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Following a hiatus from the national spotlight, Northeast Florida native and Nease High School grad Victoria Crawford has returned. Fans knew her for almost two decades as Alicia Fox in WWE until she left the company in 2023. Then last month Crawford showed up in TNA Wrestling. TNA is another major national wrestling brand and here she's ditched the stage name Alicia Fox and is now performing under her real name. This time Crawford was specifically billed as hailing from “Neptune Beach” where she now resides. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meghan reports from the Neptune Beach area, where business owners are securing their properties in advance of the coming wind, rain, and storm surge.

In this episode, we are on location, sitting down with a Jacksonville cornerstone, the founder and owner of BrewHound Dog Park + Bar - Lauren Wyckoff. Lauren appeared on the show before (check out episode 3 of Yield Coach to learn more about the background of Lauren and her business), and this time around we celebrate 5 years of success as BrewHound has grown and become a local hub for our city and its canine population. She talks again about the challenges that come with opening a new concept, especially a nuanced one that needs a lot of real estate. Be sure to listen to minute 19 for a HUGE announcement from Lauren, Lauren talks about: The growth of Jacksonville and its promotion of small business The three biggest hurdles when starting a new concept How a bar and dog park makes it to their 5 year anniversary A new offer for cities and individuals who love the BrewHound concept  And, locally: Her favorite restaurant: Dos Vatos Tacos in Neptune Beach Her favorite place: Hanna Park and Blue Jay Listening Room Tell us: what did you think of the new show format? If you enjoyed it, do you mind leaving us a rating and review in Apple Podcasts or telling a friend about the show? Our goal is to be an indispensable resource for commercial, industrial, office, and multifamily investors in greater Jacksonville, Florida. Connect with Lauren:  @brewhounddogparkbar on socials www.brew-hound.com Make sure to sign up for text alerts for weekly events Connect with Ian:  https://investwiththecoach.com/ @yieldcoach on socials Theme music provided by: The Firewater Tent Revival https://open.spotify.com/artist/7rRU3ACLdkUtvkZc3DGbUJ?si=cKiWTd2lQvKFkLiZxffgXA&nd=1&dlsi=ffb0de76e1874912 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yieldcoach/message

In our first official interview podcast episode, we are thrilled that we've been able to interview Jacksonville Beach local Alban Brooke, who just happens to be the head of marketing for Buzzsprout, our podcast hosting company.   Alban loves living in Jax Beach, and he's always willing to talk about why he loves it and share tips and suggestions for people who may want to visit there.   Whether you're a golfer coming to play the awesome courses, or an avid traveller looking for a Florida trip that's a little more "off the beaten path", this trip is for you.    As Heather always says, "travel like a local" !   Alban's suggestions from this episode :  BeachesMayport: "Industrially raw, with a strong naval and fishing presence."Atlantic Beach: "Tranquil and suburban, occasionally veering into the mundane."Neptune Beach: "Small-town charm meets trendy up-and-coming energy."Jax Beach: "Vibrant social scene with a mix of bars, festivals, and surf culture."Ponte Vedra: "Affluent and exclusive, focused on luxury and status."Where to stayPonte Vedra Inn ($550/night)Pool, gymRestaurants on the oceanOcean CourseLagoon CourseOne Ocean ($200/night)Palms ($215/night)Things to doBeaches: Surf, swim, sunbathe, beach cruiseIntercostal: fish, kayak, small hikes,Explore: Hanna Park up in Mayport, beach access, pond, trailsShop: shop in Atlantic Beach Town CenterGolf: TPC Sawgrass, Jax Beach, get onto private courseRestaurants & barsLunchHanger Bay - Hellfire Ramen, fried chicken, Saporro beerAngies Subs/Angies Grom - Peruvian Sub with knick nack, toasted on white, fries with ranch, sweeeet teaBearded Pig - Brisket, beansCasual DinnerValley Smoke - Brisket and bourbonTaco Lu - Banging shrimp, carne royal, and Deer & Beer (Dos X Amber)Nice dinnerO-KuNorth Beach Fish Camp - Blackened Catch with Grits, Collards & Tasso Ham GravySeafood should be fresh caught from Mayport that dayDwights - Sea Bass, ravioli, glass of wineBarsLemon Bar - Lime gatoradeCasa Marina rooftop - mixed drinkskipping Margarittaville and SurferMangosAfter the bars - Biggies PizzaOver the ditchJax ZooJaguars gameJumbo ShrimpJax TheaterTowncenter to shopAlban BrookeHead of Marketing, BuzzsproutLinkedIn | TwitterSupport the Show.

Alexus reports that Neptune Beach city officials have approved plans to install speed cameras in school zones. Speed violators who are photographed will receive tickets starting at $100. A firm date of installation and activation has not been announced yet.

Alexus reports on a Neptune Beach proposal to introduce school zone safety cameras with an automated speed enforcement system. The new camera systems would issue ticketed fines in the event of speed violations in the safety zones, and it's meeting with mixed responses. The proposal will get a "first read" at a NB Council meeting tonight.

Alexus joins JMN to talk about the concern that residents have about E-Bikes in Neptune Beach

Alexus talks with Rich about Neptune Beach's concerns about E-Bikes after an incident where a pedestrian was hit by someone using an E-Bike but doesn't remember being on the bike due to being intoxicated

Manny Vera is an Army veteran and veteran advocate. He served close to 10 years in the US Army as a Military Police Soldier. During his time in the service, he served in various law enforcement and leadership positions from patrol to Law enforcement operations NCO. Upon transition, he switched careers and moved into the mental health field. He currently serves as a Military Peer Recovery Specialist for a suicide prevention non-profit called “Here Tomorrow” located in Neptune Beach, FL. He aspires to become a licensed mental health clinician to continue to serve the veteran demographic.

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Sept. 28 at 5:55 a.m. CT: Video appears to show the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago arriving back in the U.S. The White House said Wednesday that Pvt. Travis King's return was organized with the help of ally Sweden and rival China. North Korea said it would expel King earlier the same day. King appeared to walk off a plane in San Antonio, Texas, early Thursday. King ran into the North while on a civilian tour of a border village on July 18. He had served in South Korea. SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Several of Donald Trump's rivals stepped up their attacks against him in Wednesday's second Republican presidential debate. They were urgently trying to dent the former president's commanding primary lead during an event that often seemed like an undercard without him. The debate's tone was far removed from the campaign's overall tone. Trump has dominated the field with attacks on his rivals and democratic institutions as well as his grievances about the criminal indictments and civil cases targeting him and his businesses. The moderators did not ask about the indictments or why the people onstage were better qualified than Trump. CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — As his Republican rivals sparred onstage in California at their second primary debate, Donald Trump was in battleground Michigan Wednesday night working to win over blue-collar voters in the midst of an autoworkers' strike. Trump in his speech lambasted President Joe Biden and his push for electric cars a day after Biden joined striking workers on the picket line in Detroit. The dueling appearances had the feel of the opening salvo of the 2024 general election, which is increasingly looking like a rematch between Trump and Biden, even though voting won't begin until next year. BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen says production is resuming after a problem with the German automaker's information technology network caused a severe disruption. Volkswagen said on Wednesday evening that the IT disruption caused production to halt at its four vehicle manufacturing plants in Germany — its Wolfsburg headquarters, Emden, Zwickau and Osnabrueck. It also affected some other facilities, including at subsidiary Audi. The company said Thursday morning that the IT infrastructure problems were resolved during the night and production was resuming, German news agency dpa reported. It said there were no indications of any external cause for the disruption. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $925 million after no one beat the immense odds and won the giant prize. The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were: 1, 7, 46, 47, 63 and red Powerball 7. With the latest bit of lottery losing, there now have been 30 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner, dating back to July 19 when a player in California won $1.08 billion. That winless streak is due to the tough odds of winning the Powerball jackpot, at 1 in 292.2 million. Although the game highlights the $925 million prize, that is for a winner who is paid through an annuity over 30 years. Most winners choose the cash payout option. For the next drawing Saturday night, that will be an estimated $432 million. DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling nearly 3.4 million vehicles in the U.S. and telling owners to park them outside due to the risk of engine compartment fires. The recalls cover multiple models from the 2010 through 2019 model years including Hyundai's Santa Fe SUV and Kia's Sorrento SUV. Documents posted Wednesday by U.S. safety regulators say the anti-lock brake control module can leak fluid and cause an electrical short. That can touch off a fire while the vehicles are parked or being driven. Dealers will replace the anti-lock brake fuse at no cost to owners, but owners won't be notified by mail until November. In sports: History was made by Ronald Acuna Jr. in Atlanta, the Marlins pull closer in the NL standings, the Astros created some separation in the AL, Terry Francona was honored in Cleveland, and a massive trade in the NBA sends Damian Lillard to the Bucks.  On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Sept. 27 at 4 p.m. CT: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is marching ahead with a bipartisan approach to prevent a government shutdown. But on the House side, Speaker Kevin McCarthy is back to square one. The Republican leader laid out his strategy Wednesday behind closed doors. He asked hard-right Republicans to do what they've said they'd never do, and pass their own temporary measure to keep the government open. A House test vote is set for Friday, one day before the shutdown deadline. Their plan would cut spending by 8% and toughen border security. The Senate bill would fund the government, adding $6 billion for Ukraine aid and $6 billion for U.S. disaster relief. NEW YORK (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will address his Democratic colleagues on Thursday as calls grow for Menendez to resign over federal bribery charges. Schumer hasn't said that Menendez should step down, although more than half of the Democrats in the Senate have done so. Menendez pleaded not guilty Wednesday in New York to federal charges alleging he accepted bribes in exchange for exerting his political influence to secretly advance Egyptian interests and do favors for local businessmen. Menendez's wife and two businessmen named in the indictment also pleaded not guilty. Menendez was released on a $100,000 bond. His wife, Nadine, and the other co-defendants were also freed pending trial. WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago has been released into U.S. custody. Pvt. Travis King's release was secured with the help of ally Sweden and rival China. Earlier Wednesday, North Korea said it would expel Pvt. King. The announcement has surprised some observers who expected the North to drag out his detention in the hopes of squeezing concessions from Washington at a time of high tensions between the rivals. King's expulsion almost certainly does not end his troubles. His fate remains uncertain, having been declared AWOL by the U.S. government. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lottery officials in Florida say the winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions jackpot from August has come forward to claim the prize. Under a new Florida law, the winner's name remains anonymous for 90 days. The winning ticket was sold at a Publix supermarket in Neptune Beach on the Atlantic Coast. In Florida, winners have 60 days to claim the lump sum amount or 180 days from the date of the drawing to take the full annuity, which is paid out in annual installments. Lottery officials did not say whether the winner chose to take the the lump sum or annuity. STOCKHOLM (AP) — A moose which was found wandering down the tracks of the Stockholm subway and causing havoc was shot dead by a wildlife ranger on Wednesday after the service on the southern part of a busy line had to be suspended. The moose somehow managed to enter the enclosure that surrounds the track on a part of the subway network where the stations are above ground. As many as seven stations had to close, disrupting the service. After failed efforts to catch it, the moose was shot and killed at about 3 p.m. after which the traffic slowly resumed. Damian Lillard is being traded by Portland to play alongside Giannis Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement. The deal ends a three-month saga surrounding Lillard's wish to be moved elsewhere with hopes of winning an NBA title and his 11-year run with the Trail Blazers. The seven-time All-Star goes from the Trail Blazers to the Bucks in a three-team deal that sends Jrue Holiday from the Bucks to Portland, Deandre Ayton from Phoenix to Portland and Jusuf Nurkic from the Blazers to the Suns. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because none of the involved teams had announced the agreement. NEW YORK (AP) — TV's late-night hosts planned to return to their regular evening sketches and monologues as the flow of topical humor is set to return after five silent months due to the just-ended Hollywood writers strike. “Real Time with Bill Maher” will be back on the air Friday. The hosts of NBC's “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” ABC's “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS announced they'd also return, all by Monday. “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver will return to the air Sunday. Comedy Central's “The Daily Show” will return Oct. 16. A NASA astronaut and two Russians are back on Earth after being stuck in space for just over a year. The trio landed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, descending in a Soyuz capsule that was rushed up as a replacement. The extended mission means that NASA astronaut Frank Rubio now holds the record for longest spaceflight by an American. Rubio and his crewmates should have returned last spring from the International Space Station, but their flight ended up being doubled in length after their original capsule was hit by space junk and leaked all its coolant. The world record for a single spaceflight is 14 1/2 months, held by Russia. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Government test data shows new passenger vehicles in the U.S. are extremely safe, but roadway deaths are steadily rising. Some of the biggest increases are deaths of pedestrians and cyclists. That surge has coincided with a steep rise in sales of SUVs and pickup trucks. Experts say the height and boxy front ends of many of those vehicles create large blind spots. They also hit pedestrians higher in the body than sedans, meaning hits more often result in serious injury or death. U.S. safety ratings only consider the safety of people inside a vehicle. But a coalition of transportation safety groups wants the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to begin factoring the safety of those outside vehicles into its 5-star safety ratings. INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment. Still, some experts question the effects on students who already missed out on significant learning during the pandemic. For parents, there is also the added complication, and cost, of arranging child care for that extra weekday. In Missouri, the number of districts routinely getting three-day weekends has more than doubled since the pandemic hit. Some lawmakers have pushed back, arguing students need more time with teachers. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is a senior producer for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jacksonville may change its nickname from "the River City" to "the Lucky City," as Logan reports ANOTHER Mega-Millions jackpot winner was sold at a local Publix, this time in Ortega on Roosevelt Blvd. for $36 million. This follows a week after the record-setting $1.5 billion jackpot winner sold at the (old) Publix in Neptune Beach.

