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In this special International Women's Day episode of LawPod, host Ellie Blair sits down with Aisling Cannon and Shauna McKey, members of the Walkie Talkie Girlies society. Founded in November 2023 at Queen's University, the society aims to improve women's safety by organising group walks, particularly in response to unsettling experiences both women have had. The discussion touches on the origins and inspiring growth of the society to over 500 members, its significant projects like Project Pink, and its collaborative work with government, local businesses and tech companies to ensure member safety. Aisling and Shauna also talk about their future aspirations for the society, potential expansions, and how involvement in this initiative shapes their career goals. They emphasise the need for legislative reform and early education about healthy relationships as fundamental ways to protect women, both on the streets and in their homes.
"If I have to wash and return your Tupperware, I am now super stressed. I am so worried about the Tupperware." Let the Boston Marathon episodes begin! First up: a panel I moderated at the Oofos pop-up on Boylston Street called "Project Pink: Recover with Purpose." This panel was about running, about cancer, about hard stuff, and about resilience. We heard from Anne Keane, who is living with metastatic breast cancer, and was about to run her third Boston Marathon as part of the Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. Dr. Nancy Lin, the associate chief of breast oncology at Dana-Farber, talked about whether runners are the best or worst patients, and talked about where fundraising dollars actually go. Maureen Key, the senior manager of performance design at Exos, talked about the importance of recovery and mindfulness. And Christine St. Pierre, who has been doing the Pan-Mass Challenge for 18 years now as the captain of Team Duncan, was on hand to convince all of us that we can — and should — do whatever we set our minds to. Thank you to Oofos for having us, and for the longtime partnership and commitment to raising funds for breast cancer research. SPONSOR: UCAN: Click here to get a FREE UCAN energy bar sample pack (you'll just pay the cost of shipping), and use code ALI for 20% off your next UCAN order. Follow Ali: Instagram @aliontherun1 Join the Facebook group Twitter @aliontherun1 Support on Patreon Subscribe to the newsletter SUPPORT the Ali on the Run Show! If you're enjoying the show, please subscribe and leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. Spread the run love. And if you liked this episode, share it with your friends!
Chris Dame and Jason Jelinek of the local Pink Floyd tribute band Project Pink stopped by to talk music and tease us for this weekend's Project Pink shows at The Meyer Theater.
We give Cooper the chance to score some Project Pink tickets and just has to figure out if these random facts are true or not.
Sam and Vito sit down with retired Contra Costa Fire Captain Chris Leimpeter to talk about his continuing passion...Project Pink Wheels. He talks about his time with ConFire, what led him to start Project Pink Wheels, and what it takes to be involved. Chris intimately shares his experience with breast cancer and cancer awareness. It is especially fitting during Breast Cancer Awareness month. Give it a listen and check out the below links- https://youtu.be/pDkYSW0pabI?si=mdco9tGXUu4qtiCk Instagram @projectpinkwheels Facebook Projectpinkwheels
The Weekend Whassup for Friday, 10/27/2023! The Point keeps you connected to the top 16 things happening around Sheboygan this weekend! There's a Free Make and Take Family Art event at the Plymouth Arts Center tonight (Friday) from 4:-5:30. https://plymoutharts.org/Class.php?s=free-family-drop-in-10-27-2023 See the movie “Little Shop Of Horrors” tonight (Friday) at 7 on the big screen at The Weill Center For The Performing Arts in Downtown SHeboygan. https://wxerfm.com/events/390963/ The ultimate Fleetwood Mac tribute “Leathers and Lace” makes a tour stop at The Osthoff Resort in Elkhart Lake tonight (Friday) at 7! https://osthoff.com/event/leathers-lace-a-fleetwood-mac-tribute/ The 2nd annual Comedy for the Community to benefit Partners For Community Development is tonight (Friday) at 7:30 Sheboygan's Lutheran High. Magic and stand-up! Plymouth Jolly Pranksters will open! https://www.facebook.com/events/1372347633345619 Happily Haunted Gardens at Bookworm Gardens through this weekend is not-so-spooky FAMILY fun at the Gardens! Lights, stories, scavenger hunts and costumes galore! https://www.bookwormgardens.org/happily-haunted The SCIO Farmer's Market is tomorrow (Saturday)! The market makes fresh, native produce and products available directly from farmers to residents Wednesdays and Saturdays from 8-1 in Fountain Park in Sheboygan. https://www.sheboygancountyinterfaith.org/farmers-market/ Sheboygan Falls Elementary School invites you to the Falcon Families Craft & Vendor Fair tomorrow (Saturday) 9-2. A wide variety of vendors, raffles, bake sale items, concessions, and more! https://wxerfm.com/events/395050/ The Family Monster Mash Bash is tomorrow (Saturday) at YMCA Camp Y-Koda from 6-8! A night of monster fun! Music, treats, photo booth, kid-friendly beverages and more! https://sheboygancountyymca.org/camp-y-koda/event-detail.html?s=297&co_id=110254&v=1 The Department of Health and Human Services invites you and your kids to their annual Trunk-Or-Treat community event tomorrow (Saturday) from 2-4 in downtown Sheboygan. https://wxerfm.com/events/374455/ The Sheboygan Jaycees Dominion Of Terror is Eastern Wisconsin's premier haunted attraction at 2024 N 15th St in Sheboygan. Open Friday and Saturday nights through October! https://www.dominionofterror.com/ Project Pink is North America's premier Pink Floyd tribute band. They're coming to see you tomorrow (Saturday) night at 7:30 The Weill Center For The Performing Arts in Downtown Sheboygan. https://wxerfm.com/events/387081/ Wisconsin FEAR FEST runs through this weekend at Elkhart Lake's Road America. A handful of haunted and spooky attractions will scare you senseless! Hayride, escape room and more! https://wisconsinfearfest.com/hours/ Bulitz Pumpkin Farm is open to the public this weekend. Farm animals, pumpkins, hayrides, and seasonal treats. https://www.facebook.com/bulitzfarm/ Triple Nickel Post 555 American Legion's "Trunk-Or-Treat" event is Sunday from 11-3 at Lakeshore Lanes in Sheboygan. https://wxerfm.com/events/394239/ There's a “Trunk-Or-Treat” at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sheboygan Falls, Sunday from 3-5. You are encouraged to bring a bucket or bag for your treats! https://www.facebook.com/events/346523174517258 Don't forget to check the SCREAMS page online at WXERFM.com for local Trick-Or-Treat times, haunted attractions, pumpkin carving stencils and spooky recipes! https://wxerfm.com/screams/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chris and Jay from one of the best Pink Floyd tributes you can find Project Pink stopped by ahead of their duel shows happening March 24th and 25th at The Meyer Theater in Green Bay.
