Podcasts about Lendy

Promising you a journey through the fascinating world of science and pet ownership, we've got an episode jam-packed with intriguing insights. You're in for a ride as we unravel how music can soothe pain in newborns and why having a dog could be your shield against dementia. We lean on research from Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center and the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study to make sense of these remarkable connections between music, pets, and human health.In this episode, we're thrilled to have Lendi Beatty from Playology join us for a chat. Lendi offers us a sneak peek into the world of scent-infused dog toys and the science behind their creation. Playology's toys are not just play things but cognitive stimulators for dogs. We discuss ongoing research at Texas Tech Animal Behavior Department that's exploring if different senses influence playtime duration. Prepare for some chuckles as we share funny pet stories and delve into the curiously engaging phenomenon of dogs sniffing separately with each nostril.As a grand finale, we disclose our exciting plans for the upcoming Comic-Con event. From choosing costumes for our beloved dogs, Bunsen and Beaker, to ensuring their comfort and safety, we've got it all covered. We also share an anecdote about a veterinary visit for Beaker and our preparations for the event. So, pull up a chair, grab your lab coat and safety glasses, and prepare for an entertaining and enlightening journey through the Science Podcast. Let's learn, laugh, and love the world of science and pets together!Playology!https://playologypets.com/en-caBunsen and Beaker Links:Save 10% at Bark and Beyond with the coupon code BUNSEN!The 2024 Bunsen and Beaker Calendar is ready to order!The Ginger Stuffie is on presale so check the link here!Join The Paw Pack to Support The Show!https://bunsenbernerbmd.com/pages/paw-pack-plus-communityOur Website!The Bunsen and Beaker Website has adorable merch with hundreds of different combinations of designs and apparel- all with Printful- one of the highest quality companies we could find!www.bunsenbernerbmd.comSign up for our Weekly Newsletter!Bunsen and Beaker on Twitter:Bunsen and Beaker on TikTok:Bunsen and Beaker on FacebookSupport the showFor Science, Empathy, and Cuteness!Being Kind is a Superpower.https://twitter.com/bunsenbernerbmd

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.08.519685v1?rss=1 Authors: Tsai, A. P., Dong, C., Lin, P. B.-C., Oblak, A. L., Viana Di Prisco, G., Wang, N., Hajicek, N., Carr, A. J., Lendy, E. K., Hahn, O., Atkins, M., Foltz, A. G., Patel, J., Xu, G., Moutinho, M., Sondek, J., Zhang, Q., Mesecar, A. D., Liu, Y., Atwood, B. K., Wyss-Coray, T., Nho, K. T., Bissel, S. J., Lamb, B. T., Landreth, G. E. Abstract: Genetic association studies have demonstrated the critical involvement of the microglial immune response in Alzheimers disease (AD) pathogenesis. Phospholipase C-gamma-2 (PLCG2) is selectively expressed by microglia and acts in many immune receptor signaling pathways. In AD, PLCG2 is induced uniquely in plaque-associated microglia. A genetic variant of PLCG2, PLCG2 P522R variant, is a mild hypermorph that attenuates AD risk. We report the identification of a PLCG2 variant, PLCG2 M28L variant, associated with loss-of-function and confers increased AD risk. PLCG2 P522R variant attenuates disease in an amyloidogenic murine AD model, whereas PLCG2 M28L variant exacerbates the plaque burden associated with altered phagocytosis and A{beta} clearance. The variants bidirectionally modulate disease pathology by inducing distinct transcriptional programs that identify microglial subpopulations associated with protective or detrimental phenotypes. In summary, these findings identify PLCG2 M28L variant as a new AD risk variant and demonstrate that PLCG2 variants can differentially orchestrate microglial responses in AD pathogenesis that can be therapeutically targeted. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

4 and 3 and 2 and 1 what up? Lendy and Jesse back on the mics and talking our Top 5 Beastie Boys videos.  Please enjoy!

4 and 3 and 2 and 1.... are you ready for this? Top 5 Beastie Boys Albums with my Guest Co-Host Lendy West!  Please enjoy and follow us on the gram! Lendy West on The Gram Jesse Rivera on The Gram

This time around I'm joined by comics Nicole Eichenberg, Lendy West, and Jessica De La Garza to discuss what started off as Top 5 Halloween movies but almost turned into Top 5 Horror Flicks!. For the first time in Top 5 history we compiled a list of 20 films with no repeats! Hope you enjoy our list and our banter.  Music Courtesy of Mento Buru Follow Nicole on The Gram Follow Lendy on The Gram Follow Jessica on The Gram Finally Follow ME!

We went to Lendy's today for the Wing Battle between Lendy's and The Pull Up Kingz for thier very first episode on Style 4 of Pull Up Battles. We look up Phobias just cause? Also Flying Dog with the Football Deep Fake!

