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On Today's Episode of Realty Check with Trish Williams, our guest is Aaron Dalzell. Starting a new career can be scary no matter what the industry is. As a realtor, going from an employee to an independent business owner has a lot of challenges and on this show, Trish and Aaron are going to talk about what it is like in the very beginning, what you can expect out of your first year, and tips and tricks to lead to success!00:00​ Introduction00:43​ Our Guest Today, Aaron Dalzell!01:52​ Your First 5 Months in Real Estate?04:58​ Um...Where are the Buyers???07:05​ Wait, My Friend Doesn't Want to Sell Their House With Me?08:17​ Trish's Very First Sale....the Power of Having a Great Mentor12:02​ Aaron's First Sale13:05​ Passing Out Your Business Cards15:46​ How Long Did It Take To Get the First Deal?17:18​ Advice for NEW AGENTS!19:34​ 2021 Vegas Real Estate Market...How Does a New Agent Handle a HOT Market?25:10​ Interests Rates are Low!! And Again...a Mentor is Everything32:07​ Contact Us!Aaron Dalzell AaronDalzell@kw.comTrish Williams Team, Keller Williams Realty The Market Place 702-308-2878 , 2230 Corporate Circle ste 250 Henderson Nv 89074 , TrishWilliamsTeam.com s.0175530 Each Office Is Independently Owned and Operated

Louis is newly 24 years old from Long Island working in the entertainment and media industry, while also hustling as a popular TikTok creator on the side. He is known for his unfiltered and unapologetic roasts that blew his account up in the TikTok world and have since adapted his content to various things such as alcohol and coffee videos, reading the zodiac signs to filth, roasting the names celebrities have given their children, and exploring the internet for crazy conspiracies, celebrity drama and mandela effects. Google is free and he’s used that to his advantage to tell stories and inform his followers in the funniest and sometimes harshest ways possible! Time Stamps:   (0:38) My Patreon Launched! (1:50) Our Guest Today (5:05) Taking Off on TikTok (5:40) But First, Shit Talk about the Bachelor (13:25) Sarah (24:35) Who is Louis? (40:35) TikTok and Other Goals (43:25) What it’s Like to Be a Tiktok Creator (52:20) Favorite Conspiracy Theories (1:01:30) Final Thoughts   Join my patreon family: https://www.patreon.com/DESB/creators   Hit me up: https://shor.by/DESB   RATE - REVIEW - SUBSCRIBE Instagram: @louislevanti https://www.instagram.com/louislevanti/ TikTok: @louislevanti https://www.tiktok.com/@louislevanti?lang=en Twitter: @louislevanti https://twitter.com/louislevanti  Food Instagram: @GuysWhoCantCook https://www.instagram.com/guyswhocantcook/ NEW BUTTERFLY BAND PRE-ORDER: https://desbfittraining.myshopify.com   Did you miss out on my 6WEEKS2SLAY challenge?! Be sure to join my email list for our new challenge opening April 4th, merch, and weekly motivation from me: http://eepurl.com/dy2JLz OR join my app here: https://train.desbfittraining.com/trainers/312078/landing   PARAGON FITWEAR: code “desb” to save 11% HYDROJUG: code “desb” to save 10% and stay hydrated af TULA SKINCARE: code “desb” to glow off with your skin and save 15% ALANI NUTRITION: code “desb” for free shipping over $50 and support me BUFFBUNNY COLLECTION: code “desb” to support   instagram ➭ https://www.instagram.com/desb___ twitter ➭ https://twitter.com/desbfit youtube ➭ https://www.youtube.com/desireescogginfitness  facebook ➭ https://www.facebook.com/desbfittraining my weekly emails ➭ https://mailchi.mp/a0ed2b83e2ec/dbfts... official website  ➭ https://www.desbfittraining.com   ---------------------------------------------------   Shop my fitness app programs: https://train.desbfittraining.com/trainers/312078/landing    OPEN FACEBOOK FITNESS COMMUNITY: www.facebook.com/groups/dbftcommunity    Shop DBFT merch and glute BANDS: https://desbfittraining.myshopify.com ---------------------------------------------------   F A Q   -what’s your real name? Desiree   -what’s your instagram? www.instagram.com/desb___   -how old are you? 25   -how tall are you? 5'7   -whats your Spotify playlist? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0c1...   -skin care routine? https://www.tula.com / CODE "desb" to save 20% -my huge water jug? https://www.thehydrojug.com / CODE: "desb" to save $   -supplements I use? https://www.alaninu.com / CODE "desb"   AND   -how to find my free stuff and codes? https://shor.by/DESB 

Our Guest Today is Matt Bird, an international business and social entrepreneur. He has spoken to more than a million people in 30 countries, authored 10 books, written for The Times newspaper, and is a regularly broadcaster on radio and TV. In his keynote speeches, Matt uses the power of story, experience, and humor to … Continue reading Relationolgy Is Changing The World

Our Guest Today is Matt Bird, an international business and social entrepreneur. He has spoken to more than a million people in 30 countries, authored 10 books, written for The Times newspaper, and is a regularly broadcaster on radio and TV. In his keynote speeches, Matt uses the power of story, experience, and humor to … Continue reading Relationolgy Is Changing The World The post Relationolgy Is Changing The World appeared first on iWork4Him Podcast.

Our Guest Today is… In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been granted an interview with him and we’re proud to have been chosen for this honor. We posed an even dozen questions and received very thoughtful… Read More »@HPC_Guru Speaketh! Kind of.

