clients include the most energy-intensive industrials from cement, metals and mining, glass, ceramics, chemicals, O&G and many more along with technology disruptors, investors and advisors. If you enjoyed this conversation, find out about our portfolio of events in US, Canada, UK and Europe – or explore our Decarbonisation Leaders Network (DLN), and learn why more than 200 members from the energy-intensive sectors have joined to share insights, meet partners who can accelerate their net zero plans and why it's the fastest growing network of its kind.
Ric Sinclair is the CEO of Cotiviti, an enterprise healthcare software and data company that serves hundreds of health plans — including the top 25 in the country — across payment integrity, interoperability, risk adjustment, value-based care, and member engagement, touching coverage for over 300 million patients and members. Cotiviti pairs algorithms and AI with thousands of clinical nurses, MDs, and content experts in a human-in-the-loop model, working across the full administrative ecosystem that moves between payers, providers, patients, and pharma. Ric's core conviction is that healthcare's central problem isn't a data problem or a technology problem — it's a coordination problem, and what the system has never had is a true infrastructure layer to tie it together. Cotiviti isn't trying to pick a side between payers and providers; the bet is that a neutral party sitting in the middle can drive fair, transparent outcomes and pull down the trillion-plus dollars of administrative waste in U.S. healthcare.We discuss:Why healthcare's core problem isn't a data problem or a technology problem — it's a coordination problem, and what it actually takes to build the first infrastructure layer the system has ever hadThe real difference between owning a decade of data assets (and the Edifecs integration) and becoming the infrastructure the industry runs on — and where Cotiviti is in that build todayHow "human in the loop" works at scale — pairing AI with thousands of nurses, MDs, and content experts so every claim is reviewed fairly and problems get predicted before they happenWhy Ric's answer to AI isn't "cut the 10-person team to 2" — it's "take all 10 and do what 50 could," and what that augment-don't-replace math means for client ROIHow you build trust and accountability into an AI workflow rather than bolting it on — and who's accountable when models start shaping decisions about claims and careHow to sit in the neutral middle between payers and providers who don't trust each other — and what it takes to build something both sides actually believe is fairWhat Ric learned as a working drummer in Nashville before healthcare found him — leading without the spotlight, making others better, and why simplicity is a discipline that transfers straight into businessWhat a truly differentiated healthcare platform looks like five years out — and the test Ric uses for what "winning" means: a family of five at the dinner table who never have to think about the administrative machinery behind their care—Brought to you by: Sage Growth Partners — Value-focused strategy and marketing for growth-driven healthcare organizations. — Where to find Jared: • X: https://x.com/jaredstaylor • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredstaylor/
MACsec (IEEE 802.1AE) encrypts Ethernet frames hop-by-hop at Layer 2 — before traffic even hits IP — making it one of the strongest protections you can put on wire. It’s been in the standards for years, hardware support is widespread, and yet most organizations aren’t running it. JJ and Drew dig into why: the hardware... Read more »
MACsec (IEEE 802.1AE) encrypts Ethernet frames hop-by-hop at Layer 2 — before traffic even hits IP — making it one of the strongest protections you can put on wire. It’s been in the standards for years, hardware support is widespread, and yet most organizations aren’t running it. JJ and Drew dig into why: the hardware... Read more »
Everyone reviewed Disclosure Day. Almost nobody asked what it means for your soul.In Part 2 of our Disclosure Day series, we go past the hot takes and into the part the other reviews skipped: the spiritual, philosophical, and metaphysical weight of what Spielberg actually put on screen. If disclosure is real, what happens to God? To Christianity, Islam, the Vedic traditions? Is this a film… or a rollout?We get into the two warring shadow agencies, why disclosure looks more like a slow process than a single "day," the war.gov releases, the Book of Enoch and the Nephilim, Islam's surprising openness to life beyond Earth, the Dune-style "is it all scripted?" question, channelers and remote viewers, and where the line really is between healthy discernment and naive belief.This isn't a review. It's a decode for people who actually want to think.
"What are you waiting for? Huh. What are you waiting for?" This movie is great! If you haven't watched it, go watch it! You will hear that line and so many other great lines written by Kevin Williamson.The synopsis of the film: A year after running over a fisherman and dumping his body in the water, four friends reconvene when Julie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) receives a frightening letter telling her that their crime was seen. While pursuing who he thinks is responsible for the letter, Barry (Ryan Phillippe) is run over by a man with a meat hook. The bloodletting only increases from there, as the killer with the hook continues to stalk Julie, Helen (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Ray (Freddie Prinze Jr.).The HookIngredients1.5 oz Dark Rum (a nod to the coastal setting and the fateful, stormy night)1.5 oz Dark Cherry Heering or Chambord (for a rich, blood-red color)0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice (for a tart, suspenseful bite)A splash of Grenadine (for that extra visual gore)DirectionsAdd the dark rum, cherry liqueur, and lime juice to a cocktail shaker filled with ice.Shake vigorously until chilled.Strain the mixture into a coupe or rocks glass.Slowly drizzle a splash of grenadine down the side of the glass so it sinks to the bottom, creating a murky, bleeding effect.Garnish: Thread two maraschino cherries onto a metal cocktail pick (or a sturdy metal straw) to mimic the killer's weapon!The NoteIngredients1.5 oz Spiced Rum0.5 oz Blue Curaçao1.5 oz Pineapple Juice0.5 oz Fresh Lime Juice0.5 oz Simple Syrup1 tbsp Grenadine (for the "blood" drizzle)Garnish: A strip of black licorice twisted into a hook shapeDirectionsPrepare the Hook: Take a standard strip of black licorice, curve the end into a hook shape, and set aside.Mix the base: In an ice-filled shaker, combine the spiced rum, pineapple juice, lime juice, and simple syrup. Shake vigorously until chilled. [1]Layer the "Ocean": Strain the shaken mixture into a hurricane glass or tumbler filled with crushed ice. Gently pour the Blue Curaçao over the back of a spoon into the glass to create a deep blue layer settling at the bottom.The Slasher Drizzle: Slowly drizzle the grenadine down the inside walls of the glass so it bleeds into the blue liquid. [1]Garnish: Rest your licorice "hook" on the rim of the glass and serve immediately with a jagged, handwritten note warning: "I Know What You Did Last Summer!”Drinking Game:Drink when...A message is received insinuating they know too muchYou see cleavageDrugs or alcohol are consumedA reference to a beauty pageant is madeA girl screamsThere is steam, smoke, or fog in a scene Anyone gets in a physical fightAnyone says “murder"Anyone says "David Egan" or "Billy Blue”Elsa is a bitchDrink 2x when:You see a boatSomeone singsYou see the killer's hookA dead body is discoveredTake a shot when:Someone diesAs always, drink responsibly and with others. Follow and subscribe wherever you listen to the podcast. Follow me on Instagram and Twitter at @Line_Drunk.
