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This week, the show stops in California to interview Jim Madrid. Human Performance Improvement Expert, Author, Keynote Speaker, Leadership Consultant, Facilitator, Change Agent.Episode #143 - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. You never know which motivational journey will inspire you most.With over 30 years of great results, Jim Madrid and his Advance Sports Technology group, have been helping elite athletes, leading companies and teams through transformational change. Jim's Flow theory assists leaders and athletes become more efficacious, a stronger belief in their skills and abilities. From the Board Room to the Locker Room "It's all mental!"Companies like Seattle Sounders FC, Oakley, Nordstrom, Boeing, Paramount Pictures, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, Toyota, Caterpillar, California State University, Fullerton, Seattle U, UNLV, have all worked with Jim and his team to increase performance. The results speak for themselves.Improving the Culture of Moral, and creating a Culture of One-Team, One-Direction, That's what AST is all about. "Our team of experts perfected an ongoing process of improvement and it starts with the five inches between their ears. It starts first on the inside and works it's way out." -Jim MadridGuest Email: jim@astmentaltraining.comGuest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimmadrid/Guest Website: jimmadrid.com  Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.oFor Digital Editing Inquiries, email PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.com

Episode #142 - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. You never know which motivational journey will inspire you most. This week, the show is joined by Mladen Jovanovic for a bonus Rewind the Clock episode! Mladen makes a HUGE announcement about Bindi Maps for the first time in this episode. Innovator, entrepreneur and social justice advocate - passionate about solving some of the world's biggest problems while adding significant business value. Expert and experienced in: sales, startup businesses, innovation, strategy, marketing, accounting, public speaking and simply getting things done.At BindiMaps, we make places accessible and easy to navigate. We have created an app that works much like Google Maps but for indoor spaces. If you have ever been to a shopping centre and tried using those big information touchscreens then you have an idea of how BindiMaps works. We have essentially put one of those kiosks in your pocket, and have made it completely accessible so people of all abilities are able to use it.BindiMaps is currently the largest provider of accessible indoor navigation technology in Australia.Guest Email: mladen@bindimaps.comGuest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mladen-jovanovic/ Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.oFor Digital Editing Inquiries, email PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.com

Episode #141"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. You never know which motivational journey will inspire you most. This week, the show is joined by Colin Hunter. Author, Mentor, Entrepreneur, Coach and CEO at Potential Squared International, he does it all.Hunter is streaming from the United Kingdom to discuss his experiences being Founder of the 20+ year old company, Potential Squared International.Potential Squared (PI2) is an international firm that specializes in creating playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led and are innovators in virtual reality for leadership. Colin and his award-winning team teach organizations how to build a workplace culture that is less like a classroom, and more like a playground: a place filled with opportunities to take risks and test boundaries, with soft ground on which to fall. A place where leaders and their teams are free to make mistakes, and get things wrong―a place where it's okay to fail.Colin is set to release the much anticipated, Be More Wrong: How Failure Makes You An Outstanding Leader [Page Two/Macmillan] which uncovers the systems, habits, and practices you need to develop critical leadership skills and learn fast by bringing together for the first time the concepts of The Hero's Journey, Design Thinking Methodology, storytelling, personal resilience, psychological safety, strategic presence and the blended skills of coaching and mentoring into a leadership framework.Colin is a regular contributor to HuffPost and Linkedin has provided his expertise to Customer Contact Week.Hunter is also the host of the Be More Wrong Leadership podcast.Guest Email: colinh@potential2.comGuest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhunter/Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.oFor Digital Editing Inquiries, email PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.com

Episode #140 "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. You never know which motivational journey will inspire you most. This week, the show is joined by Desmond A. Wiggan, Jr. (CEO & Co-Founder at  BatteryXchange)Imagine taking a vacation and while you're out seeing the sights, your phone dies, disconnecting you from the people who matter most. You no longer have access to your GPS, to find your way back to your hotel and you don't see an IPhone charger anywhere. As it starts to rain, you find yourself running around to every store within view to get a charge but there is none.  The language barrier is too deep that locals don't understand your plea for help. They either smile and keep walking or they think you're crazy and run away from you. This exact situation happened to us and is what sparked the idea to help millennials #LiveLifeCharged!Meet Desmond!Character: I am a highly motivated innovator that aspires to emulate leaders such as the Rockefellers, and the Carnegie's for my generation.People are important: During my early career in I learned the importance of relationships and networking(Guanxi), which has now made me a relationship seeker and networking junky.Mission: I wish to leave a legacy for me and my family. My goal is to gain as much exposure, experience, and knowledge as I can.Meet Battery ExchangeBatteryXchange enhances our users charging experience by providing a slim portable battery in the most convenient and efficient way possible. Our mobile application allows for quick access to our batteries and our easy rental process is simple so that  you can enjoy your day and night, wherever you are!  Our portable batteries are compatible with all Android and iOS devices.With our platform, users are no longer tied to an outlet or a wall socket. Our customers are able to travel, recharge, & enjoy life.Guest Email: desmond@batteryxchange.coGuest Website: batteryxchange.co   Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.oFor Digital Editing Inquiries, email PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.com

Quanice sits down with Ashraf Hasham, Funding Programs Manager and Youth Arts Manager for the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture, to discuss accountability, breaking down barriers in a government arts agency, and the great resignation…all while sipping wine. Links:Anti-Black Discrimination and Toxic Workplaces Are All Too Common in the Arts Administration Field https://news.artnet.com/opinion/paul-rucker-opinion-1973043What It's Really Like to Work at the California Arts Council https://hyperallergic.com/610784/what-its-really-like-to-work-at-the-california-arts-council/Record Label Chief, Theater Director Among Biden's National Council On The Arts Picks https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009781879/record-label-chief-theater-director-among-bidens-national-council-of-the-arts-piEvery new play on Broadway this fall is by a Black playwright https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/every-new-play-on-broadway-this-fall-is-by-a-black-playwright-070221Lin Manuel Miranda Apologises For The Afro-Latinx Erasure Of In The Heights https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2021/06/10526204/in-the-heights-colourism-casting-controversyThanks to our sponsor Blk Girl Big World Sips Wine Club https://www.blkgirlbigworld.com/sips

Season 10, Episode 2 with Lisa Haggis (Canada)"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Lisa started her business to get out of a bad work situation -- she'd spent her corporate career feeling like a square peg in a round hole. She sacrificed so much of herself to be successful but ended up getting let go from her job anyway.As she cleaned out her desk and threw away papers that seemed so important the day before, she promised to never compromise herself for a job again. She came across an article on personal branding weeks later, and it completely changed her view on how to show up authentically.Lisa started working for herself to prove that she could succeed as her true self. She felt pulled to shed off the dehumanizing rules of professionalism and pretense that she'd been taught and see whether it was possible to let that go.Similarly, she wanted to help businesses put their genuine viewpoints out there, so they could create interesting brands. In her decade as a marketer, she learned the key to strong marketing is having something worthwhile to offer and something original to say. She decided to become a brand strategist to help businesses create noteworthy brands and in turn, become marketable.She is the founder of Realize Your Brand, a high-touch business consultancy, and the creator of the Substantial Branding Method -- an approach that transforms your growing business into the legacy-level brand that you uniquely are meant to create.Guest Name: Lisa HaggisWebsite: http://www.lisahaggis.com/Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.oFor Digital Editing Inquiries, email PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.com

Shark Tank and Good Morning America's Nardo's Natural comes to the show with Co-Founder Danny Mastronardo for our Season 10 Premiere.Thank you for your support through the first nine seasons. "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.The story began when the four Mastronardo brothers discovered the health benefits of coconut oil for the skin. The brothers were inspired to formulate a responsible skincare line with ingredients derived from nature. A few months later, Nardo's Natural developed their first moisturizer in their kitchen. The family business has since introduced a variety of USDA Certified Organic products and continues to grow everyday.  Nardo's Natural sources locally and coined the phrase “MADE LOCAL, THINK GLOBAL”.  Nardo's manufactures and formulates premium skincare and is headquartered in Tampa Bay Florida.  With growth, future plans are to expand local job creation while increasing warehousing, offices and distribution in the USA.  Nardo's Natural has every intention to provide more jobs within the community and promote green business partnerships.The Four Brothers of Nardo's Natural recently competed on ABC's Shark Tank and reeled in the catch of a lifetime.  Nardo's Natural welcomes their new business partner, Barbara Corcoran, widely known as the woman who turned a $1,000 loan into a billion dollar empire. “We four brothers were so thrilled to introduce a big sister into the mix, it's going to be an exciting journey!” Says DJ Nardo, oldest of the four brothers. The brothers plan to expand their market while introducing a new innovative organic products. Barbara Corcoran has already teamed the boys up with Good Morning America's, Tory Johnson. Tory recently featured Nardo's Natural on Good Morning America and the response was phenomenal. The Brothers of Nardo's Natural plan to attend a few major Spa Conferences and have quite a few organic surprises up their sleeve!.Guest Name: Danny Mastronardo Nardo's Natural Website: https://www.nardosnatural.com/To contact: https://www.nardosnatural.com/pages/contactHost Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.oFor Digital Editing Inquiries, email PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comSpotlight Story Source: Entrepreneur.com 

Season 9 Finale with Vincent DeRiso"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from across the country and around the world on each episode. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.The final episode of Season 9 is here! Thank you to all of the guests and listeners from this season!Meet Vincent: DeRiso returns to catch us up on his endeavors. He is an entrepreneur who gives unique and amazing insight on having a trusted friend and partner steal from your business, having to find a way to not give up, and revolutionizing his business model. He gives great advice for all entrepreneurs on how to stay current and separate yourself from the competition. A key takeaway; NOTHING WILL EVER OVERCOME HARD WORK! Ever.About His Company:Revolution Fitness offers a diversified and optimal way to get in shape. If you want strength training, an intense cardio workout, and opportunities for exceptional personal and group fitness instruction, our facility has the best trainers and equipment for it all!Our professional trainers and affordable prices are the best combination you will find without the hassle of expensive commitments or a stuffy atmosphere. We work with people at all fitness levels, in a motivating, supportive, and fun environment.A Customer Testimonial:"Having been a member of New York Sports Clubs for many years I was directed to Revolution by my daughter after Covid closed down things. I had been dissapointed by NYSC for a long time very impersonal and lack of attention to cleaning and equipment upkeep. Revolution is 360 degree difference Vinny and his staff do care and you feel like you are part of a family. Its a great club and for me very close to home. Best move I ever made regarding fitness. Now I just need to work off all that weight !"Revolution Fitness Website: https://www.revolutionfitnessgyms.com/You can check out his first  episode here:https://thatentrepreneurshow.buzzsprout.com/737252/2630698-learn-how-to-revolution-ize-your-industry-with-this-ceoHost Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

4th of July Bonus Episode with Kaywanda Lamb (Texas)My first podcast recording in Spanish is here! I have a long way to go in mastering this language but wanted to share my progress. I challenge you to trust your process and accept certain things take time. Aim for progress, not perfection! Thank you for joining me, Kaywanda. -Vincent "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from across the country and around the world on each episode. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.The final week of Season 9 has another bonus episode for you.Meet Kaywanda:She is the CEO & Founder of Spanish for Small Business. Her passion for Spanish started in the 6th-grade Spanish class. She never forgot how fun it was to speak a foreign language. When she entered high school, she studied French and Latin. She later studied Business Administration with a minor in Spanish and continued to earn a Masters in Spanish Literature. After graduating with her business degree, she returned to her alma mater to get a full degree in Spanish. For the past 5 years, Kaywanda has taught entrepreneurs and small business owners conversational Spanish using her AIM (Adaptive Instruction Model) Method. She's learned to teach her adult clients what they need to interface with their clients and to do so with confidence and ease.She also runs KaywandaLamb.com where she leads a tribe of single mothers who want to make more money, manage motherhood, and win at life.  Spanish for Small Business Website: https://www.spanishforsmallbusiness.com/You can check out her first two episodes here:https://thatentrepreneurshow.buzzsprout.com/737252/8352997-the-winning-single-mom-is-backhttps://thatentrepreneurshow.buzzsprout.com/737252/2961859-learn-why-this-ceo-made-a-life-changing-decision-for-her-futureHost Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Season 9 Finale - Hamza Aboulfeth (Morocco) - His first client paid $5. Now, he has 30k clients. Buckle up. "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from across the country and around the world on each episode. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.This week, the show will connect Tampa, Florida to Morocco!Meet Serial Entrepreneur, Hamza:Hamza is a 35-year autodidact tech serial entrepreneurSstarted business at an early age, 17 years old. Dropped out of college at 21ICANN accreditation at 24Attended the World Economic Forum at 25Went to Harvard at 26Hajj and Burning Man at 27Got married at 28Had a baby girl at 29Fought Cancer before 30After a life of entrepreneurial endeavors, he currently has three active companies he founded, along with many more with stories to share. His most recent, Food On Demand. It is the first connected restaurant in Morocco that also specializes in food delivery. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Hamza AboulfethWebsite: Aboulfeth.com  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboulfeth/detail/contact-info/The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Episode 134 - Adam Nasir Founder of Smarter ContactStreaming from Ukraine "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Adam Nasir rejoins the show for a bonus Rewind the Clock episode.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from across the country and around the world on each episode. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. You never know which guest you will resonate with most!This week, the show offers another bonus episode. In this show, you will hear countless stories to Adam's rise to where he is today. Hearing him speak will instill the confidence boost you need to take your future to the next level. Nasir will share what worked well for him and what areas he made a pivot to reach new success.About Smarter Contact:Best In Class Interface & Best In Class Delivery RateText message marketing can take your business to new heights. Find out how investors are getting 10X, 20X even 50X ROI on their marketing dollars...Close more deals with the highest delivery rate in the industryYou save HOURS every day because all of your contacts are in one, easy to use software. Follow-up with leads automatically with pre-built messaging campaigns. Manage your entire marketing system with a few easy clicks.Other features include "Ringless Voicemail Drops & Automation" and "Connects beautifully with top CRMs"Connect with Nasir on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-nasir-8470b5196/Head to the Smarter Contact website here: https://smartercontact.com/Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Episode 135 - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Season 9, Episode 11 - Todd Dean (Idaho)Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from across the country and around the world on each episode. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.This week, the show will connect Tampa, Florida to Sun Valley, Idaho!Meet Todd Dean:A proven visionary and leader in the entrepreneurial investment community. Created a powerful collaborative environment for bringing together like-minded community leaders, business executives, angel investors, serial entrepreneurs and early-stage companies that translated into investments in over 125 companies. A dynamic keynote speaker and facilitator. Knowledgeable in helping entrepreneurs, startups, and companies receive capital and valuable resources, creating the future economics of our region and country. Dedicated to maintaining a reputation built on integrity, quality, structure, consistency, and uncompromising ethics.Todd donates considerable time and energy to several regional charities and organizations including being a board member of Junior Achievement, Montana Ambassadors, SCORE, University of Washington, and Girls Giving Back.Specialties: My passion and goal is working supporting entrepreneurs and investors in building and funding great companies!Entrepreneurs and Startups ready to take business to the next level.Business and Business Owners that would like to generate more revenue, scale, expand, and grow.♦ Keynote Speaker ♦ Startups♦ Investing in Startups ♦ Angel Investing ♦ Angel Investments ♦ Capital Structure ♦ Board of DirectorsFirst Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Todd DeanEmail: todd@todddean.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtodddean/The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Episode 134 - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Season 9, Episode 10 - Christopher Jones (Missouri)Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from across the country and around the world on each episode. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You. This week, the show will connect Tampa, Florida to Kansas City, Missouri! Meet Christopher:Chris Jones has worked in Information Technology for over 20 years and served 9 years as a Healthcare IT Director.  He has helped healthcare companies become more cost efficient through technology innovation and automation. He combines all of that experience into founding MatchRite Care LLC, an integrated EHR software built using FHIR standards to allow and promote patient record accessibility.As the Founder of MatchRite Care, he has been helping people's lives for the better.Their objective is to deliver a patient's personal health records right to their hand in asimple and clean format.This company allows patients to aggregate all of their medical records, regardless of if a different provider, together.Jones is also the President of 531 Digital LLC, a technology company he started that helps companies tackle IT strategies and develop software. First Hand Experience + Valuable Lessons Learned = A Win for You.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Christopher JonesEmail: Chris.jones@matchritecare.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-jones-91734b26/The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Episode 132 - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Season 9, Episode 8 - Jordan Schein  Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. For Rewind the Clock episodes, he will continue to bring back previous guests who are continuing to make news headlines.Meet Jordan, "The Chick Behind the Threads":What you wear says a lot about who you are. In 2015, she became the creator and Owner of Locura Jewelry; a unique line of handmade jewelry. She develops all products,  runs the e-commerce side through my her website (below), and runs all social media accounts.Schein is proud to have this business where she can create handmade pieces that allow people to express themselves and make them feel happy. Her passion is making comfortable, "bad ass" loungewear that will keep you looking good and staying comfy.There is beauty & art within so much of the world to inspire eclectic jewelry. It's in the hidden street art covering concrete-It's in the music we hear that transforms into a vision of colorful, sparkling gems & stones-It's in the magical parts of the world that leaves us in complete awe-and if the eyes are the windows to the soul - look & see the madness.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Jordan ScheinWebsite: https://locurabyj.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/locura_byj/The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

“I am changed. Even in the almost 5 years that have passed since my first sitting, I find it difficult to lace the right words together to truly convey the impact of the experience. Enlightening, without a doubt, but I might go as far as to say profound. Numerous fellow meditators have described it as the most important thing they've ever done for themselves.” Caitlin Kratz Today Poet, Writer, and Experientialist Caitlin Kratz joins us from Los Angeles, CA and presents her story, “What it's Really Like on a 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat.” Caitlin Kratz publishes on numerous platforms including her own stage, Flight of the Swallow where the core of this platform is an exploration of mindfulness. Caitlin believes that living in the present is the antithesis of living on autopilot.   You can find Caitlin Kratz by using the links below, https://www.flightoftheswallow.com https://www.instagram.com/caitlinmkratz/   Good Somerville - Go Adventure with Purpose, https://www.goodsomerville.com   Please support the show by using the link below to Buy Me A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottdavidson This is a True Story Podcast is found here, https://www.instagram.com/thisisatruestorypodcast/ http://truestorypod.com   Scott Davidson is found here, https://www.instagram.com/living_adaptive/ https://linktr.ee/living_adaptive

Episode 130- "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. Season 9, Episode 6 - Vikrant Shaurya (Streaming from India)Meet Vikrant:Being a bestselling author makes you an expert on your topic — that’s a no-brainer. And it should be a no-brainer for clients to go to you when they need help. As an expert, you’re their go-to person!But alas, you tried writing your book but ended up just staring at a blank page.Fortunately, BestsellingBook.com is your solution. We’re the easiest way to get your core message into your book and then get it out into the world!✅ At BestsellingBook.com, we’re dedicated to helping entrepreneurs, coaches, speakers, experts, and thought leaders like you produce your very own bestselling book — a masterpiece you can leverage for total business success.✅ We’ll help you get your very own bestselling book — even if you don’t have the time or know-how to make one yourself.✅ What’s more, you’ll enjoy professional publishing services to help you write, publish, and market your book.

Episode 129- "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. Season 9, Episode 5 - Darren Andersen - "Rewind the Clock" Bonus EpisodeHost Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. For Rewind the Clock episodes, he will continue to bring back previous guests who are continuing to make news headlines. What business did Darren introduce on his first episode? Here is more information:At Stratecore Consultants, we specialize in taking your business to the next level. By offering a diverse list of consulting and business management solutions hyper focused in the Marketing and Human Resources sectors, Stratecore partners with our clients to meet the ever changing demands of their business. Whether it is helping our clients find qualified talent to meet company growth expectations, digital/social media marketing and public relations assistance, or even new business development strategies there is no job too big or too small for us here at Stratecore. For amazing new first-hand experience and to find out what he has been up to since Episode #4 overall, all you have to do is click play.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Darren AndersenEmail: dandersen2424@gmail.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darren-andersen-31b8b9a9/The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Episode #128 - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.Season 9, Episode 4: Vincent A. Lanci interviews Brianca Johnson, streaming from Georgia (GA).Meet Brianca Johnson:

Welcome to the Season 9 Premiere. "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 127th episode of the series and 3rd episode ofSeason 9, Vincent A. Lanci interviews Shake Pryzby, streaming from the Denver, Colorado (CO).Meet Shake Pryzby of (Trading Experts):This week’s guest became infatuated with the trading floor and upon college graduation, he took a role as a Proprietary Trader directly out of college with a Wall Street Firm.  After four successful years in the profession, he left the firm to create his own Educational Trading Service with one of his co-workers from the trading firm called Trading Experts.  Their goal in doing so was to create a massive online community focused on learning and growing alongside fellow traders with all different levels of capital, knowledge & experience.  Fast Forward 4 years, Trading Experts has built one of the best communities on Wall Street with hundreds of members as well as thousands of traders in our ecosystem in some fashion.  If you have  interest in turning your passion into a career or are looking for trading advice,  this is the show FOR YOU!Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Shake PryzbyEmail: matthewpryzby@gmail.comWebsite: https://tradingexperts.org/ The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

We all have a tendency to judge others based on what we think they deserve. Maybe you’ve tried to do things the right way, but those who had no regard for the right way seemed to be rewarded. The truth is, when we overestimate our own righteousness and underestimate the grace we’ve been given, we can’t help but judge others. In order to discover true peace, we need to shift our focus from others to ourselves and rest in the relationship we have with the Father. Pastor Eddie wraps up "What God is Really Like" in today's message.

Episode 126 - Season 9, Episode 2 - Michelle Mazur - "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.Meet Michelle:…There’s a life-changing, industry defying, and even world redefining idea rolling around in that head of yours.That idea needs to do more than spread. It needs to DOMINATE.The one BIG thing holding you back is the 37 rambling minutes it takes to explain it. Heartbreaking and it ends today.It’s going to take more than a message.It’s going to take a REBELLION – in just 3 Words.Imagine a message so powerful, so captivating, so intriguing, your audience flocks to hire you & desperate to spread the word.FOR THAT, YOU NEED A MESSAGE COACHUNLIKE ANY OTHER.I’M DR. MICHELLE MAZUR. THE INSTIGATOR OF THE 3 WORD REBELLION.Michelle Mazur, Ph.D. founded Communication Rebel on the belief that communication changes the world so that’s what she helps business owners and speakers do! Rebel against the status quo to make a difference. She helps speakers craft 3 Word Rebellion, rebellious talking points, and a speech that incites action and generates revenue.The speakers Michelle works with have gone on to book $10,000 speaking gigs, become international speakers (they even speak in front of world leaders!), and raise 3x the amount of money expected for the launch of a charity.She is the author of two books, Speak Up for Your Business & Speak for Impact. Her rebel yell has appeared in Fast Company, Inc., Entrepreneur, PR Daily, Business2Community, and She Owns It. She lives in Seattle, WA with her adoring husband, 3 obsessive felines, and a huge collection of Duran Duran memorabilia.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Dr. Michelle MazurWebsite: https://drmichellemazur.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmichellemazur/The Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.o

Welcome to the Season 9 Premiere. "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 125th episode of the series and Season 9 Opener, Vincent A. Lanci interviews James Mulvany, streaming from the United Kingdom (UK).Meet James Founder of (Radio.co, Podcast.co & MatchMaker.fm):All doing interesting things with incredible teams in the online media/broadcasting & content spaces

Welcome to the Season 8 Finale with UFC Contender Matt "SteamRolla" Frevola. "What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether you are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Host Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 124th episode of the series and the 13th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci interviews Matt "SteamRolla" Frevola for the Season Finale.This guest is someone who you will continue to hear his name for years to come. This was a fun episode for Lanci to deliver he also grew up on Long Island and is now down in Tampa. He has the respect of everyone who knows him. His hard work and dedication have his entrepreneurial endeavors paying off. The SteamRolla made his debut in the octagon in 2017 and has a record of 8-2-1.This entrepreneur is the perfect example of what hard work and dedication can do when you believe in yourself. His story of following his dreams is sure to be the motivation you need to take that next step.Learn more with this interview with UFC:When and why did you start training for fighting? It’s the ultimate competition, man vs man, no one to pass the blame to, no excuses. I fell in love with the martial arts lifestyle - Discipline, respect, loyalty, humility, hard workDo you have any heroes? My fatherWhat does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? It means I earned the right to test my skills and fight the best fighters in the worldDid you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? CriminologyWhat was your job before you started fighting? Security, construction, I was the gym janitor, and I am in the Army reservesSpecific accomplishments in amateur competition? 9-0 amateur record, Costa Rica lightweight champ, USAL lightweight champRanks in any martial arts styles: Brown belt in BJJFavorite grappling technique: TriangleFavorite Striking technique: Spinning back kickHost Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Matt "SteamRolla" Frevola"Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKe60VFpqzv/UFC Website: https://www.ufc.com/athlete/matt-frevolaThe Future | https://soundcloud.com/strawberry-candy-musicAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/lic

When you hear the term “heavenly Father,” what feelings bubble up? In one story, Jesus gives us a perfect picture of who our heavenly Father truly is. Pastor Bryan Cox kicks off week one of "What God is Really Like."

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 123rd episode of the series and the 11th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci interviews Kristin Currey. Meet Kristin, CEO and Founder of DraftCard - LinkedIn for Youth Sports!Prior to DraftCard I had 15 years of eDiscovery, Cybersecurity and Information Technology sales and management.In my career, I have supported numerous eDiscovery-centric matters as a consultant as well as a Vice President of Sales working with both sales and operations teams, assisting corporate in house counsel as well as law firms. I have extensive experience in advising clients of technology in matters ranging from SEC Investigations, Department of Justice (Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act) investigations to complex Intellectual Property litigation. I am involved in various industry organizations and continued learning education programs as well as philanthropic organizations and was a full ride scholarship swimmer at Arizona State University.DraftCard is a sharable verified digital resume that allows athletes to create their brand and stand out in a crowd. DraftCard has an interactive profile/resume built with patent pending AR/VR/AI technology. DraftCard is the first "get verified" solution through our partnerships with NCSA , the worlds largest athletic recruiting network and InjureFree an accident injury management platform. Our technology allows another level of crowdsource verification that changes the way fans, coaches and athletes share their sports experiences on and off the field. The data, stats, accomplishments, videos, photos and GPA are all located in one location and able to be shared on any social media platform, text or email. Coaches and recruiters can find the athletes verified data that they are looking for all in one location place to increase efficiency. Zillow is to homes what DraftCard is to athletes.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshowFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Kristin CurreyEmail: Kristin@draftcard.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-currey-7704a56Website: https://draftcard.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 122nd episode of the series and the 10th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings back Kaywanda Lamb.For Rewind the Clock episodes, Host Vincent A. Lanci will continue to bring back previous guests who continue to make news headlines. This guest is returning from Season 2 and Episode 41 overall.Kaywanda Lamb is an 3x published author, speaker, blogger, soon to be podcaster, and The Winning Single Mom. Her journey to being a sought out speaker, encourager to single moms everywhere, and a transformational business coach began when her boys were just 2 years old and 2 months. Kaywanda had a choice to make: to stay in a relationship that didn’t honor her or to raise her boys as a single mom. She decided to #doitanyway and has spent the last 16 years showing other women they, too, can parent, thrive, and win. She returned to college 4 times in that span, holds a Masters in Spanish Literature, runs 3 businesses, and is a certified principal. Her motto is “do it anyway!” because you can dream about it or you can be about it.Kaywanda hosts a brunch series around the U.S. called Brunch and Love which includes a luxury brunch experience for single moms plus wisdom from today’s top relationship experts. Kaywanda believes women can chase their dreams and raise great children but single doesn’t have to be forever. And she is opening a beta version of “The Single Mom Success Academy™” summer 2019 where she will teach single moms to create a side hustle or business to sustain them and their families.Her work ethic and ambition set her apart. Her advice is what you need to take. Click play to get started.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Kaywanda LambEmail: kaywandalamb@gmail.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaywanda-lamb/Website: https://www.kaywandalamb.com/Quote Source: Forbes.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 121st episode of the series and the 10th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings on Tony Alexander.As an entrepreneur, Tony combines his Human Resource professional experience with 15+ years of leadership experience both in business and military to elevate individuals and companies through performance management and tailored development plans.There’s no surprise that Tony was named Black Enterprise Men of Distinction 40 under 40 in 2016. Tony combines his passion for people and talent to deliver ultimate and long-term success.  He is the Founder of SGI Services based out of Houston, TX. The company is dedicated to bringing humanity back into the workforce and keeps you up to date with HR needs and trends.  He is an all around inspiration and involved as a mentor to hundreds across the world. Prepare to improve your life and mindset.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Tony AlexanderEmail: tony.alexander@sgileadership.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonytalexander/Website: https://www.structuredgi-services.com/Source: https://www.briantracy.com/blog/personal-success/inspirational-quotes-for-the-new-year/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 120th episode of the series and the 9th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings on Brian Kornfeld, MBA.For Rewind the Clock episodes, Host Vincent A. Lanci will continue to bring back previous guests who continue to make news headlines. This guest is returning from Season 1, Episode 30.I believe we can unlock this reality by removing the greatest roadblock of all, fear, along with providing supportive communities that build strong connection. I wake up everyday to break entrepreneurs free from fear by providing them with the encouragement, guidance, and resourcefulness to achieve their dreams.This purpose motivated me to immerse myself in the Florida innovation community, forming abundant relationships with those who have visions similar to mine. This led me to co-founding Synapse, an organization who will make a profound impact on the Floridian ecosystem.This 501c3 nonprofit organization has opened a whirlwind of opportunities for me as we continue to cross barriers in shaping Florida's future for jobs, talent, capital, and business.I do what I do to help people with potential. I do what I do because I see something special in the state of Florida that outsiders don’t, and I believe I can be just a small piece to making it something greater than it already is.My Values- Freedom, Authenticity, Logic, Growth, Integrity, Human Connection, Courage, PositivityHe is bringing everything from innovation to leadership all episode long. Click play to get started.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Brian Kornfeld, MBAEmail: Brian.kornfeld@synapsefl.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-kornfeld-mba-53613030/Website: https://synapsefl.com/Quote Source: Forbes.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/. Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 119th episode of the series and the 8th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings on Kaley Chu.I’m an author, motivational speaker and people connector.I used to suffer from crippling shyness. One day, it was so bad, I froze when a client asked me a question – in front of my boss!. I was humiliated, so I decided something had to change. My solution? Have lunch with 100 strangers. What came next completely changed my life.Since that painful day, I’ve published a book and given a TEDx talk about my journey. Now, I speak all over Australia to motivate others to step out of their comfort zone, connect withpeople and live a more fulfilling life. “One connection can transform your life.”In 2018, I pushed myself out my comfort zone and had lunch… with 100 strangers!Not only did I go from being a shy girl who was scared of strangers to a “people connector”, this experience completely transformed every aspect of my life.As a direct result of my 100 Lunches challenge, I have published a book “100 Lunches with Strangers” in which I outline 15 of the most important lessons I learned along the way. I have also done a TEDx Talk “100 Lunches with Strangers – A Simple Way To Transform Your Life” and been invited to share my story in television interviews, on radio and in newspapers all over the country.“I am sharing this journey with you in the hope it will inspire you to step out of your comfort zone, change your destiny and unleash your hidden potential. Do something unexpected, step into your power and impact others positively. Meet people from different backgrounds. You will be amazed at how much you can learn from each person, and how the interactions will help you live a more rewarding and conscious life.”Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Kaley ChuEmail: kaley@kaleychu.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaleychu/LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/kaleychu Source: Capitalism.com/female-entrepreneurs Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 118th episode of the series and the 7th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings US Veteran Elena Ward for the 2nd "Rewind the Clock" Bonus Episode of the season. For Rewind the Clock episodes, Host Vincent A. Lanci will continue to bring back previous guests who continue to make news headlines.Ward is an Air Force Veteran and Mother of 2 who introduced her first 2 different entrepreneurial endeavors on her first episode. On this episode, she introduced 2 new businesses! Find out what they are when you click play. Let's catch up on her first episode. On Season 4, she introduced "B Pure Escentuals", her own line of beauty products.She also runs a fitness program called "Pretty Fit Everything!", which is a combination of fitness and lifestyle. Her first-hand experience from running these businesses and also having them all pivot during COVID will undoubtably help you grow yours.Click play to get started.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Elena WardEmail: elenareed2018@gmail.comAll of her Websites: https://linktr.ee/Prettyfitfitness  Quote Source: Forbes.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/ - Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 117th episode of the series and the 6th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci interviews the incredibly accomplished, Mark Butler.This week's guest went from struggling with money management and debt to the founder of Let’s Do the Books and CFO for top coaches like Brooke Castillo!Looking at Mark Butler now, you’d never expect that he used to struggle with the financial side of business ownership. Mark previously founded three online businesses that brought in close to $2 million in total revenue, but he always felt broke because he had no idea how to manage money!After selling those businesses, Mark devoted the next year to learning financial management -- both to get himself out of debt and to ensure his next company would thrive. This kicked off a journey of self-discovery. Mark not only learned a new skill set; he also came to understand how shame and fear around money creates a destructive cycle of self-sabotage that keeps you from making good choices about your business.With his current company, Mark has helped many coaches out of the cycle of drawing down savings/building up debt, feeling deeply ashamed, not investing in the business anymore and the business not growing due to a lack of investment.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Mark ButlerEmail: mark@markbutler.com Wesbite: https://letsdothebooks.com/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 116th episode of the series and the 5th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings 3x World Series Champion and Serial Entrepreneur, Trent Clark, back on the show for the 9th Rewind the Clock episode. For Rewind the Clock episodes, Host Vincent A. Lanci will continue to bring back previous guests who continue to make news headlines. As a kid, he risked telling the people in his life that he trusted most his #1 goal. This is what he was told: "you're not enough."Have YOU ever been told that 'YOU'RE NOT ENOUGH'? Has someone expressed that to you?He overcame that and spent 12+ years in professional baseball, coaching the best in the world and teaching the most prestigious athletes in the fiercest competition of their lives battling for their dreams.He has 3 World Series Rings and entrepreneurial experiences that have shaped him.When he was 13 yrs old, he had career-day at school and had to determine 5 things of 'what his life would be like when I was 30.' He wanted to be a Pro Baseball Player. This was his first experience of dreaming/vision work and goal setting.Having spent most of his adult livelihood among top 1% producers in sports and business, he asserts his  blend of business background, professional athletic development, and experience with MEASURABLE training, reinforced learning, leadership, mentoring and coaching expertise.His developmental management, mentorship training, and leadership education came directly under coaching greats; Sparky Anderson, Tom Izzo, Nick Saban, & more.He's an International speaker, owner, investor and Entrepreneur Organization (EO) Member & Global Contributor for Mentorship programs.He currently serves on  Transitions Team and the CEO & Chief Leadership Officer of Leadershipity. Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Trent ClarkEmail: Trent@leadershipity.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trentmclark/  Quote Source: Forbes.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you.Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most.For the 115th episode of the series and the 4th episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings healthcare entrepreneur, Kym Ali.The show visits Maryland for the first time to interview an entrepreneur in the healthcare field. After working in numerous capacities in the States and abroad, Kym observed that healthcare professionals around the world share one common denominator. They are all BURNED OUT and unfortunately, most healthcare organizations don't provide a holistic and Health and Wellness program to address the consequences of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion. Kym Ali is a Registered Nurse and Founder of Kym Ali Healthcare Consulting Firm. Ali helps healthcare facilities save money by implementing effective holistic health and wellness programs that support healthcare professionals with managing stress and burnout.She emphasizes the importance of Health and Wellness programs. Since this pandemic started, wellness is just as important as ever.  The repercussions of employee burnout can have severe effects on an organization's bottom line. High Turnover RatesLow MoralePoor Patient Satisfaction ScoresBullyingIncreased Length of StaysHigh Readmissions RatesLaw Suits Sentinel Events ​All stem from employee burnout. Imagine how much your organization can save by investing in your employee's overall well-being now. Level up with Kym Ali this week. Enjoy the episode.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Kym AliEmail: Info@kymali.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kymali/Website: kymali.com  Sources: https://www.capitalism.com/female-entrepreneurs/https://blog.zoominfo.com/motivational-women-business/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded  to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Whether your are looking to start or scale your business, this is the show for you. Vincent A. Lanci interviews the founder of a different company from around the world on each episode. He records interviews with entrepreneurs in all industries to provide many different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. For the 114th episode of the series and the 3rd episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings digital marketing expert, Rich Rudzinski.Born and raised in LA, he moved to San Diego to attend UCSD and fell in love with the culture, climate, and budding tech scene. After graduation, he spent a few years cutting his teeth at a growing digital agency before embarking on his own venture.At the ripe age of 26, he saw a gap in the digital service industry, and started his company to fill the need for an expert digital consulting firm to support businesses with their technical decisions and challenges.Initially, they worked solely as a white-label resource for larger agencies, helping them with complex software projects for brands like Pixar, GM, Qualcomm, and others. After several years of enduring all of the project pain and receiving no glory, he transitioned the business to bring our value directly to businesses and startups.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Rich RudzinskiEmail: rich@tragic.mediaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tragic-rich/Website: https://tragic.media/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 113th episode of the series and the 2nd episode of Season 8 , Vincent A. Lanci brings on serial entrepreneur, Carey Gille.The show's first interview in Nebraska is with a ROCKSTAR female entrepreneur who offers advice from so many angles of entrepreneurship. From founding her own startup, to selling companies and to helping others franchise, the advice is endless.This serial entrepreneur has co-founded four different start-ups throughout her career. She also brings extensive franchise experience having franchised with two different concepts. Some of the companies she founded include ItsDeductible, which was later acquired by Intuit and is still utilized by TurboTax users today, Sojern, the world’s largest boarding pass and travel data advertiser.Most recently, Franchise Fastline, which was ranked by Entrepreneur Magazine as a top five franchise consulting company for two consecutive years. Get ready to level up your business with Carey Gille. Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Carey GilleEmail: cgille@franchisefastlane.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/careygille/Website: http://www.franchisefastlane.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US Story & Quote Source: Capitalism.com

