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In this episode of the Big Bad Broadcast, John and Mike dive into a variety of topics ranging from politics to personal anecdotes. We kick off the show with a light-hearted jab at each other, particularly focusing on John’s sometimes rude demeanor. We express our gratitude to our friends in the entertainment industry, including Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling and Tommy Chong, and share some humorous insights about the current political landscape, particularly regarding Trump and his views on education. The conversation shifts to our own educational experiences, with Mike recounting his journey through community college and John sharing stories about his children’s college experiences, including the surprising rise of the University of Northern Florida. As we reminisce about our youth, we reflect on the pressures of high school sports and the rigorous schedules that young athletes face. Mike shares a funny story about his son’s football experience, while John reflects on his own college days, filled with mischief and a lack of focus. The episode takes a personal turn as I share my recent vacation to the Dominican Republic, where I encountered both the beauty of the resort and the chaos of a family-friendly atmosphere. We laugh about the absurdity of seeing 300-pound women in thongs and the challenges of enjoying a vacation amidst rowdy crowds. We also discuss the importance of family connections, particularly through sports, and how our experiences with our fathers have shaped our relationships with our own children. The episode wraps up with a discussion about the ups and downs of dental visits and the quirks of life, all while maintaining our signature humor and camaraderie. Join us for a fun and engaging episode filled with laughter, personal stories, and a bit of nostalgia! It's The Big Bad Broadcast - Had Some Fun, Gotta Run... 

I'm headed to the United Kingdom, specifically Wales, to watch a Wrexham football match. Wrexham is in the European Football League, which we Americans call soccer, and it's been incredibly exciting. I don't know if you've seen the Netflix documentary by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, but they bought this team, and it's been amazing to watch them evolve and earn promotions. They've been doing really well, and it's a blast to cheer them on. I wouldn't have discovered Wrexham or its strong sense of community if not for my good friends, Jenn  and Cass. They live on the West Coast, and we've known each other for over 28 years. I haven't seen them in person since before COVID, which is more than five years ago.  What I love about this Wrexham excitement is how it has reconnected us in a meaningful way. We've always been friends and supported each other, but this shared interest reignited and deepened our bond. So for today's Wise Walk, let's slow down, check our reality, and ask ourselves these questions. What relationship in your life do you want to rekindle, reconnect, or reinvigorate? What shared interests might you bring in to energize it? How can you approach it differently and find new common ground? Could setting aside time for consistent reunions, virtual or in person, help? How can you reinvigorate meaningful relationships that have faded due to time, distance, or busyness? What steps can you take to refocus them in your life? Is there someone in your life that you would love to share one of your passions with? Do you think of a person often, still talk on the phone, and stay connected, but feel that life has evolved? What new interest could you find to bond over and elevate your conversations? How can you get energized and find reasons to show up and do things together, either in person or virtually? How can you grow together and show up for each other in this rekindled connection? How can you support each other as you reestablish and strengthen your friendship? What steps can you take to ensure your rekindled connection keeps getting better over time? Is there a relationship in your life that maintains deep connections across time, distance, and space? Have you expressed to that person how important your connection is to you? Have you let them know you appreciate being in this together and look forward to evolving together? Are you open to finding new shared interests to strengthen your bond? Do you make an effort to learn about what's happening in their life beyond your shared interests? How can you show up and pay more attention to deepen your connection? What is the rhythm of your relationships and how can you honor that rhythm to keep them alive? Are you in a relationship where you can naturally ebb and flow, calling and catching up as you can? Do you need to be more scheduled and intentional about securing time to nurture your relationship? Can you plan a joint activity that you both look forward to, whether it's local or abroad? How can you maintain consistent touchpoints while also planning special events to cherish together? What steps can you take to create a balance between regular communication and memorable shared experiences? As we wrap up, remember to stay curious and open-minded in your relationships. Embrace new opportunities for joy and fun, allowing your connections to evolve while fostering personal growth.    Keep the spirit of friendship alive, whether you're cheering for your favorite team or embarking on your own adventures. Until our next Wise Walk, tune in every Thursday for a new episode.    In this episode: [03:46] A quick recap of my relationships with Jenn and Cass. [05:13] We've reunited because of our shared interest in football. [06:02] It's so nice to know that you can rekindle a relationship and that passion you share spans time and distance. [07:51] I'm in Northern Florida and Jenn and Cass are in Northern California. We're 3,000 miles apart and Wales is across the pond. [08:30] Technology has a beautiful way of bringing us all together. [10:59] I'm excited about the match and a reunion with Jenn. Unfortunately, Cass isn't going to be able to make the trip.  [11:31] We are open to appreciating the friends we have, and expanding and growing our circles. [14:14] It's important to be open and curious in relationships.   Memorable Quotes: “When you have a relationship with those deep roots, and even if life has evolved and things have changed, it's so easy to reestablish that connection with just a little bit of spark.” - Mary Tess “It's beautiful when you can figure out what is the rhythm of the relationships and how can you keep them alive honoring that rhythm.” - Mary Tess “We are at a phase in life where we are appreciating the friends we have. And then we're also growing in relationships with individuals that share common interests.” - Mary Tess   Links and Resources: Mary Tess Rooney Email Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram Heart Value  

This episode we look at Port Jackson Sharks! We discuss what to do if you find a shark egg, and News regarding Cuttlefish and sharks in Northern Florida.Come take a dive!Links to all Socials:https://taplink.cc/deepdiveswithsharks?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaYmGwEgFfzYN-0sort4HiT39JKXMTrgPETbHkQFNWT4ZjK-Sg_eiAqnM0w_aem_7JgCweOYaI6lyF3_iFdxcQ

Send us a textTune in to Season 5, Episode #169 of Boroughs & Burbs as we explore Northern Florida's booming new development market with real estate experts Jennifer Martin Faulkner and Kim Martin-Fisher from Douglas Elliman. With rapid growth across cities like Jacksonville, St. Augustine, and beyond, Jennifer and Kim share insider insights on the hottest neighborhoods, the region's unique appeal to buyers, and the driving forces behind its expansion. We'll also dive into how new developments are shaping Northern Florida's real estate landscape, including the Four Seasons Private Residences in Jacksonville. Don't miss this discussion on opportunities in this rapidly evolving market, and what to expect heading into 2025!

Today on America in the Morning   LA's Newest Wildfire Fifty Thousand Southern California residents are under evacuation orders as the Hughes fire rages out of control and grew to more than 8,000 acres in just a few hours, forcing the closure of Interstate 5 in Los Angeles. Lisa Dwyer reports rain expected this weekend cannot come soon enough.     Reaction To J6 Pardons President Trump's decision to pardon and commute Americans convicted or charged in the January 6th Capitol riot is drawing both praise and backlash. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.    Trump Targets DEI President Trump has ordered all Federal agencies to place any employees working on DEI to be put on paid administrative leave, effective immediately.     Nashville School Shooting Two students are dead and a third was injured during a shooting inside Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Pamela Furr has the details from Nashville.    More Details On Border Agent Killing More is being learned about a border patrol agent, shot to death by a German national during a traffic stop near the US-Canadian border in Vermont. Correspondent Haya Panjwani reports.    Trump's Russia Threat President Trump threatened Russia to end their war with Ukraine, but the penalties he's putting forward likely wouldn't impact the Russian economy. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports.    Polling Immigration Opinions seem to vary when it comes to immigration enforcement, but not when the topic is border security.  Correspondent Jennifer King reports on the latest findings of an Associated Press poll.     Deadly Deep South Deep Freeze It's being called the Deep South's worst winter storm in 120 years as a blizzard has blasted the Gulf Coast states from East Texas to Northern Florida, and it has turned deadly with at least 10 people who have lost their lives due to the frigid temperatures. Correspondent Julie Walker reports the historic storm for some trying to make the best of it has become a winter wonderland.    Passing Trump's Agenda President Trump is meeting with more Republicans through the week as the GOP tries to figure out how to enact his agenda. Washington correspondent Sagar Meghani reports that Mike Johnson, speaking on Fox News with Sean Hannity, says the GOP must make budget cuts that will support the American people.     Rhodes To Capitol Hill One of the people who was found guilty serving a sentence of 18 years for seditious conspiracy from his actions on January 6, 2021, and received a pardon from President Trump went to Capitol Hill. Correspondent Haya Panjwani reports.    Soldiers To The Border The Defense Department has ordered 1,500 additional active-duty troops to the border with Mexico, just two days after President Trump signed an executive order on immigration.     House Passes Laken Riley Act On Capitol Hill, the GOP-led House voted on the Laken Riley Act, which could soon head to President Trump's desk. Correspondent Clayton Neville reports.    Trump Wants Sermon Apology President Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal Bishop of Washington for what she said during her sermon, which included compassion and mercy for immigrants and members of the LGBTQ community, which some have said went too far. The latest from correspondent Sue Aller.    Saudi-US Investments Fox News is reporting that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the President in a phone call the kingdom plans to put together $600 billion dollars into new investments and trade with the U.S. over the next four years.     Finally   The leader of Parliament-Funkadelic and The Doobie Brothers are among the new members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Jennifer King reports. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Kathleen Ferguson, the visionary CEO and founder of Coach360. Kathleen opens up about her personal journey from a personal trainer to a leading figure in the fitness industry, spurred by a poignant personal tragedy that shaped her mission to empower others through coaching. Her encounters with industry icons Peter and Kathy Davis were pivotal, providing guidance and inspiration as she navigated her path to success. Kathleen also shares her insights on maintaining an active lifestyle in Northern Florida's chilly climate, reflecting on our recent discussion with Andrew Coleman and his thought-provoking documentary.We tackle the pressing issue of burnout in the fitness industry, drawing on Kathleen's experience to highlight the importance of pacing and developing a broad skill set. New trainers, eager to make their mark, often find themselves overextended, and we explore strategies for sustainable growth. Kathleen emphasizes the gap in business training within current certification programs and the initiatives aimed at equipping trainers with essential business acumen. By understanding these principles, trainers can retain clients and grow their businesses, ultimately fostering a thriving career in fitness.Our discussion underscores the transformative power of coaching and the irreplaceable value of human connection. From adapting coaching styles through life experiences like motherhood and aging, to recognizing the impact of Femtech on women's fitness, Kathleen's vision for Coach360 shines through. This media platform is dedicated to empowering coaches and connecting them with opportunities that align with their values. By fostering a community-driven approach and reducing job turnover, Coach360 aims to elevate the quality of coaching and positively impact consumer health. Tune in to learn how passion, adaptability, and human touch define success in this dynamic industry.

In this episode of STR Data Lab, Jamie sits down with Lydia Patel, a full-time pharmacist and short-term rental investor. Lydia shares how she started in the short-term rental market in 2020, initially learning about long-term rentals before transitioning. She talks about how she turned a tiny house in her backyard into a successful Airbnb listing. Covering her experience, Lydia mentions how analyzing data plays a crucial role in her investment decisions, driven partly by her healthcare background. She highlights the importance of looking at similar listings, their occupancy, and average daily rates to estimate revenue accurately. Lydia also shares insights on choosing investment markets, specifically how she settled on Northern Florida for a family-friendly environment.  The conversation further dives into her market analysis process and her interest in Wisconsin Dells, only to decide against it after a deeper dive due to oversupply concerns. Lydia explains her practice of regular market reviews, which helps her stay competitive and informed about new listings and market dynamics. As she considers adding a pool to her Florida property, she weighs the pros and cons, emphasizing the importance of concrete data in her decision-making process.  Finally, Lydia touches on her long-term plans, discussing the potential of adding new properties to her portfolio and her philosophy of treating guests as if they were family. Throughout the episode, Lydia stresses continuous learning and consistent market analysis to refine her short-term rental business. You don't want to miss this episode! ~~~~ https://www.youtube.com/@lydiapatelll ~~~~ Signup for AirDNA for FREE

Jeff Domenick is a well-respected and experienced leader in the landscape industry, with a career spanning over 25 years. Jeff's leadership and industry experience have been instrumental in the acquisition, integration, and assimilation of six market-leading companies to establish KeyServ's platform. Before founding KeyServ Company, Jeff led the Mountain West Division of SiteOne Landscape Supply, where he transformed the region with the acquisition and integration of eleven family-owned companies and achieved strong year-over-year organic growth. Jeff has also held leadership positions with leading design/build and maintenance firms, and industry manufacturing companies. In addition to his professional achievements, Jeff is also committed to giving back to his community. He volunteers as a mentor with Florida's Take Stock In Children program, which provides either a four-year scholarship to a school within the Florida University System or a qualified technical/trade school when the student successfully completes the program. When he's not busy leading KeyServ Company or volunteering, Jeff enjoys captaining his boat and spending time with his wife and two kids in Northern Florida.

