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We're continuing our series: Your Biggest Course Creation Questions, Answered, and this week we're digging into a BIG one:   “Do I have the right content to turn this into a course?”   Spoiler: You probably do! (But let's break it down to be sure.)   In this episode, I walk you through: ✔️ How to know if your process is deep enough for a full course—or better suited for a mini offer ✔️ Why your course promise helps filter the fluff (and keeps students from getting overwhelmed) ✔️ The Post-It method I swear by for mapping out modules ✔️ Plus: How to validate your content with a live training or workshop   Whether you're sitting on a few slides or packed full of ideas, this episode will help you figure out what to teach, how much to include, and what your students really need to get results.  

Amanda Riffee is an internationally certified executive coach helping women overcome mindset blocks, know their value and create a career (and life) they love without burnout. A thought leader and event speaker with 17 years of corporate experience, she also hosts the podcast Unleashing You with Amanda Riffee and last month released her first book, Unleashing You.

Struggling to manage your business with scattered tags, endless spreadsheets, and Post-It notes? In this episode of Strategy with Sally, learn how to streamline your systems using the OmniWAY™ tagging method — a proven, heart-led approach to organising your contacts, automating follow-ups, and growing your business with ease. Discover how to create a smart, stress-free tagging system, simplify your CRM, and implement our 4-step tagging rules to boost productivity and customer engagement. Perfect for coaches, service providers, and small business owners ready to scale with systems that work.   FREE RESOURCES: eBook: 25 Things You Should Automate in Your Business: omnisam.com.au/25things Watch OmniSAM Demo: omnisam.com.au   Stay Connected & Get Exclusive Access: Join the Private OmniSAM Community: omnisam.com.au/gsdgroup Facebook Group: gsdfb.omnisam.com.au Follow on Facebook: facebook.com/sallysparkscousins Watch the Live Stream & Subscribe for More Updates: OmniSAM YouTube: youtube.com/@omnisamsoftware Sally Sparks-Cousins YouTube: youtube.com/@sallysparkscousins

Pour yourself a cup of coffee and get comfy, because we're diving deep into the wild, chaotic world of Instagram marketing for mompreneurs! If you're feeling like you're shouting into a void with your posts and still not seeing sales, you're definitely not alone. We've all been there, right? In this chat, we're peeling back the layers on why all that Instagram hustle often feels like running on a treadmill—lots of effort, but where's the payoff? The truth bomb here is that without the right strategy, it's just a game of posting pretty pictures and hoping for the best. We talk about a real-life success story of one of our members who saw a whopping 25% increase in link clicks in just a month—now that's what we call results! We emphasize the importance of having a clear strategy that aligns with your business goals and audience needs. Think of it as baking a cake: you might have all the ingredients, but without a recipe, good luck whipping up something delicious! We share actionable tips on connecting your content to your offers, so your followers don't just scroll past but actually engage and convert into clients. So, if you're ready to stop spinning your wheels and start making Instagram work for you, this episode is packed with insights to help you create content that connects and converts. Stick around until the end for an invitation to slide into our DMs if you want to chat about your own Instagram struggles. Because let's be real, we all need a little help now and then, and you deserve more than just pretty posts—you deserve a strategy that works!Mentioned in this episode:DM me on Instagram! https://instagram.com/socially.yours.strategistMentioned in this episode:Join Plan it, Post It, Profit and plan a month of Instagram posts that lead to sales in just 5 days!Join Plan it, Post It, Profit and plan a month of Instagram posts that lead to sales in just 5 days!PPP evergreen

Today, we're diving into the world of paid workshops with the fabulous AnnMarie Rose, who's all about helping service providers scale their businesses without losing their minds. If you've ever felt like your business is more of a chaotic circus than a well-oiled machine, then this episode is your golden ticket to a calmer, more profitable life. We explore how to streamline your selling strategy, ditch the burnout, and actually make time for those precious family moments that keep us sane. Seriously, I was so inspired by AnnMarie that I signed up for her workshop the second we wrapped up our chat—no joke! So, grab your notes and get ready for some real talk on making your business work for you, not the other way around. Let's roll!Takeaways: Paid workshops can be a game changer for service providers looking to scale without burning out, and they're super fun too! We talked about how prioritizing both front-end visibility and back-end systems can keep your business running smoothly, without the chaos. Annemarie shared her journey from burnout to creating a lifeproof business model that allows for both flexibility and growth, which we all crave as busy moms. Engaging in paid workshops leads to higher show-up rates and builds trust with potential clients, making it a practical strategy for boosting sales. Mentioned In This Episode:Workshop Gameplan GeneratorSold Out Workshop Toolkit (Use the code SYDNEYTOOLKIT for 50% off!)AnnMarie's InstagramAnnMarie's LinkedInMentioned in this episode:Join Plan it, Post It, Profit and plan a month of Instagram posts that lead to sales in just 5 days!Join Plan it, Post It, Profit and plan a month of Instagram posts that lead to sales in just 5 days!PPP evergreen

Alyssa and Jason have been dating for over three years and have been actually living with one another for over a year. Alyssa tells us that she thinks they are ready for the next step because they even have a cat together too. However, Alyssa has started to notice that the bed has been made every day she leaves, but it's as if Jason never slept in the bed at all. At the same time, Alyssa put Post-It notes in the bed to see if Jason would react and he hasn't mentioned anything at all and she's starting to worry.   We call Jason pretending to send him a free bouquet of flowers and when we ask him who he wants them sent to, Jason asks if they can be sent to someone named Charlotte. Find out what's really going on in this week's War Of The Roses! 

Alyssa and Jason have been dating for over three years and have been actually living with one another for over a year. Alyssa tells us that she thinks they are ready for the next step because they even have a cat together too. However, Alyssa has started to notice that the bed has been made every day she leaves, but it's as if Jason never slept in the bed at all. At the same time, Alyssa put Post-It notes in the bed to see if Jason would react and he hasn't mentioned anything at all and she's starting to worry.   We call Jason pretending to send him a free bouquet of flowers and when we ask him who he wants them sent to, Jason asks if they can be sent to someone named Charlotte. Find out what's really going on in this week's War Of The Roses! 

Send us a textBefore the World Premiere of his very first play, Judson Jones streamed into the Playwright's Spotlight. We discussed his background in theatre, film, and television and his journey to writing his first play and any challenges he overcame. We dove into hitting  the flow state, introducing new ideas, the appreciation of new works, storytelling through Post-It notes, working with deadlines, collaborating with designers and the benefits of simplicity and justification as well as eliminating and having an outside eye. We wrap with delving into devices vs dialogue, working with sensitive subject matter, writing out of order, and observing the loss of grace in society. It's a very heartwarming conversation. Enjoy!  His play Canaan Unremembered opened March 24th at the Court Square Theater in Long Island City, New York and runs through April 19th, 2025. For tickets, visit -https://www.theatreeast.org/canaan-unrememberedJudson Jones is a playwright and award-winning producer and director who has had the privilege of collaborating on the premieres of Tim Blake Nelson's Eye Of God, Christopher Durang's The Vietnamizaton of New Jersey, David Crawford's Harvest, Bennett Windheim's Normalcy, Megan O'Brien's The Jungle Book, Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams, and Devil and the Deep with Air Supply‘s Graham Russell. He serves on the Board of Directors for Texas Dramatists, is a member of Actors' Equity and SAG/AFTRA, and an instructor at the Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.To watch the video format of this episode, visit - https://youtu.be/IiK0f9MXhlELinks to resources mentioned in this episode -Powerhouse Theatre - https://www.vassar.edu/powerhouseWebsite and Socials for Judson Jones -IG - @judsonjonesFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/judson.jonesWebsites and socials for James Elden, PMP, and Playwright's Spotlight -Punk Monkey Productions - www.punkmonkeyproductions.comPLAY Noir -www.playnoir.comPLAY Noir Anthology –www.punkmonkeyproductions.com/contact.htmlJames Elden -Twitter - @jameseldensauerIG - @alakardrakeFB - fb.com/jameseldensauerPunk Monkey Productions and PLAY Noir - Twitter - @punkmonkeyprods                  - @playnoirla IG - @punkmonkeyprods       - @playnoir_la FB - fb.com/playnoir        - fb.com/punkmonkeyproductionsPlaywright's Spotlight -Twitter - @wrightlightpod IG - @playwrights_spotlightPlaywriting services through Los Angeles Collegiate Playwrights Festivalwww.losangelescollegiateplaywrightsfestival.com/services.htmlSupport the show

Part 2: Strategic Reading InterventionsThe conversation continues as Sharon and Phil discuss the importance of giving students space to develop their own strategies after receiving initial guidance. Sharon emphasises how the boy's Post-It note idea emerged because she asked him how the strategy helped and gave him time to reflect. She notes this technique would be temporary but highly effective as he transitions to chapter books.Sharon then shares her experience with a second Year 3 student reading a more complex chapter book. This boy demonstrates good decoding skills but makes mistakes he doesn't correct. Sharon records words he reads correctly and incorrectly, noting that he seems aware when he misreads but lacks strategies to fix errors. When she points this out, he confirms: "I don't know what else to do."Returning to the misread words, Sharon introduces the strategy "try a different sound" without specifying which letter to focus on. Remarkably, the boy immediately corrects all four misread words, including "kindy" and "manage." This success transforms his reading experience, making previously difficult text accessible. The strategy is recorded on his reading calendar with a specific date, creating accountability and a reference point for future reading sessions.Sharon explains how these conferences build a comprehensive picture of students as readers, far more detailed than multiple-choice assessments could provide. She stresses that conferring should happen with books that challenge students appropriately—not too easy, as Tim Shanahan has advocated. Teachers need to equip students with strategies to access increasingly complex texts, especially as they progress through upper primary years.RESOURCESThe Listening to Reading Watching While Writing Protocol  Duke, Ward, & KlingelhoferThe Reading Strategies Book 2.0 by Jennifer SerravalloBLOGGetting Better at Conferring, Years 3-6 JOIN TEACHIFIC NOW AND SAVE!Join Teachific  today. Access thousands of resources and a growing number of 'anytime' courses within your membership.FURTHER INFORMATIONTune in to "Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy," a free podcast where accomplished literacy educator Sharon Callen and her team share valuable insights and tips. With over 30 years of experience, they provide strategic learning solutions to empower teachers and leaders worldwide.  Subscribe on your favourite platform for exclusive literacy learning content.  Apple, Spotify,  Google, YouTubeRead our insightful blogs, which make valuable connections between resources, podcasts and courses.Visit our Cue Learning website and sign up for the Teacher's Toolkit Weekly newsletter to stay updated on resources, events and discover how Cue can support you and your school.Explore Teachific, our vast collection of PDF resources, to enhance your teaching toolkit. And get even more support from our growing number of 'anytime' online courses.Connect with the latest news and other educators by joining our Teacher's Toolkit Facebook groupExplore upcoming live or online webinar  eventsHave questions or feedback? Reach out to us directly at admin@cuelearning.com.au

