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Jerry Barbour opens up about the remarkable transformation of the Towing Recovery Professionals of North Carolina (TRPNC) and their upcoming Mid-Atlantic Tow Show. As a third-generation tower whose family has been in the business since 1955, Jerry brings decades of hands-on experience to his role as association president, carrying forward the momentum built by his predecessor Kerry Fogg.The conversation reveals how TRPNC has evolved from a small gathering to a major industry event, now boasting their largest and most responsive board ever. Jerry emphasizes their mission to support towers beyond just business growth: "We're looking to better this industry, to bring up the new generation, understanding that you need to be part of an association instead of just being a lone wolf out there with no support or backing behind you."Their flagship event, the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Tow Show (September 4-6), has expanded dramatically to feature over 70 vendors and nearly 1,000 attendees. The upcoming show will offer an impressive lineup of certified training opportunities including EV response classes from Allstate, hazmat recertification with Perry Abatey, TIMS certification, and professional dispatch training with Mike Porter. Beyond education, the event features networking activities and the increasingly competitive Show and Shine truck competition, now rivaling major national contests.Jerry also addresses current regulatory challenges facing North Carolina towers, particularly around booting and predatory towing legislation. His pragmatic approach acknowledges the need for some regulation while advocating for fairness: "We understand regulations have got to be had, but we just want it to be fair for everybody."What makes association shows like this truly special is where the proceeds go - directly back into training, legislative advocacy, and initiatives that make roads safer for tow professionals. It's this reinvestment that builds not just better businesses, but a stronger brotherhood ready to support each other in times of need.Ready to join the towing community that's making real change happen? Contact TRPNC at 919-921-8194 or trpnc@nctowing.org and mark your calendar for September 4-6!
#drewhaskins #renoriggins #jeremiahplunkett #gmbmpwWelcome to Episode 85 of Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling (@gmbmpw) with hosts Jimmy Street (@jamesrockstreet), "The Plastic Sheik" Jared Street, our action figure expert, and the Territory Wrestling Guru, Quinton Quarisma! Tune in as they join forces and tackle the world of Professional Wrestling!Today we welcome an old friend of the show, Drew Haskins! It was great to catch up with Drew! We're talking his trainer, Reno Riggins & SAW, Paul Adams, USWO, NWA Main Event, Mike Porter, Bert Prentice, the Untouchables, Jeremiah Plunkett, WWE, Fandango, Goldust and so much more! Enjoy!Visit our Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling podcast page! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpwFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE:https://facebook.com/gmbmpwhttps://facebook.com/groups/gmbmpw/https://instagram.com/gmbmpwhttps://twitter.com/gmbmpwhttps://www.youtube.com/@GMBMPWCheck out Sheik's Shorts: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0oL-yrnIHtlaVHamAApDquYBXeGaHS8vCheck out host Jimmy's podcast Live and In Color with Wolfie D: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wolfiedVISIT OUR AWESOME SPONSORS!-STEVE BOWTIE BRYANT'S 1993 "Unbeatables" trading card sets (LIMITED QUANTITIES!): Contact stevebowtiebryant@icloud.com-CHW, Championship Honor Wrestling, 1935 TN-12 Ashland City,TN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61564165382800ADVERTISE WITH US! For business and advertising inquiries contact us at gmbmpw@gmail.comVery Special Thanks To: -Sludge (@sludge_cast) for the "Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling" entrance theme!-Tracy Byrd and A Gathering Of None for the "Sheik Fell Down A Rabbit Hole" & "Name Game" theme songs! © 2025, jamesrockstreet Productions
#chrisgatlin #suddenimpact #prowrestling #gmbmpwWelcome to Episode 80 of Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling (@gmbmpw) with your hosts and brothers, Jimmy Street (@jamesrockstreet) and "The Plastic Sheik" Jared Street, our action figure expert! We're also bringing along our territory wrestling guru and co-host, Quinton Quarisma! Listen in as they join forces and tackle the world of Professional Wrestling!Today we welcome Chris Gatlin to the show! Whether you call him Chris or Rusty, he had a heckuva run in the business. From tagging with his Sudden Impact partner, Stunning Steve Lane to working for Tony Falk, Mike Porter & Bert Prentice to The Devils attacking his wife to his time in Brian Cheatum's WMF to getting a TNA tryout match! We're covering it all! Enjoy!Visit our Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling podcast page! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpwFOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE:https://facebook.com/gmbmpwhttps://facebook.com/groups/gmbmpw/https://instagram.com/gmbmpwhttps://twitter.com/gmbmpwhttps://www.youtube.com/@GMBMPWCheck out Sheik's Shorts: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0oL-yrnIHtlaVHamAApDquYBXeGaHS8vCheck out host Jimmy's podcast Live and In Color with Wolfie D: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wolfiedVISIT OUR AWESOME SPONSORS!-STEVE BOWTIE BRYANT'S 1993 "Unbeatables" trading card sets (LIMITED QUANTITIES!): Contact stevebowtiebryant@icloud.com-CHW, Championship Honor Wrestling, 1935 TN-12 Ashland City,TN https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61564165382800ADVERTISE WITH US! For business and advertising inquiries contact us at gmbmpw@gmail.comVery Special Thanks To:-Sludge (@sludge_cast) for the "Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling" entrance theme!-Tracy Byrd and A Gathering Of None for the "Sheik Fell Down A Rabbit Hole" & "Name Game" theme songs!Support them at these links:https://agatheringofnone.bandcamp.com/https://agatheringofnone.bigcartel.com/© 2025, jamesrockstreet Productions
#aaroncamaro #decibelgeek #prowrestling Welcome to Episode 69 of Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling (@gmbmpw) with hosts and brothers, Jimmy Street (@jamesrockstreet) and "The Plastic Sheik" Jared Street, our action figure expert! Listen in as they join forces and tackle the world of Professional Wrestling! Today we welcome great friend of the show, Aaron Camaro! From his start in Wisconsin, as a wrestling fan with a radio job, that led him eventually to Nashville which led to he and Jimmy meeting one fateful day! That led to work in wrestling, ring announcing, commentating, working in creative, Aaron was getting to live his dream! So you know we've gotta discuss NWA Main Event, Mike Porter, Bill Behrens, SAW, Crossfire and everything in between! We even discuss what he's doing now in wrestling with the CHW and of course we talk about his excellent podcast, The Decibel Geek! Sit back, crack a cold one and enjoy! Cheers! Visit our Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling podcast page! https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpw FOLLOW & SUBSCRIBE: https://facebook.com/gmbmpw https://facebook.com/groups/gmbmpw/ https://instagram.com/gmbmpw https://twitter.com/gmbmpw https://www.youtube.com/@GMBMPW VISIT OUR PROWRESTLINGTEES STORE: https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/related/livewolfied.html Check out Sheik's Shorts: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0oL-yrnIHtlaVHamAApDquYBXeGaHS8v Check out host Jimmy's podcast Live and In Color with Wolfie D: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wolfied VISIT OUR AWESOME SPONSORS! -STEVE BOWTIE BRYANT'S 1993 "Unbeatables" trading card sets (LIMITED QUANTITIES!): Contact stevebowtiebryant@icloud.com ADVERTISE WITH US! For business and advertising inquiries contact us at gmbmpw@gmail.com Very Special Thanks To: -Sludge (@sludge_cast) for the "Give Me Back My Pro Wrestling" entrance theme! -Tracy Byrd and A Gathering Of None for the "Sheik Fell Down A Rabbit Hole", "Name Game" & "Stories From Across The Street" theme songs! Support them at these links: https://agatheringofnone.bandcamp.com/ https://agatheringofnone.bigcartel.com/ © jamesrockstreet Productions --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gmbmpw/support
The Gang interview a UK 40K legend in a conversation with the one and only Mike Porter! #warhammer40k, #pariahnexus, #10thedition, Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/JcFMpcYvkV Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYwPTgmHC5VWu4Xn-qMg31g/join All our Links in one handy place: https://linktr.ee/6plusplusgaming
Join the Music History Project podcast team for a special episode discussing guitar effects and looping. Our guest is musician, songwriter, looper and former music retailer David Jenson. We will highlight a few Oral History interviews related to effects including Mike Porter, Del Casher, Thomas Blug and enjoy David presenting a looping demo!
Lisa Lavin is on a mission to change the way the world cares for the people we care about. “We don't have enough resources to take care of the number of people that are aging. So how do we do that? We leverage technology.” Lavin the founder and CEO of Ōmcare, a digital health company that pioneered the Home Health Hub, an interactive telehealth solution which monitors patients taking medication. It makes remote care possible and more efficient for health care professionals and those caring for an aging relative. Ōmcare is now available direct to consumer and through some health care systems. But it's taken Lavin more than a decade to get here. She charts the course, from the patent that inspired the idea to a testing phase with pets to raising more than $12 million in venture funding and releasing the product this year. “We have big visions on how we can actually change the way the world cares,” Lavin says. “And it is beyond what we're doing today.” Following our conversation with Lavin, we go Back to the Classroom with the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business where Mike Porter is a senior clinical faculty member in the marketing department. He calls out a few of Lavin's smart moves: - Thinking ahead—working on patents while still trying to get the first product off the ground - Conducting a low-stakes test drive of the product with pets - Making telehealth easy and approachable
Brace yourself for an enlightening trek through the high-stakes world of tow operators as we battle the blizzardy backdrop of the Iowa presidential caucuses. This episode is a treasure trove of anecdotes and insights, where we dig into the vital importance of readiness in severe weather and the unsung heroism of those who keep our roads safe. And that's not all; the American Towing Recovery Institute is rolling out new training opportunities, including a hard-hitting video series on rigging and chain usage that promises to sharpen the skills of industry professionals against nature's fury.Celebrating four decades In a heartwarming exchange, Adrian Benoit of Elite Service joins us to recount his remarkable journey from family ties to towing triumphs. Tune in as we dissect the power of continuous learning and the impact of one-day classes, all while preparing for events that amplify the prowess of the towing community in safety and service.When disaster strikes, it's the training that takes the spotlight – and we're dissecting a gripping episode of crisis management from the front lines. Our response to a major track incident is the canvas on which we paint the portrait of preparedness that every tow operator must embody. Later, we sit down with Mike Porter to uncover the transformative effects of his dispatch training and delve into the intricacies of lobbying for fair rates. Wrapping up, we reflect on the communal spirit and economic vitality of Lake Charles, Louisiana, painting a vivid picture of resilience and recovery.
“Where passion meets frustration creates motivation.” Erin Pash is the co-founder and CEO of Ellie Mental Health—one of the fastest growing franchise chains you've probably never heard of—yet. The Mendota Heights-based company opened its first franchise clinic in July 2022. Now there are more than 200 Ellie Mental Health clinics open around the country with another 450 sold and under development. Pash is driven by the desire to destigmatize mental health care by building a national mental health care brand that makes care accessible and fun while also creating a flexible work environment for therapists. Pash is a licensed therapist who saw a bigger opportunity. “We wanted to create a hybrid employment model where we could give therapists safety, security and support while providing them with the culture, creativity and compensation they could get in their own private practice.” Pash talks about barrier to mental health care, the rising demand for services and how that's driving more therapists not to accept insurance, which creates barriers to entry for those who need it. She talks about building her business, one practice at a time, and coming to identify herself as an entrepreneur more than a therapist. “There are two paths to successful business. One is you're an entrepreneur and you try 20 things and one sticks. You're passionate about entrepreneurship. The other is you're passionate about one thing and because you're so passionate, people can't help but want to join you. That's me.” Following our conversation with Pash, we go back to the classroom with the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business where Mike Porter is a marketing professor. He talks about the importance of a passionate founder and the marketing conundrum in the mental health field. “Not everybody wants to talk about mental health or say, oh, I went to this amazing clinic.” Porter talks about why franchising makes sense. “She's starting with community."
