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Send us a textJake Barnes interviews Michael Bloom, a dedicated firefighter with a rich background in the fire service. They discuss Michael's unconventional journey into firefighting, the challenges he faced transitioning from a volunteer to a career firefighter, and the importance of leadership and mentorship in the fire service. Michael shares valuable insights on setting expectations, professionalism, and the significance of being a role model for younger firefighters. The conversation emphasizes the importance of community service and personal growth within the firefighting profession.takeawaysMichael Bloom's journey into firefighting was unconventional and driven by personal responsibility.The importance of being a role model for children and others in the community.Firefighting offers unique benefits, but it comes with significant responsibilities.Experiences in a toxic work environment can shape one's leadership style positively or negatively.Setting clear expectations for performance is crucial in a firefighting team.Professionalism in appearance and conduct can impact community perception.Mentorship plays a vital role in developing future firefighters.Training and continuous improvement are essential for personal and team growth.The quickest response times can significantly affect community safety.Leadership should focus on developing skills and fostering a positive work environment.Sound Bites"I have no idea, I'm not having a great time.""I wanted to join the air force to get...""Firefighting is the best job in the world."Chapters00:00Introduction to Michael Blum02:46Michael's Journey to Firefighting06:52The First Fire Experience09:42Transitioning from Volunteer to Career Firefighter13:05Challenges in Early Career15:44Leadership Philosophy and Mentorship21:03The Role of Company Officers25:21Setting Expectations and Professionalism29:34season5 outro.mp4Email me at 3pointFirefighter@Gmail.ComCheck out our Facebook Page 3 point Firefighter Podcasthttps://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560769894306YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAv_hMC8vxrurhIunXtaJXg3 PFF Merchhttps://3-point-firefighter.printify.me/products #JakeBarnes,#3Pointfirefighter

Michael Bloom and the Blues Prophecy - Old Man BluesCory Luetjen & The Traveling Blues Band - Whiskey Drinking WomanDirty Sweet - Battered LoveEd Sheeran - Make It RainLuca Giordano - Don't Ever Leave MeRoscoe Chenier - Love Is Like A HammerSoupbone – MistakenTammie Shannon - I've Got Nothing To Say But If I Did

In this episode of the Sharing Without Shame podcast, host Donna Marston welcomes Michael Bloom, the founder of Snappbandz, as her guest. The podcast is dedicated to parents and loved ones of individuals in active addiction, aiming to break down stigma and foster understanding through storytelling. Key Points Discussed: Introduction to Snappbandz: Michael Bloom explains how Snappbandz, stylish bracelets that combat negativity, help individuals shift focus and manage their mindset. Donna shares her personal experience with the band, emphasizing its daily use and the comfort it brings. Michael's Personal Story: Michael opens up about his life, sharing that he is a regular person—a father, husband, son, and brother—who works hard to support his family. He discusses the various sources of stress and anxiety, including work, relationships, finances, and even the news. Michael emphasizes that life is inherently stressful and that anxiety is a common experience shared by many. Universal Struggles with Anxiety: Michael addresses the misconception that anxiety only affects adults, highlighting that it impacts individuals of all ages, including school-aged children. He stresses that anxiety does not discriminate and is a pervasive issue across different demographics. Inspiration to Act: The staggering statistic of over 40 million Americans diagnosed with anxiety motivated Michael to take action. He shares his realization that the anxiety epidemic is a national crisis, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This prompted him to create Snappbandz as a tool to help people manage their mental health. Support and Solidarity: Both Donna and Michael emphasize the importance of understanding that no one is alone in their struggles. They encourage listeners to share their stories without shame, fostering a community of support and resilience. Throughout the episode, Donna and Michael engage in a heartfelt discussion about the challenges of living with anxiety and the importance of mental health tools like Snappbandz. They inspire listeners to embrace their vulnerabilities and support one another in their journeys towards inner peace and emotional well-being. Tune in to the Sharing Without Shame podcast for more inspiring stories of hope, resilience, and healing. Join Donna Marston and her guests as they continue to share their stories without shame. Sponsor: Experience Inner Peace with Calming Therapy Bracelets Website: ⁠https://snappbandz.com/

#prison #jail #prisondocumentary Inmates in North Dakota prison perform at Hip Hop and Hope event with Michael Bloom, and E.i. the King...SUBSCRIBE TO CHANNELThe Incarceration Podcast YouTube Channel:https://www.youtube.com/ @TheIncarcerationPodcast Patreon for Exclusive Content:https://patreon.com/user?u=92069239&utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkE.i. the King Official Music YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@eithekingE.i. the King Music:Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/e-i-the-king/1608372111Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3dsm2Sbz5i18pXDTjWSzZO?si=Uq-c-K2ASKO_Fe-nj1EdFwLet Me Talk BRO Podcast:https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvycd9djLaU3FiGYtnDY9cAsRFWRKFiUoSocial Media:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eitheking_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eithekingTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eitheking_All Links (LinkTree):https://linktr.ee/3eithekingContact Me (Booking/Schedule Interview):eithekingbooking@gmail.comWebsite:https://www.blockhustle.org/00:00 Intro1:00 Hip and Hope Prison Event2:45 E.i. the King Performing7:20 Inmates Performing | Rapping & Poetry20:57 Inmate Baptism 27:11 Inmate Interviews 28:08 Event Wrap Up28:40 Michael Bloom Event Overview

My guest for Episode #258 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Michael Bloom, Chief Executive Officer & Founder of Praktio, an online learning company whose mission is “to create space for learning through mistakes.” Episode page with transcript, video, and more Before leaving to run Praktio full time, Michael was the founding director of the Transactional Lab & Clinic, an experiential program at the University of Michigan Law School. Michael is the co-author of two books on contracts from a transactional perspective: Contracts and Commercial Transactions and Contracts: A Transactional Approach. Michael earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and earned his B.A. with highest distinction from the University of Michigan, where he studied American history. This episode focuses on Michael's journey from being a clinical professor to founding Praktio. By creating an environment that promotes learning through mistakes, Michael has challenged traditional paradigms and aligned his unique educational model with the evolving needs of learners in a fast-paced, information-rich world. His entrepreneurial venture, peppered with a fair share of mistakes, has yielded invaluable insights that have guided the development of a highly effective educational model that thrives on constructive feedback and the power of mistakes. Questions and Topics: Is it a mistake to listen to ALL feedback equally? Did you fear it might be a mistake to leave the law school and go full time into Praktio? How do law firms react to mistakes?  Framed as learning opportunities or something shameful? Tell us more about the Praktio story and product… Make mistakes in a safe environment to avoid the real one? Learning from the mistakes made by others now? What are some common or bad mistakes that could be made with contracts? Preventing mistakes vs. more senior inspecting the work? LinkedIn Profile: “Make mistakes and learn from them” As CEO, how do you think about mistakes INTERNAL to Praktio? Cultivating a culture of learning from mistakes? Learning from the mistakes of other entrepreneurs?

An avid tennis and golf player, real estate agent Michael Bloom joins us to discuss his road into real estate and how his world experience has been a great impact on his life. Michael's beginnings started here in So Cal, more specifically in Hidden Hills. He has a love for Japanese culture that was started with his interest in Japanese cartoons as a child. He even lived and studied abroad in Japan. He shares his previous experience with running his family-owned rehab center and the impact addiction has, not only on individuals but on families. He also remains an avid traveler. How did the pandemic affect the real estate industry? What market trends is he currently seeing? Where does he see himself traveling to next?CLICK HERE for more information about Michael Bloom.CLICK HERE for more information about The Agency. 

I'm just going to say it....history matters....On this very special episode we get a chance to dive into the life of one of those names in comedy world that isn't all that well known, but probably should be.  It's time to talk about an iconic comedy writer who wrote for National Lampoon and Saturday Night Live back in their heyday, it's the one and only Anne Beatts.We sat down with her friend and longtime producing partner Eve Brandstein as well as the CEO of Solaris Entertainment, Michael Bloom who are both in the process of producing on a documentary about Anne.They gave us some insight into the industry, talked about Anne's legacy, their work on the documentary and so very much more....

Show #997 On Time On Saturday 01. McKinley James - Right On Time (3:23) (Still Standing By, Red Lodge Records, 2021) 02. Steven Troch - Saturday Night (2:44) (Nice 'N' Greasy, Sing My Title, 2016) 03. Dave and Phil Alvin - Saturday Night Rub (2:08) (Common Ground, Yep Roc, 2014) 04. Michael Bloom & the Blues Prophecy - Time On My Hands (3:41) (Whisper In The Wind, self-release, 2019) 05. Lawrence Lebo - On Time (4:26) (The Best Of Don't Call Her Larry: Blues Mix, On The Air Records, 2012) 06. Herman Brood & His Wild Romance - Saturday Night (3:41) (Shpritsz, Ariola Records, 1978) 07. Herman Brood - Saturday Night (3:41) (Back On The Corner, BMG/Ariola Records, 1999) 08. King King - Wait On Time (6:26) (Live, Manhaton Records, 2016) 09. Jean-Jaques Milteau - At Last On Time (5:54) (Live Hot n' Blue, Universal Music, 2007) 10. Old Ramblers - Saturday Blues (2:56) (Find Me On The Road Somewhere, Bone Union Records, 2020) 11. Marshall Lawrence - Another Saturday Night (3:53) (House Call, self-release, 2013) 12. Miss Lily Moe & the Gamblers - Rockin' On Saturday Night (2:49) (Wine Is Fine, Rhythm Bomb Records, 2018) 13. William Clarke - Saturday Night Blues (2:40) (Groove Time, Alligator Records, 1994) 14. Spirit - Right On Time (2:46) (Feedback, Epic Records, 1972) 15. Terry Garland - Soapbox Saturday Night (3:33) (Whistling In The Dark, Silvermoon Records, 2006) 16. Ruby Turner - One Time Around (3:29) (Guilty, Indigo, 1996) 17. Johnny & the Mongrels - Saturday Night In Oak Grove Louisiana (2:50) (Creole Skies, self-release, 2020) 18. Richard van Bergen & Rootbag - Right On Time (2:36) (Walk On In, Naked Productions, 2017) 19. Richville - Right On Time (3:09) (Raw, Tub Thumper Records, 2021) 20. Johnny Wheels & The Swamp Donkeys - This Time (6:07) (Keep On Pushin', Lightning In A Bottle Records, 2022) 21. Guy Forsyth - Saturday Night (3:36) (Live At Gruene Hall, Small & Nimble Records, 2010) 22. Julie C Myers - Your Time Is Through (3:21) (Rock on/Fearless Journey, self-release, 2015) 23. Tinsley Ellis & the Heartfixers - Time To Quit (9:33) (Cool On It, Alligator Records, 1986) 24. Benjamin Adair Murphy - How Are We Doing On Time (2:25) (Let's Make a King, self-release, 2020) 25. Merle Travis - Saturday Night Shuffle (2:06) (Hot Pickin', Primo Records, 2010) Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. Thank you.

Before starting Hip Hope & Hope, Michael Bloom (aka the "Donut Cop") served as an officer with the Fargo Police Department and developed a deep passion for incarcerated youth. In this episode, Michael talks with Pastors Josh and Jenaye about how that passion led him to leave his career in law enforcement and start an organization whose mission is to bring the gospel and community resources to incarcerated people. For more info or to give, visit Hiphopandhopetours.com. 

Skyler from Thunder Coffee joined us back in studio for another full cup conversation with former police officer now founder of Hip Hop And Hope's Michael Bloom!  As the organization approaches their first anniversary we get to the story,  the need, the goals, and more!  Check out our chat! 

In this week's episode, we have not one, but two guests who have been in the hobby of collecting pens for much longer than Tom and I combined. Mario Campa and Michael Bloom run the New York Metropolitan Pen Show (formerly known as the Long Island Pen Show). From squirting ink all over each other in grade school to selling five-figure fountain pens in the hot basement of a Times Square hotel, they've seen it all. It's an enlightening conversation into the business of running a pen show (spoiler: it's not as easy as you think!).   The next NY Metropolitan Pen Show will be held at Hofstra University in Long Island on April 22-23. More information can be found at nypenshow.com   If you'd like to shop for a new pen or try to get Tom fired, head over to our retail sponsor, Goldspot Pens at: https://goldspot.com/?aff=3 Use promo code ODDO to get an additional 10% off throughout the Goldspot Pens store. *Excludes Sailor, Retro 51, Montblanc, Visconti, Edison Pen Co., Narwhal, and TWSBI products.* Also, be sure to put #firetom in the order comments and you might get a special Pentertainment Podcast sticker with your order.   The new Endless Pen companions are here to take your precious pens on an adventure. Available in 2, 3, or 5-pen storage capacities, these genuine leather pen pouches are adjustable to fit pens of any size! Coming soon at your favorite fine pen retailers.   Don't forget to check out brlcoffeeco.com for the latest and greatest in coffee from my good friend Neil. Also, be sure to use coupon code "roy" at checkout to score extra savings on all products on the brlcoffeeco.com website!

Michael Bloom is the CEO of Praktio, a platform that helps junior lawyers at law firms learn how to draft contracts, which is used by over 50 of the AM Law 200. Michael graduated from Yale Law into the Financial Crisis and took a voluntary deferral from Sidley Austin.Rather than twiddling his thumbs, Michael found a role teaching a clinical contracts course at U of Chicago Law School. That course turned into coauthoring a textbook on contracts and ultimately with some hops and jumps and more hops over to launching Praktio.If you're graduating law school now or worried about what's happening in the current economic environment, you might take comfort from the fact that often what we're not expecting ends up taking us down paths that prove to be fruitful and that we may not have anticipated to begin with.This week, Tuesday, December 6th at 6:00 PM, EST, Raleigh Williams from Episode 15 is going to be leading a free workshop on investing in small businesses for busy lawyers.If you want to attend or learn about future workshops like this email me at Joseph@excellentatlife.com.I'm also going to be launching a newsletter shortly called Excellent at Life: A Personal Growth Newsletter for Attorneys and Other Humans. You can sign up for it by emailing me at Joseph@excellenatlife.com or going to ExcellentAtLife.com (will be live shortly). If you have input, criticism, or guest suggestions (including yourself) for the podcast, shoot me an email at Joseph@excellentatlife.com. Connect to me on LinkedIn here and say hello Follow me on Twitter here and I'll follow you backCheck out GetSomeClass.com for fun team activities and wellness programming.In the meantime, may you walk your own winding path well.Joseph Gerstel

Last December, the ASCE International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure brought sustainabilty thought leaders from around the world together. And now, ASCE has published a book collecting selected papers from the conference. In episode 112 of the ASCE Plot Points podcast, the book's co-editor Michael Bloom, P.E., ENV SP, M.ASCE, discusses the special collection and what he calls a "tipping point" for the state of sustainable infrastructure.

Michael Bloom is a police officer with the Fargo Police Department and is starting a non-profit called "Hip Hop and Hope." He has a passion to share the love and hope of Jesus Christ with everyone he meets - specifically those incarcerated and those in at-risk situations. Mike is a walking love-bomb and has the best stories. In this episode, Mike shares a bit of his redemption story and how God has used him to help rewrite narratives in the community of Fargo and beyond. Follow Mike on Instagram | @officer_bloomFollow us on InstagramSubscribe to us on YoutubePodcast Music: Electric Ten by Broke in SummerGoing Somewhere is a resource of Northview ChurchStephen's Instagram & Blog

Mississippi MacDonald (That's It I Quit (Radio Edit)); Hans Theessink and Big Daddy Wilson (Pay Day); Lowell Fulson (Pay Day Blues); Frankie Lee Sims (Raggedy And Dirty); Jerimiah Marques and The Blue Aces (What Will Lucy Do); Little Charlie and The Nightcats (I Don't Drink Much); Johnny Shines (Ramblin' On My Mind); Sam Mitchell (Hellhound On My Trail); Dr. Harp's Medicine Band (Doctor Write Me A Prescription For The Blues); Marcia Ball (Hurricane On China Lake); Quique Gomez and Luca Giordano (Woman Don't Lie); Spider John Koerner (Things Ain't Right); Tommy Johnson (Lonesome Home Blues (Take 1, unissued)); Houston Stackhouse (Big Road Blues); Michael Bloom and The Blues Prophesy (No Luck At All); Kern Pratt (Somewhere South Of Memphis).