Our Guest Today is...In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been granted an interview with him and we’re proud to have been chosen for this honor.We posed an even dozen questions and received very thoughtful responses, which we rendered out in a machine voice in order to fit our podcast format. In the interview, HPC_Guru tells us his top five cool things in HPC today, why he remains anonymous, where he thinks HPC hardware will be in 10 years and who he thinks will be the first to reach exascale. And that’s just four of our 12 questions!We don’t have to tell you that @HPC_Guru is a legend in the industry, as is his Twitter account. He has more than 15,000 followers and has tweeted over 38,000 times. Just to put that in context, if his average tweet is 150 characters, then he’s tweeted 5.7 million characters. Or if you look at it as words, HPC Guru has beaten the hell out of Leon Tolstoy’s War & Peace. Tolstoy came up with a piddling 587,287 words in his novel while HPC Guru has written roughly 712,500 words – and HPC Guru has written about more difficult content. Supercomputing is much more complex than Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. While this is impressive, it’s not quite as many words/characters as Timothy Prickett Morgan writes in a typical year.If you printed up HPC Guru’s tweets, the tome would come in at more than four pounds, and that’s single spaced. That’s as much as a high-end laptop, including the storage and maybe even the power brick. Looking for another metric? If @HPC_Guru printed out each of his tweets, two per sheet of 8.5 by 11 inch paper, and laid them end to end, it would stretch a little over 3.3 MILES.Give this groundbreaking episode a listen, in fact, listen to it twice to get the full impact.Join us!* Download the MP3 * Sign up for the insideHPC Newsletter* Follow us on Twitter * Subscribe on Spotify * Subscribe on Google Play * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed * eMail us

Our Guest Today was Sam Jones!  Find his EP "Call Your Friends" at Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/2Bgm6GEBQUBW3jXXoCweC4?si=KDuNH8iEQ7W9bA_q4Iq2jQ  or at Bandcamp https://thesamcjones.bandcamp.com/album/call-your-friends-ep    and head to www.instagram.com/baconandeggspod and www.instagram.com/thesamcjones    Bacon and Eggs is a proud member of WBNE. For more info on the WBNE network and all our other shows, head over to www.wbne.org    GET ACCESS TO OUR BONUS SHOW "THE HASHBROWNS" AND LOTS OF OTHER AWESOME REWARDS: www.patreon.com/baconandeggs OR you can get the BRAND NEW Stay Home With Bacon and Eggs Hoodie: www.teespring.com/stores/bacon-and-eggs     If you want to send us things: P.O. Box 3025 Roanoke, VA, 24015   Super Secret Super Awesome Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/groups/1980923182177837/?ref=br_rs   Official List of Bacon and Eggs Movie Rankings: https://www.patreon.com/posts/definitive-bacon-17646287    Questions, Comments or Feedback? You can reach us at Baconandeggsmedia@gmail.com B&E - Twitter: www.twitter.com/baconandeggspod & Instagram: www.instagram.com/baconandeggspod  Tyler - Twitter: www.twitter.com/americarlin & Instagram: www.instagram.com/americarlin Ethan - Twitter: www.twitter.com/w0wn0w & Instagram: www.instagram.com/baconandethan  Artwork by Graphite - Instagram: www.instagram.com/graphitevmb Music by Andrew Scott Bell - Twitter: www.twitter.com/andrewscottbell & Instagram: www.instagram.com/andrewscottbell

Welcome to another episode of HerOwnHero Podcast today, we’ll be talking about personal finance for millennial women. This episode is going to be really, quite interesting. I have a special guest with me, who is a financial enthusiast. she’ll be talking to us about the basics of personal financial management, some lessons she’s learnt along her financial and some tips we can apply beginning now, to have a better financial plan. Our Guest Today is Tare Abang. Tare Abang is a staff adviser at KPMG and she has worked with financial institutions as an analyst and adviser. she evenly transitioned from her engineering background into a finance career. she is also an award-winning essayist and writer. Show notes 1. HerOwnHero Blog Millennial Women in Tech Creative Ideas for self-isolation 2. Find Tare Abang on: LinkedIn Twitter 3. Recommended Resources Smart Money Woman ABC of Personal Finance The Intelligent Investor Be the hero of your own story

THE CONCEPT OF Real-Time OutSource ALL STARTED WITH ONE MAN, AND ONE SINGLE IDEA. ALMOST A DECADE AGO, OUR GUEST WAS JUST A YOUNG COLLEGE GRAD WORKING IN THE TELEVISION ADVERTISING SECTOR. It was around this time when OUR GUEST had an epiphany: Social media networking could be leveraged by different brands in order to get a different response than traditional advertising generated! Using gut instincts combined with a seasoned background in marketing and advertising, OUR GUEST TODAY jumped at the opportunity to see what he could do with social media to leverage the playing field for the companies he currently worked for. Over time, he mastered an effective social media strategy designed to create a vital difference in production and awareness for various brands with outstanding results Today, this incredible guest is the founder and CEO of RealTimeOutsource.com His objective is to “share the wealth” of social media marketing using a horizontal business model of strategic white label partnerships. Real-Time OutSource’s motto is simple: your success is our success. So without further ado, we are excited as always and please give a warm Business Bros Pod welcome to TRAVIS HUFF!! Business Bros Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/businessbros Contact James for all your Insurance needs 619-884-0045 or James@SiasFirst.com OR CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW!!! GET A HOME OWNERS POLICY FAST!! www.businessbros.biz/homeowner JOIN THE BUSINESS BROS NETWORK www.businessbros.biz Are you EXP CURIOUS??? text: 123exp to 31996 for a 7 minute video on what it is all about. Want to be on an episode of Business Bros the #1 Podcast in San Diego? Call 619-884-4915 or Send us an email BusinessBros@SiasFirst.com so we can get in touch with you ASAP. Join the conversation or catch the podcast live on our social media feeds @BusinessBrosPod Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. You can listen to past episodes on our website www.SiasFirst.com. www.bensound.com

Our Guest Today features a snippet from Elder John Jackson of New Day Church in Missouri . This is to encourage you to keep the faith in tough times... --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lenora-ayers/support