Hello and welcome to That's So Auburn! I'm Nancy Backus, Mayor of the City of Auburn, and today's episode is about government relations, which, I know, may sound like a very official title. But really, it's about relationships and advocacy, problem-solving, and making sure Auburn's voice is heard in the rooms where decisions are being made. Today I'm joined by Megan Utemei, the City of Auburn's Government Relations Policy Advisor. Megan works closely with me, our City Council, city leadership, regional partners, state legislators, federal offices and community organizations to help advance Auburn's priorities. Megan began at the City just over two months ago and she stepped into a brand new role at our city. And it couldn't have come at a better time, because the work she does matters. Whether we're talking about transportation, public safety, housing, infrastructure, economic development, or funding for major city projects, Megan's role is to help connect Auburn's needs with the people and resources that can help move them forward. Megan brings 10 years of experience working on federal and regional issues. A major part of her career was spent working with U.S. Senator Patty Murray's office in both Washington, D.C. and Seattle, where she helped secure federal funding and support for local elected officials, community-based organizations and stakeholders across King County. She has also worked on immigration issues as a congressional liaison to the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security. Megan earned her Executive Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington, focusing on policy implementation at the federal, state and local levels through leadership. And outside of work, Megan was born and raised on the islands of Guam and Palau, and enjoys karaoke, reading, and spending quality time with her friends and family.
In our sixth episode from Money20/20 Europe and the third produced in partnership with LSEG Risk Intelligence, we sit down with six leaders working at the intersection of digital identity, fraud prevention, regulatory transformation and global payments infrastructure. Graham Barrett was was joined by: 1/ Theo Bowden, Senior Product Manager, LSEG Risk Intelligence 2/ Marjan Delatinne, Managing Director Sales and Business Development, Europe, Eastnets 3/ Bankole Falade, Chief Legal, Regulatory Affairs & Public Policy Officer, Flutterwave 4/ Todd Clyde, CEO, Token.io 5/ Kevin Burke, Head of Strategic Partnership, Mangopay 6/ Gordon Stuart, SVP, Fintech & Embedded Services, Sage Across digital ID wallets, verifiable credentials, African cross‑border interoperability, open finance, marketplace onboarding and embedded fintech, this episode explores how identity is rapidly shifting from a compliance checkbox to the foundational trust layer of global commerce.
In this week's episode, Steve Lewis (EY Global Infrastructure Technology Leader and Head of Infrastructure Advisory, Hong Kong) unpacks why decades of digital investment still haven't closed the productivity gap in infrastructure delivery—and why agentic AI could change the equation by surfacing better insight earlier, improving decision-making, and helping teams manage risk and complexity with more confidence. Steve's core message is practical: don't "digitise everything" for the sake of it. Start by getting clear on your outcomes, ROI, and the specific pain points worth transforming—then measure success properly, involve the people doing the work, and communicate change in a way that resonates. The takeaway: focus on transforming the right things, not adding another layer to the digitisation bandwagon. Download EY's new global research report, "The intelligence layer - how agentic AI can connect the infrastructure industry," at https://www.ey.com/en_gl/insights/infrastructure/how-agentic-ai-can-create-an-intelligence-layer-for-infrastructure Steve Lewis, EY Global Infrastructure Technology Leader and Head of Infrastructure Advisory, Hong Kong For more great insights head to www.PublicSectorNetwork.co
Explore Your Personality: https://PersonalityHacker.com Joel and Antonia revisit dysregulation and explore why public emotional, cognitive, and existential instability feels so common today. They look at changing social norms, the loss of quiet processing time, separation from nature, and the decline of shared meaning-making systems. They also explain the four channels of regulation and why trying to meet spiritual or existential needs through politics, status, or entertainment never creates lasting relief.