In this episode, Kate Megaw joins Brian Milner to share simple but powerful techniques that can turn those soul-sucking meetings into dynamic, action-driven conversations. If you're ready to make meetings worth attending, this one’s for you! Overview Brian Milner and Kate Megaw uncover the secrets to running highly effective and engaging meetings. They tackle common facilitation pitfalls, the staggering amount of time wasted in ineffective meetings, and how simple tweaks can transform team collaboration. Kate shares practical strategies for keeping participants engaged, fostering psychological safety, and ensuring meetings lead to real action—because no one has time for another pointless meeting. References and resources mentioned in the show: Kate Megaw ARCLight Agile Katanu Katanu’s Facilitator Certification Course Katanu Resources #44: Transformations Take People with Anu Smalley Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® Mountain Goat Software Certified Scrum and Agile Training Schedule Join the Agile Mentors Community Subscribe to the Agile Mentors Podcast Want to get involved? This show is designed for you, and we’d love your input. Enjoyed what you heard today? Please leave a rating and a review. It really helps, and we read every single one. Got an Agile subject you’d like us to discuss or a question that needs an answer? Share your thoughts with us at podcast@mountaingoatsoftware.com This episode’s presenters are: Brian Milner is SVP of coaching and training at Mountain Goat Software. He's passionate about making a difference in people's day-to-day work, influenced by his own experience of transitioning to Scrum and seeing improvements in work/life balance, honesty, respect, and the quality of work. Kate Megaw is the Founder and CEO of ARCLight Agile, specializing in helping organizations create empowered, high-performing teams through agility and collaboration. A dynamic Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified Team Coach (CTC), and Project Management Professional (PMP), Kate is a sought-after speaker known for sparking ‘aha’ moments that drive real transformation. Auto-generated Transcript: Brian Milner (00:00) Welcome in Agile Mentors. We're back here for another episode of the Agile Mentors Podcast. I'm here as I always am, Brian Milner. I'm with you as your host. But today I have the one and only, amazing Kate McGaw is with us. Kate, thank you for coming on. Kate Megaw (00:17) Thank you for having me. Brian Milner (00:19) Absolutely. If there's some of you out there that aren't familiar with Kate, she is a CST, a Scrum trainer like myself. She's also a certified team coach. And she also has the other side of things, the dark side. She's a PMP. So she has that project management kind of background that she brings to the table as well, which I think is awesome. She's a CEO of a company called Arclight Agile. And she's a co-founder of one of our favorites here that's come on the show, Anu. But they team up together. So it's Kate and Anu. And so their company is Katanu. I love it. love it. So why we decided to have Kate on is because Kate and Anu both have done a lot of work around facilitation. And we did have a user request. Kate Megaw (00:57) That's it. Brian Milner (01:09) to have an episode where we focused on facilitation. And listeners of the show know there's nothing I love more than being able to fulfill listener requests here and try to do those as soon as possible. So let's dive in. Let's talk about facilitation. It's a funny word. There's lots of different misconceptions and things about it, I'm sure. What do you find people misunderstand most about facilitation? Kate Megaw (01:34) think one of the key misunderstandings around facilitation is that you're part of the meeting, you're part of the event, you're actively involved. And when you're facilitating, you're actually, taking a step back because you are accountable for making sure that everyone is speaking and that we're keeping an eye on the agenda and things like that. And if you are actively involved in the discussion, You can't be doing that because you're missing body language. You're missing people who need to talk and who aren't talking. So I think one of the main misconceptions is, or that people forget is a facilitator is neutral. So if, for example, you have a scrum master facilitating a retrospective and they need to be actively involved in the retrospective, they should be inviting somebody else in to facilitate it. and I think We're beginning to see a lot more interest in it now because it's one of these key things. If it's done badly, people generally will notice. If it's done well, hopefully you don't notice that much other than, you know what, that meeting was very efficient. We achieved the goal and I feel as though it was worth my time. One of the things I like to say to people at the end of a meeting is the fist of five, how worth your time was this meeting? And I'm looking for fives or fours. If we're getting threes, twos and ones, we've not facilitated it well, or the meeting didn't achieve its agenda and things like that. think a lot of the statistics around facilitation that have come out recently, and you and I were talking about these briefly before we started that the average at the Microsoft trend index shows us that average time spent in meetings by employees at the moment is 21 and a half hours a week, which is an increase, I know, an increase of 252 % since the pre-pandemic. So. Brian Milner (03:36) That's incredible. Yeah, I mean, that's more than half of a work week, right? I mean, we're spending more than half our work week in just locked in meetings. So you're right. We had this conversation beforehand and you were telling me that stat and it just kind of floored me that we're spending that much time in meetings. But it was the next one you told me that really floored me. And it's a combination of these two, I think, that people need to really grasp onto. So tell them what you told me next. Kate Megaw (03:49) Mm hmm. Yep. Yep. Yeah. So the next one is that the Harvard Business Review indicates their research, 67 % of meetings are considered by executives to be failures. So if we look at the financial impact of that, and this is something I didn't share with you, but the financial impact of that is for a company, imagine you have a company with 100 employees, unproductive meetings are wasting upward of $1.7 million a year. If you have a thousand employees, increase that number. it's one of these things that it is not difficult to do. It is just understanding why we need someone in the facilitator role. And the basics around the basic facilitation, the basic getting ready for the meeting, facilitating during the meeting and properly closing the meeting. takes those unsuccessful numbers up to successful numbers where you're getting those fives and people are sort of, yep, that meeting totally achieved the purpose and the outcome and it finished early. So I've got 20 minutes back before my next meeting. Brian Milner (05:24) Yeah, it's so incredible that combination of those two stats. I thinking that we're spending over half our time in meetings and that 67 % of them are failures, we're having a lot of them and we're not doing them well, clearly. Kate Megaw (05:36) Absolutely. I think with, I don't know with Zoom, well, I think with Zoom, it's got easier to have meetings. So we're probably having meetings where we don't need to have meetings. That's one of my favorite things to ask is, does this need to be a meeting? Or are you just going to talk at me and roll data out? In which case, send it to me in email. Don't tie me up for a meeting. Brian Milner (05:44) Yep. Kate Megaw (06:02) Because so many meetings are a waste of time that a lot of people are spending meetings multitasking. So we're taking an hour for a meeting that we could do in 25 minutes if people were 100 % engaged and following the agenda and things like that. Brian Milner (06:22) Yeah, yeah, that's so fascinating. it seems like such a, it's hard to believe that there's not more of that skill in just basic business training, right? Because if we're having all those meetings, then it would seem natural that there would be more segments that would say, you know, a little facilitation skill for, you know, a, you know, bachelor's in business, you know, like that might be a little helpful, right? Kate Megaw (06:41) Yep. Mm-hmm. Yeah, absolutely. And it's a small investment for something that will make a huge difference. I mean, one of the things Anu and I have been working on is the mnemonic of ready, reach, and wrap in order to make sure we have effective meetings. And the ready part of it is setting the foundation. So before you even get to your meeting, this is ahead of time. You're understanding, okay, what are the Rs? What are the roles and responsibilities? So if I'm facilitating, then who are the decision makers? Who is mandatory? Who's required to be there? Who are the, you can come if you want. Let's stop doing meetings to 30 people and expecting 30 people to show up. So we've got to understand the roles and responsibilities. The other, the E for the ready is expectations and engagement. Brian Milner (07:29) Ha ha ha. Kate Megaw (07:41) So if the expectations are that this is an interactive meeting, we're using Lucid or Mural or Mira, whatever tool we're using, it's going to be collaborative, webcams are going to be on, multitasking is going to be at a minimum, everyone knows going into that meeting what the expectations are. And then the A again is the agenda and the alignment. The agenda should be very clearly saying these are the items that the D is making sure where we have defined the purpose and the outcome. So every meeting, we need to know what the purpose of the meeting is, what the outcome of the meeting is, and they should be included in the agenda. We shouldn't be accepting meetings. Imagine the power of being able to decline a meeting if it didn't have an agenda in it. And if you think about it, why do we attend meetings? Brian Milner (08:27) Ha Yeah. Kate Megaw (08:33) with no agenda and people turn up to the meeting and said, okay, so what's this meeting for? Pretty sure we've all got better things to be doing. So make sure for every meeting we have a defined purpose and outcome. And then the why is making sure we as facilitators have your logistics ready. If it's Zoom, if we're using a remote whiteboard, do people need to practice it? Do we need to set up an environment? Do we need to make sure webcams are on? All that type of thing. So a huge amount of meetings would be better if we did nothing other than better planning with the roles, responsibilities, the expectations, the agenda, the defining the outcome and the logistics. If we just did that. Brian Milner (09:09) Yeah. Kate Megaw (09:23) I bet we're going to see the amount of productive meetings increase considerably. Brian Milner (09:29) Yeah, there's so much transfer here too as well, just to the normal scrum meetings that we have because, you know, one of the things I'll talk about lot in class is just to say, you know, you can't just expect to show up to something like Sprint Planning and have it go smoothly. You have to put in some work beforehand and get ready for it. Same thing with like a Sprint Review. You got to put in some work beforehand and make sure you know who's going when and who's speaking, you know, that speaking order and all that stuff. Kate Megaw (09:42) Yeah. Brian Milner (09:55) goes miles in making those more successful meetings. But the other thing that really interested me in that is you talk a little bit about purpose and that we don't really understand the purpose of the meetings. And that's something that's really stuck out to me is when I talk to people who don't like their Scrum meetings, it feels like 90 % that is just Brian math, but it feels like 90 % of the time, right? Feels like this. It feels like 90 % of the time. Kate Megaw (10:04) Mm-hmm. Brian Milner (10:20) that the people who have a problem with those meetings don't know the purpose of the meeting and that's really the root cause of it, right? If they knew why we were here, then the meeting makes sense. Now I understand what we're trying to do. Kate Megaw (10:26) Yep, absolutely. And I think one of the interesting things, I would love to repeat these numbers around the Scrum events, because I think by default, the Scrum events do have a purpose. They do have an outcome. We know what the roles and responsibilities are. We know what the expectations for engagement are. So I think the Scrum events are much more productive than your average event. Brian Milner (10:41) Yeah. Kate Megaw (10:59) But I do feel if we don't have well-facilitated Scrum events, that's where we get our criticism, or, this meeting was a waste of time. Okay, well, let's look at our facilitation and see, it an error in planning or was it an error in expectations? But it always surprises me when people say, well, Scrum's just so many meetings. And I'm so... No, we should have fewer meetings and if they're well facilitated, we need all of those meetings. So it's not as though we're having a meeting for meeting sake, which I think is unfortunately something we can't say for our non-scrum events. Brian Milner (11:43) Yeah, yeah, I mean, I go so far as to say, if you don't understand the purpose of it, don't show up. I mean, there's really no need to be there if you don't know what we're trying to get out of it. One other little side correlation there too, because this kind of ties in a little bit to some of the stuff I did this last year in kind of studying a little bit about neurodivergency and different neuro types and that kind of thing. And one of the things I found really fascinating was certain neurodivergent types, Kate Megaw (11:48) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Brian Milner (12:12) really need to have an agenda in advance. And if they don't, then it just raises their anxiety level. they're just, you even not, you know, neurodivergent types, just regular, normal, you know, neurotypical people. There are those that just don't respond well when you're just throwing out a blank slate and saying, give us your best idea, right? They need time to process and think in advance and Kate Megaw (12:15) Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yep. Mm-hmm. Yep. Brian Milner (12:38) And so yeah, if we could send out that just the day before, it's not that much work. It's just one day earlier, right? It's actually the same amount of work. It's just doing it a day earlier. Right. Kate Megaw (12:45) Absolutely. Absolutely. It's just better organized. Yeah. I mean, I even on my team meetings, I know some members of my team want to know, because I always like to start them with segue questions and some of my team completely fine. Ask them a question, favorite food or you want to have any sort of segue question and they're fine with it. But I have my thinkers who want to think about it ahead of time. So I think it's important when we're facilitating any event that we understand the audience. How many of the audience are going to want to maybe read a document ahead of time? How many of the audience are, you know what, they can think on the feet, I can throw anything at them, but there are others that do need the preparation. yeah, I think that the planning that we do, if we can do it just slightly ahead. And then things like when we get into the meeting, of the mnemonic that we use for actually facilitating during the meeting is the mnemonic of reach, which is we're guiding the process. The very first thing we do when we go into the meeting is we review the agenda and open the meeting. So here's the agenda. I've got the agenda visible. mean, what the agenda that we use in classes. Is the to do doing and done. I use that for all my meetings. I've got that up on the virtual board and the topics of the meeting are moving across to doing and done because then our visual people can see how we're doing. But the reviewing, at the start of every meeting we said, OK, let's just review the agenda. Let's just remind everyone this is the purpose and this is the desired outcomes. And if the right people are not in the meeting. There's no point having a meeting that we cannot achieve the purpose and the outcomes because we don't have the right people. So, I mean, I always say open it, open it with a segue question and things like that, but level set on the agenda. And then the middle part of the meeting is the bit that people are familiar with, which is the gathering ideas. It's exploring. It's the A is the assessing, making sure we've got the collaboration and the discussion and the... Brian Milner (14:39) Yeah. Yeah. Kate Megaw (15:07) The C is our concluding, are we doing dot voting or is somebody else who makes the final decision? But the H is the one that we often forget at the end, which is let's highlight the action items from the meeting. Let's make sure we know what it is, who's accountable for it, when it's going to be done by, and then close the meeting. mean, you... Brian Milner (15:18) Hmm. Kate Megaw (15:33) you and I will both close out our classes. Maybe we use one word, maybe we use, give us a statement, all sorts of different things, but we forget to close out meetings. go, time's up. Okay. Bye everyone. And we've not reviewed the, this is what we're going to do for next time. And we've not formally closed the meeting, even if it's as simple as one word, but we've got to open and close it. Sorry. Passionate about that. No. Brian Milner (15:44) You You mean that's not how you close out a class? I've been closing classes like that for years. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, exactly. Ding, sorry. Kate Megaw (16:03) Yes, sorry, time's up, clunk. Yeah, sorry, dog's barking, dog needs to go out. So, but yeah. Brian Milner (16:11) Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, no. And there was something I came across just in trying to put together materials for classes where we have little segments on facilitation in it. Because I think sometimes there's a lot of focus on the different various techniques, like fist to five or thumbs up or whatever. There's different kind of techniques. I'm not trying to belittle those. Those are things we need to know. But. Kate Megaw (16:21) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Brian Milner (16:36) One of the things I came across was that the root word of this thing is this Latin word, facilius. stands or it means literally to make easy. And I've always had that kind of in the back of my mind when I'm a facilitator is like, what are they trying to do? And whatever they're trying to do, just, my job is just to make that as easy as possible, right? You know, it's always difficult when you're trying to make a decision and you have no direction about how that decision is going to be made. Kate Megaw (16:46) Yeah. Brian Milner (17:05) But a good facilitator can give the structure to it and say, no, no, no, it's OK, I got you. We're going to go through this little journey together, and we're going to end in this other side, and you're going to have something to take away from it. Kate Megaw (17:16) Yeah, we're going to have heard everyone's voices as we go through. We're not going to let one person dominate the conversation. We're going to use techniques like, that's a great point. Can we also check in on the other side of the table? Let's hear some counter points here. It's pulling people in, it's summarizing. So if I'm hearing you correctly, Brian, you're saying A, B, C, D. It's all of that going into it. And I think one of the other... big has when we teach facilitation is the facilitator is not the scribe. So people say, well, I'm the project manager or I'm the facilitator. need to be taking all the meeting notes. And I'm like, well, what direction is your head pointing when you're taking notes? And it's down at a piece of paper. So you're not seeing who's yawning because you're tired and you need to take a break. You're not seeing people who are confused or wanting to talk and things like that. sort of either you turn on the AI tool and have the AI tool summarize the meeting for you. Do check it before you submit, it out or B have everyone in the meeting as a grown ass adult. They can take their own agenda items. mean, their own action items, have an area on your virtual board or in the room you're having the meeting in that is action items. And again, what is it? Brian Milner (18:18) Sure. Kate Megaw (18:36) Who's gonna be doing it? When's it gonna be done by? And I think one of the key criticisms of meetings is, and you'll hear this as well, particularly by retrospectives is, well, nothing changes. And I'm sort of, well, who has the action item? well, there isn't an action item. And I'm sort of, at the end of every meeting, we should be doing the mnemonic we use here is rap. The first thing is retrospect. Brian Milner (18:53) you Kate Megaw (19:04) How was this meeting? We talked about the fist of five. Give me one word. Anything we need to do differently next time. And then the A is make sure we have all of these action items assigned to someone. And then the P is the one we forget about. Tracking that progress. How are we going to hold each other accountable for making sure that something changes as a result of the meeting? So. Brian Milner (19:22) Mm-hmm. Kate Megaw (19:31) If we're doing retrospectives, if the team is voting whatever technique they're using to choose the one thing they want to do differently, how do we make it visible? Do we put it on our scrum board somewhere? Do we talk about it every day as part of after we've done daily scrum? How are we doing with the communication techniques that we wanted to try and do differently going forward? We've got to have that visibility. Otherwise nothing changes. Brian Milner (19:57) Yeah, yeah, that's so awesome. I completely agree. And that's something that I think you're right is missing, not just from retrospectives, but just a lot of meetings in general. We don't really understand, all right, well, what's the takeaway? What's the thing we need to do as a result of this to make this not a waste of our time, to make this something that was a useful, not the 67 % that were failures, but something that actually leads to success. I want to. Kate Megaw (19:59) Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah, yes, so that we're not having the same meeting again next week and the week after and nothing's changing. Brian Milner (20:30) Exactly. Exactly. I want to ask you one question about facilitation. I've heard this a lot in regards to retrospectives, but probably it's more a facilitation thing than it is a retrospective thing. But I think probably the number one question we get from people about retrospectives is, how do you handle a quiet team? so I'm just kind of curious. When you talk about facilitating and working with individuals who are a little more introverted, Kate Megaw (20:50) Mm-hmm. Brian Milner (20:57) or just not as comfortable speaking out in public, are there special considerations or are there things that you do differently just to try to accommodate and make those people feel more comfortable when you're facilitating them? Kate Megaw (21:09) So yes, several things. So one, I will look at a theme. So do they have a team name and do I want to set up a mnemonic around the team name to gather the data? Are they a visual team? Do I want to do something like the sailboat that's interactive and people can add things to the board? Are they a movie buffs? Do I need to do a Star Wars themed retrospective? So I'll generally try and find something to connect the team. I've done it before where I'm working with airlines. Okay, what is it keeps our planes in the air? What is it that grounds our planes? What are the storm clouds we need to be aware of? What are causing bumps during the air? So all of that type of thing, it's a theme relevant to the team. And I generally will find that if I can start a team talking, I can keep them talking. So if... one of the ways that I will often start a retrospective is if the retrospective, if your last retrospective was a ride at Disney, what ride would it have been? and get them talking or give me one word that describes the last retro or in a scale of one to the, mean, the last sprint, give me one word that describes it or scale of one to 10. How well do you think we did at the last sprint? But I love to get people talking. If I'm in the office, I sort of adapted the Adam Weisbart's retrospective cookies and I'll use candy bars and I'll wrap questions around candy bars and the team grabs a candy bar and there is a question on it which they answer and then other people in the room will then answer as well. Maybe things like, what can I do to better support you as a scrum master? Or, What can we do to better support each other as team members? So I think it's getting people talking, making sure the big reminder for me is as a facilitator, if you did not write the Post-It note, you should not be reading the Post-It note and you should not be moving the Post-It note. The team owns the Post-It notes. Everyone should be adding their own Post-It notes, whether it's virtual or in person. Brian Milner (23:07) Yeah. Kate Megaw (23:28) They should be grouping their own Post-it notes. They should be moving them. And the other one, people always say, well, what happens if there's the elephant in the room and this thing on the board that nobody wants to talk about? And I'm said, well, often I will say, okay, I'm going to add, we're going to do something different for this round. This time, I'm going to ask you to introduce something you did not write on the board. And let's talk about, I'm going to ask you to choose a topic and we're going to talk about that. Just read it, you read it out. Brian Milner (23:39) Yeah. Kate Megaw (23:58) and then we'll have a discussion around it. So as a facilitator, I can uncover the elephants in the room without anyone feeling too uncomfortable. Brian Milner (24:07) Yeah, that's great stuff. of parallel to this, think is kind of, I know we've, I've heard you talk about this, but the sense of safety in the room and just that people feel safe to talk about that. Are there things we can do as facilitators to actually raise that sense of safety? Kate Megaw (24:25) There are absolutely, there's a lot of things we can do. And I, every now and then I will hear something and I will just cringe. And there's, well my team doesn't really like sharing. They're not honest in the retrospective until the CTO disconnects from the retrospective. And I'm sort of, okay, so maybe what do you think this is maybe telling us? I'm sort of retrospectives are Vegas rules. It is the team. I will do retrospectives even with non-scrum teams, but it is the team that is there. There are no visitors. It is the team only. The other thing that makes me cringe is, yes, well we sent out the minutes of the retrospective and I'm sort of, excuse me, the retrospective again, Vegas rules. What is the one thing we're going to do differently as a team in the next sprint? Okay, is everyone okay if I put this up on our scrum board so it's visible? Brian Milner (25:07) Ha Kate Megaw (25:20) Okay, that's the one thing we're taking away. But back to the question you were asking, one of the biggest signs of a lack of psychological safety is that the team just doesn't want to talk. They're worried that the minutes are going to be captured. Somebody, one of the leaders is in there and, well, everyone's fine with my leadership. They're completely open and honest in front of me. And I'm sort of, okay, let's try a retrospective then with you there. Brian Milner (25:32) Yeah. Kate Megaw (25:50) And then we'll also try retrospective without you there. And let's see which one is more comfortable because otherwise it's a, it's a colossal waste of time. If nothing's going to change, why are we wasting sort of 45 minutes to an hour or even doing it? So I think that the psychological safety is a key one, making sure it is the right people, making sure that minutes are not being captured. The other thing is. A lot of times people say, well, I need to capture it because I need to bring all of the information again next time. And I'm sort of, no, you're trashing the Post-it notes. You're trashing the mural board, whatever. You're starting from scratch next time. they're sort of, well, I'm going to lose all this information. I'm sort of, no, if it's important enough, it's going to come up again next time. Brian Milner (26:23) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And things change, right? mean, what the universe of things we might identify this sprint could be entirely different for next sprint. I've always loved, Jeff Sutherland had this phrase, he would say about it to say that, you have to remove that one big thing. And when you move that one big thing, then the system adjusts and you don't really know where the next bottleneck is going to come from until you remove that one big thing. Kate Megaw (26:58) Yeah. Brian Milner (27:02) So it's likely to be somewhere you wouldn't expect. so you can't just hang on to your number two issue from one retrospective and then say, well, next retrospective, we'll just do that and we can cut out having the conversation because we identified important things in this one. Kate Megaw (27:14) Yeah. And it anchors the tea. It stops the creativity. that's the other thing with retrospectives. I occasionally will work with a client and there's the, oh yes, we've been doing what's going well and what's not going so well every two weeks for six months. And I'm sort of, it's not really any wonder your team's bored out of their minds at retrospectives and nothing new is coming up. There's so many websites out there. Brian Milner (27:41) Yeah. Kate Megaw (27:42) that retrospective should never, in fact, no meeting should ever be boring because we should always be opening and closing a meeting in a creative way. Even if it's, mean, one of the things that we like to do in the morning of class is have music. So when people are joining, the energy is there so that we're getting that interaction and things like that. So people are starting on a high and then... I mean, you'll notice in the afternoons people begin to yawn, especially after lunch. Okay, you know what? It's been 65 minutes. Let's take a break. Let's do a segue question at break. So when we come back, show us something on your desk that tells us a bit about you. Or one of the ones I like is go stand up, go and look outside and come back and tell us something you saw outside. We have chickens. We have all sorts of things that people are saying. but it's encouraging them to get up and go get some oxygen in their system, take a break and then come back and then it's more engaging. But if as a facilitator, I'm not planning that type of thing, the energy is going to go down and I'm not going to achieve the purpose of my half day event or my one day class, whatever it is. Brian Milner (28:56) Yeah, it doesn't happen by accident. It's all very intentional. Well, this is fascinating. And we could have this conversation for another several hours, I'm sure. I just wanted to let everyone know that in case you were scrambling to write down these mnemonics and other things, we're going to link that in our show notes. So you can go to our show notes, and we'll put you over to Katanu team. Kate Megaw (28:58) No. Yep, absolutely. Yep. Brian Milner (29:20) Katanu, I keep on saying cat and Anu, trying to say it right way. Yeah, but we'll link you over them so you can get those three Rs for meetings and know kind of what each one of those little letters stands for in there. Kate Megaw (29:24) Yeah. Brian Milner (29:33) This has been really eye-opening for me and it just is a fascinating topic and it's so delightful just to hear the intentionality and how we can do simple things. They're not hard things, but simple things that make such a huge difference. Kate Megaw (29:48) Yeah, yeah, mean, that's the key. This is not rocket science. It's one or two simple things that helps us take that if we are going to spend 20 % or 20 hours a week, which is half of our time in meetings, let's at least make sure they're productive meetings so that we're not literally burning money by having unproductive meetings. Brian Milner (30:12) Yeah, absolutely. Well, I also forgot to mention here at the beginning, and we'll put this in the show notes as well, but Team Katanu also has a facilitation course. The Scrum Alliance has a certified Agile facilitator designation that you could obtain if you were interested in that. We'll link that off as well. But yeah, I couldn't recommend any better people for you to take that from than Kate in a new idea. We were saying that she had a, when she was younger, used to have the nickname Cat, and now everyone's calling her Cat from that. Well, thank you again for coming on and sharing your wisdom with us. I really appreciate it. Kate Megaw (30:46) Yep. Yep. Thank you very much for having me, Brian. And I look forward to hearing amazing facilitation stories from everyone once they've implemented some of this stuff. Brian Milner (31:03) Absolutely.