When your arteries are blocked, you see a cardiologist. For cancer, there's the oncologist. But for the 13.5 million Americans dealing with a serious wound—from surgery, an injury or disease, an ostomy bag, or old age—there's often no one coordinating care until the problem becomes a crisis. Nima Ahmadi saw the white space, and co-founded The Wound Company in 2022 with the intention of creating a coordinated, cost effective solution that supports health care providers and improves healing for patients. The Wound Company partners with medical practices and benefits companies to provide focused patient care through a combination of telehealth, AI diagnostics and in person care. Already the data shows that Wound Co. patients heal 60% faster for a 15 to 20% reduction in cost. Ahmadi, who studied bioengineering and worked on other software-focused health startups, walks us through the process of recognizing the problem, devising a solution, and actually bringing it to market. He talks about the challenges of scaling a health care startup and why he believes the big health care companies need to think smaller. Following the conversation with Ahmadi, we go Back to the Classroom with the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business where Mike Porter is a professor of marketing. He talks about the problems caused by a diffusion of responsibility. “What this business is really doing is owning accountability and expertise and aggregating those things in one place…for this very specific outcome.” Porter, who teaches reputation management, also talks about the public's growing confidence in telemedicine and how that can benefit new innovations like The Wound Co.
Mike Porter of Cryptid Curosities brings the tales and legends of cryptids to life with artwork so realistic, you might catch them blinking. He joins Gary to discuss how he became interested in cryptids and artwork to bring both together in a perfect blend that you can own and enjoy for yourself. We even discover why "Curosities" is spelled the way it is. Cryptid Curosities website: https://cryptidcurosities.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/withinthemist/support
Mike Porter of Cryptid Curosities brings the tales and legends of cryptids to life with artwork so realistic, you might catch them blinking. He joins Gary to discuss how he became interested in cryptids and artwork to bring both together in a perfect blend that you can own and enjoy for yourself. We even discover why "Curosities" is spelled the way it is.Cryptid Curosities website: https://cryptidcurosities.com/--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/withinthemist/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
SEASON 6 PREMIERE: At Long last, Welcome to Season 6! You Know we gotta kick things off with a Big one; and for our premiere, we tell the tale of a show So legendary that one ABC Affiliate Pulled it Off The Air within its first 10 minutes...What TV show could Possibly cause that much chaos? Thanks to Joan Bishop, Chad B. White, our announcer Mike Porter and INTRODUCING Darren Marlar of "Weird Darkness" as our Boss for This Season. SPONSORED BY: Dave's Archives Retrocirq And our Patrons
Who needs Halloween scares when we have scaling SaaS founders navigating the haunted house of growth metrics? In this episode of the SaaS Fuel podcast, Jeff Mains explores the concept of fearless leadership and its impact on scaling a business with Mike Porter, the go-to guru in customer communications and marketing strategies who refined his expertise during his tenure at Xerox and Bell & Howell before embarking on his consultancy journey.Mike shares some invaluable tips and strategies for creating engaging content, personalizing customer communications, and avoiding the haunting mistakes that many businesses make. He also emphasizes the importance of consistency, strategic planning, and understanding the needs of your audience.So grab your cauldron of creativity and let's dive into the magical world of content marketing!Key Takeaways[00:02:30] - Precision carving [00:03:42] - A spooky encounter[00:08:52] - Consistency is key in content marketing[00:11:15] - Content plan helps with consistency[00:19:02] - Trends in communication methods[00:21:05]- Personalized targeted communications are effective[00:24:43] - Understanding the audience for lead acquisition[00:30:43] Personalizing customer communications and content.[00:37:29] - Importance of consistent content creationTweetable Quotes"They're going to read it only if they're getting something out of the content you're delivering to them, and that's the informational content." - 00:30:37 Mike Porter"It's not only the right message to the right person, it's at the right time." - 00:33:37 Mike Porter"I would say, whatever you've got that is relevant to the audience that you're trying to attract is fair game and the tools are just going to keep getting better, I think, that allow you to do that. But just monitor that and don't let it go too far afield so that you're suddenly looking like a stalker instead of a marketer." - 00:36:49 Mike Porter"So don't just navigate through the haunted house of business. Own it." - 00:05:25 Jeff Mains"But it takes some initiative on their side to do that. And the people that are doing that, I think, are getting the most benefit from that. I can't do everything for them. They have to take the reins in some cases and figure out ways to use that content that we've provided for them in the ways that will benefit them the most." - 00:16:40 Mike Porter"I've heard that over the years, you know, mail is dead, email is dead. But they're not. And I think you bring up a really good point in that, you can cut through the noise. Mailboxes are not nearly as full as our inboxes for email for sure. And to be able to stand out." - 00:21:46 Jeff MainsSaaS Leadership LessonsPrecision Carving. Like a master craftsman, it's crucial to have a precise vision and understanding of the market. Anticipate market demands and strategically carve out their niche to create a unique and valuable offering.Connoisseur's Cauldron. Balance the wisdom of mentors with data-driven analytics. By combining experience and insights from mentors with the power of data, it can make more informed decisions and craft tailored strategies for growth.
We have reach that very special 200th episode and I am very excited to have my old friend Mike Porter on the show. He and I have been in the thick of the yachting industry in one form or another for almost 20 years. It was a pleasure to talk about where we have been and how we have survived to get here now. Big thanks to Mike for sharing some of his wisdom and time. Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sailingintooblivionpodcast Sailing Into Oblivion Merch:https://www.bonfire.com/store/sailing-into-oblivion/ Donate for future Adventures: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JeromeRand https://account.venmo.com/u/sailingintooblivion
Mike Porter joins Dave and Angelo to discuss the honor of being inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and a lot more. Great fun talking with Mike about Interski 2023 and past Interski's he has attended. Some great "Tech" discussion and also great insights on how to continue to grow and learn as an educator.
Mike Porter joins Dave and Angelo to discuss the honor of being inducted into the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and a lot more. Great fun talking with Mike about Interski 2023 and past Interski's he has attended. Some great "Tech" discussion and also great insights on how to continue to grow and learn as an educator.
Mike Porter from PMC Content Services joins Karl Fitzpatrick to discuss the important role which print mail still plays in today's world, the strategies for creating engaging content for consumers and the influence which AI will have on content creation going forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In our latest podcast, JMJ's Alan Palmer is joined by Mike Porter, Intel Project Director, and Jim Hayde, Operations Director at Jacobs Engineering, to reflect on the safety achievements of Intel's "Fab 14" major capital project which took place in Ireland 25 years ago. During the discussion, Mike and Jim share many stories and anecdotes that highlight how they created an aligned, collaborative safety culture resulting in an amazing five million worker-hours without a fatality. The project was completed with a cost saving of 7%.
Porter returns to discuss his 6 years experience of opening and running the first spin studio in Western Canada. He spend the majority of the episode debunking the nonsense that exists in the spin class industry & explains what to focus on as both a participant and instructor.
Appearing on a TV remodeling show may be the quickest path to notoriety in the interior design space today, but Bria Hammel is more interested in building an enduring business. She's leveraged social media to cultivate a following of more than 200,000, which helped to build St. Paul, Minn.-based Bria Hammel Interiors into a national design firm. In 2018, she parlayed her expertise into a retail business, Brooke & Lou, specializing in “life friendly furniture.” And that success has led to licensing deals with other brands. “I am a risk taker, but I'm a cautious risk taker,” Hammel says. She talks about running two distinct but overlapping businesses and how EOS (the Entrepreneurial Operating System) helps in running an efficient team. She talks about the online design service that was born out of Covid, and learnings from her first brick and mortar retail pop-up. Plus, design advice including the trick to successfully styling a bookcase and why she's glad to see the Midcentury modern trend fade in popularity. After our conversation with Hammel, we go back to the classroom with marketing professor Mike Porter at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. He talks about the challenge of scaling a service business, and what Hammel is doing well. “She emulates best practices in saying, what do I do, and what can I hire someone else to do.”
Mike Porter moved from Vancouver to Newfoundland with his wife in 2016. He started Positive Edge an online spin class business and run coaching platform. Mike joins Cillian & KP to discuss cold exposure, breathing, spin classes, run coaching and managing running injuries.
Frustrated that pills weren't making her heart patients feel better, Minneapolis-based cardiologist Dr. Elizabeth Klodas went looking for other answers. She started with a simple question for her patients: “What are you eating?” and was shocked to find more than a decade ago ago that she was often the first medical professional to ask her patients that question. “All of a sudden it dawned on me: we talk about food as medicine, what if we took that concept and interpreted it literally? A dose of food.” She started experimenting with foods naturally high in fiber, antioxidants, plant sterols, omega-3 fatty acids and created a cereal that she shared with patients. They started feeling better. That led to the creation of Step One Foods, an e-commerce snack food brand based in Eden Prairie, Minn. that has seen 40-fold revenue growth since 2017. Of course, Dr. Klodas wanted scientific proof that her food products could improve heart health, so she sponsored a clinical trial at the Mayo Clinic, where she had trained. The study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, 2022, proved that Step One Foods could lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients who ate it consistently. Today, Dr. Klodas continues to see patients while also running her fast-growing food brand. It's definitely not the journey she expected when she went to medical school. “I did it because no one was solving the problem I was seeing,” she says. “There's a huge gap in care that needs to be filled. I'm one small company. If you think of the breadth of health conditions that could benefit from targeted nutrition interventions—that field between drugs on the one end and food on the other is vast.” Following our conversation, we go Back to the Classroom with the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business where marketing professor Mike Porter says many an accidental entrepreneur like Klodas is made by being open to discovery. Starting a food business was not her goal, rather a means to help patients. “Purpose was the accident, but everything she did after that was purposeful. If, then. The purpose drives her.”
First Chair catches up with Educational Excellence Award recipient and former PSIA Alpine Team Coach Mike Porter. Listen to learn about the history of Interski and the countries attending to get a big picture understanding of the event. Mike also shares PSIA-AASI's history with Interski and how the event helps support members. Held every four years, the Interski Congress brings instructors together worldwide to share educational innovations and top teaching techniques. Learn more: www.thesnowpros.org/events/interski/ Follow: #interski2023 @thesnowpros #snowpros
It's time to complete the clown half of the Aeldari Codex Retrospective!I am joined by the Clown King himeself Mike Porter to disseminate and give the retro look at this crazy as all crazy codex!We do the usual, look through all the major sections of the book and put our thoughts on them, how they were on release and how good they are now. Mike is a total gent and was an absolute pleasure to have on the show.
This is a promo for an upcoming episode of Takin A Walk-music history on foot with Aaron Bowlin and Mike Porter in Nashville at two of the most famous studios in Music City.Aaron is Director of studio operations for Curb Music and Mike is the facilities manager for 34 Music Square East-home of the legendary Quonset Hut.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This is a promo for an upcoming episode of Takin A Walk-music history on foot with Aaron Bowlin and Mike Porter in Nashville at two of the most famous studios in Music City. Aaron is Director of studio operations for Curb Music and Mike is the facilities manager for 34 Music Square East-home of the legendary Quonset Hut.
