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Heads Talk
249 - Christel Rendu de Lint, Co-CEO: Fintech Series, Vontobel - Quietly Impactful, Deeply Principled, Defined by Ethos

Heads Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2025 39:05


Billion Dollar Backstory
93: Meet Ben Beneche – Former Co-Lead of International Equity at $200B Pictet, Now Boutique Investment Co-Founder at Tourbillon

Billion Dollar Backstory

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 60:31


Founders don't start firms because it's easy; they do it because they believe there's a better way.That was true for today's guest, Ben Beneche, who left the comfort of a $200B+ global firm to launch his own boutique: Tourbillon Investment Management.In this Episode, he sits down with Stacy to discuss:His backstory: How his nomadic childhood shaped the independence and resilience he leans on as a founder todayThe rebel spirit (from class clown to contrarian) that gave him the guts to walk away from a top role and bet on himselfWhat durability means in investing—and why it's the heartbeat of Tourbillion's strategyHow he built a fund powered by relationships, not just resumesThe real difference between investing and entrepreneurship (and what most founders miss)What to know before launching your boutique About Ben Beneche: Prior to founding Tourbillon, Ben was senior portfolio manager and co-lead of international equities at Pictet Asset Management. For 10 years, he managed all-cap international equity portfolios where he was primarily responsible for investments in Japanese and Asia-Pacific listed businesses. He began his career in 2008 as an analyst focused on US equities and the energy sector. ​Ben has a degree in Economics and Economic History from York University (first class honors) and is a CFA charter holder. He bought his first stock when he was 16 and hasn't looked back. - - -Make The Boutique Investment Collective part of your Billion Dollar Backstory. Gain access to invaluable resources, expert coaches, and a supportive community of other boutique founders, fund managers, and investment pros. Join Havener Capital's exclusive membership

Mercado Abierto
Entrevista | Pictet AM mantiene su confianza en los fundamentales del mercado

Mercado Abierto

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 19:51


De cara a 2025, la idea de Pictet AM es seguir muy centrado en los fundamentales. Juan Ramón Caridad analiza las perspectivas de inversión global.

Private EquiTEA

Merci d'avoir écouté Private Equity Vox ! Si cet épisode vous a plu, n'hésitez pas à le partager sur vos réseaux, à vous abonner et à nous mettre un gentil commentaire.Je suis Antoine Sage, et je vous donne rendez vous au prochain épisode de Private Equity Vox pour un nouveau tête-à-tête avec un acteur clé du Private Equity.https://www.pe3.iohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/pe-cube/Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Kultur
De Michał Łuczak mat "Extraction" beim Prix Pictet

Kultur

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2025 9:03


Zanter gutt 15 Joer belount de Pictet Group reegelméisseg ee besonnesche Foto-Projet mam Prix Pictet, an deemno mat 100'000 Schwäizer Frangen. De Präis ass un e Sujet am Beräich vun der nohalteger Entwécklung gekoppelt, déi Kéier ass e mat “Human” iwwerschriwwen. 300 international Foto-Spezialist:innen haten Aarbechte vun enger Hellewull Fotograf:inne proposéiert, e Jury huet néng Finalisten nominéiert, deenen hier Fotoen, no London, San Diego, Shanghai a München, bis dëse Sonnden inclus am Stater Cercle Cité ze gesi sinn. Déi indesch Laureatin vum aktuelle Prix Pictet, d'Gauri Gill, déi sech mat der ländlecher Populatioun an der indescher Peripherie beschäftegt, konnt leider net op Lëtzebuerg kommen, dofir war awer zum Beispill de Pol Michał Łuczak am Cercle Cité, an d'Kerstin Thalau hat d'Geleeënheet, him e puer Froen ze stellen.

RadioBorsa - La tua guida controcorrente per investire bene nella Borsa e nella Vita
Clean Energy: il crollo in Borsa delle energie pulite per i fondi e ETF specializzati

RadioBorsa - La tua guida controcorrente per investire bene nella Borsa e nella Vita

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 31:44


Expert Risponde:«Dopo aver visto alcuni vostri contenuti vi pongo questa domanda: nel 2020 seguendo alcuni blog di finanza e spinto dalla vittoria di Biden che avrebbe investito pesantemente sulle rinnovabili ho deciso di acquistare una quota significativa dell'ETF Ishares Clean Energy.Dopo la discesa nel 2021 e 2022 ho deciso di mediare la posizione acquistando altre quote dello strumento. Purtroppo nel 2024 ho imbarcato un'ulteriore perdita e adesso non so più cosa fare. Voi cosa consigliate? Vendo la posizione (integralmente o parzialmente) o la mantengo?» Per inviare le vostre domande: info@soldiexpert.com

Podcasts sur Radio Patrimoine
Yann LOUIN, PICTET AM - Coeur de Patrimoine

Podcasts sur Radio Patrimoine

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 11:53


SITE INTERNET : https://am.pictet.com/fr/fr

Afternoon Drive with John Maytham
Meet the ‘Mother Teresa' of advertising – Tim Delaney

Afternoon Drive with John Maytham

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2024 8:06


Tim Delaney, founder of Leagas Delaney speaks to John Maytham. Tom is a creative guru and best known for his work on the Patek Philippe 'Generations' campaign, adidas, Timberland, Harrods and Pictet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mercado Abierto
Las bolsas europeas pueden sorprender en 2025, según Pictet

Mercado Abierto

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2024 17:24


Nos acercamos a la gestora y a sus previsiones de cara a la recta final de año y el próximo ejercicio con Lorenzo Coletti, head of Spain en Pictet AM.

Das große Bild
Pictet-Portfoliomanager Achim Siller – Angst vor Trump, schwächelndes China und Euro-Ärger

Das große Bild

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2024 76:11


Für eine Podcast-Aufnahme braucht es mittlerweile nur noch zwei Mikros zum Aufnehmen und im Zweifel ein Gerät, das die beiden Gesprächspartner über das Internet verbindet. Dass sich dieser Gesprächspartner gegenüber sitzen, ist also gar nicht unbedingt notwendig. Was aber, wenn weltweit Computersysteme ausfallen und Kommunikationswege zusammenbrechen? Dann braucht es wohl ein wenig Glück, um trotzdem eine Folge aufnehmen zu können. Und dieses Glück haben Achim Siller, Leiter Portfoliomanagement bei Pictet Wealth Management in Deutschland, und Podcast-Host Christian Hammes, Geschäftsführer des Eta Family Office. Am 19. Juli 2024, an dem viele Computersysteme mit Problemen zu kämpfen haben, sprechen Hammes und Siller über die Finanzmärkte und wie sich vor ihrem Hintergrund ein Portfolio managen lässt.

Capital
Formas de Inversión con Gonzalo Rengifo, director general de Pictet AM y Iberia y Latama

Capital

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2024 13:15


Hoy en el Foro de la inversión en Capital Intereconomía nos acompaña Gonzalo Rengifo, Director General de Pictet AM Iberia y LATAM. En un mundo cada vez más impredecible, con un rápido crecimiento de la población en algunos lugares, un rápido envejecimiento en otros, cambio climático, conflictos y crisis en todas partes, ponemos el foco en las distintas formas de inversión para abordar soluciones que apoyen al conjunto de la sociedad.

wir – Der Podcast für Unternehmerfamilien
wir reden mit #24: Gefahren von außen und innen – Was tun mit dem Familienvermögen?

wir – Der Podcast für Unternehmerfamilien

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2024 42:05


Nicht in Quartalen, sondern in Generationen zu denken – das schreiben sich viele Familienunternehmen auf die Fahnen. Aber wie sieht es bei der Sicherung des Familienvermögens durch die Eigentümerfamilien aus? Welche Renditeziele verfolgen Sie, und welcher Weg soll sie dorthin führen? Und: Wie ernst nehmen sie das Generationenversprechen, wenn es um nachhaltige Investments geht?Diesen Fragen geht die Redaktion des wir-Magazins in einer jährlichen Befragung nach: Für das 4. wir-Barometer haben 180 Unternehmerfamilien Auskunft darüber gegeben, wie sie ihr Vermögen sichern. wir-Redakteurin Sarah Bautz spricht mit Petra Gessner, die als Chefredakteurin von Seiten des wir-Magazins das 4. wir-Barometer verantwortlich mit durchgeführt hat, über Rahmenbedingungen, Ziele und Strategien für die Anlage von Familienvermögen. Zudem im Podcast mit dabei sind als Experten und Vertreter der Mitherausgeber des Barometers Oliver Holtz, Deputy Head of Wealth Management bei Pictet in Deutschland, und Tom Rüsen, Vorstand der WIFU-Stiftung: Sie ordnen die Ergebnisse des Barometers mit Blick auf die Themen Renditeerwartung, Assetklassen sowie Herausforderungen im Gesellschafterkreis ein.Das White-Paper mit allen Ergebnissen der Befragung finden Sie unter https://www.wirmagazin.de/studien/barometer/.Detaillierte Interviews zum wir-Barometer sowie viele weitere Themen rund um Familienvermögen und Generationenwechsel finden Sie in unserem Magazin – online, print oder als E-Paper – unter www.wirmagazin.de.Das "wir-Magazin" ist eine Publikation der F.A.Z.-Business Media GmbH – Ein Unternehmen der F.A.Z.-Gruppe.

Le Brief
Christopher Dembik (Pictet AM): "Les États-Unis n'ont pas besoin d'une baisse des taux"

Le Brief

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 14:54


Christopher Dembik est le stratège de Pictet Asset Management. Basé à Paris, il suit évidemment les soubresauts et les déchirements qui ont émaillé la campagne électorale pour les législatives françaises jusqu'ici. Mais il se veut plus critique à l'égard du programme de la gauche rassemblée dans le Nouveau Front Populaire que vis-à-vis de celui du RN. Au contraire de Jean Pisani-Ferry, interrogé dans L'Echo ce week-end.  S'il obtient une majorité absolue, le Rassemblement national devra faire preuve de réalisme économique et politique et devra tenir compte de l'état des finances publiques françaises avant d'appliquer son programme, estime Dembik. Des finances publiques qui par ailleurs méritent une attention particulière, quelle que soit la majorité au pouvoir.  Joe Biden et Donald Trump s'affronteront pour un premier débat direct, jeudi soir à Atlanta. "Mais si ce n'est sur la forme (l'un étant plus fantasque et difficile à gérer que l'autre), les deux candidats appliqueront une politique sensiblement similaire dans ses conséquences pour l'Europe: basée essentiellement sur le protectionnisme et America first!" Mais comme Nicolai Tangen, Dembik estime qu'il sera sans doute plus difficile de faire du rendement dans les prochains mois... Concernant les taux des banques centrales, si la BCE a déjà entamé sa bascule et a baissé ses taux d'intérêt récemment, la FED patiente encore. "Mais intrinsèquement, les États-Unis n'ont pas besoin d'une baisse des taux pour l'instant. L'économie américaine ne donne aucun signe d'inquiétude, il n'y a donc aucune raison de se précipiter pour changer la politique monétaire. Ce n'est pas le même cas de figure en Europe." Retrouvez ici notre dossier sur les actions préférées des analystes pour la fin de l'année.  Le Brief, le podcast matinal de L'Echo  Ce que vous devez savoir avant de démarrer la journée, on vous le sert au creux de l'oreille, chaque matin, en 7 infos, dès 7h. Le Brief, un podcast éclairant, avec l'essentiel de l'info business, entreprendre, investir et politique. Signé L'Echo. Abonnez-vous sur votre plateforme d'écoute favorite Apple Podcast | Spotify | Podcast Addict l Castbox | Deezer | Google PodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Disruption Talks by Netguru
Ep. 135. Innovation in Finance – with Mastercard, Pictet Group and ABN AMRO

Disruption Talks by Netguru

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 30:13


How can we leverage AI-powered finance? What's the role of cross-industry collaboration and partnerships in fostering innovative solutions?How can businesses accelerate and optimize innovation in the sector?Speakers:– Seif Kabil, Innovation Strategy & New Ventures at ABN AMRO– Steve Blanchet, Head of Group Technology Strategy and Innovation at Pictet Group– Tomasz Owczarek, VP, Head of Sales and Strategy at MastercardHost: Radek Zaleski, Senior Partner at NetguruThis session was a part of Disruption Forum: Future of Finance.

What's up, Corporate Finance?
SPOTLIGHT #26: Pictet: Traditionshaus verstärkt in Private Equity und Private Debt aktiv

What's up, Corporate Finance?

Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2024 9:27


Die Schweizer Pictet-Gruppe blickt auf mehr als 200 Jahre Geschichte zurück und ist auch heute noch in vielen Bereichen der Tradition verpflichtet. Die Schweizer sind dennoch offen für neue Geschäftsfelder und arbeiten vor allem in den Bereichen Private Equity und Private Debt daran, ihre Präsenz im Markt auszubauen. Welche Ziele damit verfolgt werden und wie das mit dem Kerngeschäft zusammenpasst, erläutern Nikolaus Hubmann und Jan Reichenbach in diesem Spotlight.

HIListically Speaking with Hilary Russo
Ep152 - Emotional Intelligence Essentials: How to Achieve Your Goals and Dreams with Dr. John Demartini

