Podcasts about Reengineering

In this episode, Amir sits down with Brent Keator, an expert advisor at Primary Venture Partners, to unpack one of the most debated engineering challenges: tech debt versus reengineering. They explore how to define tech debt, when to refactor versus rebuild, the ROI of revisiting old code, and how AI is (and isn't) changing the equation. This is a must-listen for engineering leaders navigating complex technical decisions in fast-moving environments.

In this episode of the Earley AI Podcast, host Seth Earley sits down with industry analyst and advisor Tony Baer, a seasoned expert in data, cloud, and analytics. With decades of experience guiding global tech leaders like AWS and Oracle, Tony brings a nuanced perspective on how knowledge engineering is evolving—and why context is the missing link in many enterprise AI initiatives.Together, Seth and Tony explore the shift from static data models to dynamic knowledge frameworks, the renewed importance of governance, and how graph databases and generative AI are reshaping enterprise intelligence. This is a conversation packed with hard-earned lessons and actionable insight for data, IT, and transformation leaders aiming to make AI work in the real world.Key Takeaways:Knowledge engineering today is about dynamic, adaptive structures—not static ontologies or rigid models.The role of the knowledge engineer is shifting: it's less about technical mastery and more about bridging data, business, and domain expertise.Context is foundational. The five W's—Who, What, When, Where, Why (and How)—unlock meaningful, actionable intelligence.Graph databases and AI are enabling real-time connections across data, turning static information into living knowledge.Generative AI delivers the most value when rooted in organizational context. RAG strategies demand clean data and strong information architecture.Successful AI initiatives are focused. Start with well-bounded, high-impact processes—avoid boiling the ocean. Core principles from previous data waves still apply. It's about evolving governance, stewardship, and architecture for the AI era. Sustainable value comes from feedback loops, iteration, and alignment—not silver bullets. Tune in to discover how to make AI practical, actionable, and intelligent for your organization.Quote of the Show: "Just because something is old does not make it wrong. There are a lot of disciplines we've built up over the years—governance, data stewardship—that still matter. The principle was right. We just adapt it and use our learnings from each cycle to become more knowledgeable and proficient." Tony BaerLinksLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbinsight/Website: https://www.dbinsight.ioThanks to our sponsors: VKTR Earley Information Science AI Powered Enterprise Book

Ever wondered how you can reclaim your life and purpose after a difficult divorce? In this episode of the Dads Making a Difference podcast, we sit down with Bob Wischer, who shares his incredible journey of personal transformation and growth.Bob opens up about the moment when he realized his marriage wasn't aligned with the vision he had for his life. Feeling like a "shell of a person" in a 19-year marriage, Bob made the tough decision to step away and focus on his personal growth. He discusses the challenges of navigating fatherhood while dealing with the emotional and psychological toll of divorce.Through investing in himself—both mentally and physically—Bob managed to lose significant weight and overcome prediabetes. But more importantly, he dove deep into self-improvement, adopting a set of personal standards that became the backbone of his new life. This journey led him to create the community "Men Becoming Better Men," where he now helps others re-engineer their lives and find fulfillment."Be impeccable with your word. Your well-being is your own responsibility. Don't make things up." - Bob Wischer In this episode, you will:Takeaway lessons on fatherhood such as being mindful of your words and actions, and building trust with your childrenReflect on marital challenges and its impactDiscover the importance of building supportive and fulfilling relationshipsLearn about the 3 steps to live with purpose, authenticity, and strong relationshipsUnderstand the importance of continuous self-improvement From being intentional about building trust with his children to finding a mutually supportive relationship, Bob's story is a testament to the power of resilience and purposeful living. If you're looking for inspiration on how to turn adversity into opportunity, this episode is a must-listen!Connect with Bob Wischer: Website Instagram Connect with Cam Hall:WebsiteDads Making A Difference Connection CallFacebookInstagramTwitterLinkedInYouTubeEmail - cam@dmdpodcast.comWant to join a holistic group coaching call with Cam? - Send him a message on Instagram @dadsmakingadifference

Replatforming isn't always the best solution to technology challenges. An ecommerce platform can be fit-for-purpose but the implementation flawed, or outdated, resulting in the business thinking the issue is the underlying tech. Sometimes it's quicker, cheaper and more effective to improve how the current platform is built rather than pivot to a new vendor ecosystem. For this podcast, James Gurd and Michal Klim discuss the complexities of re-engineering ecommerce platforms, particularly focusing on Shopify. Michal is the CTO of respected development agency Commerce UI, and recently helped Pangaia re-engineer their Shopify storefront and tech stack. James & Michal explore the concept of technical and process debt, the importance of thoughtful maintenance, and the challenges of historical decisions in technology. Michal shares insights from his work with Pangaia, emphasising the need for a clean slate approach to build better solutions. The discussion also covers the role of automation, the use of Shopify Flow and MetaObjects, and the integration of third-party tools, culminating in a conversation about transitioning from classic to new customer accounts. Key takeaways: Re-engineering can be a better solution than re-platforming. Technical debt accumulates over time and needs addressing. Thoughtful maintenance is crucial for long-term success. Historical decisions can complicate current technology choices. A clean slate approach can lead to better outcomes. Simplifying complexity can enhance user experience. Automation tools can significantly improve operational efficiency. Shopify Flow and MetaObjects provide powerful solutions to operational challenges.