It took nearly a decade for Tim Murphy and his father Dennis to build Softies into a modestly profitable women's loungewear brand, and just one mention by Oprah to catapult it into a whole new stratosphere. A career manufacturer's rep specializing in women's apparel, Dennis Murphy decided to start his own company in 2006. Inspired by his wife Peggy who was battling leukemia, Dennis Murphy created a line of super soft, moisture wicking sleepwear. His son Tim Murphy joined the business, based out of their Edina garage, in 2008 and together, they built a decent following. "It was enough to live on, but we were at the point where it was stagnant," Tim Murphy says. Six years ago, at a Dallas trade show, the Softies Snuggle Lounger caught the eye of Oprah's longtime creative director Adam Glassman. Softies debuted on Oprah's Favorite Things list is 2017 and has managed to stay on the list every year since. How does a small company prepare for an Oprah-sized spotlight and not buckle under the pressure? Tim Murphy, who has served as president since his father retired, talks about how Softies has leveraged the attention to keep growing—from hiring a CEO to expanding the product assortment. He shares advice on leadership, perseverance, and product development. "You have to make a quality product, you have to sell a product you believe in. If you don't believe what you're selling, no one else is going to believe you.” Following our conversation with Murphy, we go Back to the Classroom with the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. Marketing professor Mike Porter points out that Softies didn't just get lucky in making the Oprah list; the company positioned itself to get recognized and was ready to make the most of the opportunity. “That's just good business,” Porter says.
The decision Lisa Hannum made back in 1998 to leave the world of large communications agencies and start her own, to find balance as both a mother and professional, proved prescient as she scaled through the years. It made her agency especially adaptable when the pandemic hit. Beehive Strategic Communication had always been a hybrid workplace, where employees knew they could get a haircut in the middle of the day without being judged. But flexible and responsive does not mean fully remote. Beehive opened a new office in late 2022 that prioritizes gathering space, wellness, and technology. Hannum expected employees to come in one or two times per week, but they're showing up even more than that, and clients want to meet at “The Hive” as well. Hannum walks us through the process of designing the office of the future, and creating a culture that makes employees feel trusted. “If you talk to your employees about flexibility and then don't deliver, they will leave,” Hannum says. “Our team is so invested in the space because they designed it. When we trust in our people, it is repaid in immeasurable ways.” There's no going back to the way work used to be, Hannum says. “We're wired for change. What we need to understand as leaders, regardless of if your company is micro sized or global, it's always about the people.” Following our conversation with Hannum, we go Back to the Classroom with Mike Porter, marketing professor at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business, who discusses the importance of culture. “To the degree you have an established culture, you can take forward what's working,” Porter says. “If you don't have an established culture, be intentional about it.” Culture is your magnet, Porter says, and don't get hung up on catering to everyone. “You don't want everybody. You want the ones who want to play with the kinds of clients, work, environment you have. It's just a new variable in the way we do that.
Tom, Davey and Chris gather around for a general 40k chit chat this week. They answer a host of listener questions, discuss their recent events (2 podiums ain't bad!) and then recap the LVO... and Chris talks about plans for the future! https://linktr.ee/6plusplusgaming
At the end of our interviews, Steve and Ahmad always ask the guests two questions: what is something they think needs to live or be maintained in the mining industry at all costs; and what is something that needs to die or be jettisoned out of our industry? We thought it would be interesting to put together some of the responses we have received to those questions over the past year. So on this episode of Ideas that Must Die and Live in Mining, we are joined by, Mike Porter, Evren Pakyuz-Charrier, Tim Foden and Shaun Usmar. Join us and let's explore.
Hey All, Vik (ITC Rank #1) and Dave (ITC Rank #4) back again with episode 9 of Fireside 40K. In the last episode we discussed what we'd both be bringing (Thousand Sons souped with Chaos Daemons) to the 240-Person Leicester Super Major and we're back in this episode to discuss how we got on! We attended this event with 5 of our Dice Down teammates who we just want to give a little shoutout to: all of them ran through to a positive win/loss at the event. Malik took his GSC to 25th place 4-1, Alex Petford running the Tsons/Daemons took 29th place also with a 4-1. George (Imperial Knights), Konrad (Craftworlds/Quins) and Jim (Drukhari) all came in with a solid 3-2 record. Big shoutout to Feliks (Konrad's brother) who gave Alex his one loss using Tau and took the narrowest of 1-point losses to Mike Porter in round 5. Dave narrowly missed the top cut to 4 players but finished the event with an incredible undefeated 5-0 and Vik went on to win the event with a 7-0 run! In this episode we go through a deeper analysis and tactical insights into the games we played during the event and our feedback on the lists we ran. We also touch on the meta as a whole and how things are shaping up as we get closer to the final event of the season - LVO. We hope you find the discussion useful and as always welcome your feedback to help us keep the show interesting and informative. See you by the Fireside!
This brand new episod is an update on what the Polish community and the Polish NT have been up to recently. As both Nephilim and the most recent Balance Dataslate have been let-downs, we - the players - need to come up with more and more outlandish ways of entertaining ourselves and staying sane... And boy have we gone far this time when it comes to fighting boredom. Tune in to listen do us interviewing Pumba (UKTC ref, NT member) on some of the recent ideas the Polish community has been considering. They say that from boredom comes creativity and boy are we bored :D We talk about the potential for introducing UKTC and other rule sets, W/D/L and even joining ITC. Last but not least we talk about the state of some top armies and the changes that the new Guard will bring. We hope you find it enjoyable. Mentions: Vik Vijay, David Gaylard, Steven Box, Asarnil, Wiktor, Vladdi, Duda, Zach Addington, Jokull Johansson, Mike Porter, Majson, Fred Otto, Like, subscribe and follow if you don't already! Music: Bensound
Join me for the third of four episodes dedicated to the task of choosing appropriate literature for your ensembles. In this episode Paul Lucckesi from Fresno City College, Doug Hunt from the Tulare City School District, and Eric Ramirez from Hanford West High School will discuss their programs and offer advice for directors struggling with repertoire selection for their jazz bands.Contacts:Paul LucckesiDoug HuntEric RamirezShow Links:California Alliance for JazzJazz Fresno101 Jazz SongsLearn Jazz Standards YouTube ChannelIRealPro AppJamey AbersoldJazz Conceptions Jim SnideroReal Easy BookE Jazz LinesUNC Jazz PressEpisode 5 (November 15th) will cover concert band literature.I'd like to thank Kings County Trophy and Engraving in Hanford for sponsoring this episode.The Central Valley Music Educators Podcast is hosted by Rob Bentley. The show is available at:www.cvmepodcast.comwww.youtube.com/centralvalleymusiceducatorspodcastwww.facebook.com/cvmepodcastwww.instagram.com/cvmepodcastThe Central Valley Music Educators Podcast is hosted by Rob Bentley. The show is available at:www.cvmepodcast.comwww.youtube.com/centralvalleymusiceducatorspodcastwww.facebook.com/cvmepodcastwww.instagram.com/cvmepodcast
For decades, Mike Porter ran a business where he took people worldwide to various mine sites and deposits. These tours were open to anyone; somehow, Mike managed to navigate the red tape and get onto every mine site. That was the magic of the Porter Geo International Study Tours. Let's explore.
First Chair catches up with former PSIA Alpine Team Coach Mike Porter who pays tribute to the mastery of Ron LeMaster. Ron served as an icon in the industry as an author, innovator, and consummate professional – whether on snow coaching athletes or shooting photos and videos of the best the sport of skiing produced. He was honored posthumously with PSIA-AASI's Educational Excellence Award. Nominators for Ron's recognition included current PSIA Alpine Team Coach Michael Rogan; U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame member and Alpine Team alumna Ellen Post Foster; and presenters Carol Levine (former Alpine Team member), Mike Porter, and Ron Kipp (PSIA examiner, ski coach, and sport scientist). Watch the 2022 PSIA-AASI Awards & Recognition Ceremony: http://tiny.cc/lcnsuz Learn More About Ron: http://tiny.cc/ocnsuz Read Ron's Fall 32 Degrees Article: http://tiny.cc/qcnsuz
When PSIA's seven founders sat down to form the Professional Ski Instructors of America in May 1961 at Big Mountain in Whitefish, Montana, they had one goal: to create a standard of consistency for ski instruction that it would help draw new participants to the sport from across the nation. Now, six decades later, PSIA-AASI teaches everyone how to enjoy more than just alpine skiing; welcoming every snowsports discipline, ability, and person. In part one of this six-part series, listen to Jens Husted and Mike Porter discuss The Skills Concept, one of the six of the most notable teaching benchmarks from the past 60 years. The Skills Concept is a simplified teaching system based on rotary movements, edging, and pressure control that allows instructors to teach to each student's immediate needs. Learn more about PSIA-AASI's 60th Anniversary: http://tiny.cc/60Years
Community Support and Building In this episode, I speak with Mike Porter, my comic book store guy about how community impacts artists and the need to build a community around yourself. Although Mike didn't think of himself as an artist, I thought it was important to have him speak about the impact of community on his business and practice as a shop owner and burgeoning writer. Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2022 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2016 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume. This episode is about the novel, so enjoy. Topics Discussed Definition of Community : a unified body of individuals, the people with common interests living in a particular area. A group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society, a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered throughout a larger society, a body of persons or nations having a common history or a common social economic and political interests. A group linked by a common policy, joint ownership, or participation social activity, Quote from Gothe on Community : The world is so empty. If one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities, but to know someone who thinks feels with us and who through distance and who though distance is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us and in the inhabited. Quote From Fred Rogers on community : Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and let's start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Transcripts of the show KDOI Rebroadcast Conversations On Community with Mike Porter Tim: Create art podcast. KDOI rebroadcast conversations on community with like Porter. Hello friends. This is Timothy Kimo. Brian, your head instigator for create art podcast where I use my twenty years. Plus. From my experiences in the arts and education world to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. Now, a few years ago, I used to run a podcast called K D O I podcasts, which stood for Kimo's den of iniquity. I closed down that podcast and started up create art podcast because I felt. That is a better way to communicate to you what this podcast is about. So in 2022, I'll be rebroadcasting season three of Katie or podcasting. Now for this episode, I'll be talking with Mike Porter and we're going to be discussing community. And in each of these episodes, I start off with the definition of community and then two quotes. And then I talked to my guest to see what their opinion is on that topic. So I hope you enjoy. Welcome back friends. Welcome to KDOI podcasting Kimo's den of iniquity, where we create more than we consume. I am your head instigator, Timothy Kimo, Brian, many times creating art is done in an imposed isolation or away from our audience. When we do that, we can often feel like we're the only person doing the art we are doing. And we may never find our intended audience. It's important to find our community, to learn, to challenge and to inspire our creativity. I never went to conferences while in college, but since I left academia, I've gone to three conferences in two years about podcasting. Now, each time. The other weirdos that do what I do. I have a sense of family that I'm not the only crazy one out there doing this. It makes me want to push through blockages and create more. Now let's listen to what Merriam Webster says, a unified body of individuals, the people with common interests living in a particular area. A group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society, a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered throughout a larger society, a body of persons or nations having a common history or a common social economic and political interests. A group linked by a common policy, joint ownership, or participation social activity, our quotes come from Goethe or girthy. However, you'd like to pronounce his name. The world is so empty. If one thinks only of mountains, rivers, and cities, but to know someone who thinks feels with us and who through distance and who though distance is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us and in the inhabited. We also have Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers, to the most of us, we live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It is easy to say it's not my child at my community, not my world, not my problem. Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people. My heroes Guthy was a German writer in state. Is works, include four novels, epic and lyric poetry, prose, verse dramas, memoirs, autobiography, literary, and aesthetic criticism, and true to seize on botany and anatomy and color. Fred Rogers, otherwise known as Mr. Rogers was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer writer, producer, and I didn't know this Presbyterian minister. Dictionary definition was very long-winded. But what really spoke to me was body of persons of common and a specifically professional interests scattered throughout through a larger society. You know, we have shared interest in our exploration in inter interpretation of art. Yes, we are all over the world and we can always find a kindred soul that. For me, you can't go wrong with Fred Rogers. We do have a shared responsibility and isn't it great to know that we can help each other out. In fact, many artists I know are only too happy to help other artists out with supplies or a space to express themselves. Just like I'm doing here today. So let's get this conversation started. Mike Porter: making off of your art. Do you consider yourself a professional artist? Tim: All right, so it's $400. $400 a year. Is it 400 American or 400 Canadian or 400 Australian? It's $400 American Mike Porter: wise, unless you're a dual citizen and you're living in Australia, in which case it's whatever their tax codes is. Tim: Well, why does it have to be 400 Mike Porter: American? Because that is the amount Tim: that, but who determines that it has to be American, who is the determining factor who was saying that it has to be 400. Who says that the government they get, what, which government, the American government, why is Mike Porter: there an American government? There is definitely an off and on occasionally, Tim: every four years might be an American government. We get an extra day. If we want to be open. I like being open. I'm all about giving and being open Mike Porter: and honest. Tim: Oh no, I don't know. I didn't say that. No, Mike Porter: no, no, no. So open and dishonest, ask me anything. I'll tell you anything. Not necessarily the truth openly Tim: dishonest is a beautiful thing. Openly dishonest. That's that's the way I like to be. That's that's what I'm going to run my platform on that you are going to be the head Mike Porter: off, right? Except that can't be because I'm a Canadian citizen. Tim: That's. That's okay. We're going to run you for president. I'll be your vice president. And when you are elected, then you can just kind of go. I Mike Porter: don't, I don't even think I Tim: can run. Sure. You care. Anybody can run. No, Mike Porter: I think you have to be with the 35 years old and an American citizen Tim: technicalities, or you can run, you just can't win. Mike Porter: I don't think that's true. I think this is one of those openly dishonest. It sounds good. Tim: And folks, you have tuned into another episode of K D O I podcast, where we create more than we consume. And as you know, I'm Timothy Kimo. Brian and I have with me here are wonderful merchants of mercy, our purveyor of books of glean and happiness. Mr. Mike Porter with now is little fish, still an official thing, or is it not Mike Porter: a little fish? Comics died? Sasha's dead. I do have a secret nerd Panda, which is up and running. It is doing okay. But you can find me in person at Sage manages game evening, Tim: which we just came from this very afternoon before we recorded this podcast. And it was a very mirthful place. It, it, there's a lot of happiness in that place Mike Porter: For the people coming in. Yes. For the employees, not so much. Tim: See folks. That's why, when you go into these places, you need to provide either mirth or leave the employees. Don't feed the employees, help Mike Porter: feed Tim: what kind of food. Provide you with a sustainable amount of happiness for about two hours. Mike Porter: We do have a one customer who is a professional chef and he brings me pastries, apple pastries all the time. And I appreciate him very much. Tim: You know, so folks pastries, if you go into Sage manners, pastries is the way to go. Mike Porter: Now I am Canadian. So a. Donuts. They're an official food group in Canada. Oh, I did Tim: not know that I'm shocked being parked Canadian myself. I was not aware of that. Now. It doesn't have to be a certain type of donut. Mike Porter: Now us personally, I personally prefer jelly donuts, but jellies are great. Tim: What type of deal they needs to be in that donut? It Mike Porter: doesn't matter. It can be, it can be a custard, it can be a jelly. It can be they're all Tim: jellies. So a filling of some sort that is not cream, or it can even be a cream, like a Boston cream, Mike Porter: like a Boston cream is a jelly Tim: donuts. All right, fantastic. So folks, you know, Some donuts stacked. He needs them. He is not happy. He's happy where he's at and he's happy to serve the public and customers, but in order to get them even more happy, which I believe you could be more happy who couldn't be more happy. One of there's a few people that couldn't be more happy. Name one. One of my daughters, I'm sure couldn't be more happy. She could not be more happy. Cause she's my daughter. Oh, how could you be more happy than being. You would not know that you're not know Mike Porter: the answer to that. Tim: I do not have the answer to that, but you don't even a few years you could interview one of my daughters. It doesn't matter either one, they're both interchangeable and you can see, you know, what it takes to be more happy than what they are. Teenagers. Yeah, that's not loud then we'll get it out now. We're not missing. No, no, no, no, no. Don't curse me like that. That's just that's mean that's growing for Canadian kind of shocked and in awe that, I'm sorry. Thank you. Thank you. That's what we're looking for here today, folks. So how Mike Porter: many apologies will you get out of me? Tim: In this episode? Okay. And we already got one 11 to go 11 to go. Let's see if we can do it. All right. So today's topic that we're going to be discussing today. Here is a community, right? So in the pre-show I've already read the definition of community and given the the two quotes that we're using today, one from Fred Rogers and one from Guthy or Gerta. So SuperNet people pronounce it, correct though. Healthy. My first question, he likes, how do you pronounce his narrative? Mike Porter: It's definitely Gurtis anyone who pronounces it go theme. You get to punch. Tim: Really? It's true. You get the punch that in my philosophy class. Okay. So the reason why he pronounced it, go for it. He is because some people do pronounce it that way before you go ahead and strike me down. Right. But I just, you know, for some of the folks out there, they, they want to pronounce it that way you prefer Gerta and that's. And that's okay. I Mike Porter: appreciate you allowing me to be right. Well, I Tim: like it when you're right, because then that means that I'm right. And you know, couldn't you be more happier if you were more right? I don't think you could be Mike Porter: many things would make me happier pronunciation of people's names. Probably not high on that list. Not high on the Tim: list. Okay. What do you think about the quotes that we had from from Gerta and from Fred Rogers? Okay. So Fred Rogers quote is and I have it right here. If you'd like to take a look at it again. Oh no, no. It is tattooed on your chest. I did see a tattooed on your chest. I don't know why you showing me his chest areas, but he is doing that right now. As we're sitting in this coffee shop for the Mike Porter: folks at home, the, just for the Tim: quote. Mike Porter: Him and talking about how the people that actually are involved in the community or the people that he sees as being heroes, that there are people that walk by or somebody is in trouble. They don't feel invested in that person, right. As, as part of a community and the people that stop and help that person or the people that fed Rogers consider as a hero, Tim: remembering the program. You want to remember this correctly. So you enjoy that E that really spoke to you. Right? My, Mike Porter: my rebuilt, I think that there's a lot of. Sidelines people and more now, I mean, it's weird to give an example when we moved into the neighborhood that we're currently in I went with home-baked goods to the neighbors and introduced myself and he was like, Hey, we're neighbors. We're just moving in. And they looked at me like I was insane. Because he was a stranger coming over and knocking on the door and, and introducing themselves, you only go to people's houses if there's an emergency, not a Tim: fear. Now let me ask you a question on this, because I've known you now for about five years. What color was your hair when you did that? Like the color of my hair was probably brown. It was brown. Okay. So it was a natural color, right. Okay. That's fine. Nevermind. Nevermind. Go ahead. The reason why that's, because I've had purple Mohawks and I can understand if somebody was a little. For clubs, shall we say a little bit alarmed. If I came up with baked goods to their house and said, hi, I'm your neighbor. Right. Mike Porter: But the point I, well, I don't know if this is a 409, but what, I'm, what I'm trying to move, maneuver myself towards. Is that the idea of what is a community it's changed in that? The face-to-face. Sort of interactions with people that, that community I think has drifted apart, but it's sort of been replaced with a digital community now, like the online people, you have the GoFund me's and the. Hey, help me out two pages and people will give money to the people in need and that's fantastic. But if they saw them on the street, wouldn't, wouldn't stop in and help. Wouldn't, you know, they look at the person who's homeless is an inconvenience when they're walking, but that same person will give money to somebody they don't know to have their window fixed or to help them get into college or to. So the idea of community, the what, what is the community has changed in that re in some ways it's a lot broader because we live in this digital world, but at the same time, the interpersonal in-person community is, has suffered, Tim: I think. And I can't Verify the information that I'm going to share with you. So I'm gonna share it with you anyways, right? Because just making this up because that's what we do know. I actually heard it someplace. I, I heard it on NPR and like they're very reliable, more reliable than my shell. I don't know. Okay. But certainly more viewers. Well, just three more viewers, three, just three more, you know, and that's, that's on statistics that I have created, right. And I don't have any viewers. I have listeners, but that's okay. I've got, you know, they've got three more than I do. So, but they were saying with the go fund me accounts that well, over half are dedicated to people's medical bills. So they're like one of the largest insurers in the country. Right. That doesn't surprise me at all. You know? So, you know, w we, we have a tendency to develop the community around us to better ourselves, well, to, you know, for an emerging. If we need it, but in order to enrich and enliven ourselves, we need to have the community around us. Right. Mike Porter: When, when I had little fish comics, at one point, there was. Vandalism incident with involving a what do you call them? Slingshots. And somebody broke the window in Tim: the front. It wasn't me. I know. I'm not saying it was just because I'm from Chicago. The way we don't use slingshots in Chicago, by the way, Mike Porter: that would be an amazing town. If it was a city, if it was Tim: just all slingshots, there would be, Hey, you know what? It'd be a lot nicer place to leave. Zack a lot nicer, fewer rocks, fewer rocks would be new. That's true. But somebody, one of our customers set up a GoFundMe for a little fish comics. Didn't didn't talk to me about it. Just set it up that, that day. And the community of people that were coming to the store donated enough to have the window repaired within 24 hours. Mike Porter: So that was crazy. And that's like, that's a cool way that the digital world can interact with. The actual sort of meat Tim: world, the meat world, as in like cow ham, Limburger cheese. Yep. Physical world, the physical world. Okay. I got you. As opposed to digital well understood digital meat I hear is making a breakthrough. Mike Porter: It's not as filling Tim: it really. Isn't looking at Mike Porter: pictures of cows. Tim: It's just not the same. And it's, you know, it's, it's satisfying yet. Not fulfilling. And I'll give you that, but in a satisfying to look at pictures of cows, I often look at videos of cows myself, but that's what I do, Mike Porter: nothing to say to that, Tim: nor am I looking for you to say anything to that? You know, what more can you say after that? So now Gerta is a thing is the world is empty. If one things only of mountains, rivers, and cities, but to know someone who thinks and feels with us and who through though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth. And inhabited garden. How does that make you feel? Do you have a community now? You know, there's an arts program. We would talk a lot about arts here, obviously. And, and we had our I don't really want to call it a disagreement. We had