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The Blasters & Blades Podcast Just a couple of nerdy Army veterans geeking out on things that go "abracadabra," "pew," "zoom," "boop-beep" and rhyme with Science Fiction & Fantasy. Co-Hosts: Doc Cisca (Uber Book Fan) (Army Medic) JR Handley (Author) (Grunt) Nick Garber (Comic Book Artist) (Super Grunt) We work for free, so if you wanna throw a few pennies our way there is a linked Buy Me A Coffee site where you can do so. Just mention the podcast in the comments when you donate, and I'll keep the sacred bean water boiling! Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AuthorJRHandley Our Website: https://anchor.fm/blasters-and-blades Our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/blastersandbladespodcast Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/SF_Fantasy_Show We found some of our old episodes on a 8-track in Cisca's attic, so we decided to dust them off and bring them to you for your listening pleasure! This time we've got a fun interview of leading military scifi authors! Storybundle Link: https://storybundle.com/scifi Scott Bartlett's Links Scott's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Scott-Bartlett/e/B006N2VOJK/ Scott's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/scottbartlettreaders/ Scott's Website: http://scottplots.com/ Nick Cole's Links: Nick's Amazon: https://smile.amazon.com/Nick%20Cole/e/B004W47QXE/ Nick's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/nickcolebooks Nick's Website: https://nickcolebooks.com/ Brian Mansur's Links Brian's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brian-Mansur/e/B07QB4Z6Q8 Brian's Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/brianmansur.author Brian's Website: https://brianmansur.wordpress.com/ Rick Partlow's Contact Rick's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rick%20Partlow/e/B00B1GNL4E Rick's Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/dutyhonorplanet Rick's Website: https://rickpartlow.com/ Walt Robillard's Links: Walt's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Walt-Robillard/e/B07SZPLTXX/ Walt's Website: https://www.hazardstudio.net/ Walt's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/walt.robillard #bbp #blastersandblades #blastersandbladespodcast #podcast #scifipodcast #fantasypodcast #scifi #fantasy #books #rpg #comics #fandom #literature #comedy #veteran #army #armyranger #ranger #milscifi #militaryscifi #milsf #militarysf #archived #panel --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blasters-and-blades/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/blasters-and-blades/support
Nick Dawson is the co-organizer of the Emergency Design Collective. In today’s episode, we talk about healthcare innovation labs, how to think about opportunities in healthcare, healthcare versus sick care, and launching the EDC to support the COVID-19 response. Show Host: Dawan Stanford Show Summary Nick Dawson grew up with a father who worked in healthcare and hospitals. As he entered college, he was convinced that he absolutely didn’t want to work in the same field. But the technology used in the local hospital intrigued and interested him enough to accept an internship in the IT department there. While immersed in how hospitals work, Nick discovered his interest in complex systems and their challenges. His internship turned into a lifelong career that led him into design and innovation for healthcare. While working as a healthcare performance improvement consultant for a large healthcare conglomerate, Nick needed to travel frequently by air. During his business travel, he witnessed a failing airline’s poor treatment of its employees; this was the nascence of his interest in the idea of re-designing healthcare’s patient and staff experiences. He realized that experience is something people and organizations must always create with intention and thought, and something that must be centered on those who are living and working in the experience. Experience design, healthcare and the ability to wrestle with complexity drives his work. Examples include designing the Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub, and his recent co-founding of the Emergency Design Collective, which focuses on re-thinking how we approach healthcare, helping businesses and organizations design their work spaces to support the health and wellbeing of their employees, and on creating a “public health design” core curriculum. Listen in to learn more about: The challenges of designing for innovation in hospital