Podcast appearances and mentions of mark weinstein

The UAE’s aviation industry is not affected so far by Trump tariffs and the unfolding trade war, according to the CEO of Fly Dubai, Ghaith Al Ghaith and Antonoaldo Neves, CEO of Etihad Airways. We also look at the growth of one of the Gulf's newest tourist hotspots - AlUla. And Mark Weinstein, Chief Marketing Officer of Hilton, joins The Business Breakfast as we broadcast live from Hilton Conrad Dubai.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Weinstein is a pioneering tech entrepreneur, privacy advocate, and one of the original inventors of social networking. His 25-year journey includes founding three award-winning social media platforms, such as SuperFamily and SuperFriends, both recognized in PC Magazine's Top 100 Sites. As a leading privacy expert, Mark delivered the landmark TED Talk “The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism” and authored Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework, which presents a bold vision for transforming social media. His work has earned endorsements from industry leaders like Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Wozniak, reflecting his commitment to ethical technology and user empowerment. In this episode… The internet was once seen as a tool for connection, but today, it often feels like it's controlling us. From social media algorithms that manipulate our thoughts to privacy invasions that track our every move, the online world has shifted in ways few anticipated. So, how can we reclaim our digital autonomy and create a healthier relationship with technology? Mark Weinstein, a social media pioneer and privacy expert, offers insights into the hidden dangers of surveillance capitalism and how users can protect themselves. He explains how algorithms are designed to exploit human psychology, keeping people hooked while collecting vast amounts of personal data. He shares actionable steps, such as limiting screen time, avoiding AI-driven recommendations, and choosing privacy-focused platforms. Mark also stresses the importance of critical thinking, teaching children to discern fact from manipulation, and advocating for ethical tech policies to reshape the future of online interactions. In this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Mark Weinstein, author of Restoring Our Sanity Online, about the urgent need for ethical social media and enhanced digital privacy. Mark discusses the evolution of social media, the rise of surveillance capitalism, and the impact of AI-driven algorithms on user behavior. He also shares practical strategies for protecting personal data, reducing social media addiction, and fostering critical thinking in the digital age.

Mark Weinstein, a pioneer in social media, shares his journey from creating one of the first social networks to leading the fight for ethical tech. In this eye-opening conversation, he discusses privacy, leadership, and the importance of human connection in the digital age.00:11- About Mark WeinsteinMark Weinstein is a world-renowned tech entrepreneur, contemporary thought leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking.He's the author of "Restoring Our Sanity Online", endorsed by Steve Wozniak (Woz) and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. 

In this episode of The Speed of Culture Podcast, Matt Britton sits down with Mark Weinstein, CMO of Hilton, to explore how Hilton is shaping the future of travel. From personalization powered by first-party data to passion-driven partnerships with F1 and Taylor Swift, Mark shares how Hilton is evolving to meet modern travelers where they are.Follow Suzy on Twitter: @AskSuzyBizFollow Mark Weinstein on LinkedInSubscribe to The Speed of Culture on your favorite podcast platform.And if you have a question or suggestions for the show, send us an email at suzy@suzy.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tech and Social Media Guru Mark Weinstein offers insights into how to help our kids navigate social media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Social media was supposed to connect us, but instead, it's become a source of stress, manipulation, and mental health challenges. From endless scrolling to harmful algorithms, the negative effects are clear. In this episode of the Happiness Squad Podcast, we uncover the truth about social media's negative impact on our minds and explore practical ways to take back control with Mark Weinstein.Mark Weinstein is a social media pioneer and privacy advocate. He founded early social media platforms (Superfamily.com, Superfriends.com) and MeWe, a privacy-focused social network. He is also an author (Restoring Our Sanity Online) and a leading expert on privacy and ethical digital practices.Mark shares actionable strategies to reduce social media dependency, set healthy boundaries between our personal and virtual lives, and restore our overall mental well-being in a digital age.Things you will learn in this episode:• The mental health crisis driven by social media• Social media's negative impact on the youth and on adults• How to restore your sanity online• Parenting in the digital age• Ethical digital practices to protect your privacyBeing social media savvy doesn't have to mean losing your sanity. Discover Mark's actionable strategies to protect your mental well-being and restore your balance in today's hyperconnected world.Resources:✅• Mark Weinstein's website: https://www.markweinsteininventor.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabV2aoowooKGM7uNIHm5bNth2caBCCgv8Fpwpdf-_7gUmGGMcDQ4ve01NA_aem_opeSAO_sU2svv-sgBUAkWg• Mark Weinstein TEDx Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoYC4ogezE4 • Jonathan Haidt on The Effects of Social Media on Teen Mental Health: https://jonathanhaidt.com/social-media/ Books:✅• Restoring Our Sanity Online by Mark Weinstein: https://www.amazon.com/Restoring-Our-Sanity-Online-Revolutionary/dp/1394273967

To kick off 2025, we're releasing a conversation that Evolving Leader co-hosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender had with Mark Weinstein. Mark is a tech entrepreneur, contemporary thought leader, privacy expert and one of the inventors of social networking. His work around social media, privacy, AI, free speech antitrust and protecting children online is widely published in publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox, CNN and the BBC (to name but a few). Mark has been listed as one of the ‘Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy' and his book ‘Restoring Our Sanity Online' was published in September 2024.In this conversation, Mark talks about the profound impact of social media on society, politics and well-being, highlighting the shift from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 where users became the product, leading to surveillance capitalism. This is an important listen.Social:Instagram           @evolvingleaderLinkedIn             The Evolving Leader PodcastTwitter               @Evolving_LeaderYouTube           @evolvingleader The Evolving Leader is researched, written and presented by Jean Gomes and Scott Allender with production by Phil Kerby. It is an Outside production.Send a message to The Evolving Leader team

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Surveillance capitalism – the gathering, analysis and use of personal information to influence people and sell things – arguably requires losses in (or infringements on) privacy to work best. At the same time, anonymity online can bring its own risks: it may facilitate trolling as well as the spread of mis- and disinformation. User anonymity might also undermine age restrictions on online platforms and content. In this episode, Vicki is joined by privacy advocate and author Mark Weinstein to discuss this possible conflict between privacy and anonymity, as well as user IDs and user data in the age of AI, and behaviour modelling when it comes to tech use and critical thinking.Talking points:How have privacy infringements changed since the early days of the internet? Are user IDs really the answer to issues surrounding anonymity and privacy? Can children be taught responsible tech use within a culture of restriction and abstinence?Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.wwwTwitterFacebookInstagram

In this powerful episode of The Free Thought Project Podcast, Jason and Matt welcome back their friend Mark Weinstein, founder of MeWe, for his second appearance on the show. Mark is a true pioneer in the social networking space, having founded MeWe with the vision of creating a privacy-first, ad-free social media platform that empowers users. While he's no longer at the helm of MeWe, his dedication to revolutionizing how we use social media continues to shape his work. This time around, we dive deep into Mark's brand-new book, Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework. We explore the groundbreaking solutions Mark lays out to shift social media from its current trajectory—often a source of harm and division—to a powerful tool for good. The conversation covers the undeniable damage social media is doing to children and society, but Mark's solutions offer a path forward to reverse these trends. His vision includes reshaping social media into platforms that nourish critical thinking, foster healthy conversations, and prioritize our mental health and privacy. If you're worried about the direction social media is taking, this conversation is filled with hope, practical solutions, and a vision for a better digital future. Mark is not only an expert in his field but also a friend of the show, and his insights make this episode a must-listen. (Length: 1:00:04) Mark's New Book: https://us.amazon.com/Restoring-Our-Sanity-Online-Revolutionary-ebook/dp/B0DHJ946R8/ Mark on Twitter: https://x.com/markweinstein Mark's Recent Article: https://www.newsweek.com/who-gets-decide-what-are-facts-opinions-lies-online-opinion-1978132

In this episode of Main Street Matters, Jordan and Toni talk with Mark Weinstein, a tech entrepreneur and privacy expert, discussing the evolution of social media, the rise of surveillance capitalism, and its implications for democracy and small businesses. Mark emphasizes the need for civil discourse and the importance of user privacy while outlining actionable steps for individuals and businesses to navigate the current digital landscape. The conversation also touches on the role of social media in elections and the challenges posed by misinformation and data manipulation. Main Street Matters is part of the Salem Podcast Network. For more visit JobCreatorsNetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, host Marc Aflalo sits down with Mark Weinstein, a tech entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of social media, to discuss the past, present, and future of online privacy and social media. Mark Weinstein shares insights from his new book, Restoring Our Sanity Online, which has been endorsed by industry giants like Steve Wozniak and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The conversation dives into the origins of social media and how the initial vision of connecting people turned into what Weinstein calls the “data ecosystem” we experience today. He describes the transition from early social media platforms like MySpace and Facebook to the current state, where privacy concerns, bots, and targeted ads dominate. Weinstein reflects on how the promise of social media shifted into something more manipulative, saying, “It's time to take back control from a world where surveillance capitalism is the norm.” Marc and Mark explore whether it's possible to restore privacy and trust in the online space. They discuss the role of government and corporations in this challenge, with Weinstein emphasizing the importance of “data portability” and stronger user identification systems to protect future generations. He explains, “It's not too late for our kids… We can fix this, but it requires strong tools and the right regulations to create real change.” Weinstein also touches on the role of monopolies in shaping the internet, highlighting the challenges companies like Google and Meta pose to a fair and open market. Marc poses tough questions about the motivations behind big tech, privacy promises, and the genuine actions needed to make a difference. With practical solutions and a focus on the future, Weinstein presents an urgent call to action, saying, “We are at a pivotal moment… It's time for an epic reboot, and we've got this if we work together.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textThis is a fascinating moment in the history of the world. In this episode, Captain Integrity Bob Wade discusses social media and the online world as it relates to healthcare providers and the Stark Law with Mark Weinstein, Author of “Restoring Our Sanity Online” and Speaker of the hit TEDx talk, “The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism.” Hear why Big Tech is driving us mad and we have to get it fixed in a hurry, key lessons we can apply to other industries from Big Ag, Big Energy, and Big Tech, how web platforms can succeed while rejecting horrible practices, how to navigate AI (Artificial Intelligence) as a healthcare provider, and what the early days of social media were like. Learn more at CaptainIntegrity.com 

The Internet and social media were intended to connect people in new ways. And while it has done that, somewhere along the way it has become a net loss for us as a society.  Today we welcome author and speaker Mark Weinstein to the show to discuss how we can restore our sanity online.  He's got a new book that he enjoys pimping and we support him in this effort.   Pull away from silly dances on Tik-Tok and Karen videos on Instagram to learn how we can all restore our online sanity on this episode of The Bad Crypto Podcast.  Full Show Notes at: http://badco.in/747   SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW:   Apple Podcast: http://badco.in/itunes Google Podcasts: http://badco.in/google Spotify: http://badco.in/spotify Amazon Music: http://badco.in/amazon   FREE NFTs when you JOIN THE BAD CRYPTO NIFTY CLUB at https://badcrypto.uncut.network   FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:   Twitter: @badcryptopod - @joelcomm - @teedubya Facebook: /BadCrypto - /JoelComm - /teedubyaw Facebook Mastermind Group: /BadCrypto LinkedIn: /in/joelcomm - /in/teedubya Instagram: @BadCryptoPodcast Email: badcryptopodcast[at]gmail[dot]com Phone: SEVEN-OH-8-88FIVE- 90THIRTY   DISCLAIMER: Do your own due diligence and research. Joel Comm and Travis Wright are NOT FINANCIAL ADVISORS. We are sharing our journey with you as we learn more about this crazy little thing called cryptocurrency. We make NO RECOMMENDATIONS. Don't take anything we say as gospel. Do not come to our homes with pitchforks because you lost money by listening to us.   We only share with you what we are learning and what we are investing it. We will never "pump or dump" any cryptocurrencies. Take what we say with a grain of salt. You must research this stuff on your own! Just know that we will always strive for RADICAL TRANSPARENCY with any show associations.  Support the show: https://badcryptopodcast.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark Weinstein, a tech entrepreneur, privacy expert—and one of the visionary inventors of social networking—explores how social platforms could be redesigned to foster critical thinking, mental health, privacy, and democracy in his book Restoring Our Sanity Online. The book offers actionable solutions for reimagining our digital landscape, addressing crucial issues like user empowerment, privacy concerns, and protecting children from social media's negative impacts. Weinstein, founder of privacy-focused platform MeWe and a frequent media commentator, brings his expertise in social networking and online privacy to examine emerging technologies and their implications for social media's future. His book provides insights for users, parents, educators, and policymakers seeking to understand and improve our digital environment. Shermer and Weinstein discuss AI's impact on social media platforms and personal relationships, solutions to combat teen mental health issues, and strategies for parental control. They examine protective measures, Web3's promises regarding privacy and data ownership, and methods to defeat bots and trolls. The conversation also explores social media's potential mental health benefits, creating equitable creator economies, and operating without surveillance capitalism.