In this episode, we chat with Chris + Amy Liempeter about Project Pink Wheels; a pink fire truck that is used to transport cancer patients to and from their first and last cancer treatments in California's Contra Costa County. In 2005 Contra Costa County Fire Captain Chris Liempeter's wife Amy was diagnosed with breast cancer. Chris felt an outpouring of love from his community and wanted to give back in some way to those who are diagnosed with cancer. So In October 2020 Contra Costa County Fire along with the support from Local 1230 launched a vehicle of hope to help cancer patients in our community. The bright pink fire truck is used to transport patients to their first and last cancer treatment within the county.follow along with Project Pink Wheels:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/projectpinkwheels/youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDkYSW0pabIMerchandise: https://project-pink-wheels.square.site/Dan's Reading List:"12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos" by Jordan B. PetersonAmy's Favorite Podcast:Bad Blood PodcastFollow Dear Chiefs:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dearchiefspodcastfacebook: https://www.facebook.com/dearchiefspodcastwebsite: https://www.dearchiefs.comJoin the Dear Chiefs Community:https://www.facebook.com/groups/dearchiefspodcast/Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.
This week's show featured Kelly Konen and Stephanie Nichols with Project Pink'd discussing breast cancer awareness and resources. Then, Dr. Diana W. Bianchi, director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, provided the latest details on COVID vaccines for children and pregnant women.
The best monthly film magazine podcast presented by two people called James returns for another two part odyssey of nerdy film content. Reel One features the regular monthly round up including reviews of The Midnight Sky, White Tiger and Steel Rain, a look at the Golden Globe Nominations and February's entry in the Year of the Carpenter, Dark Star. In Classics And Recommended we look at alternative history CSA: The Confederate States of America. Our Hidden Gem is Regina King's excellent One Night In Miami. The One That Got Away is Spike Lee's Save Us Joe Louis, and the Remake Hatewatch features a no-holds-barred savaging of Steve Martin's terrible Pink Panther Remake.
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In this episode of The IoT Unicorn Podcast, independent civic engineer and former Chief Xbox Officer at Microsoft, Robbie Bach, discusses teamwork and leadership in the tech space. Download Transcript Here 00:00 Pete Bernard: Welcome to the IoT unicorn podcast. This is Pete Bernard from Microsoft. And this podcast is for anyone interested in the long-term technology trends in the IoT space and the journey from here to there. So let's get started. [music] 00:23 PB: On this episode of the IoT unicorn, I chat with Robbie Bach, former Microsoft executive. He was there for about 22 years, he was the chief Xbox officer and drove that program for a long, long time. We talk about Xbox, Xbox Revisited the new book he wrote, we also talk about some other projects like Zoom and Microsoft Kin or what we call Project Pink, and just in general leadership principles and techniques for leading through ambiguity with a ton of technology, especially in the IoT space. So great Robbie, thanks a lot for taking the time to join us here on the IoT unicorn. First off, kind of disclaimer, the topics typically are IoT-oriented, [chuckle] but we're gonna take a little diversion today, but I think it's still gonna be germane and... So anyway, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to join us. 01:20 Robbie Bach: Happy to do it. 01:22 PB: Good, good. I don't know if there's a phone ringing there or something... 01:24 RB: Yeah, that's mine. [chuckle] We can start over if you like, that's a phone that I have no control over, it's actually the house phone ringing in my office. 01:34 PB: Oh, okay. That's alright. Don't worry about it we'll... It's part of a sincere authentic nature of the conversation, [chuckle] but I think one of the things... And I read your book, Xbox Revisited, which is cool, and I thought for today, one of the things that I thought was really germane was just talking about technology and leadership, or just leadership in general, and it was really fascinating to kinda read through your journey with leadership and the pluses and minuses and what you've learned about it. And I think in the IoT space, we're sort of like awash in technology. Before we started recording, I was explaining how I was futzing with my system and just too many pieces of tech, and a lot of companies, they have a tons of technology, there's no shortage, now we got 5G and LPWA and all these AI. But how do you take that ambiguous technologies swamp and actually provide some kind of leadership and guidance and structure or framework around thinking about things, so you can get things done and you can get organizations, especially big organizations, you can imagine, moving in the right direction. And I thought there was a lot in your book around Xbox Revisited that resonated with probably what a lot of companies are thinking about today, is like how do we navigate through some of the tech? 03:01 RB: The