This week, J.D. Runnels puts together a Sooner class of 2008 reunion with special guests Hays McEachern, Brett Bowers, Lendy Holmes, Branndon Braxton, and Quentin Chaney. They talk about their favorite Bowl memories, on and off the field, their favorite and least favorite work-outs, funny coaches stories, plus find out what everyone is up to now, what they think about the current football program, and much more on this episode of Fullback U.

Willkommen zur nächsten Folge des P2P Cafe's mit Thomas Butz und Lars Wrobbel. Wir unterhalten und in unregelmäßigen Abständen über bestimmte Themen aus der P2P Welt. Heute geht es um einige interessante News von der Journalistin und P2P Investorin Christiane aus England.

Im heutigen P2P Café ist Christiane aus London zu Gast und erzählt uns viel zu britischen Plattformen, der FCA und ihren Insolvenzerfahrungen mit Funding Secure & Lendy dazu gibts natürlich Lars Wrobbel und meine Neuigkeiten aus dem P2P Universum und jede Menge interessantes zum Thema anlegen in England und P2P im Allgemeinen

[KONTEN EKSPLISIT] Baca judulnya. Baca deskripsinya. Dengarkan disclaimer-nya. Saya, Lendy ( @luturmasl ) dan Dika ( @hardikaeastiasthi ) ngobrolin soal daging-dagingan. Oke. Salam. Selamat Sabtu malam. *Semua gambar yang digunakan dalam cover art Podcast Farisa adalah gambar-gambar creative common yang bebas dimanfaatkan oleh siapa saja. Sebagian besar diambil dari unsplash.com.

Can P2P lending boost housing delivery numbers by financially enabling SME house-builders? What does the P2P market need to learn from recent history to ensure a fair & transparent market of risk / reward for investors? Is technology the right answer?Mike Bristow is CEO & Co-founder of CrowdProperty; a specialist property peer-to-peer lending platform facilitating loans between private individuals and UK professional property businesses. Lending is focused on the SME property developer market, a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which Mike believes poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources. In this podcast:How did CrowdProperty come about and how does it differentiate itself from its peers?Why is P2P suited to the SME property developer market?Has the collapse of ‘mainstream’ P2P business (e.g. Lendy) impacted business?How does the CrowdProperty model harness traditional & tech skills to deliver its service?How much further has P2P got to go in respect of the built environmentMike’s favourite building is St Pancras. His recommended book is Yes! 50 secrets from the science of persuasion, Robert Cialdini & Steve Martin, encompassing 50 chapters of studies to ethically influence the human brain. Mike’s technology to keep an eye on is AskPorter; leveraging tech and AI to make human-resource intense management of buildings more efficient.

Dikarenakan kegiatan real life gw dan Lendy belakangan sedang lucu lucunya,kemungkinan beberapa minggu kedepan kita ngga bakalan sempet untuk produksi video seperti biasanya,maka kami memutuskan untuk menelurkan satu segmen baru berjudul Ngobrol After Hour dengan format seperti podcast pendek atau mini podcast,yang basicly audio only,tapi klo ada tenaga ya mungkin dimasukin video dikit" sesuai kebutuhan guys,,so semoga ini bisa tetap dinikmati yaah,ENJOY !!

