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Iron City Distilling (Creighton, PA) WF0057 It's time to head back to Pennsylvania, to visit one of the only three chamber stills in America and experience another side of Monongahela Rye. Join me as I chat with master distiller Matt Strickland and company president Peter Katz about how Iron City Beer got into the distilling world, discuss my experience at the distillery, and find out how you learn to distill on a piece of equipment that had gone extinct. Plus we'll learn a bit about the tours at this old PPG factory and how the beer interacts with the whiskey side. Plus, Experiencing Kentucky Bourbon second edition is out on Amazon (and next week it will be available everywhere else). Some details to come. You can learn more at whiskey-lore.com/books
“Sameness is terrible. Your goal is to cut through it. If you have a unique perspective, you're going to take vampires or anything that everybody thinks they know and do it in a way that's really exciting and gets people really pumped up about it. There are all these incredible worlds to explore, but there just needs to be somebody that can take you there that has a different way of doing it… I want to see creators that offer something specific and unique. Specificity is key to me. I don't want a cover band. I don't want people covering what has been before. I want to see something new. I want to see a badass band with a new singer or new lyrics, a new style of music,” says Peter Katz, founder of Story Driven, a literary management and production company. On today's episode, we speak to Peter Katz, a manager and producer championing writers with fresh, unique voices who are forging new ground. We talk about what he looks for in a writing sample, why he loves being a judge in Final Draft's Big Break screenplay competition, and why short stories are having a bright moment in the film industry. “Recently, I've actually seen TV executives starting to think about short stories as a foundation for potential shows. It's a really effective way to communicate an idea quickly, in a really conceptual way, but also, it's not like a pitch. It's very tonal. You have character perspective and you have the style that the author brings to it. So I think it has a really unique marriage between pitching the concept, but also immersing you in a world in a very short period of time. That's why I think it's been effective in selling to a market, because you could share a short story with somebody and it doesn't demand a lot of time. If it's developed properly, you're able to learn about the potential of this project and then quickly share with somebody else on your team. And overnight, a lot of people can sign on to a project because it doesn't take as long as other mediums,” says Katz. To hear more about Katz's perspective on the industry and what he looks for in a writer's voice, listen to the podcast.
Self-Defense, Power and the Epistemology of Ignorance, by Dr Peter Katz (California Northstate University), presented at the conference The Ethics and Ideologies of Self-Defence, at Cardiff University, 6th November 2024
What if resilience is not just about bouncing back but also about building forward? Dr. Robyne invites us to rethink resilience as a set of daily practices, not a fixed trait, and she brings decades of research and a deeply personal story to the conversation. Through insights on nervous system regulation, the transformative power of hope, and the role of humor, she illustrates how small, intentional shifts can make a big difference. Whether you're navigating personal challenges or seeking to foster a stronger sense of community, this episode offers practical, heartfelt advice to help you show up for the hard parts of life with grace and strength. Key Takeaways: Resilience isn't something you're born with—it's built through small, consistent actions. Learn how "sweating the small stuff well" lays a foundation for navigating life's challenges. Understanding that tough moments are often temporary can help you embrace "learning shifts" and see challenges as opportunities for growth. True resilience includes connection—finding your "3 a.m. people" and leaning into the support of others can make the journey less overwhelming. Hope is a muscle that can be strengthened through positive habits, such as seeking joy-filled content, practicing gratitude, and surrounding yourself with uplifting influences. Humor isn't just entertainment—it's a physiological tool that helps manage stress, release tension, and create moments of reprieve during difficult times. About Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe: Described as one of the most sought-after, engaging, thought-provoking and truly transformative international speakers and scholars in her field, Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe is a multi-award-winning education and psychology instructor, author, and resiliency expert. She specializes in resiliency, navigating stress and change, personal wellness in the workplace, and optimal performance - both personal and organizational. With nearly two decades of university teaching and research experience and as a two-time TEDx speaker, Dr. Robyne continues to create accessible and relatable materials while offering practical strategies that are realistic and sustainable. Dr. Robyne and her team have developed innovative programming and open educational resources that are readily shared across a multitude of industries. While working alongside some of the most influential organizations across the world, she has delivered nearly 1,000 keynotes and workshops since just March 2020. Dr. Robyne expands upon this work in her online community Anchor Labs, where leaders can learn strategies for resilience. Dr. Robyne also co-hosts a weekly podcast with Juno-nominated singer and songwriter Peter Katz titled In Time, where the scientist meets the artist to explore big areas around showing up in every aspect of your life. Dr. Robyne was named a 2022 Nautilus Award recipient with her debut book, Calm Within The Storm: A Pathway to Everyday Resiliency. Her second book, Stress Wisely: How to Be Well in an Unwell World was released June 20, 2023. Connect with Dr. Michelle and Bayleigh at: https://smallchangesbigshifts.com hello@smallchangesbigshifts.com https://www.linkedin.com/company/smallchangesbigshifts https://www.facebook.com/SmallChangesBigShifts https://www.instagram.com/smallchangesbigshiftsco Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts.
Celebrating every note of your life is about finding the music in everyday moments, savoring the harmonies of joy, the rhythms of challenge, and the melodies of love. In this episode, singer-songwriter Peter Katz shares with Katherine Twells his journey from childhood happiness to the upheaval of his parents' separation. Peter reflects on how shifting from a path in engineering to music saved his spirit, sharing personal stories of surviving on his own at 16 and discovering his true passion for songwriting. This episode celebrates overcoming trauma, resilience, and the power of creative expression, reminding us to follow our hearts and celebrate every note along the way.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here's How »Join The Coca-Cola CMO Leadership Summit Podcast community today:cokecmosummit.comFacebookTwitter
There's a lot of takeaways from any conversation with Joe Minicozzi, or one of his many public presentations. Here's mine today: omnipotent forces didn't create our current systems, whether we are talking about zoning, traffic engineering or tax assessment. Or, in fact, just about anything in life.These were all created by fallible humans. We can, and should, change them. It's our duty, our responsibility. Your local tax system, and your local zoning code were not handed down to you by Moses from the mountain.Joe Minicozzi of Urban 3 is one of those rare people that just has a knack for communicating complex ideas. If you haven't seen one of his presentations, run out and do so. Here's a sample from Not Just Bikes, and one from Strong Towns. Today, we talk in audio form instead of video, but I suspect you'll enjoy it just the same. Since this is a blog, too, here's a few visual references for fun:Find more content on The Messy City on Kevin's Substack page.Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here. If you'd like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5.Intro: “Why Be Friends”Outro: “Fairweather Friend”Text Transcript:Kevin K (00:01.231) Welcome back to the Messy City podcast. You know, one of the joys that I've had in being involved with the New Urbanism Movement and the Congress for New Urbanism for many, many years is you get to meet and know people who take a lot of issues that we talk about and care about and completely reframe them and make them much more interesting and accessible and understandable, I think, to a larger audience. And there's been a number of people who who've done that or I've seen that happen in the course of my career. And one of those is joining me here today, live from Asheville, North Carolina, Joe Minicozzi. Joe, how's it going, Joe Minicozzi (00:42.018) Great, thanks for having Kevin K (00:43.771) Well, it's fun. I've been wanting to do this one for a little while and it's you're a busy guy and I'm really glad you made some time. Joe, you may know he's often had his work featured in Strong Towns. He's a regular on the speaking circuit with his firm, Urban 3, and he's really developed a unique approach to kind of explaining our built environment in graphic and financial terms I think has changed a lot of people's thinking about things. And we're going to get to some of that. Joe has, one of the cool things, Joe, is you're working all over the country. So there's always something new to talk about. But before we get there, I do think it's interesting for people to understand your background because like somebody coming upon you today and one of your presentations, they might think, he's like this kind of urban guru guy. What does that mean? Or he's like a financial guru guy, but you're actually, you're an architect. Correct? Not licensed, but educated. Yes. Where did... I don't think... One thing I never knew, Joe, like, where did you grow Joe Minicozzi (01:44.476) Well, not licensed. Can say that. Educated, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so... Go Joe Minicozzi (01:56.116) upstate New York, Rust Belt, little town called Rome, New York. Kevin K (01:57.445) Ruffio. cool, that's a cool town. Joe Minicozzi (02:05.282) Why do you say that? That it's not cool. When I was Kevin K (02:07.983) Well, I mean, there's some cool built fabric there. No? Joe Minicozzi (02:11.256) No. When I was a kid, they tore down most of downtown. It was literally one of the largest urban renewal projects per capita in the entire United States. And they blew up, I don't know, like eight to 10 blocks of downtown and built a wooden fort. There's a revolutionary wooden fort in what used to be our downtown. Google Rome, New York and go into the downtown, you'll see it. Kevin K (02:39.715) OK, I must be thinking of pictures I've seen of a different upstate New York downtown then or something. Joe Minicozzi (02:43.288) Oh no, no, it's, didn't, but I didn't realize that was abnormal because you you grew up in a town of 30 ,000 people, this is it, right? That's all you know. You just, so when you go to college, you're just like, yeah, surely like you've got a fort in your downtown, right? You know, everybody's got one. Actually Savannah has one. So, but it's not in the downtown. They didn't eliminate Savannah to rebuild a wooden fort. Yeah, but this is a magnet that I have that I in my bookcase over here. This is my grandfather. Kevin K (03:03.193) Right. That would have been rather odd. Joe Minicozzi (03:13.34) used to tie a rope to this thing. And he's an Italian carpenter, first generation American. And he's tied a rope to this and that rope was tied to my waist. And I used to just walk around job sites all day with him as a kid. I was like, you know, six years old walking around a job site with this huge magnet tied to my waist. And I was picking up nails and I would just sit there with this little anvil, like making the nails go straight so he could reuse them because you know, he's depression era. And I thought I was building buildings since I'd go home and talk to my dad and I was like, I'm building buildings with Papa. And he goes, sounds like you want to be an architect. And I was like, Bing, I want to be an architect. so that's, I wanted to be an architect since I was nine years old and I went to architecture school. Kevin K (03:53.903) You know, that's funny. That's like a weird thing we share in common. It's like, I don't know how that happened with me, because I actually didn't know anybody, you know, in architecture. And I knew a few people who built things, but for whatever reason, I just like always knew I wanted to go into architecture and city planning. it's it's just where I was. So, but anyway, so go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. I had no idea. Like why showed up to like freshman year? Joe Minicozzi (04:12.386) Yeah, like, they really cool pencils, right? I mean, it's like little clicker pencils, awesome, great tools. Kevin K (04:22.199) And here's the list of all the s**t you have to buy. And I was like, what is, what does even all this stuff do? Joe Minicozzi (04:25.162) Yeah, here's, out and buy a thousand dollars worth of stuff. Yeah, little, remember that, God, I hate saying this, it sounds old. I was explaining to somebody on staff, remember those little letter writing tools, that little plastic thing that you'd have to put on your parallel bar to make those three lines to do your lettering properly? That was insane. Anyway, sorry, sorry kids. That doesn't exist anymore because we actually type in computers now. Kevin K (04:39.745) my god, yeah. Kevin K (04:44.805) Totally, Yeah. Kevin K (04:53.349) Yeah, I know. Everyone wants to share. mean, actually learning how to do architectural lettering was a pretty cool thing. I mean, I always liked the benefit of Joe Minicozzi (04:59.628) Well, the frustrating thing for me is you go all the way through architecture school and the University of Miami is a five -year program and you never built a building. So how can you be a designer of a building and not understand how it's constructed? So in my fifth year, we petitioned the school to build a homeless shelter and we just went ahead and built it, designed it, built it, worked with homeless folks to figure out what are their needs? How do we help solve the problem architecturally? And think that's one of the beauties of Miami is that, you know, the whole time I was, know, Miami is known for its new urbanism, but I was always talking with Liz Plater -Zyberg about what was going on in my hometown, because here you have a town that was designed for walkability, designed for the things that new urbanists would proclaim, yet it was dead as a doornail and we were eliminating our downtown. And Liz would always say to me, she's like, well, that's economics. That's something different. and we're trying to deal with this flood of what's happening in South Florida. That's a different reality. So this whole being seen as an economist is mostly about chasing a question of what are the policies that shape our environment and how do I visualize those for folks, which is very in line with new urbanism. We just look at the money Kevin K (06:15.397) So talk a little bit about how you got to this point then professionally of working on your own and doing a lot of the economic analysis work that you do Joe Minicozzi (06:24.984) Well, mean, if first is working in architecture, and I think this is probably true for most people that are urban designers, is that you want to look at the context of things that's more exciting for you, or why would somebody say, I'm hiring you, the architect, to do an office building here? If you have an urban design mind, you're like, an office building? Why not a mixed use building or why not a residential building? Why is that developer choosing? That's really the design is when the developer makes a choice, right? And so why is the developer choosing office over residential or over retail? In having an urban design mindset, you're going to be more empowered to be looking for those things, those other forces. What are the financial streams? So after architecture, I went to grad school and then started doing like internships in real estate development, real estate finance. I worked at John Hancock Real Estate Investment Group in Boston. kind top of the food chain, where they had $4 billion worth of real estate across the country. And you're seeing how they're making decisions financially about what's going on in your town, right? Because they're going to be doing an asset in your town, a strip mall or a mall or whatever, right? Totally different design series. It was fascinating to watch, but it felt, if you saw the movie, The Big Short, it felt a lot like that. It was like, wow, these people are like on a different way of thinking. Like there's questions they're just not even asking. We were spending $100 million a year