Podcast appearances and mentions of Paul Tran

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 61:19

Here, first-time NFT creators Paul Tran (of www.cryptobadgerclan.com) and Kevin Seo (www.foodfightersuniverse.com) talk about their journey from traditional entrepreneurship to Web3 entrepreneurship. Missed an episode? Visit www.badgerclan.show www.cryptobadgerclan.com @cryptobadgerNFT on Twitter and Instagram

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio

Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio Presents S. Yarberry

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2022 64:00

S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer. They currently serve as the Poetry Editor of The Spectacle. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University. S. is also the author of a new book of poetry A Boy in The City. A Boy in the City interrogates how our bodies both seduce and elude. Told through the lens of an intimate partnership, Yarberry explores the way we inhabit and are simultaneously distanced from our bodies–our loose seams, our disappearances and infinities, our longing among the brilliance and mundanity of the “streets and lights and strangers” of our cities. The collection feels like an easy Sunday morning a few months after a break-up; a raw nerve, romantic and splintered. Carl Phillips calls Yarberry a “defiant new voice” who “writes past the ‘festoonery' of gender and easy binaries.” Mary Jo Bang says the poems in A Boy in the City are, “incisive, erotic, artfully antiro- mantic and Paul Tran says, “Yarberry's gift to us is that we can become anything, too.” S. Yarberry Pronouns: they/them Website: https://syarberry.com/

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Inventing Frozen Superfood Face Mask Popsicles - Lynda Truong and Paul Tran of Love&Pebble

TrepTalks with Sushant

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 52:50

Lynda Truong and Paul Tran of Love&Pebble combined the idea of cryotherapy and face masks to create a unique beauty product.

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Episode 121 with Michael Torres, Crafter of Profound and Musical Lines, Master of Imagery and Pathos, and Author of the Award-Winning Poetry Collection, An Incomplete List of Names

The Chills at Will Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2022 84:24

Episode 121 Notes and Links to Michael Torres' Work On Episode 121 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Michael Torres, and the two discuss, among other topics, his growing up in Pomona, CA, and his childhood and adolescence influences on his work, the speaker as poet and vice versa, his early reading prompted by a generous older sister, works and writers that have thrilled him and impelled him to write, his poetry collection's themes of identity and masculinity, and the real-life background of his dynamite lines and strong images. Michael Torres is a VONA distinguished alum and CantoMundo fellow. In 2016 he received his MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato, was a winner of the Loft Mentor Series, received an Individual Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, and was awarded a Jerome Foundation Research and Travel Grant to visit the pueblo in Jalisco, Mexico where his father grew up. In 2019 he received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and The Loft Literary Center for the Mirrors & Windows Program. A former Artist-in-Residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France as well as a McKnight Writing Fellow, he is currently a 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. His first collection of poems, AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF NAMES, (Beacon Press, 2020) was selected by Raquel Salas Rivera for the National Poetry Series, named one of NPR's Best Books of 2020, and was featured on the podcast Code Switch. His writing has been featured or is forthcoming in Best New Poets 2020, The New Yorker, POETRY, Ploughshares, Smartish Pace, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Georgia Review, The Sun, Water~Stone Review, Southern Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Poetry Northwest, Copper Nickel, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The McNeese Review, MIRAMAR, Green Mountains Review, Forklift, Ohio, Hot Metal Bridge, The Boiler Journal, Paper Darts, River Teeth, The Acentos Review, Okey-Panky, Sycamore Review, SALT, Huizache, online as The Missouri Review's Poem of the Week, on The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith. Michael was born and brought up in Pomona, CA, where he spent his adolescence as a graffiti artist. Currently, he teaches in the MFA program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Michael Torres' Website Buy An Incomplete List of Names Michael's Appearance on NPR's Code Switch "In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Michael Torres" At about 3:20, Michael talks about growing up in Pomona, CA, and his relationship with language and literature At about 6:00, Michael highlights his older sister's contributions in introducing him to great literature, and Michael details being immediately intrigued by Luis Rodriguez's Always Running At about 10:00, Pete connects Luis Rodriguez and getting attention through his nickname and Michael's views of tagging and identity At about 13:50, Michael responds to Pete's questions about connections between peer pressure and growing up, including how Michael's “Down” was inspired by Kendrick Lamar's “The Art of Peer Pressure” At about 18:00, Pete flits from A Bronx Tale to a phenomenon with students' writing their full names in past years as the two “discuss the “desire to leave something behind” At about 20:10, Pete cites profound and interesting lines from An Incomplete List of Names that deal with identity, and Pete asks about “Michael” and the delineation between his name and “Remek” At about 22:00, Michael discusses what reading and writers inspired and thrilled him as he got into late high school and college, including 2Pac and The Rose that Grew From Concrete, Charles Bukowski, Gary Soto's The Elements of San Joaquin, and Albert Camus' The Stranger At about 26:40, Michael further explains hip-hop's influence on him, including from groups like Dilated Peoples, A Tribe Called Quest, Pharcyde, Jurassic 5 At about 30:00, Michael lays out events and people who helped him find his writing voice and skill and community At about 32:00, Michael highlights moments that convinced him of his love for poetry At about 34:00, Michael highlights John Bramingham and others who helped him learn about the publication process At about 35:30, A Mic and Dim Lights is highlighted as a open mic spot that fostered Michael's skills and confidence At about 37:00, Pete asks about the transition from student to teacher/mentor for Michael, as Michael shouts out UC Riverside and Freddy Lopez At about 40:10, Pete asks Michael about “Stop Looking My Name Like That” and ideas of the speaker as the poet At about 42:40, Michael describes “writing in resistance” to conversations had at a conference he attended At about 44:30, Pete talks about his favorite scene in moviedom, and its connections to innocence and nostalgia and Michael's writing At about 45:30, Pete quotes some dynamite lines and asks Michael about ideas of identity At about 49:30, Michael analyzes a profound line and connects it to memory and nostalgia At about 51:00, Michael discusses community and connections to a “transaction” and the moving (no pun intended) poem “Push” At about 52:10, Michael gives background on his father and perspectives on his dad's background and its connection to their relationship At about 54:15, ideas of masculinity are explored through standout lines, including “Down” and its three iterations At about 56:45, Michael talks about “masks” and tough exteriors and acting tough as ways of getting by and not getting “clowned” At about 58:45, Michael gives background on an interesting and fitting phrase he uses in his poetry At about 1:00:25, Pete and Michael discuss a tender line from “Down/II” as Michael gives background on the line as a mix of moments in his life At about 1:03:30, Michael discusses ideas of youth valuing themselves as touched upon in his work At about 1:05:20, Pete highlights a line from the collection that is representative of the whole At about 1:07:00, Pete asks about Michael's community of writers and who moves him in 2022; Michael cites Willie Perdomo, Mary Szybist and “Incarnadine,” Patricia Smith, Paul Tran, Dustin Pearson, Emily Yoon, Chris McCormick, Eduardo Corral, and Chen Chen At about 1:09:10, Michael reads from “Down/I” At about 1:15:00, Michael reads Part VI and X of “Elegy Roll Call” At about 1:17:00, Michael details upcoming projects At about 1:21:00, Michael gives out social media/contact info You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode. This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com. Please tune in for Episode 122 with Sonora Reyes, the author of the forthcoming contemporary young adult novel, THE LESBIANA'S GUIDE TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL. They write fiction full of queer and Latinx characters in a variety of genres, with current projects in both kidlit and adult categories. Sonora is also the creator and host of the Twitter chat #QPOCChat, a monthly community-building chat for queer writers of color. The episode will air on May 10.

