Podcasts about nantucket island

Step into Your Queendom and Live Wholeheartedly with Holly Ruth Finigan  This week on Look for the Good, we're rolling out the royal carpet for bestselling author and entrepreneur Holly Ruth Finigan, who's here to help you step into your highest vibe and claim the empowered life of joy you were always meant to live! Holly dives into the latest book in her powerful trilogy, Wholeheartedly, sharing deeply personal stories passed down through generations of women in her family. Tune in as we explore inherited trauma—the stories that may not even be yours to carry—and how to break free to own your narrative, your power, and your Queendom.  And you definitely won't want to miss Holly's fascinating take on what the Year of the Snake and Taylor Swift have in common! Plus, discover what it truly means to live a “last chance lifetime” and why embracing this mindset could change everything for you. This episode is a must-listen for anyone ready to rise into their fullest, most radiant self!  Join us in person! Find out how you can meet Holly this June at the Happy Place Wellness Symposium on Nantucket, where we'll be celebrating health, happiness, and longevity—together!  BIO: Holly Ruth Finigan is a writer, entrepreneur and meditation advocate based on Nantucket Island. She teaches people through her words and her multi-layered communication skills how to feel empowered through sSelf-Love and healing relationships with parents.  She considers every day she wakes up to be the best day of her life.  For more on Holly visit https://www.hollyruthfinigan.com/ Join us at the Happy Place Wellness Symposium get your tickets at: nantucketsdreamland.org Want to find out when the next incredible episode of Look for the Good is dropping? Sign up for the Look for the Good Podcast Chat weekly newsletter to get behind the scenes insights, special tips, and insider only offers. Click HERE to sign up today!  Learn More about Carrie here: https://carrierowan.com/

West and Central Africa have been hit hard by extreme flooding that has claimed thousands of lives and left millions stranded in Nigeria and neighboring countries. The perilous situation is prompting urgent pleas for wealthy nations to provide more climate adaptation assistance.  Also, oysters on the half shell are big business on Nantucket Island, and a local program that recycles oyster shells from restaurant waste into habitat for young oysters turns ten this year. These recycled oyster shell reefs are helping to protect the coastline from worsening storms and rising seas.  And Living on Earth lost our beloved colleague Peter Dykstra this summer. We look back on Peter's remarkable career in environmental advocacy and then journalism with the help of his former colleagues, the Living on Earth crew and you, our listeners.  --  What issues are you most interested in having Living on Earth cover in the 2024 election season? Let us know by sending us a written or audio message at comments@loe.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made an unknown number of arrests in Nantucket, Massachusetts, this week for “immigration violations,” specifically targeting “violent offenders,” according to a press release from local officials Thursday. The Nantucket Police Department revealed that ICE agents had contacted local Nantucket officials on Sept. 9 “concerning their planned arrival on island,” according to the press release. Local officials stated that ICE agents' purpose was to “serve administrative arrest warrants for immigration violations,” adding that the local detective unit assisted by providing “requested addresses.”

You only have to say his name twice for him to appear again – “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” hits theaters this weekend, one of the most anticipated movies of the year, and the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's 1988 classic. Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara are back from the original cast, plus Jenna Ortega, Justin Theroux, and more are along for the ride. But does Burton deliver, or is this another painful revival? ABC News entertainment correspondent Jason Nathanson shares his thoughts. New on streaming, a couple of shows with big-name casts; Netflix's “The Perfect Couple” finds Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber as the heads of a wealthy Nantucket Island family, caught up in a murder mystery on the wedding weekend of their son. While Peacock's “Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist” features Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Taraji P. Henson, Don Cheadle and more, in a based-on-a-true-story tale having to do with Muhammed Ali's boxing comeback. Jason will tell you if either show is bingeworthy. 

Matt and Todd discuss the 1990-1997 NBC-TV Sit-Com; Wings, starring Tim Daly, Steven Weber and Crystal Bernard as we join their lives on Nantucket Island's Tom Nevers Field. The show features early performances by Thomas Haden Church as Lowell, Tony Shalhoub as Antonio and cameos from across the harbor. Wings cruises through 8 strong seasons yet is largely forgotten in the wake of industry giants of the early-mid 90s like Friends, Seinfeld, Cheers, Frasier, Married... With Children, Mad About You, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The Simpsons, Fish Police and Capitol Critters.

Meghan Trainor (Timeless) is a singer and songwriter. Meghan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what it was like growing up on Nantucket Island, how she felt about the age gap between her parents, and having to move because of her allergies. Meghan and Dax talk about how she got into producing songs at a young age, why she loves the true crime genre, and song writing competitions. Meghan explains how she deals with negative comments on social media, how she has become more open about her medical conditions, and having dual toilets in her bathroom. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Meghan Trainor (Timeless) is a singer and songwriter. Meghan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what it was like growing up on Nantucket Island, how she felt about the age gap between her parents, and having to move because of her allergies. Meghan and Dax talk about how she got into producing songs at a young age, why she loves the true crime genre, and song writing competitions. Meghan explains how she deals with negative comments on social media, how she has become more open about her medical conditions, and having dual toilets in her bathroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Aiden Feeney of Fog Town Farm is located on Nantucket Island, 30 miles off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Growing up on Nantucket as an outdoor enthusiast and working in landscaping and doing tree work during high school, Aiden became inspired to learn about agriculture and spent time in New York and in Vermont in college working on farms. In 2019, he returned to the island to start Fogtown Farm on leased conservation land. Now five years later, he has two acres under cultivation and is expanding to an additional three and a half acres on newly leased land. The demand for local produce year-round on the island is great. So, over the years, he's added caterpillar tunnels along with more high tunnels in the coming seasons. The wind and winter storms make year-round growing on the island especially challenging, but Aiden has found creative ways to persevere and grow his farm business. Along with his wife Natasha and their new son Arlo, Aiden is committed to year-round growing and supplying his island community with the freshest vegetables around. Check out the folks who make the show possible... RIMOL Greenhouses quality greenhouses and high-tunnels. Johnny's Selected Seeds vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources. BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements. ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

Aiden Feeney of Fog Town Farm is located on Nantucket Island, 30 miles off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Growing up on Nantucket as an outdoor enthusiast and working in landscaping and doing tree work during high school, Aiden became inspired to learn about agriculture and spent time in New York and in Vermont in college working on farms. In 2019, he returned to the island to start Fogtown Farm on leased conservation land. Now five years later, he has two acres under cultivation and is expanding to an additional three and a half acres on newly leased land. The demand for local produce year-round on the island is great. So, over the years, he's added caterpillar tunnels along with more high tunnels in the coming seasons. The wind and winter storms make year-round growing on the island especially challenging, but Aiden has found creative ways to persevere and grow his farm business. Along with his wife Natasha and their new son Arlo, Aiden is committed to year-round growing and supplying his island community with the freshest vegetables around. Check out the folks who make the show possible... RIMOL Greenhouses quality greenhouses and high-tunnels. Johnny's Selected Seeds vegetable, flower, and cover crop seeds. Visit the Growers Library for a wealth of growing resources. BCS America for two wheel tractors + implements. ... and, as always, our work is powered by the individual growers who support us every month over at patreon.com/notillgrowers. You can pick up a copy of The Living Soil Handbook if you don't have one already, as well as a No-Till Growers hat or other merch, check out our YouTube channel, and you can ask you questions or share your insights into ecological market gardening on our free growers forum at notillgrowers.community.chat

KGMI's Adam Smith chats with Dianna Hawryluk while she visits Nantucket Island and the Whaling Museum with a group of KGMI listeners on the Bellair Cape Cod and the Islands Tour.

Doug sits down with Peter Burke who is the Executive Director of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce. Peter stops by the studio to discuss all the upcoming events and activities that the Chamber is involved with including an upcoming Ribbon Cutting at the new Color Up Nail Salon on Old South Road, Memorial Day parade and Figawi. He was also excited to tell us about the upcoming Restaurant week happening on island from June 2nd through June 6th. Find all the restaurants involved on the chambers website. He also talks about an upcoming Public Speaking seminar with Marsha Egan on June 6th from 12-1pm at the Chambers office at zero Main Street.  To learn more and find details about what's happening with the Chamber of commerce visit their website https://www.nantucketchamber.org/.

Actor. Painter. Businesswoman. All around creative spirit. In this very special Share the Chair episode, CH chats with one of her longtime inspirations, Ellie Cornell. Some might know Ellie from her portrayal of Rachel Carruthers in 'Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers' (it's our fave scary movie, what can we say.) But Ellie's artist journey has evolved to include her passion for painting. Join us as she reflects on her days as a working television and film actor (including being taken under Bill Murray's wing ... yes, that Bill Murray); her lifelong love of painting (and from her front porch, no less); connecting to Nantucket Island's spirit of place (we also share that sentiment); and, always finding a way to honor and stay true to one's creative callings (because, as she says, there is a place for all of us).   Show Notes Ellie's full list of film, television and producing credits can be found on her IMDb profile. The theatre company she had previously been a part of is  Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. She also has participated in productions put on by the Theatre Workshop of Nantucket located on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts. Front Porch Studio is the online home of Ellie's paintings and home goods that are inspired by her long time affiliation and love of Nantucket. The book Ellie references that she reads daily is 'The Book of Awakening' by Mark Nepo. Those interested in learning more about Nantucket, Massachusetts can visit the town/county official Web site. The Nantucket lighthouses CH mentions are: Brant Point, Sankaty and Great Point (a.k.a. Nantucket Light). Young's Bicycle Shop is where CH rented both car and bike during her visits; she also stayed at Brant Point Courtyard. The Ship's Inn is the Bed & Breakfast establishment that Ellie was a  part of for over 20 years. James Lipton's Inside the Actor's Studio questionnaire, and the original Bernard Pivot/Marcel Proust versions that inspired it, can be found here. Our C17 version is our own take on these two famous questionnaires.

Executive Director of the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce Peter Burke stops in to talk about all the cool things that they have going on here on Nantucket. Peter talks about getting your business signed up for their upcoming Guide Book and their Rock Solid Grant. The deadline for both are coming to a close very soon. Peter also brings up the famous Daffodil Festival which is taking place April 25th through April 28th. He mentions the need of volunteers for the event and activities leading up to the Daffy. To learn more or to volunteer visit the Chamber online at https://www.nantucketchamber.org/. 

Instead of the usual "each week we choose a theme, and bring you 3 or 4 stories on that theme" business, we throw all that away and bring you 20 stories—yes, 20—in 60 minutes. Ira Glass introduces the idea of doing 20 stories in one hour.Act One: Contributor Starlee Kine talks to actor Tate Donovan about the day he felt he was being exactly the kind of celebrity he'd wanted to be: when suddenly, he was approached by a kid with a camera.Act Two: Writer and producer Scott Carrier recognizes a woman he sees in a restaurant.Act Three: Susan Drury talks about "Swap and Shop," a local radio classifieds show that has become a low-tech, personable sort of Ebay.Act Four: From Patty Martin: a one minute, four second vacation on Nantucket Island, involving a lot of waving.Act Five: From Vicki Merrick, Eric Kipp, and Jay Allison at Transom: scallops on Martha's Vineyard.Act Six: From Blunt Youth Radio: a story of a possibly bad "food situation" at the cafeteria in juvenile detention.Act Seven: Jonathan Goldstein, host of Wiretap, brings us this story about The Penguin as a young man.Act Eight: Two brothers, ages 12 and 13, have very different ideas for their dog's name.Act Nine: Elaine Boehm overhears a couple in her pet shop, trying to choose a dog collar.Act Ten: A two minute play called “Title,” written and performed by Greg Allen and Heather Riordan of the Chicago group, The Neo-Futurists. It's part of their long-running show "Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes."Act Eleven: Author David Sedaris on cell phone usage in restrooms.Act Twelve: Brent Runyon reports from the kids' section at the public library.Act Thirteen: Catherine and John, two college undergrads, do a babysitting gig together. After the kids are asleep and the two of them get hungry, John doesn't think they should eat any of the food in the house; they settle on a compromise.Act Fourteen: Mystery and missing flavor at the hot dog plant.Act Fifteen: Author David Rakoff worked at an advertising agency, and could see exactly where its technology was going.Act Sixteen: Someone sits next to the printer. You see him forty times a day. What's his name? What does he do?Act Seventeen: Richard Kerry has an impressive ability: he can recreate the sound of a whole swamp.Act Eighteen: Author Chuck Klosterman and his friends make a party game out of comparing television shows to rock bands. They call it "Monkees Equals Monkees."Act Nineteen: Every year 1,200 new army cadets arrive at West Point. Once they say a single sentence correctly, they can go to their barracks. But not until then. David Lipsky reports. He's the author of Absolutely American.Act Twenty: Teenage girls from a detention center perform a song for their parents.Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org

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Grace commemorates the 60th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy with some of the most-talked-about aspects of that fateful day: the facts. Who killed JFK? Who knew about it? Why are these answers still unknown? Then, Grace discusses our current president and his trip to Nantucket Island.