Everyone is talking about the recent local lottery winner who purchased the winning ticket in Neptune Beach, so Adam and Steve discuss the financial options the lottery winner needs to think about. Pulling from past experiences, they explain the biggest mistakes lottery winners make and how to avoid them.

Ohio voters overwhelmingly reject a GOP-backed measure that would have made it harder to amend the state's constitution, in a major win for abortion rights supporters ahead of a vote to ensure access to abortion in Ohio. Plus, the New York Times obtains a secret memo from an unindicted co-conspirator in the January 6 case against Donald Trump that shows the evolution of the fake elector scheme. And, Hawaii is under a state of emergency as large wildfires rage fueled by winds from Hurricane Dora, and the Coast Guard rescues people who have been jumping into the ocean to escape the smoke and fire. Also this morning: The police chief of Montgomery, Alabama, says it's highly likely more people will be charged in the chaotic dock fight, DeSantis replaces his campaign manager in his latest shake-up, and the winning $1.58B Mega Millions ticket is sold in Neptune Beach, Florida. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump made a campaign stop in New Hampshire and had some pretty strong statements. We'll let you know what he had to say about 2024 and beyond. Then, "The cocaine belonged to someone in the Biden family orbit." Yep, that story is still developing as that news dropped last night. We have the details. Then, some more cocaine stories! This time, it was the Tampa mayor who came across 1 million dollars worth of the drug while out fishing! Crazy story. Also, do you know anyone in Neptune Beach, Florida? That's where the Mega Millions winner turned up. All that and much more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump made a campaign stop in New Hampshire and had some pretty strong statements. We'll let you know what he had to say about 2024 and beyond. Then, "The cocaine belonged to someone in the Biden family orbit." Yep, that story is still developing as that news dropped last night. We have the details. Then, some more cocaine stories! This time, it was the Tampa mayor who came across 1 million dollars worth of the drug while out fishing! Crazy story. Also, do you know anyone in Neptune Beach, Florida? That's where the Mega Millions winner turned up. All that and much more... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Alexus reports from the Publix in Neptune Beach, where the$1.58 billion winning Mega Millions ticket was sold. Have you checked your ticket?

Alexus follows up on the $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot winning ticket, sold at the old Publix in Neptune Beach. Have you checked your ticket?

Justin Trudeau takes another selfie this time with his teenage daughter Ella. This time the movie isn't Barbie. It's Oppenheimer. The selfie is on Twitter and elsewhere and once again Trudeau haters are posting words about him and his daughter that I won't repeat here. People seeking safe places to live for their families, people known as Migrants get killed regularly at sea. News from Italy today tells us forty-one migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean. It was a seven metre boat carrying 45 people from Tunisia. Their very tiny vessel wrecked by a very big wave. “I'm totally OK with standing outside of the stadium with every single other Swifty and tailgating for all six shows,” says 27-year-old Jayde Fleming, a Swifty, a Taylor Swift fan in Barrie desperate along with hundreds of thousands of others for even one ticket for just one of Taylor Swift's six scheduled shows for Toronto. She says and I quote “I'm gonna get an Airbnb for myself to make sure that I'm in Toronto all six days.” Someone in Florida is holding the winning ticket for a $1.58 billion Mega Millions jackpot. It was sold at a Publix grocery store in Neptune Beach. The Florida Lottery jackpot has been building and building for 4 long months. In the New York Times today, As lawyers for Donald J. Trump float various legal arguments to defend him in court against an onslaught of criminal charges, the former president has settled on a political defense: “I'm being indicted for you.” A 4th Criminal trial indictment against Trump is about to be unwrapped in Georgia. Yes I said 4th. For years Democrats ran against him calling him a person who behaves like a criminal. In the next election they will likely be calling him a convicted criminal. Canadians ask how can a criminal run for President. Many Americans respond, Why is that even a question, in the Land of the Free -The home of the brave.

Todd Demsey is the most interesting man in golf. From shaping persimmon woods by hand for Kelly Slater, to traveling the PGA TOUR in an RV, Todd has an incredible story and relationship with the game of golf. As a 4-time All-American at Arizona State with legendary teammates like Phil Mickelson and Pat Perez, Todd won the NCAA Individual title by one shot over David Duval in 1993! After an incredible amateur career which included a Walker Cup invite, Todd joined the PGA TOUR in 1997, and traveled the country in an RV. Todd now makes his home in Neptune Beach, Florida, where he fashions persimmon woods for by hand for players all over the globe. One thing's for sure, the game needs more people like Todd Demsey around. Link from this episode:Follow Straight Down the Middle'ish on Twitter: @SDTMishPodcastCheck out Todd's official website: Todd DemseyIf you like living forever, and you like golf, then you're going to LOVE Live Forever Golf.Enter discount code "LFG20" for 20% off your next order at LiveForeverGolf.comStraight Down the Middle'ish is brought to you by Live Forever Golf. Check out our Final Few collection to get great deals on our clearance inventory! Free shipping on all orders over $100.

Danny Lopez is in the house this week sharing his knowledge and teaching me the history of Alameda and all things Clampers! It was fun learning the history of our little island and what exactly a Clamper is. Can't wait to go to my first Clamper event this summer! Stay tuned for that but for now get educated with Danny and I. Summary/Time Stamps: Welcome to this week's episode. 0:00Welcoming Daniel Lopez to the show.Clamping vs clamping in alameda.How do you know so much history about Alameda? 1:00Alameda has a long weird history.Alameda is an encyclopedia about alameda.The oakland raiders and the garlic noodles.Working at a fireside fireside.Clampers, a rare historical organization in west virginia.West virginia and the beehive.Credo Quia absurdum -. 7:31The secret society, credo quia absurdum.The gold rush in california and its mission.Flintstones' history of two women clampers. 9:43History of two women clampers and a Flintstones episode.The history of Flintstones.Time management and time management.The importance of doing new things.How do you earn the money to pay the bills? 15:12None of them know how to cook.Volunteering at virginia city chapter.Historical plaques at drinking spots in california.Raising money for widows, orphans and scholarships.Norton, the emperor of the united states.Frisco is a $25 charge.Joaquin Marietta and the Zorro chapter. 21:36The current humbug of the chapter.The head of joaquin maria.What's in the tip jar? 24:25Making a replica of Daniel's face.Raising money for a women's shelter.Best friend's mom is a clamper.Best friend is a good guy.The history of alameda and its history.Alameda was the end of the railroads.Walking around the property and seeing the houses. 29:24Some of the houses in alameda are deceiving.One of the new houses is beautiful.The gold coast of alameda.Alameda used to be three different towns.The fear of the estuary.San antonio creek, san leandro creek.Don't go in the water. 36:22Starting to make friends at the park.Going from three different communities to one.What is the history of Neptune Beach? 39:20Trees, redwoods and industrial space.The early 1940s, the depression and the golden gate.How the base got its name.The fairmont hotel in oakland, fairmont.Culpa Street Bridge Disaster of 1890. 44:30Webster street bridge disaster of 1890, memorial day.Alameda river bridge disaster.Alameda has 90 bars and resta

Zibby speaks to creative director and former bookseller Annette Dauphin Simon about her charming, clever, and beautifully-illustrated new book Spine Poems: An Eclectic Collection of Found Verse for Book Lovers, which was inspired by a rainy day at a bookstore in Neptune Beach, Florida, where randomly stacked books formed funny poems. Annette discusses her love of found verse, her career in graphic design and advertising, and the stunning photography in her book. Then, she talks about the beautiful children's book she wrote with her son Jack in 2002, after the death of his little sister.Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3DuRjYcSubscribe to Zibby's weekly newsletter here.Purchase Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books merch here. Now there's more! Subscribe to the Zibby Books audiobooks and the in-store events at Zibby's Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA. Join today! https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

First Coast Food & Fun at Slider's Oyster Bar! We sat down with Matt Wilson, the Director of Operations of Safe Harbor Seafood and Sliders Oyster Bar to talk about this Jacksonville staple restaurant and the many changes they have undergone throughout the years. Tune in to hear why so many people love Sliders! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/on-the-mic-tj/message

Meghan reports from the beaches, where the waterfront has been officially closed for Jax Beach, Neptune Beach, and Atlantic Beach due to hazardous water conditions, not to mention the strong winds and rains from Ian.

