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 Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, Web Bixby, and Brian Flanigan-Arthurs take on a range of topics, from AirTag's successful tool recovery to Google's privacy issues and Microsoft's AI integration. We explore the pros and cons of AI advancements, while considering privacy, job security, and the broader impact of AI in daily life. We look at the automation trend in industries like fast-food chains and supermarkets and the importance of striking a balance between AI utilization for productivity gains and preserving human judgment and values in decision-making processes.    MacVoices is supported by the new MacVoices Discord, our latest benefit for MacVoices Patrons. Sign up, get access, and jin the conversations at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to MacVoices03:16 Marty's new 8K camera adventures07:27 Discussion on privacy concerns with AirTags11:35 Google privacy issues and concerns15:12 Upcoming interview with Joe Kissel on online privacy15:49 EU requiring Apple to allow Wallet alternatives19:12 Exploring the implications of AI technology22:45 Balancing the use of AI technology25:31 Public perception and marketing of AI features31:26 Concerns about AI replacing human judgment35:17 The value of human judgment in AI utilization36:35 Transition from human service to automated service in restaurants Links: AirTag crucial to recovery of $5 million of stolen tools in Metro DC https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/01/airtag-crucial-to-recovery-of-5-million-of-stolen-tools-in-metro-dc Google Is an Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare Than You Think https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-is-a-bigger-privacy-nightmare-than-you-think First alternative to Apple Wallet is ready to launch in EU https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/30/first-alternative-to-apple-wallet-is-ready-to-launch-in-eu Copilot in Microsoft Word for Mac Will Greet You With AI Summary When You Open a Document https://www.macobserver.com/news/copilot-in-microsoft-word-for-mac-will-greet-you-with-ai-summary-when-you-open-a-document/   Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Brian Flanigan-Arthurs is an educator with a passion for providing results-driven, innovative learning strategies for all students, but particularly those who are at-risk. He is also a tech enthusiast who has a particular affinity for Apple since he first used the Apple IIGS as a student. You can contact Brian on twitter as @brian8944. He also recently opened a Mastodon account at @brian8944@mastodon.cloud. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Dr. Marty Jencius has been an Associate Professor of Counseling at Kent State University since 2000. He has over 120 publications in books, chapters, journal articles, and others, along with 200 podcasts related to counseling, counselor education, and faculty life. His technology interest led him to develop the counseling profession ‘firsts,' including listservs, a web-based peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Technology in Counseling, teaching and conferencing in virtual worlds as the founder of Counselor Education in Second Life, and podcast founder/producer of CounselorAudioSource.net and ThePodTalk.net. Currently, he produces a podcast about counseling and life questions, the Circular Firing Squad, and digital video interviews with legacies capturing the history of the counseling field. This is also co-host of The Vision ProFiles podcast. Generally, Marty is chasing the newest tech trends, which explains his interest in A.I. for teaching, research, and productivity. Marty is an active presenter and past president of the NorthEast Ohio Apple Corp (NEOAC).   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon     http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? 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 Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Marty Jencius, Jeff Gamet, Web Bixby, and Brian Flanigan-Arthurs take on a range of topics, from AirTag's successful tool recovery to Google's privacy issues and Microsoft's AI integration. We explore the pros and cons of AI advancements, while considering privacy, job security, and the broader impact of AI in daily life. We look at the automation trend in industries like fast-food chains and supermarkets and the importance of striking a balance between AI utilization for productivity gains and preserving human judgment and values in decision-making processes.    MacVoices is supported by the new MacVoices Discord, our latest benefit for MacVoices Patrons. Sign up, get access, and jin the conversations at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to MacVoices 03:16 Marty's new 8K camera adventures 07:27 Discussion on privacy concerns with AirTags 11:35 Google privacy issues and concerns 15:12 Upcoming interview with Joe Kissel on online privacy 15:49 EU requiring Apple to allow Wallet alternatives 19:12 Exploring the implications of AI technology 22:45 Balancing the use of AI technology 25:31 Public perception and marketing of AI features 31:26 Concerns about AI replacing human judgment 35:17 The value of human judgment in AI utilization 36:35 Transition from human service to automated service in restaurants Links: AirTag crucial to recovery of $5 million of stolen tools in Metro DC https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/01/airtag-crucial-to-recovery-of-5-million-of-stolen-tools-in-metro-dc Google Is an Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare Than You Think  https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-is-a-bigger-privacy-nightmare-than-you-think First alternative to Apple Wallet is ready to launch in EU  https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/05/30/first-alternative-to-apple-wallet-is-ready-to-launch-in-eu Copilot in Microsoft Word for Mac Will Greet You With AI Summary When You Open a Document  https://www.macobserver.com/news/copilot-in-microsoft-word-for-mac-will-greet-you-with-ai-summary-when-you-open-a-document/   Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Brian Flanigan-Arthurs is an educator with a passion for providing results-driven, innovative learning strategies for all students, but particularly those who are at-risk. He is also a tech enthusiast who has a particular affinity for Apple since he first used the Apple IIGS as a student. You can contact Brian on twitter as @brian8944. He also recently opened a Mastodon account at @brian8944@mastodon.cloud. Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Dr. Marty Jencius has been an Associate Professor of Counseling at Kent State University since 2000. He has over 120 publications in books, chapters, journal articles, and others, along with 200 podcasts related to counseling, counselor education, and faculty life. His technology interest led him to develop the counseling profession ‘firsts,' including listservs, a web-based peer-reviewed journal, The Journal of Technology in Counseling, teaching and conferencing in virtual worlds as the founder of Counselor Education in Second Life, and podcast founder/producer of CounselorAudioSource.net and ThePodTalk.net. Currently, he produces a podcast about counseling and life questions, the Circular Firing Squad, and digital video interviews with legacies capturing the history of the counseling field. This is also co-host of The Vision ProFiles podcast. Generally, Marty is chasing the newest tech trends, which explains his interest in A.I. for teaching, research, and productivity. Marty is an active presenter and past president of the NorthEast Ohio Apple Corp (NEOAC).   Support:      Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon      http://patreon.com/macvoices      Enjoy this episode? 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In this special farewell episode of Beltway Broadcast, your hosts Stephanie Hubka and Christina Eanes and producer Halyna Hodges take a moment to pause, reflect, and say goodbye as we bring our three-year podcast journey to a close. Join us for a heartfelt conversation as we reminisce about the memorable moments, inspiring guests, and valuable insights we've shared together over the past three years. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by guests on this podcast are solely those of the individual speakers and do not necessarily represent or reflect the views and opinions of the Metro DC Chapter of ATD, hosts, or sponsors. For more info about the Metro DC Chapter of ATD, visit DCATD.org.  Episode Credits: Series Announcer: Julie Waters Hosts: Christina Eanes, Stephanie Hubka, and Halyna Hodges

Erica Savage is an Amazon best-selling author, Media Commentator, Celebrity Wellness Lifestyle Coach, Corporate Consultant and the founder of The Reframed Brain podcast and wellness community. Having sustained a serious traumatic brain injury in 2021 after being hit by an 18-wheel truck twice while traveling for work, Erica's professional and personal worlds transformed significantly. Her life changing injuries forced a year-long focus that included multiple therapies, adaptations, and recovery accommodations with the support of a polytrauma medical team, family, and faithful friends. Erica is a former Director of a political consulting and data management firm in Metro DC where she spearheaded the firm's partner outreach program and led its political consulting and marketing intelligence data tagging program. She also oversaw the execution of an 18-month international campaign, where she trained and managed teams responsible for reviewing and researching extensive data specific to Iraq War veterans and their impacted family members. However, Erica's crowning achievement is having served as an emissary in South Sudan in 2019 to address water access issues and being instrumental in the freeing of a political prisoner. Erica's writing and consistent media engagement, most notably and formerly as a Thursday night regular commentator on Roland Martin Unfiltered, made her a voice of political and social commentary for several years. Erica's creation of The Reframed Brain Podcast that debuted January 2022, brings her nearly two decades long political expertise, media engagement and energy into scope as she expertly centers brain health and unseen injuries. This is critically centered especially as the global pandemic gave rise to anxiety, stress, depression, suicide rates and mental health service demands. Erica's experience-driven injuries primed her to provide expertise in creating environments of healing and wellness to individuals, institutions, and corporate structures. Erica's first book, A Southern Guhl's Green Thumb, 9 Easy Care Plants to Add to Your Space, is an easy read to share the healing properties of plants and bring readers from interest to purchase. She was a featured speaker at Albany State University in September 2022 during Suicide Awareness Month and currently consults with corporate clients engaging select HBCU scholars to prioritize their mental well-being as global competitors. Erica has been effective in the coaching space having high-performing clients report significant decrease in overwhelm and increases in focus and health outcomes. Erica has been a guest on the Sirius XM's The Clay Cane Show, The Karen Hunter Show, The Happy Hour with Heather B., numerous podcasts, and is currently the co-host on SiriusXM's The Reecie Colbert Show.Connect with Erica on:Website:  www.GreatReset.todayInstagram: @1ericasavageJoin the conversation by sending comments or questions to hello@stressblueprint.com. 1. Subscribe to the Nurse Wellness Podcast2. Download your FREE resource 3 Questions to Ask When You're Stressed3. Join the Wellness Hub for Stress Solutions community4. Email Nurse Wellness Podcast at hello@stressblueprint.comIntro and outro music produced by DNMbeats