Anna Jordan meets Nicola Horlick, an investment fund manager and founder of business P2P lending firm, Money&Co. She talks about the slowing economy and why you should never go into the restaurant business.    Be sure to visit SmallBusiness.co.uk for more articles about peer to peer lending.   Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Want to read the interview instead? Hello and welcome to Small Business Snippets, the podcast from SmallBusiness.co.uk. I’m your host, Anna Jordan. Today we have Nicola Horlick, an entrepreneur and investment manager with other thirty years of experience. She’s the CEO of P2P investment firm, Money&Co, and as such, we’ll be talking about business finance. Anna: Hello, Nicola. Nicola: Hi. Anna: How are you doing? Nicola: Very well, thanks. First, I’d like to ask you about moving from finance. How is it becoming an entrepreneur for the first time having worked in that industry for quite a while? Nicola: Yeah, well originally, I worked for big banks and I was very lucky. I started at a big bank that was going very strongly and after that I was sent to another bank which had a very major problem with one of its businesses and I had to turn it around. And then I went to the French bank, SocGen (Société Générale) and they asked me to set up a fund management business for them literally from scratch, so it was just me, a Frenchman and a secretary on day one. That naturally took me to the point of saying “I really need to do something on my own now.” I’d sort of done everything within the banking environment and having literally set up a business from scratch it then gave me the bug, so to speak. The next step after that was to set up a fund management business with no big bank – just me – and getting some backers. I set it up in 2004 and it was approved in 2005 by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) that was Bramdean Asset Management. I’ve set up numerous different businesses since then, mostly around finance. In 2011, I set up a private equity business called Rockpool with two guys who are both ex-3i (an international investor group). I then also set up some film finance businesses and I got involved in the music industry and I listed a vehicle on the London Stock Exchange to invest in alternative investments. And then I’ve done less successful things like setting up a restaurant which was a very, very bad idea. I’m still trying to extricate myself from that now. But you know, it’s led me to a different world, really. And then ultimately I set up Money&Co in 2013 and Money&Co is a peer to peer lending platform. So, it’s individuals who want a better rate on their cash lending to businesses to help them grow. Our bad debt experience to date has only been 0.04pc per annum. We’ve actually only had one bad debt in five years. And so with this, it’s not that we’re unique – there are others, Funding Circle is massive – that lend to small businesses. We take a more considered approach. It’s mainly because I’m a fund manager and I’ve been an investor for so long. Whereas a lot of the people running these businesses might come from different backgrounds – they might come from tech or marketing backgrounds rather than money management backgrounds. What criteria do you look for in the businesses you want to invest in? Nicola: So, we have some very basic requirements, like you must have three years of filed accounts; the company must have been profitable in the last year of operation; and it needs to demonstrate to us that it’s affordable for them to borrow so we’ll never ever lend to a start-up, for example. I’d like to talk a bit about the peer to peer lending market. On the retail side, the FCA are introducing tighter rules for retail investors after the collapse of Lendy. How is that going to affect the business investment side and the industry as a whole? Nicola: Well as far as I’m concerned, it’s a very good thing. Because when it started it was what was known as ‘light touch regulation’. So there weren’t many rules and it did concern me that there were people running these services who often didn’t have a financial services background and I’m not sure that’s the right thing for the lenders. A lot of them are older as well and are looking for income and it’s important to protect them as much as you can. So I actually welcome the new regime which is going to come on 9th December by the FCA which is going to tighten up on all of this stuff because it’s hopefully going to mean that the right people are lending and that the people doing the lending on their behalf are better qualified to do that and that their money is better protected. So, Money&Co, as far as you can see, will always exist as a P2P lender? Will you ever introduce other products? Nicola: I mean we could, but that might confuse people. I think we should focus on that because there are huge opportunities in lending. My own background is very much an equity background, so I’m relatively new. I’ve only being doing lending for five years out of 36 years of being in financial services., so I’m a relative novice. There are huge areas of lending that you can bring into the P2P arena. So for example, leasing is an absolutely vast industry. There’s £100bn a year of leasing contracts in this country, 25 of which is business critical leasing. So that’s the printing press for the printing company or the trucks for the trucking company or the dental suite for the dentist: things that those businesses can absolutely not do without. There is absolutely no reason you can’t put those in a P2P environment, those types of loans. And housebuilding is a very good example of where banks are reluctant to lend – there’s a shortage of housing in this country. There’s no reason why we can’t devise a product and in fact we are in the middle of doing just that, for that industry to build more houses. And that’s taken us to the point of thinking that prefab has never properly taken off in this country. It’s much more of a thing in countries like Germany and Austria, but that’s a way of building them much faster and in a much more eco-friendly way, because you can insulate them in the factory and you can put the houses up in a couple of weeks. You can fast-track the build so that instead of having men standing out in the rain putting one brick on top of another, which is crazy in this day and age, you can assemble them really fast and you can make much more interesting developments architecturally. It’s a bit like LEGO; you can have all different shapes and you can make it more interesting. So, we’re looking at ways of raising money from institutions to actually fund housebuilders. Now these would still in effect be P2P loans but from an institution lending to a housebuilder rather than an individual lending to a housebuilder. Coming back to you as an entrepreneur, I understand that Money&Co has suffered a significant financial loss [£1.4m going into March 2018]. You have said there’ll be a substantial profit going into March 2020. What are your recovery plans and how will you go about setting them? Nicola: Ugh, this is such a typical Daily Mail story. If you actually look at how much money we’ve lost in the last five years and compare that to Funding Circle, it’s a fraction of the amount. Funding Circle in 2018 lost £50m in one year. Money&Co has made very small losses relative to Funding Circle. My aim is to make the business profitable as soon as possible because I don’t really believe in building businesses that make losses and losses and losses. And we could’ve lent an awful lot more money if we’d burned more money, but that’s not our approach. Our approach is to build it in a very steady way and I do expect to make a profit… well, certainly break even in the year to 2020. In fact, we may not because it depends how much we spend on marketing. And you know, if we really want to accelerate the growth of the