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We discuss the new Ojibwe-dubbed version of Star Wars: A New Hope with Maeengan Linklater, Operations Director of the Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council, and Michael Kohn, Director of Distribution Operations for Lucasfilm. The interview discusses why projects like these are so important to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. Highlights:The Preservation of Indigenous Languages - Opening Remarks (00:00)Star Wars: A New Hope in Ojibwe – Trailer (01:24)Introducing Maeengan Linklater - Director of Operations of the Dakota Ojibwe Tribal Council (03:27)Origins of Star Wars Ojibwe Project (03:43)Process of Translating Star Wars into Ojibwe (08:25)Revitalization of Indigenous Languages (15:16)Introducing Michael Kohn - Director of Distribution Operations for Lucasfilm (18:11)Working on the Navajo Version of Star Wars (18:29)Differences Between Making the Navajo & Ojibwe Versions (19:47)Casting Ojibwe Star Wars (20:37)Impact of Navajo Version of Star Wars (22:02)Why Star Wars? (23:11)Parallels Between Indigenous Culture and Star Wars (24:24)Other Opportunities (25:14)Closing Remarks (26:40)Reference:APTN Announcement CBC Article - "This is going to be huge,' Manitoba actress says as premiere of Ojibwe-dubbed Star Wars film nears"Dakota Ojibway Tribal Council  About The PulseOn The Pulse, host Joeita Gupta brings us closer to issues impacting the disability community across Canada.Joeita Gupta has nurtured a life-long dream to work in radio! She's blind, moved to Toronto in 2004 and got her start in radio at CKLN, 88.1 FM in Toronto. A former co-host of AMI-audio's Live from Studio 5, Joeita also works full-time at a nonprofit in Toronto, specializing in housing/tenant rights. Find Joeita on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoeitaGupta The Pulse airs weekly on AMI-audio. For more information, visit https://www.ami.ca/ThePulse/ About AMIAMI is a not-for-profit media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians who are blind or partially sighted. Operating three broadcast services, AMI-tv and AMI-audio in English and AMI-télé in French, AMI's vision is to establish and support a voice for Canadians with disabilities, representing their interests, concerns and values through inclusion, representation, accessible media, reflection, representation and portrayal. Learn more at AMI.caConnect on Twitter @AccessibleMediaOn Instagram @accessiblemediaincOn Facebook at @AccessibleMediaIncOn TikTok @accessiblemediaincEmail feedback@ami.ca

In this episode, I sit down with Playlist expert Mike Warner to delve into the fascinating world of targeted advertising, the challenges of music promotion, and the powerful role that AI can play in your playlist strategy. Mike warns about the dangers of targeting the wrong audience and emphasizes the importance of considering an artist's genre when reaching out to potential fans. He also shares personal anecdotes, including a friend's experience with directing family and friends to their music under a new name. Discover how text and visuals can influence listeners' decision to press play, and why catching people's attention within a fraction of a second is crucial in today's social media scrolling culture. From the struggles and challenges faced during the creative process to the innovative use of AI in crafting effective song descriptions and pitches, Mike offers invaluable insights and practical advice to aspiring musicians and industry professionals. Tune in as Mike uncovers the potential of AI tools like Chat GPT in revolutionizing the way we promote music and connect with audiences. With a treasure trove of tips on filling out submission forms, curating playlists, and making the most of streaming platforms, this episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of the music industry. Artificial intelligence is shaping the landscape of music promotion, and musicians can take advantage of AI-driven tools for various tasks. Warner discusses the benefits of Chat GPT in writing engaging pitches, improving communication with recipients, and streamlining the workflow. Although AI has its limitations and requires fine-tuning, it can be a valuable partner in the music industry. AI not only aids in overcoming writer's block but also enhances the effectiveness of promotional efforts. In an era where music promotion requires a multi-faceted approach, the insights shared by Mike Warner offer valuable guidance for musicians. From targeting the right audience and harnessing the power of words to understanding the nuances of music streaming platforms and embracing AI-driven tools, artists have an array of strategies at their disposal. By staying informed and adapting to the ever-evolving digital landscape, musicians can maximize their reach, engage their fan base, and elevate their music careers to new heights. Key topics in this Podcast - Targeting the Right Audience for Music Ads - Importance of Text in Music Promotion - Challenges in Creating and Describing Music - AI Tools for Music Promotion - Manipulation and Consequences in Music Streaming Platforms - Utilizing Submission Forms for Music Platforms - Using Chat GPT for Writing Pitches - Playlists and Other Opportunities for Music Promotion - AI as a Partner in the Music Industry Works - Documenting and Sharing Experiences in the Music Industry About my Guest: Mike Warner Australian-born Mike Warner is one of the leading experts in the world of streaming music. Mike has held many roles in music over the past 20 years. Currently, he is the Head of Editorial Marketing Partnerships, in North America with global music distributor Believe. Prior to this, he was the Director of Artist Relations at Chartmetric.As a true wearer of many hats, he is also a best-selling self-published author as well as a public speaker, Mike has shared his insights on every stage, from guest starring on numerous podcasts and appearing live on CNBC to speaking at the music industry's largest conferences including SXSW, NAMM and Music Biz. Based on the success of the first two editions of Work Hard Playlist Hard, Mike has expanded the world of WHPH into a full online blog and a podcast series. He also collaborated with industry friend Erika Parr to translate the book into Spanish. Mike has gained an audience on LinkedIn, with his informative and entertaining posts earning him the title as one of LinkedIn's 2023 Top Voices in Music. An independent artist himself, Mike understands the challenges facing artists today better than anyone. A bit of a rebel and an obstinate supporter of independent artists, Mike continues to be unrelentingly passionate about empowering musicians with the tools they need to succeed. As an educator, author, speaker, executive, and leader, Mike's work has gained him recognition among his peers as the go-to authority at the forefront of the digital music world. Featured Links and Deeper Dives: X DJ Mode on Spotify - Head to your Music Feed on Home in the Spotify mobile app on your iOS or Android device, tap Play on the DJ card, and let Spotify do the rest! Work Hard Playlist Hard - Mike's awesome blog. PlaylistAI  - Describe what you want to listen to and AI will make you the perfect mix.

