Podcasts about mediocrity

Are you tired of listening to everybody give the same unhelpful advice? Do you want a fresh approach that will actually work? It's time to listen to what Staci Wallace has to say in this episode.  Staci and I will help you leverage your uniqueness to make you money and support your lifestyle goals.   In this episode, we discuss how to make intentional progress and stand out to build a legacy of abundance. If you're ready to hear something different, tangible, and practical that will help you transform yourself from mediocre to extraordinary, this is the episode for you!   In this episode, you'll learn about:   How authenticity helps with finding people who are aligned with you Having relationships with people who challenge you The correlation between unworthiness and pricing The truth about what is required as a business owner     Here's a peek inside the episode:   [03:06] Recognizing your unique value   [14:06] Entrepreneur parenting advice   [17:50] How Staci built her legacy and who she honors in the process   [25:00] Going from mediocrity to legend   [27:10] Building a legacy even during setbacks   [31:12] Operating from your higher self   [40:00] The art of planting seeds on your leader to legend journey   Connect with me!     Download our energy recalibration guide so you can break out of mediocrity and clear the things that no longer serve you. Download The Flourish Marketing Recalibration Guide: www.flourishmarketing.co/recalibrate FM Website: Flourish Marketing | Radically Authentic Marketing Strategy & Copywriting Schedule a Discovery Call: Discovery Call    Staci's Bio: As the CEO and co-founder of the Fueled by Fire Mastery Program and Elite Masterminds, Staci helps CEOs, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs build purpose-driven, highly profitable lives and businesses they love. As the founder of the non-profit, EMwomen.com,  she helps rescue, restore, and reignite the lives of women and girls who have been impacted by some of life's most difficult challenges.   Staci has been incredibly blessed to write 8 books, record 5 CDs, be featured at the Olympics, share the stage with 5 U.S. Presidents, help scale companies from scratch to 9-figures, raise up sales teams into the hundreds of thousands, and thrive in unity with her husband of 26 years and two God-fearing children.    Where to find more about Staci Wallace: Staci's Website: https://www.staciwallace.com/home  Staci on Social Media: http://www.instagram.com/staciwallace 

Have we in America in my short lifetime gone from the heights of a Golden Age to the brink of a Dark Age? How can we seriously consider this terrible prospect? If we are on such a suicidal course, what can we do about it?Would you like to share your thoughts with Ralph?  Please email your comments to hello@idahospeaks.com or post your comments on @IdahoSpeaks on Twitter.SponsorThis production of Keep Right was brought to you by Ed Bejarana from Zenith Exhibits.  Zenith Exhibits providing professional audio production, voice overs, and audiobook narration.  Call (208) 209-7170 or visit www.zenithexhibits.com to learn more.Do you have something so say?  Interested in learning more about publishing on the Idaho Speaks Network?  Our nation was built on ideas and your idea could be the next political advancement for Idaho.  Call Ed at (208) 209-7170 or email hello@idahospeaks.com to start the conversation.

This podcast was originally a YouTube video, you can watch that video here: ⁠⁠⁠https://youtu.be/r1LI1-K08II The Koe Letter (written version): ⁠⁠⁠https://thedankoe.com/the-path-of-the-npc-how-to-not-end-up-mediocre/ If you enjoyed this episode, consider leaving a rating. It truly helps. Thank you again for listening. 14-day cohorts: https://sprints.digitaleconomics.school Writing & Content Course: https://2hourwriter.com Digital Economics Masterclass (and free business course): https://digitaleconomics.school Business Strategy Library & Private Community (Join For $5): https://modernmastery.co/podcast 10X Your Creative Output (free): https://7daystogeniusideas.com The Power Planner (free): https://shop.thedankoe.com/planner TweetHunter (where I write content): https://thedankoe.com/get/tweethunter ShortForm + yearly discount (how I read and generate ideas): https://shortform.com/dan Get animated shorts, reels, or videos from my agency: https://keyframe.design Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedankoe Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedankoe YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DanKoeTalks LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thedankoe

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Welcome to a new episode of The Fit Vegan Podcast! Today we're going to talk about 3 variables that you need to shift in order to get lean and the common mistakes that people make. In This Episode, We Cover: [00:00-04:28] Intro - Eating Whole Food Plant-Based & Shifting Your Body Composition. [04:29-07:36] This Is What Happens When You Under Eat Or If You Go Over Your Calories. [07:37-10:28] Protein Is Essential! [10:29-15:07] Nothing Can Replace Strength Training! You Need To Take Action![15:08-19:22] People Have “Head Knowledge” But What You Need Is “Body Knowledge” - Closing Statements! Key Quotes: “You want to eat enough food to sustain your muscle mass”-Maxime“Nothing can replace strength training!” -MaximeMy name is Maxime Sigouin; I am the founder of Fit Vegan Coaching and the Fit Vegan Blueprint program's creator. Where I help vegans get lean, toned, thrive, and become their best selves on a whole foods plant-based lifestyle. If you found this content valuable, here are 4 more ways for me to help you become a Fit Vegan: 1 - Book your FREE Vegan Strategy Call with our Fit Vegan Team https://tinyurl.com/FREE-FitnessAudit 2- Get your FREE Fit Vegan Meal Plan Blueprint to help you create your own Fit Vegan meal plan: https://www.fitvegan.ca/fitvegan-meal plan-builder 3- Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maximes_official/ 4- Join our FREE Fit Vegan Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefitvegancommunity 5- Fit Vegan Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/fitvegan Leave us a 5 Star review if you enjoyed this episode so that I can bring in more influential people and add more value to the Fit Vegan Community.

This episode of the Lynckup podcast is brought to you by Moode & Co. Welcome to the Lynckup podcast, where we bring you conversations with inspiring people who are making an impact in their respective fields. On this episode, we are excited to have Krista Parks, a life coach, joining us. In this conversation, we cover a wide range of topics that are sure to pique your interest. We dive into some fascinating and thought-provoking ideas, such as the concept of not using a smartphone anymore and having sex with robots. Rahul makes excuses, and we explore why discipline is greater than motivation. We also talk about DMT and quitting alcohol, as well as psychedelics. Krista shares her experience as a life coach and talks about her men's and women's retreat. We delve into the subject of men losing and trying to regain their masculinity, and we discuss why some people live a mediocre life. We even touch on the intriguing topic of whether aliens are living amongst us, and Krista shares some of her conspiracy theories. As we move further into the conversation, we explore how Krista vets her coaching clients and discuss women's sexual energy. We also debate the pros and cons of the casual sex hookup culture that dominates today's dating scene and examine why men aren't having as much sex as they used to. Bedros Keuilian and Krista's reiki training are also discussed, along with why we take our health for granted. We asked Krista for her thoughts on what the state of men is today, and we touched on Gary Vee, Carl Sagan's pale blue dot, dating momma's boys, and weak men. Overall, this episode is a fascinating and enlightening conversation that covers many intriguing topics. If you're curious about life coaching, conspiracy theories, or the state of modern masculinity, you won't want to miss this episode of the Lynckup podcast.     https://www.instagram.com/kristaparks901/   https://twitter.com/bougiehippieKP   https://linktr.ee/moderntribe   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCedAXjNilOe2WERd0ES2Ohg       Sponsor links Moode & Co www.moodeand.co/   www.instagram.com/moodeandco    

