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00:00:00 Hello Listeners00:01:11 Introduction to a Quiet Strategy00:05:06 Chapter 1: Aiden's Role 00:07:14 Scene 2: An Unsettling Observation00:10:17 Scene 3: A Deeper Look Into Aiden's Internal Conflict00:11:45 Scene 4: Emily's True Nature00:13:37 Scene 5: Back at His Desk; a Fresh Discovery00:15:24 Scene 6: Reflection and Building Suspicion00:17:04 Scene 7: A Lingering Call to ActionA Quiet Strategy: Secret, Sacrifice, and the Cost of Truth By Mark Greyhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DMT7FRF8In a world ravaged by climate change and declining populations,..A Quiet Strategy, Secret Sacrifice, and the Cost of Truth by Mark Grey unveils a sinister plan. Join dedicated civil servant Aiden Lawson as he stumbles upon the shocking truth—a covert global agenda orchestrated by powerful nations.Under the guise of addressing declining populations, these countries are quietly relocating millions of displaced people, exploiting humans as commodities and resources to be managed. As Aiden delves deeper into the conspiracy, he risks everything to expose the truth.Mark Grey's thrilling novel takes you on a journey through political intrigue, high-stakes espionage, and deception. With each revelation, the stakes rise higher, and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.Discover the secrets hidden in plain sight and join Aiden as he navigates this world of conspiracy. Will he succeed in exposing the truth and saving humanity, or will the sinister plan continue to unfold?Get your copy of A Quiet Strategy, Secret Sacrifice, and the Cost of Truth by Mark Grey today and dive into a captivating story that explores the depths of human exploitation and the consequences of our actions.

Mark Grey's not only became the assistant coach over the years after starting out as a fan of the team but he's now one of the more integral members of this franchise. From earning the trust of guys like Michael Cooper, Mario Chalmers, and Michael Beasley to writing scouting reports, Grey has been through the highs and lows of this 3's Company squad. But 3's Company may have arguably their best team to date and look like a championship contender heading into the 2024 season finale in San Antonio. Mark gives us his perspective on the league and how its' changed since 2017, an inside look on the reconstruction of this roster, why Enemies should be concerned in their upcoming matchup, and discuss BIG3 players in the Olympics. DRIP: https://www.dripshop.live/invite/4thM... FOLLOW: Twitter, IG, Tik Tok - @4thManPod SUBSCRIBE & LEAVE 5 STARS: Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast.... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/5dk1EZz.... GRAB A SHIRT OR SOMETHING: https://teespring.com/the-forth-man?p.... MARK GREY: IG: @mgterp954

In one of our most anticipated conversations of the year, we got the chance to sit down with three of Spotify's eng leaders: Krisitan Lindwall, Director of Engineering, Data, Insights, Experimentation, & ML Infrastructure; Mark Grey, Senior Staff Engineer; and Pooja Dave, Director of Engineering, Music Promotion. They share insights from their experience building a culture of experimentation & innovation at a massive scale and what elements are necessary for experimentation at scale. They share the origin story of Spotify's experimentation platform, how to develop eng leaders to think strategically & execute effectively, mistakes to avoid while scaling your experimentation capabilities, and navigating the balance between structured processes vs. unstructured time to ideate.ABOUT KRISTIAN LINDWALLKristian (@klindwall) is an engineering leader at Spotify. He has over 10 years of experience managing and coaching a broad variety of engineering and product teams. He is currently based in New York where he manages the engineering teams working on the company's data, insights, and machine learning platforms. Prior to that, he led parts of the agile coach practice at Spotify for a few years and has been very active in supporting the growth of a strong agile and lean approach in the company. Before Spotify, Kristian spent 8 years in fintech in Stockholm where he built and grew the engineering team at the largest online broker company in Sweden."How we behave in the organization is really what reinforces and drives the culture and I think there's a few things driving that culture of innovation. Connecting hands to heads, meaning give people an opportunity to engage in ideation and make sure people are involved in strategy work and in the full process of figuring out where we're heading.”- Kristian Lindwall   ABOUT POOJA DAVEWith over a decade of experience building and leading several R&D organizations in ad tech, marketing tech, and platforms servicing those, Pooja currently runs the organization at Spotify that helps artists engage and grow their fanbase. Prior to Spotify, she worked at Microsoft on several products including Devices, Browser Rendering Engine, and Advertising/MarTech SDKs. This diversity in experiences has given her a well-rounded exposure to engineer solutions and lead teams with strong backend architecture, client, machine learning, and data practices.“For Spotify, failure is the paradox to success.”- Pooja Dave   ABOUT MARK GREYMark is a Senior Staff Engineer at Spotify, where for a decade he has worked on a broad range of distributed systems related to experimentation, data processing, and analytics. Having operated and scaled solutions at all stages of growth, his primary focus is on technical strategy and platformization.Prior to Spotify, Mark worked at the New York Times on personalization infrastructure such as near-realtime article recommendations."We want to ideally maximize the throughput on those things that we see pan out or don't pan out. So kind of a fail faster, double down model and there's all kinds of practices and tools that we put in place that Confidence is just one among many that allow us to increase that throughput. So try and derive insights from a small experiment, validate your hypothesis quickly, and then proceed and scale up from there.”- Mark Grey   This episode is brought to you by incident.ioincident.io is trusted by hundreds of tech-led companies across the globe, including Etsy, monday.com, Skyscanner and more to seamlessly orchestrate incident response from start to finish. Intuitively designed, and with powerful and flexible built-in workflow automation, companies use incident.io to supercharge incident response and up-level the entire organization.Learn more about how you can better identify, learn from, and respond to incidents at incident.ioInterested in joining an ELC Peer Group?ELCs Peer Groups provide a virtual, curated, and ongoing peer learning opportunity to help you navigate the unknown, uncover solutions and accelerate your learning with a small group of trusted peers.Apply to join a peer group HERE: sfelc.com/peerGroupsSHOW NOTES:About Spotify's experimentation platform, Confidence (3:46)Why Spotify decided to offer Confidence externally (5:43)What experimentation without a platform looked like in the early days @ Spotify (6:24)Understanding the scale of the Confidence platform (8:58)Challenges eng leaders face when scaling testing / experimentation processes (10:51)Strategies for determining which experiments & features are most impactful (13:23)How to build a stronger culture of innovation / experimentation at scale (15:47)Frameworks to help develop eng leaders to be both thinkers & doers (19:11)Facilitating conversations around data ideation (23:13)An example of how Spotify ideates around data (26:10)Mistakes to avoid when scaling up & defining the experiment (28:36)How to prioritize experiments when there are conflicts (32:22)Recommendations for capturing ideas & turning them into features (35:32)Create breathing space within eng teams to help bolster innovation (40:10)Why it's also key to implement structured processes for experimentation (42:57)What good coaching looks like when orgs are scaling their experiments (45:24)Knowing when you need to platformize something (48:55)How generalizing platform capabilities can enable greater speed (51:27)Learn to think outside the box & don't get in the way of experimentation (55:11)Rapid fire questions (57:10)LINKS AND RESOURCESBecoming - In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address.Unsolicited Feedback - A new podcast by Reforge that invites you into closed-door conversations between growth and product leaders. Brian Balfour (Reforge, HubSpot), Fareed Mosavat (Reforge, Slack), and friends give targeted feedback around recent features and releases across the product and growth multiverse.Lenny's Podcast - Lenny Rachitsky (author of #1 business newsletter on Substack with 500k+ subscribers) interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

#S3E15 Shelf Impactors™ 'Wanna be a Freelancer?' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. SO YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT TURNING FREELANCE? Mark and Lisa unpick what it is to be freelance designer, discussing the highs and the lows. 1. WHAT IS A FREELANCER? - What does it the term mean to Mark and Lisa? 2. EXPERIENCES OF BOTH BEING AND USING FREELANCERS - Mark and Lisa share their experiences of the world of Freelancers 3. JUGGLING FREELANCE WORK AND YOUR OWN CLIENT WORK - Mark discusses how he manages both sides of the coin, sharing his strategy for a harmonious approach 4. DID THE PANDEMIC BENEFIT THE WORLD OF FREELANCE? - How Covid actually improved the design industry's ability to work with freelancers, especially when working remotely 5. 3 TOP TIPS FOR DESIGNERS LOOKING TO GO FREELANCE --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk LinkedIn - Mark Grey