environments Designing the Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub The unique collaborative aspects of clinical hospital teams Creating a flexible work environment and power dynamic in teams The “product” of healthcare How everything in our life is connected to, and has an influence on, our health The social determinants of health The Emergency Design Collective and its work Ways to rethink how we work and function in order to design for good health Our Guest’s Bio Nick Dawson has been at the forefront of bringing design innovation to healthcare. He started and led the design innovation program at Johns Hopkins before joining Kaiser Permanente to lead innovation nationally. Nick chaired the Medicine X program in the Stanford school of Medicine until 2019 and worked with the Obama White House to bring patient-centered design to policy making and healthcare priorities. In April 2020, Nick left KP to co-found the Emergency Design Collective — a group of doctors, designers and public health experts using design to respond to urgent public health crises. Show Highlights [03:00] Nick’s start in healthcare and design. [04:19] Nick discovers his interest in complex systems problems. [04:28] How a hospital is like a miniature city. [05:23] Nick’s witnessing of an airline’s financial failure leads to a revelation about experience. [09:00] Learning from and listening to patients about what they need and want from their healthcare. [10:57] Why it can be challenging to innovate in healthcare. [11:29] Why healthcare is a risk-averse industry. [12:05] Nick’s focus on re-centering the work from the hospital to the communities, patients, and staff it serves. [12:51] Advice for overcoming people’s resistance to change. [13:31] The dilemma of how to help people embrace change and innovation instead of resisting it. [15:00] How hospital staff reacted to the launching of the Johns Hopkins Sibley Innovation Hub. [17:15] Nick talks about building the Sibley Innovation Hub team and working to create a welcoming space. [18:27] The unique characteristics of teams and teamwork in the clinical hospital environment versus the management side of healthcare. [19:39] How Nick disseminated power among his team members. [21:59] Nick’s thoughts on the “product” of healthcare. [22:50] The concept of a social needs emergency room existing upstream of clinical emergency rooms. [23:05] The interconnectedness of every part of our life with our health. [23:20] The social determinants of health. [24:18] What it means to design “upstream” of healthcare. [27:23] Some opportunities for people who want to act and serve not just in response to the current COVID-19 crisis, but also in the future as systems begin to change. [28:07] The Emergency Design Collective and the “new normal.” [28:27] Nick’s thought on education and how it might change. [29:15] What might happen if every corporation started to think of itself as an H corp and prioritizing health? [29:30] How the current global pandemic is potentially re-shaping the way we think about health. [31:15] Ways the EDC supports purposeful business and space design with a focus on good health and wellbeing. [33:40] Resources Nick recommends on design, innovation, and healthcare. Links Nick on LinkedIn Nick on Twitter Emergency Design Collective Personal Website Innovation as a requirement for success in healthcare An Everyone Included Design Story TEDMED Interview with Nick from 2014 Ward Infinity Book Recommendation: The Experience Economy, by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore Book Recommendation: The Cluetrain Manifesto, by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger, and Jake McKee Book Recommendation: Org Design for Design Orgs, by Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner Book Recommendation: 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization, by Vijay Kumar Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like Adding System Awareness to System Design to Your Innovation Stack with Julie Guinn — DT101 E43 Designing Health Systems + Creating Effective Design Workshops with Sean Molloy — DT101 E44 A Designer’s Journey into Designing for Health and Healthcare with Lorna Ross — DT101 E45 ________________ Thank you for listening to the show and looking at the show notes. Send your questions, suggestions, and guest ideas to Dawan and the Fluid Hive team. Cheers ~ Dawan Free Download — Design Driven Innovation: Avoid Innovation Traps with These 9 Steps Innovation Smart Start Webinar — Take your innovation projects from frantic to focused!