Part Two of our series on the whaleship Essex brings us from Nantucket all the way around Cape Horn to the Pacific whaling grounds, and the climactic showdown with 'the largest and most terrible of all created animals.'  Sources:Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W.W Norton & Company, 2008.Ellis, Richard. The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. University Press of Kansas, 2011.Heffernan, Thomas Farel. Stove By a Whale: Owen Chase and the Essex. Wesleyan University Press, 1990. Pappas, Stephanie. "Why Has a Group of Orcas Suddenly Started Attacking Boats?" Scientific American, 24 May 2023. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-has-a-group-of-orcas-suddenly-started-attacking-boats/Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000.Philbrick, Nathaniel. "'Every Wave Is a Fortune': Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon." The New England Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, Sep 1993, pp. 434 - 447.The Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex: The True Story that Inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Warbler Classics, 2022. Shoemaker, Nancy. "Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth." RCC Perspectives, no. 5 (New Histories of Pacific Whaling), 2019, pp. 17 - 22. Support the show

This week begins our multi-part episode on the whaleship Essex, famously 'stove by a whale' in 1820, leading to an epic tale of survival, determination, and just a bit of cannibalism. Part I focuses on the history of whaling industry in (first) Britain's American colonies and (then) the young United States, with special attention to the island of Nantucket.  Sources:Bouk, Dan and D. Graham Burnett. "Knowledge of Leviathan: Charles W. Morgan Anatomizes His Whale." Journal of the Early Republic, Fall 2008, pp. 433 - 466. Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W.W Norton & Company, 2008.Ellis, Richard. The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. University Press of Kansas, 2011. Jacob, Karl. "Nantucket's Bid for Survival During the War of 1812." Nantucket Historical Association, 2023, https://nha.org/research/nantucket-history/history-topics/nantuckets-bid-for-survival-during-the-war-of-1812/Lu, Donna. "Nearly 200 stranded pilot whales die on Tasmanian beach but dozens saved and returned to sea." The Guardian, 22 Sep 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/22/nearly-200-stranded-pilot-whales-die-on-tasmanian-beachMichaels, Debra. "Lucretia Mott (1793 - 1880)". National Women's History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/lucretia-mottPhilbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea. Penguin Books, 2000. Philbrick, Nathaniel. "'Every Wave Is a Fortune': Nantucket Island and the Making of an American Icon." The New England Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, Sep 1993, pp. 434 - 447. Shoemaker, Nancy. "Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth." RCC Perspectives, no. 5 (New Histories of Pacific Whaling), 2019, pp. 17 - 22. Check out our Patreon here!Support the show

Doug is joined in studio with Abby Slosek of Moores End Farm to discuss the Nantucket Island Fair for 2023.  Abby tells us all about bringing the fair back this year to Children's Beach on Sunday September 24th from 10-4pm.  She explains that they are raising funds to help bring the fair back to the Tom Nevers fairgrounds for 2024 and we need the community's help to pay for tents, prizes, pumpkins, storage for our materials, and all that goes into making the island fair happen. As you know, the fair is put on by all volunteers. It's really the last Nantucket  event put on by the community for the community.  Events include: Gertrude's farmstand exhibition, local music, food by Gypsea and other local food vendors, artisans and community organizations, children's games like pumpkin ring toss and pumpkin painting, can toss, ducky draw hay jump and more. Fair games like 3 legged races, watermelon eating, cupcake eating, egg and spoon races and everyone's favorite the Hot Pepper eating contest for a cash prize! Please consider carpooling, walking or biking as parking will be limited. If you'd like to volunteer please email nantucketislandfair@ gmail.com.

I am back from a 1-month hiatus after needing to take some time off and hit the proverbial reset button.In this episode, I share my 6 favorite ways to reset your life when you're in a funk and just can't seem to come out of it.  I packed my bags and headed to Nantucket Island, disconnected from social media, got out in nature and learned a few things, which sent me back to California with a new perspective.Please share in the comments your best trick for getting out of a rut.  We've all been there…let's share our tips for getting out of it and getting back on track!Tap the link in bio to listen to this solo "6 Ways to Hit the Reset Button and Super-Charge Your Life."To stay connected with Better Place Project and for updates and behind the scenes info, please follow us on social media:Website:https://www.betterplaceproject.org/ Instagram: @BetterPlaceProj To follow Steve on Instagram@SteveNorrisOfficialFacebook: Facebook.com/BetterPlaceProjectPodcastTwitter: @BetterPlaceProjEmail: BetterPlaceProjectPodcast@gmail.com

This week host Joanna Roche talks with Susie Tapley the founder of MAST. Joanna talks with Susie about how she came up with the idea of MAST and what the organization is all about. Susie explains that Nantucket Island, our oasis is a conduit for expressions of wellbeing, visionaries of practiced presence, and futures of normalized love and healing. Through this portal we can each meet transformation. Join Susie and MAST for their launch party Friday June 16th at 49 Faregrounds road. Visit https://www.mastnantucket.com/ today! To learn more about the Maria Mitchell Association visit https://www.mariamitchell.org/.

An over height truck got stuck in the Sumner Tunnel yesterday Afternoon. President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden attended the tree lighting ceremony on Nantucket Island yesterday. Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Kari Lake is suing stating that election laws were broken. Five minutes of news that will keep you in "The Loop."

This week Georgie shares the process of building a house on Nantucket including the highs and lows.   Part 1 Why We're Building a House – 00:02 Part 2 The Process– 00:12  Part 3 The Experience *how it's felt* -  00:33 Part 4 The Fun Part * our vision for the house* – 00:48 _______ SUPPORT GAL PALS ON PATREON   https://www.patreon.com/galpalspodcast   _______   ADDITIONAL EPISODES YOU MIGHT ALSO ENJOY: Gossip Perfectionism & Self Sabotage    Jealousy    Resentment   Letting Go   _______   CONNECT WITH US Instagram Join: Gal Pal Corral   ENGRID Instagram: @livengproof Email: engrid@livengproof.com Liveng Proof Podcast Website   GEORGIE Instagram: @georgiemorley The Chasing Joy Podcast Website

In this episode, I interview Ian McCarthy the Founder, and CEO of Blue Claw Group based in Cape Cod, United States. Ian has set up his own business to provide landscape construction and maintenance services and assist contractors in their similar journeys. With over 20 years of experience working in different industries, Ian has decided to build his own contracting and consulting firm through his experience and the encouragement of his former and loyal employees. Blue Claw Associates was established in 2021 and has been running for over a year. Growing his business with over 10 million mark in revenue and 60 FTEs. Ian has said that growing a small business requires developing consistency in treating your employees right and making them feel not above you. So he says, “You keep a similar schedule so that you're available and your employees see you.” This Cast Covers: Managing a business as a landscape and masonry contractor. Former accountant on Nantucket Island in the mid-90s. Started his business through his experience of handling clients with different kinds of businesses. Helping a lot of business owners around their country through his business workshops. Managed a sports business back in 2006. Dealing with a captive audience that needs them and appreciates the finer things in life. Learning how to build confidence in public speaking and engaging with people. Importance of showing good treatment and taking care of your employees. Went to numerous landscape conventions and trade shows. Getting the real value of the business by planning to sell it. Links: Ian's Linkedin Ian's Facebook Ian's Instagram Additional Resources: Blue Claw Group The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber     Quotes: “You have to be profitable to be sustainable, and then make clients happy.” —Ian McCarthy “You're going after your prey and whatever you can do to get well known.” —Ian McCarthy “You have to do what you have to do to make it right even if you did something wrong.” —Ian McCarthy “Just be bold and be sociable, don't be afraid to ask for business.” —Ian McCarthy “The key thing is to run a business while you own it as if you're planning on selling it.” —Ian McCarthy     Music from https://filmmusic.io “Cold Funk” by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com. License: CC by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 

The luxury passenger line Andrea Doria was the pride of post World War 2 Italy. The ship was the embodiment of beauty. In 1954, she and the Swedish ship Stockholm collided during dense fog off Nantucket Island. This is the story of the loss of one of the most luxurious ships in history. I am joined by professional diver and researcher Andrea Murdock Alpini.

Ep 64 - Generating Innovation in Family Business  Listen in as members of the Wetzel* family, Lawrence & Michael*, of Air Innovations discuss the need to constantly seek the advice of others, Michael's unique entry into the family business and a fun story about an exciting design they developed for a major Las Vegas attraction.     OUR GUESTS  Lawrence E. Wetzel, P.E* Lawrence E. Wetzel is an engineer, an inventor and a businessman. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and BA in Mathematics from St. Vincent College. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the States of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California, and holds five U.S. patents and one European patent.  Starting as a junior engineer for a mechanical contractor, he quickly rose to become President of a division. In 1983, he founded Clean Room Technology and rapidly built it into an international business with sales of $20 million. After merging his company in 1989 with the French company Clestra, he spent the next several years as Chairman of Clestra worldwide cleanroom operations with sales of more than $40 million.  In 1994, Mr. Wetzel co-founded Exponential Business Development Company and raised over $5 million in capital to invest in entrepreneurial emerging companies in Upstate New York. In 2002, Exponential was merged with a NYC venture capital firm.  Early in 1996, Mr. Wetzel and his son, Michael, acquired controlling interest in Floratech Industries, a manufacturer of refrigerated floral display cases for supermarkets. Early on, the Wetzel's began expanding their product offerings, such as an innovative new air conditioning product, called HEPAir, for the indoor air quality market. In 1999, Floratech acquired the air conditioning manufacturing division back from Clestra and in 2001 changed its name to Air Innovations to better reflect its broader mission.   During this same period, Mr. Wetzel became the part-time Chairman and CEO of a Rochester, NY based software development company called Verax Systems. Mr. Wetzel successfully turned the struggling company around and in 1999 sold it to a division of Siemens AG.  Mr. Wetzel is active in many philanthropic and business organizations in the Central NY community. He and his wife, Glenda, reside in Cazenovia, NY and enjoy travel, boating, and biking. They also enjoy renovating older real estate properties, such as an 1820 farmhouse on Nantucket Island, an 1865 house in Charleston, SC and the latest is an 1810 post and beam cottage in Cazenovia.  Michael Wetzel* Michael Wetzel is President and CEO of Air Innovations. Wetzel is a graduate of Clarkson University where he received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He is a licensed Professional Engineer and is the holder of seven US patents.  Prior to Air Innovations, Wetzel was based in Strasbourg, France for four years working for a multinational company building cleanrooms in Europe and the Mideast. Previously he worked stateside as an engineering manager in the HVAC construction industry. Since joining the company as president and CEO in 1996, and after he and his father Larry acquired controlling interest in Floratech Industries, Wetzel has grown Air Innovations from a company focused solely on floral coolers to one that addresses wide variety of refrigeration, air conditioning, and filtration needs.  About Air Innovations  Air Innovations is a world leader in designing and building environmental process control systems for applications that can't be addressed with standard HVAC equipment. They customize packaged solutions for temperature, humidity, filtration, pressurization, and with direct-expansion, chilled-water, or thermoelectric capabilities.   ---  If you're a family business or a family business consultant and want to be on the show, share your story and help other family businesses, send us an email to producer@thefamilybizshow.com or visit us at The Family Biz Show | Family Business Podcast With Michael Palumbos (familywealthandlegacy.com) to fill out our web form!  ---  *not affiliated with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.  CRN-4905137-081622  Michael Palumbos is a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. Securities and investment advisory services offered through Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., a broker/dealer (member SIPC) and registered investment advisor. Insurance offered through Lincoln affiliates and other fine companies. Family Wealth & Legacy, LLC is not an affiliate of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. and its representatives do not provide legal or tax advice. You may want to consult a legal or tax advisor regarding any legal or tax information as it relates to your personal circumstances. 

Food and Travel Nation with Elizabeth Dougherty Broadcast Date:  7/09/22 Elizabeth takes us to Massachusetts... specifically, Nantucket Island.  You'll hear how the woke city council there passed an ordinance that allows both men and women to enjoy the beach without a top.  website:  FoodAndTravelNation.com email:  Elizabeth@FoodAndTravelNation.com text: (321) 877-9898

In this week's episode, I got to talk with Renee Perkins, CEO and Founder of Nantucket Island Marketing (NIM). NIM is an east coast digital marketing agency that provides growth-driven marketing solutions which connect small businesses with their target customers that was founded in 2020, right after the pandemic hit. We got to chat about what inspired her to launch her business and hear how she has built a successful marketing agency from the ground up, straight out of college. When the world shut down in the middle of her post graduate job hunting and with hiring at a stand still she took matters into her own hands. Renee's parents are also entrepreneurs so the idea of starting her own business was not completely out of left field. With a degree in marketing, and being raised on Nantucket Island, Renee started going door to door to offer her marketing services. It was then that Nantucket Island Marketing was born. Listen in to hear Renee's unique business launch story, what decisions have made the difference in her success and how she stays motivated through it all. “I want this to be a we thing and not just a me thing,” she shared on staying motivated. Renee started building her team in the first few weeks of launching her business and credits her success to having a solid support system early on. In this episode you will hear: -How the pandemic propelled her to launch her marketing agency straight out of college -Why she started building a team early and which hires she made first -How she scaled her business operations -Where she invests her own marketing dollars -Her tips for a seasonal business marketing strategy  -Why outsourcing can actually bring in more revenue    We'd love to hear from you. Comment on this week's episode's Instagram post with how Renee's story has inspired you and be sure to share with a friend that needs some fresh inspo too! If you have any other tips or ideas leave a comment under the post for this episode on our Instagram page @quotablemediaco or shoot me a DM. You can also connect with us at our Quotable Magazine Instagram account @quotablemagazine   For any show ideas, to submit a guest to the podcast, or if you have any questions, please visit https://quotablemediaco.com/podcast.  Did you love this week's episode?  Leave us a review! Connect with Renee and Nantucket Island Marketing: Email: info@nantucketislandmarketing.com  Web: https://www.nantucketislandmarketing.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nantucketislandmarketing/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nantucketislandmarketing  Try Thinkific and turn your expertise into revenue, no technical experience required.   Please note, this is an affiliate link which means that if you try the service using my link, I'll receive a small commission. This helps support the podcast and allows me to continue to make free content. I only recommend products and services that I use and love.