EP300 - GoodwillFinds CEO Matt Kaness In this interview, we cover the sale of ModCloth to Walmart, Matts's subsequent work at Lucky Brand and Afterpay, and his new role as CEO at Goodwillfinds. Goodwillfinds.com is an e-commerce site, which sells previously owned merchandise, which has been donated to Goodwill. We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new "CircularCommerce" space. We also get some of Matt's predictions about what's coming next in digital commerce. Episode 300 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Wednesday January 4th, 2023. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Episode 300 is an interview with Matt Kaness, CEO of Goodwillfinds.com. Matt was formerly on episode 79, when he was CEO of Modcloth, which later sold to Walmart. Transcript Jason: [0:23] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is the much-anticipated episode number 300 being recorded on Wednesday January 4th, 20:23 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scot show listeners Jason not only is this the first show of 20:23 it's a big milestone for us with episode what better way to celebrate than having one of our oldest friends for both you and I personally but also to the show back for an update Matt kaness he was last on the show back in episode 79 I think many listeners will remember that one and certainly your mom who's one of our biggest fans and back then he was CEO of ModCloth, a lot has changed since then so we're looking forward to getting an update some of the highlights Matt help sell ModCloth to Walmart he was exact chair and interim CEO at Lucky Brand he's on several boards yeah I've been advisory to several companies and since September of 2022 he has been CEO of goodwillfinds.com Matt welcome back to the show. Matt: [1:35] Great to be here guys thanks for having me. Jason: [1:38] Oh my gosh Matt we are really excited to catch up it seems like if you factor in the pandemic your last episode was about 15 years ago if I'm and so happy I'm happy to report we've added a bunch of listeners since then so before we jump into it can you kind of remind the listeners about your background and how you got in e-commerce. Matt: [2:02] Yeah have you too I like to think about my career or having two careers to date the first one was, very foundational for what I'm doing now but very quantitative, process-oriented mechanical engineering patent law Manufacturing, Ops Consulting things that had nothing to do with retail or fashion or e-commerce and then I. [2:32] Fell into the category when I was a full-time consultant at Burton Snowboards about 16 17 years ago, and fell in love with lifestyle Brands and have, try to stay in that lane for the majority of that time period since, from Burton Snowboards I went onto Urban Outfitters was there for close to eight years up sensibly and I had a growth roll my last title there was Chief strategy officer and then from there I went to ModCloth, where I was the CEO for three years and was running the company when we sold it to Walmart I will say that, I've been in hindsight found myself attracted to these amazing consumer lifestyle brands, that are experiencing inflection points either in their business or in the industry when I was at Burton snowboarding was really for the first time finding a mass audience crossing over into, the Olympics the next games and, when I was at Urban it was the rise of Web 2.0 and I got to ride that wave my entire time there and really, I'll be on the Forefront of pioneering you know what everybody know of calls omni-channel. [3:59] ModCloth the founder of their Susan Koger was one of the pioneers of inclusive fashion and so I felt personally accountable to try to scale that and I think we, if once the industry specifically plus size women's fashion and you know today you look around and it's become pretty normative, for Brands to design into extra extra small to 4X and I'm really proud of the work we did at ModCloth being on the front end of that and then. I do some Consulting work at after pay where buy now pay later was really just becoming a thing, we're younger consumers were focused more on debit versus credit products so with really fortunate to get connected with that team and enjoyed, partnering with them and being an advisor and then you know what I'm doing now at Goodwill where secondhand is really having a moment, in the culture and getting a chance to come in and lead a ground-up startup for the Goodwill Network and helping them to. It's a digitized so to speak and you bring this new Marketplace into the world, it's just for me it's like the next chapter in that really fortunate career second career that I've had. Jason: [5:23] Very cool and I know some of those roles were Bay Area based but you are a Philly guy correct. Matt: [5:29] Philly guy born and raised I'm probably on the short list of people who have moved back to Philly twice. I was in Boston the first time when my wife became. Preggers with our oldest and we wanted to be closer to family and then the second time was when we were in the Bay Area after I left Walmart, we had a break in the action and our oldest was about to start high school and we decide we want to be back here. For the high school years but we've lived all around and I'd obviously travel a lot for work so I have an affinity for the bay area as well as some other places around the country but but Phillies the hometown. Jason: [6:14] Yeah but I'm assuming it's Philly sports teams most importantly. Matt: [6:18] I have been an eagle season ticket holders 2000 yes. Jason: [6:23] Awesome and for people that don't know Philadelphia and Pennsylvania as a whole is a is is a weird e-commerce concentration Point like there's a lot of e-commerce kind of was born or gravitated in the area so I think of like Mark Rubin and Dick's Sporting Good and in Pittsburgh and urban obviously was a huge player there was Urban your first like hardcore e-commerce experience or were you doing a lot of e-commerce at Burton. Matt: [6:56] I was not at Burton Urban is really where I started to cut my teeth on e-commerce. Direct to Consumer more than e-commerce it was really about this when I got there this billion dollar Consolidated Enterprise across there are three main brands, Urban Outfitters anthropology and Free People and the business had started as a catalog, division of what was you know let's call it 95 percent of the sales came through their store Channel. For retail versus direct to Consumer and so when I got there or there was a there was a. [7:43] 100 million Consolidated direct-to-consumer business which was split between catalog and e-commerce, but it was nascent it was not a strategic focus and then you know the founder of their dick ain't really had. This put a natural understanding of consumer behavior and where the industry was going and he had a vision for how to scale the business multi-channel and so we were all, trying to make that that future reality every day for the eight years I was there and we had a lot of success going back to your point about Pennsylvania and Philly first round capital, one of their there I believe their original headquarters and then one of their major offices, is in Philly and so I think I think a lot of it stems from their presence as well not just decaying and Reuben and some others, but also Philly from a talent perspective is kind of like a six suburb or borough of New York, where you get a lot of folks in New York and then they realize that. It's just the standard of living the cost of living is so much better in Philadelphia and so you get a lot of transplants to come down to Philly as well working in e-commerce. Jason: [9:11] Yeah and I want to say I met you I think we all met on the shop dot-org board when you were at Urban later in your your tenure Urban and some of my Fondest Memories another good friend of the show Billy met who at the time was at Abercrombie is the two of you like heckling each other about like your two brands. Matt: [9:34] Yeah like that was that was really fun for me because you know Urban. Um was pretty insular you meaning that we were so obsessively focused on the customer, and on the fashion trends and on what we were doing internally, that we never really thought about competition so we didn't spend a ton of time looking around the industry, so for me that was that was kind of a an introduction to what else was happening across the industry and then Billy occasionally would call me and say. Hey you guys make me look bad because you just had another great quarter ecomp rowing and you know your your results are now The Benchmark that I have to deliver against. But you know what I what I found in that shop or Community which is now part of NRF, is that it was not very competitive it was very collaborative I couldn't believe. [10:46] How much everybody support each other and wanted to share strategies and ideas and Etc and I think that's one of the things that really drew me into this career path on the digital Commerce side, versus pursuing merchandising or. We're kind of the brick-and-mortar offline space is it's just how, how great that the digital Community has been in the US that I've experienced so that's one of the one of the things that I try to do now is to make sure that. Making myself available I'm kind of giving back and spending time with folks and helping them along and sharing ideas because I know that you guys and others certainly do that for me way back in the day. Jason: [11:32] Yeah I feel like we all have done that for each other and I feel like we've all obviously benefited greatly from that community, and so then you leave the Eagles behind and you go join what at the time was a Founder led a venture back pure-d to see is that, a fair characterization for Vermont cough if when you. Matt: [11:58] Yes my father my father is a pure pointy Taylor yeah. Like 10,000 uniques on the site all third party. The company was vertically integrated so homegrown Ruby on Rails codebase e-commerce. Order management system warehouse management system all the way down to the call center and the warehouse it was, um pretty pioneering on the web services side as far as. [12:35] Look it was an early social commerce player as far as leveraging Pinterest and things that you could do with. Facebook and some of the other platforms Tumblr to engage customers and get them to participate in the shopping experience we were one of the first to integrate, ugc from customers into the shopping experience into the carousels on the website, um we had personalization that was driven by customer reviews that were captured in the website versus outsourced to a bizarre Voice or the like so it was the technology is pretty pioneering, the business was was very underdeveloped and the brand I felt was. Had a lot of opportunity to broaden its appeal when I got there so it was a little bit of a turnaround, financially what I'm joined which having now done this a few times there's always a reason they bring in an outside CEO. Jason: [13:44] It's not because things are just going awesome and they just want to share the awesomeness. Matt: [13:47] Yeah I can't I can't think of a single time that CEO in a business that's humming and doing great he says you know what let's bring in somebody else to do this so I. Jason: [13:57] I think Andy jassy is saying that about Amazon right now by the way. Matt: [14:02] Yeah yeah yeah what I mean there's there's a there's a lot of chatter about looking at. It was on the Facebook and Tesla and what those Founders were doing the last couple years selling stock so I think they kind of all knew what was about to happen. But you know just quickly on ModCloth I'll say that you know we were able to quickly come in. [14:32] Turn around the business financially but more importantly we pivoted it to what then was called a DM BB model, a digitally native vertical brand model which was just meant that the vertical piece that you were procuring designing selling your own product or exclusive product versus, third party which you know in the world of Amazon it's really hard to scale a business that you know what you're selling you can find on Amazon or other larger marketplaces, so we build out a design studio and sourcing operation weary platform the entire Tech stack we developed, a showroom concept similar to what we're being bonobos had developed and tested that and rolled that out and had a really aggressive growth plan against that we went out to raise money and her wound up, getting an offer from the team at jet.com that 6-month previous had, I've been sold to Walmart and they came in and made an offer and the board accepted it and so we sold it. And and I stayed on at Walmart for a year and oversaw our integration into that that ecosystem. Scot: [15:51] Cool the that was kind of a chain reaction right where you guys several companies they Acquired and did you play a role in kind of that roll up. Matt: [16:01] We were like the third or fourth of six or seven Acquisitions and they did within a year and a half two year period. And then as part of my year there I did get involved in some of their business development MMA, conversations and and I did spend a little bit of time helping them, on one of the further Acquisitions but you know they what I learned about Walmart when I was there is. They have such a strong culture they have a real clear view of who their customer is and why they're serving them and you know I would tell you that. The Acquisitions that spray that they went on those two years was really a catalyst for. Something that W Mellon said at a meeting that I attended where he talked about convenience. [17:03] Being valued as much as low-cost in the kind of the online or multi-channel retail environment versus pre-internet, and so they had to find a catalyst under Mark Lori to accelerate their the cultural change, to understand how customers writ large were valuing convenience as much as low-cost when their Heritage had been, Yoda Point technology to make improvements in supply chain and sourcing and Merchandising so that they could always win on price now they had a win on price and convenience, and so though the individual Acquisitions You could argue whether there was an Roi on them or not against the purchase price. I would say that. Internally it was a massive success in creating that kind of cultural change that Doug. Mandated from. Mark and and then you know I was only there a year and I left but just watching what progressed and if you look at the moldable on Walmart stock I think it's hard to argue that it wasn't a success. Scot: [18:18] Yes tricky with Acquisitions you can't just look at the you know the interior ModCloth business you have to look at the whole halo effect and the stock price yeah there's a multi-faceted way to look at these things that's kind of complicated. Matt: [18:32] Yeah I think any business that they could grow if you could grow organically in definitely I think most businesses would do that there's a reason why companies you know use MMA to your point. Scot: [18:46] Did some point I think I saw a ModCloth working to the stores where you there for that. Matt: [18:53] No no that I left before any of those kind of process integration initiatives occurred. Scot: [19:03] Yeah and then didn't they do they sell it back out do they spin it. Matt: [19:08] Yeah they sold it back out there were some after I left there were some further leadership changes that occurred and and they wound up the best thing it and selling it to I want to say it was a fermented New York. Scot: [19:23] Like a private Equity Firm or another. Matt: [19:24] Yeah I think so yeah. Scot: [19:28] Did you didn't want to jump in there and take it over again usually they call the previous CEO I bet there's an 80% chance you got a call. Matt: [19:37] No comment. Scot: [19:41] All right we found something you don't want to talk about good it's part of my goal on this show is to see if we can we can find that you have any family safe Mark Lori stories I've spent a fair amount of time with him he's a he's a pretty wacky dude. Matt: [19:56] I mean I didn't spend that much time working for him but I mean man like talk about somebody who just has total belief in himself and the team and what's possible, and so much energy for. For Commerce for startups for Innovation so I mean it's it was contagious working for him, um working for his team's I wanted to takeaways I had for my time at Walmart and my time working with. [20:32] With Mark and his jet team is I just didn't have that kind of passion for the mass-market the way that, you had to have to be successful working at a Walmart or working at a jet before the acquisition, yeah I love the specialty space I love you know the Branded premium space I love, Yoda kind of the Middle Market where it's not based on price and it's not luxury it's somewhere in between. I just find that that it's super creative there's lots of opportunities for differentiation. There's always new things that you get to learn but you know Walmart I got there was a camera don't quote me on the exact number but. [21:27] Like there was a conversation about like how many millions of American flags are they going to sell between Memorial Day and and. And Fourth of July. [21:38] On one of their promos and I was just like I couldn't even fathom the scale of having to move that many units and so, yep so for me it was kind of a validation of the lane that I've been in and and enjoyed being in and so when I left. Eventually wind up going to Lucky that was kind of part of the calculus on my part was to get back into the into that that category that Wayne of specialty. Scot: [22:07] My one of my first Mark Laurie experiences I was at Jet and he was telling us how the Company motto was billions or body bags and I was like that's kind of a weird way to motivate, and then I talked to several employees I was like how do you like it here and there like billions of body bags that like they were just like it was a mantra like you know that they were just so focused on it was either going to be 0 or this huge outcome and sure enough it was billions. Matt: [22:31] Yeah there's there's definitely I mean I think think he was a successful High School athlete so there's definitely a lot of rah-rah with with him in the team it's that's not my personality I. ModCloth one of the investors accused me of being two column in the boardroom. They said you know Matt if you had slammed on the table a little bit more you know and I'm sitting there like like. That's the that never crossed my mind trying to make an argument to do something required me slamming my hand on the table. Scot: [23:14] A tantrum yeah. Matt: [23:15] My voice yeah but maybe that's Versa tween you know a founder and yeah an operator. Jason: [23:23] Scot was definitely a table Slammer. Matt: [23:25] I don't believe you. Scot: [23:26] Like man I have an engineering background and they drummed that out of us in those four years. Matt: [23:33] Totally yeah I think you're right I think the scientific method does not allow for that that level of emotion that come into into the argument. Jason: [23:44] Yeah but I will say a lot of mechanical things can be fixed by hitting them with a hammer I will, the so I'm super grateful that you guys didn't throw Mark Glory under the table because I at the moment have to totally pandor to him because his new business he has Starbucks trucks that will drive to your house and deliver coffee to your house, so I like I feel like I need to stay in his good graces, but so so the sale happens you transition out of ModCloth you've you've got kids in college and or in school and no source of free clothing so I'm guessing that's what drove the, you're interesting lucky brands. Matt: [24:28] Yeah well I got to say. When I worked at Urban my wife definitely took advantage of the anthropology discount. [24:43] And I act funny funny and true story, when I was considering the opportunity at ModCloth I was having a couple other conversations in the in the fashion space. And I showed my daughter who at the time was probably about seven or eight I showed her the apps for the shopping apps for, the three businesses that I was talking to and I won't say who but there was one in particular based in La that she was like Dad no way she was like you cannot work selling that fashion. But she approved of ModCloth and so so I got her endorsement so yeah when I went to Lucky it's really I wasn't necessarily looking. You're back into fashion as much as I really thought that there was this route there's a unique opportunity with lucky they were. Over a billion in gmv which is to say the direct to Consumer wholesale and the value of their licensing business in the market was over a billion dollars. So brand revenues and net revenue is like call it 650 million and it was independent. [26:08] And there were not a lot of businesses at that scale. In the u.s. that still were independent versus part of a conglomerate. [26:21] And we're had already gone public and so I had been friendly with one of the partners at Wintergreen. Who called me about the opportunity and after spending some time with them talking about it I said. You really need somebody in LA full time in the arts district where they were headquartered and I'm not moving to LA and moving actually back east and they said. Hey would you come in and manage the company to get us through holiday while we won for somebody. And also give us a strategy like a like a financial model a business case three-year strategy. And so that's how I initially got involved there was more as like a board advisor interim manager and then. By January of twenty I'd really seen this amazing Lane. For an older Millennial younger Gen-X. That we could reposition Lucky Brand to be a cause marketer the company did a tremendous amount of good work in Downtown LA taking. Old Denim and. [27:50] Giving it. Nonprofits that work with the homeless population there for clothing to for installation. And then other other efforts to help that population, and so I felt like we could reposition lucky to not mean like going to the casino getting lucky but meaning gratitude. Like I feel lucky I made it I have the ability to spend a hundred dollars in a pair of jeans and I want to support. [28:27] This this amazing company that does all this good work and so. That I had this vision for how you could reposition the brand the business was running like it was 2005 as far as. Go to market so there was a lot of heavy lifting that had to be done around digital transformation around merchandising around. Rationalizing the stores there was way too much discount so there's a lot of work to do, but I got really excited about the opportunity and wound up agreeing to stay on as exact chair in January 2020. And part of my remit would have been to hire a CEO and partner with that individual and I had to kill people in my network that I thought would be great for it who be willing to move to LA. But two months later the covid walk down start. And then it turned into something you know completely different than we were just trying to survive we lost ninety percent of our revenue and that April. And we wound up. [29:43] Making it through to July August that summer but at that point yeah the damage had been done and the private Equity Firm decided to. Sell it to a party that had been interested in the business for a number of years which was authentic Brands group out of New York so I stayed on to oversee that process and then once the deal is done I. Said that was a lot of work I'm exhausted and wound up turning down the opportunity to stay on with a b g and left but, I got to say I'm really grateful thankful for the team that I had there because they were amazing, to work with during such a difficult period that that Q2. And early summer of 2020 it was it was really really challenging to be in the market and I learned a lot about myself as a leader from it. Jason: [30:46] Oh my gosh I I am sure you did I'm laughing though because you think about all the work involved there and so you decided to do something easier in your next gig like oh I don't know like starting from scratch business in the middle of a really old non-profit. Matt: [31:08] Well I gotta say you know after after the lucky experience. Um I really felt drained I didn't have. The passion for retail for e-commerce digital for. Brands for fashion like I had for the previous you know well 15 years and. I was fortunate that I have the ability to do this but I basically gave myself 2021 off. I've been sitting on a few boards I did some Consulting work I had been Angel Investing for a few years so I had a number of startup Founders and CEOs that I was mentoring and Advising, and I just said to myself I really need to get re-inspired I need to like, get back out in the market broadly see what's happening see where the Innovation is occurring and and, get excited but also get lucky because a lot of these things from a career perspective is based on timing I was really fortunate that. [32:27] I went to Urban when I did I was really fortunate to be part of, ModCloth the journey during the years that was there the year that