HIListically Speaking with Hilary Russo

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 56:57


If you've ever wondered how self-perception can influence your journey to personal success, this conversation on the HIListically Speaking Podcast with guest Dr. John Demartini is for you. A world-renowned luminary in human behavior and emotional intelligence, Dr. Demartini will have you asking yourself, “How do I elevate my self-awareness?” But also inspire authentic living through balance and embracing both the inner hero and the bully within. Dr. Demartini shares his trauma-to-triumph stories that will leave you in awe. Including two powerful lessons he learned as a high school dropout from one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs of his time, to the words he lives by that have been the blueprint for humanity, wisdom, and love. ⁣   ⁣ ⁣CHAPTERS/KEY MOMENTS⁣ 0:00   Intro ⁣ 0:10    Human Potential Through Emotional Intelligence⁣ 03:38  Imposter Syndrome, the Ego for Authenticity⁣ 07:17   Self-Judgment and Behavior ⁣ 16:08  Lesson in Wisdom and Courage⁣ 21:54  Creating Original Ideas for Humanity⁣ 29:09  Free Masterclasses with Dr. Demartini⁣ 31:00  Essentials of Emotional Intelligence Book⁣ 32:50  Unlocking Your Inner Genius  ⁣ 38:47  Self-Talk for Success⁣ 42:48  Authenticity and Self-Acceptance  ⁣ 46:25  The Power of Gratitude and Love⁣ 56:28 Life's Balance and Self-Confidence⁣ ⁣ CONNECT WITH DR. DEMARTINI ⁣ https://drdemartini.com/ or @drjohndemartini⁣ ⁣ Essentials of Emotional Intelligence Book (available on Amazon May 2024⁣   CONNECT WITH HILARY⁣ https://www.instagram.com/hilaryrusso⁣ ⁣https://www.youtube.com/hilaryrusso⁣ https://www.facebook.com/hilisticallyspeaking⁣ https://www.tiktok.com/@hilisticallyspeaking⁣ https://www.hilaryrusso.com/podcast⁣ ⁣Music by Lipbone Redding https://lipbone.com/⁣ ⁣ Never miss an episode or info on upcoming workshops and events. Subscribe to the Brain Candy Newsletter.⁣ EPISODE TRANSCRIPT ⁣ (Full Transcript https://www.hilaryrusso.com/podcast⁣)⁣  ⁣ ⁣ 00:00 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Every symptom in our physiology, every symptom in our psychology, every symptom in our sociological connections, in our relationships, even in our business transactions. Our feedback mechanisms trying to get us back to authenticity, where we have equanimity within ourselves and equity between ourselves and others, so we can create a transaction that has a sustainable, fair exchange, where we maximize our potential. So we understand that, no matter what's going on, it's on the way for that objective, not in the way. ⁣ ⁣ 00:30 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Am I unlocking my greatest human potential? Think about that question just for a moment, because that's where we're going today. Sit with it for a moment and then think about that, because you're about to meet somebody who can challenge you with that question and help you find the answer. He is not your typical expert. He has a unique blend of wisdom and wit and insight, and he's dedicated his life to unraveling the mysteries of human behavior and helping people, including himself, discover that human potential. Thank you so much for joining us here. As I mentioned, you are a world leading human behavior specialist. You're a philosopher and international speaker, multi bestselling author and founder of the Demartini Method, which is a revolutionary tool in modern psychology, and it is just such a pleasure and a joy to have you here to share more about what you do and how you hold space in this world. So thank you. ⁣ ⁣ 01:32 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Thank you. What a great intro. Thank you. ⁣ ⁣ 01:35 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Well, I've been really tapping into everything you're sharing and you talk a lot about, most recently the emotional intelligence side of things with your most recent book, and I want to touch on that because you really have made such a significant difference in how people are truly transforming their own lives. So let's go there first. What is making this book, this most recent book, the Essentials of Emotional Intelligence, different from all these other amazing pieces of literature you've written in the past? ⁣ ⁣ 02:28 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ not always appreciate themselves, not love themselves, because of the emotional vicissitudes and volatilities that they allow themselves to participate in. I'll give an example. You see somebody walking down the street. You meet them and you think, wow, they're more intelligent than me, or maybe they're more achieving, successful than me, or maybe wealthier, or maybe they're more, have a stable relationship, or maybe they're more of a leader or more they're physically fit or more inspired. ⁣ ⁣ 02:59⁣ And then you put them a bit on a pedestal because you're conscious of the upsides and blind and subjectively biased and unconscious of the downsides. And then you beat yourself up and minimize yourself and then you're not honoring your magnificence Because you're comparing yourself to others instead of comparing your daily actions to your own values. Or you might meet somebody and you look down on them and think I'm superior to them, I'm too proud to admit what I see in them, inside me, and you'll now put them down intellectually or in business or finance or family or social or physical or spiritual. And then you now put them in the pit and exaggerate yourself. Anytime we put some in a pedestal and minimize ourselves or put people in a pit and exaggerate ourselves, we're not being ourselves. We've got an imposter syndrome. We've got a facade, a persona, a mask that we're wearing the superiority complex, the inferiority complex, the puffed up, the beat up. ⁣ ⁣ 04:03 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ And as long as we do that, we're in a state of becoming, not our authentic state of being. I love that you touch on that state of the becoming versus the being, because a lot of times I'll say are you being, are you in a state of being or a state of doing? But using the word becoming is is something that is really resonating with me. And going back to the idea of the imposter syndrome, I think we're hearing a lot more about that now and I imagine that's because we live in this global village where everything is right at the touch of our fingertips, you know. So we're infiltrated with so much information and comparison game that it could be very detrimental, whether you're a child or an adult. ⁣ ⁣ 04:40 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Well, we're not here to compare ourselves to others. We're here to compare our own daily actions to what's most meaningful to us, and how congruent are we with what's really priority? But the second we put people on pedestals or pits, we distorted our views, subjectively, of them and we simultaneously created the symptoms in ourselves to let us know that simultaneously created the symptoms in ourselves to let us know that All of the physiological symptoms that we generate genetically, epigenetically or autonomically are feedback mechanisms to guide us back to authenticity. And when we puff ourselves up, we tend to activate our narcissistic side, because we feel superior and we tend to project our values and expect others to live in our values, which creates futility to humble us. Period, we tend to project our values and expect others to live in our values, which creates futility to humble us. And anytime we minimize ourselves and exaggerate them, we tend to go into our altruistic persona and we try to sacrifice for them, which is futile because we can't sustain it. So both of those are feedback mechanisms that are futility, that allow us to go back to who we are. ⁣ ⁣ 05:42⁣ Every symptom in our physiology, every symptom in our psychology, every symptom in our sociological connections, in our relationships, even in our business transactions, our feedback mechanisms, trying to get us back to authenticity, where we have equanimity within ourselves and equity between ourselves and others, so we can create a transaction that has a sustainable, fair exchange, where we maximize our potential. So we understand that, no matter what's going on, it's on the way for that objective, not in the way, and we transcend our fantasies of our amygdala of avoiding pain and seeking pleasure and only going to one-sided realities. As the Buddha says, the desire for that which is unobtainable and the desire to avoid that which is unavoidable is a source of human suffering. But when we finally realize that there's a balance of life and there's nothing to get rid of in yourself and there's nothing to try to go and find in yourself, it's already present and you embrace it in yourself and not compare it to somebody else, because you won't honor it in yourself when you're comparing what you think it needs to be in you with somebody else, what? ⁣ ⁣ 06:43 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ you think it needs to be in you with somebody else, For those out there that are hearing you and want so desperately I don't even want to say desperately, but are really open to the possibility of the neuroplasticity of the brain right, being able to really truly change your thoughts, change your life, kind of thing. How are there easy steps to go about that approach? If they're stuck in the imposter syndrome, if they are on the pedestal or the pit, there must be a simple step to take first. ⁣ ⁣ 07:17 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Yes, well, I've been fascinated by this, for I've been teaching 51 years, so I've been doing it a bit. And you know, there's a statement in Romans 2.1 of the New Testament not that that is the ultimate source by any means, it's just a source but it says that beware of judging other people, for whatever you see in them, you do the same thing. So I was 40-something years ago. I found myself when I was saying something about other people. I found myself talking to myself Whatever I was saying to them and being adamant about. I was thinking I'm really talking to myself, trying to convince myself of what I'm saying to them. Isn't it interesting. So, instead of waiting for people to push my buttons, I decided to go to the Oxford English Dictionary and underline every possible human behavioral trait that could be found. Now Gordon Halport did the same thing years earlier. I didn't know about that at the time, but he must have been as neurotic as I was, because I went through every one and underlined every one of them. ⁣ ⁣ 08:19⁣ In the book I found 4,628 character traits of human beings. Then what I did is I put an initial of the individual out to the side of the margin of the dictionary. Who is it that I know that displays this trait to the furthest degree. So if I saw somebody that was generous, who is the most generous? If I saw somebody that was inconsiderate, who is the most inconsiderate In my perception? These are my distortions, but I put the names out there. Once I put the name next to each of those, I then asked myself John, go to a moment where and when you perceive yourself displaying or demonstrating this particular trait. And I had to be honest with myself because I knew that I did because you only react to things on the outside that represent parts of yourself you haven't loved. So if you're resentful to somebody, they're reminding you that you're too proud to admit you've done it. They're reminding you of something you're feeling ashamed of and they're bringing it out. The reason you want to avoid them is because you don't want to dissociate away from what you're judging in yourself. So I went through there and I found every one of those traits inside myself to the same degree, quantitatively and qualitatively, as I saw in them. And I didn't stop until I saw it which was waking up intuition and unconscious information about me and took out the subjective bias and allowed me to see myself objectively and I realized I was hero and villain, and saint and sinner, and I had every one of those traits. I had all pairs of opposites. ⁣ ⁣ 09:53⁣ Heraclitus, 5th century BC, said there's a unity of opposites in all of us. And it was Wilhelm Watt, in the 1895 Father Experimental Psychology, that said that there's a simultaneous contrast in all people. When they become aware of it, they're fully self-actualized. So nothing's missing At the level of the soul, nothing's missing At the level of the senses. Things appear to be missing. The things that appear to be missing are the things you're too proud or too humble to admit that you see in others, inside yourself, and pure, reflective awareness, which allows true loving intimacy, allows you to realize that whatever you see is you. So the first thing to help you transcend the vicissitudes and the volatilities of the incomplete awareness is to take the time to go and look at where you do the same thing. That's just one of many steps, and when I did that I found all 4,628 traits. I sat and I documented where I had them all. So that means that no matter what anybody said about me, it was true, but maybe not in the context they were projecting, but I owned it and I found out that any trait you don't own is a trait that people push your buttons with, but when you own it, you go. ⁣ ⁣ 11:08⁣ Yes, sometimes I'm this way, sometimes I'm that If I walked up to somebody and I said you're always nice, you're never mean, you're always kind, you're never cruel, you're always positive, never negative, they would go. Not exactly, their intuition would point out the times when they've been the other and they'd immediately be thinking about the time when they're the opposite of that. If I said you're always mean, you're never nice, you're always cruel, you're never kind, always stingy, never generous, they'd go. No, that's not true either. But if I said sometimes you're nice, sometimes you're mean, sometimes you're kind, sometimes you're cruel, they'd go. That's me, because we know innately, with certainty, that we have a unity of pairs of opposites and when you can embrace both sides of those and don't try to get rid of half of yourself, you finally can love yourself. But the futility of trying to get rid of half of yourself is going to undermine it. ⁣ ⁣ 11:52⁣ So the first step in transcending, because anything you infatuate with or resent occupies space and time in your mind and runs your life, and you can't even sleep at night when you're highly infatuated or resentful, because your mind is intruded by these incomplete awarenesses and it's creating symptoms to let you know you're not loving and not whole. You're playing part in the posture and your symptoms are giving you feedback to let you know that to help you. So when I went through and I owned all those traits, I noticed that there was more poise, more presence, more productivity. Noticed that there was more poise, more presence, more productivity, more able to be prioritized and not influenced by other people's opinions, and able to. You know, I'd rather have the whole world against me than my own soul. I was able to listen to my soul, the state of unconditional love, not the imposter syndrome, because if you put people in pedestals you'll minimize. If you put people in pitch, you can exaggerate, and those are becoming, instead of being so you get to be being when you own all your traits. So that's the first little step. ⁣ ⁣ 13:05⁣ 1947, he said it's not that we don't know so much, we know so much. That isn't so. We've been taught moral hypocrisies. Alistair McIntyre, in his book on the history of ethics, shows that we've been given a bunch of ideals that nobody lives by, but everybody thinks they're supposed to, and then they beat themselves up and because they do. They brain offload decisions to outer authorities, and the outer authorities set up the moral hypocrisies for ability to control people as a strategy. So I realized that it's not that we don't know so much. We know so much. That isn't so. So it's time to confront the fantasies and idealisms and the unrealistic expectations and to look at things in a broader perspective. In a broad mind, it's neither positive or negative. In a narrow mind, it's neither positive or negative. In a narrow mind, it's either positive or negative. ⁣ ⁣ 13:48⁣ So I started to go and ask the trait that I listed on the encyclopedia did I interpret it as a positive trait or a negative trait? And if I interpret it as a positive trait, I then asked what are the downsides of the trait? Until I found enough drawbacks to see both sides? And if I saw it as a negative trait, what are the upsides to it? Until I saw both sides? Because I realized that you may infatuate with a guy. You may meet this guy. He's highly intelligent, ooh. He's an aphrodisiac. He turns me on, he's so intelligent, ooh. But then you go. But he's argumentative, he thinks he's right, he knows it all, he doesn't want to listen, he wants to always win in a fight of argument. And then you go oh, there's downsides to that. ⁣ ⁣ 14:27⁣ But because I was infatuated and fantasizing about how good it was, I was blind, I minimized myself, I sacrificed to get with this guy. I feared his loss and I disempowered myself until I saw both sides. And when I saw both sides, he didn't control me. I gave myself power, my power back. In the process of doing it, I went through the 4,628 traits and looked for the upsides to what I thought was down, the down to what was up, until I saw that it was neither positive nor negative. And then I transcended the moral hypocrisies that I'd been indoctrinated by, which was the dogma, and I got to see that there was nothing but love. All else was illusion, because love is the synthesis and synchronicity of complementary opposites, which is the state of being, which is our spiritual path, as Hagel says oh, fascinating. ⁣ ⁣ 15:18 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I love this conversation so much. I'm just sitting here and I'm thinking with such wisdom that you have, with over 50 years of studying, which everything that you're sharing here on the show in just a small period of time. I'd love to know who is your inspiration Like, who helped you come to this place, because I know you share personally that you had your own story even as a high school dropout, as someone who had his own challenges in his youth. Who truly was your inspiration to move you into the space of becoming and being? ⁣ ⁣ 15:58 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Well, I don't know if there's one, there's probably 30,000. ⁣ ⁣ 16:03 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Maybe a couple of your favorites. ⁣ ⁣ 16:08 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ When I was a young boy, I left home and I left home at 13. At 14, I hitchhiked from Houston, texas, to California. On that hitchhike I was confronted by three cowboys. In El Paso, texas, I had a headband, a Hawaiian shirt on, some shorts, some sandals and I had a surfboard. And I was hitchhiking to California. I got confronted by three cowboys. Cowboys and surfers didn't get along in those days, 1968. ⁣ ⁣ 16:39⁣ I was walking through downtown because the freeway wasn't in those days. You had to go through the downtown and three cowboys lined up across the front of me and they were going to not let me through. They didn't like long-haired hippie kids. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't outrun them, I couldn't go in the store, I couldn't go in the street. I had to confront them and somehow a great ingenious idea came to me. I looked like a wild animal and barked like some wild wolf and dog. Okay, now that that's talking about genius. Now that was that low level genius. So I did and the guys moved aside. They moved aside and they let me through the sidewalk and I'm growling at him with my and they let me through. ⁣ ⁣ 17:26⁣ As I came on the other side there was a guy on the street corner leaning on a lamppost, trying to compose himself from laughing so hard, because he just saw what I did. And he comes up behind me and he puts his arm on top of my shoulder and he said, sonny, that's the funniest dang thing I've ever seen. You took them cowpokes like a pro. Can I buy you a cup of coffee? And I said, sir, I don't drink coffee. Can I get you a Coca-Cola? And I said yes, sir. ⁣ ⁣ 17:53⁣ So he took me to a little malt shop and we're swiveling on these things and I had a little Coke with this guy. He was 62 years old at the time but he seemed older, because when you're 14, that seems old. Now it seems young. I'm 70 almost. So I listened to him and he said you finished with your Coke? I said yes, sir. He said then follow me, I have something to teach you. ⁣ ⁣ 18:16⁣ So he took me two blocks, another two blocks up these steps to the downtown El Paso library. We asked the lady at the information booth if she could keep my surfboard and my little duffel bag there watched while we went too library. We asked the lady at the information booth if she could keep my surfboard and my little duffel bag there, watched while we went to the library. We go down these steps, walk a ways up these little steps and sat there in front of a table and he said just sit here, young man. ⁣ ⁣ 18:36⁣ He went off into the bookshelves, he came back with two big books, put them on the table and sat catty corner to me and he said, son, there's two things I want to teach you. You have to promise me that you will remember these things and never forget them. I said yes, sir. He said number one don't ever judge a book by its cover. I said yes, sir. And he says let me tell you why. ⁣ ⁣ 19:02⁣ Young man, you probably think I'm some old guy on the street, some old bum, but, young man, I'm one of the wealthiest men in the world. I have everything that money can buy. I've got planes and boats and businesses and homes and companies, everything that money can buy. He says so don't ever judge a book by its cover, because he can fool you. I said yes, sir. Then he grabbed my hand and he stuck them on top of the two books, and it was Plato and Aristotle. And he said to me young man, you learn how to read. You learn how to read, boy. I said, yes, sir, and he said and here's why they can take away your possessions. People can die, but there's only two things they can never take away from you, and that is your love and your wisdom. So you gain the wisdom of love and you gain the love of wisdom, because that's something that nobody can ever take away from you and that will accumulate through your life. You promise me you'll never, forget that young man. ⁣ ⁣ 20:10⁣ My cufflinks today say love and wisdom. It turned out it was Howard Hughes. ⁣ ⁣ 20:16 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Oh wow, how many times have you told that story and had that response? That's pretty. ⁣ ⁣ 20:26 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Not that many times, but oh, I feel honored. He was doing an El Paso natural gas deal with El Paso Natural Gas for a brewery he was building in Austin, Texas. This is right before he went to Las Vegas with his germaphobic outcome. ⁣ ⁣ 20:46 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I mean, that's incredible. ⁣ ⁣ 20:48 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ At 17, I met a guy named Paul Bragg. He told me that he says we have a body, we have a mind and we have a soul, and the body must be directed by the mind and the mind must be guided by the soul to maximize who we are. And he says you want to set goals for yourself, your family, your community, your city, your state, your nation, your world and beyond for 100 to 120 years, because by the time you grow up you'll be living to 100 years. This is a 1972. And he said what you see, what you say, what you see, what you say, what you think, what you feel and the actions you take determine your destiny. So if you take command of your life and don't let others take command of your life, you can create a life by design, not duty, and you give yourself permission to shine, not shrink, and you can live in a sense ontologically as a state of being, instead of deontologically as a state of becoming. So he had an impact on me when I was 17. Then I made it to age 23. ⁣ ⁣ 21:54⁣ I made a guy named Lakishwaram. He had six PhDs at 35 years old PhDs at 35 years old already six PhDs and I got to mentor under this guy and learn from this guy, and it was just an amazing breadth of knowledge this man had. And he asked me one day to a question. He asked a question, he answered it and then he said are you certain about your answer? And I said, well, no, is that an answer that's accurate? He says yes, it is. You know inside, trust yourself. Whenever you minimize yourself to others, you'll offload the decision and think they know better than you. Find your core competency where you have highest on your values, where you have the greatest epistemological pursuit, and honor that and stick to your core competence and then do something in your life that fulfills what's core competent and you will excel and do something great with your life. So I have had, I've been blessed to study all of the great classics, both Eastern and Western mysticism, from the Vedanta to Buddhist teachings to all the Greek philosophers. I've slayed all the Nobel Prize winners, anybody who has had any global influence that's done anything amazing I've devoured, and one thing that I'm certain about, that the originators of the various disciplines of life are the people I've learned the most from, the people who gave themselves permission to be an unborrowed visionary, and not somebody that's borrowing and copying, but somebody who is actually an originator. See, I've said since I was about 20, I create original ideas that serve humanity. I create original ideas that serve humanity. ⁣ ⁣ 23:38⁣ I also said I learned something from Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein said I'm not a man of my family or my community or my city or my state or even my nation. I'm a citizen of the world. So I've since I was 18 years old I want to be a citizen of the world. Pictet has said that. ⁣ ⁣ 23:54⁣ Socrates said that I could go down the list of people that understood that they didn't want to be localized, they wanted to be non-locally entangled with the universe. So I live on a ship called the world. It goes to every country around the world. I've said since I was 20 to 21 years old the universe is my playground, the world is my home. Every country is a room in the house, every city is a platform to share my heart and soul. My life is dedicated to love and wisdom and doing whatever I can to expand awareness and potential and the involvement of human consciousness, which has already evolved. It's just us waking up to it and do whatever I can to do that, and I do that seven days a week because I can't think of anything else I'd rather be doing. ⁣ ⁣ 24:34 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Like what is the idea of true originality. ⁣ ⁣ 24:37 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Well, you distill and then you integrate into oneness the information, you link it to what you value most. Aristotle had a thing he called the telos, which is the study of which is teleology was the study of meaning and purpose. When I was 23 years old, I realized I asked the question what is it that makes a difference between people that walk their talk and limp their life, people that do what they say and not? And I was fascinated by what the distinction is, and I found that people who set goals and objectives true objectives, not fantasies that are aligned and congruent with what they truly value most, what their life demonstrates is truly most important to them, they increase the probability of original thinking, and original thinking comes when you're willing to pursue challenges that inspire you. The moment you pursue challenges that inspire you, and the greatest challenge to inspire you, are the ones that serve the greatest number of people, the problems that serve the greatest number of people. You know it's interesting. Elon Musk is a good example of this. He finds what's the biggest problems on the planet and he goes and finds a way of solving them. ⁣ ⁣ 25:50⁣ I have a girlfriend that I dated for a while. My wife passed away and she was at Harvard and Oxford and Cornell. She went to four major universities. A very bright lady and she went to the professor at Harvard Her name is Trish Went to the professor at Harvard and this is a time when there was still a little bit of discrepancy between males and females right, it's starting to get a little bit more even but at the time it was still polarized. And she said I want to be able to create a massive business. And he said well, if you do, you need to find the biggest challenge that the society is facing and find a more efficient solution. She said, okay. ⁣ ⁣ 26:35⁣ So she went back to her country, which was South Africa, and she saw that the energy crisis was the biggest one, because ESCOM in South Africa was constantly rationing energy and had a bit of corruption and it wasn't really serving the people to the fullest. So she says I'm going to find a solution to the energy crisis. When she did, she concluded that nuclear was probably the most efficient probably the most efficient. So she, as an individual, raised the funds and borrowed the money to build a private nuclear power plant. Now no one can say that she's the only one that I know in the world that's pulled that off. Most of these are governments that do so. She ended up building a nuclear power plant, selling it back to the government and doing quite well. Now her husband at the time disowned her and divorced her because he didn't want to have the debt, because this is billions. ⁣ ⁣ 27:28⁣ So she took on the risk to solve the problems at the time. When she solved that, she said what's the next issue in the country? Transportation. People are walking everywhere. They can't afford transportation. So she decided to build commuter trains. ⁣ ⁣ 27:45⁣ But the other thing was unemployment and uneducation. So what she did is she did an aerial view of South Africa. She looked at all the problems where the most poverty was, where jobs were needed and these kind of things. She looked at where the rail was and she rerouted rails into the areas that had the most poverty. She set up educational systems to educate them for engineering and hired these people to build trains and commuter trains and put thousands of people to work and created a computer train manufacturing system in three major locations to transform the education, the economics, job opportunities which reduce crime issues and solve the problem. ⁣ ⁣ 28:29⁣ So people who care about humanity, that are dedicated to finding major problems, the greater the problem they get, the more fulfillment they get in life and the more ingenious and original creative thinking comes out of them to solve it. But if you don't have a big enough problem that inspires you to solve, don't expect genius to emerge. It's there in all of us, but we sometimes want to live in our amygdala, avoiding pain and seeking pleasure and avoiding challenge and seeking ease, that we don't go after. The challenges that inspire us, that make a difference, and those are the ones that wake up the genius and creativity of original thinking. ⁣ ⁣ 29:09 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Before we go any further, I do want to mention if you're just overwhelmed with this unbelievable conversation we're having, please know that he has been so gracious to offer a number of free masterclasses and I'm going to put those links in the listen notes of this podcast episode of HIListically Speaking so that you can pick what look. I would say, download them all, because we're talking about the law of attraction. We're talking about how to increase and deserve that level of finally getting what you want in your life. All of these free gifts, the power of your full advantage and potential. The list goes on and on. ⁣ ⁣ 29:42⁣ I'm not going to run down them all. You're going to, just you're going to go to the list of notes, you're going to see what's up, what is there for you, and take your time. You know I say it all the time on this podcast Every guest I have is like a masterclass, and here you are offering additional master classes in addition to this conversation. So let me just say thank you so much, so grateful, for everything that you are sharing. It is just a wealth of information, from your own experiences and your own growth to how you are serving others in this world from that original, authentic self that you present here today. ⁣ ⁣ 30:22 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ so thank you for that uh, thank you for having give me the opportunity to share with people, because without the people, what good am I? ⁣ ⁣ 30:31 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ absolutely. We need each other in this world, right? So your book, the ascent the essentials of emotional intelligence, is your latest book. Where are you hoping this book will go that perhaps other books haven't, from somebody who has released what close to 50 books, if not more? ⁣ ⁣ 30:48 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Yeah, I've written about 300, but there's about 50 that are paperbacks. Okay, the mission of this book was to give some practical tools on how to stabilize the emotional vicissitudes, the impulsive and instinctual seeking and avoidings that distract us from being present, and how to awaken the four brains executive center, the medial prefrontal cortex, which, according to Scientific American in the October edition of 2022, was called the seat of the self. It's a neural correlate for the seat of the self. It's not our self, but it's the neural correlate. And when we allow that to occur, when we live by priority, that blood glucose and oxygen goes into that forebrain, activates that area. That area has nerve fibers down into the amygdala, nucleus, acumens and palladium, and it uses glutamate and GABA to neutralize the impulses and instincts and dampens the volatility that distract us into the imposter syndrome, so we can be our magnificent self. ⁣ ⁣ 31:58⁣ So that's why, if we don't fill our day with high priority actions that inspire us, that integrate us, our day is designed to fill up with low priority distractions that don't to create chaos in our life, to get us guided back to what is authentic. All the symptoms are trying to get us back to authenticity and a lot of people think there's something wrong with them, but actually they're misinterpreting what this feedback is offering them. Their body and mind is doing what it's designed to do to get them back to authenticity. And when you actually go back and prioritize your life, dedicate to what's highest in priority, delegate what's lowest in priority and delegate to those people that would be inspired to do what you want to delegate, so you give job opportunities and help the economy and help people fulfill their lives. You liberate yourself from the distractions of impulses and instincts and the imposter syndrome. That's what the book's for. ⁣ ⁣ 32:50 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ And is this a book that is relatively easy to read for those who might be approaching this kind of mindset, maybe taking a deep dive and making some changes in their own lives? Is this the first book that they should look at, or are there other books? ⁣ ⁣ 33:07 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ There's many books. Everybody when you go to the bookstore you find the one that resonates at that time and 10 weeks later you got another one. I have many books that you could go through and scan and see which ones resonate with you. But I believe that because I have an editor to help me with it, because he would, you know, bring it to where it's. I don't understand that. Clarify it, kind of thing. I think between us we've tried to make the book as understandable as we can. ⁣ ⁣ 33:34⁣ But at the same time I learned many years ago I've been teaching speed learning programs and how to wake up. You know photographic memories and genius and all kinds of stuff in people for many years now. And what people do is they have a conscious self and an unconscious self, right the explicit and implicit, and most people read verbally, not visually, and they're used to phonemes and they're used to you know what they say and only reading and learning as fast as they can speak and as a result of it, anytime they go beyond that speech speed, which is two to 300 words for most people. They go. I didn't get it, but what I've learned is that it's all there in your visual system. Your thalamus filters out certain information, but it's still there. And then when you need it and the information is needed and it helps you fulfill a purpose, it comes from the unconscious up to the conscious level. So I teach people to just take in the information and don't question whether you got it, just take it in, look at it, see it, because then all of a sudden, when you're in a conversation and somebody asks you a question, where that information is needed out, it will come, but you won't need it, you won't even hear it, didn't even know, you knew it until that moment. When you do, then you realize that we're so we limit ourselves to our conscious awareness, which is a small portion of what we are capable of taking in, and then we don't honor the other part of our life that knows. And so I'm a firm believer just delivering the information and letting people trust what they learn, to trust both sides of themselves and to embrace it, because we have a capacity to learn way farther than even most people ever imagined. I mean, I'm absolutely certain I read 11,000 pages in one day and absorbed it, and people start asking questions on it and they go. ⁣ ⁣ 35:33⁣ I don't think I didn't know how you could do that and I said because I didn't question it. I stopped questioning what I learned and believing that it's only what I got consciously. And then, when you asked me the question, whatever was unconscious was there for me. So a lot of people don't realize that they have a genius. There's no uniqueness. Everyone has a genius and it can be awakened and I've been working on that. The first statement that I ever got from Paul Bragg is because I told him I didn't know how to read. I didn't read until I was 18. I didn't know. I was learned and disabled and I was told I would never be able to read. He told me say every single day, say to yourself I'm a genius and I apply my wisdom. ⁣ ⁣ 36:17 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ So I did. ⁣ ⁣ 36:19 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ I didn't know what that even meant. I asked my mom. When I saw my mom, I said what the heck is a genius? She says people like Albert Einstein and Da Vinci. I said well then, get me everything you can about those guys. ⁣ ⁣ 36:28⁣ I later learned that a genius is one who listens to their inner voice and follows their inner vision and obeys and lets the voice and vision on the inside be louder than all opinions on the outside, and then they master the path of their life. They're on their dharmic path, not their karmic wheel, and they liberate themselves from the bondage of all the infatuations, resentments, all the exaggerations of pride and shame that stop them from being authentic when they exaggerate and minimize other people through judgment. So we have a genius inside and it's spontaneously ready to come out, but we don't give it permission to come out because we're too preoccupied with what others think