Restoring Our Sanity Online, by Mark Weinstein, is for release on September 24th of this year. Mark Weinstein is one of social media's original founders from the 1990s. I expected it to be a hefty publication, given he would have much to say about the crises that is social media today. Restoring Our Sanity Online, Reviewed What I got was a book with twenty-one chapters over 157 pages and found myself in deep thought about every well crafted subsection. It is a quality, thought-provoking read, which could easily fit into a thousand page publication. Appendices A to D are from pages 157 to 179. They are a continuance of the book, and a call to action by the author on how to implement his version of Web4.0. These appendices, these along with the latter chapters, are all about how to restore sanity (literally) to social media. I recommend everybody that uses social media checks them out. The author includes some thought-provoking information in the introduction, despite its short length. This out-of-the-gates loading of information is a feature of his writing style, which is clear, concise, and consistent to the book's end. As one of the founding community members of social media; the author cites the good intent behind social media's creation. He also cited how it's supposed to be adopted, and how it went so horribly wrong. In addition, he also took the opportunity to promote his new social media platform, MeWe. Honestly, I found this to be a little cheesey, when you think of the importance of the topic discussed. The exploration moves onto how "Big Tech" took over social media, and drove it in a new direction via its no rules for-profit approach. The author then compares what happened to the unethical evolution of "Big Ag" (Agriculture), and "Big Energy". He then positively frames this backdrop into chapter one on how we can do a reboot of social media. The following chapters explore Web1.0, user centric marketing strategies around revenue and conversations, and how that all changed for Web2.0. Loaded with some fiercely relevant points for why change is required, the exploration continues into Web2.0 and the addition of data harvesting. The journey continues to the history of change makers like Mark Zuckerberg, and the birth of "Surveillance Capitalism". The message is around the user been the product, and a key money maker in packaged datasets for consuming data companies. As the old saying goes, 'If your digital product is free, then chances are, you are the product.' The exploration of unacceptable behavior by social media companies continues as chapters progress. This includes data harvesting on minors, and the exploitation of children, onwards to the subversion of election outcomes. He quoted one scary statistic in his book, where a minor by the age of thirteen years old has, on average, 72 million data components. Malicious manipulation of the individual via social media was inevitable. His international coverage of social media abuses is also articulate, where is cites China's use of tracked social media behavior to punish its citizens for minor infractions. Too much gaming may deny you a good job in China, because of the tracking of your data on social media. The chapter progression and coverage of Web 1.0, Web 2.0, and now Web 3.0, effectively show some of the most ghastly abuses of social media. A theme in his book is the centralised concept, as an enabler of where things went wrong. This central axis of control allowed big business to overrun the old social media mantra of serving the user, in favor of the facilitating the manipulation of users at scale. The author's domain expertise comes through clearly in these chapters and also appendices A to D. He lays out a base set of objectives with supporting points to stem the damage done through constructive change. I found myself weirdly intrigued by how the author's master word-smithing fitted so much information into such a small book relative to its peer publication...

Early social media pioneer Mark Weinstein is deeply disturbed by the current state of social media. He's not alone of course, but in his new book, Restoring Our Sanity Online, Weinstein lays out what he boasts is a “revolutionary social framework” to clean up social media. The book comes with blurbs from tech royalty like Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Wozniak, but I wonder if Weinstein, in his attempt to right social media through a more decentralized Web3 style architecture , is trying a fix yesterday's problem. In tech, timing is everything and the future of online sanity, as Gary Marcus noted a couple of days ago on this show, will be determined by our ability to harness AI. Rather than social media, that's what we now need a revolutionary framework to protect us from. MARK WEINSTEIN is a world-renowned tech entrepreneur, contemporary thought leader, privacy expert, and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. His adventure in social media has lasted over 25 years through three award-winning personal social media platforms enjoyed by millions of members worldwide. Mark is frequently interviewed and published in major media including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fox, CNN, BBC, PBS, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, and many more worldwide. He covers topics including social media, privacy, AI, free speech, antitrust, and protecting kids online. During his social media years, Mark's advisors have included Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web; Steve “Woz” Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; Sherry Turkle, MIT academic and tech ethics leader; Raj Sisodia, co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement; and many others. A leading privacy advocate, Mark's landmark 2020 TED Talk, “The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism,” exposed the many infractions and manipulations by Big Tech, and called for a privacy revolution. Mark has also been listed as one of the “Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy” and named “Privacy by Design Ambassador” by the Canadian government.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 31, 2024 is: Byzantine • BIZ-un-teen • adjective Something described as byzantine (or Byzantine) is very complicated, secret, and hard to understand. In its most literal (and always capitalized) sense, Byzantine describes that which is "of, relating to, or characteristic of the ancient city of Byzantium." // The company's byzantine accounting practices have gotten it into trouble with the government. // Works of Byzantine art filled the gallery's walls. See the entry > Examples: "Consider that California has among the strongest state privacy laws, yet tech giants such as Meta and Google, which make their homes here, are still accused of some of the most egregious privacy violations. A powerful and universal federal law is required to rein them in. It would also be more effective than the status quo of a byzantine patchwork of state laws." — Mark Weinstein, The Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024 Did you know? Today, the city that lies on the Bosporus Strait in Turkey is named Istanbul, but it was once known as Constantinople (a name given to it when it became the capital of the Byzantine Empire, aka the eastern half of the Roman Empire), and in ancient times, it was called Byzantium. Its history is legendary—filled with mystics, wars, and political infighting—and over time the word Byzantine (from the Late Latin word Byzantinus, the name for a native of Byzantium) became synonymous in English with anything characteristic of the city or empire, from architecture to intrigue. The figurative sense used to describe that which is intricately involved and not easily understood first appeared in the early 20th century.

Bonjour from day one of the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity and the kick-off of the Digiday Cannes podcast. Ahead of this year's rosé-induced festivities, Hilton CMO Mark Weinstein, a Cannes Lions veteran attendee, joins us for the first episode of Digiday's week-long podcast series. Last year's generative artificial intelligence hype cycle hasn't quite fizzled out yet It's expected not only to show up this year, says Weinstein, but drown out other conversations. No doubt, marketers have found uses for gen AI beyond social copy and internal content creation, but it's yet to be said if AI will reach an inflection point for brand at this year's Lions. “Unfortunately, a lot of the conversation will be just blustering and hot air,” Weinstein said. “We're not yet at a point where any of us know, including the people building the capabilities by the way, where this ends.” Tune in to hear how Hilton is using AI internally and how Weinstein says the industry should be talking about AI at this year's Cannes Lions on the Digiday Podcast at Cannes. And Make sure to tune in tomorrow for the next Digiday podcast at Cannes.

Mark joins us with the most golf experience out of any guest on the show thus far with 55 years and counting. After playing division II golf at the University of Hartford, Mark went on to have an awesome amateur career filled with plenty of ups and downs. In part 1 we focus on Mark's journey through competitive golf, then in part 2 we shift the conversation to my game as Mark loves to teach and help others improve.

This week, we sit down with Dan Larkman, CEO of the programmatic agency Keynes Digital, to break down the hype around AI. Larkman shares his thoughts on the evolution of AI over the past year and where he thinks the innovation is headed. Plus, we spotlight The Current Podcast's interview with Hilton CMO David Weinstein._______To read the full stories included in this episode:Simplifying the streaming experience and AI fatigue: 5 major insights from CES 2024: https://bit.ly/41V57GiGoogle is finally killing cookies. Advertisers still aren't ready: https://bit.ly/48H4WR1'We can do more and do it faster': How AI will transform the cookie-free future: https://bit.ly/42kQRHjWhat the new Diamond-Amazon deal means for MLB, NBA, NHL: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39333324/diamond-amazon-streaming-mlb-nba-nhlAmazon will invest in Diamond Sports as part of a bankruptcy restructuring agreement: https://apnews.com/article/bally-sports-amazon-e44313c4491798f1f825a8c4e174f096Prime Video Ad Tier CPMs 'Far More' Competitive Than  Netflix's at Launch:https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/prime-video-ad-tier-cpms-far-more-competitive-than-netflixs-at-launch/ Hilton's Mark Weinstein on driving loyalty and inspiring wanderlust: https://bit.ly/48F2xa7