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#72 Creando una cultura organizacional auténtica con Paul Tran, Hijos de Rivera - Estrella Galicia

Factorial HR Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2022 31:55

Hablamos con Paul Tran, Director de Personas & Tecnología, en Hijos de Rivera, el grupo grupo gallego productor de cerveza y bebidas. La más conocida de ellas, Estrella Galicia. En esta ocasión compartimos una charla con Paul para hablar sobre cultural fit, propósito de empresa y cultura de empresa auténtica. ¡No te lo pierdas! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/factorial-podcast/message

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Paul Tran's wildly impressive debut poetry book, ‘All the Flowers Kneeling'

Bookworm

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 28:32

Paul Tran says that poetry can live on a page. This show discusses the abundant life in their debut poetry book, “All the Flowers Kneeling.” Tran joins guest host Shawn Sullivan to explore the book's four sections as well as its notes.

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Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 010

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2022 60:32

Here, first-time NFT creators Paul Tran (of www.cryptobadgerclan.com) and Kevin Seo (details coming soon!) talk about their journey from traditional entrepreneurship to Web3 entrepreneurship. Missed an episode? Visit www.badgerclan.show www.cryptobadgerclan.com @cryptobadgerNFT on Twitter and Instagram

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 009

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 66:59

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 008

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2022 62:49

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 007

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2022 60:34

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 006

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2022 42:03

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S7 E10: Tiffanie Drayton, Paul Tran, and Karen Cheung

This Is the Author

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2022 16:29

S7 E10: In this episode, meet journalist Tiffanie Drayton, poet Paul Tran, and journalist Karen Cheung. These authors have written books in which they explore the intersection of personal experience and the broader culture---whether rethinking the American Dream, answering trauma with resilience, or delving into the meaning of memory in a shifting geopolitical landscape. Listen in to learn more; plus, find out what it was like for these authors to record their audiobooks. Black American Refugee by Tiffanie Drayton: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/671853/black-american-refugee/ All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/676719/all-the-flowers-kneeling/ The Impossible City by Karen Cheung: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/670013/the-impossible-city/

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 005

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2022 45:25

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 004

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2022 73:12

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 002

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2022 58:04

Here, first-time NFT creators Paul Tran (of www.cryptobadgerclan.com) and Kevin Seo (details coming soon!) talk about their journey from traditional entrepreneurship to Web3 entrepreneurship. Missed a past episode? www.cryptobadgerclan.com @cryptobadgerNFT on Twitter and Instagram

Guys Who Don't Know NFTs Talk About NFTs - Episode 001

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2022 84:07

Here, first-time NFT creators Paul Tran (of www.cryptobadgerclan.com) and Kevin Seo (details coming soon!) talk about their journey from traditional entrepreneurship to Web3 entrepreneurship. Missed a past episode? www.cryptobadgerclan.com @cryptobadgerNFT on Twitter and Instagram

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Humor, poetry and romance on Code Switch Live

Code Switch

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2022 36:45

Live from your computer screens, it's Code Switch! Guest hosts Ayesha Rascoe and Denice Frohman joined us to talk poetry and humor with special guests Paul Tran and Hari Kondabolu. Then, Ayesha and Denice answered your questions about race and love.

598: Bioluminescence

The Slowdown

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 5:34

Today's poem is Bioluminescence by Paul Tran.

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598: Bioluminescence

The Slowdown

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 5:34

Today's poem is Bioluminescence by Paul Tran.

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#193: Leadership Chat: MANSCAPED CEO Paul Tran

Absolute Return Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2022 34:47

January 10, 2022 - On today's podcast we welcome special guest, MANSCAPED Founder and CEO, Paul Tran. MANSCAPED is a leader and pioneer in men's grooming that recently announced a going-public transaction at a $1 billion valuation. On the show, Paul discusses: What inspired the founding of MANSCAPED How he launched a category creator Keys to success behind the company's innovative marketing How they go about creating viral marketing campaigns And more Buy bitcoin, save the planet! Learn more about our eco-friendly bitcoin ETF here: https://investabtc.com/ Learn more about the Accelerate Alternative Investment Solutions here: https://accelerateshares.com/investment-solutions-2/ Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/33316660/admin/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AccelerateFT

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Manscaped CEO On SPAC Merger With Bright Lights Acquisition Corp. (BLTS)

TD Ameritrade Network

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2021 7:04

Manscaped plans to go public via SPAC merger with Bright Lights Acquisition Corp. (BLTS). Paul Tran, CEO of Manscaped, gives an overview of the company. He talks about how Manscaped is a men's grooming personal care company. He also goes over how Manscaped will trade under the ticker symbol “MANS” when it goes public. Finally, he mentions Manscaped plans for growth. Tune in to find out more.

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021: Being Multigenre Writers

Dear Literature

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2021 45:18

Vanessa and Alyssa discuss what it's like writing across multiple genres including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and journalism. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dearlitpod The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards (HarperCollins Publishers) The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Z Brewer (Penguin Random House) Project VOICE (Phil Kaye and Sarah Kay) "The Man in the Mirror? by Alison Kinney (Longreads) - CN: Rape, gaslighting "Paul Tran vs. The Past" "Shira Erlichman vs. The Unknown" Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming is Changing Writing by Annette Vee (MIT Press) “Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won't Read” by Michelle Jana Chan (Literary Hub)

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How Manscaped Built A Strong Brand Affinity: 7 Business Strategies

