Podcasts about Nokomis

Do you know about God's love but struggle to actually feel it? Brandon Shields, Director of Church Engagement at Practicing the Way, shares his personal journey of moving from knowing about God's love intellectually to experiencing it in a way that heals, transforms, and reshapes how we relate to others. He invites us to open ourselves to God's loving presence and challenges us to not just receive that love, but to become it—embodied in how we see, hold, and care for one another.Key Scripture Passage: Ephesians 3v14-21This podcast and its episodes are paid for by The Circle, our community of monthly givers. Special thanks for this episode goes to: Rachel from Broomfield, Colorado; Nathan from Olathe, Kansas; Carolynn from Maryville, Missouri; Chris from Nokomis, Florida; and Robert from Hendersonville, North Carolina. Thank you all so much! If you'd like to pay it forward and contribute toward future resources, you can learn more at practicingtheway.org/give.

Jason Baptist is a lifelong Saskatchewan native who spent a decade playing for senior men's hockey teams in the province. From Saskatoon to Canora, to Pilot Butte, to Wakaw, to Nokomis, there's not much Baptist hasn't seen in a Saskatchewan rink.  Now, he's the coach of a highly talented group of 2010-born Saskatchewan girls who are looking for their second consecutive NAFE title in the 2010 Division.  For 20 minutes, Jason chats about his team, the hockey female hockey scene in Saskatchewan, Bryan Adams, and what it means to see Saskatchewan players represent the province for Team Canada.  Hope you enjoy. 

The 18-year-old was found stabbed to death in her apartment in Nokomis, Illinois.

Pastor Ryan is back in Nokomis with a new sermon series on the Holy Spirit------------We are growing the Kingdom of God through the lives of everyday people by reaching UP to God, IN to Grow, and OUT to GiveJoin us on Sundays at 8:30 in person and 10:30 in person and online!FBC Nokomis Youtube: www.youtube.com/@FirstBaptistChurchofNokomisFBC Nokomis Facebook: www.facebook.com/firstbaptistnokomisFBC Nokomis Sermon Podcast: https://fbcnokomissermons.buzzsprout.com/shareSupport the show

Lesley Jane Seymour welcomes Judy Pearson, a bestselling author and accomplished presenter, to discuss her remarkable journey of reinvention and resilience. Pearson shares her inspiring story, from being a high school French teacher and basketball coach to becoming a celebrated writer after overcoming breast cancer. Her latest book, Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker, explores the life of a pioneering figure in cancer research and advocacy, highlighting the importance of courage and collaboration among women. Listeners will gain insight into Pearson's personal trials and triumphs, the transformative power of storytelling, and the vital role women play in shaping history and health care. This episode is a testament to the strength found in adversity and the endless possibilities of reinvention. About the Guest:  Judy Pearson is a best-selling author, an accomplished presenter, and a graduate of Michigan State University. Judy's first two biographies told the stories of ordinary Americans who had been extraordinarily courageous during World War II. A diagnosis of breast cancer interrupted Judy's career, but believing there is always treasure in life's wreckage, she created an anthology of the articles and blogs called It's Just Hair: 20 Essential Life Lessons. Crusade to Heal America: The Remarkable Life of Mary Lasker, was selected as the 2023 Florida Book Award Bronze Medal winner. Judy was named one of Chicago's Most Inspirational Women, was selected as a finalist for the Arizona Healthcare Leadership Awards and named a Phoenix Healthcare Hero the same year. She and her husband, David, live in Nokomis, FL.    Connect: Website Amazon   Connect with Lesley Jane Seymour: Website Instagram LinkedIn Substack If you found this episode insightful, please follow the podcast and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. For more resources and community support, join me on Substack. Until next time, keep reinventing!  

Suz and Doug review Tuscany of Nokomis (Sarasota, FL) restaurant, formerly called Mama Leone's on this edition of "On the Town with Suz and Doug". Note: We pay for our own meals. (dougmilesmedia)

Today we have Pastor Chris Huff from Grace Baptist in Nokomis with us as a part of the pulpit swap to promote this year's Bridge the Gap campaign-------------We are growing the Kingdom of God through the lives of everyday people by reaching UP to God, IN to Grow, and OUT to GiveJoin us on Sundays at 8:30 in person and 10:30 in person and online!FBC Nokomis Youtube: www.youtube.com/@FirstBaptistChurchofNokomisFBC Nokomis Facebook: www.facebook.com/firstbaptistnokomisSupport the show

9 years later, Michael Smalley, a Nokomis volunteer fireman, shares his testimony of miraculously saving a sleeping baby from a house fire in our church annexJoin us Sundays @ 8:30 in person and 10:30 in person and online!FBC Nokomis Youtube: www.youtube.com/@FirstBaptistChurchofNokomisFBC Nokomis Facebook: www.facebook.com/firstbaptistnokomisFBC Nokomis Sermon Podcast: https://fbcnokomissermons.buzzsprout.com/shareSupport the show

Join Travis & Eric on part one of the show the guys recap Week 8 of High School Football,  how did the important matchups around the area pan out, Cumberland dominates Nokomis, Effingham has failed to find the end zone for 8 straight quarters, Olney controls the LIC, Arthur-Sullivan set for a showdown and more!

October 8, 2024 ~ Dave LewAllen, Lloyd, and Jamie talk with Rebecca English, Dave's sister & resident of Nokomis, Florida, as she prepares for the landfall of Hurricane Milton, her community's plan to stay at home, and the continuing cleanup from Hurricane Helene. Photo: Nigel Cook ~ USA Today Network

It was November 1st, 1995, when Shara Jaros's life was cut short. She was brutally attacked and stabbed over 50 times in her apartment in Nokomis, Illinois. And now, three decades later, the identity of Shara's killer still remains a mystery.   True Crime Guys YouTube   EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS:   https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions   True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify       Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com   Sources: https://truecrimediva.com/Shana-marie-jaros/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/1dutpe3/on_november_1_1995_eighteen_year_old_shara_jaros/ https://newschannel20.com/news/local/cold-case-pkg https://foxillinois.com/amp/news/local/unsolved-cold-case-police-search-for-answers-24-years-later

In this episode we are diving into a topic that affects every entrepreneur at some stage in their journey - Lack of Focus. We'll explore how this issue impacts business growth and what we can do to combat it. From recognizing the signs of lack of focus to actionable strategies that can help you maintain your priorities, this episode is packed with insights to transform your approach to business.Recognize Signs: Acknowledge if you are switching priorities too often, managing your time ineffectively, or feeling overwhelmed.Set Goals: Define what your primary focus will be for the next 60 days.Create Structure: Establish a daily and weekly routine that categorizes specific tasks for designated days.Prioritize High-Impact Tasks: Focus on activities that will significantly impact your business.Eliminate Distractions: Limit time on social media and avoid getting swayed by others' opinions.Reflect and Evaluate: Regularly reflect on your time management and assess which tasks are contributing to your business growth.Engage in Strategic Planning: Dedicate time to a strategic power hour for effective planning.Links Mentioned in this Episode: Focus Visionary Retreat: Join us in December in Nokomis, Florida for an immersive experience to help you regain and maintain focus. Register HereSunday Morning Brew Newsletter: Sign up to receive weekly insights and updates. Subscribe Herebusiness growth, lack of focus, switching priorities, changing goals, ineffective time management, feeling overwhelmed, entrepreneurship challenges, simplifying tasks, identifying lack of focus, goal-setting strategies, maintaining focus, The Focus Visionary program, 60-day planning period, daily structure, time management, high-impact activities, revenue-generating activities, strategic planning, eliminating distractions

Machinery Pete catches up with Kurt Aumann, owner of Aumann Vintage Power in Nokomis, IL. Kurt has been one of the foremost auctioneers in the vintage tractor, farm memorabilia, pedal tractors, toy tractors and farm signs space for decades. Kurt and Pete talk about Aumann Vintage Power 5-Day Annual Fall Auction Oct. 22-26 plus the 14 collector auctions they have coming up Oct. 27 – Dec. 3, 2023. [:40] - Machinery Pete's intro, latest market update [5:48] - Interview with Kurt Aumann begins [10:00] - About the items in the sale [14:56] - Connecting with people and adapting to online-only auctions  [19:09] - What is the rarest tractor Kurt has seen? [29:35] - State of collector market [38:00] - Connection between farmer & tractor [50:34] - Final words from Machinery Pete Machinery Pete was founded in 1989 and has grown from its humble beginnings to a full-fledged marketplace for farming equipment. Greg Peterson, founder and host, has also released Machinery Pete content across platforms including YouTube with his long-running Machinery Pete TV show.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to the Machinery Pete Podcast in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show. 

Machinery Pete catches up with Kurt Aumann, owner of Aumann Vintage Power in Nokomis, IL. Kurt has been one of the foremost auctioneers in the vintage tractor, farm memorabilia, pedal tractors, toy tractors and farm signs space for decades. Kurt and Pete talk about Aumann Vintage Power 5-Day Annual Fall Auction Oct. 22-26 plus the 14 collector auctions they have coming up Oct. 27 – Dec. 3, 2023. [:40] - Machinery Pete's intro, latest market update [5:48] - Interview with Kurt Aumann begins [10:00] - About the items in the sale [14:56] - Connecting with people and adapting to online-only auctions  [19:09] - What is the rarest tractor Kurt has seen? [29:35] - State of collector market [38:00] - Connection between farmer & tractor [50:34] - Final words from Machinery Pete Machinery Pete was founded in 1989 and has grown from its humble beginnings to a full-fledged marketplace for farming equipment. Greg Peterson, founder and host, has also released Machinery Pete content across platforms including YouTube with his long-running Machinery Pete TV show.If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please subscribe to the Machinery Pete Podcast in Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in Apple Podcasts. It really helps others find the show. 

Join Travis & Eric for today's show.  On part one of the show today: Hearts get a big win on Friday to keep playoff chances alive, Cumberland drops a tough game vs Nokomis, recap of the rest of Week 8 of HS Football, Other Local sports from Friday and the weekend. Top 3 from the sports weekend!

In this special season of Smouse in the House, we interview many of the artists who'll perform at the inaugural Amerigrass festival at the Hook and Ladder Theater in Minneapolis. For the second episode I met up with jam-grass band Buffalo Galaxy in the Nokomis neighborhood of South Minneapolis.

About Tony Gomes and Advanced Wealth Management: Hello, my name is Tony Gomes, and I am the founder of Advanced Wealth Management. I want you to know that my firm has your best interest at heart. Our work ethic and beliefs are the culmination of years of overcoming adversities, and because of our journey, we place the wellbeing of our clients above all else. To help you understand the environment in which you entrust your financial hopes, let me tell you a bit about myself and how I came to be here today. I spent my childhood continuously moving among the Cape Verde Islands, with little to no supervision and gnawing hunger in my belly. At the age of nine, my journey to the United States was fraught with tension. I came from a fatherless background and was thrust into racial disparity, but I managed to come out on top through hard work and determination, despite the view of many that my heritage wouldn't allow me to succeed. I went from a young boy on the streets of New Bedford with no grasp of the English language, to a successful marketing agent, with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Marketing through the University of Massachusetts and a Master's of Business Administration from the University of Texas. Tired of the long hours in the corporate world, marketing for brands such as Gatorade and Tropicana, it became evident that if I truly wanted to succeed and be the best father I could be to my children, I would need to rely on myself as I had throughout my childhood.I became a partner with a venture capital firm. One of the companies we funded, Inktomi, which Yahoo acquired in 2003 for an unbelievable sum, and then, after searching my soul on how best I could give back to my community, moved into the world of financial planning. After many years of working with a company that didn't have my clients' best interest in mind, I started Advanced Wealth Management in Florida with a Family Office mentality, committed to helping potential retirees through a Holistic Retirement approach. Our family office brings together a select group of professionals to coordinate all aspects of your financial affairs. This includes but is not limited to retirement income planning, wealth management, proactive tax planning, healthcare planning, comprehensive estate planning, charitable giving, and legacy planning. We assist business owners with growth planning, employee retention programs, and show them how to successfully transition into retirement via tax efficient exit strategies. Our multi-disciplinary professional team, include wealth advisers, accountants, estate planning attorneys, healthcare and insurance planning experts. Many of our professionals have advanced degrees and a collective experience record of over 60 plus years. We're fiduciaries to 100% of our clients, 100% of the time, and required by law to act in their best interests. Our meticulous and holistic Retirement Roadmap planning process will dramatically clarify your life goals, and your path to achieving them. Your financial life is centralized and streamlined. Your outlook changes as you begin to feel a lot more relaxed and in control. Our clients tell us it's a breath of fresh air having all their advisors so easily accessible, talking to each other and planning on their behalf. Advanced Wealth Management, LLC(“AWM”) is a Florida registered investment adviser located in Nokomis, Florida. Investment Advisory Services offered on a fee basis through AWM. AWM has selected Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.(“Schwab”) as primary custodian for our clients' accounts. Member SIPC. AWM and Schwab are not affiliated. This communication is intended for those residing in the State of Florida only.

