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Gundam Wing first hit U.S. airwaves just behind the other titans of the late 90s anime boom and with it came an onslaught of plastic merchandise, not the least of which were the imports of Bandai's 4.5-inch scale Mobile Suit in Action!! figures. Two out of three Mutagen Men collected this line extensively as it appeared in import shops and later American toy retailers, and the third enjoys recollecting all the figures he passed up in its original era. Join us as we mispronounce names like Qubeley, Galbaldy, and Dom for 60 minutes of mecha madness! For a concise list of MSIA action figures (both U.S. and Japanese), check out this page over at Gundam Wiki: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_in_Action!!

There's no easy way to control the stray animal population. Veterinarian, Dr Salehatul Khuzaimah and TNRM Malaysia co-founder, Jean Liew highlight the importance of neutering and releasing stray animals as a humane approach to control the population.

Before we bid 2022 farewell, we're rounding up the most insane events of the year that left us going "?!?!". Why are famous people so good at cheating on their partners?? Are we all left penniless after dabbling in crypto? Is Messi now unanimously crowned the GOAT instead of Ronaldo? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Technological advancement provides more efficiency, accuracy, and preciseness in our work but not all things are wrapped in gold. This advancement also poses cyber threats to business, and understanding the need for cyber security culture allows us to avoid these threats. In this episode, https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter/ (Perry Carpenter), a Chief Evangelist and StrategyOfficer for https://www.knowbe4.com/ (KnowBe4), shares his insights about cyber security culture, its failures, and how you can avoid them. Tune in to gather more information on protecting your business from cyber threats by building an effective cyber security culture in your organization!   What You'll Discover About Cyber Security Culture: What is Cyber Security Culture? How can you change behavior to achieve a conducive and tight cyber security culture? What is the root cause of cyber security failures in an organization? How can you start building a cyber security culture from the beginning?   Guest Bio: Perry Carpenter, C|CISO, MSIA, who currently serves as chief evangelist and strategy officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform. A recognized thought leader on security awareness and the human factors of security, he's provided security consulting and advisory services for the world's best-known brands. His previous book, Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors, quickly gained a reputation as the go-to guide for security awareness professionals worldwide, and, in 2021, he was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame. He's the creator and host of the popular 8th Layer Insights podcast and co-author of the new book The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide to Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer.   Related Resources: https://www.facebook.com/Perry.Carpenter.Author (https://www.facebook.com/Perry.Carpenter.Author) https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter/) https://twitter.com/PerryCarpenter (https://twitter.com/PerryCarpenter) https://www.amazon.com/Security-Culture-Playbook-Executive-Developing/dp/1119875234/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20YOVCQ02XHH9&keywords=the+security+culture+and+carpenter&qid=1659639608&s=books&sprefix=the+security+culture+and+carpenter%2Cstripbooks%2C55&sr=1-1 (https://www.amazon.com/Security-Culture-Playbook-Executive-Developing/dp/1119875234/ref=sr_1_1?crid=20YOVCQ02XHH9&keywords=the+security+culture+and+carpenter&qid=1659639608&s=books&sprefix=the+security+culture+and+carpenter%2Cstripbooks%2C55&sr=1-1)   SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND REVIEW: Subscribing is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips.   Become a https://businessconfidentialradio.com/preferred-listener-signup (Preferred Listener) or https://businessconfidentialradio.com/subscribe-to-podcast/ (subscribe) to the show through your favorite podcast feed.   Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the information you need to succeed from our high-powered guests.   Download ♥ Subscribe ♥ Listen ♥ Learn ♥ Share ♥ Review ♥ Enjoy

It's estimated that 1 in 8 adolescents in Msia have mental disorders. Is there a framework in place to provide them & caregivers with mental health & psychosocial support? On #ConsiderThis we ask our guests about mental health issues among children.

Conversation with Perry Carpenter, C | CISO, MSIA, who currently serves as chief evangelist and strategy officer for KnowBe4, the world's most popular security awareness and simulated phishing platform.   Perry and I talked about the history of KnowBe4, his journey in cyber security, what students and early professionals can study to succeed in social engineering among other topics.  Perry talks about his background and how he took his Arts and Science education to become an extremely successful cyber security professional.  Perry gives advice on what he looks for in hiring early professionals.Please make sure to send questions, comments, and episode recommendations to cybergreybeard@gmail.comFor those interested in supporting Josh, my mentee looking to relocate to Canada and study cyber security, please visit GiveSendGo.Perry is A recognized thought leader on security awareness and the human factors of security, he's provided security consulting and advisory services for the world's best-known brands. His previous book, Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors, quickly gained a reputation as the go-to guide for security awareness professionals worldwide, and, in 2021, he was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.  He's the creator and host of the popular 8th Layer Insights podcast and co-author of the new book The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide to Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer (Wiley; April 19, 2022). Learn more at SecurityCultureBook.com. KnowBe4The Art of Deception by Kevin MitnickThe Art of Invisibility by Kevin Mitnick

What is the situation of medicine stocks in Msia & what can be done to ensure adequate supply amidst global disruptions? Tonight on #ConsiderThis we speak to our guests for clarity.

While sometimes feted as part of the global Ummah, the lives Rohingya refugees live in Msia are very different frm what the rhetoric of Muslim solidarity suggests. Tonight on #ConsiderThis Sharaad Kuttan asks our guest the reasons for the discrepancy.

Labour practices in Malaysia have long been under scrutiny but might the MoU on Indonesian domestic workers set a benchmark in Msia's foreign labour market? Tonight on #ConsiderThis we speak to our guests about the matter

Honouring women in digital health and challenging gender equity issues within the space. Emma Hossack is CEO of the Medical Software Industry Association. She is also the recipient of the 2021 Brilliant Women In Digital Health Award. Michael Walsh is a partner at the Powerhouse and Chair of the Digital Health CRC. Professor Dorota Gertig is the medical director of Population Health Solutions and The National Cancer Screening Register for Telstra Health and is also a recipient of the 2021 Brilliant Women In Digital Health Award.  Dr Louise Schaper is the CEO of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. Telstra Health provides technology solutions that connect healthcare providers with patients and each other and help improve the quality, efficiency and security of health services in Australia. In this episode, you will hear it all as it celebrates some of the great work that many women are doing in the digital health space. It also highlights so much work that still needs to be done to bridge the gap. This conversation will centre on the first survey, which was launched by Telstra Health, the Australasian Institute of Digital Health and the Digital Health CRC in collaboration with the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. Tune into this episode for a breakdown of the issues surrounding gender equity in digital health along with what some men and women in the space believe to be the best options to encourage change.  Check out the episode and full show notes here. To see the latest information, news, events and jobs on offer at Telstra Health, visit their Talking HealthTech Directory here.  Loving the show?  Leave us a review, and share it with some friends, become a THT+ Member for early release, ad-free and bonus episodes of the podcast, access to our online community forum, and free tickets to our quarterly summits.  For more information visit here.

