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“Qualitative research is understanding the why behind different emotions and different interests. …Quantitative is going to give you the actual sizing of how large of a conversation is. What I love about Social Intelligence and, specifically the social listening piece, is that balance of qual and quant.” Frank Gregory, Social Intelligence professional at Nestle USA. After starting his career in Marketing Strategy & Research, Frank has specialized in Social Listening and related social research methodologies for the past 11 years, becoming a recognized leader in the emerging Social Intelligence space.  Due to his accomplishments building out these capabilities for brands such as Audi, Hilton, and now Nestle USA, as well as founding the Social Intelligence Practices at agencies such as MediaCom and consultancies such as NorthStar Solutions Group, Frank has recently been twice recognized by the Social Intelligence Lab (the leading global trade organization in the space) as a Global Social Intelligence Insider 50 award winner, in both 2022 and 2024. In this episode, Frank Gregory, a Social Intelligence professional, shares his journey and expertise in social listening and social intelligence. He explains the importance of social intelligence for brands and how it encompasses social listening, audience segmentation, community analysis, and content performance analytics. Frank emphasizes the balance between qualitative and quantitative research in social intelligence and the need to understand the target audience. He also discusses the role of generosity in his work, including the gift of time and the importance of saying yes to helping others. Frank highlights the return on generosity, which can lead to unexpected opportunities and relationships. Chapters: 00:00 Introduction to Frank Gregory and Social Intelligence 03:43 Frank's Journey into Social Listening 07:07 Defining Social Intelligence and Its Importance 14:11 Target Audience in Social Media vs. Target Market 22:14 Ethnographic Research and Foresight Ecosystems 28:07 Addressing Privacy Concerns in Social Listening 32:45 Generosity at Work and the Return on Generosity R.O.G. Takeaway Tips: Do your research. Take a shot on someone. Know your audience.  Balance. (i.e. qualitative and quantitative research)  Make time for people.  Practice the Golden Rule.  Have a natural curiosity.  Social intelligence includes social listening, audience segmentation, community analysis, and content performance analytics. Understanding the target audience is crucial in social intelligence. Balance qualitative and quantitative research in social intelligence. Generosity in giving time and helping others can lead to unexpected opportunities. Practice the golden rule and treat others as you want to be treated. Resources: Frank Gregory  Nestle   Where to find R.O.G. Podcast: R.O.G on YouTube R.O.G on Apple Podcasts R.O.G on Spotify How diverse is your network?  N.D.I. Network Diversity Index What is your Generosity Style?  Generosity Quiz Credits: Frank Gregory, Sheep Jam Productions, Host Shannon Cassidy, Bridge Between, Inc. Coming Next: Please join us next week, Episode 186, with Shannon Cassidy for a Generous Leadership Coaching Tip.

Adam Clark is the Director of Integrated Marketing, Asia for Hasbro, one of the largest toy and game manufacturers in the world.  Based in Hong Kong for over 10 years, Adam is an incredibly experienced marketer with a unique background.  He has previously been part of Accenture working on significant marketing operations projects, project managing CRM implementations, and process design initiatives, as well as gaining brand management experience with Nestle USA before making the move to Asia.In this episodeAdam talks about his early career at Accenture working on significant marketing operations projects and CRM implementations, and the valuable experience this helped him gain in process design.He talks about his move into brand marketing with Nestle USA, learning essential campaign planning, budget management and marketing promotion skills, before shifting focus to Nesquik and building digital campaigns, as well as partnering with agencies.After relocating to Asia and working with Cathay Pacific on a significant CRM project, Adam shares his experience working for Hasbro in Asia and describes some of the territory variations, such as channels, e-commerce platforms, and messaging strategies that international marketers need to understand to be successful in the region.Adam shares some of his thoughts on what a successful agency partner looks like.Finally, he offers his opinion on some of the key issues marketers face in the future including the challenges digital marketers face from an increasingly cookie-less ecosystem.

From her perch as Director of Omni-channel Marketing at Nestle USA, Gloria DeCoste leads a small but mighty team managing over 300 channels in the daily battle to win the digital shelf. Gloria joins the podcast to describe the mindset, process, and intense cross-functional collaboration required to get baby SKUs to market and make ‘em fly with a focus on everything that her and her team does is in service of delivering great consumer experiences

A federal jury in Illinois ordered $17.7 million in damages—an amount tripled to more than $53 million under federal law—to several food manufacturing companies who had sued major egg producers over a conspiracy to limit the egg supply in the U.S. The jury ruled that the egg producers used various means to limit the domestic supply of eggs to increase the price of products during the 2000s. The time frame of the conspiracy was an issue throughout the case; jurors ultimately determined damages occurred between 2004 and 2008. The damages verdict was reached on December 1 in the Northern District of Illinois. According to federal antitrust law, the damages are automatically tripled, bringing the total to over $53 million. Court documents on the verdict were not readily available the evening of December 1, but statements from the manufacturers' attorney and one of the egg producers confirmed a total of about $17.7 million. “We are extremely grateful for the jury's service and findings,” Brandon Fox, an attorney representing the food manufacturers, said in a statement. “This was an important case for many reasons, and the jury's award recognizes its significance.” Court documents show that the defendants have denied the claims. The egg suppliers include the family company of its former Chair John Rust, who's running for the U.S. Senate in Indiana. In a written statement on the verdict, Rust said the jury's decision “will be appealed.” The jury found that the egg suppliers exported eggs abroad to reduce the overall supply in the domestic market, as well as limited the number of chickens through means including cage space, early slaughter, and flock reduction, court documents say. Food manufacturers joining as plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the egg producers are Kraft Foods Global, Inc., The Kellogg Company, General Mills, Inc., and Nestle USA, Inc. The jury found the egg suppliers who participated in the conspiracy were Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., United Egg Producers, Inc., United States Egg Marketers, Inc. and Rose Acre Farms, Inc., a southern Indiana-based company previously chaired by Rust. This article was provided by The Associated Press.

Travel Gluten Free Podcast Season 09 Episode 23 No Tricks, Just Gluten-Free Treats: A Candy Connoisseur's Guide   Ever been spooked by Halloween candy as a celiac or gluten intolerant person? Fear not! Today, on the Travel Gluten Free podcast, we'll be casting a light on the dark and mysterious world of gluten-free Halloween candy. We'll discuss the potential horrors of cross-contamination, understand the cryptic difference between candies with rice cereal and those sweetened with malt, and uncover the safe candy options to ensure a truly delightful Halloween for those living a gluten-free lifestyle. Plus, you'll get all the important links and contacts for the candy companies we'll mention throughout the episode.    Enjoying Gluten Free Halloween Candy   In this adventure, I'll also reveal the secrets from my guidebook on how to safely travel gluten-free. This isn't just about enjoying Halloween candy with no regrets, it's about empowering you to navigate the world freely, without gluten-induced fear. Remember to share this episode with a fellow candy lover who will appreciate these tantalizing revelations. So, tune in and let's delve into the sweet universe of gluten-free candies, one bite at a time.   How to Choose Safe, Gluten Free Candy During the Holidays   Join me, your trusted guide, Elikqitie, for a thrilling journey through the realm of gluten-free Halloween candies. I promise you will unravel the enigma of cross-contamination, comprehend the subtle difference between candies with rice cereal and those sweetened with malt, and identify safe candy options for celiacs and gluten-intolerant children. We're also cracking the candy code from big brands like Nestle USA, Tootsie Roll Industries, Smarties, Wrigley, Jelly Belly, and Tic Tac Mints. Prepare to discern which candies are gluten-free, which ones are laced with wheat flour, and which ones contain maltodextrin.   And for those of you with a sense of adventure, we'll also talk about my guidebook on how to travel safely while living gluten-free. So spread the word to your fellow Halloween candy-lovers and let's embark on this delectable journey together!   (0:00:04) - Gluten-Free Halloween Candy List (0:13:36) - Gluten-Free and Non-Gluten-Free Candy Options (0:23:53) - Sharing Travel Gluten Free Podcast Episode   Gluten Free Resources   Journey safely with The Guide to Traveling Gluten Free Get the best tool for traveling gluten free with Equal Eats Cards Get the PracMedic Travel Medicine Bag Find your next vacation with your Travel Gluten Free $40 credit towards your stay! Follow me on Social Media via Facebook, Youtube, Pinterest, or Instagram Interested in Podcasting? You'll want to checkout Libsyn Cut your post-production time with quality show notes from Podium  Spread the love of Travel Gluten Free podcast and share this episode with a friend  

Today we speak with Hector Saldivar, Founder and CEO of Tia Lupita Foods, a better for you, healthy Mexican-inspired food brand that uses clean and simple ingredients in all their products. His journey started with his mom's salsa recipe, which he wanted to package to share with the world. Tia Lupita Foods has expanded beyond salsas and is in the business of selling tortillas, grain-free chips and much more. A little more about Hector's unique journey: Hector moved to the USA in 2005 as a territory sales manager for a Mexican startup and moved up the ranks through the years working at companies like Nestle USA and Diamond Foods. Hector was an integral part of the Pop Secret Microwave popcorn leadership team that overtook Orville Redenbacher's spot to become the number one selling microwave popcorn in the USA. Tia Lupita today is the first brand to introduce Nopales Cactus as an alternative, functional and sustainable ingredient in the USA market. Tia Lupita Foods is a Foodbytes by Rabobank Judges Choice winner, Natural Products Expo West Pitch Slam Winner and a Naturally Bay Area inaugural pitch slam runner up. Hector has also been recognized by TIME Magazine as one of 80 Mexicans that are helping shape contemporary culture. Today, we speak with Hector about the origin story behind Tia Lupita, bootstrapping and funding the future of his company. Follow Tia Lupita Foods on Instagram: @tialupitafoods Follow Moneda Moves on Instagram: @MonedaMoves Follow your host Lyanne Alfaro on Instagram: @LyanneAlfaro Main podcast theme song from Premium Beat. Our music is from Epidemic Sound.