business, we may decide we want to spend more on marketing. If we spent less, we could make a profit; if we spent more, we’re going to end up with a bigger business the year after. It’s a fine line. How do you make that decision of whether the marketing is worth it? Nicola: Well, just before I spoke to you, we were having a meeting about that and just going through our marketing strategy and trying to decide how much we should spend. It’s quite formulaic, really. We sort of know. Of course, we’ve got this problem – not really a problem – but the fact we’ve got the FCA which is tightening up all the rules which makes direct consumer marketing a little bit more complex than it was previously. But it’s a bit binary, you know – if you spend this amount of money on Google in its various forms, you’re likely to get a certain number of clients. So it’s really a matter of how much we want to put into the hopper and how much we’re going to get out at the other end. And also, how many loans we’ve got that we think need to be funded? But assuming we are able to get the institutional money that we need to get to help us fund housebuilders, we’ll certainly be at break-even and probably make profit by the year to March 2020. But I don’t make any apology – it’s a start-up fintech business. That’s what fintech businesses do, make losses. You started up in 2013, correct? Nicola: So the company was formed in 2013 and then we launched the business in 2014, April, the site went live. And we completed the first loan in July 2014.  Right, OK. Normally with a start-up company, it’s usually the first year or so that’s a bit crackly but then it starts to even out after that. Nicola: What, in terms of profitability? Anna: Yeah. Nicola: Yeah, well not in fintech. If you look at all the people with fintech businesses who have been running them over the last few years, you’ll see that they’ve all made big losses. It’s sort of accepted that when it’s a new industry, you’ve got to establish the industry and you’ve got to throw money at it in order to create it. It’s not like setting up shops – well actually, shops are a pretty bad example because they’re not very easy to do these days – but there are more traditional businesses where somebody might have been working for an engineering company and then sets up on their own. Usually the rule is that companies move into profit in year three, in its third full year of operation, that’s what I’d normally expect. But you know, with this, there’s a discretionary element to it which is the marketing spend. We could just run a business that is profitable and keep it small, or we could decide to make it to make it a lot bigger and in order to do that we need to spend a lot of money on marketing. What do you think about the state of business in the UK, especially in the light of Brexit? Nicola: Nobody seems to have noticed that the economy has slowed down very significantly. And we do see it – though a lot of our loans are property-backed loans, we do have some engineering businesses, for example, that we’ve lent to, that are beginning to see a slowdown. And that is Brexit-related in that uncertainty means that people don’t make decisions. So, businesses have not been investing because they don’t know what’s going to happen and there is evidence that car manufacturing companies, for example, are beginning to move things out of the UK. And the number of cars being manufactured in the UK is down 20pc so far this year on the same time last year. These things are beginning to impact on the economy, and they’ll have knock-on effects on all of the businesses we lend to, which is one of the reasons for being very cautious and one of the reasons why I have been so cautious about growing our book. But yeah, I have found generally, during my investing life, that I make a lot more money in bad times than in good. Because in good times any fool can make money, because everything is going up. In bad times, your skill comes into play. It sounds counter-intuitive, but I’m likely to be lending a lot more money in a recession than when things are booming because I will be taking on less risky loans. It’s just that lenders tend to withdraw; they react to recessionary conditions. The banks react during recessions. So, during a recession, there are more opportunities for people who have money to lend. I expect there to be a recession and I expect to build the loan book faster, rather strangely, than I was when things were going really well. When things were going really well, you had Funding Circle throwing money at these borrowers, you had banks, you had international banks, you had vast amounts of money sloshing around. We had quantitative easing – a lot of money being printed. If it’s being printed you’ve got to do something with it. All of that will come to an end and it’ll be much harder for borrowers to find lenders and that provides us with the opportunity and means we’re more likely to find better-quality borrowers during that period of time. And one last thing I’d like to talk about. So the restaurant, Georgina’s, that you used to run, went bust. What are the toughest lessons you learned as an entrepreneur? Nicola: Well, it’s not quite true to say that it went bust. What we did was we closed it down and we moved to a different location. Although it wasn’t called Georgina’s – we called it The Walrus Room – and it was in Battersea Rise. It’s more a bar with food rather than a restaurant. And we’ve just got a new manager to come and manage it. I’m still involved in it, but it’s a nightmare industry and I absolutely recommend that nobody should go into restaurants. I think it only works if you’re a really talented chef and it’s your restaurant. Or if you’re Pizza Express. Anything in-between doesn’t work, so just a vanity thing where you open a restaurant because you like the idea of owning a restaurant, that’s a very, very bad idea. What are the toughest parts of running [a restaurant]? Nicola: Well, the costs are just ridiculous. The rents on the high street are still ridiculously high. A unit on Georgina’s – the original unit – the annual rent was £65,000 a year. The Council Tax was £28,000 a year, I mean it’s outrageous: £28,000 a year?! Then one-sixth of your turnover goes to the VAT man, plus we had 14 employees because it was a full-service restaurant. So, we had to pay 13.8pc of the wage bill in national insurance. You’re basically in business to pay tax and rent – that’s it. And the idea that you’re going to make a profit, unless you’ve got some really big-name chef behind it, is pretty much impossible, in my view. And finally, coming slightly back to my first question, what tips do you have for entrepreneurs – or want to be entrepreneurs – starting their own business for the first time? Nicola: You need to make sure you’ve got some proper funding. A lot of people end up funding their business through credit card debt or getting loans from loan sharks, I mean that’s just absolutely not the way to do it. The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is a very, very good thing because it allows you to raise £150,000 and the people who invest can get 50pc back as long as they’re UK taxpayers. And so I think people need to put in the work at the beginning to make sure they’re raising the money before they’ve actually started the business and they shouldn’t be putting their life savings at risk and they shouldn’t be putting their money on credit cards or going to loan sharks. It’s really important to make sure that the business is financed properly from day one.  Anna: Great. Thanks ever so much for coming on the show, Nicola. Nicola: Not at all. Anna: You can find out more about Money&Co at moneyandco.com. You can also visit smallbusiness.co.uk for more on alternative investments. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case. Until next time, thank you for listening.      