Part 1: Understanding the Conferring ProcessIn this insightful podcast, Phil and Sharon Callen explore the art of conferring with students in Years 3-6. Sharon begins by explaining that conferring is a powerful tool for both learning about students and helping them develop as readers. She emphasises that the key shift in her conferring practice came when she realised these sessions should provide immediate learning opportunities rather than just collecting information to use later.Sharon introduces the "Listening to Reading, Watching While Writing Protocol," a freely available tool developed by Duke Ward and Klingelhoffer. This protocol aligns with the Active View of Reading developed by Duke and Cartwright, covering word recognition, comprehension, and the bridging processes between them. The protocol guides teachers on what to observe during conferring and helps them make informed decisions about what to teach.The focus of these conferences is to identify what strategies students are currently using effectively or ineffectively and to provide targeted instruction. Sharon explains that these short, five-minute conferences allow teachers to observe students reading from their current books and help them develop a specific strategy they can practice immediately and apply independently.Sharon shares her first story about conferring with a Year 3 boy reading an early chapter book. The student immediately reveals his struggle: "I find it difficult to remember what I'm reading." As he reads, Sharon notices he keeps his eyes on the page while decoding but struggles with comprehension. When asked to recall what he read, he can remember the first two paragraphs but not the third, longer one. Sharon teaches him the strategy of keeping not just his eyes but also his mind in the book. When he practises this strategy, he experiences immediate success and even suggests using Post-It notes to track his understanding page by page.RESOURCESThe Listening to Reading Watching While Writing ProtocolBLOGGetting Better at Conferring, Years 3-6 JOIN TEACHIFIC NOW AND SAVE!Join Teachific  today. Access thousands of resources and a growing number of 'anytime' courses within your membership.FURTHER INFORMATIONTune in to "Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy," a free podcast where accomplished literacy educator Sharon Callen and her team share valuable insights and tips. With over 30 years of experience, they provide strategic learning solutions to empower teachers and leaders worldwide.  Subscribe on your favourite platform for exclusive literacy learning content.  Apple, Spotify,  Google, YouTubeRead our insightful blogs, which make valuable connections between resources, podcasts and courses.Visit our Cue Learning website and sign up for the Teacher's Toolkit Weekly newsletter to stay updated on resources, events and discover how Cue can support you and your school.Explore Teachific, our vast collection of PDF resources, to enhance your teaching toolkit. And get even more support from our growing number of 'anytime' online courses.Connect with the latest news and other educators by joining our Teacher's Toolkit Facebook groupExplore upcoming live or online webinar  eventsHave questions or feedback? Reach out to us directly at admin@cuelearning.com.au

Here's part two of my interview with Jane Roper, author of the novel “The Society of Shame,” which is a finalist for the Thurber Prize in American Humor, and a memoir, “Double Time: How I Survived and Mostly Thrived Through the First Three Years of Mothering Twins.” Today I'm talking with Jane about what I call inner stuff, the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work. - How reading her own work used to be embarrassing, and how she got over it - Feeling like the worst person in the MFA program - When your inner critic tells you your work is shallow - The quotes she's written on Post-It notes that are hanging above her desk and help talk her through crises of confidence - Feeling like the silliest person in the room - Letting go of the idea that one day you'll “make it” and then everything will flow - Realizing there's no award for doing things perfectly and letting go of that drive to be a super-achiever - How letting go of some body issues also freed up her work self Connect with Jane at janeroper.com. For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Thank you for listening! And thanks to this week's sponsor, Air Doctor Pro. Visit airdoctorpro.com and use code KATE to save 30% off an amazing indoor air filter *and* receive a free three-year warranty (an $84 value). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Launch your own agency with blood, sweat, and pee. Meghan and Cameron reveal how they built Hard Work Club with Post It notes and a dream. Plus, they unpack work for Knix and Doordash.ABOUT OUR GUESTS:Meghan Kraemer - Co-founder, Executive Creative DirectorAs a woman and mother, Meghan is unlike 98% of creative agency owners. An advocate for women in the industry, she is a champion for equality, authenticity and smashing through the sea-of-sameness. As Executive Creative Director of HWC, she brings a considered, artistic and deeply human approach to each piece of work the club creates. When she's not swinging for the fences, she's reheating cups of coffee as she chases after her two young daughters, Norah and Maeve.Cameron Stark -  Co-founder, Head of StrategyFor the last fifteen years, Cam has stewarded brands to break through the clutter and advocated for the value of smart, distinctive, creative thinking. He brings an anthropological approach and deep curiosity to every brief, and is passionate about unlocking a brand's greater purpose. He also dabbles in homemade hot sauce he gives as gifts (but still try to act surprised when you unwrap it).  ADCC Created is brought to you by The Advertising & Design Club of Canada, hosted by Lyranda Martin Evans (Fellow Human), with music and studio care of Grayson Music. Follow us on Instagram @theadccEmail us at created@theadcc.ca

Think you know German wine? Think again. In this episode we're shattering just about every German wine myth with Jenna Fields, the passionate force behind the German Wine Collection. Jenna's mission to revolutionize how the world thinks about German wine began on a Post-It note (seriously), and in this episode, she breaks down why you'll find racy, bone-dry Rieslings in the world's finest collections and how the German-made versions of two of our most beloved varietals—Chardonnay and Pinot Noir—can rival the best of Burgundy. Plus, we'll clarify those confusing German labels and classifications, making it super easy to spot the best producers (without knowing a word of German), and even reveal the guilty-pleasure Super Bowl snack that pairs perfectly with Riesling!