Diving into the life and greatness of Jackie Cochran from her autobiography.-----"To live without risk for me would have been tantamount to death."- Jackie Cochran4:25 - An upbringing of povertyUntil I was eight years old I had no shoes. My bed was usually a pallet on the floor and sometimes just the floor…Food at best consisted of the barest essentials–sometimes nothing except what I foraged for myself in the woods of the Northern Florida sawmill towns my foster family called home. And we were always a little hungry.8:50 - Feeling different10:25 - Stubbornness wins13:20 - The dream14:10- The power of hardship Because of where I came from and then where I went, I ended up understanding intimately one very sustaining line of life: I could never have so little that I hadn't had less.17:30 - Aviation and a reason for living 20:45 - Signs that you're on the right path23:20 - Speed with safety 26:10 - Challenging the norms/ambition29:35 - Facing fear “Do you know what you call that? Guts. Jackie would get in there, in a race, in a contest, in a jet trying to set a new record, and she'd keep pushing, because she had the guts."36:35 - Breaking the sound barrier38:00 -Lessons/takeaways-----You can check out my book, website, and apparel below: WebsiteBook: Chasing Greatness: Timeless Stories on the Pursuit of Excellence  ApparelInstagram

We find out where your beef checkoff dollars are being spent and why.  Plus we have market updates, horses and hay for sale and lots more on this all new episode of the Ranch It Up Radio Show. Be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcasting app or on the Ranch It Up Radio Show YouTube Channel.   EPISODE 207 DETAILS How Are Beef Checkoff Dollars Spent & Cattle News Where Your Beef Checkoff Dollars Go Beef Checkoff Budgets Explained The Beef Checkoff takes one dollar for every head of cattle sold and applies it to marketing campaigns and the promotion of beef and beef products.  But many producers wonder where the Beef Checkoff dollars are spent and how and are unaware of where to find this information. Andy Bishop, Chairman of The Cattlemen's Beef Board breaks down what the beef checkoff is and the 2025 operating budget.  You can always view this information by heading to the Beef Board's Website. Latest Beef Industry News Florida's Cultivated Meat Ban A U.S. District Court in Northern Florida denied Upside Foods' request for a preliminary injunction on Florida's ban of cultivated meat. Chief Judge Mark Walker ruled the federal Poultry Products Inspection Act does not override the state's ban on the sale, distribution, or manufacture of cultivated meat. Upside Foods, based in Berkeley, California, sued Florida in August, arguing the law, effective July 1, is unconstitutional. The company has publicly opposed the law, including a "Freedom of Food" event featuring its cultivated chicken. The lawsuit continues as the court addresses the ban's constitutionality.  For the complete article click HERE. McDonald's Lawsuit Accuses Suppliers Of Fixing Prices McDonald's Corp. is suing nine beef processors, including Cargill, JBS, National Beef, and Tyson Foods, alleging they conspired to inflate beef prices since 2015. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, claims the companies worked together to limit slaughter-ready cattle and manipulate beef supply, violating the Sherman Act. McDonald's seeks a declaration of the conspiracy, triple damages, and a permanent injunction to stop the alleged collusion. The companies have not commented on the case.  For the complete article, click HERE. RanchChannel.Com Now Has The Futures Markets Futures Markets RanchChannel.com now has futures markets at your fingertips!  Feeder Cattle, Live Cattle, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Soybean Oil, Milk Class IV, and Ethanol.  Information is provided by DTN and market information may be delayed by as much as 10 minutes.  Click Here for more information! 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Often, when I coach a client, we begin the session with three breaths. These breaths are meant to align our rhythms and heartbeats, and to allow us, as individuals, to release anything that happened before we came together. The words I use while we inhale and exhale together may vary. Sometimes I'll say, "Let's take a nourishing breath," or "Let's take a grounding breath," or even "Let's take a restorative breath." These words change based on what I sense in the moment, but I love the idea of taking three breaths because it centers me and connects me with my client. It also sets the intention to be fully present and hold a safe space for one another.  I always appreciate that clients respond positively to this practice. They might be rushing to meet with me or dealing with something that happened earlier, so this moment of breathing gives them time to regroup. In addition, if my client is going through a big life transition or something heavy, another practice I may incorporate into our conversation is a practice of gratitude. On today's Wise Walk, I thought we could slow down, check our reality, and ask ourselves these questions: Do you have a daily practice where you slow down, connect with your breath, and practice gratitude? Can you start to incorporate a practice of gratitude to help you move through life's heavy moments? As you look at your day, or you look at the coming weeks, is there anything that you have anxiety about?  Is there anything that feels a bit heavy for you?  What can you do to incorporate a practice of gratitude to help you move through transitions with a little bit more inner peace? What are some ways you can practice gratitude on a daily basis? Do you journal? What am I grateful for at this moment?  Would you rather practice gratitude in the morning? Do you have a cup of coffee and just allow yourself to be present in the moment?  Can you put where you feel aligned and blessed into words? Can you hold that sentiment in your heart to practice gratitude in whatever way feels aligned for you? Do you have what you need? What is really supporting you?  Who is in your life that you feel grateful for? Can you tell them? What are some of the things that you experienced today that you feel grateful for? What are some things that you're looking forward to that are going to support you on your journey? I am so grateful for each and every one of you. You continue to surprise and delight me. I received some great feedback from the last episode, and I'll be reflecting more on it. So, thank you again. I'm also feeling thankful that my power is back on! I will hold you in my heart as I practice gratitude daily, and I look forward to our next conversation on Thursday. Please join me again for next week's Wise Walk. Until then, be sure to practice gratitude, prioritize fun, read the signs, direct your path, and get your stride.   In this episode: [04:53] This past week, Florida, and a lot of different states, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and some parts of Tennessee, were impacted by Hurricane Helene. [05:17] It was intense with a lot of stress and emotions. [06:01] I live in Northern Florida so I wasn't directly in the path, but we still experienced high winds, tornado warnings and lost power. [06:40] Practicing gratitude really helped me take the storm in stride. I know I am very blessed. Practicing gratitude helped me feel all the positives that I had in that moment, and that I could take that with me wherever I went. [08:11] Everything is relative. "The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see." - Dr. Robert Holden [11:48] Practicing gratitude has multiple health benefits from boosting your immune system, increasing red blood cells, and even decreasing stress. [12:50] Practicing gratitude can even help reduce pain and depression. [14:08] A lot of times we pay attention to what's not going right. If we can flip that script things will go better for us. [14:45] A grateful mind is a great mind.   Memorable Quotes: “I love this idea of my clients taking three breaths, just because it centers them in the moment, it connects them with their breath.” - Mary Tess “Mother nature, who is unpredictable, and strong, and beautiful, but can also be destructive in different ways, so we have to adjust to the elements.” - Mary Tess “Practicing gratitude really helped, ground and center me in this moment of changing my perspective and helping me move through the heaviness.” - Mary Tess “Practicing gratitude helps reinforce our brain's ability to get to a place of gratitude easier, and reconnect or revisit those emotional experiences that elevate us and boost us.” - Mary Tess Links and Resources: Mary Tess Rooney Email Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram Heart Value  