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 112th episode of the series and Season 8 Premiere, Vincent A. Lanci brings on the Systemology Author, David Jenyns.This Australian entrepreneur started his journey back in his early 20’s when he sold Australia’s most love sporting ground, the Melbourne Cricket Ground. He quickly became a serial entrepreneur with diverse experience. Today, his mission is to free all business owners worldwide from the daily operations of running their business.Recognized as a high achieving entrepreneur, you will find many of David’s keynote presentations on YouTube including: TEDx, WordCamp and Problogger. We will also learn about his recent book ‘SYSTEMology: Create Time, Reduce Errors And Scale Your Profits With Proven Business Systems’, where he lays out how small business owners can implement the right systems in their businesses.Whether you have a system in place, are looking to implement one, or just want to learn more about systems, this is a perfect episode for you.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: David JenynsEmail: david@systemology.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jenyns/Website: https://www.systemology.com/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 111th episode of the series and Season Finale of Season 7, Vincent A. Lanci brings on the Founder of SalesFlare Jeroen Corthout. He has built a platform that can help everyone who is listening to this podcast.For the first time in show history, the show makes a stop in Belgium to interview the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare. Salesflare is an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and SaaS companies.Salesflare itself was founded when Corthout and his co-founder, Lieven, wanted to manage the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of them manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically.It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.2020 has led us to a new age in business. Let Corthout and his journey help your business come out of this pandemic thriving. Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Marco NovoEmail: mnovo@marconovo.netLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfcnovo/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 110th episode of the series and 8th Episode of Season 7, Vincent A. Lanci brings on a guest streaming in from Portugal Marco Novo. Novo has built a brand that does it all.For Week 8 of Season 7, Novo introduces topics that affect all of our businesses: MarketingCreativityInnovationSocial MediaConsultingStrategies.Novo has found much success through going LIVE on social media. His show, "The Special Marcoting Show", has become extremely popular and Host Vincent A. Lanci has been a guest on the show THREE TIMES. Find the links to these shows on either of their links below. 2020 has led us to a new age in business. Novo is here to led to help you thrive in 2021.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Marco NovoEmail: mnovo@marconovo.netLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfcnovo/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 109th episode of the series and 7th Episode of Season 7, Vincent A. Lanci brings on Keith Brady. Host Vincent A. Lanci got the opportunity to reconnect with a fellow UT alum to deliver an incredibly valuable testimonial. Upon graduating college in 2010, Brady got a job at Henry Schein Medical and soon after, in 2012, purchased his first home with his brother. From there, the entrepreneurial horses were off to the races. He since founded multiple companies, starting with Keith Brady Media LLC, that very same year and along the way he’s produced videos and digital ad campaigns for some of the world largest brands, such as Amazon, Old Navy, and Budweiser. Over the last few years he segmented out the media businesses into three specialized companies – he runs PIJIN Media for his corporate work, Brady Weddings, and also, The Digs Media, which is a real estate focused media company. Like many, his media companies took a hit during the pandemic. Rather than sit back and wait for something to happen - he teamed up with his wife, and a few others to find a way to help address the pandemic. Keith led the design and manufacturing of “RovPod”. RovPod is a fully functional mobile medical center built out of shipping containers. These centers can be deployed and dropped anywhere in the country to bring rapid testing to communities in need. 2020 led to many businesses facing challenges. As entrepreneurs, we need to find ways to pivot. Get ready to learn how to thrive with Brady.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: Keith BradyEmail: hello@keithbradymedia.com Business Website: https://www.keithbradymedia.com/RovPod Website: www.thehealthrover.comAdventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 108th episode of the series and 6th Episode of Season 7, Vincent A. Lanci brings on Lisa Diasparra.Lisa goes by "LEESA" in the music industry and is an active singer-songwriter. She was born and raised in Long Island New York and singing has always been a part of her life ever since she can remember. Growing up, she had extremely bad ADHD, but when it came to singing and writing, it was her escape from the places that she felt she lacked in. As she ventures off into creating for herself, she looks up to music legends like Barbara Streisand and Whitney Houston for inspiration and to help develop her sound.When writing her songs, she aim to bring some humor into her story telling. After straying away from music for a few years, she describes coming back to music has been one of the smartest, most healing moves she’s ever made. Her story of resilience and persistence will undoubtably inspire you in new ways. 2020 led to an overload of content. As entrepreneurs, we need to find ways to stand out. Get ready to learn how to take your creativity to the next level with LEESA.Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/thatentrepreneurshowGuest Name: "LEESA"Email: leesamusicofficial@gmail.comSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6GCiip3oypKXoycSquTqqA?si=9_gMb_KuSI-CR8GFZhL4bw.com Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

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"What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show" https://www.VincentALanci.com/Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most. Get ready to learn from the successes and learning lessons of this guest.For the 107th episode of the series and 5th Episode of Season 7, Vincent A. Lanci brings on Jeff Richards. Richards has over 25 years experience developing business strategy, aligning the supporting Information Technology, and associated organizational changes to deliver the results. An inspirational leader who will roll up his sleeves to get the job done, he has a global perspective developed during significant P&L management level positions in Asia and Europe.His experience is divided between positions in both industry and consulting. He has run a $100 million consulting practice as well as grown his own 3 person consultancy to over $3 million in 18 months. His industry positions were in Materials, Operations and IT Management.This entrepreneur has been on a roll over the last two years, earning the following designations:2020 Bay Area CIO of the Year ORBIE Award2020 Bay Area CIO of the Year Strategic Supplier AwardTop 50 Tech Companies - Intercon 2019Get ready to learn how to take your business to the next level with Jeff Richards. Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/what-its-really-like-to-be-an-entrepreneur/Guest Name: Jeff RichardsEmail: jrichards@ciops.comWebsite: ciops.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrichardsciops/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Vincent A. Lanci interviews a different entrepreneur from around the world on each episode. He records interviews in all industries to provide different perspectives. You never know which motivational journey will motivate you most."What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur" has been rebranded to "That Entrepreneur Show"https://www.VincentALanci.com/ Want to know what it’s really like to be an entrepreneur? Well, you came to the right place! Hear real-life, authentic stories and accounts from entrepreneurs each week.For the 106th episode of the series and 4th Episode of Season 7, Vincent A. Lanci brings on Shreya Patel. Patal is the honoree of Women's Achiever Award - Youth Leadership 2020 and CSPN Emerging Leader Under 35. She was flown to Berlin to attend the Forbes U30 summit last year and was offered two pitching opportunities.Storyteller, activist, director, model, and actress Shreya Patel is a voice for empowering the underdog. She has dedicated her life to not only a professional career in film & fashion but also in social work.She is dedicated to bringing light to human trafficking violations occurring in the very community she grew up in. Shreya is a social entrepreneur who directed, produced, wrote and edited a documentary short called Girl Up, The documentary was used to start a conversation on how to combat human trafficking. It debuted at the 18th Annual Film South Asian Festival in 2017. Toronto International Film Festival showcased the film at the Civic Action Summit. She was nominated to represent University-Rosedale at the Under 35 Women’s Forum at the Assembly of Ontario.In 2018 to 2020, she appeared in Bell Canada’s national mental health awareness ad “Bell Let’s Talk”, raising visibility and breaking the silence around mental illness and support. She has been recognized by Global Affairs Canada for her mental health activism.During this pandemic, she has gathered over 65 countries on 6 different continents and made a documentary called Unity showcasing the plight of the human spirit. It also explores the disparity that exists between industrialized and developing nations. She followed this with a YouTube music video surpassing 1M views in less than 2 weeks. Host Name: Vincent A. LanciEmail: PodcastsByLanci@Gmail.comYouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thatentrepreneurshow/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThatEntrepreneurShowTwitter: twitter.com/PodcastsByLanciLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/what-its-really-like-to-be-an-entrepreneur/Guest Name: Shreya PatelEmail: shreya@imshreyapatel.comWebsite: https://imshreyapatel.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imshreyapatel/Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Chelsea & Grace teach each other about Fido’s origin story and an oft misunderstood mental illness. As you can imagine, there is no easy way to connect these two topics. Trust me - I’ve tried. So, let’s talk about something else, shall we? Orange tic-tacs make no sense! How are you only supposed to eat a singular tac? The minty flavors I can understand, but when it comes to the sweet flavors, are we expected to treat them as a single serving? That’s like eating one skittle, then stashing the bag away in your purse for later. teen vogue article: What It’s Really Like to Have OCD | Teen Vogue OCD and the pandemic: My OCD Doesn't Mean I'm Equipped For a Pandemic | Teen Vogue OCD and racial disparity: International OCD Foundation | African Americans with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Black Lives Matter (iocdf.org) Talk to us! twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodevegirls instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegoodeveninggirls/ tiktok: @thegoodevegirls Meet Me In Forks iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-me-in-forks/id1536002186 Meet Me In Forks Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1bg7cusgycBhIFFguMf8k7

George Parker Bidder was born with a surprising gift: He could do complex arithmetic in his head. His feats of calculation would earn for him a university education, a distinguished career in engineering, and fame throughout 19th-century England. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast, we'll describe his remarkable ability and the stunning displays he made with it. We'll also try to dodge some foul balls and puzzle over a leaky ship. Intro: John Clem joined the Union Army at age 10. Actress Tippi Hedren kept an African lion as a house pet in the 1970s. Sources for our feature on George Bidder: E.F. Clark, George Parker Bidder: The Calculating Boy, 1983. Steven Bradley Smith, The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present, 1983. Frank D. Mitchell, Mathematical Prodigies, 1907. Henry Budd Howell, A Foundational Study in the Pedagogy of Arithmetic, 1914. A.W. Skempton and Mike Chrimes, A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830, 2002. George Eyre Evans, Midland Churches: A History of the Congregations on the Roll of the Midland Christian Union, 1899. David Singmaster, "George Parker Bidder: The Calculating Boy by E.F. Clark," Mathematical Gazette 71:457 (October 1987), 252-254. Antony Anderson, "Fairgrounds to Railways With Numbers," New Scientist 100:1385 (Nov. 24, 1983), 581. Frank D. Mitchell, "Mathematical Prodigies," American Journal of Psychology 18:1 (January 1907), 61-143. Richard A. Proctor, "Calculating Boys," Belgravia Magazine 38:152 (June 1879), 450-470. Martin Gardner, "Mathematical Games," Scientific American 216:4 (April 1967), 116-123. "A Short Account of George Bidder, the Celebrated Mental Calculator: With a Variety of the Most Difficult Questions, Proposed to Him at the Principal Towns in the Kingdom, and His Surprising Rapid Answers, Etc.," pamphlet, 1821. Louis McCreery, "Mathematical Prodigies," Mathematics News Letter 7:7/8 (April-May 1933), 4-12. "Memoirs of Deceased Members," Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 57 (1878-1879), Part III, 294. "George Parker Bidder," Devon Notes and Queries, Vol. 2, 1903. "Calculating Boys," Strand 10 (1895), 277-280. "Bidder, George Parker," Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911. H.T. Wood, "Bidder, George Parker," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Sept. 23, 2004. Listener mail: Todd S. Purdum, "His Best Years Past, Veteran in Debt Sells Oscar He Won," New York Times, Aug. 7, 1992. "In Financial Straits, Actor Sells '46 Oscar," Chicago Tribune, Aug. 7, 1992. "Harold Russell Selling 'Best Years of Our Lives' Oscar," Los Angeles Times, July 31, 1992. Heathcliff Rothman, "I'd Really Like to Thank My Pal at the Auction House," New York Times, Feb. 12, 2006. Stephen Ceasar, "You Can't Put a Price on Oscar: Even Heirs of Winners Are Bound by Rules Against Selling the Statue," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 25, 2016. "Orson Welles' Citizen Kane Oscar Auctioned in US," BBC News, Dec. 21, 2011. Allen St. John, "Does Japanese Baseball Have the Answer for MLB's Dangerous Foul Ball Problem?", Forbes, Sept. 30, 2017. "Foul Balls in Japanese Baseball," Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel, HBO, April 20, 2016. "A Look at Some Extended Protective Nettings in the KBO and NPB," Fan Interference, Feb, 2, 2016. Andrew W. Lehren and Michelle Tak, "Every Major League Baseball Team Will Expand Netting to Protect Fans From Foul Balls," NBC News, Dec. 11, 2019. Bill Shaikin, "A Lawsuit Could Make Baseball Teams Liable for Foul Balls That Injure Fans," Los Angeles Times, Feb 20, 2020. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Jon Jerome. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Due to popular demand, it is time to revisit the topic of teaching art on a cart. In today's episode, Tim welcomes back Lindsey Moss to discuss her art on a cart experience and why she recorded an entire PRO Pack about her journey. Listen as they discuss Lindsey's mindset going into the year, the things she has learned, and some of her favorite lessons and ideas she wants to share. Resources and Links Tips and Tricks for Teaching Art on a Cart View Lindsey's PRO Pack What It's Really Like to Teach on a Cart During a Pandemic How to Work Smarter Not Harder with Art on a Cart

This one gets personal. Co-host Julie Graham has already shared a bit of her story—a difficult childhood, married at 21, widowed at 33, and spending the last three years as a single, working mom to her spunky little boy. Back in the dating world, she discovered a gap. There wasn’t much for single Christian women wanting to date online, much less for moms. It seemed like the message was that it was wrong or unsafe, to be avoided at all costs. But, she found her way, employing the advice of a friend of the show and Licensed Therapist, Dr. Zoe Shaw. Now, she’s preparing to become Mrs. Julie Bender, marrying the newly found love of her life during a pandemic in front of their closest family and friends. In this episode, she shares this part of her story, how she met "D" and when she knew he was "the one." Darlene explores the pitfalls she faced while dating and how they’ve grown as a couple as they become not just husband and wife, but also a family of three. Whether you’ve experienced divorce or widowhood, you'll find nuggets of truth in this episode—a testimony of how our very own Julie Graham found redemptive love. It just might be there for you, too. Viewing in an app? Full show notes here!   Articles We Mentioned or Know You'll Love When Will I Be Ready to Date After My Husband’s Death? When my husband passed away suddenly, I knew fairly quickly I would want to date again. For some, that Read more This Is a Window Into My Widowhood I remember getting the call. “Paul has had an accident and it’s not good. We need to get over Read more Is Marriage Just a Piece of Paper? Or Is It Something More? It appears a lot of women are waiting for their man to propose. They have been a couple for Read more When a Strong Woman Is Quitting, But Not Failing You’re reading this because there is something in your life that you have an inkling you need to let Read more 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Try Online Dating Let’s be realistic. I’d love to sit here and write about how to avoid the nightmare of online dating. Read more From a Therapist: This Is Why Your Self-Talk Matters Most people get it wrong when they think about who their greatest influence is. It’s not your mom, your Read more Quote of the episode: "I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I'm stepping forward with grit, anchored in grace." -Julie Graham Check out the episode we mentioned: Can You Really Leave Your Past Behind You? – 028, What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094, Julie Graham’s Untold Story of Heartbreak, Healing and Hope – 101 and Single? How to Thrive in the Online Dating World with Kristin Fry – 037! Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

This one gets personal. Co-host Julie Graham has already shared a bit of her story—a difficult childhood, married at 21, widowed at 33, and spending the last three years as a single, working mom to her spunky little boy. Back in the dating world, she discovered a gap. There wasn’t much for single Christian women wanting to date online, much less for moms. It seemed like the message was that it was wrong or unsafe, to be avoided at all costs. But, she found her way, employing the advice of a friend of the show and Licensed Therapist, Dr. Zoe Shaw. Now, she’s preparing to become Mrs. Julie Bender, marrying the newly found love of her life during a pandemic in front of their closest family and friends. In this episode, she shares this part of her story, how she met "D" and when she knew he was "the one." Darlene explores the pitfalls she faced while dating and how they’ve grown as a couple as they become not just husband and wife, but also a family of three. Whether you’ve experienced divorce or widowhood, you'll find nuggets of truth in this episode—a testimony of how our very own Julie Graham found redemptive love. It just might be there for you, too. Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Articles We Mentioned or Know You'll Love When Will I Be Ready to Date After My Husband’s Death? This Is a Window Into My Widowhood Is Marriage Just a Piece of Paper? Or Is It Something More? When a Strong Woman Is Quitting, But Not Failing 10 Things You Need to Know Before You Try Online Dating From a Therapist: This Is Why Your Self-Talk Matters Quote of the episode: "I don't know exactly what the future holds, but I'm stepping forward with grit, anchored in grace." -Julie Graham Check out the episode we mentioned: Can You Really Leave Your Past Behind You? – 028, What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094, Julie Graham’s Untold Story of Heartbreak, Healing and Hope – 101 and Single? How to Thrive in the Online Dating World with Kristin Fry – 037! Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

Curious what the Christian music industry is REALLY LIKE? Never quite fit into Christian culture? You little rebel, you. Allow me & my guest, Lauren DeLeary, to hold space for us to question everything about evangelicalism & discuss deconstruction & reconstruction. I am so excited to have my dear friend and fellow spiritual influencer, Lauren DeLeary, on Enlightened the podcast. Lauren is an artist and creator. She writes about her human experience as a spiritual being. Since leaving the Christian Music industry, she has deconstructed her faith and taken her audience on this journey through her podcast, DECONSTRUCT, which she co-hosts with her husband, Adam. She is passionate about researching and respecting many world-views, as well as exploring her own Native American culture and spirituality.  Today’s show covers topics like: The "dark side" of the Christian music industry How women are sexualized and policed in Christian culture How purity culture effected us and other women  Going from evangelicalism to progressive Christianity to spiritual fluidity How podcasting helps us heal and process our religious trauma Decolonization and why it matters today Brown lives matter, so why are indigenous women missing? What deconstruction and reconstruction of faith looks like Stay in touch with Lauren DeLeary: Follow Lauren's Instagram: instagram.com/laurendeleary Visit Lauren's website: laurendeleary.com Listen to her podcast, DECONSTRUCT Listen to her NEW music, BINESHI It's time to set yourself FREE, Lovely One!  The love of God inside of me honors the love in you. Namaste, My Friends. If you would like to try or re-order Organifi, my go-to plant-based protein, brain food, collagen support, and green/red juices, tap here to visit Organifi. Don’t forget to use my discount code, “sophia” for 15% off your entire order every time you order. I hope you benefit from ENLIGHTENED, the podcast by me, Sophia Spallino, an audible experience that leaves you feeling at peace, encouraged, and in touch with your soul. If you feel comfortable to share how the show is touching your heart, please leave a rating and review on iTunes or the Apple Podcast App. It will only take a minute, but genuine reviews are vital to the success of my show, so please review by tapping here. Thank you for supporting my labor of love by sharing screenshots of the podcast, subscribing, and by pledging to contribute. Because creating inspiring content demands my time, creativity, resources, and talent, I depend on generous listeners like you to support the production of my show. Kindly support Enlightened for as little as $0.99/mo by tapping here. *you may cancel at anytime. With infinite love and gratitude, I pray that peace be with you. xo Sophia (@SophiaSpallino on Instagram) Learn more about me and what I do: https://www.SophiaSpallino.com Follow me on Instagram for inspiring real-life stories everyday: https://www.instagram.com/sophiaspallino/ Pledge to support my show: http://bit.ly/SupportEnlightened If you are seeking wisdom & guidance, schedule a one-on-one virtual meeting with me: https://sophiaspallino.com/mentorship/

What It's Really Like to Be an Entrepreneur The PodcastFor the 78th episode and 3rd episode of Season 5, Vincent A. Lanci's story is told by Tampa General Hospital. When Vincent A. Lanci was a 21-year-old student at the University of Tampa, he had his life change forever just a few days before his last semester. Lanci was rushed into the emergency department at Tampa General Hospital after being hit by a car and left for dead. TGH hoped he would survive. He did far more than that. "Mr. Lanci Talks Mental Health" Book Coming October 2020.Website: https://www.vincentalanci.com/YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UCy0dil34Q5ILEuHgLVmfhXQ2 Books: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0578586088/...https://www.amazon.com/Transform-Your...Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincentalanci'A Mental Health Break with Vincent A. Lanci' Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/743867Adventure by MusicbyAden | https://soundcloud.com/musicbyadenMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unportedhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

Many of us are going to be hearing more political speeches than usual these next few months. Although we will very likely disagree on the content of many of those speeches, if we focus on the craft of political speechwriting itself, we might be surprised to find that many political speeches have more things in common than we may previously have thought. ************************************************************************************************************************************************* Email me: marisadellefarfalle@gmail.com Twitter: @marisadee13 Instagram: marisadf13 I'd also really appreciate it if you could take a moment to rate and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts, as it'll help a lot more people find out about this show! ************************************************************************************************************************************************ Helpful links: "The Political Speechwriter's Life," by Robert Lehrman: https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/the-political-speechwriters-life/ "What It's Really Like to Be a Political Speechwriter," by Emma Roller and National Journal: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-political-speechwriter/455706/ "Five Myths about Political Speechwriting," by Jeff Shesol: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-political-speechwriting/2016/07/22/a23ee460-4f70-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html "Speechwriter, Repent," by David Murray: https://prorhetoric.com/speechwriter-repent/

On this episode of Love Lives Here, St. Pauls United Church of Christ Senior Pastor Rev. Matt Fitzgerald preaches “What We’re Really Like“ on February 16, 2020. For more information about St. Pauls, a progressive church in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood, please visit our website www.spucc.org. We invite you to join us for streaming worship Sundays at 10AM, on our website. St. Pauls United Church of Christ, 2335 N. Orchard St. Chicago, IL.

Tim Strickland teaches from Exodus 34:5-8 on what God is Really Like.

We had a blast at our Forget About The World live show (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOhOgFdrtDs) earlier in the week! Tune in for a show and tell and a few rounds of Harry Potter Heads Up! The hosts receive candles from our listener Devin, including a goat-scented one for Micah! Check out Devin's website - Worndoll.com (https://www.worndoll.com/) J.K. Rowling loosens guidelines on recording Harry Potter books for schools  To liven things up we play a fun Sporcle game - Harry Potter Name Chain (https://www.sporcle.com/games/crookshanks/harrypotternamechain) Chapter-by-Chapter (http://www.mugglecast.com/harry-potter-chapter-chapter-analysis-archive/) continues with Order of the Phoenix – Chapter 22: St. Mungo's for Magical Maladies and Injuries (Part One) 7-Word Summary: Arthur survives by receiving care from portraits  What's up with Dumbledore's passwords? They seem kind of... weak! Portrait Party! Is this is a nightly occurrence? How annoying for Dumbledore! Why does Dumbledore not acknowledge Harry... or Ron? Portrait Superstars: Everard and Dilys Why does the Order not have better security alert measures in place? Phineas Nigellus Black says Sirius always had odd houseguests. Really? Like who? In Essence Divided - Dumbledore's Horcrux epiphany! We discuss Dumbledore's bond with Fawkes - how is the phoenix able to track Umbridge? Who tipped off the old toad? Mrs. Norris? Harry's Rage toward Dumbledore: part Harry and part Horcrux! Sirius shows maturity in his handling of the Weasleys at Grimmauld Place OUT! How a single word to Kreacher seals Sirius' fate! The Waiting Game The Umbridge Suck Count climbs to 49! Connecting The Threads, MVP of the Week and Rename The Chapter! Quizzitch: What color robes do Healers of St Mungo’s wear? This week's episode is sponsored by Thirdlove. Find your perfect fitting bra and receive 15% off your first order by visiting http://www.Thirdlove.com/MuggleCast! Join our community at Patreon.com/MuggleCast (http://www.patreon.com/MuggleCast) and receive magical benefits, including Bonus MuggleCast! This week, we discuss that silvery instrument inside Dumbledore's office and J.K. Rowling's post-Deathly Hallows comments about it!

Just as nature cycles through seasons, so do our relationships. No matter what relationship you are in, there are four stages that it will cycle through that spiritually and psychologically mimic the four seasons we see in nature.  In This #GritandGraceLife podcast episode, hosts Darlene and Julie chat with Debra Fileta who dives into the four stages every relationship cycles through. She explains how each stage is vital for building a deeper relationship, how we can find hope in knowing we will never get stuck in one stage, or “season”, and how to successfully navigate through each one.  Debra Fileta is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in dating, marriage and relationship issues, along with a spectrum of mental health disorders and issues. Whether you are single, married, or single again, you will leave with actionable advice you can apply to any relationship in your grit and grace life.  Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Debra K. Fileta's work has been featured by numerous media outlets from national television to church ministries such as Saddleback Church, Focus on the Family, ChristianMingle.com, The 700 Club, NGEN Radio, KLOVE, and many more. She, her husband, and three children live in Lancaster, PA. She is the author of True Love Dates, Choosing Marriage:Why it Has To Start With We > Me and Love in Every Season. She’s also the creator of the popular relationship advice bog, www.TrueLoveDates.com as well as the Love + Relationships Podcast reaching millions of people each year with topics of love, sex, marriage, and relationships. Connect with her on Facebook or Twitter to get your dating questions answered and to learn more!   Quote of the episode: "Relationships are like plants, give them too little and they'll die, but give them too much and they'll also die." -Debra Fileta Follow us on Instagram! Check out these episodes we mentioned: What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094 and Want to Be a Strong Woman? Set Healthy Boundaries – 103 Don't miss this advice from Dr. Zoe! Ask Dr. Zoe – My Fiancé Ignored My Feelings—Should I Stay?, and Ask Dr. Zoe – How Do I Break Free From Codependency? Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

Just as nature cycles through seasons, so do our relationships. No matter what relationship you are in, there are four stages that it will cycle through that spiritually and psychologically mimic the four seasons we see in nature.  In This #GritandGraceLife podcast episode, hosts Darlene and Julie chat with Debra Fileta who dives into the four stages every relationship cycles through. She explains how each stage is vital for building a deeper relationship, how we can find hope in knowing we will never get stuck in one stage, or “season”, and how to successfully navigate through each one.  Debra Fileta is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in dating, marriage and relationship issues, along with a spectrum of mental health disorders and issues. Whether you are single, married, or single again, you will leave with actionable advice you can apply to any relationship in your grit and grace life.  Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Debra K. Fileta's work has been featured by numerous media outlets from national television to church ministries such as Saddleback Church, Focus on the Family, ChristianMingle.com, The 700 Club, NGEN Radio, KLOVE, and many more. She, her husband, and three children live in Lancaster, PA. She is the author of True Love Dates, Choosing Marriage:Why it Has To Start With We > Me and Love in Every Season. She’s also the creator of the popular relationship advice bog, www.TrueLoveDates.com as well as the Love + Relationships Podcast reaching millions of people each year with topics of love, sex, marriage, and relationships. Connect with her on Facebook or Twitter to get your dating questions answered and to learn more!   Articles We Mentioned or Know You'll Love Establishing Healthy Boundaries in the Grit and Grace Life Healthy personal boundaries are the key to healthy relationships. Without them, healthy relationships are impossible. Read more 5 Important Things to Discuss as a New Couple I saw an article a while back on a men’s website that shared what their gender thought they should talk Read more A Therapist’s Advice on How to Handle Conflict Have you ever felt like you were treated unfairly? Perhaps you’ve worked hard on a project, but someone else Read more This Is How to Fight Fairly with Grit and Grace Is it possible to fight fairly? Fighting fairly sounds like an oxymoron. Isn’t the whole point of fighting to gain Read more If Your Man Didn’t Propose (But Should Have) Read This To the girl who didn’t get the engagement you were expecting, this is what you need to do to Read more Bible Verses From the Grit and Grace Team on Love Love! The word itself sends a warm, tingly feeling up our spines. What joy it is to love and be Read more Quote of the episode: "Relationships are like plants, give them too little and they'll die, but give them too much and they'll also die." -Debra Fileta Follow us on Instagram! Check out these episodes we mentioned: What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094 and Want to Be a Strong Woman? Set Healthy Boundaries – 103 Don't miss this advice from Dr. Zoe! Ask Dr. Zoe – My Fiancé Ignored My Feelings—Should I Stay?, and Ask Dr. Zoe – How Do I Break Free From Codependency? Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

As women, have you ever noticed how we hold men and women to different standards? In This Grit and Grace Life podcast episode, hosts Darlene and Julie have an insightful and thought-provoking conversation on the different expectations we have for each gender.   When it comes to our relationships with women, we often tend to be way more “judgy” and condescending, are quick to hold grudges, and dwell on what they did or didn’t do. If they don't stand by us, show up, and be the support system we would like them to be, we cut them off in a heartbeat without thinking twice.     But rarely do we do any of that with our man. Instead, we make an excuse for him, we try to cover up something he did, and most often we just give him a pass. Ironically, there are times it’s the men that don’t deserve that get-out-of-jail card we so freely offer.   So how do we combat this? What do we do?    Tune in for the full episode to hear Darlene and Julie’s advice on how to level the playing field for all the relationships in our lives.    Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Quote of the episode: "Just love everyone, I'll sort 'em out later." - God Check out these episodes we mentioned: Julie Graham’s Untold Story of Heartbreak, Healing and Hope – 101, What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094, Why Cross-Generational Friendships Make You Better – 060, and Want to Be a Strong Woman? Set Healthy Boundaries – 103. Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

