Podcast appearances and mentions of mike weiss

What happens when two childhood friends trade finance careers for a crack at building the next great American hotel brand? You get Trailborn. In this episode, I sit down with Mike Weiss and Ben Weinberg, co-founders and co-CEOs of Trailborn — a vertically integrated hospitality brand reimagining what it means to travel to America's most iconic outdoor destinations. Mike and Ben didn't just set out to build better hotels — they're building an experience-driven brand from the ground up, one that actually reflects how modern travelers want to explore the wild. We unpack the white space they saw in markets like Mendocino, Wrightsville Beach, and Highlands, why they chose the “harder path” of vertical integration, and what it really takes to operate with excellence in places that don't always show up on institutional investors' maps. You'll also hear: Why building brand and operating company and real estate platform was a bet they were willing to lose sleep over How their new partnership with Marriott gives Trailborn scale — without sacrificing soul The early seeds of personalization in hospitality — and how Trailborn plans to lead with both human intuition and machine intelligence Why AI won't replace great service — but it might finally deliver on it This one's for the founders, the place-makers, and anyone who's ever tried to do something the “harder, but better” way. Learn more about Trailborn Behind the Stays is brought to you by Journey — a first-of-its-kind loyalty program that brings together an alliance of the world's top independently owned and operated stays and allows travelers to earn points and perks on boutique hotels, vacation rentals, treehouses, ski chalets, glamping experiences and so much more. Your host is Zach Busekrus, Head of the Journey Alliance. If you are a hospitality entrepreneur who has a stay, or a collection of stays with soul, we'd love for you to apply to join our Alliance at journey.com/alliance. 

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Unmiss Podcast! Today's guest is Mike Weiss, a LinkedIn growth expert, AI strategist, and the founder of Clout Selling. Mike has helped countless professionals and businesses leverage AI to build authority, attract leads, and grow their brand on LinkedIn. Before we dive in, here's something to think about: LinkedIn has…

In this episode of All Things Endurance, host Rick Prince chats with environmental and exercise physiologist, Mike Weiss of Alta Health and Performance Solutions (www.altahps.com). Specifically, Mike discusses what the most popular physiological tests are, as well as how to interpret and apply the results.  About Mike Weiss Mike Weiss is an environmental and exercise physiologist who owns his own practice – Alta Health and Performance Solutions in northern California. Mike is also an endurance athlete who focuses on ultrarunning.    Areas covered in this podcast:  1.       What is your background and how did you get into physiological testing?2.       Physiological testing is becoming more popular, in part due to the interest in the ‘Norwegian Method.' However, in your own summation, why is testing important?3.       Ideally, when and at what intervals should an athlete get tested throughout a year?4.       For endurance athletes, the two most popular main physiological tests are VO2 Max and lactate. Could you explain a bit about each test, why they are important and how they correlate to each other?5.       What are some limitations with respect to VO2 Max testing (i.e., muscular fatigue, etc…)?6.       If a person doesn't have access to a lab, what are some field tests that they can perform to approximate lactate threshold and VO2 Max?7.       From the perspective of implementing training intensities, or for lack of a better word, training zones, could you explain how to apply the results of a VO2 Max and Lactate threshold test?8.       What can an individual expect to pay for a VO2 Max and Lactate Threshold test?Are there any individuals where a VO2 max test would be contraindicated?

In the third and final hour, Mike Weiss, owner of Big Shark Bicycle Company and organizer of the Gateway Cup, joins us, as well as Scott Morefield, writer and opinion columnist for Town Hall. Our last guest of the day is Chris Hanson, executive director of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation. He tells us about this year's Music at the Intersection festival.

Ben Weinberg and Mike Weiss, Founders of Trailborn, are talking about how they have created unique hotel experiences in the great American outdoors. Each Trailborn hotel puts guests at the heart of the country's most extraordinary outdoor destinations – from national parks to coastal cliffs, and snow-capped mountains to sun-soaked beaches. Trailborn combines elevated, thoughtful design with an authentically local experience to create a memorable stay for outdoors enthusiasts.

Ben Weinberg and Mike Weiss, Founders of Trailborn, are talking about how they have created unique hotel experiences in the great American outdoors. Each Trailborn hotel puts guests at the heart of the country's most extraordinary outdoor destinations – from national parks to coastal cliffs, and snow-capped mountains to sun-soaked beaches. Trailborn combines elevated, thoughtful design with an authentically local experience to create a memorable stay for outdoors enthusiasts.

 I'm Getting Involved, So Join Me And My Special Guest Mike Weiss Former Army Airborne And Retired LA Police Officer As We Attempt Awaken The Confused And Delusional About The Border, Our Awful Politicians, And The Cost That The American Taxpayers Are Shelling Out To Frivolous Expenditures That Are Doing Nothing Except Put This Country Into Destruction And Turmoil. It's a mess and we are going to be in for a world of hurt. Join me as I lay it out for you, and if you disagree please feel free to explain it to me. Welcome to Life With Peter G, the show where we explore the many facets of life through the lens of host Peter G's unique perspective. From business to relationships, personal growth to pop culture, Peter G takes us on a journey of discovery and self-reflection with each episode. With a combination of insightful interviews, engaging discussions, and personal anecdotes, Life With Peter G offers a fresh and authentic take on the human experience. Join us as we delve into the complexities and joys of life, one conversation at a time. This is Life With Peter G, The Peter G Show Every Wednesday Night. 6:00pm Pacific, 8:00pm Central, and 9:00pm Eastern. We're Talking About Things You Need To Hear. Check It Out. Don't forget to listen on the go with The Peter G Show On Audio Podcast Everywhere. And Please Like and Subscribe to The Peter G Show YouTube Channel. Love You Guys, Peace Out. @petergshow @airborne80 #petergshow,#subscribe,#like,#follow,#truth,#share,#world,#america,#love,#peace,#family,#problems,#money,#theborder,#boderinvasion, #bordercrisis,#ilegalaliens #airborne80 

First of three episodes this week for the program all about TV. Our guests: Heidi Cole McAdams and Mike Weiss, creators/executive producers/showrunners of new scripted mystery series Death And Other Details, coming to Hulu January 16, and Dan Merchant, creator-showrunner of Going Home, Great American Pure Flix's original drama series kicking off its second season this month.

CEO of Clout Selling, Mike Weiss joins Camden and Otis to discuss sales, LinkedIn marketing, and share his entrepreneurial journey.  How can you communicate the cost of inaction to your audience?  Why should you stop trying to outsmart the algorithm?  And what can you do to use data more effectively in your sales and marketing process?  Mike, Cam, and Otis dive into all this and more on this fantastic episode!Thank you to our sponsors Evergood Adventure Wines and Tribe and Purpose!!- Order your lemon wine at  https://www.evergoodadventurewines.com/buy-online/              DISCOUNT CODE “CAM-OTIS” for 20% off your order!!- Learn how The Green Beret Leadership Program can help your business:  https://findyourpurpose.coach/GBLP/ More about Mike:Mike Weiss spent more than 30 years in Financial Services having raised more than $100,000,000 and served as a Financial Consultant to thousands of Clients. Additionally, Mike Co-founded (and later sold) GreenTrack, a leading financial and tax reporting company that was responsible for tracking more than $26 Billion in assets. From Finances to Digital, Mike transitioned to a career in Digital Marketing and, Co-founded (and later was bought out) NeuroGym. In less than 16 months, the company went from $100,000 per year to more than $2,000,000 acquiring over 7,000 customers in 80 countries. In 2012, Mike was chosen top four (out of four-hundred) for Infusionsoft's, “Marketer of the Year.”  Mike recognized early on in the financial industry that customer education and results were the keys to success. Then, after his move to Digital Marketing, this became his, “Mantra.” In the years that followed, Mike Weiss has become recognized as one of the, “Top Guns” in Digital Education and Technology with a specialization in client engagement, e-learning, online marketing and sales, digital badging and gamification.  Mike formed Client Engagement Academy which has designed, built and manages more than 30 “Cutting Edge” EdTech Platforms for many of the Digital Marketing Leaders in the industry. When he's not, “Breaking New Digital Ground,” Mike spends time with his soulmate, Carolyne, and their family. They have a powerful spiritual practice and work toward helping others to treat all relationships with humanity and dignity.Mark DonniganPersonal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeweiss/Website: https://cloutselling.com/   https://clientengagementacademy.com/

My guest today is Mike Weiss, owner and founder of Big Shark Bicycle Company located right here in St. Louis, MO. If you ride or race bikes in St. Louis there's a very significant chance you've come across an organized event or race that is sponsored and supported by Big Shark. With three store-front locations in the St. Louis area Big Shark's mission has always been to share the adventure and passion of cycling with members of all age groups. Not only is Mike the owner and founder of Big Shark but he's also a founding member of the American Criterium Cup, a Professional Crit Series composed of several races held across the United States.In this conversation Mike and I talk about the history of Big Shark, how it was founded, and what motivated Mike to take the leap of opening the shop at 23 years of age. We also touch on the oral history of cycling in St. Louis, the people who laid the foundation for our community, we hit on some of Mike's personal racing experiences, and lastly we wrap up the conversation with the history of Gateway Cup and how Mike sees criterium racing, and the American Criterium Cup, evolving in the coming years.It was a pleasure sitting down with Mike for this conversation however I felt like we simply scratched the surface of the stories, history, experience and knowledge that he possesses.

This week my guest Mike Weiss and I explore the world of entrepreneurship, partnerships, and motivation, unveiling the profound connection between both business success and personal growth.Additionally, we reveal LinkedIn marketing strategies and the impact of video production on brand presence. If you are looking for valuable insights to enhance your entrepreneurial journey join us for this engaging discussion!Key Highlights:Intro (00:00)Entrepreneurship, Partnerships, And Motivation (3:38)Business Success And Personal Growth (8:50)The Importance Of Win-Win Relationships In Business (16:13)Leveraging Linkedin For Thought Leadership And Sales (21:38)Sales Strategies And Understanding Clients' Needs (26:02)Sales Strategies And Techniques (31:21)LinkedIn Marketing Strategies (36:28)Video Production And Marketing Strategies (42:25)Leveraging LinkedIn (47:02)Entrepreneurship, Sales, And Personal Growth (52:30) About the Guest:Mike Weiss is the CEO of Clout Selling™, a company that helps executives and business owners achieve their goals through innovative solutions.Mike has over 35 years of experience in financial and digital marketing. He has personally raised more than $100,000,000 and successfully established multiple companies, including a hedge fund, wealth management firm, and investment advisory company.He and his team have consulted, designed, built, and managed more than 60 cutting-edge EdTech platforms for global businesses and thought leaders. Clients include Profit First, Digital Marketer, Dan Kennedy, and too many others to mention.2020- He founded Clout Selling™, which has generated over 310,000,000 views for their clients on LinkedIn and converted them into sales through their program.In addition to Clout Selling™, Mike has recently launched MYCOMM System, a SaaS marketing automation platform that simplifies the lives of subject-matter experts by consolidating the tools they need and streamlining their marketing efforts.Mike is a sales and marketing expert, an innovator, and a leader in the industry. In his carefully protected spare time, Mike spends time with his wife Carolyne, little guy Joshua and their dog Lottie. He's also a 23-year practitioner of Kabbalah and is dedicated to the expansion of Love Thy Neighbor.Connect with Mike:Website: https://cloutselling.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeweiss/About the Host:Paul Finck is The Maverick Millionaire™. Paul brings to the table a vast array of knowledge and skill sets from 36+ years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurial life experience. He has consulted in numerous industries, including the Medical, Dental, Financial, Retail, Informational Marketing, Direct Sales, Multi-Level Marketing and Speakers/Coaches/Trainers. He is a former mortgage broker, real estate agent and investor. Starting with a desire to be great, Paul learned from several of the biggest names out there and Dared to be Different – he dared to be a Maverick. His successes include moving multi-millions of dollars in Real Estate, and over $20 million in informational products. With his primary focus on multiple streams of income, he has built up several businesses in Informational Marketing, Network Marketing, Real Estate Investing and now speaks and coaches internationally, teaching others how they can create this success in their own lives while Doing It Different – The Maverick Way.Paul is well known for his success and his awesome family, and has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN, CNN Live, The Jane Pauley Show, The Montel...

No matter where you are in your career, you'll benefit from listening to 3Q. 3Q provides a window into the careers of some of the best in the music business. Every episode is an insider's view of the realities of life as a music executive. Topics include issues of empowerment, uncertainty, trust, finances, etc; issues that will impact you both personally and professionally. The executives we interview represent every aspect of the industry including but not limited to A&R, Marketing, Music Supervision, Artist Management, Promotion, and more. About Mike: Mike Weiss is a third-generation music industry executive with vast experience spanning A&R, artist management, marketing, strategy, and operations. Currently, the HITS Noisemaker is the VP of Music and Head of A&R at UnitedMasters – the global independent music company that provides premium distribution services and facilitates unique partnerships between artists and the world's biggest brands. In his time at the company, UnitedMasters has had a number of significant successes with artists like NLE Choppa, Tobe Nwigwe, 2kbaby, J.I the Prince, and more. In 2020, Mike was the Head of A&R and Head of Operations where he oversaw all distribution operations, growing UnitedMasters to over 1.5M users. In 2021, Mike was promoted again to his current position where he now oversees artists including Brent Faiyaz, BigXthaPlug, Ekkstacy, Alina Baraz, among others. In 2022, the team accomplished their first Global Billboard Top 10 with “Dreamers” by Jung Kook and BTS which became the official song of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.Prior to UnitedMasters, he was an artist manager at Maverick Management developing the careers of Noah Cyrus and Labrinth, achieving multiple platinum records and billions of streams. He lives and works in NYC.

The "Big Shark" of bikes, Mike Weiss of "Big Shark Bicycle Company" joined Josh to chat all things two wheels... from popularity, brand partnerships, and the role a global pandemic played in exploding his business, and the industry, in both incredible and frustrating ways. An industry leader, Mike talks about the unique steps that he and his team took to meet the incredible demand for bicycles in the midst of Covid 19, and all the supply chain issues that came along with it!

Arizona men's basketball coach Tommy Lloyd's thoughts on Oregon from his Wednesday press conference; guest Mike Weiss talks about this weekend's opener of the horse racing season at Rillito Race Track.