With over 30 years of experience in corporate management with companies such as3M, Bemis Packaging, GE Major Appliance, Hillenbrand Industries, BatesvilleCasket, and Premier Bedding, and 20+ years in marketing and strategic planning,Mike Ertel brings the expertise to confidentially market businesses to serious and well-qualified prospects. He works closely with other trusted advisers to maximize thenet proceeds from the largest and most significant transactions which can occur overthe course of the career of many established and professional business owners.Education:• Master of Science in Industrial Administration, Krannert School, Purdue University• Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Purdue UniversityCertifications:• Certified Business Intermediary (CBI)• M&A Master Intermediary (M&AMI)• Certified M&A Advisor (CM&AA)M&AADVISORAssociation for CorporateMike Ertel, BSEE, MSIA, CBI, M&AMI, CM&AAManaging DirectorTransworld M&A Advisors400 Carillon Parkway, Suite 110Saint Petersburg, FL  33716888.864.6610 O813.299.7862 CMErtel@TransworldMA.com

2021 episode 1 featuring Stacey Burr (BSIE and MSIA), current VP of Product Management at Google (past Adidas, Textronics, Dupont). Stacey joins the podcast to discuss entrepreneurship, relationships, working through challenges, and empathetic leadership.

Leslie Lopez, Straits Times’ Regional Correspondent gives his analysis on ASEAN countries meeting to discuss the situation in Myanmar, Malaysia's Johor state government's push for the reopening of its two land border checkpoints with Singapore and Microsoft's investment of US$1 billion over the next five years in Malaysia, and more.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Among the headlines for Friday, 16 April, 2021, Malaysia’s tally of COVID-19 cases stand at 338,168, remaining at the 45th spot in the list of 216 countries affected by the pandemic. Malaysia is just ahead of Panama, which recorded 352,082 cases, Slovakia with 354,182 cases and Saudi Arabia with 386,782 cases. Also, Brazil’s government is urgently seeking to import supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine amid reports of the seriously ill being tied down and intubated without effective sedatives. Meanwhile, in India, due to the daily surge of more than 217,000 cases reported overnight,  unrelated patients are sharing beds, while bodies of the recently deceased lie outside the ward before being taken to the mortuary.  Listen to the top stories of the day, reporting from Astro AWANI newsroom — all in 3-minutes. We bring you the headlines, weekdays at 5 pm. Stay informed on astroawani.com for these news and more.

Robbie Balonick was raised in a non-religious, household, in middle America in the 1950s and 60s. She was a lifelong seeker who was looking for Truth with a capital "T" and passed quickly through psychedelics and the Hippy movement as mind-opening doors. After the assassination of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, she became totally disillusioned with the suburban, capitalistic dreams that her parents would have her follow. So, she packed up a large backpack and began to travel, for 10 years looking for knowledge about God as did so many other middle-class dropouts of the era. First landing in Europe, then Asia and the Middle East, and eventually the jungles of the Yucatan Peninsula. All of this seeking ended up making Robbie the perfect candidate to be assimilated into a cult. Eventually, that seeking led Robbie to a lecture by John-Roger (formerly Roger Delano Hinkins) where she had a transcendent experience that pulled her into The Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (or MSIA) an abusive cultic group was founded in California in 1968 by John-Roger. She eventually left the group after hearing about sexual abuse allegations against the leader by two of his most devoted followers. Robbie shares her journey with the group explaining to Rachel what drew her to the leader and how she eventually left. Before You Go: Rachel speaks about the spiritual aftermath of leaving a cultic group. She explains the psychological difficulties inherent when lifting the veil of deception that victims have lived with for so long. To help support the show monthly and sign up for cool Indoctrination stickers and tote bags, please visit: www.patreon.com/indoctrination Want to support the IndoctriNation show with a one-time donation? Use this link! www.paypal.me/indoctriNATION

On the Regional Roundup, Leslie Lopez, Straits Times Regional Correspondent shares more about what it might take for the Malaysia-Singapore border to reopen, plus why there are calls for UMNO President Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to step down and why a DAP leader has caused a stir. Meanwhile, The UN rights chief has called for countries to take more action against the Myanmar military, but how likely is this? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Straits Times’ Regional Correspondent, Leslie Lopez gives his analysis on the news that Singapore and Malaysia are working together to recognise each other's vaccine certificates to facilitate cross-border travel in the future. allegations of corruption among senior ranks of the police force in Malaysia, and the latest in the ongoing situation in Myanmar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Hip-Hop is more than just a genre of music; it is a form of resistance and storytelling. Hip-Hop also plays an integral role in Black Movements. We speak with Msia Kibona Clark, Associate Professor of African cultural & feminist studies in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. Her work examines hip-hop in Africa’s importance as social commentary, especially around Pan Africanism and African feminist thought. Msia describes the parallels and differences of Hip-Hop culture in the states and on the continent. Co-hosted by Rhiki Swinton and Trevor Loduem-Jackson: audio edited by Gilbert Daniel Bwette.

What is the future of population health management in Australia? In this episode, Pete chats with Edweana Wenkart, Managing Director of Pen CS.   Pen CS facilitates data sharing of over 22 million patient records per month across Australia, and this year was awarded as the Australian Digital Health Agency Innovation Challenge winner for the ‘Outbreak Surveillance' platform.  Edweana is also a Director of the company CareMonitor and Ocean Health Systems, is a member of MSIA and Associate Fellow of AIDH, and she holds an MBA from AGSM Learn about Edweana's unique background and journey into healthcare, the long and proud history of Pen CS, the Practice Incentives Program (PIP) Quality Improvement (QI) program, and her reflections on building effective relationships with Primary Health Networks (PHNs). Check out the episode and full show notes here. To see the latest information, news, events and jobs on offer at Pen CS, visit their Talking HealthTech Directory here. 