As women, have you ever noticed how we hold men and women to different standards? In This Grit and Grace Life podcast episode, hosts Darlene and Julie have an insightful and thought-provoking conversation on the different expectations we have for each gender.   When it comes to our relationships with women, we often tend to be way more “judgy” and condescending, are quick to hold grudges, and dwell on what they did or didn’t do. If they don't stand by us, show up, and be the support system we would like them to be, we cut them off in a heartbeat without thinking twice.     But rarely do we do any of that with our man. Instead, we make an excuse for him, we try to cover up something he did, and most often we just give him a pass. Ironically, there are times it’s the men that don’t deserve that get-out-of-jail card we so freely offer.   So how do we combat this? What do we do?    Tune in for the full episode to hear Darlene and Julie’s advice on how to level the playing field for all the relationships in our lives.    Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Articles We Mentioned or Know You'll Love Rules for the Introvert Vs. Extrovert Fight This is the post in which I am the grumbling Israelites and my husband, Bill, is Moses. Not because Read more Why You Need to Support Other Women and 5 Ways to Start She sat across from me on the floor, on a multi-colored pillow. We were in a room full of Read more Why You Should Just Have That Hard Conversation (And How to Do It) Have you ever had that sick, anxious feeling in the pit of your stomach? The one that occurs when Read more This Is a Window Into My Widowhood I remember getting the call. “Paul has had an accident and it’s not good. We need to get over Read more When Will I Be Ready to Date After My Husband’s Death? When my husband passed away suddenly, I knew fairly quickly I would want to date again. For some, that Read more He Brings Me Flowers, but Is That Enough? I have watched as so many women compromise on what they will accept from a man, especially the man Read more 18 Recipes for the Best Super Bowl Party on the Block It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I am not a Read more 5 Tips for Mending Fences in Your Relationships It’s a great time to mend fences. Not the ones in the back 40 of the ranch where very Read more Quote of the episode: "Just love everyone, I'll sort 'em out later." - God Check out these episodes we mentioned: Julie Graham’s Untold Story of Heartbreak, Healing and Hope – 101, What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094, Why Cross-Generational Friendships Make You Better – 060, and Want to Be a Strong Woman? Set Healthy Boundaries – 103. Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

Episode Notes Learn English with Two Old Men.One of the two old men has been in the hospital. The other one just doesn't listen. A typical day for the two old men.Support us Support us on Patreon to help us create more funny and interesting material:https://www.patreon.com/chuckleEnglishHow to use See the podcast notes on how to learn with the podcast.TRANSCRIPT Geoffrey: Hello? Is there anyone out there! ALFRED: Hi Geoffrey. Who are you talking to? Geoffrey: Our one listener. ALFRED: OK, Anyway, sorry, I’m late. I’ve been in hospital at the weekend. Geoffrey: Yes, I thought there was something wrong when you didn’t answer your phone. I’ve been calling all weekend. ALFRED: But, when I got home I checked my answering machine and I had no new messages. Geoffrey: No, I called the other number. , I called your mobile phone. Geoffrey: No: I don’t have a mobile phone. Geoffrey: Well, I thought it was strange you were speaking with a woman’s voice. And then you asked me for fun time. ALFRED: Also, I was in the hospital. Geoffrey: Well, let me tell you about my friend Maurine, she told me the most hilarious thing. ALFRED: Ah, I do know Maurine. She’s the lady who makes cakes for the village fare, isn’t she? Geoffrey: no, no. Yes! That’s Maurine! ALFRED: Absolutely delicious cakes! But, no matter how much I ask her about the recipe, she won’t tell me what the secret ingredient is. Geoffrey: Oh! I’ve seen all the ingredients in those cakes. ALFRED: Really? What is the secret ingredient? Please tell me Geoffrey! Geoffrey: Do you really like those cakes? ALFRED: Yes, Geoffrey. They are the best cakes I’ve ever had. Geoffrey: Yes, Well, it is better if I don’t tell you then. ALFRED: Oh! I better drink to forget this conversation. Geoffrey: I would drink if I knew what was in those cakes. ALFRED: That bad is it? Geoffrey: Yes, yes! ALFRED: Anyway, Geoffrey. Tell me the story about Maurine. Geoffrey: Well, do you remember that I told you that my neighbour died. ALFRED: Hmm. My memory is quite bad. Geoffrey: He died from a fall. ALFRED: Ah, really? How terrible! Geoffrey: Well, he was in a tree, trying to save his pet cat. And then the branch broke and he fell, very sad. ALFRED: Yes, it is. Such a tragic way to go! Geoffrey: The funniest thing is, that he didn’t even have a cat. ALFRED: Oh, right? But, how did you know he was trying to save his cat then? Geoffrey: He had a can of tuna in is hand. ALFRED: Ah, makes sense! Geoffrey: Well, their family eventually sold the house. And now, I’ve got new neighbours. ALFRED: Really, have you met them? Geoffrey: Yes. Their names are Paul, Jarrod and a baby called Sheila. ALFRED: Ah they sound lovely. Geoffrey: Well, I don’t understand. Which one is the dad? Where is the mother? ALFRED: Well, Geoffrey, probably... Geoffrey: They must be brothers, right? ALFRED: I think they are both the dads. Geoffrey: But, they are two men. ALFRED: Yes, in a relationship. Geoffrey: Two brothers together? That is disgusting. ALFRED: No, they are not brothers. They’re.. Geoffrey: They must be students! ALFRED: I think they are just partners and their daughter. Geoffrey: Really? That’s amazing! But, where did they get the baby from? ALFRED: Geoffrey, this is the 21st century. There are many options for young couples. Geoffrey: I think I saw a film about that once. ALFRED: Anyway, Geoffrey, please can you tell me the story about Maurine! Geoffrey: Ah yes, Maurine. Well, do you know she had a hip replacement? ALFRED: I thought she was walking funny. Geoffrey: Well, no more! I’ll tell you something. Are you listening? ALFRED: Yes, I’m still listening Geoffrey. Geoffrey: When it’s teatime at the day centre, it feels like the Olympics. Maurine, she can run from her TV chair to the tea lady in less than 9 seconds. Although, some people say that when I count, I forget I’ve said number 5 and I repeat 6 or 7 times., number 5 and I repeat 6 or 7 times. The number... ALFRED: Yes Geoffrey! Well, that is great news Geoffrey! Well done Maurine. It must be great to get her mobility back! Geoffrey: Well, yes. But, I’m not happy. ALFRED: Why not? Geoffrey: She gets to the cups of tea first! She always takes the best biscuits! ALFRED: Geoffrey! You and your biscuits! Geoffrey: I do love my biscuits. ALFRED: Well, she is doing you a favour! She is helping you cut down on biscuits. They are not healthy for you! Geoffrey: What a load of rubbish! I’ve been eating a packet of biscuits every day for the last 30 years and there is nothing wrong with me. Well except for my arthritis. ALFRED: And your cholesterol. Geoffrey: Except for my arthritis and my cholesterol, there’s nothing wrong with me! ALFRED: And your eyesight Geoffrey: Ok, except for my arthritis, cholesterol and my eyesight, I’m fine! ALFRED: Hmmm... Geoffrey: What? ALFRED: And to be honest your memory isn’t great these days... Geoffrey: It’s fine! There’s nothing wrong with me except for my arthritis, ... and errr...the other things. I’m like a bull. ALFRED: Like a bull in a china shop. Geoffrey: Hmm! Anyway. What where we speaking about? ALFRED: Well, I was going to tell you why I was in the hospital. But, you started talking about Maurine. Geoffrey: Ah! Maurine! Well, with her hip replacement she’s become a lot more active, going for long walks along the river. She’s even tried some extreme sports. ALFRED: Extreme sports? Really? Like what? Geoffrey: Well, she went bungee-jumping! ALFRED: Bungee-jumping, incredible! ALFRED: Geoffrey. That is not very nice. Geoffrey: Well, it is true. Anyway, did you want to tell me something? ALFRED: Finally! I was in the hospital at the weekend. Geoffrey: Really, why didn’t you tell me? ALFRED: Can’t you even remember the beginning of this podcast? Geoffrey: Podcast? What is that? ALFRED: Oh! What we are doing now. You really do have the memory of a fish. Geoffrey: So, you went to hospital. Why did you do that? ALFRED: Well, I was walking along the beach with my ice-cream and I nearly tripped over a rock. The ice-cream went all over my face. Geoffrey: You went to the hospital because you NEARLY tripped over a rock? ALFRED: No. I haven’t finished the story. Geoffrey: Ah ok. Go ahead. ALFRED: Well after cleaning the ice-cream off my face and feeling a little disappointed, I continued walking. I then saw something in the distance. Something was in the sea! It looked like a child! Geoffrey: What did you do? ALFRED: I jumped into the water and started swimming towards the child. But, no matter how far I swam I didn’t get any closer. I then began to tire and I started to panic. Geoffrey: That sounds horrible! ALFRED: Yes, luckily a young couple saw me and swam out to save me. Geoffrey: But the child? ALFRED: Yes. They gave me a blanket and called the ambulance. When they were putting me in the ambulance I saw the same child in the sky. Flying! Geoffrey: Flying? This wasn’t a dream, was it? ALFRED: Oh no! This is real. I asked the medics if they could see the child flying in the sky. They said no. Geoffrey: You were imagining the child. ALFRED: No, I could definitely see it. Geoffrey: Was it a ghost? Or have you finally gone crazy? ALFRED: No, I then took off my glasses as I felt sleepy and the child disappeared. I couldn’t see him anymore. Geoffrey: What? ALFRED: I looked at my glasses and realised that I had some strawberry ice-cream on the lenses. Geoffrey: Oh dear! You are getting as bad as me! ALFRED: I hope not! G: Anyway, did I tell you the story about Maurine? ALFRED: Oh god! Not again! - Support Chuckle English by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/chuckle-englishThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

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Zach speaks with Jennifer Brown, founder and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, and they take a deep dive into exploring what diversity and inclusion means. They also talk about what it really means to be inclusive as a leader, and Jennifer shares a bit about her latest two books. Check out Jennifer's books! They're titled "Inclusion" and "How to Be an Inclusive Leader."Connect with Jennifer on the following platforms: Twitter, IG, Facebook, LinkedInPut your name on the mailing list at JenniferBrownSpeaks.com!TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach with the Living Corporate podcast. Now, look, y'all know what we do, man. [laughs] Y'all know. Listen, man, we try to drop--come on, Sound Man. Give me them air horns right here. [air horns sfx]. More fire for your head top, and look, today is no different. I ain't even gonna get into a huge, long kind of, like, intro before I get into the interview, 'cause our interview was kind of long, but I really want y'all to hear all of it. I interviewed someone who is a strong--seriously, like, one of the leaders within the D&I space when you talk about, like, presenting content around intersectionality, diversity, inclusion. Her name is Jennifer Brown. She's a facilitator. She's a public speaker. She's a consultant. She's an educator. She has a background in change management, so there's a lot of symbiosis between the both of us, and we had a really dope discussion just about what it really means to be inclusive as a leader, and then we had a conversation--like, kind of a meta discussion about the D&I space as an industry. If y'all remember--this was, like, way back in Season 1--we had Amy C. Waninger, and then we had Drew, A.K.A. Very White Guy, on the show, and Drew talked a little bit about the--, like, D&I as a business, right, and kind of, like, the capitalistic or corporate nature of D&I and, like, what that looks like, and we had a conversation about that too. It was really interesting. So anyway, what you're gonna hear next is the discussion between Jennifer Brown and myself. She's great people, definitely can't wait to have her back on the show. Make sure y'all check out the show notes. You can look and see all of her information, including her latest two books, okay? So make sure y'all check it out, and we'll catch y'all next time. Peace.[pause]Zach: Jennifer, welcome to the show. How are you doing?Jennifer: Oh, thanks. I'm doing great. Trying to stay cool in this July.Zach: Man, it is hot out here.Jennifer: Yeah. Global warming. [laughs]Zach: [laughs] For real. Look, I gave a brief intro, but for those who don't know you, would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself?Jennifer: Of course, yeah. I--let's see. I'm an author. I'm a keynoter. I'm a CEO and an owner of a consulting business, all of which is focused on building more inclusive workplaces for all kinds of talent to thrive, and it's a passionate, personal mission that I have because I've been out since I was 22, and I'm in my 40s now, but the workplace was a place where I couldn't really bring my full self to work. And I want to say it wasn't just being LGBTQ. I mean, the workplace has all sorts of inclusiveness problems when it comes to people like, you know, us, and, you know, most people actually. Anyone that's not a certain mold, and so as somebody who has--I have a master's degree in opera, believe it or not. I came to New York to be an opera singer, and that did not work out.Zach: Wow.Jennifer: Yeah, I know. [laughs] It's crazy. Luckily I reinvented as a corporate trainer, because it's all this--it's like being on the stage, you know, and connecting with audiences. It's just the topic is different. So I reinvented into that field, which remains really my field to this day. So we're really--we're a strategy and training company, and we're working across the Fortune 1,000, I would say, on a daily basis. My team is all over the country. They're amazing. They're so talented at what they do. They have a lot more patience for client work than I do. [laughs] And yeah, we can talk about that if you want, but I've been a consultant in the trenches for a long time, and I'm actually really thrilled now to kind of be more living the keynote and author life. I just--I like it a lot. I love performing. I love big audiences. I like the challenge of thinking on my feet. I like having to write books on this topic and figure out, like, "What does the world need me to write next, and how do I take what I hear and learn and put it in a way that's digestible for people?" Because it's really--it's kind of, like, a life-or-death situation from an inclusion perspective, and I deeply feel that, for myself and many, many others.Zach: Wow. Well, thank you for that. Awesome. I'm already--like, my shoulders are kind of bouncing up and down. This is gonna be a dope conversation.Jennifer: Woo! Yeah. [both laugh]Zach: So today we're talking about inclusive leadership, and before we get too deep into it, can we get some definitions on these terms? Like, from your point of view. Diversity, inclusion, and intersectionality. 'Cause in a lot--in your content and in your IP, both written and your presentations, like, you use these terms a lot, and frankly your content is centered around these terms. For our audience, I'd love it if we could just, like, level-set what these things actually mean.Jennifer: Yes, and you need to consider the history of the conversation. So in the corporate and workplace context, diversity is really--has been traditionally the "who," right? The demographics, the representation in your workforce. Typically it's [counted with?] gender, right? Which is where it started, and race and ethnicity. It wants to count LGBTQ and people with disabilities, but, you know, a lot of those folks can hide who they are, right? We are very good at hiding who we are and not checking boxes. So diversity has really been that representation, the mix, the complexion of the workplace [with a small C?]. And then inclusion really is the "how." So "How do I make that mix work?" You know? "If diversity is the "who" in the mix, how do I make the mix work?" To quote my friend Tyrone Studemeyer, who is, like, a great chief diversity officer. He always uses that example. In fact, he brings a glass of milk on stage and pours in chocolate sauce, and then he stirs it, and he has this bit that he does. So it's making the mix work, and honestly's that's really where behaviors come into play. And so it's how--once you have that talent around the table, how do you make them want to stay? How do you include them, and how do you make them feel that they're valued? And so inclusion is the how and the behaviors. And then intersectionality, something totally different. It is the mix, I guess, of diverse identities that make some of us who we are and kind of present unique challenges. Traditionally defined by Kimberle Crenshaw, of course, it's the mix of multiple stigmatized identities that one person may carry. So why that's important is that I think, you know, anyone who looks at gender issues, for example, as a white women's topic, is not taking into consideration how women of color are impacted differently, how being an LGBTQ woman may mean that you're not only dealing with your gender and all the headwinds that come along with that, but you're dealing with the headwinds relating to sexual orientation. Or say you have, you know, a non-binary gender expression, or you are a woman of color and some of those things at the same time, or a woman with a disability. So it just goes on and on, and that's a very helpful thing for the rest of the world, I think, to help people understand the levels of--and I would use privilege with a small P. I know that word sets some people off, you know, but I think we have to be realistic about some of us walking through the world feeling a lot safer and a lot more protected, a lot more supported. You know, right? Like, a lot more--that others are more comfortable with us because they're relatively more familiar with us, and the sort of further you get away from I guess the straight white male norm that is, like it or not, the whole of the top leadership in the business world. The further you get from that, I think the more difficulty you have in kind of seeing yourself in workplaces, in being supported, grown, invested in, welcomed, proactively fostered. You know, all of the things that really, like, pull you up in an organization. So, you know, when you're different in multiple ways, it's kind of difficult to ever feel that you're in that--in the place you should be in the machine that is the workplace. So, you know, this is where people fall out. They quit. They can't stand it anymore. [laughs] You know, they go and become entrepreneurs, which is great, you know, but sad for corporations and large employers because, of course, you know, you're bleeding out all of your diverse talent because your culture is sort of something that people can't stand. That's a problem. [laughs]Zach: [laughs] No, you're absolutely right, and it's interesting, right, because I was just having a conversation with a couple of close friends this morning, and I was talking about the fact that a lot of times, you know, when we talk about D&I in the most common contexts, it almost feels like some--like, really a competition between white men and [white women] for number one, and then kind of everybody else falls to the wayside. Right? Like, we don't necessarily have, like--I don't know if I'm necessarily always hearing, like, truly intersectional discussions around identity. I don't know, and I don't know if black women are often centered in those discussions. Of course in the past couple years we've seen, like, more and more content come out about it, so don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be a debbie downer, but at the same time--Jennifer: [laughs] But you're right.Zach: [laughs] I mean, here's a great example, right? So I think it was--yep, Indeed. So Indeed just dropped a commercial, and there was a--the setting was, like, a board room, right, and in the board room, a white man was in the front and he was getting a promotion, right? And, like, the boss was shaking his hand, and everybody was clapping, and then there was a white woman, and she was just kind of standing there, and it was clearly--like, by the framing, right, of the commercial, that she was passed over for this promotion and that the white man got the promotion over her, right? And I was like, "Okay." And so then she looks down at her phone, and she kind of smirks because she gets a notification she's getting an interview, you know, somewhere else, right?Jennifer: [laughs] Oh, my gosh.Zach: Right? So she's like, "I'm leaving," and then it said, "Indeed." You know? I was like, "Okay, cool." So great commercial, but what's interesting about that commercial was behind the white woman--and I don't believe they did this intentionally, but maybe they did--and if they did, yo, they are super cold--but there was a black woman and a black man out of focus right behind them. And so it was, like, super interesting.Jennifer: [sighs] Oh, goodness. Wow. Oh, somebody needs to give that feedback. I'm sure they've heard about it already. [both laugh]Zach: But, like, the idea that a lot of times we talk about D&I, right, it's often centered around gender. We're not having really authentic discussions outside of that. And so a question for you - you know, in your book "Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Change," you discussed the nuances of privilege. And you just talked about lower-case privilege, lower-case P privilege. And to make an effort not to vilify white men who have, quote, "seemingly won the privilege lottery." Is it possible to manage the egos of leaders who are in the majority while also having frank and accountable discussions about empowering black and brown professionals or just non-white professionals in the workplace? You know, in your work, what does that process look like? To establish trust for those discussions.Jennifer: Yeah. I mean, that is really the work, and it's--I think it's, like, the third rail, honestly. It's funny - being in the LGBTQ community, there's a level of--strangely, a level of comfort and acceptance of talking about being "I'm a proud ally," you know, or putting that rainbow sticker on your desk or in your email signature. And it's fascinating to me because--by the way, the LGBTQ conversation is also not properly intersectional, right? So there's privileged dynamics playing out in my--this community. I was going to say "my" community. One of my communities, you know, that women's voices aren't well-heard. People of color and the LGBTQ community, trans people, are not well-heard and are not represented in leadership positions in the workplace when it comes to affinity groups and things. So each community has its kind of diversity within its diversity challenges. [laughs] So I just wanted to make that point, because--I often say, "Just because you carry a marginalized identity, or even two, does not make you an inclusive leader."Zach: That's so true.Jennifer: Like, I wish it were true, but it's not, and it's been proven to me over and over again that, you know, I've made that assumption, and I've kind of been wrong. Like, I've been shocked by what people say. So, like, these--like, a lack of that intersectional lens and that inclusive lens can live in all of us, by the way. Elitism and, you know, that blindness and bias. Unchecked. Anyway, that's one point I wanted to make. So how do we center more black and brown voices when the leadership of so many companies--and when you say they are the majority, we always have to clarify. I say majority in leadership positions, because if you look at the aggregate in most companies, of course, women are the majority. Zach: That's absolutely correct, yeah.Jennifer: Right, and then a lot of ethnic diversity lives in different functional areas of the business and, you know, whatever, right? But it just totally thins out, like, when you go up the org chart, right? So the problem is all the power lies with a sort of very homogeneous group, and so the onus is on that group to acknowledge that the world is more and more black and brown, right? That they have to build that confidence and cross those bridges of understanding, and they have to know how to build trust with their workforce. Both current and future, by the way, which is most likely not going to look like them. And then they've got to do it in such a way that they--that then their employee and their leadership base looks like the world that they serve, which is increasingly female, right? Think about the buying decisions. Think about the exploding buying power of the black community. The LGBTQ community is now a trillion-dollar buying power. I mean, it's massive. So any brand that's worth anything, and any leader that's worth anything, must look at this, should look at this, and say, you know, "My demographic group--maybe it was okay for me not to understand what keeps people in the organization I'm a part of or keeps people on my team or how to be a good colleague and sort of step out of my shoes and think about what the other person's experience is like, but I better search and pay attention to this." So my argument is always I throw the business case to people, the demographic argument to people. Sometimes it's a moral argument. Sometimes somebody, you know, has kids of a different race than they are. Sometimes they have lots of daughters. Like, sometimes, you know, they have a unique view on all of this, and so when you, you know, [see?] somebody that looks like a white, straight guy, you know, you just never know what their diversity story might be, and I've been just shocked and reminded that, you know, I can--I can walk in a room and people assume I know nothing about this topic, you know? And that's happened to me. I've been on the receiving end of that. And there are things I don't know, for sure, but I desperately want people to listen to me and somehow kind of wedge my way in and make them listen and convince them and all of those things. So being LGBTQ helps with that. So I'm this interesting hybrid of, you know, being of an identity that people are more comfortable with, like, based on maybe what they see, but then coming out and challenging them to the point where, like, you can hear a pin drop when I do that, and that's kind of--let me tell you, it's pretty uncomfortable when you're standing there in front of, like, 1,000 mostly men in, like, light blue shirts and khakis. You're like, "How is this gonna go?" [laughs] So it takes--for all of us, you know, I think it takes bravery to show ourselves. For some of us with invisible aspects of diversity, it takes kind of a unique kind of bravery to be like, "No." Like, "Make no mistake, this is actually who I am." And particularly if it's a vulnerable aspect of who you are. It can feel really risky. That could include, like, divulging about a disability or, you know, mental health and addiction issues, or age, you know? There's just this, like, widespread hesitation to bring our full selves to work on so many counts, but when you are black and brown of course the issue can be "I can't opt not to show who I am." Like, "Who I am is often visible," and it will trigger the biases if those are there, right? And so it's a conversation we always have about--it's not the pain Olympics, and that's so important to remember. Like, that it's not--it's not a race to the--through the oppression hierarchy to say--Zach: Right.Jennifer: Right? Because that's a useless conversation. I think we have to think about, like, what are the--what's the damage that happens when, you know, we feel shame, or we feel compelled to downplay who we are, even if it's very visible to others? And how can we support each other's voices and create that safety for each other? And that's what I think about every day. Like, if I have been given some kind of privilege with a small P [in] several ways that has been totally unearned by me--my obsession is, like, what responsibility and opportunity does that come with? Which is interesting, because I'm in the LGBTQ community, which is so used to needing that allyship, right? We think about--we struggle to bring our full selves and be comfortable, and we hide, you know? And so allies really bring us out, you know? They stand alongside us and say, "Hey, I'll tell your story. I'll be next to you. I'll have your back." It feels amazing to have that, and I know what that feeling feels like, and so I am turning around and, like, trying to do that for others with my people, which often is my lovely, often good-hearted, you know, white, straight male executive clients, you know, to say, "How can we help you bridge to the future?" Because opting out is not--that's not an option, you know? I think--and the more clued-in ones know this, and I think people are mostly feeling just, like, really--like, wanting to do more, very awkward, very afraid. I know in the light of MeToo, just purely a gender conversation, the--you know, that lean-in research that came out a couple months ago that says that, like, male leaders are, like, even more afraid now to be in these one-on-one scenarios with female mentees or colleagues, and it's really discouraging, and it's definitely going in the wrong direction, but I think that fear is probably bigger than just cross-gender. I think that it's just kind of any moves you might make to say, "Hey, I want to be an inclusive leader. I'm gonna mess up. I'm gonna say the right thing. I really, really want to be better, but how am I gonna learn this thing that I'm gonna get wrong, and where am I gonna learn it? And how am I gonna know that I'm getting it wrong? And then how am I going to be given a chance to develop better skills?" And that's a very legitimate question. So I think we've got to all kind of give each other a lot of berth and also proactive support these days to learn, and we've got to do that in partnership with each other, because otherwise we're learning in a vacuum, and that's hard to do.Zach: It's so complex though, right? Because it's like--like, there has to be space for grace, and then there also has to--like, on both sides, because there's grace for you to learn--there's grace for me to give you space to learn, but then there's also--there has to be humility for you to receive that learning, right? And then there needs to be empathy on the person who is learning for their teacher in that there is a level of emotional labor, right, that goes into me even talking to you about this at all, right? I had a conversation with some colleagues, like, about a month or so ago, and I was like, "Look." Like, something happened, and, you know, it was an educational discussion, and in part of my conversation I said, "Hey, you know, I don't talk about this because it's exhausting." I said, "But being in these majority-white spaces--just me being here is exhausting," and I explained that to them, and I said, "It's not just me. It's exhausting in some way or form or shape for someone in a minority to engage in majority spaces." Like, it is, and so, like, for the people that are doing the work to educate and train and teach or even partner--like, that's--like, there needs to be some empathy on that part, you know what I mean?Jennifer: Yeah. Well, we talk a lot about compassion fatigue, and I think that--and then us being asked to step forward and represent an entire community and their experience, which you and I know is never gonna be accurate. You're just one person talking about your experience. Zach: Right. Not [?], right.Jennifer: Right, but what you're talking about is something--what I say in my next book, right, "How to Be an Inclusive Leader," is that you need to do 80% of the emotional labor yourself before you ask someone to help you on your journey. Zach: Oh, I love that.Jennifer: It's so important, yes. And so for me, what that looks like is I intentionally consume certain media, for example. I listen to certain podcasts. I watch certain films. I acquaint myself with cultural norms across communities that are not mine, right? And in some cases it's a struggle through some of that media, because that media is not built for you. It's not a conversation for you, right? [both laugh] And I've had white friends, and I talk about, like, a podcast we may love. Like, one I love called "Still Processing." I don't know if you know it.Zach: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. "Still Processing" is fire. Shout-out to y'all, yes.Jennifer: Oh, it's so good. So good. And they're queer too. Like, I just love them. I mean, talk about intersectional. They're brilliant. And anyway, I sometimes have a hard time keeping up with it, but also getting all of the cultural references--and sometimes even I will feel, "Gosh, I'm such an outsider, and this is so uncomfortable for me, to try to hang in with the conversation." And then I say to myself--and this is what I say to leaders--"Notice the discomfort, because this is what other people feel every single day in majority-white spaces." Every day of their lives, right? Zach: Right. [laughs]Jennifer: Like, you're uncomfortable for one second, right? Like, get used to it. Like, you should be putting yourself in this discomfort all of the time, because this is the competency. Like, this is the skill that you need to learn so that you get some iota of empathy for what it feels like every single day for other people. The other thing I wanted to say is we just had an LGBTQ--we called it LBTQ. It was just for women actually, so we dropped the G. [laughs] Which was--you know, people can have issues with it, but we dropped the G. It was just meant for Q-identified women. And we had this big conference, and we asked--we had a TON of diversity on the stage, which was my commitment, and we had a couple activists that were trans women of color, and they said, "I will come, but I want you to know, like, Pride is exhausting for me." It was in June. "It's exhausting for me. It's exhausting for me to walk into corporate spaces, to educate, to be that voice on stage, and I'm sort of doing this, but I want you to know it's, like, a lot of labor for me," and I want I guess for all of us that put panels together, for all of us that are speakers and on panels--it was such a learning for me to understand that when you ask someone, you're trying to be inclusive, but it is so seen through this lens of "Oh, I can take the day and go speak at this conference 'cause I work for myself," or, you know, "I'm an activist or an advocate." Like, an activist doesn't always look the same or have the same level of privilege or income. What is the lost income from taking a day out to go into a space you're not comfortable in and educate people about your experience? Like, it was really humbling. And what we ended up doing, by the way--and this may be helpful advice--is for all the speakers, that day we had 30 speakers, we really want to intend that we take up--we have a stipend and honorarium for people who take the time out to come into that space. There's a question of real money, you know, to offset that time and that labor. And again, this was another kind of learning for a lot of privileged people of the privilege that allows them to come in and speak all of the time on things that have a full-time job, you know, that have benefits, you know, that aren't witnessing, you know, the really, really painful reality of certain parts of our community every day. I just thought it was a really interesting demonstration within a marginalized community of sort of the gulf in our experiences, right, even within LBTQ women. So I think being mindful of intersectionality all of the time, it's incumbent--it's incumbent on anybody who has that platform, that voice, that comfort to whatever degree, to ensure spaces are diverse, to ensure voices are elevated, to center stories that aren't our own, and to make sure that those stories are given the proper platform and that people aren't overly requested to give up their time and education. But that means that each white person, each man, you know, when they support gender equality, I would ask, like, "What are you reading? What research do you have under your belt?" Like, "How are you exercising your muscle to show up in allyship, and what are you doing?" And then, and only then, can you ask for tweaks and feedback from people in affected communities. You know, "Did what I say resonate?" "Did the story--did I do this justice?" "Did I use my voice in the right way?" "What more could I have done?" Like, "What feedback would you have for me?" That can be asked, but so much has to be done and earned before that. And then--you know, and then bring somebody in to give you that feedback and make you better, because, you know, without that feedback I can promise you people aren't gonna get better, and they're just gonna keep stumbling, and stumbling is not good for anyone. [laughs] It's humiliating.Zach: No, you're absolutely right. [laughs] The thing about it is there's nothing--so I think the only thing worse than being loud and wrong is being really polished and wrong, right?Jennifer: Ooh, that's interesting.Zach: Right? It's like, you know, you're talking, you got the presentation, and, you know, you got your little clicker, and you got your three points and your--[both laugh] And your pantsuit looks great, but you are wrong.Jennifer: Oh, my gosh. It's in the corporate speak.Zach: Right, it's in the corporate speak, but--Jennifer: People can see through it.Zach: But you're absolutely wrong. And your earlier point about Pride, yeah, and, like, this past year was so big because it was the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, and it's interesting 'cause you talked about--you were talking just a bit about, like, the dissonance there and, like, the emotional labor for everyone who is a minority, but then specifically we're talking about trans activists, and it was so interesting because--I believe it was on the 30th. Like, right at the end of Pride there was a situation at Stonewall Inn where, you know, there was a desire from a trans women to speak up. She wanted to talk a little bit about the day and just reflect, and she was shouted down.Jennifer: No.Zach: Yeah, by gay men who were there in names of, "Hey, we just want to party. We don't want to hear all of that," and then eventually she was able to speak, and she spoke for about 12 minutes, but it was just really interesting. She read the names of the black trans women who died and facts and the disproportionate abuse and oppression that black trans women have and continue to face, and so you're absolutely right. Like, and I think it's incredible. I have yet to have the privilege to directly interview a black trans activist. Like, that's actually a serious [goal] of mine.Jennifer: I can hook you up.Zach: Well, let's do it. Let's talk about that after the interview. For sure.Jennifer: [laughs] Yeah, for sure. So yeah, it's been such a learning for me. And this is why I feel so--the ally energy in me these days, even in the LGBTQ community technically that I'm in, I feel so activated as an--and I don't even want to say, like, "I am an ally," because we're only allies when others give us that--give us that name and that honor, right? But I'll tell you, whether it's me as a cis woman--you know, I spend my time on the keynote stage asking people in the audience, "How many of you know what I mean by sharing our pronouns and why it's important? And how many of you know what cisgender means?" And sharing my identity and coming out as cisgender so that--and sharing my pronouns so that I'm not acting like heterosexuality and cisgenderness is normal, you know? We have to make it visible in order to even point out to people that this--we shouldn't be assuming this is normal, and you shouldn't be walking around every day assuming everybody shares your identity. Like, and we've that. I mean, so many of us have been so comfortable and--you know, I'll share it. You know this statistic probably, but it's so startling that 1 out of every 5 people under 34 is non-cis and non-straight. So 1 out of 5. So as you walk around your life, as you hire people, as you work with teams, as you meet customers, 1 out of 5, and yet the chances are that they're hiding that from you and they're not comfortable for you. So what can you do to say, "Hey, this is a safe place. I am someone that you can bring your whole self to me, around me, and I will see you, and I will be not only just open to it, but I will be embracing of it, and I won't assume that you're like me." You know, "I will give you the chance to self-identify," and I will self-identify. I will be brave in doing that, because, like, I'm not gonna put all the burden on you to talk about your experience, but I'm not gonna remain silent and not talk about mine." It's funny, because I get a lot of questions afterwards. People come up to me and say, "How do I start that conversation with someone?" To say, "Hey, I'm doing my work. I'm trying to learn. I want you to feel comfortable. What would you like me to know?" And we sort of walk through, like, "How do I even start that conversation?" Because people are really--they just don't know how to begin, and they don't know whether it will come across as authentic, and they're worried they're gonna be out of their depth really fast. [laughs] Which, by the way, they will be. [laughs]Zach: [laughs] You're absolutely right, but I think it's the internal getting yourself comfortable with being uncomfortable and being comfortable with being ignorant, and ignorant truly meaning just not knowing, and seeking to learn, right? Like, MLK Jr. talked about this. Like, he was quoted saying something like, "White people, as part of their superiority, think that they have so very little to learn when it comes to--" Like, just race, matters of race, and I think that can be extended and expanded, right? That if you're a part of a majority, a part of a privileged class, it's easy for you to think that you just--you don't need to learn, but being curious, right, and seeking to understand is, like, one of the greatest signs of humility, and really it's endearing. Like, the right people, in my experience--when I come to people and I say, "Hey, I really just want to understand. I want to learn from you. I genuinely want to learn." Those discussions go well, because they--Jennifer: They do.Zach: Right? They go well, because you're humbling yourself to listen and to receive. You talked about the statistics, about 1 in 5 today, [and] I think that really leads me well into the next question. So a good deal of your book discusses the future of work and the role inclusion will play. What are your predictions on how organizations will need to adapt to attract future diverse talent in the next 10 years?Jennifer: Oh, my gosh. Well, they're all, like, woefully behind already and have been. [laughs] It's like the ostrich with its head in the sand. I think, you know, when business is good and the economy is good, it covers--it's like high tide, you know? It covers up a lot of things that low tide reveals. And I think a lot of people are too comfortable. You know, I just think that business leaders in particular--and to your point that you just made, right? If life is working out for me, like economically I'm comfortable, I'm not afraid of, you know, being pulled over, you know, as I'm driving. I'm not afraid for my child in the world. You know, all of those things that are blind spots for some people. You can kind of sail on through life and through your work in being a leader, believe it or not, and not really be held accountable for a lot of these things. People deny that it's an urgent situation, but I see it as a really urgent situation, that the fact that, you know, the number of women and people of color at certain levels in companies--which I'm kind of obsessed with the mid-level, because the mid-level is where people--they're really tired of hanging on, like, white-knuckling it up the pipeline, trying to, you know, get supported, get promoted, get--you know, have somebody take an interest in them, have somebody run interference for them. You know, when you're undermentored and undersupported, and then you're underrepresented as well, and you look around, and you look up, and you don't see anyone that--you know, we say "you've got to see it to be it." You know, you get tired, and it's no wonder to me that the numbers and the representation of anyone who's not a straight white male have been kind of really flatlined, you know? And even the best and most progressive companies are really struggling to hold onto people, to raise them up to the level where I want to see them, right? Which is the executive level, because then they can make all--a whole world of difference, you know? An executive leader can, with one signature, you know, create a policy or address the pay gap, you know? They have so much power. Or hold a customer accountable, or take a stance on a political issue in social media. And so if people can't make up there, and we decide to bail out because it just proves too arduous and we're just, like, physically tired, and we're emotionally tired, and the compassion and fatigue and the emotional labor and all of it, being the spokesperson for an entire community. It becomes too much, and, you know, then we leave and we create our own businesses, which is a great solution, which was, you know, the thing I did. [both laugh] You know, 'cause I was like, "This is not gonna work for me." But that's a loss, because not everybody is set up to be an entrepreneur. You know, you need a lot of capital. You need--we talked about privilege. You know, you need certain things in place in order to make that work, and it's just not tenable for most people. So workplaces have to work for people, for all of us. So the future of work, you know, I get asked a lot about quotas and targets. I personally--I hesitate to say this, like, super publicly because companies are really twitchy about requirements and quotas, and you get a lot of pushback, but I'm honestly--I'm at a point where I feel like if people are left to their own devices change doesn't happen, and if change does happen it's slow and it's not widespread, and it's too slow to make a meaningful difference in the short amount of time we have to really see change.Zach: Absolutely.Jennifer: I mean, I think the house is on fire. [laughs] You know, I think economically people are falling behind. They're not getting promoted. They're therefore missing out on economic growth and opportunity and wealth, and, you know, I'm just not seeing it, when the world is changing so fast and companies are not keeping up with it. And so is the bottom line impacted? Is ROI measured? You know, we really--we have to have, like, an honest conversation about losing customers and clients and people leaving the organization, and companies have to wake up and say, you know, "If we don't do something really serious about this, we're gonna be sitting in the same exact place in 10 years." So, you know, I'm all for the more radical solutions. You know, I think--honestly, I think slates, interview slates, need to have a required number of women on them and a required number of people with diverse ethnicities. LGBTQ is tough because we don't disclose. So the companies I work with struggle with something called self-identification. We don't trust our companies--and this just speaks volumes--we don't trust our companies enough to check a box about who we really are, so we can't be counted. [laughs] So we--so, you know, there has to be, like, faith that we exist in organizations upwards of maybe 10% of the population, because we're only--on paper, we're only recorded at, like, 1%.Zach: Yeah, and that's just not accurate, right?Jennifer: No, it's not accurate, but we're doing that because we're terrified, you know? We're terrified of losing our job. We're just--even in the best companies. And that's true for people with disabilities too, but I think [some] companies have to [?], and I think they're gonna get pushed back. If they roll things out like this, they're gonna get a lot of pushback. People are gonna say, "I don't want to be forced to--" You know, "I believe in a meritocracy, and I want to hire the best person for the job, and you can't force me to hire a candidate that's less than," and my answer to that is if you did a good job of having enough of a pipeline of all kinds of talent, it wouldn't just be one candidate you're looking at and you're feeling like somebody, you know, is forcing you, holding your feet to the fire to hire them. You would have lots of choices. And so we've got to do a better job of filling that pipeline, keeping people in the pipeline, not letting them leave, and investing in them so that they feel they can thrive at a company long-term instead of wanting to bail out because they can't stand it out anymore, you know? That's just a sad commentary on workplace culture, but unfortunately I think it's the experience of tons of people that I talk to.Zach: The thing about it is the challenge with it is like--your earlier point around change, like, not--you know, that if left to its own devices will happen so incrementally, so small, that it won't be--it won't have--Jennifer: So slowly. It won't be meaningful. It won't even be big enough, yeah.Zach: And I think when you look at American history and you look at the history of civil rights in this country, it's really--I don't know if we have, like, a tangible example of truly radical sustained change from a culture perspective in this country. I think when you look across--especially when you look at, like, this current presidency, it's actually forced a lot of people to really, like, look at the history of race relations in America, especially if you want to examine, like, the past 55, 60 years, and you look at--and if you look at, like, the economic positioning of blacks today versus blacks in 1967, you know, you don't see the needle moving much at all. In fact, in a lot of areas you see the needle moving down. So it's interesting, so I 100% agree with you that there needs to be some genuinely radical--I'm gonna use the word again, radical--change in thought in terms of just what it's gonna look like, because--and we talked about this in another interview too. We talked about the future of work and we talked about the future of learning and education. You know, as the economy shifts and changes and more and more folks are not going to school, because school is going to continue to get more expensive and--like, all of that, it's gonna create a completely new environment that I don't know if we're really taking the time to really examine and consider. Jennifer: I know. We're still having the conversation with managers to say, "Hey, don't hire from the school you went to. That's bias." Zach: Right. [laughs]Jennifer: You know, literally that's where we are. But you're talking about, like, the 3.0, which is literally that people are not gonna have these traditional college degrees or any degree. They'll go to trade school or whatever it is. Like, they're gonna have completely non-traditional backgrounds. They will have been, you know, previously incarcerated. They will be, you know, of different statuses, and we have to figure out--like, workplaces need all the talent they can get, and yet they're completely behind in terms of how they seek that talent, where they look. People, like, throw their hands up so too easily, you know? They just say, "Oh, we just couldn't find anyone." [laughs] You know, it's just, like, endless, the stories I hear. And I don't know. It's laziness. It's--I don't even know. I mean, it depends on the day, like, how cynical I am about it all, but I don't know. [laughs] I just am like, "Really?" Like, if you really wanted to find people, they're there, and I--believe me, 'cause I'm on Twitter, and, like, Black Twitter is on fire. Like, you know, the number of angel investment groups, the number of VCs, the number of start-ups, the number of black girls who code. Like, there's such a great community to recruit from, and I just--I wonder, like, what is it--what is it that people aren't doing or won't do? Like, what is the hold up?Zach: Oh, no, 100%. You know what, Jennifer? I'ma say this. Hold on. You know what? You're a real one. I appreciate you. That's a really good call-out, 'cause you're absolutely right. Like, Black Twitter is poppin,', and, like, there's so much--there are so many pools, right, of talent for you to engage in. There's Black Code Collective, like, in D.C. Like, there's all types of stuff. Like, there are people--and, like, to your point around, like, how people are learning today, there are people who went to culinary school and then, like, are now learning how to code, and, like, they're good at it, right? There are communities now that will welcome you in for free. You will--you can learn, and you can genuinely understand and learn how to code. And so there's plenty of opportunity to deepen your pipeline, so yeah, that's a really good point. There are things that people either aren't doing or are choosing not to do, but the talent is definitely out there. You know, you talked about cynicism. I think that really leads to my next question. Like, can we take a step back and just talk about, like, D&I, or I&D, as an industry, right? Jennifer: Oh. [laughs]Zach: [laughs]Jennifer: Speaking of cynicism, I think I know where you're going with this. I'm ready to go there with you too, so I think I know. [both laugh]Zach: So there's a growing sentiment, right, that the largest voices who are advocating for diversity and inclusion in highly-visible or corporate/corporatized spaces are themselves members of the majority and, by relation, have some inherent blind spots within the subject matter that they espouse expertise in. Do you find any merit to that concern? And, like, what have you done to challenge your own blind spots? You spoke to this a little bit earlier, but I'd love for you to expound on that and if you have any other advice you would give to others.Jennifer: Hm, that is such an interesting observation. It's funny, because I could make the counter-argument that I think we're in a time--like, you ask any white diversity leader right now, and their credibility is questioned on a daily basis to be in the role they're in. Like, that is the truth. In fact, they get, like, threats.Zach: Really?Jennifer: Yeah. I've seen some people get some serious heat just for having the audacity of even having the position or accepting the position.Zach: Oh, wow.Jennifer: Yeah. So there's many stories, right, on all sides of this issue, and like I said, I think--I don't know if I said it earlier, but when you're a marginalized community, it also doesn't mean that you're a great leader on inclusion necessarily. Zach: That's true, yeah.Jennifer: Because I've seen plenty of--you know, like, we were talking about white gay men at Stonewall who were--you know, can be, like, very misogynistic, very racist, very--and so, you know, that can carry forward into a diversity leader role, but that doesn't mean that all of them are totally, you know, not effective practitioners, and it also doesn't mean because you're a person of color that you're an effective practitioner, right?Zach: That's right.Jennifer: So to me--and you respect this--it's a skill set, you know? It is a skill set, but it is also your identity, right? And it's how you deal with your identity in the world, and it's how you integrate those two things that makes you an effective voice. But also you've got to be an incredibly savvy change agent to have these roles. I mean, they're very difficult roles. They're some of the most complex roles that exist, I think, in business, because it's part influencing, it's part executive, you know, believability, credibility. It's passion. It's change agility. It is storytelling, right, and being, like--but incredibly data-oriented and, you know, convincing, and knowing the business so that you can make the business case, right? So you need to know the business you're in in order to make the argument for D&I, and you've got to be able to do all of those things. And by the way, you're probably part of a marginalized community, and you're dealing with all of the biases personally, like, that you're getting, at the same time as you're leading an entire institution, like, through this morass, you know? Through these really difficult, tense, and, you know, complex times. So it's really, like, one of the toughest roles, and I have so much respect--I worry about our practicioner community, both on the consulting side but really our internal--my internal clients, 'cause they're just--they're holding up, you know, this planet, you know, these giant organizations. Anyway, but to answer your question [of] "Who's allowed and who has permission to do this work?" It's a very good question. I mean, I've even questioned--you know, 'cause somebody hasn't dug into who I am and has judged me just based on what I look like, and that's okay. I mean, I would say, you know, it hurts me, but whatever. Like, that doesn't matter. It's most important, I think, for us not to judge each other, I think for us to look at the skill set objectively, but I do think the optics of people in these roles are important. You have to be, like, a really amazing, humble leader. Like, you have to be--you have to be really deep in the work, I think, to take on that role as a majority identity. If you're a--say you're a white guy. I don't know a lot of white straight guys in these roles. I do know white gay guys, and they--every day their privilege is pointed out to them. Every day. Nobody lets them forget, you know, that they are--that they have an enormous responsibility in that role and that, like, they have a lot of work to do. And if you talk to any of them--and I know some of my clients are of that identity, and it's a tough lift for them. I know some straight white women, and again, they are pretty enlightened people, and they're very humble, and they're very, like--they've been studying this for a long time. Some of them have sort of really personal relationships. I know a lot of gay white women actually in these roles, and they--and sometimes I know gay women of color in these roles, and they're amazing. I mean, amazing amazing. Like, and the intersectionality they can bring to it is deep, and I find--not to say, you know, certain combinations of identities are, like, more important, but to be able to speak to so many different identities in your workforce in a direct way, you know, there's kind of--that's a wonderful shortcut, to be able to do that and on top of that be, like, somebody who's, like, been in HR for 20 years, you know, and is super savvy about playing the politics and all of the other things you need for the role, but I would like to think that we can all--we all have a role to play, and some companies are more embracing of--I will tell you some inside baseball. Sometimes I get asked to send, you know, a white man to a consulting engagement, and--that is true, you know, and talk to anyone in the work that I do, and they'll tell you that's [?]. And we will push back. We will say, you know, "We're not sure that's the right answer," and "Let's talk about it," and, you know, sometimes strangely it is the right answer for certain groups who have been really, really recalcitrant and resistant, and the messenger matters sometimes more than the message. Like, certain people can be heard in certain ways, and we know this is true. So we--that's why we have such tremendous diversity on our consulting team, because we just--we have to get creative sometimes and make sure that we build a pairing, for example, that's gonna be in front of a room that maybe the client is really, really struggling to be heard in front of this business unit or this team or this, you know, office in a certain region in the country, and we'll need to switch it out. You know, we'll need to put a different voice in front of people to see, you know, and sadly the messenger is something that needs to be considered. And I wouldn't let it rest, and I wouldn't not challenge it, but I do think we--we've got to use every change tool in our arsenal, particularly with those who are really resistant and really stuck and I think experiencing a lot of bias per the messenger that they're hearing the message from. And it's funny. You know, I have to be really careful. I can't be the angry--I have to be careful to not be the angry woman and the angry gay person, and I can't imagine what it would be like delivering that truthful message that I do and also being a person of color, right? I'm very aware that I have a lot more latitude for my quote-unquote passion to come through, right, and to be--and not to have it seen as being threatening, you know? Zach: Absolutely. And, you know, your point around, like, changing up the messenger and mixing it up, it's really interesting because in the work that I have done, I have a similar strategy--and it's interesting, because I do that without even being asked. Like, I'll just be like, "Look, I know that for this I just need to have a really approachable white face to deliver this message," and they're partners for me in that. And honestly, Jennifer, I do that even just at work. Like, if I have a big meeting--Jennifer: Of course. [laughs]Zach: [laughs] If I have a big meeting or, like, you know, there's just something going on and it's like, "Okay, I really want to share this thing, but I know that if I say it, then it's gonna get an eye roll or it's not gonna be heard, so let me go ahead and mobilize this white woman or this white guy."Jennifer: Your allies.Zach: Yes, and then I'll have them say it, or I will let them know that I'm about to say it. Jennifer: I wish that weren't true.Zach: Say that again?Jennifer: I just wish it weren't true, like, that you have to do that, and to me that's, like, the extra tax that we pay. You know, that's extra labor. You have to literally not only have the brilliant idea, but you have to, like, strategize about who is, like, sitting next to you or, you know, backing you up when you have a brilliant idea, or who's gonna echo your--you know, women deal with this, and we all know this is, like, a fact of life. But I appreciate what you're bringing up, that it's a universal experience for so many of us, and it's just--if we look at it on the bright side--let's, like, look at it as a glass half-full, which I always do. [laughs] You know, I think this all makes us really savvy, like, very emotionally intelligent, right? Because as limited as our audience might be in terms of seeing us, doesn't this make us--it sort of sharpens our saw. I mean, I think when you have to think about "How am I gonna get this group over the finish line?" Like, how am I going to get them to listen to me, to believe in what I say and to give me the credibility when I'm walking in the room and I know what they're thinking about me?" You know, "How am I gonna do that?" And to me it's, like, a--you know, it's a brain twister, but it makes you be very creative. And by the way, I hope in enlisting those allies that they know why they're being enlisted and that it really raises their awareness [of] the permutations that so many of us go through in the workplace to be heard. You know, that's--I hope that they're noticing that. Like, that's a really important learning, to be approached by someone--to say, "Hey, would you have my [back?] in this meeting? I'm gonna bring this up," and, you know, to me that is, like, such a sad commentary, and at the same time it's such a demonstration of how far we have to go for people to be heard and the space that we have to learn to hold for each other. Like, we've got to do that--you know what? We need to do that without being asked. That's where I really want to get, right? So that if I'm in this meeting and I hear you bring up this brilliant idea, you don't even need to ask me to have your back. Like, I am gonna instinctively know if you're talked over or if somebody steals your idea or somebody poo-poos it that I'm gonna intervene, and I'm gonna know what's going on, and that to me, that would be sort of nirvana in the workplace, that those pre-conversations, that pre-planning that you just described doesn't even need to happen because everyone knows it's an issue and everyone's on guard for it. Like, can you imagine? Like, if we were all like, "Oh, no, no." You know, "She is not gonna be talked over," or "His idea is not going to be dismissed," you know? "And I'm gonna quote it, and I'm gonna bring the attention back to him and, you know, his idea." It's like the women in the Obama cabinet. I love that story, where they literally decided, like, that this was not gonna happen anymore, and they all banded together and made the plan.Zach: Yes, I loved that.Jennifer: And then they went into--I know. And then they went into the meeting, and they all, like, echoed each other's ideas and mentioned each other by name and made eye contact with other women in the room. So they sort of redirected everybody's attention. I'm still--believe it or not, if I go into a meeting with my male colleague, they will talk to him. Like, it still happens to me. Oh, yeah. And I'm a CEO, and he works for me, you know? [both laugh] So yeah, it's still a thing. And he's really good, because he'll, like, redirect back to me. Zach: "Um, actually, Ms. Brown, what do you think?" [laughs]Jennifer: Yes. Well, he'll say, "Well, as Jennifer always says," right? "As somebody who is an acknowledged expert." I love that. [laughs] But yeah, we need to do that [?], and that would be nirvana. So I really talk about that a lot in my book. Like, the emotional labor of having to ask for help, I really, really wish more of us would know that help is needed. Like, we would know the data. We would know the research. You know, for God's sake, like, read the McKenzie report on women that they do every year. Zach: Oh, it's so good.Jennifer: Yeah, it's so good, and you'll realize that women of color have different headwinds than white women. Just that, you know? And if you go into meetings and you see this dynamic and you have any level of privilege, any level of positional power where you're listened to in a different way, you need to activate that so that you change those numbers and those outcomes. Like, you must do that. And it's such a small thing. This takes two seconds. Like, that's the thing when people are like, "Ugh, inclusion takes so much time, and I'm so busy, and I don't know how--it competes with the business priorities, and I have a long list, and, like, I'm already strapped for time." All of that--I don't think this takes a lot of time. It just takes a moment of attention to [bias?] your own others, a quick conversation to check in with somebody, a request for feedback, a "Hey, you know, I wanted to follow up with you after that meeting." Like, "I really thought your idea was great. I want to support you. How can do I do more of that?" That, like, takes two seconds to say, and like you said earlier, it's so welcome. Like, I think that's the--people are like, "I don't know how to start that conversation." [laughs] It's like, "Most of these conversations are, like, a gift to so many people who are never asked these questions to begin with," right? So please approach me. Ask me how can you support me more differently. What could you say in a meeting? What could you say after a meeting to someone when I'm not around? You know, I think that's the other piece, right? Like, give feedback to people that look like you. Like, I always say, you know, "Men listen to other men in a very different way." And so, you know, if you've got the privilege of being listened to. You know, the messenger, not just the message, and you can take the burden off of my shoulders to have a hard conversation with somebody, to say, "Hey, that joke made me uncomfortable." Like, that's a very risky move for me to do, 'cause I--you know, that is drawing attention to my difference. I have no idea how that person is going to react. And so I really--as a woman, I really appreciate men who proactively are like, "What can I do to--" Really it's kind of protect you in a way, and it's not protect in a sort of damsel-in-distress kind of way. It is literally--like, it could be protecting an idea. It could be making sure you don't fall victim to politics in the office. It could be that I represent you when you're not in the room and I talk about how brilliant you are, you know? It's that kind of thing, because otherwise we're sort of hanging out in the wind. And one of the things I always say is diverse talent is undermentored and very undersponsored, which means that we're not--we literally aren't looked after, like, informally. We are not--like, somebody's not like, "Well, let me have that career conversation with her to make sure that she's up for that role, so that she has P&L experience, so that she's then positioned so she can get that promotion," because there's all of these, like, unspoken and unwritten rules that we're not privy to when you're not in the power structure. So I often task people I speak to, like, "Look at the people you mentor. Look at the people you sponsor. Do they look like you?" You know, if they do, and you are a certain demographic, like, you must remedy that. Like, you've got to be mentoring across difference, sponsoring across difference, and--by the way, it should be reverse mentoring as well. It should be mutual so that you're learning--to your point earlier, like, how are you getting your learning about cultural differences? It's in the context of these really, really important one-on-one relationships. So wherever you can power share, wherever you can be influenced or learn somebody's experience, as a senior executive, your biggest risk is that you're isolated from all of this, and therefore you're not an effective leader. You're not positioning yourself for the future. You're harming your company, because you're setting this vision every day, but you--there's so much you don't know. So, you know, I think that's a good wake-up call for people usually. And if that doesn't work, [laughs] I don't know. I give up.Zach: [laughs] I don't know.Jennifer: I'm like, "I've given you now two books to read." You know, 63 podcast episodes. You know? Come on. [laughs]Zach: [laughs] "What more do you want more from me?"Jennifer: What more do you need? It's writing on the wall. Wake up, you know? Get with--get on the train, you know, and be willing to make mistakes as we were talking about earlier, and, you know, even know how to do a good apology, 'cause, you know, I think there is a real art to a real apology. I think you said earlier [that] there's nothing worse than somebody who, like, says all the right things but, like, in this really authentic kind of faux, polished way.Zach: Yes. You know what? We're gonna have to have you back just to talk about the topic of apologizing [?]. Like, for real.Jennifer: Yeah, right? I love that apology. I mean, I love that topic. Sorry.Zach: No, no, you're good.Jennifer: But a good apology can make up for everything, and it's almost like a required skill set, particularly for those in the majority, because things are gonna happen. Like, you're gonna mess it up. You are. And so being comfortable with uncomfortable, comfortable with hard feedback, and, to me, not slinking away into the corner but saying, "Thank you so much for that, and I'm gonna try it again, and I'm gonna do it differently." Like, wouldn't that resilience be really neat to hear and see in our leaders?Zach: It would. It would be great, and I think--you know, believe it or not I'm actually a little bit encouraged coming out of this conversation. This has been really good.Jennifer: [laughs] Really?Zach: Yeah, I am.Jennifer: Oh, that's good, 'cause we talked about some cynical stuff. [laughs]Zach: We did, we did, but it was real though.Jennifer: Yeah. Yeah, it is. It's such a mixed bag, but like you said earlier, like, we're living in really interesting times of awakening, and you're right--like, I think ever since the 2016 election I would say is when so many people and so many companies were like, "Oh, my goodness," you know? MLK Jr., "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice." One of my favorite quotes, but guess what? We have to bend the arc. Like, the arc, it ain't gonna bend itself.Zach: Right? It don't just bend by itself. Right. [laughs]Jennifer: Like, that's the thing. So to me we've got to take that and bend it, and I think what we've realized is it's not this destiny, you know? Things aren't gonna happen without--and they aren't gonna happen because of good intentions. They're not gonna happen because we have maybe progressive values. They're not gonna happen because "Oh, I'm a male leader and I have daughters, so therefore, like, I am an expert on gender equality." No. Zach: Right. [laughs]Jennifer: No. Like, you have to do something, and you have to do something publicly, consistently, constantly. I used an example in a book of Marc Benioff, who is the CEO of Salesforce, who discovered he had a huge pay gap and literally wrote a check for $3 million, like, right away and was like, "I'm gonna gross up pay for people, because I'm not gonna let this stand another day, then we're gonna do the harder work," right? Which is rooting out, like, why did this happen in the first place. And then as he's done this--he does it every year now--they've discovered, by the way, pay gap--not just gender but ethnicity pay gaps. Not surprising.Zach: Right.Jennifer: And then they've acquired so many 10s of companies that also had pay gaps as Salesforce acquired them, and they had to do a new audit, you know, and to look at their pay gaps and, you know, gross it up. So, you know, literally there are people that are--that are just being relentless on this, because under their watch they're not gonna let this persist. And so I do see a lot of courage amongst leaders, and that leaves me really hopeful. I wish I saw it more, and I wish I saw it more publicly. I think there's a lot of really interesting conversations going on with privately with lawyers and, you know, the board and, you know, sometimes I'm privy to those, and I'm really, really heartened by the interest I see in the C-Suite. I have to say, people are getting it, and I think their question now is "How do we change it?" And that's a much harder question to answer when you're dealing with a giant organization that does business all over the world and has to contend with laws in various parts of the world, and, you know, it's hard to know where to start, and I think that's where people are at, that they want to start, and that's a relief to me. I mean, it makes my job easier because I'm not fighting the "Why is this important?" battle all of the time.

