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In this episode, Betsson AB CEO Pontus Lindwall discusses the company's recent financial results, regional strategies, and insights from the World Cup, providing valuable perspectives on the iGaming industry.Key TopicsBetsson's Q2 and H1 financial resultsRegional focus on Latam and EuropeRegulatory challenges in Western EuropeImpact of the World Cup on revenueStrategies for customer retention post-World CupDecline in Nordics and CEE regionsB2B and B2C revenue dynamicsFuture outlook for BetssonHost: Charlie HornerGuest: Pontus LindwallProducer: Anaya McDonaldEditor: Anaya McDonaldLearn how Optimove's Positionless Marketing is changing how iGaming teams operate. Discover how operators are using Optimove's Positionless Marketing Platform to launch personalised CRM campaigns, dynamically change casino lobbies and bet slips, and create engaging gamified experiences. Learn more at optimove.com.Finally, remember to check out Optimove at https://hubs.la/Q02gLC5L0 or go to Optimove.com/sbc to get your first month free when buying the industry's leading customer-loyalty service. 

An introduction to the The Travel Addict Podcast - Stories from the HostThe Spoken Word to The Written Word - Volume One and Volume TwoAvailable now at Bookstores - eBook and Printed Versions.Become immersed in Malcolm's experience into incredible places on our wonderful planet:PlacesBhutan, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Laos, Sweden, Mongolia, Russia, Myanmar, Namibia, Philippines, Thailand, Slovenia, India, Indonesia, Tibet, Argentina, Germany, Borneo, Brazil, Zambia, Nordics, Caribbean, Arctic, and more.Personal OpinionsBest of - Countries, Islands, Hotels, Thought Provoking Places, Secred Places, CruisingNear Misses, Mayhem, Bucket List, Languange Nuances, and moreDiscovery, Education, Fulfillment, Wonder, Repect, AcceptanceMemories for a Lifetimehttps://www.authormalcolmteasdale.com/http://www.malcolmteasdale.com

Karl Liapunov joins EXPresso for a conversation about growing up between the US and Norway, taking a one-way ticket to Oslo, working with Nordic founders through StartupLab, and launching Starting Cold - a new video series focused on Nordic founders, operators, athletes and outliers building at an international level.Karl Liapunov grew up in the US with a strong Norwegian connection, Norwegian spoken at home, and summers spent in Norway. After starting his career in investment banking in Houston, he decided to leave the safe path behind, buy a one-way ticket to Oslo, and build a new chapter in Norway.That decision eventually led him to StartupLab, where he spent several years working closely with Norwegian and Nordic founders, particularly around energy, climate tech, internationalization and the bridge between the Nordics and global markets.Now Karl is based in New York and has launched Starting Cold — a new video series and platform built around Nordic founders, operators, athletes and outliers who are building at an international level.In this episode, we talk about what it means to grow up between two cultures, the difference between Norway and the US, why Norway is an incredible place to come from but sometimes a difficult place to stand out, and why Nordic companies often become very good at building but not always as good at telling the world what they have built.We also get into cold outreach, taking risk, moving countries without a perfect plan, StartupLab, energy and climate tech, media, venture, and why storytelling may become one of the most important tools for the next generation of Nordic founders.Topics we cover:​Growing up between the US and Norway​Norwegian identity, language and culture from the outside​The difference between American and Norwegian ambition​Leaving investment banking and moving to Oslo without a clear plan​Building a network from scratch in a new country​StartupLab and the Norwegian startup ecosystem​Energy, climate tech and Norway's international advantage​Why Nordic founders need stronger global storytelling​The role of media in venture, fundraising and ecosystem-building​Starting Cold and Karl's mission to highlight Nordic outliers​Why cold outreach can change the direction of your life​What Norway can learn from the US — and what it should not copySong credit via riverside.fmX64NDHCVOUSLFDEQ

In this episode, we speak with Claudia Huegel, Senior Director, Head of ESG Rating and Reporting, Lufthansa Group, who shares how one of the world's oldest and largest airline groups threads sustainability through its strategy, its reporting, and, increasingly, its relationship with the passenger.She discusses:The near-term levers to decarbonising by 2030: Why fleet renewal does the heaviest lifting this decade, delivering 15-25% efficiency gains per aircraft.The green fares story: How Lufthansa became the first airline group in the world to launch a dedicated sustainable fare, trialling it in the Nordics with a 20% SAF and 80% climate-project mix, and growing adoption from below 1% to around 5% over roughly three years.Making SAF visible: How the group turns fuel farms at Frankfurt into branded signage, runs SAF marketing through Lufthansa Cargo, and structures bulk SAF deals with corporate customers.Mandates versus incentives: Why the ReFuelEU 2% obligation was met in molecules in 2025 but largely with imported fuel, why she suspects incentives build supply better than mandates, and her call for ETS revenue to be reinvested in SAF infrastructure.If you LOVED this episode, you'll also love the conversation we had with Lahiru Ranasinghe, Director of Sustainability at easyJet, who shares what it takes to move a major low-cost carrier from a sustainability blueprint to real-world results. Check it out here.Learn more about the innovators who are navigating the industry's challenges to make sustainable aviation a reality, in our new book ‘Sustainability in the Air: Volume 2'. Click here to learn more.Feel free to reach out via email to podcast@simpliflying.com. For more content on sustainable aviation, visit our website green.simpliflying.com and join the movement. It's about time.Links & More:Climate and Environment - Lufthansa Group Green Fares: More sustainable air travel - Lufthansa Fly more sustainably - Lufthansa Lufthansa Group sees ‘growing demand' for sustainable fares - Business Travel News EuropeLufthansa Passengers offset 710,000 tonnes of CO2 through climate program - ESG Today 