and how we're positioned. And there was two Nobel Prize winners that got their Nobel Prize in 2016 on the place in grid cells and in January February of 2020. ⁣ ⁣ 37:23⁣ Fantastic article on that in the Scientific American showing how we socially put ourselves in pecking orders and hierarchies in society because we disown parts and if we went and we go and take the most powerful people on the planet and go find what do I admire in them, what do I dislike in them, and own them all, we reposition ourselves and we awaken the same playing field that they're playing on and I've proven that in thousands of cases. We have people that have now Grammy award-winning, people that we're just barely seeing, and we got people that are doing amazing things economically, because there's nothing missing in us and fulfillment is the realization. There's nothing missing, never was missing, but we were too busy, preoccupied with being too proud or too humble to admit what we see in others, inside us. And when we finally embrace our hero and villain in all parts of ourselves and not try to get rid of half of ourselves, we finally awaken that magnificent genius that's sitting there dormant, ready to emerge spontaneously into inspired action of creativity and origination. The second we be authentic. ⁣ ⁣ 38:30 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ It so comes back to balance Everything you're saying, like the yin, the yang. It's so balanced and I think you're opening my mind to think of things more than just like work-life balance, and I think you're opening my mind to think of things more than just like work-life balance, and it's so much more. And what you just said about the inner voice because truly this is the loudest voice in the room is our own right. And how are we speaking to ourselves? What is that inner bully doing? That's stepping up on the playground constantly. It's truly embodying the beauty that exists within each and every one of us. The genius remark you said. I would love for you to reiterate that statement, that conversation you had with your mom, because, if anything, that is something that should be up on everyone's wall, your mirror, that thing you see every day, a reminder to yourself of what follows those words. I am. I am a genius. And you said something else. Could you share that Cause? That was brilliant. ⁣ ⁣ 39:29 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Well, that that that came from Paul Bragg. He gave it to me when I was 17. Well, I just turned 18. At the time he said cause? I told him I didn't know how to read, how am I going to be a teacher? I wanted to travel the world and teach. And he said and I thought that's what I saw in my dream. And he says just say to yourself every single day. I'm a genius and I apply my wisdom. Said every single day, until the cells of your body tingle with it, and so with the world. I didn't know how to read at the time. I learned how to read after I started saying that every day. ⁣ ⁣ 40:01 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Well, I'm sure there was an inner dialogue you were having where the words on paper didn't matter as much as the words that you were telling yourself. ⁣ ⁣ 40:08 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Well, the thing is, as many times many people have this internal dialogue, self-depreciation, but they don't realize that they're addicted to praise is the source of it. The addicted to fantasy is the source of it. There's a thing called a moral licensing effect and I hope everybody looks that up. And when everybody's done it without knowing it, most people have gone out and they've worked out. They went to the gym, they worked out, they really did a workout and they kind of got their abs looking good and they got their butt looking good and then all of a sudden they go. Well, I gave myself permission, I can eat more chocolate, I can eat more food and I can drink some more wine tonight. That's the licensing effect. The moment you do something you're proud of, you give yourself permission to do something you're ashamed of. Now that same truth. ⁣ ⁣ 40:54⁣ This is a homeostatic mechanism. I've been studying interceptive homeostatic mechanisms in biological systems for decades and what is interesting is the second you go above equilibrium, like the temperature goes up, you create sweating to bring it back, and the second you go below and it's cold, you create shivering to bring it back. We have a built-in homeostatic interceptive feedback inside our consciousness and anytime we get a neurochemistry that's imbalanced. The pre and post-synaptic brain will automatically rebalance it and attempt to balance it. And so we create for every memory an anti-memory and we create it and we'll dissociate. If it's a traumatic memory, we'll dissociate and create a fantasy, and if it's a fantasy thing, we'll create a paranoia to get a balance, to keep the homeostasis balanced. So the second we're beating ourselves up. Most people go, oh, get rid of that, get rid of that, get rid of that. And they can't get rid of it as long as they're building themselves up with fantasies. And so the second they compare themselves to others and put people on pedestals and go, oh, I want to be like that and set up a fantasy. And then they say only these positive things about themselves. They automatically have to self-depreciate to counterbalance it. So a balanced orientation you don't have that polarity, You've integrated the polarity. ⁣ ⁣ 42:08⁣ So I don't try to be positive all the time, or nice all the time, or peaceful all the time. I'm a human being and I have a set of values. When I live by my highest values, I'm most objective and neutral. When I'm living by lower values, I become more volatile. That's why anybody that does something that's really high priority during the day, they're resilient and adaptable. Because they're neutral, because they don't feel the loss of things they infatuate with, they don't feel the gain of things. They resent the moment they balance themselves and bring themselves up and live by priority, they're more neutral. But if not, they're more polarized. When they get polarized and they end up fearing the loss of the things they infatuate with and fearing the gain of that, they're now distracted. ⁣ ⁣ 42:48⁣ So I basically learned many years ago to ask questions. That rebalanced it and I realized that the second I got addicted to praise, criticism hurt, and the second I puffed myself up. I attract challenge, criticism, distractions. ⁣ ⁣ 43:06⁣ There's a thing called depurposing and repurposing. The second, you get proud and think you're successful. You depurpose, you give yourself permission to do low priority things and the purpose of that is to get you back into authenticity because you're puffed up and then, if you go down, you go okay, now I overate. So now the next morning I'm now going to get up and jog. I haven't been jogging for weeks, but now I overate, I'm going jogging. ⁣ ⁣ 43:28⁣ So you give yourself to repurpose, so you have a built-in homeostatic mechanism to guide you to authenticity. But you're constantly being taught what isn't so, as Dirac said, about how you're supposed to be one-sided. Get rid of half of yourself, Be nice, don't mean, be kind, don't be cruel, be positive, don't be negative. And so you're set up like I got to get rid of half of myself and the whole personal development journey out. There is misleading people into thinking they have to get rid of themselves to love themselves, and the truth is integrating and embracing both sides of yourself is what liberates you and makes you realize the magnificence of who you are and the contributions you're making. ⁣ ⁣ 44:07 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Now you don't build yourself up. ⁣ ⁣ 44:08 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ You don't build yourself up. You don't beat yourself up. People come up to me, and sometimes in interview, and they say, dr Demartini, how did you become successful? And I go I'm not successful. And they go what it says? ⁣ ⁣ 44:22⁣ I have no desire for success because my addiction to success is the very thing that creates the fear of failure. I'm a man on a mission and I see success and failure as feedback mechanisms to help me stay focused and authentic. And if I get successful, I'm proud and I do low priority things to get me back down and if I feel like I'm a failure, I go back to high priority things to get me back up. When I'm in the center, I don't even think of success or failure. I think of my mission. ⁣ ⁣ 44:48⁣ And that is always a perfect blend between myself and other people, because if I'm thinking of success, I think about myself and I forgot my people, and if I think of a failure, I'm thinking about myself, I forgot my people. But when I'm in perfect balance, I'm thinking of perfect balance, reflective awareness of the people, humanity and myself. As Schopenhauer says, we become our true self to the degree that we make everyone else ourself. It's all us out there, and when we get there, we don't think of success or fair. We think of we're working as a team on the planet. And when we get there, we don't think of success or failure, we think of we're working as a team on the planet period. ⁣ ⁣ 45:20 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Thank you so much for that. Thank you for the reminder moment of just a new piece of information for folks to ingest and think about and process and think how they can be both sides and find that center. Find that center Really, it's not even being both sides, it's becoming right. I have some work to do myself, so I really appreciate you and all that you're sharing and just becoming and being, and what I would love to do with you in this moment. I know we have a few seconds left. If you hang with me for just a few seconds, I would love to do a quick game with you and throw out some words that you've shared during this episode and see what the first word is that comes back. A little word association. I love to do with my guests. Do you have a moment? ⁣ ⁣ 46:22 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Sure. ⁣ ⁣ 46:23 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ All right, great. So I'm just going to just go with. The first word that comes to mind is wisdom. Just one word, come back. ⁣ ⁣ 46:32 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ In my case, it's what I feel is my mission. ⁣ ⁣ 46:36 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Mission Okay, and love Same thing Okay, and love Same thing Okay. Venous Same thing World. ⁣ ⁣ 46:50 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Destined. ⁣ ⁣ 46:52 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Emotions. ⁣ ⁣ 46:55 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Feedback systems to the truth of love. ⁣ ⁣ 46:58 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Authenticity. Being feedback systems to the truth of love, authenticity being becoming feedback systems to being you're good, I'm going to leave it with this last word, because it is my word of the year and I want to know what your word for balance would be. ⁣ ⁣ 47:21 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Equanimity of both mind and body. ⁣ ⁣ 47:26 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I want to sit with that one for a moment and I appreciate everything you're sharing, your personal story, your wisdom, your wit and everything you're putting out there into the world while you, while you sail along on the world and I hope at some point I am at a port where you are speaking in person, cause I, I would just really love to be in your personal, your space to really feel that energy, because this is, this is, I'm feeling it right here across the airwaves, that energy, because this is, this is I'm feeling it right here across the airwaves. But I have a feeling it's even more, it's even greater in to be in person with you, where are you next? ⁣ ⁣ 48:09 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ What's what's on? Where's the ship sailing? Next I go from here. I'm here for till tomorrow. Then I go to La Habla, Brazil, and then I'm off to Rio de Janeiro the carnival starts there, so I'm passing through there and then I quickly run over to Chennai and Mumbai to do three presentations at a Change makers conference Thousands of people will be there and then I run back down to Cape Town to do some filming and also presentations there. And then we sail up to Maputo, Mozambique, and then I quickly run to London to do presentations there. ⁣ ⁣ 48:46⁣ And then I get back on a French island and my girlfriend's meeting me in the Seychelles Islands and the Maldives for a little romance Lovely. And then off to India, then Lovely, and then off to India then. And then we go to Sri Lanka and off to Indonesia and Malaysia and Cambodia and Vietnam and those areas. So we circumnavigate the planet and I get off and on, if I have to do live speaking, otherwise I do presentations. But tomorrow I'm in Japan and the next two days I'll be in Australia from the ship here. So I say the universe is my playground, the world is home. ⁣ ⁣ 49:22 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ On that note, would you have anything you would like to close and share with listeners of the HIListically Speaking podcast? ⁣ ⁣ 49:32 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Yeah, can I share a story? I know I go a couple of seconds over, but I think this is. ⁣ ⁣ 49:38⁣ Doctor, it is your time and I graciously accept your stories 34 years ago almost 35, I was speaking in San Francisco and I was doing a seven-day program on self-mastery and leadership and one of the ladies there asked if I could, at lunch, go over to the hospital there and meet with a particular patient. And I said, if you get me a bagel to eat on the way there and back because I have to start, I only got an hour. If you can get me there and back in an hour and give me a bagel or something to eat, I'll be glad to. We went over there and there was a. We went into this hospital room and there was a guy that was kind of leaning up in the bed and was sort of half asleep and a motion covered with sores and he was dying of AIDS. And he was didn't look like he had much farther to go. His immune deficiency is pretty collapsed. ⁣ ⁣ 50:38⁣ And I sat on the edge of the bed, grabbed his hands. He didn't know who I was and I just looked at him and I said to him please repeat with me what I say no matter what I've done or not done, I'm worthy of love. No matter what I've done or not done, I'm worthy of love. No matter what I've done or not done, I'm worthy of love. And I made him say that and at first he just said the words and about five repetitions he started to cry Because he had accumulated and stored a whole lot of judgments on himself and when we judge ourselves and condemn ourselves, our immune system responds. And so I made him say that until he cried, until he literally leaned over and fell literally onto me. I'm twisted on the bed holding him now on to me. I'm twisted on the bed holding him. Now. There was a nurse there, there was another lady I don't know who, she was administration lady and there was a lady that asked me to come. We're all in tears, we're all just in a moment of grace and authenticity. When you have a tear of gratitude, you have a gamma wave in the brain, you get a moment of authenticity. It's a confirmation. In that moment. He did that and he looked up at me and he said I've never in my life ever felt that or believed or ever said that Thank you. And I said Thank you and we hugged each other and I left, went back to do my prose presentation and didn't know anything about it for a few weeks and finally I got a letter from the lady who asked me to come and a picture. Somehow the man changed his perceptions and rallied. ⁣ ⁣ 52:43⁣ I really don't know the limitations of our ability to heal. I've seen things that would be considered less than probable but all I know is that this man rallied. They thought he was going to die. Didn't die Now, I don't know. Maybe he later. I'm sure somewhere down the line he did, but he didn't die in that recent weeks for sure. ⁣ ⁣ 53:10⁣ So I wrote a book called Count your Blessings the Healing Power of Gratitude and Love. ⁣ ⁣ 53:14⁣ I still believe that that's still one of the great healers on the planet. ⁣ ⁣ 53:17⁣ When we're graced by seeing the hidden order of life and we really, truly realize that there's nothing but love, all else was illusion and we've stopped judging ourselves for just a moment and get a glimpse of our real self, that the power of our physiology to normalize and to homeostasis  are stored, subconsciously stored imbalances, epigenetic lock-ins, you might say are freed. ⁣ ⁣ 53:45⁣ So I just want to end on a story that, in case you've ever judged yourself, just know that no matter what you've done or not done, you're worthy of love and the only reason you're judging yourself is because you're comparing yourself to somebody else's value system Because the decisions you made was based on what you believed at that time were more advantage and disadvantage to you and yours. But if you try to compare it to somebody else, you'll think you're making mistakes, just like if you try to expect others to live in your values. You think they're making mistakes. But maybe there's no mistakes after a while and maybe it's wise to look back a different way and ask how is whatever I've experienced and whatever I've done, how is it helping me fulfill my mission in life? And don't stop until you get a tear of gratitude for whatever you've done or not done. And that is definitely liberating and empowering for any human being, regardless of the situation. It can help relationships, it can help healing, it can help your body, it can help your business. ⁣ ⁣ 54:43 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ Gratitude and love is still one of the great healers on the planet. I am so in a place of gratitude right now. So thank you, and I can only imagine that those who are tuning in are going to feel that as well. Thank you for leaving those words with people to sit with and think about and remember that we're all geniuses and we're all the gift. Thank you, dr Demartini. Appreciate it. ⁣ ⁣ 55:09 - Dr. John Demartini (Guest)⁣ Thank you. Thank you, thank you. ⁣ ⁣ 55:12 - Hilary Russo (Host)⁣ I know we have covered a lot of territory during this conversation, but the beauty is you have so many possibilities to connect with Dr Demartini and learn from him yourself, and I'm going to help you with that. I've shared a number of links in the notes of this podcast episode to his free webinars and, of course, to his latest book, essentials of Emotional Intelligence. And once you've had some time to process this, once you've had some time to listen to the show this week, I'm going to suggest that you come back and do it again, because when you give things a listen more than once, you'd be surprised what you unpack the second or the third time or even the fourth. Then, once you have a little time to sit there with it, go ahead and leave a rating or review, or just let me know what you think about this episode, this show on HIListically Speaking and how it has been serving and supporting you, because that's really what this show is about. ⁣ ⁣ 56:14⁣ HIListically Speaking is edited by 2MarketMedia with music by Lipone Redding and, of course, listened to by you time and time again. So thank you so much for taking time to tune in and remember this, and you know this is my word of the year. This year. Life is about balance, and you heard Dr Demartini talk about it himself, and you, my, are already the perfect genius in your own right, so embrace that and always remember to be kind to your mind. I love you, I believe in you and I will see you next week.