Straits Times’ Regional Correspondent, Leslie Lopez gives his analysis of; Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim filing a lawsuit against Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin over the country's state of emergency, options the Malaysian government might take to keep the Covid-19 situation under control, yet also support the economy, plus the vaccine roll out in Indonesia, and the latest from Vietnam's Communist Party congress. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode, Dr. Ibe-Lamberts is joined by Dr. Msia Kibona Clark, an Associate Professor and Scholar in African studies at Howard University, to discuss her transnational experience growing up as a 1.5 gen Tanzanian American. They discuss her passion for the African feminist movement in hip-hop, cultivating African/Diaspora identities and how artist, such as Beyonce, are making strides to bridge gaps between African Americans and African immigrants. That and more Visit us at www. blacktransnational.wixsite.com/podcast

Episode 24 - HAPPY NEW YEAR!! It's only been a couple days but 2021 has come thick and fast! We navigate our way through some stupidity before looking into the Twelve Cupcake scandal. Daniel Ong denies any knowledge of under-paying his workers for years, so we try to break it down a little. Across the boarder, Malaysia pulls out of the HSR project connecting Singapore to KL. Pretty sure they're blaming us for it. For the main topic - Apparently, the police using TraceTogether data to track down potential criminals is a breach of trust between Singaporeans and the Government. Why like that??Support the show (https://www.instagram.com/middleoftheroadpodcast)

Leslie Lopez, Straits Times’ Regional Correspondent breaks down the biggest stories from around the region including; Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin's Budget finally being passed by parliament, the latest reports on the Singapore-Malaysia high-speed rail project which is set for its final decision deadline in two weeks. Plus, with the 1MDB scandal still firmly in investors minds, how might Indonesia’s new wealth fund be able to step out of the shadows and reassure investors that it will have tight anti-corruption protocols in place? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Straits Times Regional Correspondent, Leslie Lopez breaks down the biggest stories from around the region including; Singapore and Malaysia restarting official travel, how Malaysia is aiming to tackle its palm oil foreign worker labour issues due to Covid-19, and what Indonesia's biggest trade surplus in 11 years means for South-east Asia's largest economy.  See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

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In this episode are interviews with some of the biggest names in Australian health policy influence and clinical leadership. Earlier this month, at Baker Mackenzie in Melbourne, Australia, the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) hosted its March Forum for members.  If you didn't know, the members of MSIA are providers of technology to the healthcare industry in Australia.  When the MSIA puts on an event, they get the very best of the best in key opinion leaders and experts into the room to provide some really meaningful and actionable insights foe members.  They also do a bunch more outside of events like essentially being the voice for every software vendor to raise important issues right up through government to influence policy decisions, which ultimately link back to how technology is adopted in the healthcare ecosystem here in Australia. And in this current climate of COVID-19, which is essentially a rapidly evolving crisis situation that is relying heavily on health technology to address a global catastrophe, the need has never been more obvious to have a single voice, a consistent message and some clear direction.  So, at this MSIA Forum earlier in the month, much like last time, Pete was able to catch a lot of the presenters after they spoke for a few minutes debrief - essentially this episode of the Talking HealthTech podcast is the TLDR of the MSIA March Forum.   If you want to check out the slides from these presenters and see the full program of who presented, get in touch with the MSIA and learn about becoming a member, as these presentations are filled with amazing insights that aren't for public release.  It's simply a non-negotiable in our opinion for all healthtech vendors in Australia to be a member of the MSIA.     Interviews in this episode include: George Tambassis, National President of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. He has been a community pharmacist for over 25 years and is a partner in 5 community pharmacies in and around the city of Melbourne.  As president of the guild, he is essentially the voice of the 5,700 pharmacists in Australia George has a keen interest in enabling community pharmacies in Australia to work to their full scope of practice to maximise benefits for patients and the health system At the MSIA Forum in Melbourne, George participated on a health policy panel session called “Sharing the health burden and pushing the boundaries, Health leaders stake their claims”.  It was fascinating to watch George debate some important topics with the President of the AMA - who essentially represented every doctor in the country, to see what they definitely agreed on, kind of agreed on, and definitely did not agree on. In a chat with me after the panel, George shared some of his key takeaways from the session.   Dr Tony Bartone, President of the Australian Medical Association, Tony shared his thoughts on what needs to change in healthcare in light of bushfires and corona virus, and what all parts of the ecosystem should be focusing on to enable better patient care and a more sustainable healthcare system Toby Hall, Group CEO of St Vincent's Health Australia. Toby presented to the forum a session called “A brave new idea for health funding and opportunities for industry” Contrary to what you think the leader of one of Australia's largest provider of hospitals would say, Toby talks about how the future is not delivered in acute hospital, and how we should stop investing in hospital beds.  Listen in more to his debrief to learn more about his approach.   Professor Trish Williams, Cisco Chair, and Professor of Digital Health Systems at Flinders University.   Trish knows health technology - she essentially launched the first ever practice management system for general practitioners in Australia.   Trish spoke at the forum about user experience design, and the important aspects of designing good software, especially when it comes to the healthcare arena.   Trish gave some insights for software developers on how to create solutions with greater chance of adoption by clinicians, and also some tips on how to work in some of these user centric approaches to the otherwise super rigorous tender submission process that you would encounter when applying for a government tender process.   Professor Michael Kidd, Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine of Canada.   Michael's presentation to the group was titled “Taking Stock of Digital Health - Australia, Canada and Utopia”.  Michael brought home the Forum by talking about developments he has seen outside of Australia, like in Canada and Asia, and how patients are using technology to interact with providers.  Michael also shared how Australia stacks up compared to other companies in the use of technology in primary care. He also gave us a look into some of the cool big data initiatives that are underway as well.

Growing up in England with Edgar Cayce’s teachings (A.R.E.), Alethea Lamb’s spirituality evolved organically. At 18, she lived with Tibetan nuns and met the Dalai Lama. After being introduced to Siddha Yoga, she lived at that ashram for a year. Her inner experience guiding her, she now follows MSIA, the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, a spiritual path founded by John-Roger.  “Trust that everything in your past has been on purpose and perfect for your journey.” ~Alethea Lamb radianthealthandfitness.com 

Bringing in 2020 with a bang, this is a mammoth show to see in the new year! Back in November at the Medical Software Industry Association (MSIA) 2019 Annual Summit and AGM in Sydney Australia, Talking HealthTech recorded interviews with different speakers throughout the day.  This episode features 5 of these conversations covering a broad spectrum of issues that are pertinent to Australia's health technology scene today.   The theme for the summit was “Limitless - Health Software Transforming Australia's Healthcare”.  The event was attended by over 100 members of the MSIA, and had guests speakers from all over the country, as well as a special international guest.   This episode features interviews with:  Iman Ghodosi, Vice President of Asia Pacific at Zuora Igor Zvezdakoski, Chief Product Officer at Message Media Group Dr Ruth Webster, Global Head of Medicine at the George Health Technologies Dr Harry Nespolon, President of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) Steven Posnack, Deputy National Coordinator for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, at the US Department of Health and Human Services.  Robert Best, President of the MSIA and CEO of MIMS AU&NZ.  