Steve Blaze is the guitarist, songwriter & founding member of the band Lillian Axe. The band burst on the scene in 1988 when their debut album was produced by Robbin Crosby of Ratt. Since then they have shared a stage with Poison, Alice Cooper and Motörhead and played huge shows like the Monsters of Rock Cruise & the M3 Rock Festival. They have a new album out soon called From Womb to Tomb that Steve is here to discuss. We also talk Jani Lane almost joining the band, how Steve helped Phil Anselmo join Pantera, missed opportunities with Sebastian Bach & Lita Ford and more! 0:00:00 - Intro0:00:38 - From Womb to Tomb 0:06:29 - Maturing as a Songwriter 0:12:55 - Making New Albums 0:17:00 - Playing New Songs Live 0:19:50 - Band Origin & Lineup Changes 0:25:25 - Jani Lane of Warrant & Insecurity 0:32:38 - Edgar Winter & Acclaim 0:34:15 - Inspiring People Through Music 0:39:25 - Hindsight & Commercial Success 0:43:40 - Pantera & Phil Anselmo 0:46:15 - Shows with Alice Cooper0:47:30 - Playing with Angel & 0:49:10 - Other Opportunities 0:53:10 - Playing with Motorhead 0:54:40 - Jimmy's Music Club 0:55:48 - New Orleans & Kyle Thomas 1:01:03 - Outro Lillian Axe website:http://www.lillianaxe.comChuck Shute website:https://chuckshute.comSupport the show

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Ellie shares her career journey starting with an "understanding" that she would go to university on her way to be a doctor/nurse or researcher/professor. Then experiencing a research opportunity and a coop term that pointed to a previously unknown path in industry (pharmaceutical specifically). https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliekubisz/ Listen to the episode for more details! Watch the episode here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG6bMLvCCKY Special thanks to https://www.instagram.com/lincolnalexanderthe2nd/ for the theme music Want more personalized career coaching or to connect with Luki: http://linkedin.com/in/lukidanu http://focusinspired.com http://instagram.com/lukidanu http://twitter.com/lukidanu Get SIWIKE Stuff I Wish I Knew Earlier: How to unlock your career potential here https://amzn.to/2LEF52R

In this episode of the KPI Cafe, Stephanie Singletary of Covideo and Steve Roessler of Drive Centric offer up their insights on leveraging video.  Whether you're just considering integrating video into your sales and service strategies or have already begun using it, there's definitely value here for you: getting more buy-in to have more people adopt video, the balance of canned versus truly personalized videos, where to start, which have the greatest impact, using it for service customers, ideal video length, and so much more. Here's what you can expect:3:37 Stephanie Singletary's Automotive Origin Story4:43 Steve Roessler's Automotive Origin Story6:18 Dealer Apprehensions to Fully Adopting VideoResistanceUncomfortability“Hollywood”9:50 Balance of Canned vs. Personalized VideoVariablesSituationalAwareness14:30 Other Means of Personalizing16:00 Secret Shopping ExampleBest Practice with TextingPhone Security18:10 Where is Best to Start Video Strategy?Early AdoptersCognizant of ProcessPlan, Plot, and ExecuteMetric SamplesDealership Accountability22:15 Video Types with the Most Impact for Salespeople24:10 Video Types with the Most Impact for Fixed Ops27:00 Other Opportunities to Engage Members Across DealershipUbiquityHow Video Makes Customers Feel30:24 Results from Leveraging Video for Service32:43 Rental Example33:44 Managing Any Disconnect Between Video Vendor and Dealer38:45 Parameters for Video Length41:34 Reaching out to Stephanie and Steve

In this episode, Zeal Founder Adam Cuppy is interviewed by Eric Weiss. Adam talks about coming from Theater Performance to building a tech software development company. Adam and Zeal take a holistic approach to their work and how they separate Zeal and their passions, only to bring them back together to make Zeal an even better company.Featured Links:Find Adam on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AdamCuppyZeal: https://www.codingzeal.com/Other Opportunities to Connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

Host Adam Cuppy sits down with Nick Cloward from Anonyome Labs and they chat about all things data ownership and privacy. What data are you putting out there as a user and what data are you holding on to as a tech company?Featured LinksFind Nick on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/nclowardFind Anonyome Labs on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AnonyomeLabsOnline at: https://anonyome.com/ and https://mysudo.com/Other Opportunities to Connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

If you’re someone that suffers from Imposter Syndrome, tune into this episode. Host Adam Cuppy chats with Jen Luker about dealing with Imposter Syndrome and using it to incite change.Featured Links:Find Jen on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/knitcodemonkeyCheck out Jen online at: https://www.jenluker.com/#/Other Opportunities to Connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