Last episode, we talked about ABBA, our first A/B testing tool. We used it to test UI changes, new features, content recommendations — anything and everything we could think of. ABBA was so good and worked so well for so long…that we decided to get rid of it. Years of using ABBA taught us what makes for good experimentation, and we eventually realized we needed a better tool, built from scratch. Listen to find out why we pulled the plug on ABBA and how Spotify's Experimentation Platform was born. And in case you missed it, a version of our internal platform will be available to the public as Confidence, a new enterprise product for developer teams — read today's announcement: “Coming Soon: Confidence — An Experimentation Platform from Spotify”. But first, let's talk buttons. Everyone always has so many questions about buttons. How do you know which color they should be? Or how big they should be? Or whether the corners should be round or square? The easy answer: an A/B test! But if only all product experimentation was as simple as testing buttons. Senior staff engineer Mark Grey returns to talk with host Dave Zolotusky, along with senior engineer Dima Kunin — he helped build Spotify's Experimentation Platform and was the guy who had the honor of finally retiring ABBA. They discuss the ins and outs of enabling experimentation at scale, including targeting criteria, controlling eligibility, the importance of measuring exposure, using properties instead of feature flags, the advantages of separating your app configuration from your experiments, fallback states, sample ratio mismatches — and all the other questions you have to answer about your experimentation process before you can even ask something as simple as “what color should a button be” — let alone “will this machine learning model consistently provide recommendations users appreciate over the next year”. Plus, did you definitely, positively, absolutely eat the bread? Or did you just buy the bread? And a bonus trick question: What's the difference between “treatments”, “variants”, and “groups” — and why is it always so hard to name things? Learn more about ABBA and its successor, Spotify's Experimentation Platform: 20: The Rise and Fall of ABBA: Listen to our previous episode with Mark Grey talking about our very first A/B testing tool, ABBA. Spotify's New Experimentation Platform (Part 1): How we went from ABBA to building EP, the internal experimentation platform we use today and that Confidence is based on. Spotify's New Experimentation Platform (Part 2): More features of EP, including our custom “salt machine” and more. Plus, find out lots more about how we do experimentation at Spotify on our engineering blog — including a little light reading on automated salting and bucket reuse, choosing sequential testing frameworks, comparing quantiles at scale, and how we scale other scientific best practices across the org. Read what else we're nerding out about on the Spotify Engineering Blog: engineering.atspotify.com You should follow us on Twitter @SpotifyEng and on LinkedIn!

Back in the day, Spotify built a custom A/B testing tool called ABBA. It was great. The platform enabled lots of teams to try out lots of ideas for new features to see what worked and what didn't. With ABBA, we went from doing tens of experiments to hundreds of experiments. But we didn't just learn what color button users liked better: the more tests we ran, the more we learned about our testing methods, including the limitations of ABBA itself — which eventually led us to a new, better way to test. Here's the story of ABBA, our very first experimentation platform, and the lessons we learned about doing product experimentation at scale. Host Dave Zolotusky talks with Mark Grey, a senior staff engineer and 10-year Spotify veteran. They discuss Spotify's earliest efforts at product testing, our early infrastructure for data and data processing (using Hive and Hadoop), how migrating to the cloud unlocked more processing power (and more testing), the difference between using tests to design the color of a button and using tests to inform the very next user interaction via machine learning, feature flags and holdout groups, all the things we learned about conducting scientifically sound experiments, how we built a culture of experimentation among our software development teams, and what finally drove us to sunset ABBA and build its successor: a bigger, better internal experimentation platform. Plus, progress bars and lightsabers. Read more about ABBA and how we do product experimentation at Spotify: Spotify's New Experimentation Platform (Part 1) Spotify's New Experimentation Platform (Part 2) Search Journey Towards Better Experimentation Practices Spotify's New Experimentation Coordination Strategy Choosing a Sequential Testing Framework — Comparisons and Discussions Comparing Quantiles at Scale in Online A/B-Testing Read what else we're nerding out about on the Spotify Engineering Blog: engineering.atspotify.com You should follow us on Twitter @SpotifyEng and on LinkedIn!

#S3E13 Shelf Impactors™ 'Chat GPT - Where are we going?' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. CHAT GPT What is it? What have we tried? What is it good for? Will it remove the role of writers, researchers? Smart answer no - it is just a tool. 1. HAVE WE ADOPTED CHAT GPT YET? - Are we seeing a place for it in the creative tool box - How are we using it right now? 2. THE SOCIAL GENERATIONS OF THE WESTERN WORLD - As 'Gen Z' are likely to be the power used of this technology from the outset, just who are the 'Gen Z's' - For ease of conversation and to help Mark's confusion - a quick breakdown of the generational consumer brackets we all refer to! 3. CHAT GPT EXAMPLES - Mark and Lisa discuss their experiences with Chat GPT so far and how they intend to utilise his growing platform. --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E12 Shelf Impactors™ 'Creative Culture Trends for 2023 and beyond' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. CULTURE TRENDS Shelf Impactors like to look forwards and see what is inspiring the design world. This time Mark and Lisa talk culture. 1. NEW REALITIES… - The rise of Meta - how credible will this space become? - Will we all be living in a Meta world soon - as tech immersion advances we see this new phase of 'phygital' - physical meets digital. 2. CREATOR COMMUNITIES - Creatives are ever curious, how does this trend play out and amplify our need for more, replacing consumption for regeneration 3. CLIMATE OPTIMISM - The way we source information and entertainment is changing, with subscription packages, opt in or out services, everyone is now a potential creator? Even AI - Midjourney, Dalle and now the rise of Chat GPT 4. ARTISAN WAVE - The rise of the side hustle! Discuss the rise in hand crafted, and finding ways to make money - changing the way we work, or shop… 5. SITUATIONSHIPS... - Employee monogamy might be a thing of the past! --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E11 Shelf Impactors™ 'Food and Drinks Trends for 2023 and beyond' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. BRAND NEW YEAR - Means BRAND NEW Trends... Mark and Lisa discuss what they're anticipating and noticing in the world Foods and Drinks for the coming year: 1. SPACE FOOD - To infinity and beyond - What will be we packing in our outer galactic hampers? 2. CBD products - Will we see the CBD drinks grow in the NO/LOW Category 3. FOOD AND DRINK BRANDS IN THE METAVERSE - Pixel flavour?! - How will virtual experiences inform physical food and drinks products? 4. THE EVER GROWING NO/LOW CATEGORY - Health and wellbeing leading the way for more 'teetotalers' than ever 5. PLANT BASED MEAT - Where is it heading? Petri dish pork? 6. ENERGY EFFICIENT FOODS - Stoveless, gassless cuisine --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E09 Shelf Impactors™ 'November Challenge Update' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. 1. NOVEMBER CHALLENGE UPDATE - Lisa and Mark discuss their challenges for November and how they're tracking: • Mark - Carnivore diet for the month (AGAIN!) and 1x30 minute sketch per day (based on our word of the day)! • Lisa - Cold showers daily for the month and 1x15 minutes per day creative writing (based on our word of the day)! 2. FOOD TRENDS FOR 2023 (Setting the scene for the next podcast) Mark and Lisa touch on the subject of the upcoming podcast and skim the surface of some upcoming trends which will undoubtedly be hitting the shelves throughout next year and beyond... 3. THE ADOBE PANTONE SPLIT Thoughts on how the Adobe / Pantone separation will affect us all? --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E08 Shelf Impactors™ 'Design Awards - are they worth it?' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. 1. OUR THOUGHTS ON DESIGN INDUSTRY AWARDS - Do they favour big names over boutique design houses? 2. WHY ARE DESGIN AWARDS IMPORTANT? - Do they add value to the designer/ agency 3. WHY WE SHOULD NOT DESIGN JUST FOR AWARDS - Unproductive approach to design brief - Compromised goals 4. NOVEMBER CHALLENGE - Mark and Lisa define their challenges for the month of November --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E06 Shelf Impactors™ 'Creative Networking - Do's and Don'ts' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. 1. HOW IMPORTANT IS NETWORKING IN OUR INDUSTRY? – What does networking mean to us – What are our experiences 2. BUILDING YOU CURRENT NETWORK – How to keep you network informed, interested and engaged – Our advice on network building 3. QUALITY OVER QUANTITY – When first starting to build a network - how do you chose between quality over quantity? 4. 5 KEY WAYS TO NETWORK - Some insights and recommendations --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

In this episode, I chat with hot prospect Mark Grey about how his collegiate wrestling background has helped him in his fighting career, what the transition was like, as well as, how the pandemic set him up for the right opportunity to take the plunge into fighting.