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Guest Bio: Rita McGrath is a best-selling author,  sought-after advisor and speaker, and  longtime professor at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world's top experts on strategy and innovation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50.  McGrath's recent book on strategic inflection points is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Rita is the author of four other books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Since the onset of the pandemic, Rita has created workshops, strategy sessions and keynotes, applying her tools and frameworks to strategy under high levels of uncertainty to specific issues organizations are facing.  As Rui Barbas, the Chief Strategy Officer for Nestle USA said, “You were incredibly insightful and, despite the virtual setting, there was lots of engagement and comments from leaders sharing eye-opening observations and building on your examples throughout. You delivered the inspiration and illustration desired and it was exactly the right focus and challenge for this team. Appreciate your time throughout the process to align on content and delivery. The future-focus theme was the perfect close to our leadership summit.” Rita's work is focused on creating unique insights.  She has also founded Valize a companion company, dedicated to turning those insights into actionable capability.  You can find out more about Valize at www.valize.com. McGrath received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. She is active on all the main social media platforms, such as Twitter @rgmcgrath.  For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com.   Social Media/ Websites: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritamcgrath/ Twitter: @rgmcgrath Instagram: @ritamcgrathofficial Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rgmcgrath Websites: https://ritamcgrath.com and valize.com Rita's Newsletter/ Articles Substack: https://thoughtsparks.substack.com/ Medium: https://rgmcgrath.medium.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/thought-sparks-6787762418471755776/ Books Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeing-Around-Corners-Inflection-Business/dp/0358022339 The Entrepreneurial Mindset by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian MacMillian https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entrepreneurial-Mindset-Continuously-Opportunity-Uncertainty/dp/0875848346 The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Competitive-Advantage-Strategy-Business/dp/1422172813 Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disrupt-Yourself-New-Introduction-Relentless/dp/1633698785 Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humanocracy-Creating-Organizations-Amazing-People/dp/1633696022 Reimagining Capitalism by Rebecca Henderson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reimagining-Capitalism-Business-Save-World/dp/0241379660 When More is Not Better by Roger L. Martin https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-More-Not-Better-Overcoming/dp/1647820065/ Being An Adult by Lucy Tobin https://www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Adult-ultimate-getting-together-ebook/dp/B07GQ1KRTC/ Only The Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Andrew-Grove/dp/1861975139  Ula Ojiaku: My guest today is Dr. Rita McGrath. She's a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker and advisor and consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50. In this episode, Rita talked about the concept of inflection points from her book ‘Seeing Around Corners' and how as leaders, we can train ourselves to spot these inflection points and act on the information we receive. She also talked about making complex things simple for the people we work with. I learnt a lot speaking with Rita and I'm sure you will find this conversation insightful as well. Thank you again for watching! It's an honor to have you on the show, Rita McGrath. Many, many thanks for joining us. Rita McGrath: Well, thank you Ula. It's a pleasure to be here. Ula Ojiaku: Great. Now, can you tell us about yourself? How did the Rita, Dr. Rita McGrath we know today evolve? Rita McGrath:  Well, it would have to start with my parents, of course. I mean, all great stories start with your parents. And so, my parents were both scientists. My mother was a Microbiologist, and my father was an Organic Chemist. And so, I grew up in a house where, you know, (if) a question couldn't be answered, you went and got the reference book and figured it out. And both, (had) incredible respect for science and for diligence. And, you know, the house was always full of books and lots of emphasis on learning. I wouldn't say we were, financially all that well-off – we weren't poor by any means. But it was, you know, there wasn't like a lot of money to spare, but there was always money for books, and there was always money for, you know, educational experiences and that kind of thing. So, that's the household I grew up in. So, my parents, when I was born, were both on the staff at the Yale Medical School. So, they were both researchers there. And then my dad in the late 60s, got an offer to go join this upstart, fledgling company that was at the cutting edge of all kinds of things in his field and that was Xerox Corporation. And he was very conflicted about leaving academia, but went off eventually to Xerox. So, we moved the family to Rochester, New York. So that's where I did most of my growing up. And my mother at that time, decided to stay home, more or less. And then she started a scientific translation business. So, she moved into an entrepreneurial career more than her scientific career. And then when it came time to go to college, I went to Barnard College in the City of New York. I'd always thought New York was an amazing place and was accepted there. So, went off to New York, did my Bachelor's and my Master's in Political Science and Public Policy. I was very interested in public policy and matters of social contract and those kinds of things. And then my first job was actually with the City of New York, I ran purchasing systems for government agencies. It doesn't sound very glamorous. But today, we would call it digital transformation. It was the very first wave of companies taking their operations in a digital form. And it was very exciting and I learned a lot. Then I got to the end of… the thing about public service is when you start, there's (this) unlimited sort of growth that can happen for a few years, and then it really just levels off. And you're never going to go beyond that. So, I kind of reached that headroom and decided to do something different. Ula Ojiaku:  Was it at that point that you decided to go for your PhD? Rita McGrath:  And that was one of the options I was considering. And my husband basically said, ‘look, if you get into a top five school, it's worth doing and if you don't, it's probably not.' But you have to think in that time, MBA programs were just exploding, and there'd been a lot of pressure on the administrators of MBA programs, to put PhD accredited faculty in front of their students. The big knock against the MBA at the time was, oh, they're just trade schools. You know, we've got some guy who ran an entire company comes in and talks and that's not really academically suitable. And so, there was a huge pressure for schools to find PhD accredited people-  that still exists (but) the market pressures has changed a lot. But when I was doing my PhD, it was pretty sure I would get a job if I managed to complete the degree. So that that gave me that extra input to do that. Ula Ojiaku:  Did you already have like children when you started the PhD? Rita McGrath: Yes Ula Ojiaku:  And how did you cope? Rita McGrath:  Our son was, how old was he? He would have been nine months old when I started my PhD program. Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: Wow, 9 months old. Rita McGrath: Oh, yeah, it was a real challenge. And I guess everybody manages those kinds of challenges in their own way. But yeah, it was a struggle because, you know, typical day would be you know, get up, get the baby to daycare or wherever and then do school or whatever I had to do that day. And then it was sort of pick them up. By the time I had a second child it was pick them up, get them dinner, get them bedtime, get them story, and then I'll be back at my desk at nine o'clock at night, trying to do what I needed to do. So, it was a new turn. It was tough. It was difficult years. I mean, joyful years though but it was just hard to fit everything in. Ula Ojiaku:  I can imagine. I mean, although I'm thinking of starting my PhD (studies), my children aren't that small but I do remember the time (they were), you know, I was still working full time. So, the challenge is you'd go to work and then come back to work. I mean, to another type of work. And then when they go to bed, the work continues. Yeah, it's interesting. Rita McGrath: Quite exhausting. Ula Ojiaku: You can say that. I'm so glad they're not in diapers anymore. So, it's baby steps, we are getting there. So, can we go on to your book, “Seeing Around Corners, How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen”. I'd like to start from an unusual place in the book. I started from the dedication page, and you know, reading everything, and I noticed that, you referred to a conversation, one of the last conversations you had with your mother. Could you tell us about that? Rita McGrath:  Oh sure. She was well, at the time, she was quite ill, she had sarcoma in her lung, and she was quite ill. It's a horrible disease, and we haven't got any real treatments for it. So, the recommendation is you do chemo and that really knocks you out. So, she was quite ill and sort of migrating between the chair and the couch and the chair and the couch. And in one of those conversations, she just said ‘I want you to know I'm proud of you. And I've had a good life and I'm prepared for whatever comes next.' And I thought that was lovely of her to say and I thought in that moment to pass it on to all these other women. And you know you bring up motherhood and being a working woman and all those complicated emotions that come with that because there seems to be guilt around every corner you know, if you're not at home full time, oh you're a terrible mom. And if you're not at work full time, you're a terrible worker. I just I think so many of those things are just designed to twist us up into little balls. And when I look at my own mother's experience - she was a working woman… I grew up but I think I'm third or fourth generation working woman so it never even occurred to me that wouldn't be possible. But I think what often is missing is this validation, you know that for women who are trying to you know make their way professionally and be great, responsible parents and do all these other things that often there's a sense of a lack of self-worth you know, ‘oh, I'm not doing enough.' The more I hear that… Ula Ojiaku:  I feel like that some… most days I feel like that… Rita McGrath: Believe me, you are doing enough Ula Ojiaku:  Sometimes I ask my children, am I a good mom? Rita McGrath:  I think part of it too is we, and when I say we, I mean baby boomer mothers and maybe a little younger. We got ourselves all tangled up in this if it's not like organic, hand-processed  lima beans with you know, organic succotash, mixed in you know, it's not good baby food. Honestly, Gerber's exists to provide perfectly nutritious food for really young babies and they've been doing it for decades and you can trust that and if it makes your life easier, go with it. Ula Ojiaku:  Thank you! Rita McGrath: You know, I think we I think we get ourselves all tossed up in like, what does good mean? I mean, honestly, the kids don't mind you know? I mean, they'd celebrate if it was chicken finger night. Ula Ojiaku:  Let's go to the book. You know, because in your book you said you it's about how to spot inflections before they happen in business. Can you give us examples of, you know, businesses that had these inflection points occur, and they failed to recognize it and what was the impact? Rita McGrath:  Sure, let's take one that is quite sad to me, which is Intel. And Intel built its, well, Intel went through a major inflection point, in fact, the originator of the concept was Andy Grove, who was their former CEO. And he talked about his inflection points in his book, Only the Paranoid Survive, which is really a brilliant, brilliant book. And one of the reasons I wrote my book was that very little had been done since his book on that topic. And Grove built this incredible company, Intel. And they were making microprocessor chips. And they were very, very powerful, very fast chips. And so, the assumptions inside Intel's business model was, what customers were going to pay for was faster, faster, faster, more computation power, more and more powerful. But what they didn't really think about was energy consumption. And as the world went more mobile… so the Intel product is the PC, and the PC, the desktop PC remains firmly plugged into the wall. And then later, we make PC chips that maybe have slightly lower power consumption to power PCs, but it's still that notion of power, you know, and I think the inflection point that caught Intel by surprise, to some extent was, this movement towards mobile, where the vast majority of chips being made were these completely different architecture chips by  companies like ARM and you know, and companies like that, which, from their inception, recognized that low power was the way to go. Then they weren't very powerful in the sense of speed, which is what Intel was driving its business towards. But they were powerful in the sense of ubiquitous low power, long battery life, that kind of thing. And I think that's an example of the kind of assumption that can cause a company to get into trouble, when the underlying shift in the business environment says, ‘wait a minute, this thing you've been building all this time may not be what is needed by the marketplace.' Ula Ojiaku:  That's interesting. So, it brings me to the point of, the points you made about, you know, the indicators, the early warnings, and you mentioned the concept of you know lagging, current and leading indicators. And there was an emphasis in your book on, you know, leading indicators. Could you tell us a bit about that? Rita McGrath:  Sure. Well, so leading indicators are today's information about tomorrow's possibilities. And what we unfortunately rely on a lot in business is lagging indicators - so profits, performance, you know, ROI, all those things are lagging some kind of decision that you made a long time ago. So, the concept of leading indicators is to try to get business leaders to think about what would have to be true, you know, before I was able to make a certain decision, what are the leading indicators? So, an example would be back in the 90s, computer scientists all over the world realized that come the year 2000, from the turn of the millennium, that the way computer programs had been programmed, was only two digits for the year. And so, when the year went to zero-zero, computers, were going to think it was 1900 and this was going to be terrible. Because they all get out of sync, you know, and planes would drop out of the sky. You're gonna become unstable, and you'll all need to move to Montana and stuff … I don't know if you can remember this. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah, the Y2K bug… Rita McGrath: Oh my goodness…! Ula Ojiaku: It was a big sensation. Yeah… Rita McGrath: Apocalyptic – remember?! And yet, when the big moment came the year 2000. What happened? Well, nothing happened. Why did nothing happen? We looked at that early warning, and we said, whoa, if that happens, it's bad. And then so companies, prodded by their accounting firms, prodded by other security considerations invested billions in correcting that flaw. And so, that's an example of an early warning. And there are a couple of things to understand about early warning. So, the first important thing is, the measure of a good early warning is not, did it predict what happened. The measure of a good leading indicator is, did it help you prepare for what might happen? And so, I think that's a really important distinction, because we oftentimes, oh, you that didn't predict this or that. But that's not the point. The point is, did it help you think more broadly about what might happen so that you could be prepared? So, I think that's the first thing. The second thing to remember about leading indicators is they're often not quantitative in the way that we like to think about quantitative things. They're often qualitative. They often take the form of stories. And they often come from what are called unrepresentative parts of your mental ecosystem. So, you know, it's that person on the loading dock (saying to themselves), ‘this is, well, that's weird, a customer never asked for that before', or the person answering the phone, you know, in headquarters going, ‘Well, I don't understand why they need that information…' You know, it's those little anomalies or things that depart from business as usual, that are often the weak signals that you need to be paying attention to. Ula Ojiaku:  So, can you give us an example where you mean, I mean, of how we can go about choosing good leading indicators? Rita McGrath:  Well, in the book, I describe a technique that I use, which is you take a couple of uncertainties and juxtapose them on each other. And that gives you four or more you can do this for as many as you like, stories from the future, possibly a future that we could live in. And then depending on which one you want to think about, you say, ‘okay, I'm gonna write a headline as if it came from a newspaper story about that scenario. And I'm gonna work backwards and say, what has to be true for that headline to emerge.' So, take an example that's playing out right now, chronic and accelerating decline in birth rates in the United States. People are just deciding not to enlarge their families or not to start their families at all. And for very good reasons, you know, the level of social support for families is very low. Mostly women are bearing the burden. And very often women are the ones that make a large part of the decision about whether the family is going to grow or not. And so, we're facing a real baby bust. Well, if that's true, and we follow that along, well, what are some things that would be early warnings or indicators of what that world will be like? Well, you'll see a decline of working people relative to retired people, or people needing assistance, you'll see, you know, fewer kids with more resources to support them. So, the kind of baby Prince phenomena we saw in China. There are lots of things you can kind of work through. But once you say, ‘okay, I see a world with a million fewer children three years from now, than we would have expected well, okay, what now working backward? What does that tell us we need to be paying attention to today? Ula Ojiaku:  Yes, yes. That's a great example. And I wonder, though, so given all, you know, the research that has led to, and your experience as well, consulting with, you know, most of these large organizations, the case studies, you've come to witness and all that, what would you, what would be your advice to leaders of such organizations, you know, in terms of how they can better prepare themselves or equip themselves to recognize these inflection points, and lead effectively? Rita McGrath:  Well, I think the first principle is you have to be discovery driven. In other words, you have to be curious about what's going on. And if you're the kind of leader who (when) someone brings you a piece of information, and instead of treating it like a gift, you're like, oh no, you don't understand that's wrong. That's not the way the world works. If you're dismissive of information people are bringing you that's very dangerous. Because the information you need is not going to come from your lieutenants at headquarters, it's going to come from that guy on the loading dock. So, I think you want to think about establishing some kind of information flows, that go directly from where the phenomena are happening to your desk. So, as an example, a company I really admire is the German metal services company Klockner. And their CEO, Gisbert Ruehl was taking them through a digital transformation. And his big concern was not that they meant it, right? But that his lieutenants, his middle manager, cohort, would be so expert, and so experienced at the way business was, that they would just shut down these digital efforts. And he was very, very concerned about that. He said, well, I need some way of making my message heard directly to the people that are on the frontlines and I also need a way of hearing from them what's going on. So, he implemented Yammer, called non-hierarchical communication. And the deal was anybody in the company that had something he needed to know should feel comfortable sending him a note. And I'm told, I don't know this for a fact that I'm told that at headquarters, he had his instance of Yammer set up so that the lower the hierarchical level of the person, the higher it came in his newsfeed. Ula Ojiaku: Oh, wow. Rita McGrath: So, you know, I can talk to my lieutenants, anytime. Information I need is in the, you know, 24-year-old person who's just joined us with an engineering degree, who's looking at our manufacturing process for screwdrivers and saying, ‘Why do you do it that way? There must be a better way of doing this…' That's the information I really need and he set up a whole system to try to get that information to him, to himself. Ula Ojiaku:  Would you say there's a typical kind of leader with, you know, some certain characteristics that's best equipped to spot the inflection point, and you know, kind of lead the charge and get the organizations in line? Rita McGrath:  You know, I think it's more of the behavior, it's not the characteristics. So, I've seen charismatic, attractive, you know, movie star type CEOs be good at this. I've seen people you look at and you go ‘Really? He looks kind of like he slept in his clothes all night.' I've seen those people be good at it. So, you know, I think the differentiation is this, this hunger for new information, this curiosity, this relentless… ‘tell me again…' and ‘why was that and why was that?' It is this urgent need to really learn what's going on. And then and then putting yourself in the, in the context. So, one of the people I'm working with right now is a brilliant retail CEO, and everything. And one of the things he would do before hiring anybody into his senior team, is he would spend a day or two walking the stores, you know, and in his explanation to me was, ‘I want to see how they react to the stores. I want to see how they treat the people working in stores. I want to see what they notice, you know, I want to see if they notice that there's a thing out of array and I want to see how they are with me, like if they spend their whole two days in store visits, sucking up to me - that's not somebody I need, you know. And so, I think the best leaders along those lines are people who are relentlessly curious, bring people around them who are diverse, you know, you don't just want echo chambers of themselves. Ula Ojiaku:  True, true. You don't want ‘yes' men if you really want to make an impact really. Yeah, and how can I, as a person, train myself to also recognize these inflection points. Rita McGrath:  Well, it depends what the inflection point is. So, if it's a question of, you've been making nice steady progress in your career, and now you've hit some kind of ceiling and you just feel you're not growing or developing any more, then that choice is really okay, I need to… the way Whitney Johnson would put this, she's written a great book on this, “Disrupt Yourself”, right? You go up this S curve, then you need to make the decision if you're going to take on the J curve, right, which is the part below the S curve before you get into the next round of learning. So, that's a personal decision, really only you can make a decision like that. Then there are the cases where inflection points are thrust upon you. So you lose a job, your spouse has some setback, a family member has an urgent need that makes whatever you were doing before impossible. I mean, there's all kinds of outside things that can happen to you. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah… Rita McGrath: And I think the best way to try to look at those is. ‘is this a slingshot to a better future, potentially?' And you know, how many people have you talked to who got fired, and some years later say, ‘that was the best thing that ever happened to me, it shook me out of my complacency. It made me think differently.' And so, I think a lot of times, you know, we, it's very comfortable (staying) stuck in our ruts. And sometimes it takes a bit of a jolt to get us out of that. Ula Ojiaku:  That's a great one. Can I just ask you about so it's not really about your book, Seeing Around Corners, but this one is about the Entrepreneurial Mindset? Just one quick question. Because there's a quote, in your book, that book that says, you know, “the huge part of becoming an entrepreneurial leader is learning to simplify complexity, so that your co-workers can act with self-confidence.” That quote, it made me kind of be more conscious about, am I really making things simpler for my co-workers instead of, you know, rather than to enable us, you know, achieve the best that we could as a group? So why did you, make that quote and associate it with an Entrepreneurial Mindset? Rita McGrath:  Well, because if you make things complicated for people, there's maybe three responses, right? One is they'll start on whatever they start on, which is kind of random. And maybe they finish it, and maybe they don't, but it's really now you're leaving it to chance. Because if you give people more to digest than they can manage, you're going to get back some fraction of it. So that's one thing. Second thing that happens is, if it's too complex, a lot of times people will pick what they want to do, not have anything to do with the agenda that you want to set for the organization. And the third thing is there's just a laziness that comes from having things be complex. I know for myself, when I've had to do strategy statements for myself, or my business, it takes a long, long time to get it done into a few simple things. And each word has to mean something. So, as an example, some years back, I started a sister company. It's called Valize. And the strategy really is to its mission, its purpose for me, is to help organizations create innovation and transformation capability as the basis for shared prosperity. And that sounds really simple. That sounds really kind of ‘duh, that's not so grand, but I mean, the hours it took to get to that simplicity of statement. And then once you've got something like that, you can go back and you could say, okay, well, here's the thing that I'm being asked to do or think I'm thinking of, does it build capability? Yes. No. Does it build shared prosperity? Yes, no. Does it help organizations to help themselves? Yes, no. And it sorts out a lot of stuff means a lot of stuff we could do. But there are only a few things that really fit into that sweet spot of shared capability. So, having that simplification allows you to clear out a lot of the …, there are always wonderful options that you got to do things, right? And it's a question of abundance, you've usually got more great options than you could possibly exercise. So, picking the best ones is the challenge. Ula Ojiaku:  Wow, wow. I'm going to listen to this part again. You've mentioned some books already, like Andy Grove's, Only the Paranoid, I mean, Only the Paranoid survive. And you've mentioned the book, Disrupt Yourself… In addition to these books, and your wonderful suite of books, what other books would you recommend to the audience that you believe have influenced you that you'd recommend to the listeners that would help them you know, learn more about this topic? Rita McGrath: Oh, that's hard, because there's so many. Well, I love Safi Bahcall's Loonshots. I think that's a brilliant, brilliant book. And it really gets to the heart of how innovation actually happens rather than how we think it happens. I rather like Gary Hamel's and Michele Zanini's book, Humanocracy which has the basic question, you know, if you look at Instagram, or Twitter or any of these social platforms, you see these people who are just brilliant. I mean, they're creating incredibly creative stuff. And then we put them inside companies. And we insist that they do things by the rule, and we block all the creativity out of them. So, why do we do that? You know, I think that's a really great one. I'm very taken with Rebecca Henderson's, Re-imagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. Very, very brilliant. Roger Martin, When More is not Better. Just recently had a Julie Lythcott-Haims on my fireside chat program, which is and she's got a book called Your Turn, How to be an Adult”, which is, on a personal level, absolutely fascinating - really good book. I like Peter Sim's, Little Bets. You know, they're just so many I mean, I wouldn't even know where to where to start. Those are the ones that are sort of top of mind at the moment. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. scribbling away as you're talking, and yeah, these all these would be in the show notes with the links to them. So that's great. Now, how can the audience reach you? If they want to, you know follow your work. Rita McGrath: The best place to start is my website, which is really ritamcgrath.com, that's easy. I have columns that I write for. They're currently going up on substack and medium. If you just search my name and or medium, you'll find me there. I do weekly, LinkedIn post, which goes to subscribers on LinkedIn. Also, that's all sort of good places to start. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. Are you on social media? Rita McGrath:  Oh, yes. So yes. I'm on Twitter @RGMcGrath. And I'm on LinkedIn. Okay. I'm not on Facebook so much. But I have put things I post there, but I'm not really on it very much. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. All right. That's, I mean, thanks for those. Now, let's wrap up any ask of the audience first? Rita McGrath:  I think we're in a remarkable moment, right now, you know, we've had so many of our previous habits and assumptions disrupted, that I think it would be a shame to lose, to lose all that and just go back to the way things were. So, I think it's an opportunity to reflect and to really think about, what kind of future do we want to build now that so many of our assumptions and institutions have been challenged, and we learned whole new tricks, we learned whole new ways to do things. Let's not just snap back to the way it was, let's think about inventing better. Rita McGrath:  Really, I think there's going to be great opportunity coming out of this current crisis and those who are thinking ahead will benefit from it. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay, great. Well, Rita, thank you so much for your time, and it's been a pleasure again, having you on the show. Rita McGrath: Thank you very much.  

