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Level Five

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 26, 2024 1:00

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Cinéphiles de notre temps

Cinéphiles de notre temps #47 - "S'emparer des images" avec William Laboury

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 59:34

Pour clôturer cette belle saison de podcasts, nous vous proposons quelqu'un qui était présent pour nos 5 ans, sur l'écran et sur la scène du Grand Action : le cinéaste, monteur, affichiste…William Laboury.Dans ses propres films ou pour d'autres, à travers les génériques, les bandes annonces ou les affiches qu'il crée, notre invité aime jouer avec les matières analogiques ou numériques, le grain et le pixel, allant jusqu'à puiser dans cette grande mémoire mondiale qu'est internet.Avide d'expériences plastiques fortes, notre invité a également le goût des idées et des concepts. Ainsi, il nous emmène dans la matrice des sœurs Wachowski, découverte à l'adolescence et aux quatre coins du monde avec le presque jeune Sir Attenborough proposant déjà dans les années 70 de sidérants documentaires scientifiques. Il raconte son goût pour les effets spéciaux liquides comme ceux de James Cameron et rend hommage au Chris Marker joueur de Level Five. Pour l'été, plongez dans le cinéphilie fluide de William Laboury. Allez au cinéma, puis sortez la tête de vos écrans pour regarder la nature (c'est lui qui le dit aussi) ! Bonne écoute, bel été ! Nous remercions notre invité William Laboury ainsi qu'Élodie Imbeau et Pierre Sénéchal sans qui cet entretien n'aurait pu se faire. Inscrivez-vous à la newsletter en cliquant sur ce lien : https://forms.gle/HgDMoaPyLd6kxCS48 Pour nous soutenir, rendez-vous sur https://www.patreon.com/cinephilesdnt I. PORTRAIT - 3'51 - 19'19 Un frère/une soeur au cinéma : Soy Libre (Laure Portier, 2021) - 3'51 Une couleur : le vert de Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 1999) - 8'25 Une entité virtuelle : le pseudopod dans The Abyss (James Cameron, 1989) - 15'53 II. CONDITIONS DE VISIONNAGE, MÉMOIRE & SOMMEIL - 19'19 - 39'09 Un film dont le souvenir s'effrite : Kairo (K. Kurosawa, 2001) - 19'19 Un film qui a nourri le goût de William Laboury pour “les images internet” : Level Five (Chris Marker, 1997) - 25'02 Le rapport de William Laboury à la matière et à la texture des images (numérique, analogique…) - 30'48 CARTE BLANCHE - 39'04Room (Lenny Abrahamson, 2015) CINEMA & TRANSMISSION - 46'47 Un film à envoyer dans l'espace : Life on earth, S01 ep 13 (Sir David Attenborough, 1979) REFUGE - 55'44The Mask (Chuck Russell, 1994) EXTRAITS FILMSThe Matrix Reloaded trailer - Lana & Lilly Wachowski - Warner BrosLevel Five - Chris Marker - Tamasa DistributionLife On Earth, S01 ep 13 : The Compulsive Communicators - David Attenborough, BBCThe Mask - Chuck Russell - Pathé Distribution EXTRAITS MUSICAUXThis will destroy you - The mighty Rio Grande - ℗ 2008 Dark Operative Publishing CRÉDITSPatreons : un grand merci à Mahaut, Paul et Clara pour leur soutien !Musique : Gabriel RénierGraphisme : Lucie AlvadoCréation & Animation : Phane Montet & Clément Coucoureux

June 21, 2024 - A Choc Ice and House of Games

The Talk of the Street: A Coronation Street Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2024 95:13

This podcast covers episodes 11,291 to 11,296. In a moment of despair and weakness, Toyah takes her illicit relationship with Nick to a new level. It's bad news at number 5 when Chesney discovers his boiler is on the fritz and their landlord isn't keen to unfritz it. Paul badmouths Felix to Billy and Todd and is embarrassed to discover that Felix has overheard. When the Barlows struggle to come to a satisfactory solution to Ken's home care needs, Cassie offers her services. Sensing that Joel's excitement about his engagement is dampened, Dee Dee seeks to improve her relationship with his parents. Abi and Kev are furious to learn that Bethany's first job with a new magazine is to write a fluff piece about ITV Corey. Joseph watches Shrek on a bedsheet. Someone draws a cock on Steve's taxi. Leanne reaches Level Five.

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Diagnostics in Life Sciences is the Key to Healthcare w/ Mara Aspinall of Illumina Ventures - AZ TRT S05 EP12 (227) 3-24-2024

AZ Tech Roundtable 2.0

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2024 51:28

Diagnostics in Life Sciences is the Key to Healthcare w/ Mara Aspinall of Illumina Ventures AZ TRT S05 EP12 (227) 3-24-2024 What We Learned This Week Diagnostics is the key to healthcare, identifying medical issues and designing the right treatment for the patient Five Levels of Diagnostics – Screening, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Interacting, & Monitoring Illumina Ventures is a life sciences venture capital firm with 35 companies in their portfolio Their investment companies deal in genomics, cancer testing, telehealth, at home testing & more Future of Biotech will be impacted by both AI and Nanotech Guest: Mara G. Aspinall, Partner, Illumina Ventures https://www.illuminaventures.com/ President and CEO, Health Catalysts Group Board Member of AZ Bio - https://www.azbio.org/ Mara Aspinall is a healthcare industry leader and pioneer with a commitment to civic involvement. She is a Partner at Illumina Ventures, an independent, global healthcare venture capital firm focused on genomics and precision health investing including diagnostics and therapeutic products. Aspinall has deep roots in venture investing, having co-founded BlueStone Venture Partners in 2017. BlueStone has a strong portfolio of diagnostic, medical device, and digital health companies in the U.S. Southwest. Throughout her career, Aspinall has spearheaded initiatives to educate payers and policymakers on genomics and personalized medicine. She publishes the popular Sensitive and Specific: The Testing Newsletter and the annual Diagnostics Year in Review. This commitment to expanding knowledge inspired Aspinall to create and co-found the Biomedical Diagnostics master's degree program at Arizona State University, the only program dedicated exclusively to diagnostics, genetics, and genomics. Previously, Aspinall was President and CEO of Ventana Medical Systems, a billion-dollar division of TheRoche Group, (now Roche Tissue Diagnostics), a worldwide leader in the development and commercialization of tissue-based cancer diagnostics, where she led more than two dozen major instrument and assay launches and helped position the company as a global leader in companion diagnostics. Aspinall spent 13 years at Genzyme Corporation, where she served as President of Genzyme Genetics and Genzyme Pharmaceuticals. Aspinall transformed the business from a small, specialized player to one of the top five laboratories in the U.S. while setting the industry standard for quality testing. The business was sold to LabCorp for $1 billion in 2010. Aspinall also served as Founder and CEO of On-Q-ity, a start-up diagnostic company dedicated to circulating tumor cells. During the pandemic, Aspinall emerged as a national authority on COVID testing, serving as the principal investigator at Arizona State University on grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, creating TestingCommons.com and EvidenceCommons.com – internationally recognized interactive databases on COVID diagnostics and related research and clinical applications. Aspinall was named Arizona Biosciences Leader of the Year by the Arizona Bioindustry Association and one of “100 Most Inspiring People in Life Sciences” by PharmaVOICE magazine. Aspinall has extensive board experience. She has served on multiple public and private company boards in leadership roles over the last ten years. She is currently Chair of the Board of OraSure (OSUR) and Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee of Castle Biosciences (CSTL). She also serves on the board of BlueCross BlueShield of Arizona. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a BA in International Relations from Tufts University, and is certified in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon/NACD. Notes: Seg 1 All of life sciences and biotech is healthcare. Diagnostics is the central organizing portion in healthcare, and consists of testing if needed. There are five (5) levels to diagnostics. Level One is Screening – where a patient may or may not be sick, check the health status, and also could be regular check ups for something pre-diagnosed. Level Two is the Diagnosis - where tests are taken and then you see the results of the test. Level Three is the Prognosis – what symptoms does the patient have, and where you need to go from here, what will happen with these symptoms. Level Four is a newer part called Interacting - This is where you can do personalized medicine and what's called theranostics or drug treatment. You combine drugs with the treatment. You have to analyze what type of drug is needed. What someone's body is like, how they metabolize drugs. What dose central levels are needed. People's reactions to drugs is not just body size or weight as suggested previously, but could be very much based on the genes. Level Five also new is called Monitoring - If disease treatment is over how do you monitor over the long term. What test do you take to confirm that there's been no return of the disease. Examples would be an MRD test which stands for a minimal residue disease. You also may be doing things like CT scans or x-ray scans in the past, but sometimes these do not detect disease properly. Some cancers could be very small and you need a blood test. People may check in through cycles of a disease treatment also. Seg 2 Regarding monitoring and Level Five using cancer as an example. People may go through 6 rounds of chemotherapy treatment. The doctor should monitor by round 3 and check is the tumor reduced or how is the chemo working. Do you want to have benchmarks to see if you're reaching the health goals and if the medicine is effective. Future treatment might be biopsy of a tumor and testing glass to see what drug may work on it. Revisiting Level Four in personalized medicine you may see in the future Chino metric analysis. Check the risk level for certain diseases so you can have a preemptive process to prevent potential predisposed diseases. This is level A. Level B would be when diagnosed with a disease, you check the tumor, mutations and genes checking both the DNA and RNA. Mara is on the board of AZ Bio (.org). The goal of AZ Bio is bringing educated people about biotech together to affect the state, the universities, and companies. Move research along with the responsibility to patients in the medical field. Mara is involved in venture capital which is critical, because it funds entrepreneurs in good companies to research and create Biotech product processes and products. There are other levels of investment, which typically start with friends and angel investing then move on to venture capital, and then private equity for really big rounds. She was the founder of Blue Stone and they invested in Southwest companies. In the fall of 2023 she became a partner at Illumina Ventures. They deal with 35 different companies. They've invested in all levels, biotech and genomics. You're looking for a VC to be specialized and knowledgeable about an industry so they can help the business grow provide it with money and add expertise. Seg 3 Mara and Illumina Ventures recently put out a report - Diagnostics Year in Review. This report covers how did the industry is doing, what stocks earn money, what IPOs there were, financials, clinical, innovation, and mergers and acquisitions. How does venture-capital work? Typically you have individual funds one through five. You raise money from investors and invest in new emerging companies. Companies may be doing research, drug development, or working other areas of life sciences. Examples of companies in their portfolio: Delphi deals in cancer, diagnosis test and early screening for cancer and detection test. Level one screen checking for lung cancer and what early symptoms there are. Biopsy can be dangerous so you need other tests. Let's Get Checked - a telehealth online company that brings testing to the patient either at home or in an urgent care or ER. This is faster and easier. Examples of test are Covid test and STD test. Serimmune human immunity research company Genome Medical a genetic counseling company, working with patients to discuss what diseases they may be predisposed to, and ways to not pass it to the Seg 4 Future of Biotech We saw with the pandemic, the rise of telemedicine with faster online diagnosis. We will also see in the future that AI changes drug development and reading tests The creation of better and faster equipment. The rise of nanotech, and early detection of diseases with blood samples - for example, at home blood draw. Check out the Best of Biotech Show: Best of Biotech from AZ Bio & Life Sciences to Jellatech - BRT S04 EP26 (189) 7-2-2023 What We Learned This Week: AZ Bio mission to improve life sciences, & make AZ a Top 10 Bioscience state Aqualung Therapeutics is treating inflammation in the lungs, get people off ventilators & save lives Calviri is working on a Vaccine to PREVENT Cancer, currently largest animal clinical trial Anuncia Medical has a Re-Flow product to help drain fluid from the brain, treats Hydrocephalus Collagen 2.0 – Innovation to Gelatin & gummies Full Show: HERE AZ Tech Council Shows: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=az+tech+council *Includes Best of AZ Tech Council show from 2/12/2023 Tech Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Tech-Startup-VC-Cybersecurity-Energy-Science Best of Tech: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/size/5/?search=best+of+tech ‘Best Of' Topic: https://brt-show.libsyn.com/category/Best+of+BRT Thanks for Listening. 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Common Topics Discussed: Startups, Founders, Funds & Venture Capital, Business, Entrepreneurship, Biotech, Blockchain / Crypto, Executive Comp, Investing, Stocks, Real Estate + Alternative Investments, and more… AZ TRT Podcast Home Page: http://aztrtshow.com/ ‘Best Of' AZ TRT Podcast: Click Here Podcast on Google: Click Here Podcast on Spotify: Click Here More Info: https://www.economicknight.com/azpodcast/ KFNX Info: https://1100kfnx.com/weekend-featured-shows/ Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the Hosts, Guests and Speakers, and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of any entities they represent (or affiliates, members, managers, employees or partners), or any Station, Podcast Platform, Website or Social Media that this show may air on. All information provided is for educational and entertainment purposes. 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Highways Voices 20 March - last mile driverless solutions in Milton Keynes and the future of autonomous technology with Ohmio

Highways Voices

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 31:41

"I remember sitting at VicRoads, back in 2012, telling our CEO at the time, cooperative ITS is here, autonomous vehicles are going to be here," comments Dean Zabrieszach of HMI Technologies in Australia and New Zealand on this week's Highways Voices, "We need to deploy equipment all over the countryside, because they'll be here in two or three years - and here we are in 2024, and we haven't quite got there!"Dean joins Paul Hutton to discuss a new driverless pod project in Milton Keynes which brought him from Melbourne in Australia to the UK, and to consider what the autonomous vehicle industry has achieved since the hype of a decade ago, and how the "The biggest hurdle has been the safety aspect that all the agencies, all the authorities, all the jurisdictions want to actually nail down completely."Passengers in Milton Keynes will be able to use the Ohmio self-driving shuttles from as early as October, and Dean discusses why the last mile, slower speed pods have been successful when deployed, while fully automated Level Five vehicles haven't become quite as widespread.He also talks about the technology from the viewpoint of his time as Director of Roads Operations at VicRoads in Victoria, Australia, and whether he'd have embraced the technology: "I think it would have been a tough discussion," he admits. "But if it was a discussion that was seen as being something that was good for Melbourne, good for Victoria, that could ultimately lead to better safety outcomes, I would have had a try - I would have had a go at it."You'll also hear latest news about the ALARM survey, about the traffic signals funding announcement from the Government, and why friends of Highways Voices VESOS and Valerann are among this week's winners of "Adrian's Accolade".

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Episode 144 – Unstoppable Validator with Vicki de Klerk-Rubin