Our Guest Today is a teacher, an artist, an animal lover and he makes the coolest mugs in town! He is the Artistic Director for Cloud Forest Collective in Yangmingshan. You can find more information about the studio at www.cloudforestcollective.com Very excited to have my bro Matt King with me live on the show where we talk about life, love and UFC! Join us tonight to see if Matt can finish the gauntlet of wings Don't forget to subscribe to Eddy.LIVE on Social and our Podcast Page! Podcast: https://pod.co/eddy-live YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EddyLIVE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eddy.live.tw

Welcome to the Brand Risk Podcast. Our Guest Today is Joseph Saladino, better known to the the public as SoFlo Joey, or Joey Salads. Joey Salads is known to be one of the founding fathers of YouTube Pranks. Salads rose to fame in 2013 By grabbing an Axe and bashing his parent's televisions, consoles, cars, whatever it was, Joey was there for Bashin' Time. With the explosion of his viral vine series, Joey shifted into YouTube and Facebook where he went on to build a conglomerate of business, building his brand through paid actors and viral pranks or social experiments. Although the latter half of Joey's content became reality tv, jackass remakes, and Nazi Pranks taken out of context, it was quite obvious that Joeys focus was no longer YouTube, but rather politics. By using his massive social media presence, Joey was able to shift a following of impressionable teens into a supportive political backbone where he would run for the 2020 Election in New York. After having his past pranks uses against him, pissboy commonly known for his prank of pissing in his mouth, Joey went on to drop out of the election of 2020 where he realized he was just a social media loser kid that would never had made it into politics, and here we are today. Please welcome Joey Salads.

Welcome to the Brand Risk Podcast. Our Guest Today is Professional Esports Caster Ballatw. Balla has risen to fame casting across most major Esports Titles. At the top level Balla has casted world championships for games such as Counter Strike Global Offensive, League of Legends, and Dota 2. But finally found his home in casting Forntite. Balla also is known in the community for his Live Streamed Vod Reviews. For anyone outside of gaming, this is similar to watching film in order to improve your mistakes and learn from better players. By consuming thousands hours of film, Balla has not only conquered the top ladders of casting, but also built up a base of game sense surpassing every known professional player. His word is Truth, he's not to be questioned, please welcome Ballatw.

Audio Transcript HERE.In honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s our annual episode talking all about LOVE SPELLS! We talk about the transits for February, and what kind of love, friendship, or other relationship Magick you’ll want to do OR avoid. Love Magick expert and Youtuber Queen Auset-Heru joins us to share hilarious stories of love spells gone wrong…and right! She talks us through her process of casting a love spell, and explores the role of releasing, forgiveness, and blockage removal in successful love Magick. Plus, spell suggestions, the oracle card for February, Kanani’s review of “Bell Book and Candle,” Courtney’s complete unraveling, and Hilary’s vain attempt to hold the episode together. Our Guest Today

Our Guest Today is Ted Leo, of "Ted Leo and the Pharmacists" Fame. Our experts today are Dr. Danica Marsden and Dr. Stephanie Simmons.  Our topic is QUANTUM COHERENCE and DECOHERENCE: how a quantum superposition will not stay that way forever. The Environment will start asking it questions until our system loses coherence. 

It’s been a whole, glorious year talking Witchcraft with you all! This episode was recorded live at The Raven’s Wing metaphysical store in Portland, OR. Although we had a couple of technical issues (please excuse the glitch around the end of the first hour), we have so many wonderful things to share today. Special guest Iris Meredith Bell talks about the best ingredients to keep in your Witch’s cabinet, and gives us an exclusive look into the world of a Witch shop owner…including some of the stranger requests she’s received. We talk about the shift from Capricorn to Aquarius and the upcoming New Moon on January 24th and the best Magick to make with it (hint: Great for business, NOT great for love!). We also discuss ethical sourcing in Witchcraft and answer some excellent questions from listeners! Plus, Kanani reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula and we pull the winner of our Instagram giveaway! To have your questions answered on a future episode, email us at thatwitchlifepodcast@gmail.com. Video (including ASL interpretation) can be found on our IG account, and our Facebook account (FB video does not include ASL).Our Guest Today

Happy New Year! Astrologer and Tarot Advisor Theresa Reed joins us with her predictions for 2020 (One major transit is coming up next week!). We talk about her new book: Astrology For Real Life (A No B.S. Guide for the Astro-Curious), and how astrology can help us be better partners, parents, friends, and more successful in our work. Theresa also peeks at our charts, which explains a lot about why we do what we do (Spoiler alert: Kanani is a tabloid, Courtney is a shit-show, and Hilary is doing all right). Find out what Tarot card we pulled for January and hear our thoughts about the Magickal influences of the upcoming Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse. Plus, Courtney’s break from Facebook, Kanani’s commitment to reading more, and Hilary’s adventure in Santa Fe. Check out the details on our One Year Anniversary Party! Email us your questions to answer on a future episode at thatwitchlifepodcast@gmail.com. Visit our Etsy store at www.etsy.com/thatwitchlifepodcast. Our Guest Today

It’s our holiday episode! Author and blogger Jason Mankey joins us to talk about how to harness the Magick from this time of year, including harvesting light and joy to get through dark times, and even soaking up a bit of chaos (you’ll never know when you’ll need it!). Plus, the ancient and modern legacy of Saturnalia. We discuss connecting with community and ways to give in service during this time of year, and the upcoming New Moon–the final one of 2019. Hear the story of the creepy babydoll crashing a Yule celebration and play a new game with us: Is It A Hallmark movie Or Is It a Classic Witch Movie Kanani Still Hasn’t Seen? Email us questions to answer on future podcast at thatwitchlifepodcast@gmail.com. Don’t forget to check out our Etsy store! Our Guest Today

Its Friday!!! Our Guest Today is our friend Les, and its star wars friday.