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This week I am talking to writer Antonia Angress. Antonia is the author of "Sirens & Muses," which starts off as a campus novel set at a New England art school, but then blooms into an exploration of the intersection of home and belonging versus individualism and seeking to stand out, set in the New York City art scene during the Occupy Wall Street era. "Sirens & Muses" was named one of the best books of the year by Glamour Magazine and won the Minnesota Book Award, and Antonia was recently named one of the NEA's 2024 Creative Writing Fellows. I loved the book and I love that I get to ask Antonia my list of mildly invasive questions about why and how she does her particular creative work. (Note–this episode is a replay. We'll be back to new episodes next week, yay!) We covered: - The advice she gives about the stuff you write that you end up deleting - The fact that publishing a book “really doesn't change your life” - The importance of that feeling of being alone with your work - The daily writing goal that keeps Antonia going (spoiler: it's very small) - How she manages her ‘internet junk food' diet - The practice that gets her ready to write - What motivational phrase is on the Post-It note above her computer For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Thank you for listening! And thanks to this week's sponsor, Air Doctor Pro. Visit airdoctorpro.com and use code KATE to save 30% off an amazing indoor air filter *and* receive a free three-year warranty (an $84 value). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's Friday, October 11th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com.  I'm Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com) By Adam McManus China and North Korea partner to persecute Christians China has subjected hundreds of North Koreans to atrocities since last year by forcibly returning them to a country whose leaders hold that religion, especially Christianity, is the greatest threat to its power, experts said at a recent U.S. hearing, reports Morning Star News. Investigations have shown that torture, sexual violence, enslavement, and murder await those repatriated from China to detention centers in North Korea led by its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. At the hearing of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom on September 26, Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the non-governmental Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, said, “Any religious belief, and Christianity in particular, as well as South Korea, constitute the only challenges to the Kim regime's absolute monopoly on power. Christianity offers an alternative way of life that delegitimizes tyranny and transcends oppression.” Hanna Song, executive director of the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights, explained that when North Koreans are forcibly repatriated from China back to their home country, one of the first questions they will be asked by authorities is whether they have met with a missionary during their time in China. “The answer determines the severity of punishment they will endure. If an individual admits to or is found to have had contact with a missionary, particularly one affiliated with Christianity, they're often subject to the harshest forms of torture and imprisonment.” Joanna Hosaniak, with Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, explained that refugees have revealed that China was using facial recognition technology to track down North Korean migrants in China. And Chinese officials rewarded those who report people aiding them. Chinese authorities share North Korea's desire to punish those of religious belief. She said, “The goal is religious persecution,” adding that Chinese companies cooperate in this task in a way that is tantamount to human trafficking. There is evidence that some Chinese companies are linked with North Korean companies. According to the Open Doors 2024 World Watch List, North Korea is the most dangerous country worldwide in which to be a Christian. Amos 5:24 says, “But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” 60 Minutes asks Kamala about inflation, unfair nomination, & flip flops Appearing on a special Election Edition of “60 Minutes”, Kamala Harris talked with Bill Whitaker this past Monday night on CBS. WHITAKER: “Groceries are 25% higher, and people are blaming you and Joe Biden for that. Are they wrong?” HARRIS: “To your point, prices are still too high, and I know that, and we need to deal with it, which is why part of my plan, you mentioned groceries, part of my plan is what we must do to bring down the price of groceries.” Not surprisingly, Harris never shared her plan to bring down grocery prices.  So Bill Whitaker said this. WHITAKER: “Harris says she will press Congress to pass a federal ban on price gouging for food and groceries, but details are yet to be defined.” He asked the Vice President about whether the process of her becoming the nominee was fair. WHITAKER: “Was democracy best served by President Biden stepping down and basically handing you a nomination. You didn't have to go through a primary process. You didn't have to fight off other contenders. That's not really the way our system was intended to work.” HARRIS: “I am proud to have received the endorsement of leaders around this country from every background and walk of life to fight in this election over the next month for our democracy.” WHITAKER: “But I think this truncated process is why people think or say they don't really know who you are.” HARRIS: “Look, I've been in this race for 70 days.” But she's been Vice President for almost four years! In light of her flip flops on multiple issues, Whitaker noted that many Americans don't know who the real Kamala Harris is. WHITAKER: “The reason so many voters don't know you is that you have changed your position on so many things. You were against fracking. Now you're for it. You supported looser immigration policies. Now you're tightening them up. You're for Medicare for all. Now you're not. So many that people don't truly know what you believe or what you stand for, and I know you've heard that.” HARRIS: “In the last four years, I have been Vice President of the United States, and I have been traveling our country, and I have been listening to folks and seeking what is possible in terms of common ground. I believe in building consensus.” Jesse Watters, a Fox News talk show host, had a pithy response to that Kamala comment, WATTERS: “Kamala hasn't been seeking common ground. She's been seeking common sense. All of these positions she's just adopted are common sense, conservative positions. “She didn't build consensus. She's just agreeing with the rest of the country now to get elected.” Tampa Bay area battered, bruised by Hurricane Milton, but still standing In the late hours of Wednesday night, Hurricane Milton battered and bruised Tampa Bay, Florida with sustained winds of more than 100 mph.  God's power shredded Tropicana Field's roof, uprooted grown trees, snapped power lines and toppled a massive crane into the headquarters of the Tampa Bay Times in downtown St. Petersburg, reports The Miami Herald.  So far, four people have died. In fact, the storm dumped lots of rain — around 17 inches in parts of Pinellas and Hillsborough counties in just six hours — forcing the National Weather Service to declare a rare flash flood emergency. But as Tampa Bay awoke Thursday, it appeared the storm didn't measure up to the dire warnings that had been issued by local and state officials. Along Beach Drive in downtown St. Petersburg, winds had twisted signs and left branches in the road, but many of the businesses seemed largely unscathed. Texas couple erects cross in yard, invites people to pray And finally, ever since Bernie and Dee Ann Tackitt of Lubbock, Texas got baptized several years ago, God has motivated them to reach out to the world with prayer, reports KCBD-TV. In fact, Dee Ann has the habit of praying with strangers in stores and on the streets. BERNIE: “She has a habit of finding people who need prayers. I mean, we could be in Big Lots or anywhere, and I'm looking, ‘Where's my wife?' She's praying with somebody. We'll be out in parking lot praying with somebody.” On his birthday last year, Bernie added a large cross to the front yard. BERNIE:  “At this point in humanity, we need to pick a team. And I want everybody to know, ‘I'm with Team Jesus.' Well, I thought I'm going to make a cross.“ They invite people to write their prayer request on a Post-It note and stick it to the cross. The couple will pray for those specific prayer requests In fact, they have also set up their Bible bench, where people can sit, pray, and read the Bible.  Plus, there are free Bibles available for anyone to take. DEE ANN: “If you need to just sit down, have some quiet time with the Lord, come sit on my bench, talk to the Lord. Put that prayer on that cross. And you know what? Your prayer will be covered every day. If you need somebody to pray with you, please knock on the door.” And because they believe so strongly in the power of baptism, they have also made their pool available for baptisms. DEE ANN: “We have dedicated our home as the house of prayer for the nations.” Ephesians 6:18 says, “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people.” So, if you live in the Lubbock, Texas area, or perhaps you're just passing through, the Tackitts invite you to drop by for prayer at their home located at 3302 93rd Street. Or send your prayer request by mail. Send it to Bernie and Dee Ann Tackitt, 3302 93rd Street, Lubbock, TX 79423. Close And that's The Worldview on this Friday, October 11th, in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by Amazon Music or by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

Recorded 9/10/24. Phil hosted. Jeff, Jake and the Holy Spirit were there, too. Straight from 6 Foot Studios. Get your hard-hitting news and help us bring America back together.American Fork: Delicious doughnut joint, The Pink Box, is opening a new location in American Fork. Yay! Utah: A Provo mother was arrested for sexually abusing and trafficking her 10 year-old for prostitution. Lock her up and throw away the key! Also, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Russel M. Nelson turns 100. He's so awesome… and still with it. He has been alive to see the invention of sliced bread, Post-It notes, the bagless vacuum cleaner, and the first winter Olympics, the Great Depression and a ton of other historically significant events.National: EGOT winner and American sweetheart, James Earl Jones, dies at 93 years old. What a legend he was. He is already missed. Talked about the Presidential debate between Trump and Harris. There was nothing spectacular about this one. It was meh. Was it set-up beforehand to make Harris look good? #abortion #russia #northkorea #israel.World: Phil is still obsessed with the breakdancing event in the Olympics. He finally found the Australian dancer's routine. Also, Brazil is cracking down on free-speech, forcing X to take down all posts that oppose their new President. This is in direct opposition to everything Elon Musk stands for. But, it looks like the new President got somewhat of a win on this one.Tangent: Phil wishes he could negate the cost of his dental care. He loves the gas so much. He cranks it up a bit. That's a lot of fentanyl!Find us at americanforked.com. You can donate to help support the show at patreon.com/americanforked. Please rate us on iTunes and Apple Podcasts. Send an email to info@americanforked.com with a screenshot of your review and we'll send you a special gift. Also, call or text our voice line at (385)273-4627.

So what if you take a pen or a pad of Post-It note?

So what if you take a pen or a pad of Post-It note?

Send us a textOn this episode Tom and Bert discuss everyday words that didn't show up until the 1970's.The Guys cover a slew of "Words" that are still recognizable today that first appeared over 50+ years ago back in the crazy decade of the 1970's!From "Factoid" (2:24); a word that seems inocuous but actually is a manipulation of the word FACT! Well, listen what the guys got to say about that illusion.Other Words/Venacular are discussed throughout the pod and the guys tell how they relate to today's world.Words like "Watergate" (4:00); to "Meme" (5:30); to "Politically Correct" (7:55); and "Trifecta" (10:02); are all still used in 2024! Throw in "Post It's" (25:28); "911" (27:03); and a few other like "Couch Potato" (32:21); "Karaoke" (36:48); and "Woke" (40:15); and you get the picture. The 1970's along with the 1960's were the times of Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll and it continues to be an iconic era in America.Enjoy the show!You can email us at reeldealzmoviesandmusic@gmail.com or visit our Facebook page, Reel Dealz Podcast: Movies & Music Thru The Decades to leave comments and/or TEXT us at 843-855-1704 as well.

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What have you done recently outside your role as a partner, parent or professional? A guilt-free activity that is purely about having fun and leaves you saying, “I can't believe I just did that”?If you're like most women, chances are you are prioritising everyone but yourself. But author Eve Rodsky believes that carving out time to explore the gifts, talents and interests that make you you is a necessity if you want to live a happier, more fulfilled life.But how do you do that, how do you communicate that to those around you, and how do you get over the guilt and shame?  Here's why you need to tune inIn this interview from the archives, Eve unpacks what a Unicorn Space is and describes her own failed attempt to find one using a Post-It note during the pandemic. She explores the communication styles of our CEO Joy and her husband Tim to demonstrate how you can have high cognition, low emotion conversations that let you implement boundaries and systems to ensure you have time for what Eve calls ‘daily flourishing'.Here's what to listen out for:[01:00] What is Unicorn Space about? [04:04] What is a Unicorn Space?[08:33] The ‘Unavailable' Post-It note.[10:33] There is a formula for thriving. [14:14] What is your communication style? [21:26] What is your partner's communication style? [27:35] How do you communicate with yourself? [35:09] Is Unicorn Space only for the privileged? So, what will you do outside your role as a partner, parent or professional? Email us at support@techpixies.com and let us know. ▶️▶️▶️For details of links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit TechPixies.comLove our podcast? Leave a review and get hold of our Quick Start Podcast Guide.Want to get in touch? We'd love to hear from you.Follow us on social media @techpixies and ping us a DM or drop us a line at support@techpixies.com Thanks for listening!

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

Adult lemonade stands, free Post Malone tickets, a Post-It app of the day, and our summer bucket list

HAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome back to another episode of the No More Excuses Podcast. In my last episode (#415), I had Soof Hirschmann on to talk about how a solid CRM is your secret weapon for growth and efficiency. But today, we're going even deeper—into the heart of your business: Workflow Management. You might be thinking, "Workflow management? Sounds boring." Well, guess what? It's the secret sauce to running a smooth, efficient, and scalable operation. We're talking about slashing wasted time, cutting the crap, and making your processes lean and mean! Step 1: Identify Key Processes  First things first, you've got to know what's going on behind the scenes in your business. What are the core processes that keep your engine running? Your To-DO: Write down every major process you handle—whether it's sales, marketing, customer service, or inventory management.  I would suggest using those giant Post-It® notes!  Listen in as I give you more tips and examples to help you see what your workflow even includes and then...  Step 2: Map It Out  Visualize your process. Don't just leave it in your head. Any client I've done a strategy session with says the same thing: "Damn that looks different than it did it my head!" I just helped a client set up Trello to help her visualize her workflow, as well as manage all of the tasks she has in each "bucket" of revenue generators. And then.... Step 3: Evaluate Efficiency  Automation is becoming a game-changer!  Free yourself from the drudgery! The shit that is a time-suck! I'm really digging in and finding out how it can help me more. I've used some automation in the past, but I'm learning how it can allow me the time to dig deeper with my clients. Think about this: If you don't want to do it or you can't delegate it... AUTOMATE IT! Cheers! Sandi

Think about aiming for but barely missing a target far in the distance. You don't need to drastically shift your focus. Slight adjustments will get you back on the mark. The same approach can work in marriage. Ted Lowe, Bobby Lewis, and Buck Buchanan have been married for nearly 60 years collectively. On today's episode, the trio shares a few “micro moves” to help improve your marriage. Now, we're not saying these are the only things that will improve your marriage, but we think it's a good list to get your started. Check out these 12 “micro moves.” 1. Be nice.2. Don't say everything you think.3. Pick up after yourself.4. Don't mention your wife's messiness.5. Hug your wife without the goal of initiating sex.6. Don't get frustrated with your wife's mistakes.7. Ask your wife how she is doing and listen to the answer.8. Don't be on your phone during mealtime.9. Pay attention when your wife is talking.10. Enjoy your wife's humor whether it's funny or not.11. Leave your wife a Post-It note of gratitude.12. Do a chore your wife dislikes.Bottomline: The sum total of your micro moves equals the condition of your marriage.Today's Pro Move: Choose just one of the 12 “micro moves” and focus on doing it this week.Other resources: 12 Micro Moves For Your Marriage5 Choices That Will Instantly Improve Your Marriage5 Ideas That Will Transform Your MarriageThe 7 Disciplines of a Healthy MarriageTed's Books:Us In MindMarried PeopleYour Best Us Book Ted to speak at:Your Marriage ConferenceYSend us a Text Message.EXTRAS: Follow us: Instagram | Facebook | X (Twitter)Join nearly 200,000 other dads by subscribing to the All Pro Dad Play of the Day. Get daily fatherhood ideas, insight, and inspiration sent straight to your inbox.This episode's show notes can also be viewed here on AllProDad.com. Like the All Pro Dad gear and mugs? Get your own in the All Pro Dad store.Get great content for moms at iMOM.com

Japan has a lot of wisdom to share and one of my favourites is to not start with the solution to a problem.  In Japan, the idea is to start with making sure you have the right problem to solve.  This is not easy, because often we are super busy and moving at warp speed all the time, so just jumping in to fix a problem sounds like the best approach.  There is a follow-on metaphor of the scaling of the wall. We work hard and progress rung by rung up the ladder, getting us to the top - the solution – only to find our ladder is up against the wrong wall.  We don't want that, do we? Problem definition is sometimes obscured by having a number of factors to confront and not enough insight into which are the priority items.  This might be for a lack of a data or from conflicting opinions. The issue remains a large one, though, which we must deal with at the very start of the process.  Here are some steps to consider in problem definition. Step One: Silence Is Our Super Power Once we get into an open discussion about identifying the problem, we can find we waste a lot of time and basically get no progress. We argue the toss on what to solve and can get stuck.  Instead, have around six people in a team and have them all sit in silence and think.  Now thinking is seriously hard work.  It is particularly difficult for us today, because we are being corralled by algorithms spewing out one minute videos, fostering shorter and shorter concentration spans. Ask the team to sit there for fifteen minutes in Round One and do nothing but think and write their issues on Post-It notes. This will be torture for some and very challenging for most.  Nevertheless, as the organiser, we have to have guts to ignore the fervent and persistent impatient glancing at watches, head shaking, eyes rolling, yawning, etc., that will go on, as the team is possessed by a wave of boredom. Step Two: Prioritise Issues After the first fifteen minutes, everyone stays in silence and now we spend 3 minutes to arrange what we have come up with into a broad priority listing of where to start. Step Three: Share Together - Round One Now we start putting our ideas up on a chart or a wall.  We attach the Post Its in priority order to the wall and explain our thinking to our colleagues.  There is no judgement allowed at this point, because we are still on the journey and we don't need any decision being taken yet. Step Four: Whole Team Sharing Once we get our teams idea's out, we share it with the other teams and they do the same for us. We try to cross pollinate the thinking going on.  There is no evaluation of what has been produced at this point. Step Five: Think and Prioritise After that stimulation, again, in silence, we keep thinking for another ten minutes.  This is very hard because all the easy ideas have been tapped. Now we have to really dig to find the gold.  We will adjust our previous priorities based on our new ideas. Step Six: Share Together - Round Two We bring our Post-It notes and add to what we came up with in the first thinking bracket.  Again, we share the content with our teammates. Step Seven: Whole Team Sharing Round Two Again, each team presents what they have come up with, so that all the teams can share in the ideas. Step Eight: Each Team Makes Selections By this stage, we will have had a lot of information shared and we will have a pretty good idea of where everyone has placed their priorities.  Now we have to make some decisions about which will be the issues which we will take forward to solve.  Each team will coalesce the possibilities into a short list. Step Nine: Whole Team Makes The Final Selections Each team presents their selections and then decisions are taken on which issues are going to be picked up to work on. There is usually a strong raft of similar issues which will have been highlighted.  These commonalities make it easy to drive decisions about the final problems to work on.  Remember, we are not after perfection here, so if we get good selections, then we are on the right track.  We have created a hierarchy of issues to work with and we can get to them all over time.  We start with what we consider the most burning issues. The next stage is to use creative thinking to work on how to solve the issues once clarified and we covered that in a recent episode already.    