I was at Walmart was a really critical year in the Amazon the Walmart Battle. Um amazing timing too. Be available to do Consulting work with the after pay the exact summer that the founder moved from Australia to San Francisco. So you know I'm acutely aware that you can't control timing and, and yet the kind of put yourself out there so that was my plan last year and in doing so what I realized was I'm like I get the most energy and I do my best work when, back in the phase of a company where it's. [33:22] Focused on growth and Innovation and so no more turnarounds the end of Lucky business was a turnaround. ModCloth was a pseudo turn around, so I just said you know I want to get back to you know that stage where it's really about solving for customer needs and Market positioning and Prague service Innovation and deploying technology, and then a couple that with also wanted to get in a part of retail where I can learn. And you know secondhand what's happening right now the this whole cultural phenomenon around thrifting, and you're the pioneering work of a thread up and a real real Poshmark deep op-ed see ya the last decade, that was the that was the heavy lifting you know those Founders you know basically creating the category, but now there's a critical mass now there's a consumer acceptance so I don't see it as it as a, as hard as maybe it looks like from the outside it's I think it's the timing is great for the Goodwill Network to Rally around this new platform for us. As a separate entity to stand up this new company to launch this new Marketplace. [34:48] There's definitely engineering challenges to figuring out how do you successfully profitably scale. Um second-hand and vintage when you know every item is unique and we have a distributed model where our sellers are. Various. Goodwill members across the u.s. so we're not centralized so there's definitely some some challenges but to me that's part of the fun that's part of the learning. Jason: [35:18] I can imagine I want to take just half a step backwards to make sure the listeners are tracking with exactly what you're doing now because I think it's super interesting so, formal title is CEO of goodwillfinds and goodwillfinds is a new offering from Goodwill that is selling Goodwill Merchant previously owned Goodwill merchandise via a website is that the in my clothes. Matt: [35:44] Yeah yeah so I think it's worth kind of spelling out the context a little bit because it took me a little bit honestly to fully understand it and grasp it. Goodwill has been around for over 100 Years everybody knows Goodwill it's an amazing nonprofit franchise. There is a I call it a holding company I don't know that that's the right. Firm but there is a parent company that owns the Goodwill Master license in Metro DC and they have. License out the brand to I believe the numbers 155, individual territories across the u.s. and each of those territories have, Goodwill organization with their own leadership team their own operations around treasury their own board of directors obviously they vary in. Size and location and specification and you know mix the revenue and all those things but they all share the same Mission and the mission a Goodwill is. [36:57] To enhance lives for the Dignity of work, and it's my older brother was born with a disability and I've watched him go on and off disability a few times in his life and I tell you, that he's his best self when he's working. So when I first got connected with the folks at Goodwill earlier last year it really touched my heart like I really. I wanted this to be successful for them because I know how important their mission is but as I got to learn more about the network. [37:37] Of 155 Goodwill's and more about the opportunity and there are six founding. Good we'll see EOS that came together to organize this new separate entity called goodwillfinds where a virtual Delaware company. And those six are the ones that are the board that I report to and they've been working on this for years they were, ready to watch this last year and decided that they needed to hire a CEO, to come in build a team set up the company oversee the launch so I joined pre-revenue and we're now in our fourth month of selling, the consumer response has been. Unbelievable sales are more than doubling month-over-month it's it's really. A unique opportunity to build something that is not only. [38:39] In a part of retail that is innovating and growing and scaling rapidly but it's also doing it for this amazing Mission and you know really trying to redefine what does. Nonprofit in the circular economy look like to deliver social impact at scale so I feel like that's the Mandate that I signed up for and the team that I'm building. And the business model that we're designing right now to go with the marketplace are the is the execution of that but the bigger Vision here is to create this platform that not only. [39:24] Overtime all 155 Goodwill members will have access to be on as sellers but that. For the first time we'll have decentralized marketing funnel brands. Strategy content messaging 1p data and then. [39:48] But technical roadmap that were able to deploy that will integrate with the store operations and the back of house operations that will allow for scared investments in technology that all the good wolf can take advantage of. On the consumer side I think all the players and secondhand have the same goal which is to make the. [40:10] The option to buy second-hand versus new so compelling and so convenient and so exciting and cool. That more and more consumption dollars go towards second hand and move away from New and by, doing that, it has this incredibly measurable impact on the environment in creating sustainable. Impact and then in our case you add to it. The fact that every net dollar that we collect from our sales go back to the location where the Goodwill was the item was donated to fund the Goodwill programs I mean it's I feel like we're pioneering, this new this new kind of business model for circularity and so all that to me is like super compelling super interesting, and I'm really fortunate that this opportunity found me. Scot: [41:19] Cool hearing you talk about it I can tell you like to build stuff the channel visor we had a lot of customers that were kind of in this General space the challenge with this use Consignment World Is You Gotta you know I'm sure these Goodwills are getting, they're only going to sell online a fraction of what comes in so you got to figure out what what things do you want to sell in the store versus online you gotta create digital assets which are the descriptions and the pictures and then you gotta you know imagine you're not going to send them to a central location so then you've got to create a shipping method that works down at the store level how are you guys solving all those problems at scale. Matt: [42:00] Yeah well I'll tell you a couple of things and you're exactly right there's a ton of operational challenges we have a couple things going for us one. These Goodwills already have the physical infrastructure they already have, donation centers they already have Micro warehouses that are already selling online as a three-piece seller through Amazon and eBay and some other Regional marketplaces, so they have a lot of these physical operations setup, so we're leveraging that and we're not having to deploy Capital to do it. That's 12 there's a there's a maturity in the technology vendor Market you'd be surprised at how many. Providers are in the space to automate. We have a partner that we work with that leverages Google Lens technology and Leverage is the Einstein a I was Salesforce that allows us to, take a lot of the heavy lifting out of item creation we have vendors that we work with that. [43:15] Take images of items three-dimensional scans that send it to and Outsource in India where descriptions are being written for these items you know so there's, and I'm learning this right but you'd be shocked at how much software deployment automation deployment already exists. [43:38] So we're managing that to deploy in a way that integrates into these existing operations at and. The other thing that we have an advantage of is because we are nonprofit. [43:53] We're selling primarily me exclusively right now but overtime will be primarily selling donated items which have. Is this not a zero cost of goods but it's a near zero cost of goods. So we have room in the margin line to play with value-added services on each item, if we feel like there's a lift that we can justify with that you know with respect to photography with respect to. Metadata on each of the items with respect to Howard thinking about tagging, there's a lot there's a lot of players out there that we're evaluating right now and we watched with. [44:42] Over 100,000 unique items back in the first week of October. Mid-December we were at nearly 200,000 items. And our roadmap is to have a million unique items in our active. Catalog by October of this year so this entire endeavor. Has been from the start designed for scale. So we feel like that's giving us an advantage because we're able to do some things that, other startups that are venture-backed that are having to start from scratch with a lot of that infrastructure that have a cost of sourcing and and Supply acquisition that we don't, it would be financially prohibitive for them to make some of the Investments that we're making right now. Scot: [45:43] Yeah it's interesting to hear you say you're using some of the AI Jason's not a believer in AI but I'm a big proponent. Jason: [45:50] Haha I haven't said a word on this whole podcast I've just been using my AI Avatar. Scot: [45:57] Ugh. Matt: [45:58] For the record this isn't Matt talking this is Matt's chat TPT talking. Jason: [46:04] Yeah we tested both in the shed she'd Beatty was much more Salient so we went with that. [46:17] Yeah so it's interesting to me mad because, you mentioned a lot of the early Pioneers in our e-commerce and by the way just from buzzword Bingo like are you re Commerce person or you like do you have a favorite label for what you're doing now. Matt: [46:34] Yeah I'm. I'm back in the the interview circuit right now trying to get the word out about what we're doing and promoting the Goodwill Mission so I'm still trying some phrases on I mean yeah RI Commerce is definitely. [46:50] What. The buzzword but I think what we're doing at goodwillfinds and and in partnership with the Goodwill network is really about circularity you know in my mind's eye. Getting a Marketplace standing up a new Marketplace from the zero. You know it's the old Beezus flywheel the back of the napkin that I think about every day and in my version of it their supply demand admission and without the mission we don't get supply. And the better job we do partnering with our members sellers in acquiring the right Supply and and listing it. In a high-quality way, you know then that allows us to be able to meet demand in the market which the proceeds from those sales go right back to the Goodwill where we got the donation and there's the kind of the flywheels complete, and one of the stories around that and this is what we have to do a better job. [47:52] This year versus last year's to get these stories these amazing stories about the Goodwill Network out into the world, the more successful we are Google finds meaning the more that we're able to sell and scale demand. The more people each of the Goodwill sellers have to hire in their e-commerce operations. Because they're doing the listings they're doing the pick pack and ship on the on the outbound but those jobs are higher skill and they and they pay better. And so it actually accelerates the local mission. [48:27] The more successful we are because they have to hire more people and bring more people and train them into these higher value jobs that then they go get placed somewhere else they can go work within. The digital economy you know the digital retail industry and so we really I really think about what we're doing as pioneering circularity. We also are talking to some retailers and Brands you want to partner with us on they're both on the demand and supply side and part of it is because we're a nonprofit that there's a tax, right up Advantage for them but it's there's also this, PSG component to the large corporates that they have to think about especially in, in apparel where they had to think about you know what is their end to end environmental impact and. [49:27] It's it's really I can't believe the timing of this but it's really a moment right now not just with consumers but in the industry and so that's another aspect of circularity where you have. Yeah it's not Nike so but I'll just use them as an example to speak of Austria of Lee imagine Nike telling their full price customers. That they can buy second-hand Nike at goodwillfinds.com. Or imagine a Chanel it's not Chanel so I'll just use them electrically but imagine them. [50:04] Wanting to use us as their authentication partner so that when you find second-hand should now at goodwillfinds.com versus a real real or somewhere else, you can you can you know that you have this objective third-party authenticator that you can partner with to control, the the brand experience in the second hand market so it's, I'm really excited about the possibilities and and we have a really big vision for what we're doing I don't I think we Commerce to me feels, like a term that soap a little bit Limited. Jason: [50:41] Totally fair so maybe circular Commerce its, it's interesting to me though like so we've had a bunch of those Founders from the circular Commerce. Brands on and like their fundamental problem is not your fundamental like their biggest problem is sourcing, the goods by getting people to send them stuff and then when they curate it they're mostly interested in, luxury designer so they end up with a relatively poor yield and they don't have. [51:13] Any monetization or you know frankly like a ecologically redeeming way to deal with, all the goods they get that aren't they don't meet their criteria so it's like you you seem like they're like through the Goodwill Network you've got all these stores to put Goods in you've got a bunch of you do have luxury consumers that are searching for vintage and value but you also have more pure value consumers you it just seems like it's a really interesting fit because you saw some of the, problems that are endemic to the re Commerce guys you've got the first gen, Val you guys like the you know the fast fashion guys who are you know of course making stuff cheap but it's a psychological disaster and they only sell like half of it and the other half ends up in a landfill and all that and then you've got the, discount guys who I think is the funniest of all I don't know if you follow this but Burlington Coat Factory, right before the pandemic shut down their e-commerce and they shut it down because they fundamentally couldn't solve what you're doing like they couldn't figure out how to cost effectively make, product detail pages for all the super thin inventory that they had and so it just interesting like, because you built this business on top of the Google Network it feels like you got a nice sort of Head Start in the in all three corners of that problem if you will. Matt: [52:36] Yeah Jason so first off I know a lot of the players the founders execs at those other places and, again I want them all to be successful because the more successful the category is it's a tide that will lift all boats and I think we're all being led by the consumer who is voting yes yes yes, I also think that the consumer, um is not just the the deal Seeker the value Seeker but it really is a trend ribbon, style driven younger consumer who if you think about you know the. [53:19] Tick Tock and Instagram and this this viral social world that we live in where you nobody wants to look the same, wearing the same things that shopping vintage and second-hand is actually a way to differentiate yourself and show your, your individual style so it's there's a really interesting marriage there between second hand and kind of social morality, and what's happening there and then there's also a tell you a more affluent customer or aspirational customer who could Shop full price and does Shop full price but they really care about, about the impact in the narrative and they want to talk about the story, where they bought it not just what they bought and so there's it feels like there's this really. [54:15] Great timing of all three customer segments and then the last thing I tell you is compared to the Discounters. Do I have read about some of them struggling, with figuring out e-commerce and I think I've read the rational rationalization was that it's hard to do Discovery online versus in the store. What I would tell you is that what we're doing augments the in-store thrifting experience at goodwillfinds, now if you're shopping Goodwill at your local store. The assortment is very limited it's what just showed up that week or that month as far as donations go but, you can do that because there are certain categories of people like to touch and feel or try on because fit matters or Texture and finish and, and material matter you know how home goods and furniture and the like one of those big bulky items that you know are easier to buy and store but to be able to couple that with. [55:29] Now shopping you know I don't want to say the best but the that e-commerce. Assortment of other Goodwills across the country. We're now you're getting access to donations from New York to LA Seattle to Miami, Chicago to Austin and I mean wow like what a treasure Trove to be able to shop your Goodwill store and go online and get access to all these thrift stores in one place, in our case I think it's a massive value add and. Given the fact that the Goodwill brand has been around for 100 years and already has tens of millions of customers shopping their stores you know our primary focus to start is how do we, how do we complement the in-store shopping experience to those tens of millions of customers to convert them to be multi-channel customers with the brand, and at the same time how do we compete in the market too. [56:38] Solicit this this these other two audiences that I mentioned the style and Trend driven younger consumer that's looking for vintage that's looking for. For differentiated as well as this this aspirational and more affluent customer who loves the loves the purpose loves the mission loves the story of circularity and wants to participate. Scot: [57:03] Cool sounds like your you're fired up and it's going to be exciting to watch the progress we're running up against time but while we have you you've been that this over 15 years the whole e-commerce retail thing what are some of the other Trends you're watching other than this circular kind of recycling element anything anything interesting on your radar for example do you think the digitally native vertical brand thing has played out or is that still got legs any other trends that are interesting to you. Matt: [57:36] Yeah well on DM BB which just a an iteration of DTC. Did you see to me was always a go to market strategy was never a business model. Scot: [57:47] Yeah. Matt: [57:49] The the early players the first movers in that space who did the, you know go to the source and sell an item at the wholesale price versus the retail price because you're cutting out the middleman Zappos is kind of one of the one of the pioneers of that, um That was a momentum thing I've always viewed and again kind of sticking to my knitting here in this specialty premium you know Market space. I've always viewed, yeah the brand equity which is what we're all striving to create and grow and maintain. It gets generated by picking an attractive customer, that you want to obsess about and I don't and attractive I mean somebody that you think is a viable there's enough of them and they're viable to have a long-term relationship with. [58:56] And obsessing about them to the point where you understand their needs better than they and you can create differentiated product and service, where, they fall in love with your Solutions with your customer experience and they want to tell their friends and then you couple that with the right distribution, so that you can find more people like them which allows you to scale in an efficient manner and direct-to-consumer now going back 15 years, was just the new go to market to find more like-minded customers to ones that you already had so urban urban already had amazingly strong brands with a lot of brand equity, so what we did writing the Web 2.0 wave was really just figuring out you know how do we, how do we reach the same or similar customers and give them a better experience a different experience online than what they experience in store, and then Mark what was the opposite I got there and we had no physical experience and so the exercise was how do we take this brand love that exists. [1:00:07] At this website and and translate it into a three-dimensional experience that, the existing customers would love but would allow us to expand our market and introduce the brand and more people so I yeah so I don't I never saw DM BB by itself as a sustainable business model. [1:00:27] As far as other Trends in the market today I when I left Walmart I did a talk. [1:00:37] Where I said I felt like it was an amazing time, to start a brand and I really meant it and I really believe that the market was was so like there's so much sameness in the market that. That there's a huge opportunity for four new brands coming to the market Leverage The technologies that have matured and and really differentiate against the incumbents I tell you sitting here right now after. I feel like consumers. [1:01:12] Have now accepted the fact that their multi-line store is where they shop for everything. The whole idea of this retailers essential and that one's not and those shutdowns for a year plus I think really changed consumer. Perception of where's viable to shop the where it's not and I and so I think the bigger players, have a massive advantage in this market especially this year with inflation continuing going into a recession I think it's I think this year is going to be really hard, for smaller players to differentiate and survive so that's more from a consumer lens. From a technology lens I'm sorry to say Jason but I'm a big believer in AI, and I think it's early days and what I counseled a lot of folks who are earlier in their career is find a mega technology trend, in the market that you can get passionate about learning that you think is early Innings and ride it. [1:02:17] I certainly did that with e-commerce I was. They're early with the that whole Social Mobile Local, moment you know that was existing after the iPhone and Facebook launched, I'm I feel like marketplaces are like halfway up the s-curve I feel like there's still a lot more room to grow and so I'm working on that technology curve right now with goodwillfinds. But I would say that I don't I'm not a Believer it in web 3.0 today it feels like, the.com in the late 90s where it was five years too early, there just weren't enough participants to make it viable I think web 3.0 in whatever form it takes is five years out before becomes something that you could commercially work on. And then you know I'd say I think the subscription in. In a lot of categories is having a lot of success right now which is less about technology and more about, business model but that's that's that's an area as well that I think is worth exploring for a lot of businesses that are trying to figure out ways to monetize Their audience. Jason: [1:03:40] Matt that is awesome, basically we're mostly aligned I'm 100% with you on a I I'm also with you on web 3 / metaverse being too early the one thing I'm gonna just for the record disagree on is I I can't public admit that marketplaces are thing because that'll that'll go to Scott said too much if we admit that. But, it's going to surprise no one mat that has happened again we've used slightly more than our allotted time so we're gonna leave it with those words of wisdom from you as always if listeners found value from this show we sure would love it if you'd jump on iTunes and leave us that five star review but Matt, so awesome to reconnecting and congrats on everything you're doing it's it's fun to watch and and put your point like it's also adding a heck of a lot of value to the world. Matt: [1:04:33] Guys I really appreciate the time always great to reconnect congrats on the pot I'm a huge fan and let's do it again at number five hundred. Scot: [1:04:44] Sounds good Matt if folks want to find you online or you on the on MySpace where do you hang out. Matt: [1:04:52] Yeah have you heard of Tumblr no. Um yeah I would just say if anybody needs to get ahold of me reach out through Linkedin and my contact information is there. Scot: [1:05:06] Sounds good we really appreciate taking time and good luck with the new Venture sounds really exciting. Matt: [1:05:11] Thanks guys. Jason: [1:05:12] And until next time happy commercing.