DEEP DIVE INTO BUSINESSES

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 30, 2021 23:28

Every week we will take a deep dive into a business and share with you some of their marketing & business strategies that helped these businesses scale. In Episode 43, we dissect Manscaped business & marketing strategy – The company was founded in 2017 by Paul Tran & is a brand dedicated to men's below-the-waist grooming and hygiene. They built a strong brand affinity through their marketing efforts. By implementing humor into their marketing strategy, they made it more conversational for men to discuss topics that they didn't feel comfortable talking about before. With over 2 million men using their products, this company is worth studying & referencing when you're thinking about your next business move.Timestamps:[00:53] Manscaped Background & How It Started[2:40] Exploring Other Ad Placements Outside The Digital World. Learn How Manscaped Diversified Their Ad Placements Outside Social Media[5:40] Use Humor To Market Taboo or Traditionally Boring Products. In the early stages of Manscaped, they were using serious messaging to get their products out there & realized it wasn't hitting the consumer effectively.[6:20] How Manscaped Hilarious Santa Video Changed Their Marketing Mindset[8:13] Other brands that have used a humor approach to their marketing strategy[9:36] Why A Digital Agency Can Be At Your Disadvantage[13:49] Change Up Your Ad Copy That Speaks To Your Customer At The Present Moment. Manscaped speaks to their customer at the very present by understanding current situations that the customer may be facing during the relevant hot Summer season & how their product can help solve it.[15:30] If you're going to raise money, then bring on sweetie pie investors.[16:25] Selecting An Investor: Why It Isn't Just About The Money[18:27] Who Is Your Audience & Where Are They Mostly Active?[20:47] Increase Sales By Adding A Gift With Purchase.ABOUT MATT SKOPAK:An adventure and fitness addict with a passion for entrepreneurship and numbers. Lead Investor in Sweetberry Bowls and CFO of Sugar & Kush CBD. Rutgers MBA 2020 in Entrepreneurship & Accounting. Matt Skopak's Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/mskopakABOUT ME (SEAN AZARI):In 2015, I started a creative ad agency called Breakthrough Social that has helped over 50+ businesses build their brand & increase sales mainly through content development & distribution, influencer marketing, paid media campaigns, and other developing techniques. Brands that I have worked with: Rebhorn, Safavieh, Rugs USA, SoJo Spa Club, Muscle Maker Grill, Kat Burki, Sweetberry Bowls, & many others.REBHORN (My eCommerce/Art Brand) ⤵️Website: https://www.rebhorndesign.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rebhorndesignMy Other Social Channels:INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sean_azari/FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/azarimedia/SNAPCHAT: https://www.snapchat.com/add/sean_azariTWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/sean_azari

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Paul Tran: "Hypothesis"

Poem-a-Day

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 3:39

Recorded by Paul Tran for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 24, 2021. www.poets.org

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“To Claim What Has Tried to Claim Me”: A Roundtable on Asian-American Poetics

The New Yorker: Poetry

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2021 64:23

In a special episode of the Poetry Podcast, Kimiko Hahn, Monica Youn, Paul Tran, and Megan Fernandes join Kevin Young to read their work, and to discuss Asian-American poetics and the role of poetry in our tumultuous times. Kimiko Hahn, a distinguished professor at Queens College, City University of New York, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poems, including, most recently, “Foreign Bodies.” Monica Youn, a former lawyer and a member of the Racial Imaginary Institute, teaches at Princeton. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, she will publish a new book of poems, “From From,” in 2023. Paul Tran, a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and a 92Y Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their debut poetry collection, “All the Flowers Kneeling,” will be published in 2022. Megan Fernandes is an assistant professor of English and writer-in-residence at Lafayette College. A finalist for the Kundiman Book Prize and the Saturnalia Book Prize, her most recent poetry collection is “Good Boys.”

Read By: Paul Tran

92Y's Read By

Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2021 3:40

Paul Tran on their selection: The handprint is one of the earliest examples of self-representation. I can hardly imagine what it was like, thousands and thousands of years ago, to seek shelter in a cave; to find others had been there; to see the animals they painted; and then to join the animals by leaving their handprint on the wall. Maybe the word for it is hope. Maybe it’s realizing I’m not alone. I’m here, still. “Between Darkness and Light,” Paul Tran, Shantell Martin and Shamel Pitts (TRIBE) “The Cave,” by Paul Tran Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0

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That's Some Crazy Shit - S2 E1

That's Some Crazy Sh*t with Kelly & James

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2021 59:03

Happy New Year! Season Two ya'll! We're back and ready for Season 2. We kick it off literally talking about the study of crazy shit! We can all agree medicine is some crazy shit. We can all agree that gastroenterology is the study of crazy shit - literally. So why not get an expert to chime in on this one? We did! Join Kelly & James as they talk medicine with pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Paul Tran Dr. Paul Tran grew up on the East Coast in Maryland and most of his childhood was dominated by a career as a competitive figure skater. His family moved to Colorado Springs when he was in high school, partly to train for skating. He retired from skating and went to Duke University where he majored in Classical Civilizations. After graduation, he completed a Masters in Physiology at the University of Cincinnati before going to medical school in Denver at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He then moved to Dallas for three years to complete a residency in Pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern. Now back in Denver, Dr. Tran currently completing a Fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology at the University of Colorado and Children's Hospital Colorado. In the near future, he hopes to continue his professional career with a focus on medical education and advanced endoscopy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thatssomecrazyshitpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thatssomecrazyshitpodcast/support

S2:E32 Julie Murphy Interviews Ellen Bass and Cynthia White about the new gender-inclusive anthology "Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment, and Healing”

The Hive Poetry Collective

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2020 58:48

Julie Murphy interviews award winning poets Ellen Bass and Cynthia White about their poems and the work of Jericho Brown and Paul Tran included in the new gender-inclusive anthology Grabbed: Poets and Writers on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing. Please join us as we read stunning poems and engage in a lively discussion of the power of poetry, how to write about difficult subjects, art and healing, and more. From the Grabbed website: "The editors asked writers and poets to add to the conversation about what being “grabbed” means to them in their own experience or in whatever way the word “grabbed” inspired them. What they received are often searing, heart-rending works, ranging in topic from sexual misconduct to racial injustice, from an unwanted caress to rape, expressed in powerful, beautifully crafted prose and poetry. This book is for everyone who has ever felt alone in their experience of being grabbed, violated, overlooked, and silenced. This anthology is their voice. It is their war cry. It is their plea to be heard and be seen. We want this volume to provide hope to those who have yet to harness the power of their own story. Years in the making, the stitching together of this important narrative chronicles a moment in time which is, unfortunately, also timeless." Grabbed: Writers and Poets on Sexual Assault, Empowerment and Healing edited by Richard Blanco, Caridad Moro, Nikki Moustaki, and Elisa Albo Grabbed Website Ellen Bass Cynthia White The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 20th Anniversary Edition by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis I Never Told Anyone by Ellen Bass

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Paul Tran — The Cave

Poetry Unbound

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2020 11:42

What have you had to explore on your own? What, or who, helped? This poem explores the archetype of the cave — a cave that calls, a cave that contains secrets and perhaps even information. “Someone standing at the mouth had / the idea to enter. To go further / than light or language could / go.” The poem manages — at once — to convey the bravery of exploration and the solitude and possibility that can accompany such journeys.Paul Tran – is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation and a Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Prize. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Good Morning America, NYLON, and elsewhere, including the RZA-directed movie Love Beats Rhymes alongside Azealia Banks, Common, and Jill Scott.Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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Paul Tran - Playing The Long Game

The Dedication to Excellence

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2020 59:49

- Helped scale food concepts to billions in sales including five guys and halal guys- 10+ restaurants in California with more to come- Sales consultant and founder of Honey Badger Seller- Systems and automation expert and partner at Pro Sulum VSA companyAs his Instagram says, "I do a bunch of things"! Paul has mastered developing systems for massive growth in the restaurant industry, while also capitalizing on horizontal growth in several other complimenting opportunities!EP. 3 of The Dedication To Excellence Podcast we dive deep into scaling a business from a small concept to a multi-location franchise and so much more!Support the show

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Job-hunting at ‘ACCR.'