#S3E05 Shelf Impactors™ 'I want it NOW!' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. 1. THE WORLD OF NOW!… - Digital shopping is getting faster and more targeted
 - Digital commerce continuously adapting
 - Shopping within social media - The impact - death of the Highstreet, buy now pay later 2. CONNECTED TV!
 - TV shows using shoppable content - linking viewers to retailers via onscreen prompts
 - Could services like Netflix look to offer on-screen buying. 4. MAKE IT EASY AND PEOPLE WILL BUY - In consumer terms keeping the number of clicks to buy to an absolute minimum is the key!
 - Amazon's BUY NOW button the perfect example.
 - Amazon Fresh - crossing the consumer's threshold between physical and digital markets --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E03 Shelf Impactors™ 'Agency Adaption' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. 1. AGENCIES ADAPTING TO CHANGE - Are Design/ Creative Agencies adapting and changing to serve the new world or working for their teams - What do you offer your teams - - Are talent pools being lost/ losing out due to industry inconsistencies? - What can agencies offer to entice teams back into the workplace 2. IS THERE A RIGHT OR WRONG WAY? - What are our experiences of this over last two years since Covid - What would like to see within the industry? --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S3E02 Shelf Impactors™ 'Mindfulness 2.0' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings. Mark and Lisa reach back 3 years to when they last spoke about Mindfulness (S1EP09). They cover some old ground and discuss if their perceptions have changed on some of the key focusses for Mindfulness: SLEEP, NUTRITION, DAILY ROUTINES, RESEARCH/ READING, & MENTORS! 1. MINDFULNESS 2.0 - Have you attitudes changed? Has the Pandemic caused us to overthink? - Is Mindfullness now taking away our productivity? - POST PANDEMIC - how do we feel about our own approach to Mindfulness? 2. PILLARS OF MINDFULLNESS 3. MEDITATION - What does it mean it you? - Do you do it - in what ever form you believe it to be? - Breathing practices? 4. What are the established brands working in this space - CALM - HEADSPACE --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

Mark Grey from the Building Industry Association of Southern California describes water issues effecting the building industry like water shortages, storm water reclamation and the rising cost to connect water to homes. He shares information about the Association's education series to inform the industry, as well as the general public, about upcoming water restrictions and how they effect new home buyers. Podcast recorded on March 3, 2022

#S3E00 Shelf Impactors™ 'SEASON 3 - Introduction' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Welcome to Shelf Impactors™ Podcast Season 3 --------------------------------- Shelf Impactors™ Podcast: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shelf-impactors Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E24 Shelf Impactors™ '2021 Round Up - Blurred Lines' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Our brief round - up for 2021 KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. LIFE CATCH UPS - WFH Blues? Missing the studio vibes! 2. STAND OUT DESIGN PROJECTS FOR 2021 3. DESIGN AGENCIES WORKING OUT HOW BEST TO COMMUNICATE INTERNALLY - How are design agencies communicating internally in the newish age of remote working who's doing it best and how? 4. PLANS FOR 2022 - New Shelf Impactors pod plan underway with new structure and great new guests --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

This week, the talking point team are in Wood Green SDA Church and are joined by Mark Grey to discuss Halloween.

#S2E22 Shelf Impactors™ 'Mark and Lisa's, 'Who What and Why'' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings This one's is ALL ABOUT US! KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. WHO ARE WE 2. WHAT ARE WE ABOUT 2. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS WHO - Is Mark Grey/Lisa Hastings WHAT - Do we do - where did we start and what do we position ourselves as now WHY would anyone care - do we have some mighty big scary goals Squiggly careers What have been some of our challenges? What are we scared of, or passionate about? --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

Impact of the Construction General Permit Renewal on Contractors and Public Agencies On this episode, we discuss the Construction General Permit that is being renewed by the California Water Resources Control Board. We spoke with experts, Dr. Mark Grey who is the Principal Technical Director for the Construction Industry Coalition on Water Quality and the Director of Environmental Affairs for BIASC, and Dave Mercier who is the head of the Water Quality Department at Michael Baker International's local office. Click the link below to find several documents about the permit, some of which we mention during the podcast, and a section focusing entirely on the Construction General Permit Renewal. https://www.cicwq.org/industry-news/construction-general-permit Please make sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode! Also, send in any questions or inquiries to podcasts@rebuildsocal.org

#S2E20 Shelf Impactors™ 'Heroes Mentors and Influencers' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings MENTORS & INFLUENCERS We live in a world where online education is abundant, we all have influences in our careers, do we have life coaches too? Should we. Let's talk about who you go to for inspiration, who has shaped and influenced your career to date? The villains are in there to - who pushed you where you did not want to go? KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: People in our lives/ careers who have influenced us and why.... 1. WORK 2. PERSONAL 3. FAMOUS --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