Weinstein shares why data and technology are crucial to Hilton's customers' experience, the creative philosophy for the hotel's recent campaign with Paris Hilton, and marketing against home-sharing companies. Episode TranscriptPlease note, this transcript  may contain minor inconsistencies compared to the episode audio.Damian: (00:01)I'm Damian Fowler.Ilyse: (00:02)And I'm Ilyse Liffreing. AndDamian: (00:03)Welcome to this edition of the current podcast.Ilyse: (00:10)This week we're delighted to talk with Mark Weinstein, the Chief Marketing Officer at Hilton.Damian: (00:16)Mark joined Hilton more than 13 years ago rising to become the CMO in 2020, where he now leads global marketing for the Hilton portfolio of over 7,300 hotels across 22 brands in 123 countries and territoriesIlyse: (00:32)As travel surged. After all that pent up Wonderlust created during the pandemic, the hotel brand unveiled its biggest marketing push in six years. The campaign focuses on the quality of the travel experience with Hilton Brands. So Mark Hilton, of course, has its own loyalty program, the free Hilton Honors. How many Hilton guests currently take part in this program? What does it offer in terms of perks?Mark: (01:02)We have 165 million Hilton Honor members and growing. We're the fastest growing loyalty program in travel. And what we love about Hilton Honors, it allows us to get to know our guests to personalize the experience for them. And it also connects all 22 brands. 'cause what's interesting about our portfolio is each brand serves a travel need, budget and occasion. And you may transverse the brands for your different needs. And so Hilton Honors is that connective tissue, whether you're an infrequent traveler and Hilton Honors is a way to give you the best value for booking through hilton.com directly. So we get to know who you are, things like free wifi and points towards that free stay, a more elite member who can earn additional benefits like automated upgrades that we're delivering so you have even better stay or even that ability to dream for that once in a lifetime experience with our partners at McLaren, uh, F one Racing or Live Nation. Uh, and which you can of course further accelerate with things like our credit cards along the journey. So there's something for everyone, uh, along the Hilton Honors program. And of course, as you said, it's free to join, so you'd be crazy not to get that additional value.Ilyse: (01:56)Now how would you say like technology such as like your digital platforms and mobile app also play a role basically in enhancing the guest experience in order to foster like that loyalty and that wonderlust?Mark: (02:09)Yeah. The interesting thing about our technology, I would say it, it focuses in two different ways. All in service of that wonderlust. In some ways it's taking the friction outta travel so you can focus on doing what you're there to do, which is explore and find a great stay experience. So some of our innovations around digital key and the ability to choose your room in the app before you even get there, you know exactly what room you're gonna have. The ability to book confirm connecting rooms for parents. There's nothing more stressful than wondering if you're gonna get those rooms together. We actually are able to confirm it at time of booking. The ability to personalize the stay and choose things you want, the ability to message with the front desk, those are all friction removing items of the travel journey. They take away that interaction at the front desk where it's highly transactional.Mark: (02:48)That frees you up to then have a human conversation. Where do the locals like to eat? Where's the best place to get that Instagrammable rooftop bar shot, you know, as the sun's coming down. So that's one aspect of our technology is making the guest experience better, uh, and easier. On the other hand, putting the wonderlust back in. So you look at our social media abilities to connect with customers with the things they want to hear most about, to produce content and serve it up, whether it's on the interim TV with our connected room, digital TVs through the app itself or on our websites. The ability to let you personalize choices on Hilton Honors. What benefits you most wanna earn on that trip, or the ability to serve up what interesting experiences you might wanna use your honors points for. And so that Wonder Lust is enabled by both the simplifying the basics and really making it straightforward so we're always reliable and friendly to our guests. And then it also supercharging that, that sort of wonder lust that makes you wanna explore the planet.Ilyse: (03:37)How does like data then come into play from your loyalty program to tailor your marketing efforts and create those very unique experiences?Mark: (03:46)Data plays a critical role in everything we do for our customers. Whether that is for our less frequent travelers, trying to better get them the right content on initial stay. Like lots of people travel very infrequently and when they do, it's the trip of a lifetime. So we wanna make sure we use contextual clues from the data, where they came from, what they're engaging with to serve up the right hotel, the right products, the right experiences for that trip. Our Hilton honors members, our best customers who we know extremely well, we can be even more personalized. We can serve up the dream destinations they most want to go to. When you're looking at our website, you're seeing the kind of rooms you typically book, you know, 'cause we know you so well giving you add-on abilities. Things that we know you always add onto your trip are even easier at the fingertips.Mark: (04:24)So that, that's one aspect of it. Second aspect of it is product innovation. You know, the insights of our customers are telling us where we need to go next. They help us pick the next destinations. You know, we're opening about a hotel a day, they help us build new brands, places where we know our customers are looking for a great product, but maybe we don't have a category. And it becomes our design target, our muse for designing a new brand where we create partnerships, the products that we put in our hotels, the partners we affiliate with to build out that journey. So it's, it's both myopically used to, to give you a personalized experience in the moment itself, but also helping us innovate and build the pipeline of where we go next with who we go next and how we build out the brands.Damian: (05:00)Let's talk a bit about the actual marketing campaigns that you've launched. I know that last year you launched the biggest marketing push in six years. Um, it's the Hilton for the Stay platform. The tagline is, it matters where you stay. And that was a campaign, uh, created by TBWA Jet Day and that features Paris Hilton for the very first time, who's seen giving travel tips. Could you talk a little bit about that campaign and why you launched this big campaign last year? ComingMark: (05:26)Outta the pandemic, it would be really easy to get into that sea of sameness, trpi that was out there. You had this desire to reconnect and of course that was an important message, but every company in travel was gonna say the same thing, is saying the same thing and has done so for, you know, decades that empty, you can picture it, that empty beach with a nobody on the beach chair and the clear blue ocean. You can't tell if it's a credit card, a hotel company, an airline, a travel agency, or anything in between. So we knew there was kinda the sea of sameness. There was a tendency to fall in that trope of re connectivity coming outta the pandemic. So we used that moment, uh, during the pandemic to both double down on our customer relationships, donate a million rooms to frontline medical responders, do all the things you do in that moment, but really look ahead to what the future would be.Mark: (06:04)And what we realized was we had never had a platform to tell our story consistently. And in a sea of sameness of this kind of eat, pray, love wonderlust of travel and people on goji berries and surfboards, that's not my travel experience most of the time. Why were we glorifying the destination but not the thing we provide in this travel experience? The stay itself. And we thought back to our founder, uh, Conrad Hilton over a hundred years ago said it was our job to fill the earth with the light and warmth, the hospitality. So we had this really unique purpose in the world, very different than everyone else, and yet a sea of sameness marketing, uh, environment. And what we realized was we were going from campaign to campaign, getting sick of it before anybody else even saw it, before it even wore in. We needed a platform, we needed our version of what we're gonna stand for.Mark: (06:45)And so as we looked with TBWA, the answer was there all along. It's the stay. It doesn't matter how you travel, it doesn't matter how you live your life. When you come to our hotel and you cross that transom, it just feels different when it's at Hilton and at the heart of every great trip is a great stay. And so the stay became that, that that glue. We then look for stories you could tell on top of it. Uh, it matters where you stay as our first campaign to tell that story. Bringing other influencers and creators in to help tell their authentic story. And who more authentic than the great-granddaughter of the founder of our company, Paris Hilton, who has lived her life literally in our hotels, you know, born and raised in in many of our hotels, traveled the world. So we try to find a lot of different ways in to tell that story all connected back to these 22 brands, how they're all part of Hilton and how ultimately were for this day,Damian: (07:27)How significant was it? Was the fact that you launched this across many different channels?Mark: (07:32)I mean, fir look, first of all, we wanna be where our customers are. I mean that, that's ultimately drives this conversation. And, and you know, just using linear as an example, you know, your go-to oftentimes as a classically trained marketer is to to be on tv. And of course we need to be there. There's some reach and frequency in the saliency that comes with that. But the reality is increasingly our customers are engaging with brands differently. Uh, and whether that's on social media or their favorite creators, our ability to give up control a bit, which is hard as a brand owner, right? As as a brand leader. And you realize very quickly we actually don't own the brand that customers do. Their perception becomes reality. Their reality becomes the brand. So we better meet them where they are. Podcasting and audio is a huge trend coming particularly accelerated outta the pandemic.Mark: (08:09)Uh, social media obviously has been, you know, a rocket ship. Uh, your ability to even functionally serve up search results. SEO is being generated by your ability to be indexable on, you know, YouTube and, and TikTok and other places. So it's, it's a no brainer to be with the customers are. And and what's amazing to me about marketing this great discipline we all get to do is that the fundamentals are the same, right? We're still telling great stories like we're doing for hundreds of years that is just so authentically human, but how we get to do it is rapidly changing it faster than any time in history. And so that's why we went omnichannel duringDamian: (08:40)The pandemic of, of course people stopped traveling, they had to, and we saw a big surge of travel after that based on that wonderlust, that desire to get out of the house. According to the US Travel Association, total travel spending this year is still going up 4% over last year, year over year. Is that your perception? Is that your understanding travel demand is still very strong?Mark: (09:01)Yeah, look, coming, coming outta the crisis, I mean every single year of the last three years has been stronger than the previous. Uh, the reality is there's so much pent up demand and one or lost. I, I think there were some mechanic things like people had record levels of savings. But more importantly we had this golden age of travel going into the pandemic, you know, record levels of middle class all across the world, getting to experience travel for the first time that pause, but it didn't break during the pandemic. There was a very explainable reason, the pandemic to stop doing that. But the demand was still there. The desire was still there. And then it got accelerated when people realized how fragile freedom is, right? That at the end of the day, at any given time, your bucket list comes to a screeching halt. So why is it a bucket list?Mark: (09:37)Why is it not a tomorrow list? Why is it not a today list? Let's go out and do it. And then you started to see flexibility of working, right? This idea that I had to be on this calendar schedule where my kids had to get to back to school at a certain time or I needed back in the office, that dynamic changed as well. And so you have record amount of demand, you had a very acute moment where we all realized, my goodness, the thing I love to do could go away at any time. And then life became more flexible. It has led to record levels of travel all across the world. And our hotels are certainly seeing record levels of customers engaging with us.Ilyse: (10:07)So Hilton has a diverse portfolio, brands 22 to be precise. How does the marketing strategy then differ across these brands to cater to those like various travel segments?Mark: (10:19)It's a great question. Look, each brand has a design target, a ause that we use to design that and, and s sort an archetype that we're really focusing on. We build out that prototype of what it's gonna look like, feel like what brands are gonna appear in the hotel itself, what's the color palette, the look and feel, the logo, all those things that you'd expect us to do. And each brand has to win its category, right? All of 'em have, you know, great competitors that, that are offering options the same price point. So we gotta be differentiated. What's important for us though is that by Hilton or the name Hilton in the brand, which is in all 22 brands, is not a holding company. We're not a, we're not a sort of CPG company that just happens to own these brands and lets 'em all pure play, compete.Mark: (10:55)They all have a purposeful role in the journey. And so you may be at a Hilton resort, you know, having a great trip in Aruba and then suddenly you're at your kid's soccer game or you know, football match at a Hampton Inn somewhere in the world or you know, that you need to be in and then a Walter for story for your honeymoon. So you're transversing those brands by Hilton has to mean something by Hilton has to also be the connective tissue. And so it's this fun challenging balance of having 22 brands each with their own personality that commands premiums in their category, while also reminding customers that it matters that these are by Hilton and that you'll get the benefits of Hilton Honors and all the things we innovate and drive. Uh, along the journey.Ilyse: (11:30)Hilton recently conducted research into how different generations travel. What were like, the major takeaways from the research, for instance is like one generation travel more than the other.Mark: (11:41)You know, some trends you see are about where you are in your lifecycle, right? Obviously the older you get the the more you typically have more disposable income and time just definitionally. When you're younger, you're often in the early stage of your career, maybe your family's younger. So there, there's those dynamics. But we do look at each generation to see what's pervasive and what's what's there. The first was the focus on wellness. People are looking particularly for restorative sleep. Uh, when you looked at I think the lowest end of the, of the spectrum, you know, 55% of Gen Z were saying that's the primary purpose of their trip. All they up to 70% of, uh, boomers and and Gen X were saying the primary purpose of the trip was restorative sleep, right? So we take that responsibility very, very seriously that you need to be rested and relaxed when you come to our hotel.Mark: (12:20)Second trend we saw was a seamless digital experience, right? This ability to dream shop book, experience the entire, stay digitally and personalize that journey for you. And so as you look at our innovation agenda, whether that's putting your mind at ease when you book that, you've got a confirmed connecting room, whether that's knowing you can message the front desk, you know, how many times, uh, I know for me I'm in the room and I don't really wanna go back to the front desk. I don't really wanna call and bother them, but I could use more towels or I could use, uh, a beverage after the, the bars maybe close for the night to build a message to the front desk and have 'em respond back. That's pretty powerful. So how do we digitally engage with our customers all generations? You know, it may start with younger travelers, but I'm telling you that the boomers are just the same in terms of wanting the ease and access of a seamless digital booking experience and engaging experience.Mark: (13:01)The third is, uh, local experiences. So people go somewhere to do something typically. And so they want our hotels to help 'em connect with the neighborhoods. Where's the offbeat path? Yes, you'll see the big museum or the big, you know, sculpture in town or whatever it may be. But tell me what locals do. Where do they eat? Where do I go around here? And maybe some of that's in the hotel. Maybe we have a great, you know, Michelin star restaurant in the hotel and we can get you a reservation that you can otherwise have. So a third trend we saw was connecting with the local experience and not wanting a cookie cutter trip. Even. You know, you want a reliable hotel. And the last, and I mentioned this earlier, the dynamic of business travel has changed wildly. You know, as I think about my career and a lot of our consumers say the same thing, it was an interruption in your life.Mark: (13:41)It was, you know, I had my life at home and then I go do business travel and that's gonna stop my momentum at home. The flexibility we now all have to be virtual for an extra week. It allows us to extend a business trip into a personal trip. The ability to have your kids join you on the weekend. Suddenly now you can use that momentum of a business trip to be the catalyst for bringing your whole family along. 'cause the kids can miss a day of school or take a zoom class instead of having to be back in class. And so that journey has been blended. And so when we look at the trends across all generations, that ability to make it digitally and seamless for them is really important. The ability to be locally connected, that ability to ultimately blend the work in business, travel, uh, business and and leisure at the very top of it, the whole thing. Make sure that when you leave that hotel, you feel rested and restored. Whether that's mind, body or soul.Damian: (14:22)And in terms of your marketing calendar, your marketing cadence, you talk about all these many different streams you're looking at, how do you think about the rollout of campaigns?Mark: (14:31)A lot of markets have a natural pacing to them. There are, you know, there's golden week in China twice a year, right there, there's things that you lean into because that is a natural catalyst. We, despite all the flexibility I talked about earlier, we still in the US have big summer breaks. That's a big time to send people, you know, on holiday. But also watching customer cues, right? We were able to, a lot of the, the channels we talked about earlier are pool channels, not push channels. So as customers are engaging on video, on demand and they're watching programming about travel destinations or food destinations, let's, let's plug into that moment. Let's activate and trigger. We're watching social media all the time for moments to intercept. You know, we've got examples where there was a home sharing customer whose dad thought they booked a house for four.Mark: (15:08)It was a shed that was big enough for one person. They had two dogs and four kids. And it was crazy. We texted them and said, you know, we message 'em on Twitter and TikTok and got ahold of 'em and said, come to our hotel. Uh, we had one the other day who texted her at home sharing host and said, uh, we're at a toilet paper. Where do I find more? And they said, the supermarket. And we said, well that's crazy. Our hotel has come to our hotel, right? So you find these little human moments along the way. And so it takes the pressure outta marketing to some degree 'cause the customers are telling you when they want to hear about you. And we've got ready to go stories. The last example I would give is cultural tent poles. So we've got a long standing partnership with the Grammys.Mark: (15:43)Uh, we have a long history music. Uh, John Lennon wrote, imagine in the New York Hilton on a piece of stationary, had the bed in for peace at the Hilton in Amsterdam. Elvis did residencies. Freddie Mercury wrote a crazy little thing called Love in the Bathtub at the Hilton Frankert. Yeah. And so we belong in music, right? So Grammys becomes a big tent pole to tell our story. Formula one with McLaren and Lando Norris, uh, on a McLaren F one racing team. The big moment in the Vegas race will tell that story. So there, there are these moments where you can lean into culture, where the stay is really at the heart of what's possible and that just becomes an authentic way to connect with our customers.Damian: (16:14)I wanna ask you about sustainability and eco-conscious travel, which should become increasingly important. Can you talk about how Hilton incorporates those concepts and those initiatives into its marketing efforts to resonate with environmentally conscious travelers? ThisMark: (16:27)Is very top of mind. We have a huge responsibility. We have over a million and you know, almost a million and a half rooms across the world. And the decisions we make can make or break products for distribution. And so one of the things we did on the product side is we moved to bulk amenities. This idea that you're not gonna have those tiny little bottles that get thrown out every stay. We've got refillable bottles that are safe and secure and sealed and everything else, but the real driver was environmental impact, right? We, we are big enough that our ability to use reusable bottles for water, the ability to use refillable bottles in the, in the bath amenities, that has a huge impact on our supply chain. And so first and foremost is that second we have the ability for companies that are keeping track of their impact.Mark: (17:02)Or, you know, even for conscious consumers, we're tracking all the energy uses at our hotels and we're giving recommendations to the hotels how to save energy based on consumer behaviors. We're able to turn down the thermostats when the guests leave the room. We're able to do the things that actually make a difference. On the marketing side, it, it's kind of a funny scenario. And that customers care more than ever, as as they should. They'll tell you in a focus group, they'll pay a premium or they want to hear about they, they really don't. They, they want to have a great trip, but they wanna know underneath that great trip, you're doing the right thing. And so we're not necessarily gonna always put it front and center and say, this is an eco-conscious trip, but we better have the proof points for you that you'll know that the trip you're having that not paying a premium, but paying what you already pay includes Hilton's commitment to doing that.Mark: (17:41)So that's really important. And on the marketing side, look, we have to look at sustainable sourcing of things. We have to look at who our supply chain is with what are we buying and who are we buying it from. We built these rooms, these hotel rooms on golf courses, uh, for, you know, big golf activations and they're fun and they're great for three days. We've donated a couple of those to local schools to use as play facilities, right? So are you thinking through the entire journey and then the tricky part to your question coming back to that is just how much do customers really want to hear that story versus just know intuitively and instinctively that your brand stands for it and it's committed and the dollars they're spending are being reinvested in their communities and being reinvested for the environmental impact.Ilyse: (18:17)What emerging trends or channels do you see as having the most significant impact on Hilton's marketing strategy in 2024?Mark: (18:26)I look back to where we are today versus when I studied marketing, uh, you know, a number of years ago in school, too many years ago in school. And, you know, the channels we're using most today didn't even exist. Literally did not exist. Social media was not even really a thing. Uh, and suddenly here it is our number one channel for a number of ways to connect with customers. And so we will rejoice in the fact that marketing is job is always and will continue to be great storytelling. And that's not going anywhere. That is the heart of what we do. What will change and continue to accelerate for us is how we do that more on social, right? More on streaming and video on demand. You know, as you start to pivot from, I think this year was the first year that consumers officially watch more video not on linear TV than than on linear tv.Mark: (19:04)That trend will continue and so we'll need to meet them where they are on streaming and video on demand and YouTube and other platforms. You'll see us show up in TikTok and Instagram and show up on the platforms where we can tell authentic, credible stories. I think the more fun part for us is giving away the keys to the castle a bit, right? So we're gonna be doing more with creators and letting them tell their authentic story about a Hilton's day. And while you might not always have all the brand controls you have, the authenticity outweighs the impact of losing a little bit of your ability to control for every sentence and every, you know, color that they use in in their work. And then lastly, we'll look for ways to activate, um, at big cultural tent pole moments, showing up in an activational way with experiential marketing to let customers truly experience what our brand stands for in the moments that matter most to them, reminding them that it matters where you stay and that Hilton is for this day.Damian: (19:51)That's it for this edition of the current podcast. We'll be back next week. So stay tuned.Ilyse: (19:56)The current podcast is produced by Wonder Media Network. Our theme is by love and caliber. The current team includes Chris Leyer and Cat fei.Damian: (20:05)And remember, youMark: (20:07)Realize very quickly we actually don't own the brand that customers do. Their perception becomes reality. Their reality becomes the brand. So we better meet them where they are.Damian: (20:15)I'm Damien andIlyse: (20:16)I'm AiseDamian: (20:17)And we'll see you next time.