New Peer to Peer Lending and Crowdfunding Rules after Lender goes Bust Leaving Thousands of Investors Out of Pocket Following the collapse of Peer-to-Peer lender, Lendy, the government is imposing tight new rules on the industry in order to better regulate the market and protect investors. In the last few years, new types of lending have given the traditional banking monopoly a bit of a run for its money. Crowdfunding and Peer-to-Peer lending are just two examples of models which have worked very well and raised billions for projects and borrowers whilst giving investors a return of up to 40 times they would have earned on a bank deposit.    Check out this week’s episode of Money Tips. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Willkommen zur nächsten Folge des P2P Cafe's mit Thomas Butz und Lars Wrobbel. Wir unterhalten und in unregelmäßigen Abständen über bestimmte Themen aus der P2P Welt. Heute haben wir erstmals ein tüchtiges Community-Mitglied an Bord, mit dem wir uns über unsere News, aber auch seine Investments unterhalten.

Many individuals and small businesses have fallen victim to Authorised Push Payment scams. APPs are they are commonly referred to is where people are tricked into sending money to scammer’s bank account. To open this week’s Bulletin, we look at a new voluntary code 8 banks have signed up to which promises to refund lost money to victims. Worry times for the crowdfunding sector with news that property purchase and development crowdfunder Lendy has fallen into Administration. We look at the numbers behind the collapse. To close, a review of a surprising survey from Lloyds Bank as part of their regular Business Barometer series, which reveals that business confidence has increased for the first time in many months. Is this merely a temporary blip?

Stephen Morris and guests discuss the potential departure of Deutsche Bank's Garth Ritchie, head of the corporate investment bank, over planned cuts, a strategic rethink at UBS, and the collapse of UK peer-to-peer lender Lendy.Contributors: Stephen Morris, European banking correspondent, Olaf Storbeck, Frankfurt financial correspondent, David Crow, banking editor, and Nicholas Megaw, retail banking correspondent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We're excited to bring LEGO Ideas Voltron Designer Lendy Tayag back to the podcast to celebrate the official release and the Asian tour commemorating LEGO Ideas Voltron set #21311. Lendy has been signing LEGO Ideas Voltron boxes, posters, and more, and meeting Voltron fans in China, Singapore, Malaysia, and The Philippines. Lendy Tayag will be in The Big Shop at The LEGOLAND in Malaysia August 18th from 3 PM onwards, and August 19th from 11 AM to 1 PM. If you're going there, please tell Lendy, "Let's Voltron Podcast" says "WE LOVE YOU, LENDY!!" Here are some pictures from some of the other signings Lendy has attended over the last few weeks: LEGO Ideas Voltron Contest Announcement As we mention at the end of this podcast, there is a new LEGO Ideas Voltron Contest running until September 24, 2018. Here is the link to the site that explains ALL the rules and how to enter: https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/8dd671b5-e376-4ed9-ad60-dd2d9123709f?query=&sort=top Also, here is the 6-ft tall LEGO Voltron that was recently introduced by @LEGO_Group on Twitter with a quick-build video: And here is a link to the video itself: https://twitter.com/LEGO_Group/status/1029397381299822593 That 6-ft tall LEGO Voltron is currently on display at The LEGO Store at Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. But, we imagine they will share the Voltron love and give other LEGO stores the chance to have Voltron visit them, if only temporarily. In this podcast, we went into Stealth Voltron mode to ask fans to help us with a project. If you want to know more, send us an email at letsvoltronpodcast@gmail.com and Thank you! From our Retro Voltron segment, here are the pics from Voltron vs. Voltron - Episode 44 from Voltron: Defender of the Universe: We are excited to announce that on our next podcast, we will have a special ONE-ON-ONE Interview with Josh Keaton, who plays Shiro on Voltron Legendary Defender. Don't miss it! As Always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!