Former Rethinking Hell contributor Nick Quient joins Chris Date to discuss Nick’s recent book, The Perfection of Our Faithful Wills: Paul’s Apocalyptic Vision of Entire Sanctification, and how the apocalyptic theology of the apostle Paul supports conditional immortality and challenges the doctrines of eternal torment and universalism. Links: Nick’s book at the publisher’s website (https://wipfandstock.com/the-perfection-of-our-faithful-wills.html) Nick’s book at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Perfection-Our-Faithful-Wills-Sanctification/dp/1532656238/) “Split Frame of Reference”: the blog and podcast of Nick and Allison Quient (http://www.splitframeofreference.com/) “The Sinnergists”: Nick’s other podcast (https://sinnergistspod.com/)
The realignment process has begun for NCHSAA member schools. Nick Stevens released his realignment proposal earlier this month. Nick, along with J. Mike Blake, break down the proposal and explain how and why it helps level the playing field, especially when it comes to charter and parochial schools competing for 1A state championships against small-town schools. LINKS: Nick's realignment proposal
Ramneek and Chad sit down with Nick Robertson with Lawyers Title, an enthusiastic and dedicated father and husband - dedicated to service and family. Key Seekers International Group Podcast Show NotesKey Seekers Submit Question: https://www.keyseekersinternational.com/key-seekers-podcastKey Seekers Website: https://www.keyseekersgroupKey Seekers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/keyseekersgroup/Key Seekers Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/keyseekersgroup/Key Seekers Twitter: https://twitter.com/keyseekersgroup Nick Robertson Information and Links:Nick's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-robertson-47a119107/Nick's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nick.robertson.980Nick's Website: http://www.nick.lawyerstitlearizona.com/ Ramneek Mathur’s Social Links: Ramneek Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RamneekRM/Ramneek Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ramneekRMRamneek Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/ramneekRMRamneek LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramneekmathur/ Chad Schleicher’s Social Links:Chad Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SchleicherCS/Chad Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schleichercs/Chad LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-schleicher/
Nick Vissari went from being an engineering dropout (he didn't like creative writing) to tech consultant to math tutor. His penchant for fixing things homed him back into tech where he is now responsible for security at a large school district. He recently went back to school and received his cybersecurity degree as well.NotesAt 10 yro Dad had problems putting computer together, so he helped his dad with itFamily never stifled any inquisitiveness he hadStarted at a Math Tutor at the school systemNick talks about how he had the wrong attitude in security [11:38]Quotes:"Once you get into a position somewhere, do whatever you can to make yourself invaluable. Find the things people don't want to do and do them. The hard problems are the ones most rewarding." [8:55]"If you're not automating right now, it's probably because you have more resources than you know what to do with." [18:54]"There are a lot of people that are security professionals but they really don’t know about how a system works." [25:22]"Just got to have that passion to want to learn and you can definitely jump into security."[22:50]"My grandmother always said: 'Those who don't make mistakes, don't do much.' So get out there a make a bunch of mistakes." [25:35] Tweet This!"Don't be that guy that says 'No' to everything. You have to be somebody that says 'Yes… and'." [26:06]Links:Nick on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nickadamSSLstrip by Moxie: https://github.com/moxie0/sslstripFiresheep plugin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FiresheepGetting Into Infosec:Checkout My Book: Breaking IN: A Practical Guide to Starting a Career in Information Security: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07N15GTPC/T-Shirts, Mugs, and more: https://gettingintoinfosec.com/shop/Sign up for sneak peaks, updates, and commentary: https://pages.gettingintoinfosec.com/subscribe
In September 2015, Nick put his generalised muscular aches down to his keen squash playing, but soon after, other unexplained symptoms started to appear. On Christmas eve of 2015, Nick was found to have inoperable cancer on a CT scan, being diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer the following month. At 625 ng/ml, his PSA (a prostate tumour marker) was 150x the upper limit, and he was given a gleason score of 9/10 (the most aggressive rating for prostate cancer). Since that time, Nick has taken an extremely proactive approach to his cancer and health. He has assembled around him a multi-disciplinary team, including Cancer Buddies, complementary oncologists, yoga masters, psychotherapists, nutritionists, Chinese herbalists & acupuncturists, strength & conditioning experts, buddhists, GPs, nurses, conventional oncologists and his wife. Alongside this, Nick has been on a mission to share what he has found through his own journey, and has been writing and speaking about the undeniable impact of lifestyle on our health and, as he sees it in his case, his own experiences with cancer. Thank you Nick for your generous time on the show. LINKS: Nick’s website: https://thecancerjourneyman.co.ukHis Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/thecancerjourneymanHis Twitter: https://twitter.com/CansaJourneyMan LISTEN TO THE STRONGER MEDICINE PODCAST ON: Spotify: http://bit.ly/stmdspotify iTunes: http://bit.ly/stmditunes Stitcher: http://bit.ly/stmdstitcher Get in touch: julian@strongermedicine.com www.strongermedicine.com