thing I always respond... I talk a lot about innovation, and I talk somewhat about that in Xbox Revisited, but I do a lot of it in the public speaking I do. And I talk about creativity and how do you come up with new ideas, and technology ends up being third on my list of things not first. And the things that come first are ironically, business model, because it turns out a huge portion of innovation actually happens in business models, and the second thing is experience and sort of how people interact with the technology, and then comes technology. And when something is technically lead, maybe it has a good sustainable business model and maybe it has a good experience, but maybe it doesn't, and that's why the first person to market with the technology doesn't always win. And my experience has been that a sustainable business with a great customer experience will beat somebody who has a great technology without a good experience, and so we tend to focus on those first two, first. 04:14 PB: Yeah, so when you... Probably you were going through this with the Xbox, was like, talking about the purpose, principles and priorities. I think I got that right? 04:27 RB: Yeah. 04:28 PB: So you manifested that with Xbox, are there other example you've seen where companies have been able to snap to a framework like that and get them moving in the right direction? 04:37 RB: Well, think about... One of the other companies I work with, is a company called Sonos, and they're really a great company, and they have amazing technology, they've got one of the best IP portfolios in the industry, they've done some very cool tech things, but they do not lead with technology, they absolutely don't. They lead with the experience, if you have somebody who has a Sonos system, they don't talk about the cool networking architecture that it has or how it makes sure to sync audio on a big TV screen and do surround sound easily. They talk about, "Oh God, it was so easy to set up and the music played and it sounded great." That's all experience-focused work. And it's super powerful, and they have their own business model which is fairly traditional, but when you think about somebody like Spotify and the access you get to the world's music and the experience you have in accessing that music, and they have a business model, which I think is challenging, but it's subscription-based, so that's been an innovation over the last 10 years or so, and those are the types of things people end up migrating to. And there are people in the world who have, there's higher-end sound systems than Sonos for sure, they love their sound quality, but if you wanna spend money, you can get higher-end sound systems, but they're hard to use, difficult to set up, and Sonos has this incredibly simple model and it just works. 06:13 PB: Yeah, one of the frameworks we've been using is the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework, I think you're familiar with that, but that's another way of really titrating down to what are the outcomes you want to accomplish, and then how do you get those jobs done? 06:26 RB: Well, in particular, if the jobs done reflect back on customer issues, to me, so much of what happens in the IoT space has to be, "Okay, what problem are we trying to solve? And if we're trying to solve a customer problem, okay, I get that." And so let's focus on solving the customer problem. Well, like turning on lights, not actually a customer problem, right? 06:54 PB: Right. [chuckle] 06:54 RB: Unless you wanna turn on the light. Now, if you say, "Oh, customers want controlled settings and they wanna make... " There's other issues with lighting that customers can relate to and wanna fix. Okay. Great, let's get after those. Customers knew how to set their heat, it turns out, but now solve some other issues around heating that were actually real customer problem. And so if the jobs done relate to customers, I'm all in. 07:22 PB: Right, right. Yeah, no it's true. At the end of the day, if you cannot solve a customer problem. I thought what actually was interesting in your book, they had a couple of things that caught my eye. First of all, I didn't realize you were a tennis player. 07:33 RB: Right. 07:34 PB: So, I'm a tennis player. 07:35 RB: Oh, cool. 07:36 PB: But you were in the top 50 in the US, so you'd probably kick my butt, but I thought that was cool. Are you still playing tennis by the way? 07:45 RB: I play a little bit of tennis, I don't play as much. I have a shoulder that has hit about 300 and too many serves. 07:53 PB: Okay. Yeah. That's a tough one. 07:54 RB: So I'm trying to avoid shoulder surgery. If I really wanted to keep playing competitively, I would have to have some work done. 08:00 PB: Yeah. Okay. Yeah, no, I was good. Actually, I got back into it, kind of a funny anecdote. I'd played for a long time back in the... When I was a kid, back in the '80s, and took a long time off and got back into it a few years ago and actually stepped on to the court at the pro club here. And I had my Donnay racket with me and the pro is like, "They went out of business like 10 years ago." So the first thing was, "You need to get your gear in shape." And so I learned a lot. But yeah, I play a few times a week, that was fun. That's good. 08:35 RB: I had the same experience I went to... I had some mid-size rackets, which were old and I went to upgrade them, which was fine, and then I went to go get them strung, and the guy asked me what tension I wanted them strung at and I was, "Oh, I don't know, 58 pounds." He said, "Well, is that for the horizontal strings or the vertical strings?" I was like, "Oh, well, that's a new idea." And, "Dude, what kind of strings do you want?" Oh, different for horizontal and vertical strings, I mean, these are all new ideas when you had a small face Donnay, none of that mattered. Now with these big surfaces. Again, the thing we're talking about, the technology, the solution you're solving is tennis players can keep the ball on the strings for a long time. And that would be a lot of control. 