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GE Vernova pumps $1 billion into LM Wind Power, and KKR buys EDF’s US and Canada renewables arm. Plus CIP sweeps South Korea’s offshore auction and the CME plans wind derivatives across three continents. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now, your hosts. Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall, and I’m here with Matthew Stead and Yolanda Padron. Rosemary is at GWO training this week. And we have an announcement about Wind Energy O&M Australia 2027. Matthew, you wanna give all the details?  Matthew Stead: Drum roll Um, very pleased to announce that WOMA 2027 will be at the East Pullman Hotel in Melbourne’s east, uh, not the other one, and, uh, 3rd to 5th of March. Um, the first two days will be two days of wind O&M, uh, conferences, [00:01:00] uh, and then the Friday will be a half-day, uh, training session. More information to come.  Allen Hall: Well, she’s not here, so we can probably just announce it, that Rosemary will be giving a terrific four-hour-long seminar on blades and blade repair, so you sign up now. Matthew, where do you go if you wanna just check out what’s happening at WOMA  Matthew Stead: 2027? Uh, well, actually, it’s woma2027.com.  Allen Hall: Uh, over at GE Vernova and LM Wind Power, there’s been a whole bunch of turmoil over the last couple of years if you haven’t been paying attention. Well, GE Vernova just injected about a billion dollars into that company. So although LM recently has shown very little in terms of revenue, it definitely had needed some capital injection in, uh, at least according to the Danish press, the number of employees at the Danish site is about 20 to 30. So it’s really a fraction of what it once was. But [00:02:00] it does seem like GE is paying off all its existing debt and then giving it a little bit of a cash infusion to keep it rolling. The question really is, is what is GE Vernova gonna do with that business now? Are they planning on keeping it? Are they trying to get s- to get it back to health where they can service the other, uh, OEMs that they manufacture blades for? Or is there a larger action that will happen in the near future? What do we think?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I’m really confused by this one. I mean, a cash injection just so that you’re not bankrupt on paper is, um, that’s just playing with money as far as I’m concerned. Or I’m not sure if it’s a US term, but, you know, shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic. It doesn’t– Does it change anything? Allen Hall: Well, uh, th- they made no announcements about closing facilities. The LM blade facility in North Dakota still appears to be making blades. There’s the TPI factories, which are going through a transition r- right now, appear to be making GE [00:03:00] blades. I, I assume Gaspé up in Canada is still making blades, at least that’s the story. If GE’s gonna rely upon LM to make blades, they’re gonna need to keep them open. Is, is this more of just keeping the factories open with a skeleton engineering crew and possibly moving the blade design group into the States? Is that– Or India or, or somewhere?  Yolanda Padron: And they’re still selling, right? They’re still selling blades. It seems like they’re still planning on manufacturing blades. Do we think that maybe- They’re just trying to avoid that whole TPI bankruptcy deal to not have to kind of scrap for parts?  Allen Hall: Yeah, it’s a great question. I think TPI has been producing parts at high quantity, and some of the Things I’ve heard from the industry folk is that TPI is really busy in producing quality blades, and it’s like the bankruptcy transaction is not happening, which is great to hear because the [00:04:00]industry needs blades, and there’s a lot of repowering going on in the United States and a lot of activity in general, so they need blades. But does LM continue to be a part of that?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I mean, presumably the TPI, um, whole story only makes LM more important, you know, more important to have, uh, an additional manufacturer and, you know, providing, you know, options for the OEMs.  Allen Hall: It does seem like, though, the GE offshore, GE Vernova offshore is not a thing. Although I’ve heard a couple of rumors that, yeah, GE Vernova is offering some products for offshore, it doesn’t seem like their heart is in it. I can see that happening. So are they just trying to focus on onshore business, and that’s it for the time being? Just let it play out and, uh, wait until the elections in 2028? I know that’s gonna get me blocked on YouTube, but that, that does feel like what’s happening at the moment.  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I reckon it looks completely like that.  Yolanda Padron: I mean, it also looks like they’re [00:05:00] just kind of trying to play everything a little bit more safe, right? So they are scaling up, but not as fast as they used to, so scaling the blade sizes. And then they’re– it seems like they’re, they’re having their FSAs cut quite a bit shorter than they used to, right? So are they maybe just trying to focus on, like, cash up front and just trying to play it safe until they can get their, their footing right again?  Allen Hall: Or is it focus on key customers? I could see GE Vernova actually doing that, that they have a history with certain operators worldwide, and they’re just gonna focus on producing and delivering for those customers. Because you don’t see a lot of announced orders for GE turbines. Vestas is announcing things practically every week. Nordex is doing something similar. Siemens once in a while. But what you really don’t hear anything from in any quantity at [00:06:00] all at the moment is from GE Vernova. When a company needs cash badly enough, even the crown jewels go on the block. And EDF, the French state-owned utility, has to fund the upkeep of 57 aging nuclear reactors and build six new ones, so it is selling. EDF has agreed to hand its US and Canada renewables business, EDF Power Solutions, to the private equity firm KKR. The business runs 5.6 gigawatts of renewable assets across the two countries. Late last year, EDF’s chief executive floated selling anywhere from half to all of the unit in a deal that could be, well, it’s reported to be about $4.2 billion. That’s the latest news I’ve heard. This is a big transaction. KKR is Canadian, right? And is a massive investment firm Uh, which I, I don’t think have a lot of wind at the moment. Uh, what is the [00:07:00] KKR play here?  Matthew Stead: I, I love this because this is, uh… So obviously I’m Australian, and Macquarie is a big Australian. So, um, Macquarie own a whole lot of wind farm, a whole lot of wind infrastructure. So I just see this as a wonderful g- you know, fight between KKR and Macquarie. And so KKR has a whole lot of, um, they o- they’ve got some, you know, stake in Australian wind farms. They’ve got some work, you know, through Europe with wind farms. So I, I, I think this is a good thing, just a bit more global competition and a bit more global growth. And I think it’s all coming from the data centers and, you know, the future increase in growth of, um, demand.  Allen Hall: Yolanda, EDF’s wind fleet is a variety of turbines, right? They have some GE, some Siemens. Anything else in their portfolio?  Yolanda Padron: I think they have a bit of Vestas there too, right? Is it something that we were saying? It’s– I think this is really interesting. Um, I know that there’s not– I mean, of course EDF is the latest, but there’s some [00:08:00] operators that seem to be, um, consolidating into a bit more of those just higher private equity firms, and it’s– Do we think that maybe this is the way that the US is going to lean towards? I know we talked a lot about leaning towards funding the data centers and maybe a bit more the behind the meter things. Uh, but do we think that maybe that’s the future of the US? There’s a couple of companies that kind of just own all the major infrastructures and then- A  Allen Hall: couple Canadian companies.  Yolanda Padron: And what does it mean for, like, asset management and stuff, like, that’s really, really different from what they’re seeing in their desks in New York and stuff, and just the larger financial models versus what’s happening on the ground, and how will they connect everything? Allen Hall: It’s a great question.  Matthew Stead: NextEra and Dominion, you know, things are only getting bigger. Scale’s, scale’s coming.  Allen Hall: Yeah. I wonder how much, uh, this transaction will have to go through regulators in the US, uh, because it scares me when you have a, a– such a [00:09:00] large foreign national company. There’s actually two involved in here, right? So you, you have a, a French company and a Canadian company trying to transact on, in the United States on a lot of assets. Uh, it probably won’t be that quick if there’s any oversight at all. I, I’m guessing that we’ll hear noise about it. So we’re, we’ll have to keep listening to all the news sources about it and, and telling our valued listeners what’s going on. Because there’s, uh, we know a whole bunch of people that work at EDF and like, love those people and are really concerned about what the future holds for them. I, at least it sounds like upfront that KKR is just gonna continue with operations, but I know, uh, uh, it’s a turbulent time, and if you work there, you, you hopefully things continue the way they’re, they’re supposed to because One of the things about EDF historically has been is that they’re really talented people, that they have hired well over time and that they know what they’re doing. And every time we, Weather Guard and [00:10:00] Yolanda and I’m sure Matthew have dealt with EDF quite a bit They are on top of what they’re operating. They know how their assets work, and they know how to manage them, and so you’d hate to lose those people in a transaction like this. It would decrease the value of the assets, I would say. Very interesting transaction.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. But, I mean, what if the counter, what if, um, this is all part of a, a growth strategy? You know, a growth strategy with wind, solar, and battery, you know, providing more power. So it might actually be an opportunity. So, you know, opportunity to do more and some more exciting work across all three disciplines. Allen Hall: Definitely so. Uh, but it’s a little early. The ink hasn’t dried yet on the contract. So while offshore market pulls back in general, in a lot of places like the United States, another one is racing ahead. In, in South Korea’s latest offshore wind auction, one name walked away with the lion’s share, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, CIP. The Danish fund [00:11:00] secured more than one gigawatt of the 1.8 gigawatts on offer, including the single largest project and the only floating wind winner. And the appetite was record-breaking. They had a whole bunch of developers trying to bid on this. You had about 3.7 gigawatts being bid in, more than twice of the capacity available. So for a country that only began competitive offshore bidding in 2022, that’s a few short years ago, that market is coming of age. This is a huge announcement by CIP, right? That, uh, they have bid into the system. They’re, they’re winning, and they’re bringing Siemens Gamesa to the table, which we haven’t heard a lot of Siemens Gamesa’s turbines being selected, but this is a massive order and really gonna help secure at least some portion of, of the Siemens Gamesa business. Matthew, you’re closer to it. In, in South Korea, are you seeing the South Korean industry being built within [00:12:00] the country, or are you seeing, uh, partnerships with surrounding countries like Japan? ‘Cause it doesn’t seem like when– and I’ve looked at some of the South Korea, uh, efforts. It does seem like they’re trying to stand up their own offshore built-in country plan. Is, is that the goal? You think Siemens is gonna end up building a, a factory in, in South Korea for some of these projects?  Matthew Stead: Maybe a couple of things. First of all, I have to apologize. I think, uh, we were talking the other week, and I, I, I sort of implied that floating offshore wind was dead, and I think we copped a bit of flack from that. But, uh, anyway, wrong, wrong on, uh,  Allen Hall: floating offshore is dead.  Matthew Stead: Um, but um, you know, I’ve had a fair bit of interaction with, uh, South Korean, um, you know, Philippines, Japan, obviously. I think they’re all trying to get their industries up, but I, I don’t think they’ve got the scale So, you know, I think they, they really need like the Siemens Gamesas, the Vestas’s, um, to come in and, and partner with them. I just don’t think they’ve got the scale, you know, the, the [00:13:00] installed fleet, the industry to really promote it. And, you know, to get the economies of scale, they’re gonna have to pull in the big existing incumbents. So, you know, good on CIP for, for pulling this off.  Allen Hall: In terms of South Korea industry, I think steel is one of their strongest, uh, industries at the moment, and obviously shipbuilding. Those are the, that go hand in hand, so to speak. There’s a lot of steel in wind turbines, and particularly in floating offshore wind turbines. It would seem ripe for South Korea to get into that marketplace.  Matthew Stead: I’m not sure the intellectual property is in steel tubes. Um, I, I guess what I’m trying to say is the intellectual property is in the turbine nacelle and the blades and, um, you know, I, you know, correct what I said that, you know, obviously the steel and the steel manufacturing in South Korea is, is pretty amazing. Um, but yeah, they’re clarifying what I said before.  Allen Hall: So is this gonna turn into the leading floating project in the world? You know, Greenvolt’s gonna happen in the [00:14:00] UK. There’s some talk of things up in Scandinavia. But in terms of speed, will this be one of the leading candidates in t- in getting things in the water just because of the capability of South Korea to, to build at scale? I  Matthew Stead: think it’s really exciting. Yeah, I, I’m, I’m gonna watch very closely.  Allen Hall: I think this is gonna be amazing. I really do.  Yolanda Padron: I was gonna say, could you imagine, like, a, a turbine and a blade where everything is just perfectly manufactured or close to perfectly manufactured? I g- I went to one farm last week, and there were… I mean, it was in the States, and there were so many patches on new blades. I was just talking to the people in operations like, “What’s, what’s going on here?” You know? Uh, so it’s just really… I don’t know. This is exciting.  Matthew Stead: Do you think, um, they’ll build a blade factory, Yolanda? Do you think they’ll actually take on the blades? Yolanda Padron: I don’t know. Uh, I, I mean, it’d, it’d be great for them, I think, right? It’s a new area of business that they’re diving [00:15:00] into.  Allen Hall: If they don’t have to build the building at the port, I think Siemens would be willing to erect something near the shoreline. And in Korea, there’s a lot of major industry right on the shoreline. It would be relatively easy, I think. You know, ev- it sounds easy now because you’re not actually doing it. But in terms of, you know, building a blade factory on the coastline of United States versus doing it in South Korea, South Korea’s gonna be way easier to do that and at scale quickly. That, that one seems like a win-win. I d- if there’s any place on the planet that could do it quick besides the UK or, you know, Denmark, someone like Netherlands, someplace like that, Germany, it’s gonna be South Korea.  Matthew Stead: Maybe that’s a bet, you know. So prove me wrong again. My money at the moment is that Nacelles blades won’t be coming from South Korea. Allen Hall: Well, if they don’t come from South Korea, they’re gonna be on a South Korea-built ship. We’ll be bringing th- those [00:16:00] blades in country. That’s what will happen. So wind is getting its own set of financial instruments, which sounds weird, right? Wind is wind. It’s in a very legacy style industry. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange is planning to launch wind derivatives across three continents, which are contracts that are tied to the grid in Texas, the markets in the UK and Germany, and just the Victoria state in Australia. So today, most weather hedging happens through one-off over-the-counter deals that are sort of hard to trade and thin on liquidity, so it’s not a commodity you can pass around. A standardized exchange-listed contract changes all that. A utility or a wind farm owner could lock in a hedge in about 15 minutes. The contracts would settle against independent data that models how much power the wind should have produced in a given place, likely supplied by [00:17:00] the Finnish firm, drum roll, Vaisala. Plans are not final, but they could go live within months. So they’re hedging on the wind. Does this sound like a smart move, or w- what are some of the consequences of this? Matthew Stead: I think it goes back to that volatility. W- when there’s volatility, people can make money. Um, you know, and a side note, that’s where, that’s where offshore wind comes in because it’s much more predictable. Um, you don’t get the same lulls with offshore wind. Yeah. So I, I, I love all these, these creative ways of, um, generating, generating demand, financial demand. Allen Hall: It can be played though, right? I mean, that’s one of the things about wind, ’cause each turbine is its own separate little power plant that all connect to a substation, so if you have bought a hedge and the substation goes kaput for 24 hours, you could lose your shirt. It does seem kind of risky, depending on what the scale is here. If you’re doing all of Texas or all of [00:18:00] Victoria, maybe that makes a little more sense, but yikes. That’s gonna be a rough market.  Yolanda Padron: Yeah, the market’s already open, right? Like, you can bid day ahead, um, instead of just real-time prices. But so this, this would be really interesting for owners, right? To be able to track that a lot better than just that gut feeling, which obviously I know people working in trading aren’t just going off of their gut feeling. I know it’s a very, very intense thing. Nobody go against me, please. This is very intense, and it’s better– They do a better job than I could ever do. They do great, 10 out of 10. But this– I think this is really interesting for those of us especially who maybe aren’t super in tune with what, uh, all goes into it. So being able to have something that helps you plan it a bit more for, you know, people like you mentioned earlier, the people that have their home batteries in Australia and are just working on the market itself and maybe [00:19:00] not– don’t have those 10, 20 years of experience of, of actually working on the market. So this is, this is exciting.  Allen Hall: Does that explain all the weather sources and the weather companies when we go to a wind, a larger wind or solar event that there does seem to be a lot of people offering weather insights? Is that what that’s about, is they can hedge? If you have a slightly better weather model, that would give you an advantage in this kind, kind– really kind of market? Is that the, the goal of all those weather firms?  Matthew Stead: Uh, absolutely. And, you know, we’re, we’re part of that because, um, ice, ice, um, you know, reduces power output, and ice forecasting and weather forecasting is, uh, really important in, you know, the Nordics, where you don’t want to be promising certain power and find you can’t deliver ’cause everything’s iced up. So, you know, we, we do work with forecasting companies to improve the, [00:20:00] uh, the quality, and it does have a mer-material difference on, on the financial markets.  Allen Hall: So is that something that we can all get paid for? by these weather companies and these, uh, forecast companies if we provide insights on lightning, so to speak, and icing, uh, is that a revenue chain for at least one of us? Matthew Stead: Absolutely.  Allen Hall: Maybe I like this more and more. I was, I was very hesitant of this exchange, thinking like, “Oh man, not a, not another highly leveraged situation with energy. That doesn’t sound smart.” But, yeah, if we can make a small fortune, Matthew, I think we should do it.  Matthew Stead: Fun fact, there was a flight from, um, yeah, from London to Australia the other week, um, and it’s a direct flight, you know, so 17 hours, and, uh, there was a change in the weather. So there was a change in the weather, and that aircraft didn’t have enough fuel to fly to Perth anymore, so it had to land in the outback of Australia.  Allen Hall: No. Did that happen?  Matthew Stead: Yep, because there was a [00:21:00] change in the weather.  Allen Hall: Are there just, like, kangaroos lined up in a runway shape to get the airplane on the ground? Or how do they– Is there a runway out in the outback that would accommodate a large… That’s a large airplane that’s making a London to Australia trip. Triple 7380? It  Matthew Stead: was a Dreamliner. Um, but, um, it, yeah, it landed in Kalgoorlie. So Kalgoorlie’s a mining town. Yeah, they’ve got, they’ve got big stuff in Kalgoorlie. Allen Hall: In this quarter’s PES Wind magazine, in which there is a whole bunch of great articles, a interesting article about grease. Grease not the country, although I would love to go visit Greece. Grease the lubricant that’s in all our bearings and keeps the world moving at any one particular time. Uh, Sh-Shell was talking about doing a lot of research on grease, and when poor lubrication, uh, happens, it’s one of the leading causes of bearing failure. And so when you see a bearing all tore up, usually the first indication is, is there’s something wrong with the grease. Uh, [00:22:00] so Sh-Shell and bearing maker SKF and the University of, uh, Twente joined forces to answer a deceptively simple question: How do you predict when grease inside a bearing will let go? Well, their answer comes down to film thickness. The microscopic layers of grease that keeps the steel from grinding on each other is the magic variable. The work won a major tribology award and is already feeding into, uh, some of the tools that operators use to schedule relubrication before a bearing fails. And It all comes down to lubrication. That’s the lifetime of a wind turbine. There’s so many pieces that are rotating and are heavily loaded with really complicated bearing surfaces. If you don’t have the grease right, it’s just not gonna work. And what’s happening at Shell is one of those pieces, and we’re [00:23:00] learning so much more. And as we, uh, evolve in the technology and become smarter about the molecules we use and how we use them, uh, this is gonna have a big impact. And I know, Yolanda, you’ve been up to– Well, you’ve been to a couple of wind farms recently. Do you s- see– still see huge grease problems that I usually see when I’m on site? Matthew Stead: Mm-hmm.  Yolanda Padron: I didn’t think that was an issue that was gonna go away anytime soon. But it’s good to know that, that there’s something being done about it that’s more revolutionary than just paying someone to clean the turbine every once in a while.  Allen Hall: And the contaminants that get into the greases are a huge problem, particularly where there’s any sort of sand, dust that climbs in. So keeping those joints clear and those rolling surfaces clear is a major effort. And knowing when to relubricate. And, and Matthew, you guys see pitch bearings and all kinds of problems up on blades that are lubricated that have run out of their lifetime early. It does seem like the first thing you see on particularly pitch bearings [00:24:00] is grease on the side of the turbine from them. Matthew Stead: Yeah. I think that’s– uh, there’s even a special code that the, the visual drone inspection companies have. They’ve got codes for, um, grease and so, yeah, exactly, that’s an early flag. But also dust. You know, sometimes dust from the inserts and from the bolts. Yeah. So it’s, yeah, interesting topic.  Allen Hall: Well, I, I think it’s one of the key pieces to keeping the turbines running. And I know if you travel a lot around wind turbines, the, the grease is the thing that the technicians always talk about, and there’s so many different tools to go out and look at these things. But lubrication, we gotta get to it. And, and Shell, and SKF, and a number of others are, are working at it to make, hopefully, our lives a little bit easier. So if you wanna go check out this article by Shell, go visit peswind.com and download a copy today. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on [00:25:00] LinkedIn, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. So for Yolanda, and Matthew, and an absent Rosie, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.