Session 84 Dr. Edward Schloss joined me to talk about his journey to Cardiac Electrophysiology, what 17 years in the field looks like, and his likes and dislikes of his specialty. If you're a premed student, go check out all our other resources on MedEd Media Network. If you're a medical student, go check out our newest Board Rounds Podcast. [01:17] Interest in Cardiac Electrophysiology Coming out of undergrad as an engineer, Edward wasn't sure he wanted to be a doctor and only found out as he got further along. It was during second year of med school that he had an ECG class and they were already problem-solving instead of just plain memorization. He also got through different phases such as rheumatology, nephrology, and primary care. In fact, he recalls telling himself one evening that he wasn't going to be a cardiologist. He actually got interested in serial drug testing back in the old days, where they would take people who had cardiac arrest into a lab and they would pace their hearts in order to induce the arrhythmia. They would start the medication and bring them back and do it again. Until he got to the people that did electrophysiology and got mentorship. [04:05] Traits that Lead to Becoming a Good Electrophysiologist Edward says you have to be analytic. You have to be able to look at data objectively and there are going to be mountains of data and you have to sort through the good and the bad. In the lab, you have to be highly meticulous. You have to be focused and meticulous for hours on your feet to be able to get through that. Moreover, establishing relationships with patients is also super important. They don't meet patients on the table, but they meet them ahead of time. They deal with people that are very vulnerable and intimidated. Many of them have been through something life-changing. They're facing the risk of cardiac arrest or they've been through it. Or they're scared to death about their arrhythmias. So you need to humanize it and gather their trust before they hit the lab. And for many of these patients, you follow them for many years. Having a lot of device patients, they have metal in their body that he's responsible for, for the rest of their life. "These people have a hunk of metal in their body that I'm responsible for for the rest of their life so they're kind of married to me professionally." [06:10] Types of Patients and Diseases Edward illustrates a mix of patients coming in. There are young people with palpitations, fainting episodes, which are common. As they get older, you start to see patients who may be healthy but have developed atrial fibrillation from a variety of causes. As you go further to the older population, you'd see patients with myocardial infarction and then you get to the heart failure population as they get older. Edwards favorite is the 90-year-olds who may have a heart block and fainting episode and you put a pacer in them and they're good to go. Edward has a good number of referring physicians, mostly his own partners. When patients hit the door, it's not unusual for them to be ready to go. So they've probably had their echo or their medications, etc. A lot of times, they don't know what they need which is pretty common. So it's common for Edward that he'd have to craft the patients' expectations a little differently. "If they think they know what they need, much of the time they're wrong. That's not because they're not good doctors. It's just our field is so highly specialized." [08:55] Typical Day Edward arrives before 7 am, depending on how much is going on in the hospital. He runs around and sees his post ops. It's very important to see people the day after their procedure personally to cement the relationship. Then he makes it to the lab or the office by 8 am. His days are generally either all day lab or all day office. On an office day, he'll see patients from 8-8:30 and from 8:39 to 5 or so, he sees his patients. Some days can be light, others can be busy. On a lab day, they do procedures that can sometimes take a short amount of time. Sometimes, it takes several hours. It's hard to predict which number of hours. Typically, his day is done by around 6 pm. [10:29] Community vs Academic Edward chose the community setting over academic. He was one of the aggressive fellows who felt ownership over his patients. He jokes around that by the time he got done he was a "PGY-8" which just means that it takes a long time to become an electrophysiologist. So feel kind of ready for it and want to do things yourself. So he hated it when his attendings would lean over his shoulder and take control of the catheters or do access. He realized once he got out of practice that he wasn't going to change. So if he had to do an academic practice and had to teach fellows and give them control, then he would have a tough time with that. Then he found research later in his career but he tried to skirt away from it as much as he could. He did enjoy teaching but he wasn't sure if he was going to be patient about it. [12:33] Percentage of Procedures and Taking Calls If somebody hits his door as new patient evaluation, he does a procedure on them of about 75%. For the 25%, he sees a lot of people come to him for benign palpitations and sometimes all they need to do is put on a monitor and determine they're benign and reassure. This doesn't lead to a procedure. Basically, taking calls has evolved over the course of his career. Most electrophysiologists he's talked with would like to be purely electrophysiology on call. But it took a long time to get to that point. He'd take calls every fifth night and every fifth weekend. He used to do general cardiology call. Then as they got bigger and built an electrophysiology-specific call, the calls got less frequent. But as it got less intense, it became high acuity calls and in many cases, they're very knowledge-based, difficult, complex calls. [15:25] Work-Life Balance Edwards admits going through periodic retirement fantasies, not because he doesn't love his job, but because he just loves his home life. He's got a phenomenal family and a great place to live. So he enjoys being away from the hospital. Weekends he just shuts everything down so he can stay at home and have a nice time. "When you're here, you've got to be here. So you've got to actually devote