Yvonne Johnson left investment banking in New York to join the transformation team at First Bank of Nigeria. She spent eight years there, rising to Head of Strategy and Corporate Development - restructuring the operating model and building the bank's first digital finance strategy. When she left in 2018, she didn't start a lender. She co-founded Indicina, the API-driven credit infrastructure company that banks, digital lenders, and fintechs across Nigeria and Kenya now use to make faster, smarter credit decisions. This episode is a masterclass in building at the infrastructure layer - the rails, not the balance sheet.Key Topics Covered:Why she left Merrill Lynch to join First Bank - the deliberate career bet on institutional transformationWhat eight years inside Nigeria's largest retail bank taught her about stakeholder management and systemic changeThe founding decision: why Indicina was never going to be a lenderThe cost of capital argument: why banks will always win if you try to compete on balance sheetHow to sell to institutional clients with long procurement cycles and multiple sign-offsThe real friction in Africa's credit gap - it is not just a data problem, it is an accessibility problemThe opportunity cost problem: why banks choose government bonds over consumer loansWhat the next ten years looks like for African credit infrastructureWhat she would do differently - customer sequencing and the balance sheet question revisited
Text us your thoughts on the episode or the show!What if the biggest marketing problem in your organization isn't the marketing team at all?In this episode, Michael Hartmann sits down with Charral Izhiman, Head of Marketing at Bayobab and author of The Marketing Movement, for a conversation about why so many organizations still misunderstand what marketing is supposed to do, and what it takes to fix that from both sides.Charral's perspective is refreshingly different. Her book isn't written to teach marketers how to market. It's written to help non-marketing leaders understand how to actually work with marketing. That framing opens up a rich discussion about the gap between strategy and execution, and why Ops professionals may be the best-positioned people in the business to close it. In this conversation, they discuss:The outdated assumptions organizations still hold about marketing, and how marketers unintentionally reinforce themWhy Ops teams sitting at the intersection of marketing, sales, finance, and leadership are uniquely positioned as translators across the businessThe SHAPE framework, and why "Activation" is the overlooked layer between planning and resultsWhy organizations romanticize strategy and celebrate execution but skip operational readiness in the middleThe Formula 1 metaphor for marketing leadership: everything that has to come together before you can even competeWhether you're in Marketing Ops, RevOps, or marketing leadership, this episode is full of ideas for anyone trying to bridge the gap between strategy, operations, and the rest of the business. The conversation doesn't end here. Explore the full SHAPE framework and more in Charral's book, The Marketing Movement: https://themarketing-movement.com/Episode Brought to You By MO Pros The #1 Community for Marketing Operations ProfessionalsSupport the show
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You bought Bitcoin early. You held through the crashes, the media panic, and you never sold. So why is your daily life exactly the same? Today's guest says there's a third option most crypto holders don't even know exists — and it doesn't involve selling a single coin. Brandon Diggs from Overseas DeFi joins the show to reveal what productive crypto actually looks like, and how you can turn your idle holdings into a monthly cash flow machine using Decentralised Finance. Timestamp Topic 00:00 Introduction — the third option most crypto holders don't know exists 01:15 Brandon's background and the mission of Overseas DeFi 03:30 The HODL mindset: Bitcoin from $0.01 to $69,000 and the 6.9 million X return 06:00 Getting paid to wait — treating crypto like a rental property 08:00 Navigating negative market sentiment and the "hot ball of money" 11:00 The two core narratives: currency debasement and blockchain migration 14:30 Why Bitcoin is harder money than gold (inflation rate comparison) 17:30 The $100 trillion store of value market and Bitcoin's position in it 20:00 Why the entire global financial system is migrating to blockchain rails 23:00 Ethereum vs. Bitcoin: smart contracts, tokenisation, and Layer 1 blockchains 26:30 Asset tokenisation is up 400% — and most of it is going to Ethereum 29:00 The level playing field: DeFi is equally accessible with $500 or $500,000 31:00 Step 1 — Taking self-custody of your assets 33:30 Brandon's Mt. Gox story: bought Bitcoin at $77 in 2013, lost 84% in the hack 37:00 Why leaving coins on Coinbase or Binance is still a risk 39:30 Step 2 — Buying and allocating assets (Bitcoin and ETH) 41:30 Step 3 — Collateralised lending: unlocking cheap borrowed capital 44:00 The DeFi carry trade: borrowing at 1–5% and earning 40–300% APR 47:00 Delta-neutral hedging: how to earn fees with zero price risk 50:00 A $5,000 portfolio example: borrowing $2,500 and earning 7% per month 52:30 Why DeFi beats day trading: consistency, lower stress, and less time 55:00 Narrow vs. wide liquidity ranges: yield vs. time commitment trade-off 57:30 How Brandon manages family accounts earning 40–60% APR in 30 mins/day 59:30 The Overseas DeFi app: AI agent, portfolio tracker, and TradingView integration 62:00 Security and scam prevention — "with great power comes great responsibility" 63:30 Capital gains strategy: borrow against your coins instead of selling them 65:00 How to off-ramp USDC as monthly cash flow while stacking ETH fees 66:15 Where to start: the free "Copy This Portfolio" YouTube series 67:00 Outro Contact & Resources Listen to this episode on Podbean: thecryptopodcast.podbean.com Explore more podcasts: Find all podcasts at the PodFather Network Website: RoyCoughlan.com Need help running your business? If you are looking for a Virtual Assistant and get reliable support for your daily operations. Virtual Assistants: VA.world Communities: BrainGym.fitness Learn about a Private Networking Group in 50 US States & 39 Countries with 640+ Members: connectedleaders.academy Connect with Brandon Diggs: •Website: OverseasDeFi.com •YouTube: @OverseasDeFi #CryptoPodcast #DeFi #Bitcoin #Ethereum #PassiveIncome #CryptoInvesting #DecentralisedFinance #ConcentratedLiquidity #OverseasDeFi #BrandonDiggs #YieldFarming #CryptoEducation #RoyCoughlan #PodFatherNetwork #VAWorld #BrainGymFitness
Anthony and Katie chat with returning guest Jamie Mill about this elements of product design diagram and how he's transferred that concept into an AI agent skill. Check out Jamie's first episode with us, episode 53, for more context on the concepts discussed today.Jamie's elements of product design: https://jamiemill.com/blog/2021-07-10-elements-of-product-design/Layer's skill: https://layers.jamiemill.com/Hosts:Anthony Hobday, Generalist Product Designer: https://twitter.com/hobdaydesignKatie Langerman, Design Technologist: https://twitter.com/KatieLangerman
Mackenzie Shirilla isn't a one-off. She's a product. And the machine that built her is running in households everywhere.Shirilla is serving fifteen years to life at the Ohio Reformatory for Women for killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and their friend Davion Flanagan after driving a hundred miles an hour into a brick wall in Strongsville, Ohio. A judge found it deliberate. The Ohio Supreme Court declined her appeal. The conviction is settled. The question this episode takes on is different: how does a seventeen-year-old get built into someone capable of this?The prison calls answer it. Mackenzie tells her mother Natalie she doesn't need to be rehabilitated. Natalie agrees — rehabilitation is for “actual criminals,” she says. On another call, Natalie refers to the family of the young man her daughter was convicted of killing as “evil.” Her father Steve went on the Netflix documentary The Crash, endorsed Mackenzie's marijuana use on camera, lost his teaching position at a Catholic school, and blamed the school for how it handled the situation. Nobody in this family has said the words: this happened, it was wrong, and we have to face it.Every parent listening knows a version of this kid. Not a killer — that's the extreme end. But the kid whose consequences were always intercepted before they could teach anything. The kid who never sat with discomfort long enough to grow from it. Layer social media on top — curated identities, zero real-world experience, mythologies built from follower counts — and you get a generation of people who have never been stress-tested against anything real. A fellow inmate compared Mackenzie to Regina George: daily makeup, social positioning, running prison like a school hallway. The persona survives even when reality stops bending. This episode pulls the machine apart and asks the question no parent wants to sit with: how short is the distance between supporting your kid and building someone who can't survive the real world?Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDisclaimer:This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#MackenzieShirilla #TheCrash #TrueCrimeToday #Netflix #DominicRusso #DavionFlanagan #TrueCrime #ParentalEnabling #StrongsvilleOhio #TheCrashDocumentary
What happens when customers stop opening banking apps and start managing their finances through AI assistants?In this episode, we sit down with Mathias Fanschek, Head of Digital Transformation and Retail Strategy at Raiffeisen Bank International, to explore how one of Europe's largest banking groups is preparing for a future of headless banking, agentic commerce and AI-powered customer experiences.With 18 million customers across 11 markets and managing over €200 billion in assets, Mathias shares what it really takes to move generative AI from experimentation to production. We had a good discussion about virtual mobile assistants, transforming legacy data infrastructure, and managing executive expectations in a rapidly changing, highly regulated landscape.You'll also hear Mathias' perspective on Revolut's new PRAGMA model, why context is the missing ingredient in today's AI experiences and how banks can remain trusted intermediaries as customers increasingly interact through AI-powered distribution channels.