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Japan and the UK sign a $12 billion floating wind deal for 5.9 GW, Muehlhan buys Coverwind Solutions in Spain, and US grid reform stalls as MISO, PJM, and SPP fast-track fossil resources over wind. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now your hosts Allen Hall: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall. I’m here with Rosemary Barnes, just back from Japan, in Matthew’s stead. Yolanda Padron is on special assignment. Well, Rosemary, what happened in Japan? You, you spent a, a week touring the country and looking at, uh, some energy projects. What did you learn?  Rosemary Barnes: I was there for just five, five nights. I went over for an, um, an, a systems engineering conference by INCOSE. I was doing a keynote presentation there, and also spoke to some of their… They’ve got this program, an international programming for, like, upcoming leaders. Um, and yeah, it was funny, the topic that I chose for [00:01:00] that was how you can combine an online presence with a serious professional career. Uh, ’cause, you know, like, a lot of the advice that you see about building an online presence is, like, totally compat- incompatible with being taken seriously in a, uh, you know, in a, a job like engineering. So that was pretty fun. And then on the last day, I was able to arrange a tour of a community. Like, we went to this village near Fukushima, and they, a- after the Fukushima, uh, or the earthquake that led to the Fukushima, uh, shutdown, that town, some power lines came down, and that, that village was without power for three months. So in response to that, they’re like, “Community power for the win.” At this place, like, there was literally steam coming out of the ground just, you know, randomly. It’s an onsen town, so you know, like, it’s, um, it’s built around tourism for these hot baths. And so they put in a couple of geothermal power plants, small ones, and, um, also some hydropower. But the reason why I wanted to go there was ’cause, you know, ge- [00:02:00]geothermal is such an obvious solution for Japan, for the energy, but they only have… .3% of their electricity is generated by geothermal currently. And, um, the main reason is that the onsen community in Japan is really opposed to it. They’ve lobbied against it because they’re worried that, um, you know, the onsen community needs heat to come out, hot water to come out of the ground, and geothermal takes hot water out of the ground, so they’re just worried that they’re incompatible. Um, now I think the science says that that’s not really true, that the, there isn’t, they’re not the same resource and that one doesn’t affect the other. The wastewater from the geothermal is not really wastewater. It’s just water that is not as hot as it was when it came up. Um, that goes down then into the onsen because it’s a good temperature. And then some of the even cooler water, about 21, 23 degrees, they’re using that to raise shrimp.  Allen Hall: Well, just speaking of Japan, uh, the Japanese Prime Minister was just in the UK and a [00:03:00] big deal was signed between Japan and United Kingdom, £9 billion worth, which is about 12 billion US dollars, uh, to work together on 5.9 gigawatts of floating wind capacity in the UK, uh, across three different projects. W- And the goal is to get some Japanese partners working with, uh, the UK companies involved with it to suss out how to do offshore wind. And as we all know, Japan is gonna, is headed there right now and is going to need a little bit of a primer on how to do it. And, and, well, they should because, uh, there’s been some really successful efforts in the UK and up north, Northern Europe. Uh, so the, the goal of this is to, to get these projects underway and, and Japan’s committing all this money, which, uh, sure, it’s a nice boost to the UK at the moment. It gets a little turbulent over there if you’ve been watching the news. Rosemary [00:04:00] Tying back to your experience in Japan recently, is there a big push internally? Do you see that internally in Japan for offshore wind and even offshore floating wind in Japan, or are they really prepping for it in country?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I’d say I went over there thinking that Japan was, like, oddly not bothered about wind energy of any flavor. Um, ’cause, you know, like onshore wind, they’ve got problems because the good ri- wind resource is right on the ridges, and they’re getting just hammered by lightning, and they’ve got some, like, really interesting responses to how they think that they should manage that, that in my opinion are just gonna kill… Like, you would never bother to have an onshore wind farm if these, um, regulations go ahead. So offshore they have got, um, a bit of a, an, a fixed bottom resource, and they’ve had several auction rounds geared towards that, but they’re, um, they haven’t gone well. I think that, like, people have promised… It, it’s a similar story to elsewhere in the world. Uh, people have, like, bid, like, [00:05:00] bid down to quite low prices and then not been able to deliver and pulled out. Mitsubishi just recently paid some, uh, some huge penalty for not going ahead with a, a project. There isn’t actually that much fixed bottom potential, um, for Japan. So, um, if they wanna have a significant amount of wind energy in their grid, which they should, because they’re, like, honestly it is probably the best or one of the couple of best options to provide big chunks of their electricity supply, then it needs to be floating. Um, and the government is actually pushing on that. I thought they weren’t doing too much, but I did talk to someone from this group, Flora. It is a group that is, um, that, that is trying to form partnerships with other countries, but also with manufacturers to try and set the framework up so that it can, like, l- lay the groundwork for commercialization to happen without being prescriptive. Flora is in there [00:06:00] to try and, you know, get the pieces in place to be able to allow, um, you know, uh, innovation and competition to happen much, much faster.  Allen Hall: What’s the most complicated piece technically that needs to be solved before Japan can really move forward? Is it the money piece? I mean, um, um, I said technically, but I feel like there’s always this money aspect to it, which is important, but on the technology side, i- is it, is there any technology that remains to be solved or is it just the will to do it? Rosemary Barnes: Basically in any engineering question, the answer is money, like, when you come down to it. So, like, it’s almost boring to say, yeah, it’s, it’s money. Floating offshore wind- Too hard, too niche for most people to consider it a mainstream thing, but it’s the legitimate, like, good contender for Japan. And you know what? That presents opportunity. It can actually be good to have to do something hard. Um, and Japan has the opportunity to be the [00:07:00] country where, you know, it’s the country where floating wind makes the most sense, so they can be the ones, if they’re smart about it, they can be the ones where the smart technologies evolve. There will at least be little niche things that they develop that will go on to succeed, and Japan really needs some new big manufacturing industry to… Like, their car industry is obviously, um, has been so important, the automotive manufacturing, and it’s declining now relative to China. Um, so I am also hopeful that they can, you know, build that up a bit more, but I don’t think that they’re going to, you know, topple China, so they are looking for new industries that will be the new… Yeah, do for them what the auto industry did from, yeah, from the ’70s onwards. Actually, you know, like, you can tie it back in a nice loop back to the oil crisis in the ’70s because that’s when the world was like, “Oh, actually small, efficient cars are, are quite a smart idea.” And Japan had those because it was so [00:08:00] constrained in terms of, you know, the oil that it could bring in was expensive. Not having their own fossil resources, they learned to conserve it, and then that turned out to be, you know, a big advantage for them.  Allen Hall: Using the 1970s gas price crisis and the movement towards Japanese cars in the United States, I mean, timing is everything. And Japan was in, uh, Honda in particular, was in the United States. I think Toyota was too, if I remember correctly. And when gas prices went through the roof, uh, yeah, they were very efficient cars, and not the most reliable at the moment, but obviously they’ve changed quite a bit and s- they are, particularly Honda and Toyota, are probably two of the more reliable blan- brands you can buy in the States today. So things change, right? You’re just getting your foot in the door. But that, that break point is, is coming pretty soon, I would say, in, in terms of timing. I- is it the right time for Japan to move into floating offshore? It’s gonna be within the next couple of years, don’t you think, Rosie?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, yeah, def- [00:09:00] definitely. Um, and yeah, I mean, I, it, it, it does frustrate me that any money is being spent on, um, hydrogen and ammonia imports. I, I would just rather that they just, just, just do the LNG until you figure out alternatives.  Allen Hall: That makes more sense.  Rosemary Barnes: Gas is better than… You know, like ammonia, for example, they’re locking in these coal power plants for additional years, making investments, um, you know, thinking that this is gonna be part of their future. They’re gonna end up burning coal, y- you know? At least gas is flexible enough to support renewables, and so it can, you know, like speed the rollout of, of wind. And they do have a fair bit of solar too in Japan. Floating solar, actually. They invented that there, and have actually got quite, quite a lot of it. Allen Hall: Gas is gonna be the answer short term. I think in the relationship between the United States and Japan has always been pretty solid since after World War II, that the United States would be willing partners to help Japan stand up any [00:10:00] technology, probably except for wind, which is just bizarre.  Rosemary Barnes: One of your maybe, um, unexpected legacies in Japan was, I say you, I mean the USA, they’ve got, um, not just the, like, silly American power plug design where you’ve got, like, the parallel pins that just fall out, so they’ve got that. But they also have 110 volts. Like, where else in the world is, is, thinks that’s a good idea? I had, um, my little travel steamer I’d taken over there, hairdryer, useless. Absolutely useless.  Allen Hall: That’s all you  Matthew Stead: need.  Rosemary Barnes: I blame you personally, Allen. I hold you personally responsible for my wrinkled clothing. Allen Hall: Delamination and bondline failures in blades are difficult problems to detect early. These hidden issues can cost you millions in repairs and lost energy production. CIC NDT are specialists to detect these critical flaws before they become expensive burdens. Their nondestructive [00:11:00] test technology penetrates deep into blade materials to find voids and cracks traditional inspections completely miss. CIC NDT maps every critical defect, delivers actionable reports, and provides support to get your blades back in service. So visit cicndt.com because catching blade problems early will save you millions Well, the wind service sector is consolidating as we’ve all watched over the last year or two, and Mjolner Wind Service is one of the most aggressive buyers in the field. Uh, the Danish company has signed to acquire Cover Wind Solutions of Spain, including Cover Sun Solutions and Cover Renewable, with the deal expected to close by the end of June. This is Mjolner’s 11th acquisition since 2023. Now, Cover Wind fills a geographic gap for Mjolner. Uh, they are [00:12:00] involved in Spain and France and, uh, already involved in covering the Nordics a little bit and Central Europe. So there’s a, a big play here, and, and decommissioning is really the, the story underneath of th- all this is on the decommissioning side. Uh, Mjolner views turbine end-of-life services as an important future growth area, and obviously it is. Particularly in Spain, there’s been a lot of turbines that will be, uh, brought down and new turbines put up in the next 10 years, and Cover Wind gives Mjolner that ability. And as we all know, Mjolner just recently acquired our Canadian friends, AC883. So yeah, they have been on quite the spin recently, and that’s not even Yeah, sl- a sliver of what’s happening on the consolidation effort, uh, we didn’t talk about last week, but we, we should have, which was Fairwind acquiring Rope Partner in the States. And Rope Partner is a [00:13:00] longtime blade repair company and has been seen for years, as long as I can remember honestly, as the go-to blade experts on complex repairs. The, the, the most trained up, most, uh, technicians. On the technician side, they’re, they, they, they always had the highest trained people to what I remember, and also they would ta- tackle some of the most complex blade problems, and now they’re part of Fairwind. So there is movement, Matthew. A, a lot more than I thought there would be, because after COVID, a lot of companies just disappeared, but now it does seem like they’re being acquired, which is a, a good result, I guess. Matthew Stead: Yeah, I think there’s a strong opportunity, and, uh, and maybe the first point is that actually doing an M&A successfully is actually really hard. Um, I, I’ve personally been through two, uh, two M&As, um, and it is, it is really hard to get an M&A right. And so I think, you know, [00:14:00] these companies are showing that, um, you learn, you can do better, and, you know, it, it, it is hard. So congratulations for them for achieving that. Um, but the second part I think is also, you know, the industry maturing, uh, gaining scale is also, you know, necessary and, you know, driving, you know, but– and these people should be able to drive their, you know, better margins and so forth through, through scale. So, you know, I, I think, um, I think we had a bit of quick chat about it previously, but, um, this is, you know, a really good thing.  Allen Hall: Does it change the way we think about, uh, independent service providers?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I think it’s gonna continue. I mean, this is not the end of it. Um, you know, in– even in what we do, there’s been various, you know, mergers and acquisitions in, in our space or, and investments, you know, cross-investments. So I, I just see this continuing. You know, like SkySpecs, um, you know, growing their, their CMS, um, business and their financial arm. Um, this is just gonna continue.  Allen Hall: [00:15:00] Is it more activity, uh, related to the availability of AI? It’s– It does seem like that’s playing into some of the decisions that are being made on the mergers and acquisition in renewables, is you start to see more discussion of, hey, we’re going to, uh, apply new techniques, machine learning. A lot of times you’ll see that, particularly in Europe, and then here in the States it’s almost all AI, where they’re- In order to have a, a very successful AI venture, you need to bring in the brainpower to feed that AI. And it does seem like there’s a lot of, of senior companies getting grabbed that could be part of a larger artificial intelligence play. Matthew Stead: You remind me of the, um, the dotcom boom and bust. I don’t know. I’m, I’m a little bit more skeptical, um, on the value actions on the, on the AI side of things.  Allen Hall: Really?  Matthew Stead: It certainly… It’s a massive, um, massive, um, transformation for the industry, and you know, I mean, what I, what, what we can all do is, is massive. [00:16:00] But, um, my former employer, a consulting business, bought a AI company for a billion dollars, and I, I, I just can’t see the value. So, um, anyway, I’m, I’m a bit skeptical about valuations and AI, and, um, I’m not as bullish as many people are.  Allen Hall: Really? Uh, because it does seem like more recently, the shift has been from the number of engineers you have in your company times a million dollars a head, that’s the way it was, uh, not that long ago. And now it does turn into how many senior people you have, that’s the multiplier. Because they’re trying to take that knowledge and all that data resource that you have, like at a, a rope partner where they’ve prepared really complex problems for years. That data set is amazing if you could get your fingers on it. Matthew Stead: Uh, yeah, yeah. And I, you know, I completely agree with you, but I just think it’s being oversold and overcooked and overbaked.  Allen Hall: I see it as growing instead of it declining. I don’t think it’s cooling off. I think we’re just at the precipice of [00:17:00] it. As we get better at using some of these AI tools, if we’re gonna build data centers in space, ’cause that’s gonna be the, the linchpin to all this, is if it gets to data centers in space, then we can leverage massive data sets and learn something from them and get better. Matthew Stead: I love change, but, um, I, I think that’s ri- ridiculous, to be honest. Um, I know we’ve spoken about it a number of times, but data centers in space just seems stupid to me. But, but yeah, going back to your original point, Alan, um, yeah, we, we can definitely do better with you know, more insights around our data and getting more out of our data. I mean, data is the new oil. You know, we’ve been saying that for the last 10 years. Um, yeah, I’m, I’m full, I’m fully on board with that, but I’m just a little bit of a, a little bit of a negative Nancy on, um, some of these overhype  Allen Hall: The line to connect a new wind project to the U.S. grid has been one of the industry’s most stubborn bottlenecks. And a new report from Advanced Energy [00:18:00] United drafted by Grid Strategies and the Brattle Group finds that seven major U.S. grid operators have made progress, at least some, on generator interconnection reform since FERC Order 2023 took effect. So that was the order that said we need to fix this interconnect queue problem. There are just too many people in line and we need to give some ranking to them. But progress on paper has not yet translated into projects moving through the queue faster. And a newer problem is emerging. Fast track interconnection policies at MISO, PJM, and SPP are directing limited system headroom towards, drum roll, utility-affiliated and fossil-heavy resources at the expense of independent clean energy developers. So the game is being rigged a little bit at the moment where they want to push forward [00:19:00] gas and other fossil fuel type generation in front of solar and wind, which are less costly and quicker to get up and running. This can’t last long, right? E- eventually the people living in, uh, MISO, PJM, and SPP are gonna have a little bit of a revolt on how power prices are gonna bump up accordingly. Matthew Stead: There’s been numerous other attempts to stifle wind, um, and those numerous other attempts, uh, tend to be overwritten and, uh, ruled out and thrown out in courts. And, um, it, it just seems like this is, well, if that didn’t work, we’ll, we’ll try something else.  Allen Hall: It’s a delay tactic.  Matthew Stead: Yeah, exactly. Then becomes another one. Well, you know, just wait for that one to be thrown out.  Allen Hall: I don’t know who said the famous saying, time is money, but time is money, and if you can [00:20:00] delay a project from happening, it costs money to sit on the sidelines and you’re, you’re paying interest on a loan or your investors are getting upset because they’re not seeing the returns. So the easy game in most situations like this is just to drive the schedule to the right, even if it’s by a couple of months. It’s expensive.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. If there’s two things I wish I didn’t know about, the first one is telecommunications and how rubbish it is. I just wish I didn’t, wish I didn’t know about telecommunications and the need for cellular and satellite and blah, blah, blah. I wish I didn’t know about that. The other one I wish I didn’t know about, because I wish it wasn’t a problem, was just grid connections and grid and networks.  Allen Hall: How bad it is.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. Rosie, if you can jump in, but you know, the New South Wales-South Australian Interconnector Grid, um, is just being energized now. I don’t know if it’s one or two years late. Um- And they’re trying to recover a billion dollars from the general [00:21:00] public  Rosemary Barnes: Is it only a billion? I thought it, when I looked at the stats, um, it was like near tripling of the, of the project cost  Matthew Stead: My understanding is the government screwed it up or the, uh, the, the operator screwed it up in terms of the transmission lines, and then want, wants to claim it back from the general public ’cause they, they screwed up. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah. It’s a weird thing ’cause you, you know, it’s like, I think it’s like this everywhere in the world that the, yeah, transmission companies or network companies, they get a regulated rate of return on their, on their project, so they invest. But then it’s like what’s that rate of return for? It’s not money for nothing, right? It’s for them, you know, like taking on some risk and y- you know, some sorts of things are, are built into that. Um, but it’s kind of like if you, you get that amount approved and then you stuff up your project management so it drags out and takes a lot of money, then you’re also gonna be compensated additionally for having done a bad job with your project [00:22:00] management. The kinds of delays are not unforeseeable. You know, like I’ve been a project manager in my past. You don’t just make your best case scenario and then kind of just assume that that’s, um, how much it will cost and not, y- you know, not come up with, um, contingency plans for if, uh, if predictable things happen. It’s not, there’s no like black swan events in here. It’s just, um, you know, things that happen every now and then. And it is one of those like key principles of like delivering on big projects, um, that Ben Slibbert, you know, in that, that book, um, How Big Things Get Done, he goes over and over and over again that you need to keep your project as short as possible ’cause the longer it is, the more like surprises you’ll have along the way and it will cost more. And I just don’t think that they, like they need to go read that book and then do a better job with their project planning and scenarios.  Allen Hall: You know who’s read that book clearly is, I, I’ll bring up the name, I know it’s gonna cause controversy, [00:23:00] Elon.  Rosemary Barnes: I knew you were gonna say that.  Allen Hall: Well, you know why I say that? Because there was an interview with him and I was skimming through some nonsense and then this little interview popped up, and he was talking about how quickly they need to get things rolling. And it’s like one year you’re getting s- first year you’re getting started, second year you’re just growing like crazy, and third year is infinity. And the only way that makes sense is that you’re just pouring every resource on this problem to shorten the schedule That’s it  Rosemary Barnes: You, you do. You have, you have to do the, the, you know, the parts of your project where surprises are gonna happen. Like you can… There are surprises and you know, don’t know what they, they are gonna be. However, you can guarantee that there will be surprises. Like you, you know going into a years-long project that several things are gonna happen that are, you know, gonna surprise you. And so you can plan for that. And the best planning that you can do is to make sure that once you start actually, you, you know, you’re gonna spend time in planning to, um, get it right, but once you actually start [00:24:00] the phase of your project where delays cost money, then you, you just plan as, do everything you can to keep that as short as possible, and it will be, it’ll be cheaper. Even if it sounds more expensive, oh, we’ve gotta, you know, pay crews overtime to, you know, do a night shift or something like that, um, you know, you need to consider, consider that because the, there will be delays and they cost. And it’s just, like at this point, maybe 100 years ago you could get away with being surprised by that, but y- you know, like project management has come far enough now that we know, we know this. It’s just basics.  Allen Hall: But infrastructure projects are tough because they don’t see the revenue on the backside that much sooner. It’s sort of a very flat 3% growth industry Unlike a lot of other things  Rosemary Barnes: But that’s it, like just to contain costs, you have to have a small project.  Allen Hall: They will, but they’ve always historically gotten paid for those overruns and continue to make their 3%. If there was some sort… Back to Matthew’s point, if there was some sort of, uh, [00:25:00] disincentive to be late, they would hurry, maybe even spend a little bit of their own money, but there would have to be some massive upside, which is the problem, right? They can’t have a massive upside.  Rosemary Barnes: But that’s why I’m s- I’m saying that the situation where costs blow out and they still get… Like, they get… They make more money by having done a bad job because it costs more. You know, like that is not, it’s not okay.  Allen Hall: Is it more money or just paying the bills that they had when they were building the thing?  Rosemary Barnes: It depends how much we let them get away with, but their preference is to make, just be, “Oh, we could never have known that there would be a flood.” It’s like, okay, yeah, like, was it like a 1 in 50 years flood or something? So yeah, on average, that particular event wasn’t gonna happen, but there’s probably, you know, like 20 different categories of 1 in 50 year things that could have happened, and if your project lasts for five years, you’re gonna have a few of those. You just are. You know? It’s not, it’s not bad luck. It’s just like, just normal statistical variation [00:26:00] that y- Yeah, so I, I, I really think it’s important to, um, to not just say, “Oh. Oh, poor you,” ’cause it’s, it always sounds like a sob story. “Oh, a flood. Who could have known?”  Allen Hall: Who could have known it rains?  Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, I mean, I, I don’t know. Like, I often talk about how people don’t know what, um, engineers do, and we don’t get enough res- respect for, for what we do, and people don’t get it. But I think project managers is, if anything, worse. People don’t respect project management as a, um, a, I don’t know, is it a profession? But, you know, as an ex- ex- field of expertise and don’t, don’t know how much of a difference it makes to have a good one, and also that it is not that hard to be a good project manager. You just have to actually do it.  Matthew Stead: Can I make a suggestion that actually is the reverse of Darwin theory? We’ve got to come up with a name, but you know, the dumber you are, the more money you make. Also, for the record, um, Elon does have a lot of, um, philosophies and approaches which I do support. The efficiency, automating things after you’ve done them manually, only [00:27:00] doing the bare minimum, you know, all those sorts of things, doing things fast. Rosemary Barnes: Yeah, there’s a lot, a lot of good product development and engineering that you can learn from Elon, and you do not have to take the, like, weird personal stuff along with it. You are able to pick and choose which aspects you, you learn from.  Allen Hall: But it does take a specific kind of person to weather that storm. If you wanna play in that sandbox, y- you better be ready because it’ll be hard and fast and not very forgiving. So you just have to know that going in, which can be great, and it can be a great experience, uh, for a lot of engineers, but it isn’t for everyone. As wind energy professionals, staying informed is crucial, and let’s face it, difficult. That’s why the Uptime Podcast recommends PES Wind Magazine. PES Wind offers a diverse range of in-depth articles and expert insights that dive into the most pressing issues facing our energy future. Whether you’re an [00:28:00]industry veteran or new to wind, PES Wind has the high-quality content you need. Don’t miss out. Visit peswind.com today. In this quarter’s PES Wind magazine, which you can download at peswind.com, there’s an article from TGS 4C about vessel traffic around offshore wind farms. And this is kind of interesting bec- because they looked at some major wind farms off the coast of the UK, Dogger Bank B, Dogger Bank C, and Sofia. Uh, and obviously there’s a lot of marine traffic around those, but you don’t really realize the scale and how, uh, it affects the, the traffic on the water. The– When they had looked at these three wind farms, they realized, uh, they had about 860, uh, transits in 2021 around that area, and that went to more than 20,000 by [00:29:00] 2025. So the amount of economic and commercial activity that was happening around those wind farms exploded. And when you have that many ships in the water, it does change the nature of that area and also how other ships transit through the area, around that area. Uh, it’s an interesting piece because if you look at where those wind farms are, Matthew, th- that’s kind of a narrow stretch in there where there is a lot of ship traffic already. So y- you create this, uh, artificial barrier for some of the ship traffic, and you’re trying to understand how that is affecting the flow in and out. But I think the, the bigger piece is you can tell how well a development is progressing on offshore wind by looking at the ships and who’s where and when. Matthew Stead: I think this is interesting topic. Um, I, I– To be honest, I don’t completely get it. Can you explain it to me?  Allen Hall: If I’m an investor in these projects, if I’m the government, if [00:30:00] I’m the, uh, the power company that’s gonna handle the power coming off these sites, I really need to know how it’s going. And the way that I look at it in the States when I look at offshore projects here, ’cause we could do something very similar, who’s out on, on the ocean? Where are they? What tower are they at? How many towers are running? You can kinda tell that. Are they, are they just doing surveys or are they laying cable? Or is there something more active happening? And where are the ships from? Are they installation vessels? Are they driving monopiles? What’s going on out in the water? It does give you a really good sense where they are in the project. Kind of back to Rosemary’s point on, on managing big projects, you– schedule is everything You can tell. You can really tell.  Matthew Stead: Thinking about it a different way. So it’s a bit more like shadow monitoring. So it’s just a way of, it’s a way of independently monitoring and checking progress, making sure that there’s transparency as to what’s going on. Allen Hall: I think there’s a lot of [00:31:00] value in that data set. And as, uh, more operators start to use that data set and more companies start to use that data set globally, uh, they’re gonna be doing offshore projects, I think, differently in, in terms of efficiency. They- they’re learning as they go.  Matthew Stead: Yeah. Isn’t that one of the classical, um, sort of mathematical problems about how to optimize, uh, courier deliveries? We’ve gotta talk about quantum computing at some point too, so.  Allen Hall: We probably should. But for right now, I need everybody to go to peswind.com and download this quarter’s magazine. A lot of good articles in there, and it’s a great free download. Tons to learn. Go to peswind.com. That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to us on LinkedIn. And if you found value in today’s conversation, please leave us a review. It really helps other wind energy professionals discover this [00:32:00] show. For Matthew and Rosemary, I am Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy Podcast.