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The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT LED video wall technology is now so pervasive, and there are soooo many vendors, that it is increasingly hard for manufacturers to differentiate and compete. That's compounded by a lot of manufacturers selling on specs like pixel pitch, and the form factor of their products. Very few, however, spend much if any time talking about the why and what of video wall projects - as in why is this project being considered, what's it for, and also what's going to be on the screen when it gets plugged in. So I was intrigued when I was in touch with Chanan Averbuch, a South Florida LED industry vet. I learned he'd left his longtime executive sales gig with an LED display vendor to join a spinout that makes premium LED displays, but leads with creative. The company is called Blue Square X - with the X being short for experience. While most manufacturers just make the stuff, and ship it to integrators, Blue Square plans to bridge a couple of gaps - acting as consultants and producing creative for digital experiences ... with integrator partners doing the final install. Subscribe from wherever you pick up new podcasts. TRANSCRIPT Chanan, thank you for joining me. We've traded messages on LinkedIn and everything else and as we were saying before I turned on the recording, we probably had a brush by, “Hey, how are you doing?” I think at some trade show, but we haven't chatted at length. Can you tell me what your company Blue Square X does, because I'm unfamiliar.  Chanan Averbuch: Sure. Blue Square, I guess you could more or less call it the parent company has been in business for over 10 years. But Blue Sqaure X is a relatively new venture, leveraging more of my background and my partner's background in the space, and inside Blue Sqaure X, I'm focused on the innovation side more so than anything else. So Blue Square X is displays that are 90 inches and larger on the LCD side, and on the LED side, everything from, 110 inches all the way to unlimited sizes. We have projects we're doing that are a hundred-foot-long LED walls and 40 feet high, concave, convex, curved, all that stuff.  But Blue Square X at the end of the day is not another led company. We're focused on the experience first, which means content first, software second, and LED third.  Yeah, which is quite different because, through the years I've had no end of companies, relate stories about how they sold big LED displays, had them installed and then the customer would look at them and say, “This is great, what should we put on the screen?” like an afterthought.  Chanan Averbuch: I've gotten that over the years, time and time again, somebody will have the brain fart of, “Wow, it would be really cool if we did a sports bar instead of a bunch of TVs, let's do LED.” Okay, and then two weeks before the grand opening, “Wait, what are we doing on this thing from 8 am to 4 pm when we're not watching sports games when there's no live sports?” So we did digital art in those spaces.  So you're, the terminology I use is, a solutions provider in that you're not a pure play integrator because an integrator doesn't tend to think about content or experience so much. There's the odd one that does, but for the most part, we put together the projects we deploy, maybe we manage them, but we don't really think that much about what's on the screen. Chanan Averbuch: Spot on. I think one of the key issues that I've experienced over almost the last two decades in the AV industry is that most of the channel has thought about how to move a box and has never really thought about what the client is trying to feel from an emotional perspective in a space.  What are they trying to create when someone walks into a space, when they leave a space, how do they want them to feel? I think in the era now where you're trying to get employees to come back to work, right? It doesn't matter if you're in the US, on the Democratic side or the Republican side, it doesn't make a real difference. If you want employees to come back to work, you have to give them a compelling reason for what it feels like when you come to the office beyond the barista, the coffee bar, and the cereal crap, you gotta have more of an experience too, oh my gosh, I love going to the office. It makes me feel a certain way, and that's where experience matters.  Do you find that many end users have their heads around what they want to do? Because I know from my consulting experience that I will ask customers what they want to do and why, and quite often they'll lean back in their chairs and think, I haven't really thought about that.  Chanan Averbuch: To be brutally honest with you, what was always my struggle for the last 13 years is trying to get people to understand what to try to make a space feel like, and I've been blessed in the early days now in Blue Square X, when we, in a very stealth mode, went to market, our first projects were actually luxury retail and it's not luxury retail where you would historically imagine where they have a big TV or big LED wall. It's now digital art being built. In an immersive space within luxury retail, there are several stores that we're going to be coming to live with soon with some beautiful case studies, very similar to what we're seeing in the real estate market.  We have a bunch of case studies about to come to market now as well for a luxury real estate sales center. So when someone launches a $100M or $2B project, they want to sell units fast. So having a projector in a sales center doesn't quite do it, but having an immersive theater and immersive LED wall with custom content where it looks like the waves are coming at you and things of that nature in a real way, not the 3D naked eye stuff. I'm talking about the real anamorphic content where it feels like you're buying into a lifestyle. When you're able to translate that, condo sales come along with it.  Quite often, I've also found that those customers who understand that kind of thinking, then have their heads snapped back when they start to understand the cost of doing that. Is there a lot of work in getting them over the line or do they just understand that this is a $100M development, yes, we're going to spend $250,000 on content or whatever the number is.  Chanan Averbuch: So it's funny that you say that because I think when I was personally going through my own journey and starting in this space, it was hard for me to explain that value, right? The good thing is, that we've already done in a very short period of time, some of these unique experiences where we're able to talk about the cost of capital, and the return on their capital, because in the world of real estate, for example, it's all about return on your investment. And they have interest payments in addition to principal payments that they owe to the bank. So the faster they sell units. The less they owe the bank.  So because we're focused more on the luxury and premium side, and they, I guess you could say the true experiential environments, the price is not necessarily as much of an issue. As the expression goes, price is only an issue in the absence of value, but because we're not trying to sell an LED screen. We're talking about the experience, we're talking about the content first, the software, how to get it there, and the LEDs, how you display it. It's a different conversation that we're having. We're talking usually to the marketing folks. We're talking to the innovation people. We're talking to the people who say, how am I going to get my ROI? And it's very easy to map that out, and that applies in luxury retail. That applies in real estate, and even because we're focused on the channel still looking with larger AV integrators, we're working with the AV integrators to help translate that value into how it's going to pan out and what it's going to do for their consumer or their buyers, whoever it is in their environments. So when you say you're working with the AV integrators, you wouldn't describe yourself as an integrator that's competing with them for business but as more of a partner?  Chanan Averbuch: Correct. So, thank God I've been very blessed with working with the AV channel to do control rooms, do experiential environments. That still has not changed for me. The only real difference in what we're doing in Blue Square X is that we are being engaged directly with the sports teams, we're being engaged directly with the architect or the interior designer, and then they'll say, who can execute this with us in addition to the Blue Square X pro services team, right? We don't run data cables. We don't run power. We don't put pressure on systems. That's not our business. We're not pretending to be an AV integrator. We're still going to be partnering with the AVI SPLs or the AVI Systems or the Diverifieds of the world, et cetera.  Okay. So you would quite possibly maybe own the customer, so to speak, but you're not doing the whole solution stack, you're gonna sub a partner with, I don't know, pull a name out, AVI, SPL, or whoever it may be.  Chanan Averbuch: Yeah, and I think there's a huge value added to that too, because not just because they have 5 employees, it's because, oftentimes when I would historically get a call in, my previous job, it was, “something's not working”. Well, screens are usually pretty dumb, right? If the playback is not working, that may be a different story, or it's often like a hiccup in the crash drone or whatever the control system may be, and having that first line of defense as an integrator who's down the block, perhaps. It's a lot more valuable for me than to ship my team to Brazil, ship my team to Korea, or ship my team to Qatar. You mentioned your previous work and experience and so on. I was aware of you when you were working for an LED company. What is your background in this industry?  Chanan Averbuch: So I really started 13+ years ago with Primeview, and there I started as a Regional Sales Manager, then Business Development Manager, then VP, then SVP, then EVP. I was initially just trying to provide for my family. I guess it was like, it was a trunk slammer or whoever it may be. I tried to do business with you when I first started. I just had to put numbers on, and then as things evolved in 2017 and coming to 2018, I was able to pioneer the all-in-one space back in 2018 out of a sheer lack of resources, to be honest with you, on an engineering side. It was funny how that evolved. But the all-in-one category is something that, I'm very pleased to say, had some of my first, with Microsoft, with Citigroup, and some really substantial clients, and then as that all-in-one category evolved and from indoor to outdoor to 32:9, that's when all of a sudden I started realizing, wait when we get out of the 16:9, what happens to the content? How does that work? And that sort of just blew my mind, this whole content space, and I started developing that further, and that thesis when working closely with digital artists, and I have some amazing projects that are about to go live now within Blue Square X, where a lot of times we're getting pulled into projects where we're not even involved in the LED. We're not even evolving the playback. We're just doing the content, and if I could quote one of my great friends in the industry, Britton Gates from Newcomb and Boyd, he always asked me previously, and we're going to be doing this now: if there are so many people out there that could use help, Even if you're not doing the lead, are you willing to do that? And the short answer is yes. I want to help people create experiences, even if They're not buying our LED today.  Yeah, you could make the argument that the content side of the business is more interesting and easier on a company just because you're not having to worry about shipping and everything else associated with the hard technology. Chanan Averbuch: Oh, a hundred percent. I think the same line of logic would imply that if it's an inferior quality LED, and it's just like another OEM, it could also make my content look bad. So I can take from personal example, I was traveling this past week for a very high-end install that our team was doing, and in part of the travels, I remember going through the journey of talking about what the content is, and once we figured out that it had to be not SDR, but HDR, our team had to get on a frantic and run 32 cables instead of 16, right? So talking through the content strategy early on also impacts infrastructure, not just hardware, really. I anticipate that almost everything that you're going to see from 2024 and beyond is going to be HDR on the experiential side. Everything, because the blacks and the grays, it's day and night.  And what does that mean for existing deployments out there?  Is HDR backward-compatible, so to speak, or do you either have an HDR display or you don't? Chanan Averbuch: Good question. I think when you think back two years ago when people started really talking about HDR on the commercial side, not consumer, but on the commercial side, I think you had people talking about HDR, talking about what they call HDR-ready. This means some of the components can potentially work with HDR, but to go and truly retrofit or change the hardware to now be able to be HDR is not as simple as one may think, even though the marketing materials on that spec may have said previously HDR-ready, it's not truly HDR. So I think in reality, retrofitting certain sites to be HDR is going to be difficult. I think they're gonna have to understand that SDR is what they bought and it's either they upgrade all their hardware to go and be able to truly be compatible with HDR or they're gonna have to just settle and stick to SDR today, as sad as that may be. What would that mean? It's not like SDR is going to look bad. It's just HDR is going to look really good.  Chanan Averbuch: Correct. I think even if you look at consumer playback devices as simple as an Apple TV, right? Even Apple TV today is HDR-ready, and it really can play back HDR, but like we're doing now a significant amount of work in the home theater business, it's not a business that I was actually pursuing, and I'm now seeing these massive home theater projects with commercial integrators. Yes, they're residential integrators, but they're sometimes bigger than commercial projects, these home theaters.  I had to go down the rabbit hole of what a Kaleidoscope is and what real HDR playback is and cinema-quality playback. So really only once you're in this space and focused on delivering the high-end quality do you understand all these little peripheral devices for playback and content are so significant in the ecosystem. But unless you're in it, you don't know it.  One of the things that I concluded walking around ISE at the front of the year, and then Ifocomm again, was that the LED display market has matured to a point where just about everything looks really good. Yes, some companies come over from China with, purposefully, low-cost, material that looks crappy, even when it's optimized on our trade show floor. But in general, the stuff all looks really good. It's all sub one mil now and everything else. Have we hit the peak of this? Where does it go?  Chanan Averbuch: Great question. So I think to your point, I think when you talk about what's market has called mini-LED or COB or some of these more standard technologies today, the COB at a 0.7 look really freaking good. But even within those LEDs, the differentiator between HDR and really great quality scan rates that what I would say is considered broadcast quality or production quality or luxury retail quality, there's a differentiator in the market at that point, because one is good enough, and the other one is truly providing a higher level of experience, and what that means is the quality of the components.  So on a simple level, you have Nova Star, A6, A8, A10, et cetera, right? You have all the different Nova Star receiving cards, for example. The different receiving cards produce different quality results and have a higher level of spec. That's definitely the case for the mass market. I think there are ways to build materials to change things, and then there are also certain instances where having a higher brightness panel or LED bulb is great. Sometimes it's not good. You have to know the real application because it generates different heat. But in that instance, we've gotten certain projects now in the last few months where having a higher nit bulb helped. We have instances where they wanted a lower nit bulb because they wanted to not have to redo their infrastructure and energy and power, right? So they were repurposing LCD and they wanted to stay with LEDs and if they had gone with a higher bulb, they would have had the max power draws where you require more power.  But on the evolution of LED itself, COG, chip on glass, that's something that's going to be coming out soon. There are some other new things within the LED world we're about to be launching a product that's almost like an x-ray where you're able to print patterns on an LED and shine through it, but at a high resolution, not low resolution like you see on the market today. So there are definitely innovative ways of producing technology where just imagine a Calcutta marble, finish backdrop, and we print that Calcutta marble on a physical LED, and you're able to still protrude through it with a high brightness bulb LED. So there's a lot of these technologies that are about to come to market that we're working on, but it's from an innovative standpoint, not everyone else is doing it. How do we just be cheaper? It's what's the experience that we're trying to create, and then how do we solve that in a way that has never been done before. So when you talk about chip on glass, are you talking about micro LEDs?  Chanan Averbuch: Correct.  That is a horribly abused and misused term.  Chanan Averbuch: Yep. I try to shy away from the specifics of talking about COB GOB or SMD. I honestly try to focus on what's your environment, what are you trying to do? I'm fixing other people's problems now, just not on the content, but where someone sold SMD in a public space that should have been COB and in other environments where it should have been GOB to pretty protective solution. Like I just saw a curved LED that was so chewed up, I told the end user, you may consider replacing it completely. And he goes, with what? I said with a glue-on-board version, because otherwise you have to protect this thing, because it'll look like crap.  Through the years, I have seen some SMD stuff in public spaces and I thought, what in God's name were you thinking? Did you somehow magically believe that nobody was going to scrape this thing?  Chanan Averbuch: But in truth, it's not just about specifying the wrong technology. A lot of things that we're doing now at Blue Square X is because we realize other people didn't do it, and it's not just about the content or the software side. It's also about the trim kit the cladding and the framing. For example, one of my friends I was talking to at Leon Speakers, where we talked about the idea of hashtag framing every TV.  The idea of framing every TV is not just so that it looks aesthetically pleasing in a residential environment or in your conference room. It's also to protect it to a large extent. So when I think about framing, there was a project recently, it was comical that we recently lost ironically. And I thought it was great that we lost it. My partner was like, what do you mean we've lost it? I said I'm so happy we lost it. He goes, why? I said because the other guy is putting a product that's going to get destroyed in this environment because there are no protective elements in the backside, and it's IP-65 front-rated. IP-54 in the back and they're putting this in the harshest environment, humanly possible. I'm happy that my name's not on that. So framing every TV, trim kit, cladding, mounting, and protecting the LED is equally as important as the technology that you're going to use. But people don't think about those things. I want to get the project. I want the box. That's not smart business  I wonder if the market is now at a point where it's like buying a high-end vehicle in that the salesperson can go on and on about what's under the hood and the typical buyer just doesn't care and in the same way, they don't care really whether it's COB or what controller is used or any of that stuff.  They just want to know how good is it going to look, does it suits my needs and what's the budget.  Chanan Averbuch: So I think you're definitely getting more to the commoditized point of the marketplace, which is where I think you're going to see several players disappear. It's already starting to happen. Hence the reason why I've always focused more on what it's supposed to create and what it's supposed to feel like, how much you're supposed to be immersed, which is why it's content first, software second, LED third in our world, and then trim kit, cladding, framing to follow for that same reason. It really comes down to how do you not just differentiate yourself, but how do you actually demonstrate that difference. Having the right content obviously helps, having the right software helps, having the right LED helps, but one of the things that we're going to be investing heavily in on a national level to start within the US with Miami, then New York, then Chicago, Austin, then LA is physical experience centers throughout the US and that will be going global as well in the near future.  What I'd like to do is when a client from a sports team a luxury retailer or a real estate developer, whatever it may be, wants to see the product, Yes, I could do a Zoom. I can do a Microsoft team, whatever it may be, but I will, on my dime, fly you into one of my experience centers on my dime and I am a hundred percent confident that the tech stack between the content, the software, and the lead will be noticeably different when you come to the experience centers, noticeably, it'll be a finished product, a true turnkey, a real solution.  Now, the devil's advocate side of that, if I'm a buyer, this is a highly controlled environment where you're able to think about everything ahead of my visit and optimize the whole nine yards versus operating in the real world where power can be shaky. There's public, there's ambient lighting, and everything else that can play into it. How do you counterbalance people like me who walk in and say, yeah, but…  Chanan Averbuch: Great example, I just spent $20,000 to do a massive outdoor demo for one of our clients, and we did the demo at one o'clock in the afternoon at the harshest moment, exactly where the sun was hitting strongest. And you explained that?  Chanan Averbuch: Oh yeah, and he intentionally chose the spot, that was the harshest spot, where it's direct sunlight. I'm like, gentlemen, how do you think this looks? And they told me how it looked and they were pleased, obviously, I said, this is the worst it's ever going to look. He goes, what? He didn't understand what I meant. I'm like, you chose the most sun exposure, like the worst. If you think this looks good, it only gets better from here, and I explained to them why, and they're like, got it. But I spent $20,000 on that demo to do it the right way. So I agree with your thesis and what you're saying about that in a controlled environment, but with that said, in our experience centers in our showrooms, we have a complete AV system, multiple sources, multiple HDR sources, and multiple cable TV boxes. I could show four cable TV boxes. So if a Sports Park comes in here, like Dave and Busters, I could demonstrate that. If it's a home theater, I could show it with surround sound, Dolby quality, as well as HDR with the collide escape. I could show. Exactly in an indoor environment. Yes, but outdoors? Absolutely. There are environments where you have to put it outdoors and do the real stress test. No question.  So if you're going to market as an LED manufacturer and your marketing focus is on: here are all of our technical specs for all of our different pixel pitches and this and that, and basically blind the person at the other end, the buyer with all of this flurry of buzzwords and jargon, does that work anymore? It strikes me that the LED market is now somewhat commoditized.  Chanan Averbuch: So frankly, you're a hundred percent correct. I'm not focused on the tech specs of the LED whatever.  Does the customer care about it?  Chanan Averbuch: I think there are some exceptions in the market. There's an artist that I'm working with who really understands the technical spectrum. They understand color parameters. They understand DCI like some of them understand this stuff, but that's like the 1%. But the 1%loves us because we're able to produce, and deliver those exact results.  But to your point, the conversations we're having are very different in the sense that for example, we just closed a deal with a major sports team. They originally wanted a 3:3 LCD. I said to them, I'll work with you on pricing to get you to the LED world. Because I know for a fact, the LCD is the wrong approach for your application. You're going to be doing spreadsheets, and you have a bezel in between, and now bear in mind, that Blue Square, the parent company, has a ton of LCD business that we do with Samsung, right? On Blue Square X, we want to make sure that if the requirement is there to do an LED, then it should be there, and the reason why we're able to successfully take a 3:3 or 4:4 and turn it into a lead project is that we're asking the right questions. We're educating, not just the marketing person, not just the facilities director, not just the branding team, but everyone along the way is saying: Where's your seat? Where's the closest viewer? What's your content strategy? We're not asking about the LED. We're talking about what the actual application is. Because you're right, in a commoditized environment, what's the difference between the first 30 Google searches they come up with an LED? It's hard to differentiate. But those other 30 companies are not asking those questions. They don't want to. They just want to move boxes.  Yeah, they just want to know how much wall space there is. Chanan Averbuch: That's it. But they're not asking about content playback. They're not asking if have you partnered with Novari, or do you have experience with with Samsung's MagicInfo. They're not asking the right questions because that requires education and training, that requires industry experience.  Now with Blue Square X, do you have preferred manufacturing partners or are you getting your own led custom manufactured by white label or how does that end of it work?  Chanan Averbuch: Great question. So we are day one, day two, and day a hundred, and from here on out, focus on the premium side. So nothing that's off the shelf in the market is of interest to us. Nothing that exists today on the LED production line is of interest whatsoever.  We are designing specs for the higher end of the spectrum. That's where we want to be. So our LED partners are not people I've worked with in my previous role or others, it's, I would say, the higher-end side of specs and therefore we are designing to our needs from day one. So it's definitely custom spec to something that's not available to the mass market.  So does that mean you're doing the technical design over in the United States and then getting it a contract manufactured by a high-end production line, probably in China or Taiwan? Chanan Averbuch: And Mexico as well. Yeah.  Oh really, in Mexico?  Chanan Averbuch: For TAE purposes. It is a market for governments as well.  Interesting, and on the Mexico side, is it final assembly or are they manufacturing the LED?  Chanan Averbuch: So there is some manufacturing done here, and assembly. So there are certain components, obviously, that don't make financial sense to do complete production here. It really depends on what the next president of the United States looks like because I think that'll determine some of the taxation side of things and how tariffs come into play. So we're just ultimately preparing for the doomsday scenario and the ideal scenario simultaneously. How do you deal with the cost end of it? It sounds like you're going after premium clients, is cost not as big an issue if you can, as you said much earlier on, really go after the ROI model and what the real benefits are?  Chanan Averbuch: While I definitely believe in my heart of hearts, price is only an issue in the absence of value, at the end of the day, the clients that we're talking to understand that there's a way to hit something that should be a $100 and pay $60, and there's a way that if you get the $60 solution, it's not going to look or perform like a $100 product either. We communicate the values of both extremes. Like we'll go and say to the customer, if you want to get this $100 solution, I don't feel comfortable giving you the $60 solution. But if you only have the $60 solutions, this is what it looks like, and what we'll try to do is we'll offer the financing option as an OPEX model so that they don't have to get to that, I don't want to say it, but the crappier option, the lesser quality. We'll gladly take the OPEX model and work with them so that way it fits within their budget because I wouldn't want a lesser experience for myself. Why would I want that for my clients?  Is that an increasing demand these days? Can you help with the financing on this?  Chanan Averbuch: So, I think it's coming up more. Is it actually translating to the numbers or percentages that I thought? No, they're not, but it's evolving and growing in the markets. I'll give you an example. If someone is in the car wash industry, okay, and they're used to doing static signage, and now they're trying digital to jump from zero digital CapEx expense to spending half a million dollars. It's hard to get approvals for, but now if you break that down to $5,000 a month or $8,000 a month over three years, whatever it may be, all of a sudden it looks a lot more palatable.  So I think it depends where the organization, where the institution, and where the non-profit is in their experience with digital and how their internal approval process works. Now there's a harsh environment, car washes.  Chanan Averbuch: Oh, it's so much fun. So much fun. We went to the car wash show in Nashville and I'll tell you the most amazing thing that I discovered. There's people like you alluded to that get it and they realize it, and there's people that don't. The ones that get it realize I can't buy crap, right? I can't buy inferior quality. The ones that don't get it, get burnt usually. So I wish them only the best.  Tell me about the company. Where is it based?  Chanan Averbuch: Blue Square X is based in South Florida. Home of no state income tax here in Miami, and the market is actually a bit on fire here on a regional level where others say the real estate markets are slowing down, Central Florida, Northern Florida, and South Florida has not slowed down just even a bit. Velocity here is amazing. This is our home base for us but we're about to finalize a few other locations here in the US as we speak.  What's the size of the company, both, Parent and, just the X side? Chanan Averbuch: Under 20 employees currently at this moment, but we're hiring and growing rapidly.  For Blue Square X?  Chanan Averbuch: Yep. And for Blue Square itself?  Chanan Averbuch: So it's hard to say right now because some of the resources are shared at the moment. But that's obviously been a change from the install professional services and the creative side, again, we're very focused on the creative side more so than anything else.  But one of the partners also is very strong in the rental and staging business and has a whole plethora of warehousing and service support models throughout the US so we have that extra tier of support from one of the partners. All right, and where can they find the company online?  Chanan Averbuch: Great question. If someone wants to reach out to me directly, you could definitely reach out to me on LinkedIn. As for the latest to the company, it's bluesqx.com and you'll be seeing some of the press releases coming up about it I really look forward to engaging with customers. I know people get scared a little bit when we talk about premium, they assume it's price. It's all about the experience, and if you work your way backward through the experience, then everything else that seemingly doesn't matter matters now.  And the clientele you're going after would tend to understand that more than maybe a certain car wash operator. Chanan Averbuch: Oh yeah. But as you alluded to, the ROI is there if you're trying to evoke an emotion or an experience, that's what we care about. We want people to walk away from a retail experience, from a school, from a broadcast studio, from a control room, from a real estate and say, holy cow, how did you see that? It has to be Instagrammable. It has to be something that creates that wow moment. We want to create those wow moments.  All right. Thank you for having the time or taking the time to chat with me.  Chanan Averbuch: Absolutely. God bless, and thanks again for your time as well.