In this episode, we provide a marketing update, followed by a brief update on the exploit. We then dive deeper into a couple of bigger topics, such as sectioning and censoring, followed by discussions on the Nakamoto Coefficient and decentralisation.Swap now https://swap.thorchain.org/THORChain is a decentralized crypto exchange. THORChain is the first and biggest DEX for Bitcoin. You can use any self custody wallet to swap and there's no KYC required.Timestamps:00:03:00 Kenton Marketing and Swap Interface Update00:07:00 Chad gives a recovery update00:08:00 KeyVerify has not been functional yet00:10:00 GAIA IBC infinite mint bug was patched00:11:00 KeyVerify is not necessary, but it's nice to be 100% safe00:13:00 Is it a single node holding things up?00:15:00 Ban Mimir discussion00:18:00 Churn-out talk for nodes that are asleep at the wheel00:19:00 How did the ban function work?00:20:00 What if node or nodes could kick out other nodes?00:21:00 The network will only allow 1/3rd to leave at a time00:23:00 Badger protocol was attacked with a script on the website in the past00:24:00 To Chad's knowledge, no one is being slashed00:25:00 3.19.1 is coming today or tomorrow00:27:00 Tuesday or Wednesday should be trading hopefully00:31:00 Claude question from audience: Claude says it sees high risk of sanctions00:32:00 AI psychosis00:34:00 Fear-based content gets traction00:37:00 THORChain cannot be used for money laundering00:39:00 Who will sanction THORChain?00:40:00 Crypto are individual nations with their own governance00:45:00 THORChain could sanction others00:47:00 The current economic system is definitely built to launder money00:48:00 Sanctions are a sign the system is dying00:51:00 Question: What if USDT froze the pools?00:52:00 Smart contracts have been frozen00:55:00 Game theory: If USDT goes crazy with freezing, they could get a bank run01:00:00 Kenton: Positive articles will be coming once things calm down01:00:00 Use tables and lists for better AI SEO—AI loves tables and lists!01:01:00 It's expensive to sponsor content and it doesn't count towards SEO01:03:00 Question: Can't we just ignore the unresponsive nodes?01:04:00 Chad: When doing KeyVerify, we need 100% participation01:05:00 Two forms of cryptography to secure the network? GG20 and DKLS?01:09:00 Engineer in the office vs engineer in the field01:10:00 The simpler a design, the less likely it can be attacked successfully01:13:00 What other things are happening despite the current situation?01:14:00 Zcash may be coming soon! And XMR!!01:15:00 TAO is probably next. Need 3.20 first01:16:00 THORChain is going to give people whiplash by coming back so well!01:18:00 Still talking to Layer 1s and they still want to get listed!01:20:00 POL: Let's make 25%01:27:00 Question: What about burning? Are we getting rid of it?01:31:00 RUNE is a better Bitcoin than Bitcoin01:33:00 The winners will be determined when the crypto market gets proper saturation01:34:00 Value is very subjective01:35:00 Boone tries to correct Kenton's math, Kenton disagrees. NERD FIGHT!!!01:40:00 Chad shares screen about most decentralized blockchain by Nakamoto Coefficient01:46:00 Chad calculates THORChain's Nakamoto Coefficient01:51:00 Deep dive into that calculation01:58:00 Isn't THORChain the most complicated chain?02:02:00 Mythos is out in the open with Fable 5?02:04:00 Huginn is getting a more diverse skill set02:06:00 Possible Serai fixes via AI
01. Rameses B - Stay for a Night 02. Rayco Knoxx - Back To Me 03. Eleanyx - Signs 04. Artino, Courtney Storm - Perfect Stranger 05. [ivy], Xira - Car Crash 06. Dk Foyer - ID93 07. Sidekick - On My Mind 08. T - Trider - Keep It Running 09. Mjoi - Bring That 10. Apokain - Wild Tonight 11. Virtua Point Zero - I Got Basslines 12. Ryan Audley - Louder 13. V O E - Closer To You 14. The Mind Hackers - Storm 15. Metallica - Enter Sandman (Noise Souls Remix) 16. Regun - The Time 17. Lno - 9 Milly 18. Cyfunk - Keep Going 19. Fourward, Kate Mcgill - Out Of Your Depth 20. Crushpult & Kvostax - Deliruim (Drillcut remix) 21. Nerv3 - Osc 22. First Person - Fate 23. Qo & Prdk - Propaganda (Neonlight Remix) 24. Sav4 - Pull I Met 25. Bad Company - Planet Dust (Latte Remix) 26. Croo, Splatii - Ritual 27. Omi - Fancy 28. Upreese - Hyper Man 29. Camo & Krooked - Bounce (feat. Nemesis) 30. Playmax - Stellar Mantra (feat. Dima Pulsar) 31. Bad Ethos - Bassline Soldiers 32. Exit4 - Shinoby Orientir 33. Jade Sierra, Yash Bansal - Burn 34. Jonny L - Piper (Titanz UK Remix) 35. Lök - Signal Code 36. Mistic - Richter Scale 37. Dunk & Rebel - Belko Experiment 38. Lee Uhf & Noise Souls - Big Stamina 39. Silloh, Leks - Sleep Now 40. Des Mcmahon - Hothead 41. Kublai - Maaannn You Crazy 42. L - side - Fault Line 43. Qua Rush, Invadhertz, Flipz Mc - Run Away (Manikin Remix) 44. Matt Scratch - Strange Warheads 45. DJ Hybrid - Big Four Five (AKAS Remix) 46. Born On Road, P Money - Bristol Style 47. DJ Rusty & Basshunterz - Spams in the Ear 48. Higrade - Entry Team 49. Daney - Nervous System (Teej Remix) 50. Bou, Fatman D - No Beg 51. Phibes - Talkin Gangsta 52. Level State - Danger 53. Ggrossy - Keep Happy 54. Tomoyoshi - Lift Off 55. Primate, Captain Bass - Take Over VIP 56. Ggrossy - Get The Message 57. Upgrade - Revenge 58. Tomoyoshi - Beyond the Era 59. Bench Uk, Bandit - SHAOLIN RETURNS 60. Azule, Kendrick - Violence 61. Charlotte Devaney, Ragga Twins & Kaya Fyah - Boom Stylah 62. Hybrid Minds - Avalanche 63. Reaubeau, Nymfo - Don't Look Back (feat. Daisy Pring) [NCT Remix] 64. Terror Cell & Layer 3 - Voices 65. Smyla - The Warrior Gene 66. Mistic - Asari 67. Shiny Radio - Vibin' Like Dis 68. Shiny Radio - Shooting Star 69. Msdos - Drum Of Jah 70. Menosance - Ronda 71. Dan Guidance - The 4th Dimension 72. Аспирин - Сон 73. Prvail - Echoes In The Jungle 74. Jane Doe - Meant To Be 75. Virtue - Get Funky 76. Cooky, Oktae - Different Story 77. Foxvalley - For The Love Of Music 78. Edan - Each Time You Are Here 79. Fox, Lenzman, Satl - We Blessy 80. En:vy - Finite Heart 81. Nookie - Only You (Cafe del Mar Sunset Chill Mix)