Finscale
#224 - Philippe Reynier (Wecan Group) - Utiliser les forces de la Blockchain pour faciliter le KYB

Finscale

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2024 27:43


Ce sujet de "KNOW YOUR CLIENT" qu'il s'agisse des Corporates, des Personnes Physiques ou encore de Trusts, tout le monde y passe et nous savons tous que c'est un enjeu de taille car derrière ce sont des risques majeurs à mitiger. J'ai déjà couvert le sujet, mais jamais encore dans le contexte de la Blockchain. Philippe m'a rejoint pour m'expliquer ce que Wecan développe pour faciliter la vie des Banques et autres acteurs de la finance obligés de maintenir leur Fichier Central à jour. Vous verrez ce qu'apporte l'utilisation de la blockchain, comprendrez l'Infrastructure déployée par la scale-up Suisse sur Ethereum. L'occasion aussi de se rendre compte que des acteurs bancaires aussi traditionnels que Pictet ou plus orientés "crypto" comme Bitstamp ou Sygnum utilisent la suite logicielle de Wecan.

Finscale
[EXTRAIT] #224 - Philippe Reynier (Wecan Group) - Utiliser les forces de la Blockchain pour faciliter le KYB

Finscale

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2024 7:03


Extrait de l'épisode de Dimanche. Ce sujet de "KNOW YOUR CLIENT" qu'il s'agisse des Corporates, des Personnes Physiques ou encore de Trusts, tout le monde y passe et nous savons tous que c'est un enjeu de taille car derrière ce sont des risques majeurs à mitiger. J'ai déjà couvert le sujet, mais jamais encore dans le contexte de la Blockchain. Philippe m'a rejoint pour m'expliquer ce que Wecan développe pour faciliter la vie des Banques et autres acteurs de la finance obligés de maintenir leur Fichier Central à jour. Vous verrez ce qu'apporte l'utilisation de la blockchain, comprendrez l'Infrastructure déployée par la scale-up Suisse sur Ethereum. L'occasion aussi de se rendre compte que des acteurs bancaires aussi traditionnels que Pictet ou plus orientés "crypto" comme Bitstamp ou Sygnum utilisent la suite logicielle de Wecan.