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Welcome to a new episode of Flourish-Meant! I'm your host, Tina Yeager, and today we're diving into a unique blend of adventure, faith, and life principles with special guests Chad and James Hampton, the stars of Twin Factor TV. Recorded amidst the bustling backdrop of the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville, this episode explores how hunting principles can apply to success and faith. The Hampton twins share their journey from avid hunters to founders of "Hunting the Truth Ministries," using the outdoors as a powerful metaphor to teach spiritual lessons. They'll discuss their book, "Secrets of the Hunt," practical tips for connecting with God, and their impactful outreach to hunters and fatherless youth. Plus, don't miss out on their most memorable escapades, including an unforgettable hog hunt in Florida! Tune in to discover how you can hunt for a higher purpose in your life. Chad and James Hampton are the co-founders of Huntin' The Truth Ministries and co-hosts of the Twin Factor outdoor reality show, and are as unique a set of characters as you would expect twin God-hunters to be.  Despite the bustling background, we were blessed to have an insightful conversation with the dynamic twin brothers Chad and James Hampton, stars of the adventure-packed Twin Factor TV. **Episode Highlight: Hunting Principles for Success and Faith** In this episode, Chad and James explore how the lessons learned from hunting can transcend into guiding principles for our faith and life success. They beautifully tie the patience, dedication, and precision required in hunting to the spiritual pursuit of God's plan for our lives. ### Key Takeaways: - **Finding Purpose:** Just as hunters seek to understand their quarry, we must seek to understand God's purpose for our lives. The Hamptons remind us that knowing our purpose is the foundation of a fulfilling life. - **Putting in the Time:** Just as hunting a prized buck can take countless hours, cultivating a relationship with God requires dedicated time in prayer and scripture. - **Battling the Elements:** Life's trials and tribulations are akin to adverse weather conditions while hunting. Perseverance and faith help us endure to see God's blessings. ### Watch TwinFactorTV Curious to see Chad and James in action? Check out TwinFactorTV on YouTube! Currently, in its fourth season, their show is also available on Hunt Channel and Cease Fire cable network in South Alabama, Mississippi, and Northern Florida. Visit [twinfactortv.com](http://twinfactortv.com) for more details. ### Special Episodes to Watch: - **Kayaking with Alligators:** Experience the adrenaline rush as Chad and James kayak through the alligator-infested Myakka River. It's their most-watched episode and certainly an adventure you don't want to miss! - **Hog Hunting in Florida:** Witness the twin competition as they take on wild hog hunting in Florida's orange groves. ### Upcoming Events: - **Sunday Morning Camo Church Services:** Join the Hampton brothers at fresh-air worship sessions aimed at inviting more outdoor enthusiasts into the fold. - **Hunter's Gatherings:** Participate in evangelistic events filled with food, music, and, of course, hunting tales and tips. ### Get Connected: Stay updated with their thrilling hunts and inspiring messages by following their YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@twinfactortv7275 and visiting their website at http://twinfactortv.com. **Final Thought:** Whether you're a seasoned hunter or someone seeking a deeper relationship with God, this episode offers valuable insights that resonate beyond the hunt.  We hope they inspire you to seek your purpose and cultivate a rich spiritual life. 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Peyton Gay is the sentinel for the Deane Bozeman FFA Chapter, and he is a remarkable young man.  A natural athlete, gifted student and very hard worker Peyton has managed to put together an FFA and high school experience that will be rivaled by few. Peyton has grown up on his grandparent's farm in Northern Florida that they purchased because of their love for animals of all types.  Never having a profit motive, Peyton's grandmother has cared for and rescued multiple different species of wildlife and livestock on the farm since it first began.  This is how Peyton grew up as well, and it led to his supervised agricultural experience raising, incubating and giving away Sebastopol Geese, which are listed as a threatened species. This influence has resulted in Peyton pursuing a career as a veterinarian.  He is also pursuing his dream of playing football for Texas A&M in College Station.  He has been awarded a "walk on scholarship" which means that all of his football activities will be paid for but not his academics.  However, Peyton believes that through his academics and pursuits in the FFA that he will be able to have a full-ride academic scholarship!  It is an amazing story and one that I am really looking forward to seeing develop from an academic as well as an athletic perspective.

If you'd like to know what goes on behind the scenes in the world of financial copywriting, our guest today has the inside story. Aaron Gentzler is CMO of Mauldin Economics, a major financial publisher based in Northern Florida. He's been in the business since 2006 and tells us about his own journey, as well as some of the experiences he's had training and advocating for younger copywriters. Just as important, he'll let you know what he has seen that spells bad news for people trying to get their foot in the door in the first place. Plus, he shares in-the-trenches insights about what works and what doesn't work with stories in copywriting. My book, The Persuasion Story Code https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFD2KXNQDownload.

On Today's Podcast, I have a very special guest, He is known as the King of Cedar Key, Captain Jimbo Keith. Nearly 40 years ago, Jimbo's father, Jimbo Sr, founded Saltwater Assassin, the premiere charter fishing company in Cedar Key. Working at the same company, Jimbo heads an airboat through the shallow waters of Northern Florida. Join us in learning about the beautiful Old Florida, and what it is like captaining 270 days out of the year.  Jimbo's Links: Saltwater Assassin - https://fishcedarkey.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FishCedarKey/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/captjimbokeith/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA54Q_2S0kUZyv2EtlducmA My Links: https://linktr.ee/TomRowlandPodcast Link to Book Club on: Tomrowlandpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us on the latest episode of The Plant Movement podcast as your host, Willie Rodriguez, sits down with the inspiring Ashley Burnett, the visionary owner of Coastal Roots Greenery. Ashley takes us on a journey from her unique background in the Beneficial Insects department at Disney, through becoming a Police Officer in Virginia, to her current venture as the creator of a botanical oasis on wheels.Coastal Roots Greenery is not your typical plant shop – it's a mobile plant trailer that brings exotic interior plants directly to you. Imagine strolling through a local festival or event, and suddenly, you stumble upon a vibrant array of botanical wonders on wheels! Ashley shares her passion for plants, her experiences at Disney, and the interesting turn of events that led her to establish Coastal Roots Greenery in Fernandina Beach, Florida.Discover the behind-the-scenes magic that goes into curating a mobile plant haven, serving the Southern Georgia and Northern Florida market. Ashley's dedication to bringing greenery to communities is both heartwarming and inspiring, making Coastal Roots Greenery a true beacon of plant passion.Tune in to The Plant Movement podcast to gain insight into Ashley's fascinating background, the evolution of Coastal Roots Greenery, and the joy that comes from sharing the beauty of exotic plants with the world. Whether you're a seasoned plant enthusiast or just developing your green thumb, this episode promises to cultivate your love for all things botanical.Coastal Roots GreeneryEmail: coastalrootsgreenery@gmail.comCall: (904)701-0080Web: https://www.coastalrootsgreenery.comIG: @coastalrootsgreeneryThe Plant Movement Podcast Email: eddie@theplantmovementnetwork.com & willie@theplantmovementnetwork.comCall: (305) 216-5320 Web: https://www.theplantmovement.comFollow Us: IG: https://www.instagram.com/theplantmovementpodcast Visuals and Recording by Eddie EVDNT Gonzalez Audio Production by The one and only Mr. Producer Disclaimer: The contents of this podcast/youtube video are for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not constitute financial, accounting, or legal advice. I can't promise that the information shared on my posts is appropriate for you or anyone else. By listening to this podcast/youtube video, you agree to hold me harmless from any ramifications, financial or otherwise, that occur to you as a result of acting on information found in this podcast/youtube video. Support the show

On a noteworthy Wednesday evening in Florida, former President Donald Trump took centre stage at a compellingly packed rally in Hialeah, simultaneously outshining his Republican counterparts embroiled in a GOP debate happening in Miami. Trump firmly rebutted insinuations that he lacked the 'courage' to engage in the third debate. He said: 'Picture this, I'm speaking to TENS OF THOUSANDS of folks right here and it's broadcast live…it's significantly more challenging than a simple debate!', much to the delight of his spirited audience. He further made an appeal to the Republican power structure to cease investing their efforts and resources into candidates who, clearly, stood no chance of emerging victorious. A glance at the current scenario elucidates Trump's supremacy in his party's primary race in Florida, the hometown of Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla, where he is ahead by an unparalleled 39 points according to The University of Northern Florida's Public Opinion Research Lab. On the national front, Trump seems ready to dominate the upcoming general election against Joe Biden. A fresh poll conducted by the mainstream media, most notably The New York Times, suggests that Trump has an edge over Biden in five out of six pendulum states – a meaningful lead that could potentially translate into more than 300 Electoral College votes in favor of Trump in the 2024 election. In his distinct style, Trump stated, 'Our nation is on a downward spiral, and this is a fact known and acknowledged by everyone, including you and me, as much as I regret having to say it.' This statement was his response to the critique of the country's declining state under Biden's leadership.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode we recap our recent herp trips to Bulgaria and Northern Florida. A Toadtastic adventure!@Knobtails.IG@Nipperread@VenomExchangeRadio on YouTube & Instagram!