Today we are joined by Michael Agee from Ffynnon, who talks with us about creating community space for Witches, building relationship with the land, providing the framework for a Magickal experience for others, and why you can’t micromanage your Magick. We also talk about celebrating Thanksgiving in a respectful way, as well as the benefit of keeping your non-Witchy beloveds on a need-to-know-basis. Finally, Witchcraft through Coven Initiation vs. self-initiation vs. neither, and help for other communities during natural disasters. Do you have a question for your favorite Witches? Email us at thatwitchlifepodcast@gmail.com. ***Correction: We referred to the Missing Women Project. The title of this endeavor is actually called “The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Report.”***Our Guest Today

We apologize in advance for all of the throat-clearings and coughing! We’re still getting over colds. Today, Courtney takes over the podcast to talk about her new book as well as the Morrigan, a goddess who has strongly influenced much of her personal Witchcraft. Courtney shares her journey with the Morrigan, and how Witchcraft almost took her out. Modern manifestations of the Morrigan. We also discuss how one might approach and involve the Morrigan in their Witchcraft practices and the “weird joy” in grief, and answer a listener’s questions about how keep their personal Witchcraft practice going while living with a Muggle family in a small space. Special guest appearance by everyone’s favorite co-host. Kanani reviews “The Crow ” and Hilary and Courtney talk about the time they nearly ruined a beautiful ritual (“It was the pig’s fault.”). Do you have a burning question about Witchcraft? Email us at thatwitchlifepodcast@gmail.com. Our Guest Today

“The big thing is leaving that space at the table for the Ancestors, or whoever is in your space between the worlds, and share in what you’re doing…”It’s Halloween!!! The greatest day of the year! So, what do Witches do on this glorious day? Irish Priestess and Witch Gemma McGowan joins us to talk about the ancient festival and practices of Samhain, which feed the roots of modern Halloween all over the world. Your favorite Witches also discuss their own practices for both Samhain and Halloween. Plus, hear the story of the ghost party in Kanani’s old house, Hilary’s plans for her upcoming Witchy performance, and details on Courtney’s book tour!Our Guest Today

Content warning: death, grief, and mortuary practices. “A very 21st century solution to ancient problems…”Today’s episode is about the modern relationship with dying, death, and the grief process. Special guest Tomás Prower, author of Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality And Culture From Around The World talks with us about the funeral industry and the shady things it gets away with, along with modern Western culture’s problematic avoidance of death and grief. He takes us around the world to learn about different rituals prior to, during, and after death (Ever heard of funeral strippers??? Or airing your grievances while graveside???), plus the origins of the taboo of speaking ill of the dead. Hilary, Kanani, and Courtney share their personal rituals for honoring their departed, Magick in the grief process, as well as etiquette for respectfully communicating with both the deceased and bereaved. Plus, hear about how they ditched a drag brunch to go shopping…which was FAR more important that ensuring Kanani’s car wasn’t stolen.Our Guest Today

Our Guest Today is a Model, Expat, Vlogger from American who resides and does business in South Africa. Follow Diane and all her social media by visiting her https://dianecorns.com/ Diversified Game A podcast from: Kellen Coleman, Tyson Moultrie & A.L. Roberts A podcast giving entrepreneurial advice from a diverse and inclusive perspective, with Kellen Coleman, Tyson Moultrie & A.L. Roberts. Website: http://diversifiedgame.com Follow Diane and all her social media by visiting her https://dianecorns.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/diversifiedgame/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/diversifiedgame/support

Today, we welcome Amber to the podcast! She's been in the restaurant business since she was 14 and her passion for cooking comes across deeply during this interview. We talk about her early days as the only woman in her kitchen, her shift towards her current nutrition today, and what she believes it means to be a strong woman.   Time Stamps: (1:12) Welcome back to Convos with Coaches (1:20) Our Guest Today is Amber Caudle! (4:07) Stereotypes in the culinary field being a woman (9:27) Addressing the surroundings of being around all men (11:52) Amber’s shift (14:39) Changes in Health (17:30) Chefs and Physical Health (22:27) Mindset and Vision (27:30) Restaurant atmosphere  (28:30) Complicity  (33:16) Amber’s ritual (36:23) Farm to Table (40:36) Amber’s current health and nutrition plan (46:07) What does it mean to be a strong woman? (47:28) Dear Her: To Amber’s Younger Self (49:01) Where you can find Amber   RESOURCES:   Where you can find Amber: Visit her Website! Follow her on Instagram!   And as always... Visit our Website! convoswithcoaches.com Follow us on Instagram! @convoswithcoaches Contact Us! info@convoswithcoaches.com    

Our GUEST TODAY, Sue Lester is a ‘head trash’ clearing specialist for successful women who have given so much to their business, career and/or family, they’re in danger of burnout. They’ve lost the “I” from their L_FE. What determines whether you embrace change or self-sabotage? Travelling the world, whether in a canoe dodging hippos, being charged by a silverback gorilla or walking across the Simpson Desert with camels, Sue noticed similar fascinating behavioural patterns kept emerging. She discovered we each have an unconscious blueprint ™ which dictates our behaviour and capacity for change. Her eagerly awaited first book The Face Within: Changing Your Unconscious Blueprint contains these inspired personal insights and transformational change techniques. CALL 1-818-572-2910 to talk directly to Bernadette and her guest, or listen and enjoy right here on Shedding the Bitch Radio. FOLLOW the program HERE Bernadette Boas is the ball of fire keynote speaker and trainer, leadership consultant, author, screenwriter, and radio host behind Ball of Fire Consulting, and her book Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Shifting Bitches to Riches in Life and Business. Buy it now on Amazon.

Our GUEST TODAY, Sue Lester is a ‘head trash’ clearing specialist for successful women who have given so much to their business, career and/or family, they’re in danger of burnout. They’ve lost the “I” from their L_FE. What determines whether you embrace change or self-sabotage? Travelling the world, whether in a canoe dodging hippos, being charged by a silverback gorilla or walking across the Simpson Desert with camels, Sue noticed similar fascinating behavioural patterns kept emerging. She discovered we each have an unconscious blueprint ™ which dictates our behaviour and capacity for change. Her eagerly awaited first book The Face Within: Changing Your Unconscious Blueprint contains these inspired personal insights and transformational change techniques. CALL 1-818-572-2910 to talk directly to Bernadette and her guest, or listen and enjoy right here on Shedding the Bitch Radio. FOLLOW the program HERE Bernadette Boas is the ball of fire keynote speaker and trainer, leadership consultant, author, screenwriter, and radio host behind Ball of Fire Consulting, and her book Shedding the Corporate Bitch, Shifting Bitches to Riches in Life and Business. Buy it now on Amazon.