As You Wish Talk Radio with James Gilliland Disclosure, Earth Changes, and the Battle Over Who Controls the Story A Wide-Ranging Report From ECETI In this episode of As You Wish Talk Radio, host James Gilliland of ECETI presents a fast-moving commentary on earth changes, solar activity, weather anomalies, disclosure, government secrecy, UFO research, and the spiritual state of the contact community. Speaking in what he calls a strained voice because of heavy chemtrails over the Pacific Northwest, James frames the episode around the idea that official disclosure has been an “80-plus year fail,” arguing that the public has been given controlled narratives rather than meaningful truth about extraterrestrial contact. Solar Activity, Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Weather Warnings James begins with what he describes as major earth-change updates, including large sunspots, possible X-class flares, auroras, communications glitches, power-grid concerns, and increased earthquake and volcanic activity. He mentions Yellowstone, Long Valley, the Socorro magma body, the San Andreas and Cascadia fault systems, and recent quakes in California, Japan, and Venezuela. He also discusses typhoons, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and unusual storm behavior, suggesting that some weather patterns may be connected to atmospheric changes or weather manipulation. Chemtrails, Health, Deep State Claims, and Political Commentary The episode then moves into James's broader critique of government, public health institutions, and what he calls deep-state agendas. He discusses Tulsi Gabbard, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 origins, gain-of-function research, biolabs, Big Pharma, depopulation claims, chemtrails, food and water contamination, heavy metals, parasites, nanotechnology, and 6G-related concerns. He also comments on political figures, alleged election interference, James Comey, Barack and Michelle Obama, Donald Trump, and a reported threat involving a UFC event, framing these topics through his belief that hidden systems of control are being exposed. Why Disclosure Keeps Failing A major theme of the episode is James's claim that the UFO and UAP disclosure movement has been compromised by controlled narratives, financial incentives, jealousy, gatekeeping, and agency influence. He criticizes major UFO organizations, researchers, conference systems, and media figures whom he believes have ignored or suppressed authentic contact evidence. He praises some congressional disclosure figures, including Anna Paulina Luna, Tim Burchett, and David Grusch, but says real disclosure requires harder questions about past agreements with less-evolved beings, human abduction, experimentation, censorship, and the suppression of spiritually advanced extraterrestrial contact. Benevolent Contact, Universal Law, and the Divine Feminine James contrasts what he sees as fear-based disclosure with contact involving spiritually and technologically advanced beings such as Nordics, Pleiadians, and other benevolent off-worlders. He argues that these beings could help humanity evolve, restore the Earth, transcend war, clean up the planet, and live according to universal law. He also emphasizes the importance of the divine feminine, saying that spiritually advanced societies often honor feminine wisdom and that suppressed stories of women, grandmothers, Mary, Asherah, and other feminine spiritual figures are beginning to reemerge. ECETI, Censorship, Shasta, and Spiritual Protection James points to ECETI's decades of documented sightings, witnesses, videos, and contact experiences as evidence that he believes has been unfairly ignored by the broader UFO community. He says ECETI has had witnesses from many backgrounds, including engineers, military personnel, pilots, air traffic controllers, and visitors from many walks of life. He also discusses Mount Shasta, saying that remote viewers, including himself, found that benevolent beings had left due to psychic turbulence, reptilian intrusion, drugs, commercialization, and other disruptive energies. He urges listeners to use discernment, live according to universal law, anchor in the light, and ask for protection in the days ahead. UFO Footage and the Call for Direct Experience The final portion of the episode features James narrating footage that he says shows UFOs, fleets of ships, objects near Starlink satellites, objects near the space station, and craft interacting with planes or moving through the sky above ECETI. Throughout the footage, he emphasizes that these are not “fuzzy tic-tacs,” but repeated sightings that he believes demonstrate direct contact and ongoing surveillance of human space activity. The episode closes with a promotional invitation for viewers to join ECETI's online community, watch As You Wish Talk Radio, view skywatch footage, explore workshops, and support ECETI's work.