09:18 PB: I know. It's amazing I mean, how the sport's evolved, but like many things. The other thing that kinda popped out, I love this phrase, seagull management. Maybe you can talk a little bit about seagull management, that is something I will use over and over again, but can you give me like a... 09:35 RB: Yeah, look, I think there's lots of people who as leaders think their job is to dive in, evaluate something, poop on it and then leave, and so those are the seagulls. And in fact, as a manager, your job is actually quite different than that. Your job is to put a framework in place, to work with your employees to establish the set of priorities and things that they're gonna focus on, and they'll come back to you and say, "Hey, here's how it's going." And you'll give them ideas and thoughts on how to improve or make progress and answer questions, and, oh by the way, facilitate solutions where you can actually help. But the idea in your job is to sort of occasionally fly in and spot check their work, and then tell them they're doing the wrong thing. It's just not super helpful, and by the way, you have no context, you don't know what's going on, and it's the way a lot of... There's a lot of seagulls in the tech space. It's a problem. 10:46 PB: Yeah, definitely resonated for me. I think another thing that toward later in the book, is you take some of the lessons around Xbox and leadership into more of the civic area, which I guess is a super trimming it today, since it's the day before Election Day. 11:04 RB: That's right. 11:04 PB: But that's a whole other podcast, we won't get into it. About leadership, and I totally subscribe to this too, I think at Microsoft, just like other companies, leadership is not for just for people in power. Leadership is for everybody to sort of be a leader in their own space and about what they're passionate about. 11:23 RB: Well, look, I think whenever I address a room of people, let's say there's 50 people in the room, it's easy for me to say to everybody, "Look, there's 50 leaders in this room. Now, you each have a different leadership superpower, you each have a different leadership skill, and the question for you is, are you self-aware enough to understand what that leadership skill is? And are you capable then of figuring out how to apply it in the environment?" And you can be a leader by being part of the team, you think about a prototypical football team or a soccer team, and you'd say, "Okay, well, who's the leader?" Well, in particular, in football you'd say, "Well, maybe the quarterback." Maybe, but there's leaders who, amongst the wide receivers, there's leaders... The center is the leader of the offense of line, I think that's the middle line backer, sort of the quarterback and the defense, but the safety actually has to manage the secondary. Everybody has to play their role in those things. And so you're challenged regardless of what your role is on a team, is to find how your leadership superpower applies to what the people you're working with need to get done. And I think sometimes people think of themselves as being sort of, "Okay, I'm tagging along, I have a manager, he or she's gonna tell me what to do, and I just do it and keep going." And I don't subscribe to that at all. 12:48 PB: Right. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I've encountered folks like that and I've inherited diverse teams at Microsoft, and inevitably there's somebody that's been there and they've been turning the crank for 20 years on this thing, and I'm always... I remember talking to one person at Microsoft, he'd been there a long time, and I said, "So what level are you? And they were like, "I'm not quite sure." and I'm like, "Are you not even aware of where you're at here?" I mean, so disconnected. Now, interestingly, I worked with this person and within a couple of years, a couple of years of work, they got into a different role, they actually did get promoted, they started to sort of... But I think sometimes we get into this mode where we're just turning the crank. We kinda just lost touch with the fact that we have the ability to be leaders, even if you're an IC and you're doing this thing that seems like a small part of a bigger thing, but you can still be a leader. 13:44 RB: I get asked a lot of times from people, "So when should I do something new? When should I take a new job or leave a company or change organizations?" Or whatever it is. And two of the things that are key on my list of that are: A, are you learning? And B, you really enjoy working with the people around you? Both require real engagement, real awareness, you can't come in and mail it in if you're doing both of those things. And so to me... And then the third thing, which is maybe even more important than the first two in someways is, are you passionate about what you're doing? A combination of being passionate, learning, and enjoying the people you're working with, that defines a great job. And if you can't say yes to all three of those, or you can't say yes to at least two of them, you gotta be thinking, "Hmm, why am I here?" 14:37 PB: Yeah. I think most people that ask like, "Well, should I be doing something different?" They've probably already made up their mind that they should be doing something different, they're looking for some maybe external validation to make that leap. 14:48 RB: Yeah, maybe. Although, I will tell you there's a lot of people early in career, and I think this is a generational thing, I don't like to categorize people in certain generations, but younger workers today think about mobility and changing jobs more frequently than my generation did for sure. And they're trying to find this balance between recognizing that they need to learn and grow, and have some track record with, "Oh my gosh, there's an opportunity in some place else." And in the tech space right now, there's opportunities everywhere. And even in the midst of a recession and a pandemic, there's opportunities everywhere, and some people are constantly looking around, "Oh, am I missing something?" And then giving people the confidence to say, "Hey, if you're passionate, you like the people you work with, and your learning, switching job is not gonna be a big thing for you." If you're missing some of those things, well then, yeah, you should be looking at some of those other things. And so your job doesn't have like an expiration date. Your job should have a natural point in which it becomes time for you to do something. 