Ep 50: Implementing the ASIM ProcessSheriff Michelle Cook and Police Chief Terry Nichols share their experiences implementing the Active Shooter Incident Management Checklist process and their tips for success. Don't miss this discussion!Bill Godfrey:Welcome to the Active Shooter Incident Management Podcast. It's good to be back with you today. My name is Bill Godfrey. I'm your podcast host, and I have with me today two former C3 instructors as our guest stars today, both of them law enforcement leaders, and hoping that one day when they do retire-retire, we might actually get them back as C3 instructors; hint hint, Chief Nichols, who just retired in the last few weeks. So I have with me Michelle Cook. She is currently serving as the Sheriff in Clay County. She also did ... Michelle was almost 30 years at Jacksonville?Michelle Cook:26 years at Jacksonville, yeah.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, so 26 years at Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Police Department as the operations chief, so she had an awful lot of responsibility there. Did a short stint as the Police Chief at Atlantic Beach, which was kind of a retirement job, but too easy for you. You needed something with more, and so now she's the elected Sheriff at Clay County, which is in north Florida. And we have with us Terry Nichols. Terry was the Assistant Director at Alert from the founding to, what was it? 2018, 20-Terry Nichols:2016, 2016.Bill Godfrey:2016. Left Alert, became the Police Chief in Brownwood, Texas, and then you did, what, a little over three years there?Terry Nichols:Three years there, and then moved to Seguin as chief, and spent three years there, and now I'm retiredBill Godfrey:Like a week and a half ago, two weeks ago? It's been pretty recent.Terry Nichols:It's been a month, it's been a month.Bill Godfrey:So it's exciting to have both of you here. I really appreciate you taking the time. I know the sheriff especially, you have a very busy schedule. But I wanted to have a podcast where we talk about implementing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist and the process that goes with it. Because it sounds simple on the surface, and when you've gone through training, it's fairly straightforward, but trying to roll that out to a whole organization is a little bit of a logistics machine.And the two of you have each done this, not only in your organizations, but you've done it more than once. So sheriff, you did it at Jacksonville, then did it at Atlantic Beach, now at Clay County, and Terry, you did it at both Brownwood and Seguin. So what I wanted to just get from you guys is, what was it about this process that made you say, "This is the way I want to go," and what were your lessons learned? How did you approach it and go along the way? So sheriff, you want to start us off?Michelle Cook:Sure. First of all, thank you for having me today to talk about this. I'm very passionate about this. You've asked why ASIM, why choose this method of managing an active shooter event, and I will tell you, I'm entering into my 30th year of law enforcement, and I've worked some huge cases, some huge incidents, thousands of them, and for me, being a street cop for so long and then the leader of street cops, the ASIM process, the ASIM methodology, it just makes sense.In our industry, and Terry, correct me if you see differently, we teach young officers, young supervisors, to handle everything themselves. And on 99% of the calls that we handle, that can be done, but on a mass critical incident, like an active shooter event, relying on one person to handle everything is just unrealistic, and that's how things get missed, and unfortunately, that's how people die, is you got one person trying to handle everything.Terry Nichols:Yeah. For me, everything the sheriff said makes perfect sense, and she is spot on. Having been involved with Alert and standing it up from the get go, driving it post-Columbine, and how we were training cops, and then fast-forward several years and get introduced to the ASIM model, and realizing we had been missing the boat early on. When we started first training our officers, we were missing the management piece of this. We were doing good at going in and realizing that we have a different duty. There's no longer sit and wait for SWAT, that we had a different mission on these active shooter events.But there's a whole management piece of this, and like the sheriff alluded to, that we're real good at teaching cops to go handle a problem by themselves, and they do it 9 times out of 10, but these events are catastrophic. They are geographical in nature. It doesn't just happen in a vacuum in one little place, and it takes significant resource management being trained to do that, and that the ASIM, I was just pulled to it and said it makes all the sense in the world.Bill Godfrey:Well, it's very humbling to hear that, and I'm thrilled that you guys ... I was thrilled to have both of you as instructors and as founding members, if you will, of what we were doing a very, very long time ago. Terry, when you were at Alert, you had a hand in helping us get the pilot up and running, and Michelle attended one of the very first pilots. Wait, in fact, I think it was the very first pilot delivery we did for certification, when we did it at Seminole County, so you guys have certainly been on the road with us for a long time. Terry, what was your strategy? So Brownwood, you might want to ... Brownwood was a little more rural, Seguin's a little more suburban. What was your strategy when you wanted to implement it the first time around, and then how did that change for you the second time around?Terry Nichols:I want to back up to something that you said on the intro too, if I can remember what it was now, that it's not just an agency that we implemented these in, it was a geographical area. So it was multiple agencies.Bill Godfrey:Good point.Terry Nichols:Yeah, I may have been the Chief of Brownwood, but I had the Sheriff's Department, and I had two of the law enforcement agencies right there in the county as well, and it was very rural. If you look at Brownwood, Texas on a map, it is in the geographical center of Texas, and I tell people, "You go out to nowhere and turn left, and you're in Brownwood," and not a lot of resources out there.Our closest big city is Abilene, Texas, and that's an hour away. But I knew, A, the need when I got there. I saw the quick needs assessment that we had no active shooter training. We had nothing. We had zero partnership with our fire and EMS partners, we had a third-party EMS provider, we were not working with our Sheriff's Department who was in the same building as us, so a lot of basic leadership stuff.And it was fun to bring the ASIM stuff to us, and we did it through Counterstrike first. That's how we introduced it to the organization, but we brought in the Sheriff's Department and other law enforcement agencies in the county. And that brought us all together, where they weren't playing in the sandbox prior to me getting there for multiple reasons, but this was something we could all gather around and actually embrace.And that really helped build relationships and, "Hey, we're not that bad. Hey, the people across the hall, hey, they're not that bad. They wear a brown uniform, we wear a blue uniform." So but it's also a rule. What we had is what we had, and help was a long way away. So we introduced it through Counterstrike, and then we did ASIM and the checklist, and we recurred training on it, and it was a success.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, your first implementation was at Jacksonville, which, contrasting to Brownwood, is about as big as ... it's a big job. What was your strategy there? I know you had to play the long game. It took a while, but talk a little bit about what you did at Jacksonville.Michelle Cook:Sure. So in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office actually, at the time, was the 25th largest agency in the country, so a large agency. And what we decided to do is offer the ASIM class to those who wanted it first, because we thought if we could get those folks who are interested in it to buy into it, then they could go out and help sell it to the rest of the agency. And that really, for us, worked out good, because we ended up with ASIM disciples, is what I call them, and those are folks who were all in, who, on the street, if somebody had a question, they could speak to what ASIM was, and the benefits of it, and stuff like that.So it took us several years. We had to get through about 1,400 people trained, so it took us several years, several training cycles, to get everybody through. Contrast that to ... Let me go back. In Jacksonville, we also had a really close relationship with the fire department, and so they were in on the training from the beginning with us, and that was very, very beneficial.In fact, I think it was in Jacksonville, we started using rescue task forces at special events, and that was a chance for us to practice a concept with our police and fire working together on all of our pre-planned special events, so when the the day did come that we had an active shooter, we would be prepared to ... and we wouldn't have to stop and explain to people what a rescue task force was, so that worked out really well.And we had the active shooter incident at The Landing, and we got fortunate that day because there was actually a fire department unit training a block away. But if you go back and you listen to the radio broadcast, and you listen, and you read the after-action reports, it was very clear that not only the active shooter tactical training that we had been practicing and training so hard for worked, but also, the Active Shooter Incident Management portion of that trained, and people fell right into place.And so it was really ... I had just left when that happened, but it was very gratifying to see all that hard work going into saving people's lives. So move forward to Atlantic Beach, again, much like Terry, a very small agency. We had 30 people total, including myself, and for me, I incorporated not only some of the fire department folks again in this, but public works. Our public works folks had a big presence out there in the city of Atlanta Beach, and so they were pulled into some of the safer jobs, and we trained with public works on these things, and safety...Bill Godfrey:Okay, well, we're not going to let you get away with that that easy. You're going to have to tell a little bit about what you did, and why, and how it worked out.Michelle Cook:So what we did is we got the public works guys because ... specifically the school, but other locations as well, we had ... Atlantic Beach is a beach town, so there's lots of roads leading in, and one of the concerns we had is that when something happened, that traffic would be backed up and blocked so bad that we would not be able to get mutual aid or fire rescue into the scene.So we train the public works guys on how to use their big trucks to hold traffic positions until relieved by a law enforcement officer, and again, they were instrumental and vital to our plan out there, and talking about building relationships and everybody being on the same page. So that worked out really good. Small agency, limited resources. We-Bill Godfrey:Did you get any pushback from the public works guys and gals, or were they pretty excited about it?Michelle Cook:Oh, they were having a blast. We also incorporated them, just on a side note, in our search for missing people. As soon as we had a missing person call go out in the city of Atlantic Beach, our publics works people would getting notified on their phones that we were looking for missing persons, and so they would also help us look for missing people. So it was really just, you go back to, if you have limited resources, if you're in a jurisdiction then you have limited resources, there are other groups that you can pull in safely to help augment or supplement your agency.Bill Godfrey:Sure, sure.Michelle Cook:Yeah, so that...Bill Godfrey:So how did your approach ... Other than the public works, what was the big glaring differences for you implementing it at Atlantic Beach, versus implementing ASIM at the Atlantic Beach versus Jacksonville?Michelle Cook:You know, Jacksonville, there was always the potential for over-convergence just from get go, just because of the sheer number of resources in Duval County. In Atlantic Beach, it was the exact opposite. How long do we have to wait until help gets here, and then how do you manage so much mutual aid? Because in Atlantic Beach, we would have Neptune Beach, Jacks Beach, Jacksonville, Mayport police, all potentially responding, all with different communication, radio channels.And so we had to make sure that when we developed our plan in Atlantic Beach, that all those surrounding agencies knew what our plan was, so that if and when something did happen, they would know what radio frequency to go to. Where would staging be? We preset all those ahead of time so that would be no question day of, and that's the value of a smaller jurisdiction, is you can do a lot of that ahead of time.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, you really regionalized your approach, which Terry mentioned even at Brownwood and bringing some of the others in. Terry, when you went over to Seguin, what did you do a little bit differently there at that one? And talk a little bit about how you stepped outside of the city to bring in your regional partners, similar to what Michelle was just talking about.Terry Nichols:Yeah, pretty much the same thing. The good news is we had a great relationship with the fire department there. It's a larger organization. I say larger. We had 60 sworn at the time, but we're a lot closer ... San Antonio's, a rock throw away, Austin's an hour away, San Marcos is close. So we have a lot of resources, and in the Braunfels real close to us if we need them.One thing that this community had lived through was Sutherland Springs. We had first responders ... Sutherland Springs was literally 15 miles, 20 miles, from Seguin, so we had first responders that actually went down there that day. So it was very close to Seguin, meaning and close to their heart. They did not have ASIM, though. They did not have any training. Most of them had been through Alert or some level of tactical training. The tactical piece of it, the sheriff mentioned, but nobody had the management piece.So I took what I did in Brownwood, and we invested in the Counterstrike and they ran everybody through Counterstrike first. Then we brought in an ASIM advance class, and that's when we really got the buy-in. There were already a group going on countywide, they met monthly. An integrated response group, it was run by the county Fire Marshal's Office, and they would meet monthly, and they would meet, and they would sit around and talk about the same thing over and over and over. And then I became chief there, and they all look at me like, "Oh my God, look what just walked in the door. We've got somebody that"-Bill Godfrey:Fresh meat.Terry Nichols:"That knows what they're doing, that'll come rescue us." So we started getting some synergy going there with that, and then the ASIM advanced that we hosted not long before I left, we were lucky enough to get really solidified, because we filled that class. It was great to see so many people.And I got a text on July 4th from the assistant fire chief saying that, "We have a huge parade July 4th in Seguin," and that's largest one in Texas. But, just what the sheriff mentioned, they had rescue task forces stood up, an IEP, the whole thing that ... I'd been walking them through, doing this slowly, baby steps, but they had done it for the parade, and he was so proud of himself, and I'm so proud of them.He said, "Look at your legacy, what you've left behind." I was like, I didn't do anything. I just came and got the ball rolling. You guys now go with it. But it's come time for both places to test, and that I think that, we'll talk about some challenges in a minute, but it's come time to start to test it. Don't wait for game day. We need to start testing these things.