our miscommunication we define words different. In our last conversation. Okay. Mike Porter: I have to refresh me in, what Tim: were your artists, the term artist, right. You were referring to a professional artist. I was referring to ameture artistry as, as being an artist. So for this, your community, do they provide you an inhabited. Artistically Mike Porter: artistic. Well, here's the thing that I think is kind of interesting about artistic community. I think that up to a certain point, they're incredibly helpful that they, they can inspire you to continue. They can push you to, to create when a community is made up of the same sort of. I'm going to use, let's say podcasting as an example, my impression of having listened to several people, talking about making podcasts and how to make podcasts. Up to the inception point of creating the podcast incredibly helpful and wonderful to each other. Once you actually have that podcast up and running, and it becomes a competitive competition, the community sort of doesn't help as much right now. That they're up and running. Now that you've gotten them creatively going now, you don't want them to have viewers because, or listeners, because you want those listeners for yourself. If they're talking about the same sorts of things, there's a a measure of where the pendulum is going to go and you want it to go towards you rather than towards them. Kind Tim: of like a territorial kind of thing, what you're saying. Right. Mike Porter: I've I've experienced it with writing in the sense of once as when you're a struggling writer. Professional writers will give you a lot of advice. Well, I'll give you a lot of helpful advice. As soon as you are a published author and you're interacting with another published author, it becomes weird because they, they're not talking to you like Like a mentor mentee. Not even at a, as peers, like getting equals you're, you're more guarded because if I have a story idea and I'm trying to flush it out or flesh it out I might not talk to somebody that I know has published a book because I'm worried that they will take that idea and publish it, because I know that they have the ability to do that because they've published before. Whereas somebody who is struggling as a writer, I might be, feel more free to talk about an idea in front of it and workshop an idea because I'm not as concerned that it's going to be stolen. So there's, there's a. Among communities of the same sort of art, art history. There's a guardedness. I think that happens at after a certain point at a certain level that doesn't help. Yeah. And I don't know if there's any way to get past that beyond. Proprietary thinking of that idea as being yours and getting to where I think is a more evolved state of, Hey, here's an idea. And even if they do something with that idea, it doesn't diminish what you're doing with the idea at all. So I think that's the sort of the next level of community is where, where you can get to that point. Openly discussing things without the fear, but generally speaking in, in sort of a consumer capitalist kind of, kind of base where you're chasing that the monetary value of things there's always going to be a guardedness that we're getting in the way of producing a creative idea in a community, in a group because who owns that idea? Tim: Exactly exactly who does own that idea. If a bunch of people developing it, if you workshop an idea, if you bring a short story to. And they toss him, their critiques windows become theirs when he does come. When does it become the communities and see speaking to yours. Right. You know and that, that can be a, a downfall of communities as well. Folks that are in the same disciplines, you know, a group of writers or group of podcasters. Absolutely. I've witnessed that too. You know, you get. You, you, you know what you're saying? That, that certain level of force no longer your amateur doing it for fun, doing it for a hobby it's Ooh. I just, you know with podcasting it's I scored my first advertiser. And then that was that next phase. How do I get my next advertiser on here? How do I get, you know, a beeline beeline B-level celebrities on my show, right. And there's really no way of going about doing it. Three conferences and it's all be pushed on monetization, monetization, monetization, and then they're going to show you how to do that, but you gotta pay a little, you gotta pay, you know, 40 bucks a month, 50 bucks a month for that. Right. And so it's no longer mentor mentee. The business, providing Mike Porter: a service at that point. It's not a, it's not that mentoring you they're, they're offering their expertise as a service to be mine and the fear and the, the, at least for me, like my still discomfort, when we go back to that idea of workshopping an idea. If I put, put forward a short story in a group and they add things in and I, I make use of that. There comes a point where you're. You have to give credit, right. And it's never clear at what that level is at what point you, you say, thank you for lying to the group for helping me workshop this, versus giving somebody an author credit versus, you know, the different levels of, of contribution. And then at the expectation of Reimbursement. If, if you say, well, this person did a lot of editing on, on my, my story. I'm going to give them a, a writing credit on it and being nice about it. Nice being, just being honest in saying, Hey X person helped the lawn experts and given, then go look at my, my name is on this too. I should be getting 50% of whatever. Exactly. So it becomes how much credit can you give and still make money with what you're doing. Tim: You kind of lose the the, the, the giving aspect of a community. Versus the what's in it for me. Right. Mike Porter: And that's, that goes to the Fred Rogers quote, actually, if you're, I think that that's sort of the fear of giving a credit or helping out. You're not going to get any, anything out of it. That's the person that Mr. Rogers is saying, isn't that isn't their hero. The person that's, that's volunteering, their, their expertise and help to solve. Is the person that he's looking at as Tim: being easier. Fantastic, fantastic thoughts there. Do you think and I'm going to play a little devil's advocate here and that's not just because that, you know, the drink that I have has a is an ex gold cup in the most of my tattoos have skulls on them. You get to keep that. No, I do not. As far as well, I don't know. I might, I could fit my bag nicely and I would assume, no, I wouldn't want to do that. I like these people here at this coffee shop that were fantastic, Mike Porter: but I'm Tim: going to play the devil's advocate here with that. And could it be that that what you, you know, published that first book once you get that first sponsor once you get that first a thousand dollars on Patrion. Sure. The other people that have. Guided you, mentored you at that point, then they kind of go, okay, well you've made it over that hurdle. You've made it over that goal. Fly be free. Now, now it's up to you to do that. Now it's up to you to repeat Mike Porter: that. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's a, there comes a point when mentors become peers. And that that fits into community somewhere. I mean, you can have a community of peers, you can never I'm not sure. I'm not sure what your, your, your point is to it. Other than, other than just say that. Yes. I think that at some point you know, the student has become the master grasshopper that you've learned as much. Ken from somebody in a practical sense, but at least artistically since it's a creative endeavor, there's no limit on creativity. So you can keep learning from the same person and seeing how they create things and learn something new from them. As long as they're willing to let you observe or interact In terms of a community it, it becomes more difficult for peers in a competitive industry to help each other out Tim: their world is a very competitive thing. And there's Mike Porter: only so much wall space for your, for who gets to hang their P their paintings. Right. So that's true. If, if you get that, that showing, that means somebody else is, and I don't, I get, I think that goes to that, that idea that The more involved, artistic ideal would be congratulations. You've gotten this space and I will get my space. And it's, it's not a competition. But as long as we're looking at trying to make a living at it, we're going to be the professional versus the amateur. I mean, that's it, that's when it, when you can. You can't be as altruistic as you might want to be because you're going for a limited Tim: resource. So it basically, once you hit that point of you no longer to have that, your, your professional, then you don't necessarily. Cutthroat about it, but you have to you you've taken on a new master per se, instead of the the inspiration ferry that, you know, flies around that, you know, it's everybody, you have to think of it as a business. You have to go on that left side of the brain. Right? Mike Porter: I think, I think that the community is a lot more willing to help you out on the creative end of things, and a lot less willing to help you out on the business. End of things, because creative. We helping you develop an idea that you've come up with and right. That you, or tell your, your own or whatever that doesn't cost me anything. Right. Getting you to the, so once you have that idea and develop, once you have that painting done, once you have that story. And you're trying to get it published. That's where we start getting into competition. And that's where the community, I think, breaks down in the sense that we can work very well together on workshopping an idea. But as soon as you're trying to get it published, and if you're wearing the same art form, I'm writing a science fiction stories and you're writing science fiction stories. There's only so many places that are accepting science fiction stories. And I might not want to tell you that about an idea where you could actually sell that idea if I'm intending to submit something to that place, to And that doesn't make you a bad person, as I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking that it's also misguided in the sense that while you and I are both submitting something to the same people, we're not in competition with each other, we're in competition for their attention. My, you, you putting in. A great story. Isn't stopping me from putting in a great story and both of us feel accepted, but it's hard to get past that idea that it is a competition that even. I guess a more involved. I think you, you don't look at it as being in competition with each other. When you're living paycheck to paycheck to paycheck, it, I'm going to stop hitting the table because of you get Tim: the typical questions you want me to focus? He's about ready to flip over the table because he knows that if we were to go ahead in the science fiction, writing contest, he would beat the crap out of me. He's a better writer than. Mike Porter: It is very kind of you to Tim: say, well, I try to be kind like that because you know, I, I do fear you. I just, I thought I should let everyone know. I do. I do fear Mr. Porter here light mighty brain hit his mommy brain and is something that I have been eating all of ever since I lived in Chicago and he actually reviewed some of my work a long time ago in a galaxy. And provided some good criticism for me. And this was a long time ago. You may or may not remember it. Mike Porter: I think that you gave it to me at one of these spoken word. Open mics. Tim: I'm remembering correctly. I saw, and I give it to you when I lived in Chicago and we in tele my wife passed about two and that he can help me. I don't. Am I a minute spoken when I could be, you know, there's been many, you know, it serves so much time has passed. We've known each other for so long. Excellent. So with this community idea here do you think you would be better to have a community of different disciplines? W would you be more willing to do it? I think we need different disciplines. So let's say you wanted to do some writing and then you were in a group of painters, podcasters dancers. No, that congestion Mike Porter: first, first we have to overcome the idea that one discipline is better than another. No, I'm not. I'm not just, just trying to think of, of how that community would work because you would tend to. Collaboration. Because as a writer, I can sit in this coffee shop that we're in right now, and I can look at the paintings on the wall. Tim: It'd be inspired to write something because of that painting. I've my, one of my books of poetry wisdom from the it was 60 pounds, 30 poems in 30 days. I did it twice, you know, so I had 60 poems in 60 days. And I give it to my good friend, Heather, and I said, I need some illustrations paintings. What have you, anything grabbed me? And she did all the illustrations for it. And she did the editing on that poetry book. So I think. Our forms can influence and inspire each other. She's also a writer. She's also a poet and musician and all that kind of jazz. You know, she's got a lot like me, which is scary. She's the female version of me. Mike Porter: Well, do you think that makes it easier when you're a Jack of all trades like that? You can put a master of none you can look at at how other disciplines can interact in, you know, when you, when you're painting. And that inspires you to write a poem about that piece. Well, and good. You're you you've worked those two disciplines together. But if you're only. Tim: Oh, you're just a writer, just a lowly writer. Cause you know, we all know that the writers are the lowest ones on the totem pole. There are, what do they got a piece of paper and something to put it on. You don't even need a pen. You, you know, you can take a mark who decides example and be in the insane asylum and write a whole book with poop. I don't, I don't think that's true. That is true. I