If you'd like to know what goes on behind the scenes in the world of financial copywriting, our guest today has the inside story. Aaron Gentzler is the CMO of Mauldin Economics, a major financial publisher based in Northern Florida. He's been in the business since 2006 and tells us about his own journey, as well as some of the experiences he's had training and advocating for younger copywriters. Just as important, he'll let you know what he has seen that spells bad news for people trying to get their foot in the door in the first place. Plus, he shares in-the-trenches insights about what works and what doesn't work with stories in copywriting. Contact Aaron at aaron@mauldineconomics.com Download.

On this episode of Turkey Call All Access, NWTF communications staff sit down with folks from Reaper Boats and Full Strap and Stringer outfitters to discuss the NWTF's 50th Anniversary Sweepstakes, the love of waterfowl hunting, and how – whether it is a boat, a guided hunt or the necessary gear – the prizes in the NWTF's 50th Anniversary Sweepstakes are sure to create some happy hunters and a lifetime of memories. Make sure to enter the sweepstakes before 9/30 to take advantage of the early bird special, which allows entries to be doubled! You heard that right! The Grand Prize Includes: · Reaper Boats Model 656 in Mossy Oak camo Branded with NWTF the 50th anniversary logos and trailer · Full Strap and Stringer Duck Hunt for Two in Central Louisiana with one night lodging and dinner · GatorTail Boat Motor GTR40XD · Chene Gear Mossy Oak Original Bottomland Waders · Benelli Super Black Eagle 3 in Original Mossy Oak Bottomland Camo · NWTF 50th Anniversary Retro Camo Gun Sleeve by Boyt · Two Cases of Federal Ammunition 12ga Black Cloud Steel Shot Additional Prizes And Exciting Trips! First Place Winner will receive a Foxtail Lodge 4-day Duck Hunt for Two in Kodiak, AK with Lodging and Meals included. Second Place will receive an Island Number Thirty-Four Duck Hunt for Two. Third Place will win a Williamson Outfitters LLC, Duck Hunt and inshore Fishing for Two "Cast n' Blast" in Northern Florida with 2 nights lodging included. Don't miss this awesome opportunity at some of the best experiences and gear. Register for the Sweepstakes now!

Live from the Heart of America—I'm Steve Gruber— Your Soldier of Truth—the Tip of the Spear against socialists—here ready to fight for you from the Foxhole of Freedom—AND—please my friends REMEMBER TO THINK while its still legal—this is the Steve Gruber Show—   Here are 3 big things you need to know right now—   Number One— Traverse City Michigan—has landed on a list of the wildest cities in America—what about your town—how wild are you—or are you reserved?   Number Two— John Fetterman—nearly unable to spit out a complete sentence is actually telling Republicans to go for it—and just go ahead and try to impeach Joe Biden—   Number Three— We are at war—America is under fire and under siege—NOT by China or Russia or anyone else—we are under attack from radical leftists that have totally infiltrated the Administration of the senile Joe Biden—and flooded into places of influence and power—and simply put they do not care about you—they care about carrying out their agenda—which is not America First—I can tell you that—   Just look at what they are doing every single day! I mean its clear—they are intent on destroying America once and for all—and it seems quite clear and likely that it is Barack Obama and his minions that are just out of sight, behind the curtain and pulling the strings to make their puppets dance—they have the connections, the money and the influence to keep the hacks in DC doing their bidding—I mean when you hear me say, this seems a lot like Barack Obama's third term—there is a reason for that—   BUT for Joe Biden and whoever is pulling the strings—those strings are beginning to fray—because they have gone to the well too much it seems—   I mean when they go after America's Energy supply and gas prices rise—people don't like it—   When they begin the fear pandering over the 100th new variant—and people see mask mandates for school kids and universities coming back, they don't like it—   When they see people going to prison if they are Republican and getting charges dropped if they are liberals or Democrats—we don't like it—   When they know the border is wide open with millions of people streaming in—that are being housed in pplaces like Chicago's once famed O'Hare international airport—they don't like it—   When they see places like Maui and Northern Florida struggling in the aftermath of disasters—BUT we are sending $200 billion dollars to Ukraine—they don't like it—   And when they have seen enough—they get angry—because when they see America being put last instead of America First—they have had it—because they really don't like it—   And right now—the polls are showing how much we don't like Joe Biden, the people behind the curtain, the bureaucrats, the lobbyists and the globalists all trying to get an upper hand—   In fact here is one that really sets people off—tying money intended to help American's with disaster relief—BUT instead of just going ahead with it—Joe and the socialists play games—to get more money for a foreign country first—and refusing to help out our own neighbors without strings attached—   Which leads to even more people becoming angry—and let me be perfectly clear—this is becoming a bipartisan issue—because people on both sides of the aisle—plus independents, agnostics, libertarians and the otherwise unaffiliated political refugees—are all rejecting the laundry list of failures—and then figure in the scandals that they try to deny exist—BUT everyone clearly knows certainly do—   So what does that mean—as Hunter Biden's once in a lifetime sweetheart deal has faded into a distant foggy memory—something his dad is ever more familiar with—or is he not familiar??? Hmmmm—I will have to think about that one—   Either way—nothing is helping and the ship is listing badly—   But there is always the economy, right? I mean we hear Joe and his team of propaganda minsters spreading the good news of how great everything is, right? I mean it must be working to convince people that we are on the right track and headed to financial salvation…right? No, not so much!   And some of the issues have become so bad—that Democrats are turning on the geezer—   I mean the border has Democrats in New York City and Massachusetts declaring emergencies—because they have been overwhelmed—and Joe just goes back to sleep—   So what are the Democrats banking on for 2024? It seems that a Covid Pandemic is what we need around here—so they are relaunching Covid 3.0—and I am sure that will make everyone happy—right?  

Hurricane Idalia has touched down in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia. Police have released audio of a 911 call by the father of a gunman who killed three people in a racially motivated attack in Florida. Las Vegas has been dubbed the ‘9th Island' of Hawaii. Several Hawaiian residents are considering moving to Las Vegas after the Maui fires. Producer Mondo talks about his love for chess and how the strategic game can help you in life.