This #MondayMorningMastery Rewind ⏮ discusses the “Broken Window Theory” and warns of #complacency pitfalls. Beware of broken windows. Guard against mediocrity and lowering your own standards. When you're at the mountaintop of your personal and professional life, you must be maniacally focused on the inevitable pull to “coast” or “take it easy.” You must be vigilant in 2023 to get where you ultimately want to go. #Leadership #BeNEXT Released on 05.01.23 To Learn More visit: www.nextleadershipacademy.org

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Vince Coglianese speaks with Corey DeAngelis, Senior Fellow at American Federation for Children, Executive Director of Educational Freedom Institute and Author of the new book “Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today's Students.” Vince and Corey discuss Randi Weingarten's recent attempt to revise history and blame everyone for the school shutdowns but herself.   For more coverage on the issues that matter to you visit www.WMAL.com, download the WMAL app or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 3-6pm.   To join the conversation, check us out on social media: @WMAL @VinceCoglianese See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the second hour of The Vince Coglianese Show, Vince speaks with Todd Bensman, Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and author of the book  “OVERRUN: How Joe Biden unleashed the greatest border crisis in US History” about the crisis at the border and how it will get worse once Title 42 is lifted. A Chinese immigrant calls and explains his concerns with the direction America is heading. Vince speaks with Corey DeAngelis, Senior Fellow at American Federation for Children, Executive Director of Educational Freedom Institute and Author of the new book “Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today's Students.” Vince and Corey discuss Randi Weingarten's recent attempt to revise history and blame everyone for the school shutdowns but herself.   For more coverage on the issues that matter to you visit www.WMAL.com, download the WMAL app or tune in live on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 3-6pm.   To join the conversation, check us out on social media: @WMAL @VinceCoglianese See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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John Mille, Principal Cloud Engineer at Sainsbury's UK joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how retail companies are using cloud services. John describes the lessons he's learned since joining the Sainsbury's UK team, including why it's important to share knowledge across your team if you don't want to be on call 24/7,  as well as why he doesn't subscribe to the idea that every developer needs access to production. Corey and John also discuss an open-source project John created called ECS Compose-X.About JohnJohn is an AWS Community Builder (devtools), Open Source enthusiast, SysAdmin born in the cloud, and has worked with AWS since his very first job. He enjoys writing code and creating projects. John likes to focus on automation & architecture that delivers business value, and has been dabbling with data & the wonderful world of Kafka for the past 3 years.Links Referenced: AWS Open-Source Roundup newsletter blog post about ECS Compose-X: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/automating-your-ecs-container-architecture-deployments-with-ecs-composex/ ECS Compose-X: https://docs.compose-x.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-mille/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnPre32286850 TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: It's easy to **BEEP** up on AWS. Especially when you're managing your cloud environment on your own!Mission Cloud un **BEEP**s your apps and servers. Whatever you need in AWS, we can do it. Head to missioncloud.com for the AWS expertise you need. Corey: Do you wish your developers had less permanent access to AWS? Has the complexity of Amazon's reference architecture for temporary elevated access caused you to sob uncontrollably? With Sym, you can protect your cloud infrastructure with customizable, just-in-time access workflows that can be setup in minutes. By automating the access request lifecycle, Sym helps you reduce the scope of default access while keeping your developers moving quickly. Say goodbye to your cloud access woes with Sym. Go to symops.com/corey to learn more. That's S-Y-M-O-P-S.com/coreyCorey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. Today my guest is a long-time listener, first-time caller. John Mille is a Principal Cloud Engineer at Sainsbury's, which is UK-speak for ‘grocery store.' John, thank you for joining me.John: Hi, Corey. Thanks for having me.Corey: So, I have to begin with, I guess, the big question that I used to run into people in San Francisco with all the time. They would work at Walmart Labs and they would mention in conversation that they work at Walmart, and people who weren't aware that there was a labs out here figured they were a greeter at the grocery store. Do you ever wind up with people making that sort of fundamental assumption around the fact, oh, you work at Sainsbury's as a checker or whatnot?John: No. But it actually is one of the—if you look at one of the job descriptions from Sainsbury's, the first thing is, why would you join a retail company to do tech? And as it turns out, tech—I mean, I think retail companies, as any other companies in the world, rely on Cloud more and more and more. And I think that one of the things that is interesting today is, if you look at the landscape of retailers, I've heard many times people saying, “We don't want to go for AWS because we're giving money to the competition.” And actually, I think AWS does a fantastic job overall giving you all the tools to actually beat them as your competition. And as it turns out, we've had really, really great success running a lot of our workloads on AWS for many, many years now.Corey: On some level, if you can't come to terms with the idea of Amazon as competition, you shouldn't be using AWS, regardless of what industry you're in, because their entire company strategy is yes. It's very hard to start to even come up with industries that they don't have some form of presence within. On some level, that's a problem. In fact a lot of levels, that's something of a problem.Everyone tends to wind up viewing the world in a bunch of different ways. I like to divide companies into two groups. More or less it's, is the AWS bill one of the top three line items at the company? And if the answer's no, on some level, you know, that usually is an indicator that there's a sustainable business there that, you know, both our grandparents and our grandchildren will be able to recognize, in the fullness of time. You absolutely have a business that winds up falling into that category, whereas, “Oh yeah, I fix the AWS bill,” yeah, my parents would have no idea what I do and my kids don't have much of a better one. It feels like it's very point-in-time type of problem. At least I hope.Technology is not the core of what grocery stores tend to do, but I also don't get the sense that what you're doing is sitting there doing the back office corporate IT style of work, either. How do you use technology in the overall context of the business?John: Well, so we use it in a very wide variety of sense. So, you obviously have everything that has to do with online shopping, orders and all of those sort of things, which obviously, especially with the drive of Covid and being everybody from home, has been a huge driver to improve our ability to deliver to customers. But certainly, I think that Sainsbury's sees AWS as a key partner to be able to go and say we want to deliver more value. And so, there's been a number of transformation over the years to—and one of the reasons I was hired is actually to be part of one of those transformation, where we're going to take existing infrastructure servers that literally—I usually say to people, “Oh, are we doing an upgrade this month? Has somebody gotten their little brush to go and brush onto the hard drives to make sure that nothing is going to die?” And actually do that transformation and move over to the cloud in order to never have to really worry about whether or not they have to manage hardware and infrastructure.Corey: It's strange in that I never got very deep into containers until I was no longer hands-on hardware, managing things. I was more or less doing advisory work and then messing around with them. And you'd think given my proclivities historically, of being very unlucky when it comes to data, you would think that this would be great because, oh yeah, you blow away an ephemeral container? Well, that's kind of the point. We'll all laugh and it'll re-instantiate itself and life goes on.But no. Making fun of them was more or less how I tended to do approach them for the longest time until I started to see them a little bit… well I guess less as a culture, less as a religion, and more as an incredibly versatile packaging format, which is probably going to annoy the people I know who are the packaging [unintelligible 00:04:58] for Linux distributions. How do you tend to view them? And how did you start using them?John: Right. So, that's a great question. So historically, I was a student at, I think the school were one of the original creators of Docker were. And one of the things that you learn when you do development at the school is that, you know, containers [unintelligible 00:05:18] new invention. Docker, I think, came on the platform as the way to, you know, give everybody a great framework, a great API, to drive the deployment of containers in the world and bundle them and ship them around the world, on your laptop and somebody else's, and help a little bit with, you know, solving the problem of it works on my laptop, but not just on the laptop properly. Maybe.It's obviously gone viral over the years and I really enjoy containers; I quite like containers. What I find interesting is what people are going to do with. And I think that over the last few years, we've seen a number of technologies such as Kubernetes and others come into the scene and say—and trying to solve people's problem, but everybody seems to be doing, sort of, things on their own way. And historically, I started off using ECS, when it was terrible and you didn't have security groups per containers and all of this. But over the years, you know, you learn, and AWS has improved the service quite significantly with more and more features.And I think we are today in the place where there's this landscape, I think, where a lot of workloads are going to be extremely ephemeral and you can go [unintelligible 00:06:28], you know, wherever you want and you have a bit—if you have a platform or workflow that you need to have working in different places, maybe Kubernetes could be an easy way to have a different sort of sets of features that allows you to move around in maybe an easier way. But that also comes with a set of drawbacks. Again, I look at using EKS, for example, and I see okay, I have to manage IAM in our back now, whereas if I used something like ECS, for the whatever the [unintelligible 00:06:56] cloud vendor of choice, I don't have to deal with any of this. So, I think it's finding the fine balance between how you do orchestration of containers now and what works for you and is any sustainable over the time, more than about are you going to use containers? Because the chances are, somebody is using containers.Corey: My experiences and workflows and constraints are radically different than that of other folks because for a lot of the things I'm building, these are accounts that are I'm the only person that has access to them. It is me. So, the idea of fine-grained permissions for users from an ARBAC perspective doesn't really factor