Conversations with scientists

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 22, 2020 14:24

Part I of the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research was all virtual. There were 61,000 attendees, including some job-hunters. I wonder how this year's conference that is about to get underway will affect job-hunting. This episode is with scientists talking about their hopes and allergic points as they job-hunt. It's based on conversations with job-hunters last year and this year. The guests on this episode are: Dr. Antonio Ward of the University of South Alabama, Melat Gebru from Penn State University, Paul Tran from Augusta University and Dr. Sadr-ul Shaheed from the University of Bradford.

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132 FIFM - Giving So Much Without Expecting Anything in Return

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Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2020 14:31

The concept of giving is more of an attitude of generosity. Always be generous with people that you come in contact with and add so much value that the people who receive your kindness feel compelled to be your cheerleaders and ambassadors. In this episode, Dean chats with friend and business partner, Paul Tran, about giving people the potential to be your raving fans and make them want to help you. ----- Automated Transcript Below Dean Soto 0:00:00 Hey, this is Dean Soto founder of FreedomInFiveMinutes.com and ProSuum.com and we're here again with another Freedom In Five Minutes podcast episode. Today's topic is this: Giving So Much Without Expecting Anything in Return. That and more, coming up. Dean Soto 0:00:29 Well, guys check this out. I have a special guest here today. I am NOT on my acreage running around with the Luna Mister. In fact, I am in some kind of industrial-type area with a lot of cars. We're at Toyota-thon guys. Dean Soto 0:00:46 That's the way it looks over here it's Toyota-thon no we are actually at a Toyota dealership because Mr. Paul Tran got a flat tire right before we were going to speak. Of course, that didn't stop us but I have with us as a result of that beautiful gift of a flat tire. Dean Soto 0:01:09 Mr. Paul Tran, how's it going my man? Paul Tran 0:01:12 Good. It's good. Whenever I got that flat tire I thought of you know how we both are fans of Chaco Willing is his strategy have you heard of his concept of good? No matter what happens in your life always end it with good. Paul Tran 0:01:26 If I today I was late for work good I got to spend more time with my family or I got a flat tire good I got to like appreciate people's help you know whatever happens just end up with good because it reframes your positive attitude. Dean Soto 0:01:42 That's actually pretty cool. I love that. I love that. I'm at Toyota-thon good I am NOT gonna get another Toyota. I like Toyotas but I'm not in the market but yeah I still feel it makes me feel really good but um so interesting thing happened today so we were speaking out we work in boardwalk which was in Newport California right Paul Tran 0:02:05 Irvine Irvine Dean Soto 0:02:07 Irvine California and it was cool because there's a guy who got us into the whole WeWork space a guy by the name of Daniel. Can I share his name? Paul Tran 0:02:18 Yeah okay. Dean Soto 0:02:20 A guy by the name of Daniel Apple and he works for a company called TriNet who they are awesome by the way if you have a company that is doing anything HR-wise, TriNet is friggin amazing they run they do all the HR stuff for Paul's halal you know 20 million dollar halal guys restaurants that he owns and stuff like that and they just been pretty amazing Paul Tran 0:02:40 right yep they also did payroll and did HR strategy for Netflix and its heyday so they just pretty much help you know maneuver all the HR pitfalls for a starting company because you know as you know you're in the business not to — unless you're in the HR business you're not in the business to process payroll you're in the business to serve people and do what you do uniquely so trying it kind of takes all that off of your plate so that you can focus Dean Soto 0:03:07 I love that so yeah go check out so Daniel Apple which all once I post this on LinkedIn I’ll actually tag him on there so if you're if you want to check him out he's awesome great guy him and William Chiem C H I E M guys Dean Soto 0:03:26.019,0:03:30.549 Yeah, both are awesome and the reason why we're bringing them up both of them is that so they got us into we work and the interesting thing is that Paul and I so hearing Paul actually reached out to me and said hey do you want to start speaking out we work I have this contact and he's you know he has a lot of people in there that he worked with and could get us into doing some speaking engagements to share all the whole VSA concept — the Virtual Systems Architects if you go to FreedomInFiveMinutes.com you get to check those out so he so we're talking about he's talking about this guy and I'm like oh that's awesome so like what's the catch what's the catch and it's been how many months like six months? Paul Tran 0:04:14 yeah it's been about four months Dean Soto 0:04:16 four months of doing these talks and I'm still waiting for the catch that's the interesting thing literally William and Daniel both got us into this spot and then have literally asked for nothing in return but it was interesting because every single time we've done any type of talk Dean Soto 0:04:42 I know I always bug Paul I'm like we should have Daniel talk in the beginning we should have Bill talk in the beginning we should look how can I give back to Bill how can I give back to Daniel huh and to the point where I referred people to him and he literally has never asked for a referral whatsoever he's just been giving giving giving giving giving and it would today be the first time where he actually shared his dirty little secret with me after he after I had talked to him about somebody who I had actually referred and who looks like might actually be signing up with TriNet and I love for Paul to gotta give that little dirty little secret that he's shared today. Paul Tran 0:05:24 well I mean pretty much the the concept was it's more of a an attitude of generosity like give so much be so generous with people that you come in contact with always add so much value that the people who receive your generosity they have no choice and not no choice but they feel so compelled to just be cheerleaders and ambassadors for you and create raving fans and just want to help you you know all this time you know Dean and I were always just figuring how did it benefit them how to take good care of them and you know the concept was pretty much I guess based on the book that they go giver and the concept was this like give more value than you capture provide more value than you capture like the the byproduct the referrals the business the growth all that stuff is a byproduct that takes care of itself similar to the concept of if you're doing the right thing for clients like the monies of natural Byproduct so his generosity his continued generosity to us has been so enormous and so over abundantly overflowing we abundant that we just want to help him out all the time like we're not even working for TriNet we just want to help him out and give him as much business as possible because of that philosophy Dean Soto 0:06:45 yeah it's funny because he's even like he's was even like he's like yeah yeah dude you know if anyone now signs up will even give you a little you know I can give you like some kind of kickback or something like that I'm like dude no honestly you've given so much to us there's like it's already like we feel already in debt and that's literally what I told him today because it was cool because it just kind of came up out of the blue the the whole concept that he shared but it's super powerful it's something and quite honestly for me it's something and I don't know if it's because I grew up pretty poor I mean we went from you know hotel to hotel and how's it going guys we went from hotel to hotel and motel in the motel and never you know it was I grew up reporter so a lot of the times for me I tend to hold on to things I tend to like be more about me than about other people and just seeing just seeing like this I mean you've taught you Paul have taught me to give and to give and stuff like that but like even even with this I was like I mean literally every time we came down it was it was I had in my mind like what are they getting out of this I even asked Bill a couple times like what are you getting out of this what are you getting out of this and you know we want to help you and he's and he's just like oh I don't just long game don't worry about it and I'm like this is crazy but now it's funny because now you're starting to see the reaping of what he what those two have actually already sowed you know Paul Tran 0:08:11 Yeah and but I mean it does start with just being someone who's generous and being a kind person with a positive attitude like if you're just in it truly just for that ulterior motive, yeah people smell it out and it'll debilitate any efforts that you make so you actually got to be a really kind good person and be super sincere about wanting to just truly help someone with no expectation in return that's the prerequisite. Dean Soto 0:08:42 that's interesting like I could totally see that as well like if people know you're doing that just to get something that that that could be more detrimental at times but yeah like the I mean why like why is this important I mean it's important because a lot of times we're in business obviously we're in business to make money to feed our families to grow the business and so on and so forth but you know that doesn't need to come at the cost of a that doesn't need to come at the cost of giving before receiving you know even jesus said that's better to give than to receive the the whole idea is that that your mode is like because no matter what with a business you have to give that value anyway there the money your value should just in general with your business be more valuable than the money that they're paying they need to get a return on their investment and so that's a huge huge thing and it's so important to just have that in mind of I'm giving no matter what I have to find a way to give more value than receive right Paul Tran 0:09:52 yeah and the trick is to I think because we as business people we need to manage our numbers and we need to measure things and whatever measure is measured and proves right all right but the trick here is you know culture things like generosity are really hard to measure but I find it funny that those are the most important so I'd say focus on things are a little it's it's okay to focus on things they're a little bit harder to measure yeah cuz those are the ones that usually probably every other business person is not measuring either so that's you're a competitive edge as well Dean Soto 0:10:24 Yeah for sure and you know on the on the flip side of things the cool thing is you can actually systemize a lot of this type of giving there there are many ways like the reactive campaign attaching these active campaign to different things like Thankster or Zen Direct or other places you can actually systemize the giving to your customers based off of how much they buy based off of you know who hold a number of data points and stuff so if it's hard for you because it really is hard for me to give like I have to systemize giving to where it's actually out of my head and it just constantly get on a regular basis so like my challenge to you right now is if you have a business or just in general even with your family how much are you giving before receiving you know are you giving love notes to your wife are you giving love notes to your children every day are you giving you know free things to your your your clients or reaching out to them and just saying hey appreciate you or things like that like how much are you actually doing that and that's the challenge this week is to to put that as a priority and see over time just how much that gives back and that allows you to to grow as a business and to grow as a as a person in general but but yeah that's the challenge this week. Paul, do you have any other things? Paul Tran 0:11:45 Actually, as you mentioned that you taught me the concept of the bank account the virtual the emotional-spiritual business financial bank account like you if the more you deposit the easier it is to withdraw like if you put more money into your bank account and it earns interest you can always withdraw without any issues without feeling like that scarcity mindset right it's the same thing it's not just money but if you're adding so much value you're depositing so much help you're sending them thank-yous you're giving them referrals you're figuring out a way to help your clients win like without any expected returns. Guess what those are deposits that interest-earning deposits that the with Charles and the distributions back to you are just automatic and you don't feel like you're losing out no some think of it as just living off the interest of it you know Dean Soto 0:12:38 I love it right so my relationship — but I relate that to everything, yeah no I totally and I only use it for my relationship and some of my business I need to do it for other things so all that being said so this is Dean Soto and Paul Tran and if you haven't subscribed to the podcast yet go to FreedomInFiveMinutes.com do they actually do the right thing actually you go to Apple Podcast type in Freedom In Five Minutes and subscribe that way or go to Spotify type in Freedom In Five Minutes or stitcher to type in Freedom In Five Minutes or I Heart Radio and type in Freedom In Five Minutes and you will be able to find the Freedom In Five Minutes podcast go and subscribe now so I can give you lots and lots of episodes all the time okay so... Paul Tran 0:13:28 without any expectation return Dean Soto 0:13:31 Exactly. Exactly but until then Paul and I will see you on the next freedom in five minutes podcast episode