In this episode of the Contract Teardown Show by Law Insider, law professor turned online educator, Michael Bloom, walks through the confidentiality section of Microsoft's Partner Network Agreement. He balances a contract drafter's desire to use broadly applicable principles with the need for precise language. So, let's tear it down.

This episode of Fleet Momentum is sponsored by and created in partnership with Smartwitness

This episode of Fleet Momentum is sponsored by and created in partnership with SmartWitness

Remember the Y2K scare? At the time, many people worried airplanes would fall from the sky and every bit of digital data ever collected would simply vanish. As it happened, very little changed that winter night January 31, 1999. Come the spring of 2022, however, when some wireless service providers start turning off their 3G networks, some older technology will quit working. Our guest, Michael Bloom, vice president of product and marketing for video and telematics provider, SmartWitness, explains what will happen when they throw the switch, and how fleets can avoid getting left in the digital dark. SmartWitness AT&T Phasing Out 3G Verizon: Get Your Fleet Ready for the 3G to 4G Transition Follow HDT on social media: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn

This episode of Fleet Momentum is sponsored by and created in partnership with SmartWitness

Alison Eakle is the EVP and Head of Creative Development at Shondaland. We discuss how imagining movie posters makes her a better creative exec, being a co-EP on Netflix's #1 show Bridgerton, why she's racked up so many recent promotions, and being part of new Hollywood's most groundbreaking streamer partnerships. Subscribe to our newsletter. We explore the intersection of media, technology, and commerce: sign-up linkLearn more about our market research and executive advisory: RockWater websiteFollow The Come Up on Twitter: @TCUpodEmail us: tcupod@wearerockwater.com---EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Chris Erwin:Hi, I'm Chris Erwin. Welcome to The Come Up, a podcast that interviews entrepreneurs and leaders. Alison Eakle:I'll never forget there was... The current assistant had put out a job posting. And how this works in Hollywood is you'll see jobs on things called tracking boards or emailed chains, but they always say, "No phone calls, please. Just email your resume." Right? And I was like, "I'm going to call him." And I did. And I just called him and I was like, "Look, I did not come up through the agency feed. I don't have the required experience, but I swear to God the desk I'm on is harder than any agency desk you can imagine. And I'll tell you why if you meet me for like 15 minutes." So we did. We literally met in the middle of the lot at Paramount. He was like, "You know what? I think my boss would like you." Chris Erwin:This week's episode features Alison Eakle, the EVP and Head of Creative Development at Shondaland. Alison grew up on the Jersey shore, actually my same hometown. She loved the arts since an early age, traveling to New York City for auditions as a young teenager, but she was planning to give it all up at Georgetown for career in politics until she had a breakthrough moment in her screenwriting class. Alison went on to get her MFA at UT Austin and then had roles in some of the most exciting production houses in Hollywood, from Paramount Vantage to Columbia Pictures and working for Ellen DeGeneres. Then a serendipitous moment took her to Shondaland where her career has been on fire. Some highlights of our chat include how imagining movie posters makes her a better creative exec, being a co EP and Netflix is number one show bridging that where she's racked up so many recent promotions and being part of new Hollywood's most groundbreaking streamer partnerships. All right, let's get into it. Alison, thanks for being on the podcast. Alison Eakle:Thanks for having me, Chris Erwin Chris Erwin:Very well, Alison Eakle. We got some history between us. Alison Eakle:That's right. Chris Erwin:So let's go back a bit. Where did you grow up? What was your household like? Alison Eakle:So I grew up in Rumson, New Jersey, which is a bit of a towny suburb, as they say, in the Northern part of the Jersey shore obviously. Well, I grew up the only child of Wall Street parents. Parents who had met kind of working at Wall Street in the '70s at a time that I've heard many incredible stories about. And it's interesting because when I was eight, there was a big stock market crash. And my dad was all for Morgan Stanley and my mom inspired him to start their own company, a financial investment advisory firm called Eakle and Associates. And so it's interesting I haven't really thought about that a lot, but I did watch my dad face what is one of my worst fears, that idea of just suddenly everything kind of pulled out from underneath you and I watched them together kind of build something new. Chris Erwin:Did your parents both work for the company? Alison Eakle:Oh yeah. My mom was VP, he was president and basically it was just a three person operation. And my dad, he had clients that he would manage their portfolios, but he put out something called the Eakle Report every week and would have to find really creative ways to talk about the stock market, which Godspeed to him because I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. I have no idea how to talk about the stock market. My mom ran all the logistics, taught herself computers at that time and really brought her up to speed fast. And they had that company for a long time until their divorce, which I have no idea what role the company played in that, but they definitely had it for, it was over 10 years, really successful. So that's kind of like what I grew up in. And I was very privileged. I came from a place of a lot of privilege where I went to private school. Chris Erwin:RCDS? Alison Eakle:RCDS, Rumson Country Day School, big shout outs, still very loyal to that school, that little short brown stone church on the corner. Chris Erwin:Are you still involved with the RCDS community? Like I have the friends from school I'm still in touch with, but I'm not giving back or anything like that. Well, maybe I should rethink it. Alison Eakle:No, I am not as involved as I want to be. I did have like a strange fantasy that one summer I'd go back or one year I'd go back to my 20s and substitute teach there. I don't know where that came from but- Chris Erwin:On the theatrical program? Alison Eakle:Yeah, why not? I'll do so. I love a school play. I love that. I love something roughly adapted from children's literature into strange costumes and children sputtering around on a stage, but it was just such a surreal experience because it was so safe, so incredible. I feel like that experience really formed me even from kindergarten on. And it was across the street from Bruce Springsteen's house. So what a quintessential New Jersey experience really? Chris Erwin:Yeah. I remember walking down Bruce's driveway on Halloween. He always would give out like the supersize snicker bars. Alison Eakle:Yeah. And [inaudible 00:04:44]. Chris Erwin:It was always like, we got to go to Bruce's house then we'd go to Bon Jovi's house. That was like such a fun thing. Alison Eakle:Yeah. That's very dead on. I grew up there riding bikes to the beach, just walking around the neighborhood. They're a very arcade fire of the suburbs kind of existence, but with the modicum of real safety that I so appreciate now and also again realize how lucky I was in a lot of ways. Chris Erwin:So I have to ask, your parents are to business, it's just funny to hear that. I just recorded a podcast last week with Naomi Shah, the Founder of Meet Cute, it's a new romcom podcast network. And her parents started a technology business based out of Portland, Oregon. And so it's just funny that now like a week later I'm interviewing you and your parents started a business together as well. There is an entrepreneurship vein in your family. So was there a theme though about your interest in the arts that came from your parents or did that come separately? Alison Eakle:That was from really my aunt and uncle. And look, my mom was one of those people who did leave her job when she had me, but continued to have that kind of type A excel at anything she put her mind to it personality. She was somebody who played the organ. We had like a Hammond organ in our living room now that I think about it. She had interest in music and musicals and all of that thing and certainly was very supportive of the arts, but wasn't necessarily kind of ensconced in it. Whereas my aunt had been an actress since the day I was born, my uncle had been an agent at Theatrical Agent in New York, but also run his own company called Cornerstone up until he died. And so for me... And they were much younger than my parents. My mom is like 12 years older than my aunt. Alison Eakle:So they were this cool young aunt and uncle really ensconced in show business. They took me to my first Broadway play Les Miserables when I was 10. I felt incredibly like I had a model to look at of like what would a life in that business look like. And I definitely was born with the bug and loved trying to get the solo in school plays or whatever it was. And eventually my parents did let me act as a kid and tried to make a go of it professionally. And I was represented at a now defunct agency called J. Michael Bloom. Chris Erwin:What age is that, Alison? Alison Eakle:So this is like, by the time I'm actually wrapped I'm 13. So this is like '93, which is a very awkward age to be putting yourself out there. But for whatever reason, I was really into it and loved it and had some close calls. I got to do a callback in a room with James Ivory for Jefferson in Paris, a role that eventually went to Gwyneth Paltrow, which I think the better woman won. They aged it up and gave it to her, I remember, but it was such a cool experience too for a year. My parents were very anti stage parents. They were like, "Look, you clearly have some bit of talent in this and you really want to try it. We'll let you try it. But it's going to be for a small amount of time." It was only like maybe a year and a half, two years and then you really do have to go back and focus on like high school if it doesn't click, if there's not for me. And I only went out, I didn't go out for commercials. So it was sort of- Chris Erwin:Did you take time off from school at all for this? Alison Eakle:RCDS was really lenient in the sense that if I had to leave at three o'clock for like an audition in the city or to do a reading for an off-Broadway play or whatever it was, I could be flexible, but come close as I may have, I never got the big part that would have necessitated the on-set tutor. Chris Erwin:Did you feel at an early age, a clear interest in the arts and that, hey, this is going to be my career, this is where I'm going to be? Alison Eakle:I think if you look at my life in general too, and we'll talk about this, it's so funny because that clearly was always had such a strong pull that even when I tried to divert myself to more stable or a prestigious academically kind of bent careers, like politics and things like that, somehow it would just find me again and kind of pull me back to acting, writing, performing, creating, that side of things. Chris Erwin:So I think it's good that Gwyneth got the part because you've obviously had very special trajectory at Shondaland, you are exactly where you are meant to be. Alison Eakle:That is very reassuring to hear. And I do tell myself that sometimes. And I do get to still read parts at table reads occasionally at Shondaland, which is how I scratched that itch. Chris Erwin:So you're acting in your teams, you have some representation, you're going out on auditions, I just got to throw this out there from the RCDS memories, for some reason this is so ingrained in my brain. I remember taking the bus with you I think after school and then going down, I think if I remember correctly, it was a stone driveway, a gray stone driveway. It was a circle. The school bus would go down that and we would drop you off and your house, was it a gray house or a white house? Alison Eakle:Yeah. A gray house and white trim. It doesn't exist anymore. It was raised to the ground to build some other crazy mansion, but it was an adorable 1920s house. Four fireplaces when I think about it. Good God. Chris Erwin:Wow. One of my earliest memories that is definitely imprinted in my brain and I remember specifically from you, I think you were a year above me. Alison Eakle:That's kind. I'm three years older than you. I just loved to hang out with... Chris Erwin:Yeah. So that's what I was going to say is that you befriended myself and my twin brother, John, and you're always so kind to us on the bus. So you were very interesting. You just had interesting points of views on things and we picked that up at a pretty early age. Alison Eakle was at the light in my childhood, but it didn't stop there. So after RCDS, I left that school system I think around third grade and I went into the public school system as did some of our other friends. At RFH, I think that's where we were reunited in a Spanish class. You were a senior and I was a freshman, was that Parker's class or Von Handle? Who was that? Alison Eakle:Oh, maybe it was Von Handle actually, now that I think about it, but I couldn't remember her name. I just remember she had great hair, like a really perfect... So what did happen was I took French from third grade forward. And then in high school I had done the AP and I was like, I sort of want to start another language when I might have a chance of speaking on a daily basis. And so I started Spanish as a junior, but it was hilarious to be... It was my only experience of being the lone senior in a class full of freshmen. It was such a blast and such a different perspective on things at that point in my life. I was so happy to be in it with you. And it was Adam Sachs too. Chris Erwin:It was Adam Sachs. Maybe John Waters was in there. Alison Eakle:Yeah. Waters 100%. And we had to make a video. I'll never forget this. We had to make a video project for the class. I forget who else was on my team, but there was like a surfer kid named Ryan. And we stormed at his house and I was just like, I'm 18 years old at this point just making a weird Spanish video with a bunch of freshmen in it, but it was great. I felt like I really loved that experience. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Very on theme again, a little bit older hanging out with the younger kids, we enjoyed it. There's something in the water, I think from like the Rumson Monmouth County area for Hollywood, because it's a bunch of people from the East Coast, but then Adam Sachs is running Team Coco, Conan O'Brien, you Andy Redmond running Tornante under Michael Eisner, you're at Shondaland doing a thing, Matt Warshauer another friend is a writer and- Alison Eakle:A really talented writer. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Impressive creator. And then I'm trying to do my thing at RockWater in New Media. So there's a crew of us out here together. Alison Eakle:It was probably the biggest surprise to me when I got here is how many people from growing up in New Jersey are out here, both from that experience, the experience we shared, but also somehow or another, we convinced a lot of people to leave New York when we first came out here in the mid 2000s. And we have a really... I always thought it would be kind of my film school crew that would, and there's a lot of them, the Austin Kids out here too, Austin, Texas, but tons of Jersey people. Chris Erwin:So after high school, the arts theme continues. You go to Georgetown, did you run a TV station there? Alison Eakle:Yeah. Well, it's so funny. I went there, again, trying to do like the sensible thing. I was like, I'm going to be in politics and urban development. And I had a real tracy flick then to me of like, I'm going to be the mayor of the city. And then I got into those classes and was sort of put off by the approach that the other students had to government and the idea that everybody was obviously in this kind of self aggrandized way. And I realized, oh, that's not maybe my jam. I'm not here to prove how much I know about how many congressmen are from which districts or what have you. I really wanted to affect change on a local level. Of course, part of its insane ambition. I don't think anyone decides to go into politics without being a little amped up about that and being like, I think I'm pretty great. Alison Eakle:I absolutely had that threat, but I felt so kind of outpaced by my classmates in terms of their ambition and I started to question if it was for me. And then weirdly enough, it was a sophomore class, a screenwriting class I took with a professor named John Glavin. And at that time, he had mentored Jonah Nolan who at that point had made Memento with his brother and suddenly I had, yet again, a model to look at him like, oh, somebody in a class just like this with this man as their professor broke through. Right? Obviously he has incredible talent. And that stuff can't be taught, but it was like suddenly I could at least see a path sort of. That same year, I think my sophomore year Georgetown University Television, the finest closer television channel in the land was starting on campus, and I realized, oh, that seems like fun. Alison Eakle:And my first show that I produced and sometimes hosted with Aaron Cocce and Brian Walsh, was it called G Talk Live? And I even forget all that I did. It was sort of a running gun, all hands on deck, but it's like a live call-in show, a talk show, panel show for the campus. And I'll never forget they were like, "Alison, do you want to host a very special episode?" And I said, "Of course, I do." About one of the most pressing topics out there, Dawson's Creek. So that was my big contribution, but I loved it. And I stayed with the television station all three years. And at my senior year, we sponsored like a film festival and the films were incredible. And you think back it was... I looked at a program I'd kept from maybe six years ago when I was moving and it's like, Zal Batmangli, creator of The OA along with Brit Marling, the two of them had made one of the shorts and contention and Mike Cahill and Brit Marling had also collaborated in a way that would pre-stage their collaborations on another earth. Alison Eakle:And it was kind of incredible because I look back and I see that drive. I see all of these people who actually were trying to carve out a space at a school maybe not known for people who are going to forge a path in TV and film doing so, but also it was like Mike Birbiglia and Nick Kroll, John Mulaney were all my contemporaries as well. So also seeing a real comedy scene evolve, I feel like again, very lucky and they're at the right time in terms of it was in the zeitgeists of again, getting to look at people really trying to forge that path in a way that I had not seen before. Chris Erwin:And then you felt, I think, empowered. It's like, I can do this. Like that screen writing class was a spark for you. It's like, fine, this is what I'm going to pursue. I came here for political science and different reasons, but that's now changed. Alison Eakle:Yeah. I'm so glad I decided to try it and listen. And again, at that point I'd let go of the acting thing, even though I would still occasionally act in like one act plays that friends would write or things like that. But I do think the acting informed the love of writing, which in turn, all of that feeds the work that I do now, essentially because I think as a creative executive, I do look at everything through the lens of, okay, I know what it's like to sit and stare at a blank page now with that cursor blinking and understanding kind of how do you generate something from nothing, how do you riff on ideas to try to get through a piece of writer's block, all of that. Alison Eakle:But I also approach things in terms of like, when I read a script, I do think to myself, do I want to play that role? Because I know that if I have that instinct of like, oh my God, I wish I want to say these words, I wish I could play that part, you're onto something at that point. That is a really good sign that somebody has created something worth making. Chris Erwin:Because you have an acting background, you can empathize with the words on the page and you could have a vision for how the words will manifest. Alison Eakle:It's almost like first, it's a different way that informs decision-making, right? Because in terms of creatively, the big question is like, what do you love enough that you would actually spend years of your life working on? And I think, again, that's one thing that goes, I can really appreciate when a piece of writing is going to appeal to an actor. Like in this business too, so much of it is who's going to fill this role, especially in TV so often if you're not going with an already established huge star, you need to find a person who can really become that role. Especially when there's a breakout hit and an actor has really been a part of creating that role with the writer, that follows them for the rest of their life. People always think of them in some ways as that person. Alison Eakle:So I do try to think of like, are there iconic roles in this that somebody would really dig into that would get me excited that way? And similarly, actually the writing piece of it comes into mind too, because if I read a pilot or something, but I found something worth pursuing and talking about it, if my head's already like, oh my God, I can see episodes, I know what I'd want to watch and want to see in the show, so that's the writer part of me thinking like, oh my God, if I had to pitch ideas for it, I could, that's really promising. So it's definitely stuff that that background I think does inform the work I do. Chris Erwin:Got it. As I'm listening to you, Alison, I'm hearing the passion come out from you. So I think you said you no longer act, but you really enjoy the table reads that you do with the Shondaland team. Do