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Melissa Stevens Dad finally agreed to go fishing with her so she could finally show him what she does for a living. Her Dad happened to show me some photos when he returned, and I was blown away.  OMG!  I've never seen any woman reel in fish this big! I had to meet her. Melissa will tell you herself she's not the only woman out there fishing at this level, she's just the only one I know about. I am aware that more women than ever are taking up fishing and that's a good thing. Research shows women who fish are happier and healthier. If that's the case Melissa must be freakin ecstatic.   The fish she caught when her Dad went along was a Swordfish weighing about 90 to 110 pounds and was about 6 ½ feet tall from the tip of his tail to the end of the bill.  Yes, this woman catches fish much bigger than she is. The fish in the shot of her leaning back on the boat, the photo with blood all over the bottom of the boat (gag me) is a large tuna. Then there's that a 302-pound swordfish she's posed with. And a shot with her posing with what looks to me like a giant goldfish. Those are American Red Snappers. Melissa said the biggest fish she ever caught on a rod and reel personally, was roughly a 900 pound bluefin tuna out of a fishery in Nova Scotia where they were not permitted to remove them from. And the largest fish she ever caught commercial fishing, working on a commercial boat, was... a 940 pound swordfish!   I asked her. “How the heck do you even pull these fish with your arms? "I mean, what kind of unusual strength do you have?”  “Most of my strength” , said Melisa,  “comes from pure stubbornness.”  I'm was left speechless seeing what Melissa has been doing for a living for the past 14 years, and I had to wonder, what would inspire a young woman to go in this direction? Melissa said, “Mom and I grew up watching a lot of this sport fishing on television, most specifically a show called Walker's Kay Chronicles. It's the show that really started off sport fishing in the public eye. And I always wanted to be on the boat my whole life and instead of taking the traditional route after high school, I dug my heels in and I went fishing.” So yes, Melissa's gone fishing and living her dream! I too loved watching sport fishing shows as little girl, and I too am living my dream, telling other peoples fish tales.  LOL Oh and Melissa's 'quite the catch herself', but dating her means you'll have to understand she smells like a fish a lot. LOL We laughed about that. Melissa is from CT, lives in Fla. and fishes often in Venice, Louisiana. If you want to go fishing with her, which many people do, you can book a fishing trip with her at Southern Catch Outfitters in Venice, Louisiana. Melissa says, "People come from all over the world come to fish in Venice." Most of their customer basis is from the Gulf Coast area, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Northern Florida, just because it is a very easy drive. But she said, they're only an hour and 15 minutes from New Orleans airport and there is a direct flight from LaGuardia Airport in NY right there. So they do have quite a few customers from the tri-state area that join them.  Enjoy this podcast of our live radio conversation on The Debbie Nigro Show. If you'd rather read than listen - the audio treanscript is below. In case you want to know more about Melissa Stevens check out:   https://www.southerncatchoutfitters.com/  Melissa Stevens Facebook Page: Southbound Tackle  https://www.facebook.com/southboundtackle/ I like to follow her 'catches' on Instagram: @SouthboundTackle ********************************************************* AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:  0:00:00 It's time for the Debbie Nigro Show with Debbie Nigro, who says she's still a babe, or at least she thinks she still is. That's right, attitude is everything, and Debbie's delusionally young. No one sees the glass of Cabernet half full like Debbie. She's fresh air with a magnetic flair, but some day has arrived, and as far as she's It's time to roll. 4 0:00:24 They say when you cast off, you never know what you'll reel in. Research shows the real catch isn't something you can hold or see, but something you can feel. Yes, it's about happiness and grit and learning patience and it's very good for your health. 1 0:00:48 Fishing it is, and women who fish have all these things going on. They're being encouraged to get out there, fish more. I don't know if you guys know any women who fish. I don't know many. I love the idea of it. I don't bait and I don't like getting in the way of a big fish coming on board. But, you know, I like the idea of it. I saw a photo of a girl. I'll call her a woman because she is a young beautiful woman, that blew my head. I was like, what am I looking at here? She was holding a catch of a day that was bigger than any fish I've ever seen. I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then it just kept going on, picture after picture after picture of this woman, young woman, catching gigundo fish. Like she is the girl that all the guys want to fish with. And I happened to see the picture because I know her dad. And he had just returned from the first time he ever went fishing with her. He said, she said, Dad, why don't you come fishing? So Melissa Stevens is supposed to be joining me today. I don't know if she's still in the water, on the sea, wherever she is. She's definitely checking in. Bob, you stay alert. Hopefully she's supposed to be on the air. Staying alert. Okay. I mean, you just don't mess with a girl who can lift a fish this big. If you want to go on my social media and see what I'm talking about, I highly encourage you to go over to the Debbie Nigro Show Facebook page and you can go over to my Instagram at The Real Debbie Nigro and you will just not believe your eyes. I just can't believe your eyes. I used to watch Wide World of Fishing when I was a young girl. It was on Sunday mornings after like, I don't know, there was nothing on Sunday mornings. It was just like a wide world of fishing. It was always that opened up with an icon and a brand image of a giant swordfish. A big swordfish. I thought that I should do that. I thought I should catch a giant swordfish. Maybe it was a marlin. I don't know. It looked the same to me. I know they're not the same, but that's what I started my day with on Sunday, as a little chubby little girl, like, oh, this is cool. And I imagined myself sitting there trying to do it. One time I did get a chance to go on a boat in Florida and sit in what they call kind of like a, almost like a shark catching sulky, if you will. You know, a big fish sulky that's on the back of a boat and facing out, you get strapped in. 3 0:03:29 It's like, wow! 1 0:03:30 Caught nothing, but I felt like it. Like I felt I had the experience. But what this woman does is beyond. So hopefully she'll be coming up shortly. It led me to do some homework really about fishing and the psychology of it and in particular the research has shown that women should really look into this. It has a very profound impact on a woman's life, fishing and boating. The senior director of marketing for an organization that I just found out about today is really out there. It's called Take Me Fishing. What they're trying to do is confront the barriers and inspire women everywhere to challenge themselves, to try something new, to help them find their best self while supporting a more inclusive fishing and boating environment. Despite record levels of female participation in fishing, almost half of the female anglers do not feel respected by the broader angling community, with more than one in three feeling stereotyped, right? 9 0:04:28 Hey, Deb, how about we let Melissa tell us about it herself? 1 0:04:32 She's right here now. Oh, thank. She got off the boat to call me? Thank goodness. Melissa Stevens, you, you, you unbelievable girl, you. I am like bowing down. Hi, welcome. Hello, thank you. Thank you for having me on. I appreciate it. Honestly, I've been a champion of women doing everything since I was born. I was always like, what can't we do? Why can't we do it? But I was just starting to talk about how there's a campaign to get more women fishing and that there's sort of been a stereotype, I guess, about women not having the presence in the fishing industry. So when I saw this picture that your father showed me, he goes, I just got back from seeing my daughter. We went out fishing. I was like, what am I looking at? And there you were with a giant how big was that swordfish? The one we caught the other day with my dad was about a between we never weighted it but about 90 to 110 pounds. And how tall was it you know I saw it over your head over your father's head. Yeah. How high did it get? 2 0:05:34 Probably about 6 1⁄2 foot on that fish. I couldn't believe it. 1 0:05:40 That's from the tip of his tail to the end of the bill. Melissa, you brave girl. The second picture I put up is you leaning back on the boat with a fish bigger than you, kind of blood all over the bottom of the boat. I'm assuming it's that large. What kind of fish? 2 0:05:53 I haven't looked at it, but I'm assuming it's that large tuna. 1 0:05:56 Yeah, that looks like a large tuna. And then you sent me a picture, you told me I had permission to use, of another fish that, I don't know, I never saw anything this big, is that another swordfish? 2 0:06:08 Oh, that's a 302-pound swordfish. 1 0:06:13 And then those big, looks like giant goldfish, what are those? 2 0:06:17 Those are American red snappers. 1 0:06:21 It's just, I'm speechless seeing what you do. Is this what you do for a living every day It's been about 14 years of me doing this is my daily job What would inspire a young woman like yourself to go in this direction? What was it in your life that led you to doing this very fortunately I live my childhood dream. 2 0:06:40 Mom I grew up watching a lot of this sport fishing on television most specifically a show called Walker's Kay Chronicles. It's really, it was the show that really started off sport fishing in the public eye. Wow. And I always wanted to be on the boat my whole life and instead of taking the traditional route after high school, I dug my heels in and I went fishing. I just think it's incredible. You missed the park. 1 0:07:15 Yeah, I used to watch fishing shows too. That's why I really was attracted to what you're doing. I mean, I used to fantasize about doing what you're doing. I don't know where that came from. It was the only show on Sunday morning, Wild World of Fishing. But you're doing it. Are you one of the few women catching fish this big? At this point in my career, I am not. 2 0:07:37 In the beginning, there was probably about overall four of us in the entire community that were fishing at this level. In the last five years, it has really become more available for women. Yeah, maybe more, more than a month. I've never really, I've never been in it to be a martyr for women. I've never been in it to pound the way and pave the road. So, there's always been space for women in this career if you've been willing to put your head down and work hard. That is really the only way to get, the only way to get far in this career is to dedicate your life to it and show everybody around you how good you are. 1 0:08:30 Unbelievable. 2 0:08:31 There's no... no pictures do the justice. The people need to see the hard work. 1 0:08:37 Yeah. I'm just jealous you get all that fresh air every day. Now I know you're from Greenwich but you moved to Florida but you fished a lot in Venice, Louisiana. Is that where the big action is? 2 0:08:47 My current home port of fishing is Venice. I have been very fortunate that my career has taken me around most of the globe and I have done some of the best fishing on earth. But as far as consistency and truly just incredible nature, Venice, Louisiana is one of the most impressive fishing destinations that I have ever been to in my life. Which is why I chose to stay there for a while. 1 0:09:20 And the water is of the Gulf of Mexico. I can see that just from the way you're catching, who would even know that it existed? Is there something you want to... you came in a little late on the segment. Do you have any more time to hang out and talk a little bit more or you got to go? 2 0:09:33 I have plenty of time, absolutely. 1 0:09:35 Okay, cool. We have to take a little break and when you guys come back I'm talking to Melissa Stevens she is a world-class fisher woman am I saying it right angler what do you what do you an angler I am a fisherman much like a fireman a postman a mailman I'm a fisherman it is a the ocean doesn't know if you're a man or a woman it just wants to work hard that's great so stay with me because I have a lot more that I want to share about you to the audience where they can find you and follow you because it just made my day to see what you're doing. Okay, everybody, you're listening to the Debbie Nigro Show and I guess Melissa Stevens and we'll be back in just a moment. 3 0:10:25 And now, back to the Debbie Nigro Show. 1 0:10:32 Hi guys, I'm Debbie Nigro. You know, I love fascinating personalities, right? People who are unique, doing unique things. And I happen to come across a photo of this guest right now that I'm enjoying meeting, Melissa Stevens, when her dad showed me a picture of him going fishing with her for the first time. And she's like next to these gigantic, like world record size fish. And I wanted to invite her on the show, introduce her to you guys, tell you where you can find her because they, she and her cohorts actually take people out on charters to go fish with them in Venice, Louisiana. You're going to want to know about this if you're into this sort of thing. So, Melissa, are you breaking world records with what I'm seeing you catch this year? 2 0:11:23 Oh man, Debbie, I wish that I was, but I am not. I am not. The hope is that we can get close and try to push the limits of what we can catch where we are, but that's the cool thing about being on the water it could happen anywhere at any time so every day we're hunting for them but I have yet to put a legitimate world record. I mean what what's the heaviest fish you ever pulled up? The heaviest fish that I've ever caught on a rod and reel personally myself is about a 900 pound bluefin tuna out of a fishery in Nova Scotia where we were not permitted to remove them from 8 0:12:06 the water. 2 0:12:07 So that's an approximation of about 900 pounds. And the largest fish I've ever caught commercial fishing, working on a commercial boat, was a 940 pound swordfish. How do you even pull this with your arms? I mean, what kind of strength do you have? Most of my strength comes from pure stubbornness. 1 0:12:35 Wow, you are stubborn! 4 0:12:37 Yes. 1 0:12:39 Incredible, incredible, incredible. I was reading this morning that... 2 0:12:43 Handling fish of that size is heavily technique-driven, not so much a strength thing as far as it is understanding how to handle it. 1 0:12:53 Yeah, so say you catch a 900 pound fish, how many people do you need on the boat with you to help you pull it up into the boat? 2 0:13:02 With the right equipment it could be two of us, but if we don't have that it could take quite a few, five, six people. 1 0:13:09 Wow. And then you know, tuna is in high demand obviously as is swordfish and when you catch giant tuna and we'll talk about tuna let's stick with that what is the market for that like are people 2 0:13:22 clamoring to get their hands on it? So as of right now my current job is solely charter fishing the fish that we catch during the day goes home with the 1 0:13:31 customer and usually they slide a piece of the water. I've never tasted anything. Swordfish, you know, that's not on as many menus as it used to be. 2 0:13:46 What's going on with the swordfish out there? The sword fishery is as good as it's ever been. There has been a lot of restrictions placed on some of the commercial boats, specifically the longliners, on where they can fish. So the frequency in which they've been sword fishing and catching them for the commercial longline boats because of where they're allowed to fish has kind of hampered the amount of swordfish that they've been catching. But also, swordfish do contain a very high level of mercury. And that will scare some people away. But that 90 to 120 pound range fish that my father and I caught, you could eat that all 1 0:14:35 day with not the worry of the mercury. So interesting. What about seasickness? What you guys do all day long? How do you do that? I fortunately in the last almost 15 years have never been seasick. 7 0:14:52 Good. 2 0:14:53 But I have been graced with the opportunity to watch thousands of people to get seasick. 1 0:14:59 Gosh, that's the worst. 2 0:15:02 Depending on the customer, we don't really, there's nothing you can really do. Seasickness, you can kind of tell usually before we leave the dock even who's going 6 0:15:12 to get seasick. 2 0:15:13 It's very mentally driven. Now there are a group of people who just cannot handle any kind of motion. My brother is one of those people specifically where we could be in the car and the car could swerve funny and he could get sick. But most people the seasickness comes from hyping it up in their head that they're going to get seasick. Wow. Okay. There is some things you can do in order to, you know, stave it off, but once it happens, it's very hard to shake it until we get to 1 0:15:48 land. Okay, let's not talk about that anymore, because even the thought of people getting nauseous makes me nauseous, Melissa. I can't even talk about it. Yes, but that, but I'm 2 0:15:57 trying to say is that that thought in your mind is what will drive it in the first place. 1 0:16:03 Okay, we're done with that topic. Let's talk about the blood that comes out of the fish. I can't look at blood. How do you look at all that blood? 2 0:16:09 Oh, I tell our customers that my Captain John has a duty to fulfill my daily bloodlust and that we gotta go catch some fish. So for me, it is a byproduct of the joy of fishing and I could not possibly care less about it. 1 0:16:26 How many days a week do you eat fish after doing all this fishing? I eat little fish pieces with tuna blood every day. Oh gosh. Did you hear what my question? I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cut you off. How many days do you eat fish after all this fishing? How many days a week do I eat fish? 2 0:16:39 Yeah. Oh, probably one or two days because you have to mix it up a little bit. It would be too much if I ate fish every single day. 1 0:16:50 Right. But there's people who do that. And I know that it's obviously one of the healthier things to do. 2 0:16:55 My captain's mother is a pescatarian. All she eats is fish. So every few months we ship her a box. Pescatarian. 1 0:17:03 Nice and new where we brought into this century. I don't think they had pescatarians. Maybe they did. They just didn't call it that. So who's coming to rent these charters? Where are people coming from? 2 0:17:18 If you have any knowledge of great fishing and you know Venice, we have people coming from all over the world. Most of our customer basis is from the Gulf Coast area, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Northern Florida, just because it is a very easy drive. But that being said we are only an hour and 15 minutes from New Orleans airport and there is a direct flight from LaGuardia right there. So we do have quite a few customers from the tri-state area that join us. 1 0:17:51 Wow, you have full day offshore fishing and overnights that I guess you start out and you're there surprising the fish when they wake up? 2 0:18:00 We leave the dock about noon, we get back about noon the next day. 1 0:18:04 Yeah. Are there some fish that are easier to catch at night? 2 0:18:11 Not particularly, but sometimes the bite at night can get really fired up. And a lot of people like the overnight experience. We bring the grill, you know, we make burgers on the boat. 1 0:18:27 It's really more of an experience than specifically for the fishing. Yes. I have friends and people I know who are avid fisher people and travel all over the world. They seek out the next great fishing adventure. So when I saw what you were catching, I was like, wow, if anybody sees what I'm going to post who likes this, they're going to be calling you ASAP. So I wanted to just promote who you are associated with because it's called Southern Catch Outfitters and they're in Venice, Louisiana. And I never heard of Venice, Louisiana as the fishing location, but after seeing what you caught, I'm like, okay, obviously this is the place, right? And of course- 2 0:19:07 It is truly remarkable. Not a very beautiful place to stay in actual Venice. That is for sure. A lot of oil industry, very commercialized, not a lot of people. No supermarket. There's one dollar general and that's about it. But we can help people find places to stay. There's houseboats. We pick you right up in the marina from the deck of the houseboat. And we have two boats, 40 foot center console catamaran style boats that can hold up to six passengers each and It's about a 10 to 12 hour day and in total But the great part about Venice as opposed to fishing in other places in the Gulf Coast is that it's a peninsula And you're already 60 miles in the correct direction 1 0:19:54 Awesome, so Melissa a couple last questions. When somebody comes in with a giant tuna, 600 pounds, 700 pounds, whatever, do you cut it up right there on the boat? Do you fillet it? 2 0:20:09 We take care of all of the processing up to the point of we don't vacuum seal it or we'll put it in ziplocks, but we take care of all that breaking down of the fish for you. We do it in the marina. We have to bring the fish in whole. If unfortunately we got pulled over by wildlife on the way in, you have to have the fish in one piece in order for them to measure them. So once we get in, we load it up in a cart, bring it down to the cleaning station, we cut the fillets off, we chunk it up and send you home with it in a cooler. 1 0:20:47 You are the coolest girl I've met, I swear, in a long time. What about that swordfish-like sword beak? What's that used for? So, while the fish is alive or after the fact? I don't know, I'm just scared of it. What do you do with it? You should be scared of it. 2 0:21:03 That's why it's called the swordfish because they are sharp on the side and they use that and when the swordfish is at the bottom, it lives in the bottom in the dark. They use that bill to basically kill their prey and then come back up to it and then eat it. So they whack at the fish, they can even cut one up, they can cut up a fish with their bill. Now after this is back once we've taken the fish apart, um, I do a process of cleaning the bill where macerate it, get all the meat and fat out of it and then cleanse it and whiten it and I hang them on the wall. 1 0:21:45 Why did I know you were going to say something creative like that? I kind of knew that was coming. And by the way, I can't believe I called it a beak. It's a bill. No, it's a bill or a beak. It's a bill. It's a bill. You know a little bit more than me. I think the last thing I want to ask you, or one of the last things is do you always smell like fish? If you're working around fish this much? I would say from about 4.30 in the morning to about 8 o'clock at night, yes. I smell like fish. And I tend to go like that on a date if I go on a first date because you either take 2 0:22:22 it or leave it that way. 1 0:22:25 You know, I didn't want to get personal, but since you volunteered, that is pretty darn funny that you said that. Are people intimidated who, you know, you're interested in maybe dating, that this is what you do, that you can catch 900 pound fish on a regular basis? 2 0:22:43 They think it's cool until I spend my time offshore with another man, and then they wonder 1 0:22:48 what I'm doing. You've got a whole other set of things going on down there. This is quite priceless 2 0:22:52 You know what the fish don't care whether I'm single dating smell like fish smell like roses That's um I've dedicated my life to it, and if somebody wants to join the ride go right ahead But I'm not going to stop doing it for anything Okay, what is the one thing that a woman? 1 0:23:08 Fishing big big fish like this has to be careful of versus guys. Is there anything? 2 0:23:17 I will just put it this way. I traveled the world with a 95-pound woman. She's in her early 60s. I saw her catch more large fish than most men. The only thing that she had was the willpower to do it and nobody could tell her nothing. So this is a mental fortitude game, not a strength game. 1 0:23:41 You have to be... Interesting, yeah. Interesting, interesting, because I was reading about... 2 0:23:45 People ask me, I have 300 pound, 6 foot 10 grown men on the boat who give up, and then I step in and they are just like, how do you do that? It's because you dig your heels in and you get it done. 5 0:24:01 That's how. 1 0:24:02 Wow. I wouldn't mess with you. 2 0:24:04 That is my advice to women is to don't take no for an answer and you don't need to tell them what you can do you need to show them what you can do. 1 0:24:16 It's so interesting that you're saying these exact words because from what I read about the research done on women who fish and a study they did actually, the folks who researched this at the Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation, they said among women who fish, they have greater perseverance and they're more likely to say that setbacks do not discourage them. They learn patience, they develop confidence, higher self-esteem, clear mind, and they say it improves their mood and they're quite happy. It took me years to get paid to have enough of a space in my career to get paid real money. And now I get paid just as much as the guys who have been doing it as long as I have to. You go girl, Melissa Stevens. And by the way, you're not the only woman who took years to ask for what she's worth. So, good for you. SouthernCatchOutfitters.com is where you're going to find more information and book a charter to fish with Melissa and her crew or anybody else you want to hook up with in Venice, Louisiana. Check out my social media photos of her that she was kind enough to share on the Debbie Check out my social media photos of her that she was kind enough to share on the Debbie Nigro Show Facebook page and at The Real Debbie Nigro on Instagram.      