With construction costs having increased for value-add properties, and better deals coming online for newer properties, acquiring older properties may make less sense than a few years ago. Older properties also have a lot of maintenance costs and higher unit turn costs. As prices continue to come down for newer properties, these deals pose less risk and greater reward. Mark Weinstein, President of MJW Investments, has acquired over $1,5 Billion of apartments, student housing, commercial buildings, industrial, and self-storage facilities over the last several decades.  More recently, Mark has focused on Multifamily in growing markets that have been less impacted by oversupply.

Mark Weinstein might not think of himself as an entrepreneur. The truth is he operates like one more than most. Over his impressive career in PR, he's applied the 10 E-Mind Traits to bring powerful stories to the masses. Listen as he shares practical tips and tools on how to leverage new ways of thinking to create a bigger impact. 

Benjamin Lapidus is a Grammy-nominated musician who has performed and recorded throughout the world as a bandleader and supporting musician playing guitar, Cuban tres, Puerto Rican cuatro, touch style/tapping instruments (Warr guitar and Chapman Stick), as well as organ. As a scholar, he has published widely on Latin music, and he is a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, and The Graduate Center. Since the 1990s, Lapidus has performed and/or recorded Cuban tres, Puerto Rican cuatro, guitar, voice, and other instruments on film soundtracks, video games, television commercials, and albums with some of the most notable musicians in Latin music and jazz. Some of these collaborations include performances and/or recordings with Andy and Jerry González, Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club), Pío Leyva (Buena Vista Social Club), Manuel “Puntillita” Alicea (Buena Vista Social Club), Bobby Carcassés, Orlando “Cachaíto” López, Juan Pablo Torres, NEA Jazz Master Cándido Camero, Larry Harlow, Ruben Blades, Típica 73, John “Dandy” Rodríguez, David Oquendo, Xiomara Laugart, Nicky Marrero, Nelson González, Carlos Abadie, Los Hacheros, Pedrito Martínez, Roman Díaz, Paul Carlon, Adonis Puentes, Pablo Menéndez, Bobby Sanabria, Ralph Irizarry, Charlie Sepulveda, Luis Marín, Humberto Ramírez, Harvie S., Hiram “El Pavo” Remón, Gene Jefferson, Frank Anderson, Enid Lowe, Jared Gold, Greg Glassman, Bobby Harden, Brian Lynch, Mark Weinstein, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Larry Goldings, Chico Álvarez, Alfredo “Chocolate” Armenteros, Emilio Barretto, Eddie Zervigón, José Fajardo, Rudy Calzado, Los Afortunados, Jose Conde, Kaori and Yuko Fujii, Roberto Rodríguez, Maurice El Medioni, Michael Torsone, and many others. As the leader of the Latin jazz group, Sonido Isleño (founded in 1996), he has performed throughout North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean while releasing five internationally acclaimed albums of his original compositions. In 2007, Lapidus served as musical director and arranger for Garota de Ipanema(JVC/Victor Japan) with Kaori Fujii and toured Japan twice. In 2008, he recorded Herencia Judía and in 2014, he released his eighth album as a leader, Ochósi Blues. Blues for Ochún (2023) is his ninth album as a leader. As a composer, Lapidus' music has been recorded by groups in Cuba and Japan and has been featured in documentaries and television. In 2015, Latin Jazz USA awarded Lapidus a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to Afro-Latin music. In 2015, he wrote the liner notes, contributed an original composition, sang, and played electric guitar and Cuban tres on Andy González's Grammy™-nominated album, Entre Colegas. As profiled on the 2023 television show, Shades of Us (https://youtu.be/I_xMYUtgAhA), Benjamin Lapidus was born in Hershey, PA in 1972 to first-generation Brooklynites and the family moved almost 15 times before returning to New York City when Lapidus was 14. Trained in piano from a young age, he moved through a variety of instruments including trumpet and bass before concentrating on the guitar. Lapidus was exposed to music by his grandmother and his father, who played in Latin and jazz bands in the Catskills in the 1950s. Through his father's record collection and stories of his father's visits with his Latin American relatives, the seeds of Latin music were planted. Yet it wasn't until the 1980s that the youngest Lapidus became immersed in Latin music when he moved to a predominantly Latin neighborhood in New York City, where numerous important musicians also resided. Living a block away from Mikel's jazz club, Lapidus still has vivid memories of practicing in Mario Rivera's house or seeing Mario Bauzá walk down the street. Deciding he needed a complete musical education, Lapidus earned two degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Oberlin College, becoming one of the program's first jazz guitar graduates. In 1994, Lapidus started to play the Puerto Rican cuatro and Cuban tres. After leading his own quartet at festivals and clubs throughout Europe and winning a grant to study briefly with Steve Lacy in Paris, he returned to the U.S. and worked with Joe McPhee, Joe Giardullo, Tani Tabal, Thomas Workman, and other creative improvisers. At the same time, Lapidus began performing with Larry Harlow, Alex Torres, and other Latin music luminaries in New York and Puerto Rico. Lapidus earned a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2002. His travels to Cuba acquainted him with distant relatives and grounded him in the music of Eastern Cuba. He has taught guitar and Cuban tres at the New School and popular music of the Caribbean, Latin music in New York, and world music at Queens College and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. Today, Lapidus is a professor in the Department of art and Music at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and on the Doctoral Faculty of the Graduate Center, CUNY. In addition, he has served as scholar-in-residence with the New York Center for Jungian Studies and the Jewish Museum during several humanitarian missions to the Jewish communities of Cuba between 2004-2016. In 2008, Lapidus published the first-ever book on the Eastern Cuban musical genre changüí called Origins of Cuban Music and Dance: Changüí (Scarecrow Press). He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, translations, and presented papers at international conferences on Cuban music, Puerto Rican music, Latin jazz, and improvisation. He has also written liner notes for a number of recordings. In 2013, Lapidus won a prestigious National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship for his critically acclaimed book New York and the International Sound of Latin Music, 1940-1990 (University Press of Mississippi, 2021). With endorsements from Rubén Blades, Ilán Stavins, and other prominent academics around the world, this ground-breaking book has been featured on BBC 3 Music Matters, NPR's Afropop, and Alt. Latino shows as well as the Miami International Book Fair and countless news outlets. The book maintains its bestseller ranking in Amazon's top 20 salsa books since its release. In this episode, Benjamin shares his background, education, and musical journey. If you enjoyed this episode please make sure to subscribe, follow, rate, and/or review this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, ect. Connect with us on all social media platforms and at www.improvexchange.com

After beginning his career as an attorney, Mark founded MJW Investments in 1983 when he discovered the potential of real estate investment and development through several successful ventures. Under his leadership MJW has acquired approximately $1.5 billion of apartments, student housing, commercial buildings, industrial, and self-storage facilities. Learn More About Mark Here: MJW Investments - https://mjwinvestments.com/ Connect with the Global Investors Show, Charles Carillo and Harborside Partners: ◾ Setup a FREE 30 Minute Strategy Call with Charles: http://ScheduleCharles.com ◾ FREE Passive Investing Guide: http://www.HSPguide.com ◾ Join Our Weekly Email Newsletter: http://www.HSPsignup.com ◾ Passively Invest in Real Estate: http://www.InvestHSP.com ◾ Global Investors Web Page: http://GlobalInvestorsPodcast.com/

And now, here's your host!In this undercover April Fools' Day episode, you'll get a glimpse into the voice you hear every week. Our very own podcast host, Mark Weinstein, unsuspectedly told his story on the Cedarville Stories Podcast. Mark, executive director of public relations at Cedarville University, wasn't always interested in PR. He remembers Saturday afternoons as a child, listening with his dad from their home in southwest Michigan to Bob Ufer, a famous radio broadcaster, call University of Michigan football games. Ufer made Michigan football come alive, and this enthusiasm captivated Mark's sports interest and creative imagination.His deep affinity for Michigan athletics, whether football, basketball, baseball, or whatever sport they were playing, instilled in him an interest in sports news and ultimately served as a catalyst to launch him into journalism.But his career path took a different turn when he graduated from Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana with a degree in communication and journalism. After following his dream of becoming a sports journalist with a newspaper in Indiana, Mark switched to higher education public relations in 1988. He's served in public relations at numerous colleges, including Maryville University in St. Louis, Robert Morris University (Pittsburgh), Geneva College (Beaver Falls, PA), Mount Vernon Nazarene University (Mount Vernon, Ohio), and his alma mater, Grace College. For the last 10 years, he's served in Cedarville University's public relations department, telling Cedarville stories for God's glory.