Teresa Murray, a consumer watchdog with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), joins Lisa Dent to explain why Nestle USA voluntarily recalled batches of its edible cookie dough tubs, and what you should do if you purchased it. Follow The Lisa Dent Show on Twitter:Follow @LisaDentSpeaksFollow @SteveBertrand Follow @kpowell720 Follow @maryvandeveldeFollow @LaurenLapka

The CPG Guys, PVSB and Sri are joined in this episode by Veeral Shah, VP of Commercial Strategy & Development at Nestlé USA, the world's largest CPG manufacturer.Follow Veeral Shah on LinkedIn at:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/veshah/Follow Nestlé USA on LinkedIn at: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nestle-s-a-/Follow Nestlé USA online at: https://www.nestleusa.com/Veeral answers these questions:1) Your story starts at University of Michigan and then touched a number of notable brands at large CPG companies eventually emerging as an ecommerce leader at Campbell's.  You then made the decision to go to Nestle where you have a large remit. Decompose this for our audience and tell us how all this change came to be.2) Why is digital commerce a priority for Nestle USA in these times? Is it just about eCommerce or does it have broader omnichannel drivers?3) How are you working to ensure Nestle USA is omnichannel ready - what are specific initiatives or actions you have taken?4) DTC - it seems every brand is focused on delivering some sort of direct partnership with the consumer especially if subscription oriented. How are you focused on it? 5) How are you focused on building a team and what does your team specifically focus on - is it strategy or execution? How does your team interact with commercial functions and deliver value for them?6) What are some key learnings from the last 2 years you would share with our audience they should focus on? What is your advice for the industry in inflation challenged times?7) In a constrained supply world that doesn't seem to have an end in sight, how do you navigate channel strategy on a day to day basis? 8) The pandemic has obviously changed shopper behavior for good it seems - do you agree. In the role you play, how are you responding to this and preparing for the transformation?CPG Guys Website: http://CPGGuys.comFMCG Guys Website: http://fmcgguys.comRetailWit Website: http://retailwit.comDISCLAIMER: The content in this podcast episode is provided for general informational purposes only. By listening to our episode, you understand that no information contained in this episode should be construed as advice from CPGGUYS, LLC or the individual author, hosts, or guests, nor is it intended to be a substitute for research on any subject matter. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by CPGGUYS, LLC. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.  CPGGUYS LLC expressly disclaims any and all liability or responsibility for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages arising out of any individual's use of, reference to, or inability to use this podcast or the information we presented in this podcast.

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In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhwestover/) talks with Christine Hanna about what major tech employers are facing and the HCM/timekeeping solutions. See the video here: https://youtu.be/8FA0n1myvTE. For the past 18 years, Christine Hanna (https://www.linkedin.com/in/achristinehanna/) has consulted to and led major workforce management projects, such as UKG (formerly known as “Kronos”) and Infor, at large and small companies alike, working in every capacity from analyst to practice leader. Christine is CEO of her own independent workforce management consultancy, Workforce Transformation Group. Her clients include Nestle USA, Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Orange County New York, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Kellogg's and PetSmart. Prior to starting her own firm, she worked for the Hackett Group as a Time and Attendance consultant manager, once again focused exclusively on assisting clients evaluate modern HCM solutions, and implement their solution of choice. Christine utilizes her UKG-specific subject matter expertise to guide potential Partners on how to navigate within a UKG Partnership, keeping a close eye on emerging UKG technology solutions, on growing and retaining exceptional talent, and on Operational Best Practices. Please leave a review wherever you listen to your podcasts! Please consider supporting the HCI Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=69688020. Check out the Human Capital Innovations (HCI) Academy: Courses, Micro-Credentials, and Certificates to Upskill and Reskill for the Future of Work! https://hciacademy.talentlms.com/. Check out the LinkedIn Alchemizing Human Capital Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/alchemizing-human-capital-6884351526333227008/. Check out Dr. Westover's book, 'Bluer than Indigo' Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/bluerthanindigo. Check out Dr. Westover's book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/leadershipalchemy. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-magazine. Ranked #6 Performance Management Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ Ranked #6 Workplace Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ Ranked #7 HR Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ Ranked #12 Talent Management Podcast: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ Ranked in the Top 20 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/

What do you get when massive competitors like The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestle USA, and General Mills walk into a board room? A 6.4 trillion reduction of calories in major household food products.Tune in to hear the phenomenal story of how Lisa Gable, author of Turnaround: How to Change Course When Things Are Going South, along with a diverse group of food corporations, joined forces to identify a common denominator that would promote more health conscious food items. This led to the ultimate shattering of the organization's original pledge of a 1.5 trillion caloric reduction, forever shifting the way that the country's nutritional charts are made up in the marketplace.

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women' with Sarah Alter, is 'Mental Health in the Workplace.' Our guests this week are Brian Schoo, Director of People Analytics, Nestle USA; Teri Latter: Program Director, NAMI Illinois (National Alliance on Mental Illness); Lauren Romero: Category Leadership Manager – Treehouse Foods, Advantage Solutions. They will discuss the increasing openness of many organizations around mental health and wellness, and how to navigate conversations around mental health with compassion and true leadership.

This week's episode of 'Advancing ALL Women' with Sarah Alter, is 'Mental Health in the Workplace.' Our guests this week are Brian Schoo, Director of People Analytics, Nestle USA; Teri Latter: Program Director, NAMI Illinois (National Alliance on Mental Illness); Lauren Romero: Category Leadership Manager – Treehouse Foods, Advantage Solutions. They will discuss the increasing openness of many organizations around mental health and wellness, and how to navigate conversations around mental health with compassion and true leadership.