Crystalline Humans: ET Intervention & Escaping Transhumanism - Tahira Amir Khan - TSP # 2685Episode DescriptionTypical Skeptic Podcast #2685

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Emery Smith gives a pitch for his many miracle potions and it's mostly water with precious metals in it. Fresh off denigrating the memory of a poor woman's passing, Michael Salla interview JP (not Mexican). JP tells a strangely homoerotic story about meeting tall white Noridcs in the woods. Some excellent stuff for Space Weirdo Friday!If you enjoyed the show, please Like & Subscribe to our channel and share the links. This show can be found @hiddeninplainsightradio on Instagram and @thehiddenpod on Twitter.Follow us on Kick: kick.com/hiddeninplainsightradioJoin the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hiddeninplainsightpodiTunes Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hidden-in-plain-sight/id1488538144?i=1000459997594Spotify Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5zsntvl63Do7m9gNTD8Za2?si=MczvbuMlRuCbmWChclVUZARumble Link: https://rumble.com/c/hiddeninplainsight 

I'm talking about the alien footage, the whistleblower chatter, and the very real question sitting under all of it: are we seriously still acting surprised?In this episode, I get into why I think the “we are not alone” conversation feels less like a shock and more like a badly kept secret. I'm connecting the footage, the government noise, pop culture, and the weird little clues we've been fed for years. And yes, I also make the case that some of your favorite celebrities might be a little... not from around here.But here's the thing though: this isn't just me joking about Grays, Nordics, reptiles, and insectoids. I'm also asking a bigger question—if aliens are real, are they hiding from us because we're the problem? That's where this gets interesting.If you like funny commentary with a real point under it, this one's for you. Watch all the way through and tell me: are we being prepared for disclosure, or have we been getting the quiet part out loud this whole time?Key Timestamps0:06 - I set up the episode and explain why I had to talk about aliens1:20 - My take on the footage, the “spaceship,” and why people still doubt it2:15 - The four alien types people keep bringing up4:10 - Why I think pop culture has been preparing us for this for years6:05 - My very unserious and very serious list of celebrity “aliens”11:10 - The bigger question: maybe aliens aren't hiding from us... maybe they're protecting themselves from us14:00 - Why this conversation says more about humans than extraterrestrialsIf this made you laugh, think, or side-eye the sky a little harder, subscribe and stick around for more honest, random conversations with actual substance.#OhThatsRandom #Aliens #UFOTalk #FunnyCommentary #NerdysUmbrella

Everyone reviewed Disclosure Day. Almost nobody asked what it means for your soul.In Part 2 of our Disclosure Day series, we go past the hot takes and into the part the other reviews skipped: the spiritual, philosophical, and metaphysical weight of what Spielberg actually put on screen. If disclosure is real, what happens to God? To Christianity, Islam, the Vedic traditions? Is this a film… or a rollout?We get into the two warring shadow agencies, why disclosure looks more like a slow process than a single "day," the war.gov releases, the Book of Enoch and the Nephilim, Islam's surprising openness to life beyond Earth, the Dune-style "is it all scripted?" question, channelers and remote viewers, and where the line really is between healthy discernment and naive belief.This isn't a review. It's a decode for people who actually want to think.

Neph to America: Insane Time-Travel Dreams, Aliens = Demons, Hunter Biden Laptop, James Franco Video & Biblical Prophecy w/ Matt Heppner (Straight Bible)The Raven (David Lee Corbo), Top Lobster, and special guest Matt Heppner (Straight Bible host & Standard Coffee Shop owner) deliver another raw, unfiltered episode of Nephilim Death Squad-style cultural commentary and end-times conspiracy.From wild personal dreams (including the legendary “Fat Black Carter” time-travel nightmare and spiritual pee dream interpretations) to roasting polyamory children's books, Pride Month chaos, and James Franco's bizarre viral video (Monsters Inc. promo or something darker?), this episode covers it all.They break down the Hunter Biden laptop scandals, why people defend him, invasive 2030 Census questions, Ford's creepy new truck surveillance patents, Trump body double rumors, and the explosive biblical case that aliens are actually demons — locusts, frogs, reptilians, and Nordics from Revelation and beyond. Flat earth, rapture deception, and pure chaos included.Pure biblical lens. Zero filters. Stay dangerous.Support the show & get early access:Patreon → patreon.com/NephilimDeathSquad (ad-free episodes, Discord, bonus content)Guest Matt Heppner / Straight Bible links:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@StraightBibleFLInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/straightbible/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/StraightBibleSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1rAgp1gB32gBCjFKkJSh7YWebsite: https://www.thestandardclcl.com/Email: straightbiblefl@gmail.comNephilim Death Squad:YouTube • X @NephilimDSquad • Instagram @nephilimdeathsquad • Merch TopLobsta.com0:00 – Intro, Patreon plug, banter about the intro & “perform”3:45 – Dream talk begins: Raven's “Fat Black Carter” time-travel dream12:20 – Dream interpretation (Matt breaks it down spiritually)18:40 – Second dream: The pee dream / pissing on your past24:10 – Children's books discussion (ABCs of Polyamory & fake woke books)32:50 – Bookstores, libraries, D&D books & gay propaganda41:30 – Gay pride rally video (guy gets chased while filming)49:15 – School Pride Month announcement with sequins55:40 – James Franco bizarre video (2319 / Monsters Inc. theory)1:03:10 – Second James Franco video + analysis1:09:45 – Hunter Biden laptop, corruption & why people defend him1:18:20 – Trump rally story with Bella (Hunter Biden mention in speech)1:24:50 – Census 2030 test questions (mom's warning + invasive questions)1:32:10 – “Messages for Mom” video: Aliens = Demons (locusts, frogs, etc.)1:39:30 – Biblical breakdown: Revelation locusts, frogs, reptilians & Nordics1:48:00 – Old trucks vs new cars (Ford surveillance patents)1:55:40 – Bodies, cremation & population conspiracy talk2:02:10 – Final banter, Jacob Israel shade & closing thoughtsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.☠️ Nephilim Death Squad — New episodes 5x/week.Join our Patreon for early access, bonus shows & the private Telegram hive.Subscribe on YouTube & Rumble, follow @NephilimDSquad on X/Instagram, grab merch at toplobsta.com. Questions/bookings: chroniclesnds@gmail.com — Stay dangerous.

New Realities with Alan Steinfeld Disclosure Day, Higher Frequencies, and the Threshold of a New Human Reality Guests, Dr. J.J. Hurtak and Dr. Desiree Hurtak, Linda Moulton Howe Spielberg's Disclosure Day Opens a Bigger Conversation In this episode of New Realities, host Alan Steinfeld gathers a panel to review Steven Spielberg's newly released film Disclosure Day. Alan is joined by longtime UFO investigator Linda Moulton Howe, along with Dr. J.J. Hurtak and Dr. Desiree Hurtak, who bring perspectives from UFO research, consciousness studies, spirituality, ancient texts, and the wider disclosure movement. Alan frames the film as perhaps one of the most anticipated cinematic events in modern UFO culture, because it deals not simply with science fiction, but with the possibility that humanity is being prepared for a deeper truth about non-human intelligence. Frequencies, Clicking Sounds, and Consciousness Communication Linda Moulton Howe begins by emphasizing the importance of frequency in the film. She connects Spielberg's use of clicking sounds and nonverbal communication to government documents, abduction cases, and reports she has heard from experiencers over decades of research. Dr. J.J. Hurtak also highlights the film's treatment of language, sound, and consciousness, contrasting it with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where communication was centered more on tones and music. In Disclosure Day, the panel says Spielberg brings in the human element more fully, suggesting that extraterrestrial contact may involve mind-to-mind communication, frequency, empathy, and higher consciousness rather than ordinary speech alone. From Science Fiction to a Disclosure Bridge Alan and the panel repeatedly stress that they do not see Disclosure Day as merely another science fiction movie. They argue that Spielberg has gathered decades of UFO, UAP, consciousness, government secrecy, telepathy, cover-up, and experiencer material into a film that functions as a bridge between old disbelief and a new cultural acceptance. Alan says Spielberg seems to have been a serious student of the phenomenon, including many familiar themes from UFO research: government secrecy, private industry involvement, recovered craft, mind control, empathy, and the question of whether the public has a right to know. Government, Corporations, and the Machinery of Secrecy A major part of the discussion focuses on the film's depiction of government secrecy and private industry. Alan references the fictional corporation Wardex, which is tied to retrieval and extraction programs, and connects that to real-world claims associated with figures such as Lieutenant Colonel Philip J. Corso. Linda and the Hurtaks discuss how governments may have transferred recovered technologies or sensitive programs into corporate hands to create plausible deniability. Linda traces this secrecy back to World War II and Eisenhower-era briefings, while Alan says the film dramatizes the tension between those who hide the truth and those who believe humanity has a right to know. Fear, Love, and the Human Right to the Truth The panel describes the film as a contest between fear-based secrecy and the higher message of empathy, love, and transcendence. Alan says humanity is caught between fear and higher consciousness, and that the film presents empathy as a key to humanity's future. Linda is especially moved by the final minutes, saying she felt empathy not only for extraterrestrials but also for humanity, because people have not been told the truth as a species. The panel agrees that disclosure should not merely be informational; it should be transformational, helping humans understand themselves as part of a larger cosmic family. Religion, Creation, and the Many Mansions of the Universe The film's spiritual themes are also central to the panel's review. Alan, Linda, and the Hurtaks discuss the Catholic sister character in the film, who recognizes that the universe is too vast to exist only for humanity. They connect this idea to the Book of Genesis, Christ consciousness, the New Testament phrase about “many mansions,” ancient Coptic and Greek texts, and the idea that creation includes many levels of life and intelligence. Rather than seeing extraterrestrial intelligence as opposed to spirituality, the panel presents it as part of a larger divine creation story in which humanity must expand its understanding of soul, consciousness, and cosmic purpose. What Spielberg Shows — and What He Leaves for Later The group praises Spielberg's restraint but also discusses what the film does not fully show. Linda says she wished Spielberg had introduced more kinds of non-human intelligences, including tall whites, Nordics, reptilians, plasma beings, and other forms she has encountered through witness testimony. Alan suggests Spielberg may be taking the public slowly by first introducing one or two categories of extraterrestrial presence before expanding into a wider range of beings. The panel agrees that the film is likely only the beginning of a broader cultural process and that future films, government releases, or public disclosures may reveal a more complicated landscape. Disclosure, Timing, and a Planet Under Pressure The panel repeatedly asks why this film and this moment are happening now. Linda suggests the timing may relate to future geophysical changes, solar activity, rising oceans, environmental instability, and the possibility that extraterrestrial assistance may become necessary for humanity's survival. Alan connects the timing to recent government disclosures and the public release of UFO/UAP information, while Dr. J.J. Hurtak frames the moment as a sociological, psychological, economic, planetary, and spiritual convergence. The group agrees that humanity is being prepared for contact because the old reality is no longer sufficient. The Soul, Empathy, and the Next Stage of Humanity A major theme in the latter part of the program is the soul. Linda shares memories from childhood of feeling a protective pressure in her chest while looking at an image of Christ with lambs, a feeling she still associates with soul, protection, and love. Dr. J.J. Hurtak describes the soul as the inner architecture of life, a field of consciousness that continues beyond the body. Dr. Desiree Hurtak adds that different beings may have different levels of soul evolution, and that humanity is learning to access abilities such as remote viewing, telepathy, and higher-dimensional awareness. Alan says these gifts of the spirit may allow humans to meet non-human intelligences on a more equal footing. “Listen”: The Word at the Doorway The panel gives special attention to the film's final message: listen. They interpret the word as a call to listen to extraterrestrials, higher intelligence, divine purpose, inner senses, compassion, and one another. For Dr. J.J. Hurtak, this connects to sacred language and the ancient call to hear the divine frequency. Alan sees Spielberg's film as a “signifying agent,” a cultural bridge that helps people move from an old reality into new realities. The episode closes with a shared prayer from Linda, “May the thought that dwells in the light protect us forever,” followed by Alan's disclosure-themed song, “Did You See It?”, which he presents as an anthem for this new moment.