Mark Weinstein joined Hilton to help the iconic hotel chain merge loyalty programs for 19 distinct hotel brands across the globe into one. Fast forward 12 years and he is the chief marketing officer overseeing all of Hilton's brands, the Hilton Honors loyalty program and its ecosystem of partner agencies, as well as an in-house team.After making its biggest marketing push in six years post-pandemic, Hilton is back in the marketplace adapting to the future of travel. The hotel brand has leaned into wellness trends by partnering with Peloton to put a bike in every room. New digital and touchless experiences for consumers, such as remote check-ins and check-outs, have freed up staff to create the best possible stay for their guests. In this episode, Weinstein chats about Hilton's evolution and its plans for the future. He also dishes on the brand's relationship with Paris Hilton, the OG influencer, and what he has learned from her as a marketer.Listen to this episode and subscribe to Campaign Chemistry wherever you get your podcasts.   What we know about advertising, you should know about advertising. Start your 1-month FREE trial to Campaign US. Follow us on twitter: @CampaignLiveUS

Join co-hosts Richard Coyne & Bill Zahller as they interview guests who left successful careers to pursue a different path on the Road Less Traveled Show! In this episode, we spend time with Mark Weinstein!  Mark is an attorney that decided to focus his efforts on real estate investment and development.  Now Mark also invests in Multifamily and Self-Storage.  One of Mark's big drivers for being successful in real estate was his desire to increase his philanthropy and to do more for future generations. A bit more about Mark: After beginning his career as an attorney, Los Angeles native Mark J. Weinstein founded MJW Investments in 1983 when he discovered the potential of real estate investment and development through several successful ventures. Under his leadership, MJW Investments has acquired approximately one billion dollars of real estate holdings in all asset types. Mark spearheaded the adaptive reuse of Santee Village, one of Los Angeles' largest adaptive reuse projects of over 800,000 square ft. of mixed-use in the Fashion District of Downtown Los Angeles. MJW Investments' current strategic growth focus is multifamily, student housing, and self-storage properties. MJW is actively acquiring multifamily assets in California, Utah, Phoenix, Dallas, Atlanta, Austin, San Antonio, Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Seattle, Portland, Boise, and other select markets with partners. MJW's student housing portfolio includes properties at Washington State, Brigham Young University, UC Santa Barbara, Oregon, University of Michigan, University of North Texas, University of Illinois, University of Nevada Reno, and the University of Iowa. In 2022, MJW added self-storage to its portfolio. Throughout his career, Mark has maintained active associations and leadership with numerous civic and philanthropic groups. These include a three-year term as Chair of the Jewish Federation's Real Estate Construction Division, serving as the Chair of the Real Estate Division and LA Council for AIPAC, association with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), and the Guardians, an agency dedicated to serving the elderly.   Contact  Mark:            Website: mjwinvestments.com Email: mweinstein@mjwinvestments.com Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mark-weinstein-7651bb5     Contact Bill Zahller Phone: 828-275-5035 Email: Bill@ParkCapitalPartnersLLC.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/billzahller   Contact Richard Coyne Phone: 404-245-9732 Email: Richard@ParkCapitalPartnersLLC.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richardjcoyne   If you would like to learn more about: How Park Capital Partners connects investors with passive income-generating opportunities through real estate, Our Park Capital Value-Add Fund (a 506c fund), Our latest multifamily acquisitions, or The Park Capital Partners Foundation, Inc. (a 501(c)3 non-profit).   Please contact Park Capital Partners LLC in the following ways:  Website: ParkCapitalPartnersLLC.com Email us: info@ParkCapitalPartnersLLC.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ParkCapitalPartners/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/park-capital-partners-llc/   Music by Aliaksei Yukhnevich/Jamendo. Audio and Video production by Kerry Webb.   If you would like to be a guest on our show and have a “path change” story, please reach out to Richard at Richard@ParkCapitalPartnersLLC.com.  We would love to chat with you!

It's hard to achieve economies of scale operating multifamily apartments with fewer than 100 units, but if you buy smaller buildings close to each other, you can gain operational efficiencies that translates into more profit. There's also far less competition when buying these properties that bigger properties so you can often get better deals. Mark Weinstein, President of MJW investments, has acquired many smaller properties in close proximity and amortized management functions and operating expenses to make these buildings very profitable. Over the course if his career, Mark has acquired over $1,500,000,000 of apartments, student housing, commercial buildings, industrial, and self-storage facilities.

Mark Weinstein is the founder and president of MJW Investments, which specializes in acquisition, development, and asset management across a diverse billion-dollar portfolio. He's a respected investor, developer, and philanthropist, and today, he joins us to share his journey. We learn about the strategies he's used to scale his business and some of the risks and success factors involved in student housing, development, and more.   Listen to this insightful episode! [00:01 - 04:49] From Law School to Real Estate Mark on convincing his fellow students to buy a property with him He believes real estate will help him make more impact as a philanthropist Going to real estate full time and focusing on great write-offs and great cash flow   [04:50 - 14:08] Growing and Diversifying Creatin go-GP platform for people who are looking to grow Why invest in student housing The formula: best schools always thrive, especially if they are close to campus Renting by the bed instead of by room His experience with a development project that was mothballed for nine years Don't be distracted by deals you don't need to be in Be careful with personal guarantees Mark explains why development projects are risky The cost to build is too much You can do a value add play without construction by buying a new product from developers who are exiting early   [14:09 - 15:33]  Lessons on Debt Relationships with different banks are crucial Look for fixed rate loans   [15:34 - 16:49] Closing Segment Reach out to Mark!  Links Below Final Words Tweetable Quotes   “I try to take everything I could and invest myself in every deal as much as I possibly could, do as much as I could and share with investors the deals that I thought were safer and grow the company that way.” - Mark Weinstein “It's not the money you lose on the deal. It's the opportunity cost that you lose.” - Mark Weinstein -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   Connect with Mark at mweinstein@mjwinvestments.com or head over to MJWinvestments.com.   Connect with me:   I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook   LinkedIn   Like, subscribe, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or whatever platform you listen on.  Thank you for tuning in!   Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below:   [00:00:00] Mark Weinstein: So I think it's very risky for people that aren't really good at it. I have some friends that are really, really good builders and they still have a spread, but sometimes I kind of feel like they have to keep the machine going. And so sometimes they lose sight of maybe it's a good time to take a pause. I think it becomes a machine you're feeding. You have so many people and you have so many mouths to feed and there's a spread between what it costs to build and what the sell cost is. [00:00:38] Sam Wilson: Mark Weinstein is a self-made owner and developer who scaled from five units to a 1.5 billion portfolio of multifamily and student housing. Mark. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you. Hey man, the pleasure's mine, mark. There are three questions I ask every guest who comes from the show: in 90 seconds or less, can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?  [00:00:58] Mark Weinstein: Well, when I was in law school, I discovered real estate and I convinced a bunch of students at the law school that we should buy a building and they gave me their money, student loan money, whatever money they had. And we bought a five-unit building back then and we grew it to a large portfolio in both multifamily and student housing. And I enjoy great family life and really, really happy for the success we've had in real estate.  [00:01:24] Sam Wilson: Man, that's kind of a wild story all in itself. I mean, you saw a five-unit building and you just had a wild hair and said, Hey, let's go buy that. I mean, was there more to the, to the bug than that, that caught you that day or?  [00:01:36] Mark Weinstein: Well, I think that when I realized, you know, wanted to be a lawyer and if that was a really noble thing to do, as something I wanted to do as a. But I also wanted to do a lot of philanthropy and I kind of realized that being a lawyer probably wouldn't be able to scale to be able to do the type of things I wanted to do. And so I saw real estate as an opportunity to create wealth and be able to give back on a higher level, more impact by in real estate.  [00:02:00] Sam Wilson: Gotcha. So what was your next move? You buy this five unit building. You beg, borrow, steal and rob all your friends for whatever capital they had to take it down. How did you grow the company? What were the next logical steps? You said, man, I've got to do X, Y, and Z next if I'm going to take this to the next level.  [00:02:16] Mark Weinstein: So I passed the bar. I'm practicing law. I said, well, I got to do a couple of deals. And then finally it came to an inflection point where I needed to make a choice. Am I going to just kind of do law part-time and do real estate part-time or am I going to really go for it? And so I gave up the law completely and went into a large development in old town, Pasadena, very complicated and historic buildings and mixed-use and all this stuff. And so it started with that, which was a very big learning experience. And then eventually got back into multifamily and student housing and some other items that I bought along the way to grow where we are today.  [00:02:53] Sam Wilson: Did you do this all on your own? Did you have mentors? Were there partners? Those are big bites to take out of the gate. [00:03:00] Mark Weinstein: Well, in Pasadena, I raised the money and I had a partner who didn't work out so well, so I had to take it over. So I learned construction at an early age on these historic buildings, which was very complicated. And I never really had partners. I had investors in some of this stuff, but my thing was, I tried to take everything I could take and invest myself in every deal as much as I possibly could and do as much as I could by myself and share with investors on deals that I thought were safer and grow the company that way. [00:03:30] Sam Wilson: Wow. That's really cool. What gave you the confidence and what would you tell to somebody who was going out maybe on their own for the first time to raise capital? What gave you the confidence to go to investors and ask for that money?  [00:03:42] Mark Weinstein: Well, I'd been successful the few deals that I'd done. And I believed in real estate and I believe that I could find deals that were unusual, that had hidden value. And I thought, you know, there's good write-offs and good cash flow. So I convinced people that if you marry those two things you can do well.  [00:04:00] Sam Wilson: Yeah, no. And that's absolutely true. Tell me, you said you believed in real estate, where are we now and how are you positioning yourself maybe differently than you would have at the beginning of your career? [00:04:11] Mark Weinstein: I now have almost nine-year-old twins and a beautiful wife. And I don't go into big-ass development deals like I used to, and I do have silver hair that I got and retained from some of those development deals that I did earlier in my career. And so now I've, you know, we got a really diversified portfolio of student housing and multifamily, mostly with fix rate loans, with long term horizons, good cash flow, good write-offs, you know, a well-balanced portfolio in great markets, you know, that I could own long term if I wanted to, or I could sell intermittently when the opportunity arises.  [00:04:49] Sam Wilson: Do you feel like your company is where you want it to be? Are there still yet boxes you want to tick off or is it something at this point where it's just kind of maintain the status quo and write it out? [00:05:01] Mark Weinstein: Well, we have a couple of different platforms. One of our platforms is the Co-GP platform. We're taking people that maybe are already successful in their career, but they need to grow or want to grow. We could use our capital, our relationships. We're doing self-storage, we're doing student housing, we're doing multifamily with other operators. So that helps us leverage, you know, our kind of secret sauce to get great returns for ourselves and our investors by doing that. And then our, you know, our existing, you know, acquisitions, you know, are still going on, but right now it's an inflection point in the economy. So we're being a lot more careful, whether it's finding a new operator to partner with buying our own deals, type of financing that we're doing, you know, refinancing when we can get to from variable to fix rate. So those are a lot of different things that are going on and we're kind of opportunistic. We're always thinking they're no matter how the economy is, there's always some type of opportunity.  [00:05:56] Sam Wilson: Yeah, no, absolutely. I love that. I love the idea of Co-GP. It's funny, 'cause a lot of people start off that way. You know, raising capital a Co-GP as you well know their way in the deal. Like, Hey, I can bring, you know, a million bucks to a deal and then they come in as can get a, you know, very, very minority slice in the deal. But you guys sound like you go the other way where it's like, Hey, you're probably going to be the, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but you'll be the larger portion of the equity, if not all of it. And that's how you guys are coming in really diversifying, is that right? [00:06:23] Mark Weinstein: Right. Partially we'll put up or raise the equity on the LP side, but on the GP side, we're helping them maybe get the loan. We're helping, you know, put up the GP side of the capital and either we put up or arrange the LP side of the capital generally. So it's a, it really allows someone to focus on finding their deals, operating their properties, and they can grow their business, whether it's self-storage, whether it's student housing, whether it's multifamily.  [00:06:48] Sam Wilson: Tell me about the student housing market. What are you predicting on that front? What does that look like? We've had several guests come in the show and I'm just curious where you see where we are in the cycle of student housing and what are the prospects there.  [00:07:01] Mark Weinstein: Well, I think, you know, the student housing that we do is usually at major schools, walking distance to campus. That's one of the formulas, the best schools thrive. They're recession resilient. They've done really well during the pandemic and the, you know, potential recession that we may be upon. And so we like student housing, you know, it's very operationally intensive and you know, you have your more bumps, ups, and downs with student housing, but if you're in the best markets, great locations, you do well. [00:07:29] Sam Wilson: Yeah. How has that changed? We were talking about this at dinner last night with some buddies, and we were just talking about, you know, student housing, where they lived when they were in college and how that has changed dramatically. Like, one of the guys was just fussing, he's like, Man, my son thinks he's got to have his own private bathroom and X, Y, Z and this, and he goes, one of my other buddies sitting across me, he goes, man, he didn't have doors to my house. No joke. He said, we just locked the hallway doors and we didn't have front and back door. I'm like, that's pretty hysterical. It's a lot of fun, but I know that market has changed. What's it look like now versus what it was 30 years ago?  [00:08:01] Mark Weinstein: Well, interesting. When I went to school, I lived in the dorms in my sophomore year and it was like a four-man suite, four-person suite. And so it had a couple of bathrooms in private rooms and you know, it's not so much different from the purpose-built stuff we have today. A lot of the stuff that we've done though has been regular apartments, scattered sites where I live in UC, Santa Barbara, the same apartment building's still there. And, you know, you, convert it to a bed basis, possibly where you're renting by the bed as opposed to a one bedroom or two bedrooms so it's changed in the sense that it's more by the bed. And, you know, there's purpose-built student housing, which, you know, four bedrooms, three bedrooms, two bedrooms, and there's apartment buildings that, you know, you reconfigure or you have students live in. And the key is being close to campus.  [00:08:46] Sam Wilson: Got it. Got it. That's really, really cool. Love how you guys have made, you know, this journey thus far. I mean, gosh, you're in multifamily, you're in student housing, you guys are doing large Co-GP projects. Tell me, I guess, what are, if you were to rewind the tape and go back through your investing career, what is one thing that you feel like you would either do differently or maybe the other way to think about it is something that you could say, Hey, I can help somebody avoid this pitfall. [00:09:09] Mark Weinstein: Well, I do try to help people avoid pitfalls. I was doing some massive, large-scale development while I was doing some other massive development at the same time. I thought that I could do no wrong. Like, you know, the good news, I had my own money in it. So I wasn't risking other people, but I did some of the largest projects in LA. You know, I was this kid that had nothing, came from nothing, and kind of rolled the dice. I wasn't married. And, you know, I didn't really think at the time I was rolling the dice cause everything was going well. But I started thinking, Hey, in 2007, you know, things are changing. I want to get out of this and sometimes forces beyond your control, economy, politics, don't allow you, even if you're smart enough to want to get out at a big profit the right time, can't always do it. And so I think that having so many developments going on at once and, kind of being an entrepreneur, I think that, you know, maybe I would've focused on more conservative, existing, you know, investments and could have done way better at a lot more time. And the opportunity cost that you lose when you get distracted by a development deal that gets mothballed like mine did for nine years. It's a lot of money and you lose opportunity. It's not the money you lose on the deal. It's the opportunity cost that you lose by being distracted by deals you probably don't need to be in. [00:10:30] Sam Wilson: Yeah, man, a nine-year mothball. Did you retain the project through...  [00:10:36] Mark Weinstein: Sold it, sold it at the, probably, the loan amount. I lost all my equity. Thank goodness, it was all my money. Great write-off, you know, was able to use the write-off for many, many years. And one time a bank was looking at my tax return and said, you know, there's no way that, you know, you, what of these losses? And, you know, these are depreciations. So no, these are checks that I actually wrote that, you know, to keep on, the project going 'Cause I had personal guarantees, which is also something you got to be very careful with and, you know, banks change, the bank went under. And so all of a sudden, a personal guarantee with somebody, you know, so a new bank, you never know who your banker is going to be and so they might not be as kind with giving you extensions, even if you're paying, you know. So it's just, you learn a lot, you know, that you got to be careful.  [00:11:22] Sam Wilson: Do you see similar risk in development today? Everybody I talked to in the development world says that now is different. How do you feel about that? [00:11:32] Mark Weinstein: Well, I think that it's a slippery slope because look at how much prices have gone up. Look at the cost of financing, look at pandemics, you know, all the things that happen. So I think it's very risky for people that aren't really good at it. I have some friends that are really, really good builders and they still have a spread, but sometimes I kind of feel like they have to keep the machine going. And so sometimes they lose sight of maybe it's a good time to take a pause. I think it becomes a machine you're feeding. You have so many people and you have so many mouths to feed and there's a spread between what it costs to build and what the sale costs is. If cap rates could go up and cost keep on going up, the interest rates are going up, all of a sudden you don't have that spread. There might be a need for multifamily, but, you know, it might cost you too much to build it.  [00:12:21] Sam Wilson: Well, that's it. And that's been the argument I've heard from a lot of people, especially in the, you know, Texas markets and places like that. They're saying why buy existing value add multifamily when we can go out and build it for less per door than what people are bidding over for used inventory. [00:12:38] Mark Weinstein: Yeah that makes sense, but I just don't think it's so easy to build it. I think that one thing's going to happen is when the prices have to go down. It's interesting enough is that we're buying a lot of newer apartment buildings below replacement costs, developers have various things that need to get out. They had too much going on and so they're going to sell. They leased it up quickly. The rents aren't what the market are. And so you buy these things under the cost of, of construction. You take no construction risk. And then over time, you can raise rents and you make a nice return. it's a solid market. So that's a value add play without doing value add.  [00:13:13] Sam Wilson: Right, right. It's buying new product without the value add. What's the developer's angle on that? 'Cause I'm not a developer, so I don't understand how they exit a property like that that maybe is only two or three years old and still walk out with their shirts on.  [00:13:25] Mark Weinstein: Well, sometimes it's very close to shirts on shirts off, 'cause you know, often we'll do it right year one because they want to get out. 'Cause they're also, they make a profit. So they bought the land a while ago. Their costs were in and so they can still make money. They don't make as much because they need to move their money around. And so you're able to get in at a fair price and if you buy it right and you can marry it with fixed-rate financing. You're in a strong market and you manage well, you'll, you know, you're not going to make the kind of value add returns that we used to make with value add, but you're also not going to take the risk. You're going to mix fixed-rate financing with a steady, great asset with gradual rent growth. You know, don't get greedy. That's a good return.  [00:14:08] Sam Wilson: Right. Absolutely. Let's talk about debt. What are your strategies on debt right now?  [00:14:14] Mark Weinstein: Relationships. So you need relationships, you know, with different banks, First Republic Bank, Banc of California, two banks that are California-based, have been really loyal to us in giving us debt. You know, they held the, in the threes, mid- 3, 3- 4. You know, while rates were changing dramatically now, it's, you know, about 4.1, fixed rate, lower leverage, 55% non-recourse. You know, reliable, good, you know, good bank relationships. You know, also balance sheet loans from other lenders. Really, you got to do fixed-rate loans. You got to be able to do that in this, you know, this part of the cycle.  [00:14:50] Sam Wilson: Right, right. Yeah. And I heard somebody say that earlier this year, I'm probably going to butcher the way they said it, but it was something like borrowing long-term debt at a fixed rate is its own inflation hedge in its own right if you're able to then obviously redeploy that capital and collect the delta, redeploy at a higher, higher rate of return.  [00:15:06] Mark Weinstein: Yeah. The only other thing I'd mention is that I like the flexibility. If you can marry a fixed rate with, being able to prepay it without the feasance, that's also a really good thing that you try to do to, you know, 'cause one of the negatives of fix rate financing is that when you want to get out of the loan, it could be very costly. So if you're able to get fixed rate financing that is flexible like you can with private banks, it's a really big win.  [00:15:33] Sam Wilson: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. That's a fantastic point. Mark, I've really enjoyed you coming on the show today. Certainly appreciate it. I love how you've kind of bootstrapped your way from five units all the way to a billion-and-a-half dollar portfolio. Your thoughts on the student housing market, the multifamily market, how you guys are finding opportunity, and where you just kind of see risks and the potential for success here today. So certainly appreciate it. If our listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you, what is the best way to do that? [00:16:00] Mark Weinstein: They can email mweinstein, W E I N S T E I N, @, all one word, mjwinvestments, plural, .com. You could also go to our website, MJW Investments, and see what we do and contact through our website. MJW Investments.  [00:16:19] Sam Wilson: Fantastic, mark. Thank you again for coming on the show. I certainly appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day. [00:16:24] Mark Weinstein: Bye. Bye.