0105 Paul Tran - How Manscaped Created a Nine-Figure Business by Inventing and Dominating the Pubic Grooming Industry

Exit Strategy with Moiz Ali

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2020 60:04

(0:57) Moiz introduces Paul Tran, the CEO and founder of Manscaped, founded in 2016. Manscaped sells grooming products (3:25) Paul discusses the ages and gender of Manscaped’s customers (5:40) Paul talks about the lack of options in the pubic grooming space for men. Manscape capitalized on a white-space (9:10) What goes into creating the actual products (the “Lawnmower”). Manscaped sees itself as both a hardware and software company (13:40) All marketing, development, etc. are done inhouse at Manscaped. No agencies are used. They want to be super knowledgeable about all aspects of the business. Has 72 employees. (16:05) Paul reveals the origins of Manscaped’s marketing and branding (22:10) Paul talks about the challenges of scaling outside of Facebook and Google (29:20) Getting the messaging right and the initial growth of Manscaped. (33:40) Which messaging didn’t work initially? (36:18) Paul talks about the importance of running your marketing. (38:00) How to succeed being bootstrapped and the issues with raising venture too early. (44:50) What does Manscaped’s acquisition channel mix look like today? (47:55) Paul explains how roles are organized at Manscaped and the importance of hiring. (53:10) What are failures Manscaped has run into? (57:12) Paul talks about the move into brick and mortar. (58:18) There is a certain amount of seasonality in DTC, Paul explains when they see the biggest bumps. (59:55) Paul discusses using influencer marketing and how to get the most out of it. Paul suggests avoiding micro-influencers since you get limited data from them? (1:03:40) What is your (Paul’s) goal with the business? Paul thinks about creating a multi-generational business instead of one built solely for being acquired. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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FH S3E8: Reading for Liberation