16:00 PB: Yeah. Yeah. I hear you. My dad used to say, "Don't get comfortable." That was his advice. It's like once you start getting comfortable... 16:04 RB: Another Broadway, I get asked a lot, "Well, why did you leave Microsoft?" or "Do you miss it?" And my comment to people is, "Look, I loved... " I didn't love every day at Microsoft, I can't say that. I was there for 22 and a half, and I've had a bad day. But, I say probably I loved every week or month at Microsoft. And yet, I left at a time when I felt like I wasn't learning as much as I wanted to, I had some people issues, and I had other things that I was passionate about. And so I tell people, "I don't miss Microsoft. I've never looked back, I love the company." I think I got 110% out of the experience, but I kinda... I feel like I left at the right time and that could be different for everybody. 16:54 PB: So let me switch gears a little bit on you, so one of the things, and which we have an interesting connection on that I'd like to talk about. One of your experiences at Microsoft is... I was part of the Project Pink Group. 17:06 RB: Yeah. 17:06 PB: Remember that? 17:07 RB: I do. 17:08 PB: And in fact, I think I presented the pitch deck to you off of my laptop back in 2010 or something like that. We were with Ross and... 17:17 RB: You're gonna laugh, if you give me a chance, can I walk away from the screen for a second? 17:22 PB: Sure. Sure, go ahead. Okay. 17:24 RB: This look familiar? Holding up a kiln. 17:28 PB: Nice. Nice. Mint in Box. Mint in Box. 17:34 RB: [chuckle] I have both of them in my office, on my shelf. 17:39 PB: Awesome. Good to hear. Good to hear. Now, that was an experience when you talk about challenging experience, great people to work with, learn a lot of new things. So I am kinda rewinding a little bit back to that experience, what was, from your perspective, interestingly, I know what it was from my perspective, kind of going through that pro... I spent three years on the project. So cradle to grave literally, plug it in, to unplug it, [chuckle] but from your perspective, where did Project Pink fit in to all the stuff that was going on back then 'cause it was a little bit of a maelstrom. 18:14 RB: Yeah. Well I think Pink fit in in a couple of different ways. So Pink was really the first effort to create what, for lack of a better phrase, I'll call a Microsoft phone. And the idea was centered on a really good concept, which is, if you're gonna create these, given our podcast today, I'll call IoT devices, if you're gonna create these devices, they happen at the intersection of hardware and software and service. Those three things have to meld together in a seamless customer experience. And Microsoft, because we didn't do hardware, and we were just starting to do services, would provide software for those experiences and then hope they worked. And unfortunately, what we were discovering in multiple categories is that that wasn't working. The companies who would pick up our firmware or our operating system work or whatever, would inevitably screw it up in the integration with their software and service and produce mediocre devices. 19:13 RB: And our friends down at Cupertino, were getting really good at producing integrated devices that had really nice software, great hardware and a little less on the service at the time, but the service was provided by carriers, and so suddenly we're in this space where Windows Mobile and subsequently, Windows Phone is trying to find its way in the phone space, and the people who we're providing software to are producing mediocre phones. And it was one example, the first of an effort for us to do an integrated experience, and leveraging off some of the work we'd done with Xbox and a little bit, frankly, the work we did with Zune, while we produce integrated experiences. And I talk about Zune a lot, I talk about Pink less because it has less public visibility, but to talk about both of them as having many elements of success and then critical elements of failure, and you have to try to learn from that and then can continue to grow forward. 20:20 PB: Yeah, no, I thought actually too, it was a big service for you. At the time we were trying to do a cloud-powered phone basically, right? If you remember that, it was like a digital twin of the phone in the cloud, and all your stuff was there, and then the phone was just this kind of end point that connected to the cloud that reflected the state of your... From which should be connected to all these social services and whatever, so I love the idea, I mean the idea I feel like we're still executing on the deal with Azure to be honest with you, with digital twins and everything else. We were probably about 10 years ahead of the tech at the time, of course... 20:52 RB: I would say two things. And I think this is really important as you think about consumer and IoT, right? Timing is everything. And in a way, Pink was a project that was both before its time and after its time. When we spec-ed Pink in the beginning, it was timely, social media was catching on on phones, people were starting to use them more aggressively for the beginnings of photo sharing and video sharing and those kinds of things. Still mostly email and text messaging, but things were different. The market was probably the take-off for the pace. 21:35 PB: It like 2007, 2008. 21:36 RB: Unfortunately, for a lot of different reasons, Pink ended up being about 12-18 months late in terms of actually delivering a product to the market, and in that 12-18 months, the market moved. And suddenly you didn't want a special purpose social media device, suddenly every device needed to be a social media device and that left the niche market and that left Pink in a very small niche market, and so in essence, it was too late. Now to your point about replicating everything in the cloud, we were a little early, things... That was starting to happen, you couldn't even talk about the cloud in 2008, people didn't know what you were talking about, and then still timing with these IoT devices is a powerful thing and sort of evolving to match to where the market is, and you wanna be on the cutting edge, but not so far out that you get your head knocked off, and that's a tricky thing, and sometimes we've gotten it right, and sometimes we've gotten it wrong. 