Finect Talks
Cómo hacer un canvas de tus finanzas personales 🎙️ Finect Talks con Jordi Martínez

Finect Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2024 54:42


¿Qué es el "wellness financiero"? ¿Cómo podemos organizar nuestras finanzas personales? En este episodio hablamos con Jordi Martínez, autor de un libro que nos propone utilizar una herramienta que usan los gestores de empresas, pero aplicado a tu dinero: un canvas. El canvas de las finanzas personales. ¡Síguenos en nuestro nuevo canal de Whatsapp! https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFOcTe4SpkIZg9Ffb3L ➡️ Únete al grupo de Finect Talks en Finect: https://www.finect.com/grupos/finect-talks ➡️ Enlaces sección “El corrillo”: Bitcoin cae un 15% desde sus máximos: "Hemos visto caídas de hasta el 30% en mercados alcistas" https://www.finect.com/usuario/sonIA/articulos/bitcoin-cae-un-15-desde-sus-maximos-hemos-visto-caidas-de-hasta-el-30-en-mercados-alcistas Los inversores, subidos en el toro: niveles de bolsa y apetito por el riesgo no vistos en más de dos años https://www.finect.com/usuario/avillanuevae/articulos/los-inversores-subidos-en-el-toro-niveles-de-bolsa-y-apetito-por-el-riesgo-no-vistos-en-mas-de-dos-anos-encuesta-bofa ¿Hay una burbuja con la inteligencia artificial? Lo que piensan los gestores https://www.finect.com/usuario/sonIA/articulos/hay-una-burbuja-con-la-inteligencia-artificial-lo-que-piensan-los-gestores ¿Ganar invirtiendo en Nigeria o Kazajistán? Los fondos de mercados frontera, los más rentables en 2024 https://www.finect.com/usuario/avillanuevae/articulos/los-fondos-de-mercados-frontera-de-los-mas-rentables-en-2024 Cuatro aspectos por los que no es una buena idea confiarlo todo al dinero en efectivo https://www.finect.com/grupos/schroders/articulos/cuatro-aspectos-por-los-que-no-es-una-buena-idea-confiarlo-todo-al-dinero-en-efectivo Por qué la renta variable china debería conservar su lugar en las carteras globales https://www.finect.com/grupos/Pictet_asset_management/articulos/por-que-la-renta-variable-china-deberia-conservar-su-lugar-en-las-carteras-globales Diferencias entre riesgo y volatilidad. Ejemplos de fondos con alta y baja volatilidad https://www.finect.com/grupos/self-bank/articulos/diferencias-entre-riesgo-y-volatilidad-ejemplos-de-fondos-con-alta-y-baja-volatilidad-1 *Este contenido se ha elaborado bajo un criterio editorial y no constituye una recomendación ni propuesta de inversión. La inversión contiene riesgos. Las rentabilidades pasadas no son garantía de rentabilidades futuras.*

Finect Talks
Bitcoin en máximos: ¿otra burbuja o esta vez es diferente? 🎙️ Finect Talks con Román González

Finect Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 56:46


El Bitcoin llegó a máximos históricos. ¿Qué es lo que ha pasado en estos meses para que el precio del Bitcoin y otras criptomonedas se haya disparado? ¿Por puede ser que esta vez es diferente a la subida de 2021? ¿Es posible otro criptoinvierno como el de 2022? ¿Qué esperar de las criptomonedas a largo plazo? ¿Es Bitcoin una revolución parecida a la que fue internet en su momento? Todo esto lo hemos hablado con nuestro invitado, Román González, cogestor del fondo Criptomonedas FIL, el más rentable de lo que llevamos de 2024 gracias a su apuesta precisamente por las criptomonedas. ➡️ Ficha del fondo Criptomonedas A FIL https://www.finect.com/fondos-inversion/ES0124722002-Criptomonedas_a_fil ¡Síguenos en nuestro nuevo canal de Whatsapp! https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaFOcTe4SpkIZg9Ffb3L ➡️ Únete al grupo de Finect Talks en Finect: https://www.finect.com/grupos/finect-talks ➡️ Enlaces sección “El corrillo”: ¿Estamos viviendo un "momento crucial" en la economía? BNY Mellon IM: "Es una vuelta a la normalidad" https://www.finect.com/usuario/avillanuevae/articulos/estamos-viviendo-un-momento-crucial-en-la-economia-bny-mellon-im-es-la-vuelta-a-la-normalidad La bolsa de Japón vuelve a estar de moda: ¿qué pueden esperar los inversores? https://www.finect.com/grupos/schroders/articulos/la-bolsa-de-japon-vuelve-a-estar-de-moda-que-pueden-esperar-los-inversores Comprar las compañías más baratas no funciona https://www.finect.com/grupos/renta-4-gestora/articulos/comprar-las-companias-mas-baratas-no-funciona-por-javier-galan El riesgo de no correr riesgos https://www.finect.com/grupos/Pictet_asset_management/articulos/el-riesgo-de-no-correr-riesgos ¿Recogiendo beneficios? Récord de salidas de dinero en fondos tecnológicos en una semana https://www.finect.com/usuario/avillanuevae/articulos/recogiendo-beneficios-record-de-salidas-de-dinero-en-fondos-tecnologicos-en-una-semana Rentabilidad Letras del Tesoro: sube a 9 meses, baja a 3 meses https://www.finect.com/usuario/eduardogarcia/articulos/la-rentabilidad-de-las-letras-del-tesoro-a-9-meses-sube-al-3578-pero-baja-a-3-meses Los dividendos mundiales baten récord en 2023: 1,66 billones de dólares https://www.finect.com/usuario/eduardogarcia/articulos/los-dividendos-mundiales-baten-record-en-2023-166-billones-de-dolares Los 'Fabulosos 5' de la renta variable europea que hacen sombra a las '7 magníficas' https://www.finect.com/usuario/mariarefojos/articulos/los-fabulosos-5-de-la-renta-variable-europea-que-hacen-sombra-a-las-7-magnificas *Este contenido se ha elaborado bajo un criterio editorial y no constituye una recomendación ni propuesta de inversión. La inversión contiene riesgos. Las rentabilidades pasadas no son garantía de rentabilidades futuras.* ¿Quieres anunciarte en este podcast? Hazlo con advoices.com/podcast/ivoox/757620

Capital
Pictet AM: " La energía renovable es más barata"

Capital

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 14:10


Hoy en el Foro de la inversión de Capital Intereconomía, Patricia de Arriaga, subdirectora general de Pictet AM en Iberia y Latinoámerica, ha hablado sobre las renovables, la forma más barata de generar electricidad. Desde Pictet AM apuntan que no solo es una buena oportunidad para el consumidor de abaratar sus facturas de la luz, sino que también es una buena oportunidad de inversión. Para Arriaga las empresas dispuestas a innovar y abaratar costes en la producción de energías renovables van a tener un gran margen de crecimiento. "Los riesgos geopolíticos actuales han manifestado que es necesario depender de energías renovables y no de fuentes de energía como el petróleo". La innovación tecnológica es el principal aliado para conseguir una transición energética sostenible, que cumpla con las normas de 0 emisiones de CO2 para 2050. "Se necesitan semiconductores para la generación de energía sostenible". Pictet clean energy transition es una estrategia de alto impacto, no solo para el cambio climático sino para el resto de desafíos medioambientales. En Pictet AM "invertimos en 40/50 compañías" que están apostando por la innovación tecnológica de cara a una transición energética. Patrcia de Arriaga, tiene claro que las energías renovables son el presente y el futuro. Afirma "la tendencia de la transición a una energía sostenible y más barata se va a implementar, hay que apoyar esa transición para cumplir con las normas de 0 emisiones del año 2050".

Les interviews d'Inter
Christopher Dembik , économiste, conseiller en stratégie d'investissement chez Pictet AM

Les interviews d'Inter

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2023 5:22


durée : 00:05:22 - L'invité de 6h20 - par : Mathilde MUNOS - Notre invité de 6h20 est Christopher Dembik , économiste, conseiller en stratégie d'investissement chez Pictet AM au sujet de la note financière de la France donnée par Standard & Poor's le vendredi 1er décembre au soir.

How To Academy
Timothy Garton Ash and Catherine Ashton - The Future of Europe (Bonus Episode)

How To Academy

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2023 36:24


Every month the How To Academy team release a new episode of Found in Conversation with our friends at Pictet. In this episode, we explore the past, present, and future of the European Project with Oxford Prof Timothy Garton Ash and Baroness Catherine Ashton, former EU Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Value Perspective
TVP Meet the Manager series – Tobias Carlisle hosts Juan Torres Rodriguez

The Value Perspective

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2023 58:03


This week in the final episode of our Meet the Manager series to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Value Team at Schroders, Tobias Carlisle returns to interview the steadfast host of the Value Perspective, Juan Torres Rodriguez. You may know Tobias as the host of the Acquirer's Multiple Podcast, from the Value: After Hours Podcast or indeed as a frequent guest on this podcast. He is a deep value investor at heart and is the founder of Acquirers Funds. He is also a frequent author on the topic having published four books and has a new one out soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Juan is the host of the Value Perspective but he is also an emerging markets value investor at Schroders and has been with the company since 2017. Previous to Schroders he had stints at Pictet, Credit Suisse and Bank Columbia. In their conversation, Tobias and Juan focus on emerging markets. They cover: Juan's journey from Columbia to the Value Team in London; emerging markets' tough decade and what it means to be a value investor in these markets; cyclical businesses and the opportunity set in emerging markets; and finally how the Value Team embraces behavioural biases and has built a process to help cope with them. Enjoy! NEW EPISODES: We release main series episodes every two weeks on Mondays. You can subscribe via Podbean or use this feed URL (https://tvpschroders.podbean.com/feed.xml) in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and other podcast players. GET IN TOUCH: send us a tweet: @TheValueTeam  Important information. This podcast is for investment professionals only. This information is not an offer, solicitation or recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument or to adopt any investment strategy. Any data has been sourced by us and is provided without any warranties of any kind. It should be independently verified before further publication or use. Third party data is owned or licenced by the data provider and may not be reproduced, extracted or used for any other purpose without the data provider's consent. Neither we, nor the data provider, will have any liability in connection with the third party data. Reliance should not be placed on any views or information in the material when taking individual investment and/or strategic decisions. Any references to securities, sectors, regions and/or countries are for illustrative purposes only. The views and opinions contained herein are those of individual to whom they are attributed, and may not necessarily represent views expressed or reflected in other communications, strategies or funds. The value of investments and the income from them may go down as well as up and investors may not get back the amounts originally invested. Exchange rate changes may cause the value of any overseas investments to rise or fall. Past Performance is not a guide to future performance and may not be repeated. The forecasts included should not be relied upon, are not guaranteed and are provided only as at the date of issue. Our forecasts are based on our own assumptions which may change.  

Found In Conversation
Summer Special: Confidence in Full Bloom with Viv Groskop

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2023 16:45


We've all been there. Networking at a smart party. Presenting to a crowded room. Few of us can naturally project confidence and authority in an intimidating situation; many of us are simply lost for words. Thankfully while being confident at work isn't something we are born with, it is something that can be taught and learned—and without sacrificing our authenticity. In this episode, Pictet's Global Head of Branding Isabelle von Ribbentrop meets Viv Groskop -- a women who has conquered the worlds of journalism, comedy, writing, and broadcasting. She draws on what's she learned about being confident both herself and from others in her book and podcast series How to Own the Room, and now in a new book call Happy High Status. In this conversation, Viv shares her story and her tips for being confident while still being yourself.   Listen more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Market Mover
Il ritorno del Nasdaq

Market Mover

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2023 9:18


Da inizio anno l'indice della tecnologia per eccellenza ha fatto un balzo. Fabrizio Santin di Pictet spiega perché e quali sono i rischi e le opportunità per il futuro

Market Mover
Il ritorno del Nasdaq

Market Mover

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2023 8:33


Da inizio anno l'indice della tecnologia per eccellenza ha fatto un balzo. Fabrizio Santin di Pictet spiega perché e quali sono i rischi e le opportunità per il futuro

The Straits Times Audio Features
S1E26: Are returns in private debt still attractive? WealthBT (Ep26)

The Straits Times Audio Features

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2023 15:40


Private debt has come into its own as an asset class after the 2008 financial crisis, delivering attractive returns with little correlation to stocks and bonds. The current environment poses challenges but with careful credit selection, investors can still reap equity-like returns. Goh Hui Yang, Pictet's head of alternative investments in Asia tells Genevieve Cua more. Synopsis: Learn to protect and grow your wealth in this monthly Business Times podcast series for affluent individuals, hosted by BT wealth editor Genevieve Cua. This episode is brought to you by Pictet Wealth Management. Highlights:  02:28 Popularity of private debt as an asset class 06:54 Why get an exposure 09:36 Challenge of the macro environment 11:10 Risks to watch 12:58 A realistic look at return expectations More about: Pictet Wealth Management https://www.pictet.com/sg/en/wealth-management Alternatives and private assets https://www.pictet.com/sg/en/insights/markets/alternatives Written and hosted by: Genevieve Cua (gen@sph.com.sg) With Goh Hui Yang, Pictet's head of alternative investments in Asia Edited by: Howie Lim & Claressa Monteiro  Recording engineer: Joann Chai Pei Chieh Produced by: BT Podcasts, The Business Times, SPH Media — Follow WealthBT podcasts and rate us at: Channel: http://bt.sg/btwealthbt Apple Podcasts: http://bt.sg/wbAP Spotify: http://bt.sg/wbSP Google: http://bt.sg/wtGO Website: http://bt.sg/wealthbt Feedback to: podcast@sph.com.sg Do note: This podcast is meant to provide general information only. SPH Media accepts no liability for loss arising from any reliance on the podcast or use of third party's products and services. Please consult professional advisors for independent advice. Discover more BT podcast series: BT Money Hacks Podcast at: https://bt.sg/btmoneyhacks BT Mark To Market Podcast at: http://bt.sg/btmark2mkt BT Podcasts at:http://bt.sg/pcOM PropertyBT at: http://bt.sg/btpropertybt BT Market Focus at: http://bt.sg/btmktfocus BT Branded Podcasts: http://bt.sg/btbrpod #BTPodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daybreak en Español
Pictet apuesta que no hay recorte Fed en 2023; Situación en Ecuador

Daybreak en Español

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2023 5:31


Un acuerdo de techo de la deuda en EE.UU. podría tener efectos insospechados en las tasas; Pictet apuesta a que no habrá recorte de la Fed este año; Banxico mantendría tasas; Stephan Kueffner, corresponsal de Bloomberg News en Quito, comenta la decisión del presidente ecuatoriano Guillermo Lasso de disolver la Asamblea Nacional. Producido por Eduardo Thomson (@ethomson1)

Capital
Consultorio con Mar Barrero: "Estamos cerca del tope de subidas de los tipos de interés"

Capital

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 16:43


Mar Barrero, directora de análisis de Arquia Banca Privada, analiza en el Consultorio de Fondos de inversión de Capital Intereconomía las mejores opciones para tener en cartera en este momento en el que "estamos cerca del tope de subidas de los tipos de interés" por parte de los bancos centrales. Mar también ha hablado sobre la renta fija y lo que aportan este tipo de fondos a nuestra cartera. Sobre los fondos que inviertan en transición ecológica y medioambiente, nos ha recomendado algunos fondos y gestoras sobre esta temática. En cuanto a la deuda pública, Mar da nombres sobre fondos invertidos en deuda gubernamental. Si nuestra intención es invertir en Japón, Mar aconseja cómo hacerlo y qué fondos tenemos disponibles para ello. La divisa también es un tema de debate en este consultorio y Mar explica si debemos tenerla cubierta o no. Por último, ha hablado también sobre la rentabilidad de nuestro fondos y sobre ¿Qué es lo más aconsejable para sacar rentabilidad de ellos? Además, ha analizado los siguientes fondos de inversión: Evli Short Corporate Bond, Flossbach Bond Opportunities, Nordea Climate And Environment Fund, Pictet Clean Energy Transition, Schroder ISF Global Energy Transition, Safra Sarasin Sustainable Equity Green Planet y Pictet Global Environmental Opportunities. Y las siguientes gestoras: Evli, BlueBay, Candriam, Pictet y Safra Sarasin.