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If you work in the healthcare industry you have a huge responsibility when it comes to managing sensitive patient information, whether you're a big software vendor or a single physiotherapist, everyone needs to follow the same rules, and there are some pretty serious consequences for not doing it properly.  Do you know what your obligations are and if you're doing a good job? Check this episode out to find out!   Who is Anna Johnston Anna Johnston is one of Australia's most respected experts in privacy law and practice. She has qualifications in law, public policy and management, and 26 years' experience in legal, policy and research roles.  Anna has a breadth of perspectives and a wealth of experience to dealing with privacy and data governance issues. She is the former Deputy Privacy Commissioner for NSW, so she knows the regulator's perspective and since 2004 is the Director for consulting firm “Salinger Privacy”. Anna has been called upon to provide expert testimony before various Parliamentary inquiries and the Productivity Commission, spoken at numerous conferences, and is regularly asked to comment on privacy issues in the media.   Anna holds a first class honours degree in Law, a Masters of Public Policy with honours, a Graduate Certificate in Management, a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, and a Bachelor of Arts, plus a number of other relevant and well regarded certificates and industry associations.  In this Episode you'll learn 2:08 - About Salinger Privacy 4:55 - Privacy Concerns in Data (with a focus on health tech) 8:15 - All about, privacy reviews, data flows, data governance, and privacy design 14:28 -AI - How does it fit ethically, legally and is policy keeping up with innovation  16:40 - AI - GDPR, challenges for AI with diagnostic decisions   20:10 - AI - Transparency, Accountability and Consent 26:00 - Legal Obligations with Data Privacy Key TakeAways When it comes to privacy law in Australia, the same laws and consequences apply to everyone dealing with healthcare information - whether they are a big institution of a single doctor. While Data Privacy breaches do happen they are often the result of lack of education and or the best intentions in mind, not so much because of malicious intent Often AI is trained on data that was collected not for the intention of training the machine, so the concept of informed consent is a tricky one  The simple “tick this box to agree” actually isn't enough and more emphasis needs to be put on clearly communicating clearly with the person who's data is being collected The expectations of patients data privacy holds the health and medical industries to the highest levels of scrutiny meaning that breaches are to be reported to the Price  Commissioners office and the patients whose privacy has been breached   Links Anna Johnston Twitter - @SalingerPrivacy  Anna Johnston LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-johnston-ba188410a/ Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme - https://www.oaic.gov.au/ndb  GDPR - https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/guidance-and-advice/australian-entities-and-the-eu-general-data-protection-regulation/  MSIA - https://msia.com.au/  Salinger Privacy - https://www.salingerprivacy.com.au/  My Health Record (Formerly PCEHR) - https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/  NDIS - https://www.ndis.gov.au/  National Health and Medical Research Council - https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/    Transcript [00:00:00] Pete: With me today is Anna Johnson. Anna is one of Australia's most respected experts in Privacy Law and practice. She has qualifications in law, public policy and management and 26 years experience in legal policy and research roles. Anna has a breadth of perspectives and a wealth of experience in dealing with privacy and data governance issues. She's the former deputy privacy commissioner for New South Wales.So she really knows regulatory perspective well, and since 2004 is the director for consulting firm Salinger Privacy Anna holds a first-class honours degree in law, a masters of public policy and honors a graduate certificate in management a graduate diploma of legal practice Anna Bachelor of Arts plus a number of other relevant and well-regarded certificates and Industry associations, Anna no longer practices as a solicitor so I am allowed to tell the occasional lawyer joke apparently which is great because that's what I'll probably do Anna thanks so much for joining. [00:01:06] Anna: Thanks Peter great to be here. [00:01:07] Pete: I think we came across each other because you were doing some stuff with MSIA a before the Medical Software Industry Association. [00:01:15] Anna: Yes, I presented at their annual conference recently and then also ran a workshop about privacy by Design so for anyone in that space of Designing health-related technology how to understand the kind of the skills and strategies that will help you build privacy compliance into the design upfront rather than trying to retrofit later.  [00:01:39] Pete: Love to get into more of that detail a bit later on in the conversation too. So, you know you're well well primed for the health Tech space and it's kind of cool to have someone on the show that you know is involved in many different Industries. You're not a vendor you're another player in this kind of big space in an area that's super important these days in our area of Health Tech being data privacy and security and whatnot.So I'm super excited about this conversation. So tell me a little bit more about Salinger Privacy what you guys do and where your clients operate? [00:02:13] Anna: Sure. So well basically we do all things privacy, so we do consulting, training, and we offer resources and one of the things I love about working in the Privacy space is It's just a fascinating intersection between law ethics and Technology. There's you know, there's always something new. There's always a new technology you coming around the corner that we have to get our heads around and help our clients manage that intersection between their Legal obligations ethics customer expectations and then you know what the technology can and what the technology should be allowed to do so, we work across as I said Consulting, training, and resources and we are an Australian business, we've got clients across Australia occasionally we dip our toe into the waters of New Zealand as well. But our clients come from their quite the mix. So, quite a lot of government clients but also businesses from the big end of town, to the nonprofits and also the small and very much Tech startup space.So we have clients everywhere from the kind of you know top ASX companies down to you know, one person's got a great new tech idea with working out of their spare bedroom at the moment kind of space. [00:03:28] Pete: Nice as to how much of it do you reckon is in that Health space? [00:03:34] Anna: Yeah health is really common as probably the second biggest sector after government. Although of course, you know often government is also in the health sector. So sometimes our clients will be the health service provider. So someone directly in that Health Service provision space and they just want to make sure they're dotting their I's crossing their T's in the way that they're collecting and using their patients data, but more typically where, not so much that direct service provision, but all the organizations that use and collect and hold and store health information. So sometimes that's insurance companies for example, sometimes it's governments working in public policy organizations getting into the data analytics space so focusing particularly on you know health and disability data for example, and then there's been some really big-ticket kind of projects we've worked on. So we worked on the Privacy impact assessment on the original design for My Health Record, back when it was originally called the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record the original setup of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. So we've been involved in privacy impact assessments very early on in those very very big-ticket government projects which touch on health and disability data in particular. [00:04:55] Pete: So in health in particular then what are some of the biggest privacy concerns you see today that the pop-up. [00:05:02] Anna: So what I think is quite interesting about the health sector and it makes it different to other sectors is the health sector is a standout but in a bad way, unfortunately, so the health sector consistently tops the list of sectors reporting notifiable data breaches in Australia.So and when we talk about a notifiable data breach we're talking about when personal information has either been lost. Subject to unauthorized access or subject to an unauthorized disclosure [00:05:33] Pete: because it was those relatively recently wasn't it that want kind of recently that was something change that meant that companies needed to be more transparent with that kind of thing. [00:05:43] Anna: Yeah absolutely so the law was changed in February 2018. To make notification of it. So if you have this kind of data breach and if it's likely to result in serious harm to one or more individuals. It's now the law in Australia that you need to notify both price commissioner's office and those affected individuals, so your patient. [00:06:03] Pete: It's not just big companies or small companies. [00:06:05] Anna: So in the health sector at covers any health service provider regardless of their size. So you might be a one-person physiotherapy business, you know or an independent Locum you uncovered by the federal privacy act. So regardless of your size all Health Service Providers are covered. Outside the health sector, there is an exemption for small businesses. But that exemption does not apply to health service providers. So the health sector is already called out for I guess expectations of a high level of privacy protection for businesses no matter their size in the health sector just because of you know, patient's expectations. And so I think one of the things that makes the health sector different is patient expectations, so it's not that the type of privacy risks or privacy issues are different for health technology, for example, technology design as for any other type of Technology design, but the difference is that patients expectations about the protection of their Health Data are much higher. There's just this sort of intuitive if it's my health information. It must be kept absolutely private, but also the consequences of privacy breaches tend to be higher when you're talking about health information compared with say, you know, The Accidental disclosure of someone's credit card details. Yeah, there are some financial risks. But those risks can be resolved, you know relatively straightforward way. I don't want to minimize those risks, but it's quite a different story in terms of the repercussions