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and it's funny, both of you have talked about opportunities to exercise and practice, I shouldn't use the word exercise, but to practice some of these concepts in your special events and pre-planned events, and I know that that's a huge part of socialization and absolutely a best practice.And before I move on, I do want to comment for the audience, if you're wondering why these two both had ASIM advances, they were both leaders who contacted us and said, "If you ever have a last-minute cancellation, all I need is two weeks notice and I can make it work," and that's how both of them got ASIM classes. They picked up cancellation slots that came in from others on short notice.But sheriff, I know that you started off by doing the RTFs, and the idea of contact teams in your IEPs for special events, and for the football games, and things like that in Jacksonville, but not too long after that, you took that a step further, certainly at clay county, I know you've began incorporating some of these practices into other calls not active shooter. Can you talk a little bit about that?Michelle Cook:Sure. So it actually ... the guys in Atlantic Beach started it, and it's carried forward to Clay County, and I really think this is going to end up being a best practice. And so what we've done is, on priority-one calls, where we have an active scene that's dynamic and fluid, whoever is tactical declares tactical, and they have command of the hot zone.So whether it's a burglary in progress to a store, or a fire at a house, or a gas leak, the person that's going to drive the resources to specific tasks based on an overall strategy declares tactical, and then our incident commander goes down the road and declares command, and then supports tactical.And this is really ... like I said, this happened organically in both agencies, but I think it's going to end up being a best practice for us, is this allows the men and women in uniform to use the terminology, use the concepts, and it won't be foreign to them, God forbid, if something ever happened. So they're using it on priority-one calls now.Bill Godfrey:I think that's fabulous, and the history of the fire service, and I know we all like to make fun, the fire department will set up incident command on a barking dog call. And yeah, true, but that's actually how we got everybody to understand it. When the ICS structure first started coming out in the late 70s and then rolled into the 80s, and people started stepping up and taking notice, the way we got it indoctrinated culturally was we used it on everything.Overkill? Yeah. Was it necessary? Probably not, but did it expedite the cultural integration and locking that in? And it really did. And I know we've had some conversations about the idea of morphing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist process into something that's a little more generic, like a generic response posture to violent events or potentially-violent events, and I wonder if you could comment on that?So on the fire service, we have alarm levels. So what we send to a residential structure fire is different than what we send to a commercial structure fire, and when we escalate that and call for more resources, and so that's that standard package. And it seems to me like there might be a real good argument and a logical application for something like that, a standard response protocol for hostile events or potentially-violent events on law enforcement. What are the two of you think about that?Terry Nichols:You know, I can agree. I think that's a great best practice, sheriff, and I commend you for it. I think Seguin, we could have certainly done that in Seguin, and hopefully a little more naturally; like you said, organically. What I think we saw that the cops have been missing, the officers have been missing, is the actual practical application of ICS. Everybody's done the 100, the 200, 300, all of the classes, and we all...Bill Godfrey:Nobody shared answers.Terry Nichols:Yeah, they never share answers, but they never seen the practical application of it, and that's what ASIM brings you, or that's what the Counterstrike tool brings them, is a practical application? "Okay, I see how this is supposed to work now," but you've got to go out and now practice it, and if you can incorporate it into your priority-one-type calls or something like that, I think that's brilliant to be able to do something like that, because it just further ingrains that it should be second nature. when the big one, when that day happens, it's already ingrained in the organizational culture.Bill Godfrey:Good point. Sheriff, what are your thoughts?Michelle Cook:You know, I would agree. The challenge we have in law enforcement is ... because every call that we go on is so different, and to broad brush, saying, "Okay, all of these types of calls, you have to do this," it can be a double-edged sword. So I liked the fact that, at least in my agencies, it happened organically, and when the troops buy in, then you don't have to ram it down their throat; it's better all the way around.But I would love to see some sort of standardization, maybe at each state level, and using the lingo of each state to implement a standard hostile encounter response, or priority-one response, or whatever you want to call it. The challenge for us is, a priority-one call can be somebody shot, to a burglary in progress, to a car crash, to ... So I like it. I'm just not quite sure on how to execute it yet.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, I think it's one of those ideas that we ... Let's face it. Both of our industries are not necessarily known for changing quickly. In the fire service, and you guys have heard me say this before, we have a saying, "200 years of tradition unimpeded by progress," and we mean that. But I think this is one of those places where it's an idea, but we need to take time. I think we need to see what begins to develop organically, what works. Where's the stickiness in an organization? What types of incidents or responses does it make sense, and where doesn't it make sense?think we just have to take our time with it, but it's an interesting idea that I want to keep talking about as we move forward. So let me ask both of you this. What, if anything, when you were implementing the ASIM process at any of either of your agencies, what caught you by surprise, or were some lessons learned, or advice that you would give to other law enforcement leaders like yourself, who are wanting to go down this path? Sheriff, you want to start?Michelle Cook:Sure. My advice would be find ASIM disciples first. Let them buy in and help sell it, versus forcing everybody to go to classes right off the bat. Understand that ASIM is a perishable skill, so if you're not using it on the street for your priority-one calls, you have to find other ways to continue the dialogue.And that can include using some of the concepts on pre-planned events. For us, it includes ... we have written out manuscripts, responses, for some of our larger churches and mall, and our personnel read them. And we got this idea from, actually, the Blue Angels, and before every flight, they sit down and they verbally talk about what they're going to do during flight. And so we sit down and we verbally articulate, "If my role is tactical, this is what I'm doing. If I'm a contact team, this is what I'm doing," and that seems to keep the skills fresh.We've also put together some PowerPoints where we have little pieces moving, kind of like the Counterstrike board moving, and then we have people talking about what's happening; again, pushing the concepts out. So my advice would be find ASIM disciples, then push it out to everybody, and then find creative ways to keep the conversation going regularly. And before we get off this podcast, Bill, I want to talk about something exciting that's happening in Clay County right now as we speak, so don't let me forget that.Bill Godfrey:Okay, I'm going to make myself a note. Terry, how about you? What were the surprises or lessons learned or advice that you would offer something to another law enforcement leader?Terry Nichols:In Brownwood, I walked into, I mentioned earlier, a, I won't say adversarial community, but everybody wasn't getting along, and I used it as a tool to bring everybody together. So I thought it was very useful that way. Now see, the fire department, they got along, but they didn't work together. They knew each other, but they didn't get ... that was it. They was the fireman, we're the police officers. But I used it as a unique tool to bring everybody together, and I thought that was unique.I agree with the disciples, or ambassadors, as I often refer to them, as somebody that will go out there and carry that brand. They're passionate about it. They're just passionate as I am, as you are, as the sheriff is, and so many other folks around. Our new ... Our. The city's new assistant fire chief is one of those ambassadors. He was a hire about eight months before I left, and he came from a neighboring agency, and he is an absolute ambassador.He told me at my retirement reception, he's like, "You're part of the reason I came over here, and now you're leaving." He's relating, "I'm passionate about this Active Shooter Incident Management stuff, and you were here, and I was like, 'All right, what a great opportunity.'" I said, "Sorry, dude, it's that time. 33 years is enough time."And I have to agree with you, we did not have the practice at either organization down, like the sheriff explained. We did not have that ongoing, and I learned that the hard way in Brownwood. When we get to that story, I'll tell you that later on, that it is a perishable skill, and you've got to figure out some ways, some unique ways, to continue to get the information out and rehearse, refresh, that going on. And with the events in Texas in the past couple months, I don't think that's going to be hard to do to get that refresher stuff going.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, do you want to go ahead and talk about what you learned in Brownwood about the retention in perishable skills?Terry Nichols:Yeah, so we ran Counterstrike. We did not have the ASIM yet, but we ran Counterstrike. Everybody through the Sheriff's Department, third-party ambulance provider, the hospital, staff attended, everybody. And then a month later, we held an exercise at the school. No SIMS, nothing like that, it was all moulage. We had actually role-players, Moulage, and the hospital was involved.So we did transports, they tested their MCI surge capability. It worked great, and I think our out-the-door time for the first patient was like 20 minutes. It was remarkable. For having only done it, and we had just trained the month before, so it was great, the sad part, we had lost an officer the week before that to an off-duty traffic collision, and I almost canceled the event simply because of that. We had a lot of trauma we were going through as an organization. We didn't, I'm glad we didn't, because it really brought us all back together focused on our mission.The next year, my intentions are always great, but you're not judged by your intention. My intention was to do followup training the following year, that spring, and do another exercise at the school, change it up slightly, and get the hospital, everybody, involved. We never got around to the refresher training. This happened, the world happened, everything happened, but we still did the exercise. My fire chief had pretty much checked out mentally. He just wasn't that engaged. Our out-of-the-building time for our first casualty was like 50 minutes. It was 50 minutes.Bill Godfrey:50? Five zero?Terry Nichols:Yeah, five zero, which, to me, was absolute failure, catastrophic failure. It's like, what happened? And it was a lack of recurring training, is what boils down to. People had forgotten their roles, they'd forgotten ... they had the checklist, they had in front of them, but they'd forgotten how to do the basic fundamental things, the basic fundamental piece of this.So the good lesson learned, keeping that buy-in from those ambassadors, especially the agency heads, I would think that I could sit across from my fire chief, and I could in Seguin, and have a very candid conversation. It was not quite that same way in Brownwood, as it turned out to be. That was part of the issue I faced.The other issue is my own, I had to own it, that I did not continue to push the training. Life happened, other things happened, and I did not make it a top priority as it should have been, and we saw the outcome of that during that exercise, and I was just as mad as a hornet. I was just absolutely furious at myself, not at the performance of my troops, because they did the best they could. It was at me for not doing that refresher training.Bill Godfrey:Powerful story. Sheriff, anything that you want to add on that before I come back to what's going on there at Clay County?Michelle Cook:I'm with Terry. This is a perishable skill all day long, and you've got to find creative ways to continue the conversations. To think that you're going to bring in a class one time, and somehow people are going to retain it, that's just not going to work. You got to continue the conversations, whether it's the Counterstrike board. For us, it's reading scripts and PowerPoints, and handling priority-one calls using ASIM concepts. Also, the preplanned events, using as many concepts as we can during the preplanned event, and that's how you keep the conversations fresh.