Join Lesley Logan as she celebrates personal and community wins in this uplifting episode of the Be It Till You See It podcast. From launching new flashcards to manifesting dreams, Lesley shares her journey and the triumphs of her community members. Embrace the power of positivity and learn how to acknowledge and celebrate your own achievements.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:How Brigid successfully prepared for her launch by focusing on essential tasks.Natalia's journey of maintaining a regular self-practice routine while enjoying the process of writing her book.Lesley's significant achievement with the presale of her fifth deck of Pilates flashcards.How Lesley and her team rebranded and enhanced the mat deck cards. Securing the pilatesflashcards.com domain for Lesley and Brad's business.Episode References/Links:OPC Flashcards and Mat Deck  If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox Be in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar  Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramFacebookLinkedIn  Episode Transcript:Lesley Logan 0:00  It's Fuck Yeah Friday. Fuck yeah. Get ready for some wins. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.  Happy Fuck Yeah Friday, babe. Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast. Thank you so much for being here. If you are here, this is your first time, this is a short quickie. This is where we celebrate people's wins so we can actually tell ourselves like there are wins happening everywhere. And if you are having a day, you're having a week, I feel you. Like life is life in. And it's not always fun. It's not always exciting. And so yeah, let's, let's just remember, it's important to take care of you. But it's also important to notice what is going well in your life at the same time as all the issues that's happening right? So we share a few wins of yours you sent in. I share a win of mine and then we leave this with an affirmation. We kick this off and you are off and ready on your day. Don't you like a short little quickie worth of episode? I think so. So here we go. First up is Brigid Pearse. She is one of our Agency members for so many moons, many, many years. This week's wins, staying focused on preparing for my launch. Parking other ideas that are calling to me so I can do the scary thing I need to do. I made an invite for my launch with booking link and I sent it out to a few peeps and they have made their first booking. I also visited my favorite florist and she agreed to donate a bouquet for my open day and she put my poster and took flyers to put in her shop. Still strong with my daily practice. I went surfing and I'm getting better. Feeling excited about teaching at home again. Congratulations, Brigid, like this is huge. This is amazing. This is a big deal. It's hard to do scary things. Sometimes the reason we have all these other ideas that are calling to us are so that we can procrastinate on the thing that scares us. And I love that you already have people who are signed up for your thing. I'm so excited for your homes to be back up and running after this big move that you've done. So way to go.Okay, Natalia has a win for this week as well to share. So here we go. Natalia, she's also an Agency member for several years and her win is, my win for this week, regularly self-practice and doing this kind of workout that feels good to my body and that I need right now. Having a lot of fun while writing my book. When doing manifestation some years ago and doing a vision board I wrote writing next to being a Pilates teacher. So thankful that this dream is coming true. Enjoying spring here and spending great time outdoor with Peppa my dog. The TV station I was on twice asked me to come for the third time and this time I can't because I'm abroad, but I'm feeling good about it because I trust they will ask me again, which they clearly said. My new in-person courses started and they are fully booked. What makes me even more happy is the great community I'm building here. I've been living here for two years, my studio exists for not even a year and a half. And I'm still learning so much about the people here. And still there are so many people who don't know I exist. We're a really small town, not even 8000 people and it's not from this week, but I finally get to post it. I quit my office job. And even though I do need clients, I trust and feel this is a good decision from September on I will be a full-time teacher. Holy moly, Natalia. That is a lot of wins for one week, girl, that is so many. I just want to highlight a few things on these wins here. One, she has personal wins. She has business wins. And she's got some scary things that she's doing right now but also trusting in what she is doing. And she was able to realize that many, many years ago, she wrote down she wanted to be a writer and a Pilates instructor and now she's doing both. So yes, if you've been listening to FYFs for a while we have another author coming out outside of agency and it's because well, our people are amazing. And if you are amazing and you want to be writing a book, one of the things that we have is a great community of people who write books in our group. So you are absolutely welcome to come and do that. All right, my win. So I love doing this by the way because it forces me to sit down and celebrate what is happening what is working because oh my God, there's a lot of things that are not working and I could focus on those all day but what is working? The fifth deck is ready to go. Okay, it is the presale. I'm recording this a little early because it's a win. But by the time it comes out it might be happening so our presale for our waitlist is, for the barrel flashcards, might actually be happening as we speak but the fact that like this deck is ready to be in people's hot hands and at the printers hands first, is the biggest deal. I mean, I cannot believe we're on this fifth deck so, so, so, so proud of the work that we have done to put this together. We're now recording the 100th YouTube video. So more wins to come when it comes to this deck, but we're moving right along. And another win is this. While doing it, we had to also rework the mat decks. My team and I have been rebranding the mat deck, I edited the entire deck, we added some more cards, we had a new workout card. So if you want to have the mat deck, this new deck is going to be amazing. And it's going to be a great addition to what you already have. My win is I really didn't feel like I had the time to take on the mat deck while wrapping up the barrels deck. And the fact that I was able to take that on and make that happen is a mat without losing out on time for myself to work out or losing out on sleep is so, so important to me. It's a huge win. I think we can hear of a new thing we have to do, like I don't have the time, right? And one of the things I practice is like okay, what if I did have the time, like how can I get this done, and I broke them into small pieces. And we got it there. And I'm just so grateful for all of you, as well, because if you didn't love these cards, I wouldn't work so hard on them. But also, I'm just like really grateful for the team that I have really helped set me up so that I could take this on to make sure that this new print of the mat deck, because we sold 3000 decks we have to reprint it, is bigger and better and everything and more that I wanted. So those are my wins that have to do with flashcards all day. And so I'm gonna add one more win is that we never have had pilatesflashcards.com it didn't exist when I started the flashcards and I was like who the hell has this URL and there's no flashcards out there. But Brad and I will find someone who had the URL and would sell it to us and it's officially ours. Now don't go to pilatesflashcards.com because it doesn't have anything yet. But I own that domain. And you know, you guys, a win can be owning a URL. You could have bought a URL and that could be your win today. And I promise you if you celebrate it, you're gonna feel like the badass person that you are. So thank you so much for letting me celebrate those wins with you and the wins that you sent me in. So feel free to send your wins in so I can share them out. And that way you can re-celebrate the win that you had. Sometimes you'd be reminded that you did something pretty badass, right? We all need it. So, all right, your affirmation before I let you go. I do not pretend to be anyone or anything other than who I am. I do not pretend to be anything or anyone other than who I am. Feel that in your body, folks. I do not pretend to be anyone or anything other than who I am. Repeat that as many times as you want, put it in a Post-It where you can read it over and over again. Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. Until next time, Be It Till You See It. That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod. Brad Crowell 8:19  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 8:24  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co. Brad Crowell 8:29  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi. Lesley Logan 8:36  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals. Brad Crowell 8:39  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.Transcribed by https://otter.aiSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to Mysteries to Die For.I am TG Wolff and am here with Jack, my piano player and producer. This is a podcast where we combine storytelling with original music to put you in the heart of a mystery. All stories are structured to challenge you to beat the detective to the solution. These are arrangements, which means instead of word-for-word readings, you get a performance meant to be heard. Jack and I perform these live, front to back, no breaks, no fakes, no retakes.This is Season 7, Games People Play. Games are about competition conducted according to rules with participants working toward a goal. Games are a part of every culture and are one of the oldest forms of social interaction and engagement. Games can be fun, challenging and exhilarating. They can also be intense, cutthroat, and lethal. This season, our authors have fashioned deadly games and unscrupulous villains to test your detection skills. This is Episode 9, Headbands is the featured game. This is A Head for Murder by Rick OllermanPRE-ROLLRick Ollerman is the author of four novels, Turnabout, Shallow Secrets, Truth Always Kills, and Mad Dog Barked, as well as the non-fiction collection, Hardboiled, Noir and Gold Medals. He was also the editor of Down & Out: The Magazine and has written numerous short stories and edited several crime fiction anthologies.DELIBERATIONDetectives Spencer and Flores have a club house classic on their hands to figure out who strangled Lindsay Strauss. Let's pull out our caddy skills and read this green. Here are the suspect by couples:• Jeff Actone, Lindsay's boyfriend who flew in from their home in Milwaukee• Chad Willette, flew to the party from a business trip• Nancy Willette, flew to the party from their Chicago home• William ‘Trip' Marten, flew in from Worcester, MA• Jill Marten, flew in with her husband from Worcester, MAHere is what we know:• Lindsay Strauss was expected to arrive at the golf resort around 8pm. Her boyfriend, Jeff, and her friends repeatedly tried to reach her with no luck.• Hotel staff report Lindsay did arrive around 8pm, but instead of going to the room she shared with Jeff, she opted to stow her bags and go to the bar to find her friends.• The next morning, her body was discovered in the golf cart barn. She had been strangled and was somewhat hidden behind fallen bags of mulch. Despite the rain, her hair and clothes were dry. No umbrella was found.• While waiting for Lindsay, a game of headbands was played. Trip was the leader. Jill, Jeff, and Nancy played throughout. Chad went to the buffet for snacks and played after he returned.• On Jill's first turn, ‘Jeff' had been written on the Post-It. In guessing, Jill revealed that she saw Jeff at the cart barn the previous night. He had been soaking wet from the rain.• On the evening in question, Jill had walked along the paths using a golf umbrella. Nancy stayed inside the resort, first going to her room with Chad, then going to the bar without him. Trip went to the pro shop and talked with the staff. Jeff wandered without a destination or umbrella.• Nancy thought something was “off” about Jeff, suspecting he was dealing with something personal.• Jill reported during their last conversation, Lindsay indicated this wasn't going to be a happy trip for two of the couples.Whose story is soaking wet? PRINT & E-BOOKsA reminder to mystery readers, check out our print and e-books. The companion book for Seasons 4, 5 and 6 are available in e-book and trade paperback from online retailers. This season's book is being released in two parts. Part one released in March 2024 and Part two in September. Buy one for you and one for a mystery lover you love. The dimes and quarters from books sales do support the podcast and...

Hello to you listening in Pamplona, Spain!Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga.I was asked the other day what do I do when I'm stuck? When the client work isn't as robust as I'd like? When the podcast episodes don't seem to flow from a place of creativity but feel bogged down in muck.You know what I mean. We've all been there. I have an idea to share and I bet you have some, too.    Research has shown that movement, not language, is the foundation of thought. [Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought by Barbara Taversky] Action shapes thought. There's a lot of neuroscience I don't understand about how it works; but I can say this: while I don't know how it works I do know that it works. Motion is the lotion for our thoughts. Maybe we're a species of movers and shakers first. Think about it! We were cave drawing before we began talking in words.When you get to that place where you feel stuck in the mucky middle of a project, idea, book chapter, whatever. Get up and move. Draw your stuckness. Stick figures are fine. Symbols are great. It's not about the art; it's about the motion that creates the thought you want to have. Try big sidewalk chalks on a concrete driveway or magic markers on a big easel pad. I like the big Post It easel pads. I can draw on a page, rip it off the pad, stick it to the wall and after I have a few I step back to look at the problem. The answer is often staring me right in the face.Question: What also works for you when you are stuck in the mucky middle?  You're always invited: “Come for the stories - stay for the magic!” Speaking of magic, would you subscribe, share a 5-star rating + nice review on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time!Meanwhile, stop by my Quarter Moon Story Arts website to:✓ Check out Services I Offer✓ Arrange your no-sales, complimentary Coaching Session,✓ Opt In to my NewsAudioLetter for bonus gift, valuable tips & techniques to enhance your story work, and✓ Stay current with Diane on LinkedIn.Stories From Women Who Walk Production TeamPodcaster: Diane F Wyzga & Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer's Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 to Present Quarter Moon Story Arts. All rights reserved.  

Join us for an insightful interview from the recent Post It! Experience with Tamra as she shares her journey of leaving behind a successful but unfulfilling business life to pursue a more spiritually-centered path. Tamra emphasizes the importance of prioritizing her relationship with God, navigating financial challenges, and addressing limiting beliefs.   Discover practical tips for content creation and be inspired to be a bold messenger, catalyzing movements and making disciples through your God-given message. Tune in for invaluable wisdom and encouragement to deepen your faith and impact the world for Christ!   Our featured FREE monthly virtual event is happening next Tuesday! This is the ONLY free direct teaching I do at this point, besides of course podcasts, but this has awesome interaction and direct hot-seat coaching.Every month is a different topic, with new collaboration opportunities for networking, growth and message to movement preparation!Authors, Speakers, Podcasters, Biz Builders!We derive our trainings around what the community is in most need of based on interaction, questions, client curiosities, and what we are seeing the most traction in...register now. https://fitinfaithmedia.com/virtual   Where to Find Tamra: Become a Millionaire Messenger! Take your Voice and Vocation to the Nations: https://fitinfaithmedia.com/millionaire-messenger   ⁉️ Have a faith & or biz question you'd like to have me answer? Feel free to write it, along with your honest review on Apple Podcasts - I'll share you and give you the answer in an upcoming episode!