Special Free Bonus Episode ! 6-13-2026I am making this previously premium member only episode free to give you an indication of what you could be missing by not upgrading to a premium membership.New episodes of The Alchemical Tech Revolution and Syncromystic will be dropping soon!Greys, and Reptilians, and Mantises, and Nordics ! Oh my !!! With all the high strangeness, rumors, and weird photos circulating on social media, the interest in "aliens" has never been higher. There's nothing new under the sun. The idea of secret agreements with extraterrestrials and alien intervention in world affairs has been present in the ufology community for decades. These same archetypes are being leveraged right now on a much grander scale on the world stage.Reading from the 1967 Frank E. Stranges book of the same name... The story of Valiant Thor, alleged to be an alien from the planet, Venus...www.alchemicaltechrevolution.com

Nordic News and Avi Lobe UAP Science Advisory  #ufonews Professor Avi Loeb @ProfAviLoeb on X Link: https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb/status/2065881608679260563?s=20   Trump with Nordics via Jon Stewart @JonStewartIL on X Link: https://x.com/JonStewartIL/status/2065378615227732366?s=20   Eric Burlison on Nordics via UAPWixy @UAPWixy on X Link: https://x.com/UAPWixy/status/2065630788062982577?s=20  

Nordic News and Avi Lobe UAP Science Advisory  #ufonews Professor Avi Loeb @ProfAviLoeb on X Link: https://x.com/ProfAviLoeb/status/2065881608679260563?s=20   Trump with Nordics via Jon Stewart @JonStewartIL on X Link: https://x.com/JonStewartIL/status/2065378615227732366?s=20   Eric Burlison on Nordics via UAPWixy @UAPWixy on X Link: https://x.com/UAPWixy/status/2065630788062982577?s=20  

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Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organisations, has launched international research commissioned from Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) examining the transformation challenges facing professional services firms. With 60% saying their work volumes will escalate and/or become more complex in the next 12 months, there is an urgent need to modernise business processes. However, firms face significant challenges to retrieve time lost to fixing operational inefficiencies and errors, which are leading to project delivery delays and teams having to work overtime. One group of global respondents indicates a possible way forward, as 33% say they are running their businesses on modern, integrated, cloud-based platforms, and therefore spend less time correcting errors. Compared to global averages these leaders in adopting cloud-native technologies experience less errors in finance reporting (leading firms: 29%; global average: 37%), and budgeting and forecasting (leading firms: 28%; global average: 36%). Firms in the US are the most advanced (36%) in adopting cloud-based systems, compared to Germany (22%) which has the lowest adoption. Business and Professional Services firms are the most advanced (43%) in embracing the cloud ahead of IT Services (36%). "Professional services firms are facing possibly the biggest inflection point in a lifetime as technology disruption and volatile economic conditions encourage clients to reevaluate their use of consulting expertise," said Donna Dobson, Director Professional Services, Unit4. "PAC's research shows why modernisation of core processes is giving leading firms an advantage in terms of productivity and reduction of time lost on manual processes and error correction. As competition heats up, firms understand that limiting the impact on their workforce is crucial to retaining talent and delivering projects more efficiently." 30% of respondents internationally admit to frequent or regular delays in project delivery due to operational inefficiencies, which rises to 34% among IT Services companies compared to only 25% of Business and Professional Services firms. The Nordics has the highest percentage (34%) admitting regular interruptions to project delivery, compared to 26% in Canada. The state of IT infrastructures could indicate a possible cause, as 66% admit relying on fragmented application environments and 19% even rely on multiple systems requiring manual work and spreadsheets – a figure that rises to 30% in Germany. As a result, it is no surprise that many teams complain of having to work additional hours citing a number of reasons including: 68% – monthly or quarter-close bottlenecks 59% – inconsistent data models 55% – outdated technology 47% are being forced to spend time correcting timesheets while teams must work overtime in areas like accounts reconciliation (37%), project cost & profitability management (37%), and project timeline management (36%). More than a quarter (28%) of client-facing specialists spend more than 30% of the working week completing administrative tasks rather than focusing on their core work. IT Services firms struggle most with overtime with 40% regularly needing to work beyond core hours to complete tasks such as timesheet management, budgeting & forecasting and accounts reconciliation. This is concerning, given that IT Services respondents are also the most likely to say their workloads are going to increase and/or become more complex in the next 12 months. "Many professional services firms are being pushed by clients to transform commercial models to better serve their needs, but this is only possible if firms embrace modern cloud-based systems," said Nick Mayes, senior consultant, PAC. "This will give them the agile, scalable foundations to deliver process automation and adopt AI tools, but it will require investment to optimise and integrate existing workflows so that companies have a single view of company-wide information....

Sampo Parkkinen is the Founder and CEO of Revieve, a beauty technology company focused on helping global beauty, skin, health, and wellness brands deliver personalized digital experiences through AI, AR, and computer vision. A serial technology entrepreneur and operator, he has led Revieve since its founding in 2016 and grown it into a platform supporting brands and retailers across their digital consumer journeys. Sampo previously co-founded RapidBlue Solutions, where he served as COO before its acquisition by ShopperTrak. He is also a Venture Partner at Gorilla Capital, where he supports early-stage technology companies across the Nordics. In this episode… Beauty and wellness products are deeply personal, yet most e-commerce experiences still push consumers toward transactions instead of guidance. As AI changes how people discover products, how can brands create digital experiences that feel more helpful, personal, and trustworthy? For Sampo Parkkinen, a serial entrepreneur and investor focused on AI-powered customer experience, the answer is to shift from selling products to helping consumers buy with confidence. He highlights how personalized digital tools can replicate the value of an in-store advisor by listening to customer concerns, analyzing needs, and recommending relevant products across skincare, makeup, hair care, and fragrance. This creates a more intimate brand experience while improving acquisition, conversion, and loyalty. He also explains why reducing friction, avoiding generic quizzes, and positioning AI experiences as personal analysis can dramatically improve engagement. In this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Weisz sits down with Sampo Parkkinen, Founder and CEO at Revieve, to discuss AI, personalization, and the future of the beauty industry. Sampo explores AI-powered product guidance, personalized beauty retail, and how brands can reduce e-commerce friction. He also shares insights on SaaS pricing, onboarding, and his work with Gorilla Capital.

Jörgen Wigh, CEO of Lagercrantz Group Lagercrantz Group has completed 90+ acquisitions over 20 years and never sold one. CEO Jörgen Wigh runs 85 niche B2B companies under a 22-person headquarters with no integration, no exits, and no value realization targets. This is Part 2 of 2. Part 1 covers the deal model, while Part 2 is the operating culture. Jörgen gets into how 85 autonomous companies are governed without a matrix structure, why this model exists almost exclusively in the Nordics, what makes a founder walk away from a signed deal twice, why Lagercrantz deliberately targets a 10% failure rate, and what he would do differently starting from scratch today. What You'll Learn How Lagercrantz governs 85 autonomous companies with 22 people at headquarters Why the person who sources the deal always stays on the board post-close Why the Nordic compounder model exists here and almost nowhere else What makes a founder walk away from a signed deal twice What a 10% deal failure rate looks like when it's working as intended Why building this from scratch today takes at least a decade How cross-border deals get done when the legal contracts run 30 pages instead of 300 If you want to know how your team stacks up against the discipline Jörgen described across both episodes, take the M&A Competency Assessment. ____________________ This episode of M&A Science is presented by DealRoom. DealRoom just launched the only MCP server built for Buyer-Led M&A™ — so your AI and your deal data finally work together. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, or Copilot directly to DealRoom and let your AI read your pipeline, analyze due diligence documents, and automatically write findings back.  See for yourself: dealroom.net/mcp ____________________ Episode Chapters [01:14] Introduction and Part 1 recap [03:54] Deal governance: go/no-go process and board sign-off [04:31] No handoffs: why the deal sourcer stays on the board post-close [04:59] HQ structure: 22 people distributed across geographies [07:05] Why so many compounder platforms come from the Nordics [07:23] The cultural reasons: flat hierarchy, financial transparency, equality [09:19] Nordic management style versus US hierarchy [13:53] Cross-border deal friction: SPA length and legal complexity [24:43] Programmatic serial acquirer versus roll-up [25:18] The 100-day plan question: when Lagercrantz uses one and when it doesn't [25:59] The Bergman & Beving spinout ecosystem: six listed companies [26:45] Jörgen's role at Bergman & Beving and how conflicts are managed [29:57] Geographic expansion: Germany, Netherlands, DACH, Northern Italy [31:30] Starting from scratch today: why programmatic takes 10 years [33:01] EPS as the true long-term performance driver, not stock price [33:52] The perpetual ownership model and why it attracts certain sellers [34:17] The founder who backed out twice, patience won the deal [35:36] Failure rate: targeting 10%, what drives deals off course

This week we're breaking down the cosmic hierarchy and looking at the four most commonly reported types of aliens. Are they visitors from other planets, or are they interdimensional beings that have been here the whole time?First, we tackle the classic Grays, from their 1960s pop culture debut with Betty and Barney Hill to theories that they might just be future humans who overdid it on the gene editing and lost their reproductive organs. Then, we look at the Nordics: the tall, blonde, benevolent space-Swedes who want us to get rid of our nukes (and might be using Grays to do their dirty work). After that, things get truly wild as we dive into the David Icke-popularized conspiracy of shape-shifting, blood-drinking Reptilians allegedly running global politics and hiding out in underground bases. Finally, we discuss the Mantids, the terrifyingly calm seven-foot-tall praying mantis beings who rule the abduction supervisory boards and can apparently turn invisible at will.Join us as we figure out what all these guys' deals are, discuss why future humans would use an eye-needle machine without knocking you out, and explain why a public coffee date is the only acceptable way to meet an extraterrestrial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Vince Phone Booth Podcast CRASHES OUT After Christianity Debate With Nephilim Death Squad! | Neph to America 5/27/26David Lee Corbo (The Raven) and Top Lobster go full send on the explosive fallout with Vince (The Blunt Guy) from Phone Booth Podcast.After a 3-hour Bible interrogation turned struggle session, Vince runs everything through AI, demands a rematch with his AI co-host, gets hit with the "strong delusion," quits his own show, and spirals in what looks like full AI psychosis.Plus: Chuck from Guam live betrayal, AI as the new demonic mirror, Grays as Nordic cyborg slaves, wild Messages from Mom (crime spree TikTok shooter + nuclear targets), Abraham & Isaac deep dive, swimming fails, belly roll drama, and non-stop dangerous retard energy.Is God sending strong delusion to those who reject truth?Vince's new AI-only podcast exposed. Classic Neph to America chaos.Support the show & get early episodes + bonus content: patreon.com/NephilimDeathSquadMerch & Brohemian Grove tickets: toplobster.com  Follow Nephilim Death Squad:X: @NephilimDSquad | @DavidLCorbo (Raven)YouTube/Rumble: Nephilim Death Squad  This is the unfiltered cultural commentary for the end of days. Like, comment "STRONG DELUSION" if you're here for it, and subscribe for more!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.☠️ Nephilim Death Squad — New episodes 5x/week.Join our Patreon for early access, bonus shows & the private Telegram hive.Subscribe on YouTube & Rumble, follow @NephilimDSquad on X/Instagram, grab merch at toplobsta.com. Questions/bookings: chroniclesnds@gmail.com — Stay dangerous.

UFO disclosure is dominating headlines, but could the conversation be about more than extraterrestrials?In this episode, I explore the connections between recent UFO and UAP revelations, alleged alien encounters, the lost city of Atlantis, Jeffrey Epstein's reported interest in eugenics and genetics and those ties to the Nazi breeding programs, and the biblical accounts of Genesis 6, the Nephilim, and the Days of Noah.We'll examine claims surrounding Grays, Nordics, Reptilians, ancient civilizations, transhumanism, breeding programs, and the growing discussion around non-human intelligence. Most importantly, we'll ask what Scripture says about deception, spiritual warfare, and the end times.Are we witnessing the return of ancient narratives under a modern name? Could today's disclosure movement have deeper spiritual implications?In this podcast I cover:• UFO Disclosure & UAP News• Non-Human Intelligence (NHI)• Genesis 6 & The Nephilim• Atlantis & Ancient Civilizations• Jeffrey Epstein & Eugenics• Transhumanism & Genetic Engineering• End Times Prophecy• Spiritual Deception & Discernment• The Days of Noah---------------------------------------------------Amy is a Christian counselor - book an appointment:https://www.biblicalguidancecounseling.com/appointmentsAmy's online Bible studies:https://rumble.com/c/BibleStudywithEyesontheright?e9s=src_v1_cmd

CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey kick off episode 82 on June 1st with the Stanley Cup Finals officially set: Carolina Hurricanes versus Vegas Golden Knights. Poor Caleb's Avs got swept, which explains why he is nowhere to be found. From there the show takes a hard left into alien disclosure territory as the crew debates Nordics, reptilians, insectoids, the COVID vaccine as covert alien warfare, and whether humans are actually the extraterrestrials. Cam brings the Florida content with a debate on Google's 32 million mosquito release, lovebug lore, and a world record 15 foot gator. A deployed soldier catching his girlfriend cheating through home cameras leads into a genuine conversation about power of attorney and military relationships. Then Cam drops Casey, the armless outdoorsman who fishes, fries fish, and mows his lawn with zero arms and zero excuses. The show closes with Alpha showing off his Daniel Defense build and a spirited debate about California gun laws. Men unsupervised. Happy Pride Month, California.

Majestic 12. Greys. Nordics. Reptilians. Insectoids. Secret government programs and the growing alien disclosure movement.In this episode of Branchy dives deep into the history, theories, sightings and alleged agendas surrounding extraterrestrial contact — breaking down the rabbit hole for beginners and asking the question… what if the truth has been hidden in plain sight all along?

In this episode the guys break down why almost everyone should do at least one cycle of powerlifting-style training, regardless of your goal. They cover why the squat, bench press and deadlift are the most underrated tools for building a great physique, how strength is the only objective metric that tells you everything is going right, why powerlifting programing beats bodybuilding programing for most people, and how focusing on strength is one of the best tools for getting people out of body dysmorphia.  They also get into Brian Johnson's perfect 100 sleep score streak on Eight Sleep and his girlfriend's vaginal microbiome flex, the four reported species of aliens now being covered by mainstream news, Justin's son qualifying for nationals in gymnastics, and the AP x Swatch collab that caused global pandemonium. Then they answer questions submitted through Instagram — covering MAPS phase adaptation, lighter weight training strategies, combining running and strength training, and the best rep range for one set to failure. MAPS 15 BOGO — https://maps15bogo.com Buy 1 get 1 FREE — limited time (all 7 MAPS 15 programs same price) SPONSORS Vuori — https://vuoriclothing.com/mindpump 20% off first order — no code needed, automatically applied Eight Sleep (Pod 5 Ultra) — https://eightsleep.com/mindpump Up to $350 off the Pod 5 Ultra. Memorial Day Sale running May 14 – June 12. Paleo Valley (grass-fed meat sticks) — https://paleovalley.com/mindpump 15% off automatically applied at checkout — no code needed LINKS Mind Pump Store: https://mindpumpstore.com  Maps Fitness Products: https://mapsfitnessproducts.com  Instagram: @mindpumpmedia 0:00 - Intro 1:49 - Why almost everyone should do a cycle of powerlifting-style training 4:07 - Powerlifting is skill and movement based — not body part based 7:26 - Why powerlifters have the best technique for the major lifts 9:07 - The three power lifts are the most effective exercises for building a physique 11:07 - Powerlifting programing is better than bodybuilding programing for most people 16:29 - Strength is the only objective metric — why it beats the mirror and the scale 20:00 - How powerlifting focus cured a client's anorexia and body dysmorphia 22:10 - Bret Contreras post — basic programing beats "advanced" programing every time 26:23 - Sal's story — met powerlifters at 16, gained 13lbs of muscle just from squatting 27:44 - Vuori vs. Lululemon — which one actually looks better and holds up longer 29:01 - Leggings through the decades — 80s flashdance, jazzercise & the thong-over-leggings era 31:24 - Sal's cousins call out that Justin is way stronger than him 33:16 - Sal's dad benched 315 at 180lbs with no training 36:48 - Justin's son pulls 300lbs deadlift at 16 — nationals in gymnastics 43:09 - Fox News reports on the four species of aliens — Nordics, Grays, Reptilians & Mantis 46:06 - Antarctica conspiracy, alien AI bases & the Miami Mall incident 49:39 - AP x Swatch collab causes global pandemonium — or did it? 52:48 - Eight Sleep trial data — 44% less time to fall asleep, 34% more deep sleep 55:22 - Brian Johnson's 8-month perfect sleep score streak & girlfriend's microbiome flex 57:49 - Q&A: Do you lose adaptation when moving between MAPS phases? 1:00:12 - Q&A: Lighter weights — slow tempo and fewer reps or normal tempo and higher reps? 1:02:44 - Q&A: How to balance strength training with running 3x a week for 5Ks 1:04:07 - Q&A: What rep range should you use for one set to failure training?  