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, I completely agree. So tell us a little bit about what's going on there at Clay that you're excited about.Michelle Cook:So really thrilled about this. We were actually having these conversations before Uvalde, and Uvalde really just cemented our commitment to them. So in Clay County, like all school districts across America, our school board came up with a reunification plan, which sounded great on paper. It looks fantastic in this big ring binder that nobody's ever going to look at. So I brought in the county emergency manager, the safety director for the school board, and the school board police chief, and said, "Guys, we have our plan, you have your plan, the schools have their plan. None of us know each other's plan."So right now, what we're doing is we're hosting, I think we're up to 51 meetings. We're bringing school administrators in; the superintendent; fire rescue; the police agency if it's in a municipality, and we bring that jurisdiction in; the school resource officers; the school board police; the safety director for the school board; my patrol division; my special events division, and my traffic division. And we'll have anywhere from 20 to 30 people in the room, and we put the school up on the board and we say, "Okay, this is Clay High School. All right, so school administrators, what is your lockdown ... what is your policy?"So they tell us what their policy is, and then we talk about what to expect from us. "You're going to have solo officer response. You may see something called a contact team. What do you ... We've made an agreement on where we're going to keep extra weapons and other items locked in the school, so where is that location? How do we turn off your alarms in your school?" And then we challenge our traffic guys, "What intersections do you have to own to lock this school down?"And then to the school people, "How are we going to ... Let's talk about reunification. What does that look like?" And then we tell them, "Hey, this is what our contact teams are going to be doing. This is what our rescue task forces are going to be doing. There's a position called tactical, and if you can find that person safely and provide information on who the suspect is, where they're at, go find that person. This is what's going to be happening at the command post."So we tell them all of that, and really, what we've done is we've taken the individual school plans, we've taken the school board police response plan, we've taken the fire response plan, we've taken our plan. We've really molded it into a document, and since I've been driving the conversations from the beginning, they're very ASIM-centric. And the documents are just a few pages, and I could literally ...We've identified, for example, all the intersections in the area that we need to control. "I'm not telling you on game day which direction to push traffic, but these are the intersections that we have to control." So we have a single sheet of paper, it lists each intersection, and then how many deputies it takes to control that intersection. So if Terry's coming in for mutual aid, and I can pull off this sheet of paper and hand it to Terry and say, "You've got traffic."So we've done this with our schools. We're about 12 or so schools in now that we've been holding these meetings, and I tell you, the sense of cooperation, coordination, the understanding of ASIM, because we tell them, "You guys locking down and us neutralizing the bad guy is really just the beginning. There's going to be so much more that has to happen," and opening their eyes of what to expect from us, what we can expect from them, and we're calling it the Clay County CHIRP plan, CHIRP, Clay Hazard Immediate Response Plan, and it just gets all the special interests together in a room to talk about each individual school individually, instead of trying to cover all the schools with one giant plan.Bill Godfrey:That is so fantastic, and more than I've heard going on in other organizations. Once again, you're always on the cutting edge of making new stuff happen. So I-Terry Nichols:It is, it's brilliant. I'm sorry, Bill.Bill Godfrey:No, go ahead, Terry.Terry Nichols:It's great. It's absolutely brilliant, it really is, especially countywide. One thing I left out of the Brownwood, the exercises we did, the school district did their own little reunification exercise once we finished. So we did our piece of it, but they had staff that was working through the summer, and they worked on their reunification process. They actually brought up school buses, and took them to another facility, and worked and walked through the standard reunification method that they utilize.So again, we did not get involved in that because we were taxed already, as far as the number of bodies we were pulling from the street through the tactical piece of all this, but they were doing it themselves. So it was nice to see them doing that. I know the superintendent out there, I know he's continuing that kind of stuff. It's very important to them. Seguin will be very similar, I'd have no doubt in my mind.Bill Godfrey:That's fantastic. So here's my last question for the two of you. Just within the last two weeks, NTOA, the National Tactical Officers Association, has announced that they're endorsing the Active Shooter Incident Management checklist as a national standard. And as I said on one of the previous podcasts, for our fire-EMS audience, NTOA is to law enforcement what the NFPA, the National Fire Protection Agency, is to the fire service. How do the two of you see that changing the conversation as we try to get people aware, trained, and implementing ASIM?Terry Nichols:It would certainly help. Having their endorsement and their stamp of approval is huge. I've been an NTOA member for years, got on their training, I've been to their active assailant training, active shooter training many years ago, back in the early days of Alert. It adds a lot of validity to it, not that it didn't already have it, because it does, but you may be reaching a whole different audience that, especially for your larger agencies that have full-time SWAT teams, and they say, "If we don't do an active shooter training, we've got this stuff done, it's gone ... y'all have to solve long before we get there."But now, they get introduced ugh, or through their structure or their training in the tactical world, they get introduced to the ASIM model and the process that way now. Again, most of the country part-time teams, collateral duty, job, that kind of stuff, but your Los Angeleses, and your New York, and your Houstons, and your Austins and Bostons, and all those big places that may not get ASIM another way, may see it this way now. So I think it's a big deal, Bill.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, how about you? How does it change things, or does it change things, for you at home there in Clay and in your surrounding areas?Michelle Cook:I'm not sure if it changes things. It doesn't surprise me, though, that NTOA would be one of the first to step up and acknowledge this. The NTOA has trained thousands and thousands and thousands of SWAT operators and SWAT leaders, and on a SWAT call-out, there's a process. And you think about, you call the SWAT team when it's really, really bad, and the SWAT team follows a chain of command, there's one talk, there's one commander.So it doesn't surprise me that NTOA would see the value of a checklist like this, and understand that the checklist is really for those dynamic, ongoing ... those calls that are happening right then when we don't have time to wait for the SWAT team. Now, with that being said, my only concern, and this is something that, as a leader, you have to be cognizant of, is the checklist is not the answer. The answer is training with the checklist.Bill Godfrey:Yes, yes.Michelle Cook:So passing the checklist and saying, "Okay, now we have ASIM," that would be my only concern, because I'm thinking firemen are probably like this too, but cops, "Just make it easy for us. Give us a checklist."Bill Godfrey:Yeah, we're all much more alike than we would like to admit.Michelle Cook:Yeah. That would be my only caution, is that the piece of paper is not the answer. It's training to the piece of paper that will help you get to the answer.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and I think certainly in my conversations with the NTOA leadership, I think they're keenly aware of that, and we're having some very positive conversations about things that we are hoping to do with their organization to begin to push this out. I think we're probably going to start with some webinars, some announcement material, and things like that, but obviously, we've got to get into the training. You got to get into the hands-on training.And I've said this before, and I will say it again, you can sit in a classroom and you can get lectured at, you can watch a video, but until you get up and put yourself in the moment and actually practice this under pressure, you just don't get it. You've got to give responders the opportunity to practice, hot wash it, and then let them practice again, and that's when they they build the competency.I feel like it's a little bit of a trite analogy, but I've said it before, and I don't think there's anything quite better than that, you're not going to get to the Super Bowl with one practice. You've got to practice over and over again, and in a lot of ways, the quarterback on the field is a lot like tactical triage and transport, and then the coaches on the sideline are like the incident command post.Everybody's working together, but how the heck are you going to pull that off on game day if nobody ever bothered to practice? It seems obvious, and when you break it down in those terms, everybody goes, "Oh yeah, I guess that makes sense," but making it a priority for agencies, it's tough. We got, what, 20 pounds of training requirements to fit into a one-pound day? Something's-Terry Nichols:In Texas, you're about to see that get a lot heavier, because again, after Uvalde, I think you're going to see this come to the forefront at the state level. So every state has mandated training for peace officers that we all have to go through every year. You will see we will be heavy on active shooter response, active assailant response, and it'll hopefully give those agencies that already bought in, that have ASIM training, that have the knowledge of it, to give them a chance to actually go out and practice it now, to check that box with the state, as it were.And one of my leadership mentors, Dave Anderson, he says about working out, "How can you expect to go in the gym and squat 500 pounds if you've never squatted 100 pounds? So yeah, you got to practice, practice, practice, repetition, repetition, repetition. So what you said is spot on, but we've got to ... To have a piece of paper, laminated or not, just to pull out of your zipper shirt or out of your visor, is not the answer. You've got to use it.Bill Godfrey:Or on your phone. We've got it as the phone app too. Yeah, I completely agree, and the one thing I would say, in a perfect world, we would get everybody trained so competently and so passionately, and that, God forbid, the day comes that they're called upon, they would nail it and perfect it, and that would be wonderful. But a little goes a long way. A little bit of organization, a little bit of incident management, having a handful of leadership who understands the process and understand what needs to get done, to be able to organize the rest of the troops or the mutual aid people coming in, a little can go a long way. And yes, one day I would like to believe that we'll get every law enforcement, firefighter, EMT, and paramedic in the United States fully trained and competent in this material. But in the meantime, let's do a little something, because as we've seen more than once, a failure on the incident management side can just produce an unacceptable result.Terry Nichols:It's catastrophic, it's catastrophic, and witnessed recently, unfortunately, and it just ... and you're right, small pieces, and the sheriff's got it right. She's hitting it on the head, using it the priority-one calls, and get it ingrained, indoctrinated. And before we went live and started recording, I was joking with you, Bill, about, we have so much to learn from the fire service; we, being law enforcement.Yeah, we may joke all day long about this incident command stuff. There's a cat up in a tree, and y'all set up incident command, there's no one-shot. But there's something to be said for this, and I tried it. I think both Seguin and Brownwood are better ... they are today than when I got there when it comes to this type of stuff. Not just the tactical piece of it, but the incident management piece of it. I hope they are. And it was a great challenge, and I'm an ambassador of it, and hopefully we got much more to learn, even if it's one at a time, one person at a time.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, and I think, Terry, between you and, certainly, Michelle, who is a very, very strong leader in the law enforcement community, and very sophisticated and forward-looking, I'm optimistic. I think we're going to get there. I think that this can happen, and we can get it done. And I'll share this one story with you, Terry, in fairness, coming back on the other side, because making fun of the cat in the tree, I always make fun of you law enforcement guys for the 540 degrees of coverage. I'm like, "Yeah, how does that math work? It's 360, and you start over again."And I was teaching a class one day with ... and I make that joke on a fairly regular basis, which I should have known. And one of our other instructors, Adam, he was waiting for it, and as soon as I said it, he goes, "Okay, let me explain it to you, Bill. You get in the recliner, you spin around 360 degrees, and then you pull the lever to kick your feet back and you look up over your head. That's 540 degrees of coverage," and I said, "Okay, I got it. I deserve that."Terry Nichols:I owe him a beverage. I owe him a beverage.Bill Godfrey:Sheriff, you have any other closing words or thoughts that you want to offer before we wrap up for today?Michelle Cook:Just wanted to say thank you for the opportunity, and if any law enforcement leader out there, anybody in law enforcement, is looking for any ideas, or suggestions, or support, or how to lead your organization or your agency through the the beginnings of ASIM, obviously, C3 Pathways is the expert in the training, but I can definitely help people navigate the politics of it if needed. So always available to assist.Bill Godfrey:Yeah, that's very, very gracious of you. I have a feeling we're going to have people reaching out wanting your contact information. Terry, any final thoughts?Terry Nichols:I echo exactly what the sheriff said, Bill. Thank you so much for the opportunity to come to share my story, anyway, what I've experienced, but same way. I've done it in a rural community with very limited resources, and now in a larger, not near as large as the Sheriff for Jacksonville, but in a larger agency with ... And there are politics to navigate, there are egos to navigate.Bill Godfrey:Always.Terry Nichols:They're in ... I don't have all the answers, but I'll certainly give you my experience. So yeah, C3 Pathways is the point. Anybody listening or watching, reach out to C3, and if you want to talk to me directly, obviously, Bill will gladly share my contact information, and I will answer any question with anybody at any time about any issue as it relates to this, and my successes and my obvious failures as well.Bill Godfrey:Well, Terry, Michelle, thank you both so much for taking the time out of your day. I think what you've shared can be extremely valuable to those that need to walk in the same footsteps that you guys have already forged ahead, and I just can't thank you enough for continuing to support and be ambassadors, and for the work that both of you have accomplished. So thank you for being with us today on the show. Ladies and gentlemen, that's a wrap for our show today. Thank you for tuning in, and until we talk to you next time, stay safe.