On this edition of neat and Unfiltered, Kenyon and Mark Grey wrap up game 4 of the NBA Finals that saw the Bucks even the series at 2-2. The Suns will look to take the momentum back on Saturday night back in Phoenix. Kenyon and Mark also chopped it up on the impact of international talent on rosters nowadays, Kenyon also gives some insight into his on court blow ups with refs. -02:00: We had a competitive game tonight from beginning to end   -03:00: Going through the Suns boxscore & Milwaukee's -04:30: Giannis "off-night", comparing the big Giannis block to LeBron on Iguodala -06:30: The non-foul call on Devin Booker late in the game & the sliding scale of officiating -13:30: Giannis stat line from tonight would be considered lights-out for anyone else -14:00: Khris Middleton's big night -15:30: CP3 lackluster night -18:00: Kenyon thinks Milwaukee takes G5 in Phoenix due to momentum and them knowing they'd rather get G5 than G7 on the road -21:30: Biggest game in franchise history for both squads coming up -28:30: Milwaukee needing to win one on the road & not feeling like they've done anything yet -33:00: PJ Tucker's role -39:30: Being a guy you can count on - he and George Karl didn't have the best of relationships but GK knew he could count on KM in important moments -41:30: Rajon Rondo being a PG that guys didn't want to play against and other guys that people didn't look forward to play against -48:00: Going back through the 2000 Draft -52:00: When KM almost took a swing at someone but heard David Stern's voice in his head and thought better of it -54:00: The rest of the world is catching up in terms of NBA talent -58:00: The lack of American-born big-men - haven't had any since the 90s/2000s -62:00: KM tells some stories about when he had issues with referees -76:00 Joey Crawford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of neat and Unfiltered, Mark Grey joins Kenyon to wrap-up game 3 of the NBA finals. The Suns' lead is now 2-1 in the series and Neat and Unfiltered are here after each game to rundown the highlights and hit on the hot topics of the day. -01:00: Bucks responded knowing their backs would be against the wall with a loss -08:00: Khris Middleton performance -09:30: Giannis showed up again - the hate on him really needs to subside -11:00: Devin Booker won't have an off-night like tonight again, CP3 won't be as average either -15:00: Kenyon thinks Giannis puts the most pressure on opposing players in terms of being able to will his way since Shaq -17:00: Kenyon told Darvin Ham to tell Giannis he was spending too much at the line and it was going to become a thing a couple of years ago -18:00: Routines of good FT shooters vs bad -24:00: Switching gears to Phoenix, Jae Crowder won't be 6/7 from downtown in game 4 -25:30: What does Phoenix need to do now to adjust? -33:00: We'll find out who the better team is in Game Four -33:30: Who has more "play hard" guys -37:00: What Thanasis Antetokounmpo brings -38:30: Looking ahead to Game 4 -40:00: Team USA losing to Nigeria over the weekend - definitely a wake-up call -41:30: KD playing for Team USA after such a short rest from the playoffs -47:30: More and more countries are popping up with NBA talent and increasing the level of competition across the board -48:30: At the end of the day, still tough to think that a team led by Popovich won't win a gold medal -58:00: Comparing the 03 roster KM was on to the 04 roster that lost in the Olympics -61:30: What's more important - physical or mental intimidation -69:30: Staying in NJ was out of his control -75:00: Other teams Kenyon could have signed with at that time -79:00: The style of basketball the Nets played -84:00: Earl Boykins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this edition of neat and Unfiltered, Kenyon and Mark Grey dissect NBA finals game 2 right after it happens. The Phoenix Suns are 2 wins away from an NBA title, and Chris Paul and Devin Booker look locked in. 00:30: Milwaukee was better defensively but still have plenty of room to clean up   -04:00 Even though Phoenix wasn't overall at their best they still did enough -07:00: Tonight surely wasn't on Giannis - he was on point from the opening tip -08:00: Khris Middleton's nickname should be "Every Other Game" for how he performs -14:00: What the best offense is for Milwaukee -20:30: With Jrue Holiday on Defense it's a pick your poison scenario if you're going to have him on CP3 or Booker -21:30: Looking ahead to Game 3 - expecting a better performance otherwise they're looking at a sweep -25:00: Tough to come back from 0-2 deficit but possible -27:00: Breaking down Team USA roster -35:00: Kenyon's competitive spirit and the first time he got a DNP-Coach's Decision -40:30: The end of his time in Denver -43:30: It wasn't weird playing for Jason Kidd being a former teammate -54:30: Kenyon was messed up for a good couple of years after he retired while adjusting to post-playing life. Always tougher to have it abruptly end vs a farewell tour like Kobe or Duncan had -57:00: Toughest part of the adjustment is filling that void and figuring out what's next -63:00: Being able to help Kenyon Jr with his game and how that sparked some of his love for the game -66:00: Big 3 championship the bow on his career Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ABOUT THIS EPISODE Mark Grey is a 3x NCAA qualifier for Cornell. He was a multiple-time, age-group and junior national champion. In high school, Mark wrestled for Blair Academy and the legendary Jeff Buxton. Mark's older brother is Cornell University head coach Mike Grey (episode 81). Please enjoy! Instagram: @markgrey26 Picture: Tony Rotundo * PRESENTED BY MANSCAPED This episode is brought to you by Manscaped. Save 20% off on your next purchase with the promo code ‘WCML'. Shop Manscaped now. * FANS If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews! * TEXT THE SHOW –Keyword: Wrestle –Number: 224-54 * FOLLOW the PODCAST Twitter: @Ryan_N_Warner Instagram: Wrestling Changed My Life Facebook: Wrestling Changed My Life Website: wrestlingchangedmylife.com Shop merchandise at our Online Store: Store.WrestlingChangedMyLife.com *** ABOUT Presented by Spartan Combat and hosted by Ryan Warner, the award-winning Wrestling Changed My Life Podcast features in-depth interviews with wrestlers, fighters and coaches. New episodes are released every Monday and Wednesday. Wrestling Changed My Life is the fastest growing wrestling podcast and has been featured as high as #28 on Apple's Top Sports Podcasts Charts.

On the latest episode of Neat and Unfiltered, Kenyon Martin is joined once again by Mark Grey as they wrap up game 1 of the NBA finals. -01:00: MG was surprised by how well Giannis played one week removed from the hyperextended knee -02:00: KM's take - great atmosphere, Booker, CP3 and Ayton all had great nights - Suns were able to get to their spots on the floor offensively -04:00: How Milwaukee used Giannis and Brook Lopez and how they should use them against Ayton -06:00: Milwaukee should have done more to get the ball in Jae Crowder's hands since he had an off-night -07:00: What KM thinks the ideal Bucks offense looks like -09:00: Kenyon giving his impressions of playing in the NBA Finals and the approach to a such a big stage - tried to maintain his intensity but he was almost too hyped at times -10:30: Story about Keith Van Horn not picking up Shaq defensively in an NBA Finals game -12:30: Adjustments Milwaukee needs to make for Game 2 -14:00: Who Phoenix was attacking in their pick n rolls and how the Bucks need to counter -15:00: The only positive for the Bucks was Giannis playing 35 min and not looking hampered by the injury -16:00: KM was vocal to his coaches about things he noticed on the floor - he would try it the coach's way first but if no good he did what he thought was best -20:00: The Bucks have to stop the pick and roll to have a chance in the series -20:30: CP3 is one of the kings of pick n roll   -24:00: If CP3 wins this series, where does he rank among PGs -30:00: Comparing KM's experiences with J Kidd vs the type of player CP3 is - Kidd wasn't as vocal - only spoke up when he needed to - went out and took care of his business   -37:30: Steph, Pistol Pete, AI, Dame are in their own class of PGs   -38:30: Game 2 preview - Milwaukee adjustments, Phoenix can make some minor tweaks - the Suns should expect an amped up Bucks team in Game 2 -40:00: The series isn't over if the Bucks lose Game 2, but they do need to get one in the desert at some point, and it only gets harder as the series goes on -47:00: Comparing the Harden & Anthony Davis injuries to Giannis, the Greek Freak being as in-shape as he is certainly helped his speedy return -48:00: Rachel Nichols incident - unfortunate that people can't have a private convo and it's foul that someone released it, the topic of the convo - KM isn't surprised by what ESPN did - happens in every field about increasing visible diversity.   -53:00: Considering the conversation was private and she had no reason to put on airs, what she said wasn't really that bad -1:01:00: Sha'Carri Richardson suspension -1:14:00: Chauncey getting the Portland job -1:16:30: J Kidd getting the Dallas job Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the latest episode of Neat and Unfiltered, Kenyon Martin is joined once again by Mark Grey on the ongoing NBA Playoffs, which is down to their final four. The guys chop it up about both the Hawks vs the Bucks and the Suns vs the Clippers and who they think will eventually be crowned this years NBA Champion. 1:00 - Initial Impressions of the conference finals series, and the injuries that ravaged the NBA Playoffs. 7:00 - Brooklyn falling out of the playoffs wasn't all on Kyrie Irving and James Harden's injuries, and the Hawks are going to be a handful for Milwaukee. 14:50 - The two stars that had free throw troubles, and the difference in their mentalities where Giannis stayed aggressive to go back to the free throw line, while Ben Simmons just stopped shooting all together. 20:30 - The 76ers have so many questions after exiting the playoffs, and Kenyon understands why Doc Rivers can't give us all the answers already. 25:30 - Is the Sixers' loss all on Ben Simmons, or is his environment culpable for his mental issues? There's no secret to what is going on with Ben Simmons, but now is not the time to give up on him in Philly. 37:00 - The Suns and Clippers both without one of their super stars for the Western Conference Finals. The impact of missing Chris Paul and Kawhi Leonard for their respective teams. 43:30 - Kenyon makes his NBA Finals Champion pick, saying this team is already battle tested just by who they got through in the second round of the playoffs. 46:30 - All-NBA Rosters and the issues with the set positions. If the All-Star game changed formats why can't the All-NBA Voting? 53:30 - What is the public perception of the Utah Jazz and its stars? Donovan Mitchell snubbed for All-NBA, after LeBron picked him last in the NBA All-Star game draft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#S2E19 Shelf Impactors™ 'Interview with Chris Do - Founder of The Futur' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings In this fantastic episode we have another great guest on the pod - the great Chris Do. As well as being the owner of thousands of cool caps, Chris is an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and also the founder of The Futur — an extremely successful online education platform with the big hairy audacious goal and mission of teaching 1 billion people how to make a living doing what they love. As Mark wasn't able to make the podcast recording Lisa went solo into this one and had an incredible conversation with Chris. They get into who Chris Do is, what motivates and drives his ambition. Chris shares some of his stories of how he came to set up the futur, how he overcame his relative shyness to become a hugely successful speaker, spokesperson and mentor for the design community and heading up a team of awesome creative thinkers. KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. WHO CHRIS DO IS 2. FINDING YOUR TRIBE 3. BEING AN INTROVERT WHEN PEOPLE ASSUME YOUR AN EXTROVERT --------------------------------- Chris Do: Website - www.thefutur.com Email - hello@thefutur.com --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