you think that there might be a future where you might see a script and you're inspired to be like, "You know what? I want to go do a one woman show. I'm going to join a small private troop." Is that something that either maybe you're doing now or that's like seated in your brain? Alison Eakle:It's something that I still do for friends. Like we'll still do writer's table reads together and things like that. I don't think I would rule out the idea of doing some kind of acting with friends on a project. I don't think it's going to be generated by me. I don't think I'm going to be the one to push it forward, but I think that if an opportunity presented itself, it would be really fun. And I actually love the idea of like voiceover, that idea of doing that kind of work too, because I give real actors steeped in their craft so much credit because the way you make yourself so vulnerable reading at a table read or doing a piece of voiceover where I can kind of hide behind, not be on camera and not be seen, that's more appealing to me now than leaving it all on the stage every night or really exposing myself fully on a show or a film and just emotionally, physically all of these things. I think that stuff's incredibly scary and every time I see actors go for it, I'm just standing out. Chris Erwin:Shondaland launched an audio business and maybe scripted audio is in your future. You could do some of that. You just- Alison Eakle:I'm going to ask Sandy Bailey if I can audition for some of those pieces. That's right. Chris Erwin:All right, cool. I want to flow into your early career, but so after Georgetown, you end up getting your MFA at UT Austin. So from there I think you go to New York for around six months and then you transition to LA if that's right. Tell us quickly, what was that journey from being at UT Austin, one or two key themes from that and then the beginning of your journey in Hollywood thereafter? Alison Eakle:I just was interviewed about my time at UT Austin. And I think the thing that's so crazy about it, that was a big takeaway was do not let your program define you because when I got there, it was just an MA screenwriting program. It became an MFA screenwriting program. But I think there was this kind of a mentality sometimes like we were the weird step-kids of like the film program, but also the really prestigious writing, the James Michener program that is for like novelists, poets, playwrights. So it's like a multi-disciplinary incredibly competitive workshop. Two years, they pay you. It was easy sometimes to feel a little less than, but then as time got going and I just fell in love with a couple of professors, I started like working on short films with people. I was a TA. Speaking of hanging out with younger kids and being a TA as a grad student, I can't tell you how many of my former students are also out here killing it and just absolutely running shit. Alison Eakle:And it blows my mind that I ever thought I could teach them anything like run indie film divisions of agencies. I really did start to just make my experience what I thought it could be as opposed to just be like, well, I'm just an MFA screen writing student. It was great. It was a great experience. I lived with law students instead. So that kind of exposed me to a whole different way of experiencing UT. They worked hard in the party tag, Chris, I will say that. That was my Austin experience. And I wound up working for Burnt Orange Productions, which is this company that had like a really cool experiment at hand where they were making low budget indie features like one was Elvis and Annabelle, starring a very young Blake Lively and Max Minghella. And that's the one, when I was there, they were making. Chris Erwin:So then thereafter, did you have a more specific lane of knowing where you wanted to go and what exactly you were going to do? How does that get you to, I think, was a pretty transformational role, which was at Paramount Vantage. Alison Eakle:It's so funny, but I really thought I was going to just be a screenwriter. My best friend, Ashley, who is now a show runner in her own right with her husband, she was finishing film school at Columbia. So the only reason I did that six months stint in New York was because A, growing up in Jersey and looking at New York is like the city. It just felt like I have to live in New York at some point. And so many of my good friends are there, I just want to have that experience. So I thought I might stay, that there might be a way to make it work, but New York is hard and expensive and it's even more so now an impossible place to live. But even in 2006, it's like, I'd worked Monday through Friday as like an assistant in an advertising agency and then Saturdays and Sundays, I would like go to Bronx Science and other schools in the city to teach SAT prep. Alison Eakle:So I was truly working seven days a week and still hardly getting by and I didn't even have to pay rent because I was just crashing with my friend. Her boyfriend, now husband, had moved out to LA in kind of October of '06 and we started processing and thinking about it could we really make this trip? I'm like, could I really break my mother's heart and move across the country? And eventually realized that if this is really what we wanted to do was to be screenwriters, it really did feel like we had to be in LA. And so we did it together with her two cats and her two goldfish and a Toyota Corolla. Chris Erwin:Two women, two cats, two goldfish, two Corollas. Alison Eakle:Yeah. Two of everything. One of the cats shit himself as we were crossing Arkansas. And there was a very uncomfortable gas station interaction with some locals and that cat and trying to get that cat out of the carrier of the car, but look, all worth it. The two fish died immediately when we put them in LA water, a very foreboding omen. New York was just, I knew in some way I wanted to get a chance to have an adventure with Ashley, collaborate with her potentially and we wound up moving out to LA together. Chris Erwin:Similar to you, after graduating from school in Boston, I was like, "Yeah, I got to go to New York." That's like what... You're in the tri-state area, big exciting visions. And then the fact that I can go down to the shore and see my family on like an hour train ride or the ferry that had just started to emerge. And I got stuck there for five years in finance. So you only got stuck for six months, I probably took like 10 years off my life doing finance in New York City. But you got out and so you make the move, you get to LA and then you end up at Paramount Vantage and you do a few things before that. Alison Eakle:And one really formative job. So basically I get there, I go to a temp agency my show business actors aunt had connected me with and I'm like, "Let me do a typing test. Let me show you I can use Excel." And I got a job that was temp to perm, potentially assisting a woman named Nancy Gallagher, who was an EVP of marketing at Paramount Pictures. And this woman was like close personal friends with Steven Spielberg and Joel Schumacher and Tom Cruise. Like she had done marketing campaigns for movies that had shaped my teen years, like Clueless and Titanic. Like I lost my mind when I realized really the impact she had had. She was also incredibly old-school, did not use a computer at the time. It was a kind of a wild experience. I would be there 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. I would never leave the desk. I would take dictation. I would read her an email she got. She would dictate an answer back to me and I would type it back to the person. Chris Erwin:This is 2007? Alison Eakle:Oh yeah, don't worry about it, Chris. But she was incredible. I mean, she was an incredible talent. She just was sort of like had not kind of embraced that part of the job and was just deep in the creative. I mean, again, I got to meet so many impactful, incredible filmmakers, like Calvin Kennedy, we had four movies that we're marketing. It was a real learning curve for the almost two years I did it. And that classic, first Hollywood job, like don't screw up that phone call from Scott Rudin or whatever it is. Like there were those moments consistently. And I was scared out of my wits until I wasn't. And eventually I was just like, I would see the kids in their suits come in from Yale to take my job since I was just a temp and interview and I was like, "No, no, no, no, fuck it. I'm going to keep this job." It almost became like a challenge to myself. Alison Eakle:And I think being able to stick it out and succeed there, even though I didn't want to do marketing, and on that desk is where I realized I never have time to write and I'm never making time. And people who really want to be writers, they make time. They get up at 6:00 AM and write for two hours before their desk job. And I was not doing that. So I just realized I think I found out there was a thing called development, which is basically what I loved about writing most was workshops like working with writers, not being the writer and started to try to think about how to make that transition. Chris Erwin:Got it. Look, I hear this from a lot of people who work at the agencies like pretty early on is that it's really exciting in the beginning, but it's also painful, the work, the stress, a lot of bad bosses, it turns people out and they leave Hollywood. But when you were there, did it feel like you're just getting more excited, but you're like, but I'm not in the role that I want. Like what you just described as like, I want to get into development. So I feel good about the industry, this is hard, but the stars in my eyes, they're still real and they're not going away. Is that right? Alison Eakle:Yes. I think I am at some level, again, like a pragmatist. There's always competing parts, right? There's the creative and the pragmatist and the pragmatists was like, you have a job that pays really well in a business that doesn't, you have overtime, you have health insurance, I was just like, keep doing this. And again, I love the challenge of a professor or a boss that's incredibly difficult to impress. So I love that challenge. And I learned a ton because honestly the biggest lesson of marketing is like, don't create something you don't know how to approach an audience with. You need to know who this movie or this show is for and obviously there's always a pleasant surprise when it kind of broadens out past that, but that was really drilled and it's like, what does the poster look like? Alison Eakle:Because we would get scripts and movies that we had to market. And we would look at each other what is this about? How did you sell this movie? And I will not name names, but it was incredible to see it from that other end. And that was the boss. She was incredible in teaching me like Alison, as an assistant in Hollywood, your job is to assume no one else is doing their job correctly, which is a terrible place to live for a long time in terms of that is so fear-based. But it is also a way to I learned how to anticipate what could go wrong or how to kind of shore up and idiot proof certain processes in a way that I do things still serves me to today. Chris Erwin:Hey listeners, this is Chris Irwin, your host of The Come Up. I have a quick ask for you. If you dig what we're putting down, if you like the show, if you like our guests, it would really mean a lot if you can give us a rating wherever you listen to our show. It helps other people discover our work and it also really supports what we do here. All right. That's it everybody, let's get back to the interview. Two points that I think are interesting. Alison, you described as being able to anticipate what could go wrong or sit at corners, we had Chas Lacaillade interviewed on this podcast, he now runs a digital talent management company called BottleRocket, but he said the same exact thing he was at ICM. He's like, "The one takeaway I have from that is you can always anticipate what's going to go wrong in a deal, a conversation, a client meeting," and he found that very valuable. Chris Erwin:The second thing I think that you said, Alison, that I really like is how to market and how to approach an audience. So I think today where media has changed, where they used to be fixed supply, if you can get theatrical distribution, you're going to win. If you're going to get on like a TV network, you're going to win. But with the internet, there is so much content out there even if you're like putting up content on Netflix or you're putting up content on YouTube or in some like digital, native way, your content has to stand down. And the marketing campaign that wraps the actual content itself, how you speak and engage and excite your audience, that is where the winners are today. So the fact that you have that lens from your history, I think is really interesting. Alison Eakle:You put it better than I ever could, but that all tracks. Yes, that feels right. Chris Erwin:So you realize you're not having the amount of time you need for writing, so you've got to change it up. So where do you go? Alison Eakle:I saw a job opportunity to assist the director of production and development at Paramount Vantage. What I'll never forget there was the current assistant had put out a job posting and how this works in Hollywood, for anyone who's listening and doesn't know, is you'll see jobs on things called tracking boards or emailed chains basically. But they always say, "No phone calls, please. Do not call me. Just email your resume." Right? And I was like, okay, this job is on the same lot, I'm going to call him. And I did. And he was so incredibly lovely. Colin Conley, he's still in the business, an incredible manager. And I just called him. And I was like, "Look, I did not come up through the agency. I don't have the required experience, but I swear to God, the desk I'm on is harder than any agency desk you can imagine. And I'll tell you why if you meet me for like 15 minutes." Alison Eakle:So we did, we literally met in the middle of the lot at Paramount. And he was like, "You know what? I think my boss would like you." And he was leaving to go work at the Sundance Institute, fucking cool as hell. And I tried not to be too intimidated. And I met his boss and loved her. And the only weird thing about that experience was when I did get the job, three weeks into it, most of Paramount Vantage was let go. They were downsizing all indie studios at that point. And I was like, oh my God, I just took a pay cut and a huge risk to take this job and now I'm going to get fired. That was all that went through my head is like, we're all going to get laid off, but I don't know what happened, but for eight months, some of us still hung on. Alison Eakle:And I learned so much about future film development from my boss, Rachel. And then we were all let go. Then it really did. The hammer came down in July of 2009. John Lynch left as the head of the studio of Vantage was done. And another colleague of mine who used to be at Vantage got me my next job just assisting a production exec at Sony Pictures, Elizabeth Kentiling, who was incredible. And the experiences were so different because at Vantage, I learned a ton about development, but we never got to make anything because essentially it was like, you already saw the writing on the wall. You knew it was only a matter of time to some extent that you were going to be shut down, which I've never had an experience like that since. It is sort of freeing, because I was just like, well, I'm going to learn and do as much as I can while I'm here. Alison Eakle:And then at Sony, it was the opposite where it was like, there was development happening on scripts so I was there, but my boss was making movies. Like I always watched her oversee Social Network and Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and got really a firsthand view of like how that side of things works when stuff is going. So it was incredibly valuable, but the whole time I'm sitting there thinking, okay, I'm still an assistant, I'm 30... How old was I at that point? Probably 31. Again, wasn't acting, wasn't writing, wasn't really an exec. I would go to drinks with other assistants and them not knowing how old I was would be like, "Oh man, if I'm still an assistant at 30, kill me." Chris Erwin:It's interesting you're saying this because I was reading an interview that was done with you. Asked like what's the worst advice that you can receive or that you have received? And you said something along the lines like, oh, if you're like an assistant or haven't figured out your career in Hollywood by the time you're 30, it's over. And that's BS. That's not true. And so I think this is clearly where that's coming from. Alison Eakle:Oh yeah. And trust me in the moment I was like, maybe it is true. Like I'm not impervious to insecurities. 100% I was like, I've given all this up, I've left my family, I've moved to LA, did I make a terrible choice? Is this right? But there is such a thing where you just got to stick it out and you keep learning and try to keep growing and then the next opportunity will find you. I totally flunked out on my first creative executive interview in the Future World. And I just was like, oh man, this other junior exec at the movie studio got me this opportunity and I just said stupid shit and I blew it. But then a friend of mine from my Paramount Vantage days, a friend who had worked at Comedy Central while we were doing the Comedy Central branded movies and I really loved, was like, "My old boss from Comedy Central is starting a company for Ellen Degenerates, would you ever want to go be the assistant/exec?" Alison Eakle:And it was primarily television, both scripted and unscripted, not movies, not the big sexy thing at that time that I was still like, no, no, no, you got to work in movies. But I was like, I fucking love television. I raised myself on television. Let me tell you, I jumped at the chance. And again, I was still answering phones at that point technically, but I was like a coordinating manager. So I got to be in the meetings and watch how it happened and take meetings of my own. Chris Erwin:This is A Very Good Production, that's the name of the company? Alison Eakle:Yes. That's A Very Good Production. Chris Erwin:Okay. Alison Eakle:And look, I probably did that classic thing that I think a lot of women do where I didn't think I would feel ready to go from assistant to just exec. That is where I second guessed myself a bit. And so I loved that idea of like a hybrid opportunity, but I also couldn't have learned from anyone better than Lauren Carrao as we were building that company from the ground up with the deal at Warner Brothers. Chris Erwin:Got it. Wow. So Alison, I want to get into now your rise at Shondaland, a company that you joined back in 2013 and where you're still at today and interesting juxtaposition. So I interview a mix of technology and E-commerce, but also media executives on this podcast. A lot of the technology executives I interview, their career rise starts a lot earlier, right? It's like the difference. But in media, a lot of the people that I've interviewed, it takes a bit longer. You're joining Shondaland I think in your early 30s, but you've had an amazing run over the past almost a decade. So I'm curious, how did you first end up there? Alison Eakle:Truly going back to my doomed, but learned a lot moments of Paramount Vantage, it was my boss there, Rachel Eggebeen. She was the first kind of creative executive that Shonda and her longtime creative and producing partner, Betsy Beers, my other boss brought on and into the company when they'd had their deal through ABC. They'd been making Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice and a few other pilots that had knocked on to series. But I believe as Rachel came on board, they were making the Scandal pilot. They had expanded the company and around the time that I was ready to move on from a very good production in terms of trying to get kind of my first either producing credits or full exec job, whatever that next move was going to be for me, I reached out to Rachel and I said, "What do you think I should consider? You're one of my favorite bosses, favorite people, favorite friends, what do you think I should do?" Alison Eakle:And she said, "Well, interestingly, Shonda and Betsy are thinking about expanding the work they're doing and hiring another person. And your background in comedy could be incredibly useful and important part of the mix given they're starting to do more of that." When I came on board, they'd already been developing a pilot with Issa Rae, actually for ABC. Ultimately didn't move forward, but was one of my first experiences as an exc. It got to be me and Issa Rae in a room, sitting on the floor, working through a pilot and I will never forget it. And it was incredible. And I loved every second of working with her. Chris Erwin:Speaking of Issa Rae, so I joined the whole YouTube revolution in 2013. And I remember we were launching different like digitally native verticals. Issa Rae came in and pitched a show with her creative partner. Alison Eakle:Oh, no way. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Early days. And now look at her, she's a phenomenal. You shouldn't make a fuss. Alison Eakle:Talk about a rise. I feel silly calling what I've experienced duress in light of Issa. I mean, just and so earned and so deserve. Like with the pilot was called, I Hate LA Dudes. And that was very much my mindset while we were working on it. But I would meet my husband just a few months after we finished up with that and I reversed that decision. No, it was great to kind of come on board. And look, I was, again, nervous, that imposter syndrome thing is hard to shake. I'm like, it's my first executive job, I am a fan of these shows of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal. Scandal season one and like half of season two had aired when I started. And that jump is a big jump in Hollywood when you're first like really not answering the phones anymore. I didn't have an assistant, but I wasn't an assistant. Alison Eakle:And I got to develop like my first comedy from the ground up with these writers Petrossian Goldstein that came partly from like an original idea I had just by like being like, fuck, okay, what do I want to see in the world that I don't see? What do I want to watch on TV that's in my life and I don't see reflected? And we came up with this idea of what if your friend was dating someone terrible, just absolutely the worst. You wouldn't want to spend brunch with this person. And then they show up one day early in the dating and they're like, "We're having a baby." And I had pitched this idea of like, that would be the friend groups worst nightmare, but a lot of it would be not so much about that girl who kind of enters the group, but really about you and what you're going through emerging as a group of like 20 somethings into your 30s. Alison Eakle:And then when we pitched this idea to these other writers, they had had an idea of what had happened in their friend group, which is one of their really close friends had passed away. And that guy's parents had sort of become the parents of their friend group. And we wound up having this incredible meeting where we realized we could merge these ideas. And it was just one of those first experiences where Betsy and I were in the thick of it and I realized like, oh, this is it, this is what I wanted this to feel like and be like. I love the idea that I can have an idea, writers can make it better and bring their own experience to it and then I get to watch it just evolve. Alison Eakle:And it was such a well-received comedy pilot that at the very last minute we did not get to make it, but it was a great first experience in that first year at that company of like, A, I love this, B, I love why I'm working with on these projects and C, maybe I'm not terrible at it. Like that first moment you're like, oh, I should keep doing this. Which I think a lot of people don't talk about because I think you're supposed to pretend that you're just like a girl boss from day one and always had the confidence, but no, I mean, it truly took going through that first experience to be like, okay, I deserve to be in the room. Chris Erwin:Amazing. So very early on, everything felt right to you. This is the right team, this is the right role and did you get a sense that it's like, hey, this is a company I can be at for a really long time. Alison Eakle:I was like, hey, I hope they'll have me for a long time. Again, like even with the successes, I think there's always a moment where you're just like, what's the next thing I can do? Like I want to continue to earn this spot or earn their respect. And the other thing I just sort of lucked into was that at that same time that we were doing that comedy, we had six other drama projects in development, how it works as you sell ideas in pitches to the networks and then the writers write the scripts and around Christmas time, these networks were just in the network side, they would decide which ones they were actually going to shoot. And the one that they decided to shoot was How To Get Away With Murder. And so then even though my comedy pilot, that experience hadn't borne fruit in terms of being shot, I got to see that show be born and come to life. Alison Eakle:The other thing that happened in those first eight months I was there was that Rachel did leave Shondaland to go to another job at Fox 21, which is a studio. And again, I was terrified because the person who brought me in was gone and I was still getting my sea legs, but Betsy and Shonda were incredible. And I learned so much from them. And I got to all of a sudden just not limit myself to being like, hey, I'm the person who's here to do some comedy and I got to experience what it is to develop dramas and realized I loved that too. Chris Erwin:You mentioned it... Again I saw on an interview that you had like a handful of promotions within the first four to five years that you were there. Alison Eakle:Yes. Chris Erwin:So what did you feel that you were doing at the company that started to really stand out and have you get noticed? Alison Eakle:I was kind of the only one for a while. I feel like I don't know what I would necessarily pinpoint. I'd be interested to hear Betsy and Shonda say it. I think one of the things was not only did I have the things that I would get excited about and bring to the table, but I think that Shonda's excitement and Betsy's passion are really contagious. Right? I think very early on I realized, okay, they have fucking genius ideas. I can execute that. I can take that. I can run with it. I can get some progress going. I can find the writer. I can work on the vision of the writer. I also loved the fact that we had this incredible community of writers that had come up on all the Shondaland shows. So I think I really just threw myself fully into trying to make projects with them work and support them. Alison Eakle:And I think there's also a little bit of magic sometimes when taste and instincts lineup, the rest of it is sort of just to do the work, especially those early days. To this day, even after I've had a kid, which we'll talk about, I've never not worked on weekends, I've never not worked at night. Like even when I'm not working and I'm using air quotes, my brain is constantly going in terms of how to fix issues or how to approach strategically certain projects. And I think that they must have responded to it. Chris Erwin:Yeah. Because I think to you it was clear as it's not just work, this is a passion. It's like part of your essence. It's having like a creative mind wanting to support the creative community. I think like you were saying with Shonda and Betsy, you have this reputation where you could take an idea that they have and really nurture it and build it and make it even more special. So there's this trust that they're bestowing on you, but they really appreciate new ideas that you bring to the table. So then, okay, there's an exciting moment. You're there for around four years, 2017, then there's the big announcement that Shonda is leaving ABC for Netflix and what was reported to be, I think, the range is up to $150 million deal. What was that like? Was that something... Had you been working on that for a while? Was that something that you knew of? Was that something that was just dropped on you? What was that like to receive internally? Alison Eakle:I did know a little bit before the announcement came, I just was over the moon excited in terms of it being such a new learning opportunity for me, right? I know Shonda and Betsy had their excellent reasons for making that transition at that time when they did. Strictly speaking from my experience of it, I was just so interested in how different that could be, what restrictions would be lifted when you suddenly don't have to make television for network to fit that 42 minutes of a drama episode to kind of deal with broadcast standards and practices. But also just the idea that I think once we went to Netflix, it probably did also, at least in my opinion, as I spoke to people in the industry, it started to broaden their ideas of the kind of shows we made sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes they'd still come to us and be like, "Here's Grey's Anatomy, but in a funeral home." Like they would still do that too, but there was a lot of people understanding that now we were going to do TV and movies. Alison Eakle:We could do comedies. We wanted to do genre. Like I think, especially by the time we were able to announce those first things we were working on kind of a year into the deal, it did make people understand that while they often thought of us in terms of, I will use the quote, sexy soap or serialize procedurals, the ambitions were so much bigger than that. And to get ready because we had a lot of things coming that you would not be able to do on network. And that was really liberating and exciting. Chris Erwin:Did everyone feel that same way? Was there anyone internal on the team or within your writer community that was like, "You know what? I want to work on network programming and going to a streamer is not a place I want to be." Alison Eakle:If that was happening, it was not something that I was privy to or that people were coming to talk to me about at all. Everybody was like, "I can't believe this. I'm so excited." And we're moving into new offices and all. It was just felt like a real thrum of excitement. And look, I think to this day, there are still writers who appreciate the consistency of a network job, but the whole business has changed. This is a conversation for another time in that residuals are not the same anymore. And there are so few shows like Grey's and Station 19 that can go that many episodes a season. Whereas writer you know you're booked kind of like August to April or whatever it is, I do think some writers probably miss that and will gravitate towards that kind of structure, that storytelling, all of that. But I didn't experience anyone being like, "Ooh, Netflix," at all. Chris Erwin:Okay. And maybe look, I think there was a lot of excitement at the moment. Was this announced right after Ryan Murphy's deal? I think he announced like a $300 million deal, was that- Alison Eakle:We were the first. Chris Erwin:You were the first. Alison Eakle:Shondaland was the first. Yeah. That was the first deal for Shondaland was the first of these big star producer deals. And I think Ryan Murphy, Kenya Barris, a few others came in like quick succession, but it was the first big announcement like this. Chris Erwin:Clearly it's working, right? So there's the big 2020 hit with Bridgerton. And then recent news, there's a re-up between Atlanta and Netflix are reported or confirmed or reported up to 400 million, but what was it like in that moment when Bridgerton which I think is the number one performing show on Netflix today, when that hit and your team started to get some of the success reporting, what was that feeling like? And were you involved in that show at all? Alison Eakle:Oh yeah. So I am a co-EP on the show and moving forward into seasons two, three, and four, I'll be working on it. It honestly was something where I still remember the day that Shonda was like, "There are these romance novels that are absolutely incredible. They would make a great show." I will be the first to admit I was like, "Romance novels, like grocery store paperback romance novels?" The genius that she is she's like, "Just read them. Just read one. Read The Duke and I." Which is the first book and is what season one is based on, the Simon and Daphne's story. And I read it in like one sitting, definitely started blushing about like 80 pages in for sure, but immediately I was like, oh, I get it. I get it. I understand the conceit of how this works for many seasons. I get why there's such a huge under-serviced fandom of this material. And they have not gotten to see some of their favorite stories brought to the screen and shot. Alison Eakle:It was so smart because she knew that people would clamor for that. And that audience had just not gotten to see those characters come to life, but also that there would be a broader reach. And also I think that it was such a surreal experience for me. I was incredibly pregnant. It was Christmas time. We had done post-production in COVID entirely from our homes remotely. Every music spotting session would be inimitable, Kris Bowers. Like all of it had been done remotely, all the posts. So it was like being in this kind of strange bubble and just sitting there as the holiday started just wondering how it would be received. And I don't think I could have ever anticipated what a mark on the culture it would have. Chris Erwin:I didn't even start thinking about the opportunity to romance space until Sarah Penna, who is one of the co-founders of the Big Frame where I was at right after school. And she had an idea that I think she's still working on with Lisa Berger called Frolic Media focused on, I think it's in a podcast network and digital video programming for female romcom romance enthusiast. And when she started telling me some of the numbers of how big this demo is, I was like hearing the success of Bridgerton, I am not surprised. So a new Netflix deal's announced and here's some exciting things like a focus of film, games, VR, branding, merchandising. There's a larger team from Bridgerton Ball that's coming up in November. So it's really extending your work streams and creating an audience experiences into a lot of new channels. Where is Shondaland today and where is it headed? Alison Eakle:The other side of the company that is the digital side, that is the podcast, the website, whatever shape and form this gaming and VR enterprise is going to take to it is incredibly exciting and I think a huge part of how my perspective on my job has shifted. And look, I've gotten to experience people often say like, "How have you been at a company for eight years?" And I was like, "This company is always evolving. The opportunities are always evolving. The work we're doing is always shifting and changing and growing." And it's part of why I was so excited to work with Shonda and Betsy in the beginning because I knew they had these bigger plans, right? World domination through incredible storytelling, very appealing, but I'm just really always trying to think to myself too synergy. Alison Eakle:Are there opportunities of things that we're working on that could translate to the podcast space or there could be a great story on the website about it and thinking more actively how do I talk to them about that and tell them about it before it's too far down the pike or vice versa, what are they working on that could be the next great show for Netflix or first documentary came out right before the holidays as well around Thanksgiving, Dance Dreams: Hot Chocolate Nutcracker about the life and legacy of Debbie Allen as seen through her kind of like planning and staging this incredible her version of the Nutcracker? Alison Eakle:So we have a real hunger to do unscripted, both doc series, lifestyle, reality shows, things like that, the right kind of thing for the right kind of audience, the thing that we think will appeal to our fans and the people who love our material, but also Inventing Ana is going to be out soon, which is Shonda's next show that she created based on the incredible cut article from Jessica Pressler, how Anna Delvey tricked New York's party people about the Soho grifter, who basically found a way to make all the finance bros in New York and all the art people and all the fancy pants people in New York who believed she was a German heiress. An incredible kind of fake it till you make it American dream story from a very slanted interesting perspective. Alison Eakle:So I'm really excited for that show to hit and to launch and for people to see that it's a limited. That's like the next big thing on top of the fact that we have announced through Bridgerton season four to really get to service the Bridgerton's children's love stories. We've got a lot of story to tell. And then Shonda's next project is a project based on the life of young Queen Charlotte, who obviously is someone we featured heavily in the Bridgerton series. So that's some of the scripted coming down the line. We do have feature films in development. We have a lot of different genre TV shows that I don't think people would be necessary... Again, always trying to broaden the idea of what people think of as a Shondaland show, which is just incredible unexpected storytelling that has an incredibly human lens. A lot of different things coming down. Chris Erwin:All this program is going to be exclusive to Netflix, is that right? Alison Eakle:Yes. Exclusively in Netflix. Chris Erwin:Looking at the Shondaland website yesterday, and I saw the 2017 partnership with Hearst where you've launched a lifestyle website. You have this January, 2020 audio partnership with iHeart, where I think you're creating companion content to promote some of your series, but also maybe seeding some new IP, which is definitely a theme that we talk a lot about here at RockWater. But these are divisions that are separate from your purview, but you want to collaborate and you want to work together. And I think that'd be an awesome thing to do more of in the future. I'd love to see that. Alison Eakle:Oh yeah. It's a top-down mentality the idea of like, no, no, no, you guys, you're not just making content for Netflix and you're not just making content for Hearst to iHeart, this is Shondaland. This is a united family of people figuring out how to tell stories best. Chris Erwin:Last question, Alison, before we get to the rapid fire round. So you are a mother of one who is five months old. Alison Eakle:Yes. Chris Erwin:When you say you work nights, you work weekends, how does that change with a kid at home not just in terms of like time capacity, but also just how you think about your programming and where you want content to go in the world considering that you're raising someone new in it? Alison Eakle:That's a great question. I think I'm so in it right now. It's all still so new. I don't know yet the impact it'll have on me. And look, animation both for adults and children is something we've talked about a lot and gotten excited about that kind of programming. I'll be honest, I binge-watched the Babysitters Club with that best friend, Ashley, who we moved out here from New York together. I think there's incredible content for kids. I don't think my brain has fully processed yet how having this child is going to impact my creative work, but I do think it has changed how I work and yes, I just have less time right now because every minute I'm not with him, I inevitably am wondering, am I missing it? Am I missing something? Right? But I also realize there's a lot of time that he sleeps, not in the beginning, but now there is. Alison Eakle:And it's interesting how I think I used to be a real... I do get up very early with him and I do do great work in the morning, I feel, but I've really also become that person who eight o'clock hits and I take a minute for myself, but I do think to myself, okay, I have quiet. I have a couple of hours of quiet before I hit the, hey, how am I going to use this time? So I think I've just gotten smarter about time management and realized that like I can be sitting there rocking my baby, playing out, what kind of thoughts or how we might re-break a pilot in my head. I've just gotten a little bit more nimble in terms of how I use the time I have. Chris Erwin:I like that. And kind of what you are saying, Alison, reminds me of like the classic high school Adagio. If you have a really busy schedule, like a bunch of high school sports and everything, it just forces you to be more productive to get your work done in the time that you have and you're better. And then second, I think it's this beautiful new moment in your life that's giving you incredible new fulfillment and appreciation for what matters and it's a shock of the system. And I think shocks and changes are good to see things in different ways and that's good for creativity. You've had an amazing rise, who knows where you're going to go? Alison Eakle:Who knows? Chris Erwin:I'll close this out a quick interjection for me before rapid fire. Alison, known you for a long time, but admittedly have not been in close touch in recent years. So it's been exciting that we can come together I think at a dinner that I threw a couple of years ago, but also through this podcast. And I think just hearing your story, what I love and what feels so special is I'm hearing that there was no fear of trying things, of experimenting, putting yourself out there and following your heart. There was moments where like, look, growing up in Rumson where we were, your parents from Wall Street, I ended up going to Wall Street. Like that's what I was inspired to do. And you, I think you said, "No, there's something else that I want to do and give it a go." And then you went to Georgetown, you thought you were going to go down the political science path, but then you had that amazing class and you went with that. You trusted your gut. Chris Erwin:And I think you being able to listen to yourself and set up a very exciting career for you and an ability to do programming that's really a meaningful impact on people's lives and look at the success of Bridgerton and more to come. So it's really fun to see this journey and reflect on it. And I can't wait until we do the second podcast, which is like on this next page. Alison Eakle:Well, thank you. And thank you for having me on too. And also right back at you, it's watching an evolution of a career that's not in Hollywood always fascinates me a lot more than even watching the stuff inside the industry. I love everything that you are doing and juggling right now too. Chris Erwin:Appreciate that. All right. So rapid fire. Here's the rules. Six questions, short answers. It could be maybe one sentence or maybe just one or two words. Do you understand the rules? Alison Eakle:I mean, I'm a wordy mofo, but I will try to keep it to the one sentence or the one word. Chris Erwin:Okay, here we go. Proudest life moment. Alison Eakle:Navigating the return to work after having my son and not absolutely losing my mind. Chris Erwin:Got it. What do you want to do less of in 2021. Alison Eakle:Judge people. Chris Erwin:What do you want to do more of? Alison Eakle:Acts of service. I feel like I got away from that during COVID. Yes, acts of service. Chris Erwin:I like that. One to two things drive your success. Alison Eakle:As you said, willingness to try things and to experiment. And I think also a willingness to really listen to people and figure out what they want. Chris Erwin:What is your advice for media execs going into the back half of this year and into 2022. Alison Eakle:Now that I have a kid and less time than ever, I'm all about essentialism. And I think people have to remember that sometimes less is more, less is more. That's what I'll say. See, trying to be shot. Private is the sour word. Chris Erwin:Saying less is more and trying to do it in short with fewer words. Got it. Considering your parents entreprene