The lads take a summer vacation at Neptune Beach to discuss 1947's The Gangster from director Gordon Wiles and screenwriter Daniel Fuchs (based on his novel). Reuniting Suspense's Barry Sullivan and Belita, this one is dense, existential, brisk and nasty aka just how we like ‘em! (Note: for those who want to get straight to the business, the movie talk starts at 17:57) Questions, comments or a love letter from Shorty? therealoutofthepodcast@gmail.com SNAP SNAP: instagram.com/outofthepodcast TWEET TWEET: twitter.com/outofthecast

The Varsity Soccer Team heads to the State Championship for the 3rd year in a row to play against Fletcher High School from Neptune Beach. The game takes place in Deland, Florida on Friday, Feb. 25. The team won in 2018 and 2020 but lost last year at the State Championship game. They go into the game with after a 17-1-3 season. We talkt to various players about the upcoming game. (Hosts: Paola LIsta '23 and Danielle Noriega '23)

Listen to a new episode of YNS Live with NFL Thread recorded live on Fireside with hosts Juliet Hahn and Cynthia Zordich featuring Mindy McCord.   “When you identify people's real passion, purpose, and strengths, and you give them autonomy to do that, it betters every organization the way it should.” - Mindy McCord   Mindy McCord enters her 13th season as the Jacksonville women's lacrosse head coach heading into 2022 and has compiled a record of 156-57 over her first 12 years with the Dolphins. Overall, this is her 33rd season as a coach at the high school or collegiate level.   As the first-ever coach for the women's lacrosse team, Mindy has led the Dolphins from a startup program to national prominence, highlighted by seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament and a combined 14 conference regular season and tournament titles between the National Lacrosse Conference and the ASUN Conference. Under her direction, the Dolphins have also compiled 17 NCAA statistical championships and one individual statistical title (Rachel Hannon, Draw Control – 2012).   As a women's lacrosse and field hockey coach, Mindy has accumulated 251 wins in two sports at all levels. Her teams have earned either first-place championships or runner-up status 12 times during her 23 seasons as a head coach. She has recruited and developed 11 All-Americans, 23 regional All-Americans, and six conference players of the year.   Mindy's coaching career began while studying for her master's in Counselor Education at Virginia Tech. While attending the school, she coached the women's lacrosse club team for two years, helping them to earn Division I status in the ACC.   Her full-time coaching career began as a 23-year old head coach at prestigious Oberlin College in Ohio. As one of the NCAA's youngest head coaches, she hit the ground running winning consecutive lacrosse conference titles in 1997 and 1998. During the 1997 season, her squad boasted an undefeated conference record (11-0), leading to North Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors. The two titles were the only two championships won by any program at Oberlin College during her four-year tenure.   Mindy co-founded with her husband a national travel lacrosse club called the Lax Maniax Elite. This club has helped more than 275 young women from Florida go on to play lacrosse in college and has boasted 22 high school all-Americans. The program won the 2007 and 2008 Southeastern Lacrosse championship and is recognized as the leading national club in the south.   For the past four years, Mindy has served as a Division I representative to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) and has served the last four years on Division I ranking committee. Along with those duties, McCord served the JU community as a member of EAC from 2012-16 on the wellness committee and was the Vice President of the EAC from 2015-16.   Mindy was born in Westminster, Md., and attended Westminster High School where she played field hockey, lacrosse, and ran track, earning honors in all three sports. In her senior year, she founded and implemented the first lacrosse club in Carroll County, Md., for middle and high school girls. Her husband Paul coached at JU through the 2019 season and works for Legacy Global Sports. Their daughter, Taylor, played lacrosse at Jacksonville and earned her BS in 2015 and her MBA in 2016, and currently works for Black Knight Financial. The couple also has a two-and-a-half-year-old son, Lytton, born in 2015. The family resides in Neptune Beach, Fla.   Follow Mindy on Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Twitter.   Find Us Online! Fireside: Juliet Hahn | Cynthia Zordich Instagram: Juliet Hahn | Cynthia Zordich | NFL Thread LinkedIn: Juliet Hahn | Cynthia Zordich FB: Juliet Hahn | NFL Thread Clubhouse: Juliet Hahn YouTube: Juliet Hahn Twitter: Juliet Hahn | Cynthia Zordich | NFL Thread

This latest episode is a very special one as my guest has already been on the show shortly before the first lockdowns started back in spring 2020. Many of you may be familiar with his name and work, as he is a certainly well-known and widely respected practitioner, author and co-owner of Theion Publishing, source of quite a lot of meaningful in-depth books on the occult. It is a huge pleasure to welcome David Beth again and talk with him about Arthur Moros' ‘The Cult of the Black Cube' which has been released this year in a second edition. We'll open up our conversation with the impact of Covid on David personally, on Theion Publishing and how certain creative processes had to endure an involuntary break. Of course, the psychological effects of the pandemic will be a topic as well as the question what a proper process of editing and publishing takes. We then start to explore ‘The Cult of the Black Cube' which has been written under the pseudonym Dr. Arthur Moros and reveal a bit of information about the author next to discussing the background of its first edition 3 years ago and shedding some light onto what role Saturn itself played in the creative process. David provides us with a basic outline of the indeed densely written book's structure and explains the Saturnian experience as a cross-cultural one and Saturnian power as something that is capable to obscure progress but despite all of its negatively perceived aspects is still able to bring us forward by alchemical transmutation. Another aspect of the discussion will be whether and if, how exactly the pandemic might be perceived as an expression of Saturnian forces. In this context we'll talk about linearity of ‘logocentric' worldviews, ‘wokeness', ‘cancel culture' and a lot more. As David has written one chapter of ‘The Cult of the Black Cube' he goes into detail on how modern Saturnian groups suffer from problematic views on the female aspect of Saturn, how a different philosophy would support a more biocentric worldview and the relevance of this Cosmic Gnosis for a practitioner's daily life. Arthur Moros' work is subtitled ‘A Saturnian Grimoire' and David will explain how the use of the rituals in it work regardless of one's own tradition in a quite non-dogmatic way and open a pathway into Saturn's reality. Of course, we'll talk about David's future projects, one of them being a book on Adonism which is soon to be finalised and published as well as a reprint of Ludwig Klages' ‘Cosmogonic Eros' and a few other new books coming out soon. Music played in this episode Well, it has become a habit, and a nice one, that our listeners provide us with the music for our shows! Today we thank LAZULI VANE, a recent fan of this podcast, for making contact and sending us three tracks for this episode. Read what he says about himself: I am a recording artist and poet based in Neptune Beach, FL and my music is influenced heavily by the western occult tradition and a few other traditions besides. I'm a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, have studied various strains of gnosticism and hermeticism privately for over a decade, and regularly practice yoga. Occult subjects have always been a great passion and curiosity of mine.  I'd like to share with you tracks from my most recent album "THE ORPHIC RITE OF THE CULT OF SEDNA", which was a work of magic and depth psychology for me; a reflective process which helped to purge and clarify certain streams of unconscious material running through me. Thanks Lazuli Vane, for sharing this with us. WEBSITE 1) SEDNA (Track starts at 7:00)   2) THE NEXT NEW DAY PT1 (Track starts at 53:49)   3) ABRAXAS (Track starts at 1:30:51) Intro and Outro Musicespecially written and recorded for the Thoth-Hermes Podcast by Ch...

Carlie Christenson said YES to entrepreneurship at the age of nine! A Neptune Beach, Florida native, Carlie is quick to acknowledge her Mom and Dad for their early support in her young vision. She was the pulse that drove an idea into a product that now sells coast to coast AND just made its way into partnership on internationally recognized Spanx's website! Boob-eez — nipple covers, stick on bras and seamless layers for women of all ages — was a little girl's idea to solve a problem. Little did she know that problems would be solved and a business would bloom along her own blossoming. Now, 14 years in the making, Carlie is passionate and shares a mature and professional perspective that far exceeds her 24 years of life. While she's clearly a great businesswoman, it's her attitude we can all learn from. In this conversation you'll hear:How to recognize (and claim) your passion projectWhat an entrepreneur is (from an entrepreneur) Why acknowledging those who helped your vision happen is part of successHow research is important in following your dreamsWhy resources are closer than you think when you're willing to keep workingWhy fun is always a necessary part of the story Resources:One Creative Act's Instagram: @onecreativeactMary Lyn Jenkin's Instagram: @marylynbigfishBig Fish Co.'s Instagram: @livebigfishcoBig Fish Co.'s Website: livebigfishco.com Carlie's Instagram: @carliehannahBoob-eez's Instagram: @boob_eez Boob-eez's Website: boob-eez.com Spanx's Website: spanx.com Jaffi's Website:  jaffisneptunebeach.com Jaffi's Instagram: @jaffisboutique

Hip and down to earth, Emilie Christenson has created an iconic boutique in Neptune Beach, Florida that celebrates and satisfies women of all ages. It's a rare treasure and a space where Emilie says she delivers true retail therapy. Jaffi's, the 20-year-old boutique, has brought joy and the life she wanted; and she didn't even know it until she took the leap out of corporate. It's her story that got her here — family, challenges, choice, motherhood, and building things her way — that delivers heartfelt inspiration. And lucky for you. She's available every week to offer her fashion forward savviness, love for people and joy for life. In this conversation, you'll hear:How to surround yourself with a great teamWhy taking the leap is imperative if you want to start building your dreamHow family matters through fear and changeWhy faith and staying in real, authentic conversation creates great lifeWhy giving your kids permission to feel heals Resources:One Creative Act's Instagram: @onecreativeactMary Lyn Jenkin's Instagram: @marylynbigfishBig Fish Co.'s Instagram: @livebigfishcoBig Fish Co.'s Website: livebigfishco.com Emilie's Instagram: @emilie_christenson Jaffi's Website:  jaffisneptunebeach.com Jaffi's Instagram: @jaffisboutique

Keeping her commitments intentional — serving family and community, Stevan Brown returned to Neptune Beach, Florida after four years working in New York. The tragic loss of her parents brought her home; even with immense loss, her creative family leaned in and were embraced by the community. Stevan is a wife, momma, co-owner and Public Relations Director at The Hotel Palms, and shares authentically her story of why community and family matter most of all; and when you look for signs, they always appear. In this conversation, you'll hear:How tragedy hurts, transforms, and creates connectionWhat the impact of strong community can be Why family matters and the possibilities when working togetherHow to operate together — and from your giftsWhy believing in your vision makes it happenHow commitment to your mission drives collaborationResources:One Creative Act's Instagram: @onecreativeactMary Lyn Jenkin's Instagram: @marylynbigfishBig Fish Co.'s Instagram: @livebigfishcoBig Fish Co.'s Website: livebigfishco.com Stevan Brown's Instagram: @stevansteveThe Hotel Palms Instagram: @hotelpalms The Hotel Palms Website: thehotelpalms.com Ron Artis' Instagram: @ronartisiiShow Pigeon Coffee's Instagram: @showpigeoncoffeeEdge and Lines Instagram: @edgeandlinesdesignEdge and Lines Website: edgeandlines.comObi Family: Timmy Obi Family Fund Beaches Towne Center Fashion Show: Party & Tickets 

Jewls was an alcoholic and an addict who blamed everyone else including her husband for her problems. It wasn't until she entered the program of recovery that she gained the ability to drop the word blame and acknowledge her part in the unhappiness in her life. Today, her relationship with her husband is the best it has every been thanks to Alcoholics Anonymous and her connection to God.A WORD TO DROP: "BLAME"To see how erratic emotions victimized us often took a long time. We could perceive them quickly in others, but only slowly in ourselves First of all, we had to admit that we had many of these defects, even though such disclosures were painful and humiliating. Where other people were concerned, we had to drop the word "blame" from our speech and thoughtTWELVE STEPS AND TWELVE TRADITIONS, p. 47When I did my Fourth Step, following the Big Book guidelines, I noticed that my grudge list was filled with my prejudices and my blaming others for my not being able to succeed and to live up to my potential. I also discovered I felt different because I was black. As I continued to work on the Step, I learned that I always had drunk to rid myself of those feelings. It was only when I sobered up and worked on my inventory, that I could no longer blame anyone.Need the Daily Reflection Book?Visit our web siteRead about Recovery on our BlogVisit our Facebook GroupFollow us on TwitterSupport the Podcast:- On Patreon: https://patreon.com/dailyreflection- On PayPal: https://paypal.me/dailyreflection