This is our sermon from April 23. This weeks theme was The Peter Principle and the scripture to go along with is John 21. Our transformative point this week is :what is your "ceiling" for how far you'll go to live the life and death of Jesus? The lessons to learn from this sermon are : Mistakes are Moments for Growth, Growth comes from making Sacrifices, Your ceiling for Growth is as high as your Faith can Imagine. Thank you for tuning into this weeks sermon and join us next week as we will have our last sermon in the series "Unusual Suspects: A Murder Mystery"As always you can follow our Facebook at- First Baptist Church of Nokomis and our email and website is listed on the facebook page. Support the show

Awakened Life Podcast - Interview with Jason Golden "How To Be Others-Oriented” Awakened Life Podcast Season 3 Ep. 58 --- Jason, currently the Regional Director of Fitness and Sports Courts with Access Management, is also an Elite Tennis Professional with the USPTA, has over 25 years coaching experience and roles have included: Tennis Professional at Sports Core in Kohler, WI, Head Tennis Professional at Maui Prince Hotel in Maui, Hawaii, Director of Tennis Operations at Hilton Guam Resort and Spa, Tennis Professional at Walt Disney World, Head Tennis Professional at Laurel Oak Country Club in Sarasota, FL, Tennis Professional at Lakewood Ranch Golf and Country Club, Director of Tennis Operations at Mission Valley Country Club in Nokomis, FL, Tennis Professional at Longboat Key Resort, and Tennis Professional at Arbor Green Country Club. and Director of Wellness and Racquet Sports for Pope Properties overseeing budgeting, programming, and staffing for 10 HOA communities. Jason is also an IPTPA certified Pickleball Instructor as well as a SPEC Tennis certified Instructor. Jason is also the Founder and CEO of Golden Coaching and Consulting, and serves as a Coach to Coaches and high speed business Leaders and Executives by implementing 21st Century Coaching and Leadership principles through 1 on 1 Coaching, Team Transformation and Mentoring sessions, and culture development. Known for his ability to help high performing leaders see things others don't see and find their ‘sweet spot' as they lead and motivate others in the 21st century. Jason is also a Certified Maxwell Leadership Team Member and a Certified REACH Development Coach. Jason earned a B.A. degree in Coaching/Sports Management in 1996 from Lakeland University (Sheboygan, Wisconsin) after transferring from Colorado State University. While at Lakeland, he played #1 singles and #1 doubles for three years, named team captain in 1993 and 1994, and awarded All-Conference (singles) in 1994. Jason lives in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, and his hobbies include spending time with his two daughters, watching sports, reading, and endurance running (over 100 half marathons, 26 marathons, and a 50 mile ultramarathon). www.coachgolden.org --- To find greater balance in your work and life, download the Total Freedom (life wheel) Exercise here: wheel.awakenedlife.com To join the Awakened Life Community at our next live retreat in Scottsdale, please apply here: https://www.awakenedlife.live/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-landis/message

Nokomis, Illinois had not reported a murder in more than 25 years. That streak would come to a tragic halt late Halloween night in 1995 when Shana Jaros was brutally murdered in what seemed like a crime of passion. But who could have possibly had a motive for such a gruesome attack? Listen to Blood Ties Season 3 Strange Days on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Spotify, or you can binge the whole series now early and ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app. Check out our new hoodies! If you have any thoughts on this case or any other case, or just want to get in touch with Savannah about the show, email her at killerinstinctpodcast@gmail.com. Watch the podcast on YouTube: https://bit.ly/KillerInstinctYT Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or by using this link: http://bit.ly/KillerInstinctPod If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/KillerInstinctPod Follow Savannah on IG: @savannahbrymer Follow Savannah on Twitter: @savannahbrymer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John and co-host/producer Paula Chesley begin by storming the main beach at Lake Nokomis doing "person on the beach" interviews. Then we're joined by local artist and activist Patrick Scully and his friend Wendy Morris for a conversation about a different beach: Twin Lake's hidden beach. For decades it's been unofficially a place where it's ok to swim naked -- until the police show up. Patrick tells a story of a 1977 police raid of the beach and how he barely escaped arrest (after a police officer maced himself). He talks about his 2012 legal battle with the City of Minneapolis for being naked on the beach. Wendy tells us about the time in 1998 -- enduring a hot summer, pregnant, and feeling the urge to swim naked -- that Patrick took her to visit Twin Lake. Two women warned her it would be dangerous to visit the "gay beach." We talk about the American cultural hostility to nudity on beaches compared to other countries and the Minneapolis Park Board's recent action to legalize toplessness for women. Camera work and chauffeuring by the indispensable Conrad Zbikowski. Watch: https://youtube.com/wedgelive Join the conversation: https://twitter.com/wedgelive Support the show: https://patreon.com/wedgelive Wedge LIVE theme song by Anthony Kasper x LaFontsee

On this episode of Hallowed Ground: The Sports Museum Podcast, host Andrew Stockmann interviews Steve Johnson, Treasurer at the BRS Baseball Museum in Nokomis, Illinois. Then, Andrew shares additional fun facts about Reid Detmers, an Angels pitcher from Nokomis who threw a no-hitter earlier this season!  Check out the BRS Baseball Museum online!  BRS Baseball Museum on Facebook Reid Detmers Baseball Reference Reid Detmers Baseball America article   Follow Hallowed Ground on social media!  Twitter: @HGPod Instagram: hallowedgroundpod Music by Timmoor from Pixabay

Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart   Support The Daily Gardener Buy Me A Coffee    Connect for FREE! The Friday Newsletter |  Daily Gardener Community   Historical Events 1848 Birth of Paul Gauguin (books about this person), one of the leading French painters of the Postimpression- ist period. Born in Paris, Paul Gauguin was a self-taught painter. He was also a rugged individualist, and his incredible talent helped introduce Primitivism to the art world. His best primitive work was created on his 1895 trip to Tahiti - a place he would spend the rest of his life. Flora and fauna of the landscape feature prominently in most of his Tahitian art. Paul was obsessed with art, and he once wrote, Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.   After Van Gogh rented a yellow house in Arles, he invited Gauguin to visit. In preparation for his stay, Van Gogh painted 'Poet's Garden' in the bedroom Gauguin was to stay in. The painting depicts the public garden across from the Yellow House.  Van Gogh filled the rest of the house with paintings of sunflowers. When Gauguin arrived, he painted his friend, Van Gogh, painting sunflowers.  For nine weeks, the two men painted, and when they weren't painting, they fought. In fact, during one of their final arguments, Gauguin was supposedly sliced off Van Gogh's ear with a sword. Paul was more diverse in terms of his subjects. He didn't exclusively paint florals. Once when he was in a creative lull, he wrote, When I am able to paint again, if I have no imagination, I shall do some studies of flowers . . . . It is a great pleasure for me.   1878 On this day, Fisk Bangs wrote about his blooming White Mustard in the American Bee Journal Volume 14. It began to bloom about June 7th and lasted nearly eight months. The bees commenced work on the 11th. On the 19th, the bees were so thick that their hum sounded something like Prof. Cook's buzz-saw, lacking the screech. This is one of the best honey plants, and I think its bloom call be easily regulated... to have it come after Basswood.   1935 Death of Ivan Michurin (books about this person), Russian botanist and plant breeder. A Russian horticulturist and a Master of selection, Ivan was an Honorable Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Throughout his life, Ivan created all sorts of fruit plants. He introduced over 300 new varieties and was often called the Russian Luther Burbank.  Ivan started out working on the railroad. His job riding the rails allowed him to visit many famous gardens and nurseries across Russia. His informal nursery tour inspired Ivan to start a fruit tree nursery in 1888. Ivan was maniacally focused on improving fruit, and by doing so, he selected the best examples and used them to improve the next generation. And although Russian would not support his work, they made sure that Ivan could never leave the country. The last thing Russia wanted was for Ivan to bring his work to the United States, where many scientists recognized the value of Ivan's work early on. Although the 1917 October Revolution hurt many land owners and farmers forced to give up their land to Mother Russia, Lenin liked Ivan. With Nikolai Vavilov's encouragement, Ivan's work was protected as intellectual property of the Russian government. Today, Ivan's most famous creation is the Antonovka or 'The People's Apple.' It was Ivan Michurin who said, We cannot wait for gifts from Nature. To take them from her – that is our task. (Translation my own.)   2013 On this day, Jane Green planted zucchini in her garden. Then, she wrote about her zucchini in a lovely little article called Conquering the Zucchini Beast.  Here's an excerpt: Something's always happening in a garden Upon entering the garden {on the morning of the 4th of July], [my dog] Tootie and I found that our four zucchini plants were in full bloom, and lo and behold, one plant had already popped out a nice-sized fruit. What a stupendous treat! And to think that had planted my garden on the 7th of June, and that I already had a zucchini fruit to enjoy on the 4th of July. What a cause for a celebration! Of course, 1 did cheat just a teensy little bit because I planted zucchini plants and not zucchini seeds this year. But, hey, it was still an awesome experience for me. With the glorious discovery of a zucchini fruit just waiting to be harvested, my saliva juices kicked into full capacity mode and my brain cells started conjuring up all sorts of yummy zucchini dishes to prepare. For instance: making zucchini bread or zucchini relish or zucchini cake or zucchini brownies or preparing a wonderful zucchini hot dish! Yum! I call this zucchini mania time because there are so many foods you can make with zucchini that you don't know which one to make first.   Grow That Garden Library™ Book Recommendation The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker by Susan Wittig Albert This book is a brand new release today, June 7th, 2022, and this is a fiction book. Here's what the publisher wrote about Susan's book: It's Labor Day weekend, 1935, and members of the Darling Dahlias―the garden club in little Darling, Alabama―are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn't easy, though, since there's a firebug on the loose in Darling. He―or she!―strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What's more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling's direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long, whom President Roosevelt calls the “most dangerous man in America.” Add Ophelia Snow's secret heartthrob, Liz Lacy's Yankee lover, and the Magnolia Ladies' garden of red hot pokers, fire-red salvia, and hot pink cosmos, and you have a volatile mix that might just burst into flames at any moment. Author Susan Wittig Albert has brought us another delightful assortment of richly human characters who face the challenges of the Great Depression with courage and grace. Her books remind us that friends offer the best of themselves to each other, community is what holds us together, and even when life seems too hot to handle, there's always hope. This book is 280 pages of some fun Southern garden fiction, And it's the perfect book to read after a long day in the garden. P.S. I have to point out that one of my favorite books is by Susan, and it's called the China Bayles' Book of Daysbecause it's a day-by-day book and has tons of garden information in it. My copy is positively dogeared, almost every single page. So, Susan, I'm a huge fan. You can get a copy of The Darling Dahlias and the Red Hot Poker by Susan Wittig Albert and support the show using the Amazon link in today's show notes for around $18.   Botanic Spark 1954 Birth of Louise Erdich (books about this person), American author and gardener. A Minnesota-born native American, Louise has written many wonderful books that generally include a snippet or two about the garden.  From The Beet Queen: I love plants. For the longest time I thought that they died without pain. But of course after I had argued with Mary she showed me clippings on how plants went into shock when pulled up by their roots, and even uttered something indescribable, like panic, a drawn-out vowel only registered on special instruments. Still, I love their habit of constant return. I don't like cut flowers. Only the ones that grow in the ground. From Makoons: The family took all the seeds from the garden and then they buried Nokomis there, deeply, wrapped in her blanket with gifts and tobacco for the spirit world. They buried her simply. There was no stone, no grave house, nothing to mark where she lay except the exuberant and drying growth of her garden. Nokomis had said: I do not need a marker of my passage, for my creator knows where I am. I do not want anyone to cry. I lived a good life, my hair turned to snow, I saw my great-grandchildren, I grew my garden. That is all.   From The Blue Jay's Dance: Full of the usual blights, mistakes, ruinous beetles and parasites, glorious for one week, bedraggled the next, my actual garden is always a mixed bag. As usual, it will fall far short of the imagined perfection. It is a chore. Hard work. I'll by turns aggressively weed and ignore it. The ground I tend sustains me in early summer, but the garden of the spirit is the place I go when the wind howls. This lush and fragrant expectation has a longer growing season than the plot of earth I'll hoe for the rest of the year. Raised in the mind's eye, nurtured by the faithful composting of orange rinds and tea leaves and ideas, it is finally the wintergarden that produces the true flowering, the saving vision.   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener And remember: For a happy, healthy life, garden every day.

It's no stretch to say that the Flagg brothers – Cooper, Ace and Hunter – became a celebrity basketball family on Maine's varsity circuit this past season. Cooper and Ace Flagg came to Nokomis Regional High School with incredible statewide attention that's rarely seen in Maine high school sports. The twins, along with senior brother Hunter, didn't disappoint either, as they carried Nokomis to its first-ever boys basketball state championship. Cooper Flagg electrified crowds and dominated opponents with thunderous dunks and standout play. Basketball runs in the family, too, as mom Kelly Bowman Flagg starred at Nokomis, where she scored more than 1,200 points in her scholastic career before going to play at the University of Maine. Bowman Flagg started on the Maine team that beat Stanford in 1999 for the program's only NCAA tournament victory.   Cooper, one of the top-ranked freshman players in the country, was named Maine Gatorade Player of the Year after averaging 20.5 points, 10 rebounds, 6.2 assists, 3.7 steals and 3.7 blocks per game, and he scored 22 points and grabbed 16 rebounds in the Class A title game victory over Falmouth. Cooper and Ace will be transferring to basketball prep powerhouse Montverde Academy in Montverde, Florida. But in the meantime they're finishing out a school year in Maine that left an indelible mark on the high school basketball history books. The Flagg brothers were interviewed Thursday, April 14, by CentralMaine.com sports writer Drew Bonifant.