saw it on a movie once. Mike Porter: I don't think he wrote a book in feces. I think that's a great story. Tim: That's true. We will put it in the show notes. We will find out we'll do some investigative journalism here with all the money that you guys are putting in my patriotic. Oh, what, Mike Porter: what I think with a community of a diverse community of different art artists, artists, and artistic types. First you'd have to overcome the, the tendency for groups to come together. And that's where people who are like yourself that are able to bring together a diverse set of skills and different forms of artistry to bridge that gap because. Wow most, well, not most, but a lot. A lot of artists tend to be insular creatures. They live inside their own heads. And so when you get a group of artists together, it's usually a very quiet sort of, or it's incredibly Rawkus and has nothing to do with art. So in order to facilitate a productive community, you would have to have people that are able to bring up, bring people into the conversation. Okay. If you leave things to their own devices, I think that the painters would clump with Peters, right? As you'd pump with writers, and then they would maybe wave at each other across the room and say, your thing really inspired me. Thank you. And you're welcome sort of thing. But in order to actually get collaborations, you would need somebody to say, Hey, Hey, come in, Kevin, come into this conversation. What do you think. About X and, and make that that person share. And once you get those, those boundaries down, I think you would have an amazing group that that would fire off of each other. But until you have those, those facilitators in inside of a community of artists, I think it's, it's just going to be a lot of so quiet introspection and every so often, very hesitantly showing something to somebody else. Tim: So what's stopping you from creating this. Me, you might stopping you from this. Yes. It's Mike Porter: all your fault. Usually it's my fault for myself. Tim: Why would you want to partaking up the cup? You're picking up the cup now. He is, you know, deep in thought and he's being very contemplated here, folks. But my question to him is going to be, you know, would, do you feel yourself or would thrive if that community was presented to you? No. No. You don't think you would thrive that. Mike Porter: I, I think I can see how other people would thrive in that and how beneficial it would be. But I am, you're very handsome. I'm crazy shy. And I don't like groups of people and I would much rather, you know, My wife has said in the past, we'll go have fun and going into, into groups and we have very different, different definitions for fun in those things. I, I sort of at any gathering and up against a wall. Sort of watching and then every so often I'll make the effort to dive back in like one of those Valiant sea turtles, just sort of pushing, it's trying to get given the tide of the party will push me back up against the wall and get my breath back. Kind of get that energy back up being by myself and then I'll dive back into the party, but I'm Tim: telling you, it's not for you. Yeah. I'm not, Mike Porter: I'm not a big sharing kind of kind of person. Tim: Do you think that that would it's not for you, but do you, would you get benefit from it? Do you feel you would get benefit from it? Mike Porter: The. Brutal honesty of, of self-reflection reflection. I would probably benefit very much from it. I'm not sure anybody would benefit from me being there because I would not be sharing as much as I wouldn't be sort of quietly in the corner, listening and taking notes and bettering myself because I just, I don't deal with groups very well. Just not extroverted enough. Tim: Okay. We're not, we're not, we don't have the couch here today, so we're not going to psychoanalyze. I hope you're okay with that. Sure. Okay. Good. I mean, I, if you want to, we can go to my house in the man cave in the studio. I have a couch there with a vibrating chair. It doesn't have heat, but I do have a little, a little, a little firebox there that we can turn on and have some heat pour on us. And we can say, I call the sideline long as you, if you like. Mike Porter: Well, I'm just saying that right now. There's two of us. Tim: Yeah. Well, there's, there's three. There's you and me and the listener. Right. Mike Porter: But they're not Tim: interacting. Sure. They are. They're judging us as we're talking over Mike Porter: there quietly, what is he talking to him? He does not know what we're up. He speaks, but I don't know what they're thinking. So their judgment of me has no impact on me talking to you. I feel no. Wait. I have people around me judging what I'm saying. I feel a little bit because I'm in a coffee shop and I'm sure that other people can hear me and then feeling a little nervous, more nervous now that I'm thinking about that, Tim: but you're here with me. Right. And I'm a very, yeah, you can take, you can take them a very extroverts. I've been known to be that way on occasion. Okay. So I'll take them on for you. If anyone, everyone harasses you, Chicago Tims. But, but the point being that Mike Porter: There was a point something oh, that I, that I don't mind the, the, the idea of the listener, because I, it's not going to effect what I'm saying right now. On the other hand, if I was in a, in a room. With the expressed purpose of us as a group, doing something together, I would feel a great deal of weight in expressing my, my opinion to a bunch of people that would be judging that opinion in real time. In front of me, which again goes back to that idea of digital community. I'm a lot more comfortable sharing stuff on a, on a forum than I am in in person. Tim: So maybe what we need to do is to set up a community where you can be cloistered in a room where you can view what's going on, and then you provide your feedback without having. Actually be in the physical presence of the people that would be in the room and then they could get a read out of it, you know, that you could write your paragraph or whatever it is and say what you liked and what you didn't like about it. And then, and just leave it at that. And then that way you don't have to interact with these. Yeah, that's weird. Okay. We won't do that for you kind of prompt. So this idea of community things that the artists communities are not necessarily your cup of tea and it's understandable. It's understandable. You've explained yourself. Mike Porter: I love the idea of You know, that the artists, community of painters that are off and they all have the same thing that they're painting and PG moves around and looks at their stuff and it gives them pointers in that you're there to develop your skill at painting. And I'm sure the same thing can work for, for almost any artistic endeavor. But when it's more. Interactive when it's more on the level of peers, that's where I get really nervous. So that's comfortable. And I don't think I would be the hero that Mr. Rogers would want me to be. Tim: And you need to be the hero, Mr. Rogers, much. Mike Porter: Everybody should be the hero that Mr. Rogers minds, Tim: folks, you heard it here for student Mr. Rogers. She's going to move you coming out here Mike Porter: on Netflix and Tim: it's fantastic. It is on Netflix. Did I miss it in the theater? Yeah. I Mike Porter: don't know if it was released in theaters. I'm not sure Tim: Tom Hanks, right. It was a play Mr. Mike Porter: Rogers. Oh. And we're thinking of something else. There's a movie coming out with Tom Hanks. I wasn't aware of, but there is a biography of Mr. Rogers there on Netflix currently. And it was really good. Tim: I know. I was actually talking there is. From what I understand now, again, you know, NPR has better information than I do because they have three more listeners than I do through our viewers than not listeners, but viewers. But yeah, there's a movie that's supposed to come out with Tom Hanks being, playing a part of. Mike Porter: But you're listening to a higher caliber. Tim: They're they're they're they're very good looking folks. More discerning. They are more discerning they're way more intelligent. That's what I heard. That's Mike Porter: that's what I know. I heard that recently, Tim: I, I know that they are way more intelligent, way more. They're nicer people. There are people that you want to, you know, bring over to your house. And have a wonderful conversation with, well, bring over to your house. I'll bring over to my house. Absolutely. I'd love to bring all the people that listen to this podcast over to my house. Right. And you know, I, I would cook some poutine for some of them, man, that would be enjoyable. And for the other people, I would you know, bust out my grill in a grilled from steaks. Some asparagus grilled asparagus is very tasty and the the the little dish that I made last night for my wife, with the Alfredo sauce, the pasta shells asparagus, and we had not scaling. Scallops scallops. Thank you. You're welcome. Oh my gosh. The scalps animated that my wife and I had three bowls off in less than 24 hours and she thoroughly enjoyed. She's probably going to have some more tonight. Mike Porter: We'll see. Before this is a community. You can define the community by what foods you do. Okay. Tim: And you really can't, you really can't, you know, there's, there's people that like the. The farm farm to table stuff. There's people that are you know, raw they like nothing cooked, vegans, vegetarians, pescatarians, pescatarians, peanut, the buck Tarion's, you know, all that kind of good stuff and the omnivores. And of course the carnivores, which they'd all the carnivores have tiny little arms just saying, all right. Well, Mike, thank you so much for this conversation with us here on community. You provided a lot of great insights, I think. And you know, folks community is out there for you. I think you can create community if you really want to, they might bring up some fantastic points about once it comes from a mentor mentees situation to a appear situation. I think he made some great points with that. Is there anything else that you'd like to leave us with with community? I think that the only other thing that I would say about community is that almost by definition, it's an investment. You have to be willing to invest time and effort in order to build community communities. Mike Porter: Don't just happen if they did, when I brought Cookie's over to the neighbors. They would have just been, Hey neighbor, thank you. Sort of thing. You, you have to continually reinforce the idea that the people that you want to be in a community with are important to you, that they have value and that you have. Insight or value for them. And that's what keeps the community together. I think the idea that you're in something together, or you have something to share with each other in common. Excellent. Tim: Excellent. And yeah, just like we're building this community with you, our listeners. He must end up iniquity where we create more than we consume. Can't wait for y'all to listen to this episode and the rest of our episodes. Go back through our catalog. You can always reach out to us at kdoipodcastingatgmail.com. Let us know if you would like to get involved in this. We have 11 topics for you to choose from Mike here. He chose this topic. I well, you chose two topics. And I we picked this one. We may get him to talk on the other topic at a later time. But that's how easy it is. Mike did was this pretty easy? This was Mike Porter: fantastic. I love doing this. This is a painless way of expressing opinion. It's like, if you don't like, I, everybody likes talking about themselves. And an extension of that. I think it's you asking? I think about X. Well, let me tell you about and why I think that my opinion, why my opinion matters. Tim: So next episode with Mike here, we are going to ask him when he thinks about the letter X. That's right. We'll probably use the capital X versus the lowercase X because you know, Mike has a lot of thoughts about the I believe it's true. He had more thoughts about the upper case versus the lower case. So again, thank you for gratuity. We will see your next episode. Remember you consume All right. Well, thank you for joining me. As I go down memory lane in discussing community with Mike Porter, he was my cartoon, not my comic book guy, not my cartoon guy, but he was my comic book. Way back in the day. Unfortunately he had closed his shop, but it was a fantastic conversation that we had at a local coffee shop here in town. So you got to hear a little bit of the ambiance as it were. I really enjoyed doing these conversations on specific topics with a lot of my artistic friends. And I hope you got something on. Now I would ask you if you did get something out of it, go ahead and subscribe or follow on your podcast app of choice. Or you can go right ahead to the website, create art podcast.com and subscribe right there in 2022, we're going to be doing these KDOI rebroadcasts there'll be 10 episodes. This is the first one and we'll have our regular episodes. And I also want it. Remind you that I run another podcast called find a podcast about, and that's where we help you find your next spring, where the podcast and outsmart the algorithm. And you can find that at find a podcast about dot X, Y, Z. For creating art podcast, you can email me timothy@createartpodcast.com. Twitter and a Instagram account and a YouTube page for you as well. All the links will be in the show notes. So it's been my pleasure to help you team your inner critic and create more than you consume. Now. Go out there and create some art for somebody you love yourself. We'll see you next. This has been a gaggle pod, east studio production gagglepod pod, where we've been helping creatives tell their story through podcasting. Since 2017, you can find all of our network shows at gagglepod.com. You can contact with. We want to help you tell your story to the world through .