Content's value is in the intelligence it brings, regardless of what system it's found in. But there is a lot of enterprise content across many, many systems.On the Mostly Unstructured Podcast, KeyMark CMO Clay Tuten sits down with Mike Askren, VP of Product at Hyland, on how document management and ECM are becoming an intelligence layer for agentic AI, and the right size and scale problems to tackle with agents.Topics explored: Why has enterprise value moved from storing and securing content to extracting intelligence from it? How content federation connects AI services to content across on-prem, cloud, and hyperscaler systems. What an enterprise context engine does, and why the relationships between documents matter more than the engine itself. Why agentic governance matters so much. Monitoring, coaching, and shutting down agents that hallucinate or run on stale instructions. Why the highest-ROI AI work comes from the processes that are least exciting, but have the highest volume of occurrence. Questions this episode answers: What is the intelligence layer in enterprise content management? How much enterprise data is unstructured, and why does it matter for AI? What is content federation and why is it needed for enterprise AI? What is agent governance and how is it different from data governance? How do you get ROI from AI without replacing your existing systems? Where should a CIO start when moving ECM into an AI intelligence layer? What is intelligent document processing (IDP) and how does it relate to agentic automation? Subscribe for more AI talk on content intelligence, IDP, and agentic AI from the team at KeyMark, or reach out if anything caught your ear.Timestamps:00:00 – From storage to intelligence: the ECM shift01:58 – What "unstructured content" really means03:01 – Mike's role at Hyland and content federation04:11 – The content-fueled agentic enterprise06:45 – Why 70–90% of enterprise data goes untapped08:03 – Agentic governance and context you can trust09:25 – Human-in-the-loop feedback and coaching agents10:22 – The control tower: monitoring and stopping agents12:03 – Agents as digital employees13:45 – Advice for CIOs under pressure15:23 – Start small: the attainable win, not the moonshot18:39 – Where the ROI actually hides19:47 – Practical outcomes: claims, HR, government21:03 – First steps into the intelligence layer24:45 – From IDP to agentic automation to new workflows27:19 – Slow down, ask questions
01. Rameses B - Stay for a Night 02. Rayco Knoxx - Back To Me 03. Eleanyx - Signs 04. Artino, Courtney Storm - Perfect Stranger 05. [ivy], Xira - Car Crash 06. Dk Foyer - ID93 07. Sidekick - On My Mind 08. T - Trider - Keep It Running 09. Mjoi - Bring That 10. Apokain - Wild Tonight 11. Virtua Point Zero - I Got Basslines 12. Ryan Audley - Louder 13. V O E - Closer To You 14. The Mind Hackers - Storm 15. Metallica - Enter Sandman (Noise Souls Remix) 16. Regun - The Time 17. Lno - 9 Milly 18. Cyfunk - Keep Going 19. Fourward, Kate Mcgill - Out Of Your Depth 20. Crushpult & Kvostax - Deliruim (Drillcut remix) 21. Nerv3 - Osc 22. First Person - Fate 23. Qo & Prdk - Propaganda (Neonlight Remix) 24. Sav4 - Pull I Met 25. Bad Company - Planet Dust (Latte Remix) 26. Croo, Splatii - Ritual 27. Omi - Fancy 28. Upreese - Hyper Man 29. Camo & Krooked - Bounce (feat. Nemesis) 30. Playmax - Stellar Mantra (feat. Dima Pulsar) 31. Bad Ethos - Bassline Soldiers 32. Exit4 - Shinoby Orientir 33. Jade Sierra, Yash Bansal - Burn 34. Jonny L - Piper (Titanz UK Remix) 35. Lök - Signal Code 36. Mistic - Richter Scale 37. Dunk & Rebel - Belko Experiment 38. Lee Uhf & Noise Souls - Big Stamina 39. Silloh, Leks - Sleep Now 40. Des Mcmahon - Hothead 41. Kublai - Maaannn You Crazy 42. L - side - Fault Line 43. Qua Rush, Invadhertz, Flipz Mc - Run Away (Manikin Remix) 44. Matt Scratch - Strange Warheads 45. DJ Hybrid - Big Four Five (AKAS Remix) 46. Born On Road, P Money - Bristol Style 47. DJ Rusty & Basshunterz - Spams in the Ear 48. Higrade - Entry Team 49. Daney - Nervous System (Teej Remix) 50. Bou, Fatman D - No Beg 51. Phibes - Talkin Gangsta 52. Level State - Danger 53. Ggrossy - Keep Happy 54. Tomoyoshi - Lift Off 55. Primate, Captain Bass - Take Over VIP 56. Ggrossy - Get The Message 57. Upgrade - Revenge 58. Tomoyoshi - Beyond the Era 59. Bench Uk, Bandit - SHAOLIN RETURNS 60. Azule, Kendrick - Violence 61. Charlotte Devaney, Ragga Twins & Kaya Fyah - Boom Stylah 62. Hybrid Minds - Avalanche 63. Reaubeau, Nymfo - Don't Look Back (feat. Daisy Pring) [NCT Remix] 64. Terror Cell & Layer 3 - Voices 65. Smyla - The Warrior Gene 66. Mistic - Asari 67. Shiny Radio - Vibin' Like Dis 68. Shiny Radio - Shooting Star 69. Msdos - Drum Of Jah 70. Menosance - Ronda 71. Dan Guidance - The 4th Dimension 72. Аспирин - Сон 73. Prvail - Echoes In The Jungle 74. Jane Doe - Meant To Be 75. Virtue - Get Funky 76. Cooky, Oktae - Different Story 77. Foxvalley - For The Love Of Music 78. Edan - Each Time You Are Here 79. Fox, Lenzman, Satl - We Blessy 80. En:vy - Finite Heart 81. Nookie - Only You (Cafe del Mar Sunset Chill Mix)