Unstoppable Mindset

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2023 61:31

Our guest this week is Vicki de Klerk-Rubin. She is the director of the Validation Training Institute and a certified Validation master teacher. What is “Validation” and the “Validation method”? Listen in to see. Validation as Vicki and her mother developed and refined the concept is a better way to interact with and help people with diminishing cognitive skills. Our discussions are far ranging and relevant to anyone with a senior in their family who is having greater difficulties in relating to you. I believe this episode is extremely important for all of us to experience. Not only do the techniques Vicki discusses help with persons with cognitive challenges, but her processes can help anyone who wishes to do a better job of communicating with others. About the Guest: Vicki de Klerk-Rubin is the Executive Director of the Validation Training Institute and a certified Validation Master Teacher. She is the author of Validation Techniques for Dementia Care and Validation for First Responders. Together with her mother Naomi Feil, the founder of the Validation method, she co-authored the revisions of Validation: The Feil Method and The Validation Breakthrough. Ms. de Klerk-Rubin holds a BFA from Boston University, an MBA from Fordham University, and is a Dutch-trained registered nurse. Since 1989, Ms de Klerk-Rubin has given Validation workshops, lectures and training programs in Austria, Belgium, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States. She has also worked in long-term care in Amsterdam, leading Validation groups and training staff. Ways to connect with Vicki: VTI Site: https://vfvalidation.org/ YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM9PIB1v5YWqlwkraX7rh1Q Newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h2k7l7 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ValidationHelps LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/validation-training-institute/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/validationhelps?lang=en Vicki LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-de-klerk-4966348/ About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi, once again, it is Mike Hingson, your host for unstoppable mindset. Today we get to interview Vicki de Klerk Rubin, although I've been calling her Vicki declerck. She is the director of the validation Institute. And I'm not going to say more about that, because that's really kind of her job along with everything else that she gets to do. I met Vicki, what now a little over a month ago, and she went to spend time with children in Rhode Island, although she's over in the Netherlands. So Vicki, you haven't had mostly to put up with all of our crazy weather out here in California or was much of the crazy weather that the East has had have. You Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 02:02 know, we've had our own crazy weather here in the Netherlands. Michael Hingson ** 02:05 There you go. Well, welcome to unstoppable mindset. We're glad to have you here. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 02:11 And I'm glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me. Michael Hingson ** 02:15 So what kind of crazy weather Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 02:19 it's very, very cold, and then very, very warm, and tons of rain, which I suppose is fairly normal for the Netherlands at this time of year. Which is why we have such beautiful flowers here. Michael Hingson ** 02:35 Well, as long as the dikes continue to hold or somebody has a finger to put in the dikes, then we're okay. Yes, Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 02:41 we are all times you know, the Dutch send water experts around the world to help people deal with flooding. Michael Hingson ** 02:52 And, and I've heard stories of that I don't know a lot about although I've heard a couple of stories of ways that they have helped. I think there was something on 60 minutes here a few years ago about some of the things that the ducks had been doing to help with some of the flooding somewhere. And of course, it's a whole fascinating process to deal with all that and out here. We have just had so much rain and snow in California. There are places here in California up in the Sierras where we've already had over 670 inches of snow, just this year. Yeah, so that's like, over 55 feet of snow. It's crazy. And then we got a little bit more snow this week. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 03:39 Oh my goodness. Yeah, we're moving right into springtime here. All the daffodils are up and tulips are, you know, just everywhere, every color. It's quite spectacular. Wow. Well, that is a nice time of year to be here. Michael Hingson ** 04:00 I'm jealous. I think it was 40 degrees Fahrenheit this morning for a low? No, I'm sorry, it was 34 degrees Fahrenheit for a low. And now we're all the way up to 44. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 04:12 Spring is a common spring is Michael Hingson ** 04:15 eventually. Well tell me a little bit about you. Maybe sort of your early history and a younger Vicki and all that and kind of got to where you are on some of those things. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 04:27 Oh my goodness. Well, I was born in New York City. And I'll skip all the early youth stuff and jump straight to university. My first university was Boston University, where I got a bachelor of fine arts. And then I went off to New York City to work in theatre, Off Broadway and Broadway theater and on the administrative side and then I I'm I did an MBA and a night school because I felt I needed that. And then I met this handsome Dutch guy. And in 1986, I just dropped everything my career, my apartment, packed my bags and my everything and move to Amsterdam. And I've been overseas since then really, we got married, we have two children. He is just finishing up his job as a diplomat for the Dutch state department. And so we've moved around quite a bit. All over the place, Vienna twice Jordan, in the Middle East, we even had a posting to the wilds of New York City. Which was quite, it was strange, I have to tell you going back after so many years abroad, and it felt like a posting. So and that now we're here in The Hague, and that feels very comfortable. And workwise. As a young mother, I was doing all sorts of different volunteer stuff. And then my mother, who is Naomi file, and she founded the validation method, which is a way of communicating with very old people, or even not so old people, people who have some form of cognitive decline. And she developed this method in the 60s and the 70s. And then wrote about it in 1982, started the validation Training Institute in 1982. And I guess it was 1989. I was living in Vienna, I had to list small children, and she said, Can you help me revise my book, it's a little disorganized. And I said, Sure, that was a nice activity for me. So I got all her reference material, went through the book, revised it put in all the citations and the footnotes. And at the end of that process, it felt to me like I really understood the validation method. And I was asked to speak in some nursing home. And I said, Sure, I can talk about the validation method. So I went in. And at the end of my little our theme, song and dance, there was a very experienced nurse sitting in the front. And she had her arms crossed on her chest and leaned back and gave me this look. And she said, Well, that's all very nice and good. But what do you do when Mr. Smith spits at you? And I had to stop. Because I didn't know. And I went running back to the book, and realized, I really knew nothing. I had no practical experience. I it was all book knowledge. And validation is a practical method that was developed through trial and error. And my mom's practice in in working with older adults in a nursing home. So what I did was I started volunteering at a nursing home, and building up my practice. And then I went back to school and became a registered nurse to give myself some background, and I felt more secure with that knowledge. And in 2014, when my mom was, gosh, she was reaching 85 At that point, and she really didn't well at I guess at that point. She didn't want to keep doing the job of the executive director. And I had been taking bits and pieces of it from her to lighten her load over a decade. So it was at that point that I became the Executive Director of the validation Training Institute. And since that time, I've been well you'll appreciate appreciate this on Trying to professionalize it to the extent that I can retire. So that means building up enough of a financial position and marketing and all that business stuff. So that I can be free to do the fun stuff like, teach, or build curricula, things that I really love to do. Yeah, Michael Hingson ** 10:30 that's always the way of it that all too often, the business side of something gets in the way of doing what we really want to do, which is, as you said, to do the fun stuff to really have an active role in helping people even though the business part of it is really something that's necessary, inactive, but it is kind of important, I think, for most of us to want to get to the, to the real nitty gritty of doing some of the stuff rather than just doing the business part of it. I understand that feeling well. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 11:03 Hmm. Yeah, we're getting there slowly, but surely. Well, Michael Hingson ** 11:10 so tell me a little bit about the validation method, what it is, what are some of its basic principles? Hmm. And then I'm also curious to find out if Mr. Smith or any of his colleagues ever did spit at you. But that that's another question. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 11:28 I have never been spit at. Actually, I've never been bitten or hid. And I attribute that to the effectiveness of the validation method. And also knowing my limits. The basic concepts of the validation method are we acknowledge that all older adults with cognitive decline, will really every human being on this planet is unique and worthwhile. And that we should not try to change them. It's very important to recognize that people who are living with cognitive decline they are as they are, and they can't fix it. And the more we tried to change them, the more difficult the relationship becomes. So in validation, we'd go to their side of the street. That's was one of the things my mom said all the time that we have to cross the street to them, we can't expect them to come to us. So that means if an older adult who is missing, being a mom, and her children are all grown up, but she really misses that identity piece. And so as a very old woman living in perhaps a memory care community, and she goes wandering through the halls at three o'clock saying, I have to go pick up the children now that we, the validating caregiver doesn't say to this woman, now, Mrs. Declare, you know, your children are all grown now. That's reality orientation. And it does not speak to the basic human need of this woman whose need is to have identity to be a mom to be a good mom. And so we don't lie and say all you know what, someone else is picking up the kids today. I will know that that's a lie, because this is another principle of validation. All well, I don't want to use all or never or any of those extremes. Older adults who are living with cognitive decline on some level, really know what the truth is. It's just that that truths does not help them in that moment. And so it's easier to go to a personal reality that does fulfill the needs of the moment. So what the validation, validating caregiver would say in such a circumstances oh, what time did you always pick up your children? We don't lie in pretend this is not an acting class. And the woman might say, Oh, 330, they get out, and I always am there. And then I might say, always, my goodness, what a great mom, you were, was there ever a time when you couldn't when something happened? And then the old lady might say, well, there was this one time, I got held up by so much traffic, and I was late, and the kids were panicked. And I just, oh, it was a horrible thing. And then I can just be with her in that memory of that moment and say, What a scary thing. And then she can let it go, she can express it. This is another important validation principle, that painful emotions, when they are expressed to somebody who's really listening. Those feelings will lessen. But emotions that are pressed under and not expressed, will get bigger. And that's basic young, actually. Michael Hingson ** 16:17 Yeah, what's what's really going on is she's got a or whoever has a memory. And the memory is I always pick up the children at 330. And she doesn't know how to deal with the fact that she can't do that anymore. And that, and probably, as you said, on some level for most people, they know the kids are grown, they know that they can't pick them up. But that's still where she is. And that's what I hear you saying is that you have to approach them where they are, and help them deal with that memory and move to the point of saying, yeah, it is a memory. And they may never, they may never told knowledge, Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 17:03 and that's okay, our goal is not to change them. But to accept them the way they are. Yeah. It's a basic human need. Identity is a basic human need. Everyone has, no matter whether you're oriented or disoriented, or, or have seen impairment or a mobility impairment, everybody's needs to be accepted the way they are. Michael Hingson ** 17:36 Right, just we just don't do that. We are so far away from accepting people where they are. And the problem is, we view people in ways like, oh, this person is impaired, they don't see so they're impaired or they don't hear or whatever. And impaired is such a horrible concept. Because the reality is, people who see have their own impairment and their biggest impairment is they're locked into seeing. And when something happens where that eyesight doesn't work for them, they don't know what to do with it. And I mentioned that because we invented the electric light bulb, which really takes away most of the challenges of not being able to see, but we don't collectively as a society recognize that that disability still exists. And we haven't progressed to the point of recognizing that disability doesn't really mean lack of ability at all. And we oftentimes, it seems to me try to get people pigeon holed into one of these things where in one way or another, they're not as good as we are. And it's hard to get people out of that. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 18:52 My mom says when, when cognition goes, intuition grows. And what you were just talking about reminded me of that statement, when we're so busy thinking and remembering and and using our brain in that way, we often lose sight of intuition. And our gut. Yeah, whereas people who have lost some cognitive ability it's easier for them to flow with into something that can often be poetic. Yeah, Michael Hingson ** 19:53 people are are beautiful creatures and every single person is a beautiful creature. And as I tell Many people, when we talk about coming on the podcast, everyone has a story to tell. And it's important that we hear more of these stories. Several years ago, I was approached by some people at the 911 Memorial Institute in it well Museum, because they're collecting oral histories of the events surrounding September 11, from the standpoint of people who were there. And we, I was in in New York, actually in 2020. And we did an interview and actually ended up only being the first half of the interview. And the second half we just did yesterday. And it just made me realize all the more the importance of everyone telling their own stories, and us being open enough to hear those because it, it shows so much that we all can learn from listening to each other. And we just don't do nearly enough of that. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 21:01 So I'm listening extremely carefully right now. And if you don't mind, a little using, that is a segue. listening and observing, are two of the most important. I don't want to call it a technique, but it's certainly a prerequisite to validating you we have to really take in the other person with everything we have, so that we can respond to not just the words, but what's underneath the words. Michael Hingson ** 21:47 How do we teach people how to do that? Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 21:51 Ah, I spend a lot of time doing that actually. I start by saying, the first thing you need to do is to learn to center yourself, clear away your thoughts and feelings, create an open space within yourself, so that you can take in another person. And that's often the hardest part. Just people getting people to stop and breathe. Then there's the observing and listening to the other to the person you want to validate. And what do you see? And how do you feel? What What can you feel when you take in that other person. And then there's calibrating where you adjust yourself to match the other person. And that's a process of moving into empathy. I guess what we're talking about is how do you break down and teach people how to have empathy. And by empathy and validation, we mean, we go to the feelings of the other person, we don't judge it, we don't pretend or act it. We, for that moment, share the emotion that the other person is feeling. Yeah, Michael Hingson ** 23:42 and what I hear you saying on one level is you have to drop your own prejudices, you have to start really taking a major step back. And as you said, looking at people where they are, and really turning yourself into a sponge or an open book, and start at the beginning with each person that you interact with. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 24:09 The hardest validation I've ever had to do. I was working in an Austrian nursing home and there was an ex Nazi. And I come from a German Jewish family. So that was a kind of a loaded situation. And I was thinking, how am I ever going to have empathy with this Nazi because he was very open about it and still, you know, it's a shame that Hitler's gone. And when I went in there, I too did a lot of centering exercise. I did a lot of observation and Then I moved in to find a space between us that was comfortable for him. You have to answer validate or remove your own need for closeness or distance, you have to find that that boundary of the other person's space. And when I would shook his hand and said hello, he said something about his guys, his buddies, and I realized, haha, now I've got a connection point. Everybody wants to be part of a group, you don't want to be isolated and pushed out. So we had a marvelous talk actually about how important it is to have buddies and friends and people you can count on. Because I feel bad as well. So it's about finding those connections, those basic human needs that we all share. And then you can find the empathy with almost anybody. And that's what we teach when we teach the validation method. And that's just the first part then there are techniques, verbal techniques to use when the client expresses themselves verbally. And there are nonverbal techniques that you can use when the person has stopped communicating verbally. And we can still communicate with somebody, even when they're not communicating verbally. When they're pounding, for instance, or pacing, or just Num, num, num, num, num, num. You see that sometimes in memory care units. So we've got techniques where we can reach in, and we don't expect them to start talking. We don't expect people in wheelchairs to start walking. We just it's about connection, and communicating on a very human emotional level. Anybody can learn it, anybody I've taught geriatricians doctors, nurses, nursing assistants, social workers, and just plain carers, family members can work with this method. home caregivers, really, even the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker can use elements of validation method just within the community. Michael Hingson ** 28:07 You were, you're talking about the the the individual who is a Nazi? Do people want to use the validation method to change someone? And I and I gather from what they're saying is that that's not what the purpose of it is. So I can just see people asking that question Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 28:27 you would never ever use, you can't use the validation method to change somebody. Yeah, that's not its purpose. Michael Hingson ** 28:38 And that was my point. And I wanted to make sure that was really clear. It's about establishing empathy. It's about establishing Well, what some people might say is rapport. But it is all about empathy, to be able to have a discussion and it's the validation method isn't to change. It's to relate and establish a joint comfort zone, at least in part, Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 29:05 to connect with another human being. So that there's trust and to communicate on whatever level the other person wants to communicate whether verbally or non verbally at that moment. Michael Hingson ** 29:29 So when let's say you utilize the validation method to establish a connection and an lines of communications with someone who benefits Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 29:44 Well, both of us do, actually, the older adult benefits because they can express what's on their heart or mind and feel accepted self worth goes up. Because I'm there not to judge, I'm just there to be with them wherever they're at. And for me, it fills me with joy. You know, to connect with another human being, on a very deep level, for me brings joy. And I think for many hair partners, whether you're a professional or not professional, that's where you get your giggles is making those connections and feeling like I really, I really help somebody today. Michael Hingson ** 30:43 And then you go back and you discover, ah, it helped me too, Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 30:48 huh, exactly. Michael Hingson ** 30:51 And I think that's an extremely important part of it. Because the whole issue of who benefits everybody benefits, if you're able to communicate, we live in this world, word seems to be so hard to have conversations so hard to communicate, and establish connections. And when we really understand what establishing a good connection is, and we do it, that's just great for everyone. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 31:17 Agreed. Agree. And I'll also say when I'll use the validation method, because that's, you know, what we're talking about when an entire institution, and whether you call it a nursing home, or a memory care community, whatever the word is, when most of your people are working with validation, at least at a basic level, the entire feeling of the place changes, suddenly, people are not rushing around. There's not, there's no screaming, there's there's just, it feels more like a home. It was it's fun, I've had the pleasure of being in several communities where validation was truly integrated from top to bottom. And it's totally different than when you walk into a different kind of organization. So administrators benefit, the receptionist behind the front desk benefits. And as well as all the staff and the residents. How, Michael Hingson ** 32:49 how widely accepted is the whole concept of utilizing the validation method today. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 32:58 It's really, up and down throughout the world. We have got training centers in 14 different countries. I would say, funny enough, in the United States, we are less well known than say in Germany, Austria, where it's actually taught in nursing school. It's part of what students get when they learn gerontology, I had certainly integrated into most training in France. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 33:41 But the US is a big, and there are a lot of competitive methods out there. So we have to slowly get more and more recognition. And I think that's, that's happening. Michael Hingson ** 34:02 Is it also a situation where people tend to be more self centered, and they don't want to look beyond their own prejudices a lot. And I asked that question, because I spoke with someone on the podcast several weeks ago. And we were talking about how disabilities are handled around the country around the world. And one of the things that he said was that in many places, it's pretty overt or, yeah, absolutely overt and front up upfront about how people feel about people with disabilities. And in the United States. We pay lip service to what's supposed to be the right thing, but when it really comes down to it, we still in very subtle ways, haven't changed. And so I wonder if this is another one of those kinds of incidents. is where we're dealing with a lot of self centeredness. And people don't want to allow their barriers, much less working with others and helping those to get their barriers to be broken down, to get back to really conversing and communicating. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 35:20 Well, I had about a million thoughts as you're talking. So I'm not quite sure which one to start with. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 35:33 I, you know, I live in the Netherlands. I happen to be disabled, and mobility wise, I walk with crutches. So I can speak to this issue from that perspective. And I have to tell you, the United States in general, is way ahead than most countries in Europe when it comes to disability access, at least for mobility issues at, I think, also a sight and hearing. And that's because you have an incredible lobby, that has been pushing through laws and making it required. And we don't have that here in the Netherlands. So I have to say, it's, it's harder here. Yet, um, may I continue when I'm, on the other hand, when I'm in the United States, it may be easy access onto buses, and trams and all that stuff. But people have a tendency to be overly patronizing, Michael Hingson ** 36:59 solicitous, and so on. Yeah. Yeah. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 37:01 I know. They mean, well, but it just feels overly Oh, please don't stand Oh, and you shouldn't climb the stairs. Oh, you shouldn't? Oh, take care. And here in the Netherlands, they don't even notice. They'll trip over my crutch in before they actually see it. So is that better? Is that? Yeah, I don't know. Michael Hingson ** 37:28 Yeah. It's hard to make a qualitative decision about that. But I hear what you're saying. Yeah. I, luckily, ironically, here in the US, for example, it took, well, some people who happen to be blind wanting to take the LSAT to to become lawyers. And there were challenges because the organizations they were working with and the Bar Association, wouldn't let them use their assistive technologies to be able to read the tests and so on. And it took going to the Supreme Court, to get the Bar Association to be compelled to adhere to equal access really means equal access, not the way you define it, but you eat, you need to let people use what they're familiar with to be able to function and take the LSAT. And that was one of the things that flashed through my mind, which is why I asked the question what you were going to say, Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 38:32 Hmm, I think in the case of people who have cognitive issues, it's very easy for the rest of the world to put them down. Put them off to the side. I mean, when you think of nursing homes, in the old days, they were always outside of the cities, somewhere in the countryside where nobody had to see them. And people were patronized like crazy people were, well, they were treated really badly and in often locked up. Most memory care units are locked units. And that's just a prison. And the thinking behind that is oh, they don't know what's good for them. And that's very painful. i In some places, a nursing home it feels and looks and smells like a prison. And that's just not a way one should treat older adults. It's, it's brutal. But that's changing. And I must say I have to give honor to my mom, because she was the one who fought for decades against this medicalization of aging, against trying to change them. I mean, she is the one, she's the godmother of person centered care. And when people really get it and do that, you can't lock the front door, you have to find other ways to provide safety, or to really discuss what how important is safety? Or self determination? Because it's usually those two things that are being weighed. Do you know what I mean by do? Michael Hingson ** 40:54 I understand what you're saying. And I appreciate it, it goes back to all too often we think we're better than or we think we have the answers. And we don't know, we've we've never really taken the time to learn, we're sticking to our prejudices and our old ways of thinking. And so the result is that we think we know what we don't know. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 41:24 Well, and maybe we do know, in some cases, you know, if an old lady leaves the facility and crosses the street and doesn't look, she can get hit by a bus. We know that that's but locking her up, takes away her self determination. So what's more important for life? Or to be able to make choices? Health versus set self worth and identity and and agency in your own life? And I don't have an answer for that. I think, you know, every child should have that discussion with their parent as the parent gets older. And to say, all right, oh, how do you want to deal with I am worried about your health, or I am worried that you're gonna fall or you know, I don't think you should be driving be and I am frightened, there's going to be an accident. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 42:54 And to have discussions about that, not just tell the kids. That's the key, isn't it? So to speak. Yeah. Yeah. Worse, Michael Hingson ** 43:11 what are some things that you could teach, or examples you could give for people who are listening to this now, of techniques that they can bring into their own lives and what they do? Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 43:26 Well, I'll give you the most important one of all and that is centering. So if you would put your feet on the ground and sit in a somewhat relaxed position and take in a breath through your nose and exhale through your mouth. And as you breathe in through your nose, feel where the breath expands in your torso, follow that breath Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 44:16 and as you breathe, clear away your thoughts and feelings and just be with the breath. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 44:35 Take two or three extra breaths Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 44:45 and start to listen to the sounds surround you. You can move your shoulders. If you had your eyes closed, you can come back and open your eyes So that is a very short exercise, one of a dozen that we can use to find our center and get open. And I think that's the most important. Sometimes it's just taking the breath. If the listener already has a mindfulness practice or a meditative practice, great, the US that if you do Tai Chi, or one of the martial arts, I'm sure you're familiar with taking that breath and clearing it out. Because you have to be in that ready position. And when you go into communication, with an older adult, you have to be in the ready position, not to fight. But to connect. And the second technique that I'll give you is super simple. And that is Ask, Don't Tell. We try to when the other person is verbal, meaning they they can communicate with words, it's a great idea to ask open questions. Who, what, where, when, and how, and really try to avoid why. Because when somebody has cognitive decline, the Y can be too difficult. And it's not the important thing. Actually, the Y is often our curiosity at play. Well, why did you do that? Why did he do that? Michael Hingson ** 47:07 That person may not even know. Right? Right, can or can't verbalize it. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 47:14 Right? Or it's just not important. The why is not important to that person. But you know what happened? And when? Or how many or? Those are great questions to ask. So those are two techniques. And don't do the second without first doing the first, make sure that you center first. And then. Michael Hingson ** 47:44 And I would also submit that, well, both of those techniques, but especially the second, because the first is something that we should do. But the second also, there's something that we can do within ourselves. I have been a great advocate for a long time, about taking time at the end of the day to look at our own life experiences that day. What worked, what didn't work? Why didn't it work? And what worked? Might there be ways that we could make it better. And something that I, I talk about, and I didn't used to do, I used to use the term when I talk about doing speeches, and I will always record them and then go back and listen to them. And I've said I'm my own worst critic. And I've learned that's a horrible thing to say. Because it is such a negative concept as opposed to saying, I'm my own best teacher. And by listening, I can teach myself what to do better, but keep it in a positive sense. But again, at the end of the day, just look at everything and the things that didn't go well. Okay. What do I do so that that doesn't happen again, and teach myself something positive? It is something that we just don't do we always say we don't have time. I'm too busy. I can't do that we Yeah, you can. If it's gonna make you 150% Better why wouldn't you want to do that? Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 49:16 Yeah. One of the things I'm working on these days is integrating meditation into every day. And I'm not talking about deep our long sitting cross legged on the ground because a I cannot get onto the ground and be I don't have the time or the concentration to be honest to to do it for more than say 15 minutes. But I am now giving myself the the A breath to sit somewhere in the middle of the day when I feel it's time for a transition. And sometimes it's one minute, sometimes it's three minutes, sometimes it's 15 minutes, just to get quiet. And it feels like a gift. Yeah, Michael Hingson ** 50:27 it is so worth doing. And I am sure you would agree you benefit so much from doing that. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 50:36 Yeah, yes, yes, I do. And for me, it's helpful when I feel scattered in my head, and I've got too much to do and this and that new Yeah. Okay. All right. Drop it down to lightspeed. Because when I am feeling scattered in my head, I waste time. I, when you can't focus, you can't work as efficiently or effectively. So if I can find that concentration again, then I work so much better. I cross everything off my list. And that feels Michael Hingson ** 51:22 excellent. It goes back to recentering. Hmm, that's right. So in addition to learning to be a little bit more meditative, or learning to center yourself during the day, what other kinds of things are you working on now? Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 51:39 Well, the most exciting thing, at least for me, is I'm developing an online course, if validation for physicians. And I am, I wrote it with two physicians, their input was critical, because I can write something gorgeous, that I think is great. But if the physicians are not going to take it, or be interested, then I've done it for nothing. So they were very integral in helping me shape the curriculum. And I have a curriculum pedagogic expert who helped me refine it. And now I'm working on putting it together. And I'm hoping that will be done and ready for beta testing in the summer. Wonderful fun. So that's the creative work, I really love. Working going to hopefully speed starting to what when I say worker course that is our first level of certification. And it takes about nine months for somebody to become certified in the validation method. So it's a long process, but we I think we're going to be starting two courses, possibly a third towards the end of this year, and that's quite exciting. Michael Hingson ** 53:15 Have you developed any other courses for people who want to learn the validation method? Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 53:21 Absolutely. Well, we started with the certification courses. Level one is the worker that teaches you how to competently validate individual individuals, then level two is about validation group work. That is validating people, the four to eight disoriented people using group techniques, law, level three is presenter. And that's where you start learning how to present validation to others, whether it's a workshop or if you want to become a validation teacher, that's the next step. And to become a teacher, you need to co teach a level one course. And once you become a teacher, if you have done all the courses and worked in validation for five years, you can apply for Level Five certification. So it's all these people are extremely experienced and have integrated it into their bones. We have tons of other trainings, because not everybody wants these long, complicated certification courses. So we've got very simple online courses that look at an overview validation, that's good for pretty much anybody. We've got skill building blocks, which is super, for anybody who's working hands on with people who have different forms of dementia, we've got a special course for activity professionals, family caregivers, because family members are special, they, it's really harder to validate your mom or your dad, or your husband or your wife, or your sister. Because there's it's a complicated relationship. So we developed a whole training for families. And we have a family, we've got a special course for first responders, police, fire paramedic, with publication to go with it a workbook Michael Hingson ** 56:04 full of people want to learn more about you or about any of this and explore taking courses and so on, how do they do that? Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 56:13 Go to our website, hopefully, it's very clear. It's V F validation.org. O R G. And I'm sure Michael, you'll put it down. We somewhere where people can just click the button. And we've really made an effort to provide training at the level that people want it. Because just like in validation, where we go to the needs of the older adult. One of my guiding principles in this company has been, we need to serve the needs of our audience of our community. And that is everybody in the world, anybody who has aging parents, or grandparents, or meets older people in the community, or works with them in any professional way. Well, validation can be helpful Michael Hingson ** 57:25 when you and I met in an interesting way. And that is we were introduced by a colleague, Sheldon Lewis and accessiBe because he said that you were interested in accessibility and websites and so on. And we're glad of that. And that led to this, that we had a chance to really come on and spend an hour talking with you. And I hope that people will reach out, and that we're able to help enhance what you're doing. By giving you this opportunity to talk about validation and helping us to gain I hope a little bit better understanding of things that we can do. Vicki de Klerk Rubin ** 58:02 Well, thank you so much for guiding this interview in such a comfortable way. Michael Hingson ** 58:08 Well, we try. Needless to say, but I would again, encourage everyone encourage you who are listening, please reach out and learn about what Vicki is doing. And learn about this method because we will all find it useful to do. I also want to hear from you. I'd love to know what you think about our episode today. Please feel free to email me Michaelhi at accessiBe A C C E S S I B E.com. Or go to our podcast page www dot Michael Hingson H i n g s o n.com/podcast. And we are also putting this up on YouTube. And we're doing our best to make sure as many people know about it as possible. So you can help by giving us a five star rating wherever you're listening or watching this. Especially if you're on Apple and iTunes, please give us a five star rating to help people realize how valuable this is and that you like what we're doing. So again, thank you for doing that in advance. I hope to hear from you and Vicki, I want to thank you one more time for being with us today. And helping to show people that in reality there are things that we can learn to do to help make us more unstoppable than we ever thought we weren't. Thank you. **Michael Hingson ** 59:33 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. 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Foolish Thoughts #308: Performance Based Learning Objectives - Level Five