into it. Yes, yes, in theory, I should have a lot of the systems themselves with incidents roles being managed in safe and secure ways, but in many cases, the AWS account boundary is sufficient for that, depending on what it is we're talking about. But that changes when you start having a small team of people working with you and having to collaborate on these things.And we do a little bit of that with some of our consulting stuff that isn't just the shitpost stuff I build for fun. But there's multiple levels beyond that. You are clearly in a full-blown enterprise at this point where there are a bunch of different teams working on different things, all ideally going in the same direction. And it's easy to get stuck in the weeds of having to either go through central IT for these things, which gives rise to shadow IT every time you find a corporate credit card in the wild, or it winds up being everyone can do what they want, but then there's no consensus, there's no control, there's no architectural similarity. And I'm not sure which path is worse in some respects. How do you land on it?John: Right. So, what I've seen done in companies that works very well—and again, to the credit of my current company—is one of the things they've done really well is build a hub of people who are going to manage solely everything that has to do with accounts access, right? So, the control, IAM, Security Hub, all of those sorts of things, for you. There's things that are mandatory that you can't deal without, you have permissions boundary, that's it, you have to use those things, end of story. But beyond that point, once you have access to your accounts, you've been given all of the access that is necessary for you to deliver application and deploy them all the way up to production without asking permission for anybody else apart from your delivery managers, potentially.And I think from there, because there is the room to do all of this, one of the things that we've done within my business unit is that we've put in place a framework that enables developers—and when I say that it really is a question of allowing them to do everything they have to do, focus on the code, and I know it's a little catchy [unintelligible 00:09:33] a phrase that you hear these days, but the developers really are the customers that we have. And all that we do is to try to make sure that they have a framework in place that allows them to do what they need and deploy the applications in a secure fashion. And the only way to do that for us was to build the tools for them that allows them to do all of that. And I honestly haven't checked a single service IAM policies in a very are longtime because I know that by providing the tools to developers, they don't have this [will 00:10:05] to go and mess with the permissions because their application suddenly doesn't have the permissions. They just know that with the automation we've providing them, the application gets the access it needs and no more.Corey: On some level, it feels like there's a story around graduated development approach where in a dev environment you can do basically whatever you want with a big asterisk next to it. That's the same asterisk, by the way, next to the AWS free tier. But as you start elevating things into higher environments, you start to see gating around things like who has access to what, security reviews, et cetera, et cetera, and ideally, by the time you wind up getting into production, almost no one should have access and that access that people do have winds up being heavily gated. That is, of course, the vision that folks have. In practice, reality is what happens instead of what we plan on. The idea of it works in theory, but not in production is of course, why I call my staging environment ‘theory.' Does that tend to resonate as far as what you've seen in the wild?John: Yeah. Very much so. And when I joined the company, and we put together our [standard 00:11:11] pipelines for developers to be able to do everything, the rule that I would give to my team—so I manage a small team of cloud engineers—the one rule I would say is, “We have access to prod because we need to provision resources, but when we're going to build the pipelines for the developers, you have to build everything in such a way that the developers will only have read-only access to the production environment, and that is only to go and see their logs.” And at least try to foster this notion that developers do not need access to production, as much as possible because that avoids people going and do something they shouldn't be doing in those production environments.Now, as the pipeline progresses and applications get deployed to production, there are some operational capabilities that people need to have, and so in that case, what we do is we try to fine-tune what do people need to do and grant those people access to the accounts so that they can perform the jobs and I don't have to be woken up at two in the morning. The developers are.Corey: One thing that I think is going to be a cause of some consternation for folks—because I didn't really think about this in any meaningful sense until I started acting as a consultant, which means you're getting three years of experience for every year that you're in the wild, just by virtue of the variety of environments you encounter—on some level, there's a reasonable expectation you can have when you're at a small, scrappy startup, that everyone involved knows where all the moving parts live. That tends to break down with scale. So, the idea of a Cloud Center of Excellence has been bandied around a lot. And personally, I hate the term because it implies the ‘Data Center of Mediocrity,' which is a little on the nose for some people at times. So, the idea of having a sort of as a centralized tiger team that has the expertise and has the ability to go on deep dives and sort of loan themselves out to different teams seems to be a compromise between nobody knows what they're doing and, every person involved should have an in-depth knowledge of the following list of disciplines.For example, most folks do not need an in-depth primer on AWS billing constructs. They need about as much information fits on an index card. Do you find that having the centralized concentration of cloud knowledge on a particular team works out or do you find that effectively doing a rotating embedding story is the better answer?John: It varies a lot, I think, because it depends on the level of curiosity of the developers quite a lot. So, I have a huge developer background. People in my team are probably more coming from ex-IT environments or this sort of operation and then it just naturally went into the cloud. And in my opinion, is fairly rare to find somebody that is actually good at doing both AWS and coding. I am by no means really, really great at coding. I code pretty much every day but I wouldn't call myself a professional developer.However, it does bring to my knowledge the fact that there are some good patterns and good practices that you can bring into building your applications in the cloud and some really bad ones. However, I think it's really down to making sure that the knowledge is here within the team. If there's a specialized team, those really need to be specialists. And I think the important thing then is to make sure that the developers and the people around you that are curious and want to ask questions know that you're available to them to share that knowledge. Because at the end of the day, if I'm the only one with the knowledge, I'm going to be the one who is always going to be on call for this or doing that and this is no responsibility that I want. I am happy with a number of responsibilities, but not to be the only person to ever do this. I want to go on holidays from time to time.So, at the end of the day, I suppose it really is up to what people want or expect out of their careers. I do a job that it was a passion for me since I was about 14 years old. And I've always been extremely curious to understand how things work, but I do draw the line that I don't write anything else than Python these days. And if you ask me to write Java, I'll probably change job in the flip of a second. But that's the end of it. But I enjoy understanding how Java things work so that I can help my developers make better choices with what services in AWS to use.Corey: On some level, it feels like there's a, I guess, lack of the same kind of socialization that startups have sort of been somewhat guided by as far as core ethos goes, where, oh whatever I'm working on, I want to reach out to other people, and, “Hey, I'm trying to solve this problem. What is it that you have been working on that's germane to this and how can we collaborate together?” It has nothing to do, incidentally, with the idea that, oh, big company people aren't friendly or are dedicated or aren't good or aren't well-connected; none of that. But there are so many people internally that you're spending your time focusing on and there's so much more internal context that doesn't necessarily map to anything outside of the company that the idea of someone off the street who just solved a particular problem in a weird way could apply to what a larger company with, you know, regulatory burdens, starts to have in mind, it becomes a little bit further afield. Do you think that that's accurate? Do you think that there's still a strong sense of enterprise community that I'm just potentially not seeing in various ways because I don't work at big companies?John: It's a very fine line to walk. So, when I joined the company, I was made aware that there's a lot of Terraform and Kubernetes, which I went [unintelligible 00:16:28] all the way with CloudFormation is yes. So, that was one of the changes I knew I would have. But I can move an open mind and when I looked around at, okay, what are the Terraform modules—because I used Terraform with anger for an entire year of suffering—and I thought, “Okay, well, maybe people have actually got to a point where they've built great modules that I can just pick up off the shelf and reuse or customize only a tiny little bit, add maybe a couple of features and that's, it move on; it's good enough for me.” But as it turns out, there is I think, a lot of the time a case where the need for standardization goes against the need for business to move on.So, I think this is where you start to see silos start to being built within the company and people do their own thing and the other ones do their own. And I think it's always a really big challenge for a large company with extremely opinionated individuals to say, “All right, we're going to standardize on this way.” And it definitely was one of the biggest challenge that I had when I joined the company because again, big communities and Terraform place, we're going to need to do something else. So, then it was the case of saying, “Hey, I don't think we need Kubernetes and I definitely don't think we need Terraform for any the things—for any of those reasons, so how about we do something a little different?”Corey: Speaking of doing things a little bit different, you were recently featured in an AWS Open-Source Roundup newsletter that was just where you, I think, came across my desk one of the first times, has specifically around an open-source project that you built: ECS Compose-X.So, I assume it's like, oh, it's like Docker Compose for ECS and also the ‘X' implies that it is extreme, just, like, you know, snack foods at the convenience store. What does it do and where'd it come from?John: Right. So, you said most of it, right? It literally is a question where you take a Docker Compose file and you want to deploy your services that you worked on and all of that together, and you want to deploy it to AWS. So, ECS Compose-X is a CLI tool very much like the Copilot. I think it was released about four months just before Copilots