Você já pensou em viajar pra Coreia do Norte, o país mais fechado do mundo? Como é a experiência? Conversamos com Mike Weiss, brasileiro que já viajou pra 158 países e visitou a nação do ditador Kim Jong-un. Ele fala de como um turista é recebido, das restrições e proibições do regime, dos perrengues, diferenças culturais e conta mais curiosidades. E ainda mostra que não é difícil planejar uma viagem pra lá caso você também tenha vontade! Trilha: Echoes by Jahzzar (CC BY-SA 3.0)

TRUE HOUSE STORIES W/ BENNY SOTO # 088 - PART 2 Benny Soto quickly learned, and learned from one of the best; the late, great super promoter Rob Fernandez. “The first big thing we did together was Roger Sanchez at Vinyl. I can even remember the date: 2/2/02. I was learning so much—contracts, dealing with managers, hospitality riders, everything.” Soto continued working with Fernandez until his sudden passing in summer of 2015—but at the same time, he was gaining the confidence to branch out on his own. Danny Krivit was an early partner (2002), teaming up with Soto to launch what became the still-vibrant 718 Sessions; another stone-cold vet, DJ Harvey, was an early accomplice as well. From its inception, until its closing, Soto was an integral part of the promotion and bookings team at the now revered, and recently closed, Output in Brooklyn, NY. The dates started coming fast and furious—flash forward to today, and Soto, who currently spends his time promoting shows around NYC and juggling various independent projects, is in the very top tier of NYC's party wranglers. So what's the next step for a guy who's spent the better part of his life in dance clubs? DJ'ing, of course! “I've been going out and listening to DJs for 30 years,” he says, “and after that amount of time, I think you almost have to learn something. You gain a sense of what to do.” But as anyone who has spent time in the DJ community knows, there can sometimes be attitude toward those perceived as usurpers. “Sure, there's been a bit of controversy, like people asking, ‘Oh, so now you're a DJ, too?' I just answer, ‘No. I'm Benny Soto.' I've given my life to music, and this is just another layer of that life.” Nowadays, you can find Soto opening up for superstars or holding it down at after-parties, often spinning back-to-back with his fellow dance-music lifer, Nervous Records label head Mike Weiss. “Very few people have the legacy that Mike does,” he says. “I mean, the Nervous catalog…those were some of the songs that shaped the sound of global club music.” But Soto's got his own musical identity as well. “I love to play music that feels good to me, that matters to me, that say something to me. Danny Tenaglia said the best thing to me: ‘You have to listen, and you have to find the candy.' And that's what I try to do—find music that's special, that can take you to a different space.” Watch his life for Act 3 “The Final Curtain Call"

You place your bet. Take your seat. And pretty soon, they're off! Sleek, strong, beautiful horses racing around a track. But for all that to happen, a lot of people have to lend a hand. Mike Weiss knows this. He has spent his career in horse racing wearing more hats over the years than most. He joins Russell and Alan to talk about what it takes to keep a track operating and the horses running.

Mike Weiss, with Big Shark Events,  joins Carol and Tom to talk about the Professional Cyclists from Around the World who will gather in St. Louis Labor Day Weekend for the Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup

Mike Weiss, with Big Shark Events,  joins Carol and Tom to talk about the Professional Cyclists from Around the World who will gather in St. Louis Labor Day Weekend for the Bommarito Audi West County Gateway Cup

A entidade da aviação Skytrax é responsável por divulgar um ranking onde aponta as melhores e as piores companhias aéreas do mundo. Em diversos anos, a empresa aérea estatal da Coreia do Norte, a Air Koryo, ocupou a última posição dessa lista. E até hoje foi a única a receber apenas uma estrela na avaliação — em uma escala que vai até cinco e considera, por exemplo, a qualidade dos serviços de bordo e a estrutura de seus aviões —, feito que cristalizou no ideário dos viajantes o título de "pior companhia aérea do mundo". O brasileiro Mike Weiss já realizou duas viagens com a empresa norte-coreana, com um bilhete de ida e volta entre a China e Pyongyang, a capital do país de Kim Jong-un. Diante desse caso, nesta edição do "Viaje na CBN", Edson Ruy propõe o seguinte desafio aos ouvintes: e qual foi a pior viagem da sua vida? Ouça a conversa completa!

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With a combined 20 years of student ministry service and experience: Mike Weiss & Steve Heimiller debate what from years ago would pass today for youth ministry and discuss the transition out of youth/college age ministry to young adult. What advice would these guys give to their younger selves? Want to connect with us? Contact us through our Anchor App or by emailing mike at mikeweiss.mke@gmail.com.

Join me as I speak to retired LAPD Officer Mike Weiss. Mike Has A Life Long History Of Doing What's Right For His Country From Being A Army Airborne Parrot Trooper, To A Federal O.I.G Agent. Mike Will Be Bringing His Passion And Years Of Experience To The Forefront With Us And Talk About Our Current Events. I Hope You'll Hear Mikes Critical Thoughts And Take Them To Heart In Hopes To Enlighten And Share Points Of View That You May Or May Not Be Aware Of. Now That's A Show. @petergshow Life With Peter G, The Peter G Show Every Wednesday Night. 6:00pm Pacific, 8:00pm Central, and 9:00pm Eastern. We're Talking About Things You Need To Hear. Check It Out. And don't forget to listen on the go with The Peter G Show On Podcast Everywhere. See You Every Wednesday Night Live On The Official Facebook Peter G Show Page, Linkedin Live, And On The Peter G Show YouTube Channel. Please Subscribe To My YouTube Channel And Share. I Always Tell People To Grab An Adult Beverage And Kick Back. This Is A More Broader View On The Ups And Downs Of Life, And We Are Going To Talk About It Live... Please Join Me And Most Of All Share And Help Spread The Word. Love You Guys, Peace Out. @petergshow #petergshow, #lmstactical, #mikeweiss,

Mike Weiss, general manager at Rillito Racetrack, talks about the closing weekend of racing coming up for the short season at the historic track.

LinkedIn has 800 million users. The engagement rate is much higher than on Facebook. How to get this engagement. Create content that people wanna consume. Mike Weiss shares his valuable insights. – Learn the 18 steps to convert your LinkedIn profile to be the ultimate lead generator – Create winning content posts that will generate…

Mike Weiss has spent the last 15 years as a digital marketer, becoming a global leader in online education.He's made every mistake while creating and running five successful multi-million dollar companies. He knows what'll work and what won't, which is why he offers “done-for-you” programs to ensure success.After many years of frustration and wasted money on Facebook ads, Mike ran in to Gary Vaynerchuck. He said, “if you are not crushing it, right now, on LinkedIn you're a fool.” Now, LinkedIn and referrals generate 100% of Mike's company sales. A natural-born entrepreneur, Mike Weiss, enjoys the challenges that come with genuinely promoting change. He's a technologist and problem solver. Yet, his true passion is helping everyone achieve their dreams.⚡ Connect with Greg Witz on LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook⚡ Connect with Mike        LinkedIn: Mike WeissGreg's sole mission in life is to challenge all of us to be better. MAKING HUMANS BETTER HUMANS has been at the foundation of Witz Education for over 30 years. As an entrepreneur, thought leader, author, mentor and father, Greg creatively blends psychology and communication skills with street smarts and a no BS approach. From startups to the White House, bringing entrepreneurs and business leaders to the top of their game is Greg's passion. His rich understanding of organizational and human development coupled with his own corporate experience allows Greg to effectively and energetically design and deliver tailor-made programs that have transformed thousands of Witz clients' careers and personal lives.Learn more about what Witz Education can do for you at witzeducation.com or call 1.866.907.9480 toll-free from anywhere in North America.

Scott McLeod and Mike Weiss are retired TPWD game wardens and residents in Rockport Texas. Listen in as they visit with John Blaha and Shane Bonnot, sharing their perspective on the status of the oyster fishery in Texas.

Mike Weiss plays guitar in mewithoutYou. In this very special episode, Mike and I discuss many different topics, including: The journey that lead Mike and his brother Aaron (mewithoutYou vocalist) to forming the band, the moment they were signed to Tooth & Nail Records, traveling in a bus fueled by vegetable oil, touring with bands like Say Anything and Piebald, and he answers fan questions. We also talk about religion, politics, human behavior, sports, and much more. Mike also explains what's to come for this final chapter for the band mewithoutYou, and shares what he's looking forward to when that chapter is closed. Production: Dana B & Ryan Mitchell Catch mewithoutYou in 2022 during their farewell tour: www.mewithoutyou.com Follow Mike and the band on Instagram: @mikemewithoutyou & @mewithoutyou Ways to support the Two Week Notice Podcast: -Subscribe -Share with a friend -Give a 5-star written review on the iPhone podcasts app -Follow on Instagram: @danafuggenb @twoweeknoticepodcast -Donate via Vemo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=2618032933306368533&created=1634066440.210597&printed=1 -Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/DanaBollen Most importantly - listen & enjoy! ❤️Dana B! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dana-bollen3/message

"quando a gente passava pelos bloqueios do Taliban, eu ficava com muito medo, fingia que era local e torcia para que nada acontecesse" - essa é um pouco da vibe que o brasileiro Mike Weiss já explorou mais de 150 países do nosso mundo. No bate papo de hoje a gente descobre um pouco mais do que fez esse catarinense sair para explorar esses destinos exoticos nos últimos anos. Se você se interessa por historias diferentes, esse bate papo é para você. Não esqueça de seguir o ViajoCast no Instagram e ficar por dentro das próximas entrevistas, enviar perguntas e muito mais. Grande abraço Leo, Chel e Bella 

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1:03 - Tracy Hazzard introduction. Co-founder and CEO of Podetize. https://podetize.com and https://thebingefactor.com4:07 - Nothing is impossible. Being curious is attitude and a state of mind.4:58 - What does attitude mean to you. Tie action and mindset together.7:02 - Talk to us about young Tracy. What are the lessons the people can get from listening to you? A drive to do more from a young age. Always doing something. Helping people find their voice. Being innovative. 9:37 - What is your definition of innovation? There's a difference between invention and innovation. Innovation is the "why not". 10:52 - What are you most proud of? Costco chair. Covertly feminine design. Fast-fail model. Does the market have what we want to sell? 13:14 - 40 active patents. Shark Tank? 14:59 - What are the biggest mistakes that people make in the product world? Refusing to talk about it. Entrepreneurs think you can build it as you go. Need proof of concept. Word of mouth referrals is huge. Own your own authority. 19:10 - What are the two biggest mistakes that podcasters make? Seeding your authority. People don't title and utilize all their space inside the podcasts platforms. Feed the search bots. Bot list. Have a great leading paragraph. Titles are so important. 23:27 - What are the two best things that people do with their podcasts. When you stay true to your audience. Be genuine. People not taking additional coaching on or advice. Improve over time. 25:27 - Coached with Mike Weiss. Web site development. Differences between WIX and WordPress. HubSpot, Wix, Simplero, Kajabi, and SquareSpace are among the worst website platforms. WordPress is the best.28:10 - What other advice would you have for a startup business? Get that product market proof. Testing the product. Concentrating on building really good systems. 31:09 - What's your attitude when it comes to business. If I'm not excited and energize by something then it's not worth it. Learn how to say no. 33:57 - Supply chain issues. The supply isn't there. China is having another variant outbreak. Labor shortage. Backups at the ports. Cascading problems. Product shortage in Q4 of 2021. Get your orders in as consumers.36:54 - Knowledge through the decades. What is the attitude lesson at birth? Gratitude for being in the world. 37:56 - Attitude lesson at the age of 10? Being resilient. Resilience under fire.39:41 - Attitude lesson at the age of 20? Rhode Island School of Design. 40:41 - Attitude lesson at the age of 30? Learned how to be scrappier. Hardships taught me a lot. 42:33 - Attitude lesson at the age of 40? Creating a better environment for ourselves. Innovating. What would we love and what does that look like? Clarity. Experience. 43:42 - Attitude lesson at the age of 50? So much more I want to do. Fix the things I don't love but dig deeper into the things that I do love. 45:01 - Closing thoughts. Message of hope and encouragement. Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEW

1:03 - Tracy Hazzard introduction. Co-founder and CEO of Podetize. https://podetize.com and https://thebingefactor.com 4:07 - Nothing is impossible. Being curious is attitude and a state of mind. 4:58 - What does attitude mean to you. Tie action and mindset together. 7:02 - Talk to us about young Tracy. What are the lessons the people can get from listening to you? A drive to do more from a young age. Always doing something. Helping people find their voice. Being innovative.  9:37 - What is your definition of innovation? There's a difference between invention and innovation. Innovation is the "why not".  10:52 - What are you most proud of? Costco chair. Covertly feminine design. Fast-fail model. Does the market have what we want to sell?  13:14 - 40 active patents. Shark Tank?  14:59 - What are the biggest mistakes that people make in the product world? Refusing to talk about it. Entrepreneurs think you can build it as you go. Need proof of concept. Word of mouth referrals is huge. Own your own authority.  19:10 - What are the two biggest mistakes that podcasters make? Seeding your authority. People don't title and utilize all their space inside the podcasts platforms. Feed the search bots. Bot list. Have a great leading paragraph. Titles are so important.  23:27 - What are the two best things that people do with their podcasts. When you stay true to your audience. Be genuine. People not taking additional coaching on or advice. Improve over time.  25:27 - Coached with Mike Weiss. Web site development. Differences between WIX and WordPress. HubSpot, Wix, Simplero, Kajabi, and SquareSpace are among the worst website platforms. WordPress is the best. 28:10 - What other advice would you have for a startup business? Get that product market proof. Testing the product. Concentrating on building really good systems.  31:09 - What's your attitude when it comes to business. If I'm not excited and energize by something then it's not worth it. Learn how to say no.  33:57 - Supply chain issues. The supply isn't there. China is having another variant outbreak. Labor shortage. Backups at the ports. Cascading problems. Product shortage in Q4 of 2021. Get your orders in as consumers. 36:54 - Knowledge through the decades. What is the attitude lesson at birth? Gratitude for being in the world.  37:56 - Attitude lesson at the age of 10? Being resilient. Resilience under fire. 39:41 - Attitude lesson at the age of 20? Rhode Island School of Design.  40:41 - Attitude lesson at the age of 30? Learned how to be scrappier. Hardships taught me a lot.  42:33 - Attitude lesson at the age of 40? Creating a better environment for ourselves. Innovating. What would we love and what does that look like? Clarity. Experience.  43:42 - Attitude lesson at the age of 50? So much more I want to do. Fix the things I don't love but dig deeper into the things that I do love.  45:01 - Closing thoughts. Message of hope and encouragement. Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum.  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _  SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEW

In this episode, Greg, Leon and Rahul are joined by special guest Dan McDaid! Following on from our review of DEGA (https://danmcdaid.bigcartel.com/) last episode we get to sit down and have a chat with creator Dan McDaid. we get to have a discussion about DEGA (https://danmcdaid.bigcartel.com/) and really get into the gears of the book! what better way to dive fully into a comic is there than with the creator themselves? Among other things we also discuss their other works, their influences and the comics and stories that informed them as a creator! Send any questions or feedback to (mailto:acecomicals@gmail.com) acecomicals@gmail.com. And also please subscribe (http://www.acecomicals.com/subscribe) and leave us a review! If you like what we do please consider donating to us (https://ko-fi.com/acecomicals) at https://ko-fi.com/acecomicals. All contributions will be used to defray the cost of hosting the website. Ace Comicals, over and out!# Special Guest: Dan McDaid.

Leadership LIVE @ 8:05! - Talking Small Business with Mike Weiss, Founder, Client Engagement Academy about Using the POWER of LinkedIn to Successfully Engage Clients. With over 15 years in the digital marketing industry and five years in the e-learning space, Mike Weiss has made every mistake. He knows what works and what doesn't. His done-for-you philosophy assures your success. Leadership LIVE @ 8:05! - Talking Small Business is streamed LIVE every Tuesday night at 8pm with business owners, advisers, and thought leaders. Enjoy the Leadership LIVE @ 8:05! Podcast with your host Andrew Frazier Business Growth Pro and CFO. Andrew empowers business owners to Maximize the Value of their companies by helping them to Grow Revenue, Increase Profit, and Obtain Financing. He is the author of Running Your Small Business Like A Pro: The More You Know the Faster You Grow. Leadership LIVE is one of the many valuable resources provided through the Small Business Pro University empowering business owners to learn, profit, and grow. Find out more at www.SBProU.com.