Bizarre News | Paranormal Podcast This month's Bizarre News has us covering four stories that somehow all ended up connecting — starting with renowned physicist Michio Kaku going on Diary of a CEO and laying out his case that alien life almost certainly exists, UAPs are real but we're still at Close Encounters of the First Kind, and if they wanted us gone we'd already be gone, which is either very reassuring or something we're choosing not to think too hard about. Then we got into a longtime CIA-connected UFO researcher claiming the US government has bodies from four different alien species including Grays, Nordics, Reptilians, and Insectoids, followed by creepy security footage from an oil field in Argentina where workers have been reporting screaming in the night and a traffic cone that very confidently moved itself while nobody was around — local folklore pointing to a duende, a mischievous goblin. We wrapped up with a woman named Kathy McDaniel who had a near-death experience and instead of the peaceful light and deceased relatives everybody talks about, found herself surrounded by fog, shrieking, and a booming voice asking her if she knew where she was.

In this explosive episode of TGI Now Podcast, We welcome our good friend Joey G as we dive deep into the bombshell Fox News segment featuring Jesse Watters, where ex-government researchers and insiders reveal that the U.S. has recovered bodies from crashed UFOs belonging to four distinct non-human species: the classic Greys (small, large-eyed humanoids), towering Nordics (7-foot-tall, human-like "Swedes"), Insectoids (praying mantis-like beings), and Reptilians (scaly, lizard-like entities). We connect the dots to the Book of Enoch—the banned biblical text describing the Watchers, a group of fallen angels who descended to Earth, mated with humans, and produced the giant Nephilim. These "sons of God" taught forbidden knowledge (metallurgy, astronomy, weapons) and corrupted humanity, leading to the Flood. Many researchers see striking parallels: the Watchers as extraterrestrial visitors, their offspring as hybrid beings, and modern alien encounters as a continuation of this ancient spiritual rebellion. Tune in, stay grounded in truth, and prepare your spirit. The veil is lifting—what side are you on? #disclosure #reptilians #foxnews

CIA #Alien DNA Search and Disclosure MadnessArticle:A whistleblower has claimed that the CIA used genetic data from consumer DNA testing companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com to identify individuals with possible extraterrestrial (alien) DNA.Claims:Philosopher Jason Reza Jorjani revealed on the "American Alchemy" podcast that former CIA "psychic spy" Lyn Buchanan told him about the program.Ex-CIA analyst Christopher “Kit” Green allegedly created a backdoor to access DNA data to screen for specific genetic variances linked to non-human beings.The focus is reportedly on "Nordic" aliens — tall, blond, blue-eyed beings who supposedly live covertly among humans (e.g., in small towns in the Colorado Rockies) and pass as Scandinavian.These aliens allegedly came to Earth via an "underground railroad" to escape tyranny on their home planet, interbred with humans, and want their hybrid descendants to live in peace and freedom in America.Additional Details:Buchanan claimed he was approached by three such "Nordics" who asked for help evading CIA detection.He warned against using 23andMe/Ancestry because the government monitors the "other/unknown" ethnicity category in results.This story ties into broader UFO/UAP disclosures, though the Pentagon maintains there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life.The article is framed as sensational "Weird But True" news, relying on second-hand whistleblower accounts without confirmed evidence.AttributionWhistleblower claims CIA used DNA data from Ancestry and 23andMe customers in search for aliensNew York Post Article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/lifestyle/cia-used-dna-from-23andme-ancestry-to-hunt-aliens-whistleblower-claims/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitterRoss Coulthart via Interstellar@InterstellarUAP on XLink - https://x.com/InterstellarUAP/status/2058947450837045391?s=20Tim Burchett via UAP James@UAPJames on XLink - https://x.com/UAPJames/status/2058761757158527047?s=20Philippines Volcano via Daily Loud@DailyLoud on XLink - https://x.com/DailyLoud/status/2059202999604375626?s=20Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tempest-universe--4712510/support.Please follow the #podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTempestUniversePodcast?sub_confirmation=1

CIA #Alien DNA Search and Disclosure Madness Article: A whistleblower has claimed that the CIA used genetic data from consumer DNA testing companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com to identify individuals with possible extraterrestrial (alien) DNA. Claims: Philosopher Jason Reza Jorjani revealed on the "American Alchemy" podcast that former CIA "psychic spy" Lyn Buchanan told him about the program. Ex-CIA analyst Christopher "Kit" Green allegedly created a backdoor to access DNA data to screen for specific genetic variances linked to non-human beings. The focus is reportedly on "Nordic" aliens — tall, blond, blue-eyed beings who supposedly live covertly among humans (e.g., in small towns in the Colorado Rockies) and pass as Scandinavian. These aliens allegedly came to Earth via an "underground railroad" to escape tyranny on their home planet, interbred with humans, and want their hybrid descendants to live in peace and freedom in America. Additional Details: Buchanan claimed he was approached by three such "Nordics" who asked for help evading CIA detection. He warned against using 23andMe/Ancestry because the government monitors the "other/unknown" ethnicity category in results. This story ties into broader UFO/UAP disclosures, though the Pentagon maintains there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life. The article is framed as sensational "Weird But True" news, relying on second-hand whistleblower accounts without confirmed evidence. Attribution Whistleblower claims CIA used DNA data from Ancestry and 23andMe customers in search for aliens New York Post Article: https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/lifestyle/cia-used-dna-from-23andme-ancestry-to-hunt-aliens-whistleblower-claims/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter Ross Coulthart via Interstellar@InterstellarUAP on X Link - https://x.com/InterstellarUAP/status/2058947450837045391?s=20 Tim Burchett via UAP James@UAPJames on X Link - https://x.com/UAPJames/status/2058761757158527047?s=20 Philippines Volcano via Daily Loud@DailyLoud on X Link - https://x.com/DailyLoud/status/2059202999604375626?s=20 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tempest-universe--4712510/support. Please follow the #podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTempestUniversePodcast?sub_confirmation=1

In this episode of The PPW Podcast, Edmund Keith and Harvey Hancock are joined by Christian Printzell Halvorsen, CEO of Vend — the leading operator of marketplaces in the Nordics across real estate, mobility, jobs and re-commerce (Finn, Oikotie, Qasa and more).We discuss the sector-wide share price drop, the CEO's role as a salesperson for the company story, Vend's brand new autonomous AI native team set up to rethink the marketplace model from scratch, the "listings as gatekeepers" debate playing out in the US/Sweden/Australia, and where pure-play advertising stops being enough.Timestamps:00:00 — Intro01:15 — What is Vend? Nordic marketplaces overview (Finn, Oikotie, Qasa)02:53 — Q1 results & real estate performance04:21 — Living with a ~30% share price drop across the sector07:28 — The CEO as salesperson — telling the Vend story post-Schibsted spin-off10:48 — Shaping the narrative (the Zillow example)13:51 — Vend's new autonomous AI native team — outside the existing structure21:35 — Team size, mandate, and how it differs from the Department of AI23:25 — Bold or cautious? Comparing to Scout24's agentic OS announcement25:55 — Is the team a hedge against AI-native challengers?28:12 — Agents & brokerages as gatekeepers — US, Sweden, Australia31:33 — Beyond the marketplace: Dealer Hub and agentic pro tools35:45 — Multi-vertical advantages for AI experimentation41:03 — Pro customer relationships in a tougher monetisation era43:24 — Wrap up and the road to PPW MadridConnect with the team:Edmund Keith — https://www.linkedin.com/in/edmund-keith/Harvey Hancock — https://www.linkedin.com/in/harvey-hancock/Find more from Online Marketplaces at https://www.onlinemarketplaces.com

How do you get really good at GTD? Listen along to get Morten and Lars' takes on this, including: - Various triggers they use to help with better habits - How "putting things in front of your door" helps - How the principles of Deliberate Practice might help in sharpening your skills ..and much more! We hope that our responses help you on your GTD journey. If you have a question for us - perhaps to be picked up in a future listener questions episode - be sure to send it to us to podcast@vitallearning.dk And as always, we'd love for you to follow or connect with us on LinkedIn! We always like to connect with GTD'ers from around the world, you can find the links to our YouTube profiles in the Links below. We have some really cool free webinars coming up, which we really want you to join

Kjetil Houg is the CEO of Folketrygdfondet, the largest institutional investor on the Oslo Stock Exchange, investing across all Nordic markets. Kjetil brings decades of diverse experience in the finance industry. Before taking the helm at Folketrygdfondet, he served as Chief Investment Officer at Oslo Pensjonsforsikring, and previously worked at Folketrygdfondet itself as Chief Economist and Manager back in 2006. Earlier in his career he was a Political Advisor at the Norwegian Parliament. It was great to sit down with Kjetil and learn about his journey and how you succeed as an investor in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Please share, comment and like the episode! It helps a lot. Christopher Vonheim is a Norwegian host focused on business, ocean industries, investing, and start-ups. I hope you enjoy these conversations! Connect on YouTube and LinkedIn for more episodes and updates. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. In part two of this dynamic conversation, Tom Bilyeu sits down with entrepreneur and author Daniel Priestley to unpack the hidden forces shaping today's economic landscape. Together, they dig deep into models of wealth redistribution, the power—and peril—of technological disruption, and why some countries like those in the Nordics seem to make social safety nets work, while others struggle. Daniel Priestley pulls back the curtain on what really drives inequality in the modern era, from government competence to the impact of repeated technological revolutions. The discussion tackles hot topics like universal basic income, the role of sovereign wealth funds, and what future generations can expect as artificial intelligence reaches an inflection point. Whether you're curious about the fate of the middle class, the future of property ownership, or how to stay ahead in a shifting economy, this conversation is packed with actionable insights and bold predictions. Buckle up for a riveting exploration of economics, technology, and the very rules that will define our future. What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER:  https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show SCALING a business: see if you qualify here.:  https://tombilyeu.com/call Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here.: https://tombilyeu.com/ ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Ketone IQ: Visit https://ketone.com/IMPACT for 30% OFF your subscription orderQuince: Free shipping and 365-day returns at https://quince.com/impactpodAT&T Business: Switch to AT&T Business at business.att.com Incogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code IMPACT at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/impactShopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impact Netsuite: Right now, get our free business guide, Demystifying AI, at https://NetSuite.com/Theory Quo: Try for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months at https://quo.com/impact Monetary Metals: Future-proof your wealth at https://monetarymetals.com/impactPique: 20% off at https://piquelife.com/impact Follow Daniel Priestley:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielpriestleyTwitter: https://twitter.com/DanielPriestleyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestleyWebsite: https://danielpriestley.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome back to Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu. In part two of this dynamic conversation, Tom Bilyeu sits down with entrepreneur and author Daniel Priestley to unpack the hidden forces shaping today's economic landscape. Together, they dig deep into models of wealth redistribution, the power—and peril—of technological disruption, and why some countries like those in the Nordics seem to make social safety nets work, while others struggle. Daniel Priestley pulls back the curtain on what really drives inequality in the modern era, from government competence to the impact of repeated technological revolutions. The discussion tackles hot topics like universal basic income, the role of sovereign wealth funds, and what future generations can expect as artificial intelligence reaches an inflection point. Whether you're curious about the fate of the middle class, the future of property ownership, or how to stay ahead in a shifting economy, this conversation is packed with actionable insights and bold predictions. Buckle up for a riveting exploration of economics, technology, and the very rules that will define our future. What's up, everybody? It's Tom Bilyeu here: If you want my help... STARTING a business: join me here at ZERO TO FOUNDER:  https://tombilyeu.com/zero-to-founder?utm_campaign=Podcast%20Offer&utm_source=podca[%E2%80%A6]d%20end%20of%20show&utm_content=podcast%20ad%20end%20of%20show SCALING a business: see if you qualify here.:  https://tombilyeu.com/call Get my battle-tested strategies and insights delivered weekly to your inbox: sign up here.: https://tombilyeu.com/ ********************************************************************** If you're serious about leveling up your life, I urge you to check out my new podcast, Tom Bilyeu's Mindset Playbook —a goldmine of my most impactful episodes on mindset, business, and health. Trust me, your future self will thank you. ********************************************************************** FOLLOW TOM: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tombilyeu/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tombilyeu?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/tombilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TomBilyeu Ketone IQ: Visit https://ketone.com/IMPACT for 30% OFF your subscription orderQuince: Free shipping and 365-day returns at https://quince.com/impactpodAT&T Business: Switch to AT&T Business at business.att.com Incogni: Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code IMPACT at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: https://incogni.com/impactShopify: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at https://shopify.com/impact Netsuite: Right now, get our free business guide, Demystifying AI, at https://NetSuite.com/Theory Quo: Try for free PLUS get 20% off your first 6 months at https://quo.com/impact Monetary Metals: Future-proof your wealth at https://monetarymetals.com/impactPique: 20% off at https://piquelife.com/impact Follow Daniel Priestley:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielpriestleyTwitter: https://twitter.com/DanielPriestleyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestleyWebsite: https://danielpriestley.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The man who helps finance Europe's defence: Robert de Groot, vice president of the European Investment Bank There is a particular kind of power that comes with someone who decides, quietly, which ideas get funded and which don't. Robert de Groot, and his team, holds that power over an extraordinary range of things: military bridges in Poland, rocket launchers in Spain, satellite-to-smartphone startups in Luxembourg, drone intelligence software in Estonia. As Vice President of the world's largest multilateral lender, the EIB sitting on the Kirchberg plateau, his brief covers security, defence, space, and innovation. It is, as he puts it with characteristic understatement, "quite a new direction" for a bank that, not long ago, wouldn't touch defence at all. That has changed. Dramatically. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EIB has rewritten its mandate, opening five distinct financing pillars across the defence and security ecosystem, from large-scale infrastructure to venture equity for startups building things that didn't exist five years ago. De Groot has spent the last two years touring every European capital, sitting down with defence, finance, and interior ministers, and asking “What does Europe actually need, and can we finance it?” "The urgency I hear in private is far greater than what you see in public." What he found on the road was a continent with a perception gap. The Baltic states are operating in a different psychological reality from much of western Europe. For Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the threat from the east is not geopolitics but geography. However, de Groot is cautiously optimistic. Germany has made a near-complete reversal on defence spending in three years. The Nordics have joined NATO. Ministers of Interior are now showing up to defence finance meetings, because the boundary between military security and civil security has dissolved. Cyber attacks, compromised energy grids, sabotaged undersea cables are happening now. The physical problems, meanwhile, are startlingly concrete. Bridges that cannot carry battle tanks. Ports unable to defend against unmanned underwater vehicles. Roads along NATO transit routes from Antwerp through Germany deep into Poland that haven't been maintained to handle today's military hardware. "It sounds absurd," de Groot says, "until you realise it's a multi-billion euro problem." The financing exists. The fixes are underway. But getting three countries to agree on a shared corridor before one of them goes its own way remains the harder challenge. For innovators and entrepreneurs building the dual-use technologies that now sit at the heart of European defence strategy, de Groot offers a map through the financing ecosystem. Early stage? Venture capital funds backed by the European Investment Fund. Series A and B? Venture debt, a product barely known in Europe five years ago, now scaling fast, with Luxembourg companies OQ Technology and Artec 3D among its beneficiaries. Series C and beyond? The European Tech Champions Initiative, designed explicitly to stop European unicorns from decamping to California. And for defence tech specifically, a new Defence Equity Facility of up to one billion euros: real, patient, European capital, with no American relocation clause attached. "The companies I meet across Europe mostly want to stay. We need to make sure the financing is there when they do." On the day of interview, a loan was signed for the Luxembourg Fire Brigade's logistics infrastructure. Security exists at multiple scales simultaneously, from orbital launch capability to the speed at which a fire engine reaches a crisis. Both matter and both require investment. Both represent the same underlying bet: that Europe, if it chooses to move with enough conviction, is more than capable of defending and financing its own future. De Groot, for his part, seems to believe it. The question, as ever, is whether the institutions can move as fast as the moment requires. Robert de Groot is Vice President of the European Investment Bank, responsible for Security, Defence, Space and Innovation Finance.