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If you're an SLP who's wondering how you can effectively address complex skills relating to both language and executive functioning in the school systems… The primary challenge is that BOTH language and executive functioning are incredibly complicated. Even just focusing on one or the other can be overwhelming. Layer on the challenges with the way related service providers are expected to provide interventions in the schools, and it seems impossible. Unfortunately, that challenge has resulted in debates on whether executive functioning is more important than language and vice versa, which isn't useful. You don't have to decide which is more important. They both are. We need to find a way to address them both. I help clinicians do that with a concept I call “cycling”. What I do is teach clinicians a set of core treatment techniques that fit within a set of foundational areas that support language and executive functioning.That's why in this episode, I share how to target both language and executive functioning in direct intervention with enough depth that you get results. In this episode, I reveal:✅ When it's appropriate to think of language intervention in terms of working up a hierarchy of skills, and when it doesn't.✅ Why using treatment cycles is more effective than trying to pin down a “scope and sequence” for language and cognitive intervention.✅ How to use intervention cycles to build a language therapy system, and eventually move on to layering in more robust executive functioning support. ✅ Why layering other service delivery models outside of direct intervention is essential for generalization, and how to make sure support is happening outside your sessions. Additional resources mentioned in this episode:Free Training: Three Shifts to Turning Your Clinical Expertise Into a Scalable Language Therapy System Link here: https://drkarenspeech.com/languageWhy language therapy works better in cycles than in a linear sequence Link here: https://drkarenspeech.com/why-language-therapy-works-better-in-cycles-than-in-a-linear-sequence/You think you need a language therapy hierarchy. That's why your system never feels stable. Link here: https://drkarenspeech.com/you-think-you-need-a-language-therapy-hierarchy-thats-why-your-system-never-feels-stable/How to target both language and executive functioning in therapy with enough depth to get resultsLink here: https://drkarenspeech.com/how-to-target-both-language-and-executive-functioning-in-therapy-with-enough-depth-to-get-results/In this episode, I mentioned Language Therapy Advance Foundations, my program that gives speech pathologists a scalable framework for building language skills needed to thrive in school, social situations, and daily life. You can learn more about the program here: https://drkarenspeech.com/languagetherapyI also mentioned School of Clinical Leadership, my program that helps related service providers design scalable executive functioning interventions to ensure students get the scaffolding they need across the school day. 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Learn more at renaissance.com.We're proud to be sponsored by Playworks, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization with evidence-based practices that help schools improve the health and well-being of children by increasing opportunities for physical activity and safe, meaningful play.If you're a school or district leader struggling with the challenge of chronic absenteeism, as so many are across the U.S., you may not realize that structured recess is a research-backed approach to keep kids in school. In fact, a UC Berkeley study of Title I schools found that those partnering with Playworks had significantly lower chronic absenteeism rates. Further, Mathematica research demonstrated that Playworks schools spent 27% less time transitioning from recess back to learning, saving teachers valuable instructional time. These results are possible for your students, too. 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SHOW NOTES We cover: Why smart ceiling fans represent a growing opportunity for integrators — from comfort and energy savings to aesthetics and whole-home control integration The evolution of ceiling fan technology, including DC motors, airflow optimization, and smart controls How AI search and large language models are changing the customer journey — and why integrators need to rethink their online visibility strategy to stay competitive in emerging categories like smart fans Practical marketing strategies to improve AI visibility, including building authoritative FAQ content that helps prospects discover your business online Visit the episode page on our website to get the audio recording, full transcript, and video of the original webinar. Now let's tune in and learn how smart ceiling fans have evolved into a meaningful business opportunity for integrators. To get transcripts, resources of what was mentioned in the show, and more visit the podcast page on our website at onefirefly.com/au357
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We're accentuating the positive! The boys break down the first two games of the Cubs series (before Matthew runs off to Morocco ... or wherever). They ponder the strange offensive outburst in game one followed by the dearth of runs in game two (and game three!). Next Matthew tells Ben all of the reasons he and other Giants fans should still be happy.By the way, we will not be publishing after the Nationals series. We will return in one week.On the cocktail side of things, today Matthew is drinking a Watermelon Basil Margarita while Ben is drinking a Carajillo Puesto. Recipes below.Watermelon Basil Margarita2 oz Blanco Tequila3/4 oz Lime Juice1 oz Watermelon Syrup (or 3/4 oz simple syrup and 4-5 watermelon chunks, muddled)1/4 oz Cointreau4-5 Basil LeavesShake all ingredients with ice until well chilled. Double strain into a chilled rocks glass with fresh ice. Garnish with a watermelon chunk and/or a basil leaf.Carajillo Puesto2 oz Licor 432 oz EspressoAdd Licor 43 and ice to a rocks glass. Layer with espresso.#doitforwilson