came out—so, sorry, I beat you to the ball there—but with the Docker Compose specification supported.And again, it was really out of I needed to find a neat way to take my services and deploy them in AWS. So, Compose-X is just a CLI tool that is going to parse your Docker Compose file and create CloudFormation templates out of it. Now, the X is not very extreme or anything like that, but it's actually coming from the [finite 00:18:59] extension fields, which is something supported in Docker Compose. And so, you can do things like x-RDS, or x-DynamoDB, which Docker Compose on your laptop will totally ignore, but ECS Compose-X however will take that into account.And what it will do is if you need a database or a DynamoDB table, for example, in your Docker Compose file, you do [x-RDS, my database, some properties, 00:19:22]—exactly the same properties as CloudFormation, actually—and then you say, “I want this service to have access to it in read-only fashion.” And what ECS Compose-X is going to do is just understand what it has to do when—meaning creating IAM policies, opening security groups, all of that stuff, and make all of that available to the containers in one way or another.Corey: It feels like it's a bit of a miss for Copilot not to do this. It feels like they wanted to go off in their own direction with the way that they viewed the world—which I get; I'm not saying there's anything inherently wrong with that. There's a reason that I point kubernetestheeasyway.com to the ECS marketing site—but there's so much stuff out there that is shipped or made available in other ways with a Docker Compose file, and the question of okay, how do I take this and run it in Fargate or something because I don't want to run it locally for whatever reason, and the answer is, “That's the neat part. You don't.”And it just becomes such a clear miss. There have been questions about this Since Copilot launched. There's a GitHub issue tracking getting support for this that was last updated in September—we are currently recording this at the end of March—it just doesn't seem to be something that's a priority. I mean, I will say the couple of times that I've used Copilot myself, it was always for greenfield experiments, never for adopting something else that already existed. And that was… it just felt like a bit of a heavy lift to me of oh, you need to know from the beginning that this is the tool you're going to use for the thing. Docker Compose is what the ecosystem has settled on a long time ago and I really am disheartened by the fact that there's no direct ECS support for it today.John: Yeah, and it was definitely a motivation for me because I knew that ECS CLI version 1 was going into the sunset, and there wasn't going to be anything supporting it. And so, I just wanted to have Docker Compose because it's familiar to developers and again, if you want to have adoption and have people use your thing, it has to be easy. And when I looked at Copilot the first time around, I was extremely excited because I thought, “Yes, thank you, Amazon for making my life easy. I don't have to maintain this project anymore and I'm going to be able to just lift and shift, move over, and be happy about it.” But when the specification for Copilot was out and I could go for the documentation, I was equally disheartened because I was like, “Okay, not for me.”And something very similar happened when they announced Proton. I was extremely excited by Proton. I opened a GitHub issue on the roadmap immediately to say, “Hey, are you going to support to have some of those things together or not?” And the fact that the Proton templates—I mean, again, it was, what, two, three years ago now—and I haven't looked at Proton since, so it was a very long time now.Corey: The beta splasher was announced in 2020 and I really haven't seen much from it since.John: Well, and I haven't done anything [unintelligible 00:22:07] with it. And literally, one of the first thing did when the project came out. Because obviously, this is an open-source project that we use in Sainsbury's, right because we deploy everything in [ECS 00:22:17] so why would I reinvent the wheel the third time? It's been done, I might as well leverage it. But every time something on it came out, I was seeing it as the way out of nobody's going to need me anymore—which is great—and that doesn't create a huge potential dependency on the company for me, oh, well, we need this to, you know, keep working.Now, it's open-source, it's on the license you can fork it and do whatever you want with it, so from that point of view, nobody's going to ask me anything in the future, but from the point of view where I need to, as much as possible, use AWS native tools, or AWS-built tools, I differently wanted every time to move over to something different. But every time I tried and tiptoed with those alternative offerings, I just went back and said, “No, this [laugh] either is too new and not mature enough yet, or my tool is just better.” Right? And one of the things I've been doing for the past three years is look at the Docker ECS plugin, all of the issues, and I see all of the feature requests that people are asking for and just do that in my project. And some with Copilots. The only thing that Copilot does that I don't do is tell people how to do CI/CD pipelines.Corey: One thing you said a second ago just sort of, I guess, sent me spiraling for a second because I distinctly remember this particular painful part. You're right, there was an ECS CLI for a long time that has since been deprecated. But we had internal tooling built around that. When there was an issue with a particular task that failed, getting logs out of it was non-trivial, so great. Here's the magic incantation that does it.I still haven't found a great way to do that with the AWS v2 CLI and that feels like it's a gap where yes, I understand, old tools go away and new ones show up, but, “Hey, I [unintelligible 00:24:05] task. Can you tell me what the logs are?” “No. Well, Copilot's the new answer.” “Okay. Can I use this to get logs from something that isn't Copilot?” “Oh, absolutely not.” And the future is inherently terrible as a direct result.John: Yeah. Well, I mean, again, the [unintelligible 00:24:20]—the only thing that ECS Compose-X does is create all the templates for you so you can, you know, then just query it and know where everything has been created. And one of the things it definitely does create is all of the log groups. Because again, least-privileged permissions being something that is very dear to me, I create the log groups and just allow the services to only write in those log groups and that's it.Now, typically this is not a thing that I've thought Compose-X was going to do because that's not its purpose. It's not going to be an operational tool to troubleshoot all the things and this is where I think that other projects are much better suited and I would rather use them as an extension or library of the project as opposed to reinvent them. So, if you're trying to find a tool for yourself to look at logs, I highly recommend something called ‘AWS logs,' which is fantastic. You just say, “Hey, can you list the groups?” “Okay.” “Can you get me the groups and can I tell them on a terminal?”And that's it. Job done. So, as much as I enjoy building new features into the project, for example, I think that there's a clear definition between what the project is for and what it's not. And what it's for is giving people CloudFormation templates they can reuse in any region and deploy their services and not necessarily deal with their operations; that's up to them. At the end of the day, it's really up to the user to know what they want to do with it. I'm not trying to force anybody into doing something specific.Corey: I would agree. I think that there's value to there's more than one way to do it. The problem is, at some point, there's a tipping point where you have this proliferation of different options to the point where you end up in this analysis paralysis model where you're too busy trying to figure out what is the next clear step. And yes, that flexibility is incredibly valuable, especially when you get into, you know, large, sophisticated enterprises—ahem, ahem—but when you're just trying to kick the tires on something new, I feel like there's a certain lack of golden path where in the event of not having an opinion on any of these things, this is what you should do just to keep things moving forward, as opposed to here are two equal options that you can check with radio boxes and it's not at all clear what you which does what or what the longer-term implications are. We've all gotten caught with the one-way doors we didn't realize we were passing through at the time and then had to do significant technical debt repayment efforts to wind up making it right again.I just wish that those questions would be called out, but everything else just, it doesn't matter. If you don't like the name of the service that you're creating, you can change it later. Or if you can't, maybe you should know now, so you don't have—in my case—a DynamoDB table that is named ‘test' running in production forever.John: Yeah. You're absolutely right. And again, I think it goes back to one of the biggest challenges that I had when I joined the company, which was when I said, “I think we should be using CloudFormation, I think we should be using ECS and Terraforming Kubernetes for those reasons.” And one of the reasons was, the people. Meaning we were a very small team, only five cloud engineers at the time.And as I joined the company, they were already was three different teams using four different CI/CD tools. And they all wanted to use Kubernetes, for example, and they were all using different CI/CD—like I said, just now—different CI/CD tools. And so, the real big challenge for me was how do I pitch that simplicity is what's going to allow us to deliver value for the business? Because at the end of the day, like you said many, many times before, the AWS bill is a question of architecture, right? And there's a link and intricacy between the two things.So, the only thing that really mattered for me and the team was to find a way, find the service that was going to allow to do a number of things, A, delivering value quickly, being supported over time. Because one of the things that I think people forget these days—well, one of the things I'm allergic to and one of the things that makes me spiral is what I call CV-driven tech choices where people say, “Hey, I love this great thing I read about and I think that we should use that in production. How great idea.” But really, I don't know anything about it and is then up to somebody else to maintain it long-term.And that goes to the other point, which is, turnover-proof is what I call it. So, making tech choices that are going to be something that people will be able to use for many, many years, there is going to be a company behind the scenes that he's going to be able to support you as well as you go and use the service for the many, many years to go.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you?John: So, people can find me on LinkedIn. I'm also around on Twitter these days, although I probably about have nine followers. Well, probably shouldn't say that [laugh] and that doesn't matter.Corey: It's fine. We'll put a link into it—we'll put a link to that in the [show notes 00:29:02] and maybe we'll come up with number ten. You never know. Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate it.John: Thanks so much, Corey, for having me.Corey: John Mille, Principal Cloud Engineer at Sainsbury's. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry comment that you go to great pains to type out but then fails to post because the version of the tool you use to submit it has been deprecated without a viable replacement.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