In this episode, Jae sits down with indigenous tattoo artist and spirit worker, Nokomis Fairbanks, to discuss some of their personal experiences with spirits in their culture! Stay tuned! Nokomis will be joining us for some future episodes we have planned.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mountain-mysteries/support

What are the implications for the new clean energy initiative? Cory talked with Julian White from Nokomis Energy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

YAAAAAA MAN !!!Nouvel épisode aujourd'hui après 1 mois de congé ! J'ai fais la belle vie mais retour aux choses sérieuses. Dans le cadre de notre série d'entrevues Masterclass, vous avez la chance de voir notre rencontre avec une femme extraordinaire, Stéphanie Vandelac ! Nous parlerons de sa carrière à l'avant-scène comme co-animatrice du podcast Couple Ouvert avec  son chum Thomas Levac, ses études universitaires, son parcours professionnel hors de la scène ainsi que quelques aveux & anecdotes ! On vous fait découvrir une belle découvert, le produit de la Maison Nokomis, le Légende ! Vin fortifié à l'érable, c'est un pur chef d'oeuvre et en plus, c'est fait à 15 minutes de chez nous à Sherbrooke !!! On s'installe confo, on relaxe, c'est l'heure Saveur du monde ! 

In today's episode we answer a listener's question about foreclosures, interview Bobby Wynarczuk with Suddath Relocation Systems, and feature Nokomo's Sunset Hut in The Local Flavor. Are foreclosures, auctions, and REO's a good deal in 2021? This topic was suggested by one of our listeners, so thank you Larry! Some of our favorite episodes of the show are when we answer a customer's question. Today Shelley lays the smackdown on foreclosures, auctions and REO's. In our interview with Bobby Wynarczuk from Suddath Relocation Systems he shares how this amazing company facilities commercial moves with incredibly advanced logistics systems. Finally we share our love of Nokomo's Sunset Hut in Nokomis, FL. SHOW LINKS Suddath Relocation Systems https://suddath.com/ Bobby Wynarczuk 941-744-7427 Mobile Bobby.Wynarczuk@suddath.com Nokomo's Sunset Hut 690 S Tamiami Trail in Nokomis http://www.nokomos.com/ (http://www.nokomos.com/) Need help with your real estate questions? Call or email Shelley for a no pressure conversation about real estate in the Sarasota area! Email: shelleypanas@c21be.com Call / text: 941-960-5115 Website: https://my.captivate.fm/c21shelley.com (c21shelley.com) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/C21ShelleyPanas/ (facebook.com/C21ShelleyPanas) Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/C21ShelleyPanas/ (instagram.com/C21Shelley)

Along with partners Brendan Dillon and Dan Rogers, Julian White started their company, Nokomis Energy, around four years ago when they noticed a shift in the solar energy industry — a change that came with a business opportunity. Larger solar developers were pulling out of the industry due to narrowing revenue and increasing project difficulty. White had experience doing this work on a national scale and launched his own company to bring national experience to a regional market. To date, Nokomis has created nearly 250 acres — or 50 megawatts — of solar. A majority of this is in community solar sites, or the creation of solar sites that landowners, organizations, utilities and residents can utilize. Clean Energy Economy MN reports that renewable energy sources made up nearly one-third of Minnesota’s energy sources last year. President Joe Biden has also laid out a plan to cut the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade. White tells reporter Kelly Busche that he expects the solar industry to continue growing. But first, he says, the industry needs to overcome misaligned incentive structures and rethink energy distribution systems.

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Machinery Pete and auctioneer Kurt Aumann with Aumann Vintage Power of Nokomis, IL discuss the collector tractor market, including the 1971 IHC 1066 (1st one made!) with 2,993 original hours Aumann sold it for a new record price of $86,100 on a 9/22/20 collector auction in Iowa. Aumann tells stories on the following record price setting tractors he's sold over the years (IHC 1468 for $52,000 in Kansas in 2017; John Deere 4000 gas Power Shift for $82,500 in Minnesota in 2015; Oliver 2255 FWA for $56,700 in Illinois this year.