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Every time you log into a corporate network, send a file, or spin up an AI agent, something has to decide what's allowed and what isn't. So what happens when the number of things asking for access goes from 50 million users to billions of AI agents — and the bad actors have frontier models helping them find the cracks? Motley Fool analyst Jason Moser talks with Zscaler CFO Kevin Rubin about zero trust security, the agentic AI threat landscape, and why the cybersecurity buildout may be one of the most durable investment themes of the next decade. Host: Jason Moser Guest: Kevin Rubin Producers: Bart Shannon, Lauren Budabin Disclosure: Advertisements are sponsored content and provided for informational purposes only. The Motley Fool and its affiliates (collectively, “TMF”) do not endorse, recommend, or verify the accuracy or completeness of the statements made within advertisements. TMF is not involved in the offer, sale, or solicitation of any securities advertised herein and makes no representations regarding the suitability, or risks associated with any investment opportunity presented. Investors should conduct their own due diligence and consult with legal, tax, and financial advisors before making any investment decisions. TMF assumes no responsibility for any losses or damages arising from this advertisement. We're committed to transparency: All personal opinions in advertisements from Fools are their own. The product advertised in this episode was loaned to TMF and was returned after a test period or the product advertised in this episode was purchased by TMF. Advertiser has paid for the sponsorship of this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this weeks episode of the Coach Me Up podcast, host Jimmy Dykes is joined by former college basketball coach and current staff member of the Nations Of Coaches, Dale Layer. Coach Layer speaks in detail about Gods sovereignty in all our days, and how challenging times in life, shape us and ultimately bless us if we simply stay the course. Great wisdom is shared from Coach Layer for this weeks episode.
A dysregulated nervous system will stall body recomposition no matter how dialed the nutrition is or how consistent the training is. Inside today's episode, I dig into trauma as a physiological variable rather than a soft emotional topic, and why most coaching certifications skip this conversation entirely. I break down the autonomic nervous system and HPA axis interplay, the two nervous system presentations , and why the cortisol literature looked contradictory for years.Topics discussed: - Trauma as a Spectrum- Autonomic Nervous System Dysregulation- HPA Axis and Cortisol Output- Sympathetic Dominance Presentation- The Dissociative Subtype- Cortisol Patterns Over Time- Childhood vs Adult Trauma- Inverted Diurnal Rhythm- Lifestyle and Clinical Interventions- The Coach's Role and Scope---------- My Live Program for Coaches: The Functional Nutrition and Metabolism Specialization www.metabolismschool.com---------- [Free] Metabolism School 101: The Video Serieshttp://www.metabolismschool.com/metabolism-101----------Subscribe to My Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/@sammillerscience?si=s1jcR6Im4GDHbw_1----------Grab a Copy of My New Book - Metabolism Made Simple---------- Stay Connected: Instagram: @sammillerscienceYoutube: SamMillerScience Facebook: The Nutrition Coaching Collaborative CommunityTikTok: @sammillerscience----------“This Podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice, and no doctor/patient relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast and the show notes or the reliance on the information provided is to be done at the user's own risk. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment and is for educational purposes only. Always consult your physician before beginning any exercise program and users should not disregard, or delay in obtaining, medical advice for any medical condition they may have and should seek the assistance of their health care professionals for any such conditions. By accessing this Podcast, the listener acknowledges that the entire contents and design of this Podcast, are the property of Oracle Athletic Science LLC, or used by Oracle Athletic Science LLC with permission, and are protected under U.S. and international copyright and trademark laws. Except as otherwise provided herein, users of this Podcast may save and use information contained in the Podcast only for personal or other non-commercial, educational purposes. No other use, including, without limitation, reproduction, retransmission or editing, of this Podcast may be made without the prior written permission of Oracle Athletic Science LLC, which may be requested by contacting the Oracle Athletic Science LLC by email at operations@sammillerscience.com. By accessing this Podcast, the listener acknowledges that Oracle Athletic Science LLC makes no warranty, guarantee, or representation as to the accuracy or sufficiency of the information featured in this Podcast."