22:38 PB: Yeah, yeah. Well, it's like Nicholas Negroponte and Being Digital, it's an old book, I think it's from the '80s, maybe it's the '90s, but he said... One of his quotes was, "We tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the short run and underestimate it in the long run." So we get... We just totally imagine everything's gonna change tomorrow about this tech and of course it doesn't... 23:00 RB: Microsoft started it's auto initiative in 1990, so... 23:05 PB: Oh yeah, I used to drive a Ford Flex, by the way, and I have a V1. 23:09 RB: You think about, it's not that anybody miss out the opportunity. 23:16 PB: Yeah, no, I know that's... I guess getting back to leadership topic, how do we provide that leadership internally in our teams, and when you talk about the purpose, principles and priorities, actually, one of the interesting things there too, I wanted to talk about. I really love the part where you talked about leaving things undone, I actually just had a discussion with my team last week about, can we articulate things that we're not going to do? It was kind of an odd email because you always wanna talk about, "Oh, things are gonna get done," but let's be clear about what we're not doing, or I would say de-prioritizing, but maybe you can speak to that, and how important... 23:55 RB: Well, I think human nature is, do more. So if you ask somebody who works for you and say, "Hey, tell me your priorities." You'll inevitably get a list of between five and 10 things. That just sort of the human nature, and people will buy it themselves to more rather than less, that's just fact, but if somebody asks me for priorities, telling them I'm gonna do more must be better, right? And the truth is, the human capacity, our brains don't subdivide tasks that well, and so we only have the ability to do... I always pick five, but four or five things, well, at any given point in time, and even that I think requires real energy and real effort. And so the idea that somebody's gonna do seven things, I just go, "No, you're not going to. So tell me the two things you're gonna leave undone, tell me the two things you're just not gonna focus on, and tell me the five things... " 'Cause the problem is, if I give you seven and allow you to have seven, you'll try to do seven and maybe you'll do two or three pretty well. The rest all get done well unfortunately numbers one, two and three might be the ones that get undone, in the list, until... 25:08 PB: Yeah, exactly. 25:11 RB: And so just getting people to... And sometimes the best way to get people to prioritize is to get them to decide what they're not gonna do. And the experience I've had with people is when they do that, and they ultimately accept that it's okay, there's this giant sigh of relief. Thank God you took that off my plate. 25:33 PB: Yeah. Yeah [chuckle] 25:34 RB: Now, I actually have enough time to do what I know needs to be done. 25:39 PB: Xbox Revisited, so that's the book, I do encourage it, I did read it, it is really good. The other book, by the way, I have been reading, sort of interest versus, I guess you put this one down to read yours, but was the new Andrew Cuomo book, I don't know if you've seen that. 25:52 RB: I have not. 25:52 PB: But it's another... Yeah, and I picked it up. It was about his leadership lessons through this COVID crisis and yeah, and it's really fascinating 'cause he goes it day by day and imbues it with his leadership style and lessons learned and things. So I try to always go through a book, I'm always working on a book, and I went through a whole run of dystopian science fiction, which was a mistake 'cause it was very depressing and then I decide to lighten up, and now I'm looking at leadership books, 'cause that feels a little better right now at this point in time, but no, I really appreciated the book and I thought it was really insightful. So, is there any kind of, I guess, topics or thoughts that we have not gotten to yet that you would like to communicate? 26:41 RB: No, I think... Here's the one thing, when I think about IoT, so this won't be a leadership thing, this is an IoT-specific thing. When I think about IoT, I think a lot of people think about the grand unification of life, and they think somehow there's gonna be like a central nervous system for all IoT devices, and I'm gonna have a control panel that's gonna manage my IoT life. I fundamentally am not a believer in that. I am a believer in the fact that people think about systems in their life separately, and they think about their heating system as their heating system, and their music system as their music system, and their alarm system as their alarm system, and they don't think their home has a system. And so thinking about, again, when we come back to experience, thinking about how if you're experience lead, that's the way people experience. So I have... Yeah, it means I have a bunch of apps on my phone. I have a whole folder on my iPhone that's called The House, and it has a bunch of apps. 27:54 PB: Right. It's got like 30 apps in there. [chuckle] 27:55 RB: Yeah, I have a few less than that, but each of them are a little different. But, I know that Sonos is my music system and Nest manages my cameras and heat, and actually I have a Nest Stand where it goes it turns up, and it works. I have an app for automatic water shut off that detects leaks in our house, right? I don't need that to be integrated with anything else. And so I think there is in our tech minds, there's this, "Hey, let's unify because we can." And instead, we should think the way the human mind thinks, which is, "No, I have compartments. I have ways in which I think about things, let my tools think that way with me." And I would hope that the folks who have IoT in their future would think that. 28:49 PB: Yeah, no, and I think it goes back to the meeting customers where they're at, really thinking about what their problems are, what their experience is as a plant operator or healthcare worker and what they're trying to get done and making sure the tech fits into them, and so they don't have to fit into the tech. Cool. Well, Robbie, thanks a lot again for the time and appreciate the book and maybe I'll see you on a tennis court sometime. 29:16 RB: [chuckle] That's great, I appreciate you taking the time. 29:18 PB: Alright, thanks Robbie. Alright. 29:20 RB: Hey, cheers, take care. 29:21 PB: Bye-bye. [music] 29:22 PB: This is Pete Bernard, you've been listening to the IoT unicorn podcast, and thanks for joining us. Stay tuned for the next episode. And feel free to give us some feedback at the IoT unicorn at microsoft.com. Thank you. [music]