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№26 Mike Weiss, Client Engagement AcademyHave you ever wondered if the way you reward your students works? Do they actually display these rewards in public? Does it actually show evidence for their skills? And is the idea of earning a reward be a strong enough motivator for your student?If you've ever wondered how to use badges and make the most of them in your elearning, you're in the right place. My guest today is Mike Weiss, Founder and Director of the Client Engagement Academy. His approach, involving social media, is sure to spark some ideas for your next badge-worthy classroom activity.In this very rewarding conversation we talk about:What is the Client Engagement Academy, their ambitious proposition, and some of the ingredients in their secret recipe to success for coaching business built by instructorsWhy Mike is bullish on LinkedIn, and some of the specific strategies suited for the professional network. Hint: Open source is key hereWhy badges work, why they have worked since prehistoric times, and why they remain a core element of some of our society's longest standing institutions.The ingredients of the perfect badge. In short: Evidence, Motivation and ‘Shareability'Why Mike thinks badges will be critical in the future of microlearning, among other things because they will extend the results of your initial investment down the line.~

This episode we hear why David Koepp left Indy 5, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock is back with a Raiders Rant, we visit the Lost Delta, Joe Stuber talks with author Mike Weiss, Ron is back with more trivia, IJ in the UK returns, Indiana Mic talks Indy outfits and Morgan and Rich tackle the White Witch!

This episode we hear why David Koepp left Indy 5, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock is back with a Raiders Rant, we visit the Lost Delta, Joe Stuber talks with author Mike Weiss, Ron is back with more trivia, IJ in the UK returns, Indiana Mic talks Indy outfits and Morgan and Rich tackle the White Witch!

This episode we hear why David Koepp left Indy 5, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock is back with a Raiders Rant, we visit the Lost Delta, Joe Stuber talks with author Mike Weiss, Ron is back with more trivia, IJ in the UK returns, Indiana Mic talks Indy outfits and Morgan and Rich tackle the White Witch!

This episode we hear why David Koepp left Indy 5, Official IndyCast correspondent Mitch Hallock is back with a Raiders Rant, we visit the Lost Delta, Joe Stuber talks with author Mike Weiss, Ron is back with more trivia, IJ in the UK returns, Indiana Mic talks Indy outfits and Morgan and Rich tackle the White Witch!

TV writer/producer Mike Weiss joins me to talk about his time on the ABC series Stumptown starring Cobie Smulders, and his latest writing adventure – the pulp-inspired globetrotting tale for TKO Studios, The Fearsome Doctor Fang!Photo courtesy Mike WeissImages TM & copyright © Disney/ABC, TKO StudiosUse promo code CBC20 for 20% off at TKO Studios

TV writer/producer Mike Weiss joins me to talk about his time on the ABC series Stumptown starring Cobie Smulders, and his latest writing adventure – the pulp-inspired globetrotting tale for TKO Studios, The Fearsome Doctor Fang!Photo courtesy Mike WeissImages TM & copyright © Disney/ABC, TKO StudiosUse promo code CBC20 for 20% off at TKO Studios

Join us for this full episode featuring Mike Weiss from www.ClientEngagementAcademy.com You'll hear and learn so much about online courses, their trajectory over this and following generations, and how to reach the world in an exciting and powerful way! You can watch the full episode on #LinkedIn #Facebook and #YouTube as well as listen on #Podbean #Spotify #iTunes #iheartradio and so many others. Tune in. Subscribe. Find a #HopeRevealed. Feel free to visit our site at http://www.mattcrump.tv For more information on other episodes and other resources available for your growth in faith, family, business and life.

Host Sarah Fenske talks with Big Shark Bicycle Company owner Mike Weiss about why his shop is seeing an increase in bike sales during the COVID-19 crises and talk with Emma Klues of Great Rivers Greenway about her recommendations for specific biking trails and routes to explore while continuing to help limit the spread of the coronavirus

Welcome to the Hustle System Podcast! -Where Art Meets Commerce- Today, it is my absolute pleasure to interview Mike Weiss (@Mike Weiss) Mike runs the digital certification program for the digital marketer. He helped to run the digital certification for agora. He specializes in helping optimize online programs for customer retention When working with his clients he goes above and beyond not only providing them with new leads but also developing an effective retention client system He has some amazing insights about how to develop and launch a complete program to monetize your skills and how to use in your favor the human psychology to not only sale your product but also to make sure you stand above the average in your niche You will learn which are the key point that most people is missing when launching an online course, which aspects of the human psychology you can use in your favor to make your online program stand over the average “Having the audacity to stick to it and not chasing the shining object because you think that is the easy way is what will give you the confidence to be successful” -MIKE WEISS- Mike explained to us why is so important for us to relate on the statistics and separate yourself from the emotions to truly be able to keep going and understand that if you have an optimal business model is only a matter of time for you to succeed And in case you do not have an optimal business plan or do not where to start he will share with us the three key points of why customers decide to buy from you and how to use them in your favor So, sit back, put on your headphones, and enjoy this new episode with my dear friend Mike Weiss --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ▼ MIKE WEISS ▼ Website Instagram --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ▼ MIKHAIL KUZNETSOV ▼ Instagram Facebook Youtube Get Mentored by Me for 12 FULL WEEKS! ▼ HUSTLE SYSTEM ▼ FREE FACEBOOK GROUP JOIN THE HUSTLE SYSTEM VIP COMMUNITY!

Mike Weiss identifies the components of a successful online business and/or membership site. Learn how to share and deliver a powerful and PROVEN strategy to create maximum profit in minimum time while also creating incredible outcomes for your clients. Pioneer of E-Learning, Mike Weiss, continues to revolutionize the digital education industry through his company, Client Engagement Academy. Founding the company in 2016, Mike recognized the need for tools that would increase client engagement, encourage student success, and help online course creators. Since that time, Client Engagement Academy has become the go-to resource for anyone looking to start, grow, and scale profitable online courses, membership sites, and online coaching, and consulting businesses. Today's show is sponsored by Audible.com. Audible.com is a leading provider of spoken audio entertainment and information. Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at audibletrial.com/businessgrowth.

This week Matt Besser and Jon Gabrus interview Mike Weiss from the Stash dispensary. They discuss dispesaries with a good vibe; they roast the botique dispensaries; Hightly Recommends features “Uncut Gems” and the Monkees’ film “Head”; and finally they dive into the featured bud OG Kush & Tegridy OG.

American Broadcasting School alumni, Bad Billy brings you Outlaw Radio. Listen for discussion on current events, a little comedy, and great music. Listen to the show live Saturday nights at 8:00 PM eastern standard time/5:00 PM pacific standard time on Twitch, The No Holds Barred Radio Network, and Raw Talk Online! Feel free to join the show by calling +1 (646) 558-8665 - code 216-539-5329. You can also catch the archived shows by going to www.outlawradioabs.podbean.com.  If you would like to be a guest on the show or if you would like to leave your feedback you can call our feedback line at +1 (208) 957-7016. All positive and negative feedback will be replied to during the show. Be sure to visit the Outlaw Radio official website at www.outlawradioabs.com.  This week, featured interview Dave Wanless of Sven Gali out of Canada and Conservative Talk with special guests, Craig "The Hawk" Montgomery and Mike Weiss of L.M.S. Tactical. Also featured music from Bri Bagwell, The D.O.C., Bionic Jive, Jade Marie Patek, Skarlett Riot, Dan Patlansky, Muzzie Braun, and Rendered Heartless.  

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is hard to detect, and is sometimes called the “invisible injury.” Ron Hayes and Nancy Denslow, both scientists at the McKnight Brain Institute and the founders of Banyan Biomarkers, have developed a blood-based test that will make TBI detection and treatment easier and faster. One potential application is to detect brain injury in newborn infants. *This episode was originally released on April 1, 2020.* TRANSCRIPT: Intro: 0:01 Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, the podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles: 0:41 This morning, we have Dr. Ron Hayes , one of the co-founders of Banyan Biomarkers with us. Welcome, Ron . Ron Hayes: 0:46 Thank you. Richard Miles: 0:47 So Ron , before we start talking about Banyan Biomarkers and what a biomarker is and what it does, tell us a little bit about yourself. Where were you from? Where’d you grow up and how did you decide to become a scientist? Ron Hayes: 0:58 I grew up in Richmond, Virginia in the fifties at the time, it was a, quite a conservative time , uh , somewhat isolated, really a classic vision of the old Seth. My undergraduate major at the University of Richmond was classical languages. And , uh, then I did some graduate work in philosophy. So it’s surprising sometimes to find myself , uh , here today. But if we want to elaborate at some point, I think it’s been a benefit for me to have a liberal education. Richard Miles: 1:30 Tell us a little bit about what you’re like as a kid where you were very curious, sort of interested in everything. And when did you sort of know you wanted to gravitate towards a scientific field Ron Hayes: 1:39 As a kid, I didn’t know. I read voraciously wasn’t , uh , much of a sports person. I, although I ultimately ended up playing competitive tennis later in life, but at that time I was really quite focused on reading Richard Miles: 1:57 Really? Okay. Did you have a teacher that stood out or were either of your parents? So what did they do, were they scientist engineers, doctors? Ron Hayes: 2:07 No, I was the first person in my family to go to college. They, they encouraged reading. Uh, they , uh, certainly liked to see me do it, but , uh, as I reflect, it was sort of a self-taught environment. And I read anything put in front of me. Richard Miles: 2:25 Tell us a little bit now , uh, let’s talk about biomarkers , uh, for folks who don’t know what that means, what is a biomarker? How does it work? Ron Hayes: 2:34 It’s an indicator of , uh, the organic state of an individual or an animal that provides in a medical situation information on the health or the disease state of the person. And a biomarker can be a variety of different things. It could be information from the blood such as we use in, in, in our, or it could be an image of the body. It could be a recording of bodily activity, such as heart rate, but any of these things collectively are referred to as biomarkers and they’re used to assist in the diagnosis of health and disease. Richard Miles: 3:16 So in, in the case of Banyan Biomarkers, you’ve come up with the specific use here, dealing with traumatic brain injury, explain how the biomarker net instance works or indicates what you want it to indicate. Ron Hayes: 3:30 I think the best analogy would probably be a heart attack. Okay. So all of us today, I think can understand if we have very severe chest pain and persistent chest pain, we’ll go to an emergency room. And the first thing they’ll do is draw blood and they’ll look at the level of a protein in the blood called traponin, but it happens to be a protein that’s in muscle cells of hearts. And if the muscle cells are injured or dying, of course, that protein escapes into the blood and if there’s a lot of it, you know, you’re having a heart attack. In many ways it’s a similar process for the brain. If the brain is injured and brain cells, neurons are supportive, cells called golia are injured or dying they shed proteins that can show up in the blood. For a long time people didn’t believe that was possible. There was a blood-brain barrier that whatever went on in the brain stayed in the brain, but every search helped discount that prejudice. So we measured those proteins in the brain. If they’re elevated, you have some form of brain injury in this case, traumatic brain injury. Richard Miles: 4:39 So is the real breakthrough here. The fact that we can do that now through blood, as opposed to, I guess, an MRI would be the next best way of diagnosing a traumatic brain injury. Is that correct? Ron Hayes: 4:50 In essence, yes. I mean , it was , uh , a violation of orthodoxy that in some ways had prevented people from just doing it. And it’s far cheaper, a blood test obviously is far cheaper than what’s called a computerized tomographic scan or a CT scan or an even more expensive MRI. In fact, magnetic resonance imaging isn’t used in clinical practice. It’s primarily , uh , in acute clinical care, it’s primarily a diagnostic tool reserved for neurodegeneration or elective processes. But if you show up at an ER, you’ll get a CT scan, not an MRI. Richard Miles: 5:29 So I’m guessing there’s a , there’s a whole range of applications out there in which you might have some sort of brain injury, but it would simply be too complicated, costly, complex to actually do a CT or MRI. Is that really a now the main advantage of , of being able to do it by blood? Ron Hayes: 5:46 That’s one important advantage is that you can triage or you can stage people and tell them whether or not they need to CT. And you really would like to avoid that if possible for a number of reasons, Richard Miles: 6:00 Avoid the CT. Ron Hayes: 6:00 Avoid the CT scan. Absolutely because they’re of course expensive. They increased the time in the emergency rooms, which is always critical, but even more importantly, there’s a lot of radiation exposure to CT scans. And you certainly don’t want to do that unnecessarily. Richard Miles: 6:20 Tell me a little bit about the formation of the company. So you, you and Nancy, and were others involved in the original invention? Ron Hayes: 6:28 Uh , one other founder, Kevin Wang. Richard Miles: 6:31 So after you hit upon the idea, or you figured out that you could do this, did you just get together and say, Hey, let’s form a company and see if we can market this, or tell us a little bit about how that happened. Ron Hayes: 6:41 Uh , those kinds of events are sort of like , uh , a marriage. You know, you never quite know what the precipitating moment was , uh, in a long chain that leads to , uh , that union. But I would say it was a perfect storm of time and place and people. And I had been asked by NIH to look at a technology related to biomarkers and got interested in it, talked to Nancy Denslow because she knew a lot more about protein chemistry than I did, and was also collaborating with Kevin Wang who had some interesting ideas about brain injury processes. So in that stew , the company was gridlocked. Yeah. Richard Miles: 7:26 What year was that again Ron? Ron Hayes: 7:27 We formed Banyan in 2002, Richard Miles: 7:30 2002. Okay. And how’s it doing now? Do you have big clients or who is buying the process? Ron Hayes: 7:37 That’s a very interesting story. And I think for young entrepreneurs, I would advise them to be nurtured by their naivety, because if they knew what they were doing from conception, they might’ve been less bold, but Banyan it take, which I didn’t understand at the time, between about $150 to $200 million dollars to bring a biomarker through the FDA. And we were fortunate, Richard Miles: 8:02 So let me stop you, $150 $200 million dollars? Ron Hayes: 8:05 Yes. Well, and that’s chump change compared to a therapy, which is multiple billions of dollars. Richard Miles: 8:13 So for our listeners who aren’t familiar with FDA approval process for drugs and pharmaceuticals and treatments, why does it take that long, and that much money? Ron Hayes: 8:22 That’s a subject of obvious controversy. And when I entered into the process, I entered into it with the same kind of concerns and skepticism that people often bring to the FDA process. That said having lived through it, a lot of the time is justified. And the process of diagnostics, if you want to generate data that influences potentially a life or death medical decision, you have to be absolutely certain of the technologies’ performance and reliability in the case of medical devices that take some time. Richard Miles: 9:00 I see. So it’s not like a, a drug that you have to make sure is , uh , safe and won’t hurt somebody. But the fact that these tests will be used to make those types of decisions. That’s why the FDA steps in and says, we really need to make sure this works. Ron Hayes: 9:14 In fact, the FDA , uh, has become, I think at least in my own experience, very responsive. The FDA offered and executed, an expedited review. So we got to review and feedback in six months on the basis of what they called their breakthrough technology. So that’s really not a very long period of time. Richard Miles: 9:35 Ron, you’re experienced in this company , uh , you know, a start startup and it sounds like it’s doing well, but as anyone who’s done, a startup knows there are good days and there are bad days. Tell us about one of your best or best day. And tell us if you’d like to one of your worst or the worst day you’ve had in this experience. Ron Hayes: 9:54 There’s a term, an image I often invoke. I was a fighter pilot, and we often describe our missions as long periods of boredom, punctuated by terror or ecstasy as the moment may be. So terror. We were meeting a short there , the company was formed and we had secured some money. And we had a consulting CEO who advised us blandly that we were out of money and with no warning and no mea culpa. Richard Miles: 10:27 So in the jet fighter, now your , your engine just shut down. Ron Hayes: 10:31 Well, I was waiting to light the burners and blow some stuff up, but it was very, very disconcerting, very discouraging and we survived it. Richard Miles: 10:40 How did you turn that around? You went, you had no money and what happened how’d you keep going? Ron Hayes: 10:46 Well, we were very fortunate to get congressional support from the Florida delegations, actually, Congressman Bill Young, who’s passed away in Tampa as well as Congressman Sterns who’s no longer here. And we got some congressional support through the DOD, which ultimately morphed into sustained support because a department of defense really pioneered interest in this technology because of the Wars, unfortunately in Afghanistan. Richard Miles: 11:14 I see because this is a , a much easier way to assess traumatic brain injury on the battlefield, I’d take it. Ron Hayes: 11:20 Yes. And of course, having a CT scanner in a far forward medical, environment’s extremely difficult. And you could say, get this person back for a CT scan or not. Got it. Richard Miles: 11:31 So, Ron, tell us about some of the future applications of the Banyan biomarkers. Ron Hayes: 11:37 Well, there are many applications I’ll focus on one that is particularly close to my heart, and that is assessing in a diagnosis and the treatment of brain injury that occurs during birth. Richard Miles: 11:51 Birth? Ron Hayes: 11:52 During birth. This is the kind of injury that can result in cerebral palsy, where at birth, the blood flow to the baby and the brain is interrupted at a very critical period. So the brain is quite vulnerable. This can lead to minimally delayed development, and of course, death to that extreme my own son, aspirated meconium at birth, and he had an event. And of course, any parent can understand confronting that at birth. So by rapid diagnosis from even your umbilical cord blood, you can intervene quickly and appropriately. There is in fact, a treatment where you cool the baby’s hypothermia, so you can quickly determine the baby’s need, and whether they’re a good candidate for the treatment and working closely with a very dedicated neonatologist at the University of Florida, Dr. Mike Weiss has done a marvelous job of leading this effort. Richard Miles: 12:49 So absent of using the biomarkers, Ron , if I understand correctly, would the brain injury go undetected until later? Because are there no necessarily obvious signs of that event? Ron Hayes: 13:01 There are signs, but it’s not as rigorous and as definitive as a blood test. So the blood test would provide a very rapid and definitive test. It’s just like a concussion Richard Miles: 13:15 Right. Ron Hayes: 13:15 A brain injury, the what’s called a Glasgow coma scale is quite subjective. You want a hard number quickly. Richard Miles: 13:21 Right. And so, and in a blood test, of course, the standard at right after the baby’s born. So it would be something that would be picked up in all babies potentially right? Ron Hayes: 13:29 Ultimately , uh , I would look at it as every parent wants to know, is my baby. Okay? And short of what’s called the app guard test a very crude test. You don’t know that. And of course you wouldn’t know if the brain’s okay. So this could be available to everyone once it’s , uh, of course, FDA approved, it could be available. Richard Miles: 13:48 That that is exciting. Um , Ron, if , if somebody , uh , uh , a young scientist or entrepreneur came to you and said, I’ve got this brilliant idea, and I’m going to form a company and I hit the big time, what would your advice be to that person? Ron Hayes: 14:02 Don’t do it for money. I think that’s a huge mistake that people make, of course, very broadly in life, but most conspicuously in startups, people labor, I think under the illusions of IT, I’m going to make a what’s up dude app and make a billion dollars and rockstar. In fact, I think it takes a good deal, more maturity, and a willingness to give up ego and a commitment to whatever you’re doing. That’s deeply rooted in your own sense of purpose. Richard Miles: 14:39 Excellent words of advice. Uh , Ron, thank you very much for joining us this morning on Radio Cade. Ron Hayes: 14:44 Thank you. Outro: 14:48 Radio Cade would like to thank the people for their help and support Liz Gist of the Cade Museum for coordinating inventor interviews, Bob McPeak of Heartwood soundstage in downtown Gainesville, Florida for recording, editing and production of the podcast and music theme, Tracy Collins for the composition and performance of the Radio Cade theme song, featuring violinist, Jacob Lawson and special, thanks to the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida.