Why do we place so much emphasis on compromise? And why do we so often settle for a mediocre outcome when our potential is so much greater? From the moment we're able to comprehend human language, our parents and educators have been teaching us the importance of compromise. We've been taught to think that compromise is essential for successful relationships, careers, and even in our businesses. But, what if we've been misled all along? What if the secret to a fulfilled life is actually placing greater emphasis on NOT compromising? What if it were possible to achieve success without sacrifice? I believe it is possible - and in this first episode of the Uncompromised Podcast I'm going to introduce you to exactly how we'll journey through that together.

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"I just want to feel better." Sound familiar? Then you're a lot like my clients who struggle to dream big and go after their fullest potential.In this week's episode, I talk about the benefits of setting big goals, aiming high, and deciding to transform your life completely rather than just tweaking what you've already got.That growth experience and the process of becoming you 2.0 is too good to miss out on just because your brain is a little worried about the effort required. Let's go.Work with me:https://katrinberndt.com/program

This is not a pitch. It is thought-provoking training for career-minded network marketing leaders. This training is not for newbies, or those looking to earn a few hundred extra dollars a month. This is for those that have the MLM Millionaire Dream still flickering. In the mid-nineties, the Network Marketing Business model was creating millionaires at record speed. What Happened? There is no question that traditional consumable product MLM opportunities are dead, done and over in Mr. Calvert's words. THE BUSINESS MODEL HAS NOT CHANGED! What has changed? You will discover in this training how Mr. Calvert believes Network Marketing Leaders are at a crossroads, and don't really understand why. He will share with you why the potential to develop more millionaires over the next 10 years than at any other time exists, in what he is calling the New Era of Team Building. Please feel free to leave your comments, questions, and feedback below, Mr. Calvert will respond. Websites referenced in this Training Session    Websites referenced in this Training Session:  THE 4 STAGES OF A MOVEMENT http://www.mlmhelp.com/critical 0 to a Million Dollars in 40 Days https://youtu.be/EbbdYQ9QfOE    The 7 Lies of Attraction Marketing at Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-7-lies-of-attraction-marketing-dale-calvert/1115446215    THERE ARE OVER 42,000 SELF PROCLAIMED NETWORK MARKETING “GURUS,” “NINJAS,” “MASTERS”, “ROCK STARS” “CONSULTANTS” AND “TRAINERS” ON YOUTUBE https://mlmhelp.com/rockstar    Network Marketing Leaders, Inspire Greatness or Cator to Mediocrity https://mlmhelp.com/inspire    The Land of 10,000 Unrecruited Heavy Hitters https://mlmhelp.com/land    Why the Masses Don't Have a Clue https://tinyurl.com/DCMasses    Rich Dad Poor Dad https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dad-Poor-Teach-Middle/dp/1612681131/ref=sr_1_1? crid=12Y9Z3RPMLTI&keywords=Rich+Dad+Poor+Dad&qid=1681796721&sprefix=rich+dad+poor+dad%2Caps%2C129&sr=8-1    “Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts.” https://mlmsuccess.com/flexible-mlm-belief    How to Get Rich without a College Education https://tinyurl.com/nocollegeneeded    The Success Principle the Internet Has Stolen https://tinyurl.com/StolenSuccess

On this special episode of Anchored, we are joined by Joshua Gibbs, who reads a version of his pamphlet “A Short Introduction to Classical Christian Education.” Joshua Gibbs is a teacher, lecturer, expert on pedagogy, and author of several books including the upcoming Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity. He is also an Alcuin Fellow and member of the Templeton Honors College advisory board, as well a frequent speaker for the Circe Institute and the Society for Classical Learning. He also teaches online courses for ClassicalU and on his website GibbsClassical.com.