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Wisdom from the Wizard of UCLA (Part 1) - John WoodenWisdom from the Wizard of UCLA (Part 2) - John WoodenWisdom from the Wizard of UCLA (Part 3) - John WoodenFamilyLife Today® Radio TranscriptReferences to conferences, resources, or other special promotions may be obsolete. Growing Up With WoodenDay 1 of 3 Guest:                    John Wooden From the series:   True Success:  A Personal Visit with John Wooden  Bob:                It was the 1920s in rural Indiana.  The Depression had not yet rocked America.  John Wooden was a young boy growing up on a farm, a high school student who loved basketball but who was about to meet the real love of his life. John:              I noticed this one little gal, and I didn't know, but she had noticed me, too, but I didn't know that.  Somehow, on the first day of classes my freshman year, we happened to be in the same class, and I knew right then, and we knew we were going to be married by the time I got out of high school, and August 8th it would have been 70 years since last August 8th, we would have been married. Bob:                Today you'll hear the first part of a conversation with a man who grew up to be one of the greatest coaches of all time as we talk about his faith, his family, and basketball.  Stay tuned as we talk with Coach John Wooden on FamilyLife Today.                         And welcome to FamilyLife Today, thanks for joining us on the Wednesday edition.  I can't help but smile as I listen to that excerpt from our interview with Coach John Wooden.  Of course, a lot of people are smiling right about now because this is the time of the year when March madness really takes over.  There is a lot of basketball ahead for us. Dennis:          Semis are this weekend, Final Four on Monday. Bob:                It's got to bring back lots of memories for you from your college days, doesn't it? Dennis:          Well, high school.  You know, going back to high school, Bob, those were my glory days.  My college days, I had several splinters. Bob:                Sitting on the bench, huh? Dennis:          I got the 15th uniform out of 15 in college.  I learned what it was like to be a substitute. Bob:                But your team almost went to the Final Four, didn't it? Dennis:          Well, not THE Final Four.  We almost went to the Junior College National Championships in Kansas, and I'm trying to remember where in Kansas. Bob:                But that's like the Final Four for Junior Colleges, right? Dennis:          Oh, yeah, absolutely.  In fact, I started that game – the last game of my college career, I started. Bob:                You poured in what – 15, 20 points? Dennis:          Now, wait a second – hold it, just one second, because they put me on an All American.  This is a true story.  The coach had watched me.  It was the only game I started in my college career, but my coach was so impressed with me never quitting and just staying out there and being tenacious – he started me.  And he put me on the quickest guy I've ever played against. Bob:                Man-to-man defense. Dennis:          Man-to-man defense, and did you know, when I left the game in the first half – I played about six or seven minutes – I had scored more points … Bob:                … than the All American, and the reason was this:  He was so fast and I was so slow, he would fake three or four times, and by the time I had taken his first fake, I was back to where he was really going.  And so I would post up underneath the bucket, and the guy didn't like to play defense, and I'd post up on him and score.  And so when I left the game, I had actually scored more points than him. Bob:                Now, some of our listeners are wondering what are you talking about Dennis' glory days of basketball on FamilyLife Today? Dennis:          Because we really don't have anything else to talk about.  No, that's not true.  We have a guest today – well, Bob, a dream of mine, and I sent you a note one day.  I said, "Bob, you know, one of the people I would really like in all the world to interview for FamilyLife Today and for our listeners and give them a glimpse of what a great human being he is, what many have described as the greatest coach of any sport of all time – Coach John Wooden."  Now, there are a number of our listeners who have no idea who John Wooden is, but a ton do.  Bob:                Coach Wooden coached the UCLA Bruins back in the '60s and the '70s. Dennis:          Well, actually, he started coaching in 1948.  That's what most people don't realize is.  He didn't build that national championship dominant team in the '60s and '70s.  He built it in obscurity beginning in 1948 throughout all the '50s and early '60s before he won his first national championship in 1964. Bob:                And after he won his first one, then he won his second and his third and his fourth and his fifth and his sixth.  Over a 12-year period he won 10 national championships. Dennis:          That's right, including winning 88 games in a row before they were knocked off at the Houston Astrodome, and I remember watching this game as a young man, where Lew Alcindor was playing against Elvin Hayes, and Houston beat them 71-69, and the Astrodome had, like, 49,000 people in it.  It was nationally televised.  It was an event, and there are few coaches that could claim the accomplishments that – in any sport – what he has accomplished.  But in basketball, he is the ultimate. Bob:                Well, we're going to hear a little bit about that game and about a lot of other games as we talk with Coach Wooden over the next few days.  A while back, you and I sat down with him in a studio in Los Angeles and just had a great opportunity to find out about the man who grew up to be "The Coach."  Here is part 1 of our conversation with Coach John Wooden: Dennis:          Tell us about life in the Wooden household when you were growing up as a young lad. John:              We had a small farm, and I learned a lot, I think, of things that helped me later on.  You had to work hard.  Dad felt there was time for play but always after the chores and the studies were done.  Dad would read to us every night from the Scriptures and poetry, and I think that created a love of poetry, which I've always had, liked to dabble in it a little bit.  My dad was a wonderful person.  I never heard him speak an ill word of anybody; never blamed anybody for anything; I never heard him use a word of profanity.  I think that his reading to us of a night later caused all four sons to get through college, though he had no financial means to help and there were no athletic scholarships.  All four sons graduated from college and all majored or minored in English, and all got advanced degrees, and I think Dad had a lot to do with that. Dennis:          Your dad had, as you've already mentioned, a profound impact on your life.  In fact, I was so looking forward to this interview with you, because I've quoted you about something that you said you carried around in your pocket.  Or – it, first of all, was carried around in your father's pocket, is that right?  And then you started carrying it around – it was your dad's creed – and then a poem by a pastor by the name of Henry Van Dyke. John:              My father gave to me, when I graduated from high school – excuse me – from grade school, from the eighth grade, he gave me a $2 bill – one of those large $2 bills and said, "Son, as long as you keep this you'll never be broke."  Then he also gave me a card, and on one side was the verse by Reverend Van Dyke that said, "Four things a man must learn to do if he would make his life more true; to think without confusion clearly; to love his fellow man sincerely; to act from honest motives purely; to trust in God and heaven securely." And on the other side was a seven-point creed, and the seven-point creed insisted, first of all, I think it was, "Be true to yourself," and I think we know if we're true to ourselves, we'll be true to others; and the second was "Help others."  There is no greater joy than a person can have than do something for someone else, especially when you do it with no thought of something in return. Another one was "Make friendship a fine art."  Work at it, don't take it for granted, work at making friends and making friendships flourish.  And then was one, I think, stood out to me a great deal was, "Make me today your masterpiece," and I tried to teach from that, as time went by, to my players and my English students, to just try and do the best you can each day.  Just make each day a masterpiece.  It's the only thing over which you have control.  You have no control over yesterday.  That will never change.  The only way you can affect tomorrow is today.  And then another one was to "Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible;" and then was "Build a shelter against a rainy day," and he wasn't thinking about a physical shelter, he was thinking about a more lasting shelter.  When I think about that, I often think of when Socrates was unjustly imprisoned and was facing imminent death and the jailers who were mean people, they couldn't understand his serenity, and they said, "Why aren't you preparing for death?"  And his statement was, "I've been preparing for death all my life by the life I've led," and when I think of building a shelter against a rainy day, I think that's what Dad had in mind. Then the last was – the seventh was "Give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day," and I've carried that with me in one form or another since those days, yes. Bob:                Those core convictions are so bedrock with you, that's a part of how your mom and dad raised you.  I think some people – we hear those things in the 21st century and some people go, "That sounds kind of old-fashioned, kind of corny," but that's so ingrained into who you are and who you've been, and you would say that's been a part of what has made you successful as a coach, right? John:              Well, I would hope so, but I know, too, if someone said, "I'm not what I ought to be and not what I want to be and not what I'm going to be, but I think those things have made me better than I would have been. Dennis:          Your dad read the Bible every day. John:              Yes, he did. Dennis:          How did you see him live out his faith in Christ every day, as a father?  What are the most indelible memories that you have, as a boy, watching your dad?  Because, undoubtedly, for him to have the influence he had on you as a man, his character has to resonate even today in your life. John:              Perhaps I wasn't realizing it at the time, but as I look back on my dad and the fact that he never spoke an ill word of anyone and just was a good person.  You don't realize it so much of the time, and many of the things – one of the things he said was never try to be better than someone else.  You have no control over that, and if you get too involved and engrossed and concerned – maybe these weren't his exact words, but things over which you have no control will adversely affect the things over which you have control.                         Now, years later, I remember that.  So somewhere in the hidden recesses of the mind, they stuck there, but it was things like that.  Mr. Lincoln said there is nothing stronger than gentleness, and my father was gentle man – working with animals and things.  I remember reading to us nights over the Scriptures, and I can still close my eyes and hear him reading "Hiawatha."  I can still hear "By the shores of Gitchigoomie, by the Shining Big Sea Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis," and so on, and things of that sort. Bob:                You didn't have any TV, any radio, so in the evening reading was the primary form of entertainment, wasn't it? John:              You're correct – by a coal oil lamp or candles. Bob:                Was your dad – as you think back on his life, you've talked about this tender side of him, and yet he was still whipping you when you did the wrong thing.  Was he a strict disciplinarian? John:              Well, I would say yes but not in a physical point of way.  I know – oh, I didn't want to get an unkind word from my dad, you know, a strong word.  I don't know, you just hated to hurt him in any way.  You just had that feeling about him. Dennis:          As you followed your dad, you undoubtedly watched how he'd love your mother.  Tell us about what you observed there and his commitment to her, as a woman and to his wife, over their years together. John:              Well, I think Dad's first concern was always for Mother.  He was looking out for her the best he could in every way but in a gentle way, in a gentle way.  I can picture them together – not at all the romantic way that you might think, but there was just something between them that was very, very special.  I don't know how to describe it. Dennis:          You said of yourself in your book, "They Call Me Coach," that as you moved into your high school years, you were shy, you were reserved, especially with the opposite sex. John:              Yes, I suppose, not being exposed much – no sisters – and I'm on the farm, and I suppose that's the reason, I don't know, but I was a little shy. Bob:                But here you were, this star basketball player on the high school team.  I mean, the girls, the cheerleaders, had to notice Johnny Wooden, didn't they?  Did they call you Johnny back then or was it John? John:              They called me lots of things. (laughter)                          You'd be surprised, the more they think it was John Bob. Bob:                John Bob. Dennis:          John Bob. John:              And Nellie and I had been married for many years when her sister came out here to California one time, and she said, "Don't you think you and John have been married long enough that you should quit calling him John Bob?" Bob:                But didn't the girls start to notice you as you were draining those jump shots on the basketball teams? Dennis:          Yeah, he kind of skirted your answer there.  I was watching him about that. John:              Well, I'll tell you, my freshman year, I was still living on the farm.  We didn't lose the farm until after my freshman year, and then we commuted from this little town of Center, and we lived about a half a mile out of that to Martinsville, and I noticed this one little gal, and I didn't know that she had noticed me, too, but I didn't know that, and that summer she brought the brother of her closest friend, who became very dear to me, to drive up.  Her brother had a car, and they drove up, and I was working in the field plowing corn with a team, and they parked in the road and motioned for me to come over, and I wouldn't go over.  I just kept on. Bob:                Why wouldn't you go over?  Here's this cute girl on the side of the road … Dennis:          … and you even liked her, too. John:              Oh, yeah, but I was dirty and somehow on the first day of classes, we happened to be in the same class.  She said, "Why didn't you come over to see us?"  I said, "Well, I was dirty and perspiring, and you would have just made fun of me."  And Nellie said – I can still see her, she said, "I would never make fun of you," and I knew right then … Dennis:          … there was a spark in her eyes. John:              And this is the only girl I ever really went with. Bob:                So by your junior year in high school, did you think, "This is the girl I'll marry?" John:              I did. Bob:                And you all started going together? John:              We did. Bob:                So you waited to marry until you got to college? John:              Yes, until I graduated.  I was glad to be married and graduated and got my first job, yes. Bob:                Coach, that's a long courtship – from your junior year in high school until you've graduated from college and got your first job.  That must have been hard. Dennis:          But, Bob, the rest of the story is, if Nellie hadn't put her foot down … Bob:                … he might still be dragging it on today? Dennis:          Well, there is the rest of the story here, because he really had promised her that he was going to marry her upon graduation, but then the war came along. John:              Yes.  Well, I had an appointment to West Point, and she said it would be six more years, and "I'm not going to wait.  I'm going to a convent."  So I didn't go to West Point. Bob:                She said she wouldn't wait on you? John:              That's right. Dennis:          And so what did you do? John:              Well, I finished at Purdue.  Dennis:          So you were married then? John:              We were married on August 8th.  It would have been 70 years just last August 8th that we would have been married.  We were married on August 8, 1932. Dennis:          You were, in those days, All American three years in a row, you were named the College Player of the Year your senior year, and as I was doing this research, I was thinking – I was talking to Bob.  I said, "I don't remember Coach Wooden being that tall, to be College Player of the Year.  He must have been 6'3" or 6'4".  On the sidelines you looked a little small around those big guys at UCLA.  But you were only 5'10" in those days. John:              But, you know, the teams weren't as big then, either, as they are now, too.  Our center at Purdue, Stretch Murphy, was 6'8", and he was a giant.  I only had the pleasure of playing with him one year.  I had the displeasure of playing against him one year when I was a sophomore in high school for the Indiana State Championship, he was the center on the opposing team, and he was good. Bob:                Did you just have what it takes as an athlete?  Were you just a naturally gifted – something about the way God made you that you turned out to be a good basketball player?  Or did you work really hard to be a good ball player? John:              Well, I hope I did the latter, but He provided the former.  I had natural quickness, and I couldn't do much about my height, but I could do something about my condition, and I always wanted to be in the best possible condition and hoped that would be better than others, hoped others wouldn't work as hard at it as I did do that, and I think I carried that throughout, and I think that helped.  And I think it probably come from my earlier grade school days on the farm of working hard, and I like to feel that no one is going to be in better condition, then I have no control over it.  I should have control over myself. Bob:                Well, we've been listening to a conversation with Coach John Wooden – actually, part 1 of a conversation that we're going to hear the remainder of over the next couple of days. Dennis:          What a sweet time, huh? Bob:                It was a great time. Dennis:          Bob, you and I just had a great time.  I'd look over at you occasionally, and you'd be sitting there grinning, and I'd be grinning, and the reason is, is when we interviewed Coach, he was 91 years old.  He's now at his 92nd birthday, and I'm told that he knows where 180 of his players are – his past players.  He's kept in touch with them.  I heard about a coach the other day whose players never go back to visit him – none of them.  It's common knowledge that his players don't want to have anything to do with him, and I think about Coach Wooden and the wisdom that he passed on, and it reminds me, really, of Proverbs, chapter 4, where a father is imploring and exhorting a son to "Listen, my son, and acquire wisdom."   And I'll tell you, just hanging with the Coach for the interview we did over an hour and a half, we're not going to be able to air all of it here on the broadcast over the next couple of days, but just hanging with him, you thought, "What would it have been like to have played for a coach like that?"  And then it hit me, you know, that's what our children need to be expressing about us as parents.  You know, we learned, we sat under the greatest mom, the greatest dad, the greatest coach, the greatest teacher the world has ever known.  Yeah, they're going to be biased, but the idea is that we, as parents, we're impacting the next generation just like Coach Wooden did. Bob:                That's right.  You mentioned the entire interview going more than an hour and a half long.  We've actually taken the complete interview and put it on two CDs, and I got some early copies of these CDs, and I'll tell you what I found – you can pass these out to lots of folks.  You can pass them out to the high school coach at the high school where your kids go. Dennis:          Oh, let me tell you something, I've been doing this, and I've had friends doing this – any coach of any sport – Laura's volleyball coach – I gave her a copy of this, and she grabbed hold of it like it was gold, and the reason is it is gold.  Bob:                It's thoughts on life from a great coach but it's also thoughts on faith and character and what really matters.  You can use this as a way to begin a dialog and to open doors evangelistically with fans of the game, with coaches, with players, with friends.  We have the two-CD set that features the entire – I think it's about an hour-and-45-minute-long conversation with Coach John Wooden.                          It's available in our FamilyLife Resource Center.  You can call 1-800-FLTODAY to request as many copies as you want. Dennis:          It even looks like a basketball on one side and a net on the other. Bob:                1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY.  You can also order online at FamilyLife.com.  Ask for the two-CD set of our conversation with Coach John Wooden when you contact us, and there's a second resource we want to mention to you as well – Coach Wooden has put together a course that is designed to teach his principles of success in business, in athletics, in school.  We have a videocassette where Coach lays out the Pyramid of Success that he put together, and we have the Pyramid on our website at FamilyLife.com, but we also have it on a mousepad that you can have by your computer just to review the character qualities that go into success in any endeavor.  Along with the video and the mousepad, we've got a wallet card. Dennis:          Not just any wallet card. Bob:                No, it's a laminated … Dennis:          … a laminated … Bob:                … that's right, and it has some of the Coach's philosophy on it – never lie, never cheat, never steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses – pretty simple stuff but profound nonetheless.                           Ask for these resources when you call 1-800-FLTODAY.  Again, it's 1-800-F-as-in-family, L-as-in-life, and then the word TODAY or go online at FamilyLife.com, and you can see some of the resources there, and you can order online as well.  Again, our website is FamilyLife.com.                          When you do get in touch with us, someone is likely to ask if you'd like to help with a donation to FamilyLife Today, and we hope when they ask, if you are able, you'll say yes and be able to add a donation to the work of this ministry.  We're a nonprofit organization, and we depend on those contributions to keep doing what we're doing.  So if you can't help with a donation, you can donate online at FamilyLife.com.  You can call 1-800-FLTODAY or you can write a check and mail it to us at FamilyLife Today, Box 8220, Little Rock, Arkansas.  The zip code is 72221.  Once again, it's FamilyLife Today at Box 8220, Little Rock, Arkansas, and our zip code is 72221.                          Well, tomorrow we're going to find out how the UCLA dynasty almost never happened and how it might have been the Minnesota dynasty if it hadn't been for a snowstorm. Dennis:          Yeah, this is a great story about lost opportunity. Bob:                We'll hear that tomorrow as we continue our conversation with Coach John Wooden.  I hope you can be with us for that.                           I want to thank our engineer today, Robbie Neal [sp], and our entire broadcast production team.  On behalf of our host, Dennis Rainey, I'm Bob Lepine.  We'll see you back tomorrow for another edition of FamilyLife Today.                          FamilyLife Today is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ.    We are so happy to provide these transcripts for you.  However, there is a cost to transcribe, create, and produce them for our website.  If you've benefited from the broadcast transcripts, would you consider donating today to help defray the costs? Copyright © FamilyLife.  All rights 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Nokomis coach Jake Rogers joins centralmaine.com writers Drew Bonifant and Travis Lazarczyk to discuss this week's playoff matchups and some of the teams his Warriors saw this season.