yourself to that." [16:30] Training Path to Become a Cardiac Electrophysiologist You start out as an internal medicine resident after medical school which is three years. And then you decide whether you go to cardiology and get a cardiology fellowship which is another three years of general cardiology. Then you subspecialize and choose electrophysiology. Depending on what program you're in, that might be combined into the general cardiology program, or it might be a separate fellowship. For him, it was a separate fellowship that added two additional years. In total, it's eight years of postgraduate training before you finally get a real job. In terms of competitiveness, Edward thinks it's still the interventional folks are the most popular. But there are also attending EP (electrophysiology) spots. He thinks it depends on when you get out and what the path is. But just the cardiology itself is tough to get into. [18:16] Other Opportunities to Further Subspecialize "EP is a very narrow field but within that narrow field, there's a fairly significant breadth of knowledge." Edwards describes the specialty as cutting down in the middle between two basic worlds at least within procedural, namely: device implantation and ablations. The amount of research, attempts, and trials before ablation became actually refined to what it is right now, Edward would describe as the longest procedural research type of learning curve he has seen within his field. [20:23] Bias Against DOs and Working with Primary Care Physicians and Other Specialties The DOs Edward has met he'd consider as some of the best docs he had in practice during his fellowship. He personally didn't feel any bias at all. He hopes it's still as open as it was when he was there. They were just rocking and rolling it just like everybody else. Edward feels blessed to have a healthy referral environment. But what he could tell primary care physicians to help cardio electrophysiologists with patient care is first knowing when to refer. And this is true to a lot of other specialties. There are people who are out there but they haven't been referred. And some of their patients have been held onto too long before they could have done something food for them. So if you've got somebody who had heart failure and they haven't seen an electrophysiologist, please refer those folks out. Atrial fibrillation is a classic example where the evolution of how it's being treated has changed quite a bit and not every primary care physician may be aware that they've got great treatments for atrial fibrillation now but they need to get the people earlier rather than later. Additionally, basic testing is important and this applies more to his general cardiology colleagues rather than the primary care physicians. But simple things like just getting EKGs and people that are symptomatic. It's not unusual for him to see somebody who has had an echo, MRI, or cardiac cath, but has been six months since their last EKG and then they will find something that changes the whole game just because the EKG wasn't checked. "We've got great treatments for atrial fibrillation now but we need to get the people earlier rather than later." Edward says EPs are rarely referring out. But they have healthy working relationships with their general cardiologists and heart failure specialists. So it's 90% other cardiologists, although he does work with primary care physicians. But the pathway to a referral from primary care is to put them first into the cardiology system and then from within the cardiology system, they can then be referred to an EP. [24:15] Special Opportunities Outside of Clinical Medicine They work with very complex and technical equipment, very technically complicated. It may not be unusual in medicine but once patients leave the hospital, they still have that equipment inside their body. And that has to be maintained, serviced, and troubleshot. So pacers, defibrillators, biventricular heart devices are super complex. There are lots of things that could go wrong and lots of nuances to how they program the devices. So the industry is critical for them to be able to manage those appropriately. You will have an opportunity to work in the industry. At the MD level, you can consult. Some people work full-time with industry. "Done right, industry-MD partnerships are very healthy. Done wrong, obviously, it is the dark side." [26:23] What He Knows Now That He Wished He Knew Going Into EP What dawned on him as he went out to practice was that the overwhelming amount of information they had to deal with can become absolutely critical that you need to build a team around you and you need to reward and support that team. And they will return to you what you need to be able to take care of your patients. So you'd have to train these people and keep them otherwise you're going to be up the creek if the right people leave you. So take care of your people. "It's literally impossible to do this without this healthy group of supportive people." What he likes the most as a cardiac EP over his years of practice is appreciating the nuance of patient care. Coming out of college as an engineer, he didn't realize how much he liked patient relationships. Another thing he likes is the troubleshooting and complex management of devices. It's a big world that is somewhat impenetrable early on. But once you get in a little bit deeper, these things just open up into so many interesting things. "Barely a day doesn't go by that I don't see something I've never seen before and it just blows me away just how much nuance and difference there is in what we do." Electrophysiologists are very passionate, as Edward describes it. They love what they do and almost nobody knows what the hell it is that they do. And this keeps getting bigger and bigger as they people try to understand this and the world just opens up to you. On the flip side, what he likes the least is pleasing masters that don't have their best interest in mind. He doesn't like checking boxes or doing unnecessary documentation. He doesn't like following the rules of someone who doesn't literally understand why they wrote those rules – the faceless beaureaucrats – for lack of a better term.  