It’s Cowes Week, and we’re looking back at the world’s greatest sailing regatta. Sir Ben Ainslie tells us about the 1851 trust – Cowes Week’s official charity, Tracy Edwards talks about her 1989 Whitbread race, what happened next and the restoration of Maiden. We’ll hear from some of the young sailors taking part in the regatta, and we find out from title sponsor Lendy why they put their name to this iconic event. Plus we go for a spin with some of the crew of Akzo Nobel, as they look back on their Volvo Ocean Race campaign. Podcast produced and presented by Neil Sackley. email: h2o@bbc.co.uk.

Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast was invited by LEGO Ideas to join them at the LEGO Booth at SDCC to interview the team that designed the LEGO Ideas Voltron, which was a signed SDCC Exclusive being offered each day at San Diego Comic-Con. Marc interviewed LEGO Designer Niek van Slagmaat, LEGO Creative Lead Sam Johnson, and LEGO Marketing Manager Darryl Kelley. In our exclusive interviews with the LEGO Ideas Voltron team at SDCC, we go in deep to see how LEGO Ideas Voltron was developed, what went into to making it such a great LEGO Ideas set to build, and what it means to LEGO and Voltron fans alike. LEGO VIP Members can get an early chance to get this wonderful LEGO Ideas Voltron 21311 set by going on https://shop.lego.com NOW until the non-VIP public can get it through LEGO stores near them or the LEGO shop online on August 1, 2018. Here's what you can expect to see from your order as a VIP Member: We were excited to be able to be on hand at SDCC to see all the LEGO and Voltron fans scrambling to try to be the first to get their hands on a LEGO Ideas Voltron set. One of the people who had been on our podcast previously, Random Gibberish's Matt Sernaker, was lucky enough to pick up his own LEGO Ideas Voltron at SDCC. He was extremely happy! We also found out in our interviews that people who do not get their LEGO Ideas Voltron as a LEGO VIP Member in the early sale, or go to a LEGO Store or the LEGO Online Shop after August 1, can see the LEGO Ideas Voltron at mass retailers around the world on November 1, 2018. We also mention in this podcast that Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery were interviewed about the LEGO Ideas Voltron at the LEGO Booth in SDCC as well. Here is a link to that interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjzuBlYQ3M4 Also, here is a link to an interview with Lendy Tayag, the LEGO Ideas Designer responsible for creating the original design that made it to 10,000 votes on the LEGO Ideas website. This occurred on July 21st from Shanghai, China, where Lendy introduced the LEGO Ideas Voltron to fans there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbp7_6mN-mo We are also sharing our video of this same podcast from SDCC for you to watch on our Let's Voltron Podcast YouTube Channel at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMWo2r88zlc On our next podcast, we'll be sharing all of the Voltron Legendary Defender Interviews, panel, signings and Voltron SDCC exclusives we picked up in San Diego! As always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!!

Lendy Krantz, former lead of culture, operations and communications transformation at IBM, discusses the future of the workplace and how we should respond to it!