individuals can face if their health information is disclosed without Authority. So that might be it could be discrimination embarrassment implications for their employment implications for insurance and all the rest. That's what makes the challenges for people working in technology into the health sector and technology so much higher not that as I said, not that. The nature of the Privacy risks themselves are terribly different. It's just that the expectations are higher and the consequences are worse if you have a data breach. [00:08:17] Pete: So you mentioned that you guys do privacy reviews. What is a privacy review exactly? [00:08:24] Anna: So we did two different kinds so one is called a privacy impact assessment and the other is generally called a privacy audit or a privacy compliance review and the difference really is where you're at in the design process for what we're reviewing. So if you are at the design stage of a new project new technology project, for example, we get in at the design stage and do what's called a privacy impact assessment. If you want us to review something that's already up and running. So your business as usual. We basically call that a privacy audit but regardless of which one of those we doing. We ask the same kind of questions and regardless of whether its the design of the software. It might be the design of a business process. It might be the design of a paper form. It doesn't have to be, you know, a high-tech project to need this kind of review. So regardless of the nature of the project we tend to ask the same questions so you know can and should we collect this data can and should we use it for this particular purpose who can we disclose it to? How do we keep it safe? So when we look at a new project, for example, we look at two broad things one is data flows and the other is data governance. So when what I describe as data flows what we're looking at is. What personal information is being collected? How is it going to be used? Who will it be disclosed to so those three points collection use and disclosure and for each of those we then ask is this going to be appropriate meaning is it going to be lawful? So is it going to comply with the Privacy principles that govern collection use and disclosure but not just is it going to be lawful? Is it going to meet your customers? You know your patients expectations. Is it going to be proportionate to a legitimate business need and is there critically, is there a more privacy-protective way you can achieve that business objective? Yeah, so always trying to come up with you know, helping our clients come up with the most privacy-protective design of a technology of a form of whatever it is but in a way that still achieves the businesses objectives. So once we've settled those questions about authorizing the data flows and making sure that there are lawful and appropriate then we look at data governance. So we usually start with looking at transparency. So have you communicated clearly to your customers about those data flows? You know how their personal information is going to be collected used and disclosed so that they actually understand what's going to happen. You know, I talk about the no-surprises rule no one likes to be surprised what's going to happen with their data and if they have if they're going to have choices is there a really easy way for them to manage those choices? You know, is it as straightforward as a swipe left or right on the app to say yes or no to something and one thing that's really important is in terms of transparency is for organizations to separate out what we see is three different things but often bundled together. So those three things are your privacy policy a collection notice explaining. At the point of collection what it is you're doing with the person's information and a consent mechanism if you're going to rely on consent, so those three things serve three quite different purposes, but especially online. The design practices often companies will jumble the three all together into one long legalistic confusing document and then they make users just tick agree [00:11:55] Pete: Tick a box and you can and you can click the link. Click the link to go read it that you it's not down the bottom. [00:12:02] Anna: Yeah, and we know no one ever reads it, I don't even read them. So we so in terms of data governance. We look importantly transparency. And then finally we look at other data governance questions, like have your staff being trained. Do you have a clear pathway for managing any requests you get for patients to access their data or correct it do you have a clear pathway for managing privacy complaints. Do you have a data breach response plan in place to your staff know what to do in the event of a data breach, so. All of those things that of data flows and data governance form part of whether we're doing a privacy impact assessment of a new project or a privacy audit of an existing business process and again, whether its software or something else, we look at both data flows and data governance as part of our privacy review. [00:12:53] Pete: And if I think about it from my experience. Often, you know, if I'm thinking as a health Tech vendor not many of them go out with any kind of massive intention on I don't know to steal patients information or doing something cynical with the data, but I've seen in the past two, it's not about the intention of what they're going to do with it, but it's almost the perception of what's going to happen or so having that kind of review or someone outside of the business to do that sounds like a pretty sensible thing to do. [00:13:23] Anna: Yeah, absolutely and certainly my experience having worked in you know, in a regulatory role in the primes Commissioner's Office the vast majority of privacy complaints and the vast majority of privacy breaches and data breaches are not coming from a point of malicious conduct or deliberately people doing the wrong thing. It's accidents and it's oversights and its people simply not understanding what their obligations are. Understanding that there are alternative ways to design things. So absolutely. Yeah. I very very rarely see privacy breaches arising from deliberate misconduct. Yeah. It's much more coming from a place of ignorance and sometimes people trying to do the right thing, you know trying to be helpful in trying to help the clients but accidentally doing the wrong thing. [00:14:20] Pete: Yeah, that can happen in health care too. Can you just send this across to me? I really need it because of this particular situation or something. Yeah. [00:14:27] Anna: Yeah. Absolutely. [00:14:28] Pete: It seems to be the right thing to do. It's a balance. So I'm thinking about that In our world AI artificial intelligence that's a big point of discussion regarding privacy for me anyway at the moment. How well do you think policies keeping up with the rate of pace of innovation in Australia more broadly as AI is really Innovative space and there are other things going on too, how's policy keeping up. [00:14:50] Anna: I think there's a constant challenge whether it's AI or any other kind of new technology. There's always this challenge of Law and policy keeping up. The first point I'd make is that privacy laws are designed deliberately. They're drafted deliberately to be technology-neutral and format neutral. So the idea is that they shouldn't actually be always playing catch-up. We've tried to anticipate in the drafting of our privacy laws technologies that haven't even been thought of yet and our starting point with those laws is Broad framed general kind of principles and it's all about respecting humans autonomy and dignity. So sort of one answer is the law is keeping up because it's it was already anticipating new technologies and that those new technologies should be being managed Under the Umbrella of existing laws and policies. But at the same time obviously the law is constantly being challenged in terms of how workable it is in practice and certainly with artificial intelligence the ethical and legal implications are something that not just in Australia but governments around the world are grappling with right at the moment. So there are projects trying to come up with legal and ethical frameworks to cover AI here in Australia the federal department of innovation and industries been working on something there are projects in the EU there are projects in the US There's a lot of activity going on at the moment and lots of those projects around the world are focusing on things like the fairness of AI as well as transparency. So in particular in Europe some of your listeners. May have heard of the GDPR are already. So that's a privacy law in Europe that was recently reformed the general data protection regulation and one of the reforms that was introduced is what you might call a right to algorithmic transparency. So that means that's kind of the laws way of trying to ensure that algorithms developed from AI from machine learning and from AI will be fair and accountable in terms of the impact of decision making that is made or decisions made based on those algorithms. So there's kind of a right to human review of computers decisions and there are rights to ask companies to pause or stop the processing and we would call that using or disclosing someone's personal information in order to ask for an explanation of well you know, how is this algorithm? Working so why you know, why was I denied health insurance or why is it why my premiums going up and my next-door neighbors are going down for example. [00:17:49] Pete: and its even more like as we're moving to space where artificial intelligence is assisting the process of Diagnostics and looks at an image and says this patient has cancer or not. You know that having that in a black box is not you know, and then just you know, let's ask the computer and wait to see what. Is it so much ambiguity there? [00:18:12] Anna: Yeah, absolutely. And in a legal sense, I think courts will increasingly struggle with this as well. If someone is challenging a decision, so it might not be the you know, the diagnosis but maybe it's the health insurers decision based on the diagnosis. You know, we're going to pay your claim or we're not going to pay your claim or whatever it is. You know based on some kind of calculation of risk of that disease developing for example, or you know, if the algorithm can't be explained to a court if it can't be explained to a judge. How is anyone going to be able to determine whether that algorithm was working in a fair and accurate way so one of the really critical privacy principles is it's called the data quality principle or the accuracy principle and it says that each of us has the right to ensure that only accurate relevant up-to-date complete not misleading information is used in decision-making about us and that obviously. Becomes more critical, you know the rubber hits the road where the decision is going to impact us negatively. So the decision is going to be you don't get the