Guest Bio: Rita McGrath is a best-selling author,  sought-after advisor and speaker, and  longtime professor at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world's top experts on strategy and innovation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50.  McGrath's recent book on strategic inflection points is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Rita is the author of four other books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013). Since the onset of the pandemic, Rita has created workshops, strategy sessions and keynotes, applying her tools and frameworks to strategy under high levels of uncertainty to specific issues organizations are facing.  As Rui Barbas, the Chief Strategy Officer for Nestle USA said, “You were incredibly insightful and, despite the virtual setting, there was lots of engagement and comments from leaders sharing eye-opening observations and building on your examples throughout. You delivered the inspiration and illustration desired and it was exactly the right focus and challenge for this team. Appreciate your time throughout the process to align on content and delivery. The future-focus theme was the perfect close to our leadership summit.” Rita's work is focused on creating unique insights.  She has also founded Valize a companion company, dedicated to turning those insights into actionable capability.  You can find out more about Valize at www.valize.com. McGrath received her Ph.D. from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and has degrees with honors from Barnard College and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. She is active on all the main social media platforms, such as Twitter @rgmcgrath.  For more information, visit RitaMcGrath.com.   Social Media/ Websites: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritamcgrath/ Twitter: @rgmcgrath Instagram: @ritamcgrathofficial Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rgmcgrath Websites: https://ritamcgrath.com and valize.com Rita's Newsletter/ Articles Substack: https://thoughtsparks.substack.com/ Medium: https://rgmcgrath.medium.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/thought-sparks-6787762418471755776/ Books Seeing Around Corners by Rita McGrath https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeing-Around-Corners-Inflection-Business/dp/0358022339 The Entrepreneurial Mindset by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian MacMillian https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entrepreneurial-Mindset-Continuously-Opportunity-Uncertainty/dp/0875848346 The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath https://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Competitive-Advantage-Strategy-Business/dp/1422172813 Disrupt Yourself by Whitney Johnson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Disrupt-Yourself-New-Introduction-Relentless/dp/1633698785 Humanocracy by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini https://www.amazon.co.uk/Humanocracy-Creating-Organizations-Amazing-People/dp/1633696022 Reimagining Capitalism by Rebecca Henderson https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reimagining-Capitalism-Business-Save-World/dp/0241379660 When More is Not Better by Roger L. Martin https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-More-Not-Better-Overcoming/dp/1647820065/ Being An Adult by Lucy Tobin https://www.amazon.co.uk/Being-Adult-ultimate-getting-together-ebook/dp/B07GQ1KRTC/ Only The Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Paranoid-Survive-Andrew-Grove/dp/1861975139  Ula Ojiaku: My guest today is Dr. Rita McGrath. She's a best-selling author, a sought-after speaker and advisor and consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50. In this episode, Rita talked about the concept of inflection points from her book ‘Seeing Around Corners' and how as leaders, we can train ourselves to spot these inflection points and act on the information we receive. She also talked about making complex things simple for the people we work with. I learnt a lot speaking with Rita and I'm sure you will find this conversation insightful as well. Thank you again for watching! It's an honor to have you on the show, Rita McGrath. Many, many thanks for joining us. Rita McGrath: Well, thank you Ula. It's a pleasure to be here. Ula Ojiaku: Great. Now, can you tell us about yourself? How did the Rita, Dr. Rita McGrath we know today evolve? Rita McGrath:  Well, it would have to start with my parents, of course. I mean, all great stories start with your parents. And so, my parents were both scientists. My mother was a Microbiologist, and my father was an Organic Chemist. And so, I grew up in a house where, you know, (if) a question couldn't be answered, you went and got the reference book and figured it out. And both, (had) incredible respect for science and for diligence. And, you know, the house was always full of books and lots of emphasis on learning. I wouldn't say we were, financially all that well-off – we weren't poor by any means. But it was, you know, there wasn't like a lot of money to spare, but there was always money for books, and there was always money for, you know, educational experiences and that kind of thing. So, that's the household I grew up in. So, my parents, when I was born, were both on the staff at the Yale Medical School. So, they were both researchers there. And then my dad in the late 60s, got an offer to go join this upstart, fledgling company that was at the cutting edge of all kinds of things in his field and that was Xerox Corporation. And he was very conflicted about leaving academia, but went off eventually to Xerox. So, we moved the family to Rochester, New York. So that's where I did most of my growing up. And my mother at that time, decided to stay home, more or less. And then she started a scientific translation business. So, she moved into an entrepreneurial career more than her scientific career. And then when it came time to go to college, I went to Barnard College in the City of New York. I'd always thought New York was an amazing place and was accepted there. So, went off to New York, did my Bachelor's and my Master's in Political Science and Public Policy. I was very interested in public policy and matters of social contract and those kinds of things. And then my first job was actually with the City of New York, I ran purchasing systems for government agencies. It doesn't sound very glamorous. But today, we would call it digital transformation. It was the very first wave of companies taking their operations in a digital form. And it was very exciting and I learned a lot. Then I got to the end of… the thing about public service is when you start, there's (this) unlimited sort of growth that can happen for a few years, and then it really just levels off. And you're never going to go beyond that. So, I kind of reached that headroom and decided to do something different. Ula Ojiaku:  Was it at that point that you decided to go for your PhD? Rita McGrath:  And that was one of the options I was considering. And my husband basically said, ‘look, if you get into a top five school, it's worth doing and if you don't, it's probably not.' But you have to think in that time, MBA programs were just exploding, and there'd been a lot of pressure on the administrators of MBA programs, to put PhD accredited faculty in front of their students. The big knock against the MBA at the time was, oh, they're just trade schools. You know, we've got some guy who ran an entire company comes in and talks and that's not really academically suitable. And so, there was a huge pressure for schools to find PhD accredited people-  that still exists (but) the market pressures has changed a lot. But when I was doing my PhD, it was pretty sure I would get a job if I managed to complete the degree. So that that gave me that extra input to do that. Ula Ojiaku:  Did you already have like children when you started the PhD? Rita McGrath: Yes Ula Ojiaku:  And how did you cope? Rita McGrath:  Our son was, how old was he? He would have been nine months old when I started my PhD program. Yeah. Ula Ojiaku: Wow, 9 months old. Rita McGrath: Oh, yeah, it was a real challenge. And I guess everybody manages those kinds of challenges in their own way. But yeah, it was a struggle because, you know, typical day would be you know, get up, get the baby to daycare or wherever and then do school or whatever I had to do that day. And then it was sort of pick them up. By the time I had a second child it was pick them up, get them dinner, get them bedtime, get them story, and then I'll be back at my desk at nine o'clock at night, trying to do what I needed to do. So, it was a new turn. It was tough. It was difficult years. I mean, joyful years though but it was just hard to fit everything in. Ula Ojiaku:  I can imagine. I mean, although I'm thinking of starting my PhD (studies), my children aren't that small but I do remember the time (they were), you know, I was still working full time. So, the challenge is you'd go to work and then come back to work. I mean, to another type of work. And then when they go to bed, the work continues. Yeah, it's interesting. Rita McGrath: Quite exhausting. Ula Ojiaku: You can say that. I'm so glad they're not in diapers anymore. So, it's baby steps, we are getting there. So, can we go on to your book, “Seeing Around Corners, How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen”. I'd like to start from an unusual place in the book. I started from the dedication page, and you know, reading everything, and I noticed that, you referred to a conversation, one of the last conversations you had with your mother. Could you tell us about that? Rita McGrath:  Oh sure. She was well, at the time, she was quite ill, she had sarcoma in her lung, and she was quite ill. It's a horrible disease, and we haven't got any real treatments for it. So, the recommendation is you do chemo and that really knocks you out. So, she was quite ill and sort of migrating between the chair and the couch and the chair and the couch. And in one of those conversations, she just said ‘I want you to know I'm proud of you. And I've had a good life and I'm prepared for whatever comes next.' And I thought that was lovely of her to say and I thought in that moment to pass it on to all these other women. And you know you bring up motherhood and being a working woman and all those complicated emotions that come with that because there seems to be guilt around every corner you know, if you're not at home full time, oh you're a terrible mom. And if you're not at work full time, you're a terrible worker. I just I think so many of those things are just designed to twist us up into little balls. And when I look at my own mother's experience - she was a working woman… I grew up but I think I'm third or fourth generation working woman so it never even occurred to me that wouldn't be possible. But I think what often is missing is this validation, you know that for women who are trying to you know make their way professionally and be great, responsible parents and do all these other things that often there's a sense of a lack of self-worth you know, ‘oh, I'm not doing enough.' The more I hear that… Ula Ojiaku:  I feel like that some… most days I feel like that… Rita McGrath: Believe me, you are doing enough Ula Ojiaku:  Sometimes I ask my children, am I a good mom? Rita McGrath:  I think part of it too is we, and when I say we, I mean baby boomer mothers and maybe a little younger. We got ourselves all tangled up in this if it's not like organic, hand-processed  lima beans with you know, organic succotash, mixed in you know, it's not good baby food. Honestly, Gerber's exists to provide perfectly nutritious food for really young babies and they've been doing it for decades and you can trust that and if it makes your life easier, go with it. Ula Ojiaku:  Thank you! Rita McGrath: You know, I think we I think we get ourselves all tossed up in like, what does good mean? I mean, honestly, the kids don't mind you know? I mean, they'd celebrate if it was chicken finger night. Ula Ojiaku:  Let's go to the book. You know, because in your book you said you it's about how to spot inflections before they happen in business. Can you give us examples of, you know, businesses that had these inflection points occur, and they failed to recognize it and what was the impact? Rita McGrath:  Sure, let's take one that is quite sad to me, which is Intel. And Intel built its, well, Intel went through a major inflection point, in fact, the originator of the concept was Andy Grove, who was their former CEO. And he talked about his inflection points in his book, Only the Paranoid Survive, which is really a brilliant, brilliant book. And one of the reasons I wrote my book was that very little had been done since his book on that topic. And Grove built this incredible company, Intel. And they were making microprocessor chips. And they were very, very powerful, very fast chips. And so, the assumptions inside Intel's business model was, what customers were going to pay for was faster, faster, faster, more computation power, more and more powerful. But what they didn't really think about was energy consumption. And as the world went more mobile… so the Intel product is the PC, and the PC, the desktop PC remains firmly plugged into the wall. And then later, we make PC chips that maybe have slightly lower power consumption to power PCs, but it's still that notion of power, you know, and I think the inflection point that caught Intel by surprise, to some extent was, this movement towards mobile, where the vast majority of chips being made were these completely different architecture chips by  companies like ARM and you know, and companies like that, which, from their inception, recognized that low power was the way to go. Then they weren't very powerful in the sense of speed, which is what Intel was driving its business towards. But they were powerful in the sense of ubiquitous low power, long battery life, that kind of thing. And I think that's an example of the kind of assumption that can cause a company to get into trouble, when the underlying shift in the business environment says, ‘wait a minute, this thing you've been building all this time may not be what is needed by the marketplace.' Ula Ojiaku:  That's interesting. So, it brings me to the point of, the points you made about, you know, the indicators, the early warnings, and you mentioned the concept of you know lagging, current and leading indicators. And there was an emphasis in your book on, you know, leading indicators. Could you tell us a bit about that? Rita McGrath:  Sure. Well, so leading indicators are today's information about tomorrow's possibilities. And what we unfortunately rely on a lot in business is lagging indicators - so profits, performance, you know, ROI, all those things are lagging some kind of decision that you made a long time ago. So, the concept of leading indicators is to try to get business leaders to think about what would have to be true, you know, before I was able to make a certain decision, what are the leading indicators? So, an example would be back in the 90s, computer scientists all over the world realized that come the year 2000, from the turn of the millennium, that the way computer programs had been programmed, was only two digits for the year. And so, when the year went to zero-zero, computers, were going to think it was 1900 and this was going to be terrible. Because they all get out of sync, you know, and planes would drop out of the sky. You're gonna become unstable, and you'll all need to move to Montana and stuff … I don't know if you can remember this. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah, the Y2K bug… Rita McGrath: Oh my goodness…! Ula Ojiaku: It was a big sensation. Yeah… Rita McGrath: Apocalyptic – remember?! And yet, when the big moment came the year 2000. What happened? Well, nothing happened. Why did nothing happen? We looked at that early warning, and we said, whoa, if that happens, it's bad. And then so companies, prodded by their accounting firms, prodded by other security considerations invested billions in correcting that flaw. And so, that's an example of an early warning. And there are a couple of things to understand about early warning. So, the first important thing is, the measure of a good early warning is not, did it predict what happened. The measure of a good leading indicator is, did it help you prepare for what might happen? And so, I think that's a really important distinction, because we oftentimes, oh, you that didn't predict this or that. But that's not the point. The point is, did it help you think more broadly about what might happen so that you could be prepared? So, I think that's the first thing. The second thing to remember about leading indicators is they're often not quantitative in the way that we like to think about quantitative things. They're often qualitative. They often take the form of stories. And they often come from what are called unrepresentative parts of your mental ecosystem. So, you know, it's that person on the loading dock (saying to themselves), ‘this is, well, that's weird, a customer never asked for that before', or the person answering the phone, you know, in headquarters going, ‘Well, I don't understand why they need that information…' You know, it's those little anomalies or things that depart from business as usual, that are often the weak signals that you need to be paying attention to. Ula Ojiaku:  So, can you give us an example where you mean, I mean, of how we can go about choosing good leading indicators? Rita McGrath:  Well, in the book, I describe a technique that I use, which is you take a couple of uncertainties and juxtapose them on each other. And that gives you four or more you can do this for as many as you like, stories from the future, possibly a future that we could live in. And then depending on which one you want to think about, you say, ‘okay, I'm gonna write a headline as if it came from a newspaper story about that scenario. And I'm gonna work backwards and say, what has to be true for that headline to emerge.' So, take an example that's playing out right now, chronic and accelerating decline in birth rates in the United States. People are just deciding not to enlarge their families or not to start their families at all. And for very good reasons, you know, the level of social support for families is very low. Mostly women are bearing the burden. And very often women are the ones that make a large part of the decision about whether the family is going to grow or not. And so, we're facing a real baby bust. Well, if that's true, and we follow that along, well, what are some things that would be early warnings or indicators of what that world will be like? Well, you'll see a decline of working people relative to retired people, or people needing assistance, you'll see, you know, fewer kids with more resources to support them. So, the kind of baby Prince phenomena we saw in China. There are lots of things you can kind of work through. But once you say, ‘okay, I see a world with a million fewer children three years from now, than we would have expected well, okay, what now working backward? What does that tell us we need to be paying attention to today? Ula Ojiaku:  Yes, yes. That's a great example. And I wonder, though, so given all, you know, the research that has led to, and your experience as well, consulting with, you know, most of these large organizations, the case studies, you've come to witness and all that, what would you, what would be your advice to leaders of such organizations, you know, in terms of how they can better prepare themselves or equip themselves to recognize these inflection points, and lead effectively? Rita McGrath:  Well, I think the first principle is you have to be discovery driven. In other words, you have to be curious about what's going on. And if you're the kind of leader who (when) someone brings you a piece of information, and instead of treating it like a gift, you're like, oh no, you don't understand that's wrong. That's not the way the world works. If you're dismissive of information people are bringing you that's very dangerous. Because the information you need is not going to come from your lieutenants at headquarters, it's going to come from that guy on the loading dock. So, I think you want to think about establishing some kind of information flows, that go directly from where the phenomena are happening to your desk. So, as an example, a company I really admire is the German metal services company Klockner. And their CEO, Gisbert Ruehl was taking them through a digital transformation. And his big concern was not that they meant it, right? But that his lieutenants, his middle manager, cohort, would be so expert, and so experienced at the way business was, that they would just shut down these digital efforts. And he was very, very concerned about that. He said, well, I need some way of making my message heard directly to the people that are on the frontlines and I also need a way of hearing from them what's going on. So, he implemented Yammer, called non-hierarchical communication. And the deal was anybody in the company that had something he needed to know should feel comfortable sending him a note. And I'm told, I don't know this for a fact that I'm told that at headquarters, he had his instance of Yammer set up so that the lower the hierarchical level of the person, the higher it came in his newsfeed. Ula Ojiaku: Oh, wow. Rita McGrath: So, you know, I can talk to my lieutenants, anytime. Information I need is in the, you know, 24-year-old person who's just joined us with an engineering degree, who's looking at our manufacturing process for screwdrivers and saying, ‘Why do you do it that way? There must be a better way of doing this…' That's the information I really need and he set up a whole system to try to get that information to him, to himself. Ula Ojiaku:  Would you say there's a typical kind of leader with, you know, some certain characteristics that's best equipped to spot the inflection point, and you know, kind of lead the charge and get the organizations in line? Rita McGrath:  You know, I think it's more of the behavior, it's not the characteristics. So, I've seen charismatic, attractive, you know, movie star type CEOs be good at this. I've seen people you look at and you go ‘Really? He looks kind of like he slept in his clothes all night.' I've seen those people be good at it. So, you know, I think the differentiation is this, this hunger for new information, this curiosity, this relentless… ‘tell me again…' and ‘why was that and why was that?' It is this urgent need to really learn what's going on. And then and then putting yourself in the, in the context. So, one of the people I'm working with right now is a brilliant retail CEO, and everything. And one of the things he would do before hiring anybody into his senior team, is he would spend a day or two walking the stores, you know, and in his explanation to me was, ‘I want to see how they react to the stores. I want to see how they treat the people working in stores. I want to see what they notice, you know, I want to see if they notice that there's a thing out of array and I want to see how they are with me, like if they spend their whole two days in store visits, sucking up to me - that's not somebody I need, you know. And so, I think the best leaders along those lines are people who are relentlessly curious, bring people around them who are diverse, you know, you don't just want echo chambers of themselves. Ula Ojiaku:  True, true. You don't want ‘yes' men if you really want to make an impact really. Yeah, and how can I, as a person, train myself to also recognize these inflection points. Rita McGrath:  Well, it depends what the inflection point is. So, if it's a question of, you've been making nice steady progress in your career, and now you've hit some kind of ceiling and you just feel you're not growing or developing any more, then that choice is really okay, I need to… the way Whitney Johnson would put this, she's written a great book on this, “Disrupt Yourself”, right? You go up this S curve, then you need to make the decision if you're going to take on the J curve, right, which is the part below the S curve before you get into the next round of learning. So, that's a personal decision, really only you can make a decision like that. Then there are the cases where inflection points are thrust upon you. So you lose a job, your spouse has some setback, a family member has an urgent need that makes whatever you were doing before impossible. I mean, there's all kinds of outside things that can happen to you. Ula Ojiaku: Yeah… Rita McGrath: And I think the best way to try to look at those is. ‘is this a slingshot to a better future, potentially?' And you know, how many people have you talked to who got fired, and some years later say, ‘that was the best thing that ever happened to me, it shook me out of my complacency. It made me think differently.' And so, I think a lot of times, you know, we, it's very comfortable (staying) stuck in our ruts. And sometimes it takes a bit of a jolt to get us out of that. Ula Ojiaku:  That's a great one. Can I just ask you about so it's not really about your book, Seeing Around Corners, but this one is about the Entrepreneurial Mindset? Just one quick question. Because there's a quote, in your book, that book that says, you know, “the huge part of becoming an entrepreneurial leader is learning to simplify complexity, so that your co-workers can act with self-confidence.” That quote, it made me kind of be more conscious about, am I really making things simpler for my co-workers instead of, you know, rather than to enable us, you know, achieve the best that we could as a group? So why did you, make that quote and associate it with an Entrepreneurial Mindset? Rita McGrath:  Well, because if you make things complicated for people, there's maybe three responses, right? One is they'll start on whatever they start on, which is kind of random. And maybe they finish it, and maybe they don't, but it's really now you're leaving it to chance. Because if you give people more to digest than they can manage, you're going to get back some fraction of it. So that's one thing. Second thing that happens is, if it's too complex, a lot of times people will pick what they want to do, not have anything to do with the agenda that you want to set for the organization. And the third thing is there's just a laziness that comes from having things be complex. I know for myself, when I've had to do strategy statements for myself, or my business, it takes a long, long time to get it done into a few simple things. And each word has to mean something. So, as an example, some years back, I started a sister company. It's called Valize. And the strategy really is to its mission, its purpose for me, is to help organizations create innovation and transformation capability as the basis for shared prosperity. And that sounds really simple. That sounds really kind of ‘duh, that's not so grand, but I mean, the hours it took to get to that simplicity of statement. And then once you've got something like that, you can go back and you could say, okay, well, here's the thing that I'm being asked to do or think I'm thinking of, does it build capability? Yes. No. Does it build shared prosperity? Yes, no. Does it help organizations to help themselves? Yes, no. And it sorts out a lot of stuff means a lot of stuff we could do. But there are only a few things that really fit into that sweet spot of shared capability. So, having that simplification allows you to clear out a lot of the …, there are always wonderful options that you got to do things, right? And it's a question of abundance, you've usually got more great options than you could possibly exercise. So, picking the best ones is the challenge. Ula Ojiaku:  Wow, wow. I'm going to listen to this part again. You've mentioned some books already, like Andy Grove's, Only the Paranoid, I mean, Only the Paranoid survive. And you've mentioned the book, Disrupt Yourself… In addition to these books, and your wonderful suite of books, what other books would you recommend to the audience that you believe have influenced you that you'd recommend to the listeners that would help them you know, learn more about this topic? Rita McGrath: Oh, that's hard, because there's so many. Well, I love Safi Bahcall's Loonshots. I think that's a brilliant, brilliant book. And it really gets to the heart of how innovation actually happens rather than how we think it happens. I rather like Gary Hamel's and Michele Zanini's book, Humanocracy which has the basic question, you know, if you look at Instagram, or Twitter or any of these social platforms, you see these people who are just brilliant. I mean, they're creating incredibly creative stuff. And then we put them inside companies. And we insist that they do things by the rule, and we block all the creativity out of them. So, why do we do that? You know, I think that's a really great one. I'm very taken with Rebecca Henderson's, Re-imagining Capitalism in a World on Fire. Very, very brilliant. Roger Martin, When More is not Better. Just recently had a Julie Lythcott-Haims on my fireside chat program, which is and she's got a book called Your Turn, How to be an Adult”, which is, on a personal level, absolutely fascinating - really good book. I like Peter Sim's, Little Bets. You know, they're just so many I mean, I wouldn't even know where to where to start. Those are the ones that are sort of top of mind at the moment. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. scribbling away as you're talking, and yeah, these all these would be in the show notes with the links to them. So that's great. Now, how can the audience reach you? If they want to, you know follow your work. Rita McGrath: The best place to start is my website, which is really ritamcgrath.com, that's easy. I have columns that I write for. They're currently going up on substack and medium. If you just search my name and or medium, you'll find me there. I do weekly, LinkedIn post, which goes to subscribers on LinkedIn. Also, that's all sort of good places to start. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. Are you on social media? Rita McGrath:  Oh, yes. So yes. I'm on Twitter @RGMcGrath. And I'm on LinkedIn. Okay. I'm not on Facebook so much. But I have put things I post there, but I'm not really on it very much. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay. All right. That's, I mean, thanks for those. Now, let's wrap up any ask of the audience first? Rita McGrath:  I think we're in a remarkable moment, right now, you know, we've had so many of our previous habits and assumptions disrupted, that I think it would be a shame to lose, to lose all that and just go back to the way things were. So, I think it's an opportunity to reflect and to really think about, what kind of future do we want to build now that so many of our assumptions and institutions have been challenged, and we learned whole new tricks, we learned whole new ways to do things. Let's not just snap back to the way it was, let's think about inventing better. Rita McGrath:  Really, I think there's going to be great opportunity coming out of this current crisis and those who are thinking ahead will benefit from it. Ula Ojiaku:  Okay, great. Well, Rita, thank you so much for your time, and it's been a pleasure again, having you on the show. Rita McGrath: Thank you very much.

In this special episode, Andrew Faris and Taylor Holiday, CEO of Common Thread Collective, talk with Orchid Bertelsen — CTC's new Chief Operating Officer. With six years of experience at Nestle USA, Orchid explains why operational leadership is no long a luxury for DTC ecommerce brands. “The problem isn't that people aren't willing to take hills. They're willing to take hills, but sometimes they take the wrong ones.”

On June 17, 2021 the Supreme Court issued its 8-1 decision in Nestle USA, Inc. V. Doe et al and the consolidated case of Cargill, Inc. v. Doe I. In this case, the Court considered the question of whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute can overcome the exterritoriality bar where the claim based is on allegations of general corporate activity in the United States and where the plaintiffs cannot trace the alleged harms, which occurred abroad at the hands of unidentified foreign actors, to that activity.Discussing this decision today are Julian Ku, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty Director of International Programs, and Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, Professor William S. Dodge, the John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law and MLK Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law and Ilya Shapiro, Vice President and Director at the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.

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Nestlé USA Inc v Doe (2021) is a United States Supreme Court decision regarding the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), which provides federal courts jurisdiction over claims brought by foreign nationals for violations of international law. Consolidated with Cargill Inc v Doe, the case concerned a class-action lawsuit against Nestlé USA and Cargill for aiding and abetting child slavery in Côte d'Ivoire by purchasing from cocoa producers that utilize child slave labor from Mali. The plaintiffs, who were former slave laborers in the cocoa farms, brought their claim in U.S. district court under the ATS, The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California dismissed the suit on the basis that corporations cannot be sued under the ATS, and that the plaintiffs failed to allege the elements of an aiding and abetting claim. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed, holding that corporations are liable for aiding and abetting slavery, in part because norms against slavery are "universal and absolute" and thus provide a basis for an ATS claim against a corporation; however, it did not address the argument by the defendant corporations that the complaint sought an extraterritorial application of the ATS, which the U.S. Supreme Court had recently rejected in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. On remand, the district court again dismissed the claims, finding that the plaintiffs sought an impermissible extraterritorial application of the ATS. In the interim, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jesner v Arab Bank, PLC, which held that foreign corporations cannot be sued under the ATS. The Ninth Circuit reversed, finding that the holding in Jesner does not disturb its prior holding as to the domestic defendants, Nestle USA, Inc., and Cargill, Inc., and that the specific domestic conduct alleged by the plaintiffs falls within the focus of the ATS and does not require extraterritorial application of that statute. Background. Six Malians, identified as John Doe I through VI, were trafficked into Côte d'Ivoire as children and enslaved on cocoa plantations. The children, aged 12-14, were kept in harsh living conditions at the plantations, and they were forced under threat of violence to cultivate cocoa for up to fourteen hours per day without pay. The children witnessed slaves who were caught trying to escape from the plantation being tortured by guards. Most of the cocoa that the slaves cultivated on Côte d'Ivoire plantations was sold to U.S. companies such as the Nestlé and Cargill corporations and imported to U.S. markets. Nestlé and Cargill encouraged the use of child slave labor on Côte d'Ivoire plantations by supporting farmers through capital investments in equipment, training, and cash advances. They also facilitated child slavery by lobbying "against legislation intended to make the use of child slavery transparent to the public" and mislead consumers on their actions in the region. The corporations also sent representatives to inspect plantations. In return, Nestlé and Cargill get cheaper cocoa imports, increasing their profit margins. History. The case was initially filed in 2005 but dismissed by the District Court for the Central District of California in 2010. The Ninth Circuit remanded this decision, stating that the plaintiffs had standing to sue under the Alien Tort Statute—but the case was again dismissed by the district court. In oral arguments, the Malians were represented by Paul L. Hoffman, while Nestlé and Cargill were represented by Neal Katyal. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This episode features an interview with Orchid Bertelsen, Head of Consumer Experience, Strategy & Innovation at Nestlé USA. With over 30 brands in her portfolio, Orchid has spent the past ten years evaluating and testing emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, voice assistance, and AR/VR.On this episode, Orchid discusses the connection between consumers and cavemen, the rise of social commerce, and Ruth the Cookie Coach.--“People jump to the technology because it's almost a shortcut and they're enamored by it...but you cannot go chasing a solution without identifying the problem, because then you can't make sure that the solution addresses the problem.” -Orchid Bertelsen--Show Notes(3:00) Orchid's backstory(7:43) What innovation means to her(9:44) A new solution to an old problem: the story of Häagen-Dazs and the bees(13:40) The connection between consumers and cavemen(18:03) The rise of social commerce (22:24) Introducing Ruth the Cookie Coach(28:06) The Toll House Cookie Conundrum: addressing an emotional problem (31:09) Dissecting the technology role vs. the business objective of Ruth(35:11) Lightning round: getting to know Orchid the person--Sponsor This podcast is presented by Dell Technologies and Intel. Together they help you realize digital transformation across retail by driving IT innovation to better engage with today's connected consumer. Learn more at DellTechnologies.com/retail and Intel.com/retail.--LinksConnect with Orchid on LinkedInFollow Orchid on TwitterRuth the Cookie CoachConnect with Tony on LinkedInConnect with Tony on TwitterTony Saldanha - Transformant

Orchid Bertelsen is head of digital strategy and innovation at Nestle USA. She has created the digital innovation road maps for over 40 Nestle brands as well as delivering new projects such as Ruth the cookie coach virtual human. Prior to Nestle, Orchid spent several years in the digital agency world and in consulting. Today we discuss the anatomy of a virtual human project for a consumer brand - the rationale, the tech, the project stages, and more. We also discuss Alexa skill development for consumer brands circa 2016 and how that shaped the development of a virtual human cookie coach in 2021.