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KDOI rebroadcast of an interview with Mike Porter Hello friend, this is Timothy Kimo Brien your head instigator at Create Art Podcast where I bring my 20 years in art and education to help you tame your inner critic and create more than you consume. In 2021 I am rebroadcasting my former podcast KDOI Podcast here so you can catch up on what we have been doing for the past 4 years. KDOI Podcast was my first serious attempt at podcasting after spending many years just creating content without regard to the final product. KDOI started in 2016 and had 3 seasons until I closed it down in 2019. I wanted to make sure that these gems didn't get relegated to my external hard drives, so here you go, there will be interviews, commentary, and projects that you can do for yourself. Enjoy these rebroadcasts and Create More Than You Consume. Comic Books As Art In this interview, I talk with Mike Porter, formerly of Little Fish Comic Books in his shop. I had just recovered from neck surgery so my voice is still gravely in this episode. We discuss his thoughts on art and what it means to be an artist. We also dive into his exploits in the comic book world and future projects he would like to accomplish. This was a bitter-sweet interview in that he was closing his shop. He reopened it a few months later at another shop but then decided to close the shop again. This just goes to show you that we all need support in our art. Reaching Out To reach out to me, email timothy@createartpodcast.com I would love to hear about your journey and what you are working on. If you would like to be on the show or have me discuss a topic that is giving you trouble write in and lets start that conversation. Email: timothy@createartpodcast.com YouTube Channel: Create Art Podcast YT Channel IG: @createartpodcast Twitter: @createartpod Mighty Networks: Create Art Podcast
5/31/21 Brad Porter talks with his dad Mike Porter about his time in the Air Force to start off the Memorial Day show. Brad then talks with former Kansas City Wizard Nick Garcia about Sporting KC's 3-2 win over Houston. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode of “True Confessions of a Sales Leader,” we look at how being vulnerable and building self-awareness can make better sales leaders and ultimately sales teams with our guest, Mike Porter, chief sales officer at NAVEX Global. Here are four key takeaways:Bring your experience as a salesperson Many great sales leaders were also great salespeople but all not great salespeople make great sales leaders. When they move from an individual contributing role to a leading role, many leaders tend to go back to what made them successful, like being a solid dealmaker. Bring your skills, of course, but also tune into what your team brings and how to get the most out of them from your background. Coach them on confidence, on closing a deal, or even prospecting. All things you excelled at. Use self-awareness to grow You may think (and rightfully so!) you’ve built a solid team, have motivated them, helped them understand cross-group coordination. However, one day, feedback, whether it’s negative or positive, from a team member might prove otherwise. It’s important to keep having those ah-ha moments. For example, maybe you’re intense, focused on the numbers. Add some levity and make sure you come across as approachable. Self-awareness exists in every single one of us and forces us to look at our own challenges but also teaches how to improve ourselves. You can’t avoid the (in)famous flight riskYou’re an amazing sales coach. You’ve built a great team but now some of them have defected to the competition or a better role elsewhere. Coaching people because they need it or because they have career aspirations, then building their skills, and then having them leave can happen. It’s hard to lose a top performer to that next step in their career. The benefit? Most of your team wants to stay because you’ve built credibility and you’re helping them grow. That matters, too. Develop an 80/20 document This is a great tool and can be as simple as a one-pager. Communicate 80% of the document on how you work with a sales team, what excites you, things you’re passionate about, your strengths, or even what triggers you. The other 20%? There will be time to work that out, time spent working together will reveal that. Don’t make your team members guess how to work with you. Have new team members do their own 80/20 document, too. It helps provide self awareness and a way to teach new team members how to treat you—and vice versa.
Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone needs to understand the big picture and not have tunnel vision, The rather arbitrary nature of how he treated Mike Porter’s minutes in their loss to the Hawks points to some issues there.
The world of healthcare is undergoing a massive digital transformation. This means the definition of interoperability now shifts to connected devices, data privacy, and more. HL7 FIHR is the standard of healthcare data interoperability and is a restful interface that lets you quickly get patient information. While patient data is now becoming more accessible and transferrable among systems, organization challenges now lie on the standards of regulation vs. standard of sharing. Listen as Perficient’s Mike Porter, Chief Strategist of CRM and Data, and Arvind Murali, director of business intelligence, deep dive into how your organization can meet necessary industry standards. Want More? Explore our healthcare capabilities. Check out our client successes that have improved customers’ lives and promoted business growth. Connect with our host Arvind Murali, Data Chief Strategist at Perficient. Learn more about Perficient's Data + Intelligence expertise.
On the latest Mortcast, Jeff talks about how incorporating Mike Porter into the Nuggets flow isn’t too important it’s more about increasing his defensive awareness. Enjoy the show!
Season 2 is here and we are coming out of the gate with that first straight pull!!! This week’s All Things BMX Show will be coming to you live from the updated RITM studios, in the busy metropolis of Hartland, Michigan. We hope you are ready for Episode 49 “At The Line”. We will have Domingos Lammoglia joining us on the “Mighty Moe’s BMX Cruise” video phone. Justin and Chris will be behind the T-Bone News desk. Melissa will be at her Gatenine producer’s perch and sound Tech Paul will be in the new Hack Shack BMX Burrow. Don’t forget to get in the chat with your questions and shout-outs for Producer Melissa to read on air to our hosts and guests. We two new segments to the show this year. The first new segment is "BMX Showcase" which is brought to you by Answer BMX. This week’s showcase will feature The Hack Shack Sprint Stand by Mike Melvin. The other new segment is "BMX Newsmakers" sponsored by YellowCat BMX Starting System. BMX Newsmakers will highlight movers and shakers from the sport of BMX. This week we have Mike Porter from the Gnar Barn. We also will have the ATB Birthday shout outs and as always Melissa’s Trivia with a new twist.Join us on the following pages.Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/AllthingsbmxshowPeriscope/Twitter@AllthingsbmxshwTwitchhttps://www.twitch.tv/allthingsbmxshowYouTube Pagehttps://www.youtube.com/c/AllThingsBMXPlease Visit Our Sponsorshttps://answerbmx.comhttps://amegrips.comhttp://www.gateninedesign.comhttps://www.facebook.com/The-Hack-Shack-121333651287663https://tbonebmx.comhttps://www.jwmachininganddesign.comhttps://soundcloud.com/thebmxinourbloodhttps://getthegate.com/https://www.facebook.com/mightymoesbmxcruise
The Tynwald Carol Service has now become a popular fixture on the Manx calendar. With a reputation for fine singing of popular carols, it attracts big audiences, and this year it was hosted by St George's Church in Douglas, where the Archdeacon, the Venerable Andie Brown, is not only the Vicar, but also Chaplain of the House of Keys. The Lord Bishop, the Rt Rev'd Peter Eagles, who is also a member of the Legislative Council, led a time of prayer and gave a blessing in Manx; the four Bible readings were given by the Chief Minister, the Hon Howard Quayle, the Speaker, the Hon Juan Watterson; the President of Tynwald, the Hon Steve Rodan, and by His Excellency the Lt Governor, Sir Richard Gosney. The organist is Mr Mike Porter, and the two choirs - the Government Staff Choir and the Tynwald Choir, were both conducted by Dr Mandy Griffin, in the absence of Mr Jonathan King, who normally directs the Tynwald Choir. There's even a brass ensemble, too - Perfect pre-Christmas listening - Enjoy!
3...is a magic number...yes, it is...it's a Magic number...if that Magic happens to be one practiced in the Dark Arts. Here's a look at what's happening Starting October 4th. This Trailer is sponsored by PODGO.co; The Easiest Way to Monitize your Podcast. Special thanks to Mike Porter for being not only our Trailer voice, but he'll also be the New voice of our Introductions this season.
Mike Porter Losing 70 lbs & preparing for Mt. KilimanjaroPlease subscribe & share this video - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMP9jrgpmQZL6zs5nj_e6hw?sub_confirmation=1Mike first joined the Conquer Food programme two years ago and after losing 70 lbs and 18 months later... he had put it all back on. Now he has lost even more and despite not even being able to walk 15 km a couple of months ago, now has his eyes set on climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro.Listen to Mike as he shares his great weight loss and physical challenge journey.MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:- Mike's JustGiving page - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/M-Porter2?utm_campaign=lc_frp_share_transaction_fundraiser_page_donation_received_-_nth_donation&utm_content=2f2cc45f-eb29-4a0d-a6d8-9a754633f25e&utm_medium=email&utm_source=postoffice&utm_term=1596705311722-------------About The Conquer Food ShowPowerful Extreme Weight Loss & Sugar Addiction Advice Straight From The Coal-Face of The Weight Loss Industry in The UK. You can learn how to finally beat Food Addiction Through Positive Living.→ https://www.conquerfood.orgGet powerful mentoring & coaching from Craig & Paula→ https://conquerfoodies.comOvercome Food Addiction & Sugar Eating & Listen to The Latest Conquer Food Podcast→ https://www.conquerfood.orgThe Conquer Food Programme is a powerful extreme weight loss and food addiction coaching programme that enables binge eaters and sugar addicts to beat unhealthy food habits and finally live the life they deserve. Developed in conjunction with the founders of TEAM Bootcamp, the programme has helped thousands scorch more than 24 tonnes of unwanted body fat.Including:Adam - Lost 100kg+James - Lost 24 StPriya - 70kg+Jonathan - 6.5 StonePlus countless more… About Craig & Paula================Paula WilliamsExpect - A Soft, Nurturing & Knowledgeable Approach Delivered in a 'Thank You Angels - The Universe is Looking After You' MannerCraig WilliamsExpect - A Tough, No-Nonsense Approach Delivered in A Northern 'Get Your Big Girl Pants On!' Manner.Subscribe To This Channel and Get More Great Tips→ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMP9jrgpmQZL6zs5nj_e6hw?sub_confirmation=1Ask me A Question→ craig@team-bootcamp.comFollow usFacebook → https://www.facebook.com/conquerfood/Instagram → Link coming soonTwitter → Link coming sooniTunes → https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/conquer-food-show/id1439865087
Mike Porter and Carolina Piamba, Night at the Races event committee and members of the Lighthouse of Pinellas Board of Directors, joined AM Tampa Bay to discuss the Night at the Races-Lighthouse of Pinellas Event.
Mike Porter brings our fourth part in our Wholeness series, looking at the aspect of relationships. 9th February 2020.
We talk endlessly about diet and exercise. But what about sleep? There’s no class in school, and in the workplace, there’s often a stigma around admitting fatigue. That’s where Sarah Moe saw her opportunity. "I tell people: I work in sleep medicine. That's a real job." A Board Registered Polysomnographic Technologist (RPSGT) who spent 10 years working for sleep medicine clinics, Moe created her own consultancy called Sleep Health Specialists. She spends most of her time helping businesses learn how to make their culture more sleep friendly. Today, 20 percent of the population suffers from a sleep disorder. The average employee costs an employer $3,000 per year from being tired—that’s illness, absenteeism and lack of productivity. Moe talks about how she set up her practice, how the corporate community is responding, and the enemy of sleep that’s even worse than caffeine: blue light. And what to do about it. After our conversation with Moe, we go Back to the Classroom with the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. Mike Porter is faculty director of the health care innovation program. He says that a lot of times, entrepreneurs who are so passionate about their pursuit can be challenged to make good business decisions. He talks about what Moe is doing right and what’s in it for companies that promote sleep.
Listen to our podcast from Interski 2019, when we met the legend Mike Porter @mike_porter3 PSIA-AASI Alpine National Team Alum, and former US SkiTeam Coach.
Mike Porter continues our Partnership series, exploring how we are all servants. 29th September 2019.
Inclement weather in the form of rain, snow, sleet and strong winds can have a significant impact on airport operations. Learn how McGhee Tyson Airport handles turbulent weather in East Tennessee as well as how they lend a helping hand when natural disasters strike. Join Trevis Gardner, Senior Vice President of Operations, and Mike Porter, Airport Operations Specialist, as they discuss TYS weather operations, SEADOG and recent operational efforts to assist airports during Hurricane Dorian. The post IROPS, SEADOG, HURREVAC: Impacts of Inclement Weather at Airports appeared first on From the Runway Up.
On this episode, we chat once again with Mike Porter about his most impressive Men’s Natural Pro Bodybuilding winning streak! Find out how this man and his wife have done a balancing act with shows, upcoming twins, pregnancy, diet, and all other facets to help bring about the most stunning win streak
Real Talk with an impressive win at Natural North American
Mike Porter explores the lies the devil tries to make us believe to cause us to doubt, and how we need to remind ourselves of and stand firm in the truth of the Gospel. 21st July 2019.