Simon nimmt uns mit in seine Heimat Stadt/Region Jacksonville & St Augustine Florida. Simon lebt mit seiner Familie zwischen den Orten Jacksonville und St. Augustine eine schöne und etwas weniger bekannten Region an der US-Ostküste. Denn bei Florida denken die Meisten sofort an Miami oder die Keys. In unserer Destination Spezial Episode geht wir mit Simon auf Entdeckungstour von Jacksonville und St. Augustine. Zwei völlig verschiedene Städte mit völlig verschiedenen Geschichten.Jacksonville wurde Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts gegründet. Der Name stammt vom damaligen Gouverneur und späteren Präsidenten Andrew Jackson. Jacksonville befindet sich im so genannten Duval County. Hier verlaufen die langen Sand-Strände wie „Atlantic Beach“, „Jacksonville Beach“ oder „Neptune Beach“.  Wir starten mit Simon zuerst von Jacksonville knapp eine Stunde entfernt im Süden und erreichen den historischen Ort St. Augustin. Dieser Ort, an dem die Spanier landeten, ist ein idyllischer Ort. St. Augustine, eine der malerischsten Städte in ganz Florida. Der Ort wurde Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts von einem spanischen Admiral gegründet.  TPC Sawgrass liegt im bilderbuchschönen Ort Ponte Vedra Beach. Hier wird THE PLAYERS Championship ausgetragen, einer der begehrtesten Titel der PGA Tour, die auch oft als The Fifth Major bezeichnet wird. Das Spiel um das legendäre und äußerst schwierige 17. Loch auf dem Island Green ist garantiert wieder eine spannende Angelegenheit.https://tpc.com/sawgrass/ Riverside ist nach dem großen Brand im Jahre 1901 entstanden, als viele hier ihre Häuser neu bauten. Hier entstand die größte Bungalow Siedlung in den USA. In den 1950'er und 1960'er wurden viele Gebäude in Wohnanlagen umgebaut. Seit Ende 1990 ist Riverside eine „National Historic Neighborhood" und es wird wieder viel zurück gebaut. In Riverside liegt Five Points, der Memorial Park und Riverside Park und dem King Streets District. Restaurants:Cap's On the Watercapsonthewater.com Hangar One Bistro Eatery & Barhangaronebistro.com Barbara Jean's On The Waterbarbarajeansonthewater.com German Street FoodFacebookWeitere Infos:➤ Town Center in St. Johnshttps://www.simon.com/mall/st-johns-town-center➤ Blue Springs State Park (Manatees)https://www.floridastateparks.org/parks-and-trails/blue-spring-state-park.Weitere Informationen über uns findet ihr auf unserer Webseite:http://www.muttersprachepodcast.comInstagram: @muttersprachepodcastMich findest Du hier:https://www.linkedin.com/in/monique-menesi/https://www.meetus.us/https://breadlovers.net/https://equilibrium.teamoder per Email: monique@meetus.us

Dara and Ellen sit with Nikki Graham, owner of Graham Strength and Conditioning in Neptune Beach, FL. Nikki shares her journey with nutrition and health and how she got started in her career landing her in the position she is now to help a multitude of people with their health from the inside out. Follow Beyond Broke and Hungry on social: Insta: @beyondbrokeandhungry Twitter: @byndbrokehungry Facebook: /beyondbrokeandhungry Visit our website BeyondBrokeandHungry.com for our bi-weekly blog and new recipes!

Cardiovascular Leaders Jerry Blackwell, MD, MBA, FACC President and CEO MedAxiom, Neptune Beach, FL   Larry Sobal, MBA, MHA, FACMPE Chief Executive Officer Heart and Vascular Institute of Wisconsin, Appleton, WI

Suscríbete a la 💌 NEWSLETTER SEMANAL 💌 en http://filispin.es Para recibir un resumen semanal de las noticias más importantes del sector del marketing, la comunicación y la publicidad. 🛍 Tendencias del e-commmerce según Semrush El análisis reveló que las búsquedas mensuales de "comprar online" se han doblado desde el primer mes de la pandemia, las búsquedas de comida a domicilio se han disparado hasta aumentar un 180% o que el crecimiento interanual medio del tráfico de los sitios de comercio electrónico en la primera mitad de 2020 fue de alrededor del 30%. Muchísimos datos más en el estudio. 👿 TikTok registró identificadores de Android durante 15 meses La aplicación de TikTok aprovechó un fallo de seguridad en móviles Android para recopilar durante 15 meses, hasta noviembre de 2019, datos personales de sus usuarios entre los que se encuentra la dirección MAC. 🆓 Una compañía tuvo expuestos los datos de 235 millones de usuarios de TikTok, Instagram y Youtube Según ha informado en un comunicado la empresa de ciberseguridad Comparitech, Social Data, una compañía que proporciona servicios de web scraping para empresas en redes sociales, ha expuesto en Internet una base de datos con información sobre los perfiles de cerca de 235 millones de usuarios. 🏆 YouTube ha sido nombrada como la plataforma de RRSS más responsable Ha sido después de una auditoría realizada por IPG Mediabrands. Se trata de una Auditoría de Responsabilidad de Medios trimestral que colocó a YouTube en primer lugar, como resultado de cómo respondió a las preocupaciones de seguridad de la marca hace tres años, cuando algunos anunciantes retiraron sus campañas después de descubrir que sus anuncios se publicaban junto con contenido extremista.Twitter quedó en segundo puesta y Linkedin, en tercer lugar. ⛈ Facebook se suma a las críticas por la comisión de la AppStore Facebook se ha unido a Spotify, Match(Tinder) y Epic Games que han criticado a Apple por su política de cobrar una comisión de hasta el 30% de las ventas que se realizan a través de su tienda virtual App Store. La firma de la manzana mantiene el cobro en una iniciativa de Facebook para ayudar a los pequeños negocios. Google sí que aceptó eximir del pago de este porcentaje a esta iniciativa. 🌪 Google se suma a Apple y elimina Fornite de sus tiendas Epic Games acusa a Apple y Google de llevar a cabo prácticas monopolísticas en sus tiendas y contrarias a la competencia en entornos como Android e IOS. La compañía creadora de Fornite actualizó su aplicación para dispositivos Android, añadiendo este mismo método de pago con el que se salta el margen de la tienda de Google. Motivo por el cual la el gigante americano también ha decidido quitar Fortnite de su tienda de aplicaciones, y bajo la misma premisa que Apple. Si una persona te dice que pareces un camello, ignórala. Si te lo dicen dos, empieza a mirarte la espalda en un espejo. 🙃 Blackberry prepara su regreso para el 2021 Volverán en 2021 y aseguran que mantendrán el teclado físico, siendo fiel a ese diseño tan característico e inconfundible. Se sabe que BlackBerry no fabricará por sí misma el nuevo teléfono. sino que será la startup OnwardMobility con FIH Mobile, subsidiaria de Foxconn. El tercer intento para relanzar la marca Blackberry tras los fallidos de 2016 y 2017. ¿Irá la vencida? ⛱ Concienciar sobre el uso de las mascarillas, objetivo de esta campaña gráfica A nosotros nos puede parecer normal, sin embargo, ellos han lanzado esta campaña en Florida donde, a pesar de una elevada incidencia del virus, las autoridades han expresado públicamente que el uso de mascarillas es inútil. Para complementar la campaña de exterior, la marca ha encargado a artistas de arena locales que creen esculturas de arena gigantes con mascarillas en las playas de Lago Mar Beach, St. Petersburg Beach y en Neptune Beach. 😴 La delgada línea entre la genialidad y el error de Ikea La marca sueca ha dado mucho que hablar en Bahréin a raíz de un supuesto error. Mientras en el anuncio en cuestión se podía leer en inglés «Create your perfect night’s sleep» («Crea tu sueño nocturno perfecto»), en árabe este texto estaba traducido como «Lo mismo que está escrito, pero en árabe». Esto provocó que el cartel se hiciera viral y que los medios del país lo sacaran prácticamente en todos los espacios. Ikea solucionó su «despiste» tachando la mala traducción y añadiendo el texto «Esto es lo que sucede cuando uno no duerme lo suficiente. Disfruta de tu sueño perfecto». El debate está servido, ¿error real o genialidad del departamento de marketing de El Corte Inglés? 🍗 KFC Francia reta a encontrar dos trozos de pollo iguales Suena muy raro viniendo de una gran cadena, pero lo cierto es que resaltar el valor artesanal y natural de su producto, la marca ha lanzado una campaña gráfica en la que reta al ojo del espectador a encontrar dos piezas de pollo iguales. Lanzado junto a la agencia Sid Lee, Unalike (Diferente), una campaña de Exterior y Digital en la que cada visual es diferente a los demás. Para la campaña se han creado más de 100 gráficas diferentes en las que retan a los que la vean a encontrar dos trozos de pollo que sean iguales. 😷 Burger King imprime tu pedido en la mascarilla para facilitar la comunicación En Burger King Bélgica se preguntaron: ¿Y si las mascarillas hablaran por ti? Y así es como surge esta divertida acción publicitaria con la que la compañía de comida rápida ha lanzado una colección de mascarillas que incluyen el pedido impreso en la parte frontal. Así, el cajero tendrá la información que necesita para servir la comida sin necesidad de que el cliente diga ni una sola palabra, minimizando el contacto y posibles contagios. 🎥 Cabreiroá se viste de cine La marca gallega de agua mineral va a cambiar las imágenes de sus botellas por carteles de películas emblemáticas de Hollywood en las etiquetas de su formato pet de 50 cl. con tapón sport. 🥴 ¿Cómo sería la vida real si fuera como nuestra conexión a internet? El proveedor de banda ancha en Nueva Zelanda, Chorus, ha llevado a la vida real los clásicos problemas que sufrimos cuando estamos conectados a internet. En la pieza, un personaje llamado Carl experimenta un día con «problemas de red» que le llevan a vivir diferentes situaciones un tanto frustrantes. 💔 Programa dedicado a Ken Robinson Descanse en Paz, genio. Esto es todo por esta semana. Recuerden que en nuestra newsletter tienen los enlaces para poder leer y ampliar todas estas noticias. 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Man arrested for plot to blow up Central Park's Alice in Wonderland statue, Lesbian slap fight over TikTok videos, Neptune Beach resident blasts 3 home invaders when he spotted them about to kick in his front door, Bus driver fired for jerking while driving

It was great to talk story with Tiffany about life, surfing and the building of her company. What really resonated with me is her love of surfing and how important it is to share that stoke with others. Surfing is magic, and medicine, and I appreciate all she does to build community and share that with others. It truly does make the world a better place. Introducing people to surfing is important, because even if they don't become surfers you can't helped but be changed for the better by spending time out in the ocean and the natural world. You can find out more about what she does at Jax Surf & Paddle by clicking here or go visit the shop on Atlantic Blvd in Neptune Beach, just a couple blocks off the ocean. Thanks to Nicholas Edward Williams providing sounds for the show. He makes such good music which you can find here. I highly recommend buying his album and going to see him in concert. If you live in north Florida you should see him, or anybody really, at Blue Jay Listening Room in south Jax Beach. Cara, the owner, has created a wonder musical experience there. She has excellent taste in music so you don't even have to worry about who is playing, just go and treat yourself to a fantastic evening of music.