“What It’s Really Like” with Bronson and Ashley SchubertMy husband and I share our thoughts on these questions and share our secrets! We record from our balcony in Hawaii!00:02 - Intro00:38 - Welcome and agenda01:58 - Our real ventureWaikoloa Beach Resort, Hawaii07:33 - Raising 4 kids09:11 - Running a business13:04 - Being married to an entrepreneur 18:54 - Putting faith first23:38 - Marriage tips 26:27 - Best advice for starting a business27:31 - Fast questions and answers30:34 - Closing / Thank you30:57 - OutroGuest/s: Bronson and Ashley SchubertWebsite: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/Blog: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/blog.htmlPodcast: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/podcast.htmlEmail: ashley@ashleyschubertspeaks.comShop: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/real-estate.htmlBooks: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/book.htmlhttps://www.amazon.com/Raising-Business-Babies-Christian-Flourishing-ebook/dp/B07Q45SQ7B

“What It’s Really Like” with Bronson and Ashley SchubertMy husband and I share our thoughts on these questions and share our secrets! We record from our balcony in Hawaii!00:02 - Intro00:38 - Welcome and agenda01:58 - Our real ventureWaikoloa Beach Resort, Hawaii07:33 - Raising 4 kids09:11 - Running a business13:04 - Being married to an entrepreneur 18:54 - Putting faith first23:38 - Marriage tips 26:27 - Best advice for starting a business27:31 - Fast questions and answers30:34 - Closing / Thank you30:57 - OutroGuest/s: Bronson and Ashley SchubertWebsite: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/Blog: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/blog.htmlPodcast: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/podcast.htmlEmail: ashley@ashleyschubertspeaks.comShop: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/real-estate.htmlBooks: https://www.ashleyschubertspeaks.com/book.htmlhttps://www.amazon.com/Raising-Business-Babies-Christian-Flourishing-ebook/dp/B07Q45SQ7B

There are two major things in this “Title” to Marks Gospel.First Thing: Jesus is the ONLY good news. He is the Ultimate Good News. Mark is telling all of Rome, a conquering nation like none the world has seen before, that he has found some good news that makes all of their attempts at good news look like child’s play.The Second Thing: Jesus, unlike all the conquering generals of the day and emperors who claimed to be ‘divine’ REALLY is the SON of God. Mark will quickly go about proving these bold statements.Technically, these are very dangerous things to say. They were politically dangerous in Mark’s time and have things really changed in our time? Socially politically danger is something we know more about than real life-threatening persecution. Regardless, anything we hold above Christ, our life or social standing, can become an idol.So again, I would ask the important question, “have we tamed Jesus?” The best antidote or medicine is to survey who Jesus is REALLY and compare that reality of who Christ is with our made-up versions.If we are looking at the Gospel this week; and I do want to be a voice that warns you to have your filter up out there, people are painting pictures of Jesus. Are they true? Real? We looked at some things that Jesus did, or pictures of Jesus, in a rant this weekend on stage. What are some other BOLD things that Jesus would say?I want to point you to some BOLD Statements from Jesus.Here are 7 I am statements that Jesus gives us to help us truly know who He is and what He is REALLY LIKE!Take some time this week to read the stories around how Jesus describes Himself, His agenda, what He offers and how He really intends to treat you if you follow Him.Deeper Dive Reading List:I am the Bread of Life John 6:35I am the Light of the World John 8:12I am the Door of the Sheep. John 10:7I am the Good Shepherd John 10:11I am the Resurrection and the Life John 11:25I am the Way, Truth, and The Life. John 14:6I am the Vine John 15:5

There are two major things in this “Title” to Marks Gospel.First Thing: Jesus is the ONLY good news. He is the Ultimate Good News. Mark is telling all of Rome, a conquering nation like none the world has seen before, that he has found some good news that makes all of their attempts at good news look like child’s play.The Second Thing: Jesus, unlike all the conquering generals of the day and emperors who claimed to be ‘divine’ REALLY is the SON of God. Mark will quickly go about proving these bold statements.Technically, these are very dangerous things to say. They were politically dangerous in Mark’s time and have things really changed in our time? Socially politically danger is something we know more about than real life-threatening persecution. Regardless, anything we hold above Christ, our life or social standing, can become an idol.So again, I would ask the important question, “have we tamed Jesus?” The best antidote or medicine is to survey who Jesus is REALLY and compare that reality of who Christ is with our made-up versions.If we are looking at the Gospel this week; and I do want to be a voice that warns you to have your filter up out there, people are painting pictures of Jesus. Are they true? Real? We looked at some things that Jesus did, or pictures of Jesus, in a rant this weekend on stage. What are some other BOLD things that Jesus would say?I want to point you to some BOLD Statements from Jesus.Here are 7 I am statements that Jesus gives us to help us truly know who He is and what He is REALLY LIKE!Take some time this week to read the stories around how Jesus describes Himself, His agenda, what He offers and how He really intends to treat you if you follow Him.Deeper Dive Reading List:I am the Bread of Life John 6:35I am the Light of the World John 8:12I am the Door of the Sheep. John 10:7I am the Good Shepherd John 10:11I am the Resurrection and the Life John 11:25I am the Way, Truth, and The Life. John 14:6I am the Vine John 15:5

We all want to be respected by others, but we must first respect ourselves for that to happen. So, what does this look like? Women don’t always consider what our actions communicate; what we do, say, and how we carry ourselves will tell the world whether or not we believe we are worthy of respect. In this episode, Darlene Brock and Julie Graham discuss how we can earn respect in all areas of our everyday lives: at home, work, in our friendships and romantic relationships, and, most importantly, in our minds. A strong woman of grit and grace will remember the first thing she needs to do is respect herself. And if you don’t feel like you're there yet, we know you can get there. Start now, girl! Listen in and channel those Aretha vibes! Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Quote of the episode: "Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.” Margaret Thatcher Check out these questions answered from Dr. Zoe: Ask Dr. Zoe – How Do I Break Free From Codependency? Ask Dr. Zoe – When Is a Friendship Toxic? Ask Dr. Zoe – Help! I Can’t Do It All! And don't miss these previous episodes we mentioned: On Business, Happiness & Health with Burn Boot Camp’s Morgan Kline – 065 When to Leave an Unhealthy Relationship with Your Man – with Dr. Zoe Shaw – 024 What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094 and When Is a Friendship Unhealthy and What Do You Do? – 081. Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

We all want to be respected by others, but we must first respect ourselves for that to happen. So, what does this look like? Women don’t always consider what our actions communicate; what we do, say, and how we carry ourselves will tell the world whether or not we believe we are worthy of respect. In this episode, Darlene Brock and Julie Graham discuss how we can earn respect in all areas of our everyday lives: at home, work, in our friendships and romantic relationships, and, most importantly, in our minds. A strong woman of grit and grace will remember the first thing she needs to do is respect herself. And if you don’t feel like you're there yet, we know you can get there. Start now, girl! Listen in and channel those Aretha vibes! Viewing in an app? Full show notes here! Articles We Mentioned or Know You'll Love Do I Have to Act Like a Man to Be Successful at Work? Do you ever wonder if you will make career strides in the workplace as a woman? Is it necessary to compete Read more Here’s a Quick Way to Know If You Should Keep Dating Him “All the single ladies. All the single ladies. All the single ladies, now put your hands up!” Most of us have heard this now infamous song whether playing it on our iPod after a breakup or at a wedding Read more This Is How You Protect Your Worth, Girl Honesty is always the best policy… until you are under the fire of pressure and then it looks like the worst choice. We want to be liked. We want to fit in. We do not want to see our Read more What Does It Take to Be a Strong Woman of Grit and Grace? What defines a strong woman? Can I become strong? How do I find my purpose? Do I have to know my Read more 6 Insider Tips to Help You Ace the Interview and Get the Offer No matter where you are in your career or how long you’ve been in the Read more This Is What Jesus Says About Equality for Women Religion has often been used as an excuse for inequality between men and women. Historically, and even today within many world religions, women find themselves restricted in what they are allowed: their appearance, their behavior, and of course their Read more Quote of the episode: "Watch your thoughts, for they will become actions. Watch your actions, for they'll become... habits. Watch your habits for they will forge your character. Watch your character, for it will make your destiny.” Margaret Thatcher Check out these questions answered from Dr. Zoe: Ask Dr. Zoe – How Do I Break Free From Codependency? Ask Dr. Zoe – When Is a Friendship Toxic? Ask Dr. Zoe – Help! I Can’t Do It All! And don't miss these previous episodes we mentioned: On Business, Happiness & Health with Burn Boot Camp’s Morgan Kline – 065 When to Leave an Unhealthy Relationship with Your Man – with Dr. Zoe Shaw – 024 What Today’s Dating Scene is Really Like – 094 and When Is a Friendship Unhealthy and What Do You Do? – 081. Be sure to follow us on social media! Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest #gritandgracelife

Hey folks! This is a rerelease of a Wait What If Podcast episode I recorded about 3 years ago with my co-host Marine Mike Stojic. We interviewed Mark "Pigpen" Garrison about his experiences flying Huey Gunships in Vietnam.  Mark was a Warrant Officer in the US Army during the Vietnam War and author of "Guts N' Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam". Running out of college money during the mid-1960s meant he had little choice but to sign up for the Army before the Army came and got him anyways. He refused to run for the border and wanted to somewhat control his destiny, therefore he volunteered under the promise that he would become a pilot. As the sleeve of his book explains: "Straight from college to the US Army to command pilot of a four-ton gunship with a four-man crew in Vietnam. From college chess games to a game of life and death. It was surreal, to say the least. In this book, I pour my heart out and bare my soul to tell you what that was like, from basic to Vietnam and back." I hope you enjoy this show. It was an honor to have Mr. Garrison as a part of the WWI Podcast and now as part of 21 Gun! Visit 21 Gun's Website  Instagram Facebook  Twitter   Are you a veteran? Are you interested in telling your story or helping out Twenty One Gun? Shoot me an email: kevin@twentyonegun.net

Hey folks! This is PART II of a rerelease of a Wait What If Podcast episode I recorded about 3 years ago with my co-host Marine Mike Stojic. We interviewed Mark "Pigpen" Garrison about his experiences flying Huey Gunships in Vietnam.  Mark was a Warrant Officer in the US Army during the Vietnam War and author of "Guts N' Gunships: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam". I hope you enjoy this show, make sure you listen to PART I before you listen to this episode. It was an honor to have Mr. Garrison as a part of the WWI Podcast and now as part of 21 Gun! Visit 21 Gun's Website  Instagram Facebook  Twitter   Are you a veteran? Are you interested in telling your story or helping out Twenty One Gun? Shoot me an email: kevin@twentyonegun.net

Living in an SHTF scenario isn't anything to look forward to.  But being in SHTF and under siege must be hell! SELCO: What It's Really Like to Live in a City Under Siege Ep. Link – Episode 574  Mentioned in this Episode:  Sign-Up for the Prepper Website Email List Alt. News Hub Items of Interest: Grab a Prepper Website t-shirt! (Amazon Affiliate Link) Get “My Prep Journal” Legacy Longterm Food Storage (affiliate) Remember, there is a HUGE selection of great preparedness content at Prepper Website! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Living life as a full-time traveller is dream of many. But does the reality live up to the expectation? Well, like a lot of things in life, the answer turns out to be yes and no. Welcome to That Bad Review. Each week accommodation industry leader Adrian Easdown talks to passionate people from across the industry who share their thoughts, ... Read More The post 55. Fancy Life as a Full-Time Traveller? Pro Podcasters Amy and Nick Share What It’s Really Like appeared first on Adrian Easdown.