Mike Porter brings our Fathers Day sermon. 16th June 2019.
In this episode Holly and Marisa talk with Mike Porter, owner of Positive Edge, which offers inspiring and challenging online spin classes. Mike talks about the importance of positivity and how it's been a corner stone for him in growing his businesses and community. Mike talks about how he built a business from the living room of his loft with a few friends and turned it into a global community. He also offers a sweet offer to Heart Driven Radio listeners at the end of the episode, so make sure to listen all the way through! Connect with us: Mike Porter of Positive Edge Holly Garnett Marisa Moody Heart Driven Radio
This episode we meet Mike Porter in a coffee shop in Fredericksburg and discuss his take on Community. We dive into his community with Little Fish Comics and how they helped him out of a rough time. We move into his thoughts on how artistic communities can help at first but then later on they can turn into services provided instead of a mentor mentee relationship. We look at competition in a community situation. If you want to be part of the conversation email us at KDOIPODCASTING@GMAIL.COM and we will send you a list of 11 topics we are covering with definitions and a few quotes to get you started. Come with your own or argue that the definitions provided are meaningless and wrong, tell us why you disagree with the quotes. Welcome back friends, Welcome to KDOI Podcasting Kimo’s Den of Iniquity where we create more than we consume, I am your head instigator Timothy Kimo Brien. Many times creating art is done in imposed isolation or away from our audience. When we do that we can often feel like we are the only person doing the art we are doing and we may never find our intended audience. I is important to find our community, to learn, to challenge, to inspire our creativity. I never went to conferences while in college, but since I have left academia, I have gone to 3 conferences in 2 years about podcasting. Each time I meet the other weirdos that do what I do I have a sense of family, that I am not the only crazy one out there doing this, it makes me want to push through blockages and create more. Let’s listen to what Merriam Webster says; a unified body of individuals, the people with common interests living in a particular areabroadly, a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society, a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society, a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests, a group linked by a common policy, joint ownership or participation, social activity. Our quotes come from Goethe, “The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” Also we have Fred Rogers, “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and color. Fred Rogers was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister. So the dictionary was very long winded about the definition, what really spoke to me was a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society. We have shared interests in our exploration and representation of art. Yes we are all over the world and we can always find kindred souls that way. For me you can go wrong with Fred Rogers, we do have a shared responsibility and isn’t it great to know that we can help each other out. In fact, many artists I know are only too happy to help out another artist with supplies, knowledge or a space to express themselves. Let’s get this conversation started.
Interski 2019 kicked off on Sunday, March 17 in Pamporovo, Bulgaria. Hear firsthand recaps from Ed Younglove, Eric Sheckleton and Mike Porter as they greet the USA delegation. Learn about different teaching approaches the delegates will see from each country and the international education impact PSIA-AASI is having on the world stage. #Interski2019
Florence and Mike Porter are back to discuss their adventures at Disney's Aulani Resort and Spa with Joe in Part 2 of our Aulani follow up today on the Mickey Dudes Podcast. They expand the discussion to include areas outside Aulani around Oahu and other islands. Listen and let us know what you think @TheMickeyDudes on Twitter, The Mickey Dudes Podcast on Facebook, or e-mail us at TheMickeyDudes@gmail.com Oh...and please rate us on iTunes!! Also, please check out our sponsors: Joffrey's Coffee and Tea Co DVC Resale Market
Florence and Mike Porter are back to discuss their adventures at Disney's Aulani with Michael and Joe in part 1 of our Aulani follow up today on the Mickey Dudes Podcast. Listen and let us know what you think @TheMickeyDudes on Twitter, The Mickey Dudes Podcast on Facebook, or e-mail us at TheMickeyDudes@gmail.com Oh...and please rate us on iTunes!! Check out our sponsors: Joffrey's Coffee and Tea Co DVC Resale Market
Join Joe, Kyle, Chuck, and Dave along with our special guest, Mike Porter to discuss what we discuss the good things coming to WDW in the year 2019. Listen and let us know what you think @TheMickeyDudes on Twitter, The Mickey Dudes Podcast on Facebook, or e-mail us at TheMickeyDudes@gmail.com Oh...and please rate us on iTunes!! Check out our sponsors: Joffrey's Coffee and Tea Co DVC Resale Market
Mike Porter brings us another Personal Encounter story, this week looking at Martha. 5th August 2018.
First Chair connected with these three legends to talk about the role they played to help shape the organization’s education and how honored they were to be asked to come back and lead groups at National Academy at Big Sky. Listen to this group talk about how they stay current in their education and helping teachers become better teachers.
This episode is all about talking about what we have learned from the 12 artists we talked with. We review their final thoughts and their projects for season 2. We also discuss what is the next phase in KDOI Podcasting, stay tuned in April when we start up season 1.5 with projects you can do with Tim, send in pictures of your projects to kdoipodcasting@gmail.com and lets see how you have been inspired. I'd like to thank Nelson, Annessa, Ashly, John, Mike Finlay, Mike Porter, Ken, Curt, Heather Moon and Heather Meyers and Ethan for spending time with me and providing their insight.
Mike Porter brings the fourth part of our Faith, Hope, Love series - Working Together. 25th February 2018
Former PSIA Alpine Team Coach Mike Porter shares the history of how Interski came to be and this in Part 2 interview, Mike shares how the United States began to really make an impact at Interski, and shares stories from Interski 1974 when PSIA first introduced the Skills Concept. Learn how the event became a platform for instructors to come together to discuss teaching techniques from across the world.
Former PSIA Alpine Team Coach Mike Porter shares the history of how Interski came to be and how it initially started out as a media event to drive interest in ski tourism and then became a platform for instructors to come together to discuss teaching techniques from across the world.
Episode 8 Talking with Mike Porter about Comic Books and Art at his Comic Book Store Little Fish Comics that is Closing 31 Dec 2017. This podcast is the first released after my spinal surgery, my voice is a bit rough and we are actually doing the interview from Mike's Comic Book Shop Little Fish Comics in Fredericksburg. Mike has been running this shop for 12 years and has decided that now is the best time to shut down and still come out ahead. We begin talking about his first comic book Uncanny X-Men #143. The story in this comic book really affected Mike and it is where he began his journey. I do prod Mike about being an artist and a great conversation is had, we even disagree on the definition of artist and what it means to be an artist. Mike goes into what he feels that Marvel and DC should be doing by reaching out to under served markets and we learn of his plans after the store shuts down, take a month off then write and finish off a novel or two. We discuss a specific project that he has with Alfred from the Batman Saga, he wants to explore the past of Alfred and why and how he ended up in service to the Waynes. Hopefully one day soon we can all purchase this book and be entertained. We also get Mike's perspective on the community that has surrounded his store and as evidenced by the customers coming in and out while we were recording he is busy. This was our first attempt at doing a remote interview on location, it is not an excuse, it is simply a statement that we try new things here at KDOI, sometimes it is beautiful, sometimes it falls flat, but we try and we want to encourage you to try. Mike scored a 7.5 out of 8 questions, technically he didn't score perfect, however, we did change our questionaire from the Satanic Seven to the Solstice 7 and then the Naughty Nine. Technically Mike has scored more than a perfect score, but I am sure some purists will argue the point. We are sad to see this store go, it has been a great part of my life for the past 4 years since I moved here from Chicago. Mike got me back into comics, and I have done my best to support his store. We did anti adds in the previous Kimo's Den of Iniquity where we stated Little Fish Comics was not a sponsor, it was fun and we did our part to keep Mike going. I have had some truly enlightening conversations with him and we will continue thee conversations when he has going through is mourning. Folks, I can't say this enough, support your local artists however you can. Maybe its not financial, maybe its sharing their info with friends and people in your neighborhood. Support your local artists and businesses. Go out there and Create More Than You Consume. Thank you Mike and oh by the way listeners, its his birthday on release date. Send him some love.
Mike Porter brings the Sunday Sermon to Alive Wymondham on 13th August 2017.
On Father's Day, Barbara McLellen and Mike Porter look at how good our Heavenly Father is. 18th June 2017
Mike Porter continues our series looking at Angels at Easter. 9th April 2017
We have a great show today. We are meeting with Mike Porter of Bacon Bros. Public House. Started in Greenville South Carolina, Bacon Bros. Public House features a straightforward, made-from-scratch menu. Bacon Bros. Public House's offer delicious, quality food at an incredible value. A cure room with a viewing window is located in an area of the dining room so guests can see what meats are curing. The decor is warm and rustic with recycled pallet wood throughout the dining room, a nice compliment to Bacon Bros.' accessible fare and is fitting with the restaurant’s recycled, local first theme. Simply put, Bacon Bros. is a best bet for a fun, relaxed dining experience with friends and family or to meet pals after work for small bites. The restaurant also offers a great selection of craft beers, cocktails and dynamic wine options. Every Business Has A Story Serial entrepreneurs Eric Bergelson and Mike Porter, along with Chef Anthony Gray and Jason Callaway, are the Bacon Brothers. Porter and Bergelson decided to branch into the restaurant business and teamed-up with Gray and Callaway in 2012. In one of their early meetings, Callaway brought bacon he had fried that morning at home and transported it in a mason jar that he placed in the center of the table where they were gathered. The four men started snacking and talking about their love of bacon. As the pieces quickly disappeared, they realized they had a concept and name for their new restaurant. In part two, we will play a clip from our popular Great Quotes in Franchising podcast.
Location Pastor Barry Rooks looks at perspective in our vision, with Mike Porter bringing a practical example from his own past experience as a Vicar in London. 22nd January 2017.
Mike Porter looks at the place Israel will play in Jesus' eventual return, and our relationship with the Jews. 27th October 2016
Mike Porter continues the Keep Telling the Story series, looking at telling our story by our lifestyle. 2nd October 2016
Mike Porter discussed whether or not we consider ourselves sinners or saints, we are saved as Jesus died for us. 10th July 2016
Mike Porter concludes the series on Living out the Story by looking how each of our stories has the power to change lives. 5th June 2016
Location Pastor Barry Rooks is joined by Mike Porter and Barbara McLellen to unpack today's topic. 1st May 2016
Mike Porter brings the penultimate session of sermons following The Bible Course, looking at the Acts and the Apostles, leading to the birth of the early Church. 21st February 2016
In the last of the Thankful series, Mike Porter and Location Pastor Barry Rooks recap the last four weeks and look at what it means to be thankful in our everyday lives. 29th November 2015
Chris Porter, Barbara McLellan, Mike Porter and Location Pastors Lorraine and Barry Rooks explain what being part of the Church means to them. 6th September 2015
Mike Porter explores the types of people represented in the Parable of the Sower. 23rd August 2015
Mike Porter looks at the importance of prayer and how it equips us. 9th August 2015
Location Pastor Barry Rooks and Mike Porter conclude the series on the Wisdom of Solomon. 5th July 2015
Mike Porter looks at the empowering of Pentecost and how it affects us today. 24th May 2015
Mike Porter opens our new series on the Family of God by looking at God's Father Heart. 22nd February 2015
Peach State Pandemonium featured Marc Anthony and Mike Porter on July 23, with Dan Masters hosting and Larry Goodman co-hosting. A.J. Styles was scheduled, but no-showed.