The U.S. government just dumped a sealed cache of UAP files on May 8th — and the same week, a CIA-affiliated physicist went on Diary of a CEO and claimed there are four separate species of non-human intelligence being held in a black program that's run for 80 years outside Congressional oversight. So I sat down with Bobby — my most grounded, skeptical friend, and one of the original co-hosts of this show — to talk through it with no script.We get into Trump's PURSUE reporting system and the Pursue.gov data drop, the Age of Disclosure documentary as possible mass-preparation psyop, Hal Puthoff and the "Grays, Nordics, Insectoids, Reptilians" claim, the suspicious death of aerospace engineer Amy Eskridge and the wave of missing NASA scientists, Chris Bledsoe's orb encounters, Filippo Bondi's radar scans revealing a possible second Sphinx and Hall of Records under the Giza plateau, and Edgar Cayce's 1932 prophecy that may have just come true.Bobby pushes back. I push forward. Somewhere in the middle is the truth.If this conversation moves you, share it with one person who needs to hear it. Subscribe for the long-form rabbit holes mainstream media won't touch.

For decades, UFOs were treated like a joke.Now the Pentagon is releasing footage, Congress is holding hearings, and whistleblowers are claiming the government knows far more than it admits.In this episode of Is This Real?, JC3 and Big Joe dive into the modern UFO phenomenon, the infamous TicTac Incident, alien species theories, government secrecy, media manipulation, and the growing discussion surrounding “non-human intelligence.”Are we witnessing real disclosure… or just a new era of fear, misinformation, and internet-fueled paranoia?Topics include:The TicTac IncidentPentagon UFO footageDavid Grusch & whistleblower claimsRoswell & Project Blue BookGrays, Reptilians, Nordics & Mantis beingsGovernment secrecyUFO hearingsMedia coverage of UAPsAre aliens real?What do YOU think is really going on?#UFO #Aliens #UAP #Conspiracy #GovernmentSecrets #IsThisReal #Paranormal #Podcast #Roswell #Disclosure

 Neph to America Full House Edition: Alien Disclosure Goes Mainstream! Jesse Watters, Pentagon UFO Files, Greys, Nordics, Reptilians & Insectoids ExposedDavid Lee Corbo (The Raven) and Top Lobsta are joined by Thomas the Paranoid American and Matthew Hepner for a no-holds-barred deep dive into the latest bombshell alien disclosure. Fox News, Pentagon UFO releases, non-human intelligence (NHI), and the four major alien species — Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, and Mantis/Insectoids — take center stage in this wild end-times cultural commentary.We explore whether this is genuine disclosure or demonic deception, Mike Heiser's Elohim framework, interdimensional beings, Men in Black stories, secret space programs, and how the Overton Window on aliens has completely shifted.From Jesse Watters' prime-time segment to whistleblowers, craft recoveries, and the spiritual battle behind the scenes — nothing is off limits.If you're into conspiracy theories, UFOs, reptilians, grey aliens, Nordic aliens, or biblical prophecy colliding with modern disclosure, this episode is essential listening.Support the show & get early access, ad-free episodes, private community, and merch discounts: Patreon.com/NephilimDeathSquad  Follow the guests:Thomas the Paranoid American → paranoidamerican.comMatthew Hefner (Straight Bible) → Follow via Nephilim Death Squad channels  Subscribe, drop a comment with your favorite alien theory, and turn on notifications — more unfiltered Neph to America coming soon.Socials for Guests:Thomas the Paranoid American  Website: paranoidamerican.com  Instagram: @paranoidamerican  X/Twitter: @ParanoidAmericaMatthew Hepner (host of Straight Bible)Primarily active through Nephilim Death Squad / NDS community platforms and Patreon. Follow the show for his latest appearances.00:00 - Intro, Patreon Plug & Guest Introduction  03:45 - Jesse Watters Fox News UFO/Alien Disclosure Segment  08:20 - The Four Alien Types Revealed (Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, Insectoids)  14:10 - Wild Conspiracy Tangents (Tiamat, Moon as Starship, Dead Aliens)  19:50 - Timothy Alberino (“Daddy”) & Previous Show Drama  24:30 - Is This Real Disclosure or Controlled Rollout?  30:15 - Buzz Aldrin, Moon Landing Secrets & Missing Time  35:40 - Tim Burchett on Government Secrecy & Scientist Deaths  40:25 - Secret Space Program & Eisenhower's Great-Granddaughter  46:10 - Childhood's End, Alien PR Campaign & Nordic Preference  52:50 - Live Phone Call: Levi Collins on Queen of Heaven (Revelation 18:7)  57:30 - Neil deGrasse Tyson Finally Admits UFOs Are Real  1:02:15 - Mike Heiser, Elohim, & Demonic Deception Theory  1:09:40 - Oklahoma City Bombing, Angels & Demons in Smoke  1:14:20 - Orthodox Church Criticism & Salvation Gatekeeping  1:22:00 - Race Realism, Grandkids, Preferences & Alien Integration  1:33:45 - DeCarlos Brown Jr. Stabbing & “Man-Made Material” Mind Control  1:40:10 - Transhumanism & Trans Surgery Horror Stories (Fish Skin Vagina)  1:45:50 - John Dee, Freemasonry & Sean Stone on Tucker Carlson  1:47:30 - Outro & Death Squad ThemeBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/nephilim-death-squad--6389018/support.☠️ Nephilim Death Squad — New episodes 5x/week.Join our Patreon for early access, bonus shows & the private Telegram hive.Subscribe on YouTube & Rumble, follow @NephilimDSquad on X/Instagram, grab merch at toplobsta.com. Questions/bookings: chroniclesnds@gmail.com — Stay dangerous.

Ep 186: May 21, 2026 - Did Eisenhower Have Secret Edwards AFB Meeting with E.T.s on February 19, 1954? Rebroadcast from June 29, 2022. Linda is on vacation with family, please enjoy this special rebroadcast. More details from Linda's aerospace source Eisenhower Blues album “Nordics are more concerned with keeping the peace” “Nordics and the tall pale whites working together” “..monitor this region of space” “watching over” Rumors of Eisenhower meeting ET's at Edwards AFB interview with Paul Blake Smith, author of numerous books MO41 The Bombshell Before Roswell  www.MO41.info President Eisenhower's Close Encounters JFK and the Willard Hotel Plot Books available on Amazon.com Cristoforo Barbato, author of “Vatican and UFOs: Secretum Omega” Jesuit priest an internal source by Paul Blake Smith Cardinal James Francis McIntyre along with Eisenhower met ETs at Edwards AFB on February 19, 1954 Second landing at Edwards AFB in April, 1956 aliens spoke English trying to warn against nuclear testing “SIV ‘Vatican secret service'” did the Pope meet with ETs inside Vatican? Is the Vatican thinking of announcing the presence of ETs? ===== #LindaMoultonHowe #Earthfiles — For more incredible science stories, Real X-Files, environmental stories and so much more. Please visit my site https://www.earthfiles.com — Be sure to subscribe to this Earthfiles Channel the official channel for Linda Moulton Howe https://www.youtube.com/Earthfiles. — To stay up to date on everything Earthfiles, follow me on FaceBook@EarthfilesNews and Twitter @Earthfiles.  To purchase books and merchandise from Linda Moulton Howe, be sure to only shop at my official Earthfiles store at https://www.earthfiles.com/earthfiles-shop/ — Countdown Clock Piano Music:  Ashot Danielyan, Composer:  https://www.pond5.com/stock-music/100990900/emotional-piano-melancholic-drama.html

Walter Sterling continues his deep dive into UFO disclosures with Spaced Out Radio host Dave Scott, discussing reports of multiple alien species, including Greys, Nordics, Reptilians, and Mantis beings, along with questions about whether crashed craft were really shot down. Walter also takes calls from the Midnight Misfits on ancient civilizations, underwater intelligence, government secrecy, Bucky's, and the possibility that humanity is only one chapter in a much older story. Plus, Walter revisits the mystery of old fireplaces as possible free-energy systems, rising electric bills, elite control, Britney Spears' latest troubles, and a wild Florida story involving a camel, a road trip, and one unforgettable gas station stop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have to do a FULL Weekly Review every week? Listen along to get Morten and Lars' takes on this, including: - What happens if you don't do your Weekly Review - How you can overwhelm yourself with Weekly Reviews when time is tight - How they do their mini-Weekly Reviews when needed ..and much more! We hope that our responses help you on your GTD journey. If you have a question for us - perhaps to be picked up in a future listener questions episode - be sure to send it to us to podcast@vitallearning.dk And as always, we'd love for you to follow or connect with us on LinkedIn! We always like to connect with GTD'ers from around the world, you can find the links to our YouTube profiles in the Links below. We have some really cool free webinars coming up, which we really want you to join

Albert Franch Sunyer is the chef and co-owner of Restaurant Nolla in Helsinki, Finland. Born in a small mining town in Catalonia in Spain, as a young student he left his biology studies behind, to explore his passion for cooking at Michelin-starred restaurants in Barcelona. As a pastry and dessert chef, he worked in Thailand and then moved to work at Helsinki's top restaurants. He and his two colleagues then opened Nolla, a pioneering restaurant in sustainable gastronomy, and the first zero-waste restaurant in the Nordics. In the podcast, we will hear about Albert Franch Sunyer's desire to serve great food without compromising zero-waste values and about his vision of the progressive changes that are needed in the restaurant industry. At the end of the podcast he will reveal his favourite restaurants in Helsinki, Barcelona and the rest of the world. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why is Clarify so important in Getting Things Done® (GTD)? Listen along to get Morten and Lars' takes on this, including: - How they see people experiencing the Clarify step in trainings - How unclear things (or things on the wrong list) increase procrastination - Why Lars doesn't teach drag-n-drop in list managers ..and much more! We hope that our responses help you on your GTD journey. If you have a question for us - perhaps to be picked up in a future listener questions episode - be sure to send it to us to podcast@vitallearning.dk And as always, we'd love for you to follow or connect with us on LinkedIn! We always like to connect with GTD'ers from around the world, you can find the links to our YouTube profiles in the Links below. We have some really cool free webinars coming up, which we really want you to join

Team Monocle lands in Sharjah to see how the UAE has built resilience into its global trade and bet on education to further develop its status as an international hub. Plus: the latest from Indonesia and the Nordics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.