This week I am talking with journalist, essayist, and novelist, Joanne McNeil. Joanne's first novel Wrong Way came out in 2023. It's a sci-fi novel set in the near future that takes a look at the intersection of the gig economy and big tech and is both satirical and touching–it also made a lot of lists of the best books of 2023 and The New Yorker called it “a literary sneak attack on the very idea of 'the future.'” Joanne's first book, Lurking, is a nonfiction look at the history of the internet from a user's perspective. Joanne is also an important tech critic and has been writing professionally for 20 years. We covered: How posting on message boards in the early days of the Internet led Joanne, a kid from a working-class Massachusetts town, to pursue writing Getting strategic about your career, especially when you don't come from the traditional path of Ivy League undergraduate degree and top tier MFA The often slow but vital work of building a diverse community How residencies are like gift cards–and how to create your own residency if need be Joanne's list of must-have supplies for a writing residency: bulletin board, push pins, Post-It notes, and a detailed list of what to get at Trader Joe's Acknowledging the fact that one hour to yourself can serve as a residency when you need it to Joanne's website: https://www.joannemcneil.com/ For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, it's COD week. In a special episode, I'll walk you through the fundamentals of what all solid productivity and time management systems have.  You can subscribe to this podcast on: Podbean | Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Spotify | TUNEIN   Links: Email Me | Twitter | Facebook | Website | Linkedin Take The NEW COD Course The Working With… Weekly Newsletter Carl Pullein Learning Centre Carl's YouTube Channel Carl Pullein Coaching Programmes The Working With… Podcast Previous episodes page   Script | 318 Hello, and welcome to episode 318 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show. Now, some of you may be wondering what COD means. Well, it's not a type of fish. COD stands for Collect, Organise, and Do, and these three parts of a productivity system are the critical foundations you need to develop if you want your system to work effortlessly. COD came about several years ago following a research project I did. In it, I went back to 1960 (not literally) and looked at all the time management and productivity systems I could find to see if there were any common denominators.  There were multiple systems and approaches, from Hyrum Smith's Franklin Planner system to Stephen Covey's First Things First and Jim Rohn's notebook and planning method. And, of course, I didn't neglect to look at GTD (Getting Things Done) and the multiple variations that came from that.  There were four standout features of all these systems. The first was to collect everything into a trusted place. The second was to organise or process what you collected. The third was to plan the day, and finally, there was doing the work.  When I developed COD, I wanted to give you a simple framework on which to build your own system. A system based on how you prefer to do your work. Many of you will like routine, others perhaps like flexibility. What COD does is give you a three-step process you can customise to work in the way you want to work.  Let me begin with collecting.  Nothing will work if you don't collect whatever comes your way in a trusted place. Here, there are two key parts. Collect everything and put it somewhere you trust you will see later in the day.  Scribbling tasks and ideas onto PostIt notes can work, but I have observed that they often get stuck on computer monitors, whiteboards, and many other places, which means you don't trust that you will see them later in the day. What works best is having a central place for all these tasks, appointments, and ideas. That could be a task manager on your phone and computer or a pocket notebook you carry with you everywhere you go.  What matters is you use it consistently, and you trust it. This may mean you need to practice to develop the right habits. But this practice is well worth it.  The second thing about your collecting tool (or UCT, as I call it, Universal Collecting Tool) is that it should be fast. If there are too many buttons to press or you keep a notebook in your bag and you have to retrieve your bag to get your notebook, you will resist and start to believe you will remember whatever you were going to collect in your head. And that will never serve you. It will forget to remind you to add it to your inbox.  The second part of the process is organising what you collected. Here, you want to choose something that works for you. I recommend using the Time Sector System, but you may find organising things by project works better for you.  What matters when it comes to organising is that you can quickly organise what you collected that day into their appropriate places. For instance, a task would go into your task manager, an event would go to your calendar, and an idea would go into your notes app. Where you put them will depend on how you have each of these tools set up.  With your task manager, what matters is the things you need to do show up on the days they need to be done. Nothing else really matters.  A side issue is that if you are going in and out of your task manager looking for things to do in individual projects or lists, you will be less effective. When you are tired, you will just scroll through your lists of tasks, causing you to feel depressed about how much you have to do and how little time you have to do them.  This is why being clear about when something needs to be done prevents that scroll. You trust that what you have on your list of things to do today is the right thing to do today.  That's why I recommend the Time Sector System as your organisational system. It focuses on when you will do something, not how much you have to do.  There are only twenty-four in a day, and you're not going to be able to get everything done in a day. Be realistic about what you can and cannot do in a day.  And then there's the doing.  And this is what it's all about. You've collected all this stuff, and it's organised, so you know where everything is, what appointments you have, and what tasks need to be done today. If you have ensured the first two parts—the collecting and organising—have been done, the doing part will largely take care of itself.  But what is important about doing? That's doing the things that matter, and remaining focused on what you have decided is important.  When you don't have any kind of system for collecting and organising, you will find you get pulled into doing things for other people at the expense of what you are meant to be doing. It can be easy to spend four or five hours helping someone else to get their work done, only to find yourself with precious little time left to do the work you are expected to do.  This is where you will find yourself building mountains of backlogs and with no time to get them under control.  It doesn't mean that you cut yourself off from other people. What it means is you begin the day with a clear idea of what needs to be done.  If you do have everything organised and you are spending five or ten minutes each day planning the next, you will find that out of a typical eight-hour day, you will likely need three or four hours for your own work. That still leaves you with four or five hours where you are available for other people. If you are structured and disciplined, you will find managing your own work and the requests of others easily manageable.  Yet all this begins with the collecting and organising.  That is the most powerful part of COD. It's essentially a process you follow that ensures the right work is getting done at the right time.  And that is the way to think about it—a process. Throughout the day, you collect. Then, at the end of the day, you spend ten minutes or so organising what you collected, and for the rest of the time, you do the work.  There are other parts to building a productivity system. Ensuring you have enough time protected each day for doing your important work, which means blocking time on your calendar. I find it interesting that with the advancement of technology, we have focused on doing more rather than using technology to protect our time for the important things in life.  I remember years ago envying bosses who had secretaries. Secretaries protected their bosses' calendars by making it difficult for people to make demands on their time. Technology can do this for you today. Services like Calendarly allow you to specify when you are available for meetings with other people, and they can choose a suitable time from a list of available times.  There are Do Not Disturb features on your phone and in internal messaging services that tell people you are busy. Technology can do all the things the best secretaries did twenty to thirty years ago. Use them. They will make your life a lot less stressful.  The final part of doing is the art of prioritisation. In the COD course, I have a section on the 2+8 Prioritisation Method. This is a simple method for choosing what to work on each day. The principle is that each day, you dedicate ten tasks to be done. These tasks do not include your routine tasks—the low-value maintenance tasks. These are bigger projects or goal-moving tasks.  Two of those tasks will be nominated as your must-do tasks for the day. These are the tasks you absolutely must do that day, and you will not stop until they are done. For instance, today, my two must-do tasks are recording this podcast and continuing my research into the profession of archiving.  When I did my planning last night, I highlighted these two tasks in my task manager and blocked time out on my calendar for getting them done.  There are other things I need to do today, but those two tasks are the must-dos.  This is how COD helps you. It gives you a framework and a process for doing your work and living your life.  If you adopt COD, you will find you have a system for managing your workload. However, beyond COD, there are a few other things you need to develop.  The first is how you will manage your tasks. As I mentioned before, I recommend the Time Sector System, which emphasises what needs to be done this week and pushes everything else off your list until it becomes relevant. This act alone significantly reduces that sense of overwhelm and encourages you to be realistic about what can be completed in a week.  Then there are the higher-level objectives in your life—your long-term vision and goals for getting to where you want to be.  However, without the basics in place, you do not have steps to get there. After all, a goal without a set of steps to achieve it is a delusion.  If you are struggling to get things working for you, I encourage you to take the COD course. Even if you already have a system, the course will give you ideas and methods that will help you make your system even better.  It's a free course and will take less than an hour to complete. Plus, you get free downloadable guidance sheets and so much more.  The link to the course is in the show notes, and you can get further information from my website, carlpullein.com  Thank you for listening, and it just remains for me to wish you all a very, very productive week.   

In part three of my conversation with author of Building Boys, Jennifer Fink, we talk about the mind trip that is beginning to envision retirement. I have to point out that this is the third interview in a row where my guest mentions that they have a phrase written on a Post-It note hanging above their computer monitor. In addition to sharing what she's written on her Post-It notes (plural–there are two), Jennifer shares some of her go to shows, snacks, and songs. The lure of leaving it all behind and becoming a flight attendant: “After raising teenagers, unruly passengers? Cinch” The Building Boys Book Club Jennifer is currently dreaming up What's written on the Post-It note above her computer (there are two of them, actually) Finding ways to connect more directly with the people who value your skills and expertise Thinking about retirement, and having more regular access to scuba diving Envisioning being able to work only on the things closest to your heart and having plenty of time for relationships The Netflix show the world went crazy over a couple years ago that Jennifer just discovered The secret to making movie-theater-caliber popcorn Her go-to Pandora station Why December 23rd is the best day of her year, hands down Connect with Jennifer: At her website: buildingboys.net At her Substack (email newsletter): buildingboys.substack.com For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Big thanks to our sponsor, AirDoctorPro. Use promo code KATE at airdoctorpro.com to save up to $300 off an air purifier and receive a free 3-year warranty (an $87 value). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Thick skin, now healed." Midway through this episode of Journey of a Song, Cari Smith of Late to the Station leaned back on her stool and said, "The price I was paying internally [not to make music] became too high. I am here for a reason, and if I think this is it, to not do it would be an absolute waste."Emmeline invites you to scribble that down on a Post-It and tape it to your bathroom mirror to remind yourself that the only life worth living is one about which you're deeply passionate--which is, coincidentally, the root of her conversation with Cari and Paul Smith from the Americana group, Late to the Station.Here, Cari and Paul deconstruct their groovy jam, "Main Street Strut," as an ode to the genre and to the vocal swagger of legends like Chrissie Hynde. They also talk about their decision to make music professionally as fully grown adults, and all of the gifts music has brought into their lives--from the ability to be open to magic to the chance to fall in love.To learn more about Late to the Station, or to follow their musical journey, visit their official website and follow them on Instagram.For behind-the-scenes info and more about Journey of a Song, follow @EmmelineMusic on social media or visit the Journey of Series official webpage. You can hear songs from previous episodes through the Journey of a Song Official Spotify Playlist.

This week I am talking to writer Antonia Angress. Antonia is the author of "Sirens & Muses," which starts off as a campus novel set at a New England art school, but then blooms into an exploration of the intersection of home and belonging versus individualism and seeking to stand out, set in the New York City art scene during the Occupy Wall Street era. "Sirens & Muses" was named one of the best books of the year by Glamour Magazine and won the Minnesota Book Award, and Antonia was recently named one of the NEA's 2024 Creative Writing Fellows. I loved the book and I love that I get to ask Antonia my list of mildly invasive questions about why and how she does her particular creative work. We covered: - The advice she gives about the stuff you write that you end up deleting - The fact that publishing a book “really doesn't change your life” - The importance of that feeling of being alone with your work - The daily writing goal that keeps Antonia going (spoiler: it's very small) - How she manages her ‘internet junk food' diet - The practice that gets her ready to write - What motivational phrase is on the Post-It note above her computer For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Big thanks to our sponsor, AirDoctorPro. Use promo code KATE at airdoctorpro.com to save up to $300 off an air purifier and receive a free 3-year warranty (an $87 value). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's portion of my interview with Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year, we talk about the mindset side of creating. (Honestly, these are always my favorite episodes!) We covered: How you can “cloak” your story by writing fiction–incorporating the feelings of things you've experienced if not the exact experiences themselves Worrying that people are sick of hearing you talk Getting over the voice that says “you don't have the proper training to write a novel” What's on the inspirational Post-It note that Daisy keeps above her monitor How it's never too to be a debut author Daisy's “buoyancy” about the future now that her kids are teens and hard work of early parenting is behind her The collective disillusions Daisy would like to evaporate For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Big thanks to our sponsor, AquaTru.com. Use promo code KATE to save 20% off a reverse osmosis water filter and support this podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bestselling authors William Bernhardt and Lara Bernhardt discuss the latest news from the book world, offer writing tips, and interview Kelly Anne Manuel, a children's book author who is launching 31 books at the same time.Chapter 1: Opening ThoughtsOnly one week left to register for the WriterCon Cruise! Lara is already packing! Over 20+ hours of classroom, small-group, and private instruction. Plus we have fun! Seven days at sea writing in the most creativity-conducive environment imaginable. Join us!Chapter 2: News1) Critics Complain Hugo Awards Were Rigged2) Reading is SexyWilliam Bernhardt apologizes for his slip of the tongue. While reading, Kendall Jenner's book was covered in green Post-It notes, not her body!Chapter 3: Interview with Kelly Anne ManuelDuring this chat, you will learn:1) how she stumbled into writing;2) why she writes for children;3) how she "meets the child in their journey;"4) why she is "the good kind of contagious;" and 5) why she's releasing 31 books at once.Chapter 4: Parting WordsAgain, only one week left to join us for the WriterCon Cruise. Seven days at sea traveling down the Western Caribbean coastline, with seven WriterCon instructors ready to provide whatever you need to advance your writing career. Plus Game Night! Karaoke! Swag bags! The cost is low and the benefits are high. Join us!Until next time, keep writing, and remember: You cannot fail, if you refuse to quit.William Bernhardtwww.williambernhardt.comwww.writercon.com

Meals that traumatized you as a kid | Cecil's beat-up steak | We aren't as disconnected as you think | Post-It note Valentine | Pamela poured her chili on the carpet | Good News: God healed Barrett's pneumonia | Offering grace in upsetting situations | Lauren & Michael McAfee - grief and joy can intermingle | Invent a new Whopper for $1 million | Joy Report: April's bleeding disorder was healed | It's okay to get the help you need.

"If you want to be exceptional, you can't do what everybody else is doing...I made a shift about maybe eight months ago. I took a Post-It note put it on the bottom of my monitor, and it said, 'How can GPT support me in this?' Because literally, GPT can support you, whether you want it to write for you or you want it to give you ideas, whether you want to proofread or you want to translate, if you want to come up with jokes or quotes or stats, it literally can support you in anything that you're doing, personally or professionally."   On Take the Stage, presented by Haley Marketing, we bring you the BEST speakers, coaches, trainers, and strategic partners from across the staffing and recruiting industry every other week. More than your standard interview, each conversation is built off of a specific session or topic these industry thought leaders bring to conferences and audiences around the country. KEY MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE: 0:01:06 Should the staffing and recruiting industry be afraid of AI? 0:01:46 Recruiters using AI will replace those who are not using it. 0:04:10 AI assistants save recruiters time and improve workflow. 0:06:41 Leveraging AI allows recruiters to spend more time on phone calls. 0:08:39 AI provides recruiters with the ability to influence interviews. 0:11:30 AI can help with prospecting and preparing for sales calls. 0:13:04 "Overwhelm HR" technique uses AI to ask difficult questions. 0:14:56 Entry-level ways to use AI for recruiting and prospecting. 0:17:00 GPT can support you in any task, personally or professionally. 0:18:29 The importance of asking the right questions to optimize efficiency. 0:21:26 Differentiating yourself by not doing what everyone else is doing. 0:22:33 Building personalized cadences for individuals instead of generic ones. 0:23:52 Using AI to write candidate presentations for recruiting firms. 0:26:55 Using AI to free up time for more meaningful tasks 0:27:30 Using AI to capture interview notes Rapid Fire Round: One book that changed your life? Onc conversation with anyone living or dead. Who are you sitting down with? One piece of advice for someone just starting in the staffing industry   ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Brad Bialy  (LinkedIn) Brad Bialy has a deep passion for helping staffing and recruiting firms achieve their business objectives through strategic digital marketing. For over a decade, Brad has developed a proven track record of motivating and educating staffing industry professionals at over 100 industry-specific conferences and webinars.    As a visionary leader, Brad has helped guide the comprehensive marketing strategy of more than 300 staffing and recruiting firms. His keen eye for strategy and delivery has resulted in multiple industry award-winning social media campaigns, making him a sought-after expert and speaker in the industry.    Tricia Tamkin (LinkedIn) My recruiting career began in 1993, I started my search firm in 1997 and began coaching and training recruiters in 2009. Over a 30-year career in this industry, I've produced tens of millions in billing, helped recruiters launch over 50 firms, and positively impacted thousands of recruiters' lives through increased billings. I love what I do!