Foolish Thoughts by A Fool for Learning

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2023 2:43

Listen to a sample of verbs that one should use for writing good performance based learning objectives. In this episode, we will cover the verbs for Synthesis or Level Five based on Bloom's Taxonomy. #learningobjectives #performanceobjectives #training #learning #knowledge

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Shocking Revelations: Nurse Accused of Attempting to Kill Baby on Her 100th Day of Life #NurseTrial #BabyG

Dark Side of Wikipedia | True Crime & Dark History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 5:38

Description: The trial of nurse Lucy Letby, accused of attempting to murder a baby girl during her 100th-day celebration at the hospital, has captured the nation's attention. Born prematurely and having fought for survival, Baby G is now a quadriplegic with Level Five cerebral palsy, with her family and the public seeking justice for the unimaginable harm she has faced. As more details emerge, the chilling case sheds light on the vulnerability of innocent lives and the importance of trust and vigilance in healthcare settings. Want to listen to ALL of our Podcasts Ad-Free? Subscribe through Apple Podcasts, and try it for 3 days free: https://tinyurl.com/ycw626tj Follow Our Other Cases: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski (All Cases) - https://audioboom.com/channels/5040505-hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-breaking-news-commentary Chad & Lori Daybell - https://audioboom.com/channels/5098105-demise-of-the-daybells-the-lori-chad-daybell-story The Murder of Ana Walshe - https://audioboom.com/channels/5093967-finding-ana-this-disappearance-of-ana-walshe Alex Murdaugh - https://audioboom.com/channels/5097527-the-trial-of-alex-murdaugh The Idaho Murders, The Case Against Bryan Kohberger - https://audioboom.com/channels/5098223-the-idaho-murders-the-case-against-bryan-kohberger Lucy Letby - https://audioboom.com/channels/5099406-nurse-of-death-the-lucy-letby-story Follow Tony Brueski On Twitter https://twitter.com/tonybpod Join our Facebook Discussion Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/834636321133

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Heartbreaking Story: Baby G, Now Quadriplegic, Celebrated 100 Days Before Alleged Attack by Nurse #FighterBabyG #NurseTrial

Nurse Of Death: The Lucy Letby Story

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2023 5:38

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S2 E7: Level Five Leaders & Hedgehog Concept

CoffeeU

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 25:34

In this episode, Nathan, Brad, and Joshua dive into the concepts discussed in Jim Collins book Good to Great. They specifically hone in on the details of Level 5 leaders and the hedgehog model. Check out Jim Collins site and purchase Good to Great here Nathan is the president and co-founder of Baba Java Coffee. He founded Baba Java Coffee alongside his son, Joshua Parvin in 2018. Nathan serves as the big-picture visionary that pioneers strategic growth in all internal and external Baba Java endeavors. Brad is the Vice President of Operations and long-time close friend to Nathan. Brad inspired the business concept at the very heart of Baba Java and continues to instill their values in day-to-day operations. Without Brad, Baba Java would not exist as it is today. Joshua Parvin is the Baba Java International Lead and co-founder of Baba Java Coffee. He founded Baba Java Coffee alongside his dad, Nathan Parvin. Josh serves as both a big visionary and day-to-day manager at Baba Java Coffee. Take Our Coffee Profile Quiz Try Our Coffee https://www.babajavacoffee.com/buy/p/coffee-sample-box Let's Connect Instagram | Facebook | YouTube | Website

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How To Go Viral & Raise Millions From Investors | Millionaire Dating Expert Kong Pham

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2023 35:42

Kong Pham, Founder/CEO of Jumpcut and Blu Yam, joins us in the sauna to talk about Simple Pickup and its growth into a multi-million dollar YouTube channel, being in Y Combinator and raising millions from investors, and his favorite strategies to go viral on social media. Add us on Instagram: Kong Pham: https://www.instagram.com/kong408Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagicAndrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikhDon't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Kong Pham: https://www.youtube.com/KongPhamAndrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikhJen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic 00:00 - Kong Pham 00:55 - LEVEL ONE 05:21 - Pickup challenges 09:18 - Overcoming the fear of failure/rejection 13:16 - LEVEL TWO 13:53 - Squeegee Time 14:49 - Kong's secret to cracking Reddit's algorithm 16:58 - When did Kong start using Reddit as part of his strategy? 20:44 - LEVEL THREE 21:32 - How to make your content go viral 27:19 - Would Simple Pickup content work today? 27:53 - How much money did Simple Pickup make? 28:24 - Being in Y Combinator 31:28 - LEVEL FOUR 32:43 - What is Jumpcut? 33:55 - What's in the box? 34:23 - LEVEL FIVE #podcast #finance #socialmedia #dating #millionaire

What Anne Hathaway & The Rock Are Really Like | CHRIS VAN VLIET

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2023 40:59

Chris Van Vliet, 4-time Emmy Award-winning TV host and content creator, joins us in the sauna to talk about interviewing celebrities including The Rock and Harrison Ford, life lessons learned from interviews over the years, and his viral moment with Anne Hathaway. Add us on Instagram: Chris Van Vliet: https://www.instagram.com/chrisvanvliet Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Chris Van Vliet: https://www.youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic 00:00 - Chris Van Vliet 00:44 - LEVEL ONE 01:01 - What does it take to win an Emmy Award? 03:24 - What The Rock is really like 04:16 - Life lessons learned from interviews 07:03 - How to bring out the best in people 08:22 - Does Chris ever get nervous during interviews? 09:35 - LEVEL TWO 11:32 - The interview with Anne Hathaway that went viral 14:27 - Harrison Ford story 20:40 - LEVEL THREE 22:16 - Perspective on failure 23:10 - How Chris got his first jobs on TV 28:08 - LEVEL FOUR 32:02 - Chris and his wife Rachel are expecting a baby girl 34:13 - Has Chris had an income goal? 37:59 - Digital media and traditional media 39:49 - LEVEL FIVE #podcast #interview #celebrities #media #tvhost

Scott Thompson, Managing Director at Level Five Capital Partners

Franchise Today

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2023 34:00

Scott Thompson is Chief Development Officer and Managing Director of all the brands, operating under the Level Five Capital Partners banner, most notably Big Blue Swim Schools. Scott is a strategic Franchise Executive, and Lifelong Learner, and Planner. He is also a Data Driven Sales and Marketing Executive that continuously innovates and leverages technology to the nth degree, to accelerate growth across all the brands he is aligned with. His specialties: Franchise Development, Lease Negotiations, Real Estate, Financing, Sales and marketing training, Franchise law, Corporate startups, Business Coaching, Partnership Development, and Teambuilding and Technology. And he joins us this week, to talk about all of that and more.