Update to 'A Thanksgiving Mystery' (2018):15-year-old Logan Tyler Mott murdered his grandmother Kristina French in Neptune Beach, Florida, at Thanksgiving, 2017. Music:We Talk of Dreamswww.hooksounds.comwww.purple-planet.comSources:https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/testimony-continues-in-sentencing-for-jacksonville-area-teen-convicted-of-killing-grandma/999068466?fbclid=IwAR1rI7QBn0VBcWvNhmuPthurcjQ_imOqnWyqiOi3iqggbeFGUELP37GdCqc https://www.news4jax.com/news/2019/11/27/logan-mott-set-to-be-sentenced-today-in-grandmothers-slaying/ https://www.facebook.com/FirstCoastNews/videos/606436366767375/ https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/testimony-continues-in-sentencing-for-jacksonville-area-teen-convicted-of-killing-grandma/999068466?fbclid=IwAR1rI7QBn0VBcWvNhmuPthurcjQ_imOqnWyqiOi3iqggbeFGUELP37GdCqc https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/logan-mott-sentencing-hearing-day-2-he-lived-in-a-battleground-/998798206 https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/sentencing-phase-continues-for-jacksonville-teenager-accused-of-killing-his-grandmother/77-5a73977d-f756-4a69-96e4-3680eca26331 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVF1mXUxNe4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTxpvXFFUw https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOnm7gt686e4qb23ZncWEFL4j3PwxnKzJ

Proof of concept for any successful entrepreneur is table stakes - without this validation of your product’s feasibility, you’re stuck in the starting gate. For Chris Solomon, proof of concept for “No Laying Up,” the podcast and media company he co-founded with Todd Schuster, Phil Landes, and Neil Schuster, arrived in 2016 on a golf course. Not just any golf course, but where the Ryder Cup was in play. From the ninth tee box, Rory McIlroy, one of pro golf’s most elite players, stops his play to tease Chris about the dream pairing Chris and his co-founders had suggested on a recent episode - and Rory was currently beating. Rory didn’t just agree to be a podcast guest, as an ardent fan and a believer in how they were completely disrupting traditional media coverage of the game, Rory pledged to help Chris and No Laying Up’s team in any way necessary. Then and there, Chris knew his life as an accountant was done. It was time to make this weird, hilarious hobby his career. Now, he and his team are broadcasting to the world from Neptune Beach.For full show notes, visit https://www.forcura.com/innovatejax.

Co-owner of BrewHound- the amazing dog park bar in Neptune Beach, is on the podcast today! We talk moving from NY, being an environmental scientist, Yoga, the decision to open up the space, her love for doggos, her awesome partner and MORE!

Experiences You Should Have Podcast Show Notes: The Donna Marathon – Breast Cancer Marathon   I had the opportunity to interview Dana and Aimee from the Run Eat Drink Podcast at the largest podcast conference in the world, Podcast Movement. They travel to races all over and when I turned to them and asked them that one race that you should experience, they both responded with the same answer: DONNA Marathon.   What is the DONNA Marathon and Why Should You Experience it? It’s a race that happens every year near Jacksonville, Florida to help support breast cancer research, survivors and those affected by breast cancer. This is a race for everyone. You don’t need to be an expert runner to participate. This is a special race that the entire community comes together to support and you don’t have to run a marathon to be a part of it. There are many shorter races and you don’t have to run them either.   This event is a true community. This race is for survivors, someone fighting breast cancer, and for family and friends of a survivor or someone who may have passed from breast cancer, or for anyone who wants to come out and support the cause. It’s a very special event where it’s much more than a race. The Community The neighborhoods decorate their houses with pink and white balloons. People will pass out mimosas, blueberry muffins, coffee, treats, and the entire community comes together. You are adopted by the community while you are there for the event. Many people will stay in front of their houses until the last runner passes by. Honor Your Family and Loved Ones I interviewed Dana and Aimee above (press the play button at the top to hear the full interview) and they did a great job of painting the experience. Partway through the interview, Dana shared that he lost his mom to breast cancer. That moment still tugs on my heart as I imagine them being at the DONNA surrounded by others who may have been in similar situations and coming together as a community and to walk/race in memory and support of their loved ones.   DONNA Marathon History Their coach, Jeff Galloway (former Olympian) helped found this race with Donna Deegan (who this race is named after) because they wanted to help families lower their stress who are dealing with breast cancer. They wanted healing to be the primary focus. It’s an official event of The DONNA Foundation which gives financial assistance and support to those dealing with breast cancer. They also help fund breast cancer research. This was year number 13 for the race, and they do an amazing job of putting it together and building the community. The race is sponsored by the Mayo Clinic, which is located in Jacksonville and is a massive contributor to breast cancer research and treatment. Many employees run in the race, help support it, pass out food, and they truly embrace the DONNA. Also shout out to Andi Sharp who is a doctor for the Mayo Clinic, breast cancer survivor and was the fastest woman at the course in 2019. If you want to help support the DONNA foundation, check out the donate button below where you can give to this incredible giving and caring foundation.   Donate to the Donna Foundation  When and Where is the DONNA Marathon? It starts and finishes at Neptune Beach just 12 miles east of downtown Jacksonville at Beaches Town Center. The next race is February 7-9, 2020. Friday is a Social Shakeout and 5K to get to know the other racers. Saturday is the 5K and they start the Ultra then as well, while Sunday is the half marathon and marathon. It’s always the 2nd weekend in February.   Race Lengths at the DONNA Marathon 5K Half Marathon Marathon Half Marathon Relay Ultramarathon Skills Needed to Participate It doesn’t matter what athletic ability you have, you can participate. But if you are a hardcore racer, this is a Boston qualifying course. But if you’re more like me and you’re not a runner, you can walk it.

6-7-19 Brent and Austen are live from Renna's Pizza in Neptune Beach, Jax. They talk about the Carson Wentz contract and ask if you were a new team would you want Wentz or Foles? Plus, the guys interview Russell Allen and Brad Meester!

This week we are talking about the Air Force PJ leadership style. Leading a dynamic organization such as an office of emergency management can be challenging. I had the opportunity to Lt.Col Joseph Barnard who worked his way from enlisted to lead the highly trained Air Force Para Jumpers Rescue Team (PJ). The insights that Joseph shares with us in this interview will change your paradigm on leadership. Guest BioBio - Joe Barnard is a retired USAF Lt Colonel. His 33 year military career started in1982 when he joined the Army as infantryman at the age of 17 from his parentshome in Pembroke Pines, FL. After his Army career, which included living in VicenzaItaly for two years, Joe returned to South Florida and worked varying warehouseand delivery driver jobs as well as being a lifeguard atseveral South Florida beaches.In 1988, Joe joined the USAF, 301 st Rescue Squadron atHomestead AFB as a Pararescueman. He remained inthe 301 st through Hurricane Andrew, and helpedfacilitate the unit’s move to Patrick AFB. Joe marriedMeghan in 1991. With a one-year-old son and anotheron the way, in 1997, he took a position as a PararescueInstructor at Kirtland AFB, NM. Joe was qualified toteach and lead all blocks of instruction: Aircraft and Jump Ops, Weapons-Tactics,Technical Rope, C2 and Dirt Medicine. He was also a member of the Special Tacticsand Recovery Specialist (STaRS) Parachute Demonstration Team.With a stern push from a young wife who wanted a better life for her family, in 1998Joe started college and received his bachelor’s degree in 2000 by attending classesevery weekend from 7-5 both Saturday and Sunday, ultimately leading to hiscommission as an officer in February of 2001. Joe was selected out of OTS as the 4thCombat Rescue Officer, a new career field the Air Force created to lead andcommand Pararescueman and SERE specialist. Joe completes his masters degree in2007.His last 15 years as an officer were a blur except for those two tours in Hawaii. Lotsof surfing and SEA travel. When not in the Pacific, multiple deployments presentedcomplex leadership challenges which he took head on. Post 9/11 years werebookend by death of teammates and success in harrowing missions. In the middlewas a tour as the first CRO to command the Pararescue School, where he was firedafter a year. That assignment is a book in itself.During his entire career, Joe unapologetically took on the overwhelming briefcaseattitude of the conventional Air Force with his backpack mentality on behalf of hismission and men. Ultimate career satisfaction came as Joe was selected for and hadtwo amazing years as the 38 th Rescue Squadron Commander. He and his team did itright, pushing forward many progressive training methods that are still in placetoday.As Joe turned 52, and his youngest son was a year away from College. It was time.He had done all he could do. Admittedly, he grew dissatisfied with DoD directionand with the vice grip sequestration and continuing resolution put on the force. Hepurposely retired without fan fair. Fully satisfied that he left it all on the table andenergized to be a capitalist in his next life. But first…A sabbatical at the end of 2016 and throughout 2017 was well deserved. As Joe haddone with his oldest son, he taught his youngest son to skydive and they took acouple of surf trips to Costa Rica and Baja. Once he was in in college, Meghan and Joeput their household belongings in storage and traveled Southeast Asia – Singapore,Bali and Thailand for four months.Back in the states, his job search started in early 2018. “It was fun, I interviewedthem more than they interviewed me. I want my second life to be epic.”Joe settled on a small company that installs wireless infrastructure for Verizon andTMobile. He loves it, its complex. He has daily influence over 32m in revenue, as hequickly took to running the sales pipeline, P&L of three divisions, HR, logistics andall operations. Likely not Joe’s final resting place.“I desire more responsibility, complexity and a more progressive executive team towork with, but I started in a great place for my capitalistic journey. I validated thatmy military leadership traits and problem solving abilities absolutely transfer to afor profit organization. I love every minute of it. Meghan and I have big plans for ourfuture.”Joe and Meghan reside in Neptune Beach, a costal community in Jacksonville FL.Concerned by the high divorce rate and broken families a military life can create.They are developing a program to help young married Special Operation couples notonly stay, but thrive together during and after their service to this great nation.Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephbarnard/Email: Joe.bd.33@gmail.comAdvertisersTitan HST https://www.titanhst.com/

Mark Pribanic is a vintage car enthusiast who lives in Neptune Beach, Florida. Unlike many car collectors, Mark drives his 1958 Porsche 356 and Brumos Porsche race inspired 1958 VW bus daily. We’re talking over 275,000 miles through 33 states over 19 years of ownership. For over six years he has organized the Bulli Brigade Vintage VW bus event where the mission is to promote and preserve 1967 and earlier split-window VW bus enthusiasts. Mark is an entrepreneur and owns a catering business and when he’s not working you’ll find him at IMSA road races, HSR Road Races, at vintage Porsche events or traveling around the USA in his number 59, Brumos tribute race bus or his 356 Porsche.

For the fifth edition of “The Battery,” Brett Thomas hosts spot starter Scott Tully of Alameda’s Neptune Beach baseball club. The tandem talks NCAA tourney, as well as local NFL, MLB and NBA.

For the fourth edition of “The Battery,” Brett Thomas hosts a ménage a pod with St. Mary’s basketball radio broadcaster Alex Jensen and Scott Tully of Alameda’s Neptune Beach baseball club. The three riff on the beautiful basketball being played in the East Bay; dissecting the Warriors, Gaels and Bears as they move into March.