Show notes: https://www.tamihackbarth.com/blog/episode-206 Lately, I have been getting so many questions about how to make Fair Play work in fill-in-the-blank living situation/family structure that I have been thinking about how all of my living situations could have been made so much easier and better if I'd had this framework. I don't know about you, but I could have used some guidance and/or direct instruction about how to take care of a house. I had chores growing up and learned some skills, but I never learned the thinking behind why we do certain things or how they got done. It was up to me to do a list of chores, but that was it.  Living with roommates in the dorms and then in various apartments over the years would have been a lot smoother with CPE. The house would have been cleaner and there would have been a whole lot less passive aggressive PostIt notes left around. In this week's podcast, I am sharing how CPE can work in all kinds of living situations.  Show links: Fair Play Interest List Fair Play for The Holidays Workshop  - enter your email here so you can get the replay.  

Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer at MongoDB, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss how MongoDB is paving the way for innovation. Corey and Peder discuss how Peder made the decision to go from working at Amazon to MongoDB, and Peder explains how MongoDB is seeking to differentiate itself by making it easier for developers to innovate without friction. Peder also describes why he feels databases are more ubiquitous than people realize, and what it truly takes to win the hearts and minds of developers. About Peder Peder Ulander, the maestro of marketing mayhem at MongoDB, juggles strategies like a tech wizard on caffeine. As the Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer, he battles buzzwords, slays jargon dragons, and tends to developers with a wink. From pioneering Amazon's cloud heyday as Director of Enterprise and Developer Solutions Marketing to leading the brand behind cloud.com's insurgency, Peder's built a legacy as the swashbuckler of software, leaving a trail of market disruptions one vibrant outfit at a time. Peder is the Scarlett Johansson of tech marketing — always looking forward, always picking the edgy roles that drive what's next in technology.Links Referenced:MongoDB: https://mongodb.com TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. This promoted guest episode of Screaming in the Cloud is brought to us by my friends and yours at MongoDB, and into my veritable verbal grist mill, they have sent Peder Ulander, their Chief Marketing Officer. Peder, an absolute pleasure to talk to you again.Peder: Always good to see you, Corey. Thanks for having me.Corey: So, once upon a time, you worked in marketing over at AWS, and then you transitioned off to Mongo to, again, work in marketing. Imagine that. Almost like there's a narrative arc to your career. A lot of things change when you change companies, but before we dive into things, I just want to call out that you're a bit of an aberration in that every single person that I have spoken to who has worked within your org has nothing but good things to say about you, which means you are incredibly effective at silencing dissent. Good work.Peder: Or it just shows that I'm a good marketer and make sure that we paint the right picture that the world needs to see.Corey: Exactly. “Do you have any proof of you being a great person to work for?” “No, just word of mouth,” and everyone, “Ah, that's how marketing works.”Peder: Exactly. See, I'm glad you picked up somewhere.Corey: So, let's dive into that a little bit. Why would you leave AWS to go work at Mongo. Again, my usual snark and sarcasm would come up with a half dozen different answers, each more offensive than the last. Let's be serious for a second. At AWS, there's an incredibly powerful engine that drives so much stuff, and the breadth is enormous.MongoDB, despite an increasingly broad catalog of offerings, is nowhere near that level of just universal applicability. Your product strategy is not a Post-It note with the word ‘yes' written on it. There are things that you do across the board, but they all revolve around databases.Peder: Yeah. So, going back prior to MongoDB, I think you know, at AWS, I was across a number of different things, from the developer ecosystem, to the enterprise transformation, to the open-source work, et cetera, et cetera. And being privy to how customers were adopting technology to change their business or change the experiences that they were delivering to their customers or increase the value of the applications that they built, you know, there was a common thread of something that fundamentally needed to change. And I like to go back to just the evolution of tech in that sense. We could talk about going from physical on-prem systems to now we're distributed in the cloud. You could talk about application constructs that started as big fat monolithic apps that moved to virtual, then microservices, and now functions.Or you think about networking, we've gone from fixed wire line, to network edge, and cellular, and what have you. All of the tech stack has changed with the exception of one layer, and that's the data layer. And I think for the last 20 years, what's been in place has worked okay, but we're now meeting this new level of scale, this new level of reach, where the old systems are not what's going to be what the new systems are built on, or the new experiences are built on. And as I was approached by MongoDB, I kind of sat back and said, “You know, I'm super happy at AWS. I love the learning, I love the people, I love the space I was in, but if I were to put my crystal ball together”—here's a Bezos statement of looking around corners—“The data space is probably one of the biggest spaces ripe for disruption and opportunity, and I think Mongo is in an incredible position to go take advantage of that.”Corey: I mean, there's an easy number of jokes to make about AmazonBasics MongoDB, which is my disparaging name for their DocumentDB first-party offering. And for a time, it really felt like AWS's perspective toward its partners was one of outright hostility, if not antagonism. But that narrative no longer holds true in 2023. There's been a definite shift. And to be direct, part of the reason that I believe that is the things you have said both personally and professionally in your role as CMO of Mongo that has caused me to reevaluate this because despite all of your faults—a counted list of which I can provide you after the show—Peder: [laugh].Corey: You do not say things that you do not believe to be true.Peder: Correct.Corey: So, something has changed. What is it?Peder: So, I think there's an element of coopetition, right? So, I would go as far as to say the media loved to sensationalize—actually even the venture community—loved to sensationalize the screen scraping stripping of open-source communities that Amazon represented a number of years ago. The reality was their intent was pretty simple. They built an incredibly amazing IT stack, and they wanted to run whatever applications and software were important to their customers. And when you think about that, the majority of systems today, people want to run open-source because it removes friction, it removes cost, it enables them to go do cool new things, and be on the bleeding edge of technology.And Amazon did their best to work with the top open-source projects in the world to make it available to their customers. Now, for the commercial vendors that are leaning into this space, that obviously does present itself threat, right? And we've seen that along a number of the cohorts of whether you want to call it single-vendor open-source or companies that have a heavy, vested interest in seeing the success of their enterprise stack match the success of the open-source stack. And that's, I think, where media, analysts, venture, all kind of jumped on the bandwagon of not really, kind of, painting that bigger picture for the future. I think today when I look at Amazon—and candidly, it'll be any of the hyperscalers; they all have a clone of our database—it's an entry point. They're running just the raw open-source operational database capabilities that we have in our community edition and making that available to customers.We believe there's a bigger value in going beyond just that database and introducing, you know, anything from the distributed zones to what we do around vector search to what we do around stream processing, and encryption and all of these advanced features and capabilities that enable our customers to scale rapidly on our platform. And the dependency on delivering that is with the hyperscalers, so that's where that coopetition comes in, and that becomes really important for us when we're casting our web to engage with some of the world's largest customers out there. But interestingly enough, we become a big drag of services for an AWS or any of the other hyperscalers out there, meaning that for every dollar that goes to a MongoDB, there's, you know, three, five, ten dollars that goes to these hyperscalers. And so, they're very active in working with us to ensure that, you know, we have fair and competing offers in the marketplace, that they're promoting us through their own marketplace as well as their own channels, and that we're working together to further the success of our customers.Corey: When you take a look at the exciting things that are happening at the data layer—because you mentioned that we haven't really seen significant innovation in that space for a while—one of the things that I see happening is with the rise of Generative AI, which requires very special math that can only be handled by very special types of computers. I'm seeing at least a temporary inversion in what has traditionally been thought of as data gravity, whereas it's easier to move compute close to the data, but in this case, since the compute only lives in the, um, sparkling us-east-1 regions of Virginia, otherwise, it's just generic, sparkling expensive computers, great, you have to effectively move the mountain to Mohammed, so to speak. So, in that context, what else is happening that is driving innovation in the data space right now?Peder: Yeah, yeah. I love your analogy of, move the mountain of Mohammed because that's actually how we look at the opportunity in the whole Generative AI movement. There are a lot of tools and capabilities out there, whether we're looking at code generation tools, LLM modeling vendors, some of the other vector database companies that are out there, and they're all built on the premise of, bring your data to my tool. And I actually think that's a flawed strategy. I think that these are things that are going to be features in core application databases or operational databases, and it's going to be dependent on the reach and breadth of that database, and the integrations with all of these AI tools that will define the victor going forward.And I think that's been a big core part of our platform. When we look at Atlas—111 availability zones across all three hyperscalers with a single, unified, you know, interface—we're actually able to have the customers keep their operational data where it's most important to them and then apply the tools of the hyperscalers or the partners where it makes the most sense without moving the data, right? So, you don't actually have to move the mountain to Mohammed. We're literally building an experience where those that are running on MongoDB and have been running on MongoDB can gain advantage of these new tools and capabilities instantly, without having to change anything in their architectures or how they're building their applications.Corey: There was a somewhat over-excited… I guess, over-focus in the space of vector databases because whatever those are—which involves math, and I am in no way shape, or form smart enough to grasp the nuances thereof, but everyone assures me that it's necessary for Generative AI and machine learning and yadda, yadda, yadda. So, when in doubt, when I'm confronted by things I don't fully understand, I turn to people who do. And the almost universal consensus that I have picked up from people who track databases for a living—as opposed to my own role of inappropriately using everything in the world except databases as a database—is that vector is very much a feature, not a core database type.Peder: Correct. The best way to think about it—I mean, databases in general, they're dealing with structured and unstructured data, and generally, especially when you're doing searches or relevance, you're limited to the fact that those things in the rows and the columns or in the documents is text, right? And the reality is, there's a whole host of information that can be found in metadata, in images, in sounds, in all of these other sources that were stored as individual files but unsearchable. Vector, vectorization, and vector embeddings actually enable you to take things far beyond the text and numbers that you traditionally were searching against and actually apply more, kind of, intelligence to it, or apply sounds or apply sme—you know, you can vectorize smells to some extent. And what that does is it actually creates a more pleasing slash relevant experience for how you're actually building the engagements with your customers.Now, I'll make it a little more simple because that was trying to define vectors, which as you know, is not the easiest thing. But imagine being able to vectorize—let's say I'm a car company—we're actually working with a car company on this—and you're able to store all of the audio files of cars that are showing certain diagnostic issues—the putters and the spurts and the pings and the pangs—and you can actually now isolate these sounds and apply them directly to the problem and resolution for the mechanics that are working on them. Using all of this stuff together, now you actually have a faster time to resolution. You don't want mechanics knowing the mechanics of vectors in that sense, right, so you build an application that abstracts all of that complexity. You don't require them to go through PDFs of data and find all of the options for fixing this stuff.The relevance comes back and says, “Yes, we've seen that sound 20 times across this vehicle. Here's how you fix it.” Right? And that cuts significant amount of time, cost, efficiency, and complexity for those auto mechanics. That is such a big push forward, I think, from a technology perspective, on what the true promise of some of these new capabilities are, and why I get excited about what we're doing with vector and how we're enabling our customers to, you know, kind of recreate experiences in a way that are more human, more relevant.Corey: Now, I have to say that of course you're going to say nice things about your capabilities where vector is concerned. You would be failing in your job if you did not. So, I feel like I can safely discount every positive thing that you say about Mongo's positioning in the vector space and instead turn to, you know, third parties with no formalized relationship with you. Yesterday, Retool's State of AI report came across my desk. I am a very happy Retool customer. They've been a periodic sponsor, from time-to-time, of my ridiculous nonsense, which is neither here nor there, but I want to disclaim the relationship.And they had a Gartner Magic Quadrant equivalent that on one axis had Net Promoter Score—NPS, which is one of your people's kinds of things—and the other was popularity. And Mongo was so far up and to the right that it was almost hilarious compared to every other entrant in the space. That is a positioning that I do not believe it is possible to market your way into directly. This is something that people who are actually doing these things have to use the product, and it has to stand up. Mongo is clearly effective at doing this in a way that other entrants aren't. Why?Peder: Yeah, that's a good question. I think a big part of that goes back to the earlier statement I made that vector databases or vector technology, it's a feature, it's not a separate thing, right? And when I think about all of the new entrants, they're creating a new model where now you have to move your data out of your operational database and into their tool to get an answer and then push back in. The complexity, the integrations, the capabilities, it just slows everything down, right? And I think when you look at MongoDB's approach to take this developer data platform vision of getting all of the core tools that developers need to build compelling applications with from a data perspective, integrating it into one seamless experience, we're able to basically bring classic operational database capabilities, classic text search type capabilities, embed the vector search capabilities as well, it actually creates a richer platform and experience without all of that complexity that's associated with bolt-on sidecar Gen AI tool or vector database.Corey: I would say that that's one of those things that, again, can only really be credibly proven by what the market actually does, as opposed to, you know, lip-sticking the heck out of a pig and hoping that people don't dig too deeply into what you're saying. It's definitely something we're seeing adoption of.Peder: Yeah, I mean, this kind of goes to some of the stuff, you know, you pointed out, the Retool thing. This is not something you can market your way into. This is something that, you know, users are going to dictate the winners in this space, the developers, they're going to dictate the winners in the space. And so, what do you have to do to win the hearts and minds of developers, you have to make the tech extremely approachable, it's got to be scalable to meet their needs, not a lot of friction involved in learning these new capabilities and applying it to all of the stuff that has come before. All of these things put together, really focusing on that developer experience, I mean, that goes to the core of the MongoDB ethos.I mean, this is who we were when we started the company so long ago, and it's continued to drive the innovation that we do in the platform. And I think this is just yet again, another example of focusing on developer needs, making it super engaging and useful, removing the friction, and enabling them to just go create new things. That's what makes it so fun. And so when, you know, as a marketer, and I get the Retool chart across my desk, we haven't been pitching them, we haven't been marketing to them, we haven't tried to influence this stuff, so knowing that this is a true, unbiased audience, actually is pretty cool to see. To your point, it was surprising how far up and to the right that we sat, given, you know, where we were in just—we launched this thing… six months ago? We launched it in June. The amount of customers that have signed up, are using it, and engaged with us on moving forward has been absolutely amazing.Corey: I think that there has been so much that gets lost in the noise of marketing. My approach has always been to cut through so much of it—that I think AWS has always done very well with—is—almost at their detriment these days—but if you get on stage, you can say whatever you want about your company's product, and I will, naturally and lovingly, make fun of whatever it is that you say. But when you have a customer coming on stage and saying, “This is how we are using the thing that they have built to solve a very specific business problem that was causing us pain,” then I shut up, and I listen because it's very hard to wind up dismissing that without