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Il memoriale Moro. Parla Miguel Gotor

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2023 144:03

Siena, 18 maggio 2011, nona giornata del seminario «Il lavoro culturale» organizzato dall'associazione «Level Five. Centro studi Marco Dinoi». Presentazione del libro di Miguel Gotor «Il memoriale della Repubblica. Gli scritti di Aldo Moro dalla prigionia e l'anatomia del potere italiano». Intervento iniziale e moderazione del dibattito a cura di Francesco Zucconi. Tra gli argomenti toccati da Gotor: a) i tre «pilastri» di un lavoro complesso: l'intrigo del caso Moro, le dinamiche di funzionamento del potere italiano, il taglio e la riflessione di carattere generazionale; b) che cos'è il memoriale Moro? Dal carattere di «memoria difensiva» al valore «testamentario o testimoniale»; c) la genesi del libro e il rapporto con le lettere dalla prigionia; d) «non mi limito a raccontare» cosa c'è scritto nel memoriale, «ma come questi testi sono arrivati fino a noi»; e) un memoriale «che non esiste in originale» e che «compare in due diversi momenti nel tempo»; f) 1 ottobre 1978. L'irruzione dei carabinieri in via Monte Nevoso, a Milano; g) il secondo «ritrovamento» del 1990; h) la polemica della «manina» e della «manona» tra Craxi e Andreotti; i) un problema metodologico. Il tema e il ruolo delle note all'interno di un'opera a carattere storico; l) il concetto di verità storica; m) il tentativo di far sì che la ricerca sia un momento di formazione dell'opinione pubblica; n) lo studio sul come funzionino le istituzioni democratiche sotto l'attacco del terrorismo politico; o) le fotocopie di manoscritto «osservate, censurate e ricollocate» al loro posto; p) una prova storica e logica; q) «gli originali degli scritti? Le Br se ne sono privati»; r) «un ostaggio che muore e gli originali delle sue carte che scompaiono»; s) il pianto di Bonisoli durante «La notte della Repubblica»; t) «un deserto attraversato da una intera generazione»Questo show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/4704678/advertisement

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#86 -- Make Training Fun for Better Performance (p.1 of 2 with Hunter Allen)

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2023 83:14

Episode 86 (this episode) Part 1: basic training principles, key training & physiology terms, simplified training intensity levelsEpisode 87: Part 2: deep dive into "no man's land" and sweetspot, how to prioritize training efforts, and more on why building in fun is the key Hunter Allen Bio: Ex-Pro cyclistPeaks Coaching Group Founder, CEOUSAC Level 1 Coach …. Focusing on : Road Cyclists, MTB and TriCo-Founder TrainingPeaks WKOCo-Author “ Training and Racing with a Power Meter ” Co-Author " Triathlon Training With Power "Co-Author “ Cutting Edge Cycling ”2008 Olympic USA BMX Team Technical CoachAnd, it should be noted, still a super fit dude (298 FTP) Peaks Coaching Group: http://www.peakscoachinggroup.com/ Download slides from Hunter Notes 5 Levels of Intensity Countdown (the Wise Athletes simplified version) LEVEL FIVE (5): Short maximum output efforts above threshold. This level includes VO2max testing efforts (so a 10 second flying 200 on the track to a 5 minute VO2Max effort), — you are using everything you got. All out for a short time. Pacing is hard without practice but what is notable is how, even with proper pacing, you fail to maintain the power output after a very short time. This is similar to weight lifting…the bigger the weight, the fewer the reps. The fast twitch muscles fatigue quickly from using up ATP and accumulation of waste products that make the muscle environment more acidic and interfere with the muscle function. At this level, oxygen is the limiter. After a rest, the muscle recovers and can go again but not quite as well. This process can be repeated a few times but the fast twitch muscle will get fatigued (maybe damaged?) and need to heal and adapt before the next effort (hopefully a couple days hence if you went to failure). At this level, you really need a power meter or smart trainer to measure your power output for the training interval. HR won't help because of the delay in HR response. LEVEL FOUR (4): Lactate threshold / FTP/ steady state (around an hour) — it's a concept as much as it's a power output that can be sustained as long as glucose is available to burn and lactate can be cleared and used by the mitochondria. Similar to this is the Functional Threshold Power….It's called functional because an hour is a nice round number and is approximately the time needed to complete a 40k TT which is a standard TT distance in cycling. This might also be about the time it takes to burn through available glucose. You are breathing heavily but steadily. You are not talking. At this level, if you paced it correctly, glucose is the limiter, not oxygen. A power meter is helpful but you could also do an FTP test based on distance covered in 1 hour or time to compete 25 miles. LEVEL THREE (3) Tempo / Sweetspot (also called “no man's land”) is in-between lactate threshold and endurance pace. This is where racing lives unless it is a very short or very long race. This is advertised as being more time-efficient than polarized training. Sweetspot is the high end, just below Threshold, while Tempo is the lower end, just above Endurance/FatMax level. LEVEL TWO (2): Endurance/ fat max (a long time). This is the famous Zone 2

B029 - Campaign Builder - Boss Fight (Level Five)

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2022 70:52

Boss fights are iconic, traditional, and memorable, but how do you build up to a good one? How do you find the balance and keep the players on the edge of their seats? In this long-overdue episode, Dan and Adam sit down and discuss their inspirations and their tactics for handling Big Bad Evil Guys. Takeaways: - There's more than one way to monologue for your bad guys - Setting is key - A boss fight doesn't have to end with a kill - Have some loose contingencies Disclaimer 0:00 Intro 0:38 Boss Battles 1:55 Encounters 42:41 Outro 1:08:17 DON'T FORGET TO LIKE & SUBSCRIBE! Available On: Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/show/3Y19VxSxLKyfg0gY0yUeU1 Apple Podcasts at https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/its-a-mimic/id1450770037 YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzQmvEufzxPHWrFSZbB8uuw Info: Episode Guide at Episode Guide : ItsaMimic (reddit.com) Email at info@itsamimic.com Social: Website at https://www.itsamimic.com Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/ItsaMimic/ Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/itsamimic/?hl=en Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/itsamimic/ DM 1: Dan O'Coin DM 2: Adam Nason Written by: Adam Nason and Dan O'Coin Director: Dan O'Coin and Adam Nason Audio Editor: Adam Nason Video Editor: Adam Nason Executive Producer: Dan O'Coin and Adam Nason Intro/Outro Music by: Cory Wiebe All other music provided by Tyler Gibson at https://www.instagram.com/melodicasmusic Logo by: Katie Skidmore at https://www.instagram.com/clementineartportraits/ This post or video may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission for purchases made through our links. This episode is meant to be used as an inspirational supplement for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition and tabletop roleplaying games in general. It's A Mimic! does not own the rights to any Wizards of the Coasts products. Artwork included in this episode's video visualizations is published and/or owned by Wizards of the Coast.

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Meet The Viral Stunt Magician | XAVIER MORTIMER

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2022 39:34

We talk with Xavier Mortimer about getting billions of views and making six figures per post on social media, while also headlining his Las Vegas magic show. Add us on Instagram: Xavier Mortimer: https://www.instagram.com/xaviermortimer Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Xavier Mortimer: https://www.youtube.com/@xavier_mortimer Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic 00:00 - Xavier Mortimer 00:31 - LEVEL ONE 00:40 - What does Xavier do? 04:34 - What is the most money Xavier has spent on a video? 05:40 - How does Xavier come up with video ideas? 07:46 - How does Xavier balance quality vs. quantity in creating social media content? 08:30 - Does Xavier have a social media posting schedule? 09:12 - Does Xavier get permission when filming at a store? 11:08 - LEVEL TWO 11:30 - Squeegee Time 12:26 - How much can someone earn from social media? 15:58 - Which social media platform does Xavier prefer? 17:17 - Who were Xavier's biggest inspirations growing up? 20:53 - LEVEL THREE 21:16 - Xavier likes to go to the mountains 23:04 - Is Xavier more passionate about performing live on stage? 24:10 - How does Xavier balance his time between social media and his show? 25:31 - Xavier and Jen talk about the process of making changes to their shows 28:30 - LEVEL FOUR 28:41 - Has Xavier ever had a magic trick go wrong? 31:16 - Who is on Xavier's team? 33:13 - How many people at Xavier's live show are coming from social media? 34:07 - The story of Xavier's career 36:18 - How does Xavier respond to criticism? 38:09 - LEVEL FIVE

YouTube Growth Secrets & Building A 7-Figure Brand | SEAN CANNELL - Think Media

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 30, 2022 53:29

Sean Cannell, CEO of Think Media and co-founder of Video Influencers, joins us in the sauna to talk about how to grow on YouTube and stand out in your industry, different income streams for creators, how to hire well and grow a team, and more. Add us on Instagram: Sean Cannell: https://www.instagram.com/seancannell Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Think Media: https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkMediaTV Video Influencers: https://www.youtube.com/@videoinfluencers Sean Cannell: https://www.youtube.com/@seanTHiNKs Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic 00:00 - Sean Cannell 00:40 - LEVEL ONE 01:04 - Who is Sean Cannell? 01:59 - How did Sean grow his team? 04:52 - How did Sean transition to YouTube full-time? 08:21 - How did Sean initially decide what kind of content to make? 10:09 - LEVEL TWO 10:21 - Squeegee Time 11:09 - What is TAM (Total Addressable Market)? 14:19 - The 3 Ps Framework (Passion, Proficiency and Profit) 17:30 - How to stand out in an already-full industry 21:23 - LEVEL THREE 22:07 - What are some income streams for creators, and how much money can they make? 28:36 - How much money does Sean make from his YouTube channel? 30:17 - What's Sean's biggest revenue source? 33:21 - Has the iOS 14 update affected Think Media's advertising? 36:12 - What has Sean learned about hiring? 42:35 - LEVEL FOUR 43:03 - Why is Sean optimistic? 47:25 - How does Sean handle criticism? 51:24 - LEVEL FIVE

From The Pentagon To Real Estate Investing | Meet The Man With 3+ Careers

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2022 82:16

Marck Cobb has flown 142 combat missions in Southeast Asia as a U.S. Air Force command pilot, he's been a deputy chief for long-range planning at the Pentagon, a diplomat, a Chief Financial Officer, an attorney who worked as general counsel for an insurance company, an author, and he's currently traveling the world in his retirement. Marck shares fascinating stories and words of wisdom with us in this episode of Don't Sweat It, the show inside a sauna. Add us on Instagram: Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic 00:00:00 - Marck Cobb 00:00:59 - LEVEL ONE 00:01:43 - Where did Marck attend school, and what was his first job? 00:05:58 - Being a command pilot in the U.S. Air Force 00:09:03 - How did Marck buy his first house? 00:10:52 - LEVEL TWO 00:11:31 - Swimming and running during lunchtime 00:13:05 - How much is Marck's pension from serving in the Air Force? 00:16:42 - What motivated Marck to change careers? 00:19:37 - LEVEL THREE 00:21:07 - How did Marck get into commercial real estate? 00:25:48 - What was the day-to-day like in Marck's different careers? 00:27:09 - What advice does Marck have for young people starting their careers? 00:28:19 - Did money motivate Marck? 00:32:50 - LEVEL FOUR 00:34:20 - Has Marck always made time to enjoy life? 00:36:52 - LEVEL FIVE 00:37:04 - Marck's book, Uncommon Sense 00:37:55 - COOLDOWN 00:38:22 - Marck's childhood story about gifting a vase to his grandmother 00:39:37 - What has Marck learned from his parents and grandparents? 00:41:35 - The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz 00:46:51 - What is the Charitable Remainder Unitrust? 00:51:14 - Marck discusses his investments in land 00:53:52 - Marck's thoughts on different types of investments (residental vs. commercial real estate, etc.) 00:56:04 - One of Marck's favorite investment books 00:57:15 - Marck's perspective on cryptocurrency, the metaverse and new technology 01:02:21 - Marck's experiences traveling the world 01:04:32 - How to book inexpensive flights 01:09:12 - What are Marck's best tips for traveling on a budget? 01:11:47 - Jen's trip to India with Magicians Without Borders 01:15:48 - Marck recounts his trip to Tanzania 01:16:38 - Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro 01:18:25 - What are Marck's favorite places he's visited?

Sweating It Out With Norma Geli | The Las Vegas Influencer

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 67:24

Norma Geli shares the secrets of Las Vegas and YouTube on this episode of Don't Sweat It, the show inside a sauna! ► Skip the waitlist and invest in blue-chip art for the very first time by signing up for Masterworks: https://masterworks.art/andreijikh Purchase shares in great masterpieces from artists like Pablo Picasso, Banksy, Andy Warhol, and more. See important Masterworks disclosures: https://www.masterworks.com/about/disclosure?utm_flag=www.masterworks.io+redirect Add us on Instagram: Norma Geli: https://www.instagram.com/norma.geli Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Norma Geli: https://www.youtube.com/c/NormaGeli Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic 00:00:00 - Norma Geli 00:00:40 - LEVEL ONE 00:02:40 - What did Norma do for work before YouTube? 00:03:35 - How did Norma start collaborating with like-minded YouTubers? 00:05:05 - How much money did Norma make as a concierge in Las Vegas? 00:05:34 - When did Norma transition to doing YouTube full-time? 00:09:40 - LEVEL TWO 00:11:32 - Squeegee Time 00:12:09 - How much money does Norma make from YouTube? 00:13:10 - How much money did Norma have saved up when she quit her concierge job? 00:14:30 - What is Norma's RPM on YouTube? 00:16:02 - How much money does Norma make from sponsorships? 00:17:44 - LEVEL THREE 00:18:35 - Hidden gems in Las Vegas 00:20:47 - Does Norma gamble? 00:22:06 - One of Norma's favorite restaurants in Las Vegas 00:23:24 - How often does Norma get recognized in Las Vegas? 00:26:14 - Which nightclubs does Norma recommend in Las Vegas? 00:30:34 - What direction is Las Vegas heading in? 00:33:00 - Super Karaoke at the Westgate SuperBook 00:33:17 - What are some great shows in Las Vegas? 00:35:01 - LEVEL FOUR 00:35:33 - What are the best free attractions in Las Vegas? 00:36:26 - What are upcoming trends in Las Vegas? 00:37:21 - LEVEL FIVE 00:38:52 - COOLDOWN 00:39:43 - Which of Norma's videos performed better than she expected? 00:43:18 - Have any of Norma's subscribers asked her out? 00:46:35 - Norma takes a subscriber out on a Las Vegas date 00:51:08 - The story of Jen and Dylan meeting 00:52:37 - Norma's ideas for future videos 00:55:59 - If Norma were a drink, what drink would she be? 01:00:15 - Norma's growth on YouTube

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Meet The King Of Side Hustles | Joshua Mayo

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 72:20

We talk with Joshua Mayo about making money creating finance videos on YouTube, how he's grown his YouTube channel, his thoughts on the best side hustles and more. Add us on Instagram: Joshua Mayo: https://www.instagram.com/realjoshuamayo/ Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Joshua Mayo: https://www.youtube.com/c/Joshua MayoAndrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic Check out Joshua's wife Courtney's jewelry company: danawaco.com #podcast #finance #youtube #money #business 00:00:00 - Joshua Mayo 00:00:38 - LEVEL ONE 00:00:56 - Who is Joshua Mayo? 00:01:48 - How did Joshua's upbringing shape him? 00:07:26 - One of the most impactful experiences Joshua has had 00:10:04 - LEVEL TWO 00:10:27 - Squeegee Time 00:11:33 - What was Joshua doing for work before YouTube? 00:18:39 - How much money does Joshua make from YouTube? 00:20:07 - LEVEL THREE 00:20:38 - Squeegee Time 00:21:21 - How did Joshua grow in the personal finance space on YouTube? 00:27:28 - Understanding people's perceptions of you on YouTube 00:29:02 - Importance of self-awareness 00:29:58 - Joshua and his wife's goal to be brutally honest 00:32:19 - LEVEL FOUR 00:32:58 - How is Joshua investing his money? 00:33:17 - Investing in his wife's jewelry business 00:34:22 - How will Joshua teach his kids about money? 00:36:29 - Introducing walkie-talkies to communicate with Dylan 00:37:26 - LEVEL FIVE 00:37:48 - Joshua's growth on YouTube 00:38:08 - Joshua's wife's jewelry company 00:38:38 - COOLDOWN 00:38:44 - Where is Joshua planning to take his channel in the future? 00:40:53 - Did Joshua know who he wanted to make videos for when he started his channel? 00:41:52 - Being fluid with YouTube content 00:43:14 - What's the best side hustle right now? 00:46:40 - Is YouTube a good avenue for everyone? 00:47:45 - Where did Joshua learn his cinematography/video production skills? 00:50:59 - Joshua's connection with his audience 00:52:37 - OnlyFans 00:53:49 - What's the #2 best side hustle? 00:54:37 - Andrei's Airbnb side hustle before YouTube 00:56:17 - Purple Cow by Seth Godin 00:56:48 - Video production is a great side hustle 00:59:24 - Does Joshua watch the market? 01:00:08 - Does Joshua have any alternative investments? 01:03:22 - Does Joshua tell people how much money he makes? 01:05:25 - Why Joshua is getting a Rolex 01:07:42 - What advice would Joshua give to someone who's 25 years old? 45? 65?