insurance or we don't pay your claim. You don't get the job. You don't get access to housing you don't get access to credit for example, and so if you've got decisions made in a black box and no one can explain how they're made because. Yeah, there was some machine learning going on in the AI system came up with its own algorithm. How can anyone test how can a court test whether or not that decision making and the data on which it was based was, you know accurate Fair relevant up-to-date Etc. So that's certainly one big challenge for AI that the sort of the transparency and the accountability for it and I think the other Big Challenge or the other area where AI poses a challenge in terms of compliance with Privacy Law is the lawfulness of the data flows in the first place. So, you know, it's when I was talking about when we do a privacy review we're looking at the data flows meaning what personal information is collected, how it's used who it's disclosed to and in the world of AI your ability to lawfully collect use or disclose data. It's extremely hard to rely on consent as your lawful mechanism consent isn't is by no means not this by no means the only lawful mechanism. There are lots of ways under the Privacy principles that allow companies and governments to collect use and disclose personal information. But quite often consent is what organizations try to rely on but in AI it's really challenging. So if you think about do you do example AI is being used to diagnose some health conditions? Yeah, much of the data. Used in the first place to train the machine learning that will create the AI will create the algorithm that training data what we call a training data will have been collected for some other purpose. So it will have been years worth of data collecting about real hospitals being treated in real patients being treated in real hospitals. That and that becomes the training data set for the machine learning. So it's fairly likely that the patients in the past were not asked to consent but that time to sometime in the future use of their data for this quite different purpose. [00:21:56] Pete: That's something that wasn't even thought of at the time. [00:21:59] Anna: So it's not just about treating you at some point in the future a machine will use your data to train another machine to recognize patterns in data, so but even now if we started to ask patients for their consent, you know as well as us treating you in hospital today. Do you consent to your information being used for AI development in the future? How could a patient today possibly give informed consent? Because the whole point of machine learning and AI is to kind of throw all the data in the mix and just see what pops out it's not a kind of if you like old-fashioned kind of you know, he's a research by hypothesis. This is the question we're asking here's exactly how we're going to conduct the experiment. Yes. So it's not like a clinical trial whereas a patient. I know what my disease is. I'm being offered a new kind of medicine. I've been warned about the possible side effects, and I've had the chance to say yes or no AI and machine learning at based on quite different kinds of research practices, which don't usually involve. That kind of one-on-one sit-down discussion with an individual. It's based on very very large data sets to create those training data sets. It's based on historical data. And typically you don't go back and you don't have the ability to go back and ask for everyone's consent. It's very difficult to rely on patient consent as the lawful basis for health information to be collected used or disclosed for AI purposes. As I said, it's not the only possibility but quite often companies work on the assumption that consent is going to be their legal mechanism and it turns out not to be.Kind of the pragmatic solution for them, but I don't think that that's something that's particularly. Well understood yet. [00:23:52] Pete: What is the solution then like if consent isn't it? Like how does a company doing AI in health or any area I guess operate? [00:24:01] Anna: so there are other legal mechanisms and one of them is and it depends, you know, which Privacy Law you're talking about which jurisdiction you're in but there's usually some kind of research exemption and that usually, again it differs kind of from state to state and federal and Country to country but the research exemptions usually have some role for human research Ethics Committee which gets to weigh up the ethical considerations. Think about where the public interest lies and that committee usually has the power to waive the requirement for consent. There is this kind of structured way to work through thinking about those issues and the National Health and Medical Research Council has guidelines on you know how to set up a human research Ethics Committee and what a properly constituted committee looks like and all of the factors that they need to, you know, there are guidelines about how they need to reach their kind of decision making, so it's not as simple as simply you know, those the tick a box mandatory terms and conditions. That's not going to constitute a valid consent in Privacy Law. So that's just not the right legal mechanism in the most in the majority of cases for artificial intelligence kind of development.  [00:25:25] Pete: Wow so much complexity to factor in and you can going through even just the tip of the iceberg of all of that you can see a lot of work underneath it and questions and kind of vagueness that kind of speak to the reasons why the rate of innovation moves so much faster than other areas that are important like Policy. That's really interesting. Hey look so moving on what should Australian health tech software vendors be most concerned about when developing a solution today then. [00:26:01] Anna: I think first of all make sure you're thinking about both your legal obligations and your customers expectations, you know, the law is by the law. I'm talking about the Privacy principles built into Privacy Law the law tries to codify your basic ethical obligations, but it really sets the minimum kind of standard and often your customers expectations will set a higher standard than just legal compliance. So legal compliance is obviously necessary, but it really should just be considered the minimum Baseline not the entire set of things that you need to think about. I mentioned before the role of consent is in reality quite fraught so if you are relying on your patients consent to do something with their health information you absolutely need to make sure that that consent is actually going to be valid under privacy law you know, it will hold up to scrutiny. So you can't under Privacy Law. You can't say that you're relying on a patient's consent if they actually had no choice to say. No, it has to be voluntary. It has to be informed it has to be specific So it can't be included in mandatory terms and conditions, for example, an opt-out model is not consent. For example, so as I said consent is not the only legal mechanism. There are plenty of other mechanisms. But if that's the one you're relying on you need to be really careful to get that right and another thing is to make sure that your technology has been designed with privacy in mind. So we talked about this concept of privacy by design which is all about baking your privacy controls into the design of systems from. The beginning rather than trying to you know retrofit them in later and I think well what I find usually is a lot of effort goes into the cybersecurity side of things, you know, keeping out the external Bad actors and that's obviously incredibly important but our particular kind of expertise and our skill set is focused more on the internal actors so when you are whether you're designing tech your configuring it implementing it you need to think about your customers but also about your staff or your trusted users your trusted insiders. So making sure that Tech is designed so that its staff or other authorized users only see the absolute minimum amount of personal information about your customers or your patients that they really need to do their job, you know, the legislation says that you have to do this a lot of people come back and say oh, we've got a code of conduct for our employees. We make the more sign it so that's okay. The law says that that is not enough and you know case law comes basically the law that comes from Court decisions and tribunal decisions backs that up that just having you know, letting all staff see all patient records but saying oh, but they signed a code of conduct that's not going to be enough You won't be complying with your privacy legal obligations if that's all you're doing. So you need the same things like role-based access controls, but there's a whole bunch of other privacy controls that can be built into Tech design and it will depend on the kind of product you're or service that you're designing But depending on what it is you're doing, you know, if you're if you've got a data analytics project and using a data warehouse, for example, we would look at filtering out certain data fields. And then we'd look at masking other data fields from the view of particular user groups. If you think about something like an E-health record system, you would limit the search functionality to prevent misuse, you know, the kind of scenario we're usually looking at is, you know, could a staff member look up health information about their partner or their ex-partner or their next-door neighbour so you might put in a test that users need to pass before they can even access customer records. For example, rather than just enabling any user to do a global search against any customer or patient name, so there's plenty of different things you can do. So we use 8 privacy design strategies to help guide Our advice to our clients when we're reviewing technology design software design and sometimes the solution lies in the design of their technology itself, but quite often it's outside the technology so the solution might be or a mix of you know, staff training policies and procedures back to that transparency issue. So how you communicate with your customers. There are lots of different angles we can come from when we're trying to mitigate privacy risks. [00:30:50] Pete: Wow there's a lot to cover I'm sure there are many people listening and thinking this probably a few things that could be applied in their business in the healthcare space, whether it's they're providing the service or the software that sits behind it. I think it's evident that it that it's something that's important to everyone from that single physio, you mentioned right through to the big organizations have got a lot more structure and process to handle this stuff and even they get it wrong a lot too. So having a dedicated focus in that like you guys is particularly interesting so Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights on that particular topic. [00:31:30] Anna: Great. Thanks for having me on the show.  