On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its 8-1 decision in Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe et al and the consolidated case of Cargill, Inc. v. Doe I. In this case, six people from Mali who had been trafficked as child slaves onto cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast sued under the Alien Tort Statute, arguing that since the American companies Nestle and Cargill provided financial and technical support to those farms, they should be liable for aiding and abetting human trafficking. The Ninth Circuit had reversed the District Court, finding that the respondents had adequately pled a domestic application of the Alien Tort Statute because the corporate decisions driving contracting with the Ivory Coast farms originated in the United States. The Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit holding that the presumption against extraterritoriality required plaintiffs to establish relevant conduct in the United States and that general corporate activity like decision making was insufficient.Justice Thomas announced the judgment of the Court and delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Parts I and II, in which Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett joined. Justices Thomas, Gorsuch and Sotomayor all filed concurring opinions and Justice Alito dissented.Featuring: -- Ilya Shapiro, Vice President and Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute -- William S. Dodge, John D. Ayer Chair in Business Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law -- Moderator: Julian Ku, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty Director of International Programs, and Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University

From the day a student steps foot on a high school campus and for some, even their entire childhood, they are told, “Where are you going to college? What are you going to major in? Take as many AP classes as you can, take as many activities that would look good on a college application, and get your GPA up as high as you can.” What about, “What do you enjoy? What are your career aspirations? What do you think you want to do?” Where is the concern for their overall well being and desires in their life, as a whole?Betsy Jewell, with a path unlike many others, experienced this herself throughout her entire career and sees it first hand with her children and the young adults that she works with, where college is pushed more now than ever. Without even a degree in hand, Betsy worked for many large companies such as, Colgate Palmolive, Disney, Warner Brothers, Nestle USA, etc. While working with all of these successful companies, Betsy continued to be asked, “Where did you go to school?” and “What is your degree in?”, leaving her feeling as if she wasn't good enough without a degree. This caused her to decide to go back to community college while she continued to work, and she eventually received a 2 year degree after 10 years! Even through all her hard work and achievements, she never quite felt the fulfillment she longed for. After Betsy had children and saw the intense pressure on them that she once had a taste of in her past, she left her job and became a thought leader and a much needed voice for parents of career confused teens.On this episode of Success is Subjective, Betsy joins Joanna to share her journey as she went from making a lot of money in the corporate world, to leaving it all behind to bring fulfillment in her life, the feeling of impact and the ability to use her gifts wholeheartedly. She shares her own personal experience with the topic of college throughout her life and the huge increase in pressure that she now sees on children. Listen in for insight on how Betsy has always managed to make her own path and how she continues to fight for what she believes in, without leaving any lost parents or teenagers behind in what she calls, the “high school hamster wheel”.What You Will LearnWhy Betsy left after not even a year of community college Betsy's experience in corporate America, working for many large companiesWhy Betsy went back to school while workingWhat made Betsy want to help other parents and teenagers, regarding the topic of collegeConnect with Betsy JewellHigh School Hamster Wheel PodcastHigh School Hamster Wheel on FacebookLife After 12th Facebook GroupBetsy Jewell on InstagramBetsy Jewell on LinkedInConnect with Joanna Lilley  Lilley ConsultingLilley Consulting on Instagram Lilley Consulting on Facebook Sponsored by: www.ParentTrainers.comEmail joanna@lilleyconsulting.comResourcesEp33: Transitioning From Parent to Partner with Joanna LilleyEp 69: When Your College Student is Struggling with Joanna LilleyJay DuSold - Teen Career Guide

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Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: The Supreme Court yesterday struck down another challenge to the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. But it also said American companies can benefit from child slavery in Africa, so, you know, hold your applause for the honorable Justices. Meanwhile, audio recordings reveal that Bolivia's right-wing coup leaders were organizing yet another plot against the pro-democracy politician who won last year's election. And this time they planned to go big, and bring in hundreds of mercenaries from the United States. And lastly, US health officials announced a $3 billion program to speed up research on a pill to fight the coronavirus in people who've already been infected. The research could also help stop future pandemics in their tracks, which, after all we've been through, is an obvious win. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: This legal news comes from the Washington Post. The Supreme Court yesterday said US chocolate companies cannot be sued for child slavery on the African farms from which they buy most of their cocoa. But the court stopped short of saying such a lawsuit could never go forward. Six African men sought damages from Nestlé USA and Cargill, alleging that as children they were trafficked out of Mali, forced to work long hours on Ivory Coast cocoa farms and kept at night in locked shacks. Their attorneys argued the companies should have better monitored their cocoa suppliers in West Africa, where two-thirds of the world's cocoa is grown and child labor is widespread. The companies asked the Supreme Court to toss the lawsuit, arguing that courts in the United States are the wrong forum and that the applicable law permits such cases against individuals but not corporations. The court's splintered decision was written by Justice Clarence Thomas. Also yesterday, the Post reports, the Court dismissed the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, saying Republican-led states do not have the legal standing to try to upend the law. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the court's seven-to-two decision, which preserves the law that provides millions of Americans with health coverage. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra called the court's decision, "a victory for all Americans, especially people with a preexisting condition." It's a bittersweet victory, though, because I can't stop thinking about those child slaves. Recordings Expose Bolivia Coup Plot Here's some retro Reagan-era intrigue! The Intercept reports that a top official in the outgoing Bolivian government plotted to deploy hundreds of mercenaries from the United States to overturn the results of the South American country's October 2020 election. The aim of the mercenary recruitment was to forcibly block Luis Arce from taking up the presidency for MAS, the party of former Bolivian President Evo Morales. The plot continued even though Arce, a protégé of Morales, trounced a crowded field, winning fifty five percent of first-round votes. Disagreements between ministers and divisions within the armed forces appear to have undermined the plan. It was never executed. According to the Intercept, Arce's eventual victory last fall was a stunning rejection of the right-wing shift overseen by coup leader Jeanine Áñez. The Bolivian right wing, however, was not ready to relinquish power. A recorded call with Áñez's defense minister sketches a coup plot even more flagrant than the one in October 2019. Several of the plotters discussed flying hundreds of foreign mercenaries into Bolivia from a US military base outside Miami. These would join forces with elite Bolivian military units, renegade police squadrons, and vigilante mobs in a desperate bid to keep MAS from returning to power. Two US military sources confirmed that Special Operations had gotten wind of the Bolivia coup plot. But nothing ever came of it, they said. All those out-of-work Yankee mercenaries will just have to wait until the next time a leftist wins a Latin American election. US Funds Anti-covid Pill Research This promising health news comes from the New York Times. The US government spent more than $18 billion last year funding drugmakers to make a Covid vaccine, an effort that led to at least five highly effective shots in record time. Now it's pouring more than $3 billion on a neglected area of research: developing pills to fight the virus early in the course of infection, potentially saving many lives in the years to come. The new program, announced yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services, will speed up the clinical trials of a few promising drug candidates. If all goes well, some of those first pills could be ready by the end of the year. The Antiviral Program for Pandemics will also support research on entirely new drugs – not just for the coronavirus, but for viruses that could cause future pandemics. According to the Times, Doctor Anthony Fauci, a key backer of the program, said he looked forward to a time when Covid-19 patients could pick up antiviral pills from a pharmacy as soon as they develop Covid-19 symptoms. Fauci's support for research on antiviral pills stems from his own experience fighting AIDS three decades ago. In the 1990s, his institute conducted research that led to some of the first antiviral pills for HIV. Even if the next generation of pills doesn't arrive for a few years, scientists say the research will be a good investment. Imagine a future where Covid is no big deal. It's nice! AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: CBS News reports that the House yesterday approved a bill to repeal the 2002 authorization for use of military force in Iraq, a measure which has the backing of the White House. The bill now goes to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he will bring it to the floor for a vote this year. Next we need a bill to make everyone who supported that stupid war publicly apologize. The Washington Post says today will be a holiday for federal employees following President Joe Biden's signing yesterday of legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in Texas. Employers who don't honor this holiday are now officially on notice. Speaking of Texas: The Associated Press reports that Texas will now let people carry handguns without first getting a background check and training, becoming the latest and largest on a growing list of states to roll back permitting requirements for carrying guns in public. Republican Governor Greg Abbott called it a measure of freedom and self-defense. It's more like self-harm. Politico reports that a little-known GOP candidate in Florida was secretly recorded threatening to send a Russian and Ukrainian hit squad to a fellow Republican opponent to make her QUOTE disappear ENDQUOTE. During the call, William Braddock repeatedly warned a conservative activist to not support Anna Paulina Luna in the Republican primary for a Tampa Bay-area congressional seat because he had access to assassins. Look out, Texas – here comes Florida! AM QUICKIE - JUNE 18, 2021 HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Corey Pein PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

Jamey Sunshine, Nestle USA's Head of Experiential, joins the podcast to talk about his career path with stops at RedPeg, Red Bull, and more. Then, the conversation dives into the importance of culture in the workplace, tailoring experiential tactics to brand goals, and how to use analytics and insights to build effective strategy in the marketplace.

Host: Allie Helfrich Produced by: Allie Helfrich and Oscar Gordillo About the Speaker: Christina Costello is Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Strategy for Anheuser-Busch. With over 10 years of marketing and sales experience, her resume includes major brands like Michelob ULTRA, Budweiser, Black & Decker, Porter Cable, Women's Tennis Association, and Nestle USA. Christina was raised in St. Louis and currently residing in Texas. About Christina’s Session: Along with Jonathan Ogle, Christina will be unpacking how brands like Michelob Ultra are built to appeal to evolving consumers.  They will unveil some unique insights that can help your brand create a lens that places the consumer as the hero and creativity at the forefront.  This session will be on April 28th at 3:10pm CT.

In this episode I discuss reconciling cultural norms with introversion, and how introversion can be symptomatic of your environment with Andrea McLean. Born in Jamaica, Andrea's cultural upbringing was one where you respected those in authority (especially those more senior), to listen carefully before responding, and not to brag. On relocating to the USA and working in extroverted environments, Andrea realised the need to get her voice heard and that self promotion was necessary, which did not reconcile with her cultural upbringing. She learnt to adapt in order to be seen and to be heard, whilst being her authentic self. Andrea is a corporate executive with over 25 years of experience leading globally diverse teams in consumer servicing and communications. She works for The Estee Lauder companies based in NYC. During her career she has managed global teams, led the startup of an Americas consumer care call centre, developed consumer feedback reporting and analytics for senior leaders, and created consumer communications strategies and global policies. She currently leads a Consumer Care Global Center of Excellence for Compliance. In this role she ensures that global consumer servicing operational processes and activities meet all privacy and regulatory compliance requirements. Prior to Estee Lauder she worked for American Express and Nestle USA. She is passionate about developing women and is actively involved in the Women's Leadership Network and is a mentor for young women within her company and at a local University. Andrea is pursuing her certification as a career and executive coach..

With a focus on experiential marketing, Nestle USA employs brand activation marketing strategies that drive business and brand growth through innovation, creativity and experience. Jamey Sunshine, head of experiential marketing center of excellence at Nestle USA joins Gena Casciano, director of brand activation marketing at the ANA for a candid discussion.

With a focus on experiential marketing, Nestle USA employs brand activation marketing strategies that drive business and brand growth through innovation, creativity and experience. Jamey Sunshine, head of experiential marketing center of excellence at Nestle USA joins Gena Casciano, director of brand activation marketing at the ANA for a candid discussion.

Ken Bentley, black male executive and CEO of APGA Tour, and previously a Vice President at Nestle USA spoke about his childhood experience as a black inner city kid from Los Angeles. He cited a number of black role models that many are unaware of, and he discussed his path to the top at Nestle, the significance of "Amen corner", and bridging the opportunity gap."Then my mother showed up, she had been parking the car. She shows up and she said, "I'm going to have the NAACP investigate this. This is racism." And here, my mother was 5ft tall. And here is this woman, 5 ft tall, standing up for her son, and standing up to this white establishment, which were all men. I was so impressed with my mom because that was an " - Ken Bentley

Terry Collingsworth, executive director of International Rights Advocates, which sued Nestle USA and Cargill over the alleged child slavery used on cocoa plantations they buy from, joined Misfit hosts Bob Schlehuber and Michelle Witte to discuss that case’s journey to the Supreme Court, the labor abuses the case documents, and their efforts to confront and curtail the growing impunity of corporations. Journalist Mohammed Elmaazi, editor of the Interregnum, reviewed recent efforts to silence independent media in the UK, including left-leaning news website The Canary, and the Labour Party’s role in muting the left. Alan MacLeod author, journalist and media analyst and a member of the Glasgow University Media Group, explained why you probably haven’t heard much about France’s recent protests, got into former President Barack Obama’s role in crushing the ambitions of the left, and the incredible doublespeak of the mainstream press as they congratulate Joe Biden for avoiding Obama’s mistakes even as he rehires all the Obama staffers who made them. Bryan Weaver, founder and executive director of Hoops Sagrado, and Nate Wallace, creator and co-host of the podcast Redspin Sports, joined to discuss covid forfeits and labor rights in the NFL, the way sports are coopted to carry jingoistic and nationalistic messages, and the importance of these ephemeral means of human expression.

Terry Collingsworth, executive director of International Rights Advocates, which sued Nestle USA and Cargill over the alleged child slavery used on cocoa plantations they buy from, joined Misfit hosts Bob Schlehuber and Michelle Witte to discuss that case’s journey to the Supreme Court, the labor abuses the case documents, and their efforts to confront and curtail the growing impunity of corporations.

9-453 CARGILL, INC V. DOE I QUESTION PRESENTED: Petitioner Cargill, Incorporated, purchases cocoa beans grown in Cote d'Ivoire. Respondents are Malian citizens who allege that, when Respondents were under the age of fourteen, Ivorian cocoa farmers subjected them to forced labor and other abuses in violation of international law. Respondents filed this putative class action under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, claiming that Cargill aided and abetted the farmers' violations of international law by purchasing cocoa from and providing financial assistance to Ivorian cocoa farmers. 19-416 NESTLE USA V. DOE I QUESTION PRESENTED: 1. Whether an aiding and abetting claim against a domestic corporation brought under the Alien Tort Statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1350, may overcome the extraterritoriality bar where the claim is based on allegations of general corporate activity in the United States and where plaintiffs cannot trace the alleged harms, which occurred abroad at the hands of unidentified foreign actors, to that activity. 2. Whether the Judiciary has the authority under the Alien Tort Statute to impose liability on domestic corporations. SUPPORT what we are doing here by contributing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supremecourt

Hector Saldívar is the Founder and Owner of Tia Lupita Foods, a better-for-you healthy Mexican inspired food brand that uses clean and simple ingredients in all their products. Tia Lupita is also the first brand to introduce the nopal cactus as an alternative, functional, and sustainable ingredient in the US market.  Hector was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and later earned a Bachelor's degree in International Business and a Master's in European Business Administration. He moved to the US in 2005 as territory manager for a Mexican startup and climbed the ranks working for companies like Nestle USA and Diamond Foods. He has also been an integral part of the Pop Secret Microwave program team that became the number one selling microwave popcorn in the USA. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: Hector explains what Tia Lupita means and how Tia Lupita Foods was formed Hector's background in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) business How Hector used his mother's hot sauce recipe to produce his product The current product lineup for Tia Lupita and how the company has been impacted by COVID-19 Hector talks about his decision to go retail and the regions he serves How Hector got funding to start his hot sauce business and his future expansion plans The biggest challenge Hector faced growing Tia Lupita Foods In this episode… Other than material things, family recipes can be inherited and passed down from generation to generation. This is very common in Mexico and many delicious secret recipes have been passed down to younger people as a result. When Hector Saldívar saw a business opportunity in his mother’s recipes, he flew her down to San Francisco and taught him how to make her special hot sauce. He then started small, crafting the products in a commercial kitchen and bringing the business to a slow simmer, eventually reaching independent stores to promote and sell his product. In this week’s episode of the NexxtLevel Podcast, Steve Cleere is joined by Hector Saldívar, Founder and Owner of Tia Lupita Foods, to find out how Hector used his mother's recipe to create a healthy hot sauce business. They also talk about Hector's background in the CPG industry, how his company has been affected by COVID-19, and the current and future product line for Tia Lupita Foods. Subscribe and Listen on: iTunes Spotify Stitcher Google Play Deezer Resources Mentioned in this episode Kitchen2Shelf NexxtLevel Marketing 2-Do Tuesdays by Kitchen2Shelf Debra Armstrong on LinkedIn Tia Lupita Foods Hector Saldívar on LinkedIn Shopify Sponsor for this episode... Our podcast today is sponsored by Kitchen2Shelf, the educational arm of NexxtLevel Brands. Kitchen-2-Shelf provides online and in-person courses and workshops for CPG entrepreneurs at any stage of growth. Whether you're an early-stage startup, a local growing business, or if you want to just expand your distribution to a national level, Kitchen-2-Shelf can help you learn what you need to know to grow. Visit their website to get access to some free tools that can help you understand where your business stands. Contact them today to find out how they can help you grow your brand and expand your business to reach its full potential.