From 0 to $10 Million | The Man Behind Social Media Ads

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2022 32:25

We talk with Dylan Vanas about how his social media marketing agency and software company make millions. Add us on Instagram: Dylan Vanas: https://www.instagram.com/dylanvanas Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic #podcast #finance #socialmedia #marketing 00:00 - Dylan Vanas 00:41 - LEVEL ONE 01:10 - What does Dylan do for a living, and how much do his companies make? 03:06 - What do Dylan's companies (AgencyBox and Monopolize) do? 05:14 - Do the strategies that Dylan's companies use evolve over time as social media changes? 05:43 - How to be ahead of the algorithm 06:31 - What are Dylan's clients' goals? 08:29 - Should a person new to YouTube use marketing agencies? 09:33 - LEVEL TWO 10:14 - What's the breakdown of prices that Dylan's companies charge for their services? 11:17 - Is buying bots on social media a helpful strategy? 13:01 - Doing giveaways to gain followers on social media 15:17 - LEVEL THREE 15:38 - Squeegee time 16:26 - Selling a million dollars' worth of sugar gliders while touring the country 19:29 - Dylan hitchhiked with sugar gliders 20:21 - Working hard and overcoming difficulties 20:51 - How did Dylan transition from sugar gliders to his next business? 22:13 - LEVEL FOUR 23:26 - Was it challenging to transition into marketing? 24:56 - Experiencing doubt and uncertainty 25:49 - How did Dylan scale his business, and could anyone replicate his success? 28:34 - How does AgencyBox fulfill on all its services? 29:29 - How many people work for Dylan's companies? 30:20 - LEVEL FIVE 30:39 - It's much hotter towards the top of the sauna

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Living With A Roommate (As A Millionaire)

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2022 31:27

What it's like to live with a roommate as a millionaire. Add us on Instagram: Angelo B. Clinton: https://www.instagram.com/angelobclinton Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic #podcast #finance #business #youtube #sauna 00:00 - Angelo B. Clinton 00:44 - LEVEL ONE 01:19 - When did Andrei and Angelo first become friends? 04:07 - How did Andrei and Angelo reconnect after falling out of touch for six years? 05:00 - How did Angelo's ex-girlfriend hurt his credit score? 07:21 - LEVEL TWO 08:16 - How Angelo increased his income by moving between companies 11:50 - How long did it take Angelo to get his first videography job, and what was his starting salary? 12:26 - Angelo's top tips for taking better photos and videos 14:06 - LEVEL THREE 14:28 - Squeegee time! 14:58 - The king of side hustles 16:33 - Paying for college by selling sneakers 18:03 - What's the most expensive pair of sneakers Angelo has ever bought and sold? 18:34 - What makes a shoe valuable? 20:03 - How does Angelo spend his money now? 21:27 - LEVEL FOUR 22:37 - How Andrei got his United States citizenship 22:50 - What does it mean to be a DACA recipient? 23:52 - How Angelo retired his mom when he was 24 years old 25:56 - Ouija board stories from Andrei and Angelo's childhood 30:13 - LEVEL FIVE

"Level Five: The Gift Of Prophecy" | Level Up: Holy Ghost Upgrade | Pastor Bobby Chandler

Authentic Church

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2022 47:58

We are happy that you have chosen to listen to the Authentic Church Podcast! Be sure to subscribe so that you never miss a message! If you feel lead to give to this ministry, you can securely give online here: https://bit.ly/AuthenticChurchGiving There are a number of ways you can connect with us: Attend in person with us: 2416 N Center St Hickory, NC 28601 Sundays at 9:30am & 11:00am Watch live and any time online at: https://www.youtube.com/authenticchurch Check out our website for more information: https://wwwauthenticchurch.com. STAY CONNECTED TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/@iambobbychandler Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authenticchurch Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/authenticonlinetv Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/authenticchurch NEXT STEPS Have you made a decision to follow Jesus? Want to learn more about Authentic Church? Interested in serving? You may be wondering what's next on your journey. We want to help! Let us guide you to your next steps in your walk with Christ. Use the Next Steps Launcher on our website so that we may assist you! https://www.authenticcchurch.com. ABOUT AUTHENTIC CHURCH Authentic Church exists so that people will have an authentic encounter with God, be set free, and grow in Christ. Our mission is to help each person at Authentic believe in Jesus, belong to family, inspire true worship, walk in God's Spirit, and build the kingdom of God. Learn more about us at https://www.authenticchurch.com

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FTM 423: The Building Blocks of Financial Freedom (Part 5)

Follow the Money Weekly Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2022 53:32

On this week's broadcast, Jerry Robinson concludes our series on achieving financial freedom by applying time-tested principles in a disciplined manner. This episode focuses on Level Five of our 5 Levels of Financial Freedom, which is all about advanced and speculative investing strategies. Don't miss this special episode that is jam-packed with vital financial concepts you need to succeed!

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Meet The Man Who Makes $8.5 Million Selling Candy | MAXX CHEWNING

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2022 42:38

We talk with Maxx Chewning about how his company makes millions selling sour candy! Add us on Instagram: Maxx Chewning: https://www.instagram.com/maxxchewning Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Maxx Chewning: https://www.youtube.com/c/maxxchewning Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic #podcast #finance #maxxchewning #youtube #sauna 00:00 - Maxx Chewning 00:53 - LEVEL ONE 02:24 - How did Maxx transition from content creator to business owner? 04:19 - What are the problems with the sour candy industry? 06:37 - How did Sour Strips get into big retail stores nationwide? 08:49 - LEVEL TWO 09:10 - How much money did it cost to start Sour Strips? 11:17 - What is unique about Sour Strips compared to other products? 13:26 - What was the manufacturer's minimum requirement for Sour Strips' first order? 14:46 - What is Sour Strips' retail price? 14:59 - Sour Strips as a company is separate from Maxx's personal brand 18:23 - Would Maxx ever want his company to go public? 20:05 - LEVEL THREE 20:27 - Squeegee Time 21:02 - How much money did Sour Strips make last year, and how many bags of candy have they sold? 23:41 - How many employees does Maxx have, and what does each employee do? 26:17 - How much money does Maxx make on YouTube? 28:24 - How much money does Maxx make from sponsorships? 30:41 - What is Maxx's guilty pleasure? 31:43 - Maxx almost didn't launch Sour Strips 33:07 - Has Maxx ever bought something to reward himself? 34:39 - What is Maxx investing in right now? 36:56 - Deciding whether to sell or wait when an investment is down 38:27 - LEVEL FOUR 39:04 - What is Maxx's portfolio worth? 40:05 - What are Maxx's future plans? 40:57 - LEVEL FIVE 41:31 - Maxx wants to start a gaming channel

Confronting Meet Kevin | Behind His $30 Million Dollar Empire

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2022 81:46

Confronting MeetKevin about the truth behind his $30 million dollar empire. Welcome to the show inside a sauna, hosted by Andrei Jikh and Jen Kramer. As the temperature rises, the conversation heats up! Add us on Instagram: Meet Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/meetkevin Jen Kramer: https://www.instagram.com/jenkramermagic Andrei Jikh: https://www.instagram.com/andreijikh Don't Sweat It: https://www.instagram.com/dontsweatitclips Subscribe to us on YouTube: Meet Kevin: https://www.youtube.com/c/meetkevin Andrei Jikh: https://www.youtube.com/AndreiJikh Jen Kramer: https://www.youtube.com/JenKramerMagic #podcast #finance #meetkevin #youtube #sauna 00:00:00 - Meet Kevin 00:01:03 - LEVEL ONE 00:02:56 - Titanic reference - metaphor for the economy 00:05:38 - Kevin's career trajectory from real estate to YouTube to politics 00:12:26 - LEVEL TWO 00:13:14 - How much money did Kevin make from Youtube in 2021? 00:17:03 - What is Kevin's ultimate goal? 00:18:58 - Why did Kevin run for Governor of California? 00:23:50 - How does Kevin produce his videos? 00:26:05 - LEVEL THREE 00:26:33 - What does Kevin's portfolio look like? 00:29:44 - When has Kevin been wrong on YouTube? 00:32:46 - Is Kevin a flip flopper? 00:35:58 - Will Kevin be on YouTube long-term? 00:37:09 - LEVEL FOUR 00:37:44 - Where does Kevin's work ethic come from? 00:42:37 - What happened to Millennial Money? 00:43:42 - LEVEL FIVE 00:44:37 - Kevin's Series A 00:46:28 - COOLDOWN 00:47:27 - Does Kevin see himself living in California long-term? 00:53:10 - Being a flip flopper 00:57:52 - How Kevin approaches the fear of failure 01:03:04 - The AMC community 01:05:54 - Andrei's theory about YouTube 01:07:55 - Kevin quits YouTube 01:09:32 - Kevin talks about getting charged with a DUI 01:11:19 - Andrei's approach to negativity on YouTube 01:16:33 - Kevin's motto is to “fail forward” 01:17:24 - When Kevin makes a mistake, how does he handle it internally? 01:19:35 - How Logan Paul handles making mistakes 01:20:37 - Kevin is going to play poker with Jeremy

125 - Level Five Local Guide

Two Cees in a Pod

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2022 64:39

This week, we tackle the worst possibilities from Cam's wedding with some March Madness and we get a full episode of Stan and Larry on Miami VIce. Remember to reach out to us at twoceesinapod@gmail.com

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Sweating It Out With Graham Stephan | Money, Love & Friendships

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 1, 2022 29:32

Episode Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3yFigXj5H7NLWTsAAcp01vtCMIXTPon 00:00 - Graham Stephan 00:23 - LEVEL ONE 00:35 - The Hot Coffee Hour 00:56 - Jen magically multiplies money 02:38 - Graham loves Shark Tank and Kevin O'Leary 03:08 - Is there a product Graham would pitch on Shark Tank? 03:38 - How is Bankroll Coffee doing? 04:19 - Graham's advice on podcasting 04:37 - Early days of The Iced Coffee Hour podcast 05:24 - Taking the podcast on the road 05:54 - Graham's advice for our podcast 06:12 - LEVEL TWO 06:57 - How much money did Graham make from YouTube last year? 07:14 - How much does Graham expect to make from YouTube this year? 07:34 - YouTube ad rates and viewership this year 08:33 - A trend in the finance space on YouTube 09:35 - Long-form documentary videos are doing well on YouTube right now 11:05 - Will Graham continue doing YouTube indefinitely? 12:08 - What has surprised Graham about being a YouTuber? 12:59 - How Graham and Andrei first met 14:01 - The YouTuber lamp 14:47 - LEVEL THREE 15:03 - Squeegee break 15:31 - Graham's thoughts on our podcast's format 15:53 - Graham's passion for reef aquariums 17:59 - The collector mentality as it relates to being a good investor 19:12 - Graham wanted to be a marine biologist 19:50 - If Graham weren't doing YouTube, what would he do? 20:06 - Graham has perfect pitch 20:30 - Graham regrets quitting piano lessons as a kid 21:30 - We all did karate when we were kids 22:10 - LEVEL FOUR 22:42 - Graham plays the drums 23:12 - Does Graham have any other hidden talents? 23:52 - Has Graham always wanted to stand out? 25:31 - What's something that Graham is excited for? 26:15 - Does Graham dress up for Halloween? 26:57 - Does Graham have any guilty pleasures? 28:33 - LEVEL FIVE

Turn The Page – Episode 208a

Turn the Page Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 25, 2022 30:10

Episode two hundred eight - part one Jenn sat down with William Ledbetter to talk about LEVEL FIVE. First published as an audiobook exclusive, LEVEL FIVE is in print for the first time. They talked about sci fi, artificial intelligence, and the upcoming LEVEL SIX.

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Episode 49 – Unstoppable Advocate with Bryan Bashin