Do you ever feel like your life isn't living up to the lives you see on social media? Or that life hasn't lived up to the grand plans you made for yourself as a teenager? For me and my guest today, the answer is yes. I thought I'd be a CEO and married to Leonardo Dicaprio by now. Unfortunately, I'm turning 35 this year, so I am well past Leo's strict 'under-25' girlfriend policy. For many of us, life is more mediocre than what we are presented with online. We aren't winning awards for our work, or turning our side hustles into million-dollar businesses, or working 4 hours a week due to our 'multiple income streams'.So today my sister is joining me to discuss how she found magic in the mediocrity of life. She ditched her social media, went freelance, started investing in her health and became comfortable (dare I say, happy) in being average. Thanks to this week's sponsor Viviology - confusion-free cosmeceuticals by James Vivian at Adore Beauty. Singled Minded listeners can receive a Viviology Vitamin C Serum Deluxe Mini 10ml with every Viviology purchase. Use code SINGLEMINDED. Valid until 4 May 2023. T&Cs apply. https://www.adorebeauty.com.au/viviology.html

I am thrilled to have a very special guest on my show today, my dear friend Ryan Stewman. Ryan's story of perseverance and unwavering dedication is truly inspiring, and his remarkable success in the business world is only a small part of what makes him such an exceptional individual. What sets Ryan apart is his unique perspective on self-development, which challenges conventional wisdom and encourages us to see things in a whole new light. His events are truly transformative, and his infectious energy and unwavering optimism leave you feeling empowered and capable of achieving anything you set your mind to. As Ryan himself puts it, "If it's meant to be, it's up to me." So let's dive into our conversation and learn from this incredible individual. Ryan Stewman is the CEO of Hardcore Closer, a bestselling author, an entrepreneur, a podcaster, and a hugely successful salesman. He contributes to  Forbes,  Entrepreneur,  Addicted2Success,  Good Men Project,  Lighter Side of Real Estate and Huffington Post. He's got more Salesman of The Month plaques than he can count. Hardcore Closer is an online learning resource for salespeople. They sell e-learning products in the advertising, marketing, funnel, sales and social media arenas, as well as do personal coaching and live events. His Break Free Academy program is his flagship program. It has everything you need in order to start marketing your business online and crushing your competitors. In this episode, Ryan shares the unfiltered stories of how he has gotten to where he is, his best tips for hosting incredible events, how to think of work life balance in a new way, and why grit and grace will get you further than talent or skill. Here's what you will learn: How to manage the stress of every day entrepreneurial life (11:29) Mastering your money and strategies for effective financial management  (20:33) How to boost your confidence and go after your biggest dreams (29:13) Nurturing future leaders and expert tips for raising well-behaved and responsible children (38:57) The power of gratitude and unleashing the gifts of thankfulness in your life (43:15) Tune in to this episode and learn something new! Share it on Instagram and tag me at @amberlylagomotivation and @hardcorecloser then share it with a friend! Follow Ryan: Instagram Twitter Website Links mentioned in this episode: The 2023 Million Dollar Mastermind   If you are ready to leave your mark by discovering your message and sharing it with the world, you've come to the right place!! Let's work together to build your influence, your impact, and your income! Join the tribe you have been waiting for to activate your highest potential and live the life you deserve! Join the "Unstoppable Life Mastermind!" and let us know you are ready for greatness! Read the "True Grit and Grace" book here and learn how you can turn tragedy into triumph!  Thank you for joining us on the True, Grit, & Grace Podcast! If you find value in today's episode, don't forget to share the show with your friends and tap that subscribe button so you don't miss an episode! You can also head over to amberlylago.com to join my newsletter and access free downloadable resources that can help you elevate your life, business, and relationships! Want to see the behind-the-scenes and keep the conversation going?  Head over to Instagram @amberlylagomotivation! Audible @True-Grit-and-Grace-Audiobook  Website @amberlylago.com Instagram @amberlylagomotivation Facebook @AmberlyLagoSpeaker

On this episode of DGTL Voices, Ed sits down Jeff Gaura, certified Triathlon and Endurance Racing Coach and Team USA teammate to chat leadership & coaching. Guara is the CEO of Threshold Academy where he trains athletes on all aspects of swim, bike, run and ultra-running.  Check out Jeff's podcast, Threshold Stories - Here. 

Send us an email and let us know your industry and how long you have been in that industry. What actions do you take to break out of mediocrity  - Mike@TheSellingPodcast.com or Scott@TheSellingPodcast.comToday we discuss what mediocrity looks like and how to not be a mediocre sales rep. What are you doing to stand out above the crowd and ahead of other people. Here are some things that you can do to be an all-star:Strive for excellence - don't be comfortable being mediocre.Don't wait for the deadlines but be proactive.Excellence vs mediocrity might only come down to a couple calls.Create a singularity of focus for what you want to achieve.Critical Moment: You must get out of the comfort zone to make a move. Choose to do something different, start something new or end something wasteful. Join in the conversation:Mike@TheSellingPodcast.comScott@TheSellingPodcast.com

Alpha Gal extraordinaire, Hunter Muse, returned to the podcast to pick up our ongoing conversation about sex, love, intimacy, womaning, et al. Find part 2:danikatz.locals.comwww.patreon.com/danikatz Sign up for my newsletter:www.danikatz.com Work with me:www.quantumlanguaging.com Find Hunter: www.themeltpodcast.nethunter-muse@protonmail.com Show notes:The erosion of intimacy: how porn is shaping human sexuality Is Japan a model for the future?~ what sex dolls represent for men in history and modern societyObjectification vs Empowerment: are women who over-sexualize helping or harming women?The under-current of misogyny as the root of victimhoodDressing in the 21st Century~ from zero effort to zero modestyThe man who married an avatar: suppression of emotions & loss of connectionThe gender delusion: a denial of biology and the nature of Reality Subliminal societal programming of the SexesTaking responsibility & facing consequences for/of our own expressionDon't put all your eggs in one partner~ community nourishes your partnershipWe are all flawed~ embracing our biological differences through learning & vulnerabilityUnconscious sexual currencies vs owning our “imperfect” beauty & authenticity Hope exists as integrity and the heartfelt NowEn masse fear of death created a culture of shallow livingSitting in silence allows trauma to surface and heal Exemplifyng the Divine Feminine through embodiment of the Alpha FemaleThe complex dynamics of sex clubs& stripper polesDenigration of exes mirrors the presence of low self-esteem and lack of ownershipThe culture of Hollywood: Harvey Weinstein and the woman who used himThe Louis CK Incident: does not saying “no” make one a complicit victim or opportunistic?Mediocrity vs meritocracy: welcome to communismThe false hope of elections vs the power of controlling your own reality