National Polygamy Advocate ™ Mark Henkel was research-interviewed for "The Lineup" on FOX News television (hosted by Kimberly Guilfoyle) by a producer named Don, on May 11, 2006. This occurred during the major news cycle when the new fictional show on HBO television, about non-cultic Mormon polygamists, called “Big Love,” trhat had just premiered weeks earlier in March, 2006. t appears that the producers of Kimberly Guilfoyle's show were significantly hyped to do something "about polygamy" on their show that weekend. Two other producers from the same show, Mary Ragsdale and Michael Bloom, had also attempted making media requests of Mark Henkel that same week too. (They neither answered the phones when called nor called back from voicemail messages that were left for them.) In this interview with the producer who only identified himself as “Don,” Mark Henkel provided some helpful education. As the producer was not sure what he or the other producers wanted to exactly do, and as they seemed to want to be more sensationalistic, nothing else specifically resulted from this interview; no episode or segment was aired about it. Even so, Mark Henkel did provide some good soundbites and educational insights about UCAP, Unrelated Consenting Adult Polygamy. http://www.NationalPolygamyAdvocate.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nationalpolygamyadvocate/support

What They Say vs What They Do It's often hard to spot the difference between what people say they want and what they actually do in practice. Sometimes an interview or a user test doesn't give you the ability to see behaviours over time and in the real working environment. Journal studies can reveal these truths really well, so why don't they get used more often? They are simple to set up, cost effective and give you rich insights, especially for audiences that can be hard to observe. In this presentation we'll look at how journal studies could be a great addition to your regular research toolbox.

This week it's episode 27 of The Wormcast. My guest Michael Bloom, CEO of BONGO Pictures. Michael spent a few years in the sports content space as SVP of Original Programming at FOX Sports and helped set up the E-League at Turner Sports. There's tonnage of orginal sports content wherever you look. We look at sports documentariess, ones that Michael worked on and others that left a great a great impression. Where's the genre going in the near future? Enjoy Topics discussed: 2:30 Moving from entertainment into sports 5:00 "Being Liverpool" 15:00 "The Last Dance" 18:00 Jason's behind the scenes feature with Roy Williams and the Kansas Jayhawks at the Final Four 20:30 The futture of all-access team documentaries going? 22:00 The Tiger doc/"The Defiant Ones" (Dr. Dre & Jimmy Iovine)26:00 Athletes production companies 28:20 TNT's Inside Story doc and Michael working at Turner 33:30 "Rise as One" series of soccer docs at FOX Sports before the 2014 World Cup 38:00 Michael forming BONGO Pictures & selling pitches for projects 41:30 Michael and Jason's favorite sports docs 46:30 Michael has a story about Jason 51:30 Michael the long suffering Jets fan This podcast is hosted by ZenCast.fm

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The talented Michael Bloom joins Jimmy for a lively discussion spanning the key stops along his television journey including the classic MTV Spring Break and Beach House era, working with 50 Cent and Paris Hilton, co-creating the Nickelodeon animated series Rocket Power and running the unscripted departments for AMC, Fox Sports and Turner Networks. Twitter: @IamJimmyFox // @realscreen Instagram: @Jimmybfox // @realscreen  

Michael Bloom (or Mike) started Bloom’s Pharmacy at the Camano Plaza, which later he sold to Mark Phibbs, and it became Mark’s Pharmacy.

Loyalty360 spoke with Arie Kotler, Chief Executive Officer of GPM Investments, and Michael Bloom, Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising and Marketing Officer of GPM, about their role as a rapidly growing leader in the U.S. convenience store industry.

The Project www.50stateblend.com This idea grew organically, fueled by a fascination with the unusual, supported by the growing availability of American craft whiskey and motivated by a desire to share the journey with others. More than eight different types of American whiskeys comprise the 50 State Blend including fourteen bourbons, fourteen ryes, twelve single malts, one single malt rye, one Tennessee whiskey (duh!) one millet, one sorghum and six whiskies that don't cleanly fit in any of those particular categories. Each draft of the 50 State Blend keeps the ingredients constant but changes their proportions. Barrel-finishing was introduced to the process beginning with Draft #4. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/irishwhiskeyreview/message

Have you ever wondered what allocated whiskey was or why it was allocated at all? Are you wanting to become a hunter of bourbon? We chat all about the September releases, what allocation means, and how you might go about hunting this Fall. I also dive into the importance of gratitude. How it changes our lives, how to practice it, and what it really is. Welcome to my TED Talk! ******** Show Notes ********  Michael Bloom's 50 State Whiskey Blend: https://www.50stateblend.com/home Breaking Bourbon's Release Calendar: https://www.breakingbourbon.com/release-calendar 

Chiropractors in cars getting coffee.... maybe the new name for the podcast (thanks Jerry Seinfeld). We joined Bloomy for his morning drive to his second Happy Chiropractic practice in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. Michael and I studied together back in Melbourne, graduating 25 years ago. We've both learned loads in that time and we end up talking about how to truly care for patients and why its important. Plenty of banter in between. 

June 19th 2020 Today, we are here with Ophra Wolf of the Newburgh Clean Water Project, who will host a Q & A online via ZOOM this Wednesday June 24th 6-7pm including Drs. Erin Bell and Michael Bloom of the SUNY Albany School of Public Health. On Weds Drs. Bell and Bloom will answer your questions about the health effects of PFAS chemical contamination in drinking water. The public can register for Wednesday's online Q&A about PFAS health effects at "newburghcleanwaterproject.org". Click the image at the top left for "Water Session" and scroll down to "register here". https://newburghcleanwaterproject.org/2020/06/18/join-us-water-session-6-24-20/ This report is by Jared Wesley Singer of WOOC 105.3FM at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY--for the Water Justice Laboratory. In 1990 there was an accidental spill of 4,000 gallons of fire-fighting foam at Stewart Air Base. In 1996, the firefighting foam was used to extinguish a crash at Stewart International Airport. Until 2017, the foam was used for firefighting practice drills and they continue to use similar chemical substitutes. Our understanding of PFAS toxicity is evolving: In 2009 EPA sets a health advisory limit of 200 parts-per-trillion (ppt) for PFAS chemicals in drinking water, revised down to 70 ppt in 2016. In late 2018 the New York State Drinking Water Quality Council (NYSDWQC) recommended a lower standard of 10 ppt for PFAS chemicals. New research by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) suggests toxic effects at even lower concentrations of 1 to 0.1 ppt! Meanwhile the City of Newburgh’s 2016 Water Quality Report noted PFOS levels of 150-170 ppt in Lake Washington. Since that time New York State has switched the City of Newburgh to a temporary, uncontaminated water supply.

Треклист передачи: 01 Foss - In the Crowd 02 Lost Society - Deliver Me 03 Love And War - Start Believen 04 The Forrest McDonald Band - Misery and Blues (feat. Andrew Black) 05 Biff Byford - School of Hard Knocks 06 Lost Society - Nonbeliever 07 Michael Bloom and the Blues Prophecy - Old Man Blues 08 O'funk'illo - Tengo Que Madurar 09 Killus - The Look (Cover Roxette) 10 Blues Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love 11 Mass Madness - Criminally Insane (Slayer Cover) 12 Sono -What You Do (Single Version) 13 Poolside - Around The Sun 14 Robert Hart - Different People 15 Bon Jovi - Limitless 16 Machine Head - Circle the Drain 17 Garou - Ain't Too Proud To Beg 18 Hollywood Groupies - Rise 19 Re-Machined - Heart on Fire 20 Demons Wizards - Midas Disease 21 Heart Of Chrome - Bankjob 22 H.e.a.t - Nothing to Say

Playlist: North Mississippi AllStars, Father, The Young Presidents, Sailing, Bill Fillipiak, Another Dead End, Jaqui Brown, Lovin’ You Joe Kopicki, JuJu, Eddie 9V, New Orleans, Brad Vickers & His Vestapolitans, Red Dust, Peter Poirier, Bad Luck, Troy Gonyea, Bring It On Home, Bob Margolin, Together, Chris “Bad News” Barnes, Hungry & Horny, Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps, Put The Squeeze On Me, Biscuit Miller & The Mix, Southern Woman, Ghost Town Blues Band, Dirty, Kerry Pastine and the Crime Scene, Tears Of Heartache, Brad Heller, The Greatest Crime, Hound Dog Taylor, My Baby Is Coming Home, James Cotton, One More Mile, Doug Duffey and BADD, The Things We Used To Do, Myles Goodwin feat, Angel Forrest, Being Good (Won’t Do Us Any Good), Brody Buster’s One Man Band, This Time I Got The Blues, Jeff Chaz, You Gotta Show Me, S.E. Willis And The Willing, Too Much Love, The B. Christopher Band, It Just Hurts, Lena & The Slide Brothers, Bourbon River Blues Jamboree, Janiva Magness, Bluesboy, The McNaMarr Project, Blues Brought Me Here, Wentus Blues Band, Where Have All The Songbirds Gone, Cass Clayton Band, Tattered And Torn, Miss Bix and the Blues Fix, You’re A Child, Ghalia, I Thought I Told You Not To Tell Them, Michael Bloom and the Blues Prophecy, I Ain’t Got The Blues, Paul Gabriel, Dear John Letter, Paul DesLauriers Band, Feeling All Kinds Of Good, Mambo Sons, She Just Wants To Ride, Harper and Midwest Kind, Hell Yeah, Mojomatics, Soy Baby Many Thanks To: We here at the Black-Eyed & Blues Show would like to thank all the PR and radio people that get us music including Frank Roszak, Rick Lusher ,Doug Deutsch Publicity Services,American Showplace Music, Alive Natural Sounds, Ruf Records, Vizztone Records,Blind Pig Records,Delta Groove Records, Electro-Groove Records,Betsie Brown, Blind Raccoon Records, BratGirl Media, Mark Pucci Media, Mark Platt @RadioCandy.com and all of the Blues Societies both in the U.S. and abroad. All of you help make this show as good as it is weekly. We are proud to play your artists.Thank you all very much! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id502316055

Show #811 Eclectic Electric Spinner plays electric blues again. Some of it is brand new and the rest is from recent releases. 01. Tommy Castro & the Painkillers - Calling San Francisco (5:25) (Killin' It Live, Alligator Records, 2019) 02. Jimmy Carpenter - Wanna Be Right (5:11) (Soul Doctor, Gulf Coast Records, 2019) 03. Cass Clayton - Flowers At My Feet (4:50) (Play Nice, self-release, 2019) 04. Giles Robson - Your Dirty Look & Your Sneaky Grin (6:31) (Don't Give Up On The Blues, American Showplace Music, 2019) 05. Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty - Don't You Wish It Was True (4:22) (Change in the Weather, Blue Élan, 2019) 06. B. Christopher Band - Sad State Of Affairs (5:12) (Two Rivers Back, Guitar One Records, 2019) 07. Arsen Shomakhov - Women And Whiskey (4:14) (Rain City Blues, self-release, 2019) 08. Michael Bloom & the Blues Prophecy - Old Man Blues (6:50) (Whisper In The Wind, self-release, 2019) 09. Altered Five Blues Band - Dollars & Demons (4:15) (Ten Thousand Watts, Blind Pig Records, 2019) 10. Miss Bix & The Blues Fix - If You're Doing What I'm Thinking (3:44) (We Don't Own The Blues, self-release, 2019) 11. Jeff Chaz - She's The Sweetest Thing (6:12) (No Paint, JCP Records, 2019) 12. Tennessee Redemption - See About Me (4:21) (Tennessee Redemption, Endless Blues Records, 2019) 13. Doug Duffey And BADD - My Drivin' Wheel (5:59) (Play The Blues, Out Of The Past Music, 2019) 14. McNaMarr Project - Keep It Rollin' (3:42) (Holla & Moan, self-release, 2019) 15. TopJaw - Rain Dance (3:40) (Digital Single, self-release, 2019) 16. Wentus Blues Band - You Got My Love (3:14) (Too Much Mustard!, self-release, 2019) 17. Sayed Sabrina - Home Is In Your Head (4:55) (Thou Art That, self-release, 2019) 18. The Nick Moss Band - Hot Zucchini (3:14) (Lucky Guy!, Alligator Records, 2019) Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. Thank you.

Show #810 All 2019 & All Acoustic Spinner put an all acousic episode together with music from albums that came out this year. 01. Giles Robson - Boogie At The Showplace (3:29) (Don't Give Up On The Blues, American Showplace Music, 2019) 02. Bobby Rush - Recipe For Love (4:46) (Sitting On Top Of The Blues, Thirty Tigers/Deep Rush Records, 2019) 03. Professor Louie & the Crowmatix - L-50 Blues (3:16) (Miles Of Blues, Woodstock Records, 2019) 04. Tiny Legs Tim - Nowhere My Home (3:48) (Elsewhere Bound, Sing My Title, 2019) 05. Kerry Kearney Band - No Way Back Blues (3:40) (Smokehouse Serenade, Highlander Records, 2019) 06. Tom Euler - Thoughts Of You (2:36) (Blues Got My Back, self-release, 2019) 07. Alice Howe - What We Got Is Gold (4:28) (Visions, self-release, 2019) 08. Danny Lynn Wilson - Fuss 'n Fight (2:53) (Peace Of Mind, SwingNation Records, 2019) 09. Bruce Katz - Watermelon Thump (2:55) (Solo Ride, American Showplace Music, 2019) 10. JP Soars - Old Silver Bridge (3:46) (Let Go Of The Reins, Whiskey Bayou Records,2019) 11. Eliza Neals - Knock Knock Knockin' (2:21) (Sweet Or Mean, E-H Records, 2019) 12. Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - Hard Times (3:08) (Kingfish, Alligator Records, 2019) 13. Blues Meets Girl - I'm Your Handyman (3:13) (Blues Meets Girl, self-release, 2019) 14. Joanne Shaw Taylor - Jakes's Boogie (3:02) (Reckless Heart, Silvertone Records, 2019) 15. Reverend Shawn Amos - Whatcha Gonna Do (2:04) (Kitchen Table Blues Vol 2, Put Together Music, 2019) 16. Jon Gindick - The All Night Cafe (4:54) (Love At The All Night Cafe, Old Chimney Records, 2019) 17. Mary Lane - Make Up Your Mind (4:17) (Travelin' Woman, Women Of The Blues Records, 2019) 18. Tomislav Goluban - Jerry Ricks On My Mind (3:23) (Chicago Rambler, Spona Records, 2019) 19. Kelly's Lot - Little Bit Of This (3:07) (Can't Take My Soul, self-release, 2019) 20. Charlie Wooton Project - Front Porch (4:26) (Blue Basso, Wild Heart Records, 2019) 21. Vin Mott - Whistlin' By The Graveyard (2:24) (Rogue Hunter, self-release, 2019) 22. Rick Vito - Promise Land (3:28) (Soulshaker, VizzTone Records, 2019) 23. Michael Bloom & the Blues Prophecy - Dust My Broom (3:44) (Whisper In The Wind, self-release, 2019) 24. Steve Howell & Jason Weinheimer - Jack Of Diamonds (3:57) (History Rhymes, Out Of The Past Music, 2019) 25. Paula Harris - A Mind Of Her Own (3:38) (Speakeasy, Blu Gruv Music, 2019) 26. Terry Robb - It Might Get Sweaty (3:21) (Confessin' My Dues, NiaSounds Records, 2019) Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. Thank you.