Unstoppable Mindset

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2022 68:57

Bryan Bashin was born fully sighted, but over time he lost his eyesight. Like many such people, he tried to hide his blindness. Bryan was, in some senses, different than many. Because as he began to discover that other blind people were leading full and successful lives, he decided that he could do the same. He received training and then began to seek employment and attained a most successful career. Bryan would tell you that he loves learning and advocating. He is an extremely inclusive individual although he clearly does do a powerful job of advocating for blind and low-vision persons. Oh yes, not vision impaired, but low vision. You will hear about this during our conversation. For the past 13 years, Bryan Bashin has been the CEO of the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind. He has proven to be quite an innovator due to his philosophical orientation concerning blindness. You will hear of his accomplishments. Bryan announced his retirement from the Lighthouse earlier this year. His future plans are typical of Bryan. Come along with us and hear Bryan's story and then please give us a 5-star rating wherever you listen to this podcast episode. About the Guest: Bryan Bashin, CEO, reports to the Board of Directors and supervises the directors of Communications, Development, Operations, Programs and Enchanted Hills Camp and Retreat. Mr. Bashin has served in this position since 2010. Mr. Bashin's extensive professional experience includes Executive Editor for the Center for Science and Reporting, Assistant Regional Commissioner for the United States Department of Education: Rehabilitation Services, and Executive Director of Society for the Blind in Sacramento. Mr. Bashin has been blind since college and from that time has dedicated a substantial part of his career to advocating for equality, access, training and mentorship for individuals who are blind or low vision. He serves or has served on numerous committees and organizations, including California Blind Advisory Committee, VisionServe Alliance, San Francisco State University's Paul K. Longmore Institute on Disability, World Blind Union, National Industries for the Blind, and California Agencies for the Blind and Visually Impaired. About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes UM Intro/Outro 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson 01:21 Welcome to unstoppable mindset. And I am really excited today to have an opportunity to talk with Bryan Bashin, the CEO of the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind. And you will see why as we go forward. Bryan is a very interesting and engaging guy. I've known him for quite a while. And I think we've both known each other we like each other, don't we, Bryan? Bryan Bashin 01:44 Yeah, we have traveled in the same paths. And we have been on the same side of the barricades. Michael Hingson 01:51 And that's always a good thing. So you're doing well. Bryan Bashin 01:57 I'm doing great. This is a this is a good time for me and Lighthouse after 13 years, thinking about sort of a joyous conclusion to a number of projects before I move on. Michael Hingson 02:10 Wow. Well, that's always a good thing. Well, tell me a little bit about you before the lighthouse growing up and stuff like that, so people get to know about you a bit. Bryan Bashin 02:20 Sure. The short version I grew up as a sighted boy started becoming blind when I was 12 became legally blind when I was a sophomore at UC Berkeley. And like all newly blind, low vision people tried to hide it for as long as possible, and really failed. I didn't have role models, then, like my Kingson. I didn't really know what was possible in blindness. That pivot came later in my life. And so I just did what a lot of low vision people do. Hide, try to pass all of that. So I did that in my early 20s. I started my career in journalism. I my first job out of Berkeley was at the CBS television affiliate in San Francisco KPI X, API X. Yes, Gen five and the news department there. And I worked there for a couple of years that I wanted to move up in the world. And I joined the channel 10, the CBS Benli a CBS affiliate in Sacramento, and I was higher up on that journalism, Michael Hingson 03:32 and wrong and you move and you moved from five to 10. Bryan Bashin 03:35 I did. I doubled. See. After after a few years in local broadcast news, television news, I thought I'm a little more serious person that and I wanted to go deeper. And so I quit my job and I started writing for newspapers, and then magazines, and specialized in science and public policy. So I did lots of work and environment, Space Science, energy usage, epidemiology. You know, for kind of curious guy like me, journalism was a really good fit because it fed all the things I want to learn about him. And I was in my 20s. Somewhere along the way, as I had less than less vision, I knew that I needed to get solutions. And I didn't know where those would come from, but I knew it involves people. But short version is almost 30 years ago. In a quiet time in my life. I just picked up some copies of the Braille monitor and started reading them. And in it, I found all kinds of stories about blind people doing amazing things. Things that I didn't think I could do as a person like travel where I wanted when I want it or efficiently use Computers, all that. So I went into a boot camp. It was then the fourth NFB Training Center. Actually it was in Sacramento. Just that the year that I needed it. It only lasted one year. The Marcelino center run by the California affiliate of the NFB, anyway, long story short, I threw myself into training, got training, and then had the most successful period in journalism I've ever had. And that's the first half of my working career. Michael Hingson 05:33 Did you ever know mozzie? Marcelino? Bryan Bashin 05:35 No, I didn't. He passed before the Senator that was named after him. That's right. Yeah. Michael Hingson 05:41 He was one of the very active early members of the National Federation of the Blind of California and managed a lot of the legislative activities of the Federation. In Sacramento, if you went with him into the Capitol, everyone knew Mazie. Which, which is important. Bryan Bashin 06:02 Yeah. Yeah, I certainly was living in Sacramento in the 90s. And his memory was an active presence, then. Well, I finished up my immersion training at the Marcelino center. Four years later, I was running the Society for the blind there in Sacramento. Having gotten the confidence, and aspiration, that I could do stuff there, Executive Director, retired after 33 years, and I interviewed and got the job. That's when I got my first taste of real service in the blindness community. Chance to like, think of a project, think of a problem, get funds for it, hire cool staff for it and do it. And for me, you know, I might have written an article in a magazine and a million people would read it, but I wouldn't meet any of them. And I wouldn't have that thing that we all love that community. So when I started working at society for the blind, that community was right there. And it was deeply gratifying. And so I started working on many, many projects. And I did that in Sacramento for six years, had a wild time with it. And then I was asked to apply in the US Department of Education, to be one of the regional commissioners in region nine for the Rehab Services Administration. So that was, that was really bittersweet to leave the Society for the blind, but I wanted to learn more. And suddenly, I found myself responsible for half a billion dollars in federal spending across all disabilities, and learning like a fire hose about the public rehabilitation system. And I did that until all the regional offices were closed by the administration. And I found myself for the first time in my working life, not knowing what I was going to do for a living. So I, I did some expert witnessing in court, I worked with a startup, I did some other things regarding direction, mentoring of blind people looking for employment. And then after 20 years, the director of the Lighthouse for the Blind, took a new job. And it was the first job I was hired for that I actually knew what I was doing when I came in, because I'd run another org like that. And that was 13 years ago. Michael Hingson 08:36 There you are. What who was the commissioner when the offices closed? Bryan Bashin 08:42 Yeah, well, it was Joanne Wilson until it was Joanne Yeah, yeah, it was Joanne Wilson, then Michael Hingson 08:48 no, no, she necessarily had a lot of choices. But Bryan Bashin 08:51 well, that's a long story. She used everything in her power to oppose this. But it was it was at a higher level that was made. Yeah. Michael Hingson 09:04 So you've been at the lighthouse 13 years. And tell me a little bit about what it was like when you started and why did you decide to go to the lighthouse? Bryan Bashin 09:19 You know, one thing that I can say is that my predecessor, had been prudent with funds. And so this was an agency that had good amount of money in the bank, like $40 million. I came from society for the blind. When I got there. We had six weeks of revenue. And we grew that and made it more stable. But I was attracted to the lighthouse because it was a storied organization. It had been around for, you know, 100 years. It owned this amazing camp in Napa that I'll talk about. It had the bones of a really great Oregon As a nation, and I thought I could do something with it. And I came there and I first saw the headquarters building then across from the symphony. And I thought, there's not enough places here to teach. There's not enough public spaces down. I have things happen. It was just the lighthouse had outgrown its its place. And I thought, oh, here we go. Again, I done a capital campaign in Sacramento to get its new building. Now, I'm going to have to do this again in San Francisco. But we looked at that and we thought, it's got to be close to transit. It's got to be in San Francisco, got to have cool places for people to work to ennoble the workforce not to be a dark hole windowless, undistinguished former garage, which was the old, old building, we found a place in the end, after many different things, we found a place right on top on top of the civic center BART station. And through a partnership and some other things we were able, I was able to convince the board to take this leap. And they did. And five years ago, six years ago, now, we occupied our new headquarters, which really has made us a place where people want to come and work and convene and hold events. It really now has the feel of a center. Michael Hingson 11:32 Chris, the other thing that happened for the for the lighthouse was you got a pretty significant capital infusion along the way. Bryan Bashin 11:40 Yeah, a little bit. I would do want people to know that this idea for a new building, the search for the Board's agreeing to do it and agreeing to buy it happened all before the big request, right? So we did, we made all that happen. In December and January, January 2014. Five months later, out of the blue, we got the first letter, understanding that we were going to be receiving receiving a request, that turned out to be the largest request in the history of American blindness to an individual $130 million. It turned out. And that allowed so much of what happened after to be possible. Michael Hingson 12:31 Right. And that was what I was thinking it wasn't so much the building, but then you could really put into practice the vision that you were creating. That's right. That's right. So how, how has the lighthouse changed in over, let's say the last eight years since 2014? Bryan Bashin 12:52 Yeah, I think I think I could say, ambition and reach and kind of audaciousness some things are pretty well known. We launched the Holman prize for blind ambition, it's a world prize, we've had, it's getting close to 1000 applicants over the seven years we've had the homerun prize. Those applicants come from every continent, maybe I haven't aggregated all of them. But it wouldn't surprise me to say 40 countries or so have applied. And if you go on YouTube and go to home and price.org. And look, you're going to see what blind people are saying they their dreams are from all over the world. And you cannot think about blindness the same way when you see people in rural Nepal or Africa or an urban Europe, talk about what's important to them. There is no real public way to aggregate all these things other than what we've done thus far. And so that's the kind of audaciousness that has come up in the last eight years. But it's been across everything. Michael Hingson 14:07 What is the homerun prize? Exactly. Bryan Bashin 14:10 Prom homerun prize is an annual prize awarded to three people each year by independent jury of blind people that the lighthouse convenes none of those juries are Lighthouse employees. The purpose of the prize is to show great growth and ambition in anything. It's not necessarily a project to do good in the world for blind people or though it can be it could be personal growth, like rowing a boat across the Bosphorus or climbing a mountain or organizing something that was never organized before that kind of thing. We award 320 $5,000 awards, and the price has been amazingly popular with hundreds of 1000s of views about blind people on our website and on YouTube. I'm happy to say that our partner Waymo, is now sponsoring one of the prizes at $25,000. Michael Hingson 15:11 That is pretty exciting. Yeah. And I've I've watched it through the years and it's it is absolutely amazing and wonderful to see the the different attitudes and philosophies and as you said, dreams that blind people have, because most of the time, we're not encouraged. Bryan Bashin 15:31 Yeah, most of the time people settle. This is, this is really, beyond mere skills that any blind organization teaches. And I don't mean to derogate them, the skills are essential. We can't do anything without skills. But they're not enough. Somehow my you got the confidence to be a captain of your own ship, metaphorically speaking. That's what got you out of the World Trade Center. That's what got you into business in science and everything else. We want to we this is the this is the mission that any Blind Agency really needs to focus on. Beyond skills. How do you teach confidence? How do you teach what Jacobus tenBroek said that we have a right to live in the world to be at that table, that we are not an embarr and a barren sea in the human condition. We're part of the human condition. And so getting that deep knowledge, something that the late James avec said, not just knowing it in your head, but in your heart, that It's respectable to be blind. And all of that that's, that's the best agencies get at that as well. Michael Hingson 16:49 We as as a class, need to be more in the conversation and it isn't going to happen unless we demand it. You know, it's it's interesting. We celebrated Global Accessibility Awareness Day last, what Thursday, and later in the year, we'll be celebrating some other events regarding disabilities. What amazes me is even with the visibility that's happened so far, it never seems to hit any of the mainstream television news. Casts or talk shows, the I don't see anyone celebrating Disability Employment Awareness Month, or anything relating to disability awareness, like we see African American history or LGBTQ pride, awareness and so on. Why is it that we're just not still included? Even though even though according to the CDC, up to 25%, of all Americans have some sort of a disability. And we'll of course leave out like dependents, which takes in everyone else, but nevertheless. Bryan Bashin 18:06 Well, you know, we live in a different as a longtime journalist, we live in a different journalistic culture now. And so what triumphs is narrative, not policy. What triumphs is something that gets is clickbait. Something that gets you emotionally. And I won't say that there, there haven't been good stories. The lighthouses then, Board Chair Chris Downey, who you know, is, as one of only a handful of practicing blind architects got 15 minutes on 60 minutes, one of their most popular episodes been rebroadcast four or five times now. That is a powerful narrative. So we need more of them. I really do think that in any state, any blind organization has stories, just like Chris is just as powerful. You know, our job is to actually be out there relationally with journalists so that they can understand what the stories are. But it's not going to be from a press release, or some some kind of awareness month. It's going to have to be the personal connections that we have with journalists so that we can wind up pitching stories. Michael Hingson 19:27 Well, it's the usual thing. What it really means is we need to tell the story. Bryan Bashin 19:35 That's right. As soon as it becomes a story about them. We lose, huh? Yeah. Michael Hingson 19:41 Yeah, we need we need to be out there and tell the story. And you're right. We need to tell it in a way that will click with people and interest people. But I think that that certainly is something that can be done and we We also collectively need to understand that we need to tell the story and not be shy about it. Bryan Bashin 20:08 That's right. Yeah, that's right. Michael Hingson 20:11 And I think all too often, we tend to be shy and we don't want to, to be out there talking about I remember early on after September 11, we got pretty visible in the news. And it was because really of me contacting Guide Dogs for the Blind, just to say, we got out because people from Guide Dogs had seen us in the world transip Trade Center, they've visited us. And I joined guide dogs in about a year afterward. And there was a lot of visibility interviews in the media. By that time, we had been on Larry King Live three times. And on one of the guide dog lists, somebody said, Well, he's just a meteor media whore. And a number of people fortunately reacted, I did not, but a number of people said, What are you talking about? He's out there telling the story. And that is, in reality, the case is that somebody needs to and we all should be out there telling the story saying we're better than people think. Bryan Bashin 21:12 That's right. That is really true. You know, there's an inherent tension between this knee that you just said about, we need to tell the story because otherwise Hollywood is going to tell the story about us. And the need, you know what the most radical thing is, it's the average blind person doing their average job, unremarkably, and without fanfare and attention, that is the revolution. And so, you know, why should Why should every blind person feel obligated to write a book or do a story. And yet, we have a responsibility as a you have taken to say, This is my life experience, people will learn from it. And so I'll do the hard work to get it out there. Michael Hingson 21:59 But the very fact that other people are just going to work, and trying to go to work, doing the job, and trying to even get better at doing the job is as much if not more of the story as anything else. Bryan Bashin 22:14 That's the real revolution. And that's the world we want to help bring about. Michael Hingson 22:20 So I am curious about something. I believe it's been attributed to you. Scary already. But but I've I've adopted it. People say that we're blind or visually impaired, and I object to the concept of visually impaired because I've always thought I looked the same. I don't like vision impaired because I think I got lots of vision, although as I love to say, but I don't see so good. But I can accept vision impaired. What do you think about that, that concept of the, the terminology like that? And where do words matter in what we do? Bryan Bashin 23:00 words do matter. And every every generation needs to own and invent words that are relevant to them. And so although I work in a building that says Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired, I've come to see that word visually impaired is actually ablest. It means that we are being defined by what we cannot do, we have impairment of vision, we are not a normal part of society. You know, I think the more neutral and non ablest way to construct it is just to talk about people who are blind, or have low vision. Yeah, so that's, that's a positive way. It's neutral way. All these other things over the years, skirting around the word blind, as if that was something we shouldn't be proud of, are talking about the proud people with low vision, instead of looking at them as just simply a characteristic they have, they have low vision. We look at them as impairment or other other ways in which they're, quote, not normal. So that's why words matter. And we in our publications at Lighthouse tried to use a modern language to talk about blindness. Michael Hingson 24:19 And I do like the concept of low vision. If you talk to a person who is deaf, and you say hearing impaired, you're apt to be shot because that is absolutely unacceptable, deaf or hard of hearing, which is the same concept. Bryan Bashin 24:34 Yeah. And of course, you always want to talk to the people ourselves, about how we want to be caught. Yeah. Michael Hingson 24:43 Unfortunately, I think there's still all too many of us that have not really thought it through. But I think as people learn and recognize that we do have the same right to live in the world and are demanding it more, more and more people will wreck denies the value of something like blind or a person who happens to be low vision. Bryan Bashin 25:05 There are agencies around the country who have steadily taken the word blind out of their name. I think it's a profound mistake, as if who we are needs to be euphemized or just lately swept under the rug. I am a proud blind person because I've been around other blind people who haven't want to euphemized who we are. But yet we have agencies around the country with hundreds of millions of dollars who think that they don't want the word blind in their name. I think the first step in proper rehabilitation is to say who you are. Michael Hingson 25:46 And do it with pride. Yep. So well, and just to carry that on a little bit more, Dr. Ken Jernigan passed down the late Dr. Ken Jernigan, past president of the National Federation of the Blind, I think came up with the best definition of blindness of all, which is basically if you are eyesight is decreased to the point where you have to use alternatives to full eyesight to accomplish things, then you should consider yourself blind and there's nothing wrong with that. Bryan Bashin 26:17 Yeah, we're all in this together. Just like, I can't speak for that community. But it's been 150 years since African Americans blacks would talk about various grades and gradations of, of their, their heritage. Just part of the movement now as it should be, Michael Hingson 26:40 as it should be. And it's unfortunate that it takes some of the kinds of things that it has done to raise awareness for black lives, if you will. But hopefully we're making some progress, although the politicians tend to be the biggest obstructionist to a lot of that big surprise Bryan Bashin 27:01 there, Mike. Michael Hingson 27:05 Yeah, it is amazing. As I love to tell people I I try not to be political on this podcast. So I'm an equal opportunity abuser, you know, I'm, I'm with Mark Twain. Congress is that grand old benevolent asylum for the helpless and that's all there is to it. So we can we can abuse them all. It's it's a whole lot more fun. Well, so you have really made some evolutionary changes in the lighthouse. You mentioned enchanted Hills, which I first learned about when I was here in Southern California as a teenager, did not go to Enchanted hills. But I went to what that time, what was the foundation for the junior blinds camp camp Bloomfield, and but I've heard and kept up with enchanted Hills throughout the years and the camp had some challenges a few years ago with the fires and so on. That that took place up in Northern California, and you've been really working to address a lot of that. Tell us a little if you would about enchanted hills. Yeah. Where it was, where it came from, and and where it's going? Well, Bryan Bashin 28:17 a blind woman rose Resnick founded it in 1950, because she wanted blind people, blind youth and adults to be active participants in nature. At the time, most blind folks went to schools for the blind, urban and restrictive. And Rose had a great experience growing up back east, with camps for the blind, it was a liberation for her. There were no camps when in outwest, for the blind, he founded the first one that we've had at Lighthouse for 72 years now. Why is it important? That mentorship to see cool blind people who are just a few years ahead of you who are owning their lives, you can't learn this in a classroom. You've got to hang out with people, it takes time. It's like that, that same mentorship, you'll see in a convention, a blank convention. The power of that is you got to week, well, you've got a summer at camp, and you've got a summer with people where you can actually have time to finish your conversations and to get lost and try to grow in different ways and fail and try again. And this is a huge and powerful part. What any camp for the blind is there are only a handful left in the United States. So in 2017, those Napa fires we watched as the fires got closer and closer to camp we evacuated and then watch for week as the fires crept closer, we didn't know if camp would survive. And when we finally were able to get back in camp, we found that half of the buildings had burned the old camp deep in the Redwood Forest. We have 311 acres there. It's an enormous P and valuable and beautiful piece of property. And soon after, first we were relieved that nobody was hurt. But after our team realized like this was the opportunity that had waited for three generations, how could we reimagine camp? What are the things now in 2022 that bind people wish they had that we didn't have before. So yes, of course, we have the same all all American camp. Bryan Bashin 30:44 But we're rebuilding camp to be environmentally friendly, universally accessible, every building at camp every every building at El is will be wheelchair accessible. Every watt of power and use will not be through trucked in propane or hydro or fossil fuels, but be solar generated with our solar canopy over our park parking lot. Every building will be heated and insulated. So is changing from summer camp to a year round place where up to 220 people can stay and learn and form community, both informal things like classes, retreats, and all of that. But informally now, when we reopen, you'll be able to grow, go up to camp with a group of your friends and 20 people, family reunion, whatever you can cook for yourself, or you can take advantage of our full time kitchen staff and all of that. Imagine a blind Asilomar a conference center that is accessible, networked with everything from braille embossers, to the latest tech stuff. That's what camp is and every last part of it, please touch, please use our woodworking stuff, learn how to do ceramics, get to learn how to own and care for a horse. Get in that boat and Sue ads and, and row, go swim, go do arts, go do music and our wonderful new Redwood Grove theater, all of that stuff. So this was the inspiration when when the camp burned five years ago, we were able to get all these buildings on the master plan with a county, we found a contractor we're halfway through the rebuilding all of lower camp now you can see those buildings, the foundations are poured, the roofs are up we're putting in Windows this week. And when we were done, we'll have this amazing, beautiful village in the Redwoods where people can stroll and accessible paths, no guide ropes anymore, by the way, accessible paths. And as you go around camp, you'll be able to be just within hailing distance of other people, people you may not know but should know. So half of the program at camp and why it produces 40 50,000 hours each summer of people contacting people half that program is just that, not what we're talking at you about but people that you meet and form lifelong bonds. Michael Hingson 33:31 And that's a whole different idea for a camp in general, but it is really creating community and people will leave with I would think lots of memories they never thought they would get. Bryan Bashin 33:46 You know one of the key features that has been the hallmark of the last 13 years is that we usually have 20 counselors and another half dozen counselors in training. Three quarters or up to 90% of those counselors are now blind, or have low vision. No camp hardly in the country does that there are a lot of camps in which everybody in power. Every director and every assistant director and every counselor, they're all sighted. They're all very well meaning and giving. But where's the mentorship there? Where's the role modeling? So in Jannah Hills is different. The overwhelming majority of our counselors and counselors and training are blind. Our staff and area leaders are overwhelmingly blind as well. Because this is part of the purpose of camp to be able to meet people who are in charge of their own lives and a part of a community Michael Hingson 34:45 and that's as good as it can possibly get. How does the the camp