Josh Hamilton returns to Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast to answer your questions about Season 6 of Voltron Legendary Defender and everything else! And, in a special Retro Voltron segment, we talk about the recently announced LEGO Ideas Voltron Set! We're thankful to have Josh Hamilton, Story Editor for Voltron Legendary Defender, back on the podcast to talk about Season 6 and answer questions sent in by the worldwide legion of Voltron fans. Josh is credited with writing more episodes than any other writer - a total of 15 of the 52 released episodes so far! Here is the list of episodes Josh Hamilton has written: The Rise of Voltron (co-writer) Return of the Gladiator Tears of the Balmera Rebirth The Black Paladin The Depths Eye of the Storm The Belly of the Weblum Best Laid Plans The Hunted The Journey The Voltron Show! Blood Duel Razor's Edge All Good Things Although we had hundreds of questions sent in by Voltron fans everywhere around the world, we could not possibly get them all in during a 30-minute interview, so we asked the questions that fans repeated the most, and we did say thanks to everyone who sent in questions, so you'll get to hear your name during the podcast. A Huge "Thank you" to Josh Hamilton for joining us, and to DreamWorks Animation for setting up the interview! As you may have heard, DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender is having a panel and signing at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC)! DreamWorks Animation Television is set to present an explosive Voltron Legendary Defender panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2018, debuting the premiere episode of the highly-anticipated seventh season of the critically-acclaimed Netflix original series. The panel will take place on Friday, July 20, and will be moderated by Kyle Anderson, Associate Editor of Nerdist. Here are the details: DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender, a Netflix Original Series Friday, July 20, 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM 6BCF at San Diego Convention Center Join Rhys Darby, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Jeremy Shada, executive producers Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery, and story editor Josh Hamilton as they provide a first-look at the highly-anticipated seventh season of the Netflix original series DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender. All attendees will receive a San Diego Comic-Con exclusive poster created by the crew. Limited Voltron Legendary Defender Signing (Ticketed) Saturday, July 21, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in the Autograph Area at San Diego Convention Center A limited DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender signing with Joaquim Dos Santos, Lauren Montgomery, Rhys Darby, and Bex Taylor-Klaus will take place on Saturday in the Autograph Area at the San Diego Convention Center. Drawing for Line Tickets to be held Saturday at 9:00 am in the Autograph Area. Take a look at the poster: Yesterday, it was announced that LEGO Ideas Voltron 21311 Set will be available to buy on August 1, 2018! We had LEGO Ideas Designer Lendy Tayag on our podcast to talk all about when his design hit 10,000 supporters (http://www.letsvoltron.com/58) and when his design had been approved to have the set go into production (http://www.letsvoltron.com/107) Here is a quote from LEGO Designer Niek Duco van Slagmaat, who's task it was to turn Lendy's design into an actual product that can be assembled using instructions provided in the set. Here's his quote: "Let’s go Voltron Force! I cannot put into words how much this model means to me. When it hit 10k votes, I started working on models to try and prove that we could do something like this. Now, almost 2 years later, it’s really happening! I have Samuel Johnson to thank for fighting to allow me to work on this project and Lendy for getting it to 10k with his awesome model. From the very beginning, the consensus was that we could not make this as a LEGO product, so it was my job to prove people wrong. To kick reason to the curb and do the impossible! By not giving up and continuing to smash our heads into the wall, we made it possible. Crucial points in a mech this size are the joints. Most of the development time on this product was relentlessly churning out shoulder and elbow joints just to have them be rejected for any number of reasons by our rigorous quality department. I went through at least 30 different shoulder builds and about 20 full iterations of Voltron in designing this model. As a fan-builder myself, I was eager to get some good recolors into this set for people that like to build their own stuff, like the ingot and a whole host of drum lacquered pieces! This set also features a number of decorations, my favorite being the 2x2 grey tile with mechanical detail. This was designed to be a perfect fit, but also a good element to be used in your own creations as a finishing touch. Graphic designer Mark Tranter did a fantastic job. I really hope you will enjoy building this model, I poured my heart and soul into making this a reality!" Here are the details about this wonderful new LEGO Ideas 21311 Voltron Set: Features 5 buildable and posable lions that can be transformed and combined to create the giant Voltron super robot. Play with the lions individually or combine them using extra-strong joints to form Voltron—the black lion forms the head and torso; the red and green lions form the arms; and the yellow and blue lions form the legs. Pose the head, shoulders, arms and wrists of Voltron (legs are not posable). Also includes a sword and shield (each with silver-colored elements) that attach firmly to Voltron’s hands. Includes a booklet with building instructions, plus information about the set’s fan creator and super force of LEGO® designers. This set includes over 2,321 pieces. Display or play out exciting stories from the original 1980s animated Voltron TV series and the modern DreamWorks Voltron: Legendary Defender series. Voltron measures over 15” (40cm) high, 5” (14cm) long and 8” (21cm) wide. Black lion measures over 6” (17cm) high, 8” (22cm) long and 5” (15cm) wide. Yellow and blue lions each measure over 3” (8cm) high, 8” (21cm) long and 3” (8cm) wide. Green and red lions each measure over 3” (8cm) high, 7” (18cm) long and 1” (5cm) wide. Voltron’s sword measures 11” (29cm) long. Voltron’s shield measures 6” (16cm) in diameter. LEGO Voltron will be available from shop.LEGO.com/Voltron and LEGO stores around the world from the 1st of August, 2018 for a recommended retail price of USD/EURO* 179.99 / GBP 159.99. If you're itching to get your copy of 21311 Voltron as soon as possible then we can reveal that this set will be available early for LEGO VIP members on the 23rd July, 2018! Remember it's free to become a LEGO VIP member! Here are the pictures of this wonderful set: Join us next week when our interview is with 3 members of the voice cast of Voltron Legendary Defender - all at the same time! We'll have Josh Keaton (Shiro), Kimberly Brooks (Allura), and AJ LoCascio (Lotor) with us on our next podcast! Don't miss it! As always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!

Financial Thing Investing Essentials Podcast EP009 Part 2 Guests: Liam Brooke (Director) & Paul Riddell (Head of Marketing and Communications) – Lendy Category: Property Peer to Peer Lending Listen in iTunes Lendy is one of the most popular peer to peer companies offering property bridging and development loans where lenders can earn up to 1% […] The post Financial Thing Investing Essentials Podcast EP009 Part 2 – Lendy appeared first on Financial Thing - Peer To Peer Lending.