Museum of African American History-Nantucket Island Years later justice is visible after the Museum of African American History was sprayed with racially motivated graffiti. Two citizens voiced their outrage and complained. Well their complaints were ignored by the police department and town officials. Later on the District Attorney's office and State Attorney also ignored the complaints. Until a civil complaint was filed to clear up everyone's loss of hearing. Will justice finally come ashore on Nantucket Island? We will see. Facts are from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Superior Court Department Civil Action No. 2175CV00004 James Barros and Rose Marie Samuels, Plaintiffs, v. Dylan Ponce, Defendant. Attorney John R. Hitt https://www.maah.org/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/charles-perry/message

My special guest is author William Alexander who's here to discuss his book Haunted Nantucket and the paranormal activity reported there.   In 2005, Haunted Nantucket Island came out in hardcover and softcover to a limited regional audience. It was the result of two years of interviews and research into the history, folklore and paranormal activity of Nantucket Island. Now, with the advent of E-Books, author WB Alexander has added new stories to his book, changing the original 22 true ghost tales into 33 ghost stories and an essay written for an online magazine about ghosts. You are invited to feel chilled, excited and astounded by a book about the spirits of everyone's favorite New England Island when you download the new version of Haunted Nantucket Island. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TeZa Lord is an author, artist and spirit activist who likes to disseminate meditative videos, posts and inspiring visual aids in social media realms, using hashtags such as: #stayWoke #higherConsciousness #IamCivitas. She's into being a metaphorical Civitas, not entertaining or pitching, but uplifting others through books, public speaking, and offering creative expressions of various sorts. Balancing the weight of society's tendency toward negativity is her artist/author/spiritual activist role today.TeZa's motto is: Love is the weapon of mass illumination.Website: https://tezalord.com/

We talk to Bill Hoss about Turkey hunting (00:06:18), his trip to John Eberharts Whitetail Bootcamp out in Michigan (00:26:50), and then we get into what it's like to hunt bucks on Nantucket Island (1:09:00).  GET HUNTSTOCK TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/huntstock-tickets-222933689667?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

Quill up, bitches! We're churning butter with everyone's favorite Founding Daddy, zine aficionado and OG hustlepreneur—Benjamin Franklin—and his dishy diary “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.” From chasing strumpets to stacking shillings, inventing stoves to getting gout, why Quakers suck and paper money rocks, this is one revolutionary ride. Ale not included.PLUS! In the VIP Lounge—Steven & Lily's R-rated guide to Nantucket Island!Subscribe to the VIP Lounge here:https://www.patreon.com/cbcthepodTickets to our West Coast live shows here:04.28.2022 The Virgil - Los Angeles https://link.dice.fm/R2018e819e5e04.30.2022 Cafe Du Nord - San Francisco https://www.ticketweb.com/event/celebrity-book-club-cafe-du-nord-tickets/11828665Follow us for more fun!Instagram: @cbcthepodTwitter: @cbcthepodPlease, please give us 5 Stars on Apple Podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

  TUNE IN: APPLE PODCASTS | SPOTIFY | STITCHER | AUDIBLE Today we have another episode from our Women in Food series where we have teamed up with Courtney Doyle of Clandestine Kitchen to dive into the South Shore Food scene. Today we are speaking with Kate Papaleoni of Kate's Table. Kate began her cooking career at the Club Car Restaurant on Nantucket Island. She quickly climbed the ranks to Garde Manger preparing salads and desserts. After moving to Boston, Kate sharpened her skills at Boston University's Culinary Arts Program and went on to cook at the finest South End establishments before joining the team at La Fete Catering. From there Kate began her family and then created Kate's Table, a bespoke full-service catering company. Kate dives into her background, years in the food industry and what originally sparked her interest in working in and with food. She touches on moments that have stood out and what she feel the challenges are within the catering industry as well as how she has worked to overcome them. She talks through her suggestions for those wanting to get into the industry, specifically catering as well as her experience as a female working in the food industry. We talk about how the food industry has changed in regards to women in the workforce and how she hopes to see it evolve. Kate discusses what inspired her to start Kate's Table and how it has evolved over time and why. We talk about Kate's favorite local products to work with as well as the benefit to sourcing and eating local. She talks about her favorite dishes and what to be on the lookout for. links + resources WHERE TO FIND KATE WEBSITE ON INSTAGRAM ON FACEBOOK thank you to our sponsors! Today's episode is brought to you by Flodesk. You may have heard me talk about this before but the key to our email marketing game is by far, Flodesk. We've been using it here at The CC for over a year now and what I love about it most is the pre-templated designs and easy branding incorporation. I'm also a huge fan of creating workflows for our various audiences! Creating and sending emails is one of the easiest tasks on our to-do list! If you'd like to give Flodesk a try you can click here to get 50% off of your Flodesk subscription!  

Barbara Durkin of Massachusetts is a former VP of an international hair care company, a Realtor, a licensed  general contractor, & a small biz owner who vacations where offshore Cape Wind was proposed in 2001.  She was then solely concerned about negative aesthetics of an industrial scale wind project, the project blight the areas' National Historic Landmarks, the views of Nantucket Sound from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Island being spoiled.  But, after conducting 17 yrs of independent research on offshore wind, Barbara is well-versed on a multitude of untenable risks and adverse  impacts associated with it,and they extend well beyond aesthetics.

Our guest is John Piotti, the president and CEO of American Farmland Trust, the nation's leading non-profit dedicated to protecting farmland, promoting sound farming practices, and keeping farmers on the land. How did a kid growing up on Nantucket Island, hoping to design sailboats, end up in Maine (and now in Washington DC), and become laser focused on preserving rural life and the livelihood of America's farmers?Photo Courtesy of American Farmland Trust.Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Let's Talk About Food by becoming a member!Let's Talk About Food is Powered by Simplecast.

One morning in 2008, 39-year old Gretchen Crain was working out at her gym in Jupiter, FL, and met a 33-year old personal trainer named David Anthony. Sparks flew immediately and after a few years, the two got married. While David was charming at first, he soon showed signs of violent behavior and mental health issues. Then during COVID-19, Gretchen disappeared and David blamed the deadly virus. Then we cover the disappearance of Dr. Margaret Mary Kilcoyne on Nantucket Island. Kilcoyne was last seen on January 26, 1980. She went to bed at 10:00 or 10:30 p.m. Just before 7:00 a.m. the next day, when her brother came to wake her up, she was gone. Kilcoyne has never been heard from again.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/badsign)

Patrick Ridge, the President of the Board of Directors for the Nantucket Island Chamber of Commerce, and Laura Burnett, the Treasurer, talk about the position of executive director and what you can do to apply if you qualify.

Sitting on a secure Bitcoin network is a podcast version of 'Treasure Revealed' https://tribes.sphinx.chat/t/treasurerevealed Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TreasureRevealed1 Recently searched barhead plum island at newberry port massachusetts uh found ancient ancient roman coins and uh century spanish gold doubloons there all very very recent so here's a good example of a protected little nest egg location revealed right here good example of this is a sand pocket one half mile up marconi beach wellfleet massachusetts it was actually first revealed in newspapers in 1982 when barry clifford found the wreck of 1717 pirate ship widow prior to that the beachcombers would plug silver pieces of 8 at the same spot after every wild northeastern storm and keeping uh their fines and this lucrative location uh to be a very dark secret uh barry clifford by the way opened the museum at cape cod you can go visit with some of the fines from wida many cape coders uh had picked up many silver coins in in numbers reaching hundreds over the years over the several last several years without divulging the source of the riches so here are some of the locations race point provincetown no said beach spells n a n-a-u-s-e-t beach and chatham dunes are other known spots at cape cod for fighting 18th century silver coins washed in from shipwrecks or possibly from some pirate cash buried deep in the sand fisherman artur duane found 60 000 in gold coins near chatham light in the late 1800s supposedly from a treasure chest buried there by pirates before dwayne died he revealed to relatives that he didn't dig out all the gold for a stone had covered it over and about 25 percent of it remains buried in the sand in january of 1934 earl rich of yardmuth dug up a clay pot of silver coins and two pirate cutlasses at great island cape cod one of the cutlasses has a date 1703 scratched onto it the isles the islands of cape cod shoot uncovered pirate caches for the dedicated treasure hunter as well and especially elizabeth island kari hank and nashuan islands in particular for pirates were known to anchor often in tarpon in cove these islands are still pretty well desolated and had to be choice spots for pirates to bang their wealth a man and wife pirate team eric and maria cobham active in 1700 supposedly buried the cold on nantucket island and two 19th century pirates named johnson and walker admitted to burying treasure at martha's vineyard walker a mate aboard the sailing bridge splendid poisoned his captain john harding and transferred 60 000 silver dollars in congress bags from the splendid to pirate captain johnson ships in mary alice johnson in 1846 buried his half share of the treasure at the beach near east sharp light walker also buried 30 000 pieces of silver at martha's vineyards but later while moving his treasurer to bury it on the mainland in falmouth he was captured his share of the treasure was confiscated by the sheriff johnson hearing of walker's capture fled new england and never dared to return for his share of the silver supposedly it still remains buried in the sand three children started a gold rush at edgewater beach in hall massachusetts h-u-l-l hall massachusetts 1967 after finding old coins in the sand stephen doyle age 11 and his sister julie h6 first uncovered a wooden box in the shallows while waiting and with it a sealed leather pouch they got it up to 70 coins of silver and gold most dating in the early 1700s and some were extremely rare words spread like wildfire and hundreds of locals carrying shovels and metal detectors scoured the beach but only a few more coins were found across boston harbor from hall near nick's mate island 18th century mexican coins some 1200 of them were found at deer island winthrop in october of 1906. also in 1880 a gold rush like that in hall was ignited at wintry then darfield age 12 found a ripped canvas bag half filled with silver and gold coins on short beach after a storm they were mexican an --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/treasure-revealed/support

If you are looking for a great series that will leave you loving Nantucket Island and the people that live there, look no further! This series is so fun and you will fall in love with the characters!

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you'll hear about: Nancy Thayer's path through college and graduate school, her work as a professor, how she hit a glass ceiling in academia, her decision to pursue writing as a full-time career, her life on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, and a discussion of the book Girls of Summer. Our guest is: Nancy Thayer, the New York Times bestselling author of Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, A Nantucket Christmas, Island Girls, Summer Breeze, Heat Wave, Beachcombers, Summer House, and Moon Shell Beach. Her books center on families and relationships: marriage and friendships, divorce and love, custody and step parenting, family secrets and private self-affirmation, the quest for independence and the normal human hunger for personal connections. Her work has been translated into German, Finnish, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Danish, and Polish. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She was a Fellow at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. In 2015, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Mainstream Fiction. She has lived on Nantucket Island for over thirty years with her husband Charley Walters; her daughter is the novelist Samantha Wilde. You can find Nancy's videos and photos of Nantucket Island life by following Nancy Thayer on Facebook, or Instagram. Today's book is: Girls of Summer, a novel set on Nantucket, which explores themes about single parenting, female friendships, starting over after a divorce, opioid addiction, romance between older women and younger men, climate change, and rising waters. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, co-producer of the Academic Life. She used to live on the same island as Nancy Thayer; they often met for lunch or coffees and talked all things books and writing and friendship and life. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: --This article about Charley Walter's work for Rolling Stone --The Rolling Stone music review referenced in the N magazine article --Stepping, by Nancy Thayer --Let it Snow, by Nancy Thayer --Nantucket Noel, the 2021 Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie based on Let It Snow by Nancy Thayer --Three Women at the Water's Edge, by Nancy Thayer --Family Reunion, by Nancy Thayer --I'll Take What She Has, by Samantha Wilde --The Business of Being a Writer, by Jane Friedman --This podcast about leaving academia --You can find the shark tracker referenced in this podcast here --The Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket You are smart and capable, but you aren't an island and neither are we. We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we'd bring on an expert about something? DM us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/academic-life

Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you'll hear about: Nancy Thayer's path through college and graduate school, her work as a professor, how she hit a glass ceiling in academia, her decision to pursue writing as a full-time career, her life on an island off the coast of Massachusetts, and a discussion of the book Girls of Summer. Our guest is: Nancy Thayer, the New York Times bestselling author of Secrets in Summer, The Island House, The Guest Cottage, An Island Christmas, Nantucket Sisters, A Nantucket Christmas, Island Girls, Summer Breeze, Heat Wave, Beachcombers, Summer House, and Moon Shell Beach. Her books center on families and relationships: marriage and friendships, divorce and love, custody and step parenting, family secrets and private self-affirmation, the quest for independence and the normal human hunger for personal connections. Her work has been translated into German, Finnish, Hebrew, Russian, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Danish, and Polish. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English literature from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She was a Fellow at the Breadloaf Writers' Conference. In 2015, she was awarded the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award for Mainstream Fiction. She has lived on Nantucket Island for over thirty years with her husband Charley Walters; her daughter is the novelist Samantha Wilde. You can find Nancy's videos and photos of Nantucket Island life by following Nancy Thayer on Facebook, or Instagram. Today's book is: Girls of Summer, a novel set on Nantucket, which explores themes about single parenting, female friendships, starting over after a divorce, opioid addiction, romance between older women and younger men, climate change, and rising waters. Our host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, co-producer of the Academic Life. She used to live on the same island as Nancy Thayer; they often met for lunch or coffees and talked all things books and writing and friendship and life. Listeners to this episode may also be interested in: --This article about Charley Walter's work for Rolling Stone --The Rolling Stone music review referenced in the N magazine article --Stepping, by Nancy Thayer --Let it Snow, by Nancy Thayer --Nantucket Noel, the 2021 Hallmark Channel Christmas Movie based on Let It Snow by Nancy Thayer --Three Women at the Water's Edge, by Nancy Thayer --Family Reunion, by Nancy Thayer --I'll Take What She Has, by Samantha Wilde --The Business of Being a Writer, by Jane Friedman --This podcast about leaving academia --You can find the shark tracker referenced in this podcast here --The Marine Mammal Alliance Nantucket You are smart and capable, but you aren't an island and neither are we. We reach across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we'd bring on an expert about something? DM us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