Our Guest Today is business owner JENNA ZOE Jenna Zoe is the founder of healthy foods businesses Upcakes and Foods To Love. After struggling with candida and hormonal imbalances which gave me terrible acne and irregular periods throughout my late teens, Jenna sought the help of a nutritionist who taught me the value of a good diet. Since then my mission has been to empower others to make the best choices for themselves but in an exciting & interesting way. http://www.foodstolove.com.uk This Episode of Living Raw Radio is hosted by guest host Liz Nartey http://www.noshdetox.com

Inventor and self-described hacker Mitch Altman talks about Noisebridge, the San Francisco hackerspace he co-founded. Altman is responsible for co-founding 3-ware is now the President and CTO of Cornfield Electronics. His many inventions include TV-B-Gone and NeuroDreamer sleep mask.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible]. Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k l x Berkeley, a biweekly Speaker 1: 30 minute program bringing you interviews, featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Good afternoon. My name is Brad Swift on today's show. Rick Carnesi and I interview Mitch Altman. [00:00:30] Mitch is an inventor and self-described hacker. He cofounded the company three where and is now the president and CTO of cornfield electronics. We're talking to him about Noisebridge, the San Francisco hackerspace that he co founded, as well as some of his many inventions. These include the TVB gone a remote that turns off most TVs and his recently successful Kickstarter project, the neuro dreamer sleep mask. Mitch Altman. Welcome to spectrum. [00:01:00] Thanks. Would you mind telling us sort of that career path? Speaker 4: How I got to sitting here today? Uh, I've been a geek all my life. You know, I dreamed about this stuff when I was a little kid. I actually did a, I remember having this recurring dream where I saw the inside of my mom's radio, which, uh, they were tubes. I didn't know what tooks were though. They were just glowing. They look cool. And I dreamed about pushing it off the counter to see what was in it. And in my dreams I actually did it. But in real life [00:01:30] I was always too timid. But I really wanted to see what was inside. And eventually I started taking apart my parents things and somehow they let me and eventually I learned to put them back together, making my own things from scratch. It's been fun in electronics, I always want to know how things work. I mean that's, that's what makes us geeks tick, you know. Speaker 4: But the thing that fascinated me the most was electronics. So I started playing with wires and alligator clips and putting forks into electrical outlets and having my parents scrape me off the ceiling [00:02:00] and learning from my mistakes, learning and growing. And eventually I was making my own intercoms between my brother's bunk bed and mine below him in high school, making an electronic bong. And, uh, that was one of the things that actually got me talking to other kids rather than just being alone geek. So, uh, inventing, making things. It's been part of my life since I can remember thinking. But you've also had this entrepreneurial spirit as well, I suppose. Yeah. And I'm not really sure [00:02:30] where that came from. Maybe from my parents. My father was an architect, you know, and I see a lot of what I do as art, you know, expressing ourselves truthfully and doing things in a way that give other people an opportunity to think about themselves in the world around them. Speaker 4: And my father did his art architecture and it made him a living without really being conscious of it. That's probably the path that I followed. I actually quit the job that I had created for myself, which was consulting in electronics [00:03:00] for usually small companies. But I quit that so I could explore ways of doing more of what I loved and that's how I came across TV be gone. And I was lucky enough that it actually makes me a living. It's really cool to be able to make a living by doing what you love, making enough money, doing what you love to keep doing what you love. I mean, that's my idea of success. Where does the inspiration come from your projects? Well, that's a good question. Where does inspiration come from? You know, obviously, uh, other people can be inspiring random [00:03:30] events in our lives and people are a great random elements in our lives. Speaker 4: And if we relate to people when they throw something at us that really sticks in our [inaudible] and uh, nibbles away at us, uh, it's like sticking in there. Maybe it's subconscious. Eventually it becomes an idea for a project that screaming to come out, TV gone. I got the idea of sitting in a Chinese restaurant in 1993 talking with some friends and we were there [00:04:00] to talk to each other, not to watch TV. And yet there was a TV on and we were watching the TV and that was crazy. So we started talking about that and then I thought, wouldn't it be wonderful if I could just turn off these horrible distractions everywhere I went? And instantly I knew I could because I'm a geek. Of course. It took me 10 years to get to a point in my life where I had time and energy to do it. Speaker 4: And I'm glad I did. And I had to make that time though. You know, inspiration is really important. Ideas are really important, but they don't go anywhere unless [00:04:30] you make the time to do something with them. And you just prioritize it because you're passionate about it. Or how, how do you make sure that you actually finish something? You start o finishing what you start. Well, you know, I think that's overrated. I've done zillions of projects as have we all that we have that I haven't finished. That's great. You know, and if I'm not motivated to finish it, that leaves time for doing something else. TV began I think is the first project in my entire life where I actually finished it. Totally. And I had to, if I was going to make [00:05:00] it a product, you know, and uh, I don't think we've mentioned TV beyond for people that don't know, it is a key chain that turns TVs off in public places and it really does work. Speaker 4: And I did it cause I got rid of TV in my life at home. I am a TV addict. Uh, I watched it every waking moment of my life as an unhappy child, but I didn't have to keep doing it later in life. And I chose not to, but in public, no one chooses those things to be on. People don't leave their home to watch television except me for sports [00:05:30] bars or something. But I don't like bars and I don't like sports so I don't go to those but everywhere else. So I made it so I could turn them off and other people wanted them. And then when their friends wanted them in friends of friends, that's when I decided I would make a bunch. So, um, I started it like many projects and it got on a roll unlike many projects. But I actually was so passionate about it continually and I had so many people that are kept asking me when's that going to be done? That that probably helped me follow through and actually finish it [00:06:00] and get it to a point where it's a manufacturable product. Speaker 2: [inaudible] you are listening to spectrum Inka LX Berkeley. Our guest is inventor Mitch Altman. Speaker 4: And once you get something at that point, what's next? Do you tinker and invent more stuff or do you spend time supporting TVB gone or, yeah. Well when you do what you love, all sorts