NoCo FM Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 40:02

Today’s episode is a celebration of the written word in honor of a major milestone—the completion of the Feminist Hotdog book manuscript! (Coming January 2021.) Since words have been dominating my psyche, I decided to devote this week’s episode to reading (and writing!) for liberation. I spoke with Stef Bernal-Martinez of 1977 Books, poet Angbeen Saleem, and Alana Baumann and Samra Michael of the new podcast She Well Read about the role books and poems are playing in their pandemic lives, and the writers who help them envision a more just and intersectional future. Stuff We Talked About on This Episode Intro by Bernadine Evaristo (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/08/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo-review) by Mikki Kendall (https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/808943234/hood-feminism-is-a-call-for-solidarity-in-a-less-than-inclusive-movement) Part I 1977 Books (1977books.com) @1977books on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/1977books/) by Alex Vitale (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing) (https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html) Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free) Combahee River Collective (http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html) Octavia Butler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YI8lsjJJA) MGM Bailout (https://www.mgmbailout.com) Part II @angribeen on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/angribeen/) Angel Nafis (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/angel-nafis) Paul Tran (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-tran) The Slow Down Show (https://www.slowdownshow.org) The VS Podcast (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/142241/vs-podcast) Haymarket Press BreakBeats Poets collection (http://www.breakbeatpoets.com) by Ross Gay (https://upittpress.org/books/9780822963318/) by Ilya Kaminsky (https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic ) Desis Rising Up and Moving (https://www.drumnyc.org/powerandsafety/) Part III She Well Read Episode 1 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-well-read/id1506524661) @shewellread on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/shewellread/) Series (http://www.kieracass.com/books) by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff (https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/stay-sexy-and-dont-get-murdered/) by Rebecca Traister (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/06/rebecca-traister-interview-all-the-single-ladies) Alana's Reading Playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YOLn0CBZ5alixgH2x9Bav?si=eSxCdDPeQQ2sCw-XA25OdQ) Support this podcast

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FH S3E8: Reading for Liberation

Feminist Hotdog

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2020 40:02

Today’s episode is a celebration of the written word in honor of a major milestone—the completion of the Feminist Hotdog book manuscript! (Coming January 2021.) Since words have been dominating my psyche, I decided to devote this week’s episode to reading (and writing!) for liberation. I spoke with Stef Bernal-Martinez of 1977 Books, poet Angbeen Saleem, and Alana Baumann and Samra Michael of the new podcast She Well Read about the role books and poems are playing in their pandemic lives, and the writers who help them envision a more just and intersectional future. Stuff We Talked About on This Episode Intro https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/08/girl-woman-other-by-bernardine-evaristo-review (Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo) https://www.npr.org/2020/02/26/808943234/hood-feminism-is-a-call-for-solidarity-in-a-less-than-inclusive-movement (Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall) Part I 1977 Books https://www.instagram.com/1977books/ (@1977books on Instagram) https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing (The End of Policing by Alex Vitale) https://www.akpress.org/beyond-survival.html (Beyond Survival) https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free (How We Get Free )https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free (by )https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1108-how-we-get-free (Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) http://circuitous.org/scraps/combahee.html (Combahee River Collective) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YI8lsjJJA (Octavia Butler) https://www.mgmbailout.com (MGM Bailout) Part II https://www.instagram.com/angribeen/ (@angribeen on Instagram) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/angel-nafis (Angel Nafis) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/paul-tran (Paul Tran) https://www.slowdownshow.org (The Slow Down Show) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/series/142241/vs-podcast (The VS Podcast ) http://www.breakbeatpoets.com (Haymarket Press BreakBeats Poets collection) https://upittpress.org/books/9780822963318/ (The Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay) https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/deaf-republic (Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky) https://www.drumnyc.org/powerandsafety/ (Desis Rising Up and Moving) Part III https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/she-well-read/id1506524661 (She Well Read Episode 1) https://www.instagram.com/shewellread/ (@shewellread on Instagram) http://www.kieracass.com/books (Kiera Cass' Selection Series) https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/stay-sexy-and-dont-get-murdered/ (Stay Sexy and Don’t Get Murdered by Georgia Hardstark and Karen Kilgariff ) https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/mar/06/rebecca-traister-interview-all-the-single-ladies (All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2YOLn0CBZ5alixgH2x9Bav?si=eSxCdDPeQQ2sCw-XA25OdQ (Alana's Reading Playlist) Support this podcast

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Panic with friends (25) - with Paul Tran of Manscaped

Lindzanity with Howard Lindzon

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2020 47:23

Inside a Rocketship — Building a Brand in 2020 Guest - Paul Tran, Founder and CEO of Manscaped howardlindzon.com, manscaped.com Twitter: @howardlindzon

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Paul Tran: "Galileo"

Poem-a-Day

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2020 1:54

Recorded by Paul Tran for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 9, 2020. www.poets.org

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102 FIFM - How to Partner With Amazing People