On this episode of Neat and Unfiltered, Kenyon Martin and Jadakiss are joined by friend of the show, Mark Grey. The trio discuss the NBA playoff matchups in-depth, and Jadakiss was out of the country during the Kwame Brown vs. All The Smoke beef, so he gets to catch up. The guys all agree, don't mess with a millionaire who still cuts his own grass. Neat & Unfiltered is produced by @ncpodcasts and powered by BasketballNews.com -01:00: Game 1s are all in the books. -02:30: Series predictions for Jadakiss, Kenyon, and MG -05:00: Clippers vs Luka -08:00: Nets-Celtics is a warm up series for Brooklyn -10:00: Knicks vs Hawks - what went wrong for NY in G1 -13:00: Ja Morant's performances for Memphis -14:30: Donovan Mitchell's healthy scratch? -18:00: The playoffs missing Steph Curry - but the Warriors are pretty much all Curry at this point -27:30: Jada losing $ on Draymond +/- 6.5 points -30:00: Kwame Brown beefs with Stephen Jackson & Matt Barnes -43:30: In an era where we're anti-bullying, Kwame was being bullied -46:00: Charlemagne vs Kwame -50:40: Jadakiss' old beef with Beanie Sigel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

#S2E18 Shelf Impactors™ 'What's in a Job Title' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Do you own what you do? There are a LOT of random titles used now especially in our industry - are you an Educator, an Innovator, a Creative Director, a Strategist, a Digital Guru… does it matter in a world where FLEXIBILITY and SKILLING UP are crucial to survival? KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. EXPERIENCE v TITLE The big debate - what is your title, what does it mean to you? Is it different in different companies? What are some random/wacky or 'wtf are you' titles and roles we’ve spotted? 2. A CD IN A BIG AGENCY v AN SME What is a Niche - does it have to be discipline, can be category Is is good to specialise (it proves you can do one thing in depth - but what that is doesn’t matter, personal view is that it helps to specialise, then you can pivot and relearn something else - discuss 3. WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF BRAND/ DESIGN ROLES? We must commit, keep learning, evolve and innovate to grow - whatever your role/background/dreams --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E17 Shelf Impactors™ 'Passion and Purpose' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings 2020 saw the rise of side hustles - people forced to do alternatives to survive. Bold Pivots and Purpose In a year when many of our passions were banned, stalled or cancelled (think gym/events/getting together/travel) why passion is more important, and your purpose. KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. PASSION - Creatives are pretty passionate - envied by many - but does our passion become our burnout? - What are our passions, or what do we REALLY care about, has it changed over the last year, how do we fuel our fires? 2. BOLD PIVOTS - Brands changing the game with thinking different - showing their brand/owner passions (eg Ovolo, Elon) 3. PURPOSE - Last year was the rise of 'Ikigai' - - WHY you do what you do, WHY it matters - for brands, and for us. 4. OUR STRATEGIES - ...for finding and growing our own passions/purpose? 5. WHY PASSION MATTERS - Even more right now... - How to embrace it?! --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

Two of Kenyon's best friends, former 6th overall pick in the NBA draft and Cincinnati alum DerMarr Johnson, and entrepreneur Mark Grey catch up on Cam Newton's run-in with a disrespectful little punk, "What Would Kenyon Do?" And KJ is blocking everything in the G League. Neat & Unfiltered is produced by @ncpodcasts for BasketballNews.com - 00:00-8:30 - Cam Newton had was disrespected by some little kid, What Would Kenyon Do? - 8:30-15:00 - Dame vs Luka for All Star Starter -15:00- 28:00 - More All-Star talk - 28:00-29:00 - Harden vs Kyrie to be the PG of the Nets - 33:30-35:00 - DerMarr and Kenyon on Demarcus Cousins leaving  - 44:00-46:30 - Kenyon and Mark are freaking out about Draymond Green's lack of scoring 48:00-51:30 - KJ in the G-League 51:30 - DerMarr recalls Jacque Vaughn opening up the season with an 0-fer for multiple games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 3: Miah Im, conductor, pianist, and Director of Opera at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and Music Director of Houston Grand Opera Studio joins Tim for a pre-holiday Gin Martini, and a discussion about Miah’s work at Rice and at the L. A. Opera prompting on Ghosts of Versailles with Patti Lupone.  Miah’s upbringing in Canada, and her father’s defection from North Korea, and his poetry made into a piece premiered by the L.A. Master Chorale. Also, Miah shares her views on casting in opera. Join these two old friends…long time friends?...as they catch up before the holidays. Links: Here is more information on the Shepherd School of Music’s Opera program, and Der Kaiser von Atlantis the program’s digital production from the Fall of 2020 which Miah shared at the end of the episode. The L. A. Master Chorale performance of Mungunghwa: Rose of Sharon by Mark Grey- a choral piece based on the poetry Miah’s father wrote. Keep an eye out at Foundry Arts for a blogpost from Miah with more about her father’s poetry. L.A.Opera’s Production of John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles can be found here.  Please note both Ms. Lupone and Miah’s prompt box hood. You can find Tim's Website here: timothylongmusic.com Special Thanks to Martha Redbone for her permission to use her song "Medicine Man" for the opening credits.Martha’s work can be found here. and you can subscribe to her Youtube channel here. More information on Foundry Arts, the producer of Unequal Temperament, is available at www.thefoundryarts.com Foundry Arts is a lab for opera using collaboration and partnership to invest in artist development, dialogue, and expression, to sustain a rich, diverse, equitable, inclusive, and sustainable cultural landscape.