On today's episode of the Free Thought Project podcast, Matt and Jason sit down with Mark Weinstein. Mark is the Founder and Chief Evangelist of MeWe. Mark is world renowned as a leading privacy advocate and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. Mark is ranked one of the "Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy," and was named “Privacy by Design Ambassador” by The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada. Back in 1998, Mark created SuperFamily.com and SuperFriends.com, which were ranked by PC Magazine as “Top 100” sites 3 years in a row. Mark went on to launch MeWe and has been fighting for your right to speech and privacy every since. We talk with Mark about the dangers presented to a free society by the monopolistic social media giants and Big tech. Mark is currently working on a book that deals with combatting this threat and we delve into many of the problems and possible solutions that arise.  

MAGOS DE LOS MERCADOS – PARTE 3.2 - Mark WeinsteinMAGOS DE LOS MERCADOS de Jack D. SchwagerMark Weinstein: comerciante de alto porcentajeMark Weinstein, que con su anécdota de la compra de un castillo y la toma de posición en bolsa para comprarlo sin ningún tipo de análisis racional, tiene como piedra angular la espera y utiliza sistemas automatizados, Elliott, Gann, ciclos, osciladores y un buen timing.CONSEJO TRADING:Profesionalismo:Para ganar en los desafiantes mercados financieros es necesario tomarse el Trading muy en serio. Requiere horas y horas de investigación, acumular mucho tiempo frente al computador, construir estadísticas, llevar una detallada bitácora de Trading, analizar con detenimiento las operaciones pasadas y sin duda, leer muchos libros sobre inversión y Trading.

Mark Weinstein is the founder of MeWe, a Facebook alternative that allows adults to have conversations. I've hosted my Tom Woods Show Elite there for years and we haven't run into a single problem. Mark and I talk social media, suppression of dissident views, and the promise and challenges of new platforms. Sponsor: Gold River Trading Co. - Take 10% off your order with code WOODS at

On today's episode our guest is Mark Weinstein. He was voted “One of the 500 Most Influential People in Los Angeles” six times by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mark is the President and Founder of MJW Investments. After beginning his career as an attorney, he founded MJW Investments in 1983 when he discovered the potential of real estate investment and development through several successful ventures. Since then, he has acquired over $1,500,000,000 of student housing, apartment, commercial, industrial, and self-storage buildings. MJW currently owns a portfolio worth over $1,000,000,000 MJW was rated 7th largest Commercial Developer by the Los Angeles Business Journal.Mark has also been a top multifamily investor in WA state and has increased it to a sizeable portfolio. In our conversation we talk about:- How he started from being an Attorney- When he discovered the pivotal moment in his career that changed the direction of his company- What challenges he faced along his real estate journey- What character traits that makes him successful- How he defines failure- And many more topics…. Don't forget to like and subscribe!!! Apple Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6beVhIB...Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/bc4...Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/breakth...

Watch the latest episode of Huckabee! Mike Huckabee makes Thanksgiving GREAT AGAIN! Rep. Madison Cawthorn explains why it's time to get back to AMERICA FIRST policies. Mark Weinstein is changing the social media landscape through MeWe. Christy Denney shows how to elevate your Thanksgiving leftovers. The Isaacs perform and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One Year LaterIt has already been a year since we lost a dedicated colleague and dear friend, Dr. Michael Firmin, Distinguished Professor of Psychology. He passed away from a heart attack on October 27, just 12 days after he recorded this conversation with Cedarville Stories host Mark Weinstein.  With the full support and agreement of his family, we aired this podcast on November 18, 2020, and they have supported this rebroadcast in his memory.   The loss of Dr. Firmin was devastating for Cedarville, where he had served since 1998. He worked tirelessly to support, encourage, and coach his students.  “My mission has been to invest my life in students,” he noted during the podcast. “As they impact others, my ministry multiplies. I want them to go beyond me.” Beyond his faithful service as a faculty member, Dr. Firmin practiced as a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist. He also served as preaching pastor at Berea Bible Church in Springfield, Ohio.  Cancer had impacted Dr. Firmin's family, and it showed in his outlook on life. His words are an important reminder of where our ultimate hope should be: in Christ alone.  “When I wake up, I tell God I will do my best: ‘This is Your day for Your honor and Your glory, because I might not have tomorrow,'” he said during the podcast. “Then my record will be in the book, and for me it will be time for heaven.” ……….. 

Today’s guest is up against a daunting task. Mark Weinstein is the creator of MeWe, an alternative social network to Facebook. It’s alternative in many ways. They don’t run ads, they don’t censor, the use no algorithms. I’m curious how he’s getting millions of users. Mark Weinstein is the creator of MeWe, an alternative social network. More interviews -> https://mixergy.com/moreint Rate this interview -> https://mixergy.com/rateint

Mark Zuckerberg says privacy is a thing of the past. MeWe founder Mark Weinstein sees a better way. In this episode, you'll learn how social media platforms track, monitor and spy on their users. It's called surveillance capitalism — and Kim and Mark will tell you how to fight back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg says privacy is a thing of the past. MeWe founder Mark Weinstein sees a better way. In this episode, you'll learn how social media platforms track, monitor and spy on their users. It's called surveillance capitalism — and Kim and Mark will tell you how to fight back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Zuckerberg says privacy is a thing of the past. MeWe founder Mark Weinstein sees a better way. In this episode, you'll learn how social media platforms track, monitor and spy on their users. It's called surveillance capitalism — and Kim and Mark will tell you how to fight back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our freedom of speech is under attack... Big Tech dictates what we can see, read, and discuss and if left unchecked, Big Tech's bias will destroy all independent thought. Thankfully, one social media entrepreneur is committed to prevent this from happening.Mark Weinstein, who's CEO of the new social network MeWe, says he knew this was his calling in 2011 when he heard Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg say, “The social norm is just something that's evolved over time.”The rise of online social networking should not mean that people no longer have an expectation of privacy. Mark is world-renowned as a leading privacy advocate and has more than 20 year's experience in privacy and social media. MeWe's conservative platform is described as the anti-Facebook… providing folks around the world with an ad-free communication network they can trust. Join Trish and Mark on this week's edition of American Consequences podcast for an in-depth discussion about free speech, Big Tech, and how MeWe is changing the social media landscape for good.