B.B. and The Blues Shacks (Three Handed Woman); Michael Bloom and The Blues Prophecy (Dust My Broom); Wentus Blues Band (Judgement Day); Call Me Daddy (Don't Be So Blue); Miss Bix and The Blues Fix (We Don't Own The Blues); James De Shay (Hold That Train, Conductor); Johnny Dickinson (Simple Life); Kelly Joe Phelps (River Rat Jimmy); St. Louis Mac (You Mistreated Me); Sam Chatmon (Stop And Listen); The Mississippi Sheiks (Livin' In A Strain); Thornetta Davis (Feels Like Religion); Little Johnny Jones (Dirty By The Dozen); Speckled Red (The Dirty Dozens); The Mark Cook Project (When You're Feelin' The Blues); Big Harp George (If Only).

Show #809 BLUE Although feeling blue about all the troubles and challenges mankind faces, Spinner managed to put another great episode together with new stuff and a few dedications. Enjoy! 01. Percy Mayfield - Danger Zone (3:00) (Walking On A Tightrope, Brunswick Records, 1969) 02. Savoy Brown - Selfish World (5:20) (City Night, Quarto Valley Records, 2019) 03. Harper - Get Out Of This Mess (4:05) (Day By Day, Blind Pig Records, 2007) 04. McNaMarr Project - No More Chains (3:49) (Holla & Moan, self-release, 2019) 05. Rick Estrin & The Nightcats - Root Of All Evil (4:12) (Contemporary, Alligator Records, 2019) 06. Art Neville - Cha Dooky Doo (2:30) (45 RPM Single, Specialty Records, 1958) 07. Art Neville - Arabian Love Call (2:18) (45 RPM Single, Specialty Records, 1959) 08. Art Neville - Lover Of Love Part 1 (2:29) (45 RPM Single, Cinderella Records, 1963) 09. Art Neville - My Babe (2:36) (45 RPM Single, Cinderella Records, 1965) 10. Giles Robson - That Ol' Heartbreak Sound (5:29) (Don't Give Up On The Blues, American Showplace Music, 2019) 11. Coco Montoya - I Wouldn't Wanna Be You (4:39) (Coming In Hot, Alligator Records, 2019) 12. Toronzo Cannon - She Loved Me (Again) (7:09) (The Preacher The Politician Or The Pimp, Alligator Records, 2019) 13. Wentus Blues Band - She's A Killer Hot Blonde (3:49) (Too Much Mustard!, self-release, 2019) 14. Aretha Franklin - Respect (2:24) (I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You, Atlantic Records, 1967) 15. Arsen Shomakhov - Full-Time Lover (4:30) (Rain City Blues, self-release, 2019) 16. Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty - A Hundred And Ten In The Shade (4:39) (Change in the Weather, Blue Élan, 2019) 17. Michael Bloom & the Blues Prophecy - Just Can't Win (4:48) (Whisper In The Wind, self-release, 2019) 18. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Bringing It All Back Home, Columbia Records, 1965) 19. Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks - Subterranean Homesick Blues (Tangled Tales, Surfdog Records, 2009) 20. Tennessee Redemption - Leave My Body (5:15) (Tennessee Redemption, Endless Blues Records, 2019) 21. Jimmy Carpenter - Wild Streak (5:02) (Soul Doctor, Gulf Coast Records, 2019) 22. Amos Garrett - Stanley Street (3:36) (Go Cat Go, Waterfront Music, 1980) Bandana Blues is and will always be a labor of love. Please help Spinner deal with the costs of hosting & bandwidth. Visit www.bandanablues.com and hit the tipjar. Any amount is much appreciated, no matter how small. Thank you.

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Michael Bloom, former news director and program director of KCSB in the late 1960s, recalls his experience of covering Isla Vista for KCSB News during the civil unrest of the time, which culminated in the burning of the Isla Vista branch of the Bank of America.

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Student media of all classes are invited to come to KCSB's courtyard beneath Storke Tower for a reception on Saturday, as part of the All Gaucho Reunion. Michael Bloom worked at KCSB in the mid 1960s, as news director, program director and general manager. He spoke with KCSB's Lisa Osborn about this weekend's event, as well as KCSB's early days, dedication of Storke Tower, how KCSB News reporters covered news in the pre-internet days, as well as the history of radio in Santa Barbara.

Michael Bloom founded and now runs Praktio, a provider of interactive, online learning games and exercises for developing practical contracts skills and know-how. For the latest topics, trends and tech in the legal industry, subscribe to the Evolve the Law Podcast: A Catalyst for Legal Innovation. Listen as legal experts and leaders share insights about the legal industry. For more information, questions, or suggestions about our podcast feel free to email us at evolve@abovethelaw.com Show Notes The origin story of Praktio - from teaching a transactional law school clinic to legal tech founder. How "learning contracts" is like learning a new language or coding. How Praktio works.  Teaching contract fundamentals (and other things you missed in law school). Why Praktio’s motto is to “make mistakes.”  Helping students and now customers enter the “growth mindset.”  How Michael Bloom's law school teaching days shaped his vision. Thoughts on if law school is preparing students for the new legal economy. On doing "design jams" in law school.  Issuing spotting and poking holes vs. creating and building out!   Why contracts are important.  How mastering transactional language can put your legal career on a faster trajectory. The importance of understanding the structure and anatomy of deal docs. Favorite client success stories. Why senior level partners are now on Praktio! How to learn more about Praktio, take a quiz and demo the product. Links and Resources from this Episode For additional information go to https://abovethelaw.com/legal-innovation-center https://praktio.com/   Review and Subscribe If you like what you hear please leave a review by clicking here Subscribe to the podcast on your favorite player to get the latest episodes. Subscribe with Apple Podcasts Follow on Spotify Subscribe with Stitcher  

This week we talk about The Grammys (though they were a flop - we were let down), books we're reading, a fabulous song called Lifting You by Michael Bloom and how it connects to our generation's obsession with social media and need for external validation. Books:We Should All Be Feminist by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieBlack Girl Magic by Mahogany Browne (illustrated by Jess X. Snow)Girl WashYour Face by Rachel HollisAlso referenced Elisabeth Elliot.Check us out on Instagram and Twitter @theintersectpod, and if you have ideas for us email us at theintersectionpodcast@gmail.com!

Dr. Ansari-Winn interviews A. Michael Bloom who is a nationally recognized expert in caregiving and caregiver burnout. He shares his own experience as a family and professional caregiver as well as his extensive knowledge from helping hundreds of clients. Today we discuss: The signs and symptoms of caregiver burnout How to stay energized and committed to caring for your loved ones Why caring for yourself is so important when you are caring for others Why you will likely become a caregiver at some point in your life What to do when someone says, “How can I help?”    

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Artist/writer/colourist and letterer Michael Bloom sits in to discuss his project, Italiano. Check out the kickstarter now and pledge to support this super exciting and original new book!  

Michael Bloom shows how coaches can use webinars to explode their businesses, and talks about his upcoming "Webinar Mastery Summit"!  

Michael Bloom has helped to revitalize the careers of hundreds of family and professional caregivers with practical, tactical, soul-saving coping strategies. His wisdom about caregiving comes from personal challenging experiences, as well as his professional background. In this episode, he shares beautiful and practical wisdom for those who are thinking of creating their own business. There are pitfalls he can help us to avoid, and peaks he can help us to traverse. Michael's show notes are found at www.savvyselfgrowth.com - enjoy his beautiful sense of calm, humour and wisdom.

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Join Dave, The Caregiver's Caregiver as he interviews Certified Professional Coach and Caregiving Without Regret™ Expert, Michael Bloom, MA, MS, CPC, who has energized hundreds of caregivers with soul-saving coping strategies that support them in saving lives, including their own. With a wealth of practical expertise as both a family and professional caregiver, Michael serves as a welcome and sought-after catalyst to guide caregivers to stay energized and committed to work that has never been more important than it is today. Happy clients say remarkable things about the impact of Michael’s support on their lives. This comment speaks volumes: “Michael Bloom is like a warm chocolate chip cookie that offers the delight and perks of comfort food without the calories.” - Sandy Putnam-Franklin Michael is the author of the book, The Accidental Caregiver’s Survival Guide: Your Roadmap to Caregiving Without Regret. You can learn more about the book, access free caregiving resources, and Michael’s coaching and speaking services at http://www.caregivingwithoutregret.com/ Contact Info:  (774) 226-0755    michael@caregivingwithoutregret.com Mission:  Inspiring Caregivers and the Organizations that Support Them with Practical Coping Strategies that Revitalize Careers and Save Lives

Chris Mittelstaedt founder and chief executive officer of The FruitGuys, the industry leader in providing farm-fresh produce to the American workplace and homes nationwide. Chris started The FruitGuys in 1998 with the dream of developing a unique and viable business, while advancing the noble cause of improving the overall wellbeing of people in the workplace.  What started out as a two-person operation and an old Honda filled with fruit has become a multimillion dollar enterprise Michael Bloom Certified Professional Coach and Caregiving Without Regret™ Expert. He has helped to revitalize the careers of hundreds of family and professional caregivers with practical, tactical soul-saving coping strategies and supports them in saving lives, including their own. With a wealth of practical expertise as both a family and professional caregiver, Michael published his book, The Accidental Caregiver's Survival Guide in 2013 to help caregivers stay energized for providing high-quality support to their loved ones and live full lives themselves. Cameron Herold has been a growth guru to multiple $100 million dollar companies. One of the most sought after business minds in the world, for over 20 years he has been coaching the top entrepreneurial CEO's on the planet, guiding them through the process of hyper-growth. As former Chief Operating Officer of the worlds largest residential junk removal company Cameron Herold grew revenues at 1- 800-GOT-JUNK? from $2 Million to $106 Million in just six years while nurturing an award-winning workplace culture 

Michael Bloom is a coach for caregivers and the author of "The Accidental Caregiver's Survival Guide".  His passion to help clients comes from his experience as a professional caregiver, and from realizing that they need help to do what they do!  

Certified Professional Coach and Caregiving Without Regret™ Expert A. Michael Bloom has helped to revitalize the careers of hundreds of family and professional caregivers with practical, tactical soul-saving coping strategies and support them in saving lives, including their own.  With a wealth of practical expertise as both a family and professional caregiver, Michael serves as a welcome and sought-after catalyst to guide caregivers and health and human services leaders to stay energized and committed to work that has never been more important or vital than it is today.    Having earned two Master's Degrees in Psychology and Social Policy, Michael's passion for life-long learning is best expressed through the practical sharing of game-changing tips that make urgent and real impact when and where they are needed most. Whether you work with Michael in a private mentoring program, choose emergency roadside assistance coaching, or engage with him in one of his compelling and practical group workshops, you are sure to immediately recharge your energy and take inspired action towards achieving the life of abundance and joy that you so richly deserve. Happy clients say many remarkable things about the impact of Michael's support on their lives and work.  This comment speaks volumes:  “Michael Bloom is like a warm chocolate chip cookie that offers the delight and perks of comfort food without the calories.”  (Sandy Putnam-Franklin) 2013 and 2014 “Life Coach of the Year” Finalist International Coach Federation of New England

This double length super blowout episode is dedicated to two big bits of philatelic news. Besides our regular features, our friend Steve Patillo appeared on the A&E program Storage Wars alongside Dave Hester! The second half, starting at about the 40 minute mark, was recorded live at the AmeriStamp Expo 2015 in Riverside, California and includes interviews with Michael Bloom of the Stamp Buddy Service, Ethan Choo and Charles Epting of the Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship, Gregory Slaughter from the Ebony Society of Philatelic Events and Reflections, Liz Heisey of Women Exhibitors, and James Weigant of the Young Philatelic Leaders Fellowship.

A sudden shift in his elderly father's health led to Michael becoming a full-time care-giver overnight. After the passing of each of his parents, he was inspired by his own experience to write both Care-Giving Without Regret and The Accidental Caregiver's Survival Guide. Together, these books and the community he built around them have been the foundation for the work he does with coaching clients and will be doing in a partnership focused on teaching entrepreneurs how to successfully build their businesses using Google Hangouts.

Many states are legalizing medical marijuana, but leaving "next steps" in the dust. Patients, caregivers and researchers get stuck in the middle. Researchers have to walk a fine line in discovering the full potential of marijuana use, including cancer, seizures, arthritis, PTSD and brain illnesses such as dementia and Parkinson's. Only 6% of studies on marijuana analyze its medicinal properties. Sick patients in a state where medical marijuana is legalized often have to "fill their prescription" through drug dealers. It's like lawmakers are saying, "You want it and have proved the point that medical marijuana is beneficial. Now you...patients and medical community...figure it out." Expert guest Michael Bloom, Caregiving Without Regret™, and I discuss the impact on families, caregivers and patients. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Emmy®-award winning chief med. correspondent, recently focused on U.S. federal laws that consider marijuana a drug with no medicinal value and serious scientists who say they're wrong. Shockingly, Marijuana is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, grouped with heroin, LSD and PCP. Schedule II drugs -- still considered to have high abuse potential but with accepted medical uses and considered safe for use under medical supervision -- include cocaine, morphine and methamphetamine. That's right, federal law considers marijuana more dangerous than meth. Really? Listen live M-F 2:00 pm ET www.W4CS.com, Joni at www.JoniAldrich.com

Summer means fun and R&R time. Can caregiving and vacation go together? Yes! Caregiving is a gift, not a sacrifice. It takes careful planning, but you can schedule something for you and your care receiver to look forward to away or at home. Guest expert Michael Bloom, Cert. Professional Coach, founder Caregiving Without Regret™, author The Accidental Caregiver. Michael's practical, tactical soul-saving coping strategies and support methods contain a wealth of expertise for both family and professional caregiver. Joni live M-F at 2:00 p.m. ET on www.W4CS.com. www.JoniAldrich.com

2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT (Outside US: Dial 00 + 1 + 714-464-4891) Viki Winterton interviews A. Michael Bloom!  Certified Professional Coach and Caregiving Without Regret™ Expert, A. Michael Bloom has helped to revitalize the careers of hundreds of family and professional caregivers with practical, tactical soul-saving coping strategies and support them in saving lives, including their own.  With a wealth of practical expertise as both a family and professional caregiver, Michael serves as a welcome and sought-after catalyst to guide caregivers and health and human services leaders to stay energized and committed to work that has never been more important or vital than it is today.    Having earned two Master’s Degrees in Psychology and Social Policy, Michael’s passion for life-long learning is best expressed through the practical sharing of game-changing tips that make urgent and real impact when and where they are needed most. Whether you work with Michael in a private mentoring program, choose emergency roadside assistance coaching, or engage with him in one of his compelling and practical group workshops, you are sure to immediately recharge your energy and take inspired action towards achieving the life of abundance and joy that you so richly deserve.  