#S2E16 Shelf Impactors™ 'WTF... 2020' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings RIP 2020 - Mark and Lisa recap the year of Shelf Impactors and focus on Brands & Innovation for the future. KEY AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 1. TRANSPARANCY - The year where consumers demanded the truth, honest brands and relevancy. 2. SUSTAINABILITY - A growth area that may have been placed to one side momentarily but something every consumer is very conscious of and shows strong interest flowing into 2021 3. VIRTUAL ECONOMIES - We seem to becoming more and more reliant on Tech becoming more and more. - Are Design Agencies changing they way the work with the rise in remote working? 4. HUMAN CONNECTION – Whilst virtual economies are on the rise, human connection is one thing consumers are crying out for. 5. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2021 - All of the above... new innovations and vaccines paving the way to gaining some form of semblance. --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E15 Shelf Impactors™ 'Wellness Trends' (Wellness Trends for 2021 and beyond) with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Wellness trends for the Brand New World! Mark and Lisa break wellness down into a few categories - discuss how this crazy year has made us all rethink so many aspects of 'wellbeing' - from the rise in Sanitiser (and Bold Pivot catalysts) to the need to take time out - but in! 1. THE NOVEMBER CHALLENGE CHECK IN! - Lisa on Keto - Mark on Carnivore 2. SLEEP - Hacking circadian rhythms, neutraceuticals - CBD and beyond… 3. MINDFULNESS - Rise in meditation apps and nootropics (natural brain calming in a year of Anxiety) - Loneliness, how are we learning to be more connected 4. IMMUNITY - Foods/ diet trends (nutrition hacking)/vitamins 5. EXERCISE - Virtual worlds - HUGE rise in tech. 6. THE FUTURE OF WELLNESS/ WELLBEING - what excites us most about the future in the WELLNESS Space? --------------------------------- Additional reference links: Functional Beverages https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2020/11/21/Free-Rain-founder-The-original-brand-name-was-Trip-but-people-thought-we-were-taking-them-on-a-different-kind-of-journey Nootropics https://www.farrinstitute.org/best-nootropics/ Ikea - DIY Dementia friendly homes https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/15/hack-care-ikea-diy-dementia-friendly-homes/ Dan Schawbel asks Dr. Edith Eger about the Holocaust https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/5-questions-with-dan-schawbel/id1401344839?i=1000499892631 --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E14 Shelf Impactors™ 'Future of Food' (Food Trends for 2021 and beyond) with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings This year has been a whirlwind, and it’s not over yet. In Jan we talked about consumer trends, we both have a vast career in food/beverage branding, we discussed free from an eon ago, so what are we seeing now - and how has the pandemic affected these trends? 1. What are the key MACRO trends? (Sustainability drives Veganism & Shopping local) 2. Macro Trends key thoughts - SUSTAINABILITY, SNACKIFICATION, FRAGMENTATION, NATURALLY FUNCTIONAL 3. What food fixes are we seeing? - Gluten Free is long gone, there are THOUSANDS of milk alternatives on the market - we’re almost shamed for asking for dairy…when did it shift. - The Paleo has transitioned to Keto/Gut Health - why? - Are we convinced? 4. Digestive Wellness (have some guts - Low Carb/No Carb - Keto - Fat FULL - Plant based, Reinventing Sweetness - No sugar - Meat Reimagined, Mood Food (CBD, Good when feels bad, etc) 5. Our November Challenge! --------------------------------- Additional reference links: Grass Fed Meats https://www.thedorsetmeatcompany.co.uk/about/100-grass-fed-meat/ Low Sugar Chocolate https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/20-food-trends-2020 Functional Foods https://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/shopping-storing/food/whole-foods-food-trends-2021 https://medium.com/ipg-media-lab/the-future-of-food-is-functional-31b8cdaaab87 --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E12 Shelf Impactors™ 'Being Brave or Taking a Risk?' (Courage v Recklessness) with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Every single person on this planet has to make multiple decisions everyday. Sometimes these decisions require us to be brave while some involve a degree of risk. Those of us in the creative industries are tasked to make bold decisions everyday relating to helping our clients grow their brands and businesses. The decision making process we go through is often assisted greatly by supporting research and market analysis mitigating the possible risks of making a poor choice. In this podcast Mark and Lisa light heartedly discuss how the decisions we all make come with a degree of risk attached and require an element of bravery in the process. The scale of both these actions are invariably measured by the individual making that decision by assessing the severity of the outcome. 1. Risk v Bravery - Can we form a difference between the two definitions or are they mutually aligned? - Examples of brands and businesses that have overcome adversity through being brave and taking 'calculated' risks. - Where do Lisa and Mark see themselves on the subject relating to their own personal values. 2. Timing - Is there a right time to be brave? Can this be quantified? - What does 'good' bravery look like? --------------------------------- Additional reference links: Bareknuckle - Brand Marketing with a punch! https://www.bareknuckle-branding.com/branding-reno/brands-that-took-risks/ POWER OF VULNERABILITY - TED TALK https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare PODCAST Future of Food https://lnns.co/A5H4jMiW8Dc Marketing Week Stats https://www.marketingweek.com/brave-advertising-diffifcult-times-coronavirus/ Creatives are born to be brave https://getpocket.com/explore/item/people-with-creative-personalities-really-do-see-the-world-differently --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: Website - www.lisahastings.me Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 LinkedIn - Lisa Hastings Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E11 Shelf Impactors™ 'Sustainability and Brands in the New World' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings For most brands surviving through the Covid 19 crisis, it has meant many of their own values have had to be assessed and their communication around 'sustainability' has had to either be muted or dropped completely. Mark and Lisa discuss what brands are doing on the subject and how the focus on economical survival and regeneration might see a seismic shift across the board in the scale of communication around 'sustainability' in months to come post Pandemic! 1. Bold Pivots - Is it a wise choice to ‘pivot’ your brand and harness opportunities to address Covid and it's aftermath?
 - Some brands pivoting to score PR points, many are doing it out of sheer commercial necessity! 2. The Sustainability message pre and post Covid. - Has the ‘message’ changed or taken a back seat to many brands just fighting to survive? 3. Brands communicating the message of sustainability well right now! --------------------------------- Additional reference links: Sustainability as a service: https://trendwatching.com/quarterly/2020-02/the-future-of-purpose/ Beauty Behaviours during lockdown (Podcast hosted by Andrew McDougall): https://www.mintel.com/blog/beauty-market-news/podcast-beauty-behaviours-during-lockdown Meet the 2020 consumers driving change https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/EXK4XKX8 Bold Pivot https://makeshift.trendwatching.com/bold-pivots/ --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: LinkedIn - @lisahastings Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 www.lisahastings.me/ Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E07 Shelf Impactors™ 'Feeling the Pressure to be More Productive' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Mark and Lisa again follow on from their previous podcast (Episode 6 -Resilience and Creative Grit) to discuss their latest 'lockdown' experiences and moreover delve into the feeling many of us are enduring right now: 1. Feeling the pressure to be more productive - Mark and Lisa discuss each of their attitudes to the subject of pressure? - They discuss the method of defining where the pressure many of us feel stems from. 2. Establishing our own source of motivation - Mark and Lisa talk through how each of them do this! - And offer advice on how they each define their own sense of purpose and motivation 3. Recent brand observations in the creative world… - Mark and Lisa talk through what has caught their attention in the last couple of weeks in the world of brands --------------------------------- Additional reference links: NY Times Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/style/productivity-coronavirus.html Stockdale Paradox: https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/stockdale-paradox-confronting-reality-vital-success --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: LinkedIn - @lisahastings Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 www.lisahastings.me/ Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E06 Shelf Impactors™ 'Resilience and Creative Grit' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings Mark and Lisa follow on from their previous podcast (Pandemic) and discuss in more detail how they are being affected by the 'lockdown'. Also delving into how creatives and the creative industry might be impacted: 1. Creative Grit & Resilience - Developing our ability be MORE brave - how can we do this? - Entering into the unknown - we are strategists at heart and this should be in our DNA - being able to build up our resilience 2. Growth Mindsets - Learning to Adapt & Survive - Strategies for success in chaos and developing coping mechanisms to see us through - What advice do we have for fellow creatives during this time 3. The New landscape… - No one can accurately predict how this looks but we can make ourselves ready for the possible outcomes… --------------------------------- Additional reference links: Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability | TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?share=1a2a1d0045 Deep Dive: Vulnerability and Human Connection with Kathryn Dyer: https://thefutur.com/podcast/075-deep-dive-vulnerability-human-connection MASLOWS Psychologist Hierarchy of Needs --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: LinkedIn - @lisahastings Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 www.lisahastings.me/ Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E05 Shelf Impactors™ 'COVID-19 and it's effect on the creative industries' with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings In this impromptu 5th episode Lisa and have a discussion on the immediate impact of the Corona Virus is having on us personally and professionally. We discuss the impact on our industry and how creatives might use the circumstances to their advantage: 1. New ideas 2. New ways of working 3. New products and services --------------------------------- Recorded only a couple of days ago, already since recording - the world is rapidly changing and responding with dramatic impact. Even since our chat alone, the UK government have demand all schools close from Friday 20th March 2020 indefinitely. They have also postponed the HMRC tax avoidance concerns with contractors/ freelancers with the changes to the the ir35 process (for at least for 12 months). --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: LinkedIn - @lisahastings Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 www.lisahastings.me/ Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E04 Shelf Impactors™ Fintech with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings In the 4th episode of this season Lisa and I pick up on another subject area becoming a real game changer within brand marketing arena - the mind bending world of Fintech (Financial Technology) and how’s its helping brands become more consumer centric. The world of Fintech is vast but we chose 3 trend areas to zone in on: 1. Data - new currency. How the likes of Amazon, the data mining experts' are getting to know us even better than we know ourselves! 2. Easy Check out - how biometric payments may very well become the standard form of transaction. 3. The New Faces of Finance - the rise in using celebrity endorsers to market financial products and services --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: LinkedIn - @lisahastings Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 www.lisahastings.me/ Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

#S2E03 Shelf Impactors™ Whats Hot 2020 with Mark Grey and Lisa Hastings In the 3rd episode of this season Lisa Hastings and I catch up on chat about a few things we feel will be hot topics over the coming year for all things relating to brands and moreover the marketing of both luxury and FMCG products. Lisa still resides in Sydney and we chat about how Australia has been coping with the severity of the recent bush fire. We then tuck into the meat of the podcast which is a discussion on three key things that we know are big areas for brands to focus on this year. 1. Plant based diets - Are we at the start of a ‘meat free’ revolution? 2. Gender neutrality - Traditional assumptions about gender are being challenged… 3. The alcohol free movement - The sober-curious space is growing… We round of the podcast with a quick thought on whether Britishness will change post Brexit! --------------------------------- Podcast References: Consumer Trends - Let’s talk Consumer SHIFTS https://www.shots.net/news/view/follow-the-trend-of-avoiding-trends-in-2020 Creative Rebels - Podcast with recovered alcoholic and inspiring creative Clare Pooley https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-sober-diaries-with-clare-pooley/id1448695774?i=1000461428944 --------------------------------- Lisa Hastings: LinkedIn - @lisahastings Twitter - @shoebox20 Instagram - @shoebox20 https://www.lisahastings.me/ Mark Grey: Website - www.bluenectardesign.co.uk Twitter - @bluenectar Instagram - @bluenectardesign LinkedIn - Mark Grey

Stacia D. Wright talks with Mark Grey, Director, Playwright, and Owner of the Agape Theater Company, about his upcoming stage productions premiering in the United State August 2019.