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2019 11:35

No man is an island. Each one of us needs a partner in life, may it be for business or in relationships. We need a partner because there are things that we are not good at. It is a give-and-take relationship so long as it is a win-win situation for both of you. Dean Soto has personally experienced the need for a partner in his business. Let's all listen to this podcast episode recounting his experience with having amazing people as a partner. ------------- "Automated Transcript Below:" Dean Soto 0:00 Hey, this is Dean Soto founder of freedom in five minutes.com and pro sulim calm. And we're here again with another freedom in five minutes. podcast episode. Today's topic is this, how to partner with amazing people. That and more coming up. Oh, man. So back in the day when I first started my business, I was working 50 6070 hours a week. And part of the reason was I was trying to wear all the hats, right? I at the time, I didn't really know how to do this. Some of the stuff that we do now like with the virtual systems architects and with outsourcing and systems and all other stuff, didn't have any of that and so I I found myself just constantly, you know, I'm the one marketing I'm the ones doing sales. I'm the one posting, posting on at the time posting on Craigslist doing whatever I could. And then obviously, when I got a customer, or, or I got a client, I had to be the one doing all the work and doing all the projects and doing all that stuff. Right. Well, the thing is that, that after a while, I started seeing, not just that I was spending a lot of time on stuff. One thing that I started seeing very quickly, I mean, it was night and day I it was without a doubt. I could see really quickly that I sucked at certain things, or at least, at least at the time, I wasn't very good at certain things. So for me, it was marketing promotion, things like that. Especially like public relations, PR type stuff. Very difficult for me to do. And you might hear an echo I'm actually behind in like this alleyway. Wow, my son's doing some martial arts. Anyway. So I started seeing very quickly that some of that stuff was stuff that I really didn't even want to do in the first place. Right. And so not only did I was I'm not was not doing well with it, it just stuff that I didn't want to do in the first place. And so so after a while, once I started, I started doing things more online, I started getting more and more into more scalable things. One of the things I ended up doing was partnering with somebody who, who needed what I had, what I could do, so I was really good at building infrastructure, really good at building systems, operations, things like that. He was at the time selling on Amazon. And so I started partnering up real good and what happened was, while he was good, he already had it. He already had a crowd. He already had an audience. He already had a whole bunch of things like that, but he didn't have the website he wanted basically wanted, he wanted to sell stuff online, different courses teaching people how to sell on Amazon. And he didn't have a means to do that. And so it worked out really well because I knew how to do that I knew how to use WordPress and how to use Click Funnels, all this other stuff that was available at the time. And we started making a lot of money together. And it was cool because I was working way, way, way, way less and making a lot lot lot lot more money to the point where I was able to leave my job at the time. And so with that being said, With all that being said, the the the cool thing about it was that he had skills that I was not I just didn't get the time I just didn't want to do, I probably could have and it's interesting because I i would i would say I could have But it was just stuff that I didn't want to do. And so it made it super easy on my end because I enjoyed building out the operations and stuff, right. So we had that going on at the time. And eventually that partnership faded. And another partnership spawned, which was based around a piece of software. And that partnership was actually the opposite where I started doing a lot of the marketing the person who created the software, it ended up being kind of more of a three way type partnership person who created the software. He just wanted to build and build and build that end of the things. And then my buddy Brad wanted to he was doing a lot of the offer creation creating of of different offers. And in that particular situation. I knew that I knew that our business model with That piece of software was not was not optimal. It was it was just not working out. And so I knew that we could offer it because basically it was like a month to month type thing. The software had a bunch of different features and so on. And I thought, you know, what if we did an annual, we did an annual type thing. And my buddy Brad, he went and created the offer, the the annual offer. I did, I did the emails for to that. And lo and behold, in a matter of a weekend, we, we did, we did six figures off of one launch over a weekend. And that was all because of different actually, you know, it was a four way four way partnership at the time because I was still with the other partner as well. I take that back. So it was a four way partnership at that time. And it was super easy it just it right away, right away. We were able to start capitalizing on that. And so. So what's the what's the whole point? Why am I sharing this story? I'm sharing this story because I'm serious sharing this story because a lot of the times, if you're doing something on your own, you can bring in if you want a quick way. And it's not always the case, you don't always want to do this and you don't want to give away your business. But you can do things where it's like sales or you can get a certain commission or things like that. But you can bring in a partner and essentially say, hey, if we do this thing together, that whatever it might be, I will give you x percent, I will give you x percent of commission, or whatever it might be, in fact, right now. With my virtual systems architect, I'm doing that with somebody who is absolutely amazing Mr. Paul Tran, who I've talked about in the past and and he is amazing at promotion, amazing business development. He is just phenomenal and he's been able to do in just just a few months what it has taken me a few years to do just on the business development side because that's where his strength lies, right? So he was a client of mine he's a friend and a client of mine and loved what was going on and it was like hey, I'm I want I want to evangelize this thing of what what you have with these virtual systems architects at freedom in five minutes, calm and pursue. com And so, so he and I partnered up and man, it has been amazing. We've been able to speak it. We were We've been in the franchise times we've been, we're speaking at spaces in not too long from now we're getting lots of lots of customers lots of partnerships things are super super just just meeting a ton of ton of people and the best part is we're helping so many businesses transform and do things in the new reality in the reality of, of being able to systemized your business being able to outsource everything in your business in five minutes or less in 30 days that you know, in less than 30 days if you do if you just spent five minutes a day doing our system, you can literally transform your entire business right and and we have so many people that are being affected in bed and are benefiting from this, that it's just, it is just an absolute monster of of a Change predominantly because of this partnership. So, all that being said, if right now, you're a one man show, and maybe you have a team, but you just you, I might, I would highly consider partnering with somebody in some fashion or another, whatever is a win win situation and start developing stuff based off of that partnership because there's a lot of times we'll you'll see, that's but that when you have somebody else who can pick up the slack where you suck, basically, you can completely transform your business almost overnight. And obviously, like I said, you don't want to get rid of your equity or you don't want to do things that are going to take away from what you're already doing. But find a win win. And you can see some pretty amazing results when it comes to Partnering. So all that being said, Go Go give that a try. And then if you want to transform your business in 30 days or less, literally, it only takes five minutes a day, go to freedom in five minutes calm, or pro slim, calm, PROSULUM calm. And check that out and get in touch with me. We'll get on the phone and we will see if you're a good fit and help you to get your entire business, automated scaled and growing. And all it takes is five minutes a day. Five minutes a day. All right. This is Dean Soto freedom in five minutes and I will catch you later in the next freedom in five minutes podcast episode.

Building Game-Changing Systems for Productivity with Paul Tran

Oversharing with Mikhail Alfon

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 60:33

Paul Tran is a system-oriented entrepreneur who's the exclusive franchisee of Halal Guys in Southern California. Connect with Paul: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulttran/ Connect with Mikhail https://www.instagram.com/miqk https://www.twitter.com/miqk https://www.mikhailalfon.com

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098 FIFM - There’s No Such Thing as Success and Failure, Only Signals