Seria impossível postar qualquer episódio essa semana que não tivesse a ver com a pandemia que vem mudando completamente o mundo em que vivemos. Cada país vem respondendo de uma forma aos problemas causados pelo novo Corona vírus, e eu não poderia deixar de olhar para Portugal nesse momento. Para entender melhor como a epidemia vem afetando Portugal, entrei em contato com amigos que moram no além mar para perguntar como está a crise, se estão todos seguros e o que Portugal vem fazendo para amenizar o efeito dessa pandemia. Gostou do episódio? Gosta do trabalho do Lusitânia? Então compartilhe a gente com seus amigos e em suas redes sociais, se possível, nos avalie no iTunes e na sua rede de podcast preferida. Esse é um tipo de ajuda CRUCIAL para a continuidade do Lusitânia. Muito obrigado por nos acompanhar e por nos recomendar. Convidados especiais neste episódio: Mike Weiss e Maria Gabriela Quem faz o lusitânia Thiago Henrique Santos – Roteiro, gravação e edição. Vanessa Tavares Santos – Produção, roteiro e pesquisa.

American Broadcasting School alumni, Bad Billy brings you Outlaw Radio. Listen for discussion on current events, a little comedy, and great music. Listen to the show live Saturday nights at 8:00 PM eastern standard time/5:00 PM pacific standard time on Twitch, The No Holds Barred Radio Network, and Raw Talk Online! Feel free to join the show by calling +1 (646) 558-8665 - code 216-539-5329. You can also catch the archived shows by going to www.outlawradioabs.podbean.com.  If you would like to be a guest on the show or if you would like to leave your feedback you can call our feedback line at +1 (208) 957-7016. All positive and negative feedback will be replied to during the show. Be sure to visit the Outlaw Radio official website at www.outlawradioabs.com.  This week, featured interview with Joe Davis of The Joe Davis Band out of North Carolina, we tell the story of Micah Pecyna in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho with John B. Wells, of Caravan To Midnight, Mike Weiss of L.M.S. Tactical, and Boise County Sheriff, Scott Turner, and we pay tribute to the legendary, Kenny Rogers. Also featured music from Sheyna Gee, Lurid Lizz, Steve Hofmeyr, Thundermother, HighKaliber, Sepsiss, and Texas Hippie Coalition.

Mike joins the boys to chat about some of his favorite Philadelphia Flyers, why the band decided to make 2020 their last year as an active band, and some of the shenanigans the band got into while touring in their vintage tour bus. mewithoutYou-January 1979 mewithoutYou-D-Minor The Graduate-Sit and Sink

Interview with Vintage Kennel Club owners Mike Weiss and Brian Ness. Topics include different board styles, vetting, scheduling, introducing a dog to the "pack", rattlesnake training and more. Product references include - Vari Kennel recorded at KSVY Studio in Sonoma, CA visit www.ksvy.org

Jim McIlvaine and John Scott Lewinski return with your lifestyle podcast, Marq'd Men. This week, Jim speaks with Mike Weiss of Weistec Engineering – a man who turns fast cars into incredibly fast cars. Special thanks to the Blue Microphones, Samson Microphones, Marquette University Basketball and Optima Batteries. For more information on Marq'd Men, Jim McIlvaine and John Scott Lewinski, visit http://www.marqdmen.com. For questions or suggestions, email marqdmen@gmail.com.

M. Weiss, General Manager, Rillito Downs; J. Gonzales, Pres., Tucson Sugar Skulls

On today's episode, Seth and Kevin speak to Mike Weiss, an Education Expert , about how he has absolutely loved working with consultants and entrepreneurs who are obsessed with student results and ready to reach seven, eight, even nine figures with their business creating online courses and membership Sites. He spent more than 30 years in having raised more than $100,000,000 and served as a Financial Consultant to thousands of Clients. Additionally, Mike Co-founded (and later sold) GreenTrack, a leading financial and tax reporting company that was responsible for tracking more than $26 Billion in assets. From Finances to Digital, Mike transitioned to a career in Digital Marketing and, Co-founded (and later was bought out) NeuroGym. In less than 16 months, the company went from $100,000 per year to more than $2,000,000 acquiring over 7,000 customers in 80 countries. In 2012, Mike was chosen top four (out of four-hundred) for Infusionsoft’s, “Marketer of the Year.” Mike recognized early on in the financial industry that customer education and results were the keys to success. Then, after his move to Digital Marketing, this became his, “Mantra.” In the years that followed, Mike Weiss has become recognized as one of the, “Top Guns” in Digital Education and Technology with a specialization in client engagement, e-learning, online marketing and sales, digital badging and gamification. Mike formed Client Engagement Academy which has designed, built and manages more than 30 “Cutting Edge” EdTech Platforms for many of the Digital Marketing Leaders in the industry. When he’s not, “Breaking New Digital Ground,” Mike spends time with his soulmate, Carolyne, and their family. They have a powerful spiritual practice and work toward helping others to treat all relationships with humanity and dignity. From Finances to Digital, Mike transitioned to a career in Digital Marketing and, Co-founded (and later was bought out) NeuroGym. In less than 16 months, the company went from $100,000 per year to more than $2,000,000 acquiring over 7,000 customers in 80 countries. In 2012, Mike was chosen top four (out of four-hundred) for Infusionsoft’s, “Marketer of the Year.” Mike recognized early on in the industry that customer education and results were the keys to success. Then, after his move to Digital Marketing, this became his, “Mantra.” In the years that followed, Mike Weiss has become recognized as one of the, “Top Guns” in Digital Education and Technology with a specialization in client engagement, e-learning, online marketing and sales, digital badging and gamification. Mike formed Client Engagement Academy which has designed, built and manages more than 30 “Cutting Edge” EdTech Platforms for many of the Digital Marketing Leaders in the industry. When he’s not, “Breaking New Digital Ground,” Mike spends time with his soulmate, Carolyne, and their family. They have a powerful spiritual practice and work toward helping others to treat all relationships with humanity and dignity. Learn more about Mike here, clientengagementacademy.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

American Broadcasting School alumni, Bad Billy brings you Outlaw Radio. Listen for discussion on current events, a little comedy, and great music. Listen to the show live Saturday nights at 8:00 PM eastern standard time/5:00 PM pacific standard time on Twitch, The No Holds Barred Radio Network, and Raw Talk Online! Feel free to join the show by calling +1 (646) 558-8665 - code 216-539-5329. You can also catch the archived shows by going to www.outlawradioabs.podbean.com.  If you would like to be a guest on the show or if you would like to leave your feedback you can call our feedback line at +1 (208) 957-7016. All positive and negative feedback will be replied to during the show. Be sure to visit the Outlaw Radio official website at www.outlawradioabs.com.  This week, featured interviews with Jeff Carlson of Jeff Carlson Band out of Las Vegas and Mike Weiss of LMS Tactical. Also featured music from Nikki Briar, The Fallen Son, Steve Hofmeyr, Forever Still, Lurid Lizz, Kris Angelis, American Grim, and Reveille.

American Broadcasting School alumni, Bad Billy brings you Outlaw Radio. Listen for discussion on current events, a little comedy, and great music. Listen to the show live Saturday nights at 8:00 PM eastern standard time/5:00 PM pacific standard time on iVlog TV, The No Holds Barred Radio Network, and Raw Talk Online! Feel free to join the show by calling +1 (646) 558-8665 - code 216-539-5329. You can also catch the archived shows by going to www.outlawradioabs.podbean.com.  If you would like to be a guest on the show or if you would like to leave your feedback you can call our feedback line at +1 (208) 957-7016. All positive and negative feedback will be replied to during the show. Be sure to visit the Outlaw Radio official website at www.outlawradioabs.com. This week, featured interviews with the band members of Breathing Theory out of Florida and Mike Weiss of LMS Tactical. Also featured music from Gina Serrano, Everlast, Micky & The Motorcars, Bullet To The Heart, Big Chuk, SaraBeth, Vertilizar, and Aurorean.

Why are online course completion rates so low? When your course completion rate goes up, your students get more of the outcomes they deserve, and your business grows. Mike Weiss of Client Engagement Academy walks us through the three major areas we need to implement in order to help students get the outcomes they want.

Chapter 19 Mike Weiss is the guitarist from the legendary label darlings mewithoutYou. Mike’s point of view of the band is far from comprehensive, but give us some unique insight that most media coverage is not able capture, especially regarding his brother, the enigmatic frontman Aaron Weiss.   AD || Zip Recruiter: ziprecruiter.com/LABELED   https://labeledpodcast.com/ Support Labeled on Patreon  Join Labeled on Facebook   SONGS YOU HEARD ON THIS EPISODE: mewithoutYou "January 1979" mewithoutYou "Red Cow" Audiotree Live Session twothirtyeight "There Is No Dana" Starflyer59 "Blue Colar Love" Further Seems Forever "The Moon is Down" The Operation "To Prevent Fall-Apart" mewithoutYou live at Cornerstone '02 mewithoutYou "Gentlemen" mewithoutYou "Messes of Men" Pedro the Lion "Indian Summer" mewithoutYou "Carousels" mewithoutYou "Torches Together" mewithoutYou jam session mewithoutYou "Julia (or 'Holy to the Lord' on the Bells of Horses)" mewithoutYou "Chapelcross Towns" Audiotree Live Session mewithoutYou "Leaf" mewithoutYou live at Cornerstone '02    MORE FROM TOOTH & NAIL: * Labeled: Music From The Podcast: smarturl.it/labeledplaylist * DISCOVER IT: New Tracks from T&N Records: smarturl.it/TNNDiscover * This Is Solid State: New Tracks from Solid State Records: https://spoti.fi/2CUCsaH    * Tooth & Nail Store (LABELED Patreon members get 20% off everything): tnn.lnk.to/store

We're back with another Quickies review. This time, Aaron and Alex discuss a batch of new #1 issues including two beloved licensed properties and two issues from new publisher TSK Studios. Overall, we mostly liked all these books, especially the stuff from TKO Studios. As with all our Quickie reviews, we gave ourselves a 5 minute time limit to discuss each book, but we liked Goodnight Paradise so much that we give it an extra 5 minutes because the rules are made up and the points don't matter. Comics reviewed: Army of Darkness/Bubba Ho Tep #1 by Scott Duvall and Vincenzo Federici The Fearsome Doctor Fang #1 by Tze Chun, Mike Weiss, and Dan McDaid G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte #1 by Michel Fiffe Goodnight Paradise by Joshua Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli

This week's episode is the winner from our latest Rusty Fears competition.“The Iron Gate” is written by Cailyn Toomey, read by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall.Thank you everyone who submitted stories and spread the word!Note: this is a stand-alone piece of fiction and not part of the Magnus canon.Content warnings for this episode are at the end of the show notes.Thanks to this week's Patrons: Alex, Rob Young, Jen Van Meter, Jeffrey D Brainerd, Alix Antilla, Lho, Kevin Lovecraft, Margaery Clare, Andrew Hall, Porkchop Krandal, Alex Rose, Rozzlynn, Jon Lozano, Rowan MacBean, Mildred, Amelia Stevenson, Mike Weiss, Finn Garza, Tommy Parker, Cornflake of DoomIf you'd like to join them be sure to visit www.patreon.com/rustyquillEdited this week by James Austin, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall.Sound effects this week by previously credited artists via freesound.org.Check out our merchandise at https://www.redbubble.com/people/rustyquill/collections/708982-the-magnus-archives-s1You can subscribe to this podcast using your podcast software of choice, or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribePlease rate and review on your software of choice, it really helps us to spread the podcast to new listeners, so share the fear.Join our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillDISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8yEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comThe Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International LicenceContent warnings for:· Bullying See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 18Star Theft and Star MarlinsPLANET - 512909- ⏇Orren Thruul requests a planet to host the exhibits for their latest intergalactic art show; 'Rebirth of the Star Marlin'Consultant Recommendation; Error, file overwritten and locked.Original Consultant Recommendation; Hospital Cube. Time bomb. Coerced suns. Collapsing Moon.Content Warning for:Comedic violenceEmotional abuseAlcoholismScreamingChildbirthSpecial thanks to Stefan Sipika for this episode's Planet Brief Submission and this week's Patrons: Alex, Rob Young, Jen Van Meter, Jeffrey D Brainerd, Alix Antilla, Lho, Kevin Lovecraft, Margaery Clare, Andrew Hall, Porkchop Krandal, Alex Rose, Rozzlynn, Jon Lozano, Rowan MacBean, Mildred, Amelia Stevenson, Mike Weiss, Finn Garza, Tommy Parker, Cornflake of DoomIf you'd like to join them be sure to visit www.patreon.com/rustyquillCreated by Tim Meredith and Ben MeredithProduced by Lowri Ann DaviesExecutive Producer Alexander J NewallPerformances:I.M.O.G.E.N: Imogen HarrisDavid 7: Ben MeredithTrexel Geistman: Tim MeredithEditing: Alexander J Newall and David DevereuxMusic: Samuel DF JonesArtwork: Anika Khan.Featured SFX; Garuda1982, Picklejones, FreqMan, Eddybennet, Splushionsindasky, GabrielaUPF, Digitalsmokestudios, Studioratreviously& previously credited artists via freesound.org.Featured music: Artist: Bigmanjoe, Title: Slow Cinematic Music via FreesoundSubscribe using your podcast software of choice or by visiting www.rustyquill.com/subscribe and be sure to rate and review us online; it really helps us spread across the galaxy.Join our community:WEBSITE: www.rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/therustyquill/TWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: www.reddit.com/r/RustyQuill/DISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8yEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comStellar Firma is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Join Alex, Helen, Lydia, Ben and Bryn as the reunited party shuffle off this mortal coil to... somewhere else.This week: Azu is glowing, Sasha gets hit where it hurts, Hamid shouts a lot and Grizzop makes a new friend!Thanks to this week's Patrons: Alex Rose, Rozzlynn, Jon Lozano, Rowan MacBean, Mildred, Amelia Stevenson, Mike Weiss, Finn Garza, Tommy Parker, Cornflake of DoomIf you'd like to join them be sure to visit www.patreon.com/rustyquillEditing this week by Lowri Ann Davies & Alexander J NewallSFX this week by SamsterBirdies, ljudman, klankbeeld, AlanCat, blaukreuz, Halleck, tim.kahn, ceich93, juskiddink, zetauri, Argitoth & previously credited artists via freesound.org.As always, today’s game system is available for free at www.d20pfsrd.comJoin our community:WEBSITE: rustyquill.comFACEBOOK: facebook.com/therustyquillTWITTER: @therustyquillREDDIT: reddit.com/r/RustyQuillDISCORD: https://discord.gg/KckTv8yEMAIL: mail@rustyquill.comRusty Quill Gaming is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill Ltd. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Sharealike 4.0 International Licence. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Cannabis expert and serial entrepreneur, Mike Weiss, sits down with Brian to talk about his company, Cannacopia, as well as everything the cannabis industry is, has been, and is becoming. 

The first episode with Jaimie & Iann together is a DOOOZY! In this episode the boys check out everything from a new Conan, to a lost Frankenstein to a disappointing Dark Knight. Along the way they discover the joy of BBQ Black Metal, the end of punk rock, the worst way to find a lady skinhead, mace and moshing and much more. Books include: Conan #1 by Jason Aaron & Mahmud Asrar, Avengers #12 by Jason Aaron & Ed McGuiness, Batman #62 by Tom King & Mitch Gerards, Savage Dragon #242 by Erik Larson, Murder Falcon #4 by Daniel Warren Johnson, House Waxwork #3 by various, Dick Briefers Frankenstein, The Fearsome Doctor Fang by The Chun, Mike Weiss, & Dan Mcdaid, and more!

Year-End Spectacular, Marvel Action: Avengers, FF, Superior Spider-Man, X-Force, Christmas haul, State of the Industry   Reviews: TKO Comics, Crossing, 3 Below, Sharp Objects, Glenn vs. Aquaman, She-Ra s1   News: Downey Jr contract with Marvel is done, Bryan Hill quits comics?, Ascender in April   Comics Details: Superior Spider-Man 1 by Christos Gage, Mike Hawthorne, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire X-Force 1 by Ed Brisson, Dylan Burnett, Jesus Aburtov, Juanan Ramirez, Brian Reber Marvel Action: Avengers 1 by Matthew Manning, Jon Sommariva Fantastic Four 5 by Dan Slott, Aaron Kuder, Marte Gracia, Erick Arciniega, Mike Allred, Laura Allred, Adam Hughes Sara 1 by Garth Ennis, Steve Epting, Rob Steen, Sebastian Girner Goodnight Paradise 1 by Joshua Dysart, Alberto Ponticelli, Giulia Brusco Seven Deadly Sins 1 by Tze Chun, Artyom Trakhanov, Giulia Brusco Fearsome Doctor Fang 1 by Tze Chun, Mike Weiss, Dan McDaid, Daniela Miwa   Comics Countdown, 26 Dec 2018: Fantastic Four 5 by Dan Slott, Aaron Kuder, Marte Gracia, Erick Arciniega, Mike Allred, Laura Allred, Adam Hughes Bone Parish 5 by Cullen Bunn, Jonas Scharf, Alex Guim Superior Spider-Man 1 by Christos Gage, Mike Hawthorne, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire Mars Attacks 3 by Kyle Starks, Chris Schweizer, Liz Schweizer Marvel Action: Avengers 1 by Matthew Manning, Jon Sommariva Go-Bots 2 by Tom Scioli Die Die Die 6 by Robert Kirkman, Scott Gimple, Chris Burnham, Nathan Fairbairn Uncanny X-Men 7 by Ed Brisson, Matt Rosenberg, Kelly Thompson, Pere Perez, Rachelle Rosenberg X-Force 1 by Ed Brisson, Dylan Burnett, Jesus Aburtov, Juanan Ramirez, Brian Reber Man-Eaters 4 by Chelsea Cain, Lia Miternique  

TKO-O-Rama: Sara by Garth Ennis, Steve Epting, and Elizabeth Breitweiser, The Fearsome Doctor Fang by Tze Chun, Mike Weiss, Dan McDaid, and Daniela Miwa, and The Seven Deadly Sins by Tze Chun, Artyom Trakhanov, and Giulla Brusco, Doctor Who, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Old Man Hawkeye by Ethan Sacks, Francesco Mobili, Marco Checchetto, and Andres Mossa, Cinema Sewer Volume 5 by Robin Bougie and friends from FAB Press, Junji Ito's Frankenstein from Viz, Eternal by Ryan K Lindsay, Eric Zawadzki, and Dee Cunniffe from Black Mask, Alien 3: The Unproduced Screenplay from Dark Horse, Defenders: Best Defense, plus a whole mess more!

Flat Track Roller Derby and the resurgence of the full contact sport with Craig Chenowith, WFTDA, upcoming season of the local roller derby league, photographers Chuck Gay, Mike Weiss, Tristan King, roller derby photography, community involvement, the roller derby season starts this week, #NoBeerForCJ, comment below, porg ideas, cease and desist letters, why CJ is not allowed to have a PayPal account, Disney annual pass prices increase, SDCC prices, outlaw con-goer, Long Beach Comic Expo, alternate comic conventions, anime expo, Gallifrey One convention, Strategic Con, Stan Lee's LA Comic Con, personalities signing autographs, The Stan Lee Experience, CJ's Truly Authentic and Trustworthy Comic Grading Company, the 30 second pause, Dashiki denied, cultural appropriation, movies that have fallen out of favor, montages are a must for modern movies, this week's homework assignment is to watch the new Marvel Black Panther movie. Click like, subscribe, leave a comment, and hop on!

Daniel Tobok from Cytelligence joins us to talk about how to stay safe from hackers when you're sharing on social. Plus, we chat with VRPlayin's Director of Marketing Valerie Blackstock about why arcades are making a comeback thanks to virtual reality. We also speak to Mike Weiss about his app, Cannacopia, which puts marijuana education in the palm of your hand. In Socially Speaking, we discuss whether or not Instagram is killing the Snapchat star.

The fourth part of our interview with Mike Weiss from ClientEngagementAcademy.com where he shares how he gets such high completion and renewal rates, plus why digital badges are total game-changers for amazing viral promotion.

The third part of our interview with Mike Weiss from ClientEngagementAcademy.com where he shares how he gets such high completion and renewal rates, plus why digital badges are total game-changers for amazing viral promotion.

Deborah Brown is an artist and curator in New York City who works in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from Indiana University. She has had solo shows at Art3, Lesley Heller, Flecker Gallery, Active Space and an upcoming solo at Geary Contemporary next year. She’s had over sixty group exhibitions including Mike Weiss, BravinLee, Life on Mars, Odetta, Lu Magnus, the Islip Art Museum, Jeff Bailey and many others. Her work has been covered in Artnet, ArtNews, the Wall Street Journal, the L Magazine, the New York Times and several other publications. Seven years ago Deborah founded Storefront Bushwick, a Brooklyn gallery dedicated to showing emerging artist’s work along with revisiting the work of established artists. The gallery ran until recently and helped launch the careers of many young artists in Brooklyn. She has long been a pioneer and advocate for artists and the arts in Bushwick. Brian met up with Deborah at her Bushwick studio and we talked about her early days in school, her move to New York in the eighties, running an artist-run space and her approach to painting over the years.

The second part of our interview with Mike Weiss from ClientEngagementAcademy.com where he shares how he gets such high completion and renewal rates, plus why digital badges are total game-changers for amazing viral promotion.

In April 1990 the huge space telescope was launched into orbit above the earth. But when it began sending images back to Nasa - they were out of focus. In 2010 Lucy Williamson spoke to Mike Weiss, the Nasa engineer in charge of fixing it.(Photo: The Hubble Space Telescope. Credit Nasa)

In April 1990 the huge space telescope was launched into orbit above the earth. But when it began sending images back to Nasa - they were out of focus. In 2010 Lucy Williamson spoke to Mike Weiss, the Nasa engineer in charge of fixing it. (Photo: The Hubble Space Telescope. Credit Nasa)

Who did Digital Marketer hire to create their certification courses last year? Mike Weiss. We find out how Mike manages to get such high completion and renewal rates, plus why digital badges are total game-changers for amazing viral promotion.

What's the deal with massages? We dive deep into discussions about this supposedly relaxing topic with funny guy Mike Weiss.