Travel Gluten Free Podcast Episode 109 Rerun Gluten Free Halloween Candy   Listen in to this rerun of Gluten Free Halloween Candy and find out why brands you can normally trust have a different manufacturing process during the holidays. We know what happens when new food prep is involved - the addition of the potential for cross-contamination.   The Guide to Traveling Gluten Free Are you anxious about traveling with Celiacs Disease? Does the thought of getting sick on vacation worry you to no end? Unsure of what travel options are safe and how to choose a safe restaurant away from home for you and your children? The Guide to Traveling Gluten Free will walk you through the process of planning and enjoying your next gluten-free travel adventure! Take the guesswork out of how to travel, where to go, and how to eat safely when you follow the information in my guide. Whether you are celiacs or gluten intolerant, my guide will give you handy information to delight in your next vacation experience! Learn how to take a trip safely, what questions to ask when you are at a restaurant and which online tools and apps to utilize to find safe, dedicated gluten-free restaurants and food options. Find out what stores to shop at to purchase gluten-free food, determine if a restaurant is gluten-free or celiac friendly, and when you should walk out of a restaurant.  Links and Resources Mentioned   Contact Information Just Born | 888-645-3453 Necco | 781-485-4800 Hershey's | 800-468-1714 Mars Chocolate | 800-627-7852 Nestle USA | 800-225-2270 Tootsie Roll Industries | 773-838-3400 Wrigley | (800) 974-4539 Ferrero (Tic Tac) | 732-764-9300   Journey with Travel Gluten Free Grab the Guide to Traveling Gluten Free Get the BEST all-natural gluten-free travel cosmetics at Lemongrass Spa! Find cool gluten-free swag in my new shop here Visit my Travel Deals page on my website Support Travel Gluten Free on Patreon   Travel Gluten Free on Social Media Twitter      Facebook    Youtube      Pinterest    Instagram    On the Web   Spread the love of Travel Gluten Free podcast and share this episode with a friend   ***Disclaimer: All content found on the Travel Gluten Free Website, including text, images, audio, or other formats were created for informational purposes only. Material contained on Travel Gluten Free website, podcast, and social media postings are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your qualified healthcare provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Never disregard or delay seeking professional medical advice, Travel Gluten Free website, podcast, and guests present content solely for educational and entertainment purposes, and use of this information is at your own risk.***

You're the people that...  The oldest form of marketing, word of mouth, is overlooked by too many marketers.  You may think you have word of mouth marketing, but do you actively work on it, or are you hoping by having a good product people will spread the word? Daniel Lemin is a tech startup co-founder, operations and marketing leader, and has nearly 20 years of experience working for major global organizations including Nestle USA, Procter & Gamble, the United Nations, Google, General Motors and Hilton Hotels.  He is also a best selling author and speaker.

I had the privilege of interviewing my friend Janice McQueen Ward from the Beauty Call Podcast. Janice gives us some amazing travel tips to stay healthy and feeling beautiful inside and out. Janice McQueen Ward is an accomplished TV Host, Actress, and Pageant Coach. She began her career in pageantry at 17, winning over 10 major titles, most notably, Mrs. United States, where she was a guest of President Clinton and the White House, and made over 200 appearances on behalf of Lung Health and Wellness. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2001, Janice signed with the Robertson Taylor Agency, and Peak Models, and has guest-starred on many shows, including Two and a Half Men, Veronica Mars, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Passions. She has been a celebrity guest host on QVC, a Fashion and Beauty expert on Shop HQ, as well starred in many national commercials and infomercials. Currently, Janice is a Corporate Trainer and Regional Manager for Nestle USA, a Pageant Life Coach, Beauty Expert/Makeup Artist, and Host for an International Podcast Show - Beauty Call Podcast with Janice McQueen. Website: https://www.janicemcqueen.com/ Beauty Call Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/BeautyCallPodcast https://www.iheart.com/BeautyCallPodcast https://podcasts.google.com/BeautyCallPodcast Do you want some added support from an amazing community? Come join my Facebook group now. You never know, your input and participation could lead to being a guest on my show. Want to develop some healthy habits in your life? Get your free copy of my 5 Tips to Staying Healthy on the Road today! Follow me on Instagram: @theroadtohealthpc Website: www.theroadtohealth.me

I had the privilege of interviewing my friend Janice McQueen Ward from the Beauty Call Podcast. Janice gives us some amazing travel tips to stay healthy and feeling beautiful inside and out.  Janice McQueen Ward is an accomplished TV Host, Actress, and Pageant Coach. She began her career in pageantry at 17, winning over 10 major titles, most notably, Mrs. United States, where she was a guest of President Clinton and the White House, and made over 200 appearances on behalf of Lung Health and Wellness.   Since moving to Los Angeles in 2001, Janice signed with the Robertson Taylor Agency, and Peak Models, and has guest-starred on many shows, including Two and a Half Men, Veronica Mars, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Passions. She has been a celebrity guest host on QVC, a Fashion and Beauty expert on Shop HQ, as well starred in many national commercials and infomercials.   Currently, Janice is a Corporate Trainer and Regional Manager for Nestle USA, a Pageant Life Coach, Beauty Expert/Makeup Artist, and Host for an International Podcast Show - Beauty Call Podcast with Janice McQueen.  Website: https://www.janicemcqueen.com/ Beauty Call Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/BeautyCallPodcast https://www.iheart.com/BeautyCallPodcast https://podcasts.google.com/BeautyCallPodcast Do you want some added support from an amazing community? Come join my Facebook group now. You never know, your input and participation could lead to being a guest on my show.  Want to develop some healthy habits in your life? Get your free copy of my 5 Tips to Staying Healthy on the Road today! Follow me on Instagram: @theroadtohealthpc Website: www.theroadtohealth.me 

Miyoko Schinner literally wears her passion for veganism on her sleeve.  A few moments prior to our interview with Schinner, the founder of plant-based cheese and butter company Miyoko’s Creamery, she p revealed a large tattoo just below her right shoulder. Printed in block letters were the words “Phenomenally Vegan,” a credo that defines Schinner and her company, which was built on “the principle of compassion for animals and eliminating them from food production.” But she wasn’t always so upfront about her beliefs. As part of our conversation, Schinner explained that during the company’s first few years, she was concerned that its mission wouldn’t resonate with mainstream consumers and avoided speaking about it. Yet her perspective changed following an industry event in which she opened up about her convictions and received a  surprisingly positive response. “I finally realized at some point you have to stand for what you believe in,” Schinner said. “You have to be true to your nature, to your soul, to the world. And you have to become transparent.” As part of our conversation, Schinner spoke about how her interest in veganism led to the brand’s genesis and why she describes Miyoko’s as “a mission with a company.” She also discussed the importance of empowering employees and ensuring they align with the brand’s ethos, why she believes that to change the world companies have to work with the powers that exist and why investors “have to love you for who you really are.” Show notes:  1:21: Miyoko Schinner, Founder/CEO, Miyoko’s -- Schinner sat down with Taste Radio editor Ray Latif for an interview recorded at the 2020 Winter Fancy Food Show and spoke about her history as resident and business owner in the Bay Area, why she blames poor leadership for past failures and early struggles with Miyoko’s and why it was critical to communicate the company’s mission in a way that didn’t alienate non-vegan employees. She also discussed the importance of creating great-tasting vegan food, why the company offers its workers a wide-range of job benefits and how she reconciled -- and dealt with the criticism over -- Miyoko’s short-term partnership with Nestle USA. Later, she explained why investors are like spouses, her personal approach to social media, why the company is hiring a president and why she’ll eventually feel comfortable stepping away from day-to-day responsibilities. Brands in this episode: Miyoko’s, Tofurky, Nestle, La Colombe

Episode #23 Not So Scary Gluten-Free Candy   Happy Halloween my friend! In this episode, we are going to dive into spooky, scary and not so scary gluten-free Halloween Candy, which candy can you feed your little chocolate goblins. Just because it doesn't have gluten in its ingredients, doesn't mean its safe for celiacs.  Just Born Peeps marshmallow treats are the candy you will most likely be familiar with from Just Born. What used to be an Easter treat is now a multi-holiday treat! In addition to Peeps, Just Born also produces Mike and Ike candies. Just Born claims the company's marshmallow candies are safe from cross-contamination if it states that they are gluten-free on the package. Some peeps may contain modified food starch however he modified food starch is corn-based according to Just Born.   The company claims the following candies are gluten-free: Mike and Ike Berry Blast Mike and Ike Italian ice Mike and Ike Jolly Joe's Mike and Ike Lemonade Blends Mike and Ike Original Fruits Mike and Ike Redrageous Mike and Ike Tangy twister Mike and Ike at Tropical Typhoon Mike and Ike's Zours Mike and Ike Jelly Beans Mike and Ike Hot Tamales Goldenberg Peanut Chews Hershey's (Kisses, Mounds & Reese's) Hershey's maintains a list of gluten-free candies and updates it several times each year. As of fall 2018, the following Hershey's candies are considered gluten-free to less than 20 parts per million: Almond Joy (all except for Almond Joy Pieces candy) Mounds Hershey's Milk Chocolate Kisses Hershey's Special Dark Kisses Hershey's Filled Chocolate Kisses, only in the following flavors:Hershey's HugsHershey's Nuggets, only in the following flavors: milk chocolate, milk chocolate with almonds, special dark chocolate with almonds, and extra creamy milk chocolate with toffee and almonds) Milk Chocolate, Chocolate Filled with Caramel Chocolate Filled with Cherry Cordial Creme Vanilla Creme, Dark Chocolate Filled with Mint Truffle Pumpkin Spice Meltaway Milk Chocolates Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar, only in the 1.55 oz. size Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds Bar, only in the 1.45 oz. size Hershey's Air Delight Hershey's Milk Duds Heath Bars Payday Reese's Fast Break bar Reese's Nutrageous bar Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Reese's Pieces Rolo Caramels in Milk Chocolate Skor Toffee Bar York Peppermint Pattie   Mars Chocolate products with no gluten ingredients: M&M's (EXCEPT for pretzel-flavored M&M's, which contain wheat, and crispy M&M's) 3 Musketeers Bar Milky Way Midnight Bar Milky Way Caramel Bar Dove Chocolate products (all flavors EXCEPT for milk chocolate cinnamon graham/cookies and cream, and some holiday varieties, such as milk chocolate truffles) Snickers Bars (all flavors) Munch Nut Bar (the customer service representative urges consumers to check the labels on this one) Necco (Mary Jane & Sweethearts) Necco small sugar Valentine heart candies—the pastel-colored ones that say "Be Mine" are one of my most cherished candy memories as a child growing up. Remembering there is sweet little hearts from friends in Valentine cards and reading the sayings on the heart candies.   According to Necco, the following products do not contain gluten from wheat, rye, oats or barley:   Necco Wafers Necco Chocolate Wafers Candy House Candy Buttons Canada Mint, Wintergreen and Spearmint Lozenges Mary Jane Mary Jane Peanutbutter Kisses (available for Halloween only) Banana Splits Chews Mint Julep Chews Haviland Thin Mints, Wintergreen Patty, Nonpareils and Chocolate Stars Skybar Sweethearts (for Valentine's Day only) Conversation Hearts (available for Valentine's Day only) Mary Jane peanut butter kisses (for Halloween only)   Nestle USA  Nestle USA labels a handful of candies and chocolate as "gluten-free," meaning the company has tested them and confirmed that they contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten: Butterfinger bars, but only in fun size, singles, and share pack  Goobers Nips Raisinets (including Cranberry and Dark Chocolate flavors) Toll House morsels and chunk Tootsie Roll Industries (Tootsie Rolls & Charms) Tootsie Roll Industries, which also makes Charms products, says that, as of fall 2018, all of the companies confections are considered gluten-free except Andes cookies. "Tootsie does not use wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale, spelt, or any of their components, either as ingredients or as part of the manufacturing process. Corn and soy products are used during the manufacturing process," reads the company website. Tootsie Rolls Industries, theses are gluten-free: Tootsie Rolls Fruit Rolls Junior Mints Frooties Dots Tropical Dots Crows Cella's Milk Chocolate Covered Cherries Cella's Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries Junior Mints Dubble Bubble Charleston Chew Junior Caramels Tootsie Pops Tootsie Peppermint Pops Caramel Apple Pops Fruit Smoothie Pops Tropical Stormz Pops Child's Play Charms Blow Pops Charms Super Blow Pops Charms Pops Zip-A-Dee-Mini Pops Fluffy Stuff Cotton Candy Sugar Daddy Pops Sugar Mama Caramels Charms Squares Charms Sour Balls Charms Candy Carnival Pops Galore Andes   Smarties  Many candies in the Smarties' line of products is considered gluten-free and vegan in the U.S. and is made in a gluten-free facility. Smarties sells its products to different "re-baggers" and only re-baggers can verify whether their manufacturing plants are free of gluten or other allergens. "If the UPC number on the packaging begins with '0 11206,' you can be assured that the product was packaged in one of our manufacturing facilities," which means it should be gluten-free," the company says. Smarties Gummies contain no gluten ingredients but are manufactured in a facility that also processes wheat-containing products. Smarties sold in Canada contain wheat flour—always check the label to make sure you're buying the gluten-free type. Wrigley (Lifesavers, Skittles & Starburst) Although Wrigley's online gluten-free statement is most products are gluten-free but some might not be, and failing to specify which products contain gluten, the company claims that all Wrigley products in the U.S. are considered gluten-free except for Altoids Smalls Peppermint Mints (which always have wheat maltodextrin) In the U.S., these products are considered free of any gluten sources, according to the company; but I'm not sure I would trust a company that can't agree with itself, so I would say these are off my list of safe candy! Wrigley also makes: Creme Savers Lifesavers Skittles Starburst Sadie Jelly Belly Jelly Belly  "all Jelly Belly beans are gluten-free, dairy-free, gelatin-free, vegetarian and OU Kosher." This includes licorice-flavored gluten-free Jelly Belly jelly beans. Jelly Belly also makes gluten-free candy corn for Halloween. No coming here Tic Tac Mints Tic Tac mints are produced by the Italian confection manufacturer Ferrero and have been sold for more than 40 years. Ferrero states that Tic Tac mints do not contain any ingredients derived from the gluten grains wheat, barley, rye, oats or tritical.   Not gluten-free candy The following Hershey's products are NOT gluten-free: Hershey's Special Dark Bar Hershey's Cookies 'N' Creme Bar Hershey's Milk Chocolate Drops Hershey's Miniatures (any flavor) Mr. Goodbar Symphony Bar Hershey's Extra Dark Chocolate Hershey's Kisses that were not mentioned in the kissing is safe category mentioned at the beginning of the podcast on the gluten-free list above   The following Mars Chocolate are not safe for celiacs: M&M Pretzel flavor and Crispy flavor seasonal flavored M&Ms Milky Way Bar (original) Mars Bar Mars Combos (a snack mix)   The following Nestle candy products are NOT gluten-free: Butterfinger Crisp Bar Butterfinger Giant Bar Butterfinger Snackerz Butterfinger Medallions Butterfinger Jingles Butterfinger Hearts Butterfinger Pumpkins Kit Kat Bar Wonka Nerds Wonka Bar (all flavors) Chewy Spree Wonka Gummies Wonka Kazoozles Everlasting Gobstopper 100 Grand Bar The following Jelly Belly candy is NOT gluten-free: Chocolate Malt Balls Chocolate Bridge Mix Licorice Bridge Mix Black Licorice Buttons Licorice Pastels seasonal mixes sold around the holidays which contain malt balls Contact Information Just Born | 888-645-3453 Necco | 781-485-4800 Hershey's | 800-468-1714 Mars Chocolate | 800-627-7852 Nestle USA | 800-225-2270 Tootsie Roll Industries | 773-838-3400 Wrigley | (800) 974-4539 Ferrero (Tic Tac) | 732-764-9300   Top View NYC Going to NYC this fall? Want to get in all the highlights on a great tour? The tours I like are the open-air hop on, hop off bus tours which you can hangout as little or as long as you like! Pop in your headphones to the bus tour audio, sit back, relax and enjoy the narrated ride. If you are looking for the best sightseeing tour in NYC, I suggest Top View New York City.    In addition to bus tours, you can tour the city with Top View New York City through their very cool cruise tours on the water, bike tours, and bike rentals as well. Click the link to book your NYC tour starting at just $29!  Auto Europe With a car rental from Auto Europe, you can make changes to your rental at any time for no additional fee. If you ever need to cancel your car rental, you can do so and receive a full refund as long as it is done at least three days prior to the pick-up date Book today to lock in these great rates! Free upgrades in select countries when you book your rental with us. Click here for 30% off car rentals worldwide!   Support Travel Gluten Free! For as little as $3 a month, become a show sponsor through Patreon.com Support the podcast which supports you, Travel Gluten Free!   Air B'n'B Discount Looking for a warm getaway this year? Find your place to stay on Air B'n'B! Click here for a link to receive $40 credit towards your stay!   Float Away... Have you experienced floating? No? It's an experience like no other! Relax and float weightlessly in a pool of saltwater. I found it very helpful for relieving the pain of Fibromyalgia! Click here to book your session with Sync Float use code cx-604250   Journey with Travel Gluten Free on Social Media   Twitter      Facebook     Youtube      Pinterest     Instagram     On the Web   Spread the love of Travel Gluten Free podcast and share this episode with a friend!