table td.shrink { white-space:nowrap } hr.thin { border: 0; height: 0; border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); } New hosts Welcome to our new host: hairylarry. Last Month's Shows Id Day Date Title Host 4196 Mon 2024-09-02 HPR Community News for August 2024 HPR Volunteers 4197 Tue 2024-09-03 After 5 years away, OggCamp is back in 2024! Ken Fallon 4198 Wed 2024-09-04 Are hobbies pathological? Lee 4199 Thu 2024-09-05 HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 7 Honkeymagoo 4200 Fri 2024-09-06 Intro to Doctor Who Ahuka 4201 Mon 2024-09-09 Today I learnt (2024-08-23) Dave Morriss 4202 Tue 2024-09-10 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood HF Radio Part 3 MrX 4203 Wed 2024-09-11 Setup DuckDNS on a Raspberry Pi Kevie 4204 Thu 2024-09-12 LibreOffice Importing External Data gemlog 4205 Fri 2024-09-13 Trollercoasting almost getting a heart attack Trollercoaster 4206 Mon 2024-09-16 New to GNU/Linux resources. Some Guy On The Internet 4207 Tue 2024-09-17 Re: The Kindle/Kobo Open Reader (KOReader) dnt 4208 Wed 2024-09-18 01 Plain Text Programs hairylarry 4209 Thu 2024-09-19 HPR New Years Eve Show 2023 - 24 ep 8 Honkeymagoo 4210 Fri 2024-09-20 Playing Civilization IV, Part 1 Ahuka 4211 Mon 2024-09-23 Rapid Fire 1 operat0r 4212 Tue 2024-09-24 Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 4 MrX 4213 Wed 2024-09-25 Making Waves Day 1 Ken Fallon 4214 Thu 2024-09-26 Making Waves Day 2 Ken Fallon 4215 Fri 2024-09-27 My home lab Lee 4216 Mon 2024-09-30 Down the rabbit hole. Some Guy On The Internet Comments this month These are comments which have been made during the past month, either to shows released during the month or to past shows. There are 23 comments in total. Past shows There are 6 comments on 6 previous shows: hpr4109 (2024-05-02) "The future of HPR " by knightwise. Comment 9: Ken Fallon on 2024-09-13: "Interesting post by Alan Pope" hpr4156 (2024-07-08) "Badger 2040" by Kevie. Comment 2: Ken Fallon on 2024-09-12: "Heading to spectrum24" hpr4175 (2024-08-02) "what's in my bag part 2" by operat0r. Comment 1: operator on 2024-09-11: "operator" hpr4177 (2024-08-06) "Blender 3D Tutorial #1" by Deltaray. Comment 3: Some Guy On The Internet on 2024-09-09: "Great show." hpr4182 (2024-08-13) "Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 1" by MrX. Comment 2: MrX on 2024-09-11: "Re Thank you for the reminder" hpr4195 (2024-08-30) "Hacking HPR Hosts" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: dnt on 2024-09-01: "Scheduling and the reserve queue" This month's shows There are 17 comments on 8 of this month's shows: hpr4196 (2024-09-02) "HPR Community News for August 2024" by HPR Volunteers. Comment 1: Trollercoaster on 2024-09-03: "Why!?"Comment 2: brian-in-ohio on 2024-09-03: "single board computer"Comment 3: Ken Fallon on 2024-09-03: "@Brian" hpr4198 (2024-09-04) "Are hobbies pathological?" by Lee. Comment 1: dnt on 2024-09-10: "Pathologies" hpr4200 (2024-09-06) "Intro to Doctor Who" by Ahuka. Comment 1: hammerron on 2024-09-06: "Streaming Doctor Who"Comment 2: brian-in-ohio on 2024-09-08: "Shows"Comment 3: dnt on 2024-09-10: "Dr Who"Comment 4: Dave Morriss on 2024-09-16: "Excellent start!" hpr4207 (2024-09-17) "Re: The Kindle/Kobo Open Reader (KOReader)" by dnt. Comment 1: Dave Morriss on 2024-09-18: "How to say "Calibre"" hpr4208 (2024-09-18) "01 Plain Text Programs" by hairylarry. Comment 1: ClaudioM on 2024-09-18: "Hello there, fellow SDFer! Great Episode!"Comment 2: brian-in-ohio on 2024-09-18: "The hook"Comment 3: Beeza on 2024-10-03: "Plaintext Programs"Comment 4: Dave Morriss on 2024-10-04: "Regarding VMS and indexed files" hpr4212 (2024-09-24) "Replacing backup batteries in my Kenwood TS940S HF Radio Part 4" by MrX. Comment 1: Henrik Hemrin on 2024-09-30: "Engineering"Comment 2: MrX on 2024-09-30: "Re Engineering" hpr4214 (2024-09-26) "Making Waves Day 2" by Ken Fallon. Comment 1: Trey on 2024-09-26: "Love these!" hpr4216 (2024-09-30) "Down the rabbit hole." by Some Guy On The Internet. Comment 1: Beeza on 2024-10-03: "Good Samaritans" Mailing List discussions Policy decisions surrounding HPR are taken by the community as a whole. This discussion takes place on the Mail List which is open to all HPR listeners and contributors. The discussions are open and available on the HPR server under Mailman. 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Fareed examines two emerging technologies that are already changing life as we know it—CRISPR gene editing and artificial intelligence—in interviews with two women who pioneered them: UC Berkeley's Jennifer Doudna and Stanford's Fei-Fei Li. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Melt has been a common issue in Higher Ed, but solutions are few and far between. Kelly Nolin has taken new initiatives to tackle melt. And one of the solutions, to no one's surprise, is breaking down silos. But what else can you do to combat melt? Listen to the full episode and find out more. Connect with Kelly Nolin on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-nolin-7b99a040/