Today we celebrate the botanist who created the second botanical garden in the United States and the botanist who was a dear friend to Asa Gray and was with him as he saw first hand one of the most sought after plants of the 1800s. We'll hear some words about the falling leaves and autumn senescence. We Grow That Garden Library with a book that is so gorgeous that some folks buy copies to cut out the pages to frame them. I'll talk about the three things you need to do to winterize your pressure washer, and then we'll talk about a troublesome otter in Vancouver. But first, let's catch up on a few recent events. Who doesn't want MORE Small Garden Design Ideas on a Budget? I stumbled on a great video about this very topic by Alexandra Campbell @midsizegarden, who is the brains behind the middle-sized garden. What I love about Alexandra's video is that she culls the best tips from top garden designers she's interviewed over the years. Find out how to save money and still get the garden you’ll love. The designers share tips like designing off of the house or a tree, making your boundaries look smart, and the secret benefits of using a large pot instead of buying lots of little pots. Alexandra has pulled together a handy set of clips with commentary. It's a great video. Plus, I love her voice...    Boy, did Tom Brown @headgardenertom pick some wonderful plants for November in his article for Gardens Illustrated called "Best flowers and plants for November." There are beautiful photographs of these plants and flowers from Jason Ingram in this great post from @GdnsIllustrated.  There's plenty for gardens across all different growing zones. Northern Gardeners should check out Rosa 'Geranium' and Acer griseum - they both caught my eye.     The Irish Florist, Lamber de Bie, shared a post called A Romantic Garden Wedding at Waterford Castle.  You know those breathe/calming apps? This is basically that - but with flowers. Check out @Lamber_de_Bie & @WaterfordCastle on a private Island SE of Ireland. Lamber's woodland birch arch includes blue & pink summer hydrangea & tall plumes of pampas grass. It's a unique combination, and it's just incredible.   Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community.So there’s no need to take notes or track down links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Brevities #OTD  Today is the anniversary of the death of the botanist Humphrey Marshall who died on this day in 1801. The Marshalls were cousins to the Bartrams - their mothers were sisters. John Bartram was known as the "Father of American Botany, and he ignited Humphrey's love of native plants. John had established the country's first botanical garden. In 1773, after Marshall inherited his family estate and a sizable inheritance from his father, he created the country's second botanical garden. He incorporated natives, naturally, but also exotics. Marshall forged a friendship with the British botanist John Fothergill who paid Marshall for his plant collecting. Fothergill was a collector and a connector, introducing Marshall to many of Europe's top botanists and a growing list of customers. Marshall's contacts helped him source new plants for his botanical garden. And Twenty-five years before Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis & Clark on an expedition to the west, it was Humphrey Marshall who first made the suggestion - in 1778, 1785, and 1792. He really wanted the United States to sponsor an expedition to explore the west. A fellow friend, Quaker, and botanist, Joseph Trimble Rothrock wrote this about Marshall: "The earth abounds in beauty, all of which is open to his chastened senses. He revels in the sunlight and the breezes. The songs of the birds fall, welcome, into his ear. The colors of the flowers attract him." Marshalltown Pennsylvania was named in honor of Humphrey Marshall. In 1785, Marshall published the very first American essay on trees and shrubs. Humphrey Marshall is also known as the "Father of American Dendrology" (or the study of woody plants, trees, and shrubs). The genus, Marshallia, is named in honor of Humphrey Marshall.     #OTD  On this day in 1896, the newspaper out of Buffalo, New York, reported that the John Redfield herbarium was looking for a home. John H Redfield was born in Middletown, Connecticut, in 1815.  In 1836, Redfield became friends with Asa Gray after joining the Lyceum of Natural History in New York, where Gray was the Librarian and Superintendent. The remained life-long friends.  When Redfield married in 1843, he moved to Philadelphia and worked for his Father-in-law's company making wheels for the railroad. During his free time,  Redfield went on plant hunting expeditions with Asa Gray and other botanists.  During the 1840's Gray was trying to locate a plant called the Shortia galacifolia (commonly known as Oconee bell). Andre Michaux had found the plant and had sent it back to Paris. In 1839, when Gray was in Paris on behalf of Harvard, he found a cabinet of unidentified plants, and there was Michaux's plant - the Oconee bell. Gray named the plant Shortia in honor of the Kentucky botanist, Charles Wilkin Short. Gray made two serious attempts in 1841 and 1843 to find the spot where Michaux had found the Shortia, but both failed. Soon every botanist wanted to find the Shortia. In 1863 Charles Short died - and still no Shortia. Botanists dealt with constant comments like "Found Shortia yet?" In May of 1877, a North Carolina teenager named George Hyams was walking beside the Catawba River when he spied a plant he couldn't name. His father was an amateur botanist, and he sent the specimen to a friend. A specimen made it to Gray, who could be heard crying 'Eureka' when he found it. In 1879, Gray organized a group to see the Shortia. Along with his dear friend, John Redfield, Gray brought his wife, Charles Sprague Sargent, and William Canby. Sure enough, they found the Shortia growing in the spot Hymans found it. It was an honor for Redfield to be there with his old friend. Redfield devoted most of the final 20 years of his life to the herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. During Redfield's lifetime, botanists would visit Torrey if they were in New York, Asa Gray, if they were at Harvard or in Boston, and John Redfield when they passed through Philadelphia. It helped that people genuinely liked Redfield; his botanist friends noted his "strong yet tender character" when they wrote about him in his obituary. Redfield's work at the Academy was both worker bee and preservationist. In the early 1800s, Philadelphia had been a major botanical hub in the country. Redfield made sure the early botanical work was indexed and mounted, preserving the precious botanical history of the city of brotherly love.   Unearthed Words "Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place?" - Annie Dillard, author   "Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis?" And the good Nokomis answered: "'Tis the heaven of flowers you see there; All the wild-flowers of the forest, All the lilies of the prairie, When on earth they fade and perish, Blossom in that heaven above us." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha     Today's book recommendation: Botanicum by Katie Scott and Kathy Willis I got my own copy of this book just last week, and it immediately became one of my favorites. And, it's a beautiful coffee table book with stunning pictures and heavy paper - although it actually was written for kids ages 8 -12. Don't let that dissuade you. It really is a remarkable book, and it's chock-full of information. Just seeing it on my ottoman in the family room makes me so happy. In fact, some people buy copies of this gorgeous book to cut the pages out to frame them. So just a quick heads up - they sell a Botanicum poster book too. The cover is spectacular. OK - now let me tell you about it. This book came out in 2017 and is part of Big Picture Press's Welcome to the Museum series. Botanicum is a brilliantly curated guide to plant life. The text was written by Kathy Willis, the director of science at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England. Botanicum also features artwork from the fabulous Katie Scott of Animalium fame.  Botanicum is designed to make you feel like you are having a museum experience - visiting a fascinating exhibition about the world of plants -from perennials to bulbs to tropical exotica. Like any excellent exhibit, Botanicum offers a beautiful feast of botanical knowledge complete with superb cross-sections of how plants work. This is an excellent gift book for the holidays or gift for yourself. It's undoubtedly one of my unexpected favorites this year - a treasure of art and botanical information. You can get a used copy and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for under $20.     Today's Garden Chore Take 5 minutes and winterize your pressure washer. If your pressure washer is gas-operated, you need to start with this step: First, add a fuel stabilizer to the gas tank. Then run the engine for 2 minutes to get the stabilizer to circulate through the engine's system.   If your pressure washer is electric, you begin the process here (gas pressure washer, continue): Second, hook up the pressure washer to your garden hose. Let it run to clean the detergent out of the system. Turn off the water and remove the garden hose and then spray it until no more water comes out of the system. Finally, add anti-freeze “Pump Saver” to pump inlet if the temperatures are going near or below freezing, so that your pressure washer doesn't freeze up.       Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart Finally, this past week, the Global News shared a story called Koi Tremble in Fear as Otter makes a reappearance in the Vancouver Chinese garden. "Nearly a year after a hungry otter began decimating the koi population at Vancouver’s Chinese Gardens... The Vancouver Park Board said Saturday the otter was spotted in the koi pond on Wednesday morning after the carcasses of three koi were found.    Park board staff began draining the pond that same day to transfer the remaining koi to a temporary holding area off-site.   It’s not yet known whether this otter is the same one that ate 11 of the garden’s 14 prized koi fish in November of last year, including a prized 50-year-old fish named Madonna." When I shared this story in the Facebook Group, I wrote: "There Otter be a law!" In all seriousness, for pond owners, there's nothing worse than losing your koi. You should watch the measures the park is taking to prevent animals from getting into the pond area. It's pretty intense. And, it just goes to show that whether you're a big public garden or a small private garden, dealing with critters like this can require ingenuity and hard work and even then - there are no guarantees.     Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

What's wrong with being a nice guy. Maybe you've been called a nice guy, but it didn't mean anything to you in a negative sense. Do you frequently miss out on red flags until after you're already committed? Do you find yourself pointing fingers at your significant other that all the problems are on her end? Nice guys tend to be blind to their own behaviors and the behaviors of others. In this episode, we uncover what some of those things are. It may be you or someone you know who has experienced some of these traits and behaviors.    #boyswillbeboys features an unnamed Nokomis, Florida, resident who saw that his Labrador retriever had fallen into a canal behind his house where there was a 6 to 8-foot-long alligator. https://www.ibtimes.com/alligator-tries-eating-pet-dog-alive-owner-rescues-canine-predators-jaws-2811056

Every journey is different, yet every email speaks to someone listening.  We can all learn from each other, if we will just share our experiences.   Peggy H. – Nokomis, FL & Wasaga, Ontario Connect: @peggy.hebden2 Twitter: @Peggyh9 Instagram: @peggy.hebden Chris – New York  Connect: @peaceandharm0ny Lee S. – Santa Rosa, CA Connect: @Lee05071974 Twitter: @Err_In_Spelling   How to get On the Air with FatDag: Email OnAir@FatDag.com 317-662-4214   Join The Whys Advice Podcast Facebook Community! WhysWingmen.com   If you enjoy the show and would like to see it continue to grow, you can become a patron here. Patrons have access to exclusive content!   All things FatDag, including the podcast, blog and merchandise shop can be found at FatDag.com   The following links provide a monetary kickback to the podcast.  Check them out, they are all products I fully use and support! American Express | Sanebox | Withings | Todoist | Bench | Sticker Mule   Joining Multiple Times, Chiropractor, Arthritis, Walking, Personal Trainer, Maintenance, heart bypass, Freestyle, Attendance Goals, Personality Disorder, 5k, Job Search, Fitting In, Traumatic Brain Injury

On November 25 we celebrated Reign of Christ Sunday, also called Christ the King Sunday, as we bring our church year to an end. Our sermon is offered by Janice Edwards of Nokomis, Saskatchewan, a licensed lay worship leader in the United Church.

Nokomis head coach Jake Rogers joins centralmaine.com writers Travis Lazarczyk and Drew Bonifant on this week's episode.

Nokomis head coach Jake Rogers joins CentralMaine.com staff writers Travis Lazarczyk and Drew Bonifant on this week's episode.

Isaiah 6 - -This Is Our God - -Grace Baptist, Nokomis by Jerad File

Myra Rucker is a yoga instructor at the YMCA, [Nokomis yoga](http:////www.nokomisyoga.com/), and a teacher at [Common Ground Buddhist meditation center](http:commongroundmeditation.org/)in Minneapolis, MN. This episode was particularly fun for me because Myra was my first yoga teacher, and she has become a good friend and a wonderful conversation partner on this path of contemplative transformation. I met Myra about 7 or 8 years ago I walked into a yoga studio at the YMCA in downtown Minneapolis. Like many Americans who go to a yoga studio, I thought of it mostly as a physical practice. But gradually I learned so much more about how yoga is a truly contemplative tradition - how *asana* and *pranayama* (posture and breath) are only two aspects of the full eight limbs of *ashtanga yoga*, which culminates in a single-pointed union with the object of one's meditation in *Samadhi*. What I do recall during those first few classes - which were a *vinyassa* or "flow" style of yoga - is sweating really hard, feeling completely awkward, but then resting down into *savassana* at the end of the practice and experiencing a kind of joyful release that is hard to put into words. It wasn't long before I began to stick around after class to ask Myra questions and she started feeding me reading suggestions. I now began to understand what I was experiencing in that ecstatic release - in yoga philosophy there are channels of energy that flow throughout the entire body called *nadis*, and when we store tension, stress, or trauma in our bodies those nadis become clogged, and those blockages are called *granthis*. This ancient wisdom is consistent with neuroscience that notes how memories can become stored in our implicit memory systems in the body at levels underneath our usual conscious level of awareness. The practice of yoga is one of refining our awareness into the subtle layers of our mind-body experience so that we can release those *granthis*; as we do so we naturally move toward deeper states of meditation, contemplation, or union. Myra gets into some deeply personal reflections about religious and racial identity that we hadn't really breached in our previous conversations. I'm particularly grateful for her vulnerability in discussing this on the podcast, as I think it speaks directly to many of the issues we're dealing with at the crossroads between contemplative practice, identity, and social justice issues in our culture today. I hope you find this as refreshing and challenging as I did listening to her experience. I'm very excited to share Myra's wisdom with you all! If you'd like to learn more about Myra, or attend one of her classes, check out the sites below: [https://ajoyfulpractice.com/about/](https://ajoyfulpractice.com/about/) [http://commongroundmeditation.org/about/teachers-and-leaders/teachers/myra-rucker/](http://commongroundmeditation.org/about/teachers-and-leaders/teachers/myra-rucker/) [http://www.nokomisyoga.com/instructor.htm](http://www.nokomisyoga.com/instructor.htm)

Myra Rucker is a yoga instructor at the YMCA, Nokomis yoga, and a teacher at Common Ground Buddhist meditation centerin Minneapolis, MN. This episode was particularly fun for me because Myra was my first yoga teacher, and she has become a good friend and a wonderful conversation partner on this path of contemplative transformation. I met Myra about 7 or 8 years ago I walked into a yoga studio at the YMCA in downtown Minneapolis. Like many Americans who go to a yoga studio, I thought of it mostly as a physical practice. But gradually I learned so much more about how yoga is a truly contemplative tradition - how asana and pranayama (posture and breath) are only two aspects of the full eight limbs of ashtanga yoga, which culminates in a single-pointed union with the object of one's meditation in Samadhi. What I do recall during those first few classes - which were a vinyassa or "flow" style of yoga - is sweating really hard, feeling completely awkward, but then resting down into savassana at the end of the practice and experiencing a kind of joyful release that is hard to put into words. It wasn't long before I began to stick around after class to ask Myra questions and she started feeding me reading suggestions. I now began to understand what I was experiencing in that ecstatic release - in yoga philosophy there are channels of energy that flow throughout the entire body called nadis, and when we store tension, stress, or trauma in our bodies those nadis become clogged, and those blockages are called granthis. This ancient wisdom is consistent with neuroscience that notes how memories can become stored in our implicit memory systems in the body at levels underneath our usual conscious level of awareness. The practice of yoga is one of refining our awareness into the subtle layers of our mind-body experience so that we can release those granthis; as we do so we naturally move toward deeper states of meditation, contemplation, or union. Myra gets into some deeply personal reflections about religious and racial identity that we hadn't really breached in our previous conversations. I'm particularly grateful for her vulnerability in discussing this on the podcast, as I think it speaks directly to many of the issues we're dealing with at the crossroads between contemplative practice, identity, and social justice issues in our culture today. I hope you find this as refreshing and challenging as I did listening to her experience. I'm very excited to share Myra's wisdom with you all! If you'd like to learn more about Myra, or attend one of her classes, check out the sites below: https://ajoyfulpractice.com/about/ http://commongroundmeditation.org/about/teachers-and-leaders/teachers/myra-rucker/ http://www.nokomisyoga.com/instructor.htm

Nokomis is a Hip-Hop Activist & Renaissance Woman. She manages a health freedom group in GA for people who want to be action oriented & is excited for her new awareness project called TRUTH to the youth. She loves that music is a universal language. Behind her club banging music is a serious message in her lyrics, focused on health freedom & TRUTH. Her latest song, “Enlighten Me”, delves into spirituality, as well as issues w/ the education & healthcare system. It was written to inspire & motivate other TRUTH warriors as well as to help awaken the masses!! (https://www.reverbnation.com/nokomis/song/28787485-enlighten-me-prod-averma) Noko is an Atlanta transplant from the New England area. Even though her passion growing up was fashion, her family was always highly engaged in music. Her Mother a singer and Father a drummer & songwriter. She played multiple instruments, danced, & sang throughout her youth. Her sound can be described as hip-hop trap and industrial fusion that's heavily influenced by Classic Rock. While working on several projects, including her album & a new music video, she is keeping a strong schedule of performance dates. 