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Episode #69 is up! Check it out!!!Special Guest Dr. Harold McCray, Elementary Principal in Metro DC, joins Matt to discuss the issues many black male educators face in the profession, and shares advice on recruiting and retaining them in our schools and districts.Connect with Dr. McCray on Twitter and Instagram @drhspeaks

When we were talking during this show my guest Hayden stated "Right To Work?! NO I Say Rights At Work!" This episode we talk with Hayden Alexandra Gise. Pronouns are Her/She and we talk about our opinions on labor and throw in some political views too. You can find her on Twitter @FYeahUnions or visit her website at haydengise.com   She is also running for Neighborhood Commissioner in Woodley Park, Metro DC, more on that in our next Hayden show, we will be recording in September. As always you can find us at MyLaborRadio.org and on Twitter @mgevaart  

We have a panel of guests who are here to talk about running a local PNAA chapter. We have Carol Robles, President of PNA Metropolitan Dc and the Chair of PNAA communications & Marketing and Lourdes Carreaga is the Senior Certification Outreach Specialist at the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), a subsidiary of the American Nurses Association in Silver Spring, Maryland. Lourdes is the immediate past president of PNA Metropolitan DC and the chair of the Wellness Committtee.Christine Pabico, is the Director of the Pathway to Excellence Program at the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She is also the President-Elect of the Philippine Nurses Association of Metro DC.Hosts: Manny Ramos and Mindy OfianaDirected and Produced by: Rodney CajudoExecutive Producers: Mary Joy Garcia-Dia and Carmina Bautista

Mark discusses fighting for LGBTQ inclusion and representation at the elementary school level, his path to parenthood, and the work he does with Metro DC PFLAG & Freestate Justice.Pflagdc.org – support groups Freestate-justice.orgTransgender panic defense

It is a known fact that our world is moving faster than it ever has. So how do we connect and build relationships with 1,000 different things going on? One word... Systems.   Kayla Smith - Operator at Chick-fil-A Germantown Town Center in the Metro DC area shares all about the impactful systems she's put in place to drive moments of connection with her team. She'll also discuss what it looks like to live on the edge of your comfort zone and the emotional commitment she's made to becoming a Chick-fil-A Operator.   Learn more about Wildsparq    

The Leagues That Made Us series with Josh Smith and Carl Coffee continued with the Potomac Wiffleball League. The league that Chris Gallaway built was a mega league in the Metro DC area. They made a big mark on the sport, but does Josh Smith think it's one of the best ever? Listen and find out!

Jamie Winship was an award-winning Metro DC police officer who went on to spend nearly 30 years living and working in some of the most dangerous conflict zones in the world.  His unconventional efforts to bring about societal and racial reconciliation has led him to Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Israel and now back to the United States.  Jamie calls this unique approach to healing and breakthrough the “Identity Method.”  He's utilized it to connect people you'd never think would be open to working together.  But he's also used it to help professional sports teams, business leaders, government officials, non-profit organizations and many others.  As you'll hear in this incredible conversation… this simple process can be used to help bring people together… but just as importantly… individuals can utilize these steps to walk in more freedom, uncover more of their true identity… AND live with less fear… even in turbulent times.  This one blew me away… and I think you'll love it.  So let's get to it!   FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JAMIE: Jamie's new book: Living Fearless (click here) Jamie's Organization: Identity Exchange Click Here Jamie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejamiewinship/ OTHER RELATED DREAM THINK DO EPISODES: If you enjoyed this episode, you'll probably enjoy these too: Identity Statements [A Game-Changer Strategy for Personal Breakthrough]: www.mitchmatthews.com/213 Personal Branding for Business [And Life] with Travis Crutcher: www.mitchmatthews.com/352  5 Non-Negotiables For an Ideal Day with Sarah Yourgrau: www.mitchmatthews.com/294 And… because Paul Young introduced me to Jamie… I think you'll LOVE my conversation with him:  Joy As A Constant Companion - An Interview with Wm. Paul Young [Best-Selling Author of The Shack]: www.mitchmatthews.com/229  MORE ABOUT THE EPISODE: Jamie Winship spent nearly 30 years living and working in conflict zones, and during that time he has learned an important truth: all human conflict originates from fear, and fear originates from a false view of God, ourselves, and others.  Until we exchange what's false for what's real, we will never experience being fully alive, fully human, and fully free.  During our conversation… we dive deep into the Identity Exchange Method as Jamie tells an incredible story of how it played out (and brought healing) in a surprising way within a group of people most would say would NEVER work together! EPISODE MINUTE BY MINUTE: 0:02 What to expect today 5:42 Conversation starts 6:23 How we learn fear 11:14 How parents model fear to their children 15:59 The root of every humans worst fear 24:14 What your emotions could be telling you 30:24 The enternal conflict of false identity 34:20 A look into Jamie's event 39:37 Drowning out the negative voice in your head  45:28 Using your intuitive mind 53:56 What happens when someone finds their identity 58:00 Discovering the depth of who you are 1:01:43 Mitch's minute I want to hear from YOU!   Okay… let's get YOUR thoughts.  I want to hear from you.  What do you think?   What's something that resonated with you?  What's something that clicked with you?  What were some of the “feelings” you experienced as you heard this episode? And hey… what didn't?  I'd love to hear about the questions and/or push back you might have experienced too?   More importantly… where's an area where you're wanting to experiment with and/or lean into what Jamie was talking about?  Leave a comment and let us know!!!   I can't wait to hear from YOU! Lastly, don't forget to share this episode!  And when you do either tag me or be sure to include the #dreamthinkdo.  THANKS!!!! And hey… you can find me on Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.  Let's connect there too!