George Washington University Professor Timothy Shenk recently wrote an op-ed in The New York Times on how Kamala Harris can re-position her party for the long term. Major sat down with Shenk in the CBS Bureau to discuss how history intersects with 2024 election and why Shenk believes this could be an inflection point for the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Vice President Harris, he argues, ought to give working class voters a compelling reason to vote for her this fall. Find Shenk's book “Left Adrift” in October.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

There are math problems that are hard. So hard that even current computers cannot solve them. To get around these problems, we need to re-think the very foundation of how we architect our IT, by using a technological field called 'novel accelerators'.It sounds complicated, but today's guest is particularly skilled at explaining incredibly complicated concepts. He says: "Right now, Generative AI and accelerators are at the forefront of being able to help with these major advances, and the world could change in really significant ways. Medicine, materials, energy, information technology... to harness these systems to help us - not to replace us." Joining us today is Ray Beausoleil, a physicist, senior fellow and senior vice president at HPE. He leads the large scale integrated photonics lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it. Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMA About this week's guest: Ray Beausoleil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-beausoleil-22b148a/ Sources and statistics cited in this episode: Bloomberg report into AI growth: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/generative-ai-to-become-a-1-3-trillion-market-by-2032-research-finds/ Fusion and mayonnaise: https://engineering.lehigh.edu/news/article/lehigh-university-researchers-dig-deeper-stability-challenges-nuclear-fusion-mayonnaise

There are math problems that are hard. So hard that even current computers cannot solve them. To get around these problems, we need to re-think the very foundation of how we architect our IT, by using a technological field called 'novel accelerators'.It sounds complicated, but today's guest is particularly skilled at explaining incredibly complicated concepts. He says: "Right now, Generative AI and accelerators are at the forefront of being able to help with these major advances, and the world could change in really significant ways. Medicine, materials, energy, information technology... to harness these systems to help us - not to replace us." Joining us today is Ray Beausoleil, a physicist, senior fellow and senior vice president at HPE. He leads the large scale integrated photonics lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it. Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMA About this week's guest: Ray Beausoleil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-beausoleil-22b148a/ Sources and statistics cited in this episode: Bloomberg report into AI growth: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/generative-ai-to-become-a-1-3-trillion-market-by-2032-research-finds/ Fusion and mayonnaise: https://engineering.lehigh.edu/news/article/lehigh-university-researchers-dig-deeper-stability-challenges-nuclear-fusion-mayonnaise

There are math problems that are hard. So hard that even current computers cannot solve them. To get around these problems, we need to re-think the very foundation of how we architect our IT, by using a technological field called 'novel accelerators'.It sounds complicated, but today's guest is particularly skilled at explaining incredibly complicated concepts. He says: "Right now, Generative AI and accelerators are at the forefront of being able to help with these major advances, and the world could change in really significant ways. Medicine, materials, energy, information technology... to harness these systems to help us - not to replace us." Joining us today is Ray Beausoleil, a physicist, senior fellow and senior vice president at HPE. He leads the large scale integrated photonics lab at Hewlett Packard Labs. This is Technology Now, a weekly show from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Every week we look at a story that's been making headlines, take a look at the technology behind it, and explain why it matters to organizations and what we can learn from it. Do you have a question for the expert? Ask it here using this Google form: https://forms.gle/8vzFNnPa94awARHMA About this week's guest: Ray Beausoleil: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-beausoleil-22b148a/ Sources and statistics cited in this episode: Bloomberg report into AI growth: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/generative-ai-to-become-a-1-3-trillion-market-by-2032-research-finds/ Fusion and mayonnaise: https://engineering.lehigh.edu/news/article/lehigh-university-researchers-dig-deeper-stability-challenges-nuclear-fusion-mayonnaise

Mano Elia from The Study of Stuff joined me to discuss culture, Orthodoxy, spiritual warfare, and personal struggle.

Mano Elia from The Study of Stuff joined me to discuss culture, Orthodoxy, spiritual warfare, and personal struggle.