Finect Talks
¿Cómo meto las inversiones en la Renta en 2023? Finect Talks con José Trecet

Finect Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2023 38:49


¿Cómo debo meter mis inversiones en la declaración de la renta? ¿Es igual con cualquier tipo de activo? ¿Qué novedades trae este Hacienda? Hablamos de todo esto con nuestro experto de cabecera de cada año por estas fechas, José Trecet, colaborador de Finect y experto en fiscalidad. Antes en la sección de El corrillo charlamos un poco sobre cosas que hemos visto esta semana en mercados y que se han publicado por Finect.com Después en la sección de a fondo, Carmen Fontán nos cuenta cómo está lidiando con su renta más allá de las inversiones. Todos los artículos que comenta Antonio en 'El Corrillo' por aquí ⬇️ 📝 Google y Microsoft sorprenden y dan una alegría al mercado tras un mal día: https://www.finect.com/usuario/Kaloxa/articulos/google-y-microsoft-sorprenden-y-dan-una-alegria-al-mercado-tras-un-mal-dia 📝 ¿Puede seguir subiendo el S&P 500 con este dato? https://www.finect.com/usuario/Kaloxa/articulos/puede-seguir-subiendo-el-sp-500-con-este-dato 🔴 Resultados 1er trimestre 2023: ¿susto o alivio? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAXNnMCnM1Y&t=1347s&ab_channel=Finect-Invertirenmodof%C3%A1cil 🔴 ¿Subirá más el precio del oro en 2023 o ha llegado el final del rally? https://youtu.be/GsCwlYBhseQ 🔴 Desinflación en marcha: ¿renta fija o renta variable? Consultorio Finect: https://youtube.com/live/pZHsAomXPh8 📝 Motivos por los que los vaivenes económicos no deberían truncar la recuperación del sector de los viajes a nivel global: https://www.finect.com/grupos/Pictet_asset_management/articulos/motivos-por-los-que-los-vaivenes-economicos-no-deberian-truncar-la-recuperacion-del-sector-de-los-viajes-a-nivel-global

Found In Conversation
Powering the Future: Why Microchips are the Building Blocks of Technological Advancement

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2023 22:39


The global economy is defined by an invention every one of us uses every single day, almost without thinking about it: a technology integral not only to our daily lives but to military might and geopolitical strategy: a technology that advances so quickly there is even a famous rule to describe the pace of progress: Moor's Law. That technology is, of course, the microchip, and understanding both its history and its current importance to the global economy is vital to understanding the world of tomorrow. In the episode, Pictet's Head of Communication Hubertus Kuelps meets Professor Chris Miller, a historian at Tufts and the author of the award-winning new book Chip War. Stay with us and discover what the fight for the world's most critical technology means for you.

How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.
Ep. 258 How I Raised It with Max Aniort of Le Collectionist

How I Raised It - The podcast where we interview startup founders who raised capital.

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2023 37:20


Produced by Foundersuite (www.foundersuite.com), "How I Raised It" goes behind the scenes with startup founders and investors who have raised capital. This episode is with Max Aniort of Le Collectionist (www.LeCollectionist.com), a website for renting exceptional vacation homes with concierge services. In this episode we talk about how he acquired 6 companies and how he built a playbook for making acquisitions, the French startup and VC scene, tailoring your pitch to suit each meeting, and more. Le Collectionist has raised over $80 million in capital. The most recent round was a $60 million raise led by Highland Europe along with OLMA, Famille C, the venture office of the Courtin and Clarins families, Pictet and Lombard Odier and several angel investors. How I Raised It is produced by Foundersuite, makers of software to raise capital and manage investor relations. Foundersuite's customers have raised over $9.7 Billion since 2016. Create a free account at www.foundersuite.com.

Found In Conversation
Climate Crisis - Climate Solutions

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 36:24


In a special live event held in partnership with The Conduit, we welcomed Sir David King, the former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government and the Chairman of the Centre for Climate Repair at the University of Cambridge; Sian Sutherland, the co-founder of A Plastic Planet, a global campaign aimed at reducing plastic pollution; and Ari Helgason, a climate technology investor who is passionate about finding and funding innovative solutions to the climate crisis. Their moderator was Pictet's Christoph Courth Head of Philanthropy Services at Pictet Wealth Management. They discuss how climate change impacts ecosystems and the species that rely on them and explore some of the innovative and ground-breaking solutions that are being developed to mitigate the effects of climate change and restore damaged ecosystems.

The Nonlinear Library
EA - Call for Cruxes by Rhyme, a Longtermist History Consultancy by Lara TH

The Nonlinear Library

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 5:46


Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Call for Cruxes by Rhyme, a Longtermist History Consultancy, published by Lara TH on March 1, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. TLDR; This post announces the trial period of Rhyme, a history consultancy for longtermists. It seems like longtermists can profit from historical insights and the distillation of the current state of historical literature on a particular question, both because of its use as an intuition pump and for information about the historical context of their work. So, if you work on an AI Governance project (research or policy) and are interested in augmenting it with a historical perspective, consider registering your interest and the cruxes of your research here. During this trial period of three to six months, the service is free. "History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain What Problem is Rhyme trying to solve? When we try to answer a complicated question like “how would a Chinese regime change influence the international AI Landscape”, it can be hard to know where to start. We need to come up with a hypothesis, a scenario. But what should we base this hypothesis, this scenario on? How would we know which hypotheses are most plausible? Game theoretical analysis provides one possible inspiration. But we don't just need to know what a rational actor would do, given particular incentives. We also need intuitions for how actors would act irrationally, given specific circumstances. Would we have thought of considering the influence of close familial ties between European leaders when trying to predict the beginning of the first world war? (Clark, 2014) Would we have considered Lyndon B. Johnson's training as a tutor for disadvantaged children as a student when trying to predict his success in convincing congresspeople effectively? (Caro, 1982) Would we have considered the Merino-Wool-Business of a certain diplomat from Geneva when trying to predict whether Switzerland would be annexed by its neighbouring empires in 1815? (E. Pictet, 1892). In summary: A lot of pivotal actions and developments depend on circumstances we wouldn't expect them to. Not because we'd think them to be implausible, but because we wouldn't think of considering them. We need inspiration and orientation in this huge space of possible hypotheses to avoid missing out on the ones which are actually true. In an ideal world, AI governance researchers would know about a vast amount of historical literature that is written with enough detail to analyse important decisions, as well as multiple biographies of the same people, so they see where scholars currently disagree. This strategy has two main problems: Firstly, the counterfactual impact these people could have with their time is potentially very big. Secondly, detailed historical literature (which is, often, biographies or primary sources) tends to be written for entertainment, among other things. Biographers have an interest in highlighting maybe irrelevant, but spicy details about romantic relationships, quirky fun jokes told by the person or the etymological origins of the name of a friend. This makes biographies longer than they'd need to be for the goal of analysing the relevant factors in pivotal decisions of a particular person. It takes training to filter through this information to find the actually important stuff. Skills that require training are more efficiently done when a part of an ecosystem specializes in them. Rhyme is an attempt at this specialization. Who could actually use this? The following examples should illustrate who could use this service: Alice is writing a report on the possibilities for the state of California to regulate possible AI uses. They wonder how big the influence of the Governor's advisors was in past regulation attempts of other technologies. Bob wants a brief history of the EU'...

Found In Conversation
Biodiversity: Why investors should care

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2023 19:18


Interrupting our usual programme today, we share a conversation from Pictet Asset Management, a webcast Megatrends series where Pictet experts discuss Megatrends from social, demographic, environmental and technological forces of change that are reshaping our world. This episode discusses the critical role investors can play in safeguarding nature and biodiversity, exploring emerging opportunities to restore the health of the biosphere. Professor Beatrice Crona joins us from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Gabriel Micheli, Head of the Global Environmental Opportunities strategy at Pictet Asset Management, and Steve Freedman, Sustainability and Research Manager in the Thematic Equities team, also at Pictet Asset Management.  

Marco Montemagno - Il Podcast
Megatrend cosa sono e perché dovresti conoscerli

Marco Montemagno - Il Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2022 40:44


Megatrend cosa sono e perché dovresti conoscerliQuesto video è realizzato in collaborazione con Banca Generali e in partnership con Pictet

New Foundations
Can green hydrogen clean up heavy industry?

New Foundations

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2022 22:44


For decades, hydrogen has been hailed as a critical fuel of the future—a cleaner alternative to the fossil fuels which power heavy industry, our transport and our homes.Cheaper renewable energy has begun to make “green” hydrogen production more competitive, and innovative ways to use the fuel are emerging too. So is the latest hype around hydrogen justified? What role will it play in powering our clean-energy future? Who will make it, how and for what?We explore what is to come with green hydrogen entrepreneur Raffi Garabedian, industry analyst Meredith Annex from BloombergNEF and Martin Pei, chief technical officer at steelmaker SSAB.This episode is supported by Pictet Wealth Management and includes additional commentary from César Pérez Ruiz, CIO and head of investments at Pictet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marco Montemagno - Il Podcast
5 miti da sfatare sugli investimenti

Marco Montemagno - Il Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2022 30:51


5 miti da sfatare sugli investimentiQuesto video è realizzato in collaborazione con Banca Generali e in partnership con Pictet

New Foundations
Internet everywhere

New Foundations

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 23:24


Some 3.5 billion people lack access to reliable, high-quality connectivity. But the race to connect the entire planet to the internet is gathering pace. Tech titans are backing megaconstellations of low-orbit satellites to envelop the earth's surface, and several enormous, continent-spanning undersea internet cables promise a big boost to African and Asian connectivity over the next year. Are these efforts enough to ensure universal and access to all? We explore with Teddy Woodhouse from the Alliance for Affordable Internet, Peter Micek from Access Now, Lourdes Montenegro of The World Benchmarking Alliance and Isfandiyar Shaheen, founder of Net Equity.This episode is supported by Pictet Wealth Management and includes additional commentary from Christopher Seilern, financial analyst at Pictet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How To Academy
Daniel Pink - The Power of Regret

How To Academy

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2022 37:14


Daniel Pink, the New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive and one of the world's leading thinkers on business, creativity and human behaviour, says it's time to forget everything we think we know about regrets. He believes that regret is our most misunderstood emotion – and can in fact be the pathway to our best life. It's a subject he investigates in-depth in his new book The Power of Regret: and he joined Hubertus Kuelps, Pictet's Head of Communications and Branding, to share his ideas. This episode of the How To Academy Podcast is part of the Found in Conversation series we co-produce each month with the team at Pictet. Find Found in Conversation on Apple or Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

EUVC
#88 David Braga Malta, Pictet

EUVC

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2022 42:11


Today we're happy to introduce you to David Braga Malta, a Life Sciences Entrepreneur, Inventor and Investor, currently managing the health focused fund of Pictet Group, one of Europe's largest private banks. He was previously a Venture Partner of Vesalius Biocapital III, one of Europe's leading Life science funds and got his experiences in VC with Caixa capital investing in a mix of funds and startups.What you'll learn in this episode: - How being an LP formed the foundation for a solid VC career and why everyone should seek to get VC LP exposure in their own wealth management- David's reflections on fund investment policies in Europe and why reformation is integral to reduce societal asymmetries- The business case for life sciences in Europe and David's reflections on why we're not capturing the opportunity

Found In Conversation

No regrets! The mantra adorns tattoos, T-shirts and posters; celebrities from John Travolta to Laverne Cox say they live by it. But should they? Daniel Pink, the New York Times bestselling author of When and Drive and one of the world's leading thinkers on business, creativity and human behaviour, says it's time to forget everything we think we know about regrets. He believes that regret is our most misunderstood emotion – and can in fact be the pathway to our best life. He is joined by Hubertus Kuelps, Pictet's Global Head of Communications and Branding, to share his ideas.

Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Raymond Sagayam on the Biggest Overlooked Market Risk, Building World Class Teams, and Lessons from Bodybuilding

Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2022 51:51


Ray is the Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income at Pictet Asset Management. He joined Pictet in 2010 as Head of Total Return Fixed Income, before becoming CIO in 2017 and an Equity Partner in 2018. Before joining Pictet, Raymond was head of dollar and euro credit investments at Swiss Re Asset Management. Before that, he worked for Bank Brussels Lambert (ING) trading US Credit. He has traded credit across all major geographies and began his career at ING Barings in Emerging Markets in 1997. Raymond holds a Bachelor's in Economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Master's in Contemporary Theology in the Catholic Tradition from Heythrop College, University of London. On this podcast we discussed: 1) Why investing globally gives you an edge. 2) The importance of trading across the capital structure of companies. 3) Why price matters. 4) Making illiquidity your friend. 5) What investors are currently missing – the credit cycle. 6) How to manage an investment team. 7) Nurture vs narcissism. 8) What to look for in new hires. 9) The importance of managing the exit process well. 10) When trading, knowing when to cut. 11) Understanding that it's easier to buy and harder to sell. 12) Books that influenced Ray: Brave New World (Huxley), Liar's Poker (Lewis), The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding (Schwarzenegger).

Found In Conversation
Women in Business: How to Win at Work

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2022 26:16


Can women win at work? Transforming the way companies are run and the way people live their lives, with the correct support structures, will pave the path to success for women in business. Celebrating pioneering female leaders, this episode features Baroness Helena Morrissey, who was CEO of Newton Investment Management for fifteen years, founder of the 30% Club, and author of the books Style and Substance and A Good Time to Be a Girl. We are also joined by Elif Aktug, the first female Managing Partner of Pictet and one of the founders of the Pictet Women's Network. Elif co-heads Pictet Alternative Advisors with Bertrand Demole and is Chairwoman of the Board of Pictet Alternative Advisors Holding SA.

Found In Conversation
Pictet Meets: Are luxury brands timeless?

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 11:28


Are luxury brands timeless? In this bonus episode, Caroline Reyl, Head of Premium Brands at Pictet Asset Management, interviews Stanislas de Quercise, former CEO of Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels, to discuss the evolution of the luxury industry and explore trends that have changed over the recent years.

How To Academy
The Metaverse - Hype or Hyperreality?

How To Academy

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 47:49


For forty years humans have dreamed of persistent virtual worlds. Today, video games and their peripherals are pushing the boundaries of digital immersion, whether in the form of imaginary play spaces like Roblox and Second Life, or rich sensory augmentations that affect our experience of the physical world. But what will become of the Metaverse and cyberspace? And in our era of rapid and accelerating change, how can we accurately imagine and forecast future – to include both dazzling new technologies like VR and AR and wider social trends? Starring in this episode Found In Conversation are David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy at New York University and the author of Reality Plus; Jane McGonigal, game designer, futurist and author of Imaginable; and Shaniel Ramjee, a Senior Investment Manager in the International Multi Asset & Strategy team at Pictet. The host of the conversation is Clara Bertrand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Found In Conversation
Pictet Meets: How does cloud technology drive innovation?