We may beat to the beat of a different drummer.  So what expectations do you have surrounding education in your home?  It's intimidating to take responsibility for our children's education.  But then again...is this something you simply want to hand over to someone else and hope it just works out? No matter what decision you make for schooling for your child, this series is for you.  It's not simply unschooling as the answer; but raising life-long learners.  Are you yourself teachable, and are you ready to learn alongside them? Listen to this episode on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, YouTube, or your RSS Feed   Here are our podcast song lyrics all written up fancy on a paper plate... The Mama Says Namaste Podcast song has arrived! For the full version of cuteness, I recommend you hop over to our YouTube channel and watch this video of us singing it live! This week we find ourselves in Lutz, Florida.  Not our most favorite area, but within an hour of some of our top places to see - Nokomis and Siesta Key beaches and Weeki Wachi Springs, to name a few!  See our pictures and follow our adventures on Instagram as @FieldTripGypsies   How to get started as a Life Long Learner: As you start to venture down this bunny trail of overwhelm, understand that this is going to be more exploration then structure.  There are thousands of paths for an unconventional education, and just like steering a ship - there will be times where you will adjust, rewrite your course or throw out your boat and jump on another one.  For so many this can be such on overwhelming undertaking that you don’t know where to begin or what is the best path. You are taking a journey you haven’t explored before - allow for grace and compassion both for your children and for you!   The most important step in moving forward is your first one - moving in a direction.  Only then will you be able to soundly decide what works and what doesn't.           Expectations Lay Out Your Expectation: What do you imagine education is?  Is it strictly book time, no technology, or being in the wild outdoors?  Do you see education outside of the classroom? Define Your Feelings: How do you as parents want this to feel like?  What feelings are around your desires for teaching your children on your own, or collaborating with an institution? Define Success: What does success look like?  Is it a perfect score on a test, a diploma, or simply a love for learning?  How will you put parameters around it to measure it? Quick definition of unschooling: Unschooling is a term that the late John Holt coined in the late ‘70's to describe learning that is based on a child's interests and needs. Unschooling does not begin with a parent's notion of what is important to learn and then turn the choices of how to learn the content over to a child. Rather, it begins with the child's natural curiosity and expands from there. Unschooling is not "instruction free" learning. If a child wants to learn to read, an unschooling parent may offer instruction by providing help with decoding, reading to the child, and giving the child ample opportunity to encounter words. If the child is uninterested in these supports, the parent backs off until the child asks for help. The most important thing about the unschooling process is that the child is in charge of the learning, not the adult. Unschoolers often do no traditional school work, yet they do learn traditional subject matter. They learn it as a natural extension of exploring their own personal interests. You don't have to sign your life away Red Light - Green Light your strategy - as you prepare for your first step- approach your tactics with a Red Light - Green Light method.  Before investing your time and energy into a grand educational plan, choose a direction and have an end point to check in BEFORE moving forward.  We recommend a weekly check in to ensure everyone is excited and enjoying the process.  Not only is this less intimidating, it allows for an understanding of fluidity.  Committing to a path, inspecting the “success” of that path, and redirecting as needed will open up more opportunities for success rather then drudgery. Timeline Commitment - 30 days - 60 days - 90 days -Before you pull your kids out of school, quit your job and move into an RV... of course if that interests you, be sure to check out 90 Day Family Road Trip! Have a time period of exploration.  Perhaps during summer vacations or portions of a weekend. Look for opportunities to start practicing. Don’t let your agenda get in the way of their creativity. Nicole at www.FamilyADDventures.com listed this con of homeschooling: The cost of an online curriculum and student platform is about $1200, even more for specific arts and technology courses.  Plus the taxes we pay, anyway, for living in our expensive neighborhood with good public schools.  Also, I have to drop my salary by another 20% in order to be home during the school day so I can facilitate B’s learning. Be sure to look at laws for your area  - HSLDA is where to go:  Home School Legal Defense Association is a national advocacy organization that supports the right of parents to educate their children at home. We are dedicated to protecting the legality of your homeschool while equipping you to successfully teach your children.   Connect first...let learning come after Recognize that deep connection opens up creative opportunities.  Don’t underestimate the importance and the empowerment that can take place when relationship building is your foundation. I wrote a blog on Functional Education where I laid out the details for this podcast series - check it out and learn more about this concept.   37 Days of Different: A Guide to Break Out of Your Boring Routine and Start Changing Your Life Don’t underestimate the value of down time. Your challenge this week: Ask your spouse, your children...yourself - how do you like to learn? What are some unconventional ways where you've learned something valuable? Life is a process of growth and refinement.  Assess how things are going.   Look for opportunities for you to adjust - simply little tweaks that help guide the direction in a way where everyone thrives.  Don't invest so much in something that you feel stuck and cannot escape.  This doesn't have to be an all or nothing.  Your relationship with learning will take different forms along the way - same goes for your children.       Check out the Lifelong Learner Snapshot - it gives you in-depth insights not only to your strengths, how you communicate and what motivates you, but also if you are visual, kinesthetic or auditory learner, and if you are more intuitive, analytical, etc in your processing. 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EP098 - Zola CEO/Co-Founder Shan-Lyn Ma An interview with Shan Lyn Ma (@shanlynm), CEO and Co-Founder of Zola. Zola is re-inventing the Wedding Registry for the modern couple. In this episode we discuss Shan Lyn's previous experience including Yahoo and Gilt Group.  As well as Zola's business model and potential growth opportunities. Shan mentioned a recent article written by Zola investor, Alex Taussig (@ataussig) of Lightspeed: Finding product/channel fit at Zola. Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 98 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Tuesday, August 22nd 2017. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. New beta feature - Google Automated Transcription of the show: Transcript Jason:  [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 98 being recorded on Tuesday August 22nd 2017 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot:  [0:40] Hey Jason welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason the day after the eclipse did you get to see the clips at all. Jason:  [0:47] No tragically I was on the airplane and I was sitting next to a pilot that was Dead Heading and I asked him if there was any chance we were going to see the eclipse and he told me that they would have to bank upwards about 45 degrees which seemed unlikely. Scot:  [1:02] Yeah but opted out of that the clips here in review of it and it was a lot of fun pretty exciting to have midday Darkness. Jason:  [1:14] Where you at I'm imagining you're one of the special people that had ordered a glasses well in advance and so you had them. Scot:  [1:21] That is correct yes and I were them and I didn't wear them more than 3 minutes I followed all the rules and as a result I have good Vision still so I'm excited to report that everybody. Jason:  [1:31] I am I'm very happy to hear that I was a failure in my family I ordered them a month in advance and they arrive so early that I lost them before the eclipse came. Scot:  [1:39] Epic fail. Well you know summer is winding down here at the Jason is got show and we're heading into the fall so we are going to ram back up the interviews of e-commerce movers and shakers and tonight we have a special treat for listeners, please join me in welcoming shan-lyn ma she is the CEO and co-founder of Zola welcome sham. Thank you very happy to be talking to you both. Jason:  [2:08] We are happy to be talked to. Sham what is a regular listener the show your pray for me or this but we always like to get things started off by. Having our guests tell us a little bit about their background and how they came into their current roles and in in your case you have a very story e-commerce Paso can you share your background with her listeners. Scot and Shan:  [2:33] Shaw so I was mentioning to you earlier that I am a fan of this podcast particular because I am also an e-commerce nerd and, that has come from what can you Nokomis at particular over the last 9 years in New York, and. I moved to New York from Silicon Valley to take a job at what was at that time a very small startup that had just launched cold Gill group, that was 2008 join Guild as the first product person and it had just launched and so. Joint when it was about 30 people about 7 million in Revenue a time and. Was tasked with redoing what does gilt.com look like both, from the front-facing user experience as well as what we want it to be out over the the longer term of the next they wanted to use as the business. To add new categories like, Harmon's kids and what would eventually be added on would be things like, Gilt City and experiences and travel and Bowl. Ended up staying at guiltful for years which was a fantastic full use of very intense learning during that time I got to be the product lead on a lot of the new business lunches go to launch the mobile. [4:07] And and then go to pitch in launch my own business unit within guilt which was a gourmet food and wine, business that we called guilt taste and so then at that point really in, my 32nd transitioned out of a product management role into more of a GM Mini CEO within a bigger startup kind of role. Salina great deal there about all the functions outside of just product development. At the end of four years guilt had grown from. [4:43] Initial 30 people to be over thousand employees and at that time was probably around six hundred million in revenue and so really got a great sense of. What's. What would really write to see that Revenue growth so quickly and then what was some of the challenges that that business faced as it tried to. Move towards profitability and an obviously following the company closely after that got to see a bit of perhaps you know what. Mites that company what might we have done differently that. Might have could have avoided some of the decline that it had in more recent years and so often I. Wanted to do this. Up Jenny all over again and move to become Chief product officer of another New York consumer. Text Atif cold Chloe & Isabel which is social selling and Jewellery. Company start up and after being in that role for a relatively short amount of time realize that you while I had been putting off what I always wanted to do which was stopped something. [6:02] Based on your kind of idea or number of ideas that I had I thought I could not delay any longer and. [6:12] Decided to stop Zola with micro fountas and that you was 2013. Which also happened to be the end of all my friends got married at around the same time and I was, buying a lot of wedding presents for them from the different wedding registry sites online and was thinking you know. I am surprised that these. E-commerce experiences which is why the wedding registry really is I'm surprised that they're no better than than what I was saying online and was starting to talk to Nobu microfindr about. Frustrations that I had as a gift give up shopping from their Registries and we started to think about how would we do it differently if we would have create a wedding registry from scratch and that was. When we came up with Zola and and toes all was born and that was four years ago. Jason:  [7:08] Very cool I feel like that is a common story is that you no germ of a great startup idea being born out of need the only sad thing is if you would have recognized the need of your early are you could have sold it to all your friends. Scot and Shan:  [7:20] Exactly yes I am I'm often, sad that now the precise time that I love to go to weddings is actually the time that I am no longer invited to living since most of my friends get married have already been married, but every time I meet someone that is not married I secretly hoping they will at some point get engaged and invite me to their wedding which is user research essentially. Jason:  [7:48] Night yeah that's in fact I assume the gift you give are write-offs. Scot and Shan:  [7:54] I wish that is not the case however you're in combination with that when I should say is that I, my my the quality of gifts that I give to people now is so much better now that I know the data around what makes a good wedding gift what is the average price point of a wedding gift this is all, information I wish I had before 2013. Jason:  [8:21] And I should throw in usual disclaimer I have no Financial background and I'm not qualified to give tax advice to anyone listening. [8:30] The. You know you mentioned your experience guilt from kind of 30 employees through through a thousand and I think most listeners are probably familiar with the story of guilt but one thing that I feel like gets lost is, that that gill really built a. A fabulous e-commerce team and that Talent has spread throughout the industry are in an are in a lot of interesting position so you remember the pretty cool Alumni network in the e-commerce space. Scot and Shan:  [9:00] But I think that is one of the most exciting things that I've seen change in at least the New York, technology ecosystem since I moved to New York in 2008, when I moved here in 2008 I was new to the city and so I was looking for other product people like myself to come talk about ideas and best practices in the city and. It was hard for me to find other people in that same role I found a few but, you can compare that to today if you are trying to do that same activity there is, hundreds and thousands of people that could probably find that so many meetups that are all stalking new startups and from the people that you meet that so it's it is. It's changed since I've got started but. Also when we look at the companies that have come out of Gil group alumni at last count there were around 20. Startups that was founded by people that had previously worked a guilt and and said that alone even in the short few years that, that's been possible to do is a pretty big impact, Graco the PayPal guys call themselves The PayPal Mafia I don't know if they call themselves that but have you guys call yourselves like in. Gilts Gilder you have a clever name for that is prettier. Jason:  [10:37] My money is on the guilty. Scot and Shan:  [10:39] Guilty. We could we could just turn the show into Gill tons guilty as charged hello alright so Zola is, in the wedding space 04 listeners that aren't familiar that tell us a little bit about the wedding space and and what's exciting. To you about that space Zola is. The fastest growing wedding registry around and we started as a wedding registry because we really wanted to solve this one particular. Pain point that I described of couples getting married wanting to create a wedding registry that, met the needs that they have today and so couples getting married today all the millennial generation and the the way that then needs a different, particular relates to wedding registry is threefold so one is they want to register for products and experiences and cash all in the one registry they want. Registry that is truly personal that they can personalize that reflects who they are at the couple and what they love and similar to the way that they post lies their Facebook page old Instagram and the third, they want complete control over their registry as it relates to how it shows up at. [12:10] When that gets a ship to them and they want to control on their mobile devices as well as on their laptops and desktops and so those three things and would not really, available at all outside. Zola so that was the starting point for Zola and we lunch with that idea and in the few years that we've been around we've seen it grow extremely quickly. This past quarter we actually launched of a first new product that. Speaks outside of the wedding registry which is the product code Zola weddings and what that is is a suite of wedding planning tools that helps couples plan their wedding. [12:58] On top of their wedding registry so specifically it's a free wedding website guest list manager and checklist and. Overall what my trying to do here is really helped a couple plan their wedding for the day they get engaged through the fs your marriage through all the different. Tivities and toss that you have to do as you're planning your dream day. Coin and I'll take a shot I don't know much about how it works but I'm guessing your business model is effectively, I'm kind of like an affiliate commission model on the back end where are you you're as as couples kind of say I want to register for this and purchases are made you have a revenue-share kind of model is that how it works or is it more of an ad model. X Actually neither of those so the the best way to think about Zola is that we are a hybrid of a Marketplace and an e-commerce business so where am a place in the sense that we have. [14:01] We work directly with over 500 Brands today and of the 50,000 products so if you look at the Zola store you can register for any of those products and we we partner directly with brands. Zola in the same way that we pottanat directly with friends when we were in guilt. The difference and why we have a Marketplace hybrid is that we are not taking inventory so we are in Dropship. Business model and. The big shift that has happened in the home industry which is the industry that registry operates within is. Home Brands really started to transition to enable Dropship capabilities in the last 5 years or so so. If we try to do Zola much earlier it would have been hard for us to do as a business and hard for us to have. Best Dropship capability with the number brands that we would need to have within the registry, and we probably wouldn't have done it if we had to buy all the inventory because with a registry you need a lot of skews and very shallow depth answer that that's the the komaki pre-flight component, an e-commerce site in the sense that Zola is the merchant we are the retailer we have, and developed a relationship with our customers which are a couple's we provide all the customer support and everything is captured through the Zola experience insight and so in that sense we. [15:40] We look and feel like an e-commerce experience. Jason:  [15:45] Very cool and one of the things that maybe I just want understand a little bit better like so when I think of a traditional. [15:51] E-commerce wedding registry it's a single retailer experience so. [15:57] Like in general I have to decide upfront oh I'm going to register at Crate & Barrel in so I go to Crate and Barrel and I I go through there there specific. [16:06] Registry experience in there I'm only going to be able to register for products that they sell and certainly not experiences or cash. Products that they know self. So you are what I would call a sort of a multi retailer registration through you I can register for a potentially much wider range of products I have that right correct. Scot and Shan:  [16:31] Yes and, and we have all the brands that you might expect to find it any other department store so top registry Brands include things like lecreuset all clad KitchenAid and those are all. Brands that we have and partner with on Zola and wee wee retail them like any other department store retailer does. Jason:  [16:56] Yep and so do your partner's 10 Dobby the product manufacturers as opposed to other retailers is that. Scot and Shan:  [17:03] Yes that's right. Jason:  [17:05] Got it. [17:09] So do any of those those brand like so obviously some of those brand cell direct so you mention like la Creuset or All-Clad like they would have their own e-commerce site. Do any of the manufacturers try to do their own wedding registry or is that just not not common at all. Scot and Shan:  [17:28] We don't really see that and I think the reason is because it from the use of perspective, the use of the couple does not want to create, ideally more than one register you don't want to set up a registry on Lake say and then registry on Old Clyde and then it registry on KitchenAid because all of a sudden you're sending your gas to light potentially hundreds are different sites so, you want to do it once and he want everything in the one place it's convenient it's more straightforward for the couple and for the gas which is what the couple also has equally about. Jason:  [18:09] That makes total sense but then I saw recently that you had announced a partnership with Bat Country. That's fascinating cuz you know that you wouldn't think of his the backcountry assortment as the. The traditional merchandise for wedding registry but I suspect you're going to tell me, that it's an in high demand in in the new Target demographic but they I think of as a as more of retail out of other people's products so it does that work differently than your than the manufacturers or or. Scot and Shan:  [18:44] Yeah so wait. The way that we decide how we want to add products apartments or retailers to Zola is based on what we think the couple's pull into the registries. Does m. Couples can set up their Registries and add products that we already have within the Zola stole but they can also on top of that. Add any products from any site online anywhere on the internet into the Zola registry as well and. Similar to the way Pinterest has the pin it button we have the add to Zola button which just pools in that particular product into. A couple's registry and so that for us as being the best insight into one of the products and Brands and retailers that customers, once that we don't currently have on solar because they're pulling it in as a from day one we really had that day too driven approach to merchandising where we, use this. [19:52] Pull data essentially to inform a merchandising roadmap and the reason we added back country. Is because we saw a lot of couple. Registering for outdoor equipment and a wide range of outdoor camping gear. That we didn't have on Zoll at all until we thought sociable. If we would Apollo with that country it would allow us to add a lot of different. Products to the Zola cement very quickly but also that's a brand that we know couples already love it's a retailer that I couples already love and so. [20:35] Makes sense for them to if we will add it to Zola so that's one another example of a similar partnership we did with a retailer is Michael C Fina which is a New York. Tabletop retailer that has. It has a very storied history in New York's upper east side and they had a lot of high-end luxury brand, tabletop, that we didn't have on Zola and we did see that was some months for that and so we added that to the side and certainly that has gone very well and full couples that are looking for that really fine China from top brands. Jason:  [21:19] Very cool and prisoners every time I dine at Scott's house he always has a fabulous table set with Michael C Fina so that that would probably where he would register. Scot and Shan:  [21:30] It's not a great dinner without a great table top iOS actually have Star Wars plates and glasses. Does that is that fancy. [21:42] Well getting some Michael thinking that is the place where many children of presidents have registered for their wedding so it's not surprising that you would also have some of that fine china. Cozy get started in 2013 give us a little idea of traction like gum, have you raised BCE and and how much and any idea about maybe how many weddings have gone to the platform Registries or anything like that you can share would love to get us fuel for the scale that you're dealing with now, Shaw soap since we launched we raised over 40 million in VC funding from. [22:25] Great Venture Capital firms such as Lightspeed Venture partners and Thrive capital and canvas pensions and full Runner to name a few. At most recently I lost round was the series C round where we raised 25 million, into fall last you until be announced at that time we have had over 300,000 couples register with Zola and. Quia multiplying each year. Yeah it's great having race venture capital I have a lot of respect for folk stuff done that it's it's not easy so congratulations on. Thank you and I agree this is not easy. And then so, you know I know Target Macy's and lot as other guys really promote their registry pretty heavily do they view you guys is a threat or are they happy to partner as long as kind of some of the sales go through their retail platform sword or do you go direct Brands pretty much most the time. Right now the vast majority of our business is directly through the Brand's and. What we hear from our brand Partners is that. Zola is one of the few channels that is growing for them which is reflective of our overall. [24:00] Very fast growth is a company and we are also deleting M text audible leading startup. In the Online Registry space so. [24:14] I think for the audience that is Young professional tech-savvy and working busy does not have a lot of time to. Think about all the