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In this episode, Nat discusses a higher look at Manifestation. He also shares an inspiration from John-Roger in Nat’s designing a workshop he is giving (from the seminar Cutting Materialistic Attachments & Opening Your Spirit available at MSIA.org). At the end, he shares another excerpt from the same seminar on caring for loved ones and friends at the end of their lives.

Hip hop, as a cultural product of Africa and African descendant peoples is a rich field of inquiry. Hip hop as a viable platform that highlights calls for social change is the life-giving breath of hip hop. Nevertheless, a viable work that dives deep into the sociopolitical andphilosophical foundations of hip hop as a human expression of African futures is still yet to be written. Most work on hip hop is still grasping with it at its surface level. Still justifying its existence. Resisting the clutches of the ever-evolving attempts of racial capitalism to control it, hip hop as the historical and ancestral culmination of art, philosophy, politics, collectivism, questions of humanity is simultaneously evolving. Africa, as Dr. Msia Clark writes in her book, Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers (https://hiphopafrican.com/2017/12/17/hip-hop-in-africa-prophets-of-the-city-and-dustyfoot-philosophers/), is where the origins of hip hop can be found. According to Dr. Clark, when Africans were forcibly taken from their homelands, enslaved, they carried with them their human traditions, their cultural traditions that linked them with heaven and earth. One of these traditions were the rhythmic meditations on life, love, politics, the future—we call music. These traditions were forged in the conditions within which those Africans found themselves, the Americas, South, Central, North—to become jazz, the blues, gospel…and of course hip hop. Therefore, to understand the roots of hip hop in Africa—its origins—adds a depth and breadth to studying hip hop that is vital to understand its salience and ability to invent the future. What we will hear next is a recent conversation with Dr. Msia Clark on her recently published book…Hip Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers Dr. Msia Kibona Clark is an Associate Professor in the Department of African Studies at Howard University. She is originally from Tanzania and received her doctorate in African Studies from Howard University in 2006. Her research has focused on African migration and identity, as well as hip hop and popular culture in Africa. Dr. Clark has published several scholarly publications on African migration, African immigrant identities, relations between African migrants and African Americans, and hip-hop culture's intersections with social change, gender, and politics in Africa. She has published two books (Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati and Hip-Hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers) and over ten scholarly articles and book chapters, and currently produces the Hip Hop African blog and monthly podcast hosted at hiphopafrican.com. Dr. Clark is also an accomplished photographer. She has participated in exhibits in Tanzania and the U.S. Her work was also featured in the book project Mfon: Women Photographers in the African Diaspora. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, African, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people.