In this very special episode we discuss a story from 1970’s Doctor Who: The Old Show. Starring fourth Doctor Tom Baker, “The Deadly Assassin” was suggested by Friend-Of-The-Show Tim. Whilst currently companion-less, the Doctor travels to Gallifrey, enters the Matrix (whoa!), thwarts the Master and runs for President. Really? Like someone with insane hair, no political experience and a penchant for being with attractive-inter-changeable-age-inappropriate-women would ever be elected President? Ha ha! Ha! Ha? Hmm. Anywho…come for the Jelly Babies, stay for the banter!

Love of the Links Golf Radio, Episode 8 for the Week of 2/11/19, Live from the River Room at Wekiva Golf Club...Phil's Cup Philith Over; Sergio's Sand Tips and Managing your Emotions on the Golf Course; Pebble Double; What your Short Game is Really Like...With Jordan Lashoones, Gary Attilio and your host, Brendon Elliott, PGA

Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're talking with Kelsey Russell, a writer for the Law School Toolbox and a recent federal judicial clerk, about clerkships. In this episode we discuss: The day-to-day experiences of a law clerk Who should clerk? When should you clerk? What will you learn? The intangible benefits of clerking The future of the clerkship hiring plan Tips for clerkship applications and interviews Resources: Podcast Episode 44: How to Get a Judicial Clerkship (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-44-how-to-get-a-judicial-clerkship/) What is it Really Like to be a Judicial Clerk? (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/what-is-it-really-like-to-be-a-judicial-clerk/) Expand Your Options: An Exploration of the Different Types of Federal and State Clerkship Options (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/expand-your-options-an-exploration-of-the-different-types-of-federal-clerkship-and-state-clerkship-options/) CareerDicta: Career Help for Lawyers and Law Students (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/careerdicta/career-help/) Download the Transcript (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/episode-176-talking-judicial-clerkships-with-kelsey-russell/)   If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/law-school-toolbox-podcast/id1027603976) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Law School Toolbox website (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/contact). If you're concerned about the bar exam, check out our sister site, the Bar Exam Toolbox (http://barexamtoolbox.com/). You can also sign up for our weekly podcast newsletter (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/get-law-school-podcast-updates/) to make sure you never miss an episode! Thanks for listening! Alison & Lee

The podcast where 2 friends work their way through Tony Robbins self-help book, Awaken the Giant Within. Where every week we talk about how we intend to create lasting change working our way through the book one chapter a week We are using this journey as our Pivot Point to take immediate control of our mental, emotional, physical and financial destinies. This week in Chapter 7 we cover what NAC is and challenge ourselves to completing multiple tasks, getting us closer to our goals. === Mentioned podcasts,videos and books === Pete Holmes - You Made It Weird : https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-it-weird-with-pete-holmes/id475878118?mt=2 Business Insider - What Tony Robbins is Really Like: https://youtu.be/ib60ErgSSjQ

Are you a part-time speaker, or are you someone who speaks on occasion? Or maybe you're doing a lot of speaking on the side while still working your full-time job, and you're wondering how to transition into full-time speaking. If any of those scenarios sound like you then you're in luck! Today's episode is completely dedicated to this very topic - how to transition into speaking full-time. Melanie and I will share our own stories of how we went from part-time speakers to having full-time speaking careers. We'll also tell you when it makes the most sense to make the transition, how to juggle everything before, during and after the transition and how best to prepare yourself so you can make the transition as smooth as possible. Join us for those topics and more on episode 202 of The Speaker Lab. THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:    Why are so many people intimidated by making the leap from their jobs to speaking? How long does it take most speakers to build their business into full-time speaking gigs? Why there is never the perfect time to do anything. What are the two types of regret? How can you promote yourself without ruffling the feathers of your full-time job? What are other streams of revenue you can use while you build your speaking skills? How to determine a realistic budget and a financial safety net. Will there be some seasons that are busier than others even when you're an established speaker? And so much more! EPISODE RESOURCES Melanie Deziel's website Melanie Deziel on Twitter Melanie Deziel on Instagram Melanie Deziel on LinkedIn Episode 33: How to Pay Taxes on Your Speaking Fees Episode 51: What It's Really Like to Start a Speaking Career Episode 113: How to Become a Full-Time Speaker Episode 150: How to Work Full-Time and Build Momentum as a Speaker Free Speaker Workshop Find and contact potential gigs Speaking Fee Calculator Booked and Paid to Speak Got questions? Send them in here Email me! Subscribe on iTunes, and leave us a rating or review  

Crazy Rich Asians, being black in fashion, dating yourself, and dating, ahem, yourself. Shanika took herself on a date to see Crazy Rich Asians and discusses her thoughts on the film (she loved it!). She also talked about Netflix’s original film To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and why we need more diversity in films. Both read the article put out by The Cut “What It’s Really Like to Be Black and Work in Fashion” and discuss how they can relate to the frustrations of black people in the fashion industry to their own work and personal life. Then they discuss why you should date yourself (single or not) and the importance of owning a vibrator. Gem of the Week: Selenite Selenite is a conductor of energy. It allows a flow of high frequency energy to go through all the chakra centers, aligning them all with a purpose. Use with the crown chakra and third eye chakra. Topics/products in this episode: “What It’s Really Like to Be Black and Work in Fashion” 7 Reasons Dating Yourself is Sexy AF Crazy Rich Asians Crystals by Jennie Harding To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Keep in Touch! selfcreatedpodcast@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/selfcreatedpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/selfcreatedpodcast Newsletter: eepurl.com/cGXHQn

Hi. Hmm. Hello. Okay. Sometimes I get really shy. What do you mean you accidentally clicked on it? It was divined. It's not possible that you clicked on it accidentally. Why, why, is my wifi choosing right now to freeze? What's happening? Reset. Oh my God. Hello, Tamara. Georgine, this jacket is so old. This is like my old faithful. But thank you. I love it. Hi, Tamara. This is like the other side of my studio, you guys. I'm here in my studio. My throne is right there. I nearly just picked up the laptop, and I was like, "Look, there it is." Okay, wait. Hold your horses. Or your wine. Or whatever else do you have. What do you have? Leah, I must admit that when you commented on my post about the ribs, and you said that's awesome, I was like I don't get it. Where's the pun? What's the catch? I don't get it. And I was like, "I think she's being serious." I don't know if I've ever seen it before. Not on a normal Facebook post. I had to read it three times. And then I was just honestly so thrown that I couldn't reply. Mermaid cushions. Are they? These are some pretty cool cushions. I'm gonna share this over ... Looks good, doesn't it? This is my backup set. You were fucking hungry. I was devastated. Devastated. I was in shock. I thought ... 100% I was like, he's joking. So, for those who missed it, I went to my favourite steak and ribs place for dinner tonight, where I go like, maybe four times a week. I really like ribs. And I know the restaurant manager there, Matt, extremely well. Of course. Because I go there so often. And he was like, "Oh, have you seen our new menu?" And I'm like, "No, whatever. I don't need the menu. I have the same ribs every time I go there." He's like, "No, we don't have ribs on the menu anymore." And I'm like, "Oh, ha-ha." He's like, "No, no. We really took them off." I'm like, "No you didn't. You're just joking." And he's like, "No, no. We took them off. It's minimum four." And then sometimes I might order them up as well. They don't even deliver up, except for me. Obviously. Anyway. I manifested the fucking ribs. Obviously. Obviously. Where am I? I'm in my house. Here I am in my house. Welcome to the show. Okay. I'm in my gangster outfit. Which just means like shiny black all over. With a wild top on. It says wild. Except I have my fluffy pink slippers on, because it matches the painting. By the way, how talented is my sister-in-law, Rachel? She's an artist, and I commissioned this piece behind me. She made it for me. I don't think I've ever shown it before, because I kind of got the painting delivered, and then I just took off, travelling. As I do. There's another one just over there in the corner. It's leaning up against the wall. You can't see it properly. No, well then what happened with the ribs ... I'll show you the rest of the room in a moment, because you're in a different side of the studio. Yeah, but I've got a top on under it. What's the problem? So, what happened with the ribs was, he's like there's no ribs and no steak. They're pink slippers, Jason. Pink slippers. Matches my pink hair tie. Yeah. I thought he was joking. It's like, it's a steak and ribs place. That's what it is. You can't even make this shit up. When the hell does a steak and ribs place take steak and ribs off the menu? The ribs and the steak, they took off the menu. So, obviously I'm laughing at it, because I go there all the time. And it's a steak and ribs place. He's like, "No, no. We're trying burgers and pizzas." I'm like, "Yeah, good one." He's like, "No, really." So, then I start looking around at people's tables. I'm like ... because I knew for sure he was just trying to mess with me. Because we always have a good chat. We're good friends. So, I'm like, "He's just messing with me." I'm looking at people's tables to find the ribs, and I'm like, "I don't see any ribs." He's like, "No, no. I'm serious." I was in horror. I was just in a state of being frozen in horror. What's the word for that? There must be a word for it. I was in a shock state. Tremors were coming upon me, largely because I thought I was gonna cry, because I wanted ribs. And anyhow, long story short, I already wrote it on my personal Facebook. Ribs were delivered to me. He went and got them for me. Form another restaurant, and brought them there. All right, and here we are. So, that's roughly the whole story. I'm really not remotely in the mood to talk about anything much at all, so I feel like it's gonna be one of those live streams which is gonna be just very interesting. Having a day of being fucked with by the shenanigans crew. Leah, I said to Alyssa afterwards, it must be topsy turvy day. And then she was like, "What's topsy turvy day?" And I'm just thinking, "Who raised you, girl?" What kind of child doesn't know what topsy turvy day is? And then I'm like, "Well, maybe I never told her." Because all this random shit just kept happening. Everything weird kept happening. So, then we make it through dinner somehow. I got my food, but the children's burgers that they always normally order had been changed into sesame seed coated burgers. Like kids burgers with sesame seeds on top. Has anybody ever heard of such a ridiculous idea? So, of course both of my little precious offspring, who are reared in a manner in which they have come to expect that whatever they desire will be delivered to them, forthwith, and it is. They were not impressed, shall we say. At the sesame seed topped burgers. In fact, it's fair to say they were appalled. If my father was there, he would've said, "Bernard." And I would've said ... Nevermind. It would've descended. Only very few people have got that joke. Maybe Leah. But anyway. We would've both agreed that we're appalled. He would've said, "How do you feel about it?" And I would've said, "I'm appalled." And I would've said, "Well, how do you feel?" And he would've said, "Well, I'm appalled." And we both would've said, "I'm appalled." Anyhow. If you can name the show, I'll be very impressed that I'm not the only one who watches weird stuff. So, that happened, and the sesame seed burgers were not a hit. Nobody ate them. By the time we got to the end of the dinner, and we discovered that they don't ... Okay. The one with the minister. The minister. The one with the minister, the British show with the minister. Now I don't remember the name of it. There's definitely a minister involved and then his off, right hand guy is called Bernard. And there's just this ... Surely if you watched Faulty Towers, you watched the one ... Minister. Sometimes with a minister. I don't know. Somebody knows. Tell me the show. There were books as well. Get your wine. It's all gonna go haywire momentarily. It's just very funny when my dad says it. And then both of us go back and forth. Yes, Minister. Exactly. Yes, Minister. Right. So, then dad and I ... It's nothing to do with [Bernicky 00:08:23]. Dad and I would just go back and forth, back and forth, agreeing that we're both appalled, and we just think we're hilarious. That's really the whole story. That's all you need to know. But by the time we got to the end of the dinner, even my eight year old daughter, she says ... Oh, that's right. Because they had no chocolate ice cream. They've changed the children's ice cream menu, to no chocolate. They've got strawberry, but it's like some sort of woo-woo strawberry, and, wait for it ... Hazelnut. On a children's dessert menu. These are your two options. Weird woo-woo strawberry, which can't even possibly be explained, even if you asked me to, and hazelnut. So, Alyssa says, "The only thing I can possibly consume at this restaurant from here on out is the water." She's eight years old. I was like, I'm dying, I'm laughing. And then we went to the grocery store and more weird shit happened, and basically I said it was topsy turvy day, and she didn't know what it meant. And then it was just ... I couldn't even, even, with the whole world. I had to go home and put the children to bed, and now her I am. So, check it out, because I'm gonna talk about the burn, and the pain, and I don't even really feel like it, but it's just the title that came to me when I was in the toilet. There's my throne, so now you know where you are in time and space. Do you see where you are? That's where I usually am over there. There's all your fancy lights, there's one big fancy light up there. There's another one, and there's a ring light there. I'm live streaming without a fancy light on me. Who would've thought? I just felt like sitting on the couch. I felt like everybody's seen enough of the throne. Driven by the burn. Okay. Where are we gonna go with this conversation? I was thinking about various forms of pain today. I was triggered today. It happens to me from time to time, and I always flip it straight into gratitude as soon as I get triggered by something, or I feel uncomfortable by something. Well, firstly I might have a little hissy fit, or crack it, or get upset, or whatever the trigger is. It's not usually very, you know, emotive in a big way. Not a huge reaction. But there'll be some sort of little blip, right? You know, maybe you see something online, or you see something out in the real world, whatever that is. Or something occurs to you, or maybe you say something, that's kind of like, "Why did I say that? Now I sound like an idiot", or now I look like an idiot, or maybe they now think that I meant this, and actually I meant this, and maybe they're analysing it, and maybe they don't give a fuck about you because they're pretty obsessed with themselves. But anyway, these are the thoughts that the mind does. And then you just feel that like, ugh. And I don't know about you, but sometimes when I get that feeling, I then can't remember why I have the feeling, right? So, then you know when you carry around this weird feeling of like, I know that I'm triggered and I know that I'm upset about something, but I'm now not sure what it is, so I'm walking around feeling kind of naked and exposed. But I don't know if I have valid reason for it or not, and I wish I could fucking remember why I'm upset or why I'm triggered. I just know that there's a reason that this feeling's here and I've gotta shift it. That might be just me. But I'd be curious to know. But anyhow, today I had a little trigger. It was like a little ... That's what happens. Energetically. You're just going about your day, you're cruising along, you're writing a blog, or you're doing your thing, you're walking down the street listening to client audios, whatever it is that you're doing. And sometimes happens, and it's just this kind of, uh. And all of a sudden, you feel like you're not on path anymore. You were merrily swimming in a sea of abundance and alignment, or seeking to as the case may be, and now you suddenly feel like somebody just grabbed you by the shoulder and pulled you off, you've kind of got this tug going on, and it's like, ugh. It's annoying, right? So, then if you lean into the trigger though, it might get more annoying, and it might get upsetting. It might cause you to feel inferior, not good enough, same thing really. Frustrated, annoyed, disheartened, sad, et cetera, or worried, or whatever it is. I used to try and avoid those things. Or I used to get super reactive, in the sense that ... Okay. I feel like I've forgotten how to swallow. Something's happening inside of me. I'm sure I'll be able to manage it. Fear not. I used to get super reactive when I would get triggered. Like I would get reactive in the sense that I would probably retaliate to the trigger, which was not always necessarily the most useful thing, particularly because typically, or often anyway, frequently, the person who's triggered you has no fucking clue, because it's just some random post that they put on Facebook. So, then I would retaliate though, via response, text, of minimum 2000 words. I don't mean private text message, I mean post on Facebook, right? You know when you do a Facebook post, you're just hoping that one person will see it, or some people will see, right? I used to do that. I would do a rant, or kind of a defensive post, or kind of a let me make my point sort of post. That is actually a really good way to avoid letting a trigger work on you. And letting it serve the lesson that it came along to serve. And all of these things come along to serve as a lesson, right? So, if we don't gain the lesson from it, or if we don't get the growth work that we're meant to get from it, then what can happen is we just ... or what typically does happen is we just keep on getting the same lesson again, and again. It just keeps getting served back to us. Okay, I feel like nobody's talking to me. I feel like I'm being insanely boring. I'm now getting triggered by the fact that I'm pretty sure I'm being really boring, and I don't know what's happening. I feel like I've never live streamed before, or I've forgotten how to live stream. Do you think it's because I'm on the couch and not on my throne? But I really like to sit up here. I think it looks fancy. Am I being boring right now? Tell me something you want me to talk about, because I feel like I've lost my way completely. I'm getting really squirmy inside of myself, and I'm getting kind of like ... Yeah, super self conscious. I just feel like I wanna dance and sing, and have some people around for a drink. But that'll be, maybe tomorrow night. Meanwhile, literally nobody's even commenting. However, the numbers are somehow weirdly going up slightly. So, I feel like you've all banded together and you're just refusing to talk to me on purpose, but you've got some kind of conversation thread going on behind the scenes on fucking telegram, or telegraph, or telepole, or whatever that app is that everybody's using without me. Okay, no. The comments are all over here. My communication chakra might be out of whack. Okay, there was no comments on the phone. All right, I'm clearly just a bundle of insecure nerves, because as soon as I don't get a comment for like 10 and a half seconds, on my phone, I'm like, "Everybody hates me." But they're all over here on the laptop. Okay. Thank you. It's only 12:12 here as well, Jamie. Except not really, it's 9:12. All right. You're captivated. Georgina says, "Everybody's captivated", and Addison says, "Everybody's enthralled." Carla says is my communication out of whack. I don't know, where is the communication chakra? I know where the heart one is, I know where the self expression one is. Where is the communication one? I know where the sexual one is. I'm all over that shit. Burn. Okay. You guys are helping me out. Thank you. I just didn't know the comments were coming over here. What's with that Facebook? It's trying to screw with me. What was I talking about? I feel revived. I feel like I've had an injection of self love and confidence, and enthusiasm. Maybe the injection of love came from you guys and not from me. Maybe I'm getting validated right now, and I need to address my own self love shit again. Instead of allowing myself to be validated. Oh, even the wine at the restaurant had changed to terrible wine. I normally get the grated pepper jack [Chiraz 00:16:32]. It's $25 for a glass, and it's amazing. And they pour a big glass, so $25 is pretty reasonable for an oversized glass of wine. But it's not cheap for a glass of wine. They didn't have a single glass of wine that was over eight dollars 50. I was honestly like ... where's the kind of better wine? I find it very scary, and I said this to the guy, who like I said I know. The one who went and got me my ribs from a different restaurant and brought them to me at the restaurant. I said, "I find these prices a little scary, Matt. They're a little scary cheap. What's happening? Where's the good wine gone?" He's going, "I know." The owner's just changed everything. They're trying to cater to a cheaper crowd. So, I couldn't even drink any wine at the restaurant. I had half a glass. So, now I'm just having some ... Of course, I only drink fucking Solo wine's Prophetic Wine. So, I'm having Witches Falls. I mean, ti's the best title ever for a bottle of wine, isn't it? Witches Falls Prophecy. I drink the [inaudible 00:17:36] as well. Isn't it much more fun when I'm not talking about the topic? Okay, let's get back to the topic though. How did I put the banner on the live stream? [German 00:17:44], no idea at all. [German 00:17:46]. We switch to German when we feel like it. [German 00:17:52]. Somebody did it for me. I don't know. But something to do with Facebook Creative. You could Google it, I imagine. So, anyway. It's so nice to wine. I know, I know, you cannot buy a glass of wine for eight dollars 50 in a restaurant, Jason. It's upsetting, it's unbecoming to the wine, and it's probably unbecoming to your own self if you would drink the wine, because it's gonna be full of shit for that price. It's just, the whole situation was just upsetting to behold. So, the triggers, okay. I feel revived. I feel a little concerned that I got validated by comments in a really big way, when I should only be validating my own self, so we'll work on that later. We'll work on it later. We'll work on it later. We'll work on it later. We'll work on it later. We'll work on it later. I'll give you some affirmations. Love thyself. That's probably [inaudible 00:18:45]. And actually I do. Yay me. And we already talked about that earlier today. I did the self pleasure blog. It wasn't really about self pleasure, but I was certainly thinking about self pleasure, and it was about self pleasure. The whole thing was about pleasure. Depends whether you mean masturbation or not, when you're talking about self pleasure. But that was definitely part of it, and it was involved. So, the trigger thing. If you don't ... Okay. If you don't learn the lesson ... Just making sure everything's in order because I'm getting overheated. If you don't learn the lessons that you need to learn ... All right. Now I'm clashing with the painting. I don't match the painting at all. This is gonna have to stay on. This is why I can't sit in front of this painting normally. My art clashes with the other art. If I would turn my back to you, I feel like what's on my back would totally go with that art. No. Nope. Okay. I don't know what country you're drinking you're wine in, but you cannot go around having a glass of wine for eight dollars 50 at a restaurant in Australia. It's not acceptable. If you're in a different country, I'll give you permission to have something for eight dollars 50, depending on where you are. Because sometimes wine here is expensive, right? So, if you see a glass of wine for eight dollars 50, that is a cheap ass, dodgy ass wine that you don't wanna drink, that's for sure. It's upsetting to see that price on a menu. Okay. If you don't learn the lesson from the fucking trigger, it's going to keep coming back at you, right? So, to ... Okay, I was frozen in a most unflattering position just now on my own phone screen. So, it was just a little bloop of a trigger. Exactly it made that noise, as I was walking about doing my business. Which was largely that I wanted to sit in the sun. That was roughly the entire business for the moment in time. And I thought to myself, "Ah, don't even need to think about that. Whatever, put it aside." And I did, for a moment or for several hours, or whatever. And then it just presented itself merrily back to me. Via reappearing in my Facebook feed, like a mother fucker. Just so that I could be reminded again of the trigger, and this time it was like, ugh. Exactly like that, like an annoying fly on your shoulder. And you're just like, "Brush it away, brush it away, brush it away. I don't need to know about this shit. You can mosey on along to another feed, not my feed." But then, then, then, I went and did some inner stuff, [meditationy 00:21:13] sort of zen situation that I had myself in, in the afternoon. You don't need to know all the details, and then from there, something occurred to me, which I found simultaneously fascinating and infuriating. Fascinated and infuriating. Which was that perhaps this trigger had been given to me for the opportunity of growth, which is always the case, actually. I think you'll find. I don't really care for the fact that these comments are not coming up here. Trigger sound bites. Exactly right. The lessons will keep coming back until you learn them. I'm just ignoring the comments about my top. It's not like I was showing anything anyway. God knows I've shown a fuckload more than that on my own streams before. Largely by accident. All right. Check out my black and gold cushion. How do you like my styling of my own couch? I styled this couch myself. I styled myself with my black shiny leggings, and my wild top. I won't flash it to you again since you're all getting so concerned about it. And I styled this black and gold cushion to match that, and then I brought this pinky cushion in to match it. Now here we are. So, all your lessons will keep on coming back until you figure them the fuck out. If you don't shift and learn from what you were supposed to, from each lesson or trigger that presents itself to you, then it's just gonna be like a persistent child in a candy store, just tugging on your leg, except in a much more annoying way and impacting you, potentially in your ability to make money. Something's beeping. Let's ignore it. Potentially in your ability to make money, or receive in other areas, or whatever it is. So, as I went into my zen meditation period within my day, it occurred to me, what if I was grateful for the trigger? Hmm? How do you feel about that? What was the most recent thing you were triggered by? Do you wanna tell me? Put it in the comments. Let's hear. What was the most recent thing where you were like ... Or maybe you were like fuck you. Or maybe you were like ... it really deflated you and it made you feel sad. That's okay. You can own it. We all been there. We've all been there. Share your triggers. So, this thing was just kind of uncomfortable and annoying, but I wouldn't say it was majorly triggering me, but it felt a bit ... It felt like it was throwing me a little bit. You know where you get thrown and you're kinda like, I was on my path, I was completely doing my thing, and just like la, la, la, happy. And now I feel like hmm. Hmm, do I need to think about that? No, I don't want to because it's annoying, so I'll put it aside, but then Facebook just brings it back to you on your news feed, helpfully. And then you go and you try and do your inner shit, and your meditation shit, and your zen shit, and you're like ahhh, and then it's like knocking on the door inside of your head. And so, it occurred to me that I could be grateful. I do indeed know ... Jamie says her most recent trigger was somebody's face. I love it. Jason says, "WB." I've got no idea what that means. Georgina says, "I think you know." I think I do. I've got to admit though, Jamie, I'm frequently triggered by people just from them existing, and frequently inside of my head I feel like saying something to somebody. Like, can you please just not exist near me? And that's 100% my own shit, for sure. Because I do it to random people who did nothing at all. They didn't even bump into me, they did nothing. They were just existing in their own time and space, like being a perfectly lovely, wonderful person, quite likely. Or maybe a complete asshole, but how would I know? They were not doing anything to me, and I'm just like, "Stop existing near me." Is how I feel about the matter. I suppose it's typically when I'm having one of those days, or afternoons where I shouldn't be seen around people, and I should hide myself from the world. Or something like that. Jamie was triggered by somebody's face in their email. That's awesome. Just look at you with your face, right there in the email. So, mine was may be somewhat similar to that. I was definitely triggered by a person for just being a person, and I was like, "I'm sure you're a perfectly lovely person, but I just don't care for your personness right now." And then you see your own ridiculousness, and you're like, "Just put it aside, just centre yourself and be a fucking adult, or a professional, or whoever you're supposed to be imagining that you're being for the day." And then it just keeps coming back and you're like grrr. So, anyway, I decided to flip it into gratitude. And it was actually a real thing, right? It wasn't like I'm going to try and flip this into gratitude, or let me find a way to be grateful for this discomfort. Was I grateful for the person? Maybe. Yes, no I think I was. It was genuine gratitude that came along to me. It was kind of like, ahhh. It was an Unagi moment, for sure. Like, Unagi. Right? It was a moment of realisation and recognition, like ooh, this is good. And do you know why I realised it was good? Because of the burn. Hence the title of this live stream. Let's say it all together. Burn. Okay. Lately my voice has been doing weird things. Two days ago it broke, like a teenage boy. My voice just broke, mid live stream. It was pretty embarrassing. And now I don't know what that was. It sounded like a small piglet grunting. Okay. People copying me, says Julie. That's a definite trigger alert. Trigger alert. In fact, even today when this happened, I may or may not have audioed my friend saying, "Trigger alert." And then I felt like an idiot. Spicy salmon roll. Exactly. Unagi. I thought it was salmon skin roll. Hmm. We gotta watch some Yes Minister, and some Friends. It's obvious. Yes. Okay. Got it. On the friends and the fuckwits. So, I just 100% did flip into gratitude, and the reason for the gratitude was that I realised how good the discomfort was. It actually reminded me in that moment of the feeling, or kind of the philosophy that I have around the days when I do like six to eight hour day getting tattoo work done on me, and often it's about six hours, but the longest I've done I think is nine. So, let's say somewhere between six and eight hour sessions, where we'll have like a five minute fucking break, two or three times throughout, and that's it really. And it reminded me of that, because the way that I've worked to get through that, and even to open up and embrace it, not just get through it, has been by opening myself up to the pain, right? Like I think the first time that I did ... I mean, I had like two little tattoos. One from 20 years ago, when I was 18, and one from about 11 years ago. But they were tiny. So, then when I started doing all the big work that I've now got all over my upper body, the first one which was on my shoulder, was a five hour session. That I just found so painful, I found it so traumatic. For some reason, the next morning my gums were bleeding like a mother fucker. I felt like I'd been hit by a truck, my body was so not used to it. I was just really whacked from it for several days. But I was fine overall. It's not like I couldn't function. But it affected me. And then the next time when I came back ... And I really felt all the pain of it, right? I just found it such a painful experience, but the next time when I came back, I guess I was kind of psychologically prepared for it, and it was gonna be a longer session ... I think that was the first eight hour one, and I really just decided I'm gonna open myself up to this pain, and I'm gonna embrace the pain. And I didn't know if I'd fully decided that in advance. I know I had kind of psychologically prepped myself in advance, and thought about it. But it was within the first hour or so of that day that I noticed I was continually pulling away internally from the pain, and just kind of like we do when something triggers us online, right? Or offline. Where you're like, ugh. You wanna avoid it, or it might just be a little bit annoying like that, which is how I felt today, just a little bit annoyed. But it could be a bigger thing, and then you feel really disheartened, or really sad, or really upset or whatever it might be. And so, you pull away, right? Or you turn away, or you kind of try and withdraw and you distract yourself with other stuff. And in this case, with the tattoo thing, back then that's what I was sort of trying to do. I was trying to pull away internally. You can't pull away physically, or you're gonna screw up the fricking art work, right? And all of a sudden, I had this Unagi moment. Complete fricking hashtag Unagi. And the Unagi moment was ... and if you don't know what an Unagi moment is, then just chat amongst yourselves and figure it out. Hello. I did say trigger alert out loud. I'm definitely not as cool as I purport to be. That's for sure, right? I might walk around presenting myself to the world as somewhat of a badass. I'm pretty certain it's not true, and if I was interviewed extensively on the matter, and required to prove myself, really all I'd be able to present as evidence is probably this jacket, this gold bling-bling cushion, and my tattoos. But probably get through on that. Just a little side tip there, just so you know. Total nerd. That's the problem. Just sneaks out from time to time, and it is what it is. We all have to live with ourselves in the end. So, anyway ... Oh my fucking God. Okay, my friend, who I said trigger alert to, has messaged me saying, "Oh my fucking God", right now. It just came through them. She must've had a trigger alert as well. We'll find out later. I'm not gonna read it now. I can just see the top of it. From time to time the geekyness just slips out, but I feel like I mask it well, and nobody's really quite certain what's going on. Is she secretly like a massive bookworm nerd? Well, actually that part's true. Who sits largely at home watching old episodes of Yes Minister with her father. Well, he lives in another state, but still, on an energetic level perhaps. Or is she a total gangster badass who's just out there taking on the world, and doing whatever she wants, and making millions of dollars? Well, the millions of dollars part for sure. Gangsta badass? That's just a freaking thing that you put on. Right? It's like stepping into a performer. Oh my God, should we get back to the trigger thing in a moment and talk about something about sex for a second? Because last night I was at an event about the bedroom and the sex things, and the enlightenment things, and being more sexual and sensual, and having more pleasure, blah, blah, blah. It was amazing, by the way. But people were talking about whether or not it's okay to be a performer sexually, either to perform to your partner ... you know, like to kind of put on a show. Or performing when you're having sex with your own self, which was an interesting concept for me, because it was like, "Do I? Do I perform when I'm alone?" I actually don't think I do. I genuinely don't think I perform for my own self during sex. I don't even know if I perform for anyone else during sex. I felt a little bit bad about it. I was like, "I don't think I do put on a show. I think I'm just authentic." Which could be a good thing. But then people ... But no, performing is fine, because then people were being like, maybe it's not okay to be a performer, because they were saying it's not authentic or real. And I was still trying to assess my own sexual moves and whether or not I'm a performer. Okay, definitely have performed at times during sex. That's for sure. I feel like I need to bring out the performer more, the more that I think about it. But I was certainly feeling that there's nothing bad or wrong with being a performer during sex, or at any other time, because obviously I perform all the time, and that's really what being a badass is. It's just stepping into it. And it's part of who you are. That's just one part of you. Be all that you are. Be a performer. Be the scarlet woman. Be the quiet book nerd. Be the person who embarrassingly yells trigger alert in a public place, if need be. So, it was actual gratitude, because I suddenly realised that this opportunity had been presented to me via the gods of Facebook. I'm not sure how many of them there are. The Facebook overlords, I feel, would be probably a more appropriate way to classify those people. Rather than Facebook gods. I have to rearrange my legs. So, they had presented the opportunity for me to be triggered several times over, because I tried to ignore it, and then the stupid annoying post just popped merrily back into my feed and I had to see it again. So, I was like fine. Okay, I'll ignore it again. And then I thought about it later, and I was like, "Well, or I could be grateful." And I could imagine to myself ... I thought about the tattoo thing. I thought about how when I learn to lean into the pain of the tattooing, the long sessions, I became grateful for the way that it was strengthening me, and that's how I felt about it. In that moment, as I flipped into gratitude. I was like, yeah. This is strengthening me. This is making me into a warrior of inner power and strength, and resilience. I don't think I used to word warrior, but I did send a message to my friend. I'll check what I even said, and maybe I'll read it to you if it's not too sneaky and cheeky. Well, it's kind of boring, anyway. I said I flipped into gratitude. That was the whole message. It's very boring. It's way more interesting the way I'm telling the story here. Because I just realised that all these things come along to teach us something and to help us to grow, and to become more grounded in who we are. Right? So, maybe you see somebody's post, maybe somebody's triggered by me right now. That would be an unusual thing, and probably the first time that it's ever happened, I would imagine. Somebody should write me a letter and tell me about it, for sure. Don't worry, they already do. All the fucking time. Usually when they sign up as clients, and they tell me how much they couldn't stand me for three years prior to that. Not everyone, not everyone. Where's my comments? I'm getting no comments on my phone. Adidas and Lycra do go together. I have the matching pants for this jacket, you guys. I can go full gangsta. I wore them to a night club opening. It wasn't a night club opening, it was an app launch at Bootsy Bellows on Sunset Boulevard. A year ago. They're like 18 months old, this jacket. How embarrassing. Whatever. But, old fashion. But always fashion. There's no point in time at which the three stripes are not in. But I do have the matching pants for them. They're low rider pants though. They're super low rider. You gotta stay as upright as a pin if you wear those pants. If you bend yourself just a little bit, your whole ass is hanging out the back end, which may or may not be a good thing. But it's an annoying thing when it's a windy evening and you're trying to wear some Tonne Ford shoes with a whole bling-bling black shiny Adidas, slash Adidas. Whatever it's supposed to be, get up going on, and you've got a bunch of bling chains on, and your hair in a top knot because somebody said that it looks fancy. I'm just hypothesising. I'm not saying that that actually happened. So, anyhow, it's always a fricking opportunity to grow and become stronger, and grounded in who you are. If you ignore the triggers, when somebody triggers you ... That's right. I was talking about maybe I'm triggering somebody. I'm triggering people all the fucking time. They do seem to enjoy telling me about it. Well, sometimes my existing clients tell me the things that other people say about me, in enclosed Facebook groups or message threads, or wherever they are. And I guess shocked and appalled, and then other times people tell me themselves how much I annoy the fuck out of them for how ever many years before they fell just wildly and haplessly, and helplessly in love with me. You're welcome. I understand, because sometimes I trigger myself as well, for sure. Sometimes when I watch my own replays, and I really was in full performer mode, sometimes I smack talk myself. But in a total self love way, because I do love and accept myself. I really just nailed that shit last year, actually. After much work prior to that. So, sometimes though, I do smack talk myself. Sometimes I'm like, "Really? Like you really think that that was a smart move? Look at you. Who do you think you are?" But then I think what's happening is it's the performer within the performer, because I think when I'm smack talking myself, that actually what I'm doing is I'm kind of simultaneously playing several Seinfeld-esque type roles at one. So, kind of the voice of me that's smack talking the other version of me who was already on the live stream, that one is that new one who is doing the smack talking, is now quite impressed with her own hilarity and wittiness, and so she's becoming the performer, smack talking the other one. So, then I get super clever at telling my own previous self off. It's kind of confusing, but if you think about it, it's very logical and entirely normal, I'm sure. But anyway, I do. I'll watch my own live stream replays probably half the time, because I have no idea what I fucking said, and then I like to see the comments coming in and what people had to say that I was missing. And it's not uncommon that I'll just be like, "Oh my God, I can't even look at this. This is so embarrassing to look at." Or it's annoying. There's been times for sure, many times, where I'm like, "Would you just shut up? Why are you talking so much? Can you ever possibly get to the point?" Or if it pops on to my screen and starts talking, I'm like, "My God, she's so annoying. She just keeps talking, and talking, and talking." But I say it all with a smile, because I just still also do love it. And I accept it. And I just either way, and nevermind, I keep on allowing it out. So, there you have it. I think that's everything I came here to say. I'm not remote ... Oh my God. I've only had this one glass of wine, because I didn't even drink the wine at dinner, and I've already forgotten how to talk. I'm not ... What's happening? Told you it was topsy turvy day. I'm not remotely impressed with my own ... No, with Facebook's inability to show me the comments on my phone. It's kind of annoying having to look over here all the time. So, the driven by the burn thing was simply, it is exciting to feel the pain, I think, right? I don't know. I get off on it. Not in a sexual way. Sorry, if anybody was hoping that. Nope. Not actually. In a life way, for sure. I find it exciting and fun, and definitely there's some ego in there for sure, I would say, about being able to take it, and enjoy it, and thrive on it, and I feel very self satisfied that I know that I'm getting stronger in situations where other people would flake out, or run away, and do exactly that, and I see them do that, right? So, I feel satisfied with myself when I do like a six to eight hour session at the tattoo studio. I feel glad it's over, but I feel like I became stronger, and I feel proud of myself. And same with many situations in business and life. Many things that I've persevered through, which I just know other people wouldn't. And then I feel really good about myself. And this particular little minor situation today, which was sort of being relatively easy. I was gonna say so easy to brush aside and forget about as well, because it wasn't anything that's really even remotely connected to my world, but then it's so easy ... sort of so easy to brush aside, because really, things do keep circling back if we brush them aside when they kind of knocked on the door for a reason. And instead, I allowed myself to feel it, and allowed myself to feel the discomfort, and to feel that trigger feeling, and to feel kind of that slight annoyance, or whatever it was, and really it's all fear. If we're being triggered by something and we're feeling discomfort or annoyance, or frustration, or whatever it is, being disheartened, it's actually all fear. It's actually all ... it all boils down in the end to some sort of version of maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I couldn't do that, or be like that, or show up like that, or whatever it might be, right? I think even when we're ... Even Jamie said, she was triggered by someone's face. Where in there is there sometimes around how somebody else is showing up? And how you wanna show up, right? Just for example. So, for me, I find it really helpful and I think it was a good choice, to allow myself to then feel all of those feelings, and then to be like, "Oh, this is so good", because just like when I feel all the feelings of the tattoo work, it allows me to grow stronger, because I increase my ability to withstand that so called pain, I guess. Or I realise that it's not as painful as I thought, so I change my perceptions, I adapt, I do all these amazing things altogether. It was kind of the same thing, right? I changed my perceptions, I adapt, I felt myself grow stronger, I felt myself grow more grounded in who I was, and so instead of something that was like a burn or a pain, or a discomfort, being that, and being a supposed bad thing or a negative thing, it became a positive thing, and it became something that was exciting, and that I genuinely felt grateful for that opportunity through the day to kind of heal or shift sometimes inside of myself, and become even more connected to my own self, my own soul, my own truth about who I am and how I get to show up in the world, right? And I just think man, we have all these continual opportunities through the day and through, well, every day, and every week, and every month, and just day in and day out, to grown and to become stronger, better humans, more powerful entrepreneurs, more centred, more soul connected, et cetera. And if you allow each of those opportunities to be what they are meant to be, and what they came here to be, you become this ... Honestly, you just become an unstoppable success machine. Which I believe is how it's meant to be. I feel that that is meant to be the human experience, right? So, I don't think that my, I guess, mindset, which is something that I've cultivated to a strong level, or however you wanna term it, for many years now. I don't think that it's anything special in a sense that it's not ... it is special, and it's special to me, and it's unique, and unique to me as well, but it's available for everybody, right? Yet when I go on occasion into environments with people who are not, I'm gonna say, as committed to their growth work as myself, or my clients, or my friends, actually it tends to shock me because it's quite rare for me to really connect in a deep way, or spend an extended period of time with people who don't kind of think and grow all day, every day. And continually up-level themselves. So, obviously I would go out in the evening to places socially, or restaurants, or the beach, or an airport, or wherever. Clearly I'm around people all the time, but I would say that it's rare to be in a situation where you really hear a lot from people who are not like us, right? I don't know if you relate to this. But it's happened to me once or twice recently, and I found it quite shocking. Like eye opening, and almost like wow, I think I've become super naïve about how the world works. I think I've forgotten how little growth work the vast majority of people do, and how rare it is to actually continually up-level every single day, which is what I do, what my clients do, what my friends do. And I honestly think that 24 hours a day I'm doing mindset work and I'm up-leveling and growing. It's just become automatic, right? So, for us, if you relate, for us then every single thing that comes along, becomes a growth opportunity and a healing opportunity, and I know with my friends and with my clients, and it's like a continual conversation every day, where it's like oh my God, this happened, and I felt this way, and it was like ugh, and then it's like hmm, and what I realised is blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right? Even random shit, like little road rage, right? I don't even mean something major, or maybe running late, or okay. I'll give you an example. Last week, I was kind of snarky with the new babysitter who came along. A babysitter that I hired from an agency, and she ended up being like 20 minutes late, and I was going to a movie with my sister. And I was like, "I'm gonna miss the start of the movie." She's like ... Oh no, she was 30 minutes late by the time she got here upstairs. I kind of, I was [restrainededly 00:46:57] polite, but I kind of deliberately made my voice in a way where I showed that I was annoyed. And I knew that I was deliberately, I wanted her to know that I was annoyed at her, right? So, I was kind of being understanding, but in a snooty snort of a way. And then when I left, I felt bad about it, and I kind of ... I was really nice to her right before I left, and I sort of tried to smooth over what I felt was my own bad attitude. And now, this is an example, right? Because then I left, and so I spent the drive to the movie theatre kind of going over it in my head, and then as I walk through the car park, I audio my friend. I'm like, "Right. So, here's what happened. Do you feel that I was in a state of ego? Or do you feel that it's fair enough for me to show my boundaries, and show what's acceptable to me when somebody's late? But then again, here's why I would be compassionate to her understanding of her being late, because of whatever such and such reason that I was giving her kind of like an out for being late." She wasn't just randomly late. There was like a whole confusion thing that had happened. But it ended up being probably by the time I'd gone back and forth on audios with my friend about this, and then I spoke with my sister about it as well, while we had dinner, or while we had a drink or whatever. It ended up being probably 30 minutes of an analysis around this situation, which was not like fucking naval gazing, right? It was healing and correcting and understanding something like was I in ego? Or this is a trait that I didn't really feel that was attractive in myself, and then I was like, "Hmm, I notice that I do that from time to time." I used to do it a lot. I've shifted it massively, but let's say that you wait for ages in a queue, and then you get to the front of the queue, and you just kind of deliberately want that person in the checkout, the checkout person, to know that you're shitty about it, right? And that this is not okay, and I'm important, and I shouldn't have had to wait. It's a very common thing that you see people do all the time. I very rarely do it at all anymore, but I definitely used to, and I see it a lot. I see it with people boarding planes, is another one. If there's been some sort of hold up, and so then I talked about that, and I kind of processed it, and I'm like, "Hmm, do I still do that? Because it's definitely not a trait that I desire to keep in myself if I do that." And it was just kind of this whole thing, and then it brought up something in my friend. And so then we spoke about that, and I don't know if it was that situation, or some other sort of similar, pretty low key situation, but recently I found myself saying to someone, "You know, this is not normal that people don't have hiccups in their day, or just random little disruptions or triggers, or they feel a bit bad about their own behaviour, and then they're not sure whether or not they should feel bad about it", or whatever. But they don't then go an have an audio conversation with a friend about it, and turn it into a high level consciousness conversation. And then have all these breakthroughs and a-has and then connect it into some other part of their life, and then have a massive fucking revolution about something huge because you pulled at that one little string. That's not what people do. But that's what we do all day, every day. Every burn, every pain, every discomfort, every disruption, every little trigger gets turned into growth. And so, what I've found is that just through the process of being this person, that over the years, it's become, for a while now, a long time now I would say, like all day every day mindset work. Everything is continually shifting and growing, and evolving, and the smallest things get to become kind of little threads that can be pulled on, and undo the biggest things. And sometimes it feels, I guess, kind of relentless or exhausting, or sometimes you just think, "Man, can I ever just move on and not analyse or seek to understand every single thing that comes along?" But it's not really about that. It's about being so committed to growth. Allison says, "That's the exact sort of friendships I want for me now." Well, I feel that you'll totally create that and call that in through Rich Hot Empire. And that's why I created the inner circle for as well. Not specifically continual shifting and up-leveling and analysis of little day to day situations, but that sort of environment, right? Like a women's circle, or it's like women, men, whatever. But a circle of like-minded individuals who are connected by ... well, a like-minded desire, right? To continually grow and evolve. 100% of my friendships are like that now. I just can't even imagine a friendship that would be different. Yes, it's about sometimes just hanging out and being silly, and having fun, or whatever. Or just sometimes it's just kind of sharing what's going on, and connecting in that way. But honestly, every single thing that causes any, either of us, whoever's in the relationship, any sort of disruption or feeling of, "Oh, I don't feel quite in alignment now", or I feel like maybe that wasn't the best choice, or was I coming from this place? And what do you think? It's just continual discussion and continual evolution and growth. So then, and that's exactly how it is in the inner circle, and there's a few inner circle people in here so you know this, right? But with all of my clients as well, in Rich Hot Empire, which you're in obviously Allison, it's a version of that. Julie says, "It's 24/7, even when I look like I'm doing nothing, I'm doing everything." Exactly. Right? Like I could be standing, waiting for something at the post office, or ... I usually wouldn't do that, so I'd send Serafina. But if I was, right? Or wherever I am, at a store or something, or pumping gas, or I don't know, getting changed in the gym, and you just continually kind of creating your life in your mind. And then on occasion, you go into an environment with normal people, not just okay, passing through the airport or whatever. But where you're actually listening to people who are not like that, and hearing how they do life, and I do find it really shocking. Honestly, I do. I find it kind of like that, is how I feel. I kind of feel like, oh my God. How do you even live? And I guess I logically know that the way we think and do life is so different, but maybe I didn't realise it's so different, because I think you just adapt to, of course I'm gonna turn everything into an exercise and a lesson around alignment. What else would I do, right? Of course every single thing that occurs or happens in my life is monetizable, if I want it to be, right? I don't take every single tiny thing in my life and turn it into content, or turn it into money, but a pretty good percentage. Of course, every random story, whether it's a funny story, or a silly story, or a an up-level story, whatever, of course that can be content. And money as well, right? So, I don't know, it's just ... I just think I'm so fucking happy to be the person that I am, and I'm so fucking happy to have created a community around me of like-minded individuals as well, because I think it would sound crazy if you were trying to explain this stuff to anybody else out there. And of course, that's that's why many entrepreneurs end up alone. Hello, Sally. Hello, Kyra. I see you jumping on. Jamie says, "This reminds me of the beginning of our call on Tuesday." I'm in such a rambly mode. The live stream on Facebook, on my laptop computer over here says that only three people have been reached so far, from this live stream. I feel that that's quite a bunch of lies, actually. Because there's definitely like 28 people who are on right now live and there's been tonnes more before. So, my inner circle, if you don't know ... Okay, that silver cushion was not supposed to be on screen. That was not part of my visuals that I decided. I wanted it behind my back. Let's fix that up. The inner circle is open, by the way, which is my private client, 12 month ongoing one on one mentoring. I have been actively promoting that for two days now, and I've had some amazing badass people reaching out about that. And starting to say yes as well. So, this is a really, really exciting time for me, because my inner circle is ... well, it's my most inner circle. My innermost circle, and it's exciting to really put some focused attention into the growth of the inner circle, for this current time. And just watch the badassery rise. It is completely unlimited one on one access to me. It is the hottest and most badass mastermind in the world. Created by me, for driven entrepreneurs, creators, the crazy ones who just want more. And it's really the kind of thing to have an individual conversation about. So, there's not a whole lot more that I'm gonna say about it right now. If you'd like to know what it's like to mentor with me at the highest one on one level, then the best thing to do is ... Actually, you can click on the cover photo, I think. Let me just double check. You can go on the cover photo of this page, or my personal page, yeah. And if you click on that, there's a little overview description. I'll even put a version of it here into a comment here. But really, you're just gonna message me, okay? You're just gonna send me a private message on my personal Facebook is best. Not this one ideally. I'm live streaming from my business page right now. But I do take messages on the business page, I just prefer them on the personal page. I prefer to have my personal conversations on my personal page. Send me a message if you'd like to know more about the inner circle. I will send you a written overview that explains what it's about and how it all works, and what you get. Largely, you get being in my energy. You get me, you get coming into that space and that environment. You also get a tonne of other things, including amazing retreats and the next one is coming up in July. And then there's a video, or a couple videos even, where I talk about it more, and some other things that you can look at. But you can send me a message about it, and I'll get you all the details. So, I wanted to tell you about that. Here's a small written overview. I'm popping it into the comment now. I really like the way this set looks actually, on my computer by the way. I should sit here on this couch more often. I've got so many cool bling-bling couches in this house. I've got two more really bling-bling couches way over there. So, right here behind this phone screen in my kitchen, and this is the studio, as you know. The throne's right there. And then, through the other room is a massive lounge. The big lounge. The main lounge, downstairs lounge. That has two hot as fuck couches on it. And this massive big painting that's over there, is supposed to sit above one of them, and I'm not sure why it's not up there. And then there's another whole lounge room upstairs which nobody ever uses at all. Lounge room, living room, whatever it is. Anyway. I have the low down on all my living areas. And now you have the low down on the inner circle. It's in the page comment there. That's a small low down. If you want the whole low overview, you gotta message me about that. All right. I could ramble on and on all evening. Do I have anything else to say? Do you have anything else you'd like me to say? Tell me something interesting. Everything gets to be turned into a story about alignment. Everything gets to be turned into growth. That's really what driven by the burn meant, when I divinely had that title for a live stream given to me, whilst in the bathroom. It was really just that everything gets to be turned into growth, and that I think if you embrace the discomfort or even pain, and you see it as purposeful, which it absolutely is and can be, then it becomes exciting. And that, to me, is kind of not even about the outcomes, right? Because the outcome of shifting through discomfort and pain, and triggers, or whatever it is, the outcome is actually like fucking abundance and the ability to receive. The outcome can be phenomenal, right? And absolutely will be, and it will connect into all areas, but for me, what's probably more exciting than that, to be honest, what I'm really driven by is not the outcome of getting through a period of growth, or discomfort, or pain, or whatever it might be. It's actually the feeling that I get from being in that moment, right? Where I'm experiencing the so-called pain, and I'm like, "Oh my God", and I'm okay with it. I'm not only okay with it, but I've actually found a way to thrive on it, and to enjoy it. You know, it could sound a little bit masochistic? Or sadistic? Which ones the one that's to yourself? I don't know. I'm not up with my pain words, even though I'm driven by pain, or driven by purposeful pain. Right? So, it sounds a little bit like that. It sounds a little bit like ... trying to get off on pain for no reason, or something like that. I'm waiting to see if somebody tells me what word it is here in the comments. But it's not that. It's abour realising that these things generally are sent to serve us, and for us to grow, and that it's actually only positive. You know, I think that we could really reframe the concept of pain and discomfort, and struggle, and realise that it's not a bad thing. It's not something to be scared of. No, it doesn't mean that it's gonna suddenly feel comfortable, or that if something feels painful that it will all of a sudden not feel painful. It's about realising that pain, purposeful pain ... it hurts, but then it feels better than what it hurts, right? It hurts so good. And I genuinely believe that. So, you can be feeling the pain and you're in the pain, but you're like, it's so good. It's doing me so much good, right? Same as working out. It's a really obvious example of that. Like, oh my God, I'm loving that I'm feeling this so much. Like oh my God. Fuck, I can't keep going, but it's so good. It hurts so good. And you know that you're growing, and you know that you're becoming stronger. So, to me that's what it's all about, and frankly I'm really not interested in working with, or even collaborating, or communicating with anybody who would think that pain is something to be avoided, or that struggle is something to be avoided, or the discomfort is something to be avoided. To me, that's some of the most exciting stuff in the world. It's where you really have the opportunity to experience what it really means to be human. To experience growth, and to experience the incredible rush and the incredible power that does come from overcoming adversity, or looking I guess, your inner demons, or your inner insecurities in the eye, and pushing on regardless, on the path of alignment. And I think maybe the final thing I wanna leave you with ... Alignment itself is such an interesting term that I feel like very few people understand. Alignment doesn't mean you're bouncing around on a fucking marshmallow cloud with unicorns, sitting by your side, and everything's la. Alignment is continual growth, right? And in fact, we're never fully in alignment. We're always slightly off course, and just adjusting, adjusting, adjusting, kind of like how a plane is never exactly on target for reaching it's destination, but then it does. It ultimately reach there, because it's continually aligning to the destination. So, that's one thing about alignment. But also, the process of alignment itself is one that inherently contains and includes discomfort, and scary times, or confronting times. Or things that are thrown up at us to kind of test us and to help us to become stronger, and to help us become better equipped for the journey ahead, right? If you wanna create an amazing life, and you wanna forge ahead with all of the things that you have inside of you, you're going to need to have certain skills for that. You're going to need to be a person different to the other people out there. You're going to need to be able to handle, or endure, or overcome, but I believe also thrive on things that other people would run from. And it really is a topic that I feel so passionately about, because I think that what actual pain is, in the sense of how most people would define the word pain, like what actually would fucking be painful is living your life in a way where you're not willing to face into adversity, or to face into discomfort, or to face into that growth because oh, it's gonna hurt. Or it's gonna feel uncomfortable, so no, I'll stay over here and stay in the safe zone. Or stay in the comfort zone, or whatever it is. And then okay, look how that life ends up turning out. That looks fucking painful to me. That looks painful in the sense of what people think pain is. Actual pain, what I really believe pain is, in the way we've been talking about it, is so exciting, and it's so fulfilling, and it's so rewarding, and it's just like yeah, I'm doing this thing. I'm really in this life thing, and I'm fucking doing it. So, there you go. I'm gonna go and get more up in my life thing right now, which sounds really weird. I don't even know what it means, but I'm gonna go find something else that I'm gonna go do now, so thank you so much for being here. I feel like it was extra rambly for sure. I'm not sure if it was the change of scenery, or the jacket, or the wine, or the weird experience with the ribs. But whatever it was, it turned out exactly as it was meant to be, because it's always perfect. Everything is always perfect. And as it's meant to be. Which is another reminder when these things come along. Okay. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching, replay if you're in replay. Let me know if you are. Leave me a comment. I always like to look through my comments afterwards, so say something to me, let me know did this impact you? Did it give you something? Share with me what that was. Have an amazing, amazing rest of the day. I hope you get served up some really good fucking purposeful pain. Some massive triggers that are gonna piss you right off, and then you can sort that shit out, then you're gonna become stronger, and you're gonna join me as a freaking Adidas warrior. And tell me all about it. And if you wanna join me in my inner circle, the most ... the most? The hottest and most badass mastermind in the world for creators, entrepreneurs, crazy ones, message me about mentoring with me one on one in my inner most inner circle. I will send you all the details. Message me on my personal page. Don't forget. Life is now, press play. Bye.