Leah Caplanis is the founder and CEO of SOCIAL Sparkling Wine, a company she launched in 2014 after successfully battling and beating cancer.At 26, Caplanis was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and instead of the traditional surgery route, she took control of her health, became vegan, stopped drinking alcohol and explored more holistic ways to heal. During her journey, she studied at Hippocrates Health Institute and Kushi Institute for Macrobiotics in Massachusetts.After three years on her healing path, her cancer was cured and Caplanis was ready to get her social life back without compromising her passion for health and wellness. During her recovery, she realized that there were no clean alcohol options on the market. With the help of expert brew master Ray Klimovitz, co-founder of Izze Sparkling Soda, she developed a truly clean alcohol beverage, and soon, SOCIAL Sparking Wine, an organic, low-calorie, gluten and sulfite free sparkling sake wine, was born.Prior to launching SOCIAL Sparkling Wine, Caplanis worked in sales and marketing for Nestle USA. She holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University. Dedicated to empowering people to live a more vibrant, connected, happy and healthy life, she is also Level II Reiki certified.Caplanis has been featured on CNBC’s Billion Dollar Buyer and profiled in numerous major news publications and broadcasts, and is frequently asked to speak at major conferences, including LA Women’s Expo and Digital Hollywood. She currently resides in Chicago and California. @socialsparklingwine@social.leahhttps://www.socialsparklingwine.com SOCIAL Sparkling Wine is currently available in over 4,000 locations in almost every state in the United States. The company is looking forward to expand in the next year to Canada, Europe and Asia Pacific. Leah is also very focused on development, with new products including flavored water and herbal-based liqueurs.The Positive Phil Podcast Show, a podcast, available on iTunes, Spotify, iHeartRadio, where Positive Phil talks about personal stories, events and engaging interviews; with famous people, celebrities, athletes, authors, spiritual educators, thought leaders, as well as others in the social, business and entertainment industry.Airing on over 300 digital channels, including iHeart Radio, Spotify, StitcherFm, Google Podcast and published online via RSS feeds globally. The show has been around for almost 4 years and is one of the most popular podcast shows on the internet in the business-motivation space.Professional radio, tv, podcast host and producer from San Diego California.  We have a large national following on digital media channels, with our popular podcast and network of shows. Airing on iHeart Media, iTunes, Spotify, Spreaker, Stitcher, PlayerFM and over 200 additional media channels.https://www.positivephil.com

www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com Nestle is planning to close a distribution center in Lawrenceville this fall as part of an ongoing shift in its distribution model, according to company officials and information filed with the Georgia Department of Labor.Nestle USA filed paperwork about the closure with the Georgia Department of Labor, whose website shows 111 people are expected to be affected when the facility shuts down. A company announcement concerning a change in its distribution model indicates the closure may happen as soon as this fall.DiGiorno Pizza and Dreyer's Ice Cream were handled at the Direct-Store-Delivery facility, which is located near Coolray Field at 2410 Tech Center Parkway.Source: Gwinnett Daily Post, #Podcast, #DailyHoroscope

Welcome to She Leads Podcast Season 4, Episode 14! This episode of She Leads Podcast features Talitha Beverly founder of HR Strong. Talitha Beverly is a diversity advocate, HR Professional, and workplace healer who leads her life like the Boss she is. To hear Talitha Beverly’s take on leadership, listen to her interview as she discusses ethical leadership, embracing our womanly powers, and having a growth mindset. Talitha Beverly’ Bio Talitha Beverly is a nontraditional HR professional with a degree is in Biochemistry from Florida State University. Her career began as a 3rd shift Production Supervisor making beer at Anheuser-Busch. Talitha became a great business partner by working in the business. She has always been hands on to ensure I have a thorough knowledge and understanding, so she could train others on what to do, and how & why they are doing it. Talitha was introduced to HR after participating on a Diversity Panel for women in manufacturing. She developed a passion for HR realizing she could make a greater impact in the business and people’s lives.  Talitha worked for the best companies in the world; Coca-Cola Enterprises, Nestle USA, and Borden Dairy, and she has been exposed to cutting edge technology, world class business concepts, extraordinary leaders, and lifetime friendships. Talitha became an entrepreneur to bring my world class business exposure to business owners with great products and services who need help with compliance, business organization, and human capital strategy. Talitha has had great success streamlining my clients’ employment systems and lowering their overhead, saving them time and money. Talitha has a deep passion for what she does and she believes Human Resources is her Marketplace Ministry.  Talitha is a workplace healer, who fixes companies, stimulates the economy and rebuilds families and communities. Nicole Walker’s Interview Commentary I really enjoyed this interview with Talitha and I hope you did as well! I agree with Talitha’s stance on the importance of being an ethical leader, which includes following through, building trust, and maintaining a good reputation. Ethical leaders do what is considered to be the right thing to do, even when it is not the most popular, profitable, or convenient. Making this decision is not always easier, yet the rewards of doing so are priceless.  As Talitha suggested, “Don’t wish that it was easier, wish that you were better and don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more skills”. Determining what matters and prioritizing values is the key to leading ethically. A quote by Andrew Leigh reads, “To be an ethical leader is indeed to be different. This kind of leader acknowledges the complexity of running a responsible business, yet tries to do it anyway.” I admire that Talitha was chosen as the executive of her dad’s estate, especially considering she is the youngest of her siblings. Leadership traits and capabilities do not have an associated age, leadership is defined by character. Talitha handled her responsibility by taking on and embracing the duties she was given to make her dad proud, all while she was grieving. Successful leaders get the job done, and Talitha did just that. Being recognized as a leader is a great gift, which can help to open our eyes if we are not already aware of this. People often see in us things we do not see in ourselves, which is why it’s important to be open to accepting feedback and taking on new challenges. I can relate to Talitha’s experience of being humbled by her failures, as I experienced the same. Being able to self-reflect, realize, and then admit that you missed something is not the most fun or easiest thing to do, yet it is super important for continued growth. As Talitha mentioned, we need both grit and a growth mindset to sustain success. Failures usually have a positive experience buried within, if we are willing to dig deep to figure it out. If we want to be successful we must allow our failures to humble us which provides the power needed to work harder, do our best, and never give up. A quote by Amine Ayad reads, “Be humble to see your mistakes, courageous to admit them, and wise enough to correct them”. Takeaway Talitha mentioned the importance of holding focus groups and getting feedback on ideas and projects before deciding to move forward. This helps us to ensure we are giving our customers what they want and need, as opposed to moving blindly based on our thoughts. Understanding the true needs of others will help us avoid working in vain and missing the mark. I will make it my business to ask for feedback and support from others to get my ideas off the ground, as I do not want to do any work in vain. A quote by Tennessee Williams reads, “Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.” Leadership Challenge My leadership challenge for you would be to think about the one thing you can take away from this episode and adopt into your life.  I know it’s hard to absorb too much information at one time and it’s even harder to try and implement too many changes at once.  When I attend a training or listen to podcasts I aim to walk away with a least one thing that stuck out to me and one way that I can change as a result.  I challenge you to do the same!  If you decide to take me up on my challenge I would love to know about your key take way.  If you care to share please go to the She Leads Podcast Discussion Group on FaceBook and leave your comment under the Takeaway Thursday post for Season 4 Episode 14. Don’t forget to subscribe to She Leads Podcast for First access to future episodes. And, like and share this episode of She Leads Podcast, “Integrate Work into Your Lifestyle with Talitha Beverly”. Thanks and until next time “Be Empowered and Empower On”!    

Today’s guest my friend Brody King. With more than a decade of experience advising top executives within Fortune 100 companies (Toyota, Proctor & Gamble, Nestle USA, General Electric, The Kroger Co, Nissan and Hyundai), Brody King is skilled at strategically utilizing data to drive meaningful organizational change and increase profitability. He has established his reputation as a determined leader with expertise in maximizing resources, developing high performing teams, and developing obstacle immunity with optimism and perseverance to achieve business results. an All-World Ironman© Triathlete.    Brody owns Restore Hyper Wellness in Utah. In his spare time, Brody is a passionate advocate for WhoLives.org, which saves millions of lives by providing easy access to clean water, and Operation Underground Railroad.

James Richardson has a PhD in anthropology and has worked for the Hartman Group for a little less than 15 years. During that time, he’s done work for a whole variety of different companies. From small companies to legacy brands. With a tone similar to Anthony Bourdain’s view of the restaurant interview, James brings a realistic yet refreshing viewpoint on the food industry and throughout the interview, brings a ton of tangible tips on how to grow, especially if you’re in the beginning stage of starting up. Questions like if your time is valued in trade shows, or what year food companies are typically profitable, or how you can navigate through different selling channels are all topics that we talk about. So get ready for a jam-packed interview on the inner workings of what really goes into growing a food business By the way, James has some awesome stuff in the pipeline. Not only does he have a podcast called Startup Confidential, but he also will be launching the book, Ramping Your Brand, at the end of the year. Enjoy the show! About James I am a strategy consultant for emerging food and beverage brands, with a professional background in consulting, market research and social science. I have studied natural/organic consumers and brands for my entire career, beginning with proprietary work for Whole Foods Market in 2003. I have advised well over 75 food and beverage brands on specific aspects of growth strategy (i.e. marketing, innovation, channel placement and pricing), from large legacy brands such as Triscuit to small, early stage food companies. Based on years of Nielsen and SPINS analysis of real world performance, I have developed proprietary IP to guide product design/innovation and go-to-market strategy for early stage natural/organic brands. My work in the natural/organic marketplace is based on understanding category nuances that affect success for emerging brands. All my work involves a holistic, competitive analysis of your brand and its prospects for growth based on understanding category nuances in modern food culture. Past Clients: My understanding of the food and beverage marketplace and growth strategy is built on 15 years of work for leading manufacturers and retailers across the sector: Pepsi-Cola, Coke VEB, McCormick, Campbell's, ConAgra Brands, General Mills, Nestle USA and Nestle SA, Kraft Foods, The T. Marzetti Company, Rich Products Co., Hershey's, Whole Foods, Target, Wal-Mart, and Kroger. I have also worked with over a dozen early-stage food brands in various capacities including Corazona's, Bobby Sue's Nuts, Wellgen, Snack It Forward, LLC, Nibmor, Mother Kombucha, Zaca, and others Finally, I have also performed confidential due diligence evaluations for VC firms such as Prairie Capital and Colfax Creek Capital. For more info and client testimonials, please see my website: www.premiumgrowthsolutions.com Sponsor This episode is sponsored by Salt of the Earth. During IFT, I went to their booth. They were serving vegetarian meatballs and mac and cheese using Mediterranean umami. I would say, it was probably the best meatball made of pea protein I’ve tasted. Mediterranean Umami brings a rich, savory component while being clean label and reduces sodium and made with simple ingredients such as tomatoes, sea salt, seaweed, and mushrooms. Ask my friend David for a bottle of Mediterranean Umami any time by emailing  info@salt.co.il Show Notes Why did you decide to make a podcast?: Podcasting is a powerful form of content marketing What do you do?: I do strategic planning for early-stage premium CPG planning What stage of the process do people contact you?: First 3 to 5 year and the journey to half a million in gross sales If you want to grow into a flat-lined $10-20 million business, you need to shove all of your money into growth How do you prepare to “weather the storm”? – Line your angels, get a house lone, make sure everyone close to you is ok with this E-locks Cara Golden – The Passion has to be obsessive. The Scaling is not particularly glamorous Have a competitive streak. You want to win Good Crisps What is the fastest way to grow a food business?: Get on e-commerce and get to 20-30 thousand dollars in revenue. Foodservice onboard people faster. Ultramarathoners: James Richardson Linkedin post You’re running a marketing experiment: set realistic revenue practices Anthropology: It’s a bookworm’s paradise and your friends don’t get it I went to India, almost died 3 times but lived there for 3 years When I got home, I took a job at market research and did nationwide research in whole foods Hartman Group Power Bar Clif Bar Skinny Pop Popcorn My unique set of knowledge is a ton of case studies that help you get to scale The market changes faster than you realize and I learn fast as a consultant UPC mix – Universal Product Attributes Mix trend slowness is about 7-10 years Any advice for anyone who wants to be in the industry?: If you want to master CPG, you should join a fast growing food company (2-5% 15-20million dollars) There are 100 companies to choose from Examples: Spindrift A big company, you won’t learn much Website: premiumgrowthsolutions.com Startup Confidential podcast

Tammi Leader Fuller Www.campowerment.com @campowerment on Instagram and Twitter Campowerment on Facebook Tammi Leader Fuller is a two time Emmy-Award winning TV News Producer who walked out of the Control Room and into the woods to create Campowerment: the transformational, summer camp-inspired, Expert-led retreat experience, designed to help grown ups disconnect to reconnect, to propel their lives forward and live life better. Why? Because when she went looking for a summer camp type experience to take her back to her childhood happy place as a grown women, she couldn’t find one. So she gathered the hundred plus Experts she had gathered in her years at The Today Show, CBS and NBC News, and decided to combine a uniquely empowering program, frapped in fun and games, and combined that with insight from these gifted Thought Leaders, and produced one herself. And it helped so many people, and companies, propel forward, Campowerment just kept going, Six, years, 30 camps and 5000 happy campers later, after shout outs from Oprah. Delta Sky, Parade ,The Hollywood Reporter, and the TODAY Show, more than half the Campowerment campers come back year after year for s’more tools to help them re-ignite their lives. Campowerment began just serving women but is now helping companies shift their cultures and unite their people, building custom-curated, game-changing Enterprise Experiences for trailblazing companies like Lululemon, Snapchat and Nestle USA, to name a few.She runs Campowerment with her 30 year old Digital Strategist daughter Chelsea, who began her Marketing career at TOMS’ one for one and her 83 year old College Professor/Writer mom. In this episode, we discuss: What summer camp meant for her as a child and how that led her to create Campowerment - an adult camping experience to disconnect and reconnect What happens over the 4 day experience, even shaving cream is involved Why she meets friends at a trampoline park instead of a coffee shop The Malibu fires destroying this year’s event and rewriting the entire business from lessons learned Her work with the corporate sphere, why stress relief is so needed and the ripple effect that follows Working with her mom and daughters in the business and the intergenerational side of connection that makes such a huge impact Hearing the stories of the people at camp, the bonds they formed and some of the amazing experiences they went on to have together Shifting yourself with simple joyful practices

In this week’s episode of Solutions News, we discuss microgrids in Puerto Rico, talk about corporations underwriting farmers’ transitions to organic food, and Rinaldo interviews Margaret Klein Salamon. After a discussion about the Green New Deal and Margaret’s organization The Climate Mobilization, Rinaldo discusses the ways in which gratitude changes your brain. Puerto Rico A year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the island has a plan to recreate the electricity grid as a decentralized microgrid. The latest integrated resource plan (IRP), would divide the island into eight connected regional mini-grids generating independent sources of energy. In the case of a future storm, even if one of the grids was knocked out, the others would function and could pick up the slack. Rinaldo talks about the importance of creating a new sustainable grid but advises against portions of the plan involving liquid natural gas (LNG). He also relates the story to microgrids being created in Montecito and Goleta. Transitioning to Organic Farming In 2018, four of the largest food companies, Nestle USA, Danone North America, Mars, and Unilever-United States formed the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance. The alliance is developing a loan system to help farmers transition to sustainable and organic farming. Because the process takes at least three years to make the transition, it has previously been tough to do without any financial support. Gratitude Changes the Brain It turns out that actively showing gratitude in everyday life not only changes your perspective but it also chemically changes your brain. Studies have found that gratitude is associated with more health grey matter in the brain. Interestingly, other studies have been able to quantify that groups tracking gratitude in their lives felt 25% happier than groups tracking neutral or negative events. Over a period of ten weeks, the “gratitude group” also ended up exercising an extra 1.5 hours on average compared to the other groups. Being grateful is an easy way to reduce anxiety and depression while feeling noticeably happier overall. (Producer: Kristy Jansen)