then it's it's a separate entity but it's part of the lighthouse. How did the the two connect what kind of value does Is the lighthouse itself bringing to the camp and vice versa? Bryan Bashin 35:03 Yeah, we're all one organization. But increasingly, because of the new construction, we use camp as a retreat for people who want to go deep into their blindness. So for people who are newly blind, or for people who have been blind a while, and now have decided it's time to do something about it, we have an initial immersion called Changing vision changing lives, people go to camp. And there, they take their first steps, sometimes, first time they ever put a white cane in their hands, or their first introduction to what a computer could do. All these kinds of things. It's a deep dive and initial dive, immersion to whet people's appetites for the real hard work that comes after camp where they're going to put in time to learn skills of blindness. But before you start doing skills, you have to have the why, why are we doing that, and you have to have met a dozen or two dozen blind people who are just using those skills. So you're not learning that as an abstraction. Camp is wonderful that way. So the teachers who teach edtech and oh nm, and braille, and, you know, independent living and home repair, and all, these are the same people, whether they're at our headquarters in San Francisco, or they're in a special retreat in Napa. That's what we're going to be doing more and more of around the around the year. Same thing is true with our new program for little for blind infants and toddlers, lighthouse, little learners is an early intervention program. From across northern California, we have built camp in part to be a wonderful place for families of blind infants and toddlers to come together. Almost every family that has a newborn who's blind is utterly unprepared, and is so hungry for information. And of course, as you know, if you get it right, your child grows up and does anything that she or he wants. But those are key years. And so our family cabins now are built so that infants and toddlers, and then later on young kids will have time with their families before it's time for them to go off to camp individually, when they get into the middle years at a teens. Michael Hingson 37:33 You mentioned the blindness conventions like the National Federation of the Blind convention, and it brought to mind something that I think about every time I go to a convention or know that a convention is coming up, especially with the NFB because of the the way that the organization has handled conventions, there is nothing like watching a five year old who suddenly has a cane put in their hand. And they're given a little bit of cane travel lessons over a very short period of time at the convention. And then they're dragging their parents all around the convention hotel, that the parents usually can't keep up and the kids are just going a mile a second. Bryan Bashin 38:13 Yeah, that is, that's what we all want. We want that aha moment, like that. And parents are. So when they're new in the game, it's not just talking about the best ophthalmologist, although that's important and the best stimulation and the best this and that. They're also looking at those counselors and counselors in training and seeing their kids in 15 years. And they're just seeing competent blind people. Give them the sense about what's possible and why. And that that is another unspoken role of conventions, or in retreats like camp where you have the time to put into what is like the big change in life. Your blindness is not just something you do superficially, you got to dive in camp helps with that. Michael Hingson 39:07 It's a characteristic blindness is simply a characteristic. It is something that we all have as part of our beings. And I think it's an enhancement because it allows us should we take advantage of it to have a significantly different perspective on part of life than most people have? And it gives us a broader and more open perspective, which is as good as it gets. Bryan Bashin 39:38 Absolutely. You know, we're in an age which is supposedly celebrating diversity and all of that, well the diversity that we bring to the to the human experience is profound. And you know, we we will celebrate our intersectionalities with all the other human diversities. Are we are, we are good to live in an age, which doesn't sort of characterize and other, but works or at least seeks efficiently to include. Michael Hingson 40:13 Sometimes it's a little more superficial than we probably would like. And there are things happening in our modern technological era that are a challenge. For example, one of the examples that I often give is nowadays, there are so many television commercials that are totally graphic pictorial, they may have music, but absolutely no verbiage to the commercial. So a number of us are left out of understanding them. And of course, graphics are so easy to produce. But what the people who produce those commercials, it seems to me don't realize is that by not having verbiage, and having meaningful and full content, verbally presented in the commercials, they're not just leaving out us, but they're leaving out anyone who gets up from their couch or chair, when the commercial comes on to go get a drink. They'll never know what the commercials were about, they're missing a true dimension of access to all it seems to me. Bryan Bashin 41:19 Well, you put your finger on a key aspect of our culture, which is we live in an age of screens, great. Screens are ubiquitous and cheap. And so we're, we're in a in an age now where it's sort of post linguistic almost, that the ability to manipulate and to show successions of images, capture, you owe 90 some percent of people most of the time, but it does a great disservice to the abilities of human beings of all sorts to appreciate. And it kind of cheapens the subtlety and discourse, I think, you know, we this this ability, words are able to convey a universe of experiences in just a few syllables. Pictures, not so much, and not so standard. Michael Hingson 42:19 Someone said, I don't recall who but I read it somewhere. Maybe a picture is worth 1000 words. But it takes up a whole lot more memory. I love that. It's an it's so true. Yeah. And we, we really need to recognize collectively the value of challenging and using all of our senses, it's so important to do that, and no scent should be left out. Now, we haven't figured out a way yet to transmit, smell and taste through the television system. And that may be a long ways away. But we certainly have other senses that we should be using. And that isn't, and shouldn't just be screens. But hopefully we can get that discourse to occur and get, get people to change, maybe a little bit about what they're thinking and see the value in that change again. Bryan Bashin 43:21 Well, you've been a pioneer in this. And as things emerge, I know Mike Kingston is going to be part of it. Michael Hingson 43:29 Well, it's been fun to to be involved with some of the technologies. You know, for me, it started with Ray Kurzweil. And then last decade was IRA, which has certainly been a product that has made a significant difference for a lot of people but other butter products along the way being involved in some of the refreshable braille displays and, and a lot of people don't realize how easy it is in some senses to produce Braille today because refreshable braille displays means I can take any file, any like ASCII file or a Word file, and put it in a medium that I can import into a Braille display and suddenly read that document. That's, that's pretty new. Bryan Bashin 44:15 I think we are just now on the cusp of, of having critical mass in a refreshable Braille display that's got enough pixels to be useful as an image producer, and then ways to quickly and sort of economically produce those images. Yeah, Lighthouse has a unit MATLAB they have a group called touching the news. And here every week or two, there's a news graphic, the map of Ukraine during the war, the what is that helicopter on perseverance look like? Those kinds of things, the ephemera and the news of our society, the ability to get those quickly out. If you have a Braille display or a Braille embosser is going to really we're almost at the time when culture will pivot, and 61,000 Blind K through 12 errs in American schools will be able to get new and fresh material all the time, and compare it or look at the output of an oscilloscope in real time, and change and vary and act in a lab accordingly. So the efforts now to make real time expressible refreshable. screen displays are amazing and so important. Michael Hingson 45:39 The other thing that I would hope as we get into more of a virtual real world virtual reality world, is that we would do more with sound binaural sound which is easy to produce, which truly with a set of headphones allows you to hear sound coming from any direction. And actually can help immerse all gamers in games rather than it just being from the screen. But if they do it right, it certainly would make a lot of games more accessible to us than are available today. Bryan Bashin 46:12 If you've heard a good binaural recording of something, it can be terrifying. The lighthouse work with this group called The World According to sound to produce several dozen binaural shows about the rich experience that blind people have every day. And you can find those online. We worked with Chris and Sam, who just did splendid work for us about how we live how we how we go around what we notice the subtleties and richness in our lives. So there's there's importance for that. And then later, if you look ahead a few years, the metaverse and the idea of group connections, because what we're doing now Mike, on Zoom is not going to be just like a pandemic, Blip. This is the way people are going to interact. And we want this to be richer. I want to be in a room where I can hear who's on the left of the conference table and who's on the right. Right, I want to be able to face them in the three dimensional view on that screen. It's coming. It's coming quickly. And we need to be part of what MATA is doing as they may be the standard or other people may develop other standards. But this is around the corner. Michael Hingson 47:33 And the technology is really here to do it. It's it is a matter of making it a priority and deciding to do it in such a way that will keep the costs down. And that isn't all that hard to do. Yeah. So for you, you are I think you have been appointed to the Ability One commission. Bryan Bashin 47:58 That's right, President Biden appointed me last July. And it's been a wild ride ever since Michael Hingson 48:04 tell us about the commission and what you're doing with it and so on. Bryan Bashin 48:09 Well, this commission was set up during the FDR time in 1938. And it was designed originally to provide some way that blind people, and then later on, people with other significant disabilities could find work and an age where there was almost no work. The employment rate of blind people in 1938 was I don't know two or 3%, or something like that. So it was a groundbreaking bit of legislation in the 30s. But over the years, it became a place where blind people worked in non integrated settings. And some people call them sheltered workshops. There were many blind people who are earning less than minimum wage because of a loophole in the law there and all of that. This has been a fight for the last decades to eliminate the sub minimum wage, and also now to seek blind people not working in silos without the benefit of the wider world only working in a place with people with disabilities. But to integrate and find opportunities for that same federal contracting federal contracts federal government buys, what six or $700 billion worth of stuff every year. This ability one program uses about 4 billion of the 600 billion to provide employment, people will make things the lighthouse itself. We have a social enterprise we make environmentally sound cleaning compounds and disinfecting compounds using sort of state of the art Technology, we got an EPA Safer Choice Award for how benign our stuff is, instead of the other harsh ammonia and caustic chemicals. Anyway. So on this commission, the job is how much wiggle room do we have to provide integrated employment now, you know, if you're working in making airplane parts, only with blind people in a separate building, and meanwhile, Boeing has people doing the exact same job. along with everything else, and the glitz and glamour of working for international big company. Why shouldn't blind people be part of that, instead of the sort of set aside, it was a great idea in the 1930s and 40s, and 50s. Now it's time to change. So the first step of the change is our strategic plan. And we've rolled out the draft strategic plan, we have had eight or maybe more now community meetings about it. The public engagement with this change is 500%, more than we had in the past with the AbilityOne. Commission. We we have launched this strategic plan, I sure it'll be codified in upcoming weeks, when it is over five years, we're going to both look at ways that we can get competitive integrated employment experiences as much as we can. And that may require that we open up the Javits, Wagner eau de Act, the legislation in order to maybe change some possibilities to increase competitive integrated employment. Because in the 30s, it just said employment, that's our charge. The idea of competitive integrated employment for blind people, or people with significant that was science fiction, and FDR, Stein. Now it's something you and I have both lived. And why shouldn't the 45,000 people in the program right now have that opportunity? So that's my work in the AbilityOne. Commission, to bring the fruits of federal contracting to the hundreds of federal contractors, and let them benefit from a workforce that includes diversity of all kinds, including people who are blind, Michael Hingson 52:28 is the tide turning so that we can see the day that the Javits Wagner, eau de Act, Section 14, see will actually go by the wayside, and we'll be able to truly address the issue of competitive employment. Bryan Bashin 52:44 Yes, we have taken many steps along that line, the main step is that organizations that hold such certificates may not be allowed, in the very short term it very shortly to compete for new contracts. So the cost of paying subminimum h is going to be very expensive for people who wish to get more contracts. This is in process now. We are not going to, you know, pull the emergency cord and throw people out of work, who are now working under these programs, but new contracts, and new opportunities are going to be you know, bias towards competitive integrated employment. And, you know, on the blind side, there are no organizations in the blindness side of Ability One paying sub minimum wages Now, none. That's that's already ended on the significant disability sides. I think the number is around 3000. People still are working on legacy contracts like that. We expect that if I talk to you in a couple of years, Mike, that will be gone. Michael Hingson 54:02 Well, and historically, I think when the act was originally established, it was done with good intentions. And maybe it wasn't as five sided as it could be. But as I understood the original Act, the non competitive employment centers were supposed to be training centers to get people prepared to and then out into the more competitive world of employment. But it morphed and evolved over the years to something different than that. Bryan Bashin 54:33 It is and if legally, if you look, there's nothing in the ACT about training. It's just about employment. That's that was the mindset in 1938. Yeah. Now, of course, that's what we want. That's what we want to celebrate. We want to give the nonprofit agencies credit for training people and bringing them out into competitive employment. We think if we open up the act, we want to strike threat. So those agencies who are successful at getting people trained up and out, should be rewarded for that. Michael Hingson 55:08 That makes perfect sense. What is the pandemic done to the whole rehabilitation system? And what do you see happening as we come out of it? Bryan Bashin 55:19 This is not a happy topic. Michael Hingson 55:22 Yeah, it is a challenge. Bryan Bashin 55:25 The the number of people who are just enrolled in VR across the country has been slashed a third to a half those those people part of that is because VR with its three and a half billion dollars worth of funding, doesn't find, you know, the homemaker outcome, which is basically blind, independent living training, that's now no longer legal. So those people who went to VR thinking they could learn how to do certain things. But without a vocational goal, that is not not any, any more part of the public rehab system. So some people went away for that. But I think the larger question and it's kind of profound is that we've been through two years of a pandemic, after, after a century of saying to blind people get out there, learn to travel, be at everybody's table, take risks. And now we've had two years and more of stay in your place. It's a dangerous world. And our you know, my observation is all of our skills are rusty, are on him skills are rusty, our social skills are rusty. And everybody in the world will say, Oh, you're blind is easy to stay at home, look from look for work at home and all of this, but we lose if we're not in the room. And so the bottom line is that the pandemic has caused, I think a lot of us to take a giant step back in our social integration and just our horizons. Through the pandemic, I watched as my sighted friends could just get in the car and go where they wanted safely. Every time you and I want to go somewhere, Mike, we have to get into a conveyance with a person of unknown infectivity status. This is the nature code, we can't just Uber ourselves to a park without the sense like, okay, we're taking a controlled risk. This is why a future of autonomous vehicles is so great, no guide dog denials, no coughing driver, who may or may not be wearing a mask these days, technology can be our friend, if the technologists start considering our needs. Michael Hingson 57:53 Well, and autonomous vehicles are, are definitely in our future and the whole concept of opposing them. Anyone who does we're, we're seeing someone who just doesn't have a lot of vision, because the reality is that they're, as you would say, right around the corner. I think some of the things that have happened with Tesla vehicles is unfortunate, especially when, in reality, they were probably not using the technology correctly. And that causes many accidents is anything. I have a friend who owns a Tesla, I actually drove it down the I 15 toward San Bernardino a few years ago. But I called him one day and he told me he had an accident with his Tesla. Now he had driven some race cars in the past and he said that there was a situation where a car was coming at him. He had the Tesla in copilot mode and was monitoring. But when this vehicle was coming at him as a racecar driver, he said my inclination is to speed up and get away from it. The car wanted to slow down and he said I overrode the copilot and we had an accident. I should have let the car do Bryan Bashin 59:14 it. Your way there. I can't let that pass. Mike. You were in the driver's seat of a Tesla on Interstate 15. Michael Hingson 59:24 Absolutely, why not? No, he was he was there of course. And but I had my hands on the wheel and we had it in copilot mode and I could feel it moving. It was a pretty straight run. But we did it for about 15 minutes. And then I said no, I don't think that the Highway Patrol would be happy with us if we kept that going. Bryan Bashin 59:44 I don't think the statute of limitations quite expired on that one bike so Michael Hingson 59:50 well, they gotta prove it now. I don't know it's been more than two years and nothing and nothing happened. I will wasn't in the car with the accident, we had a completely uneventful time, I just want to point out Bryan Bashin 1:00:06 now, but these, these technologies, we must be pressing the companies for Level Five accessibility. That means from the time you walk down your friend steps to the car waiting there for the time you get to your destinations, front steps, you're in control the whole time. Yeah, it would be heartbreaking to have legislation that allows less than that. So that yeah, you have to like drive until you're on the freeway, and then you can do autonomous driving, that would lock us all out. That would mean this whole technology is useless for us. Michael Hingson 1:00:44 And that would be useless legislation, it wouldn't solve the big problem that the autonomous vehicle can bring us. I'm a firm believer, and we got to get the concept of driving out of the hands of drivers. Because, as far as I'm concerned, using a Tesla or not the way most people drive on the road, I would certainly be able to do as well as they do. Bryan Bashin 1:01:07 Absolutely. I wrote in, I wrote an autonomous vehicle in San Francisco last summer. And I felt it in control, confident, cautious, but it had a different sort of feel in that car and felt like I noticed like in San Francisco, if you want to make a left turn, a sighted driver would sort of drive into the intersection, start making the turn. And then once you're made the 90 degree turn, then accelerate the autonomous driver drives into the intersection and starts accelerating in the intersection intersection, knowing full well that it knows and has decided where it wants to go. So if it was more confidently powering into the term than a human one would do. I found that interesting. Michael Hingson 1:02:05 It is, and I just am firmly convinced that we will make the road so much more safer if we take not the decision making but the whole concept of driving away from so many people who haven't learned to do it. Well, it does mean that we need to program the technology appropriately. And well. We're still on the cusp, but it's coming and it's going to be here sooner than we probably think. Bryan Bashin 1:02:36 Yeah, well, the main thing is that all there may be 50 Different groups five, zero, looking at autonomous driving, it's turning out to be a much harder technical problem than people were saying just a few years back. But we need to be in those early design phases. You know, my car right now has a radio that I can't use. Yeah, because it needs a touchscreen. I mean, if they can't get that, right, what about the ability to change directions, at a stop on a whim, respond to a safety emergency, we need to let the folks know, all the ways that we need to be involved and not like was one set of the Mercury astronauts, we're not just spamming again. Michael Hingson 1:03:25 Right? Well, and the the Tesla, for example, is so disappointing, because everything is really touchscreen driven. So I could deal with the wheel and deal with the car once someone else completely shut it up. And there is some ability to do voice activation, if you do the right things with the touchscreen first. And the bottom line is I couldn't work the radio, I couldn't do anything that a passenger should normally be able to do. Because it's all touchscreen driven. And it really takes away, it seems to me from the driving experience, even because I have to focus on the touchscreen. I can't be watching the road as well as a sighted driver. Bryan Bashin 1:04:10 Yeah, this is not inherent to blindness. It's just smart design that's inclusive. And those are fun projects. And that's when you get blind people, engineers, by engineers, sighted engineers together on a problem that is a beautiful Association and it produces really great results. Michael Hingson 1:04:31 I'm remember I remember some of the early discussions that we had when we were working on the pedestrian enhancement Safety Act and we worked with the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers and eventually got a law passed that said that quiet cars and so on needed to make a noise although we're still really waiting for a standard so that there is a sound that hybrid cars and totally quiet cars produce and it's taking way To long, unfortunately, but still working together, we were able to educate and get some people to really imagine a lot more than they thought that they would. And we're making progress, but it sometimes it just seems like it's very slow. Well, let me ask you one last thing, what are you going to do when you leave the lighthouse, you announced that you're, you're wanting to move on. And I know that there is now a search to find a, a person who will step into your shoes, which I think is going to be an impossibility. But what are you going to do? Bryan Bashin 1:05:37 Well, I love I love the search, I love that lighthouse is going to have a long, open, transparent process to find that right person. So that will be wonderful to cheer them on when they show up. But for me, I am a guy who likes learning. And I've had 13 years of heavy responsibility running a large agency, I want to be in places where I have more of a beginner mind. That could be journalism, that could be advocacy, it will be advocacy. That will be in design, like we were just talking about autonomous vehicles or other interesting projects. I would like to be in those places, whether it be corporate boards, or design Charettes, or architecture, any of these things were blind people haven't been before, to sort of bring people together to make really exquisite designs, and beautiful human centered outcomes. So whether it's working with the Ability One Commission, or working on contract with companies that have a problem to design, whether it's it's talking truth to power, and making sure that our extended community has is protected and safe and supported in Congress in the state house. You'll find me in all those places. Michael Hingson 1:07:04 Well, I hope that as you move on and do things that you will come back and talk with us and keep us posted and give us a chance to learn from you and and maybe give you things that you can use as well. So I hope that this won't be the only time we hear from you on this podcast. Bryan Bashin 1:07:22 It's always a pleasure, Mike, it's in conversation with you. I learned so much. And I feel we are part of that same community. Michael Hingson 1:07:30 How can people learn about you, the lighthouse, and so on? Bryan Bashin 1:07:35 Well, our websites always a good place to start WWW dot Lighthouse dash s f.org. Michael Hingson 1:07:44 And everything is there, there are so many different programs that the lighthouse offers. And there's so much that all of us can learn from the various adventures and programs that the Lighthouse has. So I hope that you'll all go visit WWW dot Lighthouse dash s s.org and peruse the pages. And if you're able to do so maybe consider volunteering or being involved in some way. And I hope that you'll make that happen. If people want to reach out to me, we are always available. As I tell people every week you can reach me via email at Michael H I at accessabe.com or through the podcast page which is www dot Michael hingson M I C H A E L H I N G S O N.com/podcast. And once you finish listening to this, please give us a five star rating. We love those five star ratings and, and Brian, hopefully you'll listen and give us a five star rating when this comes up. Bryan Bashin 1:08:46 Oh, I'm already pre sold on this one. You're also welcome to leave my email address. I'll go folks on on the website or here. It's simply b Bastion b ba Shi n at Lighthouse stash fsf.org. Michael Hingson 1:09:03 So reach out to Brian and I'm sure that discussions will be interesting. And as I said we want to hear of your adventures as you go forward. Thank you, Michael. Thanks very much for being here. And to all of you. We'll see you next week on unstoppable mindset. UM Intro/Outro 1:09:23 You have been listening to the Unstoppable Mindset podcast. Thanks for dropping by. I hope that you'll join us again next week, and in future weeks for upcoming episodes. To subscribe to our podcast and to learn about upcoming episodes, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com slash podcast. Michael Hingson is spelled m i c h a e l h i n g s o n. While you're on the site., please use the form there to recommend people who we ought to interview in upcoming editions of the show. And also, we ask you and urge you to invite your friends to join us in the future. If you know of any one or any organization needing a speaker for an event, please email me at speaker at Michael hingson.com. I appreciate it very much. To learn more about the concept of blinded by fear, please visit www dot Michael hingson.com forward slash blinded by fear and while you're there, feel free to pick up a copy of my free eBook entitled blinded by fear. The unstoppable mindset podcast is provided by access cast an initiative of accessiBe and is sponsored by accessiBe. Please visit www.accessibe.com. accessiBe is spelled a c c e s s i b e. There you can learn all about how you can make your website inclusive for all persons with disabilities and how you can help make the internet fully inclusive by 2025. Thanks again for listening. 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Achieving Level Five Selling with John Hoskins