In this episode, we have a special guest - Shaun Thresher. Shaun is an employee of mine who makes his first guest appearance in an episode every entrepreneur needs to listen to. We go over the biggest reasons most entrepreneurs struggle in business, how to overcome those obstacles and what you need to do starting TODAY to make breakthrough profits in your business. Check it out, share it and let me know what you think! Resources Mentioned Want To Work With Me? Visit http://www.JeremyReeves.com or email me at Jeremy@JeremyReeves.com Enjoy! Transcript Jeremy: Hey guys this is Jeremy and welcome back to another episode of the sales funnel master podcast. I have a special guest on the line today and he is actually my employee, so there is no really intro. Basically, he works for me that is his intro. His name is Shaun and he is an Italian which you might have (inaudible 00:00:37). He is from Italy and I actually just had him in a couple of weeks ago and we spend I think 5 days something like that, getting to know each other better because we never saw each other in person. I am a huge on transparency and relationship stuff like that, so I have Shaun in and we have planned out the next 90 days and we came up the idea. Number 1 to focus more on the podcast which I have been doing if you have not noticed over the past couple of weeks and number 2, I am actually going to start having him more on the podcast when I do my own parts of the podcast besides guests and stuff like that. So today -- and I’ll let Shaun come on and talk for a minute -- today, we are going to talk about why people succeed and why other people don't because there are such big differences and a lot of it comes down to just mindset and execution on what you are actually doing rather than how smart you are or what kind of business you are in. I mean, in most cases, that stuff really does not matter at all. It matters about what your plan is and then how well you execute it. So that is some of the stuff we are going to talk about it today. Shaun, come on and introduce yourself, so they can kind of get to know you a bit. Shaun: Hey everybody, yeah, I am Shaun like he said, I live in Italy. It is kind of funny about that, I am a transplant. My wife is an Italian so that is kind of how I round up over there. I met Jeremy about a year ago, it was kind of a weird thing. I just came on there and I saw he was the funnel expert and I was like “Well, hey Jeremy, what’s up? What do you think if I jump on with you?” and he has taught me some of the ropes and so that went good for a little bit I worked on small project with him. He kind of like the work I did and everything went good. So he hired me and here we are. Jeremy: Yeah, and one thing I want to point out to people is that and it actually ties in really, really well to succeeding and not succeeding, is Shaun did not come to me and like “Hey, you know, I’ll charge you X dollars for this” and he said, “look, I want to work with you, I want to let you know -- I want to prove myself before we ever talk about him giving me fees and stuff like that. So he actually did a project for me right up front and he did that, I liked it and we started moving forward after that and I think it might had been another week or two or something like that before I actually hired you but that is kind of like what we are talking about today, if you want something, you have to go out and get. You can't just sit back and think “(inaudible 00:03:13)” with your sales funnels and your business. A lot of people are “oh, I’m not growing this year” (inaudible 00:03:19) and then if you look at the actions that they are taking and number 1 how much action they are taking and number 2, what type of action they are taking, it is completely off the mark and it is so easy to go in somebody’s business and transform it just based on that, and not even some of the other stuff that we are going to talk about today. So I just want to kind of start off on that note. If you want something, just go and get it. don't have an excuse for it. don't sit there and bitch and moan about why things are so bad. I mean, take it in your own hands and just go out and freaking get it. So Let's start off. You actually just sent me a statistic that said that 90 -- I forgot what it is, the competition in your business, 90% give up and this is really with any business. 90% give up before they see any results because a lot of people are worried about competitors and things like that, but most people they come into a marketplace are going to be gone in the next couple of months, and even the people who stay and again, this goes back to really any business, whether it is your competitors whether it is my competitor, I mean, it is really just anybody. There is only a small percentage of people that are going to be there long term. Most people come in and they try one or two things and they fail and they give up and they are gone, and then other people, they come in and they do kind of well, they get a little bit of success and then they hit one big giant road blocking road and they fail. They give up, it is too hard. For example last year, I had a rough year last year because my dad got cancer and I was spending -- tons and tons and tons of time with him. I was taking work off to go spend time with them. I was taking him to get chemo, I mean it was -- it was a rough year and my income went down a little bit. It is already, I actually did surpassed it this year for last year. But, I mean, most people just give up and they kind of take that and use it as an excuse rather than say, “Okay, it is going to go down a little bit obviously” because you are just not spending as much time at work. I mean I probably spend maybe half the time that I usually do last year actually working because of all that. It is just kind of a mindset difference in entrepreneurs and the 90% they’re going to come in, they’re just going to give up. They are going to hit a road block, give up and then there is a couple of percent that are going to, another 5% or so that are going to -- they are going to do well until they hit some kind of giant road block or they going to get distracted with shiny object syndrome or something like that is going to happen and then the other 5% or probably less than that are going to be your actual competitors and those are the ones you should focus on. You should focus on the big players in your industry because if you look at them, you are going to find similarities between them. They are going to be the people that succeed because they, you know like I have been saying, there is really two things. Number 1, being able to actually execute. How much you actually get done in a given day and then you multiply that over whatever 365 days or how many days a year that you work, whatever it is. That is number 1. But if you are not working on the right things, then it does not do anything and that is honesty where a lot of people fail. I have tons of people and Shaun, you know this because we kind of talk about this. I have tons of people that come to me and they are like, you know I wanted a sales funnel. I already know that I am losing money every single day because my funnel is not optimized and blah, blah, blah and I actually just had one guy that I have been working with. He told me he is losing about $2000 a day waiting for his funnel to be fixed and he has a fairly good excuse. I would not really say that it is good enough for my standards but it is a little bit better than most people. But, people are like, “Oh, you know, I can't spend $10,000, $15,000, or $20,000 or whatever it is on a sales funnel” even though they are making a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year and what happens is, people are spending their life “Oh, you know, I have to get my website redone.” I have someone actually that is a perfect example. Someone came in and I quoted her a project and I could easily, easily, easily add an extra 10 grand a month to her business easily. I mean, it is just a complete no-brainer for what I was going to do for her and she has been stalling now for roughly, I think, it has been 2 months or so because she has been waiting for her website to get done and it is like, “Oh my God come on” I mean that it is just such a bad excuse in my mind because, yeah, first of all, why can’t you do both? I just don’t understand that. You are an entrepreneur, you should be able to prioritize. Shaun: Right, and the funny thing about that is, it is a funnel work from the backend anyways. It is like if you have a list, you build the list, send out the sequences, and then there you go. So, I did not know what their excuse had to be for their website to be ready anyways. Jeremy: I know, yeah and with her, what we were doing, it was not a typical sales funnel for her. What we are doing is doing basically joint venture sales funnel. So one of the things has worked really, really, really well and it is a risk-free way to grow a business is one of the best and the most risk free that really could ever have on a business is doing joint ventures. And Shaun, you know this, I mean some of my biggest projects come from my joint venture partners. So, that is what I was actually going to build for her was a funnel going out and reaching out and acquiring joint venture partners. Because, you know, with that, if you send out a direct mail package or something, maybe you are paying few bucks for it, whatever, I mean, that is basically risk free. You don't even have to do that. You could just reach out the email which is what most people do. But I was going to put together a -- it was actually a smaller funnel, it was not that much money. It was basically a funnel to reach out to joint venture partners for them to promote your business to their audience and you have to do it in a really, really, specific way. You can't just reach out to some of the people in your industry and say, “Hey, you want to send people? Do you want to put of all of you reputation on the line to send out my business?” That is not going to work. Shaun: It was not basically just to wait for her to break the ice and kind of digitally shake hands and say “Hey, this is what I got going on. This is how I could help your customers.” Jeremy: Yeah, exactly and that is one of the things that we don’t put through the whole process of one of these joint venture funnels. But, one of the big things is, and you know this again, when we do this, we get, in fact I just had the other day, we got compliments on our cold emails all the time. I did one for when we were reaching out to people to be on their podcasts or for them to come on our podcast or for potential joint venture partner or if we are reaching out to somebody to do like a webinar or to do a guest article and we do all of these things, by the way. We actually get compliments on the email itself and it is like, “Oh my god it was such a well-written email.” And yeah, that is because we actually put time into it. I mean, you dug in, you know this. We sit there, we’ll go write one email to somebody and spend an hour on it. Because it makes a difference when you -- Shaun: Yes, like half a page (Inaudible 00:11:33). Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, it is only a couple of paragraphs. I mean, if you read it out louder, it probably take you 15 seconds. It is not big, but the thing is you have to, and this is where a lot of people go wrong is they just want to tell people about their product, “Oh, I’m so great and I’m such an awesome person and my products are the best.” When you reach out to people, they don’t care about that. They care about what is in it for them. In the case of joint ventures, it is really number 1, is for one we are going after people and this is really the case for most joint venture deals is number one is about a new income stream. So, you are adding something that was not there before. So, that always gets attention and then you kind of say, “Yeah, here’s what’s happened for our last.” The last time somebody sent me a client, I sent them X dollars so you have some proof in there. Then the biggest thing is people don't want their reputation ruined if they send you somebody and you treat them poorly. So then we also have things in place that show people how we treat our clients and plus, you know, I mean, it is free money for them. Like I said before, it is a new income stream. I mean, it is different in every case and again I would not go into too much detail. But the point is, going back to kind of what I was talking about before, is people just have excuses and those excuses are typically really bad. I got a lot of them and sometimes it is like listen, if I quote you $15,000 or $20,000 for a sales funnel and you are barely scraping by, that is a good excuse because you don't have money, like you literally have to borrow it, you get a loan or something like that. Shaun: You know, what’s funny about that because that is probably a guy we want to work with anyways because he is out there hustling. Jeremy: Yeah, you know, some of the clients I have had in the past where it is like, “Man this is a pretty bad stretch for me and I am going to go out and borrow money” but those are typically the best clients because like you said they are hustlers and if you are an entrepreneur, if you don't look at yourself in the morning and think, look at yourself in the mirror and think that you are a hustler, I mean, that is a very bad sign. We wake up every single day and hustle our ass off and do things that just -- Here is a good example. Yesterday, I actually accomplished all of my weekly goals for the week and that is actually including, I actually went golfing on Wednesday for the afternoon. Shaun: I confirmed that. Jeremy: Yeah and I have shot absolutely, absolutely terribly and really, those kind of last minute thing. It was only because it is getting cold here and it was the last time I am going to be able to go this year. So and I have 3 other guys that I was going with and I was like, you know and I am just going to go. But I accomplished all of my weekly goals and you saw the list because I actually share my weekly goals with Shaun because like I said I believe in transparency. So I just started doing that and that list was not small in any stretching imagination and I actually finished it yesterday and instead of just saying “Ok, well I will just take Friday off” I added more to the list and I have a whole big list of things that I am getting done today and I am actually going to be working -- I forgot, either tomorrow or Sunday morning for new thing because we are in the business. We started a new thing that we are doing. Where we’re reaching out to specific people offering and very specific link, I won;t get into it. But that is kind of what I am doing there to kind of, instead of just saying okay we are doing good, we had three of the biggest months in a row that we had in the last like a year and a half and they were right in a row. Shaun: Yeah, it has been crazy. Jeremy: Yeah, it has been insane. So we are doing really well, but I don't want to stop that. I want to get to the end of that and then it slows down again. So, we are trying this new thing and I want to get really good momentum for it. So, I am waking up early. I can't remember. I have a mark in my calendar but one of the days this weekend and it is basically -- I am waking up before the rest of the family gets up. I am going to work for probably 3-4 hours and then depending on what day it is, I think it is Sunday and I am waking up doing that, coming up for breakfast with the kids I will get up probably 2-3 hours earlier than everybody else and that I am coming up and I am going to spend the day with the kids and then I am actually going to my mom’s for we are having like a little birthday lunch thingy for my brother’s birthday. Shaun: Nice. Cool. Jeremy: Yeah, and then leaving there and going to Katie’s mom for dinner and her brother and sister are all going to be there so it’s a very, very family-focused day. Shaun: Stromboli? Jeremy: No, no, no. Katie makes the Stromboli. Katie’s mom does not make that. I don’t even know what we were eating there. Probably some kind of roasted chicken or I have no idea. Shaun: Cheese pizza? Jeremy: Oh, you must missed cheese pizzas. But anyway, so that is one thing is that the whole kind of argument there is you have to have a priority in your business. Like, Shaun you know, we have basically three things that we are focusing on for the next 90 days. Shaun: And we just came up with that though, that was kind of our thing, we were like “Hey, we are kind of losing our focus and so Let's just drive and focus on this one thing for the next 90 days and boy, I mean, you see the results. You can see all the business we have got in. Jeremy: Yeah, instantly! I mean it was within like a week and again, Like Shaun said, there are 3 things that we are focusing on that is it. We are not testing 10 different types of ads, we are not doing Facebook and Google and Twitter and Youtube. We are just doing Facebook, we are just doing the direct outreach thing that I mentioned before and that is kind of like a secret little project, so I can't get into that, and then we are focusing on the podcast, and that is it. We are doing nothing else and the results have been just phenomenal so far. So the first thing is, make sure that you have a focus on the business for the next -- for the rest of the year. We only have like 2 months left and -- Shaun: Maybe you recommend that book that we went through to come up with our plan? Jeremy: Ahh.. what was the book? I don't even remember. Shaun: It was like, --. Jeremy: The 12 week year, I think it was called. I am pretty sure it was 12 week year. Shaun: Yes, 1 year of work in 12 weeks. Jeremy: Yeah, basically, that book talks about instead of planning for the year which -- anybody listen to this, everybody probably plans for the year. I used to. I don't even do more. But you plan for the year and then you get to like February, the entire thing shifts. So, there is really no point in even planning for a year. You could have like some kind of major overarching goals for the year like income you want to make or something like that. I don't even focus on that anymore even. I just focused on -- I kind of focus on what I do. I think of what I want to hit at the end of the year and then I work backwards and say, okay, what do I have to do to hit that and then I just forget about the number, just let it all happen and then -- Shaun: And starts to take 2 months off? Jeremy: Yeah. Shaun: Get it 2 months early. Jeremy: As we go things changed. So for example, the next 90 days we are focusing on those things. Within those 90 days, we are going to know if they were successful or not. So if they were, we do more of them if they were not, we switch. It is really that simple. In most cases, people have all these excuses for not doing a funnel and it is like, “I’m going to wait 2 months, I’m going to wait a year, I have got do this first, I have got to do this other thing first, I have to clean my office before we start.” I mean it is like, the excuses I have received over the years are just absolutely pathetic. So just figure out if a funnel is your weakness in the business, maybe it is, maybe it is not. Sometimes your price points are off. I am working with a new client and I looked at his business. He is actually a revenue share partner. I am basically just taking a piece of his business essentially. And the first thing that we are doing is I increase his prices by like 50% because he is closing 80% of people. So we are increasing prices to get that down -- Shaun: And that guy is an executor. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I am sending him stuff and he is writing me back 20 minutes later that is implemented. That is an entrepreneur. He is a hustler. He actually, it is kind of funny, he actually emailed me and he is like “Oh, yeah, just so you know I bought a house” and I was like, “What? What are you talking about? Like were you looking for one?” and he was like, “Kind of. We kind of have one in mind and then we walked into the house, I love it and I bought it within the next 48 hours.” I was like “What?” If you do stuff like that, that shows you that you are a hustler, that you are like a true entrepreneur. So that is number 1, lets us move on to the next one. One of the things that people struggle with and this is like a big priority, is getting cold traffic to work. I worked with so many people and nobody really focuses on getting cold traffic to work. It kind of -- I mean it kind of depends on this. If you want to scale, you have to. I mean, there is really no other way about it because well in certain cases, but -- Shaun: That is pretty much the holy grail. Jeremy: Yeah, it really is because when you get cold traffic to work, Let's say Facebook for example, let just say start you start with Facebook, you get that to be profitable and profitable enough like if you are spending a dollar and making a dollar and 2 cents. I mean, technically, that is profitable, but you are really not going to scale on that, but if you get it to an amount that is acceptable, an acceptable ROI say that is like you are spending $1 and making a $1.50 or $2 or $3 whatever it is for your business, it kind of depends. If you have a product, it could be like a $1.25 or $1.50 and that is fine. If it is more of a service, it has got to be more like probably 3 times ROI (inaudible 00: 21:57) at least to be able to be profitable. You kind of have to get that because once you get it and I always recommend clients to start with one thing. Start with AdWords and once you get it profitable then maximize it and once you can't even do anything else with it, then go on to the next traffic source. So you do, just for example, AdWords, you get that profitable that is your big breakthrough, you open a bottle of champagne and you kind of take a night off and then you come back the next morning and you say, “Okay, how do I make this more profitable?” and you maximize that, and then you move on to Facebook and then you get that profitable and then you maximize that profit, and then you move on to the next thing, Tweeter, Youtube, Instagram or direct mail, whatever it is. But a lot of people are like, “I’m going to try cold traffic. I’m going to try simultaneously a postcard campaign, a radio campaign, a TV campaign, Facebook, Tweeter and that is -- go ahead. Shaun: That is the 90% that we were just talking about at the beginning. Jeremy: Yeah, and they do that -- not even just with cold traffic, that is with basically everything they do that with. That is how they hire employees, that is how they run their business on the day-to-day basis. It is how they -- even as far as planning your days. If you have everything mixed up in the same day, you are not going to be productive. So for me, I am a writer, so I have days where it is just writing and when I am on a writing day, I am just like -- I just go into the dark hole for the day. I don't even pop up, and that is why I am able to write an entire 15-page sales letter in 1 day, is because I have such ridiculous focus on those days. Now, can I do that every day? No, but when it is my heavy writing days, I can do that, in fact, I just did it this week. It was a -- I think it was a 14-page sales letter and I started the sales letter and finished the sales letter within 1 day, I think it was my lunch actually, and then I moved on. The reason that I do that is because of that laser, laser focus and you can apply to that to every area of the business with how you plan out your days, with how you are getting revenue into the business. One of the things there is look at your business, and figure out -- okay, like lay out all the various ways that you make money, all of your revenue streams. Maybe you have, I don't know, 4 of them. And then you look and you mark down and you say, okay, Let's just say that is A you get $5000 a month, B you get $5000 a month, C you get $5000 a month and D you get $5000 a month. So they are all equal and so you would look at that and say, “Okay, well, they are all equal so we are going to put equal amount of time into them.” Well then, that is not really the right way to do because if you look, you are going to find that you are putting different amounts of time into them already. So with A, you might put 10 hours to make $5000, with B you might put 30 hours to make $5000, with C it might be 50 and D might be 100 or whatever. So you look at that and you say, “Okay, well, I’m putting in -- I basically making $500 an hour on A so hey why don’t we focus on that one.” It is not really rocket science. It is just taking the time to look through your business and see what is working, what is not, where your leverage points are and then focus on that. Coming back to cold traffic, it is the same thing, focus on one piece of traffic. I usually do -- I focus on 3 and then like 1 in each once. So there is like free traffic and then kind of like authority traffic and then paid traffic. Just focus on one of those each. In that way, you get a little bit of diversity but then you are also maximizing the time that you are putting into each of them. So that is kind of another kind of big reason that people are not succeeding in businesses because they are just focusing on so many different things and it is just -- they have so many going on and it is one of the reasons why I get people that are like “Oh, you know, I have no bandwidth left.” and it is like “Yeah, that is because you are trying to do it by gazillion things” Here’s an idea, don’t do that. Just in case Jeff is listening to this, it is not really -- he is my client that I said has a decent excuse. He has got through a lot of kind of weird stuff lately and some giant headache. So he’s kind of in a weird spot, but most people that I talked to gives similar excuses but have not gone through the big things that he has gone through. It would be a whole podcast just explaining what we went through. One of them for example is, he ended up having to -- he had to redo his website and he ended up like paying like, it was like 3 or 4 times the amount that the developers that are originally quoted him because they got to the end of his first whatever quote period and they were like, “Oh yeah, we are not even close to being done, and we can’t stop now, and you can't hire anybody else because they are not going to know where to pick up and it is probably going to be about 3 times the amount that we quoted you.” That was basically the situation. He got kind of screwed which I have no idea if that was (inaudible 00:27:35) or not. He is actually not even declining it so I don't know if that was like an internal thing, like a bad hiring (inaudible 00:27:42) what happened but he is in kind of a weird spot. Let's move on to the next one. The next one is that people don't have a backend. Shaun, I am going to have you kind of talk about this from a little bit. So just kind of pick it up and we will see where your thought goes. Shaun: I don't have backend either. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, right? Your backend is me and your frontend is me. Shaun: Yeah, backends, they are kind of unusual creature because once you kind of get the frontend lined out, then your backends come in and that is kind of where I picked up -- where I started helping Jeremy was. We always try to teach people that there is certain touch points in how you want to communicate with your customers. One of the most recent clients that we had he was in a daily niche and then I had to go in and read through what he was talking about and kind of pick up his voice and communicate properly to the customer where he could have done that on his own but if he is not really paying to attention how the customers respond to him, they come in and respond to support emails, if he is not taking any consideration when he writes his sequences for a sales funnel, I see that is where people make a mistakes. The other thing I see mistakes when clients come to us on the backend is they just don't have anything there. Maybe, they will have a service or they will have a product and that’s it and you ask them “so what is next?”they were like, “Well, what do you mean?” What do you think about that? Jeremy: Yeah, I mean I can't tell you - and I have fought with customers over this. You are bringing people in and Let's just say that you have $97 product upfront right? So you get customers, Let's just say you are making $100 grand a year, you are doing okay. You are pushing along a little bit but you only have that one product. You have all those customers who trusted you with $97 of their money, I mean it is not a lot of money, but the point is they are trusting you with whatever result that you promised to get them. Shaun: Another thing that we were saying to -- they do the one contact, so the guy comes in and he will buy from you one time and then they never follow up with them. Jeremy: Oh yeah, I mean people put so much time into the front end and it was like, “Okay, I’m going to do 50 auto-responders for my prospects” and then it is like “Okay, people buy now what?” Shaun: What’s that 50 (inaudible 00:30:19) like? The cost of a new client versus a previous client? Jeremy: It is something like 7 or 10 times less expensive to get them to buy again. Let's just say that your cost per acquisition, cost for acquiring customer is Let's just say its $100. Basically, it would cost you somewhere in the range of like may be $10 to $15 to get them to buy a second time and the thing with that is -- I don't know about profitability because one person might have $500 backend, one person might have $10,000 backend, so I am not sure with that, but Let's just say that you have a $97 product and it costs -- Let's just say that you have $150 product and it costs you $100 to get them, so making 50% basically for each customer comes in and then you have a $500 product and it cost you $15 to get them buy again. I mean, look at the difference in the profitability? That is where most smart business make their money. People are like, “Oh, I have this one product, and I want to be hugely profitable on it.” And I talked to them and then like look, “that’s not how business works.” Business works by having something upfront that allows you to kind of gather the largest amount of customers in a break even or may be just like a tiny little sliver of a profit, and this is where the whole like trip wire thing came out. Everybody say, “Oh my god tripwire, it’s a brilliant idea, it’s been out for like 8000 years. (inaudible 00:32:10) I just want to name on it. Same thing with survey funnels like basically adding marketing concept, I mean it is all out there already. It is just putting a different name on it. Shaun: It was not called like a ‘Lead Magnet’ or something at first? Jeremy: Well, “Lead Magnet’, that is more of like a free report or kind of thing, but again, giving a free report. Two step mailing, I mean that has been out since like the early 1900s, they have been doing that in direct mail, and it is just somebody has to put a name on it. Shaun: So what would you think if somebody could implement today, like one small tweak they could implement to their backend starting today? Jeremy: Yeah, that is easy, come out to freedom offer. I called it freedom offer -- this kind of varies between the business but come out with something that is roughly 5 to 10 times as expensive as whatever your highest thing is now okay, maybe its 3 or 4 -- it is several times more expensive. Shaun: Could you explain that, I think that came out kind of confusing. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, so Let's just say -- for example, this client that we just joint, his highest package I think was -- I think it was like $2000. So what we are doing and he said like, when he brings people on, they are not really complaining about price because he gets tons of tons of visitors, he does a lot of qualifying on weeding people out. So when he gets on the phone with people he is closing like 80%+ because they have already seen the price, they have already kind of talk about a little bit so when people come on they are not really talking about price, I’m like, “well, dud, you gotta increase your price.” So one of the things and he also said, he is like -- a lot of people come in and they only get like 2 or 3 months of coaching, but that is not really going to transform your life and that is even when I talk about with funnels and stuff and that is why, as you know, were moving away from just like one-time projects and things like that, we are moving way, way more towards actually partnering with people because the difference and I think -- Shaun: Yeah, but that is not just so we could profit, that’s so we can really dive in and learn somebody’s business so we could -- so they can benefit more. Jeremy: Yeah, I mean it is so hard like when you are redoing a sales funnel for somebody and it is like okay, Let's do a sales letter and 2 up-sells and a buyer’s sequence and a prospect sequence. You don't -- I mean, there is not enough time to really, and especially, because most clients are like, “I going to make you wait 3 months, 3 weeks, I got a delay, I got a delay, I got a delay, okay, I am ready to go, why is it not done?” We get that all the time. Besides that, but it’s -- you can't go deep enough when it is not on a revenue-sharing basis. Just because of the way that is structured fee-wise. I mean it is just not -- Shaun: And would you think it’s like dating? Jeremy: What’s that? Shaun: I mean it would be similar to dating wouldn’t it? Jeremy: Yeah, so for him, he would get a lot of people that would come in and he is like a dating coach, so he would come in and they would get a date and then it will be like “okay, I’m done” and it is like, okay, well do you know how to keep her? Do you know how to stay with her? Do you know how to set boundaries with her? So you are not like one of these guys that just gets like trampled on by the wife and there is -- trust me, a lot of guys like that the wife just rules the house and it should not be like that and the guy should not either, it should be a balance and that is how you keep a healthy relationship and that is why divorce rates are like whatever 50%+. You have to accept those boundaries and free -- first of all, you have to be with the right person first of all. But anyway, one of the things that I kind of took all this information and we are coming out with several packages. We came out with a 2-month, a 3-month, a 6-month, and a 12-month package and people are going to naturally fall into the various categories. They were not available before so people did not do them, now that they are available, I guarantee you, so his highest package now is $15,000. It is like whatever it is like $1200 a month for 12 months, whatever that -- Shaun: About that, maybe talk through about why somebody would build a high package even if they get no customers for it. Jeremy: Yeah, that is actually a good point. So Let's just pretend that nobody does it. He is going to get people in it because in every marketplace, there is roughly 1% of people just have tons of money, they just want the best thing that you have, it does not even matter a lot -- he is ridiculously awesome. But it does not even matter what it is really, there are just people -- they just want the highest end just across the board whether it is a vacuum cleaner, a computer, a car, a house whatever it is. They want the best thing that they can possibly get. So if you don't have these things that really make people stretch, and I will talk about -- actually a new thing that we’re going to be coming out with -- first of all, you are not going to attract those people that always want the highest thing because if you don't have that really, really high thing you are not even going to attract those people. Number 2, even if you don't sell any, so he has his $15,000 program, when he is on the phone with people, I am going to have him start with the $15,000 program that he is talking about because he is going to -- basically, we give them like a little bit of an overview at the various program that he has and then when he is on the phone I am going to have him start and then it is like okay “what packages do you have?” and he will start talking about it, and we still actually have to build a selling strip for all of this. He is a fairly new client. He’s a fairly new client, he’s only been on for about a month, something like that, not even. Actually, October 1st we started, so not even like 3 weeks. So what we are doing is I am going to have him start at the $15,000 okay and what that does is that created a juxtaposition, and that basically like if you see a big elephant next to like a little fox, that fox is going to look smaller than if you see another fox next to that fox. So that is basically called a juxtaposition, it just makes it -- it kind of like enhances whatever it is, if it is a small thing it makes it look it smaller if it is big, it makes it look bigger that kind of thing. So if he is going down and he is going to start with okay my highest price program is $15,000 and this is for the most like bad ass guy. We are going to work together for full 12 months. He will go into his whole pitch and then most people are going to be like “wow, that is like way too much” and then he will come back down like “okay, well we have another one” and it is only $2500. That looks so much cheaper than if he just said “okay, I think you have fallen to the $2500 one.” Because you are coming -- instead of just starting basically from 0 to 2500, you are starting from $15,000 and coming down to $2500. Number 1 by doing that, it is going to help him close more people on the phone like higher percentage, but another thing is, he is going to get more people into the higher end program, so he is -- Shaun: Another thing about that too is you just got done talking to the guy about his higher end program, in his mind, he sees himself already there, but you offer him a lower program, he is like, “it’s almost there, it’s quite there, it’s close enough.” Jeremy: Yeah, basically, what that does is that, that establishes your authority. If you have the ball to charge $15,000, I mean you look at that, and you are like, “Wow, this due really must know what he is talking about” instantly, like even if you know nothing else about him and obviously we are in the process of putting funnels in place that really build his authority before they get into a call, but even if -- as you are sitting there, pretend that you need help with dating, okay, and by the way, if anybody needs help with dating, reach out to me and I will hook you up with them because he is ridiculously awesome. Let's just pretend that you need help with dating and you get on the phone with 2 people, okay. The one and you don't know anything about either of them, okay. So there is Charlie and Mark, right. So you get in the phone with Charlie and he is like, “Okay, you know, I am going to help you with dating and my package is $2500” for 3 months or whatever and you are like okay, and then you get on the phone with the other guy, forgot what name I set for the other guy, and you get in the phone with him and he says, “Oh, I can help you with dating and my highest price program is $15,000 and we are going to work with you for the whole year and if that is not in your range, we have another one at $2500.” The difference in that just by having that high end program, you instantly -- just think in your head right now, who do you think is more credible, the guy with $2500 program or the guy with the $15,000 program? It does not even matter if he has anybody in it or he can even deliver on, obviously you are going to want a deliver on it. Shaun: Yeah, there’s a bit of disclaimer about that though, I mean it is an actual program. It is not just something we just put up there. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah -- Shaun: (inaudible 00:41:34) lots of content. You know, I mean, if somebody signs up for it, they are getting a massive amount of value. Jeremy: Yeah. It is like that most high level thing like ever, you know you get -- Shaun: And the other thing I see people when they’re hesitant about developing a program like that is what we’re talking about before was -- they are like “what I am going to offer in that program” I can't charge $15 grand, I don't know what to offer them that” Jeremy: Yeah, so in that case, you have to become better. I mean it is just that simple and maybe that sounds harsh, but that is the truth I mean you know when you came in, I said, I mean, we started talking about me implementing a higher end program and this is not even live yet. Shaun: I think I have been pushing you to make that happen to. Jeremy: Yeah, you have a little bit and it has been one of those things on the back burner and now it is coming through but by the end of this year, I am going to have a program that is $120,000 a year. It is basically $10,000 a month and then I will probably have a thing where you can pay like a $100,000 upfront or whatever and just get it, but I am going to have a program that is $120,000 a year right. That instantly makes me more authoritative and I am going to obviously make it worth. It is basically going to be what we do for the revenue share partners, but for someone like if you have a $30 million dollar business or something like that maybe you don't want to do revenue share because that can be ridiculous amounts of money so you just kind of do this instead. Obviously, it is not going to be for everybody. If you are making $100,000 a year, you can't afford to spend that but there is a certain percentage of every single audience in the world and if you don't believe that I want you to email me so I can yell at you personally. Because, I mean, honestly, there are things -- let's just have a completely obscured -- knitting. That is the most like ridiculously, like, you would never think someone in charge -- Shaun: My grandma love knitting. Jeremy: Right. So you would never think the classes you probably go to you probably spend like $5 a class or something like that. I guarantee you, there are certain people in the knitting niche that would spend, I mean I don't know how much, but at least a couple $1000 and what you can do with that is let's see -- I am trying to put myself into the knitting mindset here. Shaun: I would think that if you were to teach like a lady how to start your own type of business they could do like trade shows or crop show. Jeremy: Yeah, that is one. You can be like a certified knitter. You could go and do a live event where the person comes and maybe there is some famous knitting lady. A lot of people pay tons and tons of money. Most people, if you -- anybody listening to this, if you have gone to seminars or you have met people at masterminds or something like that. You know how excited you get to meet people and it is funny because you meet your big heroes and then you are like, “Oh, really, that’s it?” I can't tell you how many times it had happened which I am not starstruck like whatsoever anymore, I could not care less, because there are just people that are good whatever they do, but the point is people pay a lot of money for that. Think of let's just say, Justin Bieber, right. Justin Bieber is a big hit, I guarantee you that there are parents that would spend at least $10,000 for their, little like 15-year-old girl or whatever -- I would imagine 15-year-old girls like Justin Bieber. I guarantee you, there is a market for him charging $10,000 to $50,000 for like a couple of hours and I guarantee you that there are 15-year-old girls’ fathers who would pay that to give their little girl the privilege to do that. I absolutely guarantee, it is going to happen. The point is, how about them? That is kind of where we are going back to, and it does not have to be -- if you have this, you kind of have like a value ladder. If your product is $100 maybe don't go up to like $10,000 right away. Do $100 and then do like $500, $1000 and then $5000 or $10,000. You should have kind of different levels for different purposes and typically it goes -- like an information product is may be a couple $100 and then you go up to like maybe -- Shaun: A group coaching? Jeremy: Yeah, or like templates kind of depends on the market but like templates might be a little bit more or group coaching and then one-on-one coaching and then one-on-one coaching for longer or done for you. You kind of like see how that progress upwards, that is the main point there is most people don't have a backend and when I work with people doing webshares and even clients and stuff like that, usually the clients -- instead of me building it for them, it is basically like, “Hey, do this.” Here is what I think should be the next step for us and then just let me know like when you are done and then we will implement it into the funnel. That is what I kind of do with a lot of clients that are more of like the one-on-one clients. Like I said, just don't limit yourself. don't have that mental block in your mind that, “oh, people won’t pay that amount of money” because they will. I mean, it is just a fact of life they will. So don't let that be kind of excuse. Shaun: Right. Plus, too, you use it as a positioning tool. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. Again, like we talked about before. Even if nobody buys it obviously don't charge a ton of money if you can't deliver that value. I always -- you should be able to deliver at least 5 to 10 times that value. So from my $100,000 program that I am going to be coming out with, by the way, if anybody is interested in hearing that we can kind of talk about, you can help me, we kind of strategize the whole thing, but I will do extra stuff for you too by the way. In that, I am looking for ways like when I sit down to plan that out and exactly what I am going to do for people, I already know what I am going to do for them. Basically, the same thing I do every day but just way, way, way, way, way more deep, but I am going to just map it out for people so that it is easier to understand, because you can't say, “oh give me a $100,000 so what are you going to do for me?” I don't know, some stuff. I am going to help you grow, it is not very sexy. So I am going to map that out but when I am mapping that out and actually putting bullet list of like exactly what I am going to do for people, I am going to be looking at, okay, I am charging these people $100,000 over a year, that means that I need to make them at least $500 to a million dollars, $500,000 to $,1,000,000 in trackable results. The people that I am going to be working with are not going to be $200,000 businesses. They are going to be in the 7 to 8 figures. I am not looking for a lot of clients obviously. In that range, if I get a couple in a year, that is awesome and that is really all I even want for that level of service because -- Shaun: And then we’d be (inaudible 00:48:48). Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. I mean there is only a couple that you can do before I have to expand the team further and stuff like that, but anyway, I think we kind of hit the point on the backend. The next one is missing the crucial touch points in the email sequence, and first of all, people just typically don't have good emails, people think that you just sit like, “oh, I need a prospect sequence” and it is like, “oh, I am not going to hire anybody because --“ Shaun: Maybe explain what the prospect sequence is. Jeremy: Yeah, that is a good idea. A prospect sequence is basically when you bring people in and we are talking about before a lead magnet, something free of value, it could be an automated webinar, it could be a free rapport or video or whatever it is, something with online like a chiropractor, it could be -- bring them in for a free 20-minute massage or free backtracking, which actually, I have to go to chiropractor today because my neck still hurts from a month ago. When Shaun was in here we were lifting together and we were doing shoulder presses and so I was the first one to notice it. This is really weird my right shoulder just feels like so much more weak than my left shoulder. I was throwing the last one up with my left shoulder, it was just going right up in my right when I was struggling to get it up, I don't know what is going on with my right shoulder. So we went through -- I mean both of us, it had to be like (inaudible 00:50:17). Shaun: Yeah, yeah, I felt it to, but I did not say anything. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, and so we are looking and it turns out we had 5 extra pounds on the right weight set and we were lifting like that, I mean, I think that is what threw my neck out because I woke up the next day and I can barely like move my neck. I had to take them in and I hate pain killers. I have to take them for like a week straight. So I finally went to the chiropractor and I am still going every week. So I have to go later today. They have been helping but it is still a little bit off. Going back to email sequence, first of all, you have to have a way to keep in touch with people who come to your business, because if you don't do that, they are going to forget about you. Just plain and simple. Shaun: You would say that we are talking to the people who have not bought from us yet? Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, these are prospects, yeah. Email sequence that can be for anything. That can be for prospects, it could be for buyers. You have to strategize them. You have to map them out. You can't just -- so many people are like “Oh, I’m just going to do my emails” all you really have to do is keep in touch with them and they will buy, and it is like, “No, that’s not it.” You have to overcome the objections because when people come, they are going to have objections as to why they are going to buy. They are going to be looking at you and comparing you against your competitors. So I mean, think of anything that you have ever bought in your entire life. You went through a process, a mental process where you sat there and you said, “Okay, I need X product.” And they you will go and you will look at probably like 2 or 3 different people who provide that product or service and then you look at it and you say, “Okay, this person does this thing, this one is cheaper, but they get a better result” you see, you kind of do all these in your head. Well, why not just get them into your sequence, into your funnel and do all that thinking for them. You know what I mean, and show that -- why-- Shaun: For me, a good example is like when you go to the restaurant. If you go to the restaurant, there is a great waiter, they are going to open the menu, they are going to recommend 2 or 3 things in the menu and you will like, “Oh, well that is incredible” you probably going to buy one of those, once you go there and they just give you menu (inaudible 00:52:33) menu and you look at the picture like, “what’s that?” you’ll pick something at random. Jeremy: Yeah. Exactly, that is actually a really good example. Think of the last time you went to a restaurant and if you were lucky enough to have a server who did that for you, because it does not happened often, but I know when -- this happened to me a couple of times and when it happens I almost always buy what they talked about. Shaun: I got a funny story about that. I went with my wife one time and she was like trying on a pair of jeans and the cashier was like, “Hey, what are you doing?” and I was like, “She is in there trying the jeans” and she say, “Hey, I saw you are looking at the jeans, you want to try them on?” We walked out spending like $400, I don't want to buy anything. Jeremy: Yeah, that is why car dealerships give you rides in the car because you get emotionally attached to that specific car. My neighbor actually just bought a Porsche by the way. He just bought the Porsche like a day after you left. I came home and I was sitting in his driveway I was like, “Oh, man, Shaun would have love it.” Yeah, if you are able to get into the mind of the person that you are trying to sell your product to and come at them in a very authentic way, there is a couple of things that you need to do in your emails and this is really buyer’s or prospects. First of all, you need to overcome all the objections they are having. So with dating, it is like, “Oh, I’m too fat to get a date” or “I’m too ugly or I’m too dumb” I mean, they have all these things like going on inside their head. It is basically low -- Shaun: What if she says no? Jeremy: Yeah, what if she says no, I can't approach them, I am too nervous and that kind of thing. So you have to overcome them and we just wrote this. We did a very good job in doing that. You also have to -- once you have overcome the objections, then they are like, “Okay, I’m going to do this.” I am going to hire a dating coach, and then its, okay, “who do I hire?” then you come back and you say, “well here is why you should work with me.” I have done that a couple split-tests actually with comparison charts where you -- like on, just for example, like a supplement page, where you compare your product against the other ones and they usually increase conversions by like 15% plus, like you cross the board and all the test that you have ever done and it is just because people have -- it goes to show you like the proof, I mean people, in their mind or physically, are researching you against your competitors and when people hire me I know that they are looking at me and may be one or two or three whatever other people to help them with their sales funnels. Shaun: And that actually is a good tactic thing, encourage them to look at the competition. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah. I mean if you provide something better, you could go so crazy as if you -- Let's just say that -- Let's pick a random example. Let's just say that you have a martial arts studio and you know that your service is just light years beyond everybody else. You can actually say, “look, go try them out then come try me out, and if you like them better, I will actually pay for 3 months membership for you.” Think about the confidence that would give you in that person to go with that. You probably think like “Oh my god, I am just going to go with you and not waste my time with the other person” just think of it that way, I mean that might be a little bit too much for most people, but if you really want to grow, I mean you do stuff like that. For us, maybe I should be doing this. This is like, hey look go look at them, look at their results, look at how they treat you, look what they do after they work with you. Shaun: Actually, we just had a client who did that. Jeremy: That is true, yeah. Because he said all this and this and then I realized I was missing something in the -- I think it was like 2 different things in the way that I was approaching him so we fixed that immediately and then got him as a client. We are working with him now, it is a pretty big project. It is just because, again, people are doing that research in their head. So instead of them coming to conclusion, your email should allow them to come to your conclusion, if that make sense. There are several things that you need in your emails. Number 1, you have to bond with them, like I said, you have to overcome their objections first of all. You have to bond with them because if they don't like you as a person, first of all that is fine. There are a lot of people that probably don't like me, they don't like -- whatever, my voice, my personality, or whatever -- the way that I talk about my kids, they send an email out today with a picture of Logan in it because it was just hilarious. Whatever that is, that is okay, you don't want to attract everybody. You want to purposely have a very, very specific personality in the way that you do things so that people who resonate with that immediately bond with you and then they will start listening to you, you gain their attention because you have to get their attention first before they will start listening to you. So you get their attention, then you overcome the objections and then once the objections are overcome they come to a conclusion that they are going to buy -- they need the solution for whatever their problem is, then you have to show them that you are the solution, okay. You kind of do this like intertwine -- Shaun: Yeah, I mean for me, when I am writing emails, I could put myself in their shoes like, oh men I have been there, I know what is like. I have had the struggles. I solely made it through. This is how I can help you the same. Jeremy: Yeah, exactly. It is not really a linear process because people are in different stage of this. It is not the exact same thing for everybody. One person might take 3 months to make a decision whereas the other person takes 3 minutes. So you kind of have to put like all of this as fast as you can, it is kind of like a very delicate thing. You can't just overcome objections, you have to overcome objections, bond and show them why you are the best all at the same time, that make sense. And that is why it is so important to get it done -- get everything all the stuff done professionally because if you are coming at it from a point of view where it is like, “Oh I’m great, I’m awesome. Work with me. Hire me, buy my stuff.” It does not come across as genuine, but if you come across and you know this, we kind of adopted like the more of like a J. Abraham type of approach where it is a very genuine and authentic and coming from place of why they need you and not why you need them. So, it is like, when I am talking clients on the phone, it is like, “look, I am going to help you, you need help in your business” whatever the thing is, you are stuck, you are in a plateau mode, you just want to make more money, a lot of people they just send me they just want to do better, which is (inaudible 00:59:39) I mean we are doing very, very well but we just want to make better because we are entrepreneurs. It is just how we are. You have to just help them come into that conclusion that you are there to help them. It makes such a difference and I wish I had an email up here to show specific example but it is like, I always -- a lot of times in my copy, I use the phrase, “you don’t deserve it.” You don't deserve to be overweight. You deserve to be fit and healthy and have a nice butt and have big biceps or whatever the case is and that completely switches it. Instead of saying, “oh I am going to help you lose weight and because I have done this and I have done that and I have this technique, look, you don’t deserve to live a life where you don't feel confident and when you put your clothes on, you are embarrassed to lock out the door and blah, blah. Do you see the difference there? It is just night and day in the way that they perceived, whatever it is that you are telling. That is why people -- I say this all the time, Yes, you can technically have a sales funnel but you have to do it right properly. If you have a landing page and a sales letter and an up sell and emails, yes, technically, you have a sales letter, but that does not mean you have it done the right way, that does not mean you are maximizing your potential. If your lead magnet, whatever you give him away for free, if it does not match what you are selling, it does not take people and lead them to the next thing, you are not going to do very well. Shaun: And all that is engineered when we sit down with somebody and write out their sales funnel. Jeremy: Exactly, yeah. I mean that is -- we are very, very strategically, it is not just like -- if you are selling weight loss it is not just like, “Let's just make a report”, I don't know. Shaun: Yeah, (inaudible 00:01:47). Jeremy: Yeah, like 7 ways that -- eating more salad can make you feel better and then the course is about like bodybuilding. I mean, there is such a disconnect there, it has to be -- the report has to --. Here is a good example, we just did one for -- we have been working with NuWave. There is probably a lot of people on here that have NuWave ovens and NuWave stove tops, right, the infomercial product. So we are working with their company and one of the things that they are doing, they have another kind of like subset or offset whatever, they are called Duralon pans. So these awesome nonstick pans are really safe for you. The nonstick itself is just - it just works better than anything I’ve ever had. So the thing that we are doing first is we are driving cold traffic to a page where they get a free pan, it is like a free plus shipping thing and I think it is $6.95 or $7.95. Shaun: That is an insane deal. Jeremy: Oh my god, it is awesome. The pans are ridiculous. Again, if you want me to send the page just let me know. It is actually in the process of being designed right now. So that is the -- basically like the tripwire, that is to use the coined phrase. So they come there and it is just ridiculously awesome offer and then the off sell to that is not like how to cook better which would not be too bad, but it is not that connected. The off sell is, okay, now you have this pan, how about you buy the whole set? It is a perfect relation to what they are buying because it is like, okay, you have this pan, Let's use that and we actually don't even push them that hard. In the buyer’s email sequence, we have -- I think there was like 10 emails after it go out for 45 days or something like that. In that sequence, we are not trying to sell them immediately. Shaun: Well, the thing about that pan is, it sells itself because it is so good. Jeremy: Oh yeah, and that is why talking about engineering everything, that is why when we were strategizing the buyer’s sequence it is not -- we weren’t like, “oh hey, you got this, buy the whole set.” We offer that because we know some people are going to do that immediately, but we don't push that. What we push is getting them to use the pan because we know that, that pan is so good that when they use it, and I actually thought this idea because it happened to me. I use the pan the first time and I was like, “Wow, this thing is awesome” and now I am actually getting the whole set myself. Shaun: I remember that. Jeremy: We specifically engineered and this comes down to strategizing. Most people don't think about this in depth. They kind of just like, “Oh, Let's just throw a bunch of emails in there” and this does not work. It has to be very strategically engineered. So what we are doing is the first like, it is like the first 5 or 6 emails are getting them just to use the pan, and it is like reminding them to use the pan, “hey, you know, it is going to be there tomorrow” getting them excited about it before it comes. Shaun: And that is one thing too, I mean, we go on and on and on about that. You will be surprised how much people don't utilize the product after they bought it. Jeremy: Yeah, yeah, I mean that is why I was just talking to a guy named Mike Weiss yesterday. We are actually speaking of doing joint ventures. I am talking to him and he has built a membership kind of platform and what it is, is when you have an online course and again, if you want (inaudible 01:05:05) just let me know. If you have an online course, most people I forget the statistics, it was like, I think it was like 90% of personal development products and like 97% of business opportunity products or any kind of like marketing product that kind of thing. That many people don't use it, right? Shaun: Right, myself included. Jeremy: That is why when you have products and you have -- even if you have a backend, most people are not doing it because they need -- they already spent money and if they don't get a result from the first thing, why would they do business with you again if they never got result from the first thing. It is not -- I mean it is kind of your fault. Basically, it is not your fault that they did not get a result because they did not use it, but it is your responsibility to get them to use it to then write the result, you know what I mean? So if you want like -- I tell a lot of clients that -- if you want to increase your backend, get more people to actually use the first thing they bought and that is why I always harp on doing buyer’s sequences because that is -- typically, the first half of the buyer’s sequence is to get them -- I (inaudible 01:06:27) a personal coach campaign is to get them to use whatever they just bought, and then the second half it starts to s