Leios is Cardano's scaling solution for the future. It's basically an upgrade of the layer one to make it faster.What you'll learn:• Leios is Cardano's scaling solution for the future.• It's basically an upgrade of the layer one to make it faster.• And what it will do, will propel Cardano to be on par with our competitors in terms of throughput and capacity to support more and more app…• I'm pleased to tell you, actually, we're in active development now of Leios.• We're working on the original node, the Haskell node.• I'm happy to tell you that it's coming this year in 2026.References:• The Leios roadmap to solving the blockchain trilemma - Input | Output — https://link.learncardano.io/qXHwiO• Ouroboros Leios — https://link.learncardano.io/3pRnD4• Midnight Japan Tour LIVE: Fukuoka Community Event - YouTube — https://link.learncardano.io/NOkdEyChapters0:00 Intro – Leios Scaling Solution0:35 Blockchain Trilemma Explained1:15 Cardano's Approach to Decentralisation & Security2:30 Leios Public Testnet – June 233:45 50x Throughput Improvement5:20 Parallel Transactions & Input Endorsers7:10 Solving the Trilemma for Real
In this sponsored episode of The Bad Crypto Podcast, Joel and Travis welcome back Markus Levin, co-founder of XYO Network, a project first featured on the show back in the ICO days of 2018. Unlike many projects from that era, XYO is still building. The conversation centers on a huge problem in both crypto and AI: digital systems are often blind to the real world. Smart contracts, AI agents, apps, and autonomous systems can process data, but they do not automatically know whether that data is true, where it came from, or whether someone tampered with it. That is where XYO comes in. Markus explains how XYO has evolved from a proof-of-location network into what the team describes as a truth layer for real-world data. Using devices, mobile phones, sensors, NFC tags, cryptographic proofs, and its own data-focused Layer 1 blockchain, XYO is working to verify events, actions, assets, and real-world information so AI systems and blockchain applications can operate with greater certainty. Joel, Travis, and Markus also dig into the COIN app, which allows users to earn rewards for contributing real-world data, and the broader XYO ecosystem, including the XYO token, XL1 token, proof of origin, zero-knowledge privacy protections, and the newly announced AI infrastructure verification partnership with Setter Labs. The big idea: as AI becomes more powerful, the question may not be whether a model can generate an answer. The question is whether it can prove where that answer came from. Topics Covered Why AI agents and smart contracts are still “blind” to the physical world How XYO began as a proof-of-location project in 2018 Why GPS and location data can be spoofed The role of blockchain in verifying real-world events What “proof of origin” means and why it matters How XYO collects and verifies real-world data Why bad data may be one of AI’s biggest problems How verified data could reduce AI hallucinations The COIN app and how users can earn rewards for data collection XYO’s Layer 1 blockchain and the XL1 token The difference between XYO, XL1, COIN, and other ecosystem assets How zero-knowledge proofs help preserve privacy Why decentralized physical infrastructure networks may become increasingly important How XYO is moving into AI infrastructure and AI agent verification The new XYO AI SDK and what developers can build with it Why long-term survival matters in crypto Joel’s reminder that sponsored projects must still pass Bad Crypto vetting Featured Guest Markus LevinCo-founder of XYO Network Links Mentioned XYO Network: https://xyo.networkCOIN App: https://coinapp.coBuild with XYO: https://xyo.network/buildPartnership inquiries: partnerships@xyo.network Disclosure This is a sponsored episode of The Bad Crypto Podcast. Joel and Travis were compensated to feature XYO Network, but the project passed their vetting process before being brought to the Bad Crypto audience.Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
"With animal welfare, we're basically waiting till the roof falls in — when the animals are at the shelter, that's the roof falling in. We have to catch them earlier." This episode is sponsored-in-part by Maddie's Fund, OcuTrap, and The Kitten Conference. What if the animal welfare system stopped waiting for families to walk through the shelter door — and started showing up before they ever got there? That's the question driving BJ Adkins, disabled veteran and founder of Animal Angels Foundation (AAF), a prevention-first nonprofit serving seven counties in central Alabama. After years of fostering and watching intake numbers refuse to budge, BJ decided to stop patching the system and start rebuilding its missing layer. AAF isn't a rescue organization. It's prevention infrastructure: programs designed to solve the problems that force pet surrender before surrender ever becomes an option. Those programs include SNIP, a spay/neuter assistance initiative with a $100 stipend for income-qualifying owners; The Bridge, which addresses the financial and housing barriers that most often precede surrender; Finder-to-Foster; Adoption Boost; Landlord Partnership; and Sniff and Greet. Connecting it all is the Animal Welfare Resource Network (AWRN) — a shared technology platform that replaces organizational silos with real-time coordination across shelters, rescues, vet clinics, and community partners. Three participation levels and no cost to join means even change-resistant organizations can get on board. To measure what's working, BJ is partnering with a University of Tennessee researcher to build the evidence base for prevention-first animal welfare — while already fielding calls from Colorado, Tennessee, and the Canadian SPCA. The data is being collected. The network is growing. And if BJ has anything to say about it, the roof won't have to fall in anymore. Press Play Now For: Why BJ compares the current animal welfare system to waiting for the roof to fall in — and what "upstream" intervention actually looks like A breakdown of AAF's six core programs and how each one targets a specific point of failure before shelter intake How the Animal Welfare Resource Network (AWRN) replaces organizational silos with a shared, real-time coordination platform The SNIP program's $100 stipend model and why removing financial friction matters for low-income pet owners BJ's strategy for bringing change-resistant organizations into the network — with three levels of participation and no cost to join How AAF is partnering with University of Tennessee researchers to build a data-driven case for prevention programs Practical advice for new nonprofit founders: research first, build relationships, and find the gap nobody else is filling Resources & Links Animal Angels Foundation Website Animal Welfare Resource Network (AWRN) Maddie's Pet Forum (where Stacy and BJ connected)
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Brendan Foody is the Founder and CEO @ Mercor, one of the leading data providers to the largest labs on the planet including OpenAI. In the last two years, Brendan has scaled the company to $1.5BN in ARR and a valuation of $10BN. AGENDA: True or False: Mercor lost Meta and OpenAI as a customer with the hack? Mercor has been poaching competitor talent, paying them millions? Mercor revenue is not real revenue and is only GMV? 12:56 Would Brendan sell Mercor for $30 billion? 14:23 Why everyone is wrong that AI will lead to labor displacement? 15:59 We will create many new jobs that do not exist with AI. 16:59 Why training agents will be a massive labor category that does not exist today 19:51 Will we see the data provider market unbundle and specialize into verticals? 22:24 Is the stated revenue really revenue or is it really GMV? 27:55 How a 1 million ARR company secured one of the best investors in the world with a helicopter ride 29:41 How Felicis secured the deal of the decade with a race track and a set of Ferraris 32:59 Which investment round felt like the highest price to grow into? 34:49 Why will value accrue to the infrastructure layer, not the application layer, in the next 12 months? 35:46 Why the model is the product and why application layer companies should be scared as a result 37:22 Why network effects will be the determinant of value creation 38:46 Why the forward-deployed motion, not the GTM motion, will determine true value creation. 41:59 Why token spend within organizations is going to continue to increase 43:54 Why agent evaluation to commoditize the model layer will be a massive business for enterprises? 51:13 Why we should have increased capital gains tax 01:01:31 How to compete with $20 million a year from Meta? 01:08:49 Will Mercor go public and when?