Miranda Allen is the CEO of RSI Corp, she is a nationally recognized telecommunications and Radio Frequency expert. She is also a trainer, coach and safety compliance expert.In this episode she talks about how she feels that her mission in life is to leave the world a better place; She is here to serve people, share a positive outlook, and to help them flourish. It is her hope they, in turn, help others resulting in each of us giving back positively to the world. She is also the founder of Project Pink, a non-profit organization that helps unsupported pregnant women gain independence and learn life skills to help them get back on their feet.To learn more about Miranda:https://www.linkedin.com/in/miranda-allen-32332ab/
Since there's so much to love about running and fitness, we're following up our Ep. 85 Valentine's show with another round of favorites! What's yours? If you'd like, pop on over to the Joyful Miles Running Club Facebook group and share there! OOFOS PROJECT PINK: We'd love it if you checked out Laura's blog post and/or watch this video about Duncan Finigan! For every pair of OOFOS sold from their Project Pink collection and all other oofos.com orders, they donate 3% directly towards the Dana-Farber Breast Cancer Research team to support new medical breakthroughs with the potential to help patients, like Duncan, feel better! SHADY RAYS: For 50% off 2 pairs of Shady Rays, sunglasses use the code BIBRAVE! If you have a moment, please SUBSCRIBE, RATE and REVIEW our podcast. It will help us with ranking and we'd truly appreciate it! FOLLOW US AT Our Blog, YouTube Channel, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Joyful Miles Running Club. Our Amazon Storefront with our favorite products! The content presented is for general information and entertainment purposes only and is not intended to replace your healthcare professional. Before beginning any exercise program, always consult your physician. Also, we are going on hiatus for the rest of July and August. But we'll be back on September 6th with a brand-new show and much to talk about! Until then, take care and have a great summer!
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Lifelong athlete, Lou Panaccione is the CEO and co-founder of OOFOS, the revolutionary athletic recovery footwear brand with a simple mission: to help people feel better. From recovering aching feet to finding a cure for Breast Cancer, his goals and commitment to this mission are incredibly inspiring. As a high school and collegiate distance runner, empowered with decades of experience at Nike and Reebok during the running shoe boom of the '70s and '80’s, Lou knew that the market was full of athletic shoes designed to drive your workout. But, there was nothing out there for after your run or workout, when your muscles ache and you need to recover to get back out there tomorrow. It was at this moment that Lou and his friends (three co-founders at OOFOS, Paul Brown, Juan Diaz, Steve Liggett), recognized the need for footwear that could help fitness enthusiasts and athletes recover from repeated workouts on hard, man-made surfaces. What was missing was a material that focused on absorbing impact to provide relief to the body and aid in stimulating the recovery process. This is when OOFOS began, in 2011, with a core line of sandals, and has evolved over the past 7 years to include sandals, clogs, and shoes! OOFOS has created an “OOfoam” impact-absorbing technology that aims to provide that recovery. OOfoam is a unique foam material never used in anything before that is solely developed to deliver maximum Impact Absorption to lessen the impact on the feet and body. Lou and OOFOS are also committed to finding a cure for breast cancer. The company’s brand leader and director of marketing, Duncan Finigan, was diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer just a couple of years after OOFOS was started. The founders of OOFOS immediately decided to do whatever they could to make sure Duncan, and all breast cancer patients, could feel better by supporting the need for research dollars. They developed a line of Project Pink shoes, in which $10 from each pair sold goes directly to breast cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Just this year, OOFOS. upped that commitment to finding a cure faster, and have committed to donate 3% of all sales on OOFOS.Com go directly to breast cancer research, and to date, OOFOS has prodly donated over $130K and counting to Dana -Farber Cancer Institute. In addition, Lou and Duncan participate annually in the Pan -Mass Challenge to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer and Dana Farber as well, on their ElliptiGO’s. OOFOS is pioneering recovery footwear across the globe and there is no person who shouldn’t be wearing OOFOS, because everyone deserves to feel better and recover faster by Feeling the OO! They can be found in specialty retailers across the US and in 34 countries globally. Head over to www.oofos.com for additional information. On today’s episode Marni sync's up with Lou about his career in the athletic footwear industry , where OOFOS began, his brand mission and vision, his commitment to finding a cure for breast cancer and the exercise that fuels him for success. Metioned on the Episode EllitptGo New York Marathon Chicago Marathon Dana Farber Cancer Institute Pan-Mass Challenge Get Social +Connect @oofos Oofos.com @marnionthemove Marnionthemove.com I hope you enjoy! If you do, scroll through your podcast app, click on the “Leave a review” link, and tell us what you love about the episode and show and leave five stars of course. Also, head over to our website and sign up for our newsletter for announcements, deals, and giveaways.