In this episode, Nat interviews Nick Segal about his challenges and successes on his journey to creating a very successful business and how those experiences shaped the philosophy of his forthcoming book  "On Your Terms: Discovering a More Joyful & Purpose-Filled Life Through Value Conscious Negotiating"

In this episode, Nat interviews John Morton about the challenges he has had and highlights since being given the spiritual mantle from his teacher, John-Roger. John Morton is the Spiritual Director of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness, Chancellor of the University of Santa Monica and Chairman of the Board of Insight Seminars. Find out more about John Morton at msia.org and johnmortonministries.org. You can get more about Nat at transcend.online

In this episode Nat talks about his struggles with time management, feeling like he never had enough time and how he was able to get rid of time management for a better framework. We also look at Lincoln's example of leadership and what we can learn from it, discussing one of Nat's favorite books Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, as well as an excerpt from Nat's teacher, John-Roger, on leadership (from the seminar Are You Surrendering Your Leadership avail. at MSIA.org)

In the episode, Nat & Jsu look at how John-Roger (J-R) taught them, as part of their spiritual training, to use dreams. Nat also gives a simple tool that he has been using to loose weight and get healthy. Jsu Garcia is an actor/writer/director/producer including making a documentary on John-Roger's life called Mystical Traveler. Along with Nat, he lived and worked closely with J-R for many years. Most recently, he authored the book Love of a Master about his life with J-R.

Nat guides us through excerpts from renowned spiritual teacher John-Roger's seminar Nuclear Radiation from Ground Zero (full seminar available through MSIA.org) to find out the questions we can answer to help move us from feeling stuck or captive (to our job, our relationship, our life) to living a life of simple freedom and simple clarity. Also, Nat talks about his thoughts on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies 

Cass Midgley interviews Cheri Jamison. Cheri grew up in Self-Realization Fellowship (founded by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920), a sort of blend of Christianity and Hinduism, and went through a very painful transition out of it around 2007. She faced a rude awakening regarding her naive ambitions about SRF while taking a religious studies class in college. She went on to earn a Masters in Spiritual Psychology in 2014. She was able to let go of feeling "stuck in limbo" between her loyalty issues with SRF and fully embracing what was true for her today as an adult. Today, she is an ordained minister MSIA-- which  is "The Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness," founded by John-Roger. Inspired by my own deep healing work, Cheri created a 5-week group program called "Religion of Origin Healing," which helps others make peace with their own spiritual journey and honestly examine any tenets they may have inherited that no longer serve them. Now, as a warning, this episode is 1) without Bob; he was still on vacation when I taped it, and 2) Cheri is what some would call woo-woo. She meditates, in fact, her mother taught her how to meditate at age 2, and she's active in Unity Church in Kansas City. You may remember Unity was a church that was part of my journey, where the Bible is their main text, but an extremely open and liberal approach to spirituality. I'm just saying that it may not be anti-theist enough for you, if that's what floats your boat, however, Cheri is a smart, honest, mature, emotionally intelligent person who has, like most of us, picked her beliefs wisely and with personal agency in tact. She earned my respect during this conversation, even though my inner-skeptic was a bit irritated at first, as you'll see. We're very honest with each other and she stays in the ring strong and confident. I think you're gonna like this talk, I wouldn't have published it if I didn't think it had value.   We taped this conversation on June 10th, 2017. We interview people you don’t know, about a subject no one wants to talk about. We hope to encourage people in the process of deconstructing their faith and help curb the loneliness that accompanies it. We think the world is a better place when more people live by sight, not by faith. Please subscribe to our podcast, and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. Our show is available on most podcast platforms.  Also, you can support us monetarily in two easy ways: you can pledge one dollar per episode through Patreon; that’s www.patreon.com/eapodcast, or leave a lump-sum donation through PayPal at our website, www.everyonesagnostic.com. The smallest contribution is greatly appreciated. Credits:"Towering Mountain of Ignorance" intro by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU Intro bumper "Never Know" by Jack JohnsonThe segue music is on this episode was created by Top Shelf Sounds on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NItAIPJuk4I Thanks for listening and be a yes-sayer to what is. http://www.cherijamison.com/ You can continue this conversation with her about your own "religion of origin healing" by writing  cheri@cherijamison.com

The Software Process and Measurement Cast features our interview with Kirk Botula on capability.  Kirk makes the argument that capability is crucial for organizational health and agility. Kirk Botula is the CEO of the CMMI® Institute, the home of the globally-adopted capability improvement framework that guides organizations in high-performance operations. Botula is a global growth company executive whose career has been focused on advancing the common good through the commercialization of technology. Prior to CMMI Institute, Botula served as President of Confluence, a global financial technology firm with operations in North America, EMEA and Asia. During his tenure, Confluence became the leading provider in its space achieving market share exceeding 70% in North America and 20% globally, while delivering the industry leading NPS of 40. Botula also served at BNY Mellon, Compunetix, and as a strategist to a variety of nonprofit and for-profit organizations. He has a BFA and MSIA from Carnegie Mellon University and lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and three daughters. Reach out to Kirk at info@cmmiinstitute.com   Re-Read Saturday News We continue the read/re-read of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni (published by Jossey-Bass).   As we move through the first part of the book we are being exposed to Lencioni’s model of team dysfunctions and a set of crises to illustrate the common problems that make teams into dysfunctional collections of individuals. Today we re-read the three sections titled Awareness, Ego and Goals. Visit the Software Process and Measurement Cast blog to participate in this and previous re-reads. Next SPaMCAST The Software Process and Measurement Cast 417 will feature three columns from Steve Tendon, Jeremy Berriault and of course a new essay from the Software Process and Measurement Cast. Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: “This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.” Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

A video associated with Tepper Magazine's Spring 2012 issue. The column, called Follow the Leader, features Dina Dublon, MSIA '79 and retired executive vice president and CFO of J.P. Morgan Chase. She discusses the Tepper School, intellectual curiosity, success, leadership and social responsibility in this video.

A video associated with Tepper Magazine's Spring 2012 issue. The column, called Out of the Office, features Rich Greenawalt, MSIA '68. Out of the Office is a feature of alumni who are involved in volunteering or philanthropic endeavors. Before his frontline roles in volunteer efforts at his undergraduate alma mater, a science museum, and a public library, his career included assignments as chairman and CEO of Citibank's mortgage bank, president of Transamerica Financial, and president and COO of troubled Pennsylvania credit card and mortgage lender, Advanta Corp., which he and his team set on the path of recovery and growth.

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