Mano Elia from The Study of Stuff joined me to discuss culture, Orthodoxy, spiritual warfare, and personal struggle.

Mano Elia from The Study of Stuff joined me to discuss culture, Orthodoxy, spiritual warfare, and personal struggle.

Mano Elia from The Study of Stuff joined me to discuss culture, Orthodoxy, spiritual warfare, and personal struggle.

In this episode, I share my personal energetics strategy on sourcing your own energy from the inside out and directing that energy into a 10x leap.    We discuss: in-depth personal stories from me on how I 10x-ed my business how the energy in magnetizing $100k is the same as $10k why being delusional is not actually delusional because it works! how to source your own energy : coping with disappointment and redirecting that energy to alchemize your sales and so much more! Join Magnetizing $1Million masterclass HERE!   Doors to Magicmind are open : apply now HERE!   Read more about Magicmind Mastermind here   For new and aspiring coaches, explore BAA: http://www.tiffanycheung.co/baa   Connect on Instagram, send me a DM and introduce yourself!: www.instagram.com/tiffanycheung.co

WMAL GUEST: 7:35 AM - INTERVIEW - MARC MORANO - Climate Depot on Washington Post's Editorial Board on their Climate agenda Wash Post Editorial Board follows orders of megalomaniac billionaires: 'Humans might need to re-engineer the climate' - Tout injecting '100,000 tons of sulfur per year into lower stratosphere to block solar rays' - Climate Depot SOCIAL MEDIA: https://twitter.com/ClimateDepot Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock,  @patricepinkfile and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Monday, April 29, 2024 / 7 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ted Moser, Senior Partner at Prophet and the author of Winning Through Platforms, joins AMA's Bennie F. Johnson to talk about his new book, Winning Through Platforms, why the platform is a great company equalizer, and finding the thing you're passionate about.

Viewpoint This Sunday with Malcolm Out Loud – Obama warns Biden that Trump will win in 2024 if there isn't a dramatic shake-up. Biden admin is taking steps to shield federal workers if Trump wins and attempts to downsize the fed. LTC Tony Shaffer is here on the top stories. IQ al-Rassooli reports... Pressure on Israel and Netanyahu for a ceasefire. Biden's Trans Day of Visibility “Proclamation” stirs hornet's nest. Patricia Anthone, George McClellan, and Mike McCarthy in a Roundtable…

Viewpoint This Sunday with Malcolm Out Loud – Obama warns Biden that Trump will win in 2024 if there isn't a dramatic shake-up. Biden admin is taking steps to shield federal workers if Trump wins and attempts to downsize the fed. LTC Tony Shaffer is here on the top stories. IQ al-Rassooli reports... Pressure on Israel and Netanyahu for a ceasefire. Biden's Trans Day of Visibility “Proclamation” stirs hornet's nest. Patricia Anthone, George McClellan, and Mike McCarthy in a Roundtable…

Joining us with a rich tapestry of experience and exposure, this week's guest joins us in the boardroom from the world of strategy consulting and venture capital with a radical view of how Africans can build businesses that make a difference.  Dr. Kristin Wilson spent her early professional life studying modern thought & literature, African studies, and neuroscience at leading institutions like Oxford, Princeton, and Stanford and led a tangentially different career in management consulting and venture capital. In this episode, we discuss the ways that culture and history play a part in how businesses across various societies build for success.  As a champion of African entrepreneurship, Kristin also unpacks a fascinating model as to how we can begin to move the needle as a continent by embracing our core values, strengths, and collective identity while appreciating our nuances. Join us in the boardroom to unravel the colorful fabric of psychology that drives our society, politics and business in Africa. If you are interested in engaging more with Kristin and her work, check out her LinkedIn here or check out Spurt! here. --- Join us in creating social impact through a cup of tea by visiting www.nepalteacollective.com Support our podcast further by pledging your support through our Substack Channel: https://boardroombanterpodcast.substack.com?utm_source=navbar&utm_medium=web&r=2myauy

AI's revolutionary potential is best realized incrementally, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and Business Applications. How the tech giant is experimenting its way from AI assistants to autonomous agents while engaging with stakeholders. Also: the OpenAI connection, responsible AI, and upskilling.