Social media strategies often leave you feeling like you're working for the social media platforms. Our guest and his team built an AI solution that helps make social media actually work for you and your business.Rhys Ryan, is the Co-Founder, CEO and Chief Engineer of Ekkobar, an AI solution giving you control over social media and the narrative you want to tell.Ekkobar uses social listening to keep an eye on the conversation and lets you know if anything needs immediate attention. There's also a web-based assessment platform letting you dig deep into the conversation to understand what is being said and how best to respond. Rhys began his career working for Fortune 500 tech companies such as Microsoft, HP, and Tandem. At these companies, he was able to utilize his degrees in computer science and math to create new computing techniques for cryptography, security, and early-day data science. Over his career Rhys has created award-winning patented technology that brought audio, video, telephony, natural language processing, and data science into the entertainment world. Tap the link to RSVP and join me for a delicious conversation with Rhys. You'll learn how his startup is helping brands control their narrative on social media while refining their ability to engage with customers.Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your startup will do better - cheers from Boston!Ande ♥https://andelyons.com#brandreputation #controlthenarrative #socialmedia #activeintelligenceWHAT WE LEARNED ON THIS EPISODE:00:00 Meet Rhys Ryan09:00 - Mediocrity in large corporate environments led Rhys to launch his own business12:00 - an extraordinary lived experience in tech from the 70s, 80, 90s and 00s14:00 - I solve problems - this is the common thread of every founder18:30 - Why True Blood should have used Rhys' algorithm!24:00 - We spent five years to build ekkobar - here's what we learned28:00 - How ekkobar could have help Bud Light30:00 - The For and Against AI model38:00 - Best advice for neurodiverse founders on how to negotiate the startup landscape with an Asperger's brainJOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVEWBENC APPLICATION SUPPORTLearn more here: https://bit.ly/GetWBENCSend me an email: ande@andelyons.comCONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://twitter.com/AndeLyonshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/ TikTok: @andelyonsANDELICIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTSJoin Innovation Women here: https://bit.ly/AndeInnoWomenArlan's Academy: https://arlansacademy.com/Scroobious - use Ande15 discount code: https://www.scroobious.com/How to Raise a Seed Round: https://bit.ly/AAElizabethYinTune in to Mia Voss' Shit We Don't Talk About podcast here: https://shitwedonttalkaboutpodcast.com/SPONSORSHIPIf you resonate with the show's mission of amplifying diverse founder voices while serving first-time founders around the world, please reach out to me to learn more about making an impact through sponsoring the Startup Life LIVE Show! ande@andelyons.com.

From 'Organizations Win Championships' (subscribe here), Dan and Jason Bernstein discussed the frustrating words from the Arturas Karnisovas press conference and the actions this season that proved the words are wrong about not accepting mediocrity. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are You The Monkey in The Middle? Have you ever found yourself stuck in the middle? I was speaking with a client trying to be everything to everybody. His business was not growing. His life was not happy. He couldn't seem to find a way to make progress.   That's when I said… “My friend, you are stuck in the middle. Nothing good happens when you are in the middle.” In business and life, having low expectations and being surrounded by like-minded folks is okay.  It's also okay to reach for your dreams, has high expectations, and expect that of others. What happens if you're in the middle? When low and high expectations combine, confusion is the result. Mediocrity overtakes quality. Frustration will be your daily friend. The choice is yours. If I were you, I would make the decision never to get stuck in the middle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You will not detect the patterns of mediocrity until it's too late.  Can you tune up your senses?  Can you increase your awareness to these patterns of mediocrity that are holding you back? These patterns that will keep you bound and that will keep you away  from all that God has for you in your life.In this Episode, Justin encourages you to not fall prey to the mentality of mediocrity. You won't realize that you're living a mediocre life until you're 10 years, 15 years, 20 years down the path and realize you are so much further from the goal than you desired.Do not fall prey to the mentality of mediocrity because it is subtle and it will creep up on you and it will tiptoe its way into your life. What You'll Learn In This Episode:How to live a life away from mediocrityThings you can do to go after the life God has planned for you

It is often a common human condition to sell ourselves short. We think we are not capable enough to achieve the things we want in our lives. That is why when the going gets tough, we retreat into a victim mentality. It is time to acknowledge that we are way more capable than we think we are. In this episode, Patrick Veroneau sits down with a guest who brings inspiration to all of us with the book, Thriving in the Storm: Nine Principles to Help You Overcome Any Adversity. Its author, Bill Murphy, talks about the struggles and challenges he faced growing up, reflecting on how they shaped him into the person he is today. He lends wisdom on making peace with your past, finding your purpose, building stress muscles, and implementing a morning routine. All of these things are geared to help you overcome the adversities in life. Find out more about what it takes to thrive in the storm as Bill helps you build a fortress where you make things happen. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://www.emeryleadershipgroup.com

This week on The Underdog NFL Show, Chris Horwedel and Mario Hines return to their mics and take a look back at all things NFL offseason as they go team-by-team discussing their respective roster moves including trades, free agents lost, free agents signed, and more.

In hour one, Hoch shares how our friend Dr. Chuck got caught in the terrible Fort Lauderdale storms yesterday but was the opposite of helpful. Hyped up for the Panthers final regular season game tonight. Then, we preview tomorrow's Heat vs Bulls game with Marc Silverman of ESPN 1000 in Chicago. 

In this episode, prolific Libertarian difference-maker Connor Boyack returns to the show to talk about his new book, "Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today's Students." Tune in to hear the Libertarian vision for education in America.

In this MacVoices Briefing, Chuck provides information on several podcast episodes from other shows that will inform your thinking about generative AI tools. Where we are, where we are going, and the ways you should be thinking about them are informed by three very different podcasts and from very different perspectives.  Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today at Kolide.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Lex Friedman's podcast:Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 (Video)Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 (Audio) Photocombobulate Episode 29 - AI with Mark Heaps Seth Godin's Akimbo Podcast: The dance with AI, reality and identity The End of Mediocrity (part 2) Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:      Web:     http://macvoices.com      Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices      Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner      Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner      MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/      MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice      LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/      Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:      Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes      Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:      Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss      Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

Is there anything really excellent going on in our lives today? Join us as Jordan and Bobby continue to discuss the implications of social media, AI and other forms of modern copycat-ism and how it shapes our cultural identity.

In this MacVoices Briefing, Chuck provides information on several podcast episodes from other shows that will inform your thinking about generative AI tools. Where we are, where we are going, and the ways you should be thinking about them are informed by three very different podcasts and from very different perspectives. Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It's Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today at Kolide.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Links: Lex Friedman's podcast:Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 (Video)Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367 (Audio) Photocombobulate Episode 29 - AI with Mark Heaps Seth Godin's Akimbo Podcast: The dance with AI, reality and identity The End of Mediocrity (part 2) Support:     Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices     Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect:     Web:     http://macvoices.com     Twitter:     http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner     http://www.twitter.com/macvoices     Mastodon:     https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner     Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner     MacVoices Page on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/     MacVoices Group on Facebook:     http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice     LinkedIn:     https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/     Instagram:     https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe:     Audio in iTunes     Video in iTunes     Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher:     Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss     Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss

We learn from living. We evolve from our experiences. We weren't designed to be perfect and to get everything right 100% of the time. What does mediocrity is the human condition mean to you? Let's talk about.

1:15 - Dustin has seen several new films, and everything is meh. 3:26 - “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” 16:39 - “Knock at the Cabin” 23:11 - Why is it so hard to care about any given movie or TV show now? ----- Thanks for joining us! If you enjoy our show, PLEASE please tell your friends. Recommend us. That is how we grow. ----- Executive Producers: Conner Dempsey • Dustin Weldon Theme Music by Dustin Weldon Produced & Engineered by Conner Dempsey Powered by Zoom, Skype, QuickTime, Adobe Audition, & Adobe Premiere Pro Special Thanks to Anchor FM FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY. This is critique, protected under Fair Use. I DO NOT OWN THIS CONTENT. CONTENT IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.  Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.