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2019 13:39

There's no such thing as success or failure when it comes to marketing, only signals that would lead you to an absolute gold mine. What’s that one thing that you can change and try to get that signal? In this episode, you'll learn how understanding and interpreting signals will help you attract more clients, increase your sales, and help your business. Whether you are making every effort in getting more leads or are just curious about how these so-called signals can impact your business, this is the podcast for you. ----- Automated Transcript Below: Dean Soto 0:00 Hey, this is Dean Soto, founder of freedom in five minutes.com. And we're here again with another freedom in five minutes podcast episode. Today's topic is this. There's no such thing as success and failure only signals that and more coming up. Well, hello. I am so glad to be back with you. This is a wonderful day and a really cool story that I think is going to resonate with you. Well, so, my, one of my partners, Paul, and Mr. Paul Tran, and I went and spoke at we work we spoke we work I think I mentioned this maybe in the last podcast or one of the podcasts. But we went and we spoke at we work in Costa Mesa, California, both at Park center And Park tower which they're right next to each other. It's it's pretty hard to it's actually, I should say it was pretty hard to miss them. But I we actually did miss them when we first went there because they're so close to each other we didn't know if we were in the right one. But anyway, it was it was awesome, really interesting experience both days. So the first day, Paul, and I got up and so the way this the that the talk is structured, Paul, at least for now in this particular trial trial of these talks, Paul gives the the brunt of the presentation. He's been wanting to really break into the public speaking realm. I've been doing public speaking for a long time to include a full year of public speaking. While I was deployed in Kuwait, like literally every weekend it was doing public speaking with a given a doing some something with some kind of presentation with a military general Every weekend, it was not fun in the beginning, but afterward it became second nature is really awesome, actually. But I digress. So he really wanted to get into the public speaking realm. And with that being said, is really cool because he, he really had a lot of courage and took the opportunity to, to develop himself really by putting himself in fire, just really going through and getting trial by fire. And so the first round, the first round and structure of the presentation, he got up there did extremely well that was one thing is that he had a really good stage presence about him and did extremely well and was extremely credible. And then hot potato the mic to me in about eight or 10 minutes, and I pretty much delivered the rest of the presentation. Just improvising the entire thing. But it was cool because people seemed to really love the presentation. They loved it, even though it was winging it. So we went later on that day, we went back to his house. And we ended up restructuring the entire talk, because of just how it just wasn't structured. Well, it didn't sell well, it wasn't it was just kind of odd, just in general, but people loved it because it was really informative. And, and I in Paul Paul was really, really good. And then I, you know, I've just been doing this for a while. So the first talk was just it just worked out really well. The second talk was structured really well, but I don't know if it was delivered well on both of our ends, really, Paul, Paul really hit hit a couple great base hits in the very beginning, and really had some awesome awesome things. But it was more it wasn't really the from the comparing. When he started the first one to this one. He was was like 900 times better. And Paul, I know you listen to these. So this is some good constructive criticism because I think you were night and day better. I mean, it was so good the second round. And I think it was more of the structure of the presentation, that it just didn't lend well to the topic that we had, which the topic was how it was blessing, the blessing the growth of your business. And so everything had to be put into this blessing type of it's kind of this frame that we're trying to put people into and trying to put this presentation into. And so he, so he did a really, really well, but it was hard because because we had we were trying to get Pete credit, put the presentation into this one frame, and it just wasn't working too well. So even when I got up, it was it was just very it was awkward. It just was an awkward thing all around. Right and And so it was cool because people enjoyed it. But at the same time, they gave some good criticism, one of those things being well, we don't really know what you guys do, like, you know, you're kind of there was kind of a little bit of a pitch, hey, you can work with us and so on and toward the end, but they honestly didn't know exactly what we did. And so it just was it was, it was a better structured presentation. But But even with that structure, there was a little bit more confusion than the first one. And so it so it's interesting, because that coupled with the fact that we were waiting, you know, we're waiting, we had this questionnaire and I was we were both actually afraid to look at these questionnaires and get them back and see if there's anything negative and so on. It's just, you know, you don't want to get I don't know, it's, there's that feeling in the pit of your stomach of Oh, I don't want to look at these because someone's going to say something bad or whatever. And, meanwhile, ignoring the fact that the majority of people are say nice things, knowing that they're going to turn this in, you know. So, all that being said, threw out everything that I just said, As for this story, one thing became clear. And Paul was so good at really reframing my mind around this, and that is that, really, there's no success or failure. When it comes to these things. There's only signals. Okay? And what I mean by that, you could say that, well, if you made a ton of sales, or you got a ton of claps, or people were super happy with your presentation, that was a success. Or if people didn't like the presentation, people didn't buy people didn't do what you expected them to do. That's a failure. But in reality, in reality, that is just the market that is those are people telling you something telling you that maybe it wasn't a good fit. Maybe the structure of the presentation wasn't good. Maybe the structure of the presentation was great. Maybe maybe the maybe the venue, people are not apt to buy something right away, or sign up for something right away or meet with people right away. Whatever it is, people are giving you a signal. At that point in time, they're giving you a signal. They're telling you this works, this doesn't work. We want this, we don't want this. And that is totally fine. Even the best part about it is either signal whether it's a negative or positive will help you to push your business forward. So if p if you go and you start launching a product or you come up with a new product offering or service or something like that and people don't resonate With with the webinar that you did, or the email campaign that you did, that does not mean it's a failure. It might mean that you can't sell this particular thing directly from your email. Or people don't want to buy it off a webinar they want they want to buy it off a tele seminar or they want to buy it in person. You know, a lot of people will try to sell a high high ticket item by just putting up an online shopping cart and asking people to fork over $10,000 Well, that doesn't really work. The not all the time, but it could it depending on what, what, what industry you're in. But it's not always it's the day you're not always going to be able to do that. Right? You Some people like to meet you in person prior to forking over money. Some people don't haven't had They're mindset converted yet before, before even being able to give you money, right? Sometimes people look at what you have, and they're like, I just don't understand it. Because they don't, they don't know that they even have a problem yet. And so there's so many factors, there's so many things, so many signals that that people give you that once you interpret them once you see what they're trying to tell you because you have to, you have to be good at interpreting these signals. Once you see them, and once you look and and really ascertain what they are trying to tell you. They can be a gold mine. It could be so valuable to you and to your business. It can be an extremely profitable translation. If only you see it as data, if you see it as a signal as you see it as, as somebody trying to tell you how they want to buy from you. So what are you doing right now? What's one little thing that you can change or try put up? Maybe it's maybe it's sending direct mail to your customers, maybe it's sending email to your customers instead of direct mail. What is one thing that you can change and try to see if you're going to get the signal that you want? What's one thing that you can change and try to get the signal that you want? For me, just an example is I'm trying direct mail a lot more direct mail newsletters in the mail, like direct mail meaning in your mailbox, you will get this with goodies and goodies in sales letters and postcards and things like that. trying something that most of my market does not do. Right? Because they might be because they tried it and it doesn't work. Or it might be because they haven't tried it. Right. And so that's something that I'm going to see. And I'm going to see what the signals are. I'm going to see very quickly whether the market is telling me Yay, or nay. And it's fine. If it's an A, and it's great if it's a Yay. But even if it's a Yay, how much of a Yay, is it? Is it enough to wear to warn to continue or not? But that's how you have to look at it. This is all data. Don't take it personally. It's hard. It's scary. But don't take it personally. The more that you're able to not take it personally. The more you're able to turn this into an absolute goldmine for you, for your business and for your customers. Alright, so is Dean Soto freedom in five minutes, go check out freedom in five minutes calm And when you do you're going to see the business process scorecard you're going to see the masterclass there, get introduced to the freedom in five minutes methods so you do not have to you literally can every five minutes, you know, five minutes a day, you can outsource something so that you never have to do it again five minutes a day is all it takes. And you can literally outsource your entire company and automate your entire customer company systemized your entire company in five minutes a day. Often we see it in about 60 days or less. People are able to completely exit their business and do the things that they want to do. So anyway, Dean Soto freedom in five minutes calm and I will see you in the next freedom in five minutes episode.

Trivia Quiz for Trainers - Round 2

The Virtual Training Team Podcast Club

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2019 15:37

Competition Time again! The Virtual Training Team has decided to test our training colleagues on their L&D knowledge and win £250 for their chosen charity! The winner will be decided and announced on the 20th December 2019, so the donation can be made in time for Christmas. Our next competitor is Paul Tran and his chosen charity is Children with Cancer UK. Here's where they live - www.childrenwithcancer.org.uk Think you can beat Paul's score? Did he get some questions wrong that you knew the answer to? If you think your training trivia knowledge is up to scratch, email us at hello@thevirtualtrainingteam.co.uk to put yourself forward to be on the next quiz!

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213: Closure

The Slowdown

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2019 5:00

Today’s poem is Closure by Paul Tran.

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090 FIFM - The Blueprint Project w/ Paul Tran

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2019 42:12

We are trying something new on the podcast. One of my clients, Paul Tran, had a great idea to create what is called “The Blueprint”. A lot of businesses struggle with efficiency and increasing their margins. That’s where The Blueprint comes in. Every week we’ll talk about the best ways to be as efficient and profitable as possible.

083 FIFM - Interview with Paul Tran: Consulting Franchises Into Great Systems