1999 – First Year Was working at a KFC in the Grafton section of Yorktown, Va. Got a call from Mike Newbern. “Twink, Gary Alcon (ref) can't make it, do you want to go to Fargo?” That right there changed it all. Everything. Stayed in Reed Johnson Hall. Virginian Christian Smith made the Cadet Freestyle finals at 83.5 pounds. He ended up being a 3x state champion and NCAA qualifier for Duke and Liberty (He took down Nickerson in 2007 to open up the tournament). There was no Buffalo Wild Wings. There was a Bison Turf, there was a mug and I may or may not have been from Alabama. Or named Kevin. Shared a dial-up line with Sara Koenig from NCMat.com (you know her now as one of the tournament directors for the Super 32. Rob Sherrill vouched for me for a media credential. Thankfully, I'd met him in Virginia at the Virginia Duals when I was in high school. Don't remember much about the competition since I was still pretty new to the national scene. We had the Dream Team Classic in VA that year, so I paid attention to guys like Foley Dowd, Jason Powell, Clark Forward — and two of those Team USA guys met in the finals, Damion Hahn beat Jason Potter. 2000 – Year 2 Buffalo Wild Wings Opened. Taco Bell re-opened, it was closed the year before for renovations. Harry Lester vs. Mark Jayne, Junior Greco. Jayne was returning JR. Champ, Lester won cadets the year before. 3-5-3 (BOOM). 132 pounds. Virginia had two cadet champs – Christian Staylor and Albert Childress (almost bookends) Kid named Tyler Safratowich of Minnesota won at 83.5 pounds, did a backflip, then he started eating. Mary Kelly going 2-2 in Cadet Freestyle and Micah Amrozowicz, now the head coach at the Newport News Apprentice School, having to come from behind to beat her 8-7. 2001 – Year 3 Started doing freelance work for TheMat.com and wrote features on the Dibbern triplets, Mary Kelly wrestling against the boys in the Juniors. Cerebral Palsy kid J.C. McMaster – his e-mail address was pimp_limpin@ something another dot com. Jeff Courtney, a deaf All-American from West Virginia ? and TRAVIS EFFING LEE. Lee “leis' greco gold. Beat Nick Simmons. Stopping Simmons from becoming just the second guy to win 4 JR FS titles. As of right now, it’s only Alan Fried. 2002 – Year 4 – Drove from ODU. FIRST YEAR OF FEDERATION WEIGHTS. WENT FROM 96 AAS TO 120 IN JUNIORS 104-136 Started bringing my radio equipment and doing the webcast for USAW with Rob and the late Jon Ponwani. Cleveland – NO Chicago – Driving down Addison, game over Milwaukee – Karaoke at a Friday's in Brookfield, WIS Minneapolis – Twins vs. Angels, Milton vs. Washburn, preview of ALCS First year of Junior Women — Malinda Ripley beat Mary Kelly in the finals. Who the hell is Malinda Ripley? Natasha Umemoto was 3rd. She got the first pin of the tournament ever. Poeta beat Metcalf in Cadet FS. Only finals loss in Metcalf's Fargo career. Stepovers, if I recall correctly for exposure. Decent year from VA, Anthony Burke from my club was 5th in a bracket with Coleman Scott, Mike Rowe, Garrett Scott, Mike Rodrigues, Jake Kreigbaum and Eric Albright. I think I had a team PA jacket on when I gave Burke a high five after beating Albright for 5th. Patrick Bond won Cadet FS. Todd Meneely was the OW, beating Teyon Ware. Some guy with an Afro won Junior FS at 171. Herbert was 3rd. Afro guy recently lost a fight. VANS WARPED TOUR WAS OUTSIDE. 2003 – Year 5 – Drove from ODU on short notice Got up, went to Jiffy Lube and boom. Drove to Milwaukee – was using an old atlas, so I didn't know about the cut through via Rockford and kept adding 90 more minutes to my ride. Went to the same Fridays to sing karaoke again. Sat on top of my truck after a session and listened to a Willie Nelson concert at Newman Outdoor Stadium. Years later, Doc Jim Porter would crap all over my Nelson story and say he went and ended up hanging out with him. All-Southern Cadet final as Nick Marable of Tennessee beat Ben Fiacco of Georgia at 145 Cormier vs. Morrison wrestle-off. I slept through the first one. Not a great moment, but indicative of my 20s. 2004 – Year 6 Rode the bus with team Virginia, wrote a blog as we went all week for the old Mat Talk. Won the Connect 4 championship on the bus, beat Josh Wine 51 consecutive times in Connect 4. Finished up my last college class two weeks after getting home. Finishing up 7 years in college. Henry Cejudo beat Spenser Mango in the Greco finals, was up 9-0 or something and thought he'd gotten the tech, then Mango bombed him for 3 (should have been 5) before Cejudo finished it 13-3. 2005- Year 7 – Hired at InterMat. Pretty sure I flew. Stayed at either the Econo Lodge or the Best Western near Bucks. I still hear the bullhorn go off whenever I hear Mony Mony. Florida had a monster year, although I got into an “argument” with Rob Sherrill about who Franklin Gomez counted for — Florida or Puerto Rico. I say PR, because that's who he was representing. Robby Smith beat Cody Gardner in Freestyle, which stunned us from VA. Justin Wren won in Greco, but when Luke Ashmore won, they all climbed over the railing to celebrate, then trying to go back, Wren got into an argument with a security guard and got thrown out. Couple of Wyoming kids met in the Greco finals, but one had moved to Ohio. Tyler Cox pinned David Taylor in Cadet Greco. Taylor beat BJ Futrell to win cadet FS at 91 ? pounds. 2006 – Year 8 First year of the garbage rules. Hit a rainstorm coming through O'Hare and spent the night there. Connor McDonald took my spot on the last plane to Fargo from O'Hare. Then he wins the tournament. The little shit. ODU had two signees in the Fargo finals — James Nicholson at 119 and Adam Koballa at 130. Eric Grajales bombed Donte Butler and during my interview, Butler cut through it talking some trash. Grajales goes “I just fived you!” in response. Butler has the unique distinction of being the ONLY five-time finalist to never win a title. Eli and Michaela Hutchison become first brother-sister combo to win Junior titles in the same year. 2007 – Year 9 Oregon's Norman Richmond with the breakout performance splitting finals with Jason Chamberlain Helen Maroulis wins a chicken, Nicole Woody goes nuts and ruins my interview. Hayden Zillmer and Jade Rauser at the same weight — 84 pounds — Zillmer doubled at 84 pounds. Alton brothers, Josh Kindig from PA. Nasty. 2008 – Year 10 – Last year at InterMat Drove straight through from PA to Minnesota. Stopped in St. Cloud for about 2 hours, missed the first session. 2009 – Year 11 – Wrestling 411/USAW “That just happened” – This was the finals where Mark Grey was about to start giving an interview, then he was brought back to the mat to re-wrestle the last few seconds of a second period, only to have Ben Whitford score, force a third and then win the title with a third-period win. Man, those rules sucked. 2010 – Year 12 – USA Wrestling F-Rod's Triple Crown Ringer over Ness Grant LaMont makes Greco finals at Juniors as a first-year Cadet. He doesn’t wrestle on Sundays and Cadet Greco kicked off on a Sunday. Well, let’s move up. 2011 – Year 13 – USA Wrestling Parker VonEgidy makes finals with TWO losses. Ended up with 3. Situation – Abounader, VonEgidy, O'Donnell- won by Ricky Robertson. I think I’ve rehashed this on every single show I’ve had Dom Abounader on. Pat Downey with limited FS experience wins over Jordan Rogers at 171. This looks a lot better now than it did then. 2012 – Year 14 – USA Wrestling Zain vs. Zane at 132. Retherford would win cadet WC that year. Cox/Snyder – J'Den wins Freestyle, Kyle wins Greco. Brett Haas wrestles them both. Willie crashed on my couch and squatted all week during his TOM era. 2013 – Year 15 – AWN/TOM Did the interviews on short notice. Elijah Oliver's gross cauliflower ear Stephanie Hampton making fun of my clothing choices. Jake Marnin was a JV kid and won the cadet triple crown 2014 – Year 16 – Mat Talk Coltan Williams from Texas, OMG that throw in Cadet FS vs. Wilson Smith of NC Johnny Blankenship and Trey Meyer going through my table, and through me — no STWP tonight folks. 2015 – Year 17 – Mat Talk How good those cadet champs were. Gable Steveson, Schwartz, RBY, Raimo, Warner. Wittlake's shoes. Interviewed the Mayor of Fargo for Short Time. He lied about there not being any construction around town. 2016 – Year 18 – Mat Talk Turf burned down. Nothing else matters. 2017- Year 19 – Mat Talk Alabama’s Sam Latona won the state’s first Junior freestyle championship. The soon-to-be Virginia Tech signee claimed gold at 106 pounds. Two months before they would win Cadet World Championships, Will Lewan and Aaron Brooks won Fargo titles. No Turf, so Herd & Horns was the replacement venue for mugs. There weren’t nearly as many shenanigans there, simply because it was cleaner, neater and had better food. 2018 – Year 20 – Mat Talk The Turf re-opened. There was again cornhole to be played. Willie, Spey and myself championed the first ever Wrestling Trivia night. Spey dropped some quality knowledge, all the while Willie answered ONE question, then paraded around the restaurant like he was the freaking MVP. Entries here were 4,999, just one below the elusive 5,000. Carson Manville represented Pennsylvania, however that works, and won double Cadet titles. Jakason Burks was mighty impressive, winning Nebraska’s first Cadet freestyle title since Thomas Gilman represented the state in 2010. Super beastly crop of champions on the Junior freestyle side of things too with pretty much everyone being a hammer. Introduced Earl Smith to Fargo. Ashley Sword showed me that I could get free nachos with the Buffalo Wild Wings app. I was also interviewed by Wayne Fish. Zach Elam generally thought I was mad at him. Discovered Labby’s has Castle Cream Ale on draft – the last night we were there. 2019- Year 21 – Mat Talk The mug turns 21. The bartenders at The Turf are tired of hearing that story. Things I can't remember the year, but are of note. — The year the first session wa