‘She Was Begging and Pleading': Jan. 6 Protester Recalls Witnessing Rosanne Boyland Die(Republished from theepochtimes.com)‘She Was Begging and Pleading': Jan. 6 Protester Recalls Witnessing Rosanne Boyland Die(Republished from theepochtimes.com)https://gorightnews.com/she-was-begging-and-pleading-jan-6-protester-recalls-witnessing-rosanne-boyland-die/https://www.spreaker.com/user/9922149/she-was-begging-and-pleading-jan-6-prote“It was hell itself.”Philip Anderson doesn't like to talk about that part of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. It's just too painful, even with family and friends.“It's so terrifying to even bring it up. I don't have to remember that until my very last day, until I die,” the 26-year-old told The Epoch Times. “It was the most terrifying thing I've ever experienced.”Anderson was at the bottom of a pile of people caused by a stampede out of the West Terrace tunnel when police unleashed gas on the crowd of protesters.Right next to him lay Rosanne Boyland, 34, of Kennesaw, Ga. They were crushed by the weight of a heap 4-5 people deep. It created an indescribable squeeze. The pain was made worse by a lack of oxygen.“You have to just lay still. You're just air-swapping with the people that are on the ground with you,” Anderson said. “If you move even a little bit, bones are going to break in your leg, bones are going to break in your arm. I'm thinking, ‘I have to stay still and hope that my head's not going to get smashed.'”Tragedy in the TunnelIt all changed in an instant.Anderson and Boyland walked into the tunnel at the same time that afternoon. They did not know each other, but Anderson would play an important role for the Georgia Trump supporter in her tragic final moments.“I did not know her. I didn't know anything about her,” Anderson said. “I didn't even know that she existed until I saw her out of the corner of my eye.”The tunnel was packed with people, shoulder to shoulder, about a dozen across and perhaps 20-25 deep. The crowd was trying to access the doors leading to the Capitol.However, police had other plans. They unleashed some type of gas on the crowd. It seemed to suck the air out of the tunnel.“I felt it, because I can't breathe. That's what it felt like,” Anderson said. “So I turn around and run away. I try to get out as fast as I can. If I had stood still, I honestly felt I was going to die. That's what it felt like, ‘You're not going to be able to get air inside if you don't get out now.'”The crowd tumbled out of the tunnel, down the steps like a waterfall. Anderson felt his legs give out. He fell, dropping like a swimmer doing a belly flop. His fellow protesters piled up around him.“It wasn't that I tripped or anything like that. I cannot get air so I can move my arms, my legs. And then I fall.”The terror was palpable as the weight of the pile crushed those at the bottom. Anderson and Boyland ended up near each other.“She was begging and pleading. She was trying to scream but she couldn't scream very loudly,” Anderson said. “She gave up on it and that's when she reached out. She grabbed my hand. She's reaching out to grab something. When she felt my arm, she grabbed my hand. She didn't get to hold on for very long, though.”Anderson felt such agony, he tried to prepare himself to die.‘You're Killing People!'“I could feel that I was dying,” Anderson said. “I could feel it. That was the scariest part. I accepted that I was going to die. I was just praying to God at that point, ‘Just make it to where the pain stops, because I just need to go.'”Anderson believes Boyland knew her time was quickly running out.“She was holding my hand and then her grip completely loosens,” Anderson recalled. “I'm pretty sure that she's accepted at this point she's going to die. She knows it's the end.”Philip Anderson, 26, of Mesquite, Texas, nearly lost his life on Jan. 6, 2021.Anderson, a conservative activist from Mesquite, Texas, would have met the same fate if it were not for fellow protester Jake Lang. He was at the tunnel entrance, begging police to stop pushing people out of the tunnel onto the pile.Surveillance video shows Lang, wearing a gas mask, waving frantically at police.“I'm screaming, Stop! Stop! You're killing people. Stop pushing!” Lang told The Epoch Times in an interview from the District of Columbia jail, where he is being held awaiting trial on Jan. 6-related charges.Lang tried to extract Boyland from the pile, but every time he helped remove one body from the mass, another one landed on top.“Every single time I pulled another person off her, the police pummel somebody back over on top of her,” Lang said. “So she's stuck at the bottom of this dog pile.”Lang found that Anderson was not as tightly wedged, so he next tried to move him. As he grabbed Anderson under the arms, he noticed the young man's tongue hanging out of his mouth.“Like a bear-hugging motion, I'm able to pull his body weight up on top of my chest,” Lang said. “I unbunch him from this dog pile and I start dragging him down the steps.” Lang got Anderson to a medic station, where volunteers revived him.Boyland Beaten While UnconsciousA short time later, Boyland was freed from the pile, but she was no longer breathing. Protesters tried to render aid, but police sprayed many of them with mace.Her Georgia friend, Justin Winchell, begged police to help. On police bodycam footage, he can be seen saying, “Rosanne! Rosanne! Rosanne!” His tone got more desperate. “She's gonna die! She's gonna die! …I need somebody! She's dead!”At that point several enraged protesters charged the police line and engaged in hand-to-hand combat.The bodycam video showed Boyland lying on the concrete nearby, unconscious. Then a Metro DC police offer began to beat the unconscious Boyland, striking her repeatedly in the ribs and the head.Winchell's shock is evident by his horrified facial expression captured on bodycam video.The Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia denied a Freedom of Information Act request by The Epoch Times for the officer's bodycam footage.The department has not replied to inquiries from The Epoch Times on the circumstances surrounding Boyland's death.The medical examiner for the District of Columbia ruled Boyland died from an overdose of a prescription medication. Family members said Boyland was prescribed the drug to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.It's not known if the autopsy documented any injuries from the beating, or noted evidence from Boyland being crushed. The medical examiner won't release any information beyond the cause and manner of death. He ruled Boyland's death was an accident.That conclusion does not sit well with Anderson. “She was literally okay, walking around like everyone else: normally,” he said. “The difference is that she got gassed and she got crushed and she got some mace on her. And then after all of that happened to her, she's getting beat down on with the baton.“The beating, that was just the cherry on top,” Anderson said. “She probably would have died even without that. But that sealed the deal, honestly, if she wasn't already dead.”Lang and Anderson both carry emotional scars from what they witnessed on Jan. 6.“I have horrible PTSD, waking up from nightmares, seeing her face,” Lang said. “It's just horrible because there is no closure. They murdered her and they won't release the officer's information.”Anderson said he is angered by portrayals of Boyland in mainstream media as a domestic terrorist.“She did nothing. She attacked no one. She didn't even say anything to anyone,” Anderson said. “We've got half the country saying Rosanne is a terrorist, she got what she deserved. For what? She didn't do anything. It's crazy to me.”[Source: By Joseph M. Hanneman from theepochtimes.comhttps://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/she-was-begging-and-pleading-jan-6-protester-recalls-witnessing-rosanne-boyland-die_4255399.html]

Muriel Wilkins: Coaching Real Leaders Muriel Wilkins is Managing Partner and Co-founder of Paravis Partners. She is a C-suite advisor and executive coach with a strong track record of helping already high performing senior leaders take their effectiveness to the next level. She is also the host of the Harvard Business Review podcast, Coaching Real Leaders and is the co-author, with Amy Su of Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence*. Prior to entrepreneurship, she served on the senior team of U.S. News & World Report and also did marketing and strategy work at Accenture and The Prudential. Muriel has been recognized by the Washington Business Journal as one of Metro-DC area's Top Minority Business Leaders. In this conversation, Muriel and I reflect on our recent client work in order to surface some of the current struggles leaders are facing. We discuss a few trends we're seeing in relation to diversity, the great resignation, binary thinking, and human relations. Plus, we make a few practical invitations to leaders in order to avoid some common missteps. Key Points Leaders are making the shift from explanation to inquiry in relations to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The next step for many leaders is to consider how they use their power to affect change to the system in the organization. Many leaders are considering the, “Should I stay or should I go?” question without the full context of impact and feeling. Begin by considering the impact you wish to have before making a major change. Beware the trap of binary thinking. Often leaders get fixated on “OR thinking” without considering the opportunity for “AND thinking.” If you catch yourself thinking in “ors” consider how you might bring in some “ands.” Leaders who inherently see value in people development can tend to write off other leaders who they see as only focused on the numbers. It's helpful to realize that the larger objective is often shared, but style is different. Meet people on their terms with their language. Resources Mentioned Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master Your Leadership Presence* by Muriel Wilkins Coaching Real Leaders podcast Related Episodes Enhance Your Executive Presence, with Muriel Wilkins (episode 272) The Way Out of Major Conflict, with Amanda Ripley (episode 529) How to Win the Long Game When the Short-Term Seems Bleak, with Dorie Clark (episode 550) How to Use Power Responsibly, with Vanessa Bohns (episode 551) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

In this episode of Beltway Broadcast, your Metro DC Chapter of ATD hosts Julia Drewniak and Amanda Moore. Julia and Amanda are chapter members as well as Metro DC ATD's Virtual Conference Coordinators. In this episode, Julia and Amanda discuss what it takes to run a successful virtual conference for TD professionals, explain why collaboration is the key to their success, and share tips to consider when organizing a virtual conference for your organization. For more info about Julia and Amanda or the Metro DC Chapter of ATD, visit DCATD.org.  Episode Credits: Series Announcer: Julie Waters Hosts: Christina Eanes, Stephanie Hubka, Laëtitia Gnago, and Halyna Hodges

In this episode of Beltway Broadcast, your Metro DC Chapter of ATD hosts Diane Elkins. Diane is the co-owner of E-Learning Uncovered and Artisan E-Learning and the co-author of the popular E-Learning Uncovered book series and E-Learning Fundamentals: A Practical Guide from ATD Press. Diane is a member of our Chapter and a past board member of the Northeast Florida and Metro DC chapters of ATD. In this episode, Diane shares practical tips for making the most of your SME's expertise and discusses key strategies for working more effectively with SMEs to create content that sticks.  If you'd like to learn more about Diane, visit her company's website.  For more info about the Metro DC Chapter of ATD, visit DCATD.org.  Episode Credits: Series Announcer: Julie Waters Hosts: Christina Eanes, Stephanie Hubka, Laëtitia Gnago, and Halyna Hodges

The inaugural episode is here! To kick things off, my friend Rachel Valentino joins me to discuss taking up space. If you've ever felt like shrinking to keep someone else comfortable or like denying your truth seemed safer than owning your story, this episode is for you. Rachel's story of discovery and redefining herself post-divorce paved the way for us to dive deep into:What is it that really makes us human?How do we transform the urge to turn into robots when things get uncomfortable?How do we claim our story when it may leave others feeling uncomfortable?How do we reconnect with desire after years of suppressing needs and wants?This episode will help you find freedom in your flaws and start taking up more space in your life. Show notes and transcript available here.ABOUT RACHELFor the past fifteen years, Rachel has been a leader in the DC real estate scene. During the emotionally charged experience of buying or selling real estate in urban and suburban Metro DC, where variables in the local market are numerous, and the end result is unknown, clients have, year after year, put Rachel in the top echelon of real estate pros across the city. She is annually recognized by Washington City Paper, Bethesda Magazine and Washingtonian as being a top agent in the area. EXTRA RESOURCESSign up for my free newsletter, The Peel, and get my tips for navigating whatever life dishes: https://alyssapatmos.com/thepeelJoin The Convey Collective to master authentic communication: https://alyssapatmos.com/conveyI'd love to hear from you and continue the conversation! Message me on instagram (@alyssapatmos) or join me over on Telegram.

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Jamie Winship, a former Metro DC police officer, spent more than 25 years in the Muslim world, teaching people to listen to God and live in his kingdom. Jamie and his wife Donna speak around the US and across the entire world spreading their message. They act together as catalysts to help people find their identity given by God and live a life of liberty. Jamie teaches in a way that allows people to experience the reality of hearing God's voice in their daily lives through dynamic storytelling and real-life application. Thousands of people have been helped by his teachings to discover their true identity and destiny. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Jamie Winship!

Jamie Winship, a former Metro DC police officer, spent more than 25 years in the Muslim world, teaching people to listen to God and live in his kingdom. Jamie and his wife Donna speak around the US and across the entire world spreading their message. They act together as catalysts to help people find their identity given by God and live a life of liberty. Jamie teaches in a way that allows people to experience the reality of hearing God's voice in their daily lives through dynamic storytelling and real-life application. Thousands of people have been helped by his teachings to discover their true identity and destiny. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Jamie Winship!

Jamie Winship, a former Metro DC police officer, spent more than 25 years in the Muslim world, teaching people to listen to God and live in his kingdom. Jamie and his wife Donna speak around the US and across the entire world spreading their message. They act together as catalysts to help people find their identity given by God and live a life of liberty. Jamie teaches in a way that allows people to experience the reality of hearing God's voice in their daily lives through dynamic storytelling and real-life application. Thousands of people have been helped by his teachings to discover their true identity and destiny. We are so excited for you to hear this conversation with Jamie Winship!

Kristin Brown is a Southern California native who has made her home in the Metro DC area since college. When Kristin and Scott got married at Cherrydale in 2013, little did she know that God had planned an opportunity to use her passion for communications and ministry in a role here at Cherrydale. Prior to joining the staff as Communications Director/Women's Ministry Coordinator, Kristin served as a ministry intern at Cherrydale, working in the area of women's ministry. Kristin has more than twenty years of communications experience in the Christian non-profit arena, serving most recently as vice president of communications at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics. She also served in the pro-life movement, as vice president of communications for Care Net, an organization supporting the gospel-centered work of pregnancy centers, and as media director for Family Research Council, a public policy organization in Washington, DC. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Princeton University, where she first trusted Christ as her Savior and Lord. Kristin is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Religion from Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary and dreams of writing a book someday. To sign up for the Biblical Courage newsletter or support the podcast, visit: https://biblicalcourage.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/biblicalcourage/support

POH Talk Radio Thu, Sep 2, 8p CR Gibbs The Underground Railroad in the Midwest. When some think of the Underground Railroad, many think of conductor Harriet Tubman and the eastern seaboard routes she followed. However, the Underground Railroad had players and routes in what is now the Midwest, including Illinois and Indiana. CR Gibbs will discuss the Midwestern system complimenting the “Road to Freedom: The Underground Railroad in the DMV” lecture that he often gives in Metro DC. Port Of Harlem Talk Radio --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/port-of-harlem-talk-radio/support

Serve Your Needs, By Serving Others! Episode 37 – Sheena Saydam http://www.LaunchYourFarm.com/Episode37 Welcome back to our 37th episode of the Launch Your Farm Show where I interview Sheena Saydam from Keller Williams in Metro DC. Today Sheena shares how she grew her real estate business into an incredibly efficient team based on principles she learned by growing up in a military family. She shares how her mom instilled in her a desire to make an impact which helped Sheena implement an amazing servant minded business by focusing on giving back to the community. One of the things that Sheena is super proud of the amount of time and resources her team has been able to give back to charities and local nonprofits in the area. In this episode Sheena and I talk about: · Why you need to be strategic with your unique value proposition so that you have time and resources to give back to the community and still run an incredible business. · Sheena shares how to leverage your network to help some amazing causes in your community. · What you can do to ensure people know you are in the business without coming off as pushy or salesy. · A SUPER easy way to build networking groups that help educate the community, raise money and generate business for you. · How to grow your database in your farm by focusing on people you already know. · Plus a ton of other ideas that you can use to grow geographic farm! Connect with Sheena at www.SaydamProperties.com YOUR BEST BOOK – Check out Sheena's favorite books at the moment. “Ride Of A Lifetime” by Robert Iger To get a copy you can order it here: Canada – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0399592091 USA - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399592091 “A Promised Land” by Barack Obama To get a copy you can order it here: Canada – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1524763160 USA - https://www.amazon.com/dp/1524763160 “Just Listen” by Mark Goulston To get a copy you can order it here: Canada – https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0814436471 USA - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0814436471 Be sure to like and subscribe to our Youtube Channel as well as check our website and other social channels. Your Friend In Farming, Ryan Smith Launch Your Farm Website - http://www.LaunchYourFarm.com Facebook - http://www.Facebook.com/LaunchYourFarm

Jenny talks about how Leah's story inspired her so she decided to reach out through a mutual friend. Leah wrote an article for the Huffington Post called "I Spent 35 Years Trying To Convince The World (And Myself) That I’m White." Leah learned a lot about herself and her story of trying to find belonging as a child when the story took on a life of it's own, going viral and often misunderstood because of some circumstances surrounding it's release. We unpack it in today's episode.Leah talks about how her day job is as an attorney but she has always loved to write. She shares her story about her love for writing over the last few years. Jenny and Leah talk about what it is like to grow up in Metro DC and how it is different from anywhere else. Being that close to the seat of government colors the conversations and everyday life of people that you are unaware of until you leave the area. Leah talks about her family and the number of siblings she has and the culture of her home growing up. She was adopted by two white parents and had a large mixed race family with other adopted siblings. Their parents encouraged them to talk about race and learn more about their heritage growing up but for Leah, as a child, she wanted to belong in her family and the thought of another potential family out there felt as if it could erode the relationship with the family she had and loved being a part of. As an adult she can clearly see with more perspective that that was not the case but as a child this was a very real and rational fear that many adoptees experience in their own way.They talk about ghost families and what that is like for children of adoption. Leah also goes on to talk about how when she was growing up she drifted more towards white culture because she wanted to fit in with her parents and feel like she belonged.Jenny and Leah talk about how growing up adopted you always want to feel like you belong and there is a piece of you that no matter what will question that. Sara talks about the importance of saying biological instead of real when you are talking to an adoptee about their family. Leah talks about her experience of publishing for the Huff Post and how her article got interpreted in ways that she did not expect. Leah, Jenny, and Sara then go on to talk about the title of her article and how she lost control of the article. She was invited to a talk show that only made things worse for her. Leah gives advice for people who are scared to tell their own stories.  