Alex Krainer is the founder of KRAINER ANALYTICS, he is a trader, researcher, historian, author & blogger. Some of his work includes Mastering Uncertainty, Alex Krainer's Trend Following Bible, and the banned book, Grand Deception: The Truth about Bill Browder, the Magnitsky Act & Anti-Russian Sanctions.ALEX KRAINER:SubStack: https://substack.com/@alexkrainer Personal Blog: https://thenakedhedgie.com/For Traders & investors: I-System TrendCompass Newsletter: https://isystem-tf.com/trendcompass/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NakedHedgieYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAqRpyLzC4xanGQQQtxW0qQTHE RIPPLE EFFECT PODCAST:WEBSITE: http://TheRippleEffectPodcast.comWebsite Host & Video Distributor: https://ContentSafe.co/THE RIPPLE EFFECT PODCAST:WEBSITE: http://TheRippleEffectPodcast.comWebsite Host & Video Distributor: https://ContentSafe.co/SUPPORT:PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/TheRippleEffectPodcastPayPal: https://www.PayPal.com/paypalme/RvTheory6VENMO: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3625073915201071418&created=1663262894MERCH Store: http://www.TheRippleEffectPodcastMerch.comMUSIC: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-ripple-effect-ep/1057436436SPONSORS:LMNT Electrolyte Drink Mix (Free Gift With Purchase): http://DrinkLMNT.com/TheRippleEffectTHE UNIVERSITY OF REASON (Autonomy Course): https://www.universityofreason.com/a/29887/ouiRXFoLContentSafe: https://ContentSafe.co/WATCH:RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-745495ROKFIN: https://rokfin.com/RippleEffectYOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVfy9MXhb5EIciYRIO9cKUwLISTEN:SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4lpFhHI6CqdZKW0QDyOicJiTUNES: http://apple.co/1xjWmlFCONNECT:TeleGram: https://t.me/TREpodcastTWITTER: https://twitter.com/RvTheory6INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/rvtheory6/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRippleEffectPodcast/THE UNION OF THE UNWANTED: https://linktr.ee/TheUnionOfTheUnwanted

This week on the Building Interest Podcast, Leader Bank's President Jay Tuli returns to reflect on this past year. We dig into the challenges of a changing market, pushing your potential as a leader during turbulent times and celebrating the successes that aren't necessarily reflected in statistics and metrics. 

George Wright discusses the importance of simplification in our busy modern lives and particularly for entrepreneurs. Drawing from Brian Tracy's book 'Focal Point', Wright focuses on the concept of the 'Seven Rs of Simplification', which can serve as a framework to relief stress. These 'Seven Rs' are: 'rethinking', 'reevaluating', 'reorganizing', 'restructuring', 'reengineering', 'reinventing', and 'regaining control'. These strategies aim to help individuals achieve success, fulfillment, and productivity while leading less complex lives. He urges his audience to rethink their life strategies, honestly evaluate their situation and actions, restructure their activities based on importance, and constantly reinvent themselves to stay relevant. He concludes by underlining the importance of regaining control of one's life and not waiting for things to happen in order to succeed.   00:07 Introduction and Quote of the Day 00:58 The Need for Simplification in Life 01:20 The Complexity of Modern Life 02:01 The Challenge of Simplifying Life 03:00 The Seven R's of Simplification: Introduction 03:13 Rethinking and Reevaluating 04:24 Reorganizing and Restructuring 05:46 Reengineering and Reinventing 08:19 Regaining Control   Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. Please SHARE THE SHOW!! Go to DailyMastermind.com/mastermind to join the FREE Community and get access to our Brand New Newsletter and Free Resources that come along with FREE subscription.

George Wright discusses the importance of simplification in our busy modern lives and particularly for entrepreneurs. Drawing from Brian Tracy's book 'Focal Point', Wright focuses on the concept of the 'Seven Rs of Simplification', which can serve as a framework to relief stress. These 'Seven Rs' are: 'rethinking', 'reevaluating', 'reorganizing', 'restructuring', 'reengineering', 'reinventing', and 'regaining control'. These strategies aim to help individuals achieve success, fulfillment, and productivity while leading less complex lives. He urges his audience to rethink their life strategies, honestly evaluate their situation and actions, restructure their activities based on importance, and constantly reinvent themselves to stay relevant. He concludes by underlining the importance of regaining control of one's life and not waiting for things to happen in order to succeed.   00:07 Introduction and Quote of the Day 00:58 The Need for Simplification in Life 01:20 The Complexity of Modern Life 02:01 The Challenge of Simplifying Life 03:00 The Seven R's of Simplification: Introduction 03:13 Rethinking and Reevaluating 04:24 Reorganizing and Restructuring 05:46 Reengineering and Reinventing 08:19 Regaining Control   Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. Please SHARE THE SHOW!! Go to DailyMastermind.com/mastermind to join the FREE Community and get access to our Brand New Newsletter and Free Resources that come along with FREE subscription.

Physicians often tell me they know “what” to do but really struggle on following through. If you do too, check out this episode.  I share the most powerful way I deal with this in my own life. When you just can't get yourself to follow through on your plans, the answer is not to work harder or deploy more willpower. Instead, those plans need to change so they work better for you as a unique individual. Your plans need a re-engineering face lift.  Learn how to do this and the power this simple shift will have on your weight loss goals by listening to the full episode. **** Enjoying this podcast? Please share it with someone who would benefit.  And don't forget to hit “follow” so you get all the new episodes as soon as they are released. **** Are you ready to go from “trying not to eat” to not being bothered by food after clinic? Even after your most exhausting days of caring for patients? Feel in control around food and take back your evenings with INSTANT access to the video masterclass: EVENING OVEREATING FOR PHYSICIANS: Common Myths & Practical Solutions. Get access now at https://www.weightsolutionsforphysicians.ca/evening-overeating **** Want more support staying focussed on applying everything you learn in the podcast?  Come join me in the FREE Thriving As A Physician Facebook Community.  You must be a physician to join. Join us at https://facebook.com/groups/thrivingasaphysician **** Come hang out with me on Facebook or Instagram.  Follow me @drsiobhankey to get more practical tools to thrive in your weight loss and your life. **** Questions? Comments? Want to share how this podcast has helped you? Shoot me an email at info@weightsolutionsforphysicians.ca.  I would love to hear from you.