Sales Team Rescue with Jeremy DeMerchant

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2022 38:27

Have you ever wanted to grow and learn more with your team, but found you were all too busy to do so? We understand that it can be exhausting to include coaching and education in an already hectic work week, but what we can tell you is: it will make all the difference!

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Optimal Pre-Call Planning with Level Five Sales Expert John Hoskins

Sales Game Changers | Tip-Filled Conversations with Sales Leaders About Their Successful Careers

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2022 30:29

This is episode 496. Tips for Sales Career Success Read the complete transcript on the Sales Game Changers Podcast website. JOHN'S TIP: “Be a zealot about pre-call planning. Read 10-K's, look at their Twitter, go look at their Facebook, go find out as much as you can about that person and their business as you possibly can. If you look at the risk factors in most 10-K's, if you're calling on public companies, you'll know what's on the mind of that person and you don't have to ask the ‘what keeps you up at night' question because it's right there in black and white. Get your call opening correct and that call plan. The planning is priceless. Planning a call is priceless.

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A Level Five Leader

Real Help for Real Living

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2022 3:17

Listen to the latest Real Help for Real Living podcast from Tony Marciano, president and CEO of Charlotte Rescue Mission.

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Levels of Leadership: Level Five: Impactful

So You Want to Talk About Leadership

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2022 15:57

In the final episode of this series, Tony brings the levels full circle by explaining what impactful leadership looks like. Tony explains a key difference between a level one leader and a level five leader. Tony also explains how each level can impact the other and if something is missing how it can factor into your ability to lead others. There are a lot of questions that we need to ask ourselves as leaders to determine what we do well and how we can improve. However, there is one question that Tony poses that will shift the way you think about every decision you make moving forward. Lastly, Tony talks about the importance of your leadership legacy and what you can do to ensure it is a great legacy.Email: talkaboutleadershippodcast@gmail.com

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Level Five Explained

The Traveler's Guide To The Backrooms

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2022 22:40

In this episode we'll be discussing Level Five of the backrooms and what can be expected within. As always, we'll be dropping tips for travelers who find their way here. So come with us as we no clip into Level Five! Twitter: @SharpA3 Email: travelersguidetothebackrooms@gmail.com

Excellent Executive Coaching: Bringing Your Coaching One Step Closer to Excelling

EEC 200: The Leadership Journey in Our New World with Robert Mixon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2021 21:28

Robert Mixon shares his strategies of empowering leadership styles in his interview with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC. What has your leadership journey been like since you entered West Point in July of 1970? What did you learn by working for the army 33 years, then you worked for corporations for 22 years and now you are an independent for the last 5 years? What are your “Big 6” Leadership Principles? What are the leadership development program that Level Five offers individuals and teams? Tell us about your latest book," Who Saw This Coming: Now What Do We Do?" Robert Mixon Major General Robert W. Mixon, Jr. has achieved over three decades of extraordinary leadership success in diverse organizations, including the United States Army where he commanded the 7th Infantry Division and Fort Carson, Colorado prior to his retirement in 2007. Subsequently, he served in executive leadership positions in both for-profit and not-for-profit companies prior to starting his own leadership company, Level Five Associates, in 2014. Emerging from the unprecedented challenges of 2020, Robert has just published his new e-book on leadership, “Who Saw This Coming? Now What Do We Do?” which is available via his website. He also publishes a bi-weekly blog with over 2,000 subscribers. Excellent Executive Coaching Podcast If you have enjoyed this episode, subscribe to iTunes. We would love a review on iTunes or other platform. The EEC podcasts are sponsored by MKB Excellent Executive Coaching that helps you get from where you are to where you want to be with customized leadership and coaching development programs. MKB Excellent Executive Coaching offers leadership development programs to generate action, learning, and change that is aligned with your authentic self and values. Transform your dreams into reality and invest in yourself by scheduling a discovery session with Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC to reach your goals. Your host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.

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#2 Level Five Leadership

What Change Looks Like: A City Year Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2021 27:46

Hannah sits down with City Year Providence's Learning & Development Manager, Alysa Hemcher, to discuss the CY value of Level Five Leadership and how that shows up in City Year's work.

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Level Five Friendship | Featuring Jeff Kemp

Better Man The Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2021 47:06

As a former quarterback in the NFL, Jeff Kemp knows a thing or two about teamwork and friendship. During this episode of The BetterMan Podcast, Jeff talks about one of his latest projects and the positive impact it can have in a man's life. Level Five Friends are different than golf buddies or work teammates. Level Five Friends are given a grace-filled glimpse into every aspect of your life, and as a result, spur you on to Christlikeness like no other friends you've ever had. For access to the resources discussed in this episode, visit BetterMan.com/Blog

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#153 S2 Episode 22 - Knocking On Doors To Level Five Selling Aficionado with John Hoskins

Sales Hustle

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2021 22:42

Get your FREE Vidyard account and bonus Video Sales Process Playbook here!HIGHLIGHTS00:54 How John started out knocking on doors at a young age of 11 to a level five aficionado as he is today07:18 The when and the why John started making his amazing sales books10:52 The level five selling framework and how it works and why people believe in it15:45 The reason why level five sales experts are so important for sales companies to have and need to strive for21:13 Where and how to connect with John and get a chance to be a better version of you in salesQUOTES09:58 "The problem with most sales training is not its bad content, but there is no reinforcement, there's no follow up, there's no coaching, there's no practice. And 30 days later, everybody goes back to normal."10:30 "We really moved from an idea of event training to ongoing development, and more of a SAS model. Where you continue to develop as a salesperson, you never stop, you're leaning in micro bites as to big chunks. And you get lots of coaching and deep reinforcement and practice."14:19 "So the 3, 2, 1, those levels represent our claim to 60% of all calls you're scrapping waste. So if a company is spending 10 million dollars a year on sales and marketing, 6 million dollars is probably scrap and waste. It's not producing anything, no other functioning area in the company would tolerate that performance, but sales does."18:25 "Clients or customers will drive you into different levels, so all the customer wants to do is just, 'look, what does this cost?' you're gonna move right down to level two. And you need to think about how to navigate yourself out of that."20:13 "Because a great coach asks questions versus tells people what to do, it allows you to have that dialogue with that person. Because you have a common understanding of what good looks like."Learn more about John in the link below: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnphoskins/Website - https://levelfiveselling.com/Email - john@levelfiveselling.comCall/Text - 480-235-5582If you enjoy the Sales Transformation Podcast, please subscribe, share, and send us your feedback. Please make sure to rate us and leave a review on Apple. Learn more about Collin in the link below: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/collin-saleshustle/Also, you can join our community by checking out @salescast.community. If you're a sales professional looking to take your career to greater heights, please visit us at https://salescast.co/ and set a call with Collin and Chris.

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Responding to Threats: Level Five

Grace Martial Arts

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2021 5:09

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://gracemartialarts.com/2021/03/15/responding-to-threats-level-five/

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COVID-19 update: Vic extends lockdown by another week, SA announces level five restrictions

SBS Assyrian

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2021 4:20

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 20 July 2021.

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Season 2 - Episode 4 "I'm a Level Five Vegan. I Won't Eat Anything That Casts A Shadow "

Coffee and Hardcore

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 142:05

What's Up?! Episode 4 is here and the fellas talk to Vegan Hardcore Legends VANGUARD. They chat about their E.P. - "Rage of Deliverance", life as a vegan in Texas and guns. That's right - GUNS. It's a good conversation that leave Mic and Wiley with a lot to think about. The boys also review some good coffee from Dark Matter Coffee in Chicago and Steaming Bean Coffee (Now known as Telluride Coffee Roasters) in Colorado. And last but certainly not least the fellas review 4 killer albums from Ill Communication, Stepping Stone, Power Alone and Glorious. It's all right here on the latest episode of COFFEE & HARDCORE. Vanguard Rage of Deliverance E.P. Merch Coffee Review (FRESH POTS!!!) Mic: Unicorn Blood from Dark Matter Coffee Wiley: The Blue Mesa From Telluride Coffee (After we reviewed this coffee we discovered that Steaming Bean Coffee had changed their name to Telluride Coffee Roasters and Wiley's coffee was now called "The Blue Mesa") Album Reviews Ill Communication "Def Threats in the Hieroglyphics" - MERCH Stepping Stone "Escape From The Junkyard" Power Alone "Rather Be Alone" - MERCH Glorious "Unashamed" - MERCH Coffee & Hardcore Coffee Blends from Oak and Crow Coffee (Benefits the Suicide Prevention Hotline) Coffee & Hardcore Mugs DEAL WITH IT NERDS!!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/coffee-and-hardcore/support

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Dubliners Tell Us Where They Plan Going Now That The 5km Is Lifted

98FM's Dublin Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 23:36

Ireland's Covid-19 restrictions have been eased from midnight last night for the first time this year, after more than 100 days of lockdown. The country has been in Level Five lockdown since Christmas Eve. This morning we asked listeners what they were looking forward to most about being able to move outside their 5KM. TUNE IN TO DUBLIN TALKS LIVE EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING FROM 10AM, ONLY ON 98FM Check out all of our podcasts here. [audio mp3="https://media.radiocms.net/uploads/2021/04/12123641/210412-Easing-of-County-Travel-Restrictions.mp3"][/audio]

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''Why Cant They Give us a Roadmap?''

Highlights from Lunchtime Live

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2021 20:29

Level Five lockdown has been extended for another 6 weeks until April 5th - which I know a lot of you don’t want to hear, But, on the other hand, the Taoiseach also said that by the end of June up to 82% of adults will have had their first dose of the vaccine. How do you feeling following the Taoiseach’s announcement yesterday? Are you disappointed that we face at least 6 more weeks of Level 5? Are you optimistic that 'the end is truly in sight' with 82% of adults expected to have their 1st doses before July? Andrea hears from listeners. Listen and subscribe to Lunchtime Live on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App. You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by adding the Newstalk skill and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'.

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January Special 2021 (What’s This Metal? 2!)

What's This Called? w/ Ricardo Wang

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2021

Another special one hour mixtape type program of proto and classic metal heavy hard rock chunks! This one with a 27 minute long live Deep Purple jam! PLAYLIST: Metallica “The Call Of Ktulu (Remastered)” [Ride The Lightning (Deluxe Remaster)] King Crimson “Level Five” [Level … Continue reading →

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The 2021 Self-Driving Prediction Showdown with Sam Abuelsamid

No Parking

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2020 41:07

In our final episode of the year, we bring back automotive analyst Sam Abuelsamid for a year-end, mythbusting wrap-up with Bryan and Alex. Was 2020 ever going to be the "year of self-driving?" What should we make of industry consolidation? Are we past ride-hail, or could it be reborn? No Parking trades takes with Sam on this year's biggest news and hottest trends, plus makes a few predictions for what to expect in 2021. Find more at noparkingpodcast.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Empanada Cultural T03 E14: The Game Awards 2020 (13/12/2020)

Empanada Cultural

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2020 60:00

Especial The Game Awards 2020 a Empanada Cultural! Programa dedicat als videojocs que tanquen aquest 2020 amb l'event de premis més important! Primer l'Adriano ens apropa "Level Five" del director de cinema Chris Marker, amb una mirada molt intel·lectual. I desprès, un resum i comentari del "The Game Awards 2020" que en Pol Diggler i en Ferran Pujol van retransmetre en directe.

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Level five restrictions, impact on sport and testing in GAA

Highlights from Off The Ball

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 26:18

Joe Molloy, Richie McCormack and Newstalk & Virgin Media's Gavan Reilly on the line for tonight's Newsround.

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'Ireland will be back in lockdown by February if we reopen at Christmas'

Breakfast Briefing

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2020 5:55

Ireland will be back in lockdown early next year if the Government lifts Level Five restrictions for the Christmas season, according to one public health expert. Professor Anthony Staines joined Shane Beatty to share his thoughts.

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Cuando el videojuego se hace cine -La Hora de los Marcianitos -1x08

La Hora de los Marcianitos

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2020 74:04

Cómo debía de ser cuando hay un buen tema, terminamos de nombrar algunos títulos que son dignos de mención y debate en esta segunda entrega, ahora con cinco jugadores de nuevo. Y como guinda del pastel...¡películas sobre videojuegos! No podíamos desaprovechar esta oportunidad para nombrar títulos cómo Street Fighter: La última batalla, Final Fantaxy: The Spirits Within', Tomb Raider, Level Five, pero... Sí, no nos olvidamos de resultados cómo el de Warcraft: El origen o Resident Evil y debatimos los curiosos casos que podrían entrar en este género cómo Rompe Ralph o Jumanji con su nueva versión. ¿Cuál es la película sobre un videojuegos que vosotros pensáis que nunca debería haber salido? Contadnos en los comentarios :) ¡Atentos, que empieza y viene fuerte!

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B028 - Campaign Builder - Preparing for a Fight (Level Five)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2020 58:15

So much of our favourite pop culture is based upon destroying the status quo, making a hair-brained scheme, and then fighting the insurmountable odds, but in D&D the hair-brained scheme is often overlooked. So how do you offer opportunity and agency without having the session go wildly off the rails? Adam and Dan walk you through what it means to go from storyteller to audience, and why Dungeon Masters should not necessarily be concerned with the realism surrounding player schemes. Takeaways:- When the party plots and schemes while the tension ratchets up, and the Dungeon Master steps back to a reactionary role, the campaign is operating at peak performance.- Revenge is a major motivating factor for most players, but they might try to surprise their DM. If this is the case, be cognizant of whether or not this is because they want to have a big cool moment, or if they just don't trust you as the Dungeon Master.- One of the major issues with giving the players total agency over a story beat is simply that analysis paralysis might set in. Providing boundaries and nudges might be required to keep them on track.- Dungeon Masters should take more notes than the players to maintain consistency.- Using enemy powers and tactics against the players in this session may inspire them to use similar powers and tactics in the next session against the big boss fight. Available On: iTunes | Spotify | Podbean | YouTube Don’t forget to Like/Follow/Subscribe/Whatever when you listen! Social: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Reddit Email: info@itsamimic.com Intro/Outro Music by: Cory Wiebe Logo by: Kate Skidmore

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Episode 10: 24 Elsinore

Bend & Scoop

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 45:48

Take it to Level Five!

B027 - Campaign Builder - Betrayal (Level Five)

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 3, 2020 56:23

Aha! Bet you didn't see it coming! Out of nowhere, here comes an episode on the worst kind of surprises in D&D: Betrayals! This episode sees Dan and Adam break down the why, when, and how of using effective, meaningful betrayals in your Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Takeaways:- Some players will blame the Dungeon Master for a betrayal, and focus on the DM as the adversary. The best way to avoid this is by having the betrayal be plausible.- Squash the impulse to talk about the betrayal after the session. The players still working through it and analyzing all the small details. Hearing about how you designed the betrayal will put the attention on you and not the character.- You can use your own attitudes and language to subtly imply that there is a distance between yourself and the villain you are revealing. Swapping from first-person perspective to third-person perspective is a good tool for this.- Knowing the layout of the story in advance allows you to introduce some ideas quietly in the background of the plot while major issues, raising stakes, and resolutions are in full swing. This gives you the opportunity to drop hints about a betrayal early, so the players can look back on the plot later and see that the traitor was always there.- Having a strong motivation is key to planning a betrayal. Without a proper motivation, this will seem like it's just a Dungeon Master adding a twist for their own selfish reasons. Available On: iTunes | Spotify | Podbean | YouTube Don’t forget to Like/Follow/Subscribe/Whatever when you listen! Social: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Reddit Email: info@itsamimic.com Intro/Outro Music by: Cory Wiebe Logo by: Kate Skidmore

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B026 - Campaign Builder - Scouting (Level Five)