Regulatory requirements and fighting for thingsfor your patients from people that are not invested or informed or experts are very challenging. "It's very challenging to do the things that are necessary to do the job that have absolutely nothing to do with the delivery of health care." [31:11] Major Changes in the Field Edward says that if you're a medical student coming in, dive in! This is not going anywhere, and it's just going to get more and more interesting and more exciting. Their patient population is not going anywhere. In the field of devices, we're getting away from the traditional way of delivering energy to the heart which is through leads that pass through the vasculature and down into the heart. We now have very early stages of fully, self-contained pacemakers that go inside the heart entirely, the size of a big pill. This is still in its infancy but the leadless technology of where we're going with devices is getting bigger. It won't completely replace the traditional leads, but that's where we're heading and it's very cool. Plus, Edwards says they're fun to put in! On the ablation side, you'd have to figure out where the arrhythmias are arising in the heart and then how to isolate or eliminate the tissue causing that to arise. Most of those techniques are catheter-based and either freeze or burn. You do a lot of sophisticated mapping to try to figure out where to go. Another amazing thing now is a group partnerring with radiation oncology to external beam-radiate the heart and eliminate arrhythmias that way. Still under thorough investigation, but most of them are excited about how this is going to happen. It could revolutionize how abalation is done. [34:12] Edward’s Thoughts on the Apple Watch with the EKG Feature Edward is pro and informing patients and giving them access to data. But it is a challenge to do that correctly. The problem you can run into with Apple Watch is that you're casting an enormously wide net on a very low risk population. No matter how good the technology is going to be, you're going to see a lot of false positives, which are going to lead down rabbit holes and additional testing – not to mention the fear on the part of the patients and their families and the resources that are going to get used up in the process. Even in the true positives, you're going to see a lot of detected asymptomatic atrial fibrillation. Frankly, we have very limited information about what to do about that. We know a little something about asymptomatic atrial fibrillation because we see it in devices. There are people walking around with pacers in their heart who may not have a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation. But the device will pick it up. And there's still enormous controversy about what to do with that population. "We've got to justle as a discipline to figure out how to manage these folks." [36:28] Final Words of Wisdom If he had to do it again, Edward would still choose the same. There's nothing in medicine that he could imagine he would do more than electrophysiology. It's got all the techy stuff, troubleshooting, engineering, relationships, surgeries -  all these that fascinate him along with the crazy good outcomes, seeing people rise up. It's gratifying how you can turn people around Ultimately, Edwards advice to those considering this field is that if you've got the bug like somebody shows you a crazy EKG or someone comes out with a dev.ice and looks cool,t hen don't be intimdiated. Seek out the right people. You're not going to figure this out on your own. He suspects it's going to be tough to get into fellowship unless you have some contacts. So find somebody like him who would be thrilled that you found this interesting as most people are scared away or just not interested. The stuff is going to look complicated and boring. But just hang in there. After a while and with the proper teaching, it's all going to open up and it's going to be just incredibly fascinating! And then you'll be part of the club. "If you get the proper teaching, it's all going to open up and it's going to just become incredibly fascinating! And then you'll be part of the club." Links: MedEd Media Network Board Rounds Podcast

This podcast was recorded in Powell River, which is a small mill town in British Columbia, Canada. Yesterday I spoke at their Chamber of Commerce monthly luncheon and it got me thinking about looking for and creating your own opportunities. What do I mean by this? Pretty much don’t sit back and wait for opportunities to come to you because it could be a long wait and may never come. And I must admit, I have been guilty of this in the past. BUT, about 6-months ago I was planning a family holiday to Vancouver, Powell River and Phoenix for a conference I attend every October, before heading back home. Chamber of Commerce   Soon after locking in our dates, I saw an ad in our local newspaper, the Cairns Post, about an upcoming Chamber of Commerce luncheon and the guest speaker was from out of town. When I saw at the topic I immediately thought, 'I could have spoken about about that', and I know about ten other people in Cairns that were quite capable and qualified to speak on the same subject. Anyway, after