Heroes at DHG: Norlin Evans In our new podcast series, Heroes at DHG, we are spotlighting DHG people making an impact at the firm and in our greater communities. To kick off the series, we’re celebrating some extraordinary Black team members during Black History Month. Norlin Evans joined the firm in 2016. Since joining the firm, he has served a variety of different clients and has worked in both the Atlanta, Georgia and Metro DC markets. His passion for coaching and mentoring has been second to none, and he has had a significant impact on many careers over the years. After 35 years serving clients in both audit and advisory roles, Norlin is now going to hang up his client serving hat and join the firm’s Inclusion & Diversity team.  Norlin will be a champion of DHG’s mission and add significant value in perspective to Inclusion & Diversity efforts in this new role. In this episode, Norlin discusses the importance of mentorship and coaching, tips to be successful in public accounting and delivering exceptional client service. He also shares his hobbies, why he calls himself a “news junkie,” who his hero is and more. Thank you, Norlin, for sharing your story! You certainly are a hero at DHG.    

In this episode, I open up about my anxiety about bragging about myself. Then I have a wonderful interview with Tekla Waterfield about her career as a musician. Tekla Waterfield is a Seattle based singer/songwriter and 2018 Listen Up! Women in Music grant recipient, and 2019 Jack Straw Cultural Center recording grant recipient, Tekla Waterfield lives in the wide-open realm of Americana Roots music, incorporating elements of folk, country, indie, rhythm and blues, and soul. With influences ranging from Courtney Barnett to Aimee Mann, Jim James, Wilco, The Velvet Underground, and Marvin Gaye, Waterfield aims to tell a story, paint a picture and evoke emotion with her songs.Partnering with collaborator and husband, Jeff Fielder (Mark Lanegan, Amy Ray, Indigo Girls, Sera Cahoone) to produce her 2018 release, The Curtain Falls, garnered Waterfield critical acclaim and radio play. Her song, Rock and Roll Man was featured in the closing credits of 2019 indie feature film, Dakota, which went on to receive Best Original Music; in the Richmond VA International Film Festival, Best of Metro DC at the DC Independent Film Festival, & Best Actress, Best Editing, Best of NOVA, and Best Score at the North Virginia Film Festival. Waterfield collaborated with Seattle videographer, Ryan Jorgenson, to create a music video for her song, Nice Try, which was selected by One Reel to be screened/presented by the Seattle International Film Festival at the 2019 Bumbershoot Art and Music Festival.

Matthew Domyancic, M.S., M.S., M.A. served as a police officer for a large department in the Metro DC area where he worked patrol, peer support, SWAT, and was a full-time police academy instructor. He was also the Wellness Coordinator for his agency, where he integrated sports nutrition, strength and conditioning, combatives, stress management, heart rate monitors and scenario training long before the “tactical athlete” concept became widely popular. Matt also worked as a strength and conditioning coach at Georgetown and Yale Universities. Prior to coaching, Matt played linebacker and was a competitive powerlifter for the Air Force Academy and Colgate University. He is a graduate of the West Point Leadership Course for Law Enforcement and has Masters' degrees in Pastoral Theology, Sports Psychology, and Forensic Science. He also has additional training as a certified Spiritual Director. Matt believes all First Responders can have careers that provide deeper meaning and add richness to their spiritual lives, which is why he volunteers as a chaplain and peer support for various departments and nonprofits.   The First Responder Friday Podcast is a production of ConjoStudios, LLC as a part of the PTSD911 Documentary project. Visit our web site for more info about the film. www.ptsd911movie.com Host/Producer: Conrad Weaver Please support our film: https://www.thefilmcollaborative.org/fiscalsponsorship/projects/ptsd911 Copyright ©2020 ConjoStudios, LLC All rights reserved.   

#071: For this episode, we asked the mamas in our free Mamas Talk Money Community on Facebook to send us their questions. If one person in our community has a question, there are no doubt others wondering the same thing. Today we’re going to discuss prioritizing money goals, real estate investing, the Mamas Talk Money Summit, and more! (2:16) How do you balance and decide on money goals when it comes to prioritizing short-term vs long-term? (8:26) My husband and I have technically hit our “coast FI” number and I’m weighing our options between leaving the money in our 401K & IRA to just coast until we retire without putting additional money in them. Or we could take that contribution amount we would put in monthly and add it to our other investment account to potentially pad us if we want to retire before 65. Mistake or no? (16:01) What do I do after I finish paying off debt except for my mortgage? I’m on track to be debt-free the first part of next year and I’m unsure what to do from there. (25:19) I’ve been wanting to ask about REITS! We live in a very high cost of a living area (Metro DC) and owning real estate is going to be VERY long term for us, so I wondered if this would be a way to diversify? (30:13) I’ve sold two homes in the last year and made a bit of money. I’m wondering what are some other options besides just sitting on my savings account to earn some money on my money. (34:22) There is so much content at the Summit and I’m trying to figure out how to make the best of it. Any advice? Looking for more information, mama? Visit the show notes at https://smartmoneymamas.com/71 Family Money Values Template: https://smartmoneymamas.com/family-money-values-template/

Listen in on this engaging conversation with Phyllis Carter, NABA Metro DC President and Senior Consultant at Guidehouse. In our conversation, we discuss her long-time commitment to service and NABA throughout her career. You will also hear our upcoming plans for tailored programming to address the needs of our members and ways you can get involved. Our chapter is also looking forward to hosting the National Convention in Washington, DC next year. If you're interested in volunteering to make the conference a success, please complete the following form and check our website for updates! https://forms.gle/tRAFtQ2823Ue83MMA