We sit down and discuss Coach Jon Gruden and his derogatory emails from 7 years ago. He resigned from the Las Vegas Raiders. The emails were recovered during an investigation involving the The Washington Football Team. My guests are Russell J Ramos, Frank Slaughter and Derek Rose.We will also touch on the investigation into the Museum of African American History on Nantucket Island. Since 2018 the culprits were known, but no one has been charge by the police. Something looks fishy around the island. Nantucket is a beautiful island, but this situation is ugly.--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/charles-perry/message

On the night of 03-11-2018, the Museum of African American History at 27 York St. Nantucket, Mass the building was disgraced with racial graffiti saying "N****** Leave. There was also an illustration of a male private part near the racial statement. Its been over 3 years with no disposition, but has been turned over to the District Attorney's Office according to the Nantucket Police Department.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDcS-SZ48yY&t=2443shttps://www.maah.org/nantucket_campus#ReallyCharlie #ReallyCharliepodcast #NewBedford #Nantucket--- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/charles-perry/message

BGBS 064 | Bill Creelman | Spindrift |You Have to Be a Little Hardheaded Bill Creelman is the Founder and CEO of Spindrift Beverage Co., Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Spindrift, Bill co-founded Stirrings which sold to Diageo in 2009. Bill grew up on a farm in Western Massachusetts where all the food was unprocessed, seasonal, and fresh. In 2010, he began making his own sparkling beverages to help him kick his soda habit. He wanted something refreshing, with real ingredients he could pronounce and enjoy with his young family. After much trial and error, he achieved this by combining 2 simple ingredients: fresh fruit and triple-filtered sparkling water. He named it Spindrift. Today, Spindrift is made up of over 100 passionate employees dedicated to changing the sparkling beverage industry. Spindrift is leading beverages into a new age of innovation, transparency, and ingredient simplicity by offering a product with no artificial sweeteners, no natural flavorings, and no essences – just sparkling water and real squeezed fruit. Spindrift was named to Inc. Magazine's 500 fasting growing companies, is a two-time recipient of BevNet's Product of the Year and was featured on NPR's How I Built This in 2020. Bill lives outside of Boston with his wife, Harley, and 4 kids. In this episode, you'll learn… Follow what feels right in the moment and push through the challenge. It might just lead you to your dreams. Tips that can make you stand out in a business, like utilizing consumer input as guidance and taking advantage of your packaging as your initial communication point with a consumer The bruises and scars you gain from challenge will become valuable knowledge in the future Resources LinkedIn: Bill Creelman Website: drinkspindrift.com Twitter: @drinkspindrift Instagram: @drinkspindrift TikTok: @drinkspindrift Facebook: @drinkspindrift Pinterest: Spindrift Sparkling Water Quotes [19:53] I just get so much pleasure personally out of working with farmers that are working with their hands and growing something that's delicious, and then we get the opportunity to reimagine it as a sparkling water. There's something about that idea that's really exciting to me. [32:54] I think in a sense, you have to be a little bit hard headed to this business…challenges, just broadly speaking, are an everyday part of what we do. [52:38] (Packaging) is really is the main way you communicate with a consumer, especially early on. You have to have a package that has cuts through the clutter. That immediately speaks to someone that has a shopping cart that's small, and a kid is screaming, and they're on their cell phone, like even in that environment, it needs to speak to them somehow. [59:31] I really think that even though it was a longer journey for me I'm sure than other folks who have done it more efficiently, I think those nicks and bruises and scars along the way ended up being so valuable now to help inform decisions and keep the boat rowing in the right direction. Have a brand problem? We can help. Book your no-obligation, Wildstory Brand Clarity Call now. Learn about our Brand Audit and Strategy process Identify if you need a new logo or just a refresh Determine if your business has a branding problem See examples of our work and get relevant case studies See if branding is holding your business back and can help you get to the next level Book Your Brand Clarity Call TODAY Podcast Transcript Bill Creelman 0:02 I think I was 15 or so and one of the captains I was working with, I was the maid on the on the boat. Their charter fishing boat, told me about this word called spindrift. And it was you know, the weight we are getting pounded by surf coming back from grade point out of the car are headed to the island. And it was a beautiful sunny day, but we were soaking wet and he said, you know what this mist is that is blowing off of the top of these waves. And I didn't get called spindrift and it's referring to sort of the whitewash and the wave is as the wind blows, and it's sheared the top of the wave off it for some reason. I just thought that word was really interesting. Marc Gutman 0:50 Podcasting from Boulder, Colorado, this is the Baby Got Back story Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like big backstories and I cannot lie. I am your host, Marc Gutman, Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby Got Back story. We are talking about sparkling water. Not just any sparkling water, but flavored sparkling water. And hey, you, yeah, you the listener who's a non reviewer, I know who you are. And seriously, what gives? You know that this podcast ain't cheap. But we continue to produce it as a service to you. How about you turn that non reviewer frown upside down and rate and review us over at Apple podcasts or Spotify, Apple and Spotify use these ratings as part of the algorithm that determines ratings on their charts and reviewing is cool. Everyone's doing it. Alright, let's get on with the show. Hear that? Cold, refreshing, sparkling water. Now today we have sparkling water easily accessible at our fingertips. We have all sorts of brands that are producing it non flavored flavored we have spiked sparkling water. We have all sorts of seltzers. But if you think about it, it wasn't always that way. sparkling water is kind of a new thing. And today's guest is Bill Creelman, the founder and CEO of spindrift. Yeah, spindrift that delicious Lee flavored sparkling water with real fruit juice. And he's your hero on today's show. Bill is an entrepreneur and his journey has been anything but straight and easy. Today, spindrift is made up of over 100 passionate employees dedicated to changing the sparkling beverage industry. spindrift is leading beverages into a new age of innovation, transparency and ingredient simplicity by offering a product with no artificial sweeteners, no natural flavorings and no essences. Just sparkling water and real squeezed fruit. spindrift was named Inc magazine's 500 fastest growing companies is a two time recipient of bednets Product of the Year and was featured on one of my favorite podcast the one that this baby got backstory. Whole podcast was based on NPR. Here's how I built this in 2020. Bill lives outside of Boston with his wife, Harley and four kids in this is his story. I'm here with Bill Creelman, the founder and CEO of spindrift bill, welcome. Bill Creelman 4:11 Thanks, Marc. Appreciate the time. Marc Gutman 4:14 Absolutely. And before we get into it, we're going to hear all about Spindrift and how you founded the company. But for those listeners that may not be familiar with this delicious flavored sparkling water, why don't you set it up a little bit and tell people what is Spindrift? Bill Creelman 4:31 So we are we are the alternative challenger brand in a very big category called sparkling water. So, our point of difference, you know, among kind of a big, crowded categories, we offer real ingredients as the base for the flavors so, we go out and gather lemons, oranges, grapefruits, berries, from around the country and literally squeeze them and add them to sparkling water instead of using unnatural flavor, which is really where the category lives today. And the results of this sort of delicious you know, pretty full flavored a little pulpy, colorful alternative to sparkling water. Marc Gutman 5:15 And I don't want to get too far down this part of the story, but you said something that really caught my attention. And you said that we put real food and ingredients in the water because that's so rare. Is that something that is just not happening prior to Spindrift? Bill Creelman 5:32 It really is like, strictly from an ingredient perspective. It does not exist other than our brands. So you know, it, it seems like, it's almost an absurd statement to make, like, how could that be true? So yeah, the category is really developed off of the back of the natural flavors, natural flavors, we don't really know quite what these things are, there are 3000 ingredients that are regulated outside of the FDA, they could originate with a fruit they may not, you know, you really don't know as a consumer. So we just kind of left that conversation, where it was and, and went with a product that we recognize, you know, fruit has color and has a little pub. And that's where we're kind of happy. You know, and that's really our big point of difference in this space. Marc Gutman 6:25 I'm sure we'll get into this further. But it just blows my mind that this is something that we're not all already experiencing or hadn't experienced prior to Spindrift. And so we'll talk about that. But as you know, you were a young kid. And as you were, you know, getting going probably around the ripe age of nine or something like that, did you think that you would be in the sparkling beverage category, as it were, was that something you had always dreamed of? Bill Creelman 6:53 I not specifically that. I mean, I I was I was lucky enough to be exposed to food. at a really young age, both kind of where food came from i was i was grew up in a farming environment at Western Massachusetts. And then I was lucky enough to also go out to the Cayman Islands, to to where I got to see, you know, fish and lobsters and oysters, so, and then I just, I love food. I had a little kid, I was always the one that ordered the weird thing on the menu that no one else wanted to try. So I think this is a story of like, just really being lucky enough to take something I enjoy doing on the weekends and turn it into, into into a job during the week. And so Marc Gutman 7:43 When you were that age, and did you grow up on a working farm, or do you have…? Bill Creelman 7:47 No, it was just like a 30 acre farm, Leicester mass that was had a garden and we had a bunch of animals. So it was not Yeah, we did not do any commercial farming. But, you know, we grew a lot of stuff. And that was sort of the mentality of the town. That actually still is, you know, kind of that way out there. And that had a big impact on me for sure. I mean, you know, we, we, we definitely, I feel like I took some of that sensibility with with me. Marc Gutman 8:17 So it was that your dream as a kid? Were you? Did you want to be a chef or involved in food? Or was there something else that was catching your attention at that point? Bill Creelman 8:26 Yeah, I think I mean, the great thing about food and why, if you go to like a Food Show, you'll see lots of people with family recipes, that it's incredibly stressful. And it's fun, you know, generally you're making something sharing it with, with friends. And so I think all of that is interesting to me. And it really still is interesting, you know, I love what I love the design side of this space, I love the recipe development side. You know, the selling of it is really interesting to me like just to propose something to to a retailer or a restaurant that they may not have tried. So it's not a whole bunch of things I would say for me, and I knew I was interested in definitely doing something on my own. I was not my dad worked in, in kind of big CBD or for small sports, kind of Western Mass for a number of years. And he really was kind of pushed me to try to do something on my own. And, and so that that was nice to have that sort of backing throughout. Marc Gutman 9:36 That's interesting. Why did your dad push you to? You know, based on his experience, why did he think hey, it'd be way better if bill were doing something on his own versus working at Spalding after me. Bill Creelman 9:47 Yeah. You know, I think he loved it. I know he loved his time there. I think it had to do with some of the macro climate he was seeing just Recognizing the big brands, the idea, he went to college and work for a big brand that everyone knew that idea was starting to fade away, I think he, he himself was introduced to some entrepreneurs, young people that had started things, and to see their excitement, and it wasn't an excitement that he necessarily thought existed in kind of a bigger, more established business. And, you know, I guess, for all those reasons, he was just say he and my mom were both, like, incredibly supportive. I mean, literally, even some of the failed businesses early on. So, yeah, I think that I mean, that is that is so important, you know, because it's, I know, it's not always the case, you know, there's often pressure to go do something more conventional. And I didn't have any of that, you know, as far as they were concerned, we could kind of do whatever we wanted. And that, you know, if you made money, or if you, you know, you obviously needed to support your family and sort of remain buoyant, but there was no pressure to do anything conventional to call it. Marc Gutman 11:10 Yeah. And so when I was that the narrative and the message as you were going through high school, and if so, what was your play? What was your plan for after high school? Did you go to college? Or were you like, I'm going to go start a business right away? Bill Creelman 11:21 So I jumped in with both feet pretty early. I mean, I started tinkering around with sort of starting my own thing, if you want to call it Pat, from, you know, super early, so you know, we we've worked a food stand at a craft fair. And in our town starting at, you know, eight 910. We tried to, you know, we started handing out business cards to just sort of do odd jobs, like early teens, and, and then tried to start like a little sort of painting business, in high school. And then eventually, I got into the fishing business, I was amazed. And I got my captain's license to run my own boat when I was, you know, kind of 20 or 21. It just like, you know, silly, silly ideas along the way that, that were fun and interesting, all centered around food, usually food or drinks for. So I don't know, I don't, I had done enough. By the time I got to college that I knew that it was interesting to me. And there was absolutely no history of success at all. At this point. It was much more defined by failure, for sure, but it was really fun and challenging. And that's not really I think, was what I was excited about continuing. After, after, after school. Marc Gutman 12:55 Yeah. And you had mentioned, as you were talking about some of those businesses, you said we who were you building those businesses with? Bill Creelman 13:04 Well, I either friends or my brother, who also was interested in this sort of stuff. So the painting business, he was trying to eat a couple years older, and he was trying to get off the ground. And so I kind of tagged along, you know, yeah, yeah, a little like, an 18 hole golf, you know, shack through jack that he was running with a friend and I jumped in on that. I mean, it was it, we were just always conspiring to try to figure out sort of ways to do fun foods, things that I've done, not always food, but just businesses, with the idea that wouldn't it be interesting if this idea that we have was also appealing to other people besides us? And that was, that was really the level of complexity that in lead that Marc Gutman 13:57 For sure, for sure. And even that, to me is a little bit interesting, because as we know, really one of the keys to successful businesses solving a problem that people have, but I remember that when I was young and starting business, I didn't care about problems. You know, like, that was my problem. My problem was I wanted some money, or I wanted a business. I wanted to do something cool. So was there some of that in there where you really you had at that age, like seeing some like, Oh, wait, there's a gap here and I'm gonna solve it. Bill Creelman 14:24 Yeah, definitely not at that level of sophistication. No, really, more was like, I want to, you know, I need to have any money in order to fuel my car and maybe live on you know, independently, you know, we get I started living on our own I think I was 15 when I started limping away in the summers and he was 17. And so you know, all of that takes place resources and, and there was just there was a very brightly lit line between You know, the need to find all of this, and then, you know having to be, kind of come up with a solve on your own, you know, there wasn't, there was never this thought that someone else was gonna swoop in and fund it on our behalf. And so that's, that's, you know, that's really where a lot of that, that thinking started. Marc Gutman 15:24 And so maybe I missed it I apologize if you said this, did you end up from there going to school? Or did you get right into? Bill Creelman 15:32 No, I didn't know I went, I went to high school in western Massachusetts. And then I went to college in Washington DC. And literally the day after I graduated from Georgetown, I turned my captain's test and went out and began trying to get a captain's got my cat's license began running running a boat. But but but what actually an important part of sort of chapter in this was while I was at Georgetown, I took an entrepreneurship class. This was why an entrepreneurship really was not part of any university to speak of, or at least, it wasn't something that was on my radar, to Georgetown had had a kind of program that they offered is just kind of a one class program you could opt into, and the the only assignment for the class was to write a business plan. And you you, you work the entire semester handed in, and whatever your grade was on that, on that paper was your grade for the semester, and that that was an incredible, really neat moment for me, because I hadn't realized that you could, you know, organize yourself that way around, you know, writing down an idea and putting the structure to aid and then building a p&l in and building a team and then margin and all the things that, you know, normal business could have, prior to that it was just more, you know, kind of, you know, yellow legal pad and sort of working as we want and hoping for the best. So it was actually it was that that idea for my business plan was Nantucket. vocalists there was a it was a it was, it was really the idea of using snow foods from from Nantucket Island and offering it around to consumers who couldn't get a permit to Nantucket, it's to be hard to get to, you know, in the offseason and, and that that was not an idea I pursued but it was the foundation of my first business that was called Nantucket harvest. And that that was really where that was when I formalized and created analyse and got a business partner. And it really went into the food business formally for the first time. Marc Gutman 17:51 And then that's making the connection why you then went and got your captain's license. And, and yeah, during that chapter, and that's like crazy to me, by the way, like, like what, you know, I when I was in college, I certainly wasn't thinking like, what kind of fancy foods do people want? Or, you know, or