There are many well-known cryptids across the globe but what about the local monster, hiding in the woods on the outskirts of town, the local legend of the creature that howls in the night? To a small town in Northern Florida, this is home to one of these lesser-known cryptids, yet to the local residents and historians, he is flesh and blood and a part of their town. Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they journey Within the Mists of New Egg, Florida to discover the Stump Jumper. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/withinthemist/support

There are many well-known cryptids across the globe but what about the local monster, hiding in the woods on the outskirts of town, the local legend of the creature that howls in the night?To a small town in Northern Florida, this is home to one of these lesser-known cryptids, yet to the local residents and historians, he is flesh and blood and a part of their town.Join Gary and GoldieAnn as they journey Within the Mists of New Egg, Florida to discover the Stump Jumper.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/withinthemist/support Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Life & Times of Drew DeMaioA conversation with guitarist, bassist, and singer....Drew DeMaio. Drew grew up in South Florida where he played in punk/alternative rock band Gus. Drew later relocated up to Northern Florida where in Gainesville. Drew discovered a more community-like scene, playing in bands such as Strikeforce Diablo, Asshole Parade, Argentina, Vanbuilderass and a Black Sabbath cover band known as The Volume Four. In later years, Drew played with Miami sludge/doom masters, Floor. Other non-Florida bands to Drew's credit are NYC bands LaPeche and Robes. [Episode: 53 - Recorded 05/05/2023]Music:Gus - Less Than (1994)StrikeForce Diablo - Calm Cool Collegiate (1999)☞ Follow Florida Sound Archive on Instagram! @floridasoundarchiveDrew DeMaio - Social Media, etc.INSTAGRAM@drewmikey@strikeforce_diablo@lapecheband@abandcalledrobesWEBSITEShttps://www.ashtraymonument.com/strikeforcediablohttps://argentina1.bandcamp.com/album/diving-boardhttps://lapecheband.bandcamp.com/https://abandcalledrobes.bandcamp.com/

Outside of Gainesville, FL sits a town we've passed a hundred times in our travels... and yet never knew existed. Turns out Northern Florida has a well-kept secret to most people passing through, and it comes in the form of just ONE square mile known as the town of Micanopy. What's the deal with Micanopy? Well, for starters it is it's own time capsule. Roll into town past the tin-roofed houses and you'll quickly find yourself transported into the early 20th century. The cafes may have modern equipment, but the aesthetics of this unique town are free of the chain restaurants and schlocky corporate stores you can find in every suburb in America. Join us as we recap our visit with the descendants of J.R. Mountain--an original entrepreneur who made Micanopy a must-stop for every Greyhound bus in the 1920s. We sat with two of his grandchildren, Sandra and Billy, for what ended up being a fascinating look into what it took to start a town in Old Florida--and the battles they've fought over the years to keep its beautiful soul. Could we live there? Pop in those dorky earbuds and find out. You can find us on social media here. Check out our YouTube channel here. Subscribe and review us everywhere you can--it means so much! #emptynest #fulltank  

Eric DeVries is a seasoned tax, accounting, and technology expert with over 20 years of experience. He spent 11 years working on their National team at Pricewaterhouse Coopers and worked with Deloitte and DaimlerChrysler's North American headquarters. In 2008, he founded DEVRIESE & ASSOCIATES, a full-service CPA firm in Northern Florida. Building on his extensive experience and knowledge, he recognized a shift in the accounting industry. He founded RealTime CPAs, a one-of-a-kind firm that is paving the way for the industry's future.  In this conversation, Eric discusses how Dental CPAs differ from regular CPAs and how they help dentists in their practice. He talks about the current trend of dental practices acquired by DSOs, the challenges sellers face in navigating the marketplace, and the value of having representation during negotiations. Eric also shares stories about successful strategies that dentists have used to increase profitability in their practices, including holding staff accountable for treatment plans and using accountable plans for health insurance. Key Takeaways: Dental CPAs specialize in serving dentists and deeply understand the industry and its unique challenges. Selling a dental practice to a DSO can be a good option, but sellers should be aware of the equity play and the potential pitfalls of accepting unsolicited offers. Representation during negotiations can help level the playing field for sellers and ensure they get the best deal possible. Strategies such as holding staff accountable for treatment plans and using accountable plans for health insurance can help dentists increase profitability in their practices. Dental CPAs can also help sellers with representation during the selling process, ensuring they get the best deal possible. Dental practices are highly sought-after, and prices have increased significantly over the years due to competition from private equity firms and other buyers. Dental CPAs can provide valuable advice on increasing practice profitability, such as improving collections and case acceptance rates. Dental CPAs can also offer strategies for reducing healthcare costs, such as setting up an accountable plan for health insurance. Working with a Dental CPA can provide dentists with specialized expertise and advice tailored to their unique needs and challenges in the industry. Learn more: RealTimeCPAs.com (Company) timetrade.com/book/QJSYL (Schedule an Appointment) realtimecpas.com/Blog-3-3.html (Blog: Buying a Dental Practice) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RealTimeCPAs LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/realtime-cpas/ #dentistry #dentists #orthodontics #endodontics #prosthodontics #dentalinvestor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The swan song is on for the WGC era as the Dell Technologies Match Play starts its final edition today in Austin, Texas. Todd Lewis joins us throughout the morning with updates on the field as players begin competing in pool play. Yesterday, we got divergent answers from world no.2 Jon Rahm and no.3 Rory McIlroy about the USGA and R&A proposal to roll back the golf ball. George and Eamon discuss how the two titans disagree and then share their thoughts on the matter. It's World Water Day today! USGA Green Section Managing Director Matt Pringle stops by to discuss how the national governing body of the game is committed to reducing water usage on then nation's courses. In the ladies game, Agathe Laisne is getting ready to tee it up in the LPGA this week after winning earlier this month on the EPSON TOUR. Laisne talks to us about her success in the pro game so far, and how she plans to parlay it into permanent status at the game's highest level. Nick Gabrelcik is an accomplished amateur golfer already, even though he's yet to complete his freshman year at the University of Northern Florida. The no. 12 player in the World Amateur Golf Ranking discusses his ascendant career with us, highlighted recently by an eagle and a made cut in his hometown PGA TOUR event: The Valspar Championship. Headed back to Austin, Willie Nelson's son Lukas is not only a strong musician in his own right but also an accomplished golfer. Lukas chats with us about his love of golf, how the Austin area has evolved in his lifetime and his new album. Matt Pringle (20:02) Agatha Laisne (26:09) Nick Gabrelcik (30:59) Lukas Nelson (37:04)

S2 Episode 6: Rising Above the Rhythm of the Universe  Part One: November 2022  "Are you ok?" my good friend asked me on the phone a couple of days ago, and I couldn't answer him because I was holding back the tears of my grief. My greatest temptation took a huge piece of my heart with it.  I didn't want this post about Rhythm to be part two of Angel's traumatic relationship loss story, but I had to let that go because this is the story that happened, and it is a fine example of the pendulum swing in my life. It is also how I used my practice of service to others and meditation to neutralize it.  I have been awake but living a nightmare. The nightmare began the day I found out about her. The nightmare most recently came in the form of a social media profile picture. There, my alleged life partner was walking down the aisle in unholy matrimony with her, the other woman, his gut-wrenching secret, only three short months after I found out about her and thus, ended us.   This nightmare evokes a soul-crushing "what the fuck?!"   That moment, upon seeing the picture,I knew I had dodged a bullet of crazy. That the drama train left the station without me on it, I should be relieved, say good riddance, sayonara – I'm moving on without that weight of irresponsibility strapped to my ankle.  But the emotional me, the part that loved and believed in what their best friend shared with them, is crying her eyes out. A wounded and broken child experiencing betrayal of the most profound kind, the knife turning yet again in a deeply broken heart., "I don't want my choices to affect you," he said when I found out about her.   I wanted to stab him with my ceremonial Athame. But instead of committing premeditated murder, I told him I would be removing myself from this fucked up "friendship" so I could heal and no longer be subjected to his selfish and hurtful choices.   So the Law of Rhythm states, "Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates."                                                                                    -The Kybalion  Because I know the hermetic principle, I haven't acted on "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." Oh, I want to unblock his wife on Facebook and tell her all the ways he's lied to her, that her marriage is based on falsity, and that I curse them both to a life of unhappiness and complete lack of joy. But that action would result only in a dramatic rhythm swing reaction to the other way, bouncing back at me worse than any fury I can deliver in their direction.  Because that is the law – every action has a reaction, the tide goes out and the tide goes in. This is the Way.  Humans experience great joy; humans experience great sorrow (that is, if they have the capacity for it).  Now I've been grieving this relationship since August despite my best efforts to move on. And why? Because I didn't neutralize, I instead hung on to the attachment. I thought our civility, our friendship, was fulfilling a need of mine – and maybe, because of the continued lies on his part, I had some twisted hope that he'd come back to me after this misguided episode with the psycho bitch he cheated on me with. I just had to bide my time and do my work, and it would all work out. Instead, this was likely an extended denial of my grief at losing my lover and best friend without closure, explanation, or apology. I burned all his gifts to me in the temple at Burning Man, but it didn't cut the cord. And I kept getting pulled back in. So my poor heart was broken multiple times because I was unwilling to cut the cord.  Then I think of the joy and elation I experienced in the relationship. Laughter and dancing, sharing of Tarot, and Rune spreads the feeling that someone truly listened and understood me and accepted me no matter what. He was holding me up and supporting me unconditionally. I never had that ever before in a relationship.  A person willing to do their work, or so it seemed. Until it got hard, and they started drinking again.  Pendulum swing, great joy, great sorrow.  And even though I volunteered to give up my a normal life, for one of service and true joy, the ripping away of that, my greatest temptation, took a massive piece of my heart with it. And my grief is as if someone died. Because they did. the man who was my best friend and honorable lover is dead to me. The man that exists is a scared, hurt child, incapable of loving anyone.    All he could do was deflect, lie, and deny culpability.  Energy not worthy of my time, my effort – we are not in alignment.  I have to feel the grief without giving in to the rage and drama monster that wants to come out. And I have to declare boundaries to prevent myself from swimming into the toxic forgiveness pool to stay this man's friend.   Part Two: January 2023  Since writing part one, I've learned a couple of things.  One "Love Bombing" is what a narcissist does to reel you into their world and enlist you in their menagerie. Narcissists use people, and then they cast them aside when that need is fed, or you are used up, and they can't get what they want from you anymore.  My ex love-bombed me. Because he is a narcissist, and I fulfilled a need. He immediately enlisted me in his children's life. After all, he needed someone like me to care for them because he was functionally and emotionally abandoning them. I thought it was because he trusted me that he was so vulnerable, bringing me deep into his life so soon. But, no, I was just an easy target. I gave him the keys to how to manipulate me in our first 24 hours together, and he used them all.  Since cutting him off, he's tried to keep the lines of communication open – Communication for a space to vent, someone to loan him money, or a place to run away from his crazy new bride. On New Years, he asked me if he could store all his stuff with me so he could leave his wife, "the past few months have been tough for me," he said like the pathetic man-child he is. I could laugh at his level of ego; if I hadn't moved on, I would have been pulled right back onto his crazy train. But I let his pendulum swing without me in the equation. I told him he'd have to leave his wife without my help and this situation was not for me to be involved in. His lesson is to now manage his karma.  Shockingly, I have not heard from him since proving my narcissist theory. I'm discarded now because I offer nothing more to him. I'm not useful to his story of the victim.  As I'm now clear of his toxic tentacles, I've mourned the death of the person I was in love with. I'm now free of the swings of emotion, reclaimed my power, and neutralized the Rhythm of this negative vibration in my life.  How? prayer, meditation, ritual, truth-telling, patience, energy healing, service, literally moving across the country and starting over. Vitamin D is a cure for a lot of things, and the sunlight, quiet and rest of my new home in Northern Florida have given me perspective. But mostly, it's been the time, honesty, and forgiveness of myself that broke the pattern. So lovely humans, I hope to post another podcase before five months go by again. But in the meantime, please take the principles of Rhythm to heart. We cannot escape the tides of fate, but we can neutralize the drama train, the pendulum swing in our lives, by choosing to be above engagement. It is a ride we can step off.  If you would like to learn how – I can help with that! Reach out. I would love to work with you.    