Hour 1: Mike Weiss and Josh Baker from El Fuego Fiasco join me to talk about their big win at the Stagecoach BBQ Championship in Indio, CA this past weekend. I review Hog Heaven BBQ Sauce live on the show and also give my take on the English dentist who ripped her ex-boyfriend's teeth out of his dome! Hour 2: BBQ Radio Round Table:  Chad Ward, Shane Draper and Bruce McCall Jr. (Huck Jr.) join me for the hour to talk about some of the hot topics in the bbq and grilling world right now.  Make sure to catch their respective shows as well.

Food stamps! Get your food stamps! Uncle Sam supports Myka's dream, so should you! Free food for everyone until they abolish the slavery that is being alive. Al Jackson came into the studio concerned over Oprah's fate. How will the country handle such an epic loss? By smoking weed in a movie theater? By downing a bottle of champagne? No, champagne downage is for celebratory events like getting your own Comedy Central half hour special Which he has, it premieres tonight, 11pm est on Comedy Central. Watch it, the crowd is roaring. Odd Todd Rosenburg came in with an impressive list of goals: Beat a few more levels in plants and zombies, think about exercising, try not to get pressured by nearby hoverers at the airport California Pizza Kitchen. Oh, hes also collaborating on a film with that guy who made Donnie Darko, working on a TV show, and revolutionizing the educational system.  Father/daughter improv duo "Grandma Hates Technology" are 50 yr old Mike Weiss and his 14 yr old daughter Jessica came in and explained how their group formed: Mike had a mid-life crisis after not being able to pursue comedy after having a daughter. Then he used his daughter to kick start a comedy career. Chris and Myka convinced them to do some improv live on the air that featured, if you can believe it, a grandma that hates technology. Two ninths of the award winning sketch group  "Harvard Sailing Team" came in and set the record straight about the Golden Girls. They were the best. Also the best, winning a Nightlife Award and performing at Town Hall.  Also the best, cats on Prozac.

A closer look at Michael: Got his chops(degree/diploma) in Audio/Video/Multimedia Production 2002 Work:(in chronological order): a fool, student, agriculturalist, taroh card reader, sketch artist, concrete construction worker, golf course greens-keeper, train car sweeper, fertilizer distributor, record producer, camera man, video editor, radio master control operator, guitar teacher, welder, machine operator in equipment manufacturing and oil production, show promoter, web author, studio assistant, professional driver(gear jammer and "transporter"), arial photographer and buffalo shepherd. Iroquois Engines" , 2007, is just one of Mike Weiss's achievements as a musician. Mike formed his first band, called "Noisbleed", with Kayde Hayes (bassist) in 1997. Miss Lafalot invites you to call in and chat with Michael this morning at 10 AM Pacific! Find Michael's music at: http://www.mp3.com/artist/noisebleed/songs http://www.myspace.com/knock_out_studios http://www.myspace.com/noisebleednumber0