like, how do I bring like food to me, that was just not the way I was thinking. And so I'm super, like, impressed and just amazed that this was at the front of your, the front of your thought and your insight, but also like, how did you think that you could do this? Bill Creelman 18:26 I think it was just sort of foolish competence, honestly, because ultimately the business was was not all that successful. Hey, it was it was super exciting and fun. And we eventually turned that business into a different business that was successful. But I was I think I just didn't know enough to realize that I was about to take on a bunch of risks and challenges that we ultimately had. But honestly, like that same energy that I mentioned earlier, I had a pet a dog, I just loved working with the business. The idea of the business was after the smokehouse and harvest became working with local purveyors from from the island of Nantucket. But even more broadly, we brought in other islands, the arches vineyard and then Cape Cod. And we just loved working with these incredible products, you know, smokers propane and scallops and a local an ice cream manufacturer and, and, and so, honestly, even if we weren't trying to figure out how to make it into a business, I just the idea of working with them was what was really interesting and that I think that is there's a thread between Nantucket harvest and Spindrift. It's it's still that same way like you know, I just get so much pleasure personally out of working with you know, farmers They're working with their hands and growing something that's delicious and, and then we get the opportunity to re reimagine it as a sparkling water. Like, you know that that's just, there's something about that idea. That's really exciting to me. And it's, you know, and and so that was a harvest was the first time I got to really experience that. Marc Gutman 20:20 And so what happened with Nantucket harvest? Like, why did that not take off what was hard about it? Bill Creelman 20:25 So this is right when the internet was starting not to date myself, but it actually worked really well for sort of two months of the year. So October, November, into the beginning part of December, people were buying holiday, thanksgiving and holiday food items to give us gifts or for themselves. The problem was 10 months of the year, when people just in general, and I'd say this is even true somewhat today, like they just don't purchase those types of products that way around. And so there's some people that have cracked that, you know, Harry David has done a great job and there are others, he didn't have the courage to sort of so. So we just, we would do really well for the holidays. And then in a business spread sort of tail off that the good part about it, though, was we were learning like crazy. And we were meeting all these interesting people and one of the people we ended up putting into our harvest sort of a storm and had a really successful wholesale business, he was making dry rubs, grilling, without the salt and sugar really kind of a progressive product for its time called the anti offshore seasonings and that offshore is what we shortened it to and he became our business partner. So we sort of supplemented our revenue and and spread out some of our her risk and build some efficiencies by adding his product to our to our assortment and offered a year round. And that's where we first began working with Whole Foods and and we can sit down on a number of other retailers that have become you know, great relationships for us. Long term. Marc Gutman 22:15 So then what what became of that business so you're you're you've got as it's working out for you and the seasonality of the fishing business and bringing those those purveyors together. And then it sounds like the Nantucket offshore the seasoning business that's really propping things up. But but maybe, maybe, maybe maybe not as much as I interpret it. But like so what, what happens with that with that business. Bill Creelman 22:38 So as I as I feel like the theme on your show, and just in what I've experienced in my career, you end up at the decision point, it's stuck, you know, somewhere, you can't do everything well, and now we have a name for we call it simplified amplify. So we we eventually got to a point where we couldn't operate both successively, and eventually just stopped producing Nantucket, harvest catalogs and sort of, you know, purchasing those wares, and focus our time entirely on Antarctica offshore. The other thing that happened that we had missed is, you know, apart, lock in, and I think but also part that we were well positioned is we came out with a line of cocktail products, it was basically an add on to the crust, the rubs, for grilling, we added rimming sugars, so the sugars that go around the rim of a cocktail glass, but it was just as cocktails are starting to become popular again in the early 2000s. So they sort of Carrie Bradshaw Sex in the City like cosmos, you know, that that time in our lives, and suddenly cocktails were everywhere. And it was also at the same time to premium spirits are starting to become popular in the US. This is, you know, the advent of kind of great use and Chopin is had a one and absolute and all of these great really high quality spirits did not have a mixer to go with them. He was so all of us interested in cocktails great liquor products, but no mixers and so we we ended up chasing what was started as just to rimming sugar became a whole line of cocktail products called stirrings and stirring this was was really for, you know, four or five years was really kind of whatever this third generation of Nantucket harvests and we really put a lot of time and energy into and we ultimately sold that business to diazo. You know, cut In the mid 2000s, Marc Gutman 25:02 Well, I love that you forever have like, made me think of that time in history as the Sex in the City Cosmo. But the and we'll talk about that eggs in just a second. I'm assuming it was a good one. But kind of back to that, that decision point where the why in the road and you had a dream? You know, and you're, you know, you've put a lot of energy into it your fishing boat captain? And was that a hard decision to make to split off and let and talk at harvest go? Bill Creelman 25:30 It really was I think, you know, later on in my life. The other institutions I think are are clear at that time it was it was really driven by two things. One is we were we were heavily leveraged financially, I mean, I had not really drawn a salary in 10 years, any kind of anything meaningful was sort of living off of my, my wife's salary and huge amounts of debt, we had had a number of manufacturing issues. So I would love to say it was like a choice that it was much more of a survival mode, like how do we how do we all keep this going to live to tell. And really, when you looked at a very kind of unbiased view of the p&l of these different businesses, it became pretty clear that the most sensible, reliable choice was going to be in this whole sales, in essence decisions specifically, you know, continuing to focus on on the cocktail products. I think, you know, you, I guess what I would say is like, you make those decisions, in part because you think they're the right decisions for the business, but the consumer also makes those decisions ultimately, for you. And two cocktail products were purchased, really, outperforming anything else we were doing, we had people calling left and right retailers and consumers saying like, Hey, we, we think this is really neat, would you you know, would you be willing to sell them? Here, there and really, so the consumer spoke I think loudest, and then the business, you know, from a very cold and calculated point of view, you know, the the sort of, we knew enough by them to say, we want to be in a business that's less risky and more predictable. Then Then the other business models that we're playing around with at the time. Marc Gutman 27:35 Yeah and I can imagine you said was 10 years, you mentioned that, you know, you're pretty much living off your, your wife's income from her job. I mean, let's talk about that for a second, which she said she liked, you know, go bill go or she like, when are you going to, like, stop chasing this fishing thing? Bill Creelman 27:52 That's actually a much more interesting interview than this interview. No, she, her point of view is crazy. Really. And, and probably not certainly represented. I mean, you know, this was pretty compelling entrepreneurs, I know that it's true for all partners. But it was exhausting, frankly, I mean, just, you know, to have constantly be running out of money constantly, you know, sort of setting a timeline, and then not meeting it for whatever, you know, they won't and next year thing, you know, things will be easier or less challenge. less challenging. You know, that's, that is, that is not a fun way to spend your 20s and early 30s. And so, I mean, you know, I don't know if this is oversharing. But you know, I remember when I when I purchased her wedding ring, you know, I had to purchase it on a credit card, I think it was sort of like 40% interest rate, because my credit was so horrible. So, you know, what, when we were eventually married and began sort of sharing finances, she she got to see the bills coming in at a 40%. Essentially, what, what, who would ever sign up for this? And it was, you know, so the, I think, I think it was it was really hard. And, you know, I am I'm incredibly grateful. You know, I think part of it was fun and exciting and interesting and different. But, you know, at the very core of me, you have to have someone that's willing to go on that journey with you. I mean, there's just, it is not for everyone to have that amount of it's really the uncertainty. I think it's so hard, just not really knowing on a day to day basis for planning purposes and, you know, life planning, financial planning, you know, family plan, like you just you really, really are not ever totally Sure, you know, we know what will happen next. And so, yeah, I'm incredibly lucky and grateful. And that's Marc Gutman 30:17 A common question I get all the time is Marc, can you help me with our brand? Yes, we help companies solve branding problems. And the first step would be to schedule a no obligation brand clarity call, we'll link to that in the show notes, or head over to wildstory.com and send us an email, we'll get you booked right away. So whether you're just getting started with a new business, or whether you've done some work and need a refresh, or whether you're a brand that's high performing, and wants to stay there, we can help. After you book, your brand clarity call, you'll learn about our brand audit and strategy process, we'll identify if you need a new logo, or just a refresh, will determine if your business has a branding problem. And you'll see examples of our work and get relevant case studies. We'll also see if branding is holding your business back and can help you get to the next level. So what are you waiting for, build the brand you've always dreamed of. Again, we'll link to that in the show notes, or head over to wildstory.com and send us an email. Now back to the show. So why didn't you quit? You know, prior to that, that sale to DOJ or like why like, like 10 years of like uncertainty not knowing, like, grind in and out, like, why didn't you quit? Bill Creelman 31:43 We had seen. So when we started years, I don't know, let's do five or six years in, as we made this decision to pivot to cocktails, and move away from the male or business and move away from the rubs in focus just from cocktails, I think there was enough now, there that we felt we had to kind of see it through to the end. I mean, ultimately, we were sort of proven right and wrong to a certain extent. I mean, cocktails were very popular for a period of time. And then actually, in the late 2000s, when the economy turned it actually kind of went the other way. And so it was a great lesson, just in our business where food and trends around what people like for a while and then don't like, you know, that is that is that is a something we are very acutely aware of and are constantly metod, you know, kind of mindful of, but I think I just said to your question more directly, like I think it was, we felt there was enough there. And I think I think in a sense, you have to be a little bit hard headed to this business. There's there's going to be reasons, you know, daily that, you know, this does not make any sense or you hear no are not interested or, you know, sorry, is not the right time. I mean, that's all you hear her for the early stage of these businesses, from retailers, from, from bankers, from lenders from, you know, investors. So, like challenges, just broadly speaking, are an everyday part of what we do. And so it didn't feel insurmountable to continue to power through, we ended up you know, we ended up getting approached in it kind of as an investor not to purchase a business with this with a liquor company and that diazo and so that that also helped us believe like, okay, we're not the only one to think this is an interesting idea. There actually are other people that see this is the same opportunity. And so that certainly was a brief some energy into the room too. Marc Gutman 34:10 Was that you know, sale to diazo was that like a huge win, like, were you like, Oh my gosh, like, Bill Creelman 34:17 Yeah, no, it wasn't I mean, it's funny. I so, so no, the economy definitely impacted that outcome. And, and model is fine, you know, and exciting to have gone through that. I think it was actually, you know, when you sell these businesses and sell from very hard, you know, your your team ends up sort of going in different directions and you develop such relationship with these brands, they start to become part of you. And you know, I I knew that and I'm even you know, we talked about it just always as a business that you really want to be part of the startups for the product. For the journey, because when you actually get to the experts, you know, it's usually a law firm at two in the morning on a Tuesday and no one. Not even quite sure. Did you close? Did you not know what happened? Now? What do we do? And it's, it's really challenging, usually. And so, so yeah, in terms of it was, it was it was important to do it, and we're grateful to them. And you know, but I'd say, looking back on it now with the benefit of, you know, I think it was much more about the learning things and, and making sure that it needs to be move forward that there were, you know, that we, we built the business in a way that was an evolved version of that experience. Marc Gutman 35:54 So after that, kind of weird, awkward Tuesday, and they told you, you may or may not have closed, and, you know, would you do, like, Well, you know, you had been investing sounds like close to 10 years of your life into something every day. And then what? Bill Creelman 36:14 Yeah, so we, I, I actually, I was interested in the sparkline space for, kind of, towards the end of my time and started and we had a line of trade URLs and tonic waters that we had come out with. And, and we've seen some kind of anecdotal evidence that that was an area that was interesting and exciting to consumers, we didn't really pursue it all that much. But it was a learning and then I imagined in my mind that I was gonna have this nice long break and clear my head and then really start thinking about it. And I think actually in a good way, I ended up jumping in and, and kind of starting almost right away thinking about sort of in and in part two was a subject that Tiago is actually bringing up a fair amount, you know, they, for the liquor brand they miss, I think it's something like seven out of 10 drinks are made with a mixer. So they were thinking about soda and soda going away, which is really a lot of the narrative at the ended 2000s and concerns around sugar and health and what will happen if there's no more shimmer of soda. And I kind of jumped into that, and out of the big guy coaching her, because I mentioned I grown up, you know, on a farm in western Massachusetts, and was really interested in food, you know, I was like cooking a lot and, and really realizing more than ever, like, interested in health and wellness and ingredients and how ingredients are processed or not processed. I'd also spent some time living abroad at that point. So with the partnership with the audio, I spent two years of London and the Europe they were actually quite far ahead in terms of unprocessed ingredients. So you know, things that we think about pasteurized cheeses, or unpasteurized or milk pasteurized or not pasteurized. My experience in Europe was that a lot of the things that we really process in the US are significantly less processed over the UK and in Europe generally. So I came back with all of that and started looking at the sparkling space and, and really, I would say like, almost right away, within a month or two realize that is a huge category of sparkling beverages. There were there were really no products that met anything close to the standard of kind of real or unprocessed or that that I was now used to, you know, you see eating, cooking with and that, you know, that's that's a really fun moment when you kind of realize that because I had enough information about the packaged food world by them to know you know how to do it or some of it anyway. And in here you had a category that's enormous and sparkling beverages. And so I didn't then take any time off. I jumped in with both feet and almost like within a month or two of working, finishing my commitment, Stirling's I became working on spinner full time just myself. Marc Gutman 39:46 Yeah, and so let's kind of like reset the stage here a little bit because I think that everyone listening to this has gone through this. Call it sparkling or seltzer revolution, right, like now having flavored water of some sort sparkling water. Now we have alcoholic seltzers. But really that's exploded in the last like, I don't know, this is called five years or something like that. Prior to that this stuff wasn't really on anybody's radar. So like, what did this look like? What did the sparkling category look like to you? And what was this like, insight where you're like, Hello? Bill Creelman 40:31 It was, you that is a perfect way to paint that picture. Because it wasn't on anyone's radar, including ours, honestly. I mean, we, while we jumped into it was both seed starting kind of back end of 2009. And I see we meaning myself, and then thinking about it with, you know, sort of liquid a sort of the liquid kind of development, you know, ingredients, folks that I started to work with, there was no obvious path. In fact, I think the most popular opinion was that sparkling beverages, were going to go away that you were going to have just left the assumption, just because so divided, I was really starting to disappear. So the thing people couldn't solve for was caffeine, you know, a lot of soda consumption is based around caffeine and, and having it at a time when you're looking for a little bit of a left. And in order to replace that, you know, the thought was, okay, well, maybe it's energy drinks, or maybe it's iced coffee. So it was this incredible challenge, and just the head scratching challenge. And it wasn't just, it wasn't just at the product development level, it really what's happening at the retail level. And that that's really where Matt, in the consumer level anticipated the retail for a minute, you know, is a big problem when a product, like a category like soda starts to shrink for retail, and I mean, they, you know, it just is such a big volume driver for them, it takes up so much space in the store. And so one of the fun things that started happening was we started to have conversations with people at the retail level. And they they were raising a lot of the same questions and wanting to engage in a conversation about how you solve it, you know, what, what's coming next. And those