different places they can register but they want a wide range of things on their registry in Zelda has become the go-to place and I think there are the time we will. Want to see a good reason to partner with more and more. Retail is like the ones you mentioned and it will be determined by the day that away collecting based on what couples and pulling into their registry. Jason:  [24:55] Got it in one thing I do think of most of the traditional like single retail Registries is. [25:02] A big and ponent I assume the overwhelming majority for most of the Retailer's is is actually in store and you know. [25:10] I'm assuming you're exclusively digital like is there an omni-channel Ellen into the offering at this point or is it all via e-commerce. Scot and Shan:  [25:19] One of the really interesting things about, the wedding registry is that unlike the rest of the e-commerce world so I think if we look at e-commerce, total industry online shopping in general it's about between anywhere from 10 to 20% of total purchases online in registry, 80% of registry purchases are online and. When you think about it logically makes sense because if you are a guest you'll going to a wedding. What would you prefer to do if you're buying a gift for your friend do you prefer to go into the store. Awesome to pull up the registry buy it in the store and then leave the store and that's it or would you prefer to do it in a few clicks online so the purchase thing is already online the thing that is. Sometimes off line is when couples want to set up their registry and they want to see some products in person so. [26:22] Full. Use case and Zola has, what we call the Zola townhouse which is essentially a showroom or a concept or an experiment that we have set up in New York where couples can come in person see and touch and feel product that they may want to register fall. However we do find that the vast majority of our couples. At the end of the day end up just registering fully online and don't feel the need to come in to see something person it is something we're experimenting with. Jason:  [26:54] Got it and is there any um. I'm almost wondering if there's an omni-channel component component in terms of the gift delivery right like so you mentioned dropships all these manufacturers are probably shipping the goods and in separate boxes of the couple of or some. Long period of time is going to get boxes. [27:13] Presumably in most cases they're not going to be wrapped or you know what you like so majun one of the areas or opportunities. [27:22] For some future experiences to is to figure out the you know how do you recreate that experience of there being a Pyle of beautiful gifts at the wedding or maybe people just don't want that. Scot and Shan:  [27:33] No couples do not want that that is that is a. I miss that that a couple's want that at their wedding so the actually win a Wii with first thinking about is even a good idea for us to start we interviewed many many couples about. What the wedding planning experience was like what the registry experience was like and what really surprised us was the number one complaint that we heard was, couples who have been through the registry process and had gotten married with saying when it comes to registry the worst part of it was. As people were buying gifts from their various departments or Registries gifts would just start turning up at the house and they had no idea what was coming who sent it what's in the box, if boxes were arriving for them on honeymoon or when they were at work and it was suddenly all the taking, that lives the stress of having to track all these gifts that they didn't even realize what coming when they were coming and. After hearing story after Story of this complaint we thought this is something that is easily solved using technology. The couple should have control over when gifts arrived at home so the thing that we built into Zola from the start and that's. Is is really the idea that couples can control shipping of their own gifts so we don't send anything to the couple. [29:10] Until they say they're actually ready to receive it and. [29:15] That the big difference is that actually couples most couples don't want to receive any gifts until after they've come back from there, honeymoon they've often waiting until they moving into the new home that they move into, between 3 to 6 months after the wedding and then they're ready to look at what will be given and what do we actually want to now receive. So because of this feature which is controlled shipping feature and we have, very low return rate we have virtually no returns because couples are able to determine if they really want something before it shipped to them and for that reason I'm couples tell difference you Zola because. Eliminates this stress of getting gifts when you're not ready to receive them. Jason:  [30:01] That that makes perfect sense and frankly I don't want them to receive my gift until they've proven that they can at least survive the honeymoon. Scot and Shan:  [30:09] Well I've heard all kinds of horror stories of people who and your vote, I have registered elsewhere and they said they can secretly took back the gifts because they wanted something else but then that. And whatever registry that when using. Refunded the person that gave them the gift and then the person was I why did I get a refund for this gift I gave you did it you like it wants to do and then the couple istick embarrassingly like tell the. Fox we could you give that back to me so it's there's a lot of old Christmas around that that we are really try and we have we have avoided. Jason:  [30:49] Yeah and I am sure there that retailer appreciated being used as a gift card. [30:54] The you mentioned earlier that the the the first expansion product could bend the wedding planning product which them that makes. [31:04] Great sense I'm curious like so your first expansion is kind of a vertical expansion into the wedding event. [31:13] And I imagine that the wedding space is a huge opportunity in and of itself is. [31:20] Is that likely the continued to ejector e of Zola would you keep adding like looking for more wallet share of the wedding or like are there other significant gifting occasions that you could see expanding into like what's the. [31:33] What what. Scot and Shan:  [31:35] Yeah yeah so this to a big expansions that, that makes sense for us one is right now in the wedding registry space, even within the us alone that's a 19 billion dollar a year industry so that is a big Market in itself with the lunch and soul the wedding what where, dipping a toe into is the lodge weddings Market which is an additional 70 billion within the US and so that's an area of expansion for us that's very interesting and very deeply. Tied to each other so because we now off of tools in. Wedding planning checklist guest last wedding website and registry overtime it does make sense for us to add more and more based on what the couples are asking us to build for them. Which we already had many requests. [32:35] The next big step is then once you come back from your wedding couples are often moving into the new home they often need more things to set up the Newlywed life together and we already have. Today on the 50,000 products for the home. So you can imagine because we have a great sense for what will a couple's love in terms of the Brand's the price points that stop references similar to what Stitch fix is done and done in fashion we have. Awesome Arkham level of intelligence we can utilize for home and because we already have all the skews we can think about how do we. Move into being the place a couples turn to as they setting up then you home. [33:24] Awesome if you had do you guys have some machine learning folks there that are starting to kind of look at those this correlations. I think that's another if I told you I'd have to kill you kind of question however I will say that engineering is on biggest team and soda. Yes good as an engineer we we appreciate that job job security. So just to switch gears a little bit when you when you talked about how you guys are different you talked about you know your your couples and how they want that mobile experience what are some of the things you guys have done that the differentiate your mobile experience is it, is it an app or is it mobile web and in what are some of the things that you do leverage any of the phone's capabilities and interesting ones. Yeah so this two things that I think you might find interesting so one is we have at this shop the room. Feature within Al iPad app which I personally love the most out of all the different features because it gives you an immersive beautiful editorial type of room. Homescape and you can then click on the hot spots and Shop different products that you see now or add to your wedding registry from there so it's not. Augmented reality in the way that the people think about it today because it's just it's a room that we have shot so it's not your own home yeah. [35:00] But it is giving it is serving the the user need of inspiration and discovery of new products that is. That is also shoppable so that is one thing that we've done that's really interesting that's experiment through our iPad up. The. The other cool features that is one of talk about that we have in Isola iPhone app it's the registry iPhone app and the feature we have there is cold. Glenda which is essentially a Tinder for Home Products so it lets you can swipe through one by one. Selection of products that we have in the Zola stall and if you swipe right you add it to your Zola registry and if you swipe left it dismisses it and you go to the next one, so what's interesting about this is that it is the most popular feature on any of the Zola apps it is. It is very highly used a couples love it and it's it's a very frequent activity that we see people using blender to. Discover new products and add them to the registry which is interesting to me because it's certainly not as. Immersive and emotional and beautiful as the previously tried just described but it is one that people while they described as fun and entertainment and so. [36:30] We've learned a lot through that. I wonder if they're sitting there doing it together or if she she goes and swipe rights on 8 things and he kind of like going to swipe left on these 30 off swipe right on these two other ones, if it's like a dinner you can almost like that there be in there at you know me there's like a button or hit there and talks to, potential newlywed therapy. We do here a lot of brides saying that they are essentially the the manager of the registry so they approve oldest final decisions. Jason:  [37:11] So when you said they wanted complete control you meant complete control for the bra. Scot and Shan:  [37:15] No no that's not what I meant. Jason:  [37:23] I say no more so one of the things is going to be fun as you get to you get this like fascinating insight into how these young couples think like any. Particular products that surprise you the people register for or any sort of funny funny trends that we we might not expect about how people are registering. Scot and Shan:  [37:45] Yeah so the biggest surprise for me was I am. I did a lot of using interviews before launch and I was always asking what. What do you do with a bride-to-be want to register full and I hope lot of fried say I don't need them. Traditional registry items I want. Cool new experiences to do together and I want cool unknown Brands and products so we did have a lot of those and we didn't have as many of the classic, make registry items when we first launched Sola and what we very quickly soul. Which was through this at Isola button that people will pulling into the Registries a lot of the classic registry items that people said they didn't necessarily want so very quickly we can see everyone actually does want. The blender and the toaster and the iron and the vacuum. [38:46] They also want all the things I said they want which one's the experiences and the cool Boutique items and so the takeaway. The point which is kind of obvious in retrospect but not obvious at the time was that they want it all and I wanted to really reflect what that passionate about as a couple soap. Some couple the very passionate about. [39:13] Food and an eating and cooking and drinking wine together and said that you can really see come through on the registry of the couples, very passionate about, Outdoors hiking skiing biking together and said they have all those items on their registry but what is consistent is that, everyone sees the registry is an opportunity to upgrade a lot of the items in the home that they might not necessarily been able to afford themselves so it's what everyone. Does have some sort of blend a toaster or iron this is the chance that they can get the one that. We'll lock them for another 10 years where they might have had that toasted that they bought when they were straight out of college 10 years ago. Apps about his big surprise. Jason:  [40:05] I'm sad to report that next year's toasters are all going to have WiFi so the ones they thought we're going to ask them forever I'm going to be good enough anymore. Scot and Shan:  [40:13] Well I don't know if there was a going to still be the the top sellers because that the top sellers in registry have been the same top salads and many many years so I don't know his buying did the newest gadgets vote, we see some of those on so well but it's not the vast majority of items. Jason:  [40:33] Sure in the actual answer to your question is who's buying the newest gadgets is Scott and I. Scot and Shan:  [40:38] Your Jason ready has the Alexa toaster. Jason:  [40:42] Yeah and Scott has an R2 D2 toaster so that does charity or philanthropy coming to play at Ridge in registry and all. Scot and Shan:  [40:52] Yeah so a couples can certainly set up a charity fund all up Prado at a fun that day then designate. To a charity of their choice and so we really leave it up to the couple to. Share and determine what charity is most meaningful to them and then they can add that to the Zola registry so that is a component. And 1. And we see coming up it's very it's as you might accept a very personal charity or cause. Jason and Shan:  [41:29] Yeah yeah I have to say my own wedding experience was an epic fail. Not hopefully not that the wedding I got married fairly late in life and so my my fiance and I were both lucky enough to like. [41:47] Frankly you like own the aspirational version of most items in so I really didn't want to register I really didn't want to get gifts and felt like it was going to unnecessary until I. Try to get that message out and all the guests were just angry at me. Scot and Shan:  [42:04] Yes you know we hear this actually pretty often in that it is. [42:13] It is often ends up being dead guess who buy you a gift if they want to buy you a gift and so the best thing you can do for yourself is to give guidance and it makes everyone's lives easier. Jason:  [42:26] Yeah if I had it to do over again I would have taken that or if I had met you earlier I would have definitely. [42:32] It taken that advice another topic that's interesting so you know one of the challenges and opportunities you have to acquire your own couples. [42:43] So you know what what like what are the marketing tools that you're using to get customers are couples into the ecosystem. Scot and Shan:  [42:51] So this was one of the things that we learn from guilt and one of the reasons why we really would run to the idea of a wedding registry was this idea that guilt. Cute benefited from a lot of what a mouth and, and referrals because everyone was really excited to share Gill because it was beautiful because they felt like they were letting difference in on a secret date. Dynamic that we liked with Zola was that it has that in built virality or referral, within the concept of a wedding registry because when a couple gets married on average they invite about 150 guests to their wedding so that's the average in the US which means that you have. 150 people who are attending of which most of them will feel, in some way they want to check out your wedding registry and probably buy you a gift and so those, essentially eyeballs that I've been looking at Zola and if Zola is a betta will beautiful more compelling wedding registry they will then when I tell their friends. O use it themselves when they get married so having that in built. [44:19] Referral mechanism into the idea of a wedding registry has been the biggest driver, evolve growth and so when it comes to acquisition we know that if we have a better wedding registry experience than anyone else we will. Be able to grow with a company that's a bad has proven out now but so that's that's what's really driven. Su tomorrow volcanic growth on top of that we are like many e-commerce companies always experimenting with all the online marketing channels so we experiment. In Facebook Pinterest Instagram and those channels Russell interesting because they do have, ways for engaged couples to flag themselves as engage the moment that you get engaged so we are able to Target and, and and it really experiment with different campaigns to understand what what is most compelling for people to want to register with us. What was Sabbath experiment with more recently is some out of a brand marketing so things that unless. Easily trackable at we recently launched the subway advertising campaign in New York. That we sent me advertising Bridal magazines and to oldies things. [45:52] Interesting for us in in that Derek the the challenge for us is how do we get the most insight into the impact. Friendly's marketing dollars. Which is a different kind of challenge to to building the best wedding registry product but we are up to the top. Jason:  [46:12] Yeah it is interesting cuz you look at sort of the the history of the pure-play startups and certainly guilting a prime example but almost everyone bonobos Warby Parker jet whoever you pick it whatever scale, there seems to be in every industry a finite amount of. [46:35] Customers that you can very cost-effectively earn through all these digital tools so I can be a bit social or influencer marketing or digital advertising or search are all these things in in in every industry, there come this inflection point where incremental customers. [46:52] Start to get dramatically more expensive in and sew in in Moe's Industries that's where you see them start to. Get more omni-channel to open Warby Parker stores or bonobos guideshops or you know or if it's not opening stores it's it's Outdoor advertising and things like that is. I think of your industry is a little bit different like you don't just want to reach out of eyeballs like there's only. A small finite period in the life of each each eyeball where it's useful for you to reach them so it almost seems like you you got to find some more. [47:27] Targeted vehicles. Scot and Shan:  [47:29] Yes that's exactly right and that's that's why we found the online channels. As it relates to allocating on mocking budget have always being strong performance for us because we can talk that group of people at that point in time very well online and. And so it continues to, be the most compelling place to invest where we do have budget but the bigger investment and by fall we are spending more time and energy investment on building out, the product experience because we see that drive growth so much more effectively for us. [48:18] Cool. You talked about how in the early days you did a lot of interviews what what kind of user-testing do you guys do now do you do formal, watching people use the system or are you instrument it so you kind of know what they're doing they always get that question from are there on turnovers that kind of get a little lost once they get to a bit of scale it's kind of hard to get that. Feedback. Yeah so we we do we try to do as much as possible when it comes to use a testing so we do. We do what you said which is watching people as they use the website talking out loud talking about what they seeing thinking, these are people that are unfamiliar with Sola we also do face-to-face interviews which are more exploratory which tend to be, tell me about what you think what you're thinking as you stopped to plan your wedding open-ended exploration all that's a lot. Around new product development what we do that and then we do very regular, online surveys to both people that have recently started a Zola registry as well as people that have gone through the entire Journey gone on honeymoon come back and then, close to the end of their life cycle and so we want to survey them on that pole experience answer for each of these different. Types of groups we're asking and looking for different things and. [49:53] Constantly trying to understand what are the things that are causing them to. Restless and promoters of the people and let's not never lose sight of that lets only lived double down on those things. And on the flip side one of they saying that is making them hesitate about Zola. Or making them I'm confused and how can we take those things out for future uses. [50:22] Cool any any day do you can share on desktop vs mobile. What's interesting for us is that it's not as much of a drastic shift to mobile as you seen on the e-commerce businesses and this is because. Setting up a wedding registry is a more considered process than buying a. [50:49] 10 old you're buying a shirt online so for a sexually the we still see. A good amount they probably the majority of people creating their Registries on Zola through desktop however we do see a lot of, management updating of Registries browsing new products adding new products to mobile apps so the initial, experiences desktop and then the follow-on experience through the rest of the life cycle is mobile so for us it's important to be continually and innovating on both, because I user is using both the true omni-channel experience going on there people going in and out of each each one, two two quick wrap-up questions first of all other than obviously everyone should check out Zola and both the the app and, the iPhone app that iPad app and then also the website but do you publish anything online that people could look at it or you popular on the Twitter or LinkedIn or in those kind of things. You can follow. Zola which is this at Zola on any of the social channels and one interesting, article that is Canmore on this topic actually that one of our investors just published on Monday which people name, your audience he might be interested in checking out is so invested Alex taussig at Lightspeed Venture Partners wrote a medium blog post on the concept of. [52:26] Product Channel fit which is the next thing any. Company Pinnacle e-commerce companies need to tackle once they've tackled product-market fit so that post. Is critically interesting and it kampala's how. Zola thinking about product Channel fit and talks a bit to just one prong of. Yo what up marketing more acquisition team might look at to drive growth. Sprinkle we will put that in the show notes and then last question got stepping outside of the wedding industry in and putting on your e-commerce biru hat you've been in the industry for a long time, where do you see things going in the next 3 to 5 years what what get you super excited, Innovations in e-commerce that I'm excited about and so one is, I think very clearly everyone seeing the direct-to-consumer, Trent answer the continues to be new brands in new categories that are emerging that I find very exciting both in the way they're thinking about product about selling and marketing, the second big category is. [53:45] Innovations in what I described as curated marketplaces or Target Market places that are serving a particular audience or need some examples of this might be. [54:01] Caviar in food space oil and, net-a-porter which is not quite a market place but it is a house of Brands Zola falls into this category of companies include your Rent the Runway which is a different take on on this, Stitch fix danco or Unbound and then the third big category of innovation which I find very exciting and e-commerce is. All the Innovation that's happening in the supply chain so technology that is. [54:38] Supporting e-commerce companies all supporting retail Brands to. To buy create a better user experience on the front end but also create. Address of business operation end-to-end from the moment you think about sourcing your product right through to provide customer support through to reporting analytics Adams shipping. So those three things I think I completely changing your even though. Amazon is the thing that everyone wants to talk about there is this really true Innovation happening across the board outside of just how much on. Jason:  [55:23] Very cool in one bonus question that that we ask every guest if you were going to have to dress in a costume to appear on your company photo what what would you dress up as. Scot and Shan:  [55:38] Well I'm a huge Game of Thrones fan and we do take Halloween very seriously so my favorite Halloween costume retire. Secretly don't tell Mom one twice is Daenerys from Game of Thrones because I have a dog which I like to dress up as a dragon so that would probably be the one that I would have to pick. Very cool and then you yelled Rick Harrison the dog it's not spoiler. Jason:  [56:11] I know I was just reminding everyone. Scot:  [56:12] I haven't yet but I might try that this year. Jason:  [56:17] I think that'd be cool I have a little dog MacGyver and he doesn't much better Chewbacca than he does a dragon. [56:26] Well Shan it has happened again we have used all of our lot of time but we definitely want to thank you for joining us sweet we certainly wish Zilla all the best and look forward to following your success I want to remind listeners that you're welcome to continue the dialogue on Facebook, if you have any questions or comments about Today Show, feel free to come over Facebook page and leave us a note we try to be very responsive and of course as always if you really enjoyed this episode jump on the iTunes and give us that 5-star review, that's that's how we pay the bills at the Jason is gosh I was 5 Star reviews. Scot:  [57:04] Thanks Shan have a great evening. Jason:  [57:11] Until next time happy you commercing.