fixing the buildings that we owned. Now when you're making 15 bucks an hour, like that's a lot of money, right? And so you'd sit there, trained as an architect, you'd sit there with these asset managers and I would literally show them pictures of buildings that we owned, a building that we owned in Topeka and a building that we owned in Tacoma. And there are two office buildings that we owned. And I would ask the finance officers, I'm like, what's the difference between these two buildings? And they would start going through all of this gibberish of numbers and cash flows, cap rates, NOI, all of that stuff. And I'm like, no, no, no, look at the pictures. And like, what are you talking about? I'm like, it's the same damn building. We own the same building, the same office park building in Topeka and Tacoma. And you know, they fall apart differently based on the ecosystem. And this was like mind blowing to Joe Minicozzi (08:43.104) And it's just like, wow, they don't even understand what this... It's just a cashflow model for them. It's not a building, right? As an architect, you're going to... Like the windows fall apart differently. It's going to be based on the heat load of the air conditioner, all that stuff. But it's kind of mind blowing that this is the cashflow, the invisible sine curve that's moving by low cell high, that's moving through the system. And we're not even talking about it. So it's always... Yeah, go ahead. Well, it's always made me curious and got into real estate development. And then during the recession is when I started Urban 3, trying to help cities understand that they're prey to these sign curves. Kevin K (09:20.539) Yeah. I remember you used to tell a story about working at John Hancock and I think this is just instructive for people to understand the world of like big development, big finance was I think you had a story about we had they had X million dollars that they had to place within like 48 hours or something like that. What was Joe Minicozzi (09:37.56) Yeah. It was called a capital call where the CEO of the real estate arm came in and said, need to get, I think it was like $120 million into the ground in the next quarter. So that was an issuance that he was given from Topress. think of anybody that's on this podcast, if you have a 401k plan, if you're like CalPERS is the biggest one, the California teachers. pension. They have to make money on their money, right? So they take your retirement investment and they go out and make money so that you can have growth in your dollars as an investor. So if you want to see your 401k plan grow, well, somebody's got to make that money grow. So they're going around, in case of John Hancock, that's an insurance company. So somebody buys John Hancock life insurance. They want to return when they die on their money. what they do at the top level of John Hancock, they're putting some money into bonds, money into stocks, some money into real estate. So ours was the real estate arm. And whatever decision was made at the top, money came into the real estate world and was like, okay, that needs to get into the ground as fast as possible. So they were issued this $120 million in the next quarter. So the people that are finance managers call up all of their developer friends and were like, can I buy a building somewhere? That was basically how it happened. And the more expensive the building, the better because the more we can get that $120 million down to zero, the faster with less transactions. So imagine if you were the guy on the office that found a hundred million dollar building, like that's actually good, right? Now in architecture world, when we go to school, we're learning the direct opposite, like smaller, like little investments. We're not thinking about the big fish that are out there. anyway. Kevin K (11:25.583) Yeah. Sometimes it feels like you're like a language translator, Joe. It's like you have these two different worlds that you have grown to understand really well. One is like architecture and development, and the other is finance. And do you feel like you're kind of like straddling those worlds and trying to explain one to the Joe Minicozzi (11:44.652) Yeah, it's a simple sense, the tagline of our company is a data -driven storytelling, you know, that we have to communicate this stuff. And so lot of what we do is just unnerve things. I just came back from a meeting with our county assessor and their consultant, and, you know, he's going through this report that's got how many pages? I don't know, but it's all this. And it's like, how can you show me all of this text? and start talking to me about it. And I'm just like, I'm like, dude, you got to show me a picture somewhere. It's like, this is crazy. And so what we do is if you watch any of our work, we spent a ton of time breaking a city down to reveal its essence. So I don't need to get into like whether or not your spark plugs are firing at 20 beats per second or whatever. I need to just show you your car works, right? What does the audience want? They don't need to know the details. And far too many of us technically, trained folks, even architects, get down into the details and the audience doesn't necessarily understand does the car work, yes or no. So that's basically the method of our work is try to make it simple for folks. I use lot of analogies when I talk to people because that's how we relate. that's kind of, think of it having a curious mind, you want to go in and break something down, but to be able to speak it to a regular audience. It's not that the audience is stupid, it's just people just don't care about those kinds of details, they just want to know the bigger picture. Kevin K (13:19.545) Yeah, yeah. And so before we get into a couple of those stories, I am also curious, when you started your business in the recession, how did you, like who were your first clients and how did you get going in that world? Because it's definitely a different thing for an architect or urban designer to get into. Joe Minicozzi (13:39.448) You know, the funny thing was, I remember in the recession, I think I did a local lecture here in Asheville to the AIA, to the Architects Association. You know, it's a recession. Yeah, you're not building buildings. So as an architect, you're out of work, you know? But what's crazy about the architectural education, it's really an amazing education in creative thinking, but also critical thinking, right? So we're all given, you remember studio, there's like 15 of us in a studio, we're all given one problem to solve, but you're get 15 different answers, right? So that's the creative side. But the analytic side happens in all of that, that we're trying to break it down and figure it out before we can get to a design process. So that's the critical thinking side. Those skills can be applied anywhere. And then also in architecture, what do you do at the end of the semester? You have to pin up your work and you have to defend but it has to communicate to an audience visually, right? They need to understand what's going on in the design intent by what they see on the wall and how you present it. If you just look at that as a basic educational format, that can be applied anywhere. So we just applied architectural thinking to quantitative economic data for cities, right? So we get all of your data. We figure out what's its floor plan. Like why is this road here? Why is your city grown a certain way? That's all a floor plan, right? But there are decisions that are made along the way that fuel that growth. So if I add three bedrooms to my house, was it because I had four kids? know, it's like, that's the decision point for growing the house. Well, the same is true for cities. So we see when you get white flight, you're going to see that like in Kansas City. We saw that in Kansas City, Missouri, like this massive growth, southward, northward and westward or eastward, That's the whole, and that all happened really fast from 1950 forward. I think you, it's something like you doubled your population from 250 to 500, but you've 10 times your land area, which is crazy. Kevin K (15:52.475) Yeah, yeah, it's somewhere. We had a massive geographic expansion from the like 1947 city until today. I think the original 1947 city or so was probably in the ballpark of about 40 square miles. And now it's like 315 or so. Joe Minicozzi (16:15.242) I'm just drawing off the top of my head. There's an actual presentation out there somewhere, but I think it was like three times the road per person growth. So you're taking down three times the cost. So yeah, during the recession, was basically, I was showing up at conferences trying to help folks that were trying to have conversations about walkability, urban design, equity, and trying Kevin K (16:19.865) Yeah. yeah, absolutely. Joe Minicozzi (16:44.472) trying to share that the things that actually are all things that we advocate for also produce more wealth for communities. Does that make sense? So it was just like, look, we should just talk about that. Rather than say that it's good to have walkability, that can seem like a threat to an individual that you're trying to get me out of my car. That's very judgy. So rather than get involved in that emotionally, let's just talk about the fact that a Walmart actually destroys your wealth. Don't hate the player, hate the game, but you better understand the game. So when we did the models early on, it was just comparing Walmarts to Main Street, and Main Street was winning every single time. But why don't we build more Main Streets? Because the reverse is true, that we make it easier to do the Walmart, we tax it less, we charge it less, so that of course, Walmart's going to... You're going to see more Walmart -type buildings. I don't mean to be picking on Walmart so much. It's That's like a prototype, like the boxes. Those are throwaway architecture. So if you have property tax system that's based on your value of property, then there's an incentive for me to build junk in your community, right? The crappier the building I build, the lower the taxes I pay. Has nothing to do with the costs of the property. So the typical Walmart consumes two police officers per Walmart. So it actually costs you more in police services than a Walmart pays in property taxes. So if you were the owner of a Walmart, that's a good deal for you, right? So don't hate them. I hate us for not doing the math on that. It's that's shame on us. It's not hard. You just go call the police chief and say how many police officers are at Walmart every day and they'll tell you. That's data, Kevin K (18:28.015) Yeah. So let's talk about some of the recent data then. Not far from Walmart country, you've been working in Springfield, Missouri, which obviously is southwest Missouri, not far from Bentonville, Arkansas, which is the home base for Walmart. So we were talking, yeah, and Bentonville's actually an amazing, really cool town. And so you've been down in Springfield doing a bunch of work, and we were chatting about it. Joe Minicozzi (18:44.69) We've done Bentonville too, yeah. Kevin K (18:57.6) So this kind of took you in a little different direction. You started looking at trees and stormwater and everything else. I wonder if you could kind of talk through that scenario. Joe Minicozzi (19:05.888) Yeah. Springfield is really cool. it's one, it's nice about it. It's just straight smack dab in the middle of the country. It's Midwestern. There's not a lot of dynamic change to it because you don't have the coastal pressures of being next to an ocean or something like that. You don't have the rapid change of Silicon Valley where there's crazy changes in employment. It's very stable that And so in that stability, it's sort of a nice control subject of what's going on here. It's also not, it's not at the edge of some blast zone of some other city, you know? So think of like Rancho Cucamonga, California, which is outside the blast zone of Los Angeles. So whatever happens on Los Angeles is going to spread into the suburbs, suburb cities that are around it. So anyway, putting that aside. There's also this business person there, his name is Jack Stack, who wrote this game called The Great Game of Business, awesome book about business transparency. So the quote that I like of his is, I'm reading it right here, it says, a business should be run like an aquarium where everybody can see what's going on, what's going in, what's moving around, and what's coming out. So his theory of business is that everybody inside the company should know the balance sheet, they should know the P &L. that it's not him as the business owner, that he has a gold mine of money in the basement. You know, that everybody on staff should understand they've got to pay rent, they've got to pay insurance, all this stuff has costs. Well, our attitude is the same with cities. We should make the city economics so transparent that everybody understands the land use, the economic consequences of land use decisions. Don't tell me that people just want to live out in suburbia. Of course, if you're subsidizing them, why wouldn't you want to live in suburbia? So they hired us to do that modeling. Their city has run mostly off sales tax. think it's 86 % of their revenue comes from sales tax, 14 % comes from property tax, as far as geospatial, things we can put on a map. So that's kind of like the majority of their cashflow. When I did the presentation there, Joe Minicozzi (21:27.2) One of the things that we're doing the first side, showing the revenue and we're getting feedback from the staff and you're an urban designer, I'm an urban designer. One of the things that we tend to pay attention to how a city is shaped and what it looks like when we drive around. There weren't a lot of street trees in the city. And Graham Smith from Multi Studio based in Kansas City. He's the urban designer on the project. Graham said to me, goes, Kevin K (21:49.935) Yep. Joe Minicozzi (21:54.988) Do notice there's not a lot of street trees? And I was like, yeah, that's kind of crazy. It's like, it's like somehow like trees don't happen in the city. So I made a comment about it during the staff meeting and somebody in the engineering department said to me, well, I said, why don't you have trees? And he just said to me, goes, well, it's because trees attack the streets and sidewalks and use that word attack. I like my, my designer kicked in and I immediately responded. Do you not know how to design a tree pit? And then I stopped and I was like, well, that's not fair because I'm going to put them in the defensive. so, you know, this is somebody that's coming in with a mindset of maybe he came from, life safety or something, or the risk department inside city government. So he's only looking at it as a balance sheet item of one line item. Yes. A tree could screw up a sidewalk if you don't plant the proper tree species and don't build a tree pit. I got it. But it doesn't mean you should just lay waste to all trees. So just for fun. I came back to the office, I talked with Lea Hanringer, who was on the project. was like, and Lea's interested in understanding climate effects. So let's just look at the trees and what they could do financially for the city. So the whole stormwater system is, well, currently they're at a $9 million a year deficit in their stormwater system. They should be spending 15 million a year. They're only spending 6 million a year. So let that wash over you. They're not investing enough in their system that they've built. So that's only going to cause an economic collapse at some point in the future. If I don't brush my teeth every day, that's going to be a problem. One of them is going to fall out, right? So brushing my teeth every day is a maintenance issue. Same is true with any kind of infrastructure system. But to just go out and just totally replace the whole infrastructure system, if we just went out and built their stormwater system today, it'd be $600 million, $661 million worth of investment. So we considered the tree as a pipe and just said, what do trees do? And we actually made a cartoon of two sponges on a stick because there's a sponge in the air called leaves that suck water when the water hits it, keeps it from hitting the ground. And there's a root system that absorbs water from the ground. All of that keeps it out of the stormwater system. So a tree is essentially a pipe replacement, just to be crude about it, right? The average tree in Springfield, Missouri. And again, you don't have to be exact. Joe Minicozzi (24:23.192) Let's just get in the ballpark. It's like 770 gallons of water per tree gets sucked out of the air and 1500 gallons a year gets sucked out of the ground by the root system. So we can do the math on that and we kind of did an estimate based on the trees that they currently have in their city. Scaling that up, you're talking $600 ,000 of savings in the air and $1 .6 million savings in the ground. So that's $2 .2 million a year that you're not paying. in your stormwater system because of these trees. Here's an idea. Buy more trees. That sounds like a real rocket science idea. But I know, hey Joe, trees cost money, then we're gonna have to maintain them, we're have to make sure that we've got to get out and fix a sidewalk every once in while because we did something wrong. Okay, well we can do numbers on that. So we ran the math on it. The average benefit from the tree is a pipe, if you will. is about $115 a tree. The cost is 75 bucks. 