relationships became invaluable for us. The consumer actually, I think already kind of got it could be looking back when you when you think about when you look at some of those early products and and and what was happening with the regional brands around the country. So you got to remember, we flavored sparkling water, there were there were regional brands or Super Regional brands, exclusively there were there really were no national brands in the beginning. And then there were two international brands and Perrier and San Pellegrino. And that was it, like, you had polar you had a cry in the center of the country. And, you know, mountain valley spring water, you know, you had these sort of strong topo, Chico, these strong regional brands, and then a couple of international. And I think if you were in those markets, at the time, even when we were starting, you probably saw the beginning of that sparkling water, really kind of uptake we didn't. So we read, we actually started with more of a soda profile. So we thought the better. But what was going to solve the soda problem with a better soda with a with a soda that had cleaner ingredients that was you know, better for you. So it's more about whole ingredient approach as opposed, but it had some sugar in it. And actually even our early versions had natural flavors. It was really once we got into a we are two years in 2012. We started in 2010 that we began making the unsweetened version of wheat we were a refrigerated brand for four and a half, five years. And really more soda I would say oriented is here again we we sort of as we began to make the product and then the consumer began to really now voiced their concerns around ingredients and sweeteners. And we also figured out the production side of the business that's really where we we jumped in with both feet and actually once again, I guess, retired the soda line so we actually got out completely even though it was actually quite a good business and we decided we wanted to sort of go all in on sparkling water, you know, kind of 2020 1516 that's that's when you know that's when we really begin to focus our all of our energy around This is space. We're now in today. Marc Gutman 45:04 And in Where did the name come from? And as you answer that, it might also lead us to you mentioned Hey, like, I started this by myself, shortly thereafter leaving, you know, your your commitment after the acquisition. So where did the name come from? And then what did the growth of the company look like? Like when did it go from, you know, Bill plus somebody? Bill Creelman 45:30 The name originated from from my days working out on the fishing boat. So I was, I think I was 15 or so. And one of the Catherine's I was working with, I was the maid on the boat where a charter fishing boat, told me about this word called spindrift. And it was, you know, the way we were getting pounded by surf coming back from grade point out to the far end of the island. And it was a beautiful sunny day, but we were soaking wet. And he said, you know what this is mist is that is blowing off the top of these ways. And I didn't and he said, Well, it's called spindrift. And it's, it's referring to sort of the whitewash and the wave as, as the wind loads, and it sheared the top of the wave off. And there's some reason I just thought that word was really interesting. I don't know why exactly, it just I thought spin and drift are two kind of fun fun words. And I know why exactly it stopped. But someone was fast forward to when I was thinking of a name for the sparkling water lying in bed, you know, freshing and, and sort of laid in lovely in this sort of thing. I came back to that word, as far as the growth did it for a while, just bought myself for a couple of years. And then it brought on a woman who who was amazing what she did and had it had done an amazing job pioneering other brands. And I had worked with her it's turnings. And she helped me on the west coast. And so we kind of went at it kind of, on either side of the country. And, and then as we started to get more traction, we brought on an operation person and customer service and began to kind of build up the team more formally. And that is, you know, I guess I'd be remiss if I didn't pause there and say like, the team is really, you know, when you're when you're going up against Coke and Pepsi and the National huge multinational like day one, we realized right away that we had to have a strategy that was different than everyone else, like we were not going to win just going right down the middle of the grocery store. For neither these are these businesses are impenetrable if you take that approach. And so really, like, what what what we did is we sort of held hands together and said, like, we're gonna come up with a way to try to outsmart or out you know, kind of flank the competition go places that they would not think to go or can't go because of their consumer or their customer advantage, whatever that was, and, and we still we started, actually in food service. So we, we really grew up in our brand really got traction early on, in places like sweet green and Panera and chopped and these other, there were a whole, there's a whole class of food service accounts there, we're starting to redefine what it meant to have a salad and a sandwich. At the same time, we are trying to redefine what it meant to have a sparkling beverage. And we really partnered on this challenge of redefining this whole experience of consuming, you know, Lunchables really are just having a meal what that meant from an ingredient standpoint. So in that in that same thing happened with some of our retailers like Trader Joe's and target and Whole Foods and independent retailers like they also that we had a special value for them that cannot be met by some of the bigger guys, the categories like they really got really read and they got, who we were, why we are different and that our brand is meant more to them, or at least was interesting enough that they were willing to give a shot. And that and that that was a really important. Those were really important moments for us. Marc Gutman 49:40 Yeah, and especially where you're sitting in your position. Now that all sounds pretty awesome and great, but I can only imagine that you're sitting around conceiving a new business, you're like we're gonna go into a category that no one really knows. We're gonna go Oh, by the way, part of that category is competing with The biggest brands in the world. And we're going to evangelize that. Like, let's go team. And then I'm sure that had to be super terrifying at times. And how did you know that it was actually going to work? Like at what moment? Because I have to imagine there were times you're like, I don't even know if this is going to even pull this off. Bill Creelman 50:21 Yeah, I think you're always in the recesses of your mind. And I think it's actually healthy to always be saying, like, we've got to keep, you know, we should never sort of rest on our laurels. So I would say we are, we still have that kind of mentality as a group. Even today, I think, I guess, you know, in 2016, we, we cut and moved pretty directly into into the canned format, we had been in glass for a little while we got into the APAC, which is our current configuration, if you see it's in a retail store today, and we were lucky enough to begin working with, you know, some some local and more national retailers that has sort of put us into the stats now like really for firmly. And one retailer Trader Joe's, I would say just because it's a branded product, I didn't share that, but they, you know, they really are incredibly, you know, gracious with us in terms of in terms of, you know, putting it putting our product out into the world and just without any real, you know, Porsche or any any big advertising campaigns, and they go, Well, how is it gonna sell like, it's on the show, our people interested or not, and in a product really was really well received. And I think that was probably a moment for us where we said, okay, I think even when we step away from the brand for a minute, not they're pushing like crazy are sampling or convincing people to have to buy it, you know, every moment of the day, there seems to be some organic excitement about this proposition that isn't just, you know, fleeting. And that, and that was certainly really important. Marc Gutman 52:23 And you mentioned packaging, and that you've gone through different packaging iterations, like how important they like, and that there's some shelf space and how Yeah, there's competition there. Like how important is do you think packaging is to the success of your brand? Bill Creelman 52:37 It's, it's super important. In terms of, you know, it really is the main way you communicate with a consumer, especially early on, you know, you have to have a package that has cuts through the clutter that immediately speaks to someone that has, you know, a shopping cart that's small, and a kid is screaming, and they're on their cell phone, like even in that environment, it needs to speak to them somehow. And so, I think, what was a big struggle for us in sort of a proof point in a lot of ways, but but more for God's sake, that there wasn't even really commonly understood language for this category. You know, some people in the northeast, seltzer, some people call it sparkling water, some people call it carbonated, dominated ingredient in the carbon. There was there was no, there was no commonly used vernacular, which is, which is exactly what you want. And in some ways, because it means the category is still maturing, but another way is presented challenges. And I would say the same as with the design aesthetic, you know, it wasn't as obvious to us. You know, because we have real ingredients, we have a couple of calories. We look at the packaging, every other brand in the category. There's zeros all over the front of their pack. Because there is no calorific value to a natural flavor. There's just just, there's just a flavor and so we had to figure out how to walk that fine line between making sure was really clear we are sparkling water. So we needed to sit in the right place in the store but also that actually a couple of calories were proof point that it's got lemons and oranges. Wow. And so that you can imagine the hours and hours of time just thinking about that delicate balance of being recognizable as a sparkling water but also being you know, pretty radically different than you know we have a little color No one's ever seen color and sparkling water. What's it doing in this perfectly water aisle? No one's ever you know, they just there was so much that was different about our product that had not been tested before. It was quite It was quite scary and but also So we started a loop of face to face with our consumer that we've now we have about 550,000 kind of drifters, which is what we call our community. And they we really wanted to hear from them. Like, tell us what you think. And we really think about that as our true north. Now, you know, whenever we launch a product, we sort of talk to them, we run a by them, we get their input. And they also, I think, feel very comfortable with, with sharing their point of view on things like packaging, and what what does it look like? And even with the recent launch of spinner spike, you know, we sort of did all of that kind of with their consumer input, even actually even retailer input, you know, along the way, because I found that that kind of collaboration sets you up much more for success than for going off into a room somewhere and just designing it and debuting and say, here it is, you know, you, you take a lot of the risk equation out of it. Marc Gutman 56:08 So what's your favorite flavor of Spindrift? And you know, you can't say it's like kids, and you can't pick one or anything like that, because it's sparkling water. Bill Creelman 56:17 On my line. I drink a lot. I drink, I average, six a day, something like that. And so I actually started with strawberry and pineapple kind of the breakfast, these sort of flavors. And then I always have a blackberry with lunch. I have a lemon with an espresso at two o'clock. I'm sort of a creature of habit. And then I sprinkled in half and a half along the way. So I have favorite flavors at certain times of the day. I would say more than an absolute favorite. Genuinely. Marc Gutman 56:51 Fair enough. I'll accept that. That's a great answer. I like that. And so what does the future look like for Spindrift as we're sitting here and looking forward with? Where are you taking Spindrift? And what are you most excited about? Bill Creelman 57:04 I think sparkling water is only just beginning. I think it is going to be it already is. But I think 2025 we think it will be the most important subcategory of beverage in our lifetimes. You know, it's projected now to be somewhere between 25 and $30 billion. But I started the business we're hoping against like three or four. And I'm including spikes in traditional flavored and all the versions of sparkling water. And so that from that point of view is only kind of 2% household penetration as a brand today, we we think there's only kind of up from here. So as a business, we're really preparing ourselves for that kind of growth and thinking about, you know, the the ultimate challenge that you have, as a startup, which is like how do you maintain the culture and kind of the energy and the creativity and compassion, with the backdrop of a bigger business and need systems and all the kind of normalization that you have to have structure Do you have to have as you grow? So I am We are thrilled, we're feel so fortunate to be a disposition as a brand, if you're really optimistic that, that we can really be, you know, one of the brands that sort of leads the way in terms of what the future of beverage will look like, I think it will be very different than the way it used to be when we all sat around and had big two liters of soda in the middle of our table, you know, with every meal. So we're excited for that. Marc Gutman 58:45 You think back to that young bill, who was hustling around Western Mass and trying to start businesses and at farmer's market and doing this and that. If you saw you today, what do you think he'd say? Bill Creelman 58:58 I think he would say you're a little crazy, just, you know, the time commitment and, and, you know, the sort of the resources and just anguish required. But I also think, in many ways, they you know, it's been it will be a worthwhile investment. You know, I think it's similar to the advice that I'm often asked sort of about by young entrepreneurs, you know, what does all this mean? How do we afford I think, I really think that even though there was a longer journey for me than I'm sure than other folks who have gotten more efficiently I think there was those next bruises and scars along the way ended up being so valuable, you know, now to help inform decisions and tend to you know, keep keep the boat running the state in the right direction. Marc Gutman 1:00:04 That is Bill Creelman of Spindrift. It always amazes me how overnight successes take 20 years to build. Also how previous businesses roles and experiences, often ladder up and connect dots to the next great business. One thing that stood out to me was Bill's comment about how important it is to stand out from the crowd to get the consumers attention in the midst of everything else they have going on. I also thought it genius to not just be thinking about what does my customer drink? But what do they eat? When they drink? What do they eat for lunch? Hmm. salads and light sandwiches. A brand should be there to finding those complimentary and adjacent brands are so important, yet overlooked by many businesses. Start thinking about the entire customer. And you might find an insight that will help you end up being sold at Panera Whole Foods and Trader Joe's as well. A big thank you to Bill Creelman in the entire spindrift team, keep sparkling. We will link to all things Bill Creelman and spindrift in the show notes. If you know of a guest who should appear on our show, please drop me a line at podcast at wildstory.com. Our best guests like Bill come from referrals from past guests and our listeners. Well that's the show. 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Full transcript as always:Hello guys, this is Daniel (The Vocab Man) and the idea here is that you explain to us the expression "it goes without saying" Can you give an explanation in your own words? And I thought I was coming to basically apologize, but I'm not apologize. You didn't come here to apalogize? That goes without saying, and I'm working on that, but I haven't been entirely upfront with you.And I just, in fact, I want all the members of operation keynote to receive the congressional medal of honor, full citizenship for myself. Well, that goes without saying and I would like the United States of America to purchase property for me on Nantucket Island, as a reward for all the countless lives I've saved. Eva: The expression, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, I think it's more or less the same as NEEDLESS TO SAY. It's used in reference to something that it's obvious, that we all know about it. Like in, "It goes without saying that we need to spend long hours using English if we want to speak and understand it without too much effort"And what has been your favorite city to visit? Well, I always love coming home to New York, so of course that goes without saying, but it was a, it was very exciting to see how...Eva: The thing is that I've never used this expression before, and I think it's more usual in formal situations as in political speeches or when someone is talking to an audience, to emphasize something that comes later in their talk: 'It goes without saying....blah, blah, blah'.I think that goes without saying, but we need more than that too. We need.... yeah. Eva: Yeah,  but I think it could be useful in our day to day. Imagine that we have a friend whose car has broken down. We can tell him or her: 'It goes without saying that if you need my car while yours is being fixed, you can take it'Or another example that could be familiar to most of us: a teacher saying in an exam "It goes without saying that if I get you cheating, automatically you'll get a zero. Why aren't we all out there looking, we have the cars and we have to clear enough room so I can get the RV turned around as soon as it's running now that we have fuel, we can double back to a bypass Glenn flagged on the map by him, easier and try to get through this mess. We're not going anywhere till my daughter gets back. That goes without saying,Eva: and Daniel, I'm curious about the reason you picked it, and if it's an expression that you use. What do you tell me?Thank you so much, Eva, for all of your explanations. These were really great. And actually I haven't used the expression yet, but I want to use it more often. I came across that expression several times when watching series and then I just decided to cover it. on Fluent vocabulary. And I find it hilarious that an expression exists that explains something that should be obvious to all the world, but for some reasons there are things in life which have to be spoken out, nevertheless, even if it's obvious. So in a way it's not obvious and that's the reason. So thank you very much, Eva. And thanks for tuning in. I am the vocab man, and you were listening to "fluent vocabulary" bye! Just one last thing here. In fact, too, as always can read along the transcript while listening to Fluent vocabulary, this is so valuable, especially when listening to this, all your bits from theories or movies, because they are really hard to grasp hard to understand and the transcript, gives you a hint and will help you to understand it. And of course, when listening several times that will boost your listening skills as well. The transcript is on my show notes.And of course, if you want to be part of the show, you can send me an email to myfluentpodcast@gmail.com. Bye.