Found In Conversation

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 27:25


How is cloud computing changing how businesses are run? In this bonus episode, we are joined by Amir Orad, serial CEO, entrepreneur, and cyber leader, and now CEO of Sisense, and Christopher Seilern, Financial Analyst from Pictet Wealth Management we discuss how cloud computing can potentially transform the way we do business, particularly through the use of big data and analytics to drive decision-making. This episode is an adaptation of Pictet Meets, a film series where Pictet experts meet innovators whose work is transforming our world. Watch the full video here: https://www.group.pictet/conversations-shaping-our-world/pictet-meets/amir-orad-x-christopher-seilern

Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners
A life of learning, products, and WordPress

Matt Report - A WordPress podcast for digital business owners

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2022 36:13


I've known today's guest before I even ventured into the professional WordPress industry. In fact, it wasn't his themes that revolutionized my thinking, it was the checkout process. Brian Gardner launched a theme company using a payment portal and delivery tool called e-junkie. I just checked, they still exist, they were the Gumroad before Web 3.0 was even a thought in Web 2.0's mind. I couldn't believe it. Someone could zip up WordPress code, put it on a website, set a price, and someone could buy it?! I wanted to do the same thing. But until then, I had an agency to run so I used Revolution Themes, then Genesis, then to the whole StudioPress suite to make that happen. Fast forward, Gardner not only sold SP to WP Engine, but he left the gig shortly after, only to make a return with his latest product, Frost. Enjoy today's conversation with Brian Gardner, Principal Developer Advocate at WP Engine, creator of many things and many blogs. Find his newly redesigned blog at briandgardner.com. If you fancy supporting the show, buying me a digital coffee or joining my fantastic private Discord server, head on over to buymeacoffe.com/mattreport — I'll shout your name from the Twitter rooftops. Episode Transcript [00:00:00] Matt: so many folks who sit on the sidelines and Monday quarterback like me I see folks sell their business and , and they joined the team and I know in my heart that as a builder, as an entrepreneur, , they won't be there that long.[00:00:14] And they're there for a year. I think roughly you were at WP engine for a year after selling studio[00:00:20] Brian: press to them longer than that. But it sort of been to which in and of itself as a piece of conversation. Go ahead.[00:00:26] Matt: And then I saw you sort of leave P and L I was like, yep. I knew it. And there's nothing wrong with that because God that we have such a passion to build something, but I don't know of anyone who's who sells it to the company, leaves built something else, sells it back to the company and.[00:00:41] You're going for a hat trick question, mark.[00:00:44] Brian: No. No. And in fact, it's, it's funny, you are the only person who, with the exception of Bob Paul, Lacey, who had months ago made a kind of comment about that. You're the only person in this round when I got hired and when Frost was acquired to actually have.[00:01:01] Pointed that out. And of course I took that bait and this is why we're on the show today. But I talked to our PR team and I was like, look, this is just something that could be a thing that people might talk about or in this context. And surprisingly, and that's fine because it's really, it really was a news event.[00:01:16] This time around Yeah. I was just like, okay, what are the possible negative reactions? People might have to something like this. And I was like, that's about the only thing I can come up with. Well, people may point out that this happened and it, whatever, it's all good. Everyone's happy. You've built a[00:01:31] Matt: lot of stuff from digital products to courses, to eBooks, to blogs, to knit mail email lists and newsletters, like all things that were in some form or fashion, a business, a micro business.[00:01:43] When I saw you. Go back to a WP engine and they had acquired frost in my head. I started thinking, you know what, these, and this is my words, not yours. And I hope it doesn't offend you. But these micro products are almost like a fantastic calling card to get an awesome gig. Right. Ha had it not been you, but somebody else in this position, it could be like, I built an awesome little product.[00:02:11] And sometimes the weight of that is like, oh God, I got to S I get up market. I gotta sell it. I gotta promote it. I gotta support it. I got to take over the world. But then sometimes it's like, no, I can actually use this in place of a resume and get an awesome job somewhere. Is that a fair statement?[00:02:27] Brian: I would think so.[00:02:28] I don't think that that necessarily applies to everybody. We know right now, Matt, that the competitive landscape in WordPress is off the charts, especially in light of the behemoths. And, and we're one of them, right? WP, engine, GoDaddy, liquid web, all those it's really difficult to, and I'll conversely, make a counter argument here after this.[00:02:47] It's very difficult to like create and launch something new and have it be successful and widely adopted and so on now, conversely. That is also, if you have the idea, something really, really brilliant, that really solves a problem that catches a lot of users and stuff like that. Then it becomes because of aforementioned behemoths, a very interesting acquisition piece, right?[00:03:07] Go to liquid web. They've bought a lot of things lately. None of them have been, well, that's not true. Some have been larger, right. Eye themes and so on. And then some of them are just like smaller pieces that kind of fill a niche that allow them to use their sort of their. The abilities to reach and build and support from an infrastructure standpoint, a subset of people.[00:03:28] And so it can work. It can be, I wouldn't necessarily say that should be someone's business plan. Just given my tenure in the industry and the success I've had, it's been helpful to have that sort of be true.[00:03:41] Matt: Web hosts, obviously WP engine being one of the largest, if not the largest managed WordPress hosts in the industry GoDaddy liquid web.[00:03:49] I think a lot of folks myself included have sort of illustrated this picture, that well, we all kind of hypothesized that they're all looking to build and curate their own WordPress experience. Without giving away the secret meetings, maybe at WP engine and the secret sauce. Is that, is that something that you see coming down the pipe, maybe if not WP engine others, and maybe why they acquire fros and studio presses to sort of put these pieces in place.[00:04:19] So when you come to a WP engine, you experienced WordPress. You go to liquid web, you experience it that way. Is, is that something that you see as holding true in the year 20, 20[00:04:28] Brian: a hundred percent, a hundred percent. I think we see it on several levels. And even outside of the WordPress market, just the, sort of the consolidation, the platform building, go daddy sold domains back in the day.[00:04:39] Then they went to hosting. And then when they realized that the people who are buying those things would buy other things or are doing other things. Then all of a sudden they're an email marketing company and then, oh, WordPress explodes. Now we're going to be a WordPress hosting email, but like, like, and so yes, it makes sense.[00:04:54] And everyone's good at what they do. And when you really find what you're great at, then you sort of, I wouldn't say exploit, but then you really sort of double down on that by looking around in the space and saying, Hey, are there products that align with what we're trying to do? And is it, is it better for us to acquire those products?[00:05:10] Because it takes us less time to build. We can go right to market. We can, there's an existing audience as studio press was a huge audience that WP engine picked up and things like that. So yeah, I would say that's a fair state. Do you know,[00:05:21] Matt: there's in the news and the courting eh, in the week of this week, it's January 13th.[00:05:27] And we've seen over the last week, just a lot of discussion of paying contributors in the WordPress space. It's something that I've always thought of too, like going way back, like how. All these folks volunteer. They all have to go through the stress of like a theme developer. Like I was way, way, way back in the day, asking them why didn't this team get approved?[00:05:47] Why are you telling me I have to adjust this tab space in the functions file. Like it's so subjective. I should just be like, lots of stress. That folks don't really need to go through as volunteers now resurfacing again, how to get people paid. I think hosting companies are in a good position since.[00:06:06] Winning off of the back of WordPress, that there could be something there, more sponsored contributions more ways to it doesn't doesn't maybe always have to be about payments. It could be about featuring or highlighting or spotlighting folks because not everybody wants to make money off their volunteer ism with WordPress.[00:06:25] Is, are there any efforts or maybe. Contributing more to core with paid positions, let's say. Is that kind of a topic fall under a principal developer advocate at WP engine? Are those the kinds of things you hear in field for the company?[00:06:41] Brian: Yes. WP engine did not hire me so that I could go write code for WordPress.[00:06:45] Let's let's be clear about that. Damn they did. However, Hire me because of my expertise, my tenure in the field, my ability to understand the value that I could bring through the WordPress and WP engine sort of relationship. And as part of the leeway and the latitude I've been given to go do my thing. I brought on Nick Diego, who is an engineer.[00:07:07] And I learned V and he, he actually was supposed to backfill me with frost before the acquisition for us was going to be a side project. And because of my job, I brought in Nick to help sort of carry the load until I realized how much Nick and I aligned and what a resource he could be. And so I made the recommendation that we hire him as part of a developer relations so that we could do the very thing, right.[00:07:28] Part of his responsibilities and part of what I pitched was. There is an opportunity for us to sort of lead the space from a thought leadership perspective to help contribute code as he and I were both knee deep and code following along, the Gutenberg development where press 5.9 and stuff.[00:07:43] And I said, there's a lot of things that we're finding as we're working through building our thing that instead of just trying to like make a fix or a hack inside of our product Contribute that code or that patch or the fix, or the suggested way of doing things upstream back to WordPress.[00:07:59] And so a lot of the work that we're doing now is in fact core contribution stuff. Nick is also going to be doing some stuff with learn. And so w. WP engine just really understands the value of sort of the five for the future stuff. We've got several members committed to that. We just recently did it contribute to WP day where we really encouraged a lot of the folks in the community to do stuff like that.[00:08:20] And so I'm because like you said, I have one with WordPress for 15 years now. Right. It helped me leave my day job. Provides for my family and stuff like that. So I always have a place in my heart. It's easier now because I have the backing and support of WP engine and our resources to kind of make that move.[00:08:38] And I'm not getting any resistance from the higher ups there. They, I think they see the value and the contributions and sort of the, the PR that comes from that. There's some, there's some benefit there. But we just want to see WordPress get better. So our products and our customers experience.[00:08:54] Matt: How does frost fold into speaking of customer experience? How does frost fold into the. The existing suite of softwares that you sold them studio press. How does that merge? Is, are we still too early on, on those days for those, for those discussions, but how does it fold into the experience of WP engine users or potentially even studio press users?[00:09:15] So[00:09:15] Brian: this pet, let me give some context. So th this past summer after a sort of a failed attempt at doing something in the real estate space I came across an article. Written by Justin tablet on WP Tavern. And in that article, he was talking about block patterns and this is sort of as like the patterns kind of were hitting their infancy and they talk about there being a pattern directory and stuff like that.[00:09:38] I've obviously followed WordPress even while I was sort of away doing some things with real estate. I was like, okay, we sold studio press in part because I had no idea what the future of WordPress was going to be. Right. That was part of the reason we just didn't have the resources. We weren't sure we, we didn't want to compete.[00:09:52] And so we sold that.[00:09:58] We talked, I'm a creator. I'm always thinking I always want to build and do stuff like that. And so, so when I was on this article, I went over to the, the pattern repository or the directory and it, there was like a little tile of patterns and there's a button that said click to copy code or whatever, copied it.[00:10:13] I went into my blog, so I was doing something and I just hit paste. And like this thing showed up like this arrangement of design. And I was like, wait a second. I like that. That's like a theme agnostic design agnostic thing. And I think it was like, at that point was when sort of, it was very, very like original epiphany that kind of backed the frost project.[00:10:33] When I was like, wait a second. Now I understand where we're presses going. Right. These idea of blocks and styles and patterns and layouts that like kind of all these words being thrown around. And I was like, wait a second. So I can create these sections of. Website and in one click allow people to import them into a page.[00:10:50] And like, if you did that five or six times, you could essentially allow people to build a homepage and like literally 20 seconds. And I was like, okay, so that that's sorta was the, the original fire that was lit around frost. And so, because at the time it just made sense. I built frost originally as a Genesis child theme, just because right.[00:11:08] Part of the family. It was what I've always known. And so we launched a paid product called frost and it was a theme and it was a corresponding plugin that had all of the designs and the patterns and stuff like that. And then full site editing started to become more of a thing. And so I installed Gutenberg and realized.[00:11:25] There's going to be life after Genesis the framework, because a lot of what full site editing does is what Genesis did it handled markup and the ability to move things around. And so I said, well, Let's do what I did back in 2006, let's open up a bunch of blank files and start writing a theme from scratch.[00:11:43] And so current version of frost, probably three months ago was literally just sort of modeled after stuff I saw. I think it was on Carolina's full site editing or some tutorial on like, what is. Full site editing theme, look like it's got to have these files, the structure, it's a complete paradigm shift from where it was.[00:12:00] And I was like, let's just see if I could do this. And so I basically replicated the design of the Genesis child theme version of frost and started building out current version of frost. So that became a thing. And we launched it, started selling it. I was trying to extend a little bit of financial runway so that I could keep playing around with what I was doing.[00:12:17] So I reached out to Heather Bruner, our CEO just to say hi to check in and just see if she knew of anybody in the industry who might be looking for some contract work. And at the same time internally, they were talking about WordPress developer relations. And she says, funny, you should ask because we've been thinking of this position and I don't know.[00:12:34] That there's anybody better suited for it than you, which is the intersection of what I told her design community and WordPress. And so, we worked out something that made a lot of sense at the time frost was on the outside which I felt conflicted about because a lot of the work I was going to be doing was around WordPress and building and stuff like that.[00:12:50] And so, ultimately I made the recommendation that we just bring it into. Into the fold so that I can work on it. Full-time we can use that as a way to demonstrate where WordPress is going to teach folks in the community what's going on. And so on.[00:13:02] Matt: So it doesn't detach from you. It's not like, okay, now it's gone into the abyss of WP engine.[00:13:07] My[00:13:07] Brian: is not. And Nick and my F yeah, no, it's under our full control. It's a developer relations project.[00:13:13] Matt: Yeah. Did you, when you sat back, did you have those same feelings of okay. I going to do this again. I have to build, well, you already have a headstart with your brand and recognition and followers and all that stuff.[00:13:26] But even that, I'm sure you're still like, oh God, I gotta, I gotta do this all over again. I gotta set up a checkout system. I have to set up a licensing system. I, I have to market this thing. I gotta support. And I[00:13:36] Brian: gotta do all this stuff a hundred percent.[00:13:38] It was exciting just because it had been since studio press formed way back in the day where I was really fully in control, as we merged into Copyblogger in 2008 or nine, and then for like 10 or 12 years, we had sort of the infrastructure of the company and stuff like that.[00:13:52] So I didn't have to like, bear that load independently. As I had at the beginning of studio press. And so like, it's a different space than it was back then. And, and thankfully I have the cloud, the email lists sort of the reach, the exposure to WordPress. So it made sense. It didn't quite hit the way I was hoping that a studio press did back in the day, but again, we're in different times and that's okay.[00:14:16] But you know, like at the end of the day, what it came down to was for the last 15 years I've been doing sort of the self-employment entrepreneur things start up, you feel sort of a thing. And even like early on into frost, I was like, this is going to be another long thing and that's fine. I like this kind of thing.[00:14:33] And I think it would have done well on its own. But I was just ready. I was ready for, and I wrote about this on a torque article about seasons change. I was just ready to finally work for somebody else to, to have access to team members, to be fully supported, to get good benefits, pay, like all of those things.[00:14:48] I just, I needed a mental break and, I foresee this break being of several years, not just like a couple months, so[00:14:54] Matt: you said, I feel like frost didn't hit. Maybe like studio press fell, but different times, is that a gut feeling?[00:15:02] Did you measure it , instinctually as somebody who's launched so many things, did you just kind of know like, okay. I'm not feeling that momentum as I maybe did 10 years ago, Yeah.[00:15:13] Brian: Like when you sell something, when you build something and sell something, like you kind of get into this mindset, like, oh, I could do it again.[00:15:19] Right. Once lucky, twice. Good. And, and had I stuck with it, like just me and or Nick at that time, it would have taken probably some time to really get it to a point where it was humming WordPress itself sorta was getting in the way, because it just, it wasn't delivering things that we were looking forward to using and stuff like that.[00:15:35] So it was part gut. , okay, this isn't going to make me a hundred million dollars. Like maybe even a hundred dollars would be great sort of a thing. But I just, as like, like I wanted, I wanted power behind it, not just to have to rely on me. And like I said, I was ready, it was serendipitous me reaching out to Heather, her coming back to me, presenting the offer.[00:15:55] And it's kind of like, she was like, basically let you do what you want to be doing and what you've been doing for 15 years, just under the guise of WP engine and, having gone through the acquisition and the transition for the year afterwards. I had a ton of insight into their culture. And that made it a really easy decision to make, because that was not, is this a company I want to work for?[00:16:15] Cause the answer is hell yeah, I knew, I know how the cultures there. I think a lot of people on the outside don't understand how, how cool and great it is, especially we're 1200 strong. But I was like, wow, this is like almost a dream.[00:16:26] Matt: Yeah. I remember people talking about WP engine, just like when, when they hit 400 people, they, wow.[00:16:32] Like, that's amazing. And now it's like triple and probably just chasing automatic, which I, I think just hit the 2000 mark or just under 2000. So, it's pretty amazing to see like pure. Play companies. Because again, WP engine is only doing WordPress, right? You haven't introduced at other CMS yet.[00:16:50] Right? There's nothing they're getting into headless that might introduce some stuff that might be outside of the realm of WordPress, but you're certainly not hosting Drupal anytime soon,[00:16:59] Brian: correct? Correct.[00:17:01] Matt: That's awesome. Can we chat about the real estate endeavor for a moment? You said it fair.[00:17:09] Anything that you can point to as to maybe why wrong time global pandemic, what was going on with that, with that real estate endeavor of yours. And why did you decide to just exit it?[00:17:21] Brian: So I've always been interested in real estate. We've bought and sold houses over the years, probably 10 over the last 20 years and an agent press, which you may remember was a thing that we did a copy of.[00:17:31] For a few years. So we dabbled in it and I realized just how bad design and marketing is in that space. Generally speaking compass being the exception and maybe a few others. And so I was like, okay, well I have, through the years, I've made several relationships with people sort of higher up in the real estate industry.[00:17:50] So I knew I'd kind of have like an easy launch pad. I get design. I could build it on a WordPress. I've got some spokespeople people who could sort of be advisers to the company who are, experiencing Zillow and all that kind of stuff. And then the pandemic hit and what happened really was probably a couple of things.[00:18:04] One, it probably just wasn't built in packaged the right way. But number two real estate agents got really, really busy because of the housing. They, they, everyone, you would follow it. Oh, I have 36 offers today. Like nobody has time or at the time they didn't feel the need to have a website because their business was exploding.[00:18:24] I don't have time for a website I'm standing in line at open houses. Like, and the sad thing is like in six months or a year, whenever the housing market comes back to earth. Done dental need it, then they'll be like, oh crap. Cause now that you've got a bunch of new agents, people who jumped into the market because of all of what was going on.[00:18:41] So then like the, the demand will go down, but like the supply of agents then is there. And so there's more competition, but I was like, I, I don't have time to weather, all of that. And then frost kind of came up and, things with agent engine, just kind of, weren't really doing its thing. And I was like, I was okay with that.[00:18:55] It was a good college try[00:18:57] Matt: because it was more like it was more agency. Experience than just a product, right? Cause[00:19:02] Brian: you were, I know it was more product based. It was more, we call it digital spaces where we sort of built Jason Schuler of WordPress fame sort of built this profile management system, which I thought was really gonna take off with like associations or, brokerages that had teams of people that wanted to sort of showcase them individually.[00:19:21] Like the idea on paper was really, really good. I think we just poorly executed at the wrong time. So. But I'm okay with that. Like lessons learned, right. We're here where we are.[00:19:29] Matt: Yeah. Yeah. I tell you it's what an interesting time, because you had real estate agents who, you know, probably whatever, maybe not immediate at the pandemic hitting, but a couple months in just being just the fish were jumping into the boat.[00:19:44] You didn't even have to cast a line in they're like website. I don't have time for a website, but then. This whole range at an opposite end of an industry restaurants who are like, oh, we never launched that website. And now we have to do takeout a hundred percent of the time. I know I had, I haven't been in the, my data.[00:20:04] I, my dad runs the agency. I'm well beyond that at th at this point, but it still runs. And I had tons of people calling me at that moment. Literally watching the news restaurants are shutting down, calling me up. Like, I need that website, Matt. , where, where are you? Five 10 years ago when we were telling you to do this a crazy, crazy time for web and for people who haven't caught up at that point.[00:20:26] When I look at. You were saying before, like one of your aha moments with Gutenberg was I copied and pasted and it was kind of like, wow, I can see where the vision is going. Matt Mullenweg could always talk, has always talked about WordPress being like the operating system of the web. That was something that was always interesting to me is what really kept me motivated with WordPress.[00:20:48] I now see this hearing him say that Gutenberg is bigger than WordPress, sort of, kind of nonchalantly in the state of the word. I kind of see maybe that same thing of fusing, like the operating system with code. So Genesis studio press remember back in the day, you're building it all through the functions.[00:21:06] PHP file. I can imagine a world where now you're just copy pasting snippets of code, like the query blocks and stuff like that. Pre pre queried for you. Like all the codes there. Boom, copy paste it. And now I'm developing air quotes to the listener. Who's only listening to audio. Developing by copying pasting snippets of code and dropping blocks in do you have any other future out look on, on where Gutenberg might be going?[00:21:31] Maybe things you might be looking at to build into Gutenberg. Into frost that would push the boundaries.[00:21:38] Brian: Nothing monumental. I We're just obviously following along where WordPress is going, this it's taken us three years to get here. We're working through this now full site editing thing, which I th I think is still gonna take some time.[00:21:50] Right. Which we've already seen the delay from December to January. And I was in full support of that. Cause I didn't think it was going to be ready and I'm more than okay. Especially now that I don't have to. Like obsess over building a product and like put food on the table based on what I sell. Now it's like kind of a kickback and just follow along as it's happening.[00:22:09] And, Nick and I are on get hub and select daily, oh, do you see this commit? Do you see this change? And I'll be honest. I don't know that there are many people in the group of people who are at the forefront of what's going on with WordPress. Then he and I right now, because we are so. We practically have alerts going off, in our own heads.[00:22:27] I just posted 30 seconds ago. How would I see that? Because we, we love it so much. We, we absolutely are infatuated. We call ourselves black editor, fanboys. Like it's, it's kinda crazy and almost embarrassing the extent, but 15 years later, I'm still in love with WordPress. The way that I was and even more so now, because I'm starting to see.[00:22:46] WordPress itself, starting to solve the problems that we tried to solve back in the day with like magazine style themes and stuff like that. It's so easy to want to still primarily build your own thing and around it. And, we're presses now making it so easy with where it's going. It's not perfect and never will be, but they're doing things in a way that make it really easy for people like me to sort of identify where the opportunities are.[00:23:10] And especially those who love design. I could do so much with just WordPress core and a simple theme so much. And that's how I felt back when I launched revolutions. Like, Hey.[00:23:20] Matt: And as a product owner and business owner, software developer, you kind of get that this stuff iterates over time.[00:23:28] And when Gutenberg first launched and everyone just like flipped the table, which, I was one of those folks too, but it was more about how, it was being communicated, how it was being like, whatever the Pictet at the time and enrolled that it had nothing to do about. You know the features of Gutenberg.[00:23:43] Although I still struggle with trying to like grab a block and put it in between two columns is like still a thing that I have to like wrestle and throw my computer with. I always knew like, Hey, this thing's going to get better.[00:23:54] It's just version 0.0 0, 0 1 that we're at like, don't we all like, there's so many software people in this space. Why was everybody losing their mind? That it wasn't good enough yet? This software's never good enough day one. It always gets better over time. Any thoughts on like the iteration of Gutenberg or how you looked at the launch of Gutenberg when that.[00:24:12] Yeah,[00:24:12] Brian: I was the same way. I wasn't sure it was very clunky. I think it kind of got rushed out back in that, that one December. But I think it had to be, I at some point we met that's written before about 1.0 and shipping and iterating and stuff like that. And so I think it was a necessary evil I think Gutenberg, the plugin being a thing now sort of, kind of pulls up.[00:24:30] From the core and like the general consumer standpoint, like seeing these sort of iterations and breaking changes and things like that, they've put it in the plugin, which, which is helpful because it allows people who are developing for WordPress to see what's coming to know how to address it. When it looked like a lot of people, when 5.9 launches, they'll be like, oh, w what's changed since 5.8.[00:24:50] Oh, my God, if you even knew, like so much has changed, but like, we'll be ready for it. Like frost will be 100% production ready when five, it is already, but you know, when 5.9 ships will be fully taken advantage of all the things. Cause we've been on the Gutenberg daily trail ever since then.[00:25:06] But speaking of Sarah McLaughlin, one of the 11 tweets I've favorited in my 15 years of Twitter was her response. She did ask me anything and I said, what's your favorite quote? And she quoted Gandhi's be the change you want to see in the world. And , obviously that that's sort of ubiquitous and we see it all the time.[00:25:21] But when it comes to WordPress and the direction, and this is sort of like Nick and my north star, which is, oh, this isn't working, we're frustrated with how this works. Well, you could do two things. You could piss about it and like, go on Twitter and talk about how bad it is. Or you can roll up your sleeves and figure out how to make it better.[00:25:36] And that is a lot of what we're doing. With developer relations at WP engine, we're teaming up with people on automatic side where other people's sides, rich Taylor is a good friend and we're trying to figure out how do we, universalize some things and just like really be that change.[00:25:50] And, we hope not only will that make WordPress better, maybe some of the people on the sidelines, these Monday quarterbacks as you call them, maybe it'll say, Hey, maybe there's something to like, Approach that they're taking, and maybe it's less about, dogging the platform that helped us win and helping it when, when, when for others and stuff like that.[00:26:09] Matt: Yeah. I can tell you that the one thing that Sort of afraid of is just the the pollution, I guess, of the block directory and what that potentially leads to in a customers. I say customer, I'm thinking I have agency on my mind, but thinking of you logging into somebody's website, who's not a WordPress aficionado.[00:26:28] And then. You have a thousand plugins installed. What's wrong with you? I can see that same thing happening with like the block directory, especially some of the things I've already starting to see where product companies are starting to inject their icon into like a, I don't know. I'll call the task bar.[00:26:46] I don't know what the official WordPress name is for that tray that sits above the editor where you can expand in different. And then, like I w installed a couple of themes the other day on one of my test sites. And it was just like, it looked like the bottom of my windows machine. Like all these icons, , oh, crazy.[00:27:01] We go again. , I don't want this. I can see some people doing like animated gifts now. And , oh, come on. , this is bad enough. Notifications already bad enough. Those types of things that you, you hope to maybe standard eyes across other product companies, is there like an official place you start to document this kind of thing to get everybody together or in a perfect world.[00:27:20] Is there a place you'd like to have for folks to rally around these types of things?[00:27:26] Brian: A good question. W we are guilty of that. Nick, Nick built a black pattern Explorer plugin. That adds a very I think we just recycled one of the core icon components that are part of WordPress. So again, we're not trying to do anything proprietary, so, we've created.[00:27:41] Block pattern, explore that very much is maybe maybe inspired what WordPress itself did in core. And we're looking to sort of expand on that and use that sort of in an experimental sense to help inform how things work, how it can be used, and then to take the things that we're building and push them upstream into WordPress, via pull requests.[00:28:01] And so, we are trying to, again, it's easy because for us, it's not a product that will. WP engine over any kind of metric. Like this was sort of brought in with the intent of, it's not gonna make any money, just use this to help go and grow and do all these things. And so, we've always back when Nathan and I Nathan Rice and I built Genesis, like we always sort of defaulted to WordPress core practices and standards and design and UX and all that kind of stuff.[00:28:28] And so. It's just an eight and eight at this point, for whatever we're working on to not be like a blinking Marquis across an admin notice thing. But I understand that it happens and why it happens. And, I think WordPress adding more capabilities to the core software, kind of. To be perfectly honest, that it knocks out the need for a lot of things.[00:28:49] Some of the black libraries that exist and things like that, like we're pressing now has that in core. So like, I'm hoping to, like, as we're press gets stronger with functionality that some of the needs to, to like to do what you said, won't be there. And I don't know if I answers the question, but are you happy to see the customized.[00:29:08] 1000%. I, I hated it from day one. I hated it from day one. I know we did some stuff with it and studio press. I was never a part of that. Cause I refused I've used it for a few things like custom CSS when I was in an emergency or, header, photo, script kind of stuff. But like I hated it. I never liked it.[00:29:27] I'm thrilled.[00:29:28] Matt: Yeah. . Amazing times, Ryan, what would help you and your role at WP engine call to action? Where can folks find you to connect with you to help the cause to join you at WP engine?[00:29:41] Anything or anywhere you want to point people[00:29:42] Brian: to a yes, the Twitter is probably the place that I'm most I'm most active and most available. At B Gardner, you could put that in the show notes, if you want. Tweet me, follow me, DME, whatever. Twitter is usually where we hang out. I'm on Instagram, that's more personal Starbucks shots and baseball things.[00:30:00] So that's less interesting to people in the space might not be tweeting about baseball. Yeah, no kidding. I'm on LinkedIn and I think it's B Gardner 27 and I was late to that party, so I didn't get the handle I wanted, but but Twitter is the place. I'm, periodically dunking around@briangardner.com actually working on a new design, kind of using that as a sandbox.[00:30:19] Yes. Oops. I'm doing it again was always sort of the tweet when you saw that tweet, I redesigned it. And so people have, I've trained people to never, ever think that there's going to be the same design as, as was there the last time, but that that's how products get built because I use my own site as a sandbox.[00:30:34] So, but yeah, Twitter is the best place. Obviously or for WP engine, we're always looking to build our team, not necessarily developer relations quite yet, but The Genesis team is hiring for an engineering person. And just whether it's support. I We see a number of people come up through the Genesis community who are now working there, lots of rock stars.[00:30:52] Like it's just a great place. So, if you're a WordPress person and you're looking for a job, hit me up on Twitter and I'll see if there's something that's Always hiring great people. I think David Vogel, Paul once said we don't hire something to the effect of, we don't hire qualified people. We've hired great people.[00:31:07] Like it kinda just works itself out that way. So, or we don't hire out. I can't remember what he said. I don't, I don't wanna mess up that quick, but it was really, really good. And I was like, wow, that's really cool. So quote here[00:31:17] Matt: pretty much. My report.com maryport.com/subscribe. Join the mailing list.[00:31:22] Number one way to stay connected. If you want to support independent WordPress content like. Buy me a coffee.com/maryport. Not only do you support the show, you can join as a member for $79 a year. Get access to the private discord and join our Merry band of WordPress Newsies, which we chat about. The WordPress news that goes out every Wednesday.[00:31:41] Five minutes is your favorite five minutes of WordPress or on the WP minute.com. Check it out. Join the. Get your name heard in the credits of the show. Talk about WordPress news. That's fun stuff. Thanks for hanging out today, Brian. I'll see everyone else in the next episode. ★ Support this podcast ★