Guest: A. Michael Bloom, President and Caregiving Without Regret™ Expert, Bloom Coaching and Performance LLC, and author, "The Accidental Caregiver's Survival Guide: Your Roadmap to Caregiving without Regret". As a caregiver, you may be looking at the holidays with a pound of trepidation instead of a pound of turkey. With patients in various stages of illness, you may be overwhelmed, depressed, and (dare I say) dreading this time of year when others might be going about decking their halls with abandon. There is much to consider with special emphasis on the needs of the patient, such as listening to their wants/needs, special food preparation (minus the germs), and preparing for guests (minus the germs). During this time of year, take comfort in knowing that love is a gift that doesn't require shopping on Black Friday or wrapping. For those helping a caregiver, charity is a blessing that is given and received. So, regardless of a sore heart, find time for special moments, humor, and plenty of hugs all around. (For a copy of this interview go to www.w4tsr.com, click on Joni Aldrich, episode 11/27/13) Listen to Joni live M-F at 2:00 p.m. ET on www.W4CS.com. To learn more about Joni, go to www.JoniAldrich.com

We are all human. Being a caregiver does not make us superhuman. Guest: A. Michael Bloom, Caregiving Without Regret™, has helped to revitalize the careers of hundreds of family and professional caregivers with practical, tactical soul-saving coping strategies and support them in saving lives. With a wealth of practical expertise as both a family and professional caregiver, Michael serves as a welcome and sought-after catalyst to guide caregivers and health and human services leaders to stay energized and committed to work that has never been more important or vital than it is today. Happy clients say many remarkable things about the impact of Michael’s work on their lives and work. This comment speaks volumes: “Michael Bloom is like a warm chocolate chip cookie that offers the delight and perks of comfort food without the calories.” -Sandy Putnam-Franklin. (For a copy of this interview go to www.w4tsr.com, click on Joni Aldrich, episode 10/9/13) Listen to Joni live M-F at 2:00 p.m. ET on www.W4CS.com. To learn more about Joni, go to www.JoniAldrich.com

Michael Bloom visits The Wealthy Speaker Show with host Paul Lawrence Vann to share invaluable expertise on Care Giving Without Regrets. Listeners are in for a fascinating experience because they will understand the importance of caregiving. Michael is the author of the book, The Accidental Caregiver's Survival Guide: Your Roadmap to Caregiving Without Regrets. Michael is President and a Caregiving Without Regrets Expert of the highest order. He is a Certified Professional Coach and Caregiving Without Regret™ Expert A. Michael Bloom has helped to revitalize the careers of hundreds of family and professional caregivers with practical, tactical soul-saving coping strategies and supports them in saving lives, including their own. With a wealth of practical expertise as both a family and professional caregiver, Michael serves as a welcome and sought-after catalyst to guide caregivers and health and human services leaders to stay energized and committed to work that has never been more important or vital than it is today.   Tune in, listen in and call in with questions at (877) 404-1615 and or join us in the web chat room: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/paullawrencevann

Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: Interview with Leslie Bradshaw Lucy Sanders:  Hi, this is Lucy Sanders and I'm the CEO of the National Center for Women in Information Technology or NCWIT. With me is Larry Nelson from w3w3.com. Hi Larry. Larry Nelson:  Hi, I'm real happy to be here. Lucy:  We are in love with this series of interviews, very interesting women from all sectors of tech with lots of interesting stories. Today, we are interviewing another serial entrepreneur who was named to the top 30 women in tech under 30 by the "Wall Street Journal." Very interesting and she herself has started a new company. Leslie Bradshaw is the founder and COO of Guide and this is a really cool company. It's sort of a visual news reader application for your personal computer. It takes all kinds of blogs and social media streams, online media news, then turns them into these video news segments if you will. With avatars and other cool stuff. Lucy:  I'm sure I'm not quite saying that right, and Leslie will set me straight in just a moment, but it sounds just fascinating. Before she started Guide, Leslie co‑founded and served as the president and COO of Jess3, and really helped them achieve their success. Landed on the 2012 Inc 500 list. So, a very successful entrepreneur. When she's not starting companies, she's a partner at her family owned vineyard in Oregon which sounds fascinating as well. Welcome, Leslie, we're happy to have you here. Leslie Bradshaw:  It's wonderful to be here, thank you so much for having me. Lucy:  You know, we have a couple questions about being an entrepreneur, but first why don't you tell us just a bit about what's going on with Guide. I'm sure our listeners will be interested in having an update. Larry:  Plus, we'll have it linked on the website. Leslie:  It's an exciting moment to be able to actually share some of the things going on at Guide. If you would have been speaking to me a month ago, everything was still in an alpha form. We were just testing it out with a number of private users. We are officially launched and you can download it if you have an iPad. We are, right now, number 3 if you can believe it, in the charts in the news category in the United States. Leslie:  We're also trending in a number of other countries, some of which are complete surprises to us because English is not the native language. A lot of the South American and Asian countries that are downloading our apps in force. It's so exciting to see that people really enjoy what we put out there. Certainly it's been resonating with thousands of people worldwide. Lucy:  It certainly sounds like an interesting app. Just a couple minutes, maybe, on what the technology is and what people use it for. Leslie:  Certainly. If you think about the app eco system around newsreaders, a couple of big players come to mind. You have Flipboard, for example. Flipboard aggregates your favorite online news, blogs, and social streams like Twitter and Facebook into a magazine experience that you can actively read. If you've ever used Flipboard, there are other platforms out there like Zite and Pulse. Those all do that in what, again, I call an active reading experience. I don't know about you or the listeners out there, but I have a very busy day. I cannot read all of the media that I want to actually review. Having the ability to have a passive consumption model is very important. Things like [inaudible 02:59] and SpokenLayer are creating apps that just read you your favorite online news, social streams, and blogs through text to speech. You have Ferry which is a text to speech engine. You have GPS which is a text to speech run engine. A lot of the other applications that I mentioned are doing that pure audio. Think about it for a second. Although audio is great and it's certainly helpful, I'm a visual learner. I know a lot of other people are, and most posts online include rich media like photos, videos, block quotations. Sometimes the comments and social interactions are even part of the story and make it even more interesting. What my company does at Guide is we take all of the things I just listed off and repackage it in sort of a news broadcast so you can consume all of your favorite content through both an audio and a passive consumption experience while also being able to get the best of the posts if there are photos, if there are videos, again, block quotations and any other rich media that add to that experience. We're taking the concept of news aggregation and curation, we're taking the concept to be able to passively consume news while you multi‑task, whether you're commuting or exercising or frankly even working at your desk on your computer, and we're taking it up a notch. The way we're able to do that is not only through the technology of the aggregation and the indexing of the content but also through avatar technology which is very futuristic and very cutting edge and very fun to work with. It's something that we've been sort of promised through sci‑fi movies like Iron Man or even, frankly, some of the earlier stuff like Total Recall. You had this kind of artificial intelligence newscaster. That's becoming a reality, because the technology is becoming just that good. That's kind of where we're at right now at Guide. Lucy:  I think that's pretty cool. Larry, maybe you can be an Avatar. [laughter] Larry:  Do I look like an avatar? Lucy:  That's really very cool. Congratulations on a great start. I think it's awesome. Leslie, why don't you give us a sense of how you first got into technology? What caused you to be drawn into the technical spaces? Leslie:  It's interesting. My educational background is one where math and science was always such an important building block to whatever I was doing. When I was very young, I can remember back, all the way to being 10 years old and going to a summer camp just for girls that focus on math and science. It was just a great time to geek out and play with Petri dishes to come up with hypothesis, test them, and come up with your evidence, and you end up with a thesis statement. I feel like that's always been a part of my approach. It's always been very scientific. Now, coming of age in the late '80s, early '90s, technology was coming online but not nearly at that speed and quality that it is today. It was something that wasn't a big part of my life per se, but it was always a little bit in the background. I would say it was more of an underpinning of the methodology of what science and what math can really enable. Now fast forward into my college career and then coming out into the work world when I was 22 years old, that's about probably 2005 I would say, at that time, the second wave of technology innovation was happening on the Internet. The first wave is that dot com boom and bust, and the second wave is really being driven by social media and by blogging and by a lot of democratization of the tool that enables social engagements and website creation and just tons of creation period. I was able to catalyze on that moment much like the people catalyze on the moment that somebody [inaudible 07:20] around the Internet. This was my moment with my colleagues and my cohorts. What I started doing was going to a lot of user groups, going to [inaudible 07:29] , going to bar camps and just starting that dialogue around what these technologies were enabling, what they could enable. Looking at my background, I'm not someone who look deep into the code and programming by the social scientists. As a business woman, I would able to partner with designers, developers, and strategists to think about what problems should we be solving, how can we utilize these technologies to help brands, help politicians, and issue advocacy groups. I was in Washington DC for about seven years in my early career and through [inaudible 08:07] all the stages of the web as they continue to unfold, I stay very active and involved in the graphic community around it and learned a lot. I was able to partner with a lot of really wonderful, very smart, talented people who had very discreet skill set who needed someone like myself to help pull it all together towards an end goal. Larry:  That's very, very fascinating. I'm going to have to share that with my daughters for sure. Leslie, why are you an entrepreneur, and what is it about entrepreneurship that makes you tick? Leslie:  I'd like to say that it's genetic at some level. My ancestors came across the orient express six generations ago and have a very strong pioneering spirit, and my parents continued that spirit. They have a farm and vineyard in Willamette Valley, Bradshaw Vineyard. I watched them work hard my entire life. In fact, I don't know anything else. I watched my mother be the CFO, COO of our family business. She's an accountant by trade and does a fantastic job of leading the decision making on that by making sure that we're using the best technologies, the most cost‑effective things, and looking for different ways to get smart calf brace, and be able to really scale and expand at the rate that we want to. At the same time, I look at my father who had the vision of putting the vineyard together and looking at how he's been able to use a lot of his ingenuity as a self‑taught engineer figuring out how to do everything from wire up 10‑15 feet tall wires that keeps animals out to putting together an irrigation system. I worked hand in hand with him using Google Maps and Google Earth. We plotted out over half mile of PBC pipes of where we want to lay it. We produced the pipes, and it showed up that we were within 18 inches. It's right on the money. It's a really fun project working with them. That's something that, again, I grew up just knowing what hard work looks like, what working for yourself looks like, and what dry designing and troubleshooting on the fly looks like. When I got into the work world, and I'm behind the desk and on track to go to law school and have job offers at the Department of Justice and a few big law firms as a paralegal, because I was thinking about going all the way to becoming a lawyer, it wasn't exciting. It wasn't like on the TV shows I was watching, right? Larry Nelson:  [laughs] Leslie:  It's not "Law and Order." It's not dramatic. It's just a lot of paper ‑‑ copying, sorting, printing, highlighting, finding, searching, scanning. That, to me, was not innovative enough, and not utilizing my abilities to the fullest. I'm an organized person, I'm very detail oriented, but it lacked something for me. I continued to look for more out of my career, as I continued to take additional opportunities that came up. I worked in television for a little while, working for John McLaughlin and the McLaughlin Group, which is on PBS in most markets. I also worked in a crisis communications firm and learned a lot about how to communicate with stakeholders, internally and externally, during a moment of otherwise the worst case scenario out there ‑‑ whether it's an oil spill, or a product recall or some sort of outcome that you just don't want to have happen. I also worked at a public relations and digital media firm, and was able to learn a lot about how to work with online audiences, how to work with the media, how to do media relations, how to create valuable, interesting things that people would want to talk about. Not just pitching them to say, "This is our story," but how can we create content that serves the audience that we were trying to engage? All the while, technology was a part of enabling what I was doing. I was always utilizing maybe 30, maybe 40, percent of what I felt to be my full abilities. I kept wanting to take a car out and drive it faster and faster, but I couldn't because I was constrained by my age. People looked at me and said, "You're 22, 23 years old. You do the thing that I ask you to o and maybe a little bit above that. Don't try to go and create a whole product line." I was really constrained by that. I was also constrained by the vision of the people I was around. They couldn't see what I was seeing, either related to the opportunity around social media, around visualizing large data sets, which, as a practice, is generally called "data visualization." They didn't see the full opportunity of what online, digital, mobile and social really meant. Of course I'm not saying that I was omniscient, that I saw something that others weren't, of course, taking advantage of in a much better way. There's Mark Zuckerberg founding Facebook and Evan Williams at Twitter, but I saw it in a way that others around me in Washington DC weren't seeing it. Finally I said, "You know what? I'm going to go ahead and throw up my own shingle," and found a really great, talented web designer, business partner, who needed someone like myself with, again, the business and strategy, and client‑relationship sense. We were able to build that partnership and build that company because, in spite of the fact that we couldn't get it going within the company that we were working at, we pulled it off to the side and said, "All right, if we think our vision is so strong and so great, we're going to go after it." That's what really is the underpinning part of an entrepreneur, is someone who can see things differently and see what other can't see. Even when others are not believing in it and can't see that vision, we still go after it. That's exactly what I did when I was 24 years old. I built that company over the course of six years and as you mentioned at the onset of the show, you made $8,500 in 2012 and I was proud to say that it generated $13 million in revenue during my tenure. That was all done boot‑strapped, all cash flow management, no outside funding, but was a very profitable, very successful service‑based business. Lucy Sanders:  That's quite a story. I'm so fascinated, too, with the experiences on the vineyard, the lessons you can learn about engineering and hard work. That's wonderful. In addition to your family, Leslie, who else do you consider to be your role model? Who else supported you along this path? The types of people, or surprising people, or what have you? Leslie:  One thing I like to think about, when bringing up an answer to a question like this is really looking at the axis of role‑modeling and mentorship. What I first look at is when you say role model, I look at that as someone who holds a position that I want to hold someday, or has a particular talent, or skill set, or visibility that I look up to. That someone could be at arm's length or could be miles away. I think of people directly in my industry. Specifically, Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg are both very strong examples of successful, female executives in the technology space that are succeeding because they're the best at what they do, not because they are women, or not because of anything other than they're just the best. I love that Marissa Mayer's also the youngest man or Leslie00 CEO. I think that's something also to look up to and know that age, just because you add a couple extra gray hairs, doesn't mean that you're going to be better at something. In fact, with the technology industry, by and large, the youth of our country is really driving that innovation because they're so close to it at a more native level. When I think of role‑modeling, I think of that. Then I think of mentoring, and I think of mentoring as someone who takes an active interest in your career and is someone who has at least 10‑plus years on you, in terms of their career experience, and are able to help you navigate situations that you may encounter and may not know, "Oh, what should I do? Should I take this job? Should I negotiate? What are other the things that I should be considering that I'm not?" As far as mentors go, I've had some really fantastic mentors. One of which Karen Zanderlane, used to be one of the partners at Price Waterhouse Coopers, and really has a good mind for operations, built her team, took it from two to 1,500 globally, so it really helps frame up my scaling and thinking around that. David Reimer, one of her colleagues, founded both works, a company called Merryck, who does professional mentoring. David also has a great mind for global‑scale leadership and how to think about cultivating and retaining talent. Another mentor, Michael Bloom is someone who I met through my alumni association at the University of Chicago. He took a very active interest in my career while I was in Washington DC and helped me navigate when I was at a company that didn't quite understand the vision I had, or helped me find another opportunity that did see that vision with me and shared that and wanted to give me the capital and wanted a way to run after it. Another thing is sponsors, and this one's probably the most important. If your listeners haven't thought of this concept, I hope they do after this interview. A sponsor is someone internal to your organization, who's two to three levels above you, they're working an active interest in the advancement of your career within that organization. It's one thing to get in context as far out into the distance, rock star poster up on your wall, like your Marissa Mayers. It's another thing to have someone external to your organization looking out for you, looking for opportunities, giving you advice. It's quite another to have someone directly in your organization helping you block and tackle, helping you navigate the politics of the organization, helping position you to be the person considered when promotions come up, or opportunities to go global or to travel or to do other large projects. You want to be top‑of‑mind and you can do that through your own grass‑roots, hard work and working with your colleagues and proving it with good work products, but the larger the organization, the more you're going to need someone at the top, advocating on your behalf. I've had some fantastic sponsors in my life, one of which was at my first job in Washington DC, at Air Soft, a partner by the name of Dave Gregg. He was global head of the trademark and IP side of things, and really focused specifically more so on, and did a great job advocating on my behalf. When there was more interesting work, I was the first name that he made sure to put front and center. I really appreciated that. Another sponsor of mine, Peter Snyder, he was the CEO of Media Strategies, a company that sold to Meredith. I think Meredith Integrated Marketing is now what they're called. He was someone who looked out for me throughout the course of my three‑year tenure at that company and I advanced quickly through the ranks and was able to take on new advanced projects because of his sponsorship and support. Those are just a few examples. Of course my parents, I already mentioned, are certainly role models and mentors, as sponsors. Those are three types of people that are very important to have in one's career and to make sure to keep cultivating, and giving back to those relationships, because they can be two‑way. They don't have to just be you taking from an elder career person. You can actually help in return. What I typically do is help enlighten these folks as it relates to social and digital media, thinking about innovate strategies, thinking about innovative technologies. Also helping them think about big data and data visualization, visual story‑telling. Those are areas that I can come to the table, because I like all the relationships that I'm in to be a two‑way street and everybody to feel good about giving and taking. Lucy:  That was an excellent answer around the difference between role‑modeling, mentorship and sponsorship. These are concepts that people really do confuse. I would add that many of the mentors, or sponsors in my life, it's almost like a life‑long relationship, in addition to being two‑way. Larry:  Yes, for sure. Lucy:  Really great answer. Larry:  Leslie, you've been through so many things in the different companies and types of things that you did, even earlier in your career. Today, what would be the single toughest thing that you've had to do in your career? Leslie:  I think the single hardest thing to do is keep going. There's going to be a lot of times when an entrepreneur, even someone who might be an entrepreneur, someone within an organization, you're going to come up against, not just resistance, but flat‑out people standing in front of you saying, "You can't do it, you're not going to be successful." I've had people look me in the eye and tell me I'm a fool to think that I can make this work. Of course, truth be told, that just motivates me more. [laughter] Leslie:  When you go and tell Leslie Bradshaw she can't do something, she'll turn around and prove you wrong. I will say that there are times that it meant not sleeping for two days straight. It meant pulling back‑to‑back all‑nighters to make something work. It meant making personal, financial, physical, mental, emotional sacrifices, beyond anything I could have ever imagined coming out of college, thinking, "OK. I'm going to work hard. Get a corporate job, work my way up the ladder," and do that thing that you read about when you're younger. I love what Sheryl Sandberg says, in the book "Lean In." She says, "Your career won't be using a ladder, it's a jungle gym." You're going to swing from the left to the right. There's a lot of different access points to advancing in your career. Advancement doesn't even have to look vertical, it can look a little bit more horizontal and you can still have a great career out of it. Re‑framing the way I looked at things and being ready to be tenacious and have fortitude. It's a long haul, especially if you're going to be an entrepreneur. I told you at the top of the interview how well things are going with Guide, and that's after 11 months of incredibly hard work, long hours, long weekends, and it's really just the beginning. We only have six or seven days out of the gate with our [inaudible 21:49] , and we have a long road and relationship with them to continue to iterate our product to get it to where it needs to be and continue to evolve based on our feedback that we get. It's not always going to be easy. Sticking it out is probably the single hardest thing to do. It would be just as easy to stop and say, "You know what? I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to take one of those job offers that I get through LinkedIn." People are asking me to be the VP of strategy at some company. Just take a check and have someone else worry about cash flow and payroll, and user acquisition, user retention, and a lot of the other things that come with running a start‑up in this day and age. The hardest thing is to also deciding when it's not a good idea to keep going. I think there's some really interesting dialogue around whether or not...How do I say this? There's the hype around start‑ups and there's this hype around technology companies as being the new cool thing. You're seeing almost like movie stars, or rappers. Technology CEOs and founders are being treated like the new level of royalty when you look at all the magazine covers. Truth be told, when you look at those people's stories, and you hear what it's been like, something like a Pinterest, it took two to three years of really slugging it out before it hit mainstream success. You hear from the founders what it was like to stick it out and believe in their vision, despite the numbers not being where they wanted them to be, for not just a few months, but we're talking years. A colleague of mine, at Peach Tree is Ellie Cossette, she wrote [inaudible 23:20] "Business Insider" and pointed out about a dozen stories or so from founders, CEOs, people involved in start‑ups, saying, "Not all that glitters is gold over here. Just because there's some hype going on and there's some great news articles written about us, and we're treating that everything's all good, doesn't mean it's all good." It's OK to talk about some of those harder times. Whether it's missing payroll, whether it's being really far down on your bank account and having to raise money in a really stressful situation, or having to put in your own financial capital. Even deciding it's time to shut down the shop. Those are all things that are top of mind for me and the people I talk to, who are also entrepreneurs. Lucy:  That is a tough choice. "Do I keep going or do I change course?" It's very, very hard to do. I want to switch gears a little bit around the personal characteristics that you see give you advantages as an entrepreneur. Obviously, listeners will hear, in your answers so far, hard work, tenaciousness, creativity, things like that. What other types of characteristics do you have that make you a successful entrepreneur? Leslie:  I think one the single, most successful characteristics that I have, it almost doesn't even come from me, but it's the fact that I work closely and really love others. I would say that one of my biggest secrets, I'm going to go ahead and give it away today on your show, is that I partner with these very talented, very smart, very hard‑working people, who are the best at what they do. I'm good at what I do. I'm good at being a leader, [inaudible 24:56] strategies, [inaudible 24:57] operational track or something to scale. But then there's probably about 900 other things that need to get done in that company or a project that I'm not the best at. I'm not going to have time to as Malcolm Gladwell says, put about 10,000 hours in to be the best. What I do is I have a running list of people who are the best at what they do in every major category of skill sets that I ever need. When the day does come when I may need someone who's a great front‑end web developer, someone who works really well with API, application program interface, or there's someone who's a great designer, or copy writer, or researcher, analyst, whatever it may be. I do all that, I use a particular customer relationship management system called Contactually, founded by Lee Zan, who I had an opportunity to work with early on in my career. He's fantastic. I [inaudible 25:49] like a sales force, but I think it's a lot cooler and easier for individuals to use sales force as a bigger enterprise‑level version of this. As I meet people and really enjoy working with them, not just because they're the best at what they did, but because they also had a great attitude. That, to me, is a true A player. I'm on the hunt for A‑player talent all the time. Even if someone has a great attitude, but isn't the best, that's not someone who makes my list. Conversely, someone who's the best at what they do, but doesn't have a great attitude, I also wouldn't say that that's someone that I would want to carry forward in a project or a team or company that I'm building. My great secret ‑‑ partner with A players and have a good time with the people that you're working with. Make it fun. Make it like a game. I did a lot of team sports all through middle school and high school, and some intramural in college. I always loved working with a group of stakeholders who were the best at what they did, for a mutually beneficial outcome. That's what I do now in my job. We not be on the softball field trying to put together getting someone on first and rotating them all the way through, to get them into home. I might not be on the volley ball court, trying to keep the ball from hitting the ground. But I am, in a sense, still doing that by partnering with people who are skilled at various things, to come up with a great outcome. Lucy:  I bet that list is worth a lot of money. [laughs] . Larry:  Yes, it is. It is. Leslie:  It's my list and everybody's list is going to be a little different, because everybody comes at it with a different lens. That's the great thing about technology today, is that it enables you to do more with what you have. I look at it almost as an extension of myself and it's scaling myself too. Maybe before, say 20 years ago, you may have a Rolodex sitting on your desk. That Rolodex was really about when you were able to flip through it and, "OK, I need to look up this person," or "I have this particular vendor type that I need," You flip through it. In this day and age, people are moving jobs faster. People are having more jobs in their career than before. How do you keep track of that? Do you keep crossing it out and flipping it over and scratching out the Rolodex index card? Or do you have a dynamic system that's populating and pulling from things like LinkedIn, and Facebook, and Twitter and some of these places that are being updated automatically by the platform. I would say the answer is B. In doing so you can do more. How more and the volume of people, it goes from dozens and 100s, to 1000s. My collective network of people that I can access at any given time is probably well over 20,000. It's not people that I stay in touch with on a daily basis, but people that I've interacted with and had a good, successful something or other. I've done something for them, or they've done for me, or vice versa. I only hope to continue to cultivate and grow that through my career. Larry:  That is awesome. With all the different things that you've done and been through in setting up a new company, and everything else. How do you bring balance into your personal and professional lives? Leslie:  That's probably one of the best and hardest question that I've hassled, I've pondered, I've struggled, I've failed, and I've succeeded at. If I were to look across probably four or five areas of my life, it all hit me when I turned 30 years old, which for whatever reason is some milestone. It's a big milestone and I hit 30 and at that point I really took a bead and really assessed "What are the priorities in my life? What are the most important things to me? How am I spending my time?" Supposed priorities and then what is my time actually being spent doing? My priorities, you've heard me talk about them a couple times now, it's my family. It's my parents, my sister, it's our farm. That's something that's incredibly important to me and I was not putting enough time towards that. I was pulling back‑to‑back all‑nighters and if my sister or parents would call I was usually multitasking and trying to get their email, while I was also trying to be there for them. It was just not great. I was a bad daughter, I was a bad sister, and I never want to do that ever again. I kind of hit the reset button at the end of 2012. As hard as it was, I had to leave the company that I helped build. After six years I felt I accomplished a lot. In fact, I felt that a lot of the things I wanted to accomplish were done. It was time for a new challenge. In leaving, it also gave me four whole weeks off. I unplugged, I stopped checking emails. I just spent time on the farm, just really decompressed, did a lot of writing, putting things in my journal. I did a lot of reading, a lot walking outdoors and I really got back in touch with where I wanted to be. If this is what my first 30 years looked like and then I looked at my parents who are 60 and my grandmother who is 90. I looked at these third, third, third increments, I want to really plan smart for the next two‑thirds of my life, and, hopefully, even three‑thirds. We'll see. One of the things at the core was family, and the second thing was health, and this was something that I was really, really neglecting, because what I was doing was I was working so much that I wasn't ever resting, and my brain...I was actually experiencing decision fatigue, and there was inability to access certain key parts of information. It's almost like the little, "file not found," hourglass just rotating in my brain when I was looking for information because I just overused that muscle. I wasn't sleeping enough. I would average probably four, five hours of sleep a night if I even went to bed, and if you've ever tried to do that I think they actually liken it to having a certain blood alcohol level in your body if you're not sleeping. It really disorients you. I'm disoriented, I'm not sleeping, and it gets worse. I'm not eating the right kinds of food, and even though I was raised on a farm, and how to do all the great kind of home‑grown organic...I knew what was good for me, but when you put yourself in a situation where you start trying to optimize for the maximum amount of time to spend on work, you stop cooking for yourself. You stop grocery shopping, and you turn to ordering food. You're either doing takeout, or fast food, or, "Oh, we don't eat all day. I'm so hungry," and then you sit down and have a huge meal really late at night, and that was happening to me. Over the course of those six years I gained 40pounds, and it was something that not only was it a manifestation of kind of being unhealthy, but it also... it manifests itself in other ways, too, just how I felt. My energy levels were lower. My ability to even have the stamina to make it through some of the long pushes and some of the physical work that was required at some of our live activations, I wasn't the same athlete that I was all through college. And so what I did was I took a real strong look at my health, and what I did was I hired a trainer. I started investing in what I felt at the time to be kind of extravagant, expensive, but things like facials and massages and things that were kind of re‑instilling or revitalizing my skin, my teeth, my hair, like all the things that I was so rough on for so many years. It turned out that after a year of doing that I've lost all the weight, I can leg press almost 800 pounds. I lift weights frequently. I go jogging. I can do just about anything, and I feel so strong and so healthy, and I get eight hours of sleep every night. I eat five square meals a day. I make sure I'm getting the right nutrients, and I have never felt more ready to take on the world. I have a sharper mind. I'm able to see things quicker, and I'm just happier. And you can see it on my face. You can see it in my eyes. You can see it...it manifests itself all throughout the physical body that I have as well as the mental body, and those are things that are just so important, and I will never ‑ I repeat here for the public in public record ‑ I will never let it get that bad ever again. In fact, I will not even go in that direction. I will only keep taking better care of myself. Family and health are two things that I put on the backburner in my twenties, but in my thirties and going forward I will never do that again. And if it means that I have to do a little bit less work or say no to a few things or find ways to delegate or bring others in to help scale out me and not try to write it, put it all on my shoulders and do everything myself then so be it, because tell you what ‑ it's not worth it. It just isn't, because your family and your health are the two most important things in this world. Lucy:  That's really great advice and discovering that at 30 is good. Many people don't discover it until they're 50 or 60 so it's great. It's a great message for our listeners. Leslie, our last question is maybe a little bit of a peek at the future, although I realize you've just made a transition, and it sounds like quite a happy one. Do you have any sense of what's next for you down the road after Guide is a 100 million‑dollar company [laughs] ? What do you see for yourself next? Leslie:  Well, I wouldn't be a great planner and strategizer if I wasn't, as you say, thinking about kind of the next 24 months, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years, but I have a couple goals I'm setting for myself, and I actually use an app that I highly recommend to folks. It's called Everest, just like the mountain, and in Everest you'll see that I have a couple of goals. One of those goals is that I'm working on a book right now, and that's going incredibly well, and, of course, it's about data visualization and visual storytelling, because that'll be something I'm really excited to share with folks hopefully early next year if it stays on schedule. The next goal that I have is that I would like to be part of a company that does some sort of exit, right, and Guide is certainly positioned to be that company, and if it's not Guide, another company, but that's when you take a company that you've built to a certain level value and are able to sell it to another company. The third thing that I have as a goal is somewhat related to that, but it's to build a company to a level that goes public, so goes to an IPO, initial public offering, and if you just watch Facebook, think of the IPO last year, and you think about some companies decide to sell, and some companies decide to create liquidity and value through doing an IPO. And another company, Eloqua, which is an automated marketing company based in McLean, Virginia, and they were a client of mine for three years, and we helped kind of create a lot of the content and visual marketing as they were preparing to do their IPO, which happened last year. So those are kind of things I've looked to, I've been part of, I witnessed I guess from arms length kind of afar, and I'd like to be an active part of a leadership team that does that in the future. The fourth goal that I have ‑ and these are all kind of goals that I have in the next, let's say, 10 years, this next decade. And the fourth goal is to be on a board of directors, and I currently serve on a kind of advisory board, and that's when I have an equity stake in a company that looks to my advice. My relationship has helped kind of steer them. I work closely with a data visualization company called InfoActive, helped with a data driven storage company called Beutler Ink ‑ a little play on words there ‑ and also a really fantastic women's network called, "The List." And those are all kind of great starting points for me to get that experience as someone who serves at an adversarial level. But to be on an actual board of directors of a privately held company or even at some point a publicly traded company would be a goal that I have for myself. Those are things in the next 9 to 10 years and before I turn 40 I hope to be a part of. We'll have to check back... Lucy:  I know. I was just... Leslie:  ...we're creating here. Lucy:  I was just thinking that. We'll have to check on your 40th birthday [laughs] and see. Leslie:  Boy, I'm putting it in my calendar. Lucy:  Yes, well, you know, Les, this was great. You have perfect answers. Good luck with Guide. Just the best of luck. It just sounds like a very cool application, and I wasn't to start looking at it to see if we can use it here at NCWIT. So thank you very much for your time. I want to remind listeners that they can find this interview at w3w3.com, as well as NCWIT.org. Thank you very much. Larry:  Yes, thank you. Leslie:  Yes, it was a great conversation, and thank you for all your challenging questions, and really wish the best of luck to all the listeners and their entrepreneurial and entrepreneurial endeavors. [music]   Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Leslie BradshawInterview Summary: Leslie Bradshaw is the Chief Operating Officer at Guide, a software company focused on turning online news, social streams and blogs into video. In her role, she is focused on publisher relations, fundraising, marketing, product strategy, talent development and back of house management - "There's going to be a lot of times when as an entrepreneur, even someone who might be an entrepreneur," she said "You're going to come up against, not just resistance, but flat‑out people standing in front of you saying, "You can't do it, you're not going to be successful." I've had people look me in the eye and tell me I'm a fool to think that I can make this work. Of course, truth be told, that just motivates me more." Release Date: July 8, 2013Interview Subject: Leslie BradshawInterviewer(s): Lucy Sanders, Larry NelsonDuration: 38:20

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