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We made it to Episode 10, y’all! That’s a wrap on Season 1! Who better to close out our first season than an engineer, entrepreneur, and general superstar we’ve loved for, like, a full decade? Yep, our guest today is Leah Culver, the co-founder and CTO of Breaker, a social podcast app that we’ve all just started using (if you have an iPhone, check it out. Android is coming soon). > I can only do the things I can do. I can keep trying to get better, but I can’t beat myself up about not being like someone else. I just have to sort of be myself and work with what I have and take it to that—that next step. > —Leah Culver, CTO, Breaker But Breaker’s not the first startup Leah’s co-founded—in fact, Jenn fell hard for her very first company, Pownce, a microblogging platform that launched way back in 2007. We talk about that journey, plus: The future of podcasting—like Chompers, a podcast on Alexa kids can brush their teeth to. Women in tech, women in podcasting, and the fact that more women than ever are listening to podcasts, according to the 2017 podcast consumer report from Edison Research. Financing a new laptop as a young programmer by selling laser-etched advertising on it back in 2006. Getting into Y Combinator, an accelerator program for early-stage startups. What Leah’s listening to right now (it’s Modern Love, which you can get on Breaker, of course). Interviewing for 30 jobs, what a company’s snacks say about its culture, and why Leah wants you to stop judging her love for Diet Coke. Also on the agenda: letting people carry things for you (literally and figuratively), peeing with your therapist (no, really), and all the “tiny revelations” we’ve had this season. Thanks so much for joining us for Season 1! We’re taking a couple weeks off, but we’ll be back strong with Season 2 starting April 17. In the meantime, make sure to sign up for the new NYG Newsletter, coming April 20. Sponsors This episode of NYG is brought to you by: Shopify, a leading global commerce platform that’s building a diverse, intelligent, and motivated team—and they  want to apply to you. Visit shopify.com/careers to see what they’re talking about. _WordPress—the place to build your personal blog, business site, or anything else you want on the web. WordPress helps others find you, remember you, and connect with you. _   _CodePen—a social development environment for front-end designers and developers. Build and deploy a website, show off your work, build test cases, and find inspiration. _ Transcript Katel LeDû Shopify is on a mission to make commerce better for everyone. In fact, they’re the leading global commerce for entrepreneurs. And did you know that they’re hiring? That’s right! And they don’t just want you to apply to them, they want to apply to you. Join a diverse, intelligent, and motivated team where you’ll get shit done. Visit shopify.com/careers to see what they’re talking about. Jenn Lukas Welcome to No, You Go, the show about being ambitious—and sticking together. I’m Jenn Lukas. KL I’m Katel LeDû. Sara Wachter-Boettcher And I’m Sara Wachter-Boettcher. JL Hey! It’s Season 1 finale time! How did we make it through 10 episodes? Well it certainly helps to be working on something that we all love. That concept’s no stranger to our guest today, founder Leah Culver, currently CTO of Breaker, a social podcast app. We’ll also talk about tech today versus 10 years ago, using an accelerator application to let you know if you’re ready to leave your job for your startup idea, and the importance and difficulties of self-evaluation. Dun dun dun. But first! How about we check in with ourselves? How y’all doin’, ladies? KL Doing alright. Doing good. How about you? JL I’m—do you ever feel like sometimes you just sigh? But you know what? I read a study one time that sighing is actually healthy for you, so that’s ok. I’m doing ok. I’m doing ok. SWB It was funny, my husband was just telling me that his barber that you shouldn’t sigh because a monk told her not to once. And so I think about that sometimes when I let out a big sigh but I’ve been sighing a lot recently. Like, in fact, kind of a bummer couple of weeks, you know? I uh I tore my ACL which is a little unpleasant. And Jenn and Katel know this because they’re constantly offering to like carry things for me up the stairs such as like glasses of wine, my laptop— JL But we only barely know this because Sara would try as much as she can to hide this fact from most of us. You could barely tell based on your attitude and uh go—go-get-em-ness. KL Yeah and in fact I think we ran on your bad ACL a couple times. So. SWB Actually, they think my ACL has been torn for 14 months and I didn’t know it until I uh twisted something and actually injured myself because the ACL was unstable. And so it’s probably a little bit more torn now. And you know, it really took me out there for a couple of days and then for the past couple of weeks I’ve just been adjusting to what’s essentially like a long-term pre-op lifestyle. Like I have to get surgery. It’s probably not going to happen until September because of a lot of other stuff going on in the meantime—and so I’m at this place where it’s like I’m ok but I can’t do certain things. And some of those are things that are—are really bumming me out. Like I can’t run. And that is a major way that I organize my weeks and think about my time and so I’m kind of adjusting to a lifestyle where I—you know, have to be very careful about certain stuff and I have to wear a brace when I’m out walking for any length of time or trying to do anything physical. And I have to just kind of accept a slower pace, like literally a slower pace! [Mm hmm] And the kinds of stuff that I thought I could do really quickly like, “Oh I’m just going to pop downstairs in between these conference and grab something to drink,” is no longer so quick feeling. And like that is very difficult for me. And I’ve been thinking about like, “Damn. This is going to make me learn some lessons, huh?” Like not just the lessons of, you know, like trying not to injure yourself but the lessons of like, “It’s ok to move more slowly,” and like, “It’s ok to have people help you.” I don’t want to. I don’t want to learn any of those lessons! I’m sorry I don’t want to, I’m sorry I don’t want to learn them at all. They just suck! JL It’s hard, you know, we’ve talked about this on the show before but asking for help is—is really difficult. And even, you know, just something like, “Hey, could you carry this for me?” A few days before I found out I was pregnant, I was in a bike accident and broke my elbow and my ribs, and uh so I had broken ribs, broken elbow, pregnant, and I had to be like, “Hey, can you carry my laptop?” Like everywhere I went because I couldn’t pick up anything. And it was really difficult but I mean I was at the point where, you know, Sutter had to wash my hair because both my elbows… and so I mean you know it’s like—I had not choice but to ask for help. You know, there’s a lot of things as like, you know, generally able-bodied women that, you know, you—you don’t think about. And, you know, you go through life, you’re going, ok, you know, “I’m brushing I’m teeth. I’m able to brush my teeth.” And then all of a sudden you can’t. And it’s so hard! I’ve read a lot about how people with disabilities live their day-to-day lives and go through routines of things that, often, you know, we don’t think about. And when you’re faced with a temporary physical state in which, you know, you can’t do things as fast as you want to. You know, all of a sudden, your world is sort of like turned upside down. You can’t really figure out what’s what and how to get through your day. [5:07] SWB And I feel like, you know, and I mean it’s also, change is just hard for anybody. And I think that what you realize is both how badass people are who, like, figure out how to get through stuff that’s really hard, whether it’s physical or otherwise, and then you also think about how adaptable, in a lot of ways, people are. Right? Like you really can adapt to a lot that you didn’t necessarily realize you could adapt to. And, you know, something that—that I’ve also really been thinking a ton about is the way that—we have talked about sort of like the highs and lows or the peaks and valleys of work and of life, but like, that often that those things are happening at the same time. Like this has been a really good year so far in some ways, for me at least. Where it’s like I’ve got this fucking podcast and it’s going really well and I’m excited about a lot of the stuff that I’m working on and—and at the same time, like not only did I tear my ACL, like I had a pet die earlier this year and it was really hard. Like it was crushingly difficult for me, and I wanted to talk about it on the show, but it was like such a tremendous fresh wound, I couldn’t do it. And I couldn’t do it in any way where I could like get through it and out the other end into something anybody would want to listen to. I mean, 45 minutes of ugly crying is fun, I guess, for some people, but like I didn’t—I didn’t want to subject people to that, especially not, like, Episode 2. KL I think it’s really helpful to hear both of you talk about just kind of figuring out how you’re going to move around these things that, you know, become a challenge, right? Or just completely throw you off the way that you think you’re going to get through a day. And I feel like, I mean I’ve struggled with depression my entire life and, I think, over the last year I’ve gone through sort of peaks and valleys, just in that alone, you know? Along with sort of day to day life stuff. And sometimes I—I worry because I feel like not being able to cope, let’s say, on a certain day because of, you know, something that is—just isn’t working right in my brain chemistry or I, you know, just haven’t been able to—to rally around the thing I’m supposed to do that day, is—is really difficult to kind of put a structure around that and to say, “I just need some help today,” or, “I just need to like find a different way to do this because it’s so intangible.” JL And—and it’s interesting like when you hear, you know, “I just need some help today.” Or like Sara, you know, there’s times where like the few times you’ve let us help you carry [chuckling] things up the stairs, on my end, like, it feels good to help. Like [KL absolutely] I want to help. And I think that’s the thing that we sort of have to think of, like the times that I mean you both have helped me on countless situations, I mean like … it feels good to help your friends and, I think, sometimes that makes it easier for me to ask for help [KL definitely]. So think about the fact that like we want to be there and support each other. KL Yeah. And I think that is—that is ultimately—that is the absolute silver lining because I think about everything we’ve just been talking about and the fact that like, Jenn, when you were, you know, saying we want to help Sara carry stuff up the stairs. I’m like, “Oh my gosh! This is all I want to do!” Right? I’m like, “If she needs help doing stuff because she tore her ACL,” I’m like, “You better tell me when you need something because I’ll be at your house the next day.” And I think that we all feel that way. And we all have a lot more people in our lives that—that are willing to do that than we think. And we just have to accept that and ask, you know? JL And I think even like, you know, there’s big things like I—I couldn’t type for a little bit so I had people that would have to like dictate for if we were trying to get stuff done. SWB Would people dictate—like you would dictate code to people?! JL It was like the most intense pair programming. KL You’re like, “Div—no, div!” JL So I mean, you know, but there were small things too like I would be really thirsty and I couldn’t carry like a container of water and like my coworker was like, “Let me get that water for you,” you know? It wasn’t like I was like, “Buy me water!” I just needed someone to just— KL “Just, like, hand it to me!” JL —carry it. KL It’s silly the things that we, you know, don’t think about asking for help or think are too small or whatever. I mean just today, this morning, I was uh at therapy and I was sitting there and I had been thinking for the last five minutes how badly I had to pee and I had the thought, “You can just get through it for the next half hour, it’ll be fine. Like, don’t bother anyone.” JL Half an hour!!! KL I know! And then I was like, “No, I can’t—I can’t even concentrate like this is—this is so dumb. I’m like—I’m not going to get out what I need to get out of the session just because I have to pee.” So I finally, said, “I’m so sorry, I just—I really have to pee all of a sudden. You know, do you mind if I just go?” And she was like, “Oh yeah, you know, of course!” And she kind of paused and she’s like, “Do you mind if I go with you?” And I was like, “Of—of course. Sure!” And she was like, “I’m so sorry. I really have to pee too.” And we just both felt so overwhelmingly like, you know, embarrassed but also relieved and so we did and we moved on and it was great. We both like came back to the session. We were like, “Ahhh!” [10:30] SWB I mean it’s funny though because it’s like there’s little things and that’s—I mean I feel like that could be a metaphor for a lot of parts of life where these little things that sometimes you deny yourself because you’re worried that, I don’t know, you’ll make somebody else like think something weird about you or that somehow it’s more important that you pretend like you’re this perfect … stoic, non-peeing person. I don’t know what that means but— KL Or that you—right, that you can just do everything and carry everything and— SWB Right and like that you never have to make space for your own needs, right? That you can always sandwich your needs into like some other time nobody cares about and that whenever you have to like be like, “Actually, I’m going to raise my hand and say, ‘I need a thing right now,’” that’s uncomfortable and, I don’t know, like uh I think that you should be able to pee when you want to. JL I used to feel that way a lot, too, about like personal things. I would be like, “Well,” I think it’s because I was—I was an on-site consultant for so long that I had to keep my personal stuff a little bit away and now I’m full-time at Urban and I think one of the things is I still felt like, “Oh I can’t tell you what’s going on.” And last week, my son had to have surgery for um—it’s a common surgery, it’s ear tubes, but, you know, he’s a year and it’s anesthesia and there’s a lot of risks and it was scary. And normally I would never tell the to anyone. I would keep that inside, and keep that anxiety and nerves, and like to myself and then I—I’ve been trying something new recently which is where I tell people these things when I’m thinking like, “What’s going on?” And so you know, I’d just be like, “Oh I won’t be here on Friday.” I would just leave it at that. And now I’m like, “My son’s having surgery.” And like not because like I want people’s pity, or I want them—and I think that’s sort of why I never really said anything because it’s like, “Oh, you know, feel bad and worry for me!” It was like, “No, I just want you to know what’s going on in my life because, you know, I’m not going to be able to answer emails because my mind is someplace else right now.” KL Right. And you care deeply about this thing that’s happening and the people you’re telling probably do too because they care about you. SWB And also like you’re a person working with other people. And I think—I think there’s a lot about work culture that encourages us to not come to work as humans and to come to work as workers. And I’ve realized that that doesn’t serve anybody very well. And like I’m still a person when I’m working and—and I even like I’m a consultant still and I—I find myself being much more kind of open about who I am and things I care about. Obviously, you know, you put boundaries around stuff, for sure, but I, you know, like I was talking to a client today about like, “Yup, ACL is torn!” And I was describing like, you know, “I’m really bummed about not being able to run. But, you know, here we are.” And—and then, you know, this client started talking to me about how they just had MRI as well, they have a different knee problem, and it’s like—it’s kind of nice to—you know, you don’t want to necessarily say everything about everything but to be able to bring more of yourself to work. I mean we talked to Stevie last week, I think that was one of the things that they really were communicating was like how wonderful it is when you find a place that wants you to bring more of yourself to work. And that recognizes that there is value in being a human at work. And I think it is valuable to think about like, “Yeah, real people have kids who have to go through surgery like all the time. It happens to people.” And it’s ok. 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Go to wordpress.com/noyougo for 15 percent off any new plan purchase. That’s wordpress.com/noyyougo for 15 percent off your brand-new website. Interview: Leah Culver JL I first became familiar with Leah Culver around 10 years ago when she brilliantly financed her new MacBook by selling ad space laser etched on it. I then became a super fan when she co-founded the social media site Pownce. Those who knew me then know how much I loved the micro-blogging platform and one thing I thought was so, so cool about it was that one of the founders was a woman and she was an engineer. As a developer, it was inspiring to see the awesome projects Leah was creating. Since then, she’s authored the OAuth and OEmbed API specifications and has gone onto found Convor and Grove, real time chat programs, and is now the CTO of Breaker, a social app for listening to podcasts. I’m thrilled to have her here to talk with us today. Welcome to the show, Leah. Leah Culver Hi! Thank you so much for having me, Jenn. JL Yeah, as I mentioned, it’s like such an honor for us to have you here. I’m a big fan of the work that you’ve done so far which, speaking of, I’d love if you tell us a little bit about Breaker, how it came to be, and what makes it so awesome. LC Sure! And I’m actually a fan of yours too. So this is—this is a pretty fun interview to do. JL Ah thanks! Podcast high five! LC Awesome! The idea behind Breaker was really—I started to get into podcasting a couple years ago um when Serial came out. I don’t know if you guys all listened to Serial. JL Yup, definitely. LC The biggest podcast to ever come out, right? As basically the “hit show” of podcasting. But I hadn’t really been into podcasts before that. I had maybe listened to an episode or two on my computer when someone sent me something. But it wasn’t like I was a regular podcast listener. But I started listening to Serial and I was run—I was training for a marathon at the same time. So, I would listen to episodes when I was training, and I wouldn’t let myself listen to any episodes when I wasn’t running, so it like actually kind of motivated me to get my butt out the door. JL That’s awesome. LC —and do my running. Yeah. So it was great but then when the season ended, I didn’t really know what else to listen to. Or I wanted to listen to other things that were like Serial. Like high-quality podcasts as opposed to, you know, two people chatting and the audio quality being bad and things like that. I was like, “Where can I find really great podcasts?” So I tried like the Apple charts. So I was using the Apple Podcast app on my phone. And I tried looking at the charts, and I didn’t have a ton of success because I didn’t really know how—like I knew that someone picked these shows and these episodes but I didn’t really know how. You know? Like what they caught their eye and like what about them was good. JL Yeah. LC So that’s how I kind of got the idea behind like, “Hey, there could be something better here.” Like I wanted a player where I could also see like—like similar to like Spotify or YouTube. Like how many people are liking this thing? What are the comments on it? You know sort of what’s going on around this content. And that was the idea behind Breaker. JL I love that you found an interest in something and were like, “Well, there’s a gap, there’s something missing that I want.” And instead of just being like, “Well, this sucks. This doesn’t exist,” you created it. LC Yeah! I think that’s the power of being a developer, a designer, or someone that makes things is when you find something in a space that you’re like, “Hey, this thing should exist,” and then the next thought might be like, “Oh. I can make that exist.” JL That’s so cool. So how has it been like has the shift in focusing on podcasting, are you now finding yourself completely involved, not just in running the company of Breaker, but like the podcasting culture? LC Yeah, it’s —it’s been super weird. I’m trying to keep like my Twitter feed non-podcast people so I have like a good sense of how popular podcasting is and it seems like it’s on the rise, even amongst people who haven’t been in the industry a long time, but it’s also getting into that podcasting use has been really interesting. It’s a really old medium, right? Like podcasting has been around since there was—probably like forever, if you think radio. But sort of in its current incarnation of like mobile devices and sort of since the iPod, 2006. But I think it was so difficult then to sort of have like a podcast app or to make it easy to listen, like you had to like download files on your phone and things—that really there was this big opportunity to make things better and I don’t think it’s changed a ton since then. I mean only within probably the past year or two, maybe three years, had there been any new companies in the space. JL Yeah, speaking of the last few years, there’s been quite a few articles that have come out about the lack of diversity in podcasting. Have you found the numbers for women and other minorities in podcasts to be growing? [19:59] LC Yeah! Well, I hope so. I’m pretty optimistic about it. I do see a lot of podcasts and a lot of them still are, you know, two guys discussing a topic. And, actually, that’s my favorite search term to use to get like a lot of results is like podcasts called “Two Guys” dot, dot, dot. But you know I think there are many more women podcasters and I think there is a desire in our culture to hear from voices that aren’t, you know, straight white men, right? So I think there’s a desire for that content. And so I think those are actually like the hottest areas of podcasts to go into. And I wanted to bring it up just because it’s recent news: Edison published The Podcast Consumer 2017 and it’s about podcast listeners, specifically, not podcasters and, overall, the monthly podcast listening for men has not grown at all in—from 2017 to 2018 but podcast listening from women has gone from 21 percent to 24 percent of women listening to a podcast every month. So all of the recent growth in podcasting, you could say, has been attributed to women which I think is great. JL Wow. LC Yeah. JL Yeah that’s amazing. LC Yeah in terms of listenership and I think in terms of content production, we’re seeing the same thing as well. JL What do you hope to see happen in the podcasting industry over the next year or two years or five years? LC Yeah, I just want to see more good content, more great shows. I think it’s still really early days and so there’s a lot of opportunity to really build amazing quality content on a sort of new platform in a sense. And I don’t think that all the experimentation has been done yet, right? So there’s things like smart devices, for example, Gimlet which is a podcast producer, just came out with a new show for the Alexa. Like a show specifically made for that device [hmm] and it’s—the idea is like to get kids to brush their teeth. So it’s like a two-minute long podcast and you say, like, “Alexa, you know, play this podcast.” And it’s such a—I don’t have kids so I haven’t even tried it yet but it’s such like a interesting concept that, you know, we have these new devices that can do things with audio that we couldn’t do before. So I’m—I’m curious about that. I’m curious about audio in cars. Headphones. There’s a lot of stuff that’s going on in the technology space, in like the hardware space that makes podcasting really exciting. JL Yeah wow that is—that is so cool. My son’s one, so we are now brushing but eventually, I think that’s a brilliant idea. LC But yeah, yeah so there’s a lot of—I think there’s a lot of opportunity driven also by the hardware that’s—that’s coming up now and sort of how we’re thinking about our daily activities and how we interact with media. JL That’s so neat, I think a lot of times people get discouraged to try something new like a podcast or writing or anything because they think everything’s been before. So I love this idea of looking at it in a completely new way. LC Oh no. It’s still so early days for podcasting. You—I mean, I feel like back in the day it was like, “Let’s start a blog for this topic,” or, “You should start a Tumblr on this topic.” And now it’s like, “Oh you should do a podcast!” JL Yeah. I’d love to know your opinion is on like podcasting versus vlogging or any sort of video news. LC Uh so I’m actually not much of a video watcher myself. I always like to be doing things and be on the move. Like it’s hard for me to like focus on even watching like a TV show or a movie. Like I listen to podcasts when I’m doing something else, right? So I’ll be cleaning my house, or going for a run, or walking someplace. Like I don’t drive but I would listen—I do listen to podcasts when I do ride in the car which is very rarely. For me it’s about the ability to be like multitasking. So that’s why I’m a little I guess biased against vlogs or video podcasts is I just feel that they don’t feed the same need for me, personally. JL Yeah that makes sense. Yeah I listen to them sometimes when I’m in Lyfts, sometimes because I’m really into something, or sometimes just to avoid awkward driver conversation, but and then also, yeah, when I’m doing stuff around the house. So I’m totally with you on that. So with Breaker, you started that at Y Combinator, along with Convore, can you give our listeners an overview of Y Combinator and what that is and how it helped you get started? LC Sure! Uh so Breaker was my second time doing the Y Combinator program. They offer a three month program twice a year to entrepreneurs, you apply, and hopefully get accepted, and then get to go to Mountain View for three months, and work with the partners there who are a team of really, really smart people. And I was lucky enough to do it back in 2011, for my second startup, and then I purposely sort of applied again for my third startup because I thought it was such a good experience, I think all the partners are really smart, and it’s really nice to have a connection with a lot of founders. It really is like a good network. I think that’s the—the thing that’s most surprising after joining Y Combinator is how much of the value of the program is more from the network than anything else. JL What advice would you give to someone who is thinking about applying but unsure if they should, you know, go all in with their idea for a program like that? [24:48] LC So an interesting thing lately is Y Combinator has been a little more intern—they look for smart founders but they also kind of look for commitment to ideas. So I’d maybe wait til you were pretty sure that you wanted to do it as a startup. We were kind of at the point where we switching from Breaker being a side project and a hobby project, which we actually ran it as a hobby project for about nine months. And then switched over to being full-time just before we were accepted to Y Combinator, we kind of both quit our jobs. So, lucky we got in. But we probably would’ve done it anyways. And I think that’s sort of what they’re looking for is like, “Hey! It’s something I’m really excited about and committed to,” because if you end up doing a startup, you end up kind of doing it for life. But beyond that, it’s good to just fill out the application with yourself and your cofounders because there are a lot of questions in there, in the application itself, that are very clarifying. Like they ask, “What is your equity split?” And they ask things like, “Where will you live?” And then more complex questions like, “Who are your competitors?” And, “What are you afraid of?” And sort of really gets into all sorts of aspects of really early stage startups that are—you know it’s valuable to ask yourself those questions, even if you don’t end up submitting the application. I’d encourage anyone just to fill it out, submit the application, it never hurts, like nothing bad happens if—if it doesn’t get accepted. It doesn’t mean anything. There are so many great companies that are rejected from Y Combinator, because they get thousands of applicants, right? Like they can’t give every single great company—and oftentimes they’ll see a company apply in a year and not get accepted and then they’ll be accepted the next year or the next—in the next six months, you know? JL Yeah, I love that. I think that people are so scared of rejection sometimes that it’s really—it makes it hard to put yourself out there. LC Yeah, I agree and what’s funny is being on the other side of it. So running a startup now I’m hiring people and for me that’s weird because I’m like, “Oh! Sometimes the hiring decision—” that we’re like, “Oh! We’re not hiring right now.” Or, “Oh! You’re not right—quite the right fit.” Really has nothing to do with them as a person. It could just be like the stage our company is at or, you know, something totally out of their control that has nothing to do with the quality of their work. Or the quality of them as a person. So it’s like it’s been very comforting to me, knowing that—so the last time I applied for a job, I applied for 30 different jobs [oh wow!] which is a pretty—yeah it was actually great but I didn’t have that fear of rejection and I actually rejected companies. I actually went in—I actually walked out of two interviews. JL Yeah. Wow. Good for you! LC Because I just—I, you know, I did it because I wanted to save their engineers time. Like they were interviewing me and it was, you know, I didn’t want to waste their time if I didn’t think it was a good fit for me. And I think a lot of the times getting into the company, like visiting their space, having lunch with the team, things like that, really get you that really quick, “Hey, is this the right place for me?” And in this particular case—when I just remember I went in and talked to someone on their product team and I was like, “I just don’t really feel this product vision.” And I was like, “You know I don’t think if I feel the product vision I could be into working here.” Um so it was nothing personal, it was just like, “Uh, I don’t think this is the right fit for me.” JL I love this idea of, you know, I people are like, “Oh I don’t know if I can apply to this job.” And it’s like, “Well, why apply for one? Apply for 30”. LC Yeah definitely! JL I mean I love—I love it. LC And then if you don’t get it, if you don’t get one, it doesn’t really matter because you have 29 more! KL I love that too and the idea that, you know, there is—there is actually room to interview the company that’s hiring. I mean I think a lot of people just don’t even think that that’s a thing that they can do and it absolutely is. It’s something that you should do when you’re trying to feel out what you’re going to do next. It’s like—it’s a big change. LC Yeah and oftentimes in a interview, the interviewer will ask you, “Hey! Do you have any questions about this company?” And like you should have questions, you know, and hard questions. I don’t think anyone gets offended if you’re really evaluating them as well. You’re right. You’re totally right. JL Do you have any favorite questions that you like to ask? Well I mean when you were interviewing, now you’re doing the interview on the other side. LC This is going to sound so petty, but I always wanted to know what their food situation was like because I thought it said a lot about the culture. So I’m a Diet Coke addict, I absolutely love Diet Coke. And it’s super unhealthy, right? Like no one’s going to be like, “Oh yeah, Diet Coke should be in every corporate office.” But I did judge companies based on whether they stocked Diet Coke or not because I would go to interview at some place and they’d be like, “Oh we only do healthy snacks.” But they’d have like really sugary like fruit bars and stuff. And I was like, “Really?” Like snacks are just, you know, such like a privilege anyways. It’s just such like a silly—a silly thing to look at a company for but because of that I think it really is telling in how—how much independence they believe you have as sort of an employee. JL Yeah. I think that’s—I think it’s really neat. I think snacks, the office space, the office space, and like how people are set up and where they’re—like their seating situation. There’s just a lot you can tell with like things you might not think of. Are there windows? LC Yes! Yes! I went to an interview at a major company, I will not tell you which one, and I walked in—and it was for a role that was not like one of their core products. And I walked in and the room—it was freezing cold, there was no windows, and everyone was working in tiny offices like all sectioned off from each other and I knew immediately. I was like, “This is not the job for me.” So yeah I think it all matters. [30:07] JL We mentioned that Breaker was your third startup. Your first was Pownce, which you founded soon after college. What was it like to have big early success like that and, you know, eventually you were acquired by Six Apart. So what was it like to have that success and then letting go of what you made with your first big—big product? LC So I started when I was 24, fresh out of college. I had worked a couple programming jobs in the Bay Area before then. I had moved to the Bay Area because I didn’t like Minnesota winters but also just to have this new opportunity. To be away—none of my family lives in the Bay Area, I didn’t know anyone, it was a chance to be doing something new. And I loved programming. I wanted to do the best I could do. And I felt like that was in the Bay Area and what happened was I met my co-founders Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka and they said, “Hey, we’re thinking about doing this project but we need someone to build it.” Kevin’s a business guy and Daniel’s a designer, and they wanted someone to write the code and I had never built anything of substantial or like a completed app or anything like that. And I just said, “Ok. I’ll do it.” And I think that—I actually remember exactly where I was when I said, “Yeah I’ll do it,” I was in a cafe in Potrero. And I remember saying like, “Yeah, I can do this,” and being like, “I don’t know that I can actually do this.” But I did! I just built it and everything I didn’t know how to do, I looked up on the internet or asked someone else for help. It’s so funny because I was asking all these Django developer—this was the early days of the Django web framework in Python and all these Django developers, I was asking them questions, I was asking them the weirdest questions. Like, “How do I do this like very particular thing?” And they’re like, “I don’t think you need to do that unless you’re building like, I don’t know, like some big site. Like what are you—you know like why do you need to know how to do this crazy, you know, social networking concept?” Like at the time there was really only like Facebook. So it’s like, “Why do you need to know how to do this?” And it’s funny to look back later and I ran into someone and they were like, “Oh, that’s so funny that you said that.” And I ended up building Pownce and I was way in over my head, I had no idea what I was doing, and because Kevin was so popular, he was running Digg at the time. So he was a founder of Digg. He had a ton of followers and people paying attention to him and so he announced, “Hey! Here’s my new project,” and we got hundreds of thousands of new users instantly. And we had an invite-only system and people were selling invites on eBay, and like the whole thing was just weird. And the whole invite—like I had written the whole invite system, so I was thinking, like, they’re selling something on eBay that’s my code, you know? It’s so weird. It was so weird to me but it was such a great experience. What’s funny is I think it has really shaped my whole career in terms of—since then I’ve always been someone who just loves to ship things and get things done and figure it out as I go and I don’t think that would’ve been the case if I hadn’t done Pownce. I probably would’ve followed a more traditional engineering path. JL We’ve talked about this a little bit with Katel, with her role at A Book Apart and sort of saying yes to things even if you’re like, “Well, I haven’t done it before but I’m pretty sure I can do it.” KL And then you’re like, “What the hell?” LC Yeah! Yeah but then you’re like, “Well I could really do anything.” JL Yeah. LC You know? Like once you do the thing, you’re like, “Oh! Well that wasn’t so bad.” KL Yeah. Totally. It’s true. I feel like you—you learn a lot about yourself in a very short amount of time, and I—I definitely wasn’t expecting that. So, I mean, that was a great outcome. LC That’s amazing. JL I love that too like the um—like the retrospect of it in that like, “Well, if—if I went through this, I can do anything.” I was thinking today, I was like, “Ugh, you know I haven’t had much sleep,” and I was like, “Ah I gotta do this podcasting thing,” and I was like, “Well, you know, I also got thrown up by my—by my one-year-old all last night, and if I can do that, I’m pretty sure I can do anything.” KL You survived it! LC This is way less disgusting I hope! Much less! JL Yes. It is much less. So thank you. So Pownce was acquired by Six Apart, what was that like? LC It was an interesting time. I think it was sort of during the sort of tech downturn in 2009. A lot of companies were being acquired or shutting down, and I—when we were acquired I didn’t know they were going to shut down Pownce but they ended up closing down the site, which for me was pretty sad, but I didn’t feel… I was so—I wish I had then felt like I had more control over it. I didn’t feel like I had a ton of control over the acquisition or what happened. I had two co-founders, I was a little bit in over my head, and I think things are much different now. One of the things I’m starting to learn is that a company is more about the longevity. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint” is probably the cliche way to say it, but yeah if companies—I draw a lot of inspiration from companies like VenMo, where the company had been around for years and years with no success or with little success and then managed to blow up and become a whole thing and a household name and things like that. And to realize that success isn’t instant and at Pownce I felt very lucky that we did have a lot of success but we didn’t have enough instantly for I think our team to really—to raise money and to feel like it was going some place, and there were a lot of other pressures going on, and I wish I had had the confidence then in what I know now is like, “Oh, hang in there. Keep going.” Then I learned a little bit more with my second startup as well. I was way in over my head, I was the only person working there, and I didn’t feel like I could fundraise. I didn’t feel like I could raise money, even though the product was making money, I didn’t know how to hire, I didn’t know how to do all these things. So, with Breaker, I feel like I’m really getting that third chance but I feel much—I think this time I have that patience and that commitment to sticking through with it for a long time, which before, I think, when you’re an engineer, you’re just like, “Ah! I’ll just move on to the next project or do the next thing,” is very tempting. [36:02] JL Yeah that’s such a—it is such like a complete mindshift as like you mentioned that I can say, and I think that’s one of the things that I always love about being a developer is I have uh started and abandoned many a projects. I have—I own many domain names and then I’m like, “Well, I’ll just let that one go.” So I love it that like you have to make this shift and to run a startup you have to really see it through. LC Yeah and I think the moment that we ended up, you know, really converting it to a company as opposed to a side project for Breaker was the moment it was like, “Ok this is really happening. We’re going to be in this for a long time.” And I feel so lucky because it’s so nice to make a podcast listening app, like, it really is enjoyable. It’s not a painful product to work on, it’s really great. Like I use the product all the time. So it’s really easy. JL So what you’re saying is make something that you love, if you’re going to do it. LC Oh, absolutely. Or something that you care about. You know if it’s a—a cause that you’re passionate about, or if it’s an area that you’re very knowledgeable in, I mean it doesn’t have to be—I’m partial to social networks and communication. So anything about media, communication, social networks is really my wheelhouse. But I think each founder has their own like passion and the thing that they love to do. JL So you are also an author of the OAuth and OEmbed API specifications, which I just think is so cool. So I’d love if you could talk to us a little bit about that and sort of explain to our listeners what that is. LC Sure! So OAuth, the easy way to explain it is: if you every click “Connect with Facebook” to login with a site or “Connect with Twitter,” you’re using OAuth, that’s the backend technology for it. I got involved with helping to build it—it’s actually like, I was one of the original like 12 authors, something like that, of the first specification and I got involved through working on Pownce. We needed a way to authenticate and authorize users to use our API. And through that it’s just become something almost completely different from what it was intended for. It was really intended for API access and now it’s just sort of been this defacto way to like quickly login on the web which I think is fantastic. It’s really cool. It’s like a really interesting turn and one of the things I’m most proud of is helping to come up with like sort of that user interface flow that really I think enable it to become this huge thing. So if you’re going to talk about like, “Oh it’s like the coolest thing that you probably like worked on that, you know, people would actually know,” it’s probably, you know, “Login with Facebook.” My dad said recently, he was like, “Oh you always wanted to be an inventor when you grew up, what happened to that?” And I was like, “Have you ever clicked ‘Login with Facebook’ on a website?!” Yeah but it’s so cool. It’s such a little thing, too, in the whole scheme of the web, it’s so cool to think that like developers have these small like little claims to fame on the web, that’s something that like outlives you and continues on is pretty cool, and I just feel so lucky to be like such a small part of that history. JL That’s really neat. I love that. And then, you know, I also like—I feel like if your—if your dad was like, “Oh yeah, wait! I’ve clicked that!” And then I don’t know, it’s such like, it’s a feel good moment. LC Yeah, yeah. That was pretty funny. JL So before Pownce and before OAuth, one of the things that I think was so cool that you did is similar to, if those that remember the million-dollar website where people had sold pixel space for an advertisement, or some people sold tattoos on their body for funding, but what you did was a lot smarter! I’d like to say, in that you raised money for a new laptop by selling advertising space on it. And I just remember thinking that was so cool and such like an innovative way to use the internet and get social funding for your new laptop. And one of the things I was looking at when I was just researching is that I found some of the articles from then and some of them were like, “Cute Girl Sells Laser-etched Macbook Advertising.” And I was like, wow! I was like, I forgot that that existed. [39:49] LC Yeah, the internet was a different—it was a different time and a different place back then. What’s really interesting is I got started in that project because the company I was working for at the time is Instructables and they had a laser etcher and so the idea was—So I had a really old computer and all of the people that worked at, you know, Squid Labs and Instructables at the time had these like newer laptops and they were all etching them with this laser etcher but I didn’t even have a laptop. So that—the idea came pretty easily. It was like, “Oh! I don’t have a laptop but I have a laser etcher and everyone is etching stuff onto their laptop,” so it really was not like the most genius plan. It was sort of a circumstantial thing but I mean it was really an interesting exercise in marketing more than anything else. I had never really done any marketing on the internet or really been out there at all. I don’t even think I had a blog. I had like no internet presence. There was no such thing as Instagram and Twitter. So really I wasn’t on the web at all and I think what you brought up about sort of the way the media portrayed it is so different than how it would be done today. It’s so—it’s so funny. Like, “Young Cute Girl Does Something on the Internet” like you’d never see that anymore. JL Oh, thankfully. LC It’s probably a good thing. Yeah. Yeah yeah but it wasn’t just that, there were like these “Sexiest Geeks” lists and things like that, and it just would not fly nowadays. JL I mean—I know that we still have like a lot more work to do in terms of, you know, equal pay and equal representation but at least we have made it past some of these. LC Yeah. One of the things I’m actually kind of bothered by recently is I—I’m all for the #metoo movement, but I think what’s kind of slightly disturbing to me about is that we want—I think there’s this desire to talk about workplace inequality and the fact that it kind of gets turned into something sexual or has like this focus on sexual assault. It’s like, “Well, can we make the conversation a little broader?” Like can we talk about power dynamics and women in leadership? And we do but I think it’s less salacious and it doesn’t get as much media attention. And so I’m a little disappointed in that angle of it but hopefully we’ll get there. JL Yeah it’s like there are so many battles—there are so many battles to fight. LC Yeah! Which one? Yeah you know? JL I know it’s like I can—I can like only laugh at it because otherwise I just like, my sighs, sometimes my sighs are so loud. But I just like what are we— LC Yeah so it’s—you’re right. I think maybe it is good to just focus on one bat—one battle at a time but also to have like tangible goals. Like what is the tangible goal of a certain movement? And I think movements are most effective when they have like a piece of legislation you can pass or you know some rules that companies now enact. I think people want simple solutions for complex problems and I think bridging that gap is something that’s really difficult to do. JL Yeah, that is a hundred percent accurate. I think sometimes when we can’t find those solutions, then we feel a little hopeless and I think hopefully though the more that—more people put their heads together about it, the more that those solutions will come. LC And everything changes, and everything gets better. I just listened to an episode of The Modern Love podcast, reading an essay from 2012, which I totally recommend people go check out the latest episode of Modern Love podcast. But it was basically a father talking about his gay son and his gay son’s desire to marry his partner and the essay just feels dated. And it’s not that old. You know? And I think that’s so shocking: how fast things change. And for the better. I mean it’s a good thing. It made me sad and hopeful at the same time. JL So, speaking of getting along and, you know, optimism and productivity, before your role now at Breaker, you were an engineer at Dropbox working on engineer productivity and happiness, which I think just sounds amazing. Can you tell us more about your role there? LC So at Dropbox I ended up working on the engineering product design team, helping—basically helping engineers and designers throughout their lifecycle at Dropbox. So from the time they first joined Dropbox in their first day through moving around between teams or moving up to become a manager or they’re at sort of the exit interview, if they left Dropbox. And it was pretty interesting. So I ended up on that team because I helped build an internal tool for Dropbox, actually a framework for hosting internal tools called AppBox. And I built it sort of during Hack Week, we had these—Dropbox has these like Hack—Hack Weeks where you can work on anything you want and a lot of the times what people work on is stuff for Dropbox. So, you know, a lunch menu, or a seating chart, or all these tools that people at Dropbox use all the time that aren’t, you know, readily available. So their priority tools are—you want to build with like a special sort of like internal company feel to them. So I built this platform for building new tools on top of and then recruited engineers during these Hack Weeks to like build new tools on top of it. So that’s actually what most of what I did was run that project so I can talk about internal too—we didn’t have like an internal tools team, we had like an internal developer tools, sort of more focused on build process and things like that. But what I was working on was more social, and so it didn’t quite fit into that space. So I ended up on this team that worked on the entire engineer’s life cycle which was super interesting. It’s like an interesting problem to think about. [45:10] JL Yeah, I love that. We are constantly trying to figure out how, I mean day one of someone starting new I feel like is one of the most difficult things to work with, starting from like, “Ok, let’s make sure we—they have a computer.” So you’re actually joining us today from New Zealand and you were recently a judge at Webstock. Was that totally awesome? LC Yes! It was so fun. I loved Webstock. It was great. It was the first one I’d ever been able to go to because it’s in New Zealand. And I basically said, “Hey! I’m going to be in New Zealand. I didn’t know Webstock was happening at the time, is there anything I can do to help?” And they were like, “Oh, come be a judge for our startup competition.” I thought that was so great and such an honor. It was really fun. JL Is it hard as a judge to give feedback to others about their products? LC Absolutely. I think it’s hard because I see it from their side, right? Like I’ve done three startups. I’ve done startup competitions. You know, I’ve gone to hackathons and competed and submitted my projects before judges. And, like I said, I think on the hiring side of things it applies here as well, on the judging side, it’s like I think so many of the decisions are just arbitrary. Like you happen to answer a question in the particular right way that the judge wanted to hear, you had like a good looking slide that got people’s attention. Like it seems—it just all seems so arbitrary and all of the competitors this year at Webstock and the BNZ startup competition were all just fantastic. And so it was really hard to say like, “This company is better than another company,” because it’s just—that’s not the way it is. They are just very different. And, like I said, they were all really good. JL So for something like that, what do you find the best way for feedback—like do you find like the line it’s hard to like discourage people because like their project is great but they can’t all win? LC Yeah! I actually went up to most—I tried to make a point to go up to most of the folks who didn’t win and talk with them about their projects just to, you know, I think what matters when you’re building a company is it’s always nice to see someone who cares, who paid attention, and knows what you’re doing, and has follow-up questions, and—and I saw this as well with the other panelists and judges they actually offered to help companies. Like, “Hey, you know, BNZ you didn’t win the competition but how can we help you? Who can we connect you with to take you to that next step?” Because startups, it’s not like you win or lose, it’s like always a constant journey, right? Like even—even when you’re a giant company, you’re not always winning. It’s this constant process. So I think a lot of it is asking those startups, “Hey, how can we help and how can we take you to that next level?” And sometimes that pride of winning the prize matters and sometimes it doesn’t. One of the judges actually lost the same competition she had entered years before and had lost and came back as a judge and has a successful startup here in New Zealand. So— JL I think it’s so important, again, you know we’ve talked about this a lot is like how to keep going with these like products that you obviously love because you’re working on them and putting your heart into and so just wrapping up here: I’d love to hear more about your approach at looking at your work and looking back and saying, “What am I doing right? What are things I wish I’m doing differently?” And like how—how you handle that. LC I actually spend a lot of time doing self-evaluation. And I think mostly because I’m kind of someone who worries a lot. So I’m always sort of thinking about, “Hey, could I be doing this better?” And sometimes I have to sort of almost take that pressure off of myself. One of the things I struggle with personally is that I don’t feel like I act or look like other founders, especially in my attitudes around building product, getting users, things like that. I don’t think I’m completely like your typical startup founder and I have to sort of talk myself into, “You can only be the best person you can be.” And this is like kind of the thing I get pumped up about. I’m like, ok, I can only do the things I can do. I can keep trying to get better, but I can’t beat myself up about not being like someone else. I just have to sort of be myself and work with what I have and take it to that—that next step. So that’s—that’s sort of what I’m always thinking about in terms of self-improvement. And there are definitely things I’m working on right now. I’m working on giving better feedback. That’s something I’m always working on is how can I give feedback well and really help other people as opposed to just like saying what I think which I think is always a struggle. KL Yeah. We’re dying to know. JL That’s great. When you find an answer, please let us know. [49:35] LC I think—yeah I don’t know. I don’t know. I think one of the things I’ve learned is like give feedback in—or, give criticism in private, give praise in public. Really work on how to articulate how I feel about something or think about something. A lot of times I just assume other people think the same way I do which is not true at all, right? Like we think everyone’s like us and our reaction to something is going to be the same reaction that everyone has to that thing and that’s not true. So it’s like how to explain like—like just today I gave feedback on like sort of an unread count of something and I had to say, “Hey, I’m the kind of person where I see an unread number and it makes me anxious and x, y, and z and blah blah blah blah.” And I wasn’t actually complaining about the teacher, I think the teacher’s great, but it was like, “How can we make this a comfortable process for people who are—people who like to check things off their inbox and have everything be done versus someone who just kind of lets things go and doesn’t really care about that. I think those are two very different personality types and so I think a lot of the struggle is like realizing what type of personality I am and how to express that as a user and then looking at other personality types. Like how do users who care about personal stats treat like a product? So I’m not someone who cares about every single stat, about what episodes I listen to or like, or things like that. Like they’re kind of fun to me, I’m like, “Oh, that’s interesting.” There’s some people who are like—coming at this whole game like, “Hey, I want to listen to more episodes of a podcast this week than I did last week.” And so how do put myself in their shoes or like understand that we have users that are—have different mindsets than myself. So that’s—I’m kind of working on that as well. JL That’s awesome. I think those people would not like my 35,000 unread email messages bubble. That’s the thing. LC As long as you’re ok with it. As long as you personally— JL Thank you! It does not bother me. LC I’m so glad I don’t work on email. That’s like the one communication tool I’m like, I say this now, and like say in 20 years, we forget about email. It’ll just be like, “Oh god, ok yeah.” JL Well, I hope we get to have you back on the show then to talk about your new email project so— LC Oh my god no. JL Leah, anything else you’d like to share with our listeners uh today? LC I guess what I’d like to say is definitely check out Breaker, let me know what you think. I actually read every single feedback email people send us, I may not reply personally, but I definitely read them. So if you have feedback uh let us know, we’ve actually really worked hard to create a company based on user feedback because we understand that not everyone is like ourselves. So you could listen to the next episode of this podcast on Breaker. Let us know what you think. JL Well, Leah, thank you so much for joining us today. It was super awesome. LC Thank you so much for having me. Fuck Yeah of the Season: Tiny Revelations SWB So usually, right before we wrap up, we have our Fuck Yeah of the Week. And that’s something or someone we’re super hyped about during that given week. But here we are, this is Episode 10, and we’re taking a couple weeks off after this. And so I think it’s appropriate to not just have a Fuck Yeah of the Week, but to have a Fuck Yeah of the Season because it’s been kind of a badass season for us here at No, You Go. So I’d like to give a big Fuck Yeah to all of the people who have shared their ideas with us and have been so generous with their time and so many of them have given me what I’m calling, like, tiny revelations where they said something kind of off the cuff, they said this one little sentence, and I find it, like, sticking in my brain and I think about over and over and over again and I think we should take a couple of minutes and talk about what some of those are. Katel, what’s your tiny revelation? KL Yeah. Gosh. I think a really recent episode we did with Stevie where they talked about the sentiment of the practice of allyship, has just stuck with me so much and just the idea that we can constantly be working on this, that we can constantly practice being better to each other, being better supporters of each other, and just that it’s a work in progress. I think that that is so important and something that we can all think about and do in very little ways that amount to something much bigger. JL Yeah, that was a great one. Oh, there are so many great ones. One of the ones that really sticks with me is I loved Sara Chipps’ interview. And one of the things Sara said was, “Everyone has a good idea, right? But how do you—how do you get that started?” And she said, “Ideas are worthless unless it’s something that gets made.” So you know if it’s going to take a thousand baby steps then if you start today you’ll only have 999 left. But if you don’t, then it’s never going to happen. And I love that. You know I’ve talked about this before, I’m a really big fan of the—of, you know, the getting things done method and how you go from idea to really getting it somewhere and we talked about that with Leah today and I also loved so many things that Leah said about this, because I feel like I always have so many ideas in my head and I want to be able to take them from that into something tangible and so I loved the advice that Sara had about how to get your product out and running. I just think it’s so cool. KL Sara, what about you? [54:30] SWB It’s really hard to pick because there’s so many things that I find myself returning to but one of the ones that has sort of lodged itself in my brain where like sometimes I’ll literally be in the middle of working on something, or I’ll be like getting ready for bed, brushing my teeth, whatever, and I find myself thinking it is what Eileen Webb said way back in episode two. She said, “Why should my work get all of my best brain?” And I think what made me really get stuck on that was how much it upended assumptions that I had that I didn’t know that I had about work. Like, that I’d always sort of assumed that spending my best brain, like the—the—the parts of the day where I feel the smartest and most competent, spending the bulk of my time on my work was like inherently good. And an inherently like