In this episode of the Church Planting Podcast we talk with David Platt about the Covid 19 pandemic. If you would like to know more about David Platt you can follow the click link below.David PlattTranscription ALBERT: This is the Church Planting Podcast. Thank you for tuning inALBERT: Every week we sit down with leaders who are shaping church planting efforts.ALBERT: Here’s your host Josh Turansky and Clint Clifton.JOSH TURANSKY: Hey welcome to the Church Planting Podcast! My name is Josh Turansky and I’m joined remotely by Clint Clifton. And it’s good to be back with you to talk again about church planting. Clint, it’s great to be back with you. What’s going on in your life?CLINT CLIFTON: Man! We are just, you know, doing quarantine and I heard something yesterday. A guy was talking about “You know, I’ve had this experience where it seems like everything would go super slow but, in a sense, it feels like it’s flying by.” Are you having that experience too? Or is it going slow for you?JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. Well, everything is weird. It’s very repetitive. It’s like the Groundhog Day effect.CLINT CLIFTON: Yes. It was on a Coronavirus daily podcast, and he was saying the way our memories work is novelty establishes our sense of time. So, when something new or unique happens, our brain puts a marker and says, “Like this is a moment in time.” So, anytime that we don’t have unique experiences then our timing gets all messed up when we have the same routine over and over again. And he was saying, “They don’t have to be big unique experiences, they just have to be slight modifications.” So, he was saying like the difference in eating you know, an apple for breakfast and eating oatmeal for breakfast would be one of those kinds of things that would help you mark time. You know? And so, just talking about shaking up your routine a little bit to make time not feel so disorienting. I thought it was a cool idea!JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah, that’s helpful! I will try that out. I’ve been cooking a lot of food around the house. I love to cook.CLINT CLIFTON: Me too! Yeah.JOSH TURANSKY: Really? Do you like to cook?CLINT CLIFTON: Well, I have a new love for it. I’ve never loved to cook until this season. Matter of fact, 11:30 last night I was up making homemade sweet potato fries.JOSH TURANSKY: Oh, that’s fun! I did this exercise. I think it was at the end of last week where I went back and I tried to think through all of my favorite meals I’ve ever eaten at different restaurants. And then I’m on a journey of recreating every one of those meals. And it’s been a fun science experiment and I’m doing it with my kids. And so, yeah, the Corona virus life!CLINT CLIFTON: You know, I actually went to Amazon and I got hooked on this thing called Taste. It’s like a video recipe you know? It’s just people making stuff but there’s this whole series on the Taste website or Facebook thing where they cook outside. And I don’t know, but there’s something about cooking outside that’s so cool to me. And I am addicted to these videos. I just watch them over and over again. And it’s made me order a few products that have helped me experiment with this. So, I haven’t actually moved my operation outside yet, but I’m very close. But I got myself a new knife, and some like woodblocks to cut my food on. So, I’m super excited. I’m getting jazzed about this. It’s the closest thing I have to a hobby since I was like 10.JOSH TURANSKY: I love it! That’s great. Yes! It’s good. Good. Good. Well, let’s talk about this episode. We’ve got, not really an interview. This is actually a teaching that David Platt gave to a small cohort of church planters. And go ahead and introduce it.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah! Well, me and you were both part of it. I asked David to come and be a part of training some of our church planters. It wasn’t really so much a training as it was a talk to us about how you’re processing this situation, the COVID situation. Talk to us you know, in light of your passions. Of course, David’s passions are global mission and the great commission and making disciples and multiplying churches, those sorts of things. And so, I don’t know about you, but I’ve had the experience in my church of when I think about pushing my people on mission, it feels wrong. It’s like, “This isn’t the time for that. We should not be focused on that. This is a time to be focused on us.” But you know, there’s another part of my brain that says, “No, that’s totally jacked up! We cannot think like that.” And so, I was just curious you know, “Like David, can you lead us through your thinking about all of this.” And it was good! I don’t know. We were both there. It was like 2 hours of a zoom call where we were just talking about these things and he was downloading out about what he was thinking about. And so, what we did here is we just clipped it up and took kind of what I thought where the most memorable pieces of that or the most helpful pieces of what he said. And we’ve got about 15 minutes worth of it here for you today. So, we took 2 hours of David Platt, which is almost everything he says is profound. And we took 15 minutes of the most profound. So, that’s what you’re going to get today. With a little Josh and Clint mixed in the middle.JOSH TURANSKY: That’s right. Yeah! So, in the first segment here that we’re going to introduce, David starts by talking about COVID-19 and just the craziness of this season. And he’s going to emphasize the need for intimacy with the Lord. CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. He does. You know, one of the things about observing him as I have over the last couple of years is, you know, he’s the real deal in terms of his walk with Jesus. He’s admirable in that regard and he really is striving for intimacy with God all of the time. And so, I’m challenged by that just by interactions with him. But to hear him talk about you know a season like this even more our focus should be on intimacy with the Father and yeah, so, he talks about that’s really compelling to me. And so, I wanted to include it in here and even start out our conversation today with that.JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah, let’s jump into that. Let’s hear a word from our sponsor, and then we’ll go straight into this first segment on intimacy with the Lord.CLINT CLIFTON: So much of what we do these days in ministry today takes place online. So, we need somebody to help us with the digital aspects of our ministry. Well I found a great partner in oneeightydigital.com. These guys are ministry guys, they love the gospel and they love the church and they’re super good at what they do. So I want to encourage you to go to over and check out their website it’s oneeightydigital.com. They do all kinds of stuff and they work with big and small churches. So, right now, they’re offering our listeners 20% off of any website or branding project just for mentioning the church planting podcast. So, go over to their website and check it out – oneeightydigital.comDAVID PLATT: Just think about yeah, where God has you, where God has me. He’s given us a leadership mantle and it can often times feel like lonely. Like who else right now really knows all that you’re struggling through? All that I’m struggling through? Like I hope, I trust that we have people in our lives who are honestly sharing with what’s going on in our lives and we were able to be vulnerable to those people. I hope that we always have that. I think the most dangerous times in my life have been when I’ve not had that. I’ve shared before just about one particularly long season in my time at the church of Brook Hills where yeah, I’d written radical. I was selling a bunch of books. I was being asked to preach all over the place. I was really busy in ministry. Doing a lot of stuff but doing it all apart from intimacy with Jesus. Totally apart from intimacy with Jesus. Like I never read the bible throughout that season. Just to read the bible, I read to prepare sermons but that was it! I never prayed just to be with the Lord. I hardly prayed privately. It was bad! And I look back on that time, and I’m so thankful for God’s grace because of all the different directions that this could have gone in. That by His grace, it didn’t go in. But all that to say, like to comeback to this truth like intimacy with God just like you and God. You and God. There’s nothing more essential, valuable, satisfying, there’s nothing better than that! And to realize that and I just praise God for His grace. And it was actually Heather who He used to really wake me up from this really bad place that I was in. And don’t get me wrong, I was working hard. Like working really hard in ministry. But I was totally missing the point. So, anyway, I hope I pray that in these days, like right now, I honestly don’t know around this zoom call where your intimacy with the Lord is, to the extent of which it’s missing. I hope that more than anything else in this call that this is just an encouragement meant to draw back into intimacy with Him.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah so, David, as you heard there, is just encouraging us to intimacy with God and I hope that resonates with you like it resonates with me. I want to be that person that has a close relationship to walk with Jesus you know? Everybody I know who walked closely with Jesus, it’s seen and it’s experienced by those who are around them. By me when I’m around them. It’s in their countenances, it’s in their speech, and man I just want to be the kind of person that my children grow up thinking, “My dad walked with Jesus.” And my wife thinks, “My husband walks with Jesus.” And the people in my church think, “There’s an authenticity in my pastor’s faith. It’s not just his job or the thing he does.” And man, I just hope that that’s true about all of us. JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah, you know, what I appreciate about it as I was thinking on this call with David is that he became popular, maybe is the word. He became popular at the same time as a whole wave of other pastors kind of where called celebrity pastors. And it’s interesting how a lot of those guys have fallen off the boat or aren’t around anymore or aren’t pastoring and yet David is just plugging away. And I think it comes back to this idea of intimacy. He’s the real deal, he loves Jesus, and man, such good stuff! CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. And I’m thinking, in some measure just to speak to that, I think some of the reason that he is still in it with so much light shined on him and his ministry is because he is scared to death of God. You know, he lives in the fear of God you know? It’s not just in the trembling of his voice when he’s preaching, but it’s in his life the trembling of his life before God. I mean he just seems to have like a center of reverence that most of us don’t have. And that’s one of the things I admire about him. But yeah, we’re going to turn now talking about global missions. And so, part of the purpose of the conversation was to really ask the question, “Like how do we global mission in this season?” Has that been a struggle for you Josh?JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. It is. I mean we’re supporting our missionaries but it’s hard without being with the body to like disciple around at. I think it’s really important. But this part of the conversation, I just loved it! I’d never heard this story from David Platt that he’s going to tell here. And this really was inspiring!CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. And you’re going to hear that he’s going to talk about a new category. Most of us are never going to go and become missionaries and reach parts of the world and among unreached people groups. But he’s going to give us category right now that everyone of us can become and will directly impact the spread of the Gospel among the unreached. So, let’s listen to this.DAVID PLATT: I just remembered the first time I ever sat, I was telling somebody about this yesterday, and opened the bible and somebody walked me through from Genesis to Revelations and showed me God’s passion for His glory in all the nations. I was in college at that time. I’ve been a Christian since I was 6 years old as much as I could tell. But I never really seen that at the scripture. And it totally sent my jaw to the ground just like, “This changes everything.” And I started reading “Let the Nations be Glad” by Piper and singing it over and over again in the scripture. And that made me conclude, as I went to seminary, “I think I need to be a missionary.” Because there’s tons of people that I started hearing about this unreached people groups that never heard the Gospel among them nations, among the ethne which I trust you realize that I use nations I’m not just talking about countries. We’re talking about ethnic groups, people groups, tribes, people, we’re just calling them nations those words that we see in scripture not just 200 or so geopolitical entities that we would call countries or nations today. But anyway, I started hearing about unreached people group and I said, “Okay. It’s a no brainer. I need to become a missionary.” And so, the president of the International Mission Board at that time when I was down in New Orleans seminary president of the IMB comes to preach in chapel, I get asked to take him to breakfast. I tell Helen the night before, “I’m taking the president of the IMB to breakfast and like this is my chance to tell him we’re ready to become missionaries. Is that okay with you if I tell him that?” She’s like, “Sure! That’s okay with me.” And we’ve talked about this a good amount. It wasn’t just like random conversation for dinner. So, we prayed like that night and the next morning like with anticipation, I go off, I sit down with Jerry Rankin. I sat down with Dr. Rankin I said, “Dr. Rankin I could see this all over the Word. I see the need in the world.” Just like pouring out my heart. “My wife and I are ready to go as missionaries.” And he looks back to me and for about 60 seconds encourages me to what I just said to him, and then spends the rest of the rest of breakfast talking to me about the need for pastors to shepherd churches among the reached for the spread of the Gospel to the unreached and for pastor just shepherd churches for the spread of God’s glory among all the nations. Well like big picture, my prayer, what’s driving away I think about this practically in McLean Bible church. My prayer, my hope, what I want to work towards is every member of this church living in such a way that if God where to pick them up from Metro DC and put them anywhere in the world, that they would be enabled, equipped, empowered, to make disciples and gather together as a church and be a church without dependence on any programs to do it for them, any professionals to do it for them, with just dependence on the scripture of God and the word of God. That they would know the word and the Spirit are sufficient for that task. And they would know how to do it. So, that’s the big picture that’s driving me. Here’s what I’m thinking about in the days to come. I don’t just want to return to business as usual, like “When are we going to get back to the way things were?” Like, “Yes! I cannot wait to gather together in person like with all with the church like no question.” But we don’t need to do everything we were doing before. Like we have an opportunity. A pretty unique opportunity to reset some things and to rethink some things and make sure as we come back, that we’re focusing what we need to focus on. Let’s not come back and let’s just start instituting everything we did before in ways that actually are not best for making disciples. Like, I want to think through other things we need to do differently. In our leadership, we want to continually evaluate, “Is this the most faithful effective way to make disciples?” And so, especially during these days, let’s think through not just how can we get back to the way things where. Like, how can we step into a new normal? And not just when it comes to, effects of vaccine or treatment or whatever but we’ve got an opportunity to come back together. And as we come back together, to really shape what people think about when it comes to how to make disciples most faithfully and effectively.JOSH TURANSKY: Man! Such good stuff again that David was sharing there. That really was impactful in my own life as I appreciate him sharing the story there from his seminary experience and the thrust. And the cool thing is this is not just story that happened, but he’s lived it! He’s lived it out! He’s doing it. CLINT CLIFTON: When you think about the implications of that conversation like what if David Platt had gone to the mission field, you know? I mean, I don’t know if there’s any in our generation, maybe John Piper, who has been a catalyst for more people going and giving their lives for the spread of the Gospel among the nations. Not to mention the books they’ve written and the sorts of things that they’ve done. So, very impactful conversation that happened with the young seminary student.JOSH TURANSKY: Man, that’s huge! Alright, let’s go into this next section where he’s going to talk about the reached diversity on reach. What were some of the things that you’re hoping that church planters will hear in this section?CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah, I mean he’s really talking about the dichotomy here between you know, loving those people that are right around us and caring for them but maintaining our responsibility to take the Gospel to places where it’s not known to preach Jesus in places where He’s not named. And yeah, he’s kind of making an argument of both and argument for us and you know, I think it’s really easy for us to say, “No. What Jesus wants for us is to reach more people.” When the truth is the great commission panta ta ethne is for us to take the gospel to all the people of the world which he unpacks here for us. And it really isn’t just about reaching more people. It’s about reaching more people according to Jesus’ command.JOSH TURANSKY: Amen! Yeah, great section. Let’s jump right into this third segment that David Platt shares.DAVID PLATT: Like some people could say, “David you’re talking about God’s glory among the nations. Don’t you care about like Washington DC? Like don’t you care about people who are right in front of you?” It’s like, “Yes.” And we don’t have to choose between caring about people in front of us or people far from us. And we actually care about what God cares about. And He cares about people right around us and people far from us. And I think about Jesus like he uses Elise for the Father’s glory among the nations. And he spent most of his life in a pretty isolated geographic area but he was doing something there. He was making disciples in ways that we’re going to reach far beyond that place. And he was doing it towards that end. And so, I would just say in thinking about God’s glory among the nations, how do we make His glory among the nations? Well it starts with making disciples right where God has called us to be. Like every single one of us is tempted to just focus on places that Gospel has gone. I say that because well it’s just reality when you look at missions, resources today from North American churches, 90 plus percent of our resources are spent in places where the Gospel has already gone. What makes them unreached is that they have little to no access to the Gospel. They don’t have people who can share the Gospel with them. They don’t have any churches in a lot of those places. So, hardly any churches that are preaching the Gospel.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah, in this next section you’ll here in the beginning I actually asked David a question about COVID19 you know? Even I said this in the beginning but I sort felt a flatness to my zeal for global mission because I feel like this is just not the right time to talk about global mission when you need to be talking about other things. Right now, people are dealing with so much to just kind of lift their eyes up to the people in other parts of the world who are lost and without Christ is really not going to be helpful right now. It’s not going to be received well by our hearers. But he really turns that on its head in this little segment. And you know, sometimes when you ask somebody question you don’t expect a real substance of answer. But he gives us one here. He gave me one that’s been rattling around in my head for the last 2 weeks since he said it and has really shaped the way I’m talking to people about global mission in this season. JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. I don’t want to steal the thunder but just like you said, it’s been rattling around in my head too so, don’t skip ahead! This is an important segment to listen to. Let’s jump right in! Segment number 4.24:04CLINT CLIFTON: I’m a 100% with you, but I know that to a church planter who’s trying to you know, trying to get their church out of the dirt in a middle of the Corona Virus you know, that seems like sort of a farfetched idea, you know? Even trying to leave my church for the commission at all. Can you think of any like bottom shelf ways to get going in that that you would encourage to lean into?DAVID PLATT: I would say simple bottom shelf ways one, this is why I was hesitant to like even go there today but why I decided to still go here today, in this conversation, that’s what we’re going through right now, because I just want to encourage every brother and sister on this call like, “What you are doing in personal ministry these days and disciple making these days on the smallest level, is a part of a global plan. And so, don’t ever underestimate like the care for like calling up a widow who is immunocompromised and finding out how to best care for her is totally disciple making, shepherding, loving the church for the spread of God’s glory among all the nations. She’s included in that for sure!” And even to go back to Jesus like I mean he spent most of his time with his 12 guys in a way that would made them lead beyond. So, one, don’t underestimate just the things you’re doing are part of the picture. So, if you’re walking with somebody who just lost somebody lost a family member or friend due to COVID19 I don’t think that’s necessarily the time to talk about unreached people in Butan. But to the extent of which it’s appropriate, so that’s what I mean by appropriate, so, one of the things I’m communicating is just think about what we’re walking through, think about urgent spiritual and physical need in the world like welcome to their world! Like there’s so many places in the world where you’re not guaranteed to meet supply, where you’re not guaranteed medical care that can heal you. Like this is a lot of people in the world that are living in a place that there is no cure for the simplest infection that we can get from a CVS even today and they don’t have access to that kind of medical care. And they never heard the Gospel. So, maybe just step into their world a bit. So, one, how can we pray for them? Introduce them to Joshua Project? Introduce them to ways to pray for the nations through that? And then two, just think through you know? Again, as appropriate. If somebody just lost their job and their trying to think, “How am I going to put food on the table for my family?” It’s probably not the best time to press in and say, “Yeah. How are you going to sacrifice more for the unreached in the world?” But at the same time, I was doing something last week with people who are living in slums and their sacrificing for the spread of the Gospel among people around them. So, I just think it’s a part of discipleship that we don’t want to neglect at any point. How to appropriately do that beyond this time? I would say there probably is! Some pulling back and pressing in really hard there. But always seeing what we’re doing on a day in day out basis as a part of the bigger picture and looking for way for us to connect to the bigger picture. I think we always want to do that.JOSH TURANSKY: Man, what a great paradigm to present. And it’s so true that people that we’re pastoring have had this taste of suffering that is a normal universal experience. And I love the fact that he brought this out. And it is so true and it’s a great way to capitalize on this moment. Why was it rattling around in your head Clint?CLINT CLIFTON: Well, just first of all, it’s just frustrating that there are people in this world that can see things like that when the rest of us can’t, you know? Why weren’t we all innately given the ability to like see that sliver of truth to highlight to people? Because man it is so great. The truth is maybe it actually changed the conversation for me from “This is a bad time to talk about global mission.” to “This is the perfect time to talk about global mission.” Because we are living in a Hosea kind of way. We are living the example that God wants to teach to us. I mean we are experiencing maybe for the first time in all of our lives as Americans, fear of you know, where’s are food going to come from? What’s going to happen to us economically? Are we going to be able to sustain ourselves? Are we going to have jobs? The fears that much of the world lives with daily. And I just think, after hearing him say that, “Man, what a cool opportunity it is for our people to gain a heart of empathy for those that need Jesus around the world.JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. Brilliant! Brilliant! Let’s talk about this next segment, the final segment, number 5. I can’t remember if we asked him or he just started talking about faithfulness but this is really good.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah, I don’t remember either but it is good. And I feel like this conversation happens a lot. I mean I’ve had many conversations about faithfulness. Matter fact, in church planting circles, we end up saying the phrase “successful church planter” or “unsuccessful church planter” a lot just because you know, it’s one of those things. If a guy goes and pastors an existing church, and the church is still there when he quits or gets fired or whatever, he’s been you know, in some measure, successful. Difficult to measure his success. I guess you can look at the numeric side of the church from when he left and stuff like that. But it’s not really something that happens in existing churches. But church planting is so raw. I mean if you go out to start a church and a year later there’s church there and you were successful, if it’s not there, then you are not successful. And so, I think we and up talking about success or failure a lot. And anytime that conversation comes up, there’s always somebody in the room who says you know, well, you know, “What does success mean really?” You know, they question the sort of world view of success which they should! It should be undermined. And David addresses that head on here. But he not only does that, but he goes further to tell us how he has interpreted success over the years and what it looks like specifically for him to be faithful. I never heard him say these things and it was helpful for me to think you know, I wonder if I have particular you know, kind of thoughts or ideals in my life that I say, “I’m doing this things that I am a success in God’s eyes.” “I am successful.” You know?JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. Really good! Really good! So, let’s jump right in to this fifth segment. I love what he says here.DAVID PLATT: Only God can bring about disciples. Only God can bring new churches. Only God can bring about this that even spiritual growth in Christ only God can bring about. Now we can be faithful to do x things in order to work towards that. So, let’s clearly identify, what are the x things we can be faithful to do and then work out those. Last thing I’d say here, three things that have always come on my mind when it comes to faithfulness, I want to work hard at the things God’s told me to do, I want to work smart at the things God’s told me to do, and number three I want to trust God. Work hard, work smart, trust God. So, work really hard. I don’t want to be lazy! I say I don’t want to overwork in ways too but I want to work hard at the things God’s told me to do. I want to work smart just because I’m preaching the word, there might be ways I can think about preaching more effectively. And so, I want to think through those. So that’s the work smart. I want to care for every member of the church during this time. There might be smarter ways to do that, then do that. I want to connect with people who are far from Christ. So, what are the best ways to do that? So, work smart. And then if we’re working hard and working smart, then we can trust God. We can defer that to God.JOSH TURANSKY: Alright! So, there we go. That’s a word from David Platt. You know, because this podcast is primarily sponsored by New City Network and that is an arm of McLean Bible church where David Platt is a pastor, we have this unique access to David in that way and so, I just really appreciate you taking in and leveraging the relationship so that we can share this with the broader church planting audience.CLINT CLIFTON: Yeah. Thank you. Well, I mean like I said, this isn’t a commercial for David Platt. But like what I said at the beginning, he is the real deal. There’re many people that I’ve gotten to know in the ministry world that as I get to know them, the less I’m impressed with them and David’s not that guy. I’ve been more impressed with him and I’ve been challenged to follow Jesus in ways that I’m not generally when I hang out with pastors. Yeah, hope that we can all learn from this and we don’t get to say this very much but I so appreciate McLean Bible and their investment in this. They don’t have to do this. They don’t have to make it possible for us to have a podcast or you know, to train church planters or to invest in church planters but McLean Bible is so incredibly generous. And it’s so crazy because for so long I know you haven’t been in the Washington area long enough to understand this, but for so long the church not only wasn’t supportive of church planting. It kind of had a posture against it. And so, you know, it’s just been amazing to watch the leadership their starting with Lon Solomon, their previous pastor, that you know, under conviction from the Lord and response to the scripture, beginning to turn the trajectory of the church towards multiplication and mission. And now it’s in to the point that it’s embedded there in their mission statement. That they exist to glorify God by disciples and multiplying churches beginning in greater Washington DC. And so, it’s very cool to be a part of. It’s exciting to see a large church that they could do really anything they want from a resource stand point, put their energy into churches.JOSH TURANSKY: Amen! Amen. I’m grateful too! I’m just so blessed to see the example that they’re leading with and its good stuff. Good stuff! CLINT CLIFTON: Well that’s just fine Josh. Thanks!JOSH TURANSKY: Yeah. Thanks Clint.CLINT CLIFTON: Where do church planters come from? Well they don’t come from seminaries and they don’t come from a factory. Church Planters come from congregations. Their developed by Pastors who love and are prepared for Gospel ministry and sent out. But many churches don’t know where to begin and many Pastors are overwhelmed with the day to day duties of Pastoral ministry and don’t have time to put together a robust training program for the people in their congregation to be equipped. The North American Nation Board is helping with this. They have developed a thing called the Multiplication Pipeline. And it’s a three-level training course that takes place through multiple years for you to have the material and the guidance to get somebody in your congregation ready for church planting. The Multiplication Pipeline is available on NAMB’s website. You can find it at namb.net/pipelineALBERT: Thank you for listening to the church planting podcast. Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review on your favorite podcast app.JOSH TURANSKY: Today’s episode of the church planting podcast is sponsored by New City Network, The Church Planting Ministry of McLean Bible. A special thanks to today’s guest Pastor David Platt. Josh Turansky produced todays show. Zukey Bastien was our show runner and her husband Nick was our editor. Thanks to Hudson Turansky who provided administrative and web support for the program and last but not least thanks to you for listening through all the way through to the very end of the church planting podcast. If you’d like more information about the show feel free visit our website www.churchplantingpodcast.org. There you can find all of our past episodes as well as notes and links from today’s show. We’re also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter so check us out there on the social. And be sure to tune in next week for another episode of the church planting podcast.