seeing the ad I remembered something I heard a friend say once that made me laugh. "Even Jesus had to leave his hometown for people to listen to him". Powell River So an idea popped into my head. What if I contacted the Powell River Chamber of Commerce and asked if I could speak at their luncheon if they had one. I sent off an email explaining I had written two marketing books and would love the opportunity to speak and shortly afterwards I received a reply email saying YES, and before too long a date was booked and a luncheon was created. As I mentioned I did this presentation yesterday and there were about 50 people present, which was a great turnout for a small town. Big Lesson  I spoke about one of my favourite subjects, the Six Pillars of Marketing and the feedback from the audience and emails I received later that day were all positive, but more importantly, I learnt a big lesson. You can’t wait for opportunities to present themselves, sometimes you have to get off your bum and create them yourself. Now, they could have said NO, but they didn’t, and it made me realise that I should have also contacted the Chamber of Commerce in Vancouver. I didn’t need to worry about Phoenix because I was already locked in to speak. Think About This If you enjoy public speaking, you want to get better and gain more experience and you have a message that is valuable and worth sharing with others you need to put yourself out there and see what happens. Hiding in the shadows waiting to be invited is not going to get you anywhere. Contact local organisations if they’re available and if you’re travelling out of town, and overseas, contact the local Chamber of Commerce and ask to speak.  Overcome Fear  I know not everyone wants to do public speaking and if you had asked me twenty years ago I would have been one of those people as well, but once you understand the opportunities that await you once you know how to control this fear, the better off you and your business will be. "There are two types of speakers. Those that get nervous before they speak and liars". - Mark Twain If public speaking terrifies you, start small and talk about something you know extremely well, and build from there. Other Opportunities  Creating your own opportunities applies too much more than public speaking. If there are no networking groups in your area or ones that you want to be part of, create your own. If you want to get together with like-minded people maybe you need to be part of a mastermind group or create your own mastermind group. Marketing When it comes to marketing, what are you interested in or better at than anyone else at, and can you develop this into a niche for your business and create new opportunities. Creating opportunities is only limited by your imagination and if you feel you're lacking in this area, get together with your team, family or friends and discuss this concept further.  Now go out there and create an opportunity for yourself.  I hope you get something from today’s podcast and if you have any questions, please send me an email at tf@tysonfranklin.com If You Liked This Episode You'll also like Make Hay While The Sun Shines And lastly... I've added a new event to my Events page that you may want to check out.  Also, you can Sign up for my newsletter if you want to be kept in the loop about what I'm up to, and believe me; it's a small loop.    FREE DOWNLOADS: First 16 Pages of My Book – It’s No Secret There’s Money in Small Business. 12 Secrets to Get More People Through Your Front Door. This was written to get you thinking. 

Apprenticeship with Megan Tiu, Kara Carrell, and Alyssa Ramsey TableXI is offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Get your FREE career growth strategy information and techniques! (https://stickynote.game) Summary What is an apprenticeship program, how is it different from an internship, and how can your company benefit from having one? In this episode, we’re talking about technical apprenticeships with Megan Tiu of Women Who Code. Megan and I have both run apprenticeships at various companies. We’re also joined by Table XI’s current apprentice cohort, Kara Carrell and Alyssa Ramsey. Guests Megan Tiu (http://twitter.com/megantiu): Engineering Manager with Women Who Code (https://www.womenwhocode.com). megantiu.com (http://www.megantiu.com/). Alyssa Ramsey: Developer Apprentice at TableXI (https://www.tablexi.com/). Kara Carrell: Developer Apprentice at TableXI (https://www.tablexi.com/). Notes 02:18 - Apprenticeship: Defined 04:38 - Finding and Hiring People for Apprenticeships 05:21 - Interviewing For Apprenticeships 08:35 - Organizing Apprenticeships 14:13 - Making Use of Unstructured Time and Other Opportunities for Apprentices 17:39 - Career-Growth Support - Apprenticeship Patterns by Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596518387.do) 20:40 - Having a Sponsor and Getting Support - Sticky Note Game (http://stickynote.game) 24:20 - Evaluating Apprentices 27:59 - Benefits For Companies That Have Apprenticeship Programs - How to be a Better Junior Developer, by Katherine Wu (https://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2014-how-to-be-a-better-junior-developer) Related Episodes Your First 100 Days Onboarding A New Employee With Shay Howe and John Gore (http://www.techdoneright.io/37) Developer Bootcamps and Computing Education with Jeff Casimir and Mark Guzdial (http://www.techdoneright.io/20) Managing For Career Development with Claire Lew and Dan Hodos (http://www.techdoneright.io/12) Career Development With Brandon Hays and Pete Brooks (http://www.techdoneright.io/002-career-development-with-brandon-hays) Special Guests: Alyssa Ramsey, Kara Carrell, and Megan Tiu.