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sermon transcript Introduction My kids know that I cannot stand computer upgrades. I just checked — attached to my App Store, there is this little number 52, meaning there are 52 upgrades for apps that are on my phone, to enable my phone to do clever, interesting, beneficial things. But those software people think I need them continually — so generous of them to provide these upgrades. Microsoft also thinks about me continually, and they have coming up with new ways that my operating system can improve. They hijack my computer for a while to make the computer better, but it has been my experience that not all of the upgrades are an improvement. Perhaps you agree. In contrast, as we study the new world that is coming, described in Revelation 21 and 22, we find an upgrade, if we can use that low word, that will be infinitely perfectly satisfying to us. We will in no way be disappointed. Romans Chapter 8 says, “Hope does not disappoint.” We will find that what we have hoped for is vastly small compared to the reality we will inherit; we will be overwhelmed by the beauty and majesty of the place. The more we have a sense of that now, the more energetically and courageously and fruitfully we will live. The more heavenly-minded we are now, the more we will put sin to death by the power of the Spirit, the bolder we will be in evangelism and missions. In every way, it will be better. We have a sense of this in Philippians 1. The Apostle Paul was incarcerated for the Gospel, facing the possibility of his own execution for Christ. He weighed his preferences to the two options of, on one hand continuing to live and serve Christ and his people on earth; or on the other hand, to die, to be executed, to depart and be with Christ. As he evaluated, he was torn between the two. It is remarkable that he wanted to wait to go to heaven so that he could benefit his brothers and sisters in Christ and benefit lost people by preaching the Gospel. Paul was imitating Christ’s attitude, how Jesus left Heaven to come to earth to save us. Paul imbued that attitude, wanting to stay on earth as long as he could, “…but to depart and be with Christ is better by far.” We will not be disappointed in that upgrade. It will be better by far. That is a heavenly world that is in some mysterious sense incomplete. The world we read about here in Revelation 21 and 22 is better by far than what we would go to today if we were to depart from the body. The New Heaven, the New Earth, the New Jerusalem, are better by far than the present reality of where the saints dwell now. Absent from the body means present with the Lord. That is better by far than this. But we will be so deeply, richly, fully satisfied with Heaven. The first half of Revelation 21 describes, first, the New Heaven and New Earth generally in broad terms. There will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain in that new universe. Then it zeroes in on the New Jerusalem, the capital city of that new empire of God. The city is described in architectural terms, telling of the heavenly architecture and layout of the city. We learn about its gates and foundations and dimensions and building materials. The remainder of Revelation 21 describes the New Jerusalem in mostly negative terms, what will not be there — no temple in the city, no sun, no moon, no lamp, no exclusions from the kings of the earth, no shutting of the gates at night for indeed there will be no night, no wicked persons, nothing impure at all — all that will be filtered out or changed in the world. Earthly Temple Fulfilled in Heavenly Worship The Ultimate End of the Temple We begin with the observation in Revelation 21:22: “I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” The earthly temple will be fulfilled in heavenly worship. Here, the history of the tabernacle and the temple, and of what God intended for those structures, reaches its final destination and fulfillment. The Tabernacle The tabernacle, then the temple, represented the idea of an earthly place where God would dwell in the midst of His people, where He would put His name. That would be the place where people would go to meet with God. The mystery is that because God is omnipresent, in some sense no more in one place than He is in another. But amazingly, He has chosen in this present age to reveal Himself more in some places than He has in others. When Jacob fled for his life from Esau, he came to a certain place, Bethel, where he lay down and had a dream in which he saw a vision of a stairway to Heaven with angels ascending and descending. Genesis 28:16-19: “When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, ‘Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.’ He was afraid and said, ‘How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.’ Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. He called that place Bethel (which means house of God).” He looked on that as a holy place. When God called Moses from the burning bush, God said, “Do not come any closer” but told him to take off his shoes, for the ground on which he was standing was holy ground. The place where Jacob met with God was an awesome place, the gateway to heaven. And the place where Moses met with God, at the burning bush, was holy ground. So in the Old Covenant, God chose to reveal himself more in certain places than in others. Jonathan Edwards, in his marvelous sermon “Heaven is a World of Love”, said, “Heaven is the palace or presence-chamber of the high and holy One... Of course, God ...is everywhere — he fills both heaven and earth. But yet he is said, in some respects, to be more especially in some places than in others. He was said of old to dwell in the land of Israel, above all other lands; and in Jerusalem, above all other cities of that land; and in the temple, above all other buildings in the city; and in the holy of holies, above all other apartments of the temple; and on the mercy seat, over the ark of the covenant, above all other places in the holy of holies. But heaven is his dwelling-place above all other places in the universe; and all those places in which he was said to dwell of old, were but types of this. Heaven is a part of creation that God has built for this end, to be the place of his glorious presence, and it is his abode forever.” Exodus 25-40 lays out how God ordained a tabernacle, or tent, where He would meet with the people. It was movable because the nation was out in the desert at that time, moving around. God gave Moses the details of the tabernacle — its building materials, how it was to be built, its dimensions — in a heavenly vision when He met with him on the mountain. The tabernacle was a representation of that heavenly vision. When it was built, God descended in a cloud of glory cloud and filled the tabernacle. This was symbolic of God’s desire to dwell together with His people. He wanted to be with His people so that they would be where He was and see His glory. The tabernacle was only a type, or a shadow, as the author to Hebrews makes it plain in Hebrews 8:5: “The [Levitical priests] serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven.” In the tabernacle, the Levitical priests poured out the blood of animal sacrifices, showing that it was only by the atoning blood of sacrifice that God would meet with sinful people like us. While the tabernacle was still standing, the way into the true most holy place was not yet disclosed because it was impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. It was a type and a shadow of what was to come. The Temple Later, after David was settled as king over Israel, he lived in a beautiful aromatic palace of cedar. He began to be jealous for the glory of God and said, “Here I am in a palace, in a building, a structure, but God is in a tent.” Nathan the prophet told him, “Do whatever is on your heart.” But then God, a few moments later, had a different message for Nathan to give to David: “Are you the one to build a house for me? No, I will build a house for you.” 2 Samuel 7:5, 12-13 says, “Are you the one to build me a house to dwell in? … When your days are over and you rest with your ancestors, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you, your own flesh and blood, and I will establish his kingdom. He is the one who will build a house for my Name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” David’s own son, his biological son Solomon did build the physical structure of the temple. He dedicated it in 1 Kings 8:10-13: “When the priests withdrew from the Holy Place, the cloud filled the temple of the LORD. And the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled his temple. Then Solomon said, ‘The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud; I have indeed built a magnificent temple for you, a place for you to dwell forever.’” But Solomon did not really understand the future, that the real temple would be built by David’s greater Son, the Son of David. Jesus would build the eternal tabernacle, or temple. Solomon did realize the insufficiency of that wood and gold box that he had made called the temple, saying in 1 Kings 8:27, “But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!” In the course of time, the Jews desecrated the temple by their wickedness and sins, their perversions and idolatries. God took the prophet Ezekiel on a secret journey in the Spirit through the guts and the basement of the temple where the elders of Israel were worshipping crawling things and defiled things and bowing down to idols. Because of the wickedness of the Jewish people led by their leaders, the cloud of the glory of God departed from the temple. Soon after, the Babylonians destroyed the place because of the wickedness and the sin. After 70 years, the Jews returned from exile in Babylon. Under the prophets Ezra and Haggai, they rebuilt a smaller, less glorious temple. The animal sacrificial system was re-established and ran until the time of Jesus. As Jesus began His public ministry, he cleansed the temple, and did so again as he ended his public ministry. The first time, he made a whip and drove out all who were buying and selling, as well as the money changers, who were all trying to make money wickedly in the temple. His enemies approached and tried to stop him, saying, “‘What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?’ “Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.’ They replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?’ But the temple he had spoken of was his body.” [John 2:18-21] He decisively redefined the temple. In his spiritual discussion with the woman at the well in Samaria, he brought up her sin concerning her husband, so she changed the subject. In witnessing situations, people will often deflect like that — “Since you’re talking about my sin, let's talk about the proper place of worship.” That is a smokescreen. Amazingly, though, she took the conversation in the direction Jesus wanted it to go. The Samaritans believed that the proper place of worship was Mount Gerazim in Samaria. The Jews argued that it was Mount Zion, in Jerusalem. Jesus soared far above both of them, telling the Samaritan woman in John 4:21-24, “Jesus declared, ‘Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.’” He was saying that the time was coming when there would not even be a specific place to worship God, but that believers would worship anywhere and everywhere by the Spirit. Furthermore, Jesus predicted the destruction of the last temple of the Jews. Matthew 24:2 says, “I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” On the cross, he shed his atoning blood, forever ending and making obsolete the animal sacrificial system, as well as the need for a Levitical priesthood, a tabernacle or a temple. Jesus fulfilled all. Matthew 27:50-51 says, “And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom…” Now a way was opened for us. We are no longer excluded, but invited to come into the very presence of God by the atoning blood of Jesus. Hebrews 10:19-22 says, “Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith.” Living Stones The Romans confirmed this in AD 70 by destroying the building in direct fulfillment of Jesus’ prediction. The Jews have not had a physical temple since. Paul, in his ministry among the Gentiles, saw very clearly that not only was Jesus’ own body the temple, but the church had become the body of Christ. He used an architectural image of the church in Ephesians 2, as the Gospel was spreading not only to Jews, but now to Gentiles too, every tribe, language, people and nation. People were coming to Christ, and he saw this vision of a holy temple, Ephesians 2:19-22: “…God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” Peter adds to that image in 1 Peter 2:5: “…you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” For 20 centuries, this spiritual temple has been rising. Living stones have been rescued out of Satan’s dark kingdom and put in the walls, so to speak, as this temple rises and becomes more beautiful and diverse and glorious and magnificent as people from every tribe and language, people and nation are being saved. Elect from every nation are being brought into this marvelous structure. It is a glorious building project. It is not finished yet but it is getting close. No Temple in Heaven Why is there no temple in heaven? Revelation 21:22 says, “I did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.” The reason is clear: God’s atoning work through Jesus is fulfilled and we are perfectly cleansed of all of our sins, so there is no need for sacrifices any longer. Furthermore, God will be so present everywhere that we will not need a special place. Every place will be special, an encounter with the radiant glory of God. It will be impossible to look any direction north, south, east or west and not see the glory of God. We will have an immediate experience with the glory of God. There is no need for a special place to assemble. It is the fulfillment of the vision Jesus gave to the Samaritan woman — not a place, but together, intimately connected with God by the Spirit. John speaks of the Lord God Almighty, God the Father, who rules over everything, God is the temple, and so is Jesus the Lamb. Again, this is clear indication of the deity of Christ. The city will be the Holy of Holies, a perfect cube. Solomon’s Holy of Holies, also a perfect cube was 20 cubits by 20 cubits by 20 cubits, 1 Kings 6:20. The new Jerusalem is 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia by 12,000 stadia, massive. Every place in the city is perfectly holy, because we will encounter the living God. Earthly Light Fulfilled in Heavenly Glory Light in the New Jerusalem Second, we see earthly light fulfilled in heavenly glory. Revelation 21:23 says, “The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.” When God created the heavens and the earth, the first thing he said after that statement was Genesis 1:3: “And God said, 'Let there be light,’ and there was light.” The sun and moon and stars were not required on the first and the second and the third day of creation — they did not exist. God does light very well. He did not need the sun or the moon or the stars. He delegated the job of light to them on the fourth day, and now He will take the job back. The Sun and Moon Will Disappear The awesome sun will be obsolete. It will be fulfilled. This incredible burning ball of nuclear reaction is 93 million miles from us, 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface, 27 million degrees Fahrenheit at