being an outright jerk about things. I think the failure mode of that is, taken too far, you lose the ability to tell your own story in a coherent way, and it becomes a crutch that becomes very hard to get rid of. But the proof is really in the pudding.For me, like, the old jokes about—in the early teens—where MongoDB would periodically lose data as configured by default. Like, “MongoDB. It's Snapchat for databases.” Hilarious joke at the time, but it really has worn thin. That's like being angry about what Microsoft did in 2005 and 2006. It's like, “Yeah, okay, you have a point, but it is also ancient history, and at some point you need to get with the modern era, get with the program.”And I think that seeing the success and breadth of MongoDB that I do—you are in virtually every customer that I talk to, in some way, shape, or form—and seeing what it is that they're doing with you folks, it is clear that you are not a passing fad, that you are not going away anytime soon.Peder: Right.Corey: And even with building things in my spare time and following various tutorials of dubious credibility from various parts of the internet—as those things tend to go—MongoDB is very often a default go-to reference when someone needs a database for which a SQLite file won't do.Peder: Right. It's fascinating to see the evolution of MongoDB, and today we're lucky to track 45,000-plus customers on our platform doing absolutely incredible things. But I think the biggest—to your point—the biggest proof is in the pudding when you get these customers to stand up on stage and talk about it. And even just recently, through our .local series, some of the customers that we've been highlighting are doing some amazing things using MongoDB in extremely business-critical situations.My favorite was, I was out doing our .local in Hong Kong, where Cathay Pacific got up on stage, and they talked a little bit about their flight folder. Now, if you remember going through the airport, you always see the captains come through, and they had those two big boxes of paperwork before they got onto the plane. Not only was that killing the environment with all the trees that got cut down for it, it was cumbersome, complex, and added a lot of time and friction with regards to flight operations. Now, take that from a single flight over all of the fleet that's happening across the world.We were able to work with Cathay Pacific to digitize their entire flight folder, all of their documentation, removing the need for cutting down trees and minimizing a carbon footprint form, but at the same time, actually delivering a solution where if it goes down, it grounds the entire fleet of the airline. So, imagine that. That's so business-critical, mission-critical, has to be there, reliable, resilient, available for the pilots, or it shuts down the business. Seeing that growth and that transformation while also seeing the environmental benefit for what they have achieved, to me, that makes me proud to work here.Similarly, we have companies like Ford, another big brand-name company here in the States, where their entire connected car experience and how they're basically operationalizing the connection between the car and their home base, this is all being done using MongoDB as well. So, as they think of these new ideas, recognizing that things are going to be either out at the edges or at a level of scale that you can't just bring it back into classic rows and columns, that's actually where we're so well-suited to grow our footprint. And, you know, I remember back to when I was at Sun—Sun Microsystems. I don't know if anybody remembers that company. That was an old one.But at one point, it was Jonathan that said, “Everything of value connects to the network.” Right? Those things that are connecting to the network also need applications, they need data, they need all of these services. And the further out they go, the more you need a database that basically scales to meet them where they are, versus trying to get them to come back to where your database happens to sit. And in order to do that, that's where you break the mold.That's where—I mean, that kind of goes into the core ethos of why we built this company to begin with. The original founders were not here to build a database; they were building a consumer app that needed to scale to the edges of the earth. They recognized that databases didn't solve for that, so they built MongoDB. That's actually thinking ahead. Everything connecting to the network, everything being distributed, everything basically scaling out to all the citizens of the planet fundamentally needs a new data layer, and that's where I think we've come in and succeeded exceptionally well.Corey: I would agree. Another example I like to come up with, and it's fun that the one that leaps to the top of my mind is not one of the ones that you mentioned, but HSBC—the massive bank—very publicly a few years ago, wound up consolidating, I think it was 46 relational databases onto MongoDB. And the jokes at the time wrote themselves, but let's be serious for a second. Despite the jokes that we all love to tell, they are a bank, a massive bank, and they don't play fast-and-loose or slap-and-tickle with transactional integrity or their data stores for these things.Because there's a definite belief across the banking sector—and I know this having worked in it myself for years—that if at some point, you have the ATMs spitting out the wrong account balances, people will begin rioting in the streets. I don't know if that's strictly accurate or hyperbole, but it's going to cause massive amounts of chaos if it happens. So, that is something that absolutely cannot happen. The fact that they're willing to engage with you folks and your technology and be public about it at that scale, that's really all you need to know from a, “Is this serious technology or clown shoes technology?”Peder: [laugh]. Well, taking that comment, now let's exponentially increase that. You know, if I sit back, and I look at my customer base, financial services is actually one of our biggest verticals as a business. And you mentioned HSBC. We had Wells Fargo on the stage last year at our world event.Nine out of the top ten world's banks are using MongoDB in some of their applications, some at the scale of HSBC, some are still just getting started. And it all comes down to the fact that we have proven ourselves, we are aligned to mission-critical business environments. And I think when it comes down to banks, especially that transactional side, you know, building in the capabilities to be able to have high frequency transactions in the banking world is a hard thing to go do, and we've been able to prove it with some of the largest banks on the planet.Corey: I also want to give you credit—although it might be that I'm giving you credit for a slow release process; I hope not—but when I visit mongodb.com, it still talks up front that you are—and I want to quote here—oh, good lord, it changes every time I load the page—but it talks about, “Build faster, build smarter,” on this particular version of the load. It talks about the data platform. You have not effectively decided to pivot everything you say in public to tie directly into the Generative AI hype bubble that we are currently experiencing. You have a bunch of different use cases, and you're not suddenly describing what you do in Gen AI terms that make it impossible to understand just what the company-slash-product-slash-services actually do.Peder: Right.Corey: So, I want to congratulate you on that.Peder: Appreciate that, right? Look, it comes down to the core basics. We are a developer data platform. We bring together all of the capabilities, tools, and functions that developers need when building apps as it pertains to their data functions or data layer, right? And that's why this integrated approach of taking our operational database and building in search, or stream processing, or vector search, all of the things that we're bringing to the platform enable developers to move faster. And what that says is, we're great for all use cases out there, not just Gen AI use cases. We're great for all use cases where customers are building applications to change the way that they're engaging with the customers.Corey: And what I like about this is that you're clearly integrating this stuff under the hood. You are talking to people who are building fascinating stuff, you're building things yourself, but you're not wrapping yourself in the mantle of, “This is exactly what we do because it's trendy right now.” And I appreciate that. It's still intelligible, and I wouldn't think that I had to congratulate someone on, “Wow, you build marketing that a human being can extract meaning from. That's amazing.” But in 2023, the closing days thereof, it very much is.Peder: Yep, yep. And it speaks a lot to the technology that we've built because, you know, on one side—it reminds me a lot of the early days of cloud where everything was kind of cloud-washed for a bit, we're seeing a little bit of that in the hype cycle that we have right now—sticking to our guns and making sure that we are building a technology platform that enables developers to move quickly, that removing the friction from the developer lifecycle as it pertains to the data layer, that's where the success is right, we have to stay on top of all of the trends, we have to make sure that we're enabling Gen AI, we have to make sure that we're integrating with the Amazon Bedrocks and the CodeWhisperers of the world, right, to go push this stuff forward. But to the point we made earlier, those are capabilities and features of a platform where the higher-level order is to really empower our customers to develop innovative, disruptive, or market-leading technologies for how they engage with their customers.Corey: Yeah. And that it's neat to be able to see that you are empowering companies to do that without feeling the need to basically claim their achievements as your own, which is an honest-to-God hard thing to do, especially as you become a platform company because increasingly, you are the plumbing that makes a lot of the flashy, interesting stuff possible. It's imperative, you can't have those things without the underlying infrastructure, but it's hard to talk about that infrastructure, too.Peder: You know, it's funny, I'm sure all of my colleagues would hate me for saying this, but the wheel doesn't turn without the ball bearing. Somebody still has to build the ball bearing in order for that sucker to move, right? And that's the thing. This is the infrastructure, this is the heart of everything that businesses need to build applications. And one of the—you know, another kind of snide comment I've made to some of my colleagues here is, if you think about every market-leading app, in fact, let's go to the biggest experiences you and I use on a daily basis, I'm pretty sure you're booking travel online, you're searching for stuff on Google, you're buying stuff through Amazon, you're renting a house through Airbnb, and you're listening to your music through Spotify. What are those? Those are databases with a search engine.Corey: The world is full of CRUD applications. These are, effectively, simply pretty front-ends to a database. And as much as we'd like to pretend otherwise, that's very much the reality of it. And we want that to be the case. Different modes of interaction, different requirements around them, but yeah, that is what so much of the world is. And I think to ignore that is to honestly blind yourself to a bunch of very key realities here.Peder: That kind of goes back to the original vision for when I came here. It's like, look, everything of value for us, everything that I engage with, is—to your point—it's a database with a great experience on top of it. Now, let's start to layer in this whole Gen AI push, right, what's going on there. We're talking about increased relevance in search, we're talking about new ways of thinking about sourcing information. We've even seen that with some of the latest ChatGPT stuff that developers are using that to get code snippets and figure out how to solve things within their platform.The era of the classic search engine is in the middle of a complete change, and the opportunity, I think, that I see as this moves forward is that there is no incumbent. There isn't somebody who owns this space, so we're just at the beginning of what probably will be the next. Google's, Airbnb's, and Uber's of the world for the next generation. And that's really exciting to see.Corey: I'm right there with you. What are the interesting founding stories at Google is that they wound up calling typical storage vendors for what they needed, got basically ‘screw on out of here, kids,' pricing, so they shrugged, and because they had no real choice to get enterprise-quality hardware, they built a bunch of highly redundant systems on top of basically a bunch of decommissioned crap boxes from the university they were able to more or less get for free or damn near it, and that led to a whole innovation in technology. One of the glorious things about cloud that I think goes under-sold is that I can build a ridiculous application tonight for maybe, what, 27 cents IT infrastructure spend, and if it doesn't work, I round up to dollar, it'll probably get waived because it'll cost more to process the credit card transaction than take my 27 cents. Conversely, if it works, I'm already building with quote-unquote, “Enterprise-grade” components. I don't need to do a massive uplift. I can keep going. And that is no small thing.Peder: No, it's not. When you step back, every single one of those stories was about abstracting that complexity to the end-user. In Google's case, they built their own systems. You or I probably didn't know that they were screwing these things together and soldering them in the back room in the middle of the night. Similarly, when Amazon got started, that was about taking something that was only accessible to a few thousand and now making it accessible to a few million with the costs of 27 cents to build an app.You removed the risk, you removed the friction from enabling a developer to be able to build. That next wave—and this is why I think the things we're doing around Gen AI, and our vector search capabilities, and literally how we're building our developer data platform is about removing that friction and limits and enabling developers to just come in and, you know, effectively do what they do best, which is innovate, versus all of the other things. You know, in the Google world, it's no longer racking and stacking. In the cloud world, it's no longer managing and integrating all the systems. Well, in the data world, it's about making sure that all of those integrations are ready to go and at your fingertips, and you just focus on what you do well, which is creating those new experiences for customers.Corey: So, we're recording this a little bit beforehand, but not by much. You are going to be at re:Invent this year—as am I—for eight nights—Peder: Yes.Corey: Because for me at least, it is crappy cloud Hanukkah, and I've got to deal with that. What have you got coming up? What do you plan to announce? Anything fun, exciting, or are you just there basically, to see how many badges you can actually scan in one day?Peder: Yeah [laugh]. Well, you know, it's shaping up to be quite an incredible week, there's no question. We'll see what brings to town. As you know, re:Invent is a huge event for us. We do a lot within that ecosystem, a lot of the customers that are up on stage talking about the cool things they're doing with AWS, they're also MongoDB customers. So, we go all out. I think you and I spoke before about our position there with SugarCane right on the show floor, I think we've managed to secure you a Friends of Peder all-access pass to SugarCane. So, I look forward to seeing you there, Corey.Corey: Proving my old thesis of, it really is who you know. And thank you for your generosity, please continue.Peder: [laugh]. So, we will be there in full force. We have a number of different innovation talks, we have a bunch of community-related events, working with developers, helping them understand how we play in the space. We're also doing a bunch of hands-on labs and design reviews that help customers basically build better, and build faster, build smarter—to your point earlier on some of the marketing you're getting off of our website. But we're also doing a number of announcements.I think first off, it was actually this last week, we made the announcement of our integrations with Amazon—or—yeah, Amazon CodeWhisperer. So, their code generation tool for developers has now been fully trained on MongoDB so that you can take advantage of some of these code generation tools with MongoDB Atlas on AWS. Similarly, there's been a lot of noise around what Amazon is doing with Bedrock and the ability to automate certain tasks and things for developers. We are going to be announcing our integrations with Agents for Amazon Bedrock being supported inside of MongoDB Atlas, so we're excited to see that, kind of, move forward. And then ultimately, we're really there to celebrate our customers and connect them so that they can share what they're doing with many peers and others in the space to give them that inspiration that you so eloquently talked about, which is, don't market your stuff; let your customers tell what they're able to do with your stuff, and that'll set you up for success in the future.Corey: I'm looking forward to seeing what you announce in conjunction with what AWS announces, and the interplay between those two. As always, I'm going to basically ignore 90% of what both companies say and talk instead to customers, and, “What are you doing with it?” Because that's the only way to get truth out of it. And, frankly, I've been paying increasing amounts of attention to MongoDB over the past few years, just because of what people I trust who are actually good at databases have to say about you folks. Like, my friends at RedMonk always like to say—I've stolen the line from them—“You can buy my attention, but not my opinion.”Peder: A hundred percent.Corey: You've earned the opinion that you have, at this point. Thank you for your sponsorship; it doesn't hurt, but again, you don't get to buy endorsements. I like what you're doing. Please keep going.Peder: No, I appreciate that, Corey. You've always been supportive, and definitely appreciate the opportunity to come on Screaming in the Cloud again. And I'll just push back to that Friends of Peder. There's, you know, also a little bit of ulterior motive there. It's not just who you know, but it's [crosstalk 00:34:39]—Corey: It's also validating that you have friends. I get it. I get it.Peder: Oh yeah, I know, right? And I don't have many, but I have a few. But the interesting thing there is we're going to be able to connect you with a number of the customers doing some of these cool things on top of MongoDB Atlas.Corey: I look forward to it. Thank you so much for your time. Peder Ulander, Chief Marketing Officer at MongoDB. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this has been a promoted guest episode of Screaming in the Cloud, brought to us by our friends at Mongo. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review in your podcast platform of choice, along with an angry, insulting comment that I will ignore because you basically wrapped it so tightly in Generative AI messaging that I don't know what the hell your point is supposed to be.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. 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