The internet was pioneered by independent enthusiasts and inspired by the possibility of connecting people and enhancing culture. Though much of its promise came to fruition, it's fair to say a great deal of it has been corrupted. Central to these issues is how our personal information is traded, sold, and utilized for marketing purposes. This matters a great deal to Mark Weinstein, who founded one of the first social media platforms, Supergroups, in 1998. Today he's trying to take the internet back from the data miners with his new social media platform, MeWe. On this edition of Founders Journey, Mark discusses what motivated him to reenter the social media space, and why he believes his work is so crucial for this moment in history.

ABOUT MARK WEINSTEINMark Weinstein is the President and Founder of MJW Investments. After beginning his career as an attorney, he founded MJW Investments in 1983 when he discovered the potential of real estate investment and development through several successful ventures. Since then, he has acquired over $1,500,000,000 of student housing, apartment, commercial, industrial, and self-storage buildings. MJW currently owns a portfolio worth 1,000,000,000 MJW was rated 7th largest Commercial Developer by LABJ and Mark was voted one 500 most influential people in LA for 6th straight year.  THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL:[01:16] How he got into real estate[03:10] Acquiring student housing properties during college days[06:10] Challenges or hurdles in the development sector[07:36] Value-add projects [10:30] Opportunity cost from first few deals[11:45] Insights learned on drifting away from your niche[14:00] How to analyze deals to increase NOI[16:45] Ways they add value to properties[19:00] Organizational groups joined for networking[21:00] Seasonal arena on student housing[21:28] Difference between Student housing from Multifamily[22:30] How the pandemic affected the student housing industry[22:51] Why student housing is more difficult to manage?[24:27] Student housing renovations[28:00] Advice to investors[30:00] Starting a coaching program[31:07] Philanthropy activities and mentorship program[33:48] Co-GP platform [38:04] Advice to his 25-year-old self[39:15] First Entrepreneurial endeavor[39:48] His Formal and Informal training that shaped his journey[41:08] The Deal that got away[42:57] How to reach out to Mark   KEY QUOTES:[10:30] I tell people that the loss of money there wasn't a big deal, it was the opportunity cost. What people tend to not focus on is not that you lose money on a particular deal, but that I lost the opportunity to do all the things that were really making me a lot of money, which is much simpler, much more on my core competency and much more controllable. [29:59] When you do good things, great things come back. Just do good in the community, be a good person, it's infectious and it gets others to do things. I do a lot of philanthropy with other real estate people, so those people that I've mentored over the years want to partner with us. So that platform also helped us see more great deals and great sponsors.  [42:27] I'd say some of the best deals that you do are the ones that you don't do because often you don't make a mistake, you made the right decision, you didn't do it and that freezes you up to do so many other great things. Your time is a commodity and getting involved in a bad deal can make you go sideways, you worry about it, you'll get engrossed in that bad deal and you'll miss all the good deals around you.   KEYWORDS: NOI (Net of Income) - is the amount an individual earns after subtracting taxes and other deductions from gross income.Cost segregation - is a commonly used strategic tax planning tool that allows companies and individuals who have constructed, purchased, expanded, or remodeled any kind of real estate to increase cash flow by accelerating depreciation deductions and deferring federal and state income taxes.    SUMMARY OF BUSINESSMJW Investments specializes in the acquisition, development, and asset management across a diverse portfolio. Our successful emphasis on revitalizing and repositioning multifamily and student housing properties has grown our current portfolio to nearly 1,000 multifamily units and 6,500 student housing beds across eight states. Throughout its more than 35-year history, MJW Investments maintains its passionate vision to stimulate economic prosperity, build communities and enrich individual lifestyles by pioneering intelligent urban redevelopment projects. MJW's unrelenting effort to achieve success for its partners and investors is responsible in part for the company being named one of the largest developers in Southern California by the Los Angeles Business Journal.    ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK  The Westside Investors Network, is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.  The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to the real estate professional that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host's AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.     #investmentproperty #realestate #investment #realtor #property #realestateinvesting #propertyinvestment #investing #realestateinvestor #investor #investments #invest #realty #realtorlife #properties #investmentproperties #realestateinvestment #business #REinvesting #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #cashflow #multifamily #passiveincome #multifamilyinvesting #mentors #organization #netincome #businessportfolio #multifamilyrealestate #investment #passivewealth #passiveinvestor #nestegg #commercialrealestate #financialfreedom #studenhousing #costsegregation #philantrophy #opportunitycost #coachingprogram #valueaddprojects #valueadd     YOU MAY CONTACT MARK WEINSTEIN VIA:Email: MWeinstein@mjwinvestments.comWebsite:https://mjwinvestments.com/LinkedIn: @MarkWeinstein, @MJW_Investments Social media:    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mjwinvestmentsinc/?ref=hlTwitter: https://twitter.com/MJWInvestmentsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/mjw.investments/    CONNECT WITH US  For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  · Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/  · LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/   For information on Portland Property Management: · Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com  · Youtube | @UptownProperties    Westside Investors Network · Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/  · Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx  · Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork  · LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/  · Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork ·    Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork    

Mark Weinstein founded MJW Investments in 1983 following a brief career as an attorney. Since then, he has acquired over $1,000,000,000 of student housing, apartment, commercial, industrial, and self-storage buildings.  MJW was rated 7th largest Commercial Developer by LABJ and Mark was voted one of the 500 most influential people in LA for the 5th straight year. Mark has always been a visionary and risk taker with his multi family and student housing investments.  He shares stories from his first deal while still in law school to the more complex transactions including condo to apartment conversions, ground leases and CO-GP deals.  Mark was an early investor in Downtown LA when the city created the adaptive reuse ordinance and he shares why he was willing to take a on a  massive conversion of old industrial buildings to apartments.

Our guest today on the pod is Mark Weinstein.  Mark is the founder and CEO of MeWe, the #1 trending, award-winning disruptive next-gen social network challenging Facebook.  MeWe has No Ads, no Fake News, No Political Bias, No Shadow Banning, No Personal Data Tracking, No Newsfeed Manipulation, No Facial Recognition and No BS. Instead, it has the features people love and gives members total control with it's "Privacy Bill of Rights".  MeWe site Habitually Great Book SuperFamily site Dear Facebook Letter Leesa Renee Hall interview #StopHateForProfit The Awarepreneurs Community Paul's business coaching site

Mark Weinstein, the founder of the MeWe social network, joins Jefferson Graham to tell why his firm is the "anti" Facebook.

Are you fed up with the way the social media giants are mistreating your privacy? Do you want to leave Facebook behind for a brighter future? If so, you should check out the up and coming social media website, MeWe. Founder and CEO, Mark Weinstein, shares the philosophy behind the company - privacy, control, safety, and positive connections. We also delve into the growing threat of surveillance capitalism and the steady decline of our privacy. Closing the show, Mark gives us some words of encouragement for believing in the vision behind our entrepreneurial endeavors, and staying the course. [00:00:00] From SuperFriends.com to MeWe [00:06:29] MeWe: All The Features You Love. NO BS! [00:11:30] MeWe Dispels Profit Myths of Facebook [00:18:21] The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism [00:24:46] Is Privacy a Dead Social Norm!? [00:33:22] Believe in Your Vision, Stay the Course

Are you fed up with the way the social media giants are mistreating your privacy? Do you want to leave Facebook behind for a brighter future? If so, you should check out the up and coming social media website, MeWe. Founder and CEO, Mark Weinstein, shares the philosophy behind the company - privacy, control, safety, and positive connections. We also delve into the growing threat of surveillance capitalism and the steady decline of our privacy. Closing the show, Mark gives us some words of encouragement for believing in the vision behind our entrepreneurial endeavors, and staying the course.   [00:00:00] From SuperFriends.com to MeWe [00:06:29] MeWe: All The Features You Love. NO BS! [00:11:30] MeWe Dispels Profit Myths of Facebook [00:18:21] The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism [00:24:46] Is Privacy a Dead Social Norm!? [00:33:22] Believe in Your Vision, Stay the Course

This Week In Wellness social media giants Facebook and Youtube have increased their efforts to censor and “deplatform” debate around Covid19 lockdowns from lay people, scientists and experts alike whilst Twitter has maintained a more open approach and more and more people are flocking to MeWe, founded by entrepreneur and privacy advocate Mark Weinstein. The post TWIW 63: Social media giants increase censorship appeared first on The Wellness Couch.

While the Coronavirus has infected every artist and arts organization, none appeared more potentially devastated--at least on the calendar--than the Brevard Music Center . Its entire existence is geared toward a summer concert season and a summer music camp considered the best of its kind in the southeast. The center had also planned to cut the ribbon on a new 400-seat, indoor performance space designed to house concerts year-round. But when the center's board unanimously voted to cancel all public programs for 2020, president and CEO Mark Weinstein said it was a moral decision.

What doesn’t Mark Weinstein do? As an investor, advisor, entrepreneur, certified yoga instructor, as well as a podcast host and editor for Wave Financial, this guy knows a thing or two about being busy. With everything that Marc does, it’s unsurprising that he is interested in the concept of humane technology and taking back agency from our devices.It gets pretty meta from the get-go—we dive into the history of podcasts and take a look at how far they’ve come. Marc talks about social media, how much all those stats really matter, and how we can push back against the epidemic of distraction. We dissect some strategies for disaster management and trade techniques we’ve used for motivation.In This EpisodeThe joys of podcasting [7:15]The trajectory of podcasts [10:30]We create content, but how much do we consume? [20:00]Tech and behavioral psychology [25:00]Airport stories [28:30]Anxiety and social media [35:00]How to prepare for the advent of full tech integration [38:15]We are all participating in a massive experiment (a la Cloud Atlas) [45:15]Let's talk about food, convenience, and consequences [48:00]Why is it an interesting story? The Fyre Festival fiasco [51:15]How in tune are you with your body? [1:09:45 ]The golden rule of exercise [1:15:10]There is no advice that fits all [1:20:00]Always travel with a Navy Seal [1:30:00]Proudly Sponsored ByKettlebell KingsEvery two weeks we are giving away a $150 Kettlebell Kings gift card! All you have to do is leave us a review on any of our platforms and make sure you are on the Coach Joe DI Newsletter to be entered to win.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/join/stacked)

This episode celebrates Why? Radio’s tenth birthday with a musical exploration of the origins, meaning, experience, and, of course, music of jazz. How do newcomers start listening to the music? How do musicians discover new ways to play? And, what makes the best jazz tracks important and enjoyable? Join us as Mark Weinstein, jazz flutist, philosopher, and our host’s father, explores America’s music, explaining music theory, improvisation, and whether music is discovered or invented. This episode was recorded before a live audience at the Empire Arts Center in downtown Grand Forks, ND.

Hr 1: Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Patreon and more are still keeping conservatives from getting their message out. Do we have options? Mark Weinstein, founder of MeWe social media, fills us in.  Hr 2: Why do we have to keep segregating all the groups in the name of inclusion? That's not inclusion! That's EXCLUSION! AND... New York Democrat state Senator Kevin Parker tells GOP aide to ‘kill yourself' on Twitter. Hr 3: Conduct charges against SCOTUS Justice Brett Kavanaugh dropped. AND... Is a Drag Queen acceptable at all ages? How about 11 years old? Have you had your healthy dose of reality lately?