'all take out your calculators at home, subtract $75 from 115. That means it's net positive 40 bucks a tree. we just, you know, just as a rough estimate, if you just go out and plant 10 ,000 trees, you're going to be net positive $400 ,000 a year. You can essentially use the tree to manufacture money to buy for police officers. That's cool. So don't just take it and look at that one side and just like, yeah, it's complicated to fix a sidewalk. What are the downstream effects of this? Now to kind of scale this up, remember I said $600 million system. Eugene, Oregon, we just happen to have the data. So Springfield's 170 ,000 people, Eugene, Oregon's 175, so it's got 5 ,000 more people in it. The stormwater system in Eugene, which actually has more rain in Eugene than in Missouri. Their stormwater system cost 400 million dollars versus Springfield is six hundred and and and 20 million dollars so so basically another way putting this Eugene, Oregon saved a hundred and eighty million dollars in their stormwater system and It comes down to the fact that they're a lot smaller. They the city shape is more compact So by doing compact design, you can actually save a hundred and eighty million Joe Minicozzi (26:46.903) Does that make sense? It's 35 square miles for Eugene. It's 83 square miles for Springfield. Kevin K (26:52.327) And to put it in context, I would imagine Eugene is still largely a city of like single -family homes. It's just maybe exactly, it's just a different layout for the city itself and how everything is configured on the ground. Joe Minicozzi (26:59.862) Yeah, yeah, it's not European. Joe Minicozzi (27:09.592) Well, our attitude is like, look, these are your choices. I live here in Asheville. So if you want to stretch out, fine. If you're a Midwestern city and you're like, hey Joe, this is the Midwest, you don't understand, we got lots of land here, we're gonna stretch out. It's like, oh cool, yeah, do it. But just make sure that you understand the cost of that stretching out and make sure that you let your decision makers know that people want to have a one acre yard, awesome, but it's gonna cost us $180 million more in a stormwater Is that the best choice for that public investment, that $180 million? Or could you have, I don't know, sent every child on a walkabout sabbatical around the world with that investment? There's lots of choices you could do with $180 million. Let's just be honest about Kevin K (27:58.117) Yeah, no doubt. Not to mention like one of the least of which could just be like lower taxes if that's your thing, you know. Joe Minicozzi (28:06.232) Well, or you could have invested that $180 million in more trees and you would have had $50 million of new revenue in your system on an annual basis, which is more than the ARPA funding that you got. ARPA was just a one year deal. Like you could actually manufacture more money than the federal government gave you. I mean, come on now, let's just talk about Kevin K (28:18.307) Right. Kevin K (28:24.123) Yeah. And I think the interesting thing is you're not even really getting into what some people might think of as like the frou frou design benefits of trees versus not trees in this. And so makes it a more pleasant place to walk or Joe Minicozzi (28:37.174) yeah. Aesthetic quality that reduces the heat island effect, reduces your air conditioning bills because you're not dealing with the outward effect of radiation. mean, there's lots of things. CO2, I mean, we didn't get an A that. We're just like a tree as a pipe replacement. Just start there. But yeah, if you did do those numbers, if you read, I don't know if you see on the bookcase up here, Happy City. and they get in the quantitative sociological effects that are actually financial as well because Canadians measure that stuff. We don't in America because we don't pay for health systems at the government level. So when the government actually does pay for the health system, they kind of want to know what the costs are. know, Charles Montgomery used all of that math in there to explain the financial consequences. I think the book is sort of a mislabeled. I think it's more of an economic than with the name Canotes. Kevin K (29:35.739) So at the stage you are now with Springfield, have you presented all this information to them and had that out in the world? Joe Minicozzi (29:45.356) Yeah. Well, one of the biases was that they wanted to continue to annex more land. And the first question I asked, which was why? And they said, well, people live out there and there's some higher wealth houses that are out there. Therefore, we're going to get higher taxes. And the reality of it is, and this is back to the original analysis that we did, which is the value per acre analysis. One of the biases people have with math is when they see like the Walmart's worth $20 million, they get really excited about it, especially compared to a building that we rehabbed on Main Street here in Asheville that's $11 million. So Walmart's twice the value, right? But that Walmart took 34 acres of our city versus our building on 0 .5 acres. And it's just a habit that humans have where they just immediately go to the big number without understanding the efficiency. Well, the same is true with suburbia. It's like, okay, yeah, they're experiencing wealth flight out of Springfield where people are just outside the city limits out in the county in their high -end neighborhoods. But when we do our tax model, you can see that they're actually not that productive. That's the first thing. Back to how I said, Springfield gets its money. They get their money off sales taxes. So why would you want to chase residential? Makes no sense. So we're gonna go and bring them into the city limits and then we're have to provide more services for them and not get any taxes out of them because we get all of our taxes out of sales. I actually told the audience when that question came up, I said, look, right now they're living outside, driving into your city and shopping, you're collecting their sales tax dollars and they're going home. You don't have to pay for their schools, you don't have to police them, you don't have to put the fire services for them, that's their problem. Why would you wanna take them in? and have more costs in your community when you're already getting the money that you need, which is the sales taxes. And as a planner, I hate saying that because it's like, everybody should be part of the community if you're involved at an economic level, but from a brass tax of how their financial system operates, there's no incentive for them to annex that land. But again, when you have the politics of everybody just there, and this is something just true to the new, as long as you've been in new urbanism and I've been involved, it's like this kind of habit. Joe Minicozzi (32:10.06) that we are America, so we must suburbanize. It's just this, it's ingrained in us. And it's really, it's a myth more than anything else. Kevin K (32:17.014) Right. So it also kind of strikes me, one of the interesting things about your work or that you get to see is the very different ways that local governments are funded all over the country. So you've talked about this example in Missouri, and it's probably really similar to how my city is. If I broke down our property tax bill, I think about 70 % of it goes to the school district. And then it's kind of apportioned up between the county and the city and some other, like the library board and a mental health. Board etc, but the lion's share is a school district and most of our city revenue is sales tax and then income tax because we Yeah, which is rare, but we have an income tax But I'm curious like what you've seen like around the country. Are there approaches that seem better worse more sustainable less sustainable or they just like they're Joe Minicozzi (32:54.4) Yeah, which is very rare. Yeah, that's Joe Minicozzi (33:08.916) They're all different. One of the jokes that I used to make is when we did this, I want to reference my former boss, Pat Whalen, in public interest projects. Pat's amazing. He's a genius. Pat had this incredible PowerPoint called the Economic and Environmental Case for Urbanism. And so he's the director of a real estate company trying to explain the value of downtown revitalization to people. That's where the value per acre analysis comes from. It was part of his show. what was interesting is it made sense in Asheville, and I just started poking around other cities in North Carolina because I was on the Downtown Association Board, and we're trying to figure out the value of our downtown versus other downtowns. you have a day job working for a district, the real Kevin Klinkenberg, you have this day job for this boundary. Well, don't you want to know how you operate versus the downtown improvement district or the Westport improvement district? Yeah, of course you do. So I was doing that for 10 cities bigger than Asheville and 10 cities smaller than Asheville. What's our taxable, non -taxable ratio? Who's got too much non -taxable? I don't know. Like until you get the data. So I made this shared website that's a Google document. And I shared it with the downtown directors for all the 10 cities and we populated it so we could all get metrics to understand how we stack up. What was your original question? Kevin K (34:43.963) It's just about the different mechanisms for a big local Joe Minicozzi (34:46.75) yeah. So, in that, we started to see that the downtowns were crushing it versus every other part of the city. Right? So, as an urban designer, we advocate for walkability, downtowns, everybody likes them, why don't we do more? And we start to find all the zoning rules that don't allow it, all the policies that don't allow it, and all the biases. And a whole Congress for urbanism is essentially discussing these things, going, who the hell put these things in place? You know, it's just, that's what we do. And we try to undo. these kind of rules that kind of get in the way. So I was doing, I think I was talking to Peter Katz and he's like, does it work this way in Florida? And I was like, I don't know. And so he hired us to do the analysis in Sarasota and sure enough, it was the same damn thing. So here's the way I see it. Florida has totally different rules than North Carolina. North Carolina has different policies than South Carolina, which is way different from Missouri. Everybody's got different state tax policy rules. But you know, and I know, when you drive around suburban Phoenix or suburban Los Angeles or suburban Boston, you see the same crap. To the radio audience, that's an architectural terminology, but it's like you see the same junk everywhere, right? And I told Peter, said, you know, it's hilarious to me. We all have different math, but it yields the same results. So in North Carolina, it's two plus two equals In South Carolina, it's three plus one equals four. In Florida, it's one plus three equals four. In California, it's 22 times 16 divided by the square root of 47 equals four. You know, it's like, we can make it complex, but at end of the day, that's all we have to do is use our eyes and go around suburbia and say, why is this happening? And you're going to see the same exact economic results in the landscape that's baked into the policy to reward it happening. So sort of shame on us for, you know, I don't have a math degree. I'm trained as an artist like you. I draw pictures, but I'm gonna go look at those policies and read them. Sometimes it gives you an aneurysm when you read some of these policies. But I think that's the beauty of the world that you and I operate in, is we're not afraid of that stuff. We'll get involved in transportation policies. Let's go read the ITE manual. It's like, of nerd does that, but we do it. Kevin K (37:07.611) I mean, if you talk to me when I was 19 years old in architecture school and said, well, hey, you're going to learn all about the intricacies of zoning codes and traffic engineering and also like, what? What are you talking about? But if you really want to understand your world and make a difference in it, you've got to dive into those things. So yeah, exactly. And actually, it is kind of fun and interesting to learn that it was fascinating to me when I first learned. Joe Minicozzi (37:25.826) and not fear Kevin K (37:35.003) much more about traffic engineering, like how engineers actually thought and what they were looking at and how they were evaluating streets and intersections and everything else to come up with their solutions. Joe Minicozzi (37:47.544) Well, you can be a better practicing professional too if you're respecting their profession and saying, I want to learn how you operate. Now I'm going to call BS on things when I see it, but at the same time, I'm going to respect that you have knowledge that I don't and I want to learn. But the thing that makes, I think that makes you and I different is that we also know that Moses didn't deliver their rules. That these are not infallible people that have designed this stuff. Kevin K (38:12.184) Right. Joe Minicozzi (38:16.056) that these are humans that are operating with their best intention, but often they make mistakes. Kevin K (38:22.331) No doubt, no doubt. I think we don't emphasize that enough that really so much of what we struggle against is just people trying to create systems and rules and then working with it and all of that can be changed. Joe Minicozzi (38:37.112) Yeah. Well, I just, this morning I sat with my county assessor and this is trouble that we started back in 2021. And here we are three years later and we're going through a reassessment in January of this year. And he's telling me that like a lot of the things that we recommended back in 2022, they're going to do, but they're not going to do it until 2029. I just about lost my mind. I was like, you know how many human beings my wife and I could produce in four years and you can't change policy? Come on now. That's bias in the system where it's like, there's nothing to stop them. It's just they've never done things this fast before. it was kind of frustrating and I told them, said, look, you just need to see me as a taxpayer now and not a consultant. I live here. My staff suffers. Kevin K (39:12.377) Yeah. Joe Minicozzi (39:32.438) with housing, everybody I know suffers with housing in this community because we're a hot market right now. And it's not fair that because you're going to be uncomfortable changing the way that you behave, there's no law that says you can't do this. This is just about your practice. And we see this, you've seen this with your career with city planners. It's like, well, we just haven't done it that way before. It's like, well, change. Kevin K (39:55.749) Yeah, yeah, it's not hard. It's not the end of the world, you know. Joe Minicozzi (39:57.622) The world's not going to stop. And guess what? Guess what? You're going to make a mistake again. Yeah, it's going to happen. It's like we're humans. Kevin K (40:05.423) I know. There's a real struggle a lot of times to just get people to take a risk to try something and try and fail and if you fail, it's not the end of the world. So what has Joe Minicozzi (40:16.376) They won't assess Airbnb's as commercial product. I'm like, dude, we've got 4 ,000 of them in my city. I've got people from Florida, cash flowing houses up here, and they're paying them off in four years. And my staff can't do that. I can't do that. Like, what the hell? And so why are you choosing to value them as houses and not commercial product? And the state, the state charges an occupancy tax on top of them, right? So the state knows that they're hotel rooms. Kevin K (40:19.532) yeah. Joe Minicozzi (40:45.368) because they're paying an occupancy tax, much like a hotel room would. So why are you choosing to value it differently and not value it on its cap rate? And I'm serious. Like I know that I'm kind of like beating this drum about here in Asheville. Nationwide, this is a problem. And the assessors are like, well, you know, it takes a while to kind of work this out. I'm like, no, Airbnb has been around since 2015. For f**k's sake. Sorry. It's like, this is, it shouldn't take 10 years. Kevin K (40:59.547) Yeah, no Joe Minicozzi (41:14.626) to realize how it affected the marketplace. You just sound stupid at that point. we don't understand. Kevin K (41:19.289) Yeah, it was crazy. It was such a big issue, as you might imagine, in Savannah, which I think for a time, Savannah was like the number one city in the world for Airbnb. Joe Minicozzi (41:29.516) Well, at least in Georgia, you have a separation between an occupant and a non -occupant. We don't have that in North Carolina. We're all treated the same, which is insane. So in Georgia, if you own a house in Savannah, but you live in Kansas City, you're taxed at a higher rate than somebody that lives in a Savannah house. Owner -occupied is totally different than non -owner -occupied. In North Carolina, we don't even have that protection. So it's even worse for us. So it's maddening. So anyway, anybody that's on this podcast that lives in a tourist town, like this is one of the things that should be the top of your agenda to talk about. It's like, I'm not saying don't do it. You we're a tourist town. Our baseball team is called the Asheville Tourists. Got it. Been the Asheville Tourists since the 1920s. This is our economy. But don't tax them less. That's crazy. Yeah. Kevin K (42:00.068) Interesting. Kevin K (42:24.443) Understand what they are, tax them, or have some policy that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, no doubt. So one of the other things that you've been able to do with your work then is kind of related to all this. You get the chance to like dive deep into the history of especially like property taxation and other things. And I know you've read a lot of stuff in this world. How has Joe Minicozzi (42:28.746) It's a commodity, right? What does that do to housing prices? Kevin K (42:51.269) kind of impacted the work that you're doing or you're thinking, or what are some notable things that you've seen and just looking back a long time ago when a lot of these rules were being formulated. Joe Minicozzi (43:01.75) Yeah, there's some. One of the things about new urbanists, it's kind of weird. I hate that term because we're sort of just urban thinkers. We're complex thinkers. Joe Minicozzi (43:19.68) It's not new. This is just, we're operating in an urban environment, we're going to be interrogating things, but we tend to lean toward, if it's broke, fix it. That's our attitude. And it shouldn't take forever. But we also swim upstream to try to figure out who put this fence in. So who put the fence out in that field? And why is that fence there? And if the fence serves a purpose, keep the fence. If the fence was there for just because some random situation, get rid of it. It's like unnecessary policy. So you'll hear within our cluster of crazy friends, a lot of us are just like, rid of parking standards. Why do you need them? Why do we have trip counts for highways? Because when you look at the base data of trip counts, it doesn't make sense. Plus, since pandemic, we've changed the way that our commute patterns operate. So we should be changing our math. And like we operate faster with a level of, with trying to stop the bleeding, if you will. We're triage people, you know, we're like the emergency room medics. But we're also going to go upstream to figure out how did this start? So just for, you know, I started to see a lot of patterns in the assessment maps of how neighborhoods were construed or different market areas that lined up with redlining. And so redlining started in 1934 and went to 1968 and was deemed unconstitutional. But if you go to Mapping Inequality website, you actually find that there's maps that predate redlining that the bankers were using that was essentially racist. That if you were an immigrant or in a black neighborhood, they deemed you high risk and they changed your ability to get cashflow. Redlining was adopted at a federal level. So it's federal policy that said this is the rule of the land now, which makes it pernicious. It was already pernicious before, but for the federal government to come in and say, we're going to be unconstitutional here is pretty bad. But to everybody's credit, everybody's hands got slapped in 1968, that changed. Well, here we are today and we're still seeing the same effects in the valuation that models very similarly to redlining. So I was just like, well, maybe there's got to be a book somewhere that this is all talked about in the Joe Minicozzi (45:41.816) I found this book from 1922. It's the ninth edition. So was actually the first edition was 1895. So think about this, a book was reprinted nine times because it was so popular. It's called The Essays and Taxation by Edwin Seligman. And I love this quote. So just for the radio audience, just turn on your mind to 1895. This is what he wrote. Practically, the general property tax is actually administered as beyond all doubt, one of the worst tax systems known to the civilized world. Because of its attempt to tax intangible as well as tangible things, it sins against the cardinal rules of uniformity, of equality, and of universality and taxation. It puts a premium on dishonesty and debauches the public's conscience. It reduces deception to a system and makes a science of navery. It presses hardest on those least able to pay and imposes double taxation on one man and grants entire immunity on the next. In short, the general property tax system is so flagrantly inequitable that its retention can only be explained through ignorance and inertia. It is the cause of such crying injustice that its alteration or its abolishment must become the battle cry of every statesman and reformer." So this is somebody who works in taxation and goes, this is a crock of junk. Let's get rid of this. And that was over a hundred years ago, right? And so now I sat in a two hour meeting. with my assessors and their consultant going through is excruciating detail, all of this crazy mathematics. I'm like, why are we doing it this way? I understand what you're doing, but let's take a big step up. Why do we finance cities this way? Why is it based on value? know, Kevin, you and I are trained as architects, right? We want to do beautiful buildings. We want to do, if I could afford it, I would build a stone house, you know, because I like stone and it lasts forever. So I create an asset that will be in the community for hundreds and hundreds of years paying taxes. Why would you penalize me for that? You should be charging me on how often I drive on that road and how many times I use a fire call. Charge me for the services you provide rather than some arbitrary, hey, you built a stone house, therefore you pay more taxes. You could be right next door to me in a tin shack and have actually more income than me. Joe Minicozzi (48:09.944) and be taxed less because you have a tin shack and I've got a stone house. I could be making $50 ,000 a year and you're making $200 How is that fair? This is where I said that the income tax is a little bit more fair, but the thing is if you're really rich, you're not making income. You've got assets, right? Those are all hidden somewhere, not being taxed. So there's no perfect systems. That's why we advocate, and you see in our models, those red -black models where you have Black is producing wealth, net positive, red is net subsidy. And we did that for Springfield. 80 % of the city is subsidized. So just show that to the citizens and just be like, this is how we're subsidizing it. Is this the best choice? But you should charge me for it. If there's, yeah, go ahead. No, Kevin K (48:52.091) So when you do this, go ahead. I was going say when you do that kind of historic research, it, I mean have to ask the Georgist question, does that, how do you think about that relative to the Henry George critique, the land value tax approach versus the standard property tax that we do in most places? Joe Minicozzi (49:11.16) I mean, I think that aligns with Henry George, the statement. It aligns with how I feel as a taxpayer and also as somebody that practices in this world. The more we get into this with the Cessars, I have all the respect in the world for what they do because we do all of our work on their data. So I'm very thankful for them as a profession. But I also see that they're trapped. in a construction of their own making, the same way that traffic engineers are. And for anybody that's on this podcast that's read Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Chuck Marrone, I mean, he nails it. That same ethos in that book is the same ethos I see with the zoning people that are all just about zoning. This is the way the zoning is, as if some omnipotent force gave them the zoning, you know? And then there's the same as I see this with the assessors, where I always ask them, I'm like, why is that the standard? Where did this come Like today when this one assessor was telling me that legally they can't assess Airbnbs as commercial. So I immediately asked her, I'm like, can you show me the law that says that? And she just went blank. And I was like, you just told me that there was a law that this, so tell me the law. And they don't, this is their bias. This is their practice. This is their fear. They're afraid to stir up the people that are out there with Airbnbs. I'm like, that's not what the law says. So you're making a choice not to do that. There's so much... Joe Minicozzi (50:43.129) discretion that people don't talk about. You see this when you talk to old school planners that are just like, the trip counts and the parking requirement, their bias kind of comes in. They won't call it a bias. Kevin K (50:56.197) Yeah, yeah. And I think we've often talked about that. And I think Jeff Speck famously wrote about that. You can manipulate a traffic study to say whatever you want it to say. And it's really just about the choices that you're making of what you want to do or what you want the outcome to be. Joe Minicozzi (51:14.12) We did a land analysis. Back to Henry George, we did a land value analysis where we just turn off all the buildings and just look at the land value per acre. This was in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The larger parcels in the commercial strip area were half the value of the out parcels across the street. I asked, I'm like, does land magically lose half its value when you cross the street? Same zoning category. And the tax assessor told me with all confidence, she goes, well, the cheaper one is bigger. The more land you have, the lower the value. And it's like, what economic rule is that true? And she goes, there's less people that can afford large tracts of land. So therefore we have to give a discount because there's less people in the marketplace. And I was like, well, that's kind of true. But does that work this way with other limited commodities like diamonds? If I get a bigger diamond, is it cheaper? Surely there's less people that can afford a bigger And everybody in the room was laughing, but she was just totally confused by that. And the weird thing is that I don't have an economics degree. I've actually never taken an economics course. So I just asked a question because I'm curious about this stuff. Kevin K (52:23.323) Yeah. So Joe, you've also been working a little bit in Annapolis, Maryland, which is obviously a really, really different context than Springfield, Missouri, one of the oldest cities in the country. wonder if you want to talk a little bit about what you've been doing there and what you're seeing. Joe Minicozzi (52:40.376) Yeah, Annapolis is cool. We did one of those red -black models for them. And one of the things that we noticed was their annexation pattern was an interesting tell. It's kind of funny. like, I've got a picture for that, but it's kind of hard to talk about a picture in this space. I'll Kevin K (53:03.387) Well, eventually, eventually this will be a YouTube thing too at some point. So we could do Joe Minicozzi (53:08.696) Yeah. from one of the things you could see in the, again, we talked about at the start of this about Kansas City, there's tells in the annexation pattern that tell you the problems that you're having today. So it's kind of like, you and I are the same age. I'm 56. There's things that I'm dealing with today in my body that didn't happen because of what I did last week. It happened because of stuff I did when I was in high school, right? The older you get, like all of a sudden it's like, my ACL gave out. Why is that? It was because I played football in high school. So it's like, just took a while for that ligament to just finally give. I can remember the concussion that I had when that happened. You know, it's like things like that. So we look at cities the same way as what did you do in your past that you're now seeing the problems today? So. One of the rules that we all know is roads only last about 50 years. so every 50 years is when you have your heart attack based on what you did when you first built those roads. Annapolis did 71 % of its land acquisition. So if you look at it today and just say, if we make a pie chart of this, when did these areas break down? Their first hundred years is 4 % of their land. for their first 100 years. From 1920 to 1800, that's 80 years, they did 5 % growth, okay? So that was 120 years. In just the year of 1951, they annexed 71 % of their land. So let that wash over you. Just imagine the pie in your mind of 4%, 5%, and then 71 % in one year. So those developments didn't all happen in 1971. would take a while from the late 50s, early 60s when you start to fill in all of those subdivisions, you're filling in a lot of lane miles in 71 % of your city. So those roads are now being replaced now in the 2020s, 2030s. And they're looking at, let's see, kind of try to do the quick math here. They're looking Joe Minicozzi (55:34.264) close to. two thirds of their roads are coming due because of that original sin of that annexation. But the habit in the 1950s, I think about that. People come back from the war, we're like, we're going to be modern. There's all these policies in place to reward this, the federal highway system, the FHA loans. And it's not that people had ill intent, they just were naive. They're just like, well, let's try something different. Let's kind of remake cities. And this is what we're dealing with. It's like we have to kind of think back to when that happened. So we show them the And you can see their jaws drop when I was showing this to them. And it's kind of like walking in and I'm the doctor, we just got a bunch of CAT scans and I show you your broken shoulder. I'm like, is the reason why you can't pick things up. You've got your shoulders broken. And everybody can see it because you can see it on the map. 71 % is a lot of area in one year. Kevin K (56:27.023) Yeah. What is some of the examples of how some of your clients have reacted to information when you're finally at the end? I would imagine it runs the gamut from complete denial to people excited to make some change. mean, what do you see on the back end of doing these analysis? Joe Minicozzi (56:49.196) You know, the mayor actually called me yesterday. I was bicycling into work and I get this telephone call from Annapolis and it's him and he's so excited. And he goes, it's it's hard. It's indescribable. We're all singing from the same sheet of music now. And so, you know, in respect for politicians, and I don't, I don't mean this in a, in a, as, negative as this is going to sound, but think about, let's, let's just kind of make it blunt. You win a popularity contest and you become mayor. That's it. That's the American system of government right there. They don't have the master's degree in urban design. They don't have the research of 30 years of public policy analysis and parking requirements. They don't have that junk shoved in their heads the way that you and I do. So they just win this popularity contest and they're trying to figure things out. their commerce is what they hear from people, the emotions, the conversations, how people react to their day -to -day living. It's sort of on us as professionals to help demystify that. So that's basically, that's the MO of our company is we're going to try to find a way to give you a lot of quantitative data, but we're going to do it in a way that's easy to understand and give you a pie chart. You know, it's like, we're not going to make that hard. You know, it's just, it is. This is what's going on. Here's that pie chart showing you 71%. is in that one year, they've had that data since 1951. It's like, it shouldn't be magic to pull this stuff out. So it really is on the professional to do that. So usually what we get is we see a game. He's right. We do see a game change from people because we've created a graphic that people can see and they can see what's going on. You can't argue against the pie chart. There it is. 71%. It's like there's data. There's a pie chart so everybody can see how big that is. Just make it simple. We don't hand you an 85 page document explaining it all in text. Why? 65 % of the audience are visual learners. Show them a picture. So once we did that and kind of walk them through and help them understand, they could see their city with new eyes. That's actually another quote that a mayor gave me in Davis, California. He goes, it's as if I've never been to this city called Davis and I could see it with new eyes Joe Minicozzi (59:16.886) So it's respecting them and honoring that their life is hard. Their role is near impossible. They've got to learn how a multi -billion dollar corporation operates the night after the election. And there's all of these habits baked into it. how do we short circuit that and make it easy for people to move? So we've seen changes. We've seen Rancho Cucamonga, California. They adopted a one to six rule for their downtown as an area to value ratio. So now they have like a two drink minimum, if you will. And there was a steel manufacturing company that came in for a tax break. And the assistant city manager told me, goes, you know, it's fun is after we did this math with you all, he goes, they came in and asked for a tax break and they're a big employer. But then I compared them on a per acre basis to other manufacturing plants in our city, these smaller ones, and they were actually way more beneficial than this big one. So I told the big one to take a hike. And it was like, that made my month. It's like, I couldn't believe he did that. But it was like, we gave them a new language to understand themselves. And as a consultant, it's like, yeah, I wasn't there for the win, but I feel proud of that. It's not sexy to talk about, but it's like, that's cool. So there's not as much satisfaction as being an architect when somebody lives in a house that you produce, but it's a different kind of satisfaction. Kevin K (01:00:52.003) Yeah, I really like the analogy of, it's almost like you're providing an MRI or a CAT scan. You're the doctor giving them critical information about the health of their community. And then really it's up to them to decide, do they want to correct that health or not? Joe Minicozzi (01:01:11.606) Well, it's value statement of our company too, that the doctor doesn't blame the patient. And so if you're going in and you're a smoker, chronic smoker your entire life, the doctor knows you're an addict. But what can the doctor provide you to help you get past your addiction? So the doctor is going to show you an MRI of your lungs and you're going to see the black spots all over the lungs. The doctor is going to be like, guess where that's coming from? Kevin K (01:01:14.083) Okay. Joe Minicozzi (01:01:40.128) and you'll say, it's my smoking. It'll be like, yeah, you want to keep doing it? It's up on you. I'm not going to be able to pull a cigarette out of your hand, but I have to do what I can to give you information to be an educated consumer. So that's kind of our MO. Kevin K (01:01:54.821) Joe, I think that's a great place to wrap. And if people are looking to find you and your company, what's the best place to go? Joe Minicozzi (01:02:06.552) Urban3 .com, three is all spelled out. You can also, there's plenty of videos online that you can Google through YouTube. My favorite one is the one that Not Just Bikes did on our work. Not Just Bikes is just a great resource for lots of information on city planning. And also Strong Towns covers a lot of our work. And also the Congress for New Urbanism. If anybody wants to come to a conference, the Congress for New Urbanism or the Strong Towns Gatherings are great. Or if you want to go deep nerd, we're like at the Government Finance Officers Association conferences every year. That's a whole lot of fun. So yeah, we'll see you around in public and thank you for doing all of Kevin K (01:02:54.405) Yeah, so really appreciate it, Joe. I'm sure we'll do some more in the future, but this is a great introduction for anybody who doesn't know your work. And also for those who do, I really appreciate the deeper dive. So hang in there. Keep doing what you're doing. And we'll talk again. All right. Joe Minicozzi (01:03:13.25) Thanks. Get full access to The Messy City at kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/subscribe
"El libro de los espejos" de E.O. Chirovici es una novela de misterio que narra la investigación de un asesinato ocurrido en la década de 1980. La historia se centra en un manuscrito inacabado que revela detalles del asesinato del profesor Joseph Wieder, un psicólogo de renombre en Princeton.El manuscrito es enviado a Peter Katz, un agente literario, por Richard Flynn, un exestudiante de Princeton y uno de los personajes involucrados en la trama. Katz se siente intrigado por el manuscrito y decide investigar más a fondo. Sin embargo, antes de que pueda obtener más información de Flynn, este muere, dejando muchas preguntas sin respuesta.Para resolver el misterio, Katz se pone en contacto con un periodista llamado John Keller y con un detective retirado, Roy Freeman. A medida que los tres hombres investigan, descubren que cada persona involucrada en el caso tiene su propia versión de los eventos y que la verdad es mucho más compleja de lo que parece.La narrativa se despliega a través de diferentes perspectivas, cada una aportando nuevas pistas y revelaciones. Los personajes recuerdan y relatan los eventos de maneras que a menudo se contradicen entre sí, lo que obliga a los lectores a cuestionar la fiabilidad de los narradores y la naturaleza de la verdad misma."El libro de los espejos" es una exploración profunda de la memoria, la percepción y cómo las experiencias individuales pueden distorsionar la realidad. La novela mantiene un alto nivel de suspense y mantiene a los lectores intrigados hasta el final mientras intentan desentrañar la verdad detrás del asesinato del profesor Wieder.Sería de mucha ayuda si compartes este episodio y te suscribes a nuestro canal de pódcast.Adquiere el libro: En AmazonRecuerda que si gustas apoyarnos en nuestras lecturas y reseñas, lo puedes realizar mediante ☕️ Paypal o a través de nuestras redes sociales o correo electrónico.También te agradeceríamos
This week on In the Details, host Karen Allen chats with guest Peter Katz. Renowned for his prowess as a singer/songwriter, Peter presents an innovative concept of tailored keynote concerts that seamlessly weave live performances with motivational anecdotes. Listen to hear about Katz's fascinating journey as a musician, gaining insights into his unique methods of engaging and resonating with audiences. Throughout the conversation, Katz shares his personal narrative of evolving into a musician and imparts his recipe for success. Emphasizing the significance of remaining open to life's opportunities, he explains how this can significantly transform one's life trajectory. Tune in for a glimpse into Katz's artistry and his invaluable wisdom on embracing life's unpredictable paths. ---- Follow Peter Katz on Instagram and YouTube and check out his website. Want to support the In the Details podcast? Make sure to visit Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify, then rate it five stars and share it with your community! You can also stop by Karen Allen's website.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week on In the Details, host Karen Allen chats with guest Peter Katz. Renowned for his prowess as a singer/songwriter, Peter presents an innovative concept of tailored keynote concerts that seamlessly weave live performances with motivational anecdotes. Listen to hear about Katz's fascinating journey as a musician, gaining insights into his unique methods of engaging and resonating with audiences. Throughout the conversation, Katz shares his personal narrative of evolving into a musician and imparts his recipe for success. Emphasizing the significance of remaining open to life's opportunities, he explains how this can significantly transform one's life trajectory. Tune in for a glimpse into Katz's artistry and his invaluable wisdom on embracing life's unpredictable paths. ---- Follow Peter Katz on Instagram and YouTube and check out his website. Want to support the In the Details podcast? Make sure to visit Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or Spotify, then rate it five stars and share it with your community! You can also stop by Karen Allen's website.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
'Does my Forward Stance Look a Little Fascist? On Meiji-Era Karate and Embodied Politics', with Dr Peter Katz
The Pain & Beauty of Transformational Reinvention Get ready to be inspired! Join us for the next two episodes of the Leadership and Loyalty Podcast as we explore The Power of Reinvention with JUNO Award-nominated singer-songwriter, Peter Katz. Discover how Peter transformed himself from a packed-to-the-rafters concert performer to an interactive keynote speaker delivering transformative experiences to top organizations. Peter Katz is a JUNO Award & Canadian Screen Award-nominated singer-songwriter who has shared the stage and studio with artists like Grammy Award-winner Glen Hansard, Royal Wood, and Bahamas. His music and videos have been streamed almost 40 million times. You may now be thinking, that's all very nice, but why is a Canadian Musician on the Leadership and Loyalty Podcast? The answer is that our guest completely reinvented himself. If you have ever sat through a boring keynote presentation, then maybe you need to bring in Peter Katz because he delivers his fully customized Keynote Concerts, transformative experiences combining stories and songs from a 15+ year international career to organizations such as TD Canada Trust, Sun Life Financial, Johnson & Johnson, the Library of Parliament, and Newsweek's top pediatric hospital in the world, Sick Kids Hospital. Website http://www.peterkatzspeaks.com http://www.peterkatz.com Social Media http://www.facebook.com/peterkatzmusic https://twitter.com/peterkatzmusic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-katz-1368bb6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterkatzmusic Part 2) The Dangers of Normal Yearning The Pandemic, Over-Committed to Under-Resourced When Life as You Know it is Over - Buy a Camera Becoming the interactive Netflix Problem Lenses Vs Appreciative Inquiry Lenses On Your Knees Praying for The Return of Normal Sitting in The Driveway of Your Worst Fear Making Beautiful Music with Your People, Why They Care Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership, and #tribe DovBaron.com "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" #videopodcast #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #emotionsourcecode #neuroscience #emotional #meaning #emotional #logic #culture #curiosity #humanbehavior #purpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Pain & Beauty of Transformational Reinvention Get ready to be inspired! Join us for the next two Leadership and Loyalty Podcast episodes as we explore The Power of Reinvention with JUNO Award-nominated singer-songwriter Peter Katz. Discover how Peter transformed himself from a packed-to-the-rafters concert performer to an interactive keynote speaker delivering transformative experiences to top organizations. Peter Katz is a JUNO Award & Canadian Screen Award-nominated singer-songwriter who has shared the stage and studio with artists like Grammy Award-winner Glen Hansard, Royal Wood, and Bahamas. His music and videos have been streamed almost 40 million times. You may now be thinking, that's all very nice, but why is a Canadian Musician on the Leadership and Loyalty Podcast? The answer is that our guest completely reinvented himself. If you have ever sat through a boring keynote presentation, then maybe you need to bring in Peter Katz because he delivers his fully customized Keynote Concerts, transformative experiences combining stories and songs from a 15+ year international career to organizations such as TD Canada Trust, Sun Life Financial, Johnson & Johnson, the Library of Parliament, and Newsweek's top pediatric hospital in the world, Sick Kids Hospital. Website http://www.peterkatzspeaks.com http://www.peterkatz.com Social Media http://www.facebook.com/peterkatzmusic https://twitter.com/peterkatzmusic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-katz-1368bb6 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peterkatzmusic Part 1) The Journey to "Much Different" Being Crushed under the Weight of Your Soul's Calling When Dreams Come True How the Best and the Worst Are Doorways to Reinvention A Packed to the Rafters Concert to Camp Councillor Saying Yes to What Makes No Sense Shattering The Vessel That Held Your Dreams The Journey Toward Much Better, Much Worse, Much Different Music and Fight and Flight Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership, and #tribe DovBaron.com "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" #videopodcast #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #emotionsourcecode #neuroscience #emotional #meaning #emotional #logic #culture #curiosity #humanbehavior #purpose Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Discover Your WHO and Uncover Your Golden Gift with JOHN STIX; and Performance Guest: PETER KATZ – Ep724 Featuring Interview Guest, Entrepreneur, Coach and Creator of, and Author of, “Discover Your WHO,” John Stix; and Performance Guest, JUNO Award and Canadian Screen Award–Nominated Singer-Songwriter, Peter Katz, on The LIFE CHANGES Show, Episode 724, Titled, “Discover Your WHO and Uncover Your Golden Gift” Interview Guest: JOHN STIX; and Performance Guest: PETER KATZ
Introducing In Time, a new podcast with Juno Award-nominated singer-songwriter, keynote speaker and facilitator Peter Katz and award-winning resiliency researcher and wellness expert Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe.Each episode, Peter and Robyne meet at the crossroads of art and science to discuss ideas for living richer, healthier and more satisfying lives.In Time will debut on Feb. 28, 2023.
S&S Live (Episode 44): We chat with lit manager and producer Peter Katz of Story Driven about creating IP to sell stories, working with a manager on developing story ideas and concepts, taking your screenplay to the next level with your rep and much more! WATCH a VIDEO version of this Episode: https://youtu.be/zpp_reR_EHY Scheduled to attend: Peter Katz - Lit Manager & Producer, Story Driven Twitter: @PeterKatz1 More great screenwriting and industry interviews and resources: http://scriptsandscribes.com/ Join us on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wey4e6E and Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scriptsandscribes Stay up to date on Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScriptsScribes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scriptsandscribes/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/scriptsandscribes/ Listen to the podcast on: Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/scriptsandscribes iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scripts-scribes/id527744621 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XcDzrHXhwIfTtiLW1SXGY Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zY3JpcHRzYW5kc2NyaWJlcy5jb20vP2ZlZWQ9cnNzMg
Peter Katz | JUNO Nominated Singer-Song Writer | Speaker BIO: Juno Award, Canadian Screen Award and 2-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominated singer-songwriter Peter Katz has been described by many of his fans and speaking clients as "a thunderbolt for the soul”. Alongside his career as an international recording artist, Peter Katz serves clients across the globe by delivering highly customized ‘Keynote Concerts'. Going beyond the standard keynote presentation format, Peter utilizes customized-to-your-audience performance enhancers with meaningful musical anchors. The end result is an audience transformed by the power of his message and the authenticity of his delivery, helping them see their purpose through new eyes. Highlights: How Peter embraces the creative process to live a good lifeHow to balance your inner creativity and your relationship with moneyThe importance of noticing our inner self, in order to feel contentment in life The importance of detaching from desired outcomes, and falling in love with the process How accepting the brevity of life can help center usWhy staying focused on your creative gifts, will open doors to live a "rich" lifeThe importance of self-reflection and examining your story LINKS: Oliver's Tune: CLICK HEREPeter's Music: CLICK HEREPeter's Speaking: CLICK HERE
S&S Live (Episode 44): We chat with lit manager and producer Peter Katz of Story Driven about creating IP to sell stories, working with a manager on developing story ideas and concepts, taking your screenplay to the next level with your rep and much more! WATCH a VIDEO version of this Episode: https://youtu.be/zpp_reR_EHY Scheduled to attend: Peter Katz - Lit Manager & Producer, Story Driven Twitter: @PeterKatz1 More great screenwriting and industry interviews and resources: http://scriptsandscribes.com/ Join us on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wey4e6E and Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scriptsandscribes Stay up to date on Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScriptsScribes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scriptsandscribes/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/scriptsandscribes/ Listen to the podcast on: Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/scriptsandscribes iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scripts-scribes/id527744621 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XcDzrHXhwIfTtiLW1SXGY Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zY3JpcHRzYW5kc2NyaWJlcy5jb20vP2ZlZWQ9cnNzMg
Serotonin Sunday, hosted by recording artist and mental health advocate Dylan Dunlap, is a stigma-free space designed to pull back the curtain on the creatives who cultivate the art we love! Each episode features 3-4 singer-songwriters playing their favorite songs and puts the spotlight on one amazing organization doing work in the mental health space. Whether you personally struggle with a mental health condition, you know somebody that struggles, or you just want to listen, you've come to the right place and are welcome here. The goal each Sunday is to open up a real conversation; all while raising our collective serotonin levels and enjoying life together!
On today's episode I interview Peter Katz. He's a Juno nominated singer/songwriter and a keynote speaker. His unique acoustic cover of Beyoncé's "Halo" has over 21 million views on Youtube. https://www.peterkatz.com/ If you prefer to watch the episode instead of listen to it, you can do so on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/qGpDnA1Eqt0 Leaving a like, a comment, a review or subscribing would really help the podcast to gain momentum and be a source of positive content for as many people as possible! Thank you for your support! You can find all my social media links to connect with me at: https://linktr.ee/joelmartinmastery Your friend and ally, Joel Martin We've Got Time by LiQWYD | https://www.instagram.com/liqwyd Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US
So who are the guests?Our first guest is Tricia Brouk.An award-winning director, author, and one of the most influential women over the past few years, Tricia Brouk is a needle-mover in the public-speaking arena.The winner of countless awards including the Empowered Woman of 2021 Award and the Top Director of 2019 by the International Association of Top Professionals, Tricia has put over 50 speakers onto more than 15 TEDx stages. Simply put, If you want to get on big stages, Tricia's the one to get you there.Our second guest is Peter Katz.Dubbed “One of the most promising songwriters of our time” by B.Y.E Magazine, Peter Katz is creating quite a stir in the music industry.A viral Candian singer-songwriter who connects words to people's heartstrings, Peter has amassed over 20 million views for one music video alone. The Winner of the Best Male Vocalist in the NOW Magazine and the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, Peter's ‘keynote concerts' has positioned him as one of Canada's most in-demand speakers and facilitators.You can follow Giovanni:Archangel Academy: https://archangel.cc/Giovanni Marsico Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giftedwithgio/Giovanni Marsico Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegiftedentrepreneur/Giovanni Marsico LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giovannimarrsico/#gifted #weareallgifted #changemaker #selfimprovement #personaldevelopment #dreams #business #journey #entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #motivation #manifestation #growth #mindset #success
On this episode we are chatting to a Canadian singer-songwriter and Awards nominees about Hope and what it is to him.
So you have your presentation ready with your years of experience and research and you know it can solve the challenges of your clients, but how do you insure that your message reaches everyone in the audience? This week on the show, we invited Peter Katz to share small improvements you can make to your delivery and environment to make sure you instantly create a connection to the audience. Want to hear more from Peter? He'll be speaking at Influence 2022 in Nashville (and virtually) about how you can show up wholeheartedly in your life and connect with people in a disconnected world. Learn more at Influence2022.com. Key Takeaways Start with heart and know your purpose Curate the experience Who is Peter Katz? Peter is a JUNO Award and Canadian Screen Award-nominated singer songwriter, speaker and facilitator who helps people drop into their hearts and get clear on their humanity through stories and music. He's been described by past audiences as a “thunderbolt for the soul.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're back for 2022, and we're kicking it off with a really great story from Kelsey Garcia, an advanced care paramedic. She shares her journey from a conservative evangelical Christian working at Christian camps, to her work on the front lines of health care witnessing the reality of death and discovering how often, reality doesn't exactly line up with the picture the church paints of the way the world is. Content warnings for this episode: homophobia, addiction, fatal medical situations, death, residential schoolsCheck out the song Kelsey mentioned - The Fence (Matthew Shepard's Song), by Peter Katz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1ANBqzDFNo
Juno Award, Canadian Screen Award and 2-time Canadian Folk Music Award nominated singer-songwriter, Peter Katz, has been described by many of his fans and speaking clients as "a thunderbolt for the soul". Alongside his career as an international recording artist, Peter Katz serves clients across the globe by delivering highly customized ‘Keynote Concerts'. His passion for health and happiness is supported by his Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle and in this episode of Eat Real to Heal, Peter shares how to lead with intention in every area of our busy lives. And he's not afraid to address important questions like, “Why do we get together with loved ones, only to kill each other with food?” Dive into this podcast to discover Peter's story of becoming vegan and how he's able to maintain his values on the road, even in places where there are few healthy options. Peter also shares his building blocks for creating nutrient-dense, plant-based whole-food meals that are delicious and that anyone can implement with ease. Finally, want to create unlimited energy and help your family achieve the same? Listen all the way through as Peter unpacks the secret to supporting family members on their own journey to endless energy and health. Find Peter Katz at:Website: www.peterkatz.com, www.peterkatzspeaks.comFacebook: @peterkatzmusicInstagram: @peterkatzmusicYouTube: Peterkatzmusic Discussed on the PODCAST:Book - Calm within the Storm, Robyn Hanley-Dafoe - https://amzn.to/3nLjFG2Oliver Schroer – Violinist – www.oliverschroer.comMother, Catherine Holdway Podcast - https://apple.co/3DPhR4kForks Over Knifes - https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/Dr Dean Ornish - https://www.ornish.com/undo-it/Dr Neil Bernard - https://bit.ly/3oXNiU3Happy Cow – www.happycow.netThe China Study, Dr T Colin Campbell - https://bit.ly/3oNDtYICanadian Food Guide - https://food-guide.canada.ca/en/The Laramie Project - https://youtu.be/u1qiTmF0p4ACamp Mentoring – www.FacesEducation.comWatch the trailer for Nicolette's new film Food Of Our Ancestors coming out soon in 2021 - https://bit.ly/3CIQyr1 If you are currently battling a Chronic Degenerative Disease, Nicolette is doing one on one consultations again. Go to www.nicolettericher.com to set up an appointment today! Our 22M Bike tour is still happening once the world returns to its new normal. Find out more about and support our 22 Million Campaign here - www.richerhealth.ca/ Join Nicolette at one of her retreats https://richerhealthretreatcentre.com/ Find out more about our non-profit society Sea to Sky Thrivers - https://seatoskythrivers.com/ Want to know more about Nicolette's Green Moustache Café's https://www.greenmoustache.com/ Sign up for the Eat Real to Heal Online Course - https://nicolettericher.com/eat-real-to-heal Buy the Eat Real to Heal Book here: https://amzn.to/3nMgEFG
Don't adjust your dial...Kailey is filling in for Kelly this week! This week on the show we're sharing a little bit of everything -- some old favourites, new discoveries, new releases, live recordings and local favourites! Catch it all here. Featuring music by Craig Cardiff, Will Gillespie, Alex Houghton, Patty McLaughlin, Dave Hadfield, Lennie Gallant, Peter Katz, The Good Lovelies, Colm Wilkinson, Taylor Raeburn, Old Man Luedecke, The Whiteley Brothers and our own Kelly Babcock!
I bring back Bob Cialdini, Peter Katz, Andy Storch and Fotini Iconomopoulos for 1 hour on Clubhouse. With the exception of a "human error" technical glitch (I forgot to plug in my iPhone to my mixing board), it was an amazing hour and I hope you enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What does falling off a cliff, sweaty hippies dancing and Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors have in common? Obviously, it’s Peter Katz. Peter is an amazing crossover talent insofar that he is a singer-songwriter and public speaker. What do they all have in common? Obviously, it’s storytelling. Tonight, on Late Nite Jaffe, we’ll talk about crossover, together with clarity of vision, appreciative inquiry and if there’s time left over a little bit of plant-based eating! Join us at 9pm EDT. Want a promo/shoutout on air, have an in-depth question or even song request for Peter? You can ask your question live or get a super-sized shoutout for 10 $JAFFE coins which you can purchase and send via http://bit.ly/questionorcomment Get any links you need (like subscribing to my channel) from linktree.com/jaffejuice Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S&S Live (Episode 14): Meet the Manager w/ Peter Katz of Story Driven. We chat about what Peter looks for in potential clients, what his background and experience are, how he works with his clients and how he finds up-and-coming talent and answer questions live from the chat. Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterKatz1 Intro Music ("For the Love") & Outro Music ("Fire & Rain") by Can't Stop Won't Stop: https://linktr.ee/cswsmusic WATCH a VIDEO version of this Episode: https://youtu.be/ax_nZ4ZQJ9w More great screenwriting and industry interviews and resources: http://scriptsandscribes.com/ Join us on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wey4e6E and Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scriptsandscribes Stay up to date on Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScriptsScribes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scriptsandscribes/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/scriptsandscribes/ Listen to the podcast on: Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/scriptsandscribes iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scripts-scribes/id527744621 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XcDzrHXhwIfTtiLW1SXGY Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zY3JpcHRzYW5kc2NyaWJlcy5jb20vP2ZlZWQ9cnNzMg Note: Some of the links provided as resources may also be affiliate links that, at no cost to you, may earn us a tiny commission if you happen to click through and end up purchasing an item.
S&S Live (Episode 14): Meet the Manager w/ Peter Katz of Story Driven. We chat about what Peter looks for in potential clients, what his background and experience are, how he works with his clients and how he finds up-and-coming talent and answer questions live from the chat. Peter on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterKatz1 Intro Music ("For the Love") & Outro Music ("Fire & Rain") by Can't Stop Won't Stop: https://linktr.ee/cswsmusic WATCH a VIDEO version of this Episode: https://youtu.be/ax_nZ4ZQJ9w More great screenwriting and industry interviews and resources: http://scriptsandscribes.com/ Join us on Discord: https://discord.com/invite/wey4e6E and Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scriptsandscribes Stay up to date on Social Media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScriptsScribes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scriptsandscribes/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/scriptsandscribes/ Listen to the podcast on: Anchor.fm: https://anchor.fm/scriptsandscribes iTunes/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scripts-scribes/id527744621 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XcDzrHXhwIfTtiLW1SXGY Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zY3JpcHRzYW5kc2NyaWJlcy5jb20vP2ZlZWQ9cnNzMg Note: Some of the links provided as resources may also be affiliate links that, at no cost to you, may earn us a tiny commission if you happen to click through and end up purchasing an item.
CATch up with Georgian Bay Roots Radio! This week on the show Kailey's new kitten, Handsome Norman, helped out with some of the song choices. It was nearly a CATastrophe when he fell asleep on the keyboard but we made it work. This week we're spinning songs about cats, songs to promote upcoming shows and events like Youth Discoveries 2021, and songs from new friends. Tune in to CATch it all! Featuring tracks by Fred Penner, Tami Neilson, Esther's Family, Moscow Apartment, The Lifers, Peter Katz, Garnet Rogers, The Good Lovelies, Dala, Cat Stevens, Basset, Mia Kelly, Tim Harrison and Patty McLaughlin!
Better Because Of It: Stories of Heartbreak, Healing, and Growth
Peter Katz married his college sweetheart. After witnessing his parents' painful divorce as a child, he was determined to avoid the same fate. And for ten years, he and his wife were best friends in love… until she told him she'd fallen for someone else. His worst fear realized, he made the commitment to “come out on the other side of this like more able to love, wiser.”
Join us as The Illuminate Project Podcast takes gets a behind the scenes look of the EVENT's MAINSTAGE speaker : Juno-nominated, Singer-Songwriter & Speaker, Peter Katz.His MAINSTAGE event : Bigger Picture Thinking, the Value of Human Connections as part Day 2 of the Pre-event programming on April 14th at 11:45am for the EVENT.Season 2 of The Illuminate Project Podcast is set to launch on May 3rd, 2021 with a focus on how to survive the status quo after an unbelievable year which has forever changed the event industry.Interested in a TIPP TALK to drive engagement for your next event? Find out more : www.switchidea.co
Well, we're a year into this pandemic in Ontario and it feels in many ways like it's been a long year. To keep spirits up this week on the show we're talking all about Good News! Tune in to indulge in some good vibes from some great artists. Featuring music by Coco Love Alcorn, The AB3, Julian Taylor, Samantha Martin and the Delta Sugar, David Hawkins & Richard Yves Sitoski, Raven Meets Lion, Peter Katz, Lennie Gallant, Lisa Stethem, Rob Elder, William Prince, Robert Lane, Reid Jamieson and Summerfolk 45 alumnus Shane Pendergast!
In this episode I am sharing an intimate conversation with my good friend Peter Katz.Peter Katz (he/him) is a JUNO award and Canadian Screen Award-nominated singer-songwriter and speaker. His work has been featured on several movies and television shows including Lethal Weapon, Reign and Heartland, as well as the 2016 Rio Olympics. Peter is a 4-time TEDx speaker and one of the country's most in-demand speakers, inspiring audiences with his signature ‘Keynote Concerts' when he is asked to speak by Fortune 500 companies, large organizations and government agencies. Peter's music has been streamed over 5 million times, his YouTube videos have been viewed over 20 million times, and in 2020, he launched his 6th record, City of Our Lives, available on all major streaming platforms. In this intimate conversation, Peter and I discuss the journey of devoting oneself to the creative path, what it means to truly open up our hearts, and how we can transform some of the most challenging and painful experiences of our lives into love, wisdom and gratitude.Website: www.peterkatz.comSocial: @peterkatzmusic--------------------------------Subscribe to become a part of the Growing Wise community. You will have opportunities to participate in experiences, workshops and live podcast recordings facilitated by Negin.
Peter Katz is a Juno nominated singer/songwriter with a passion for fitness and the outdoors. Peter fell off a 100-foot cliff in 2017 and, while he miraculously survived, he was seriously injured. At one point there was talk of paralysis and amputation of his foot, but he beat the odds and made some incredible music during his recovery. In this episode we talk about Peter's fall, as well as another difficult time when his marriage ended and one of his biggest childhood fears became reality. We discuss resilience and overcoming obstacles, but also the importance of acknowledging and sharing difficult moments. At the end you'll hear Paper Thin, a beautiful track about vulnerability from Peter's album City of Our Lives.
What fuels your passion that drives it with a purpose so hard that you create amazing opportunities? That is your intuition hard at work, helping you open one door after another. All you have to do is open them, which is exactly what Peter Katz did, not only creating amazing music that affected so many people but his love for helping others find their passions had changed the lives of so many others. To find out more about Sarah, visit his podcast page at https://www.intuitionology.com/Peter-Katz/ Click the link to get your free e-book: https://www.intuitionology.com/e-book/
The youth of today have many influences that impact the decisions they make. From social media, societal norms, and those giving advice, with all the advice and attention divided between these and other avenues, what to do in life could become confusing. Blake Fleischacker intuitively knew that he needed to be that voice to help the youth, chopping through the noise from social media, societal norms, and ill-intended advice from others to that they could find success in their lives, growing his audience to thousands who hear him speak every year. He has also experienced an intuitive moment that led him to connect with his best friend Peter Katz. Not only does he call Peter while we were doing this interview, asking Peter what led HIS intuition to become best friends with Blake, but in the very next episode in my podcast series, I talk to Peter about this specific incident in addition to how intuition has impacted his life. To find out more about Sarah, visit his podcast page at https://www.intuitionology.com/Blake-Fleischacker/ Click the link to get your free e-book: https://www.intuitionology.com/e-book/
Literary Manager and producer Peter Katz discusses his company Story Driven, Being a Judge in Final Draft's Big Break Contest, what writers can do to stay focused in 2021, and more. Don’t forget to subscribe to the Write On Podcast on iTunes!
Have you ever wanted to learn about property management, but didn't want to be put on the hot seat in a 1-on-1 meeting? Do you have a property manager and aren't sure what questions you should be asking during your upcoming planning/strategy meeting? Are you an independent rental owner that just wants to become more efficient by learning from an industry expert? Peter Katz, President of Denver Residential Services and Denver Commercial Management, joins our podcast this week to discuss property management. With his background in construction, Peter's mission is to promote the preservation of assets so they are there for generations to come. If you answered yes to any of those questions, this is a great opportunity for you to gain insight directly from an asset manager. Whether you're in Denver or not, you will learn how to strengthen your working relationship with your management team by downloading this podcast episode. Enjoy! We believe Leaders are READERS, below are a few of our favorite leadership books: Entreleadership – 20 years of practical business wisdom, Dave Ramsey The Ideal Team Player – How to recognize and cultivate three ideal traits in your team, Patrick Lencioni Business Boutique– A woman’s guide for making money and doing what she loves, Christy Wright Our 3 Most Recent Episodes: EP #152: Profit First With Mike Michalowicz Entrepreneur and best-selling author of six business books, Mike Michalowicz, joins the podcast for a very special second episode this week to talk about his critically acclaimed book Profit First. EP #151: Fix This Next With Mike Michalowicz. When entrepreneurs reach out to six-time best selling author and entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz, it's typically to ask for help to make a big change or solve a big problem. Whether they are in crisis mode, simply want to grow their business, or want to make a lasting impact on the planet, Mike's new book, Fix This Next, finds the critical issue to resolve next. EP #150: Achieve Financial Freedom Through Tax Lien Investing. In this very special 150th podcast episode, Ted Thomas joins us to talk about how to build your financial legacy and gain financial freedom by investing in Tax Liens. With this approachable business model, Ted has helped newbies all the way to seasoned investors achieve passive & stress free income. Written & Produced by Kayla Davis and Anne Russell Hosted by Kyle Malnati Calibrate Real Estate 2425 S. Colorado Blvd #250, Denver, CO 80222 http://www.CalibrateRE.com
First up this week, Mike chats with Ron Hawkins (2:50), an icon of the Canadian indie rock community and incredible songwriter who fronts The Lowest of the Low and Ron Hawkins & The Do-Good Assassins. Ron chats about recording the new Do-Good Assassi... First up this week, Mike chats with Ron Hawkins (2:50), an icon of the Canadian indie rock community and incredible songwriter who fronts The Lowest of the Low and Ron Hawkins & The Do-Good Assassins. Ron chats about recording the new Do-Good Assassins album, 246, on a vintage analog four-track recorder, shunning the option to release the album on a major label, the pros and cons of indie and major labels from his experience, the difference between good and bad political songwriting, and more. The second interview this week is with Peter Katz (36:00), an acclaimed artist and public speaker, who tells Mike about writing his new, poppier album, City of Our Lives, while recovering from a gruesome injury that nearly took away his ability to walk. Peter also discusses the decision to stagger the digital and physical releases of the album, finding an appreciation for the craft of pop music, making his online performances more interactive and engaging, his impressive livestreaming setup, how he got into motivational speaking, and more.
Living through a global pandemic in modern times is unprecedented and no one is really sure how to navigate all that’s happening. With 24-hour newsfeeds and social media, we need to exercise our resiliency muscles more now than ever! On this episode of Authentic Living with Roxanne, we are thrilled to welcome singer, songwriter and speaker, Peter Katz to talk about finding his resiliency and the pivot he made when his calendar was wiped clean. Peter is a JUNO Award & Canadian Screen Award-nominated singer-songwriter as well as one of Canada’s most in-demand keynote speakers. For the past decade, he has toured the world in support of his music, sharing the stage and studio with legendary musicians like Academy Award winner and Grammy nominee Glen Hansard, and Garth Hudson from The Band. Authentic Touch Points: Peter’s path from music to speaking.2:30 In the right place at the right time.10:00 Staying connected through COVID.15:00 Self-care and support systems are necessary.23:00 Cultivating lifelines with vulnerability.28:30 Peter’s COVID pivot.39:00 Peter’s music has been streamed over 4.5 million times, his music videos have over 16 million views on YouTube, and his songs have been featured on countless TV shows and movies including the 2016 Rio Olympics/Paralympics. A gifted storyteller and a four-time TEDx fellow, Peter uses his work to inspire people to create their own path, overcome obstacles, and find success in whatever they desire. With many of us working from home and feeling the pressure of the pandemic, I encourage you to reach out with thoughts or questions about creating a healthier mindset. Click here to contact me at your convenience or click here to book a complementary call with me. You can find more information about me and how I can help you live a more authentic and resilient life at RoxanneDerhodge.com Thank you, Roxanne Links: Peter’s website Peter’s email: hellopeter@peterkatz.com Peter’s new song, Paper Thin Roxanne’s email: roxanne@roxannederhodge.com Book a complementary call with Roxanne Roxanne’s previous podcasts
Conversation on the Affects and Effects of Martial Arts Clothing, with Dr Peter Katz. Also available as a video on the Martial Arts Studies YouTube Channel.
"Peter Katz ( @PeterKatzmusic) is an JUNO Award, Canadian Screen Award and 2-time Canadian Folk Music Award-nominated singer-songwriter who has spent the past 10+ years touring internationally. He has sold out premiere venues around the world and his latest release ‘We Are The Reckoning' was hailed by CBC Radio host Tom Power as: “one of the most heartfelt, beautiful and vulnerable records of the year… an astonishing record”. Peter's music has been featured on several TV shows and movies like Lethal Weapon, Reign, Sign Sealed and Delivered, Felicity, For Your Consideration, Hello Goodbye, Alias, Heartland and more, as well as on CBC Television's 2016 Rio Olympics / Paralympics coverage. He has shared the stage and studio with the likes of Academy Award Winner Glen Hansard (Once, The Frames) and legendary icon Garth Hudson (The Band). Peter is also a 4-time TEDx fellow and gifted public speaker, being called on to give keynote talks to everyone from the 4000 delegates at the International Aeronautical Federation Conference (alongside Commander Chris Hadfield and Cirque du Soleil), to countless companies and organizations like Bell, Xerox, Royal Lepage, RBC, The Canadian Securities Establishment, The C-Suite Network and more. " Please visit www.peterkatz.com or www.peterkatzspeaks.com or follow along @peterkatzmusic on all socials #TheESpotwithCamille #CamilleKauer #PeterKatz #JunoAward --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/camillekauer/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/camillekauer/support
Peter Katz talks with Bud Hammer, president of Atlantic Westchester, an HVAC company based in Bedford Hills, about air quality in office and other buildings and what special steps owners and managers should take in view of concerns about the COVID-19 virus. Hammer discusses filtration and add-on equipment that can help ensure that cleaner air circulates.
Peter Katz talks with Howard Greenberg of Howard Properties, the exclusive rental agent for the 12-story office building at 20 South Broadway in Yonkers that was built in 1931. They discuss factors that have allowed the building to remain an anchor of the Getty Square area for some 89 years, as well as the situation Regarding Westchester commercial real estate in general in view of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there On this special episode of Scuba Shack Radio I sit down with Peter Katz – PADI Master Instructor to talk about his trip to the Maldives. Peter was fortunate to get his trip to the Maldives completed just before the pandemic lockdown. We talk about his … Continue reading 35. A special Father’s Day Edition of Your Next Dive – the Maldives with Peter Katz →
Pandemic got you down? Music is a great healer. Here's your weekly dose of the good stuff, catered up by your friends at Georgian Bay Roots Radio! This week's show is a bit of a mix of everything, featuring tracks by Safe As Houses, Sherman Downey, Phil Ochs, Stan Rogers, Gordie MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys, Danny Michel, The Barra MacNeils, Jeremy Fisher, Peter Katz, Joel Plaskett, The Jerry Cans, Craig Smith, Big Little Lions, Richard Garvey and Morgan Barrie!
Peter Katz is the CEO of SmartGO which helps to advance car-optional communities and transportation choices that are more sustainable. It supports policies that promote more equitable and effective transportation options and a physical environment that’s safer and more conducive to walking, biking and the use of public transit.Peter is an expert in placemaking, and is now using his deep knowledge to explore better approaches to getting around. He has seen it all, believe me. He has over a quarter century of experience in city design and he understands all the interconnected systems—including transportation—that enable great places to flourish.In addition to his work as an advocate for New Urbanism and new, better mobility options, Peter has consulted for a range of nonprofit, governmental and private sector clients, here in the US, and abroad. He’s also served as a city planner in California, Florida and Virginia. Have you ever wondered why public transit doesn’t work in the US?Would you like to know about “car-optional” living? ...and the ways that it might improve your community?Is there an app that may one day get Americans out of their cars, and into more sustainable ways of getting around, such as public transit, walking or biking? Listen to find out! Links:SmartGOPeter's LinkedInForm Based Code Institute Secrets of ScaleMobility As A ServiceThe Million Dollar Neighborhood The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of CommunityCongress of New Urbanism (CNU)David Zipper Article on New Mobility We would absolutely love your feedback (seriously!) Please email humancitypodcast@gmail.com, Tweet at HumanCityPod, or message on InstagramHosted By Stig Terrebonne
Peter Katz is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter and an in-demand public speaker. We talk about our shared history touring & making records, his compulsive focus and heroic work ethic. We also relive key moments in his last few years - including falling 100 feet off the edge of a cliff after which he was told he might never be able to walk again - and other adversity which he has funneled into inspiration. He also shares some great insights on public speaking, mindfulness and holding oneself accountable. "I realized that my mind was silent. It was so silent it was deafening. And it was the first time in my adult life that my mind was silent. And I realized that it was silent because I wasn't thinking about myself. I was thinking about these kids. And that caused this moment for me of actually feeling at peace."--- SUPPORT THIS PODCAST: https://bit.ly/aswKO-FI---PETER KATZ WEB: https://www.peterkatz.com WEB: https://www.facebook.com/peterkatzmusic MUSIC - SPOTIFY PLAYLIST: https://spoti.fi/2yRmw9O--- AND SOMETIMES ... WHY?: WEB https://www.andsometimeswhy.com EMAIL mailto:andsometimeswhypod@gmail.com INSTA https://www.instagram.com/andsometimeswhypod FB https://www.facebook.com/andsometimeswhypod TWEET https://twitter.com/sometimeswhypod
hey peter is here talkin about his band Peaer. we talk about his history playing music, tiny engines controversy and what he's been doing in quarantine.My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/blushcameronMy bandcamp: http://blushcameron.bandcamp.com/Listen to "No One Knows" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1HDGwSzXeL30UUkNdzpF7DPeaer social media:https://www.instagram.com/peaer_https://twitter.com/peaer_https://www.facebook.com/peaermusic/My social media:https://www.instagram.com/stories/blushcameron/http://twitter.com/blushcameronhttps://www.facebook.com/blushcameron
"If you want to make something that's like nothing you've made before, then you have to shake yourself up, go beyond whats comfortable and known and let yourself feel disoriented, overwhelmed, even intimidated. Those moments, when you lose your bearings or where you're forced to sink or swim, and the moments when you have an opportunity to rise to the occasion, to surprise yourself, to do the things you didn't know you could do. That's what making this album was for me, I'm so proud of the process, and I'm so proud of the result.” - Peter Katz This week I'm really excited to bring you an interview that I did with my friend and singer-songwriter Peter Katz! Over the past decade, Peter's seen his albums debut at number one on the iTunes singer-songwriter charts. He has shared the stage and studio with the likes of Academy Award winner Glen Hansard, Juno Award winners, The Good Lovelies, Polaris Prize nominated Melissa McClelland, and the legendary Garth Hudson from the Band. He has toured all over the world playing regularly to capacity crowds and has managed to build an impressive fan base of loyal listeners. The London Free Press describe one of his concerts as "try listening without getting goosebumps." In this conversation, we talk about creativity, learning, pushing through, even though you may not necessarily feel like it. I think there are some tremendous insights here that can benefit everybody. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-greg-wells/support
This season we are talking about the two elements of Joy: Well-being and Success. Success is the achievement of goals, whatever they are. Well-being is having a positive relationship with our abilities and our limits, whatever they are. We need to miss out on some things to get there. Some beliefs. Some habits. Some hustle. All the FOMO. DISCONNECT TO RECONNECT | A Fireside Special This week, we're releasing two special JOMOcast episodes with guests from Fireside Conference: an offline conference for techies. First up, Peter Katz. When Peter - a Juno-nominated musician - showed up for a sold-out concert in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, he'd get a job offer that would change his life forever. Instead of hustling year-round as a creator, he now spends an entire month each year unplugged from touring, from the city, from the non-stop pressure to produce, in order to invest in the lives of teens building resilience in the mountains. It was a risky choice - one that could have jeopardized his career but, instead catalyzed his career and his life. Key takeaways from our conversation: - The joy of missing out on personal gain to invest deeply in others- Letting go of predictability to embrace work that brings you LIFE- Consciously choosing to trade the noise and hustle of the city for the silence of the mountains Topics covered:- The traps of personal branding- The freedom and joy of outward focus- For communities to thrive we all need to elevate each other and we can't do that if we are isolating ourselves- It takes time to process feelings- The “wow” factor: the importance of curiosity GO DEEPERWant to experience the joy of missing out in your daily life? We'll send you playful prompts to brighten your day, expand your mind, and push you outside into the real world. We all need a little nudge. Sign up for 7-days of free JOMO Quests at experiencejomo.com. Favorite Quotes “There are no bad kids, only sad kids.” “I would not choose the Air Canada Centre [the biggest venue in Canada] over that experience. Not a million years. And this is not the direction I thought I would take as a singer/songwriter.” “Everything GOOD in my life is rooted in saying yes to that.” SponsorsHover has a domain name for whatever you're passionate about. Get 10% off your first domain name, and start laying the groundwork for your next big idea, by visiting hover.com/jomocast. Follow Peter's work:https://www.peterkatz.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/peterkatzmusic/ Call to ActionIf this episode sparked some new ideas, I would love your support. Subscribe in iTunes and write us a review. Every rating helps us attract new listeners, which helps us to keep making the show! For bonus content and extras like a JOMO manifesto letterprint, become a patron at www.patreon.com/jomocast. Every patron gets a shout out on the JOMOcast and a place on the Wall of Thanks for all of time. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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Misfits, this episode was recorded while I was on the road with live mics, so it will sound different than normal, but I promise that you will absolutely love this episode. This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Peter Katz. Peter is a Canadian Screen Award-nominated singer-songwriter. He’s been rated the best Male Vocalist in NOW Magazine and is has been #1 on the Itunes Singer-song writer charts multiple times. He’s toured the world playing to sell-out crowds and has built an incredible fanbase of loyal listeners, selling over 25,000 copies of his discs mostly from stage, one show at a time. I recently got to see Peter in a private concert and meet and spend time with him - and I have to say I came away incredibly impressed. Not only is he one of the best voices I have ever heard sing, but also one of the most down to earth people I have ever met. And make no mistake, he understands business. Especially in today’s world, where to succeed as a singer-songwriter, is radically different than the days where you could just cut an album and get it on the shelves. Nowadays, it takes the whole package. It takes having a great product, understanding all the different channels to market it through, being truly genuine and engaging your fans in a meaningful way, and above all - staying true to yourself. There is a lot we can learn from Peter on how to succeed in business and I’ve brought him on today, to teach it to you. We may even get to hear a song or two if we are lucky. www.PeterKatz.com @PeterKatzMusic Peter has been touring for the last 12 years. For the first 10 years, he was doing about 150 shows/performances a year, playing to small crowds, sleeping on floors, and figuring out how to make ends meet. He would drive 8 hours a day to do a show for sometimes just a few people. After over 10 years of doing it, his music began to take hold and he began to get a large following and got his first major hits. “The only way I was going to get good at being a singer/songwriter was by doing it all the time.” Peter talks about how each show he got better and he had to go all in and that everything he learned helped him to get better and better. It then led to a bunch of unexpected outcomes which added to his success. At the 13 min mark, Peter tells the story of a certain hotel that kept popping up through his story and what he realized about life’s journey…It’s best to just listen to the story. You will go through your biggest fears in your life at some point and you will be able to get through them, because they are not as big as you made them out to be. You will be OK. Learning to maintain perspective in the face of all the bad and good that happens, is very important. How do you keep perspective and stay true to who you are? Live your life by the “head on the pillow rule.” When you lay your head on the pillow at the end of the night, can you honestly say that you have given your best, done your best, and treated everyone with integrity? If so, you will sleep like a baby. You have to be able to stand up and believe in what you are doing, saying, and in your actions. If you are going to pick an entrepreneurial or unconventional path, you might as well do something that you can believe in and be proud of as that may be your only reward as an entrepreneur for a while. It’s the self-respect you must have to keep perspective and stay true. Create standards to live into. Tell us about how you built your business and lessons you’ve learned… Do every job you can in your business before having someone else do it for you. You will need to learn to let go of the reigns at some point and it will be challenging – but to grow you will have to do it. You have to find a way, make a way, and hustle. Get out and create your opportunities. The only way you can get better is by doing it every day in and out, not just once a week. Your team will build over time. Be patient. Make it a point to spend the most time and where you make the most impact on the business. It’s a balance of hustle and continuous improvement. Talk to us about what it means to be relentless… First, you can push too far…you have to realize this. You must schedule time for yourself away from it. You should be relentless in your self-care the same as you as in your work. Re-charging yourself helps you to be more relentless. To be relentless, you must constantly make choices toward what you believe in and not stop in your pursuit. You have to want it so bad that you will move heaven and earth to get it. And this puts you into a whole new category of possibility. What are some of the principles you have used to build and keep a loyal following? From day 1, treating people with the respect and recognition they deserve. Always honor people in your life and business. Remember their names. Be genuine. Show appreciation to those that help you and follow up with thanks. Show up. Show up on time and be your best. There is no other way to do it. Be kind and remember that people will remember how you treated them- sometimes many years after. Be and stay consistent How do you overcome and put yourself in a place where you are always ready to perform? Be open, honest, and vulnerable. Wherever you are before you walk on stage, compete, etc. – acknowledge where you are starting from and go from there. Trust that you will get into the moment. You must have self-respect for yourself in that when you perform at whatever it is you do, enjoy it. Nervousness is selfishness. You should be thinking about those that you are performing for and everything it took for them to be there. You are doing it for them – not for you. People don’t want you to fail – they want you to follow through on the promise of what you can be to them or their business. Any success hacks or habits you can’t live without? Going to the gym or physical activity in the morning is a miracle cure. It is focused time to take care of yourself. You will feel better after every time. Best Quote: People don’t want you to fail – they want you to follow through on the promise of what you can be to them or their business. Peter's Misfit 3: Follow the “head on the pillow” rule. Be and do your best. Hold yourself to a higher standard. Make sure you carve out the time to work on “the thing.” You have to work on whatever it is that needs your personal focus. Practice self-care. Everything falls apart if you don’t take the time to take care of your body, your mind, and your relationships.
JD Edwards, The Shards, Doug Macnearney, Alfi Smith, Matt Gordan & Leonard Podolak & Bill Shanley, Eve Goldberg, Chicks With Picks, Michael Goodwin, Ash & Bloom, Larry Dickinson, Peter Katz, Richard Garvey, Ted Rusk playing some folk music for a lovely end of February show.
Keynote speaker from the Fireside Conference and musician, Peter Katz, joins the pod to share some his lowest moments and the tools that got him through it. Peter opens up about his divorce and how he navigates living with uncertainty. RESOURCES @peterkatzmusic We are the Reckoning Beyonce Halo Cover
Topic:Smart Growth and Livable Communities Series – active transportation and community design Guest:https://infiniteearthradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/katz-resized.jpg ()Peter Katz has been a leader in advancing innovative approaches to community planning and transportation for more than a quarter century. He helped to catalyze the New Urbanism movement, first as author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, and later as founding director of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). At CNU, Katz set up a strategic partnership with the US Department of Housing & Urban Development that led the agency to adopt more neighborhood-oriented development models. He was recently named a fellow of CNU in recognition of his contributions to the New Urbanism movement. As consultant to government, public agencies, and private-sector clients, Katz addresses real-world needs with state-of-the-art strategies. He was lead advisor to local redevelopment officials on the highly successful Contra Costa Centre Transit Village (American Planning Association National Award Winner, 2012). Organization:https://infiniteearthradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Logo-for-paste-PNG-SM-MED.png ()GoTRANS, a recently formed nonprofit organization, is building a community of car-free and car-light individuals and families across the United States. It provides a range of consumer and municipal supports to advance the use of active transportation (walking and bicycling), public transportation and other shared-mobility formats. Through its programs, products and services, GoTRANS seeks to lower the cost of urban living for families that would otherwise “drive until they qualify” for car-dependent housing at the suburban edge. Resources: https://www.cnu.org/ (Congress for the New Urbanism) https://www.lgc.org/ (Local Government Commission )
Good Neighbor Kathy Keene was joined by Dr. Peter Katz, Dermatologist with Forefront Dermatology.
Georgian Bay Roots shares the music that's made in Grey and Bruce counties with roots music from across Canada and around the world thrown into the mix. This week we've got songs from Danny Michel, Kathleen Edwards, Peter Katz, Valdy, Shari Ulrich, the Sportswriters, and Leonard Sumner with brand new songs from Anna Weibe and Piper Hayes.
Born and Raised in London, Ontario, Ken Yates moved to Boston to study songwriting at Berklee College of Music. It was there that he developed his skills as a songwriter, releasing his first CD, “The Backseat EP”, and received the opportunity to play a song for one of his biggest influences, John Mayer. Mayer even posted a full page blog about Yates’ ability as a writer stating, “Ken Yates wrote a song called ‘I Don’t Wanna Fall In Love’… this song moved me when I first heard it and still does today”. Yates’ EP received high critical acclaim, leading to a slew of online covers from fans. He has toured with many notable names including veteran singer/songwriter and mentor, Livingston Taylor, Sister Hazel, Peter Katz, and Liz Longley and has songs in heavy rotation on Sirius XM’s The Coffee House where he was nominated for The Coffee House Songwriter Discovery of the Year. For more, go to www.kenyates.com.
Here’s the latest entry in our archive of timeless episodes that you may hear again at some point when I can’t make it in, and can’t quite find the time to record something new. It doesn’t happen all that often, but when it does, it’s nice to have a few of these on hand. This time, we’re going with a theme, albeit a bit of a silly one - we’re playing artists in order of their alphabetical placement - going all the way from Alvin to Zeman on this A to Z episode!
Here’s the latest entry in our archive of timeless episodes that you may hear again at some point when I can’t make it in, and can’t quite find the time to record something new. It doesn’t happen all that often, but when it does, it’s nice to have a few of these on hand. This time, we’re going with a theme, albeit a bit of a silly one - we’re playing artists in order of their alphabetical placement - going all the way from Alvin to Zeman on this A to Z episode!
The Missing Metric March 4, 2014 With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen pushback against government regulation at all levels, it makes sense to consider a new "balance-sheet" approach to granting development approvals. Such an approach would screen for more compact, high-value development that would pay back government's up-front infrastructure investments on a more rapid basis. On first blush, the regulatory strategy would not seem compatible with Smart Growth and New Urbanism, both of which are strongly driven by urban design and physical form. Such models, which have gained wide acceptance among planners as preferred models for more sustainable community development, have proved difficult to implement within the regulatory structures that prevail in the United States and Canada. By incorporating the "missing metric" into development review, municipalities may be able to reduce and even eliminate many cumbersome and highly subjective development regulations, and at the same time make it easier to achieve more amenable, resource-efficient and economically stable communities. For a recent article by speaker Peter Katz on the approach, visit www.gfoa.org/downloads/GFOAGFRAug13MissingMetric.pdf
James Howard Kunstler joins other prominent New Urbanist writers on a recent panel at The Congress for The New Urbanism, held in West Palm Beach, Florida this May 9-12, 2012. Featuring: Chuck Bohl, Peter Katz, Philip Langdon, and Charles Marohn.
Last week we held a birthday party for Guy Clark, this week we’re having one for another Texas great, Ray Wylie Hubbard. We’ve got a bunch of his songs and his friends along to celebrate. We’ve also got some new music and some great upcoming shows by the likes of Peter Katz and Ox.
Last week we held a birthday party for Guy Clark, this week we’re having one for another Texas great, Ray Wylie Hubbard. We’ve got a bunch of his songs and his friends along to celebrate. We’ve also got some new music and some great upcoming shows by the likes of Peter Katz and Ox.
We’ve got a bunch of new shows to preview and new music to enjoy. Plus, T-Bar’s back with some especially "interesting" T-Bar picks.
We’ve got a bunch of new shows to preview and new music to enjoy. Plus, T-Bar’s back with some especially "interesting" T-Bar picks.
Even though it’s still a couple months away, it seems like Christmas, because we got a heaping helping of new music in the mail this week, including a box of great new stuff from one of Canada’s best labels, Busted Flat Records. These add to an already impressive list of great new releases this year, but we all know that the releases go into hibernation this time of year. With that in mind, we tried to look at what might be the best release of 2010… and then realized that it was slightly premature. We did, however, manage to look at some great concerts, past and present.
Even though it’s still a couple months away, it seems like Christmas, because we got a heaping helping of new music in the mail this week, including a box of great new stuff from one of Canada’s best labels, Busted Flat Records. These add to an already impressive list of great new releases this year, but we all know that the releases go into hibernation this time of year. With that in mind, we tried to look at what might be the best release of 2010… and then realized that it was slightly premature. We did, however, manage to look at some great concerts, past and present.
Simon & Garfunkle may not be coming to town this week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t hear some of their songs done by themselves and others. You know who is coming to town? Brock Zeman, Peter Katz, Romi Mayes, and more! We’ve also got some new, some notable, and some just plain great music.
Simon & Garfunkle may not be coming to town this week, but that doesn’t mean we can’t hear some of their songs done by themselves and others. You know who is coming to town? Brock Zeman, Peter Katz, Romi Mayes, and more! We’ve also got some new, some notable, and some just plain great music.
This episode marks the return of Terry's good buddy, Peter Katz. Peter first came on the show a few years ago and played live and wowed us. Since then, we've become big fans and we're all watching his star rise, so we can say that we knew him back when. He came in to chat and play us a song live before his gig. Also on the show, all of the usual hijinx and silliness you may have come to expect on this 3 ring circus of a show.
This episode marks the return of Terry's good buddy, Peter Katz. Peter first came on the show a few years ago and played live and wowed us. Since then, we've become big fans and we're all watching his star rise, so we can say that we knew him back when. He came in to chat and play us a song live before his gig. Also on the show, all of the usual hijinx and silliness you may have come to expect on this 3 ring circus of a show.
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