durée : 01:00:09 - Mark Grey - par : Bruno Letort - Invité : Mark Grey (compositeur américain, concepteur sonore) Actualité de la semaine : CD du Christian Paboeuf Quartet - réalisé par : Bruno Riou-Maillard

  Did you miss us? Of course not, it's only been a week and you knew we would return, like a masked killer thought to be dead but now throwing a decapitated head through your kitchen window. This episode we're looking at the various film versions of the Matheson classic 'I Am Legend'... except that one. We don't talk about that one. Except we do a bit.    Easily Available Horror: 'Frankenstein' by Mark Grey, showing on Operavision.eu until September.

Today soprano Eleonore Marguerre goes English in a 30min Interview with American composer Mark Grey whose creation of the first opera on Mary Shelley’s famous novel „Frankenstein“. Join in to learn a lot about composing opera in 2019, get to know the slightly modified storyline and the reason why the opera is premiered on March 8th til March 20th 2019 at the Theatre la Monnaie in Brussels and the Catalan director Alex Ollé and his theatre group La Fura dels Baus are creating show. Eleonore is taking part as Viktor Frankenstein’s wife Elizabeth who gets killed at the end by the creature..  https://www.lamonnaie.be/en/program/836-frankenstein  To learn more about Mark Grey www.markgreycomposer.com  More opera guide podcasts in German  www.eleonore-marguerre.de/podcasts And if you want to listen to the livestream, tune on March 15th at 20:00h (UTC+1) or watch til Sept. 14th 2019 https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/frankenstein

Theatre and Film Playright, Mark Grey, in conversation about the his award-winning productions that deal with issues of life and the church.

Hard to believe it’s been 12 years since Frank Popolizio started the Journeymen/Asics Northeast Duals. Since its inception, the early-season dual meet showcase has put some of the best college wrestlers on the mat in New York’s Capital region here at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, N.Y. The 2014 edition will be no different as the Northeast Duals will showcase 17 college wrestling programs, a full mat of Scrap & Scramble youth duals and highlight matches from the second Flo Premier League offering. For you stats junkies out there, the event will have six of the nine Division I conferences represented as well as two teams from Division II and one junior college program. From the New York angle, Cornell, Binghamton and Buffalo will compete representing Division I, while the newly-reinstated program at LIU Post will make its Northeast Duals debut. Nassau Community College, a longtime power in the NJCAA, will also take to the mats. Five of the nation’s Top 25 dual meet programs (according to the Nov. 11 USA Today/NWCA Coaches Poll) also come to the event. Highlighting the college dual portion of the event are top-25 clashes between former Big 12 rivals Missouri and Oklahoma. The Missouri Tigers come in ranked No. 6, while the Sooners of Oklahoma are ranked 21st. Two up-and-coming programs will also matchup at No. 22 Old Dominion will face No. 25 Wyoming. Kutztown, ranked 13th to start the year in Division II, will take its best shot at No. 3 Cornell. Individually, the event packs some punch with three wrestlers who have won national championships. Defending Division I heavyweight champion and New York native Nick Gwiazdowksi will “come home” as he’s from Delanson, 30-something miles west of Troy. Joining Gwiazdowski is defending NCAA Division I champion J’Den Cox of Missouri and Division II heavyweight champion Ziad Haddad of Kutztown. Fans won’t have to wait long to see a rare champion vs. champion matchup. During the 9:30 round N.C. State will face Kutztown, putting the Division I champ Gwiazdowski against Division I champ Haddad, who initially started his collegiate career at North Carolina. Individually, 44 wrestlers are ranked by TheOpenMat, InterMat and Flowrestling with ranked wrestlers set to do battle 21 times throughout the course of the day. With eight wrestlers ranked nationally at 141 pounds, seven of the 24 college duals will feature a head-to-head ranked matchup at the weight class. During the 2:30 round, we’ll check out the Missouri-Oklahoma match, which features three matches between nationally-ranked wrestlers. At 133 pounds, two-time All-American Cody Brewer of Oklahoma will matchup with Matt Manley. At 157 pounds, Oklahoma’s Justin DeAngelis will square off with Joey LaVallee and at heavyweight, Oklahoma’s Ross Larson could meet up with Missouri’s Devin Mellon. The Sooners are loaded at heavyweight, so instead of Larson, you could also see past Division II All-American Zach Merrill or past NAIA All-American Mike Brown – both transferred to Oklahoma. The 2:35 round will also see the other ranked dual as Old Dominion and Wyoming will have two matches with nationally-ranked wrestlers matching up. At 125 pounds, 2013 All-American Tyler Cox of Wyoming will meet Brandon Jeske, while returning All-American Jack Dechow of ODU will face Ben Stroh of Wyoming. Of the 24 duals, 13 will have head-to-head matches between ranked individuals. Keep an eye on the 141-pound matchup in the Cornell-N.C. State dual as Mark Grey of Cornell and Sam Speno of N.C. State are both ranked in the top 10. Grey is moving up to a new weight after competing at 133 pounds last year. Another big matchup comes at 197 pounds where Missouri’s Cox will face top-10 opponent Braden Atwood of Purdue in the 11:30 a.m. round. Atwood is a dangerous thrower and could be a problem matchup for the defending champ. The Flo Premier League will have its second event during the halftime, set for 1:30.