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Routinely, these are the most common ways we'll increase the perceived value of our offers... What's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen and you're listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio, where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business, using today's best internet sales funnels. And now, here's your host, Steve Larsen. How you guys doing? Hey, just right off the bat, I want you to know if I'm talking fast or a little bit jittery, it's because I am a little bit jittery. Okay, so a few weeks ago, about three weeks ago I was like, "Crap!" When I first met my wife, I was six per cent body fat. I was running ... I was doing sprint triathlons like crazy, I was ... I'm not gonna lie, you know twisted steel and sex appeal. I mean, I was like ... I was looking really good. I had veins all over me, it was awesome. And then this thing called like work and college came along, and married life and responsibility and that kind of stuff and I was like, "Man, I'm not gonna lie, I feel a little bit big." So I went online and I went to YouTube and I found this guy that was just like shredded, right? I went on YouTube with the explicit purpose of finding some person who just looked totally jacked and huge and swole and looked like he could kill me in a single flex. And I found someone. And I got on there and I was like, "Hey man, do you do like, you know, do like customized meal plans?" I got no problem with the actual workout part, but I want like help with the meal plan part. So anyway, he's been ... I've been on this super, super strict like ... I mean it's literally like chicken and veggies and some healthy fats, like that's it. That's what I've been eating for the last two weeks and I feel so much better. It's amazing! How restricting actually makes me feel more enabled, think about how many lessons that applies to. But anyway, it's been interesting and right now, I was about to go do a workout and I've just been pounding some caffeine before I go and do my workout. And it's starting to hit me right now. So, if I sound kind of jumbled and all over the place, that is exactly why. And anyway, I'm excited. In fact, a few days ago, I was talking to Russell, I was like, "Dude, I feel so good, like oh my gosh, I've had no caffeine. I've had like ... I'm eating super clean." And he's like, "Really? Like that's awesome man. Like oh that's so cool." And I went back home and I was started looking at what it was he was having me take, and I've been taking 275 milligrams of caffeine in the morning. And I was like, "No wonder I feel like I'm on freaking cloud nine, my head is like buzzing, I'm going like crazy." And anyway, he's laughing, he's like, "Dude, that's like the equivalent of 12 Ignites, that's like so much caffeine." Anyway, so it's just been kind of funny. Hey, so we just barely finished a Funnel Hackathon event. Now, if you never heard of that, what happens is people come in for three days and day one, we go through their sales message. Now, well that's really day two. Day one what we do is a lot of foundational work, okay. What's your new opportunity? Who you selling to? You know, have you actually created a new niche? What's your message? You know, describe more of the target? It's more stuff like that. What are the false beliefs of the individuals? What stories do you have in your life that we can start crafting around it? And we do a lot of like, it kinda feels like you bouncing around a lot, but in day two, a lot of stuff starts to come back together. Okay, so the first day is like a normal nine to five kinda day, the second day though is ... We start at about eight thirty in the morning and we go til about midnight. And the entire three day event, it's not like we take breaks, there's no official breaks, there's no ... I mean, it's intense, it's very intense as a participant. It is extremely intense as the person running it, you know what I mean? It's kinda fun 'cause day one Russell and I, we're on stage, sometimes separate, sometimes together, sometimes we're kinda ping ponging back and forth, teaching this and it was just a ton of fun. I know a lot of you guys listen to this podcast, shout out to you guys, I know that. We've had hundreds and hundreds of you guys come through it now, it's been great. Day two though, it's just ... It's mostly just me and we go from sun up to way past sundown. And we build out the entire webinar slide presentation. All of it. From top to bottom. Then Russell comes in, the very last thing of the day, usually like nine or 10 in the evening and he does this actual stack presentation and just breaks it down and shows what he's actually doing and why it works. It's really cool. And then the third day, we jump through a whole bunch of funnels and one of the things I like to do, and I promise this is going somewhere, one of the things I like to do is on day three, I like to stand up at the front on the stage and just ask ... Okay, we've gone through the actual message, we've gone through how to deliver it, we're gonna go through some funnels here in a little bit. And I open up ClickFunnels with them. And we start to go through ClickFunnels itself and it's a lot of fun and I help them get the webinar ready to rock. But I always like to ask, "What ..." You gotta understand it, like Russell Brunson and ClickFunnels and Expert Secrets and DotCom Secrets and all this ... I mean, I have a marketing degree, I have no idea what it really did for me, besides create an environment for me to learn all this other stuff. I don't ... There's nothing content wise in college, except like two or three lessons from a single semester that I really even use, you know, from college. And so, what's funny is that, this is the best material, right? It's the best stuff, it's the best tools, it's the best everything and they're in the room. Each one of them paid like 15 grand a seat, just to be there, right? There was like over 60 people in this room, it's a ton of fun. I mean, I absolutely loved it. Everyone else always does love it. It's .... There's no other place on the planet where I know you can get that kind of stuff. And so, I always like to make the point, "Look, you've got the best stuff, you're in the best scenario, you're in the best environment, you're in a room with people that frankly you probably will not find in many other places, right? You're all A players, you're all here to run, you're all here to go." But it is incredibly baffling to me to sit and realize that like 20 per cent of them aren't gonna do anything. What? Are you kidding? You know what I mean? I never had an event like that, I never had any kind of ... I had DotCom Secrets, that was it. Expert Secrets wasn't even out, right? ClickFunnels was kind of just barely getting started, there were still a lot of things they were fixing, a lot of bugs. Like why on earth would you not just go take action? So what if no one sees your Facebook Lives when you're just starting? No one knows who you are anyway. Like there's nothing to lose. And so, I always like to, on that third day, sit back and write. Okay, what are the real barriers? What is the thing that is actually gonna keep you from going? What is it? I wanna know what those things are. And one of things I always like to bring up is a ... It's a section ... So everyone's using the Stack slide, we're creating brand new offers, we're all creating brand new opportunities in brand new niches 'cause they're creating the niche, not choosing a niche, if you choose the niche, you lose. You create the niche, okay? If you choose the niche, it means you're in a proven based offer already, out of the gate. Don't be that, right? I know I'm saying a lot of technobabble right now, but it was kinda interesting because I had the thought hit to me, like, there are some things that we constantly do to help increase the perceived value of the offers that we sell, right? The perceived idea ... I mean this is huge, massive gold mines going on here, okay? Or goldnugget, whatever you wanna call them. Okay. And so, what I said is like, "Let me show you guys some of the things that we do and the things that we use to increase the perceived value of the offers that we sell." Let's think about this real quick, okay? If you are selling just a straight info product, what is it cost you to fulfill on that? Like nothing, right? You're gonna send an email with an email link in there and they're gonna go jump into the members area or they're gonna go download your stuff or something like that, right? The amount of work that it takes to fulfill on an info product, very small. Now that's awesome for the business owner, right? But as a consumer, there usually needs to be more sales copy, you gotta convince me that it's actually worth it, right? That the information itself is actually worth it, okay? Now let's think about this. How much sales copy is on an Amazon E-commerce page? Not that much, right? There's not that much sales copy that actually goes onto, I don't know ... Whatever ... Let's say you buying a CD player, whatever, an MP3 player, something like that. Let's say you're buying whatever it is off of Amazon, how much sales copy actually goes on that? Like not much. We're talking bullet points, right? Another additional paragraph talking about the features. A little section that might be frequently asked questions from people that have already bought it, right? Some reviews. That's it. Now those are all things we would include in an info product, but why do we not have to include that on a physical product? It's because we can anticipate, right, the tangible aspect of that product. I can sense that I'm gonna be feeling and holding and touching this thing. This thing is gonna be real. It's gonna show up in my mailbox. I'm gonna take it out and it's real. I can touch it, right? I can hold it. I just got this sweet hoody from a rap artist I really like. I'm usually not that much into rap, but I found this guy I really like and he's amazing and I've been just all about his music for the last like month and ... Or however long. And it's been awesome and I totally bought his hoody, it's freaking cool. And it was expensive. But the perceived value is through the roof. Now if someone ... It was $60 for this hoody, okay? So it's relatively expensive, right? Actually honestly not that bad, now that I think about it, but when I think about like, okay, how much would you have to sell me for me to spend $60 on an info product, right? It's gonna be quite a bit more, you know what I mean? It's gonna be quite a bit more money. Now you think about it ... Okay, so the first thing I'm trying to tell you is that if you are selling an info product, if you can figure out a way to actually send something physical, anytime someone buys an info product, you're perceived value of that offer is gonna go way up. Let's think about this for a second, right? On a free plus shipping offer, free plus shipping, you're getting something physical in the mail, so free plus shipping, seven dollars, for something physical in the mail, that's really cheap, especially if it's a book, right? The perceived value of that is way higher than seven dollars, that's why it's so stupid, simple and easy, for people to go and get that thing. If you bundle an info product with a physical product, the perceived value goes through the roof, most of the time. If you do it right, if it's not crap, right? But most of time, the perceived value goes through the roof. And so, that's something I was trying to tell them, is that when you're actually selling on these webinars or these mid-tier products, right? Let's say it's around $1000, $2000, something like that. If you can bundle some kind of welcome package, something that they get in the mail, something that the perceived value is gonna go through the roof. "Hey, guess what guys? You're not only gonna get this sweet info product that's gonna teach you X - Y and Z, guess what? You're also gonna get my welcome package. It's something that I'm gonna ship to you in the mail, so make sure you put in your shipping address because I've got some cool box that's coming. We've got a T-shirt for you, we've got this cool notepad that's customized and a sweet pen with our logo on it." Or whatever. You know what I mean? If you've got those kinds of things in there, it's gonna be a lot easier for you ... Perceived value is gonna be a lot higher. I hope I've made my point with that. Start thinking through what those things are. And if you don't have an idea, I guarantee that if you were to go to Amazon and you started checking out key words that relate to whatever you're selling, I bet you can find stuff, right? Even if it is another info product, you could seriously just serve it up in a physical way, right? "Hey guess what? It's a whole bunch of recordings. Oh, guess what? I also transcribed the recordings and I put them in a little notebook and I'm gonna be shipping it out to you." Does that make sense? A lot of times, the additional money you're able to spend or sorry, a lot of times the additional money you have to spend to ship out something like that is gonna be far worth the additional money you get to charge for that thing. You can sell a lot more stuff typically, when you bundle an info product with a physical product. Okay, that's number one. Physical product, one of the easiest to increase perceived value of whatever it is you're currently offering, okay? And there's I think, through a lot of things that we've sold, you know, either personally, I've seen a lot of my early funnels, that's actually how I did it, was a free plus shipping thing, but then it went onto info products afterwards. And that's one of the models, where we have the most ROI, usually. Personally, as well, I've been that way, because we lead them in with a physical product and then when we sell info products on the upsells, it's pure profit. It takes nothing to fulfill on that. And it's free plus shipping, they've already paid for the shipping, they've paid for the product, right? And now we're just selling additional product, more info products than we were going to 'cause more people are seeing the upsells. You guys following me? I hope you guys are seeing how this gonna makes sense for your business, because if you think ... Especially on front end funnels, front low tier funnels, and even mid-tier, heck, even high-end products. I mean, I've seen Gary White, those black books that he sells like for $1000 or $10 000, however much it is, it's a lot of money. You're getting something physical in the mail and a lot of times, that's one of the easiest ways to boost the perceived value. So, anyway, without beating a dead horse, I hope you understand that. Start seeing the way you can apply that in your business right now. Number one, have an info product. Number two though, you toss something in, even if it's simple, you toss something physical in there. The perceived value, typically can go through the roof, as long as you not sending them pure crap or something like that, you know what I mean? It does have to be good, obviously. Alright, does that make sense? Alright that's number one. Physical product bundled with info product. Number two. Number two way to increase the perceived value. Now, this is not a definitive list, but these are three things that I always teach, that's kinda always off the top of my head. But we were two ... Sorry, getting stumbly, it's that caffeine starting to hit. I routinely see these things as the things where the perceived value goes up through the roof a little bit higher. Okay, so number two: software. Now when you think software, I don't want you to think ClickFunnels, right? You're not gonna go out and you're not gonna freelance this software ClickFunnels in like a day. Okay, that's just ... It's amazing, right? That's software's incredible. What's cool about software is that it does take usually an extra coder or programmer, it does usually take some extra people, it does ... It does definitely increase the perceived value. Now, I wanna give you a few resources you guys can use to go create your own software. I, right now, am creating my own app. I have this problem that I continue to run into, over and over and over and over ... And it's not a huge problem, but I see a really easy, obvious way for me to create this cool app that's gonna solve a ton of my own problems and I know if I'm having the issue, a lot of others are also. And I'm not gonna tell you what it is yet, I'll tell you guys as soon as it's out and stuff. It will probably take two months, honestly. But guess what? I'm not a coder or programmer, I have no idea how to do that stuff. The most I know how to code, I can read a little html, I kinda know what Java Script is doing and I read it, I definitely cannot write it. I can definitely read and write CSS a little bit, at least enough to be dangerous, that's how I do a lot of, you know ... That's it though. And that should be a source of comfort for a lot of people. That I don't know how to do that stuff, because it means that you don't have to either. If you don't know how to do that stuff. So I wanna give you two resources real quick. Alright, if you start thinking through software, software, software, software ... Software is some cool stuff you can toss into your current offer, to easily boost the perceived value. When you think of Brandon and Kaelin Poulin, right? Those two, they're doing like a million dollars a month or something like that. I mean, something ridiculous. They're selling an app, okay? They're selling access to an app. You think about how powerful that is, okay? It's huge, that's amazing. And I guarantee it, it could not have been a million dollars to create that app, but because ... I mean, the perceived value of apps are so big. Apps aren't that crazy hard to create anymore. If you go to Flippa.com, Flippa.com. That's with two P's, F-L-I-P-P-A.com. What's cool about Flippa.com is they ... It's a place for entrepreneurs to post pre-made apps, pre-made E-com stores, pre-made ... And all of it with an existing revenue. And you can go buy existing software and apps and E-com stores and all this ... In fact, pretty soon, one of the people I wanna interview, what he does is he goes on Flippa, he finds a cool E-com site that's already killing it, buys it, puts a funnel in front of it, if he can tell it's in a cool niche and blows it up. They've already proven the product concept the hard way, now he just puts a funnel there and blows it up. Like Flippa is amazing, well in Flippa, you can buy pre-made apps, they're already on the Apple app store. You're buying the whole thing, you're not buying source code, you're not white labeling it. Although there's plenty of other places, you could also white label apps or something like that. But what's cool about Flippa is that you can go and you can actually, you know, you can grab a whole bunch of stuff that's already existing and anyway, so super cool. Flippa.com, that's awesome. The other place that I go is Freelancer.com, I love Freelancer. I know there's others, there's Upwork, there's a whole bunch of other places you can go get, even Fiver, although I've wasted more money software wise on Fiver, than anywhere else. Although, Fiver still has its place. But anyway, Freelancer and Flippa, those are two places I like the most 'cause I can post projects and I can post contests and find out and sift out who's actually good. Does that make sense? So anyway, software does not need to be expensive. And what's cool is that you can go and you can get, you can go get existing software that's already proven, you can bundle it for free, you can put it into your existing stuff, you can do ... And it's way, way, not as nearly as expensive as you might think it is. I saw some app on Flippa the other day, I get little notifications 'cause it's exciting for me. I'd rather go on Flippa than Facebook, Facebook stresses me out now. And so sometimes I'll just kinda dink around in there and I'll watch what's going on. Some app, it was pretty cool, sold for like 70 bucks. I mean, when I say it doesn't have to be expensive, I really mean it, you know? Some of the most expensive ones I've seen on there, like three grand, even up to 10 grand, but it does not need to be that much. Anyway, there's a really good book that's called ... And this is why software is so cheap. And I'm sorry I'm going kinda deep, I know this is kind of a bit of a longer podcast, but I just wanted to drop this all to you guys, so that you know some easy ways to make more money. That's what I'm really ... This is me trying to help you make more money. So hopefully you don't mind that this podcast is a little bit longer this episode today ... So, there's a really good book, it's one of my favorite books actually. I read it in college and it was one of the books that actually had a stark impact on me. It's called, 'A Whole New Mind', it's by Daniel Pink and the subtitle is: Why right-brained thinkers will rule the future. You need to think about this. Now in America, and honestly most places, you know, first world places, especially obviously like ... Are you farming right now? Do you have a farm? Most of us, no. And even if you are farming, you probably chose that profession, you know what I mean? Like it's not like I have to go be farming. I'm not ... we're not making our own clothes, I'm not trying to like pump anything to try and get electricity, like the basics of life are pretty taken care of. You know what I mean? In a lot of first world places. Especially if you live in America. And so, like back in the day, when you know, during the Industrial Age and back when we were manufacturing like crazy or electricity is brand new or you know what I mean? Like those were the hot things to go sell, that was the hot markets. But that stuff's kinda taken care of. It's either monopolized or de-commoditized, right? So who really rules the future? It's the creative ones, right? It's the ones who are ... It's the reason why you can go hire out programmers super cheap, they're a dime a dozen. You can go get programmers ... And it's not ... I'm not saying don't go be a programmer, there's certainly a great place for it. But you just gotta understand where value gets really creative inside the market place, it's not typically someone who's doing some maintenance style job, right? It's what's new and exciting? It's the creative stuff, it's the stuff that's out there. So if you can be the creator, that doesn't mean you have to be the programmer, but if you can go create a piece of software, if you can go create ... It's not that expensive to go create those things anymore. And so, that's all I'm trying to say. Anyway, start thinking through like simple apps, little tiny simple things that you see ... I mean, I'll go back to the Brandon and Kaelin example, Brandon and Kaelin's app is a list of recipes and some exercise videos that describe to you what you should be doing on your daily routine and stuff. It's not like, it's not like it's doing crazy stuff, it's basically a content app. Does that make sense? That's the whole point I'm trying to make. It doesn't need to be crazy. So, if you've never thought about creating some kind of software piece before, I urge you to start thinking through that, okay? Anyway, so number one, think about how you can do a physical product bundled with your info product, right? Or vice versa, as the upsell. It definitely ... It boosts your perceived value. And number two, some piece of software that you can bundle with an info product or with your physical product or ... Does that make sense? Okay. And then number three, here's the other thing, now I wanna explain this one just a little bit. Let me just say it first, okay, number three, live Q and A. Okay, that's number three. Live Q and A. Now when I say live Q and A, I mean live group Q and A, alright? I mean live group calls. In my opinion, in my opinion, you should never include your own time as part of the fulfillment of whatever your current offer is. Let's say you're selling a $100 thing, don't you dare be offering your time as part of the offer, when they buy that info product. Does that make sense? Even on a $1000 webinar funnel product, a $1000 product, I still tell people, I always tell people this, at the FAD event, to Two Comma Coaching, anywhere, I tell people, "Do not put your own time in to fulfilling each order." Okay. When we do the Two Comma Coaching programs, like when I built Secrets Master Class and we built that program, when we were putting all those things together, I am not doing one on one calls. And the reason why is because there's no way I could handle that, I'm trying to sell a lot of right? Of Two Comma Coaching programs and they're totally worth it. And it's awesome to have all those people in there. But I do group coaching calls and I record them and I make those recordings available to all the people who are currently buying and buying in the future. And I index them. So I say, hey, in this one we talked about this and they can go listen to the recordings, and it starts to replicate me. And this is when we talked about this and that replicates me. And this one we talked about that. And I index all of them and now they're all inside the Secrets Master Class and Two Comma Coaching programs. And now anyone who comes in the future, they can keep watching those things and reading those things. And I still continue to do the live Q and A, group Q and A, every single week. One on one coaching time, that's higher up on the value ladder for me. I don't want myself to be a part of that fulfillment, right? I don't want that. I want an info product, it's only a $1000, like my time is not worth that, you know what I mean? It's worth more than that. And so, I wanna ... Anyway, those are some of the easiest things ... Because when you offer a live Q and A, as part of your stack, as part of your offer, whatever it is you're selling, right? Stack slides and things like that, that's not just for webinars, that's for every step of the value ladder. No matter what you're selling. I don't care if it's a free plus shipping seven dollar offer, put a freaking stack slide side by side with it, alright? Where does the free plus shipping book sit on the stack slide, probably the tool, right? Or that top one. Cool. Let's fill in the gaps. Alright, let's figure out what a bonus one is, bonus two, bonus three, that's how we make offers, that's how we ... On any, in any level of the value ladder, okay? Anyways, I'm sorry, I know I'm going really technobabbly with this one, I just wanted to toss in three of these things that we routinely do, that I routinely do also, to boost the perceived value, to give more and actually help you guys charge what your things are really worth. So, anyways, number one, just to recap again, find some kind of physical product. If you don't have any ideas, Amazon probably does for you, right? Number two, software. Doesn't need to be expensive, Flippa.com, Freelancer.com. Honestly, what's cool too is you can go to the app stores and see what things are already selling. You can probably go to some coder and say, "Hey, I wanna make me a version of that." And all they gotta do is ... What do you call it? App hack. Right? Software hack. And actually create that. Number three, live Q and A's. That gives warm, fuzzies, that I'm gonna be taken care of, that helps me know that there's plans after this. That lets me know that I'm not left on my own. That makes sense? That lets me know that other people are involved with it. So anyway, those are three things. I'm sure there are a lot of other things as well, but those are the three go-to things that I continually go through and that ClickFunnels and Russell continue to go to as well, to help boost the perceived value of what it is you're selling. I'm not saying it's not worth whatever you're selling it, but sometimes customers have a hard time like believing it, you know? Especially if they're Debbie downers, especially if they're doom and gloom style people or they just don't ... Whatever it is, like whoever you selling to, people want that extra thing, they want to feel like they're taking advantage of you, which is sad and stupid. But if you can play to it, by boosting perceived value and show 'em like, "Yeah, you're right. You are taking advantage of me. Here's all this extra stuff." You know what I mean? Like then it can help you sell even more and those are little things that take hardly anytime on your fulfillment, you know what I mean? Which is awesome... So, anyway, guys hopefully that was helpful. It's one of my favorite sessions to do, we dive a little bit deeper into that, even at the FAD event and through Secrets Master Class, but I thought I'd just kinda dive into it a little bit more, so you guys can see a little bit some easy ways to do this. So, again, does not need to be expensive, does not need to be very time consuming even. And honestly, you don't need to be the one doing it, right? If it's physical, a fulfillment house can do it for you. There's a ton of places, right? I don't send out ... I have a free plus shipping CD thing that I've been sending out for years, I don't send any of those, some other person does 'em. I think in Indiana. I don't even know. That's the whole point with this whole thing. So, anyway, physical product, some kind of software and some kind of live Q and A, group Q and A that you can record and continue to use in other assets, in other places and keep perceive value high. So anyways, hopefully this is helpful guys. I know it's a little bit of a longer episode, but this is honestly one of the coolest things on the planet for me, to share that kind of stuff with you. Please ... You know what would be really cool though, honestly? This podcast is gonna hit 80 0000 download here, very shortly, which I can't believe. I mean, it's so exciting. Thanks for being listeners, thank you for jumping into this content with me and sticking with me in all this. Number one, I would love if you guys wouldn't mind to go to iTunes, I am asking, and just leave some reviews. It was fun for me to go back the other day and see all of people who have left reviews, it's exciting. It's really cool actually. Got me pumped. But number two, more importantly, honestly, if one of these three things, I would love to know if you guys actually implemented 'em and I would love to know how much money you guys actually made back from it 'cause that would be so cool. Very, very exciting. So anyway, you guys are all awesome. I really appreciate just you listening. You know what's really cool for me too? Is just to know you guys are all out there, that you all listen to this, that it actually is helping you with your life. I love reading your comments. I love reading the things you guys are doing as well. And you've been successful with all this stuff, so scratch and back both ways, just so you know. I love hearing your comments and making these, probably just as much as little pieces of gold I'm trying to drop in each one of these. So, anyway, you guys are all awesome. Talk to you later, bye. Thanks for listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Please remember to subscribe and leave feedback. Wanna get one of today's best internet sales funnel for free? Go to SalesFunnelBroker.com/freefunnels to download your pre-built sales funnel today.

"Flip your "What IF" from a Negative to a Positive" - Bond, The Ad Strategist This episode is one of the rawest and most authentic interviews to date (it contains some swearing, so make sure the kids aren't in the car). We go deep into what entrepreneurship is REALLY LIKE. If you have been following this podcast for a while, you know how important mindset is to building a business. In today's episode of The Happiness of Pursuit Podcast, Amanda Bond, better know as Bond, founder of The Ad Strategist, dives deep into her personal transformation, and how she allows her gut and passion to guide her business. What was shocking to me, was the fact that after numerous failures, Bond kept going and has built one of the most reputable Facebook Ad management businesses in the space. In the interview, Bond shares the story about how she bounced back from a $10,000 chargeback after completing 3 months of hard work (for those who are unfamiliar with a chargeback, the client basically makes a claim and their money is returned). For most people, that would have been the end of their business - they would have thrown in the towel. Bond, shares how working on her mindset helped her embrace failure, and allowed her to survive those inevitable tough times in business. If you want to connect with The Ad Strategist, the best place to do so is right here: https://www.facebook.com/theadstrategist/ Bonus: Crucial Buckets to Build a Business (check out their Facebook page for the full details). 1. Pixel a Website 2. Email 3. Page Engagement 4. Video Views (Bond's current favorite) To get complete show notes, visit www.douglasjfoley.com/90

Ever have the feeling when you are staring at a blank piece of paper that you're not sure what to draw? Clark Huggins had this same problem. He found he was spending extra time and putting extra pressure on himself before he ever put his brush to the canvas - and he realized that all he wanted to be doing was making art. To get around this he took out some index cards and wrote down different ideas and then shuffled the deck. He then chose 3 cards at random and went to work - leaving chance to decide what he was going to create. What he found was that this process allowed him to jump immediately into the creation process and also to tap into truly new and unique ideas by combining elements that he would never have chosen on his own. This discovery led to the creation of the Reckless Deck, where artists can use the exact same process Clark used to come up with new and unique creations. The Reckless Deck is just about to go live on Kickstarter so you can pick up a deck for yourself and get busy creating your own unique creations. Interview Chapters: 00:37 - 02:29 Introductions Mitch introduces today's guest, Clark Huggins, who gives you a quick overview of what Reckless Deck is all about...and how you can use it to help unlock your creativity. 02:53 - 04:31 Why is Reckless Deck Such a Useful Tool for Artists? Clark has taken Reckless Deck to comic conventions and other events across the US. What's the response been like from the public and how are artists using it to help them create original characters? 05:20 - 05:50 How can a Humble Deck of Cards Boost Your Creativity? Why does Reckless Deck help you come up with character ideas so quickly? Clark explains the thinking behind his product in this chapter. 05:58 - 09:37 Where did the Idea to Make Reckless Deck Come From? The idea of Reckless Deck came about through Clark's own experiences as an artist and his desire to start working on a new character as quickly as possible. Find out how this project came to life in this chapter. 09:49 - 13:23 What was the First Character Clark Created Using Reckless Deck? Clark can still remember the first character he created using Reckless Deck. In fact, it's one he's revisited many times since! Find out more in this chapter. 13:33 - 20:01 How did Clark Start Developing His Idea? Reckless Deck began life as a set of index cards Clark made for himself. So how did he develop this idea into a fully-fledged product that people can buy online? You'll discover all the hard work that went into Clark's idea (and how long this process took) in this chapter. 20:33 - 21:35 Why Should you Hire a Graphic Designer to Help With Packaging Your Product? Many artists take it upon themselves to do all the graphic design work on their projects, but this doesn't always give you the professional look you want for a product and its packaging. In this chapter, you'll learn why Clark - despite being fluent in using Photoshop - decided to hand his logo and packaging design over to a specialist. 22:07 - 23:08 How did Clark Find the Right Printing Company to Produce Reckless Deck Finding the right printer at the right cost can sometimes be difficult. In this chapter, you'll hear why Clark chose to use a company in China, and why he was overjoyed with the results - especially when an unexpected issue actually added another feature to his project! 24:03 - 32:30 How did Clark Turn a Kickstarter Fail Into a Win? Clark didn't have an overnight success when he first tried to launch Reckless Deck on Kickstarter. In fact, he had to go back to the drawing board to find out what makes a project successful and get noticed on this site. Find out how he learned from his mistakes and eventually got successfully funded in this chapter. 33:05 - 34:55 How Can You be The First to Hear About New Reckless Deck Products And Offers? If you're excited by Reckless Deck and want to find out more about new releases and special offers, this is one part of the interview you won't want to miss. 35:48 - 36:57 What is it Really Like to Launch a Product Like Reckless Deck? It's easy to listen to Clark talking and imagine the whole process behind making and launching Reckless Deck as being super-easy. But it wasn't. Discover the reality and hard work behind launching any new product successfully in this chapter. 37:45 - 39:00 How Can Reckless Deck Help You as an Artist? Reckless Deck has already helped many concept and fantasy artists get past creative block and searching for ideas. Find out how it can help you too in this chapter. 39:01 - 42:37 Find Our About Special Offers and Swag for Pencil Kings Listeners There are some exciting offers in the bag for anyone who's interested in finding out more about Pencil Kings and Reckless Deck. Find out how you can get your hands on some cool free stuff and special offers in this chapter. 42:39 - 44:00 Conclusion Mitch and Clark wrap up their interview and reveal some more exciting things about Reckless Deck. Shownotes & more info at: https://www.pencilkings.com/podcast/

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A lawyer, a host, and a comedian walk into a cyber bar and decide that this week’s trending topics require a deconstructed approach. This episode they dissect Kesha’s legal battle with Sony Music; NYTimes’ Interactive Story ‘What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood: If you’re not a straight white man’; the first All Def Movie Awards; and Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler’s Flint Fundraiser. If you consider yourself a conversational mixologist, then hit play, until the bartender cuts you off. Featured Links Kesha Swears Under Oath Dr. Luke Did NOT Sexually Assault or Drug Me Why Sony Music Can't Easily Cancel Kesha's Contract Interesting Diversity Conversation in NY Times All Def Movie Awards Ava DuVernay and Ryan Coogler to attend Flint benefit instead of Oscars

Why can’t America defeat the 12th Century culture of our Muslims tormentors? On the night before the Normandy Invasion in June 1944, General George Patton spoke to his troops. “Americans play to win all the time. That’s why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war.” Up until that date he was right. At his Inaugural Address in January 1961, President Kennedy promised, “we shall pay any price, bear any burden…to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” Really? Like when we fled Vietnam? Like when we left Iraq a bigger mess than it was when we first went there? Bottom line: America never suffered a military defeat in more than 25 wars since our founding—UNTIL about 1960. Since then we’ve barely won even one. Could the cultural corrosion of that period also have castrated our capacity to win wars? Are we doomed to defeat by Muslims? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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