A revolution is imminent in American healthcare, and “the revolution will not be televised” for passive observation.  Value-based care transformation, like any other important movement, requires the active participation of all leaders on the frontlines. However, for these leaders to make the right decisions, they need to embrace innovation in order to realize the fullest potential of generative AI and predictive analytics.  Through the reengineering of care delivery, we can achieve a more personalized, proactive, and efficient outcomes-based model that can ultimately transform population health. As we navigate this transformative journey, data will play a pivotal role in reshaping the landscape of care delivery.  And no one knows this better than Nassib Chamoun, Founder President & CEO of Health Data Analytics Institute (HDAI), our guest this week on Race to Value.  In this episode, you will hear from a leader and primary inventor of a broad-based population health data analytics platform, enabling healthcare providers to make informed decisions based on real-time information. Tune in to an informative conversation covering such topics as data aggregation, predictive analytics, digital twinning, network management, generative AI in clinical care, and future advancements in technology-enabled value-based care. Episode Bookmarks: 01:30 The Imminent “Big Data” Revolution in Value-Based Care 02:00 Introduction to Nassib Chamoun of Health Data Analytics Institute 03:00 As a teenager living in Beirut, Nassib experienced the horror of a civil war. 04:00 The inventor of Bispectral Index monitoring – a technology standard in operating rooms around the world. 05:00 Nassib discusses the pivotal moments in his life that shaped a passion for data analytics in healthcare. 07:00 80% of health information in EHRs is unstructured and entirely unusable unless converted to discrete data. 07:45 CMS provided HDAI a highly coveted Innovator's License that allows the company access to data on 100 million Medicare beneficiaries. 09:00 How Big Data drives powerful AI algorithms and predictive models in healthcare. 10:00 “If you can't measure something, you can't improve it.” 11:00 Understanding the intersection between cost, outcomes, and utilization. 11:30 Making data actionable in order to effectuate change in care delivery. 11:45 Data overload can actually lead to clinical inefficiencies if it isn't curated appropriately. 12:30 The artful curation of data to drive operational improvements at point-of-care. 14:00 The limitations of claims data in making timely clinical decisions and treatment interventions. 15:00 Interpretation of unstructured EHR data to extract potential new conditions and HCC coding opportunities. 16:00 The importance of clinical judgement in augmenting AI-based recommendations in value-based care. 17:00 Combining behavioral, psychosocial, and biometric data with the existing sciences of epidemiology and clinical medicine. 18:00 Generalized clinical use cases of AI at the point-of-care to improve costs, outcomes, and utilization. 19:00 “To be successful in value-based care, you must operationalize two separate goals: Prevention and Avoidance of Complications.” 20:30 “The goal of AI is to very simply do what a clinician does, but do it repeatedly and do it continuously for every patient in their cohort.” 21:00 How staffing limitations and an aging populations necessitates a more optimal use of technology in VBC. 22:00 In 2032, U.S. healthcare spending will reach $8 trillion (ahead of the economy of Japan) making it the third largest economy in the world! 22:45 Leveraging predictive models to drive more effective care coordination and interdisciplinary team-based care. 24:30 Patient engagement as one of the more challenging aspects of value-based care. 26:30 The integration of predictive analytics and digital twinning for individualized patient care. 28:45 Using multiple predictors to serve every comp...

Jim Champy is a leading expert on management issues involving business engineering, a topic for which he wrote a New York Times best-selling book that has sold more than two million copies. In addition to being the co-author of Reengineering the Corporation, Jim was most recently chairman emeritus of consulting for Dell Services. Before that, he was chairman of consulting and head of strategy for Perot Systems.In this episode, Jim shares how his college education prepared him to launch his first business, Index, a consulting practice he founded with a few hundred dollars with his classmates from MIT. Today, Jim continues to consult with business executives of major companies seeking to improve business performance. He also gives back as a philanthropist and as a mentor, including to Ball State students. Jim also shares the story of how his long-standing engagement with Ball State began with one business student seeking his advice—and his reasons for why he chooses to remain involved in influencing the lives of so many more of our students.  