of [00:06:30] interesting things open up that you might notice where you wouldn't if you're consumed doing something that just exhausts you like a job, you know, you don't like that too. Many of us, unfortunately on our planet are in that position. I have been working on many other projects along the way. I started getting into hacker conferences and maker fairs as a result of TVB gone. People invited me to these things and I, um, would give talks, [00:07:00] which is kind of bizarre for me. A totally introverted geek, terrified of public speaking. Like so many other of us introverted geeks. But, uh, it turned out I liked it. It makes it easier to talk about something you love. Speaker 4: Yeah. I don't like being pedantic. Uh, I like making things fun and if other people relate then maybe they'll learn something, maybe make a new choice in their life that serves them better and I don't want to tell anyone else what to do. Well sometimes I do, but I like making it more fun for people to choose for themselves what's good for themselves. [00:07:30] I found a place where at hacker conferences, at maker fairs where I could teach doing what I really love, which is soldering and making cool things with electronics and that led to me finding things to teach with. So I started making my own little kits for total beginners and I started doing that by hacking other people's kids and then making my own and that's been supplementing my income a little bit, but mostly it's been paying for me to be able to travel around the world and teach doing this, which I also [00:08:00] love. Speaker 4: That led to going to more hacker conferences and maker fairs and things related and going to hacker spaces that existed but not too many back then. Back then was 2007 okay. The first maker fair was 2006 which led me to meet people who invited me to the first hacker conference also in 2006 that I went to a hope in New York every other year. And I've been actually helping organize those now, which is another thing I make time for at one [00:08:30] of these hacker conferences in Germany, put on by the chaos computer club who have been responsible for creating hackerspaces in Germany and then the world for over a quarter century now of in 2007 it was about a quarter century of that and they gave a presentation on how to start your own and I was way inspired to come home and do that in my home town and with my friend Jake, we Noisebridge and instantly we just put out the word and we got lots [00:09:00] of way cool people to help and with our ideas and their ideas collected more people. Speaker 4: And Noisebridge was a just a natural growth out of all of our enthusiasm and inspiration for having the energy and the high really of being at one of these hacker conferences where people do what they love, explore it, they love Sharon, teach and learn from each other. Uh, but not just once a year, uh, but every day, all night, all day, all year round. [00:09:30] And Wow. Hundreds of us go through there every week. And it constantly amazes me how many cool people are doing cool things there now. And what kinds of things happen at Noisebridge? It's very diverse. A, it's not just tech. You know, I teach soldering and electronics, but [inaudible] Mondays. Yeah. So every Monday, uh, since 2007, I've been teaching how to solder and I love doing that. I'm really good at it by now too. And when I'm not in town, I'm on the road. Other people do [00:10:00] it on Wednesdays. Speaker 4: There's a similar kind of thing for craft and art folks to get together and that's called scow sewing, crafting or whatever. Also on Mondays is people. There's someone who's teaching a class on how to do your own website. There's a python language class, there's German language, human language class, there's a space exploration program, there's food classes. We have a full kitchen, we have a dark room, there's lithography classes. He printing three d printers. We got lots of those. And we understood [00:10:30] sewing machines and lots of cool, uh, electronics equipment as well as the machine shop and laser cutter and a library. We've got classrooms, we've got events, spaces, all this and more. And everything happens just because people think it would be cool to do. And they, they do it and people help. And this is just one of about a thousand hackerspaces in the world. Now it's another thing I love doing is going around helping people start these supportive communities, which are hackerspaces for people to explore and do what they love and hopefully even make a living out of it [00:11:00] so they can do what they enjoy and find fulfillment in their lives. Speaker 4: You know, now there's only a thousand in the world. What will the world be like when there's a million? Uh, more opportunities for people to do. Way more cool things. Earlier guests on our show did talk about the makerspace project of which you're fairly vocal critics. So can you say why you're a critic? I wouldn't say I'm a critic. I love maker fair and I love make magazine. They've created opportunities for so many people and my life has been [00:11:30] changed for the positive by it and so it was so many other people and it will continue to be that kind of positive role model for others as well. They recently sought and received a grant for $10 million from DARPA, which is an arm of a research arm of the u s military. Their goal is to help create new technology for the u s military. That's their stated goal. So they have a bunch of grants now available. Speaker 4: Most of them are because they [00:12:00] see the u s education system as horribly flawed as do I. People in the u s military see that just as clearly as many of us too. And making grants for hands on learning is a way to give more people opportunity to at least have a start and becoming high quality engineers, which they need to further the goals of their organizations, which is in my view, simply put to hurt and kill people. Of course, that's [00:12:30] my personal view. You know, other people will see it differently. What I would love to see happen is for people to explore and continually reevaluate what it means to them to receive funding from organizations or people whose goals don't align with your own cause. There's consequences, so anything we do, there's consequences. There's pluses and minuses for everything. When you accept funds from sources that have goals that don't [00:13:00] align with your own, of course you're helping your goals because you have funding to do so, but you're also helping the goals of the funding source, which don't align with your own. Speaker 4: How do you actually weigh the pluses and minuses in that way? It's not easy, but for me, after struggling with it for months, I can't feel good about associating myself with helping the goals of DARPA. Even though good things come from what DARPA has [00:13:30] done, I would rather put my energy directly into doing things that I believe are helping people rather than helping the goals of an organization that does things that I find well, use the word reprehensible, so I'm not trying to talk anyone into not associating with makerfair or make magazine. I still respect many of the people at make and a maker fair, great deal. I think they'll do great things. I just can't feel [00:14:00] good about helping myself and I really would hope that people do consider the funding sources because it does change what you'll do maybe consciously, maybe subconsciously. So