In this episode we talk about the Alligator Snapping Turtle! Relax, unwind, and join me in the rivers of Northern Florida, where we learn all about a modern day river dinosaur.To contact Stef Wolfe you can:Submit on the "Animal Request" tab on relaxwithanimalfacts.comE-mail relaxwithanimalfacts@gmail.com.Send a message to relaxwithanimalfacts on InstagramIf you would like to learn more, the resources used in this episode are listed below:https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Reptiles/Alligator-Snapping-Turtlehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/facts/alligator-snapping-turtlehttps://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/alligator-snapping-turtlehttps://www.etymonline.com/word/turtle?ref=etymonline_crossreference#etymonline_v_18843https://animalia.bio/alligator-snapping-turtlehttps://www.thoughtco.com/alligator-snapping-turtle-facts-4586917Charity for this episode: Louisiana Alligator Snapping Turtle FoundationFor exclusive content like the Extinct and Mythical Animal Mini-Series, go to the Patreon by clicking here. Rock some awesome podcast-themed merch by clicking here.You can also check out informative blog posts on relaxwithanimalfacts.com/blog. Get Bonus Content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Have you ever thought living a Spirit-led life isn't for you or too difficult? Do you have questions about who He is? Well, this episode is for you, sister!    This week, we're joined by my friend, Jenny Randle. Jenny is like one of those friends that are so easy to talk with and you feel comfortable around them right away.  In this episode, I am interviewing her about her book, Getting to Know God's Voice. If you want to grow in this area of your faith be sure to listen for how you can be the blessed winner of a copy of this book!   Speaker, author, podcaster, and Emmy®-winning editor jenny Randle has served in ministry and worked in the entertainment and creative industries for over twenty years. She encourages believers, creatives, and church leaders to navigate into a space of freedom within their personal life, leadership, and church culture. In early 2018, Jenny and her husband Matt formed Freedom Creatives, a ministry organization dedicated to developing resources that merge profound Gospel-centered truths with practical application. Whether Online or in-person, Jenny has shared hope, healing, and Holy Spirit revelation championing hundreds of thousands of people into their calling. Jenny resides in Northern Florida with her husband and two kids. For more information visit jennyrandle.com.   Website: http://www.jennyrandle.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenny.randle/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freedomcreatives Points Jenny shared at the end of the episode: Trust in the Lord Jesus as the Lord of your life. Rely on the Holy Spirit to develop your character and the fruit of the Spirit. Use the gifts He has given you. Be in community. Serve and be involved. To learn more about Susan and her ministry, She Rises, visit https://www.sherisesmn.org/. Find her on Facebook and Instagram at Susan Vandenheuvel.    

We are back after a Thanksgiving break to recap all that has happened in the world of the Kentucky Wildcats. The basketball team has had 3 games since we last met. Gonzaga, Northern Florida and Bellarmine. Sam and AJ recap all 3 and share their thoughts on where the Cats stand. What are the problem areas and what can be done to fix that? Last Saturday the Wildcats continued their dominance of UofL as they beat the Cardinals 26-13 in the Governers Cup. The UK defense showed out as DeAndre Square made a comeback to action and the offense was led by bowling ball Chris Rodriguez and freshman Barrion Brown. (2:16) Gonzaga loss - foul trouble, energy & more (23:11) Bellarmine Recap - What the Knights did to limit the Cats & how we responded (34:25) Governers Cup Win - Vets + Young Cats & Ruffalooooooooo!!!!Follow the podcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @AOKentuckyPodFollow us on twitter @andrew_jbradley & @SamBrad66https://rss.com/podcasts/alloutkentuckypodcast/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-out-kentucky-podcast/id1619497300https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL2FsbG91dGtlbnR1Y2t5cG9kY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA

Today is another AMA episode (Ask Me Anything). Paul from Northern Florida asks. I would like to first thank you for your work on your show. Your broad range of subjects and guest has made this a daily must listen to program for me. So thank you again. I would like to ask your thoughts on product research for new residential construction projects. While I am not a developer nor do I want to become one I am in the process of selling my business and I want to do a couple of projects. I would like to build a couple of new homes for my children and myself. Over the years I have seen various products and systems used on shows such as This Old House and such. But when you would go to the local retail building supply retailers (Home Depot/Lowes) they would not have any knowledge of the systems. I have come to figure out sometime it is a regional product only. I live in Florida where temperatures are regularly 35c or 95*s and the humidity is very high. We have our own regional issues (hurricane wind speed requirements, mold issues, termites and such) and I know I am going to study building codes and practices to build something correctly. I have tried to gather information at non-retail building supply businesses as well as national construction trade shows but have been met with “you are not a licensed contractor” and we only deal with them. I have tried reaching out to the local regional builders association but they just refer you to a member that just wants to build the house and tend to lean on what is best and I assume profitable for their business. I can find basic stuff like ICF vs poured concrete, zip wrap vs traditional, various forms of insulating and thing like that but I want to dig further and see which is the most beneficial or how a new product may be a better fit. Since I am doing this for myself I don't want to base things on cost alone or what is the cheap and easy way of doing things. I will work with a licensed architect for the actual design and engineering aspects but I would like to do research and educate myself reasonably before I just randomly ask them for ideas. However, since I am not in the trade I am not sure where to find new product information or ideas that may be beneficial to my projects other than just searching on the internet for new building ideas. I would appreciate your thoughts and opinion. -------------- Host: Victor Menasce email: podcast@victorjm.com

If this is the only episode of this podcast that you ever listen to, I'll count it as a win in my book because no matter who you are, what hats you wear, what roles you play in your day to day, what your job is, or what season of life you're in… today's guest has something to share that is going to encourage you.If you've ever wrestled with an intense feeling of imposter syndrome, or fear of failure: Click play. If you've ever believed that your purpose can be found in your talents, or your abilities, or anything you can manifest for your life on your own: Click play. If you've ever questioned “who am I?” when stepping up to the plate to pursue a dream that feels so widely big and scary it's almost out of reach: Click play. Or here's a kicker: If you have ever felt extremely called to something in your life that feels like it's “not enough”: Click play.Today I had the honor of sitting down with my new friend, and powerhouse of a women; Jenny Randle. Based out of Northern Florida with her husband and two kids, Jenny is a woman who went from a career in the heart of Hollywood to becoming a faith-based author, national speaker, and chart-topping podcaster.She is passionate about Jesus, and life, and the result of that blend led her to write her newest book Dream Come True, where she encourages others to dream-on for the glory of God and good of others.I personally walked away from this conversation with Jenny with my jaw on the floor and my heart on a cloud, on fire and excited for the revelations she shared that not only changed my life, but are bound to change yours too. So grab a snack, and buckle up, because this is an un-pausable conversation, and I can't wait to see you inside this episode.Follow Along with Jenny: Read Jenny's newest book ‘Dream Come True' https://www.jennyrandle.com/dreamhttps://www.jennyrandle.com/ https://freedomcreatives.com/faithful https://www.instagram.com/jenny.randle/ Show Notes: Click here.Join the Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/575983123455968/Follow Along: https://www.instagram.com/thebalancepod/https://www.instagram.com/adisonchilders/https://www.instagram.com/aminastudio.co/

With us this week on The Multifamily Wealth Podcast is a well-known multifamily broker from Central and Northern Florida, Beau Beery. He is one of the highest performing brokers in the multifamily sector and is also the author of “Multifamily Investors Who Dominate”, where he dives into what separates the truly successful multifamily investors from the rest of the field. In this episode, we have a thorough discussion regarding relationship building, working with brokers, and becoming a great buyer client. Beau shares the importance of having a systematized process when it comes to building relationships, as well as the importance of building a credibility kit you can share with the marketplace. This is an extremely tactical episode that you need to listen to if you're actively working with brokers or want to develop better relationships with people in your network.Highlights of the episode:3:22 - Beau shares his background, how he get into real estate, and how he drew himself into the brokerage business7:53 - Beau shares why he became a broker and how it ties into his risk tolerance. 9:34 - He discusses how brokers inherently have a conflict of interest with clients if they are also buying in the marketplace.13:53 - Beau shares his opinion on the FL market right now, where he see it going, and where he sees upcoming opportunities.20:58 - We discuss how investors should be prospecting for deals.24:52 - Beau defines the difference between elite and average investors and what separates them.30:46 - Beau shares how he uses CRMs to systematize his relationship building and how the listeners can do the same39:01 - Beau shares how buyers can separate themselves in today's market and how we can be more competitive with our offers.47:42 - We talk about why keeping your criteria broad enough to not miss opportunity is important48:48 - He shares about one piece of advice before starting your real estate career50:31 - Beau talks about the best decision he has made in his real estate career.52:37 - Beau shares one skill/trait that he attributes his success to.CONNECT WITH AXELhttps://www.instagram.com/multifamilywealth/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/axelragnarsson/CONNECT WITH BEAUhttps://beaubeery.com/https://www.youtube.com/beauknowsmultifamilyhttps://www.instagram.com/beaubeerygville/https://www.linkedin.com/in/beauknowsmultifamily/https://www.tiktok.com/@beauknowsmultifamilyhttps://www.facebook.com/BeauKnowsMultifamilyhttps://twitter.com/BeauBeery

With us this week on The Multifamily Wealth Podcast is a well-known multifamily broker from Central and Northern Florida, Beau Beery. He is one of the highest performing brokers in the multifamily sector and is also the author of “Multifamily Investors Who Dominate”, where he dives into what separates the truly successful multifamily investors from the rest of the field. In this episode, we have a thorough discussion regarding relationship building, working with brokers, and becoming a great buyer client. Beau shares the importance of having a systematized process when it comes to building relationships, as well as the importance of building a credibility kit you can share with the marketplace. This is an extremely tactical episode that you need to listen to if you're actively working with brokers or want to develop better relationships with people in your network.Highlights of the episode:3:22 - Beau shares his background, how he get into real estate, and how he drew himself into the brokerage business7:53 - Beau shares why he became a broker and how it ties into his risk tolerance. 9:34 - He discusses how brokers inherently have a conflict of interest with clients if they are also buying in the marketplace.13:53 - Beau shares his opinion on the FL market right now, where he see it going, and where he sees upcoming opportunities.20:58 - We discuss how investors should be prospecting for deals.24:52 - Beau defines the difference between elite and average investors and what separates them.30:46 - Beau shares how he uses CRMs to systematize his relationship building and how the listeners can do the same39:01 - Beau shares how buyers can separate themselves in today's market and how we can be more competitive with our offers.47:42 - We talk about why keeping your criteria broad enough to not miss opportunity is important48:48 - He shares about one piece of advice before starting your real estate career50:31 - Beau talks about the best decision he has made in his real estate career.52:37 - Beau shares one skill/trait that he attributes his success to.CONNECT WITH AXELhttps://www.instagram.com/multifamilywealth/?hl=enhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/axelragnarsson/CONNECT WITH BEAUhttps://beaubeery.com/https://www.youtube.com/beauknowsmultifamilyhttps://www.instagram.com/beaubeerygville/https://www.linkedin.com/in/beauknowsmultifamily/https://www.tiktok.com/@beauknowsmultifamilyhttps://www.facebook.com/BeauKnowsMultifamilyhttps://twitter.com/BeauBeery

Welcome to today's episode with Jenny Randle!  I have been so excited to share this episode with you!  She is an Emmy®-award winning editor who went on a journey to discover what it really means to live on purpose. From a career in the heart of Hollywood editing for billion-dollar franchises to a faith-based leader, her voice and work have been featured in hundreds of notable films, print, and media outlets, including MGM Studios, DreamWorks, and PBS Television. In early 2018, Jenny and her husband, Matt, formed Freedom Creatives, an organization that helps people grow their faith, get unstuck, and level up so they can unapologetically live and work for Jesus. Freedom Creatives provides classes, coaching, and in-person and online community and events. Their ministry has international reach from a small island in Northern Florida, where they reside with their two children. Jenny's search for meaning in the everyday moments of life has led her to develop resources that merge profound Gospel-centered truths with practical application. She's the co-host of the fun and faith-filled podcast — Shut the Should Up. Jenny is the author of Courageous Creative, Getting to Know God's Voice, and her newest book, Dream Come True: A Practical Guide to Pursue the Adventures God Has for You. Jenny champions leaders, creatives, and procrastinating dreamers to dream on for the glory of God and good of others. How to connect with Jenny: Email: hi@jennyrandle.com Website: www.jennyrandle.com Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/FreedomCreatives Instagram: www.instagram.com/jenny.randle Come join us on the launch team!!!!  Go to: https://www.jennyrandle.com/dream-launch and sign up today!

In this bonus episode, Riley and Dan discuss the definitive history of Canada's royal family of groceries: the Westons! Come to learn that strike breaking and price fixing has been in their DNA for over a century, stay for an exploration of their strange planned community in Northern Florida. Get the full episode on www.patreon.com/DaBottlemen

The Southern Game & Tackle Hunting Report is a new mini-series that will be produced during the season to provide our listeners with relevant, timely hunting updates.On this episode of The Hunting Report, Ben provides us with an update on his recent successful hunt in Northern Florida (during the rut).  We also discuss current conditions, moon phases, temperatures, and methods used to effectively harvest a mature Florida buck.