In which Nick regales The Dear Listener with a tortuous analogy between a windowless aisle seat and going on a blind financial journey! In this episode of what his mother calls the UK’s leading personal finance podcast, Nick also rambles on about: Fascinating factoids featuring the fine figure 53; Women’s sport - who watches it? LINKS: Nick’s recent trade article on inflation risk. Nick’s first Mile High Money HatTIp podcast listener. ========== Any comments or feedback gratefully received. Likewise with suggestions for future shows. Get in touch with Nick on Twitter or via good old email. CLICK HERE TO LEAVE A FIVE STAR REVIEW ON iTUNES - OR ELSE. @HatTipNick info@v2vfp.co.uk www.v2vfp.co.uk
Nick Keomahavong is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who studied to become a monk in Thailand. Nick shares his knowledge on how to heal emotional pain by telling ourselves the truth. I open up my own experiences with Nick in this discussion and I hope you gain some perspective through our interaction as things get personal for me in this episode. Links: Nick on Facebook - www.facebook.com/therapywithnick Nick's email - therapywithnick@gmail.com Nick's Online Course: thealchemistschool.thinkific.com/courses/findingyourself Follow Me: www.instagram.com/_eddiemac Intro/Outro Music By: Ryan Little - www.instagram.com/iamryanlittle --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eddiemac/message
Listen to Nick forget his favorite creepypasta, and hear Crissy get too scared to sleep in real-time. Links Nick mentioned and Crissy didn't check: Ben Drowned: https://youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=HtpOp-_get8 Do Not Look At The Moon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M75VLQuFPrY
Welcome to another episode of the “Money Hat-Tip”, the new UK focused personal finance podcast. Brought to you by Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) and founder of Values to Vision Financial Planning Ltd, Nick Lincoln. In episode #2, Nick uses the recent General Election to highlight a key difference between the financial plans of politicians compared to the financial plans of people in the real world (eg - you!) Nick covers the Three Basic Truths of financial planning. As ever, he doesn’t sugar-coat things: real financial advice is not about what you want to hear but what you need to hear! LINKS: Nick’s blog piece on the dangers of downsizing An ode to Elephant & Castle shopping centre ========== Any comments or feedback gratefully received. Likewise with suggestions for future shows. Get in touch with Nick on Twitter or via good old email. Thanks for listening and sparing some of your precious time. It is appreciated. @HatTipNick info@v2vfp.co.uk www.v2vfp.co.uk
This week’s episode was recorded on November 29th, 2015. On this week’s episode, Nick, Paul, and Mike started the episode talking about their comic picks for the week then ended up talking about what they read in the last week–which was a lot. There’s talk of The Dark Knight Three: The Master Race #1, and they ended up leading ourselves into a conversation about one shots. As you may notice, we’re trying a new format this week, so if you hate it (or love it!), let us know. If you hear this episode before December 31st, 2015, please take our survey. Anyone who takes it and provides their email at the end will be gifted a comic by Mike! Links Nick on Twitter Paul on Twitter Mike on Twitter Zander on Twitter Timestamps Intro/Start/Comic Picks: 00:00:00 “What did you read last week?”: 00:21:07 DK3: 00:38:07 One Shots: 00:49:20 Credits: 01:08:49 This week’s music was by Free the Robots, THE NEW LAW, SixFingerz, and Infinity Shred. This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs. Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks and get a hold of us here: cyborg@destroythecyb.org – @destroythecyb – destroythecyborg.tumblr.com Stitcher | TuneIn
This episode was recorded November 22nd, 2015. Hosts Nick, Jon, and Paul chat comics for the week (as per usual), what they read (as per usual), and (gasp!) something new: What keeps you reading ongoing comics. There’s a distinct difference in indie ongoing books (as Jon mentions, Saga), and Big 2 books–in Paul and Nick’s case, Batman. Shenanigans are had, and Zander makes a guest appearance in the post-credits. Links Nick on Twitter Paul on Twitter Jon on Twitter Zander on Twitter Timestamps Intro/Start: 00:00:00 Comic Picks: 00:08:34 “What keeps you reading a comic?”: 00:19:43 “What keeps you reading a comic?” Part 2: 00:43:54 Credits: 01:01:32 After Credits – Christmas Comedies: 01:02:28 This week’s music was by Poldoore, Damu the Fudgemunk (“It’s Called The Chill Out” & “Da Coffee Table“), and Infinity Shred. This week’s episode was produced by Mike Rapin and edited by Zander Riggs. Have a question? Want us to talk about a topic? Submit discussion topics to our subreddit /r/IReadComicBooks and get a hold of us here: cyborg@destroythecyb.org – @destroythecyb – destroythecyborg.tumblr.com Stitcher | TuneIn