Session 73 Dr. Scott Harper is has been out of training for 8 years. He joined us to talk about his specialty, Geriatrics, and what he loves about it and more. Scott is in an academic medical center at Wake Forest Medical School. He shares with us his journey to Geriatric Medicine, what it takes to get there, things he likes the most and least, and more! And if you haven’t yet, please take a listen to all our other podcasts on MedEd Media! [01:24] Interest in Geriatric Medicine Scott traces his interest in the speciality back to when he was medical school, going through the clinic rotations. When he was working with patients he found he was most drawn to the extremes of age. He envisions his practice to include babies and kids to adults and people nearing the end of their life. When he was in family medicine for residency, he had an almost exclusively geriatric population in his clinic practice. He didn't feel he had the skillset to take care of all of their needs so this became his goal going into Geriatrics. During medical school, Scott recalls his grandfather entering the first stages of Alzheimer's disease and this bolstered his interest. He would visit him often and one day while he was riding with him in the car, he was stopping at every stop light regardless of the color of the light. He knew then that something was amiss. And he got to see how his disease progressed and the challenges that came along with it especially that family was not in the same town. [04:50] Traits that Lead to Becoming a Good Geriatrician Patience is critical to be a good geriatrician. You've got to be comfortable with things moving slowly. Most of the patients you will be taking care of move slowly and talk slowly. A lot of times, their content is very rich but doesn't come out in a rush. You also have to be comfortable with complexity. You have to be able to navigate all these things and understand that you may never have the perfect answer to what's going with the patient. Instead, you have to be able to tweak and optimize several different realms. "Patience, you've got to be comfortable with things moving slowly." By complexity, it may run the gamut of acuity, but not entirely. Scott describes the neat thing specifically about his job is he gets to do a lot of geriatric primary care. So he gets to see people for anything from infected toenail to Crohn's disease, management of 10-12 co-morbid conditions. Or sometimes, they'd have acute infections and they'd have to triage them into the hospital or the emergency room. There's other roles geriatricians play outside of primary care where you get to see different levels of acuity, which boils down to folks using medical services most often. If you're in the hospital as a geriatrician, you're going to be seeing a lot of acutely ill and complex older adults. Some geriatricians end up doing exclusively or a subset of the care in the nursing home setting or in a rehab center. Here, you'd be seeing folk who just came out of the hospital or moving in there for their final address. [08:05] Diseases Specific to the Older Population Scott explains this idea in geriatrics called Geriatric Syndromes, which are the end result of myriad processes that tend to commonly present in older adults. This occurs a lot in the primary care setting. Some of these diseases include memory loss, cognitive impairment, dementia, or somewhere along that disease spectrum and acute delirium. They may also deal with dizziness, imbalance, or falls. There are also osteoporosis, vision loss, hearing loss, urinary incontinence. "The way a person ends up with urinary incontinence may be very different than the way a different older adult ends up with urinary incontinence but the end result is the same." [09:05] A Typical Day Scott describes his day in the clinic seeing around 7 to 10 older adult patients in any given half day. He spends an average of 30 minutes with each of them. Most of them are there for regular check ins, where he has this process of getting their history. He'd also do a medication review. He'd usually touch on a functional assessment just to make sure there's not any significant change since last seeing his patients, otherwise he'd come up with a plan. "I found that medication is probably one of the biggest challenges in that setting." Sometimes, the plan is not a lot if the patient is doing really great in their current medication regimen and the current social support is optimized. In this case, they can just stay the course. Other times, it can be very detailed ad bulleted in big print, changing things and resources to mobilize. [10:22] Taking Calls and Work-Life Balance In terms of taking calls, the way their practice works is that they cover their own patients that are admitted to the hospital. As a group, they do the hospital care and they cover . for a week at a time. In about once every 7-8 weeks, he'd do 7 24 hours in row. During that time period, he's responsible for hospice care and covering phone calls and stuff overnight. It's made more possible by the fact he's got nurses that work with him as well as residents to take first pass with the phone calls. So he goes from very busy patient care and long hours and then go back to having 6-7 weeks without having to take any phone call. As to why there are no hospitalists taking care of their patients in the hospital, Scott explains their institution has chosen to keep it the traditional way. And this tends to be usual in academic settings or in rural settings. "The "old fashioned" model tends to either be in academic settings or in rural settings." Being an academic center, they hope residents are able to do care in a setting where they need to do hospital care. Or if they end up in a more typical primary care practice, they'd be able to recognize which patients need hospital care and be able to appropriately get them into the hospital. And that they'd be able to take the care back over from hospital care. Currently, Scott describes that the most variable piece for him is the student education and clerkship administrations responsibilities. There are times of the year where it ebbs and flows. There are periods when they have to auto pilot in terms of figuring out what to change the next year. Or if they implement the change at the start of the new year, it can get very busy and the hours can get longer. [13:45] The Training Path and Other Opportunities to Subspecialize Scott outlines the training path to becoming a geriatrician. The two most typical would be to do residency in either internal medicine, which is a 3-4-year program, or family medicine, which is typically a 3-year program. Then you go on to do additional training fellowship in geriatrics. There