111: So often we see couples get burned out a few months before their wedding, because they forget their "why". Kimberly Allen is here to remind couples to keep their "why" at the center of the whole wedding planning process. To use it to create a vision of the memories that you are creating, and avoid getting caught up in the stress of people pleasing. Kimberly shares real tools and strategies that will help couples to create the memories they want, without burning themselves out! https://www.instagram.com/somethingfabulous http://www.somethingfab.com About Kimberly Allen, Something Fabulous — There aren’t many event professionals who can say they got their start in the circus, so Kimberly wears that experience like a badge of honor. With a background in technical theatre design, she launched her career in the entertainment industry as a jack-of-all-trades with the Big Apple Circus, Ringling Bros., and Barnum and Bailey. It was there that she got a taste for experiential design and the wonder of turning an average event into something spectacular. In the late 90s, she left the road to pursue special event services and never looked back. By 2002, she cofounded TurnKey Productions which then evolved into Something Fabulous just two years later. Today, Kimberly serves as the Chief Experience Officer, having transformed the award-winning company from a standard planning and design firm to one that is entrenched in Experience Design. With her process-driven concept and a taste for the extraordinary, she is dedicated to the mission of changing the conversation around how celebrations are planned and executed. Her electric personality and high levels of energy are contagious, whether she’s taking the stage at an industry event or hitting the dance floor (which she frequents weekly). She is passionate about creating a sense of community and opening up conversations, which has served her well for connecting with peers in an industry that is always evolving. Kimberly’s commitment to clients, guests and the industry has led to a number of recognitions for Something Fabulous. She and her team have been honored with NACE awards for design and planning services each year. Something Fabulous has also been recognized as one of the Top 25 Best Women-Owned Businesses by Working Mother Magazine, Top 14 Best Event Design, Planning Companies in Metro DC by PartySlate and was recognized as one of the top 1,000 people in events by BizBash. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/your-i-do-crew/support

This week's tasty show is a bonus! Listen to an exclusive Taste Test Live podcast interview with multi-instrumentalist, producer and Zo! – who dropped by the station to promote his new LP “Fourfront” and discussed working with Phonte, LittleBrother, Carmen Rodgers, Madison Mcferrin, Sy Smith and producing The Foreign Exchange Major shout out to Al Pete, the mastermind who orchestrated bringing an underrated producer to our city & to the sultry Megan Baker (MJbaker) for being an awesome co-host. Follow “Taste Test Live” where ever you listen to your podcast! Taste Test Live is executive produced by Damien Lamar and produced by Professorclock Media.   About Zo! 1. Detroit-born, Metro DC-based musician/producer Lorenzo Ferguson. 2. An exceptionally talented multi-instrumentalist who claims the piano/keyboard as his primary instrument, but is self-taught on the bass guitar, the drums, and most recently the guitar. 3. A Musical Architect who utilizes all sound elements to form original compositions that can be classified under no single genre of music.Though largely known for his solo work and a catalog that dates back to 2001, Zo! has collaborated with a variety of artists from the likes of GRAMMY-winning musician/producer/musical director Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, two-time GRAMMY-nominated singer/songwriter Eric Roberson, Phonte, Anthony David and Sy Smith to Slum Village, Platinum Pied Pipers and Little Brother. In 2008, he became the Musical Director for the touring band that accompanies GRAMMY-nominated duo The Foreign Exchange.After relocating from Michigan to Maryland on February 10, 2006, Zo! released what would become the first in a series of three remake EPs entitled, ...just visiting. At the end of 2006, Zo! completed the production work for yet another instrumental album, Freelance - a 15-track creative spectrum of work once again showcases Zo!'s abilities not only as a talented multi-instrumentalist but as a dedicated composer who has a deep appreciation for the art of creating music.As 2005 came to a close, Zo! met and began working with Phonte Coleman (then of Little Brother). Little did they know, a solid working foundation was being built for what would lead to larger-scaled future collaborations with Zo! contributing production work to Little Brother on their 2007 Getback album ("When Everything Is New") and The Foreign Exchange's acclaimed 2008 Leave It All Behind LP ("If She Breaks Your Heart"), their 2010 Authenticity LP ("Fight For Love"), and their 2013 release Love In Flying Colors ("Listen To The Rain"). In the summer of 2008, Zo! and Phonte teamed up to release their limited edition album and ode to 80's music entitled Zo! & Tigallo Love the 80's.   Official Website: https://zo3hree5ive.com/ Follow Zo! on Social Media Twitter: https://twitter.com/zo3hree5ive Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zo3hree5ive.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZoMusic FourFront album • Music for @ShermansShow • Score for #TheTakeover • #MakingSkyBreak Documentary • #FEMusic • Booking: Zack Johnson - zack@empireagency.com.   The views and opinions expressed are those of the host and talent of “Taste Test” or the “Taste Test Live” podcast and in no way represent the views, positions, and opinions expressed or implied of WJCT. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tastetestlive/message

Lauren Bosch ’12 SPS (Hotel & Tourism Management) was an RA in Third North. As an RA she had internships at Hotel Indigo, Gansevoort Hotel Group, and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts. Her first full-time position upon graduation was with the Westin Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She worked in Sales and Business Travel & Group Sales. For the past six years, Lauren has five roles with Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, all in the Metro DC area. She was promoted to the position of Area Director of Sales & Marketing, which is a remarkable trajectory for someone at this phase of their career.

We sit down with X, May and Brian and we get into the nitty gritty of the past week. I wanted to talk about things I saw this past week and also we educate ourselves higher. This week includes: Joel Embiid Crying, Stan Lee was being abused, 11 year old fights neo nazis, Game of Thrones, Racoon on a Boat, James Charles and Tati Westbrook, Metro DC incident, Racist Promposal, Mortal Kombat 11, Little Mermaid

On this episode, Joel speaks with Ashik Siddique, a member of the DSA Ecosocialist Working Group and the Metro DC chapter. They discuss ecosocialism, degrowth, internationalism, and whether an environmentally oriented social democracy would be prudent given the timelines of climate change.   If you'd like to learn more about the DSA's Ecosocialist group, check them out here and on Twitter!   If you enjoy our show, consider becoming a supporter at patreon.com/michiganrobin.

Jeannie continues fielding live questions as they come in...picking markets, starting to syndicate deals, building your credibility, real estate meet ups in Metro DC area, and the clock starts when the LOI is accepted.

We have arrived at Episode #50! Woo-hoo! I want to thank you the listener for your continued support as we've grown the podcast over the past year. It's been a labor of love and I appreciate the positive words of encouragement some of our listeners have shared.  You can send your feedback to   We're celebrating Episode #50 with a very special guest. closed 560 loans in 2016 and ranks as the #1 VA lender in Metro DC, Top 100 on Scotsman Guide and Top 1% of Originators in America. Rick and I agree that most relationships between Loan Officers and Realtors is, quite frankly, broken. In his newly released book, , Rick offers his solution for fixing how loan officers, Realtors, and Loan Officers can create partnerships that accelerate business and growth for long-term results. Hang out and listen as Rick shares his systems and process for designing a business that allows you to still have a life while scaling your volume. Resources and Links Mentioned: Rick's Book:

In celebration of Black History Month, we share a lively conversation with one of DHG’s superstars – Keon Stevenson. Keon shares with us how mentoring has helped him progress in his career and what he is doing to help others through formal and informal mentoring opportunities. Keon is a manager in our Metro DC market.

DHG proudly supports the American Heart Association’s efforts to build awareness about heart disease and heart issues by participating in the 15th annual National Wear Red Day on February 3rd. This podcast features Brian Carlton, Market Managing Partner from Metro DC.  Upon learning that he had heart rhythm disorders, Brian made significant lifestyle changes. He shares with us his journey and his perspective on proactively addressing health issues and changes.

Introducing Wallace Henry

Should architects design as well as build the projects they work on? Francisca Alonso thinks so. Ten years ago she started her architecture firm AV Architects in the Metro DC area. She found that the great relationships she had created while designing her clients' projects turned sour in the hands of a contractor. Instead of handing off the project, she decided to build her clients' projects. Watch this video to find out why she says offering construction services was the best thing that happened to her architecture firm. Now they offer to build their architect projects, not just design them. Click here to read more about Architect Led Design Build with Francisca Alonso

Inauguration Updates Live from DC and Atlanta. Special report from US Capitol area in DC by Dona Jones of Deja Vu Photography. Ms. Jones was a  volunteer for select Pre Inaugural events. Additional comments from retired MD and Metro DC school teacher Martha Jones. Hear prayer by Myrlie Evers, Pres. Obama and VP Biden swearing in and more. Enjoy your glimpse of history in the making!  

Sharon J. Burton is a Metro Washington, DC area visual artist and independent curator. She is the Founder and Creative Director of Authentic Contemporary Art (2006-2011) which integrated social justice themed exhibitions as a way to promote visual art and to connect collectors to emerging and undiscovered visual artists in the Metro DC area.  In 2011, she launched The Artinista Art Advisory to provide art consultancy services for professional women. Sharon served as a the first art curator for the Tubman-Mahan Art Gallery within the Center for Green Urbanism in Washington, DC from 2010-2011 and the curatorial advisor to Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe, an “organic art space exhibiting an evolving mix of local, outsider, visionary, and world cultural artwork” located in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sharon has also served as an art curator, consultant, juror or intern to a variety of organizations and venues in the Washington, DC area including the former Ramee Art Gallery in Washington, DC, Creative Artisans Art Consultancy of Baltimore, Maryland, Overdue Recognition Art Gallery of Bowie, Maryland, The Millennium Art Salon, Washington, DC, Liberated Muse Productions, DC Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art and the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, DC.