Strive for mediocrity… is not the advice you'd expect from a Stanford professor, but it's great advice. Alexa and Tyson tackle anxiety in communications, spontaneous speaking, channeling your message, and how reduce the pressure of public speaking or speaking up with Matt Abrahams - professor of Effective Virtual Communication and Essentials of Strategic Communication at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Turns out, if you strive for mediocrity, you can achieve greatness. Listen up to learn more!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Everything you can do just right, a computer can do for free.Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 20 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the podcast at akimbo.link.To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Jeff speaks with Eric Rogers, the founder of The Immortal Man, a tactical and disruptive leadership program designed to empower men to break free from mediocrity and live with purpose, integrity, and faith. Eric has gone through an incredible transformation, from a life of homelessness, addiction, and trauma to becoming a leader and influencer, empowering others to take extreme ownership of their lives and build a legacy.At 27, Eric founded his first successful business, Rogers Fitness Academy, but it was his journey to rebuild his life that led him to launch The Immortal Man. With a focus on personal branding and leadership development, Eric has transformed over 350 entrepreneurs and leaders and has been featured on over 20 of the world's biggest podcasts.Through his program, Eric equips his clients with fundamental principles and tools to build influence and leave an honorable legacy. His mission is to empower men to step into relentless leadership and live The Immortal Man Lifestyle, a lifestyle he lives daily.Listen in for an inspiring conversation with Eric Rogers on how he overcame adversity and built a life of purpose, and how you too can become an immortal man.

In this special edition episode, I'll be sharing with you details regarding the first-ever Not Most People Summit. This is one episode that you won't want to miss if you're looking create an uncommon life and kick mediocrity to the curb.For all of the information regarding the summit, visit nmpsummit.com.Click here to get to know the speakersTune in to learnWhy you should (or might not) want to attendHow The Summit came to beWhen and where it isThe overall structureUnique factors you won't find at other eventsThe world-class speaker lineupWhat you get for attendingAnd so much moreSupport the show

When it comes to the pursuit of excellence we need feedback. But it needs to come from the right people. Connect with David on Instagram: CLICK HEREConsider joining the Visionary Fundraising Accellerator_____________________________________________FREE CLASS! You are welcome to attend!Time: 1:30 - 2:30 Eastern Standard Time Where: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4629843869​ For Who: Fundraisers in the faith community My goal: To walk with you through history and ancient texts to challenge you to see visionary fundraising as the privilege of working with God (the Universe!) for divine purposes. I want you to see yourself as a fundraiser, doing something divine, challenging people to have actions that open the door for out-of-this-world resources; Both for you AND the folks who give! You will see that you are one of long line of visionary history makers like Jesus, Paul the Apostle, King David, Elijah and Martin Luther King. I am going to walk you through the stories of history and challenge you to see them from the vantage point of a fundraiser. Likely, this is something you have never done. Looking at these old stories in a new way will fill you with the confidence to approach your fundraising with a new zeal and joy. See you 2nd & 4th Tuesday!Sign up for my email list

On this episode of The Whole Enchilada Podcast, Marcus Green talks with Former Navy Seal Brad McLeod as he shares his stories of motivation and how he overcame obstacles in reaching the goals he wanted to achieve for his family. Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 01:41 Brad walks us through his BUD/S Experience 04:30 Find your “Won't […]

It's the grand finale of March Mediocrity 2023!This episode features the heaviest-hitting matchups yet between characters that let you eat popcorn out of various orifices, as well as the "It's Fine Four", pitting the best of the best of our receptacles against each other. Listen in for:FIGMENT VS. THE MILLENNIUM FALCONMR. TOAD VS. SIMBADon't forget to rate, review, subscribe, and beat the kernel run in under 12 popsecs.RESOURCES TO COMBAT ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATION:https://cfgalla.org/community-resources/https://linktr.ee/acluflhttps://www.thetrevorproject.org/https://www.transtexas.org/MERCH AVAILABLE NOW!https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-c-ticket-podcastFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@cticketpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/cticketpod/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/CTicketPodEMAIL US:cticketpod@gmail.comMusic:Delightful D Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

What do y'all think?As the title implies, this week we talk about Black "Excellence" vs "Mediocrity" and find our selves on opposite sides of the spectrum. So give us a listen, hit us up on social media, and join the  conversation!Business Email: itsamesssis@gmail.com Comments/share Mess: whatsthemesssis@gmail.com Instagram: @itsamesssispodcast Facebook: itsamesssispodcast Twitter: @itsamesssis YouTube: It's a Mess, Sis! (search for us!)

Scoot talks to WWL listeners about the latest developments in NOLaToya campaign recall collapse. What happened to all those signatures?

Have you ever felt you were meant for something more but didn't know what that was? Maybe you're good at what you do, but it doesn't quite fulfill you. Or perhaps you're constantly searching for something that will bring you true happiness and success. If this sounds like you, it's time to explore your zone of genius. Many often ask me, "What exactly is a zone of genius?" I feel like I haven't adequately addressed that in the past, so today, I will answer that question. The zone of genius is all about finding that sweet spot where your natural talents, passions, and skills converge, allowing you to experience effortless flow and deep fulfillment.  By understanding the difference between your zone of excellence and your zone of genius, you can unlock your full potential and start living a life of purpose and passion. It's time to stop settling for mediocrity and pursue what truly lights you up. So, be ready to be productive and start living your best life!

The mediocrity rolls on as the last of the sippers enter the fray!In this round of matchups, we have:JACK SKELLINGTON VS. DONALD DUCKSNOWGLOBE VS. DISNEY100 MICKEYDon't forget to rate, review, subscribe, and drink the contents of a snowglobe.RESOURCES TO COMBAT ANTI-LGBTQ+ LEGISLATION:https://cfgalla.org/community-resources/https://linktr.ee/acluflhttps://www.thetrevorproject.org/https://www.transtexas.org/MERCH AVAILABLE NOW!https://www.teepublic.com/user/the-c-ticket-podcastFOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@cticketpodINSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/cticketpod/TWITTER: https://twitter.com/CTicketPodEMAIL US:cticketpod@gmail.comMusic:Delightful D Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Meet Kevin, a world-champion extreme unicyclist and host of the popular podcast, "The Fight Against Mediocrity." In addition to his impressive athletic accomplishments, Kevin is also a successful business professional, having served as the Director of Sales for companies with over $100 million in revenue. He holds a Master's degree in Real Estate Development from the University of Utah and is the Founder of The Fight Against Mediocrity Program, which has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs achieve their goals and increase their incomes. Kevin is also the author of “Talk Is Cheap - The Fight Against Mediocrity" and a host of the annual Create Your Own Economy Conference. Through his own personal journey, Kevin has learned the importance of ambition and overcoming mediocrity, and he now helps others do the same through his book, program, and conference. Kevin is a devoted Christian and loves his wife Lauren and their son Stanford, who they adopted. Guest Links Website: https://go.thefightagainstmediocrity.com/ Instagram: @kevinkartchner Youtube: @TheFightAgainstMediocrity SJS Website: https://thesuccessjourneyshow.com Facebook: @successjourneyshow Instagram: @successjourneyshow Twitter: @success_show TikTok: @thesuccessjourneyshow Hit Doctor MD Website: https://hitdoctormd.com/ Instagram: @hitdoctormd

Is your Dynasty roster a pretender or a contender? Is it possible to win a fantasy football championship in your first-ever season? Shawn Siegele and Colm Kelly answer some listener-submitted questions regarding a number of Dynasty rosters. Players discussed include Kenneth Walker III, Jalen Hurts, and more. RotoViz Rookie Guide! Subscribe to the RotoViz YouTube Channel here! HOSTS RotoViz Radio Executive Producer Colm Kelly (@OvertimeIreland) RotoViz co-owner Shawn Siegele (@FF_Contrarian) SPONSORS Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2023" at the time of purchase. Underdog Fantasy - Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for RotoViz Overtime. Email: RotoVizRadio@gmail.com @RotoVizOvertime on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices