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Wrestling is arguably the most popular grappling sport in the United States, and it wields great influence over other grappling arts such as Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Judo. As an accomplished wrestler himself, Shintaro talks about wrestling with Peter: What are the different styles of wrestling? Is wrestling right for everyone? Is wrestling good for Judo and BJJ?

It's been a long time since Jason Hartman has done a listener question episode, so he and Adam sit down and get to some of the questions that have come in. Listen in as the two explore how to attack coming inflation, why banks give out loans, the future of housing prices, and more. Key Takeaways: [2:37] Listener Question from Terry about profiting from inflation if you can't get an investment property [10:21] Listener Question from CluverBusy about why banks give mortgages if it's so advantageous to the borrower [15:58] Listener Question from Rich Jarsky: what's the best market to buy income properties in? [24:10] Listener Question from Peter: What about when you can't get a fixed rate mortgage [25:21] Listener Question from Ju Liu: Will we ever see housing prices go down? Website: www.JasonHartman.com/Properties www.YouTube.com/jasonhartmanrealestate

It's been a long time since Jason Hartman has done a listener question episode, so he and Adam sit down and get to some of the questions that have come in. Listen in as the two explore how to attack coming inflation, why banks give out loans, the future of housing prices, and more. Key Takeaways: [2:37] Listener Question from Terry about profiting from inflation if you can't get an investment property [10:21] Listener Question from CluverBusy about why banks give mortgages if it's so advantageous to the borrower [15:58] Listener Question from Rich Jarsky: what's the best market to buy income properties in? [24:10] Listener Question from Peter: What about when you can't get a fixed rate mortgage [25:21] Listener Question from Ju Liu: Will we ever see housing prices go down? Website: www.JasonHartman.com/Properties www.YouTube.com/jasonhartmanrealestate

Another presentation from the Brighton SEO conference on a topic that is really new, but important for every website owner. Website accessibility is a hot topic because lawmakers all around the world are writing laws that require you to make your website accessible to people with different disabilities. Luckily, a lot of the things that you have to do will have a positive impact on your SEO. Lea is an SEO expert and understands the link between those two. You can find her on Linkedin, Twitter or on the company website. Here is the transcript of the recording: Hello, and welcome to the Time for Marketing podcast, the podcast that brings you the best marketing conference speakers and makes them sum up their presentation in five minutes. My name is Peter, and I'll be your podcast's host. This is episode number 37, and if this is your first time you're listening, please go back in the library and find the excellent guests that we had in the past, that I had in the past. There's some gold in there, because I try to find people who have evergreen content. There are excellent episodes back there. If you have other people that you can promote the podcast to, I'll be glad if you do that. I'm very glad that I have today's guest on the podcast. Lea, hello, and welcome to the podcast. Lea: Hi, thanks for having me. Peter: How is Lake Superior? Lea: It's gorgeous, as always, deep blue and angry. [laughs] Peter: Me and Lea, we talked before, and I'm very intrigued by the name of the lake at which she has the office. She was kind enough to show the lake view from her office. Lea, you are the SEO analyst at Aimclear in Minnesota US. What are you as a company, and what do you do there? Lea: We are a digital agency company, award-winning. We love our US search awards. We do everything from web development to paid and, of course, SEO, like I do. Then also with SEO, we roll in accessibility and work between the teams to make sure that we're checking things like contrast and all text and all the things from the ad side to the web dev side. Peter: For you personally, why SEO? Lea: SEO I fell in love with almost 20 years ago. I worked for a company that built websites for dealerships that sold power sports. I just really fell in love with the idea of helping those small business owners get found and sell product. When I figured out how to move the needle, it was really exciting. Then I started leading a team, and that's what we did. Then after that Aimclear was the next big challenge because I wanted to see what else I could do, so applied it and here I am. Peter: What do you do in Aimclear? What are the things that you do daily, and what are your favorite things to do? Lea: I do SEO. SEO. [laughs] I also work with accessibility to make sure that the stuff we put out is accessible to as many people as we can. That's what I spend most of my day doing. I really love it when we have a site that is not performing come in, and I get to take it by the reins and make it show up and help meet goals, sell stuff, find dealers, or find leads, and that sort of thing. Peter: Excellent. I invited you to the podcast because you had a presentation at Brighton SEO, probably my favorite marketing conference. The presentation was called Digital Accessibility and Compliance: Essential for Users and Good for SEO. Why accessibility? Lea: Why have I chosen to go down the accessibility route? Peter: Yes. Lea: Oh. Short story is, I had a really good friend that was diagnosed with ALS which is a neurodegenerative disorder that takes your ability to speak and use your arms and things like that. It's horrible. While we were helping her sell her house and move her mom into assisted living and then help her find a place to live, she'd stopped communicating with us. It was because things like Facebook's Messenger doesn't rotate, and things like, Twitter doesn't rotate. She couldn't communicate back and forth in the text messages the way we used to do it. I was really frustrated when I wasn't being communicated back to, and I was trying to help her with things, and then realize that it wasn't her, it was the software, or it was the phone, or whatever. For whatever reason, once it was mounted on her wheelchair and it was mounted at horizontal so that the fonts were big enough to read, literally things wouldn't rotate. That was the starting point. Then, from there, I realized how important SEO actually is to accessibility and how they are siblings. They're brother and sister, and you need one for the other, and vice versa. Peter: A lot of basics SEO stuff is actually also a lot of basic accessibility stuff, right? Lea: Yes. If you actually look at core web vitals, it's accessibility. If you go through the pieces of core web vitals and what they're asking us to do and how search console is notifying us, "Hey, this is too close together." These are accessibility elements right at their core. Google might call it something different, but that's what it is, and you can see it. Peter: Lea's presentation is going to get you to be in line with your local laws. It's going to help more people see you. It's going to help you be in line with Google. It's going to help you with web vitals and all of the updates that come. Whatever Lea says, has to be gold for you. Lea: I just want to open everybody's eyes because a lot SEOs thinks the elements aren't as important as they really, really are. Peter: With no further ado, here are your five minutes. Lea: My main goal is to change the perception so that SEOs and developers and designers and content creators start thinking that accessibility is about people, because a lot of times we get hung up on- they're not our customers, and that's not the truth, they have wallets, so they're your customers. We need to make sure that we're thinking about accessibility because if we're States side, we're talking about one in five people need accessibility when they're using the web. If you talking about the UK side, we're talking about 22%, which is a little bit more. There's one in five people need your site or need your app to be accessible, so that they can use it easily. Accessibility is really important because it bridges the gaps between physical disability like location, but also socioeconomic status, education, language, gender, and so many more things they can-- The list is endless. Accessibility, it focuses on people with disabilities or that have a disability, but it greatly benefits everybody around us, including our aging parents. It's really important that everybody thinks about accessibility as empowering users to use your stuff. Use your app, use your website. When we go through, and we talk about accessibility, and everybody's working to get their website to revolve around core web vitals and getting your site up to speed and making it fast and nimble, without considering accessibility, you're ignoring 10% to 15% of the global population, and in an age when we're all responsible for making money or hitting that bottom line, why would you just automatically cut off that many people? It doesn't make any sense. Since we're all in the process of meeting the core web vitals, and making sure that we don't miss any of those potential sales, because we're not ranking well, it's the same thing as working accessibility into your websites. There's basically five things to look at. If you haven't started a web accessibility site or information on your site, start by making yourself an accessibility statement and just owning up to the fact that you haven't gotten there. Make sure that you do some tests. Just try tabbing through your website and make sure you can do all the things on your website, like make a purchase, contact fuzz form, things like that. Whatever the main goals of your site or app are, see if you can do it with just having. Then, when you get down into that stuff, go use your site on your mobile. A lot of people test, test, test on their desktop, but they don't actually take their site outside and see if it's really easy to see during a sunny day, or make sure that everything's easy to click on and nothing's too small, or nothing like a pop-up as the X isn't off the screen. There's little things like that you can do. Probably the biggest thing is having people with disabilities at your table when you're making the plan. That is the biggest thing I need to advocate for because we as a group, SEOs, we don't know all the things that actually need to be done, and having people that need the assistive technology or need these elements put in place, having them at the table during the planning stage is imperative. Peter: That's it. Excellent. Lea: That's it. That's the big one. Those are the big things. Peter: How do we get people to our table, people that can tell us how they practically are using our website? I get the idea. You've done this a couple of times. What's the most practical way to do it? Lea: It literally depends on what your budget is. [laughs] As everything, right? You can hire within, hire people within to do testing and to work on your dev team, or work in your SEO team, you can do that. There are resources out there, there are companies out there that they have testing available, and it's beyond the computer. Anything that gives you a badge just because a computer tested it, said you're good to go, even the WAVE tool, which is created by the W3C, which is leading the charge and accessibility. Even if you have that, those badges really don't do anything if they don't have individual people testing in the background. Look into companies that offer accessibility testing with live humans that are going to go through your site. That'd be beautiful. Peter: When should we involve them? Should that be when we start thinking about new web page, when we start developing it, or graphics, wireframes? What is the best time to do that? Lea: Right at the beginning, because they're going to have tips for you to help you get started on the right foot, because you can go through the whole website and build it all out, and every website goes over timeline. It just does. There's always something like, "Oh, we forgot to tell you we needed a whole blog system," or, "Oh, we forgot this," or, "Oh, you know what? We really, really want it." We get those comments after things are already built, right? I can see you. Every SEO or dev person right now is calm faced, right? They all have had that experience. Having them at the beginning is really important because retrofitting rarely works. It gets really expensive, and at the end of the day, you most of the time end up scrapping the whole thing and starting over. Yes, start planning from the beginning and test, test, test all the way through. Peter: I feel that if I want to have a very accessible web page, I have to put aside all of the great ideas that my developer had, how we're going to have a unique website. I have to have the F structure and everything has to be squared, and colors have to be four different. How do you answer that? Lea: I'm not a dev, I'm definitely an SEO. I can read enough code to be dangerous and a lot of times be like, "It's broken somewhere right here." Our designers, they think about accessibility and color right from the beginning. When I see a design idea or the first mock-up, that's the first thing out of my mouth is, "Is it accessible, are all the contrasts?" Then I'll look at the colors and we'll test them because the math. A really good tip right off the bat is go look at your website. If you have gray font on a white background, people that have glasses have a hard time reading that on their mobile phone. Skipping gray font, gray font is font spam, and it isn't a good experience for anybody. Black is best. If you're doing a black background, white font is best. Make sure that that contrast is there so that it's very easy to read. From the beginning onward, you can still do really beautiful sites. Our designers and developers are doing really beautiful sites that are accessible, because we're starting at the beginning. Peter: Okay. Yes, probably start at the beginning is the same way. Linking accessibility to SEO. How does that work? Lea: Okay. Accessibility when you go through the W3's website. The W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium, right? They have the w3.org/wai. WAI, it stands for Web Accessibility Initiative. That part of the website takes you through everything. Accessibility is related to alt text, because if you have really great alt text that actually explains the image or the reason for the image, that also helps with search. We know that. We know that if you do alt text that images help. We know that Google is moving more and more and more towards image in the SERPs. Because we're doing more and more images in the SERPs, we need to make sure that those images are relevant to the content. You can do beautiful design elements, but then we just mark them as an alt. The things that would rank it would be make sense and ask yourself, "Are my users searching an image search for this content or for this information?" Then make sure that your alt text is relevant to what they were likely searching. That's one. Accessibility relates to SEO through headlines. A lot of people, there's a lot of websites out there, where they think that H1 is just to make big, pretty font, and so there's multiple H1s on the homepage. abc.go, the ABC News station's website, that entire homepage is nothing but H1s because it's just-- Peter: It's good for SEO. Lea: It's not. [laughs] It's not. It's really horrible for people that are going through and doing the use kit. My computer, I have set up to go headline to headline. People using their keyboard to navigate versus a mouse, because, say, they have low vision or no vision, then they will do Ctrl and H for next headline and they will pop through and listen to the headlines to get to the story they want to listen to or read. Those headlines, if they're in improper order, they're sending people all over. It doesn't make any sense and they're going to bounce off your site. Again, remember, it's one in five, need accessibility. You're really limiting the number of people to your site. Those are just a couple of the ways that it is related, but they're pretty big ways. Peter: Very important. I'm really happy when I get people talk about things that I haven't really thought about, talked about. Lea: Thought about? Yes. Peter: Yes, that word. Getting something new to the podcast is great. Lea, thank you very much for that. If people want to talk to you about accessibility or SEO, where can they find you? Lea: You can hop onto aimclear.com and reach out through the Contact Us form and they'll connect us. That's probably the easiest way. Otherwise, you can find me on Twitter, Lea Scudamore. Just no H on Lea, it's just L-E-A. Three letters, really easy. Peter: I'll add that into the show notes so people can find you there. Lea: Yes, so you can find me there, too. Peter: All right, excellent. Lea, thank you very much. Do you ever go and swim in the Lake Superior, and does that make you superior? Lea: It doesn't make me superior, but it is a great time. Peter: I'll do that once. Lea: Yes, please. Please come. Please come to Duluth and come hang out at the lake with us. Come in mid-to-late June, beginning of July, because we're still talking snow here right now. Peter: See, this is why I was yesterday at the Croatian seaside where we had 20 degrees Celsius. We were almost able to go to the sea, but in shorts and stuff. This is why we go to Croatia. Croatia is great. We're just rambling, I'm rambling. Lea, thank you very much to be in the podcast. Have a great Monday. Lea: You, too. Thank you so much. Peter: Bye-bye. Lea: Bye.

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It's been a long time since Jason Hartman has done a listener question episode, so he and Adam sit down and get to some of the questions that have come in. Listen in as the two explore how to attack coming inflation, why banks give out loans, the future of housing prices, and more. Key Takeaways: [2:37] Listener Question from Terry about profiting from inflation if you can't get an investment property [10:21] Listener Question from CluverBusy about why banks give mortgages if it's so advantageous to the borrower [15:58] Listener Question from Rich Jarsky: what's the best market to buy income properties in? [24:10] Listener Question from Peter: What about when you can't get a fixed rate mortgage [25:21] Listener Question from Ju Liu: Will we ever see housing prices go down? Website: www.JasonHartman.com/Properties www.YouTube.com/jasonhartmanrealestate

We must let God shift our way of thinking - so that we view our suffering through a spiritual lens instead of a logical lens. The post 1 Peter: What’s the Story We Tell of Our Suffering? appeared first on Pulpit Rock Church in Colorado Springs.

Peter, Martin, Adam and Chan joined me on this bizarre adventure of anime shows. We each chose an one that everyone had to watch and then dove deep into an involved discussion about each show. Join us on our adventure where we watched: Sailor Moon Hellsing Ultimate Black Lagoon Nichijou Girls und Panzer 6 hours of recording were cut down to two hours after months of trying to watch the show, months trying to get 5 people together at the same time and months editing it all together. Episode Note: 00:00 Intro - Who is Peter - What is our relationship with anime - Anti trash duck shirts and cups: https://suzuri.jp/mindduckjapan 22:18 Language quirk - Common anime words and phrases 26:50 SAILOR MOON 45:55 HELLSING ULTIMATE 01:08:13 Brand name of the week - Swallow chain 01:09:47 BLACK LAGOON 01:18:44 NICHIJOU 01:35:02 GIRLS UND PANZER 01:57:07 Thought of the day - Is there a steel bar in every movie? 02:04:47 Japanese music, Outro

Ironies of Bible-worship Do we know exactly what caused Judaism to metamorphose from a polytheistic religion into a monotheistic religion? How much of a role might its adoption of Zoroastrian ideas have played in this? Could the young man fleeing the Garden naked originally have been Peter? What’s your opinion of the 60s-80s genre I like to call "Christploitation" Films? Was Cain originally Yahweh’s son? Where did Medieval artists get the idea of assorted sadistic torments in hell? Is Hell a fleshy place for things to burn?  If today’s cult founders are discussed ad nauseum by their followers after their passing, why would the NT epistle authors have nothing to say about their founder whom they believed was God incarnate?

We know God- Which means we are--1. Amazed. Wow- God lets us know Himself- -v.1--2. Compound-blessed. We get more and more blessings. -v.2--3. Supplied. By knowing God, we have all that we need. -v.3--Name a theme in 2 Peter-What if we do not value the knowledge of God- Rom 1-28-How does knowing God link to eternal life- John 17-3-Whom do we most want to know- Phil. 3-8-10

This passage we're looking at this week was written by Peter, the same Peter who in His fear denied Jesus 3 times. At that time he had become a broken man, having lost faith in himself and in Jesus and yet when he wrote this he was a man transformed, living on the margins of society, facing the possibility of persecution, and even eventually he would be crucified upside down. So what transformed Peter? What helped him to triumph in the fire? The resurrection of Jesus – this is where his hope came from, this is what allowed Him to triumph in the fire. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

》》》》》》一键领取入口《《《《《《更多英语知识，请关注微信公众号: VOA英语每日一听 Peter: So thinking about your future, would you have your kids home-schooled, would you home-school themselves or do you think that it's better for them to go to a normal school, what would you do?Sarah: I used to say that I didn't know. But then I got my undergrad degree and elementary education and I had a chance to teach in public school. And that's when I decided, yes, absolutely, I would home-school my own children.Peter: What was the main reason coming to that decision?Sarah: The main reason was the wasted time that I saw. And also there were so many children in one classroom. It was really hard to get them all to focus and pay attention at the same time, it's nearly impossible. So if I could provide my child with one-on-one attention, I feel like they would learn more, there'd be less wasted time.Peter: Right. So home-schooling helps with using time productively I guess?Sarah: I would say so, yes.Peter: Right.Sarah: And now that I have the degree as well and elementary education I feel like I'm equipped to be able to do it if I needed to.Peter: Right. Do you think there are any disadvantages to home-schooling?Sarah: Probably the number one disadvantage that most people see with home-schooling is the social aspect. And this can be a big deal. It can be very hard, especially with sports, if your child wants to play on a sports team often it's hard to get them in on a team at a regular school. Sometimes there's community groups, but definitely the social aspect is the hardest need to meet with home-schooling.Peter: For home-schooling, what kind of exams or tests are there to make sure that children pass the grade that they're in?Sarah: I'm not sure what it's like in all countries, but I know in the US there's ... you take the end-of-year state testing that everyone does, so it's mailed to your house and your parents give you the test and the results are sent back to you.Peter: Okay. So it's all standardized and everybody goes through the same test?Sarah: Yes.Peter: Right.Sarah: And then when it comes time to take the SAT or the end of high school test then you can actually go and take them at a public school with everyone else, they'll allow you to do that.Peter: Okay. When you arrived in college did you notice any differences between the education you had and like the education other kids had not having gone through home-schooling?Sarah: The main difference I saw the social aspect. There are many things sort of culturally almost that I didn't know, that I was sheltered from, just things and sayings and popular things that happen in school that I had no clue about. It's almost a completely different culture than what I was raised in. So that was very different. And also I saw a difference then, it was really hard for me to learn with someone lecturing because I was so used to learning everything out of a book, reading it for myself, and so I'd have to listen and take notes, was a big struggle for me.Peter: Really?Sarah: Yes.Peter: But it sounds like you ended up being quite a self-driven and self-disciplined learner if you'd gone through the textbooks yourself.Sarah: Yes; I think you really can't help but be if you are home-schooled, so yeah.Peter: Right. Thank you very much, it was really interesting.Sarah: Absolutely.

SALLY:Oh, PETER, there you are.　　You've been ages. What kept you so long?　　PETER:I'm sorry I'm so late, SALLY.　　Have you been waiting long?　　SALLY:Oh, half an hour.　　But it doesn't matter.　　I've had a coffee and I've been reading this guidebook for tourists.　　Sit down. You look very hot and tired.　　What would you like to drink?　　PETER:I'd love a really chilled mineral water or something.　　Will you have another coffee?　　SALLY:Yes. I will. The waitress will be back in a moment.　　Why were you so late?　　Did something happen?　　PETER:Yes. You know I went to the bank to cash some travellers cheques?　　Well, the exchange rate was looking healthy, but when I went to the teller, they told me the computer system was temporarily down, so they couldn't do any transactions.　　They said the problem would be fixed in a few minutes, so I waited.　　And then I started talking to another guy in the bank, and I forgot the time.　　SALLY:Oh, really?　　Someone you met in the bank?　　Does he work there?　　PETER:No, he was a tourist, from New York.　　His name's Henry, and he's been here for a week, but he's moving on to Germany tomorrow.　　He's an architect, and he's spending four weeks travelling around Europe.　　SALLY:Just like us!　　PETER:Yeah, just like us.　　He told me the names of some places where we should eat.　　Great food, and not too expensive, he said.　　Oh, and he also gave me this map of the bus system.　　He said he didn't need it anymore.　　SALLY:That's useful. Pity he's moving on tomorrow.　　Ah, here's the waitress. Let's order.　　Do you want anything to eat, or shall we just have a drink?　　PETER:Well. I'm hungry, and we've got a lot of sightseeing to do, so let's just have a snack and a drink.　　SALLY:Sounds good to me.　　PETER:Well, let's decide what well see today.　　I guess the best place to start is the Cathedral, and then the Castle.　　What are the opening times for those two?　　SALLY:Well, according to this guidebook, the Cathedral is only open from nine-thirty in the morning until midday.　　No. hang on. That's the Cathedral Museum.　　The Cathedral itself is open morning and afternoon.　　The Castle is just open from one to five, so we can't go there until after lunch.　　I really want to spend some time in the Art Gallery, because they've got this wonderful painting by Rembrandt that I've always wanted to see.　　PETER:What else should we see?　　SALLY:Well, the guidebook says the Botanical Gardens are worth spending some time in, and they're open all day, from eight to six, so we can go there any time.　　I'd like to go to the Markets near the river too, but... oh ... no, wait, that's only in the mornings, too.　　PETER:As well as today and tomorrow, we can see some other places on Monday, you know.　　But I don't think the Markets will be open then: they only open on Thursdays, so we've missed them for this week.　　Maybe we should go to the Cathedral today because it's Sunday tomorrow, and even though it's open every day it might be more difficult to get in tomorrow because of the church services.　　SALLY:That's true, but the Art Gallery isn't open on Sundays at all, so we'll have to go there today.　　The Castle's open every day except Mondays, so we're OK there, and the Gardens of course only close at night.　　PETER:Are all these places free or do we have to pay to go in?　　What does the guidebook say?　　SALLY:I think there's a charge for all of them except the BotanicalGardens.　　Oh, and the Markets, of course you don't pay to go in.　　PETER:OK, well, it looks like our plan is this: we'll go to see the painting you like first, the Rembrandt, then have lunch and go on to the Castle after that, and then the Cathedral.　　SALLY:OK. It says here that the roof of the Cathedral is really beautiful.　　PETER:Is that right?　　What I really want to do at the Cathedral is climb the tower.　　The view is supposed to be spectacular.　　SALLY:OK, well, that'll be more than enough for today.　　Then, tomorrow, let's go to the Botanical Gardens and have a picnic.　　I want to sit by the river and watch the swans.　　This city's famous for them.

Peter: So Sarah, you said you're from North Carolina, and I've never been there before, I have no idea what it's like. Is it in the north of America or tell me more about it, I have no idea?Sarah: Well, it's funny because it has north in the name, North Carolina, but it's actually in the south, the southeast. So I usually tell people it's on the opposite end of the US, then California. And it's halfway between New York and Florida.Peter: Okay, that puts it on the map for me. Tell me, what's the weather like over there, what's the general climate like?Sarah: The weather is very moderate, it gets pretty hot in the summers and pretty cold in the winters. But it depends on where you live because North Carolina has both the mountains and the ocean as well because it's on the coast. So if you live on the coast side you get more warm temperatures and obviously no snow. But if you live on the mountainside then you get more snow and less hot weather.Peter: Okay. Why do people make a distinction between North and South Carolina, I mean what's the history behind that?Sarah: I believe it's because they used to all be one together before they were divided. And so when they divided into two states, they call it north now and south.Peter: I see.Sarah: Yeah.Peter: What's North Carolina famous for, I mean what can we look out for?Sarah: Probably the most famous thing, that is written on our license plates on the cars is 'First in Flight', because Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.Peter Oh wow! Okay, I didn't know that.Sarah: Yeah.Peter: Amazing!Sarah: Yeah, we think it's pretty cool.Peter: Is there famous food from that area, anything else that is really quite popular with people in America or outside?Sarah: Southern, because it's in the south, southern food is very popular, so southern food, things like fried chicken or a kind of bread we call biscuits, also grits, which is ground corn, all these kinds of foods are very popular in North Carolina because they're southern foods that we eat in the south. Also sweet tea - sweet tea, very popular, iced sweet tea.Peter: That sounds good.Sarah: Yeah.Peter: What goes in it, what?Sarah: It's just tea - black tea and sugar and then usually we put lemon in it as well.Peter: Okay.Sarah: It's very delicious.Peter: Growing up in North Carolina and living there, did you ever wish to live anywhere else, or do you think it's one of the best places to live?Sarah: When I was growing up there I always thought other places would be better. But then when I went away and lived in many other states and countries I began to see the beautiful things about the area, the country that I come from, so.Peter: Right. I guess that's always the way with traveling and somewhere else, you realize home has got many advantages and many beautiful places.Sarah: Yes, and people.Peter: Okay.Sarah: People you love are always home.

The Q Code Team has decided to transition from Conspiracy Theories to Reel vs Real. Or in other words, what did your favorite movies based on true stories get wrong and what did they get right? Did the artistic liberties of the movie directors help or hinder the films themselves? Over the next few weeks, the guys will each pick a movie they’d like to focus on. They’ll give you low down and the straight facts on what really happened in history and what is purely fantasy. Join the crew this week as they accelerate right into the real history behind the heart pumping thriller, Ford v. Ferrari. Learn whether the portrayed characters really existed and just how accurate the design of the vehicles used in the movie are. Did Ford really try to buy Ferrari? How fast did the Ford GT40 really go? What on earth is the “Le Mans” race and how does one win? So, turn that dial from 0 to 60 and let the podcast ring in your ears!(03:18) Scream in Your Heart?(15:41) Reel vs. Real: Ford v FerrariFind Us AtWebsite: qcodepodcast.comEmail: qcodep@gmail.comTwitter: @qcodepodcastFacebook: Q Code PodcastInstagram: qcodepodcastDon’t forget to subscribe and rate the show through your podcast player of choice! Source Material VideosYouTube: Scream in Your HeartIMDB: Ford v. Ferrari ArticlesHow Accurate is 'Ford v Ferrari'? The True Story of Ken Miles & Carroll ShelbyFord v. Ferrari: What Happened to Ken Miles' Son, Peter?What's Fact and What's Fiction in Ford v. FerrariWikipedia: Standing Start

  Sermon - Living in the face of alienation and its cure 1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles, scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, 2 who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. (1 Peter 1:1-2) 11 Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 12 Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. (2 Peter 2:11-12)   Introduction The author Who is Peter? What is the letter all about? Who is the letter to? 1. God God is Trinity Trinity is Love Indivisible Trinity is a Love Relationship God the Father foreknew! God the Spirit sanctifies! God the Son sacrifices. 2. Therefore! You are chosen by the Father out of His great love for them, cleansed by the Spirit to enable them to enter God’s Holy presence through the sacrificial obedience of the Son. God’s dear children – beloved of God They are in exile, travelling towards the heavenly city. They are to abstain from sinful desires! 3. Why are they to do this? To discover what more is said, please do download the audio to hear this sermon... Thank you! Right Mouse click or tap here to save this as an audio mp3 file You can now purchase our Partakers books! Please do click or tap here to visit our Amazon site! Click or tap on the appropriate link below to subscribe, share or download our iPhone App!

What final lessons should we take from 1 Peter? What makes the letter so valuable? Click Here to Listen. (Daily walk through 1 Peter. Recorded for the Dewey Church of Christ on April 30, 2020.)

Why is John wrapped up this way, with an almost unflattering story about Peter? What do we learn about Jesus, and why does it matter to us?

What does it mean to “be subject to”, and what does this concept matter so much to Peter? What does Peter want us to do and how? Click Here to Listen. (Daily walk through 1 Peter. This was recorded for the Dewey Church of Christ on April 10, 2020.)

In this, the Inaugural episode of My Reality Podcast, I tell y'all the story of where I've been for the last 4 months! I also recap Bachelor Hometowns....Peter - WHAT are you doing!!?? And quickly go over the first few episodes of Love Is Blind on Netflix!! (can this really work??) Join me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myrealitypod Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/podmyreality Email Me: myrealitypod@gmail.com And PRETTY PLEASE leave a 5 star review on ITUNES!!

Mark (here on LinkedIn) talked at the DMSS 2019 and he is a professional outreacher. His presentation was called Building a lean, mean, lead generating machine with outbound prospecting. And he knows how to help others do it. He is the CRO at TaskDrive. We have his whole presentation here: Building a lean, mean, lead generating machine with outbound prospecting from Mark Colgan   Here is the transcript of the talk we had: Mark Colgan: HubSpot is the biggest advocate of inbound marketing, yet they spent over 60% of their budget in the first few years on outbound. Really, the answer is that inbound alone doesn't work, and you need to support it with outbound prospecting or outbound marketing. Intro: This is Time For Marketing. The marketing podcast that will tell you everything you've missed when you didn't attend the marketing conference. Peter: Hello, and welcome to the Time For Marketing podcast. The podcast that brings you marketing conference speakers from all around the world, and takes their presentations, smoosh it up into five minutes, and you have a small package of knowledge. My name is Peter, and I'll be your podcast host. If you would like to check out the previous episodes, timeformarketing.com, or you can also subscribe to our newsletter, and of course find all the links to the iTunes Google podcast, Stitcher, and every else places where you can listen, and review, and rate, and do all of the great things that you do with podcasts. Today with me is Mark Colgan. Mark is the chief revenue officer at TaskDrive. Mark, hello, and welcome to the podcast. Mark: Hey, Peter. Thank you very much for having me. I'm really looking forward to sharing the presentation. Peter: Thank you for being here. Mark, you are a chief revenue officer. What does that mean? Mark: Yes, that's a great question to start with. A chief revenue officer has a few different definitions, but in my understanding and interpretation, it's somebody who aligns the different departments within a business in order to achieve revenue. Those departments I look after at TaskDrive are marketing, sales, customer success, and product. I make sure there's no silos, and I make sure that our customer is first in terms of our priority. We do everything we can to increase the quality that the customer has with us, which helps us reduce churn, and also helps us increase new customers through the sales and marketing activities too. Peter: What is TaskDrive? What are you doing? Mark: Good question. TaskDrive is a service-based business. Our mission is to help b2b sales and marketing teams focus on high-value activities. We do that by offering an outsourced lead generation and data enrichment service. We help companies build new lists of prospects. We also help them enrich existing datas, then we also help companies that sell into enterprise with their account-based insights to helping them expand their reach and increasing their sales velocity by giving them a detailed view of the stakeholders within the decision making process. Peter: This was a complicated way to say you help companies with their prospects, with their leads, is that right? Mark: Yes, but it's not just leads because we help them-- A lot of companies are faced with the fact that they have a lot of data that they've amassed over the last few years which has gone fairly out of date, so we also help them with data enrichment. Yes, one of the use cases is lead generation for prospecting. Peter: Your presentation comes from the Digital Marketing Skillshare Conference that is organized every year in Bali. You were there this year. How was the conference? Mark: Yes, it was fantastic. A really great conference. They originally started out with an SEO focus but over the last few years, have broadened that out to other tracks. There's people talking about marketing, pay-per-click advertising, as well as email marketing. I covered the outbound sales and prospecting through the presentation there. Peter: What was your favorite presentation at Bali? Is there one? Mark: I personally really enjoyed Mark Webster's presentation. He's from Authority Hacker, and he spoke about building and selling online courses, or online IP, basically, your knowledge as a personal interest of mine. I really enjoyed that talk and got a chance to speak with Mark after the event as well. Peter: Of course, Mark is a big podcaster in the marketing world. I think we should go directly to the presentation. Mark, you spoke on building a lean mean lead generating machine with outbound prospecting. Here are your five minutes. Tell us what your presentation was about? Mark: Thank you for having open mic, Peter. This presentation was actually around 50 minutes, so I'm going to do my best to bring everything into 5 minutes. I spoke about outbound prospecting, and throughout the presentation, I covered a number of different sections. I started out with what outbound prospecting is, what the four stages of building a lead generating machine is, how you can then scale that outbound prospecting. Then I gave some bonus tips and additional reading, which are all in the slides for those who are listening. I'll start with outbound prospecting. It really it's a direct channel where you can identify and target customers and directly reach out to them, and introduce them to your company its products and services. The goal of this is to start a conversation, and it's also to position yourself as a trusted adviser. You're not going to sell- especially in the b2b space, you're not going to sell directly to consumers in a cold email, so you need to remember that. Also, you need to remember that it's just one lead generation strategy, so you've got search engine optimization, social media events, webinars, side projects. Outbound prospecting just fits into your lead gen strategy. It's not the be-all and end-all. It's part of the sales process. It's the beginning part because once you generate leads, you then need to convert those leads by sales calls, or from demos, or free trials, and close them into paying customers, and then you need to fulfill those needs. Fulfill those customers and deliver the value that you promised, nurture those customers, and ensure they're successful, and hopefully, they become advocates of your business. Outbound prospecting works for most companies who have achieved product-market fit. They have an average order value of over a thousand dollars per year, and you can also scale the delivery of your service or product. It's really important to distinguish those. Also, as we approach 2020, there's a couple of things that I believe personally you need to do in order to succeed with the outbound prospecting. These are, you have to come from a attitude of offering value and giving without expecting anything in return. You need to understand the buyer's journey of awareness consideration of the decision, and people within your prospects are going to be at different levels of that journey. Also, only 3% of your market are actively buying at any one time, so that means 97% of people aren't looking to buy right now. If you're selling and pitching to a hundred people, only 3 are actively looking and 97 aren't. You need to make sure that what you're sending in your messaging is building value, and position yourself as a trusted advisor, and not just sending a sales pitch. For the sake of time, I broke down the lead generation machine into four different steps. I'll just go through those in a bit more detail. The four steps are planning, research, message, and launch. Planning really comes down to understanding who you're trying to target with your ideal customer profile, as well as the individuals within those companies. Those are your buyer personas. The best way to create these is to look at your existing customers and any sales or prospects in the funnel and just identify what they have in common. What pain points do they share, what characteristic characteristics they share as a company? You then need to move on to understanding what their pain points are, what problems are they trying to achieve or overcome from a account level as well as a personal level. In their role, what are they trying to overcome? Then you want to split out your ideal customer profiles and buyer personas into different campaigns. That might be via location, by industry, by job titles or seniority. Then you also need to prepare your email for outreach. One of the most important things to do is not use your main domain to send out these emails because you run the risk of hitting the spam traps, and then blocking your email deliverability in the future. You also need to research, spend a lot of time personalizing the outreach, so you can research on an individual persona. On an account level, make sure that your outreach is personalized, and you can use merge tags for the outreach. You put those things that you find in your research into the emails which builds relevance with the individual, and also it encourages them to reply. You then need to find those leads. There's a number of places you can look at. LinkedIn, you can go to directories, you got to the podcast, you could use paid databases like-- discover. There are hundreds of different sources for the data, but you'll only be able to know where they are when you've done your ideal customer profile and buyer persona research. Again, skipping through quite a lot here [chuckles] to try and get it into five minutes. Then we're onto your messaging. Here, you need to understand what your strategy for cadence is. That is, how many touchpoints, how many times are you going to try and attempt to contact people, over which media or channels, what the duration of the outreach is going to be, how much time in-between each of the messages, and what that content is. There's a number of ways to select media channels. The easiest way is the cheaper or smaller. The shorter the cell cycle is, the less effort you want to put in. The more longer the cell cycle is, and the more expensive your product is. You'll want to use channels such as Direct Mail, personalized video, and personalized experiences because the effort is worth the reward. Then the final element after you've got the messaging is to-- Sorry, then the messaging comes on to these four elements of the cold email. The subject line whose job it is to get the email opened. An opening sentence, which shows that you've done your research and it's a relevant email or message for the person who's received it to read. The main body, which connects your opening sentence to the value proposition that you offer. Then a call to action. The simplest call to action can be, "Would you be interested in finding out more?" The last thing you need to think about is the launch. This is where you select the right technology that you can use to send out these emails. The most simple technologies for email outreach where it's just email, you could use outreach.io, Lemlist, Amplemarket, or Reply.io. If you're combining your outreach with other channels, like direct mail, phone calls, and voicemails, you might want to use a tool like SalesLoft or outreach.io. Once you have that technology in place, you just need to set up your outbound sequence. All of the tools out there will help you do this. What you can typically expect is if you're doing this right, you can get an open rate of 60%. A reply rate of 45%, a conversion rate of 20%. If you're good at closing those deals, you want to be aiming for 50% close one. Obviously, you want to aim for 100%, but it won't always happen. That really is the key to building a lean mean lead generating machine and how you scale this is that you learn, you iterate, and you repeat. Once you've effectively done this for one fiscal or one campaign, you can launch multiple campaigns at a time and add more leads to the top of the funnel. Peter: All right. Thank you, Mark. A couple of questions. Outbound versus inbound prospecting. I feel that we're mostly, in the last couple of years talking about inbound. What is the difference and even more important, how should people decide which of those two channels should be more important for them? Mark: Great question and one that I like to usually back up with a fact which is escaping me right now. HubSpot is the biggest advocate of inbound marketing, yet they spent over 60% of their budget in the first few years on outbound. Really, the answer is that inbound alone doesn't work and you need to support it with outbound prospecting or outbound marketing. That's really key. I think when it comes to inbound, you're relying on the fact that your content is going to be picked up. You've got the right keywords and you've got the right audience segmentation that they're going to read your content and then convert or contact you. `Whereas what you can do with outbound prospecting is because you know who an ideal customer is, and you know the particular triggers and signals that you look for or you can see when somebody is right for you. Say for example, one of your buyer personas has started a new role and you offer a product or service that would help that person in their new role. You could actually reach out to them at the time where they're starting a new role with a bit of content or with some value that you can share with them to start the conversation. That you can't really do with inbound because you're not controlling the process, whereas with outbound, you can control the start and the initiation of a conversation. Peter: All right, you said that outbound is for companies whose customer value per year is around $1,000. How did you come to that number? Why? Mark: It's a rough rule of thumb. I'm not saying it wouldn't work for customers who have a smaller lifetime value, but the more the better. The reason being is that there's often costs associated from a tools and technology process. Some of these tools can cost 70 or even hundreds of dollars per month, and that's to send the emails out. You need to spend time doing the research. You also need to verify the research and you probably want somebody doing it for you because it may not be the best use of your time as a founder or even as a marketing or sales director. You've also got to be prepared to play the long game because not everybody converts on the first message. Often you see that sequences have over 30 touchpoints. In addition, because email alone may not work, you might need to include phone calls and voicemails, videos and direct mail. There's just a lot more labor costs in it. If your unit economics don't work out, it may cost you more to acquire a customer than it does if your average order value is low. Peter: Do you have any tricks to write email subjects? Mark: Yes. I would say the best subjects are short. They invoke curiosity, you could potentially use humor, definitely personalize with an account name, the company name or the person's first name. Those would be my main tips. Also, I shared in the presentation on the day that the best performing subject line for open rates is, I've got your wife. That will always get a lot of opens,- [laughter] Mark: -but you will have a lot of angry and annoyed people because you've tricked them. Never trick, be honest, be sincere. Use humor only if it's right with you and your audience. Some audiences you'll be able to get away with more humor than others. Peter: I like that idea of not using the main domain for the email outreach, could you briefly speak about that, why and how that works? Mark: Yes, sure. The best practice really is to pick a domain which isn't your main one. Let's say that your domain is companyname.com. Try and find a domain which is very similar, but it's .io or .co or whatever variation it may be or you might want to say getcompanyname.com. What you want to do is, even if you're doing everything right, you're taking time to research your ideal customer profiles and understand your buyer personas, you really understand their pain point and you have a fantastic product or service that can solve their problem and you're not spamming people and you're sending small volumes out at a time. You've warmed up your domain, you can still get triggered as spam. You can do everything right, but send the message to somebody on the wrong day and they mark you as spam. Also, if you're not personalizing your outreach and you're taking a very template shotgun approach, you will also be sending the same message out over and over again. That's what the spam filters are looking out for and it reduces your chances of delivering emails in the future. The main reason why we say to use a spare domain is because whilst you be able to do the right things, you still might be marked as spam on your cold email outreach domain which means that it can affect the deliverability of your main domain if you're not using a separate one. That means that your internal emails to each other, to your team members, may not even be delivered because you've been marked as spam so much. I've seen personally, companies who have really struggled with this in the past. Peter: All right. One last question, everyone who is from the European Union and you being from the UK, still count. They would ask, of course, how does that work with the privacy laws with GDPR and others? Mark: What I'd always, first of all, is to say get professional legal advice. This isn't legal advice, but if you can find the email address and it's publicly available and you have legitimate interest to message them, then you should be okay in using their email address to send. Also, you could do the research on LinkedIn and connect with individuals on LinkedIn and not even have to do email for the outbound prospecting. That's what I see some of our European clients doing with the data that they're using. However, the majority of our customers are in the US and not affected with the same privacy laws. Peter: All right. That was very very interesting and a lot of great info. We will be able to attach your presentation to the podcast notes so that everyone can go into to check out for the whole presentation. Is that right? Mark: Excellent, yes, that's perfectly fine. Peter: Excellent. All right, Mark. What are your future conference plans and where can people find you on conferences or where can people contact you online if they would like to talk about everything that you do? Mark: Great question. We're planning our 2020 conference plans at the moment. There's still a bit TBC. I'll certainly be speaking on more podcasts and online summits, but if you'd like to speak to me in the meantime, the best place to find me is on LinkedIn, where you can search for Mark Colgan, that's C-O-L-G-A-N or you can email me at mark@taskdrive.com. Peter: All right, and I will, of course, add all of those links to the show notes so if you're listening to just open your podcast app and find all of the links to Mark. Mark, thank you again for being on the podcast. Have a great day enjoying the sun and hope to see you around. Mark: Thank you very much, Peter. It's been great. Thank you. Peter: Bye-bye.

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A very special episode of The BPRDcast! Special guest Samantha Brilhante joins Peter to try to understand what this Hellboy business is all about. Has Seth died? Is there palpable romantic tension between Sam and Peter? What is Hellboy like in the morning? Only one way to find out, and that's to listen to this podcast! BOOM!

We’ll be continuing our study in Mark this Sunday – we’ll be reading Mark 14:26-52.This is the account of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane – but it is also another Markian Sandwich -Because Jesus’ warning to his disciples that they will abandon him and the account of them doing just that, brackets the account of Jesus’ prayer of surrender in the garden alone.There is a lot happening in this section – more than what can be covered in one teaching. My focus this Sunday will be centered on why placing our hope in Jesus alone is highlighted in the events that unfold in this text.Peter is bold in his assertion that he would never betray Jesus. If you know how the story goes, how did that work out for him? Do you identify with Peter? What was he putting his trust in when making that statement? What can we learn from that, coupled with 1 Cor 10:12?Think about the parallels between Jesus in the Garden and Adam in the Garden. What is different about Jesus’ response to God’s will and Adam’s? What does this tell us about Jesus and his ultimate mission?When the mob comes, one disciple (identified as Peter in John’s gospel) jumps into action. Was it the right action? What might his behavior teach us about self-reliance?We’ll put it all together and hopefully be encouraged as well as challenged. See you on Sunday!Click here of a pdf version of the slideshow for this teaching.

*Behind the scenes* Peter: Robert, let's do something scary for Halloween Robert: Sure *Podcast recording time* Peter: What we talking about today Robert? Robert: Sex Need I say more? For whatever reason, for Halloween and indeed at the request of the furnace to do something scary Robert decides it's a good idea to talk all things sex and addictions to it. Mo takes the Hot seat during Sorry not sorry!, and for our Hookups Peter Suggested a audio drama podcast called Edge of Sleep, check it out here MO suggested checking out an album that Peter made so much noise about, Augustine's Legacy by S.O. still is one of Peter's favourite albums, and from the look of things is turning out to be one that Mo likes as well! Lastly Robert suggested checking out an app that claims to help with intimacy for Christians called Ultimate intimacy Check it out in your app store We hope you enjoy the episode and if you do please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing, and if you don't, please let us know in the comments and let your friends know by sharing. We're big believers in the "win-win"Take care and stay blessed.Special thanks to RUDE (@itsrudeboy) for the intro and outro music.And to Calvin A Turner founder of Torra Media (facebook , @torramedia) and digital designer extraordinaire for [TheOrdinaryAmazing.com](http://theordinaryamazing.com/) logo design.

Part 2 of our New York Comic Con interviews! Anthony speaks with Al Ewing, Saladin Ahmed, Erica Schultz, Robbie Thompson, and the legendary CHRIS CLAREMONT! You won't want to miss this one! SHOW NOTES: Intro Al Ewing (1:02) What he’s worked on in the past Did he pitch the Immortal Hulk to Marvel or did they come to him? How much research does he do to come up with the opening quote? Why did he allow the Hulk to retain eloquence when he speaks? Will he write Guardians and Hulk simultaneously? Saladin Ahmed (11:29) What he’s currently working on Quicksilver – what is his favorite aspect of his personality? How can Pietro alleviate anxiety and stress? Black Bolt – what did he accentuate in his run on the character? What other issues did he want to discuss with Black Bolt? Miles Morales – what does he want to say through Miles? How does he write Miles’ positivity to differentiate him from Peter? What cultural issues does he want to tackle next through comics? Erica Schultz (20:13) What is Forgotten Home about? What was the genesis for this story? Is this an ongoing or limited series? What is the backstory of the main character? How much backstory has been written on these characters? How much Erica Schultz is in the main character? Has she finished writing the story? What is she teaching at the Kubert School? How did she start that job? What’s the next project? Robbie Thompson (30:41) What has he worked on and working on now His favorite aspects of Silk What ideas did he have to show how Cindy had been isolated for so long How much Robbie Thompson is in Cindy Moon What stories would he tell with Cindy again? Which character would he love to write that he hasn’t yet? What stories would he tell with them? Chris Claremont (42:27) Scott Summers – “born to lead” leads to paralysis by analysis Wolverine & Kitty – why does Logan mentor her, and later Jubilee? Ending Next episode – Roy Harper Mega-crossover event with Popcorn Psychology, Freudian Sips, Pop Psych 101, and GuardiansMH References: Erica Schultz episode (19:24) Apple Podcasts: here Google Play: here Stitcher: here TuneIn: here iHeartRadio: here Spotify: here Twitter FacebookE-mailPatreonTeePublicDiscord Listener Survey

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Joelle is the Director of Marketing & Growth at Bookmark (her on Linkedin) and she spoke at the MozCon 2019 with a presentation on Image & Visual Browse optimization opportunities. The official title of her presentation was Get The Look: Improve the Shopper Experience with Visual Search Optimization. In a time where everyone talks about voice optimization, she thinks about the new channels that visual browse and purchase will bring. You can check out the slides from her presentation here: Get The Look: Improve the Shopper Experience with Visual Search Optimization from Joelle Irvine Here is the transcript of the podcast: Joelle Irvine: This is something that's not widely used by many researchers, but the interest is really growing. There are some studies done, ViSenze actually did a study where they found that 62% of Millennials would really like to be able to search by image and 58% of them would like to be able to click to purchase directly from content. Peter Mesarec: This is Time for Marketing. The marketing podcast that will tell you everything you've missed when you didn't attend the marketing conference. Hello and welcome to the Time for Marketing podcast, the podcast that brings you information from the conference's that you were not able to attend in a short time span because we know you are all busy enjoying the last days of summer. This is the episode number 24. My name is still Peter and we will go directly with our guests joining us today from beautiful Canada up there and to the left very far away from me is sitting Joelle Irvine. Joelle: Hi Petter. How are you? Peter: I'm very well, how are you doing? Today is Tuesday. You're slowly starting your workweek. Joelle: Yes. Peter: Did you already start after the summer? For agencies stuff usually dies down a bit or declines back are they sending emails and trying to do everything for Black Friday and everything in the fall that they have planned. Joelle: We actually don't really have any slow periods here at Bookmark. Not only do we do digital but we also do magazines so we gear up for the fall during the summer and then the fun continues throughout the fall until the holidays at the end of the year. Peter: All right. The #agencylive will always work hard. Joelle: Yes, exactly. [chuckles] Peter: Joelle, you are the director of marketing and growth at the agency called Bookmark Content and Communications. Can you briefly tell us what do you do either as the agency and more importantly, what are the things that you do? What are the nice things that allow you that you are happy at your work every day? Joelle: At Bookmark, we're a global content and communications agency and we have offices all around the world. We work mostly primarily with luxury and lifestyle brands and we create content for them to bring their brand and audiences together. What I do is actually create content for our content marketing company, it's very meta. I wear many hats, I do a little SEO, I do in marketing social media. I also work on some new business, I do really a little bit of everything, I love it. Peter: Yes, you're the director of stuff there, you'll have to do everything. If you're doing stuff for high-end brands, I've invited you to the podcast because you spoke at the Moscone conference. How is SEO and high-end brands coming together? Joelle: Well, I was looking for new and innovative things to bring to our clients. Not only do we focus on-page SEO we're also looking at technical SEO as well as new things we can bring to them. How can we integrate voice? How could we integrate visual search? How can we make sure that when their audience looks for them in search that they're getting visually pleasing results, not only text-based results. Peter: Yes. This is why I was very interested in your presentation, in a time when everyone speaks about voice search you speak about image search or visual search. Your presentation was called Get To Look, Improve the Shopper Experience with Visual Search Optimization. We'll get to the presentation in a minute. How was Moscone? Joelle: I really enjoyed it. It was actually my third year at Moscone, this is my first time on stage. What I really love about Moscone is the community. I love the people that attend. I love the presentations and the other presenters that spoke, they all cover really interesting things that are current, that are relevant, that are trending. They also bring something I think a little bit different than other conferences be because it is a one-track conference and I really love that approach. I also really appreciate the way that it's very much human first even though it's a tech company. They really accommodate everybody. Even if you look at the speakers it's very much a 50/50 split between men and women which I really appreciate. Peter: Yes. I've had two speakers for a Moscone on the podcast in the previous episodes just because the presentations that I saw were so good. All right, let's go directly to your presentation. Without further ado, I just give you your five minutes to sum up your presentation. Joelle: Perfect. When I talk about visual search, I'm really talking about searching for images with other images not searching for images with text queries. This is something that's not widely used by many searchers but the interest is really growing. There are some studies done, ViSenze actually did a study where they found that 62% of Millennials would really like to be able to search by image and 58% of them would like to be able to click to purchase directly from content. That's very telling showing that young people are really interested in this type of technology and I find also people are in tune with looking for things with their eyes versus typing them out. There's another stat that I'd like to share and it's that 85% of consumers place more importance on visuals when shopping online for clothing and furniture. I'd like to share why I chose Google lens and Pinterest lens as examples. I find that they're both leading the way in terms of technology and ways to use visual search to appeal to their customers and also drive revenue for brands. Google lens is really focusing more on practical applications where Pinterest lens showing more success in discovery engagement and conversion for fashion and home decor brands. I find those two things are really interesting to look at because not doing the same things, they're investing in different ways to use image recognition technology to appeal to their audience. If we look back at the past few months, Pinterest lens has actually started integrating some cool new features. They integrated hybrid search which is a way of integrating a visual search with a text-based query. Right now it's not something that you can use where you can actually type in a query but you can actually take an existing pin and text provided by Pinterest to come together and provide search results based on those two things. They're working on something called to Complete the Look which I think is going to be really amazing and I feel like other companies and tech companies and social media companies will follow suit once this is released. What it does, is it allows you to actually type in a text query and combine it with an image to find a handbag to go with an outfit or curtains to go with your living room. What's interesting about Pinterest lens is that right now there's about 600 million visual searches that are happening every month and 300 million people around the world are using it. That's small potatoes compared to let's say Google or Amazon's audience but there is a large group of people who are actually using visual search. If that's something the brands are interested in, they should leverage that. Mostly because proportionately Pinterest drives more referral traffic to e-commerce sites than other social platforms. Something else that I'd like to share is that Google lens, it can recognize over one billion items. That's quite something. At the recent Google I/O conference last May, they also introduced two new filters further Google lens. One is dining where you can actually scan menu items and it'll pick up some images and recommendations from their Maps app to get people to choose items that other people have liked. Also, the translate feature where you can scan a printed document or a screen with text in another language and it'll translate it for you in a matter of seconds. That in itself is very cool when you're traveling, it just makes things way more accessible. They also announced the addition of augmented reality into a Google search which could have huge possibilities for shopping if that will also get integrated into the lens features. All of this leads to opportunities for retail brands, e-commerce brands. Some of these opportunities include increased visibility for lesser-known brands. Right now, if you think about shopping online a lot of the time it's hard for some smaller brands to get found in search results but through Pinterest lens what pinners end up doing is they end up being exposed to this smaller brands and they get to see things based on what they're looking for in terms of style rather than doing branded searches . 97% of Pinterest searches are currently unbranded and 70% of their audience is open to finding about brands they've never heard of before. That's pretty cool. Also, something that's interesting that people should be looking at is leveraging existing platforms and partnerships. What I would say is either optimize where your audience is already like on Google, Pinterest, Instagram or Amazon or partner with an image recognition tech provider to integrate it into your own platform. If you're just starting out I would say go where your audience is already but if you're ready to take that next leap there are different providers such as the ViSenze, slice  that can help with that integration. Also, capitalize on impulse buying this is something that-- I think it's a funny thing to say but there are some studies that 72% of pinners say that the platform inspires them to shop when they aren't actually looking for anything. That's pretty huge and I think people or brands should take advantage of that. The other thing that I'd like to share ist hat visual search can also be used in real life. If you can integrate it into your in-store experience it could also create other opportunities to increase in-store visits. For example, Alibaba and Amazon both brought this type of tech into their change rooms to help people shop more easily. Alibaba brought in these fashion AI mirrors into the guest change rooms to suggest other accessories and different color options for what they tried on to help them find what they're looking for and Amazon created this cool tech-enabled mirror that projects clothing onto customers so that they can see what they look like without actually trying it on I mean that's pretty cool stuff. Last but not least, increasing revenue Gartner predicts that at 2021 e-commerce brands who optimized for voice and visual search will increase profits by up to 30%. That's huge. Obviously this is a prediction but I think it's worth thinking about how you can integrate this type of technology into your strategy and into your content and into your search practices because it's coming, younger people are using it, younger people are thinking about it. If you miss the boat now you'd just be catching up later all this to say that visual search is a cool new feature but you also have to think about how to optimize for it because it's not yet perfect. It is a technology it is constantly evolving. In my conference, I shared some tactics and techniques to optimize for visual search and some of those things included everything that you do currently for image search can also be applied for visual search. Make sure to think about your image size and keywords and all tags and all that good stuff. You also want to think on the technical side, making sure to submit image site maps and sync basic product data with the Google Merchant Center. Enabling rich pins for Pinterest, implementing structured data especially for product and offer and image gallery. Also, think about how you search for what you want to-- Like do your research for what you want to focus on. Don't only think about keywords, also think about finding trends there's Google trends, there's a monthly Pinterest trend report, there's all kinds of cool stuff that you can use to make your content super cool. My last point is to think about what's next. Visual sentiment analysis to understand the emotion of users when they're on your social media channels for example. How you can integrate visual search into your strategy even if it's not for fashion or home decor brands. Think about real estate think about food and beverage, think about hotels, for example. Also think about all the new integrations that you could do with a visual search like the augmented reality example I gave earlier, machine learning. There's so much that's coming we don't even know what the possibilities will be. This is basically, think about what's coming and see how it fits with your brand and if it does then test it. Try it out. Try and integrate a few things and see if it helps you out. Peter: I must say very extensive and not sure if extensive is the right word but all-encompassing would probably be the right word. You went from the theory to far-fetched examples and went back to the examples of what people should be doing right now. What I see is, with e-commerce stores they still have, especially e-commerce is that they have a big number of products. They still have problems with generating quality and interesting images for products. How can we get them to not only show two boring pictures but get them to show pictures with people or maybe even create a video, how do you push e-commerces to do that? Joelle: I would say that it's always best to use authentic type images but in terms of product images, you really want to show your product as it is, your product on a person you want to show the different angles. You also want to show dimensions, if something is a certain size you want to show it compared to something or like in a real-life type situation. Peter: Have a banana for scale. Joelle: Yes, to scale exactly. You also want to provide context. I really love the example of when you're looking at a handbag for example, when I'm actually shopping online for a handbag I like to see how many pockets are inside. I like to see what it looks like underneath. There's things that you may not think about what your audience is looking for but you can actually look in the data for images that you do currently have, what they're actually looking for and what helps them when they're making those decisions to optimize them properly. Peter: What we see very often is companies having or creating their own photo studios within their own company so that they are able to be fast and create images when they need them. Do you think this is a good strategy or are you more of a fan of going for a big photoshoot that will deliver the best images ever? Joelle: I think that authenticity is super important. I think that you don't have to spend a lot of money to take good photos, it really depends on your budget and who you're trying to appeal to make that decision. Peter: All right. I was really wanting to ask you what should be the next steps for people that would like to go into the image or visual optimization but as you mentioned before just have good images and do good image SEO and that should be the first step, I'm I right? Joelle: Yes, definitely that's right and you also want to optimize on the back-end in terms of connecting it with the Merchant Center and if for Pinterest it'd be Pinterest catalogs so that the data is connected with those images and they're indexed properly. Peter: All right excellent. We're at the 21-minute mark and I think we are good with the presentation. Joelle thank you very much for summing up your presentation from Moscone. Where can people find you who? Who would like to talk to you what are your next things you have something with the whiteboard Friday planned, is that right? Joelle: Yes. I'll be doing a whiteboard Friday. It's coming up soon and it's on the same topic. Check it out, I'll give some tips there on visual search as well. Peter: All right and of course I will add your presentation, the slides into the show notes so there's people and of course links to your LinkedIn and your company and everything else so that people can see and follow your presentation when they listen to the podcast. Joelle: Perfect, thank you. Peter: I think that's it. Thank you very much for being the guest in the podcast. Thank you for-- it's probably very early in the morning for you. Joelle: It's actually close to lunchtime [laughs]. Peter: Wow, all right. I'm not that good with different time zones. Okay, that's it. Thank you very much for being on the podcast. I'll see you around. Joelle: Thanks, Peter.

“2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” 12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”Peter Addresses the Crowd14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them, “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to what I say. 15 Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:17 ‘In the last days it will be, God declares,that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.18 Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.19 And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.20 The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the coming of the Lord’s great and glorious day.21 Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’” — Acts 2: 1-21 NRSV Almighty God,by the power of your Holy Spirit, speak to us in the language of our hearts, that we may hear your Word with understanding and answer your call with confidence. Amen. Before we really get into this, we need a little bit of history – what exactly is Pentecost? We might think of it as a Christian tradition, but it started out as a Jewish one – it is the celebration 50 days after Passover that marked the giving of the Torah – the law of God revealed to Moses, and specifically the Ten Commandments. It was also the time the Jewish people gathered and offered their first fruits at the temple. Today’s reading in the book of Acts tells us that Pentecost had come and so they were all together in one place. What that means is these Jewish Jesus followers were gathered together for this Jewish festival celebrating God’s gifts to them, and Surprise! God gave them a new gift! And like I demonstrated with the children earlier – suddenly, and with great gusto, the Holy Spirit filled that place to the brim! And while this might seem like a separate celebration, for us it is the continuation of the Easter story – at Pentecost, the power of God – made manifest at the resurrection and ascension of Christ, is bestowed upon the People of God. Both the ascension of Christ and the descent of the Spirit are a continued witness to the breadth of the wonder of Easter. And for those of us who have hung out around church for a little while, this wild and wonderful and weird story can get a bit routine – yay, wear red, hang the banners, let the kids run around a tad more than usual, sing those great songs…so maybe we can pause for a moment to recall that we are listening to the account of something strange, beyond the bounds of imagination – miraculous, inscrutable. Let’s jump into the text. Qu’est-ce que c’est d’exister dans un endroit où votre langue première n’est jamais parlée? Quelqu’un a-t-il déjà vécu dans un endroit où sa langue maternelle n’est jamais entendue? Avez-vous déjà visité un endroit où l’anglais n’est jamais utilisé? Ici en Occident, nous sommes tellement habitués d’entendre de l’anglais, même en voyageant à l’international, que la majorité d’entre nous n’a jamais vécu le malaise et l’inconfort d’être isolé auditivement. For those of you who don’t speak French, what I said was What does it mean to exist in a place where your first language is never spoken? Has anyone ever lived in a place where their native language is never heard? Have you visited a place where English isn’t spoken? We here in the West are so accustomed to hearing English even when we travel internationally, most of us have never experienced the discomfort and disconnect of being aurally isolated. Now this question isn’t rhetorical, I am actually asking, who has had the experience of being immersed in a language not their own? (personal stories, examples from the congregation) And what about when we hear our first language in that situation? There we are, standing in a sea of unfamiliarity, that sound becomes like a homing beacon, we find ourselves sharpening our senses to its signal. It is as though every molecule in our body relaxes as we tune-in on that voice and understand the words. Like coming home. We hear this Pentecost story, and we might not quite grasp the visceral impact of hearing one’s own language, living as a foreigner, an immigrant, a refugee in a strange land. These folks were in Jerusalem but not from Jerusalem. Maybe we haven’t experienced this linguistically, maybe we have never been language isolated but I will warrant a guess that most of us have felt sequestered, alone, remote, even when surrounded by people. We have felt on the outside. And then something catches our ear, our eye, our attention. Something that resonates in deep place and that draws us in, towards. These outsiders, who maybe hadn’t heard their mother tongue in years, heard the beautiful and life-changing message of Jesus in their own language of comfort and care, not the language of the Empire under which they were living. The Holy Spirit was poured out on the disciples in this way not for their own comfort, but for the resonance of the Jesus message for those who were on the margins nearby. It makes me think of Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth, where he freely shares of how the Holy Spirit gives him what he needs to connect with those who haven’t received entry into the blessed community (1 Cor. 9:19-23).This, my friends, is a miracle. A miracle of welcome, a miracle of hospitality beyond anything we could muster, a miracle to spark belonging. And I bet it was as surprising for the ones hearing their language as it was for those from whose lips those languages emerged. God promises over and over in our Scriptural witness to give us words, and the Holy Spirit delivers. I wonder what the language of comfort is to those on the margins of our neighbourhood?Now – what happens next?Everyone immediately drops to their knees in praise and reverence to God! NO! Some folks nearby are like WHAT? And others are like they are DRUNK! Which is basically everyone’s response God’s unexpected revelation – we see a miracle, something incredible, something powerful and we either are ‘amazed and perplexed’ (v.12) or sneering (v. 13) and dismissive. Happened in year 35, happens in 2019. And its ok, its ok, because miracles, big or small throw us off – we don’t get them or we get mad at them for some reason. But the very next thing that happens is key – Peter is there to explain it. And I will guarantee that every time something happens that is God (which actually, by the way, is all the time if we are ready to notice), every time God happens and we don’t understand, some who gets it is nearby. Remember, these are Jews from all over living in Jerusalem, having this experience. Peter, a Jew, jumps up and links the story of Jesus with the Scriptures of the Jewish people. His listeners would know what the prophet Joel said, which Peter recites here. He says, hey pay attention – remember Joel? Remember, he promised that God would pour our God’s Spirit on all people? That God’s spirit would flow regardless of a person’s gender or social status? Remember? Joel told us that we would ALL be filled with God’s Spirit and God would give us good things to do! Remember? ITS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW! This Pentecost event doesn’t work without these things all at play:Rooted in tradition, the new Jesus followers are gathered in one place. The Holy Spirit floods in to that place in a surprising, astonishing, remarkable, overwhelming way that includes everyone – inside and outside the community. Nobody knows how to handle it, and Peter jumps up, reminding them of their Scriptural witness, and proclaiming boldly God’s work in that moment and all of their transformation in it. The day of Pentecost occurred just seven weeks after those who were opposed to Jesus had ended his “nonsense” by crucifying him. But now, for some, their worst nightmare was coming true. This broadening understanding of God’s love was no longer contained to one man’s message. They thought that they had put out the light of the world in Jesus. Instead, the same Spirit that enlivened Jesus, exploded like fireworks in a hundred different directions. You see, God didn’t stop showing up in Jesus – God didn’t raise Jesus from the grave, bring him home and stand back to see what would happen.. No! The message of Pentecost is that God shows up! God shows up, God meets us where we are and uses tremendous, ridiculous, miraculous means to catch our attention and tell us of love, grace, mercy, freedom, salvation. And then in our doubts, our dismissals, our explanations and excuses, God sends us prophets, preachers, teachers, dentists, contractors, children, baristas, accountants, neighbours, friends, enemies to help us understand, to spell it out. To get it through our sometimes very thick skulls, that God is here. That God has given each one of us – all genders, all ages, all races, all expressions of humanity, even me, even you, the gift of God’s unending presence. God is HERE (the world). God is Here (the church). God is here (our hearts). And you know what the very next thing they asked Peter? What do we do now? And that is our question too, isn’t it? What do we do now? We hear of Gods love, we hear that God is with and for us – maybe we even feel that love, that grace, that hospitality in this place – what do we do now?Peter says, get baptized! Let the Holy Spirit all the way in, be encouraged, and then – become an encourager. One who loves and gives and forgives with the same reckless abandon as our God. And so they did. They taught and shared and loved and forgave (and messed up, and got back up, forgiven, to try again). And miracles happened, and happened, and happened, and this Jesus thing didn’t go away, the Holy Spirit didn’t fade, God went right on creating….and so here we are – what a legacy to inherit. What do we do now? We throw our lives at God, in God’s service, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, who is here, here, here. Who is with me? Can I get an Amen?

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Movies based on a true story typically conclude with an "epilogue". These closing scenes will describe how the main characters' lives turned out-- or how they moved forward after the events of the film. In John 21, John's epilogue ties up loose ends about Jesus, the disciples, and especially Peter-- who died the Lord three times. How does Jesus set out to restore Peter? What can we learn from this event about our own calling to a full devotion?

Jesus chose 12 men from the disciples to be apostles. So who is Peter? What did he do? How does his life help my life? Copyright, Dave Andrus 2019

July 14 & 15, 2018 Elder, Dr. Mark Johnston 1.) Two Questions only One Answer 2.) Three Questions, Three Denials, The Rooster Crows Twice 3.) Jesus before the Council and the Denials of Peter What is the only question asked of Jesus in the Gospels that He chose not to answer and why is it so important He chose to remain silent? When Satan demanded to sift Peter like wheat, God let it happen. Why?

Are you a current or prospective lawyer wondering what an uncertain future might hold in terms of career options? If so, you’ll not want to miss today’s episode of Beyond Billables. Today we’re talking to Peter Connor a ‘Global Change Agent’ with  25+ years of legal, compliance and business experience. In the course of his polished career, Peter has developed a knack for challenging the status quo and finding a way to reimagine better solutions.   In our conversation, we chatted about many things but really honed in on the skills & strategy a lawyer is going to need to succeed as the law changes. We dug into the specifics of what skills should be focused on, how going in-house can be a great stepping stone to something else and ultimately, how law firms need to evolve.   Listen to the full episode to hear things like:   The reasons people want to work in-house Alternatively Legal - what it is and how it works Why Peter became a lawyer How to avoid the ‘traditional mindset trap’ The idea of the T-shaped Lawyer How Peter used design thinking to improve compliance training Things lawyers should drill down on The challenges of stepping into an in-house role The ‘killer skill’ according to Peter What changes are most needed from law firms Links: Peter Connor - Linkedin Alternatively Legal T-Shaped lawyer

Peter Parker is the Managing Partner @ BioInnovation Capital, the $130m fund transforming life science investing through backing companies based in shared laboratories in Cambridge, San Francisco, San Diego, Durham, and NYC. For the past three decades, Peter has devoted his life to venture and startups, starting in 1986 with his establishing Ampersand Ventures life sciences platform which he managed until 2006. During this period he was the first institutional capital and a Director to over 2 dozen life sciences startups and enjoyed more exits than I have done podcasts. He is also a co-founder of LabCentral, Inc, a not-for-profit shared facility for companies who need biolab space enables more than 75 companies to pursue their biotech start-up ambitions. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Peter made his way into what was a very different VC industry back in 1986? 2.) Peter has seen the venture ecosystem develop enormously over the last 30 years, what have been the biggest changes and transformations? What are both the most positive and negative changes to hit venture? How has specialization changed the investing game? What would Peter like to change about the world of VC today? 3.) What does Peter mean when he says the best VCs understand the importance of process? What is the right way to construct your process in VC? How does this affect Peter's thinking on functioning partnerships in venture? What can one do to optimise the quality of those relationships and conversations with partners? 4.) Peter has chaired over 25 boards over the last 32 years in VC, how has Peter seen his style of board membership fundamentally change over that time? What have been the inflection points in his learning? How do OKRs play a crucial role in how he drives board operations? How has Peter approached removing the CEO? What is the right way to do it? 5.) Peter's most recent fund is a $130m seed fund, how was the latest fundraise for Peter? What drives Peter's passion and enthusiasm for fundraising and LP communications? What makes the best LP meetings for Peter? How has Peter seen his presentation style to LPs change over time? What has Peter learned is crucial for LP conversion? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Peter’s Fave Book: The Barbarian: A Surfing Life Peter’s Most Recent Investment: Graphwear As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Highfive makes meetings better for thousands of organizations with insanely simple video conferencing designed for meeting rooms. It’s the easiest-to-use solution, with all-in-one hardware and intuitive cloud software. Plus, it’s a high-quality experience with industry-leading audio powered by Dolby Voice. It’s so easy to use, that there’s no pin codes or app downloads. Just click a link in your browser, and you’re in the meeting. With customers in over 100 countries, Highfive is already trusted by the likes of Warby Parker, Evernote, Expensify, and Betterment and you can learn more by simply heading over to highfive.com. Culture Amp is the platform that makes it easy to collect, understand and act on employee feedback. From onboarding surveys to company-wide engagement, individual effectiveness and more, the platform manages multiple sources of feedback and connects the dots for you and that is why companies like Slack, Nike, Oracle and Lyft all trust Culture Amp. It enables leaders to make better decisions, demonstrate impact and turn your company culture into a competitive edge.  So put your people and culture first and find out more on cultureamp.com.

Leeza Gibbons, (Entertainment Tonight, The Celebrity Apprentice Winner-2015, NY Times best-selling author, Speaker ...and caregiver) called my show for family caregivers to share her insights learned as a caregiver —and to encourage fellow caregivers.  Peter:  Welcome back to the show for caregivers, about caregivers, hosted by a caregiver …I am Peter Rosenberger bringing you 30 years of experience to help you stay strong and healthy while you take care of someone who is not. John, we have a great guest here with us today.  She’s known all over the world from Entertainment Tonight, The Celebrity Apprentice—but for THIS show, she is a fellow caregiver, and we are thrilled to have Leeza Gibbons here with us, she’s calling in.  Leeza, thank you for being on the show …welcome! Leeza: Thank you so much, I am so happy to be here.   Peter: And, I wanted to mention …we’re both South Carolinians …and we don’t have to worry about translation, because if I happen to go off the rails here and get real “country,” Leeza will be able to understand me, John. John: I had no idea … Leeza: “Oh, I got Chu! I got Chu!” John: The last guest we had on was from Boston.  Peter: And it was “wicked bad!” [Laughing] Peter: We are thrilled to have you here. Leeza …thank you for sharing your heart with us, and you story …and your passion to help fellow caregivers. This show is all about strengthening family caregivers; the need is great.  You more than most know how difficult this journey is. Tell us a little about your journey as a caregiver. Leeza: I went into it kicking and screaming. I was a very reluctant recruit.  I think that many of us don’t willingly put the sweater on. I’m like, “Oh this doesn’t fit me; these are not my clothes.”  I guess I was waiting for someone to send me a greeting card. Which, you know, it never arrives in the mail, does it”? Peter: No [Laughing] Leeza: “Congratulations! Welcome into the club!”  It’s just never like that.  I kept thinking that our culture would catch up with the need that you guys speak about so wonderfully and are so lovingly supportive of …but it’s just …we’re getting better, and the conversations are getting stronger and more powerful, but it’s just not that way.  And it wasn’t that way for me.  I tended to um …I isolated, and our whole family did.  When my mother got Alzheimer’s disease after being a caregiver for her mother, you would think that we had a blueprint.  We didn’t.  We all went to our corners and licked our wounds.  I got “over-busy,” that’s where I went to hide. My brother went into denial, my sister got depressed, and my dad pretty much closed the door with a bottle of red wine.  We said, “Wait a minute!”  “Wait.  What can we do? What can we do?  If we’re acting this way, everyone must act this way.  What can we possibly add or contribute to this narrative?” And so, we created what we wished we had, and that became Leeza’s Care Connection …and that’s our community for caregivers. Peter:  Well, and like most caregivers, we tend to learn it the hard way …it’s on the job training.  There is very little blueprint.  I remember a counselor once told me, he said, “Look, you know, Peter …I’d recommend a book for you to read …but you’re the guy to write it.”  And you, I’m thirty years now (plus) into this, and it is a brutal journey …I often refer to myself as the “crash-test dummy” of caregivers, ‘cause if you can fail at it …I’ve failed at it.  But, in this thing, you and your family pulled together—I want to throw out a couple of things, Leeza, and get your read on it.  I talk about three “I’s” that every caregiver deals with: We lose our independence We isolate We lose our identity I can’t tell you over the years how many people have asked me about my wife, but I can count the ones who asked about me.  And …how does that resonate with you …Those three “I’s” …Independence, Identity, and Isolation? Leeza: Well, it’s interesting when you say, “How many have asked about me?”  That’s a big one with the groups that we talk with—and was with me, too.  You know, and after a while, I think if you held up the mirror, you wouldn’t even see yourself in it. You know?  It would almost be like there would be no reflection there, because you get so accustomed to even feeling like you don’t exist.  You know, when we talk about how imperative it is to take your oxygen first, you begin to realize in your caregiving mode …you don’t even take deep enough breaths to think that you can even fill up your heart and soul.  It’s almost like you’re not even giving yourself credit for being a whole person.  So, I think that’s real for almost everybody. For me, I was working at like one quarter of what I had to offer, because I think most people would say, “What does this have to with everybody if you’re not a caregiver?”  But we know the percentage of the people who are offering care …also in the workplace. And we know that they’re not able to work at full steam.  And we know that they’re coming in late and calling in sick, and not able to focus when they’re there.  All of the things that are happening and how’s it affecting the bottom line across America.  We know this is everybody’s problem, and we all need to care about it more.  And that if we would just help that person find the “I” back again …that everybody wins!  But, we sure aren’t getting there fast, are we? Peter:  No, we’re not.  There are 65 + million of us. Almost half of us are in the workforce …you referenced those statistics, and they’re amazing statistics.  I’ve been saying for years, “If you love someone, you’re going to be one.  If you live long enough, you’re going to need one.” In your case, when you interact with these caregivers, and all the things you do, do you find that they have a hard time speaking in first person …first person singular?  So, when you ask a caregiver “How are you doing?” “Well, she just got home from the hospital last night…” or “He had a bad night…,” and they can’t speak …when they finally get them to say something in their own voice, that’s when the tears come and the stammering come.  Is that pretty consistent with what you’ve seen? Leeza:  That’s very consistent.  Very consistent.  And when you try to tell them, “You’re doing a good job.” You know, it’s very hard for them to hear it …to get credit and validation.  That’s really been the most exciting thing for me …is to, be able to turn that back around for people who offer care.  I think they’re the real heroes of our culture.  We’ve got all this focus on the health care system. Well, “Hello!” The caregivers are the health care system. That’s the health care system. That’s it. John:  Write that one down! Peter: Yeah …write that one down! John:  We talk about this on the show a lot …we don’t give nearly enough credit for showing up. Peter: Well, that’s the thing, we caregivers beat ourselves without mercy.  And you talk about this a lot with Senior Helpers and the caregivers you interact with …about guilt. And we just flog ourselves. So, when you try to give some kind of affirmation, we’re so wrapped up in guilt …that we can’t.  And there’s no problem so bad, that we can’t make it worse with a little bit more guilt. And so, one of the things I’m on a mission to do is help caregivers accept the fact that you don’t have to judge yourself exclusively by your job performance …you can look at your attendance. And our attendance is spot-on perfect; we show up every day …however we drag in …we still are showing up and getting the job done to the best of our abilities. Talk about the guilt that caregivers struggle with …I know you’ve seen this, you’ve done this in your own life, and you’ve seen this with all the people that you’ve interacted with.  What are some common things …and what are some things that you’re saying to it? Leeza: Well, my mother always said to me, “Show up, do your best …let go of the rest.”  You do have to get scored on the showing up and on trying.  “Are you trying?”  Trying doesn’t mean you’re are going to get it in the basket.  Sometimes you just exasperated. But you did show again, right? You did show up the next day and say, “Ok, I’m here again!” Peter: Everyday [Laughing] Leeza: Every day. “Let’s go I’m what you’ve got!” Peter:  Bleary-eyed and dragging …but I’m here! Leeza: And I think you are absolutely so right about that.  And the other piece that I think is so hard is why I do this work with senior helpers:  Asking for help is difficult.  We don’t have a skill-set for it.  We think, somehow, it’s going to rob our souls. We think we don’t get to go to heaven.  We don’t get a gold star.  We’re going to be judged. My whole personal mantra is, “Breathe, Believe, and Receive.” It’s the receiving part that’s tough for us.  But once we can let go, you know we’re so tightly wound, once we can open up and let somebody else in, and see us, “warts and all,” and to say “Wow, I need some help here.”  Then, we can exhale …and things get better.  And I think it’s the highest form of humanity both to give help and receive it.  Sometimes I just say, “Stop achieving and start receiving.” And, as caregivers, we’re like those “sit on the front-row kind of students,” where it’s like “Call on me, call on me, I can do it, I can do it, I can do it.  It doesn’t matter that I have like so much going on!” The best thing you can do right now is to say, “I’ve got too much to do …help me!”  And delegate one little thing.  And look what will happen.  And we do teach others how to treat us …by the way we treat ourselves. With my dad, when he had a heart attack; he had open-heart surgery …and the next day he had colon surgery …we had to have a strategy.  Look, I literally wrote the book on Fierce Optimism, but that wasn’t a plan.  And my brother and sister lived very close to him, like within fifteen minutes; I’m the long-distance caregiver …we all needed help.  And so, we brought in someone from Senior Helpers, you know they provide in-home care.  We had the family caregivers, the in-home care provider that we coordinated with the doctors …we had them to come help us with the meds, the meal preparation, with driving errands.  We had a strategy.  We had to have help.  So, some people just need a peace of mind visit.  Maybe they need someone to drive errands, someone just to help with the laundry … it’s a customizable thing.  But I’ve seen it make a huge difference in the lives of family caregivers and their loved ones. Peter:  You know a reporter once asked me, he said well …it wasn’t a religious interview …it was just a reporter just talking to me … he said,” Well, what would Jesus do as a caregiver?” I said, “I don’t know what He would do …I’ll tell you what He did do.  He delegated.  He had John take care of His mother …while He was hanging on the cross. I thought, “If Jesus can do that, then I can ask for help, too!” And I’m all about trying to equip caregivers with the courage and the vocabulary of asking and identifying what help is …and I really try …and I’m going to run this by you and get your thoughts by this and then I’ll let you go because I know you’re very busy, but it’s a …when people say, “Well let me know if there’s something I can do.”  And I try so hard to get people to stop saying that phrase.  And I say, “Don’t ask a caregiver, “well …let me know if there’s something I can do for you,’ because now I have think of something for YOU to do.’” Instead, offer something very specific.  “Can I send someone over to clean the gutters.”  Because nobody thinks it’s a good idea to for a caregiver to be on the roof cleaning gutters. Or, you know, “I’m at the grocery store, can I pick this up for you?”  And …that kind of stuff …the more specific …there’s riches in the niches …the more specific that you get, the more you’re going to be able to be a source of help, and a real blessing to people to do that.  How does that resonate with you? Leeza:  I am so with you on that!  I’m so with you, and I’m glad you brought it up! Because, that’s the thing!  First of all, no caregiver has time to think of what you can do to help them …. they’re not going to come up with any darn thing.  Peter: …and they’re not going to trust you to do it right …or stay with it, a lot of times. Leeza:  …or stay with it!  So, I do the same thing. I always say, “Don’t even ask. Just say, ‘I’m making a casserole …I made two, I’m dropping one off for you!’”  John:  Thank you…Thank you! Leeza: [Say], “I’m on my way to the dry-cleaners, how about put your bag out by the front porch, and I’ll just pick up your bag on my way?”  Exactly those things! Peter: Beautiful.  Beautiful Leeza: Just do it …do it …do it.  If it’s wrong, they’ll probably tell you it’s wrong.  Just stick your foot in it anyway. Peter: [Laughing] By the way …we’re all about sticking our foot in something … John: Peter …don’t be a heel! Peter: [Laughing] I don’t know if you know this, but my wife is a double-amputee, and we have a prosthetic limb outreach in West Africa, so John and I are always making leg jokes here.  And Gracie does, too, in all fairness. I mean, I’ve seen her take her leg off and scratch her ear at a stop sign with people …and they just freak out! John: [Laughing] Leeza: You did not just say that! Peter: [Laughing] Oh, I did say that! John:  Peter one time attached a dog to her wheelchair, okay?  There’s video …I’ve seen it! Peter: Well, Jeff Foxworthy and I did a whole thing of, “You might be a caregiver if …” to let people know …because some people don’t identify that.  You know …like, “If you have a professional carpet cleaner on retainer …you’re probably a caregiver.”  Or, “…if you hooked up your dog to your wife’s wheelchair …just to see if it would work”—and it did, and I have footage! Leeza: [Laughing] Peter:  You know …I mean, we’re trying …what we want to do is let caregivers know  …first off, “it’s OK to laugh.  It’s OK to come together and be joyful.  It’s OK to, like you said, “breathe!”  I do martial arts, and breathing is a part of everything we do.  We [caregivers] are trying to “white-knuckle” this thing, and I know …in the closing thing …if you could say anything to your younger self, when you did come “kicking and screaming into this,” what would that be?  Because there are so many people right now listening, who are in that same place.  They’re in that place where they’re screaming going in to this.  And they’re just terrified.  They got the phone call …or whatever’s happened.  What would you say to them?  Leeza:  I think it’s like what my mother said …where we went earlier, you know “Show up …do your best …let go of the rest.” Peter: I love that phrase John: Aww …. Kudos to Mom! Leeza:  My mother lined us up when she got Alzheimer’s; she lined up the entire family and she said, “Look, when I’m kick and scream and can no longer call you by your name, just know that’s the disease talking and not me. And, I do not want to go live with you, Leeza.  I don’t want to live with your brother.  I don’t want to live with your sister. And you have got to tell Daddy when it’s time to let me go.” She gave us our marching orders.  It was unbelievable.  She made us strong as a family. She was amazing! Peter: What a tremendous gift of a parent to that! And, I’m sorry that you’ve had to go through these things, but I’m not sorry for what you’ve learned through it. And I’m not sorry for what you’ve become through this process …because you’ve become such an inspiration and blessing to so many.  And here you are taking the time to call our show and share some of those things.  Thank you for being such an encouragement to all us here! John: Yeah …well the lessons that you shared are not just for caregivers …they’re for people talking to caregivers, like we talked about earlier.  It is a wonderful thing.  Leeza:  Amen!  I love you guys.  I thank you so much for everything you do.  You’re such a gift …and always fun to unwrap. Thank you. Peter: Thank you, Leeza.  And if people want to get involved with Senior Helpers …where do they go? Leeza:  Go to www.seniorhelpers.com.  They’ve got franchises all over the country …and they would love to help you figure out what makes sense for you and your family. Peter: Seniorhelpers.com …and …also, I think it’s LeezaGibbons.com if you want to know more about Leeza.  As if you don’t know already more about Leeza …as if you don’t already know more about Leeza!  I mean, she …It’s Leeza Gibbons for Heaven’s Sake!  However, if you want to see more …go out to her website …and, thank you so much for being here with us. Hey listen, don’t go away …we’ll be right back! This is Peter Rosenberger, this is the nation’s #1 show for the family caregiver.  We are glad you are here.  Don’t go away. [Music]

Peter Weijmarshausen is the CEO and Co-Founder of Shapeways, the world’s leading 3D printing marketplace and community. Shapeways have raised funds from some of the world's leading investors including the likes of USV, Andreesen Horowitz and Index Ventures just to name a few. Prior to Shapeways, Peter was the CTO of Sangine, where he and his team designed and developed satellite broadband modems. Peter was also Director of Engineering at Aramiska, where he was responsible for delivering a business broadband service via satellite. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Peter made his way into startups and came to found Shapeways? 2.) Where are we in the 3D printing cycle today? Has it developed slower or quicker than Peter expected? How was it for Peter inhabiting a space with so much hype? 3.) When does 3D printing make the transition from early adopter market to mass market? What are the determinants that will allow for this to happen? 4.) Having started life in an incubator, why did Peter decide that for the origin of Shapeways? What are the benefits? What type of founder is this model right for? 5.) Shapeways have raised from Index, USV and a16z, so how was the fundraising journey for Peter? What would he like to improve upon for next time? What did he do well? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Peter’s Fave Blog: New York Times Peter’s Fave Book: Leadership and Self-Deception As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Peter on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Snapchat here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Pearl believes the latest automotive technology should be available to every driver – whether it's time for you to buy a new car or not. RearVision is our first step in driving this commitment forward. Pearl RearVision is the only wireless backup camera and alert system that installs in minutes and updates throughout its lifetime. Pearl literally takes less than 10minutes to install and is completely wireless because it's solar powered. Since RearVision is software based, we're able to push updates and new features over the Pearl App in the exact same way you receive updates for other apps on your phone. Pearl RearVision is perfect for anyone who wants to upgrade their car in minutes. Pearl RearVision is $499.99 and available at PearlAuto.com. It's also available on Amazon and through Crutchfield. Xero is beautiful, easy-to- use online accounting software for small businesses. With Xero, you can easily manage your accounting anytime, anywhere from your computer or mobile device.When you add Xero to your small business you are able to: Send online invoices and get paid faster. Get an instant view of your cash flow. Track your payroll and keep tabs on your inventory. Partner with your accountant and bookkeeper in real time whenever you like. You can also customize your Xero experience with over five hundred business apps, including advanced solutions for point-of- sale, time tracking, ecommerce and more. Sign up for a free thirty-day trial at xero.com/20vc

What happened that day on the boat on the Sea between Jesus and Peter? What was the significance of the miracle catch of fish? What was the real miracle? Learn how Jesus catches the big fisherman, who will then go on to catch men alive in the kingdom of God!

Peter: Hi Liz. What are you looking at? Liz: Oh, hi Peter. I'm looking through some information about cars. It's about time I bought one, but I'm quite fussy. I don't want to spend a lot of money, but there are certain things that I definitely want. Peter: What kind are you after? Liz: Well, I'd like a hybrid. Eventually when I'm working, I don't want to spend a fortune on gas. Other than that, I'd like a medium size, four-door that is reliable and safe. Peter: Why don't I go with you to some dealerships and we can have a look? I know a lot about cars, you know. Liz: Ha! Why is it that men know so much more than women (do) about cars? Peter: It's probably because we're really interested in them....Anyway, I can protect you from the greedy salesmen who want you to spend too much money. Liz: Yes, protect me, please! 

Peter: Are you going home for the holidays? Liz: Yes I am. We're going to have a big, family get-together. It'll be fun, but there's loads to do. I think my mother is already stressed. Peter: Stressed? Why get stressed at such a fun time of year? Liz: She doesn't choose to get stressed. It's just what often happens. She has most of the responsibility for the get-together, so there is a lot to think about. Peter: I can't see what the fuss is all about. She just has to do the cooking, right? Liz: No, there's much more to organize. She has to make the sleeping arrangements for all the visitors, including buying more bedding. We can't have eighty year old aunt Betty sleeping on the floor in a sleeping bag. Then there's the food. I don't think we have enough chairs, so where will everyone sit for dinner? My job will be to make a huge grocery list, buy everything, and then put it all away neatly. My Dad and I will drive to the airport to pick everyone up, but they're all arriving at different times. Peter: What a headache! When I go home for the holidays, I just turn up! Liz: Well you're lucky, and spoilt! Please rate my app, or buy it by clicking the link. // //   //  

A little overshare from Dan.A tribute to Johnny Cash.Will Winter ever end?North Korea, a bunch of wimps?Margaret Thatcher, "Iron Lady", Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead.The movie "W".Dan donates a car to Rawhide Boys Ranch.Fact or Crap: One a piece for both of us.Mail Bag:One from Peter: What's wrong with the people who run this Country?One from Dennis: Madison's do-not-serve policy.Two from Mick:1) JCPenney fires CEO Ron Johnson, rehires Mike Ullman.2) First Amendment lesson sparks outrage at Florida school. The Rest of the Show:It happened before email.

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