what are you willing to do that you might not have done to make it more likely to get funding renewed funding? Speaker 4: What are they going to stop doing that they might have done because it doesn't look so good to the funding source? I see these as very, very much related. It's really important [00:14:30] to explore these things before making a conscious choice about whether to accept these funding sources. Maybe it's worth it. Maybe it isn't. It's up to each and every individual. I need a couple points of clarification just to make sure we got everything right. Yeah. So the DARPA funding at all go to maker fair to your knowledge? Uh, sort of the, with some of the other projects that those same people were doing well before making my choice. I talk to the person who started maker fair and make magazine, [00:15:00] uh, Dale Dougherty and he's a great guy. We've done lots of cool things through the years together. And my main goal was to explore the possibility of helping with maker fair without being associated with DARPA funding. And the funding that they got is for a program they call mentor program a but that's intertwined with making makerfair. So there's no way to dissociate the funding Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:15:30] this is spectrum k a l x Berkeley. Our guest is Mitch Altman, Co founder of the hackerspace Noisebridge. Speaker 4: I also see this theme of wanting to help people. So for instance, you host these depression and Geek meetups. Life isn't all totally wonderful. Life is full of things that are amazingly wonderful and rapturous and blissful and it's full of things [00:16:00] that totally suck and anything in between up, down and all around. And any given life, no matter how wonderful your life is, uh, there's ups and downs. And I, um, started off my life as a totally depressed geek and, um, I was brutally bullied. I was, you know, I'm introverted geeks when I was a little kid, did not farewell. And not only that, but, uh, I was an am queer and little kids take any difference big and small, and they brutalize [00:16:30] people for it. Uh, life was horrible for me and my parents were terrible parents. Lucky for me. They turned out to be cool people as adults for me when I was at adult. Speaker 4: And uh, no matter what childhood can be rough for people and there's unhealed stuff and we carry all of that with us if we survive into adulthood. And here we all are as adults living our lives, hopefully exploring and doing what we love with the help of, uh, our supportive communities, including hackerspaces, but still there was a huge [00:17:00] amount of depression in geek communities. Uh, last November a friend of mine killed himself. It was the first time in my life where I felt close to someone who killed themselves. And, uh, it's rough. It really, really sucks. There's nothing like it. And still, uh, by this time in my life I tried to see opportunity in anything to help not only myself but other people. It's part of my healing process. So I wrote up [00:17:30] a very personal blog post on the Noisebridge blog site about my feelings and hundreds or more people responded. Speaker 4: It was overwhelming. And, uh, it really showed me that way more people are dealing with depression than I could imagine. And, and my friend, I had no clue he was, and I'm very sensitive to it. He hit it so well and I hit it well when I was a first half of my life living with depression. But yeah, a lot of us in the geek world. And in our planet are suffering [00:18:00] with depression. So after all these responses, I thought, you know, maybe we could have a meetup where we can talk about this and openly and if we talk about this openly as a community, maybe maybe someone will reach out for help rather than harm themselves and maybe someone will live another night. And any case, these geek and depression meetups that I started are now happening in various cities around the world and hopefully more as, as we become [00:18:30] more open about this cause, you know, I think we really can benefit all of us, each of us and as a community, if everyone is able to be totally open about all of who we are and not have to be shameful or secretive about something, you know, we can be open about everything but this then, then soon we're closing off huge parts of our lives and we have this part we can't even explore ourselves cause we can't talk about it to anyone. Speaker 4: We're not open about it with ourselves and not just about being queer or [00:19:00] whatever, but also being depressed, feeling suicidal, has a lot of shame associated with it. And a lot of people feel, unfortunately, sadly, tragically, that the easiest way out is killing themselves rather than just asking for help. And that's just so awful and unnecessary. So, uh, there are geeking depression meetups now that happened in San Francisco. I would like to see more happen elsewhere, bigger, small, whatever, and I'm [00:19:30] always available if anyone wants to contact me for any reason, project help how to start a company. Uh, if you're depressed, if you want someone to talk you into quitting a job, you don't like anything. I'm totally willing to communicate any time. Just please email me mitch@cornfieldelectronics.com. Speaker 2: [inaudible]. Our Guest Today on spectrum is Mitch Altman, enter hackerspace activist. This is KALX Berkeley. Speaker 4: [00:20:00] You had, uh, mentioned this sort of lackluster state of science, technology, engineering and math education or education in general. Do you see other possible solutions to bringing that up? Yes. This is one of the huge reasons why I started Noisebridge and why help other hackerspaces start. These are places where education happens in a very real wonderful way. Noisebridge is a 500 C3 public [00:20:30] benefit corporation in the state of California, but it's not your traditional kind of education organization. We teach and learn and share through hands on whether it's with computers, whether it's in a kitchen, a sewing machine, a soldering iron, a machine shop, whether it's exploring biology and growing mushrooms or using a laser cutter or exploring space. It's all about learning and teaching and sharing. People can try stuff if they know they love something, they can blurt more, they can [00:21:00] teach it. Speaker 4: It's really fantastic and this is an opportunity for some people to actually learn what they want to learn to live lives that they want to live. I wish the u s education system were more of that way, but it's very unfortunate that the only schools, well most of the schools that actually provide that opportunity are very expensive. Private schools in our country and there are fortunately some exceptions. I was just teaching some kids over at them, met West School in [00:21:30] Oakland who are providing hands on learning for their kids and it's public. It's really cool that, that, that exists. But it's only, I think 165 kids are allowed there. I would love to see more of that. So hackerspaces around the world are providing these opportunities right now. It's very few opportunities compared to what we need. There's only a thousand hackerspaces in the world and we need a million and we'll get there. Speaker 4: Uh, because hackerspaces are incredibly cool. People are [00:22:00] spontaneously creating them. There's all sorts of ways we can create these niches within which we can provide ourselves the services that our governments are not providing