In this week's episode of Innovation in CricketTech, we are joined by Runish Gudhka, CEO of BatFast, the global sports technology company using data, augmented reality, machine learning, and robotics to re-engineer how sports are played. Runish talks about growing up in Kenya, representing his country in Cricket at the national level, his background in Technology and Entrepreneurship and how that journey eventually led him to co-founding BatFast. He talks about BatFast's various activations in the MLB and the Cricket World Cup, their projects with cricket simulators in the U.S and U.K, the launch of multi-activity based entertainment venues, the next evolution of BatFast, and their expansion into other sports such as Baseball and Tennis. BatFast uses data and patented technology to make sports more accessible for beginners and aspiring professionals alike. BatFast technology re-engineers playing fields to fit inside urban entertainment spaces, training venues, and at home. Their software delivers an engaging real sports experience that also collects detailed data for elite-level training and performance improvement. To learn more, visit https://batfast.com/ Hosted by Rohn Malhotra from SportsTechX - Data & Insights about SportsTech startups and the surrounding ecosystem.

In this episode of “The Journey of My Mother's Son” podcast, I sit down to talk with Karen Rudolf. Karen was a career woman with great passion and enthusiasm for her job. This had led her to not only solve the problems she encountered during her job but also research on the lead cause of these problems. ‌Her zeal in researching the root cause of different symptoms she came across exposed her to a great burnout, while she also went through a divorce. ‌Having gone through something as huge as a divorce, which has re-shaped her to a state of self-evaluation, Karen decided to take a step back and reevaluate her life. ‌During this time, Karen studied world religion and discovered that compassion was a common thread among different religions. She also realized the significance of self-worth with the aid of courses in communication and coaching, as she navigated her divorce and fought for herself and her children in court. ‌Karen shares the importance of being bold and courageous with particular reference to her past life when she lacked self-confidence and battled low self-esteem. ‌Karen also talks about overcoming challenges, where she shared the story of her 72-year-old Mom, whose painting work lacked attention until it got its best audience from her doctor and nurses as she took them along for her medical checkups. Karen further shares personal experience of facing challenges and choosing not to give up. ‌Karen exposes how our bodies communicate with us and how listening is essential for self-ease.  She also exposes the culture of taking a step at a time and shifting perceptions in overcoming challenges. ‌Effective communication, self-reflection and giving up ego-driven stories are key to Karen's work, as she aims is to empower individuals to live peaceful and fulfilled lives. ‌She shares her belief in positive affirmation and harnessing the power of the mind as ways of healing oneself. She further shares the inter-relatedness of intuition, empathy, and effective communication. She emphasizes the wholistic approach of considering mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual aspects in their work. This journey was not just about self-re-evaluation, but about sharing her personal experience, spiritual growth, and need for effective communication. This led her to write the book - “Lead Magnet” while she also been featured in other books And now she's on a Mission to empowering other people to live a peaceful and fulfilled life.  Karen is a 3X Best-selling Author - Her works include 1.      Ignite the Entrepreneur 2.      Wickedly Smart Women 3.      5 Ways to Create a Ripple She has a unique technique called the Reengineering of Human Perception. To find out more about Karen, check out her website at https://tranquilsoulutions.com/.

Data re-engineering plays a crucial role in successful ERP implementation. If not handled well, they can lead to implementation failure regardless of how good the technology or the new system may be. In this episode,  our host Sam Gupta discusses the top 10 ERP data re-engineering candidates that demand careful consideration during your implementation journey. He also discusses why if you don't re-engineer these datasets, they might drive even more complications with the new system, especially with the cloud, as the customizations that may have been possible with on-prem may no longer be possible with the cloud.For more information on growth strategies for SMBs using ERP and digital transformation, visit our community at wbs. rocks or elevatiq.com. To ensure that you never miss an episode of the WBS podcast, subscribe on your favorite podcasting platform. 

Get ready to crack the code to retaining top talent in the ever-evolving world of work. In this episode of GGG Unleashed: Better Leaders Better Workplaces, host Vivian Blade is your guide to the future of talent management, and she's armed with strategies as precise as a masterful painter's brush stroke! Discover the secrets of success in the war on talent and the shifting sands of the workplace landscape.Get set for insights that are more electric than a lightning storm when Vivian unveils the genius of the six-stage human-centric talent life cycle experience: Cultivate, Connect, Care, Contribute, Close, and Champion. It's like the Avengers assembling, but for your workforce!  Key Takeaways: Talent is shape-shifting!  The Experience Equation Human-Centric Awesomeness Vivian's unique talent life cycle approach is like a red carpet for your workforce, making every step of their journey golden. Tune in now and join the revolution in talent retention! Your organization's future success starts here! Resources: Talent Lifecycle Experience Audit: Click here.   Reengineering Talent Retention Virtual Workshop (free to attend) - register here: Click here.