the center. No probe has gone to the center of the sun to tell us, but it is hot, and its light has given us the light of day throughout creation, but now God will reclaim the task. The moon will also disappear — the softer gleam of pale reflected light. There are aspects of the description in Revelation 21 that some people regret, like no sea and no moon. One night, I rented motor scooters with a friend of mine from college. We rode out to see the full moon on Nantucket Island. The moon and the sea, two things that we will not have in Heaven, were spectacularly beautiful, the shimmering light of the moon on the pretty quiet sea that night. Another time, the night was not so peaceful to me. Every year I ride up to Lake Gaston on my bicycle, 72 miles. On this ride a year and a half ago, I got a late start. I could have done simple mathematics: it was in October, and I started around 3:00 for about a four-and-a-half-hour bike ride. The sun was going set during that time, but I had no lights on my bike and no reflection on me. I was riding up there in northern North Carolina or southern Virginia. The shadows were getting longer and the light began to fade. I was momentarily struck by the realization, as though I had never seen a sunset before. Then suddenly it was dark — there was no moon that night, and no stars. It was one of the scariest nights of my life. I had to dismount my bike and walk it for long distances. There were barking dogs and probably some Remingtons to protect the property from people like me out walking at night when they should not be doing that. I wondered if I would survive the night. I could not see the left side of the road or the right side in the pure, scary, inky-black darkness. Light at night is beautiful, but there is nothing beautiful about night itself without light. In the Bible, frequently, we have the images of the light, but it seems like God is going to fulfill that. There will be no more night, no more darkness. Isaiah 24:23 says, “The moon will be abashed, the sun ashamed; for the LORD Almighty will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before its elders, gloriously.” Why would the sun and moon be ashamed? Because they cannot do anything compared to God’s glory. It is like bringing a little flashlight to a spotlight party, and you want to hide the little thing you brought. The sun and the moon will be like that; they will be ashamed compared to the glory of God. Again, as it says in Isaiah 60:19, “The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.” Earthly Exclusions Fulfilled in Heavenly Openness No More Dangers Third, earthly exclusions will be fulfilled in heavenly openness. Revelation 21:25 says, “On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there.” This is speaking about the exclusion of people kept outside the city. Look ahead in Revelation 22:15: “Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.” These are all the wicked, the sinners. God will weed all of them out, as well as all the dangers of the night which now prowl around. Day = “Good”; Night = ? God called the day good, He did not say anything about the night. Though there is a beauty to a star-spangled night sky and a softer gleam of the moon, there is no beauty in pure darkness, so darkness is frequently used as a metaphor for evil. 1 John 1:5 says, “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” Or John 3:19: “This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.” In John 8:12, “Jesus said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’” This happened the night that Jesus was arrested. He predicted that one of his disciples would betray him. It was the one who took the bread that Jesus dipped, took it out of his hand. In John’s Gospel, Jesus dipped the bread and handed it to Judas, and Judas took it. When he took it, Satan entered into him. John 13:30 says, “As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.” That is not an accident. Jesus said to his arresters and his persecutors in Luke 22:53, “…this is your hour — when darkness reigns.” So darkness is an image of rebellion against God. In the new universe, there will be no darkness at all. There will be a universal light of the glory of God. There will be no shadows in the New Jerusalem, like a stage lit by brilliant spotlights in every direction — no shadows anywhere. Furthermore, it says the gates will never be shut. In the ancient world, gates were shut to keep the dangers on the outside — wild beasts, marauding invading armies. All of the wicked, rebellious people and all the demons and Satan will be in the Lake of Fire, so the gates will stand open all the time. Earthly Sacrifices Fulfilled in Heavenly Diversity Earthly sacrifices will be fulfilled in heavenly diversity. Revelation 21:24-26 says, “The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night there. The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it.” The Light of the New World This is the light of the new world — the new Jerusalem, the New Heaven, the New Earth — a pervasive brilliant beautiful light of the glory of God. The nations and the kings of the earth will walk by that light. The light by which we will operate and do our things will be the light of the glory of God, not the sun, the moon, the stars, or the lamp. More than that, it means that we will walk by the principles that flow from the character of God. The moral law of God will be perfectly fulfilled in us. We will walk by God’s character, by his nature — that will be our rule, the way by which we will live our lives. Isaiah 2:2-5 says, “In the last days the mountain of the LORD’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, ‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.’ The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD.” Many commentators say that passage refers to the millennium. I can say only that all of that will be perfectly fulfilled in Heaven. The law will flow from the heart of God and we will resonate and glow with it and walk by that light. Who are these nations and kings of the earth? There are many speculations, some connected with the millennial reign. Keeping it simple, let us say they are, together with the Jews, all of the redeemed from the earth, from every tribe, language, people, and nation (Revelation 7). They are recognized by their expressions of amoral ethnic cultural diversity. They will be identified as trophies of God’s grace from every tribe and language and people and nation. I have worshipped with African brothers and sisters in Nairobi, primarily from the Kikuyu tribe. They love rhythmic worship, lots of drums, they love to clap and sway and sing. That worship is beautiful. They are mostly modernized in their dress and attire, but their culture is very clear. On that same mission trip, I also worshiped with Maasai tribespeople in the Rift Valley. They are herdsmen, tall and graceful. They put red ochre in their hair and on their face and wear a lot of beads and jewelry. The Maasai were some of the most violently opposed to British rule and among the last to be pacified when the British ruled that colony. The Maasai tribespeople we worshiped with were Christians and had been kicked out of their tribe, ostracized by their other Maasai, but they maintained their culture. What an unforgettable time of worship that was, under a tree, sitting on rudimentary wooden benches. I have worshipped in a Lutheran Cathedral in Dresden with Calvin a couple of summers ago, listening to baroque music composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The German people worship in a different style than the Kikuyu people do. Though they are different displays, those who are born again and love the Lord, worshiping the same triune God, celebrate in the same redemption. I worshiped in a cell church in Shanghai in China, in a high rise. They used a boombox with a CD to play Western praise and worship songs. They spent a lot of time in prayer. I have worshiped with Indian believers in Pune near Mumbai. I was there during the Hindu festival, the Diwali, the Festival of Lights, These believers had broken off from their false religion of Hinduism and come to faith in Christ. There were thousands of them there listening to me unfold the book of Philippians. Many thronged to me afterwards to say they had been hungry and thirsty for the Word of God. These Indian believers maintain their amoral cultural distinctions. I have attended an Easter sunrise service, overlooking the Pacific Ocean with Japanese Christians. We were convinced that we were the first Christians on earth that year to celebrate Easter in the Land of the Rising Sun. It would have been about 1:00 a.m. here. It was sweet to be with those Christians in Tokushima. In the New Heaven and New Earth, we will see all of that cultural diversity in some marvelous way. They will bring their riches and treasures into the New Jerusalem, so we can at least simply say that they themselves are converted and they bring their uniqueness into worship Jesus. Heavenly Work Produces Heavenly Riches To take it a step further, we will be in resurrected bodies with resurrected minds, hands and feet, and we will have limitless strength and energy in an entirely new earth. We will surely have work to do — things to work on, projects to make, there will be no more curse on our work. Work was not the punishment, but work was cursed. Our efforts crumble, and thorns and thistles come after plowing and watering and planning and waiting. In Heaven, we will work and it will come to full fruition. We will have limitless time to work on projects. As things are finished, the kings of the earth will bring their glory into the New Jerusalem to show Jesus what they made by their creativity and strength. “Kings of the Nations” Why will they be kings of the earth? There will be different, smaller kingdoms in the Nw Heaven and New Earth. Jesus will be the King of kings and Lord of Lords. This is clearly taught in Scripture in Daniel 7:27: “Then the sovereignty, power and greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be handed over to the saints, the people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will worship and obey him.” Luke 19 tells a parable of a man who gains 10 minas, an amount of money like a talent, through his stewardship of resources given by his master. He is therefore given ten cities to manage. There will be kings of the earth. They will stream into the capital city of New Jerusalem to honor and worship Jesus, the true King of kings. Earthly Impurity Removed for Heavenly Purity Perfectly Pure Earthly impurity will be removed and replaced with heavenly purity. Revelation 21:27 says, “Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life” The New Jerusalem will be perfectly pure. Modern cities are patterned after wicked Babylon. Revelation 17 depicts the great horror of Babylon drunk on a cup of immorality, drunk on the blood of the saints, rich and prosperous through sin and idolatry, but she will fall, as predicted in Revelation 18:2: “Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great!” Imagine landing by plane at night at JFK. You can see the beautiful, spectacular side of New York City in all the lights — the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, other landmarks; the headlights and tail lights of the traffic like diamonds and rubies and jewels. But once on foot in the city, you need to be careful all the time and especially at night, when wicked forces are prowling and at work. They will not hesitate to trade your life for their next fix. In the New Jerusalem, all of that is gone. There will be no impurity. Best of all, our impurity will be gone. Our hearts will be purified, we will be glorified, we will perfectly love righteousness and perfectly hate wickedness forever. We will have our robes washed in the blood of the Lamb, and we will have the right to enter the city and eat from the Tree of Life. Only the Elect Can Enter the City Only those whose names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life from before the foundation of the world will be allowed to enter. That is election, or predestination. Every single one of those named by name before the foundation of the world will most certainly be in there. Each one of those elect has ratified it, confirmed in space and time when they heard the Gospel of their salvation. Having believed, they were marked in Him with a seal and crossed over from death to life. But their names were known before they responded; before the foundation of the world, they were called and summoned to follow Christ, and they will enter. Applications Hear and Believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ First and foremost, hear and believe the Gospel now. If you are on the outside of all this looking in, I ask you to let the fear of the Lord be the beginning of wisdom for you. Realize that you do not know how much longer you have in this body, how much longer you will be alive. The Bible says that today is the day of salvation. I am begging you, as though God Himself were making His appeal through me, be reconciled to God, acknowledge that you have sinned, that you have violated God’s laws. Acknowledge it. Be honest about it. Ask Him for the forgiveness that Jesus provided by shedding his blood on the cross, one atoning sacrifice for all time. All you have to do is trust in Him, not by works, but by faith. Trust in Him and you will be welcomed into the New Jerusalem when the time comes. Help Make Heavenly Diversity a Reality For the rest of us who have done that some time ago, recognize your responsibility to speak a version of what I just said to a lost person this week. We have a responsibility to reap now into the New Jerusalem, a responsibility to share the Gospel. We are surrounded by people who are without hope and without God in the world. We have an evangelistic responsibility. Let us be faithful to it this week. Do something bold for Jesus, invite someone to church. We will be celebrating the resurrection and salvation every week. The Future of Worship Understand the future of worship in Jerusalem. We will all be bowing down and worshiping. The more you can do that now, the better. I urge you to spend more time personally in worship this week. Find a sweet Psalm or a hymn you like, and sing it to God, sing it to Jesus because you love him. Look forward to heavenly work!! Finally, look forward to heavenly work and do your work as to the Lord this week. Yes, the work is cursed now, but it is a foretaste of the work we will do in Heaven. Work with all your heart as working for the Lord. Do the projects God gives you so that people sit up and take notice and wonder why you have such an energy and a zeal for your work. Work as unto the Lord, because some day you will be in the new world and your works will not be cursed then. Do them as much as possible now for the glory of God. Share why you work that way, that you are looking forward to that future day. Closing Prayer Father, thank you for the time we have had to study today. Thank you for the good things that we have learned. Thank you for the joy and the delight that is waiting for us at the upgrade, a word that does not capture what will be infinitely satisfying to us. Oh God, fill us with hope, and help that hope to energize us to do the good works. I pray for any who are lost that are here, that they would hear Jesus calling to them, crying to them, saying, “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Trust in me and I'll forgive you of all your sins.” In Jesus’ name. Amen.