us. Hackerspaces just happened to be a really wonderful way near and dear to my heart and Mitch, our hackerspaces able to reach out to younger students populations that are stuck in those schools that you were talking about that aren't doing any of this hands on stuff. Yeah, well they, it's already, uh, it's already there. I mean, Noisebridge has [00:22:30] always been welcoming to people of all ages and most hackerspaces are, although some are afraid of liability issues a and they only have 18 and over, which I think is absurd. Yeah, there's, there's no age limit for learning. Not If we don't have it beaten out of us. That is, I'm not doing hackerspaces to get rid of schools. Speaker 4: I would love schools to become places where people can actually learn, but kids can have these often totally free and it Noisebridge [00:23:00] it's always free opportunities as an alternative during lunch or before or after school, they can come to Noisebridge over weekends, uh, with or without their parents. People are always welcome to come. Hopefully as there were more and more hackerspaces, there'll be more opportunities for these kids. There are hackerspaces in the East Bay, there's ace monster toys. There's one that's just forming now called pseudo room, s u d o room, [00:23:30] and there's mothership hacker moms, which is primarily for moms who are hackers and there's also a lowel space. I can't remember what the acronym stands for, unfortunately, but therefore liberating ourselves locally. There you go. Liberating ourselves locally. There are a bunch of cool people primarily for, uh, hackers of color, of various sorts and we need more. There's actually people just now starting to talk about another hackerspace in [00:24:00] San Francisco. What I would love to see is a hackerspace in every neighborhood of San Francisco, every neighborhood of every city around the country. We need a million of these things. Okay. Well, Mitch, thanks for joining us. Yeah, it's been great being here. Thanks for having me. Awesome. Speaker 5: Mm. Speaker 6: A regular feature of spectrum is to mention a few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next two weeks. Rick Kaneski at Lisa kind of joined me for the calendar. The next science [00:24:30] at cal lecture will be given at 11:00 AM on August the 18th in genetics and plants biology room 100 the lecture will be given by Dr Anton Trypsin and will be titled, can one see a flower through a granite wall? Amazing capabilities of neutron imaging. The detection technology developed for NASA astrophysical missions at UC Berkeley space science lab has been successfully extended to such diverse areas as synchrotron instrumentation, biomedical imaging, ground-based astronomy [00:25:00] and neutron micro tomography. Dr Trypsin will talk about his experience with neutron imaging and how it's useful find new applications. He got his phd in Applied Physics in 1992 at the Russian Academy of Sciences and was then a British royal society fellow with University of Lye Chester and joined the space scientist lab at UC Berkeley in 1996 where he is currently a research associate Speaker 7: on Saturday, August 18th the exploratorium at three six zero one line street at the Palace of fine arts in San Francisco [00:25:30] and celebrating founder of Frank Oppenheimer's hundredth birthday. Standard admission is $25 but college students, seniors, teachers, persons with disabilities and youths age six to 17 pay only $19 members and children five and under are free during regular museum hours of 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM visitors can take part in a variety of events and activities. Honoring Frank at the explorer bowls table from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM you can make a spinning top when [00:26:00] a Frank's favorite DIY projects throughout the day in the mine theater. You can see a series of exploratorium home movies featuring the early days of the museum as well as footage of frank engaging with visitors and staff. Today's events will also feature a frank themed presentation in the McBean theater and screenings of some of his favorite films from the museums, cinema arts archives, including the Em's classic powers of 10 there will also be birthday cake exploratory members can go [00:26:30] to a special celebration from six [inaudible] 9:00 PM for more information, visit exploratorium.edu no news with [inaudible] Speaker 6: Karnofsky and Lisa Katovich. The Berkeley Earth surface temperature reports that the average temperature of the earth land has risen by 2.5 Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of 1.5 degrees over the most recent 50 years. The good match between the new temperature record and historical carbon dioxide records suggest [00:27:00] that the most straightforward explanation for this warming is human greenhouse gas emissions. Five Times more station records were used than in previous analyses and a new statistical approach allowed Berkeley Earth to go about a hundred years farther back in time than previous studies allowing the team to conclude that the contribution of solar activity to global warming is negligible. Five scientific papers including the raw data are available online@berkeleyearth.org Elizabeth Mueller Co founder and executive director [00:27:30] of Berkeley Earth says that one of our goals at Berkeley Earth is complete transparency. We believe that everyone should be able to access raw climate data and do their own analysis. Mueller was a guest on spectrum and her interview is available on iTunes university Speaker 7: science daily reports that UCLA researchers found that older adults who regularly used a brain fitness program played on the computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills. The team studied 59 participants with an [00:28:00] average age of 84 recruited from local retirement communities in southern California. The volunteers were split into two groups. The first group you used the brain fitness program for an average of 73 and a half, 20 minute sessions across a six month period. Well a second group. You use it less than 45 times. During that same period, researchers found that the first group demonstrated significantly higher improvement in memory and language skills compared to the second group. The study's findings add to the field exploring whether such brain fitness tools may help improve language [00:28:30] in memory and may ultimately help protect individuals from the cognitive decline associated with aging and Alzheimer's disease. Age-Related memory decline affects approximately 40% of older adults and is characterized by self perception of memory loss and decline in memory performance. Previous studies have shown that engaging in mental activities can help improve memory. That little research has been done to determine whether the numerous brain fitness games or memory training programs on the market are effective. This is one of the first studies to assess the cognitive effects [00:29:00] of the computerized memory training program. Speaker 1: [inaudible]Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 1: [inaudible].Speaker 2: The music heard during the show is by Anna David from his album folk acoustic made available by a creative Commons license 3.0 attribution. [00:29:30] Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum.at Speaker 1: yahoo.com join us in two weeks at the same time. [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.