Hiawatha learns Native American legends from his grandmother Nokomis.

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Modern schools teach Journalism and Creative Writing. Study Journalism and you'll write ads that are informative. Study Creative Writing and you'll write ads that entertain. But neither is likely to persuade. Only one school of writing always 1. introduces a new perspective, 2. causes readers to feel differently, and 3. does so in a tight economy of words. And that school is very ancient. Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains? Do you want to speak in full color? Enroll in the school of the poet. Rhythm is essential to us. Feet patter, hearts beat, lungs breathe, planets circle and seasons cycle to a rhythm. Music, poetry and dance are built on it. The rhythm of a poem – the drumbeats of its stressed and unstressed syllables – is called its meter. Meter is music. Meter is magic. Did you feel the Indian drumbeats in the preface to Longfellow's Hiawatha? Those drumbeats are caused by Longellow's careful arrangement of words so that their naturally accented syllables fall into a rhythmic pattern. But Longfellow's poem doesn't rhyme. Meter is more powerful than rhyme. By the shores of Gitchee Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews; Stilled his fretful wail by saying, “Hush! the Naked Bear will hear thee!” Lulled him into slumber, singing – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Wow. Henry's been gone 125 years but http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/LonHiaw.html (his word-dance) continues to enchant us. The poet hopes to move you, to make you see things differently, to alter your perspective. The poet hopes to persuade. If you don't want to hear any more about poetry and its power to move people, you should plan on skipping next Monday's Memo. Because I'm going to aim an arrow at your heart. And it's not even Valentine's Day. Roy H. Williams