Episode #23 Not So Scary Gluten-Free Candy   Happy Halloween my friend! In this episode, we are going to dive into spooky, scary and not so scary gluten-free Halloween Candy, which candy can you feed your little chocolate goblins. Just because it doesn't have gluten in its ingredients, doesn't mean its safe for celiacs. Just Born Peeps marshmellow treats are the candy you will most likely be familiar with from Just Born. What used to be an Easter treat is now a multi-holiday treat! In addition to Peeps, Just Born also produces Mike and Ike candies. Just Born claims the company's marshmallow candies are safe from cross-contamination if it states that they are gluten-free on the package. Some peeps may contain modified food starch however he modified food starch is corn-based according to Just Born.   The company claims the following candies are gluten-free: Mike and Ike Berry Blast Mike and Ike Italian ice Mike and Ike Jolly Joe's Mike and Ike Lemonade Blends Mike and Ike Original Fruits Mike and Ike Redrageous Mike and Ike Tangy twister Mike and Ike at Tropical Typhoon Mike and Ike's Zours Mike and Ike Jelly Beans Mike and Ike Hot Tamales Goldenberg Peanut Chews Hershey's (Kisses, Mounds & Reese's) Hershey's maintains a list of gluten-free candies and updates it several times each year. As of fall 2018, the following Hershey's candies are considered gluten-free to less than 20 parts per million: Almond Joy (all except for Almond Joy Pieces candy) Mounds Hershey's Milk Chocolate Kisses Hershey's Special Dark Kisses Hershey's Filled Chocolate Kisses, only in the following flavors:Hershey's HugsHershey's Nuggets, only in the following flavors: milk chocolate, milk chocolate with almonds, special dark chocolate with almonds, and extra creamy milk chocolate with toffee and almonds) Milk Chocolate, Chocolate Filled with Caramel Chocolate Filled with Cherry Cordial Creme Vanilla Creme, Dark Chocolate Filled with Mint Truffle Pumpkin Spice Meltaway Milk Chocolates Special Dark Mildly Sweet Chocolate Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar, only in the 1.55 oz. size Hershey's Milk Chocolate with Almonds Bar, only in the 1.45 oz. size Hershey's Air Delight Hershey's Milk Duds Heath Bars Payday Reese's Fast Break bar Reese's Nutrageous bar Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Reese's Pieces Rolo Caramels in Milk Chocolate Skor Toffee Bar York Peppermint Pattie   Mars Chocolate products with no gluten ingredients: M&M's (EXCEPT for pretzel-flavored M&M's, which contain wheat, and crispy M&M's) 3 Musketeers Bar Milky Way Midnight Bar Milky Way Caramel Bar Dove Chocolate products (all flavors EXCEPT for milk chocolate cinnamon graham/cookies and cream, and some holiday varieties, such as milk chocolate truffles) Snickers Bars (all flavors) Munch Nut Bar (the customer service representative urges consumers to check the labels on this one) Necco (Mary Jane & Sweethearts) Necco small sugar Valentine heart candies—the pastel-colored ones that say "Be Mine" are one of my most cherished candy memories as a child growing up. Remembering there is sweet little hearts from friends in Valentine cards and reading the sayings on the heart candies.   According to Necco, the following products do not contain gluten from wheat, rye, oats or barley:   Necco Wafers Necco Chocolate Wafers Candy House Candy Buttons Canada Mint, Wintergreen and Spearmint Lozenges Mary Jane Mary Jane Peanutbutter Kisses (available for Halloween only) Banana Splits Chews Mint Julep Chews Haviland Thin Mints, Wintergreen Patty, Nonpareils and Chocolate Stars Skybar Sweethearts (for Valentine's Day only) Conversation Hearts (available for Valentine's Day only) Mary Jane peanut butter kisses (for Halloween only)   Nestle USA Nestle USA labels a handful of candies and chocolate as "gluten-free," meaning the company has tested them and confirmed that they contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten: Butterfinger bars, but only in fun size, singles, and share pack Goobers Nips Raisinets (including Cranberry and Dark Chocolate flavors) Toll House morsels and chunk Tootsie Roll Industries (Tootsie Rolls & Charms) Tootsie Roll Industries, which also makes Charms products, says that, as of fall 2018, all of the companies confections are considered gluten-free except Andes cookies. "Tootsie does not use wheat, barley, rye, oats, triticale, spelt, or any of their components, either as ingredients or as part of the manufacturing process. Corn and soy products are used during the manufacturing process," reads the company website. Tootsie Rolls Industries, theses are gluten-free: Tootsie Rolls Fruit Rolls Junior Mints Frooties Dots Tropical Dots Crows Cella's Milk Chocolate Covered Cherries Cella's Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries Junior Mints Dubble Bubble Charleston Chew Junior Caramels Tootsie Pops Tootsie Peppermint Pops Caramel Apple Pops Fruit Smoothie Pops Tropical Stormz Pops Child's Play Charms Blow Pops Charms Super Blow Pops Charms Pops Zip-A-Dee-Mini Pops Fluffy Stuff Cotton Candy Sugar Daddy Pops Sugar Mama Caramels Charms Squares Charms Sour Balls Charms Candy Carnival Pops Galore Andes   Smarties Many candies in the Smarties' line of products is considered gluten-free and vegan in the U.S. and is made in a gluten-free facility. Smarties sells its products to different "re-baggers" and only re-baggers can verify whether their manufacturing plants are free of gluten or other allergens. "If the UPC number on the packaging begins with '0 11206,' you can be assured that the product was packaged in one of our manufacturing facilities," which means it should be gluten-free," the company says. Smarties Gummies contain no gluten ingredients but are manufactured in a facility that also processes wheat-containing products. Smarties sold in Canada contain wheat flour—always check the label to make sure you're buying the gluten-free type. Wrigley (Lifesavers, Skittles & Starburst) Although Wrigley's online gluten-free statement is most products are gluten-free but some might not be, and failing to specify which products contain gluten, the company claims that all Wrigley products in the U.S. are considered gluten-free except for Altoids Smalls Peppermint Mints (which always have wheat maltodextrin) In the U.S., these products are considered free of any gluten sources, according to the company; but I'm not sure I would trust a company that can't agree with itself, so I would say these are off my list of safe candy! Wrigley also makes: Creme Savers Lifesavers Skittles Starburst Sadie Jelly Belly Jelly Belly "all Jelly Belly beans are gluten-free, dairy-free, gelatin-free, vegetarian and OU Kosher." This includes licorice-flavored gluten-free Jelly Belly jelly beans. Jelly Belly also makes gluten-free candy corn for Halloween. No coming here Tic Tac Mints Tic Tac mints are produced by the Italian confection manufacturer Ferrero and have been sold for more than 40 years. Ferrero states that Tic Tac mints do not contain any ingredients derived from the gluten grains wheat, barley, rye, oats or tritical. Not gluten-free candy The following Hershey's products are NOT gluten-free: Hershey's Special Dark Bar Hershey's Cookies 'N' Creme Bar Hershey's Milk Chocolate Drops Hershey's Miniatures (any flavor) Mr. Goodbar Symphony Bar Hershey's Extra Dark Chocolate Hershey's Kisses that were not mentioned in the kissing is safe category mentioned at the beginning of the podcast on the gluten-free list above   The following Mars Chocolate are not safe for celiacs: M&M Pretzel flavor and Crispy flavor seasonal flavored M&Ms Milky Way Bar (original) Mars Bar Mars Combos (a snack mix)   The following Nestle candy products are NOT gluten-free: Butterfinger Crisp Bar Butterfinger Giant Bar Butterfinger Snackerz Butterfinger Medallions Butterfinger Jingles Butterfinger Hearts Butterfinger Pumpkins Kit Kat Bar Wonka Nerds Wonka Bar (all flavors) Chewy Spree Wonka Gummies Wonka Kazoozles Everlasting Gobstopper 100 Grand Bar The following Jelly Belly candy is NOT gluten-free: Chocolate Malt Balls Chocolate Bridge Mix Licorice Bridge Mix Black Licorice Buttons Licorice Pastels seasonal mixes sold around the holidays which contain malt balls Contact Information Just Born | 888-645-3453 Necco | 781-485-4800 Hershey's | 800-468-1714 Mars Chocolate | 800-627-7852 Nestle USA | 800-225-2270 Tootsie Roll Industries | 773-838-3400 Wrigley | (800) 974-4539 Ferrero (Tic Tac) | 732-764-9300   Top View NYC Going to NYC this fall? 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Diagnosed with Thyroid Cancer at 26, Leah Caplanis chose to heal holistically. When she couldn’t find an alcoholic drink that aligned with her new diet and lifestyle, she decided to create it with the help of expert brewmaster Ray Klimovitz – a 50-year veteran who co-founded Izze Sparkling Soda – and SOCIAL was born!   Launched in 2014, SOCIAL is a delicious organic, low-calorie (only 88 per serving!), gluten-free sparkling sake wine. It is the first alcoholic beverage EVER to include full nutritional content on its label. While SOCIAL offers a lower calorie, refreshing drink alternative, the brand also encourages people to live healthy, have fun and make the world a better place. SOCIAL gives 1% of proceeds back to charities and Leah’s mission is to empower people to enjoy the fun, social aspects of drinking alcohol while still pursuing their health and wellness goals. Prior to launching SOCIAL, Leah worked for Nestle USA for eight years in sales & marketing. She received her MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and her bachelor’s degree from Western Michigan University. She currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. More information on SOCIAL can be found at www.socialsparklingwine.com. Podcast Highlights Survey the marketplace before you pull the trigger Make your suppliers and customers your team members When things get too tough we dance it out. It changes the mood instantly. Connect with Leah LinkedIn Twitter facebook Instagram

First on the show this week is Crystal R. Icenhour, PhD, CEO and Co-Founder of Aperiomics. Crystal Icenhour is one of the rising stars of American biotechnology.  After more than 25 years in medical research and biotech, she was named founding CEO of Aperiomics, a company that harnesses the power of next-generation sequencing to identify any known pathogen (bacteria, virus, fungi or parasite) in a single test. Aperiomics is the only company of its kind and scope in the world! She talks with Marilyn about what led her to this career and the very unique and important work that she and her company are doing. Then Marilyn talks to another remarkable woman that is doing great things for the world – Megan Shea, co-founder of The Soulfull Project. The Soulfull Project, a B Corp certified company whose mission is to make wholesome, nourishing food accessible to all and increase community engagement. For every serving of The Soulfull Project’s hot cereal purchased a serving is donated to a food bank in the same region.  The Soulfull Project launched as a small test in August 2016 in Philadelphia and New Jersey with 3 giving partners and has quickly expanded.  In its first 18 months, The Soulfull Project has expanded nationally to 200 food bank partners, over 2,000 retail locations, and over p00,000 servings going to food banks around the country. Prior to The Soulfull Project, Megan held a variety of marketing and sales roles at Nestle USA in Los Angeles with a focus on kids beverages and at The Campbell Soup Company in Camden, NJ in innovation.  In 2018, Megan was named a Top 50 women in business in New Jersey by NJBiz Magazine.

Today we start our show off with a toast to breakfast for lunch – one of the delicious concepts that Columbus-based Piada Italian Street Food is experimenting with right now.   Our guest, Matt Eisenacher, is the Chief Concept Officer for Piada Italian Street Food. It’s a great title, and it means he oversees the branding, marketing, IT, and business development efforts as the restaurant expands nationwide. Matt joined Piada in 2013, when they had 16 restaurants open, and has overseen a LOT of growth already. PIada now operates 42 locations across 7 states, offering a healthy and convenient option for today’s hectic world.   Piada’s fast-casual, Italian-inspired concept is perhaps best represented by its namesake dish: the piada, a thin Italian flatbread (cooked on a stone right in front of you) wrapped around the same delicious meats, herbs, cheeses, and vegetables you might get from the most popular food carts and corner markets in Rimini, Italy.   “People aren’t buying food – they’re buying an experience, they’re buying the person.” –Matt Eisenacher We also discuss: What is the Piada concept? Scaling a company Leveraging technology to improve the guest experience Crafting the guest’s journey The peasant food that inspired the piada Working in a test kitchen A day in the life of Matt Eisenacher Building a culture of decentralization Testing the concept in different markets How a profit-sharing plan gives the local chefs and partners running each restaurant ownership Learning how to introduce your menu to customers Resources: Check out mypiada.com Follow Piada on Instagram: @piadaitalianstreetfood Connect with Matt: Twitter | LinkedIn Matt Eisenacher’s Bio: Matt Eisenacher is currently the Chief Concept Officer for Piada Italian Street Food based in Columbus, Ohio.  Piada is an upscale, Italian inspired fast casual eatery serving a Chef driven menu in a fast, high energy setting.  Matt is responsible for the branding, marketing, IT and business development efforts as the concept expands nationwide.  He joined Piada in 2013 at 16 units and has helped grow the brand to 42 units across Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and Minnesota.   Prior to joining Piada, Matt spent 12+ years in the Consumer-Packaged Goods industry across a variety of food & nutrition brands working for Nestle USA, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Abbott Nutrition.  Matt received a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Management from Ohio University and his MBA, specializing in Marketing, from The Ohio State University. Just Forking Around is produced by Podcast Masters

Cold brew won’t save the world. Just ask Chris Campbell. The co-founder and CEO of Chameleon Cold-Brew, Campbell is well aware of cold brew’s vaunted status as one of the hottest trends in food and beverage. He’s also extremely proud of Chameleon’s commitment to quality, its devoted consumer base and its leadership position within the space, all of which were key elements to its recent acquisition by Nestlé. Yet, in a conversation included in this episode of Taste Radio, Campbell stressed that a healthy sense of humility has helped steer the ship and been critical to the company’s success. “There’s nothing being sold or developed here that is necessary for life,” Campbell said. “We’re all going to be fine without it. These are all things that are additive to our lives. [We keep] that in perspective: what we do is we sell coffee, deliver a little smile for the moment in the day. And that kind of humility has been incredibly helpful for us, and it’s pervasive in our company.” But, Chris, what about beer? Isn’t beer necessary for human existence? Meg Gill might be up for that debate. She’s the co-founder and president of Golden Road Brewing, who, like Campbell, sold her fast-growing beverage startup to a global conglomerate. Gill, a young and ambitious entrepreneur who in 2014 was recognized as part of Forbes' annual "30 Under 30" list, joined us for a conversation about the launch, development and eventual sale of her Los Angeles-based craft beer company to Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2015. Also included in this episode: the latest edition of Elevator Talk, which features Tribali Foods founder Angela Mavridis, who joined us for a chat about her upstart brand of organic and grass-fed meat patties. Show notes: 1:16: A Dirty, Zesty, Spirited Holiday -- The hosts riff on a sparkling partnership between Dirty Lemon Beverages and Vogue, how Zest Tea is taking on energy drinks with its new line of canned, “high-octane” teas, and Townshend’s Tea Company’s innovative take on distilled spirits. 6:24 Interview: Chris Campbell, Co-Founder/President/CEO, Chameleon Cold-Brew -- Just about a month after Nestle USA announced its acquisition of Chameleon Cold-Brew, we sat down with the co-founder and CEO of the insurgent coffee company, Chris Campbell. In an interview recorded at BevNET Live Winter 2017, Chris spoke with BevNET’s Ray Latif and John Craven about Chameleon’s launch in 2010 and how it established itself as a leader in the fast-growing cold-brew coffee segment. He also explained the role of innovation in the brand’s development, why Austin has been hotbed for entrepreneurship in food and beverage in recent years and offers up his thoughts on new cold brew brands entering the fray. 34:50: Interview: Meg Gill, Co-Founder, Golden Road Brewing -- Like Chris Campbell, Meg Gill is familiar with selling an upstart beverage company to a global conglomerate. She’s the co-founder of Golden Road Brewing, a Los Angeles-based craft beer company that launched in 2011 and was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev just four years later. In an interview with Brewbound editor Chris Furnari and BevNET CMO Mike Schneider, Gill spoke about the brand’s rapid growth and path to acquisition. She also explained how Golden Road, which has become Anheuser-Busch’s fastest growing craft brand, is competitive among other brands within A-B's portfolio, and plans to press on the gas in 2018. 1:00:50: Elevator Talk: Angela Mavridis, Founder/CEO, Tribali -- Tribali Foods, a maker of organic and grass-fed meat patties, was the winner of the Pitch Slam competition at NOSH Live Winter 2017. During the event, we caught up with the company’s founder Angela Mavidris, who spoke about the origins of Tribali and how it differentiates itself from competing brands, in this edition of Elevator Talk. Brands in this episode: Dirty Lemon, Zest Tea, Townshend’s Tea, Brew Dr. Kombucha, Chameleon Cold-Brew, GT’s Kombucha, Golden Road Brewing, Oskar Blues Brewing, Tribali Foods