are also programs that can run from one year to three years. The longer programs tend to include more palliative care training and more research opportunities. The one-year programs are focused on geriatric principles "The longer programs tend to include more palliative care training and more research opportunities." In terms of competitiveness, Scott describes the specialty as very program-dependent, but overall, it's not very competitive. One of the few instances that you can do additional training and the result is you end up with a population that's insured by Medicare which tends to pay less than private insurers. And they would also require longer visits or longer hospital stays. So there's lower volume that you can provide care for. This said, you have to have the proper mindset. "If you feel like your goals is to do that care regardless of the financial impact, it may be a positive idea." The specialty he sees more commonly is that people pari geriatrics with some other training to expand the scope of their care like Palliative Care and Hospice Services. So they're not just doing geriatrics, but also managing patient symptoms and end of life care. This option also has a fellowship training involved. This also opens different doors. Instead of doing primary care, you might be a hospice director or do some sort of pain management in the outpatient setting. Second, wound care is another place older adults with like arterial disease and venous problems and diabetes, and all the things that can put you at risk for wounds on your legs. [17:30] Working with Primary Care and Other Specialties and Special Opportunities Outside of Clinical Medicine Scott says that there are times patients can benefit from a geriatrician. There are only a few geriatricians in a huge and growing geriatric population. But because there aren't enough geriatricians to take care of the geriatric population, most folks are not going to have access to a geriatrician for their care. So this is actually one of the things that called him towards his academic part of his life. Even if he can't impact the population directly, at least he can provide some geriatric principles and some things to keep in mind as you're making decisions on behalf of older patients regardless of the specialty you go into. This way, he still gets to bolster the care of older adults in a much broader sense. He gets to impart nuggets of knowledge to medical students and residents that come through, so they can take it and apply it to whatever field they end up to. "There aren't geriatricians to take care of the geriatric population. It's a specialty of which there are not a ton of. It's a population in which there are a ton of." As to when to know when it's time to seek out the care of an older adult, Scott illustrates the two realms. First is when cognition fails. Where primary care doctors could and do provide care but it's a place where there's a lot of insecurity and patients and their families want a lot of answers. So having that familiarity with the pathophysiology and the ongoing research and local community support and resources are very important. The other instance is when there is so many concurrent problems that the patients don't fit neatly into the usual workflow in the primary care clinic. Scott says they often work a lot with their geriatric colleagues on the internal medicine side of things. Other specialties include wound care doctors, urogynecologists, and neurologists. There are unique opportunities outside of clinical medicine like home care positions, where you do house calls. A lot of geriatricians have some foot in one of two worlds - research is one and education is another. [24:55] What He Wished He Knew that He Knows Now and the Most and Least Liked Things What he wished he knew before that he now knows is that you can't be efficient and do geriatrics. There are goals you're not going to be able to achieve and you have to be okay with being inefficient. Remind yourself that your goal is to provide the best care to the patient as possible. "Remind yourself that your goal is to provide the best care to the patient as possible." What he likes the most about being a geriatrician is the patients. He likes having gained the relational aspect of medicine. He gets to know patients over time and be able to meet their families. He gets to have frequent conversations that are enlightening and affirming, talking about goal setting. What he likes the least is that piece that is mentally stimulating. For him, some of those simple visits are not part of his regular practice. He would have wanted to have some visits that you can just accomplish in 5 minutes and feel you've closed the loop on the condition brought to the office. [28:29] Major Changes in the Future Scott talks about lens and cataract removals and the ways they can treat urinary incontinence, even in men, where they put artificial sphincters. The hearing aid technology has been successful. Technology around would dressings can also be neat. So he gets to see how these technologies impact his patient's functions. Another shift he sees that may impact geriatric primary care is his push towards risk-based care. It's the idea that insurers are going to pay healthcare systems a set amount to take care of patients based on their cumulative risks. Being able to use that money to provide care just makes sense. [31:45] Final Words of Wisdom Scott says to be open to the learning opportunities. There's not going to be any shortage and you'd be interacting with a lot of older adults. Lastly, as you hear Scott talk about the shortage of geriatricians, we need more geriatricians now. As our population ages, we need more geriatric medicine specialists out there to take care of our aging population. It may not be the most glamorous or the highest paid specialty, but it's a great, and hopefully rewarding, career for you in the future. Links: MedEd Media

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This is a description of the Marine and Aquatic Biology Program at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.Table of Contents:00:00 - Intro00:32 - Marine Biology at BGSU00:53 - History02:58 - Marine Lab Hierarchy05:04 - Dr. Sylvia Earle06:23 - Marine & Aquatic Biology Specialization08:49 - Field Experience10:18 - Study Abroad11:40 - Other Opportunities at BGSU16:17 - T-Shirts & Sweat Shirts16:21 - Marine & Aquatic Biology Checksheet_______________________Interact with Dr. Partin and the Teaching and Learning Professor community at:https://www.facebook.com/theteachingandlearningprofessor/_______________________Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-teaching-and-learning-professor/donations