This week’s show featured Big Brothers – Big Sisters of the Midlands board president John Gilbreath discussing his organization’s work to assist at-risk youth, as well as promote upcoming fundraising events. Then, Project Pink’d founder and president Cynthia Sturgeon shared her story of battling breast cancer, and talked about what her organization does to help fellow women with all of the issues that are related to that diagnosis.
This week’s show featured Kelly Konen of Project Pink’d on Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Mandy Ryle talking about the mind-body-spirit benefits of yoga, and Anne Constantino of the CRCC on the variety of services they provide to children in the community.
Jonny and Danette discuss the LGBT and Trans-inclusive Girls Rock Carbondale summer camp, SIU's cancellation of its search for a Vice Chancellor of Institutional Diversity, Trump's Religious Freedom Executive Order and how it still impacts LGBTQ communities, our many frustrations with the House passing the American Health Care Act, the FCC investigation into Stephen Colbert over alleged obscene and homophobic statements about Trump, our outrage over a Project Pink activist facing a year in jail for laughing at Jeff Sessions, the nomination of Mark Green for Army Secretary withdrawn due to his anti-gay and anti-trans positions, four lesbian couples suing Tennessee over recent legislation limiting definition of gender, and MTV Movie and TV Awards' decision to have gender-neutral acting awards.
Jonny and Danette discuss the LGBT and Trans-inclusive Girls Rock Carbondale summer camp, SIU's cancellation of its search for a Vice Chancellor of Institutional Diversity, Trump's Religious Freedom Executive Order and how it still impacts LGBTQ communities, our many frustrations with the House passing the American Health Care Act, the FCC investigation into Stephen Colbert over alleged obscene and homophobic statements about Trump, our outrage over a Project Pink activist facing a year in jail for laughing at Jeff Sessions, the nomination of Mark Green for Army Secretary withdrawn due to his anti-gay and anti-trans positions, four lesbian couples suing Tennessee over recent legislation limiting definition of gender, and MTV Movie and TV Awards' decision to have gender-neutral acting awards.
Mel sits down with her friend, Ann Murray Paige. Ann is a breast cancer survivor, author and unwitting filmmaker. Ann talks about her cancer spreading to her brain, how her speeches to researchers changed the way they do their work, and about going to game 6 of the World Series at Fenway Park. It's not about cancer, it's about living life to the fullest on an all new show available on demand now!!
In this return visit, journalist shares the battle she's had with cancer that began nine years ago; her film, The Breast Cancer Diaries; and Project Pink, her non-profit. Ann discusses how showing up every day is important when a disease like breast cancer strikes. Ann talked with Stacey Gualandi, host of The Women's Eye Radio on April 21, 2012 for our First Year Anniversary show. About The Women's Eye Radio: with host Stacey Gualandi, is a show from , an Online Magazine which features news and interviews with women who want to make the world a better place. From newsmakers, changemakers, entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, cancer survivors, adventurers, and experts on leadership, stress and health, to kids helping kids, global grandmothers improving children's lives, and women who fight for equal rights,"It's the world as we see it." The Women's Eye Radio Show broadcasts on in Phoenix, live-streams on 1480KPHX.com, and is available as on-demand talk radio on iTunes and at . Learn more about The Women's Eye at
James Richardson, Matt Davis, Gareth Myles and Andy Lee are back chatting about … well the iPad. they also manage to get in a little bit of chat about RIM, WebOS and Windows Phone 7.Show NotesiPhone OS 4.0 to be shown off on ThursdayANDY is SELLING HIS IPHONE :) Matt has an iPadHP Slate will be upon us soonSony Ericsson Xperia X10 unboxing videoAndys thoughts on Desire as he now has oneRIM Announces 4th Quarter Earnings3 hope to increase customer baseSPB TV for WebOSMicrosoft set to announce Project Pink on the 12th of AprilNo standard connector for WPS7Sony Ericsson Aspen review Listener question: My little girl wants a phone but I'm confused about getting her something too expensive and difficult to use. I like the Tattoo by HTC do you know anything else she could use that wouldn't be too expensive. Anon I Bought my son a Nintendo DS and it has a web browser. Do you guys ever talk about games or games machines? DS or PSP? Which is better? Jeff Gareth Myles - twitter.com/klonricketAndy Lee - twitter.com/weirdshanghaiJames Richardson - twitter.com/jpr7373Matt Davis - twitter.com/tracyandmatt Many thanks to The Stetz for the music Subscribe in iTunes to our weekly podcast RSS Feed for our weekly podcast Download the iPhone App Technorati Tags: Podcast,mobiletechaddicts
Malatesta and Phil talk up Microsoft's Project Pink, the deluge of HTC HD2 news and the latest in Windows Mobile. Plus, more of your e-mails and a couple of voicemails