Hilton's senior vice president and global head of customer engagement, loyalty and partnerships, Mark Weinstein, tells The Points Guy about what you can expect from Hilton stays in the future and what it's like being an Honors loyalist. After, TPG senior writer Darren Murph explains the best ways to redeem points at Hilton properties and earn elite status. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hr 1: Dinesh D'Souza's new movie #DeathofaNation premiered last night. Dave Goss, gives us the scoop! AND... Robert Mueller prosecutors rebuked repeatedly by trial judge with a history of colorful rulings. Hr 2: More violence from the #LoveTrumpsHate people. Massachusetts woman enraged by Trump bumper sticker intentionally rams into car. AND... Mark Weinstein, founder of MeWe says, social media was supposed to be a place online where friends could hang out and not worry about being spied on or sold down the river. There are ways to monetize a platform respectfully without violating people's privacy. Hr 3: Madonna blames Trump for her move, even though she hasn't lived in the US for a while. AND... College students want the 1st Amendment supported, BUT want some speech banned on campus. Have you had your healthy dose of reality lately?  More at the Web Site ... www.TheRealSide.com Wanna Partner / Support the Show? https://www.patreon.com/TheRealSide Tweet me @JoeMessina / @TheRealSide Apple App ...  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/real-side-with-joe-messina/id1242114000?mt=8  Android app ... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=starksocial.therealside  Joe takes the issues… especially the controversial issues (politics, prejudice, religion, illegal immigration)… and brings in people from different sides to share their viewpoint. This is definitely  not a fluff piece. And while no one is attacked, the questions are hard-hitting. But the conversation is always respectful and you're sure to learn something new, even if you  don't agree! It's not the right side, it's not the wrong side, but the REAL side of the issues!

"Privacy is an inate right of every human being in the world. It's not something we're going to give away." Mark Weinstein is the Founder and CEO of MeWe, the Next-Gen Social Network known as the "anti-Facebook." Mark is world renown as a leading privacy advocate and one of the visionary inventors of social networking. He is ranked one of the "Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy," and was named “Privacy by Design Ambassador” by The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada.  Mark's articles about privacy and social media have appeared in The Mirror (UK), HuffPo, USA Today, InfoSecurity Magazine, Dark Reading, The Nation, and many others. He’s often quoted on MarketWatch and has appeared on PBS, FOX News, and CNN. Mark has been a featured speaker and social media/privacy expert on the stage at many conferences around the globe, most recently at EY’s Strategic Growth Forum and at the KNOW Identity Conference. He has also spoken at the 16th Annual Privacy and Security Conference, Global Security Conference, GMIC New York, Security BSides Vancouver, and at Customer Experience Asia. Mark received his BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. He resides in Los Angeles. Mark joined me from L.A. and we talked about Facebook being a data company and not a social network, helping your kids navigate through the social media minefield, taking the road less travelled... and learning to forgive yourself. Let's StartUp!

The fact that Facebook is hoarding your data is nothing new. But you may be surprised at just how nefarious the big blue social network has become.That's the message from Mark Weinstein, a privacy advocate and the founder and CEO of an alternative social network called MeWe.Mark has been an outspoken critic of Facebook and joins Future File host Jeff Parsons to discuss the implications of the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal and the incoming GDPR law in Europe.He reiterates how his business makes money without requiring users to hand over all their information and also has some things to say about the different approaches to privacy on each side of the Atlantic.Join us for a lively discussion that will have you rethinking how you use Facebook and may make you want to check twice what you've agreed to in the settings options of your own account.Thanks for listening. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Ep: 119 - Mark Weinstein is the Founder and CEO of the revolutionary social network MeWe, and MeWePro. Mark served on President Obama's 'Steering Committee' overseeing internet privacy and he single-handedly prevented the Obama Administration from creating the Orwellian sounding 'National Identity Database'. Mark Weinstein is a leading privacy advocate, is one of the inventors of social media and is ranked as one of the "Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy.” Mark has written about privacy and the social media industry in many well-known publications including HuffPo, USA Today, and the Daily Mirror (UK). He has been interviewed by many media outlets, including Forbes, CNN International, Fox News, and ABC. Mark is often a featured keynote speaker and expert social media/privacy panelist at conferences worldwide.Mark and Dave discuss the state of social media today and Mark openly shares his concerns about Facebook, calling them a 'dirty player', saying the two-billion member platform isn't a social media company, but a data company. We discuss Mark Zuckerberg's visit to Congress, how Cambridge Analytica may be just the beginning of Facebook user's privacy concerns and whether social media should be regulated by the government.Mark can be found at MeWe.com and Twitter @MarkWeinstein. Connect with Dave on MeWe.Register for Freedom Fest in Las Vegas this July 11-14 at FreedomFest.com and use code "WHISKEY100" for $100 off your tickets!Follow Whiskey Politics on Ricochet, YouTube and at WhiskeyPolitics.net, 'like' our Facebook page, follow Dave on Twitter and subscribe to iTunes where your 5-star rating will be greatly appreciated!Out Music: Somebody's Watching Me, Rockwell. 

Mark Weinstein is the Senior Vice President of Customer Engagement, Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. Like many customer experience executives, he searched for a career path that matched his skills and passion for helping customers comprehensively across the business. We discussed his multiple roles at Hilton International, which I found most interesting.  He began with running Hilton Honors, which gave him a footing operationally in delivery of value for the organization.

Mark Weinstein - Founder and CEO of MeWe

PROTECTING YOUR ONLINE PRIVACYRichard speaks with privacy expert and CEO of a social network company,  Mark Weinstein, about how we can protect our online privacy. He'll discuss common privacy violations and how our privacy is being violated today. In an age when anyone can find out anything about us with ajust a few keyboard clicks, is privacy dead?PART TWO - UFO DISCLOSURE AND CIVIL RIGHTSRichard and Victor Viggiani welcome a famed U.S. civili rights attorney to discuss his role in the UFO/ED Disclosure Movement. Daniel Sheehan's contact with and interaction with high level US government administrators provide overwhelming proof that - an array of contact and engagement with humanity has been made by one or more intelligent, highly advanced off-world civilizations. It is also held by Mr. Sheehan that to a 90% probability the phenomenon known as "UFOs" represents a manifestation of an extraterrestrial presence now engaging the planet.

Most of us can't even conceptualize life before digital. In the “old days” people looking for a hotel would drive down the road. If the hotel was all booked up, they would drive on down the road to the next hotel. Enter Hilton, a 96 year old brand that has innovated at every turn. In the 1950s Hilton wanted to make it easier for customers to book rooms and created the world's first central reservations office where customers could book over the phone, telegram or teletype. The office consisted of a team of eight “agents” who would write on a chalk board to book reservations. How times have changed!  In this week's modern customer podcast we talk with Mark Weinstein, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Loyalty and Partnerships for Hilton Worldwide. There is much change to the travel industry, and Hilton has had to stay on its toes. The demographic of their travel has shifted with people traveling at younger ages due to increased accessibility—it's simply much easier to get around than it used to be (see above paragraph around how one would find a hotel in the old days). There are market shifts such as the sharing economy that have altered the hotel industry. Hilton has created numerous programs in conjunction with the sharing economy including a partnership with Uber. It might make your head spin to think about Hilton's scale, with 13 brands, spanning more than 4,500 hotels across over 100 countries and territories. That said, they are a fantastic case study in thinking about how today's biggest companies are tackling the complex modern digital landscape. In this podcast you will learn: Hilton's customer engagement strategy (including social and mobile) Hilton's approach to surprise and delight Hilton's thoughts on Airbnb

On this episode of Food Friday: Leftovers, we speak to Bruce Weinstein & Mark Scarbrough about dinner parties, and how to plan the best bash!

Mark advocates for your privacy on the web, and has written extensively on the topic. He has been interviewed on countless media outlets, including CNN International, Fox News, ABC, and over 650 radio stations around the world. Now, he's CEO of MeWe.com (a PRIVATE communication network) and today you'll hear if there is such a thing as digital privacy. (Plus you'll find out who really invented the internet- not Al Gore!) Visit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weinstein/ Get an inside look into the lives of artists & creatives. We're Rachel, Bo, & Allie - 3 sisters who are also a music group (formerly on MCA records)- and The Mulberry Lane Show is a 2 hour show we put together every week to bring you closer to music, the artists you like, people doing creative things... but most of all to inspire you in your life. Why? Because we believe the world is a better place when you follow your own unique creative passion. We wish there was a show like this when we were just starting out on our musical journey, so poof (!), here you go. Leave us a comment here or email us themulberrylaneshow@gmail.com with your thoughts. For more interviews visit us on iTunes, Stitcher, or at www.mulberrylane.com

Mark advocates for your privacy on the web, and has written extensively on the topic. He has been interviewed on countless media outlets, including CNN International, Fox News, ABC, and over 650 radio stations around the world. Now, he's CEO of MeWe.com (a PRIVATE communication network) and today you'll hear if there is such a thing as digital privacy. (Plus you'll find out who really invented the internet- not Al Gore!) Visit: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-weinstein/ Get an inside look into the lives of artists & creatives. We're Rachel, Bo, & Allie - 3 sisters who are also a music group (formerly on MCA records)- and The Mulberry Lane Show is a 2 hour show we put together every week to bring you closer to music, the artists you like, people doing creative things... but most of all to inspire you in your life. Why? Because we believe the world is a better place when you follow your own unique creative passion. We wish there was a show like this when we were just starting out on our musical journey, so poof (!), here you go. Leave us a comment here or email us themulberrylaneshow@gmail.com with your thoughts. For more interviews visit us on iTunes, Stitcher, or at www.mulberrylane.com

Host Quin Hoffman talks consent with Zoe Jackson and Jennay Opie. After that he sits down with internet security expert Mark Weinstein to discuss Net Neutrality. Also, Impact reporters Daniel Rayzel and Audrey Matusz talk to us about record stores and the recent Yik Yak craze that might be causing some problems.

This week on the show… Host Quin Hoffman talks consent with Zoe Jackson and Jennay Opie. After that he sits down with internet security expert Mark Weinstein to discuss Net Neutrality. Also, Impact reporters Daniel Rayzel and Audrey Matusz talk to us about record stores and the recent Yik Yak craze that might be causing...

Buckle up for this show. Our guest Mark Weinstein holds nothing back in his view on privacy and what role companies like Facebook and Google are playing in our privacy.Mark knows what he is talking about! Mark founded SuperFamily and SuperFriends (both became PC Magazine “Top 100 sites), which were the precursors to today's social networks. He is one of the world's foremost privacy advocates. Mark is presently the Founder and CEO of www.mewe.comWe bookend Mark's interview with the promises and the perils of managing Gen Y and ways to infuse meaning into your second act. From Gen Y to Boomer discussion in ONE SHOW!Business Builders Show is all about informing, educating and encouraging entrepreneurs and small business owners. Don't miss this rare opportunity to attend what would be a great business class at any university in the country. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Simpsons is still going strong, but we don't really get it. Being young is cool, and Sam misses it. The case for staying together with someone forever. We speak to Internet privacy advocate Mark Weinstein, who explains how to maintain some privacy at a time when we feel we don't have any.

The Simpsons is still going strong, but we don't really get it. Being young is cool, and Sam misses it. The case for staying together with someone forever. We speak to Internet privacy advocate Mark Weinstein, who explains how to maintain some privacy at a time when we feel we don't have any.

This week my guest is Mark Weinstein, a privacy expert and CEO of Sgrouples. Many of our relationships are started and maintained online. Whether you are using match.com (or another dating service), Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, or other ways to connect you need to know what you can do to protect your privacy. Mark will address issues about our privacy and provide tips for what we can do to protect ourselves.  About my guest: Mark Weinstein is a leading privacy expert and CEO of Sgrouples.com, a privacy-centric social network that is positioned to lead the privacy revolution. Sgrouples has an unprecedented “Privacy Bill of Rights,” which prevents Sgrouples from inserting tracking cookies, data mining, or stalking its users. Mark Weinstein has been featured in Forbes and USA Today, as well as on Fox News. Honored as “Privacy By Design Ambassador” by the Canadian Government, Mark is also the author of the award winning book series,Habitually Great and a privacy blogger for USA Today and the Huffington Post.

On this week's all-star episode, cutting-edge commentator Daniel Eran Dilger, from Roughly Drafted Magazine and AppleInsider, continues his discussions about the iOS, Android, Windows Phone platform wars with an emphasis on the unexpected defects discovered in Google's Nexus 7 tablet and why customers aren't interested in paying for Android software. He'll also cover some of Apple's WWDC announcements, such as the forthcoming cylindrical Mac Pro. On the security front, you'll hear from online privacy advocate Mark Weinstein, founder of Sgrouples.com, who will deliver the frightening news about what social networks, and the government, may know about your online activities and how to protect your privacy. Tech journalist Dann Berg will discuss his recent article for Laptop magazine describing "Eight Tools for Online Privacy." He'll also give you his reactions to key WWDC announcements from Apple, such as the Mac Pro, iOS 7, and OS X Mavericks. Hint: He's not crazy about the new naming scheme for OS X.

Mark Weinstein, CEO of Bioclinica, has hit back at a public letter from Nicusa Capital CEO, Paul Johnson, claiming that the company's corporate strategy is 'flawed' and demanding the resignation of three top executives.

Mark Weinstein, CEO of Bioclinica, has hit back at a public letter from Nicusa Capital CEO, Paul Johnson, claiming that the company's corporate strategy is 'flawed' and demanding the resignation of three top executives.