Today is the release day for The Paladin Handbook by Simon Spotlight, and Marc and Greg give a quick preview of this latest Chapter Book for Voltron Legendary Defender. The BIG NEWS is we have an interview with LEGO® Voltron Designer Lendy Tayag, whose Voltron design will now be produced as an official LEGO® kit from LEGO® Ideas. After that, (SPOILER ALERT) Marc and Greg review ALL of Season 3 of Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. Today is the official release day of The Paladin Handbook! Marc and Greg give a preview of this and other Voltron Books in this podcast. Here is a link to get more information about the book and a link to where to get it: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Paladins-Handbook/R-J-Cregg/Voltron-Legendary-Defender/9781534409033 https://store.voltron.com/products/the-paladins-handbook-official-guidebook-of-voltron-legendary-defender Lendy Tayag has been on our podcast previously (http://LetsVoltron.com/58) and described how he felt then, when we knew he had reached the 10,000 votes needed to have his Voltron: Defender of the Universe design go before the LEGO® Ideas Review Board. NOW, after having received the official word on August 3rd that his design has been accepted as the next LEGO® Ideas design to be produced as an official LEGO® kit, you'll get to hear Lendy's reaction in our current interview with an amazing LEGO® designer. Here is the video that appeared on the LEGO® Ideas site to announce Voltron (and Ship in a Bottle) as their chosen designs: https://youtu.be/2tGqgJo9OeA Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast wants to give Lendy Tayag the ultimate CONGRATULATIONS for making it possible for kids and adults to come together like Voltron and build this amazing set, that may only be the beginning of many sets to come for Voltron Fans around the world!! We can't thank you enough, Lendy! Best wishes for you and your family! For the rest of the podcast, Marc and Greg do a full season review of Season 3 of DreamWorks Animation's Voltron Legendary Defender on Netflix. There will be full episode reviews of Season 3 in the near future, so keep listening to Let's Voltron Podcast! Also, you can now get the FULL Season 1 and Season 2 Voltron Legendary Defender seasons on DigitalHD from iTunes and Amazon Video! Here is where they are available: https://itun.es/i6dP6xF https://itun.es/i6dd7SX https://www.amazon.com/The-New-Alliance/dp/B0743NP3FD/ref=sr_1_1?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1502822431&sr=1-1&keywords=voltron+legendary+defender https://www.amazon.com/The-Ark-of-the-Tajueer/dp/B0743P3M4T/ref=sr_1_2?s=instant-video&ie=UTF8&qid=1502822431&sr=1-2&keywords=voltron+legendary+defender There are bonus features included with these seasons that we know you'll love! As always, Thanks for Listening! Let's Voltron!!

Financial Thing Investing Essentials Podcast EP009 Part 1 Guests: Liam Brooke (Director) & Paul Riddell (Head of Marketing and Communications) – Lendy Category: Property Peer to Peer Lending Listen in iTunes Lendy is one of the most popular peer to peer companies offering property bridging and development loans where lenders can earn up to 1% […] The post Financial Thing Investing Essentials Podcast EP009 Part 1 – Lendy appeared first on Financial Thing - Peer To Peer Lending.

You are getting a special treat as Marc and Greg interview the LEGO Ideas Voltron Project Designer Lendy Tayag, whose Voltron LEGO Idea achieved 10,000 supporters in 22 days, and is now awaiting review in September. Addendum: The full-length Voltron Legendary Defender Trailer is discussed as well. Lendy Tayag is an IT professional from The Philippines who used LEGO Designer, an application that has all the possible LEGO pieces, to build his own Voltron set, including 5 robot lions that combine to form the giant robot. It comes with 6 Pilot mini-figs and a Blazing Sword and shield. This set has the 10,000 supporters needed to reach the review phase of the LEGO Ideas site. The next review period is in September, and we are anxiously waiting to hear if this Voltron set will get approved to be manufactured as a set by LEGO. Here is the link to Lendy's Facebook page for all of his Creations: https://www.facebook.com/CreationsByLendy In this podcast, you'll hear Lendy tell Marc and Greg everything that went into his design of Voltron, and how he thought he'd have up to a year to fine-tune his design, but of course, only had several days. Also in this podcast, there is an added recording of Marc and Greg talking about the full-length Voltron Legendary Defender trailer that was released by DreamWorks on Wednesday. As we learned, the first 3 episodes of the series are themed as an hour-long movie, called “The Rise of Voltron.” Here is a link to the trailer they are talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXW1waqRCb0 Marc and Greg will break down this trailer in more detail on the next podcast after this one. Marc had also mentioned that today, Friday the 13th of May, marks the release of Dan Jolley's novel, Gray Widow's Walk. Gray Widow's Walk is the first book in the Gray Widow Trilogy, and is available May 13 from Seventh Star Press. Here's the link for the Thunderclap mentioned in the podcast: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/41441-dan-jolley-s-gray-widow-s-walk Here is a link to the Amazon page where you can buy the Kindle version: https://www.amazon.com/Gray-Widows-Walk-Widow-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B01F3ZPTAW?ie=UTF8&Version=1&entries=0 Thanks for listening! Sign Up for our Newsletter! Use this link to give us your email address so you can get exclusive information from Let's Voltron: The Official Voltron Podcast: Join Us! Note: Link will not work on mobile devices