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In this exciting episode of Double Down with Breslo, host James Breslo sits down with Dean Sisun, the Co-founder and CEO of Prophet Exchange. Discover the groundbreaking world of peer-to-peer sports betting exchange, where users have the power to set their own odds and place bets on unique price offerings. Join us as we delve into the future of sports gambling and explore how Prophet Exchange is changing the game for sports enthusiasts and bettors alike. Double Down with Breslo is a CrossCheck Media production and produced by Todd M. Schoenberger. Social Connections: Twitter: @XCheckMedia, @JimBreslo, @TMSchoenberger, @DoubleDown_TV, @ProphetExchange Instagram: @CrossCheckMedia, @ProphetExchange #gambling #sports #wagering #exchange #gaming #esports #betting #sportsbooks #technology Prophet Exchange Peer-to-Peer Sports Betting Sports Gambling Innovation Dean Sisun Interview Betting Exchange Platform User-Set Betting Odds Revolutionary Betting Experience Sports Betting Marketplace Double Down with Breslo Episode Sports Betting Trends

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A deep dive into the woman, society and menopause triangle to understand dominant views about women and how these views have created fertile ground for the emergence of the menopause stigma in certain societies. Our guest is Memory Kachambwa, pan African feminist and activist.Please follow the social media pages for our host Sue Mbaya and for Menopause Solutions Africa

Today's guest is Armstead Jones.   Armstead is a Strategic Real Estate Investing Advisor at Real Estate Bees with over ten years experience in commercial real estate. Join Sam and Armstead in today's episode. -------------------------------------------------------------- Intro [00:00:00]   Armstead Jones' background and journey in real estate [00:00:56]   Approaching city council and government for project funding [00:03:23]   The housing market and recession indicators [00:10:39]   Foreclosure and delinquency rates in multifamily properties [00:11:41]   Office vacancy and the future of remote work [00:19:11]   The concept of mixed-use buildings [00:21:32]   The example of Crosstown Concourse [00:22:50]   Closing [00:23:48] -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Armstead: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imaginethinktank/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armsteadjones/ Web: https://www.imaginethinktank.com/itt-store/p/re-engineering-baltimore-real-estate   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Armstead Jones (00:00:00) - Is once the community has bought in. Then the politicians are bought in because the politicians serve the community. Right. The community is going to bat for you. They're supporting your project. Everything down to when construction starts, you know, those nosy neighbors will make sure people aren't breaking in your house, right? So you've engaged the community, you talk to them, you went to their meetings, you studied their plan. You've actually put together a thoughtful response and a proposed project to them. And then they're able to then go champion that for you to kind of make it easier.   Sam Wilson (00:00:35) - Welcome to the How to scale commercial real estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. Armstead Jones is a strategic real estate investing advisor at Real Estate Bees with over ten years of experience in commercial real estate. Armstead, welcome to the show.   Armstead Jones (00:00:56) - Welcome. Thanks for having me, Sam.   Sam Wilson (00:00:58) - Absolutely. The pleasure's mine. Armstead There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90s or less.   Sam Wilson (00:01:03) - Can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?   Armstead Jones (00:01:07) - I started with an idea in my apartment that I could use real estate to build wealth. Then I decided I need to get an education for building wealth. So I took a job paying less work in the state housing department in the state of Maryland, and then also then went and worked at the economic development arm for the city of Baltimore. Learned everything I could, real estate. And that took me to where I am now. Currently doing large scale projects, residential, commercial, transit oriented development, land development. So, you know, it's taken me a very long way.   Sam Wilson (00:01:42) - Wow, that's really, really cool. What are some of the things, some of the skills you learned in the state housing Department and what was the other other job you said?   Armstead Jones (00:01:52) - Baltimore Development Corporation, we call it BDC.   Sam Wilson (00:01:55) - Okay. I bet you learned a lot about the way to navigate those organizations from the private. Now that you're on the private side.   Armstead Jones (00:02:06) - Well understand. I understand what we call both sides of the table. Right. So understand the government side of it that helps push through economic development projects that can add jobs and tax bases. Um, and also that, you know, there is a need for affordable development as well. Not all individuals can afford market rate or luxury. So what it also then showed me is how the money moves. Um, you can't just go to the government with an open hand and say, give me, give me, give me. There needs to be a P3 or a public private partnership and needs to be some leverage on your end on why you need this money from the government. And normally it's what I call the it would not happen, but for this investment from the government. So, you know, when you start to look at those things, you can identify what it's just a straight market rate deal that you don't need any government kind of subsidies in. And then what deals need help. They need get financing.   Sam Wilson (00:03:08) - Got it. Got it. What were what were some of the when you walked away from that? Some of the things that you see that people typically get wrong when they are approaching the city council or whoever else it may be when they have a project in hand.   Armstead Jones (00:03:23) - Several things. One, they've never talked to the community, right? You can't do community development if you have not engaged the community. Um, second they come in with. I know what's best for the neighborhood, right? It's never about what I know is best for the neighborhood. It's about working with that neighborhood because they might have a nonprofit or a CDC that can leverage grant funds that can help you with your project. And thirdly, some people come in and just throw money, right? Yeah, I'm going to do this. This is going to happen. But I want the government to give me money. Why? Like you're not making a compelling, compelling argument on why the government who are the stewards of taxpayer dollars giving you money for a project that essentially does not need it? Um, and that's that.   Armstead Jones (00:04:14) - But if not for statement, right? If not for the government to step in. You won't get the desired outcome of jobs, right? This office building, convention center, you're building arena. Right. If not for the government stepping in and doing it for the long term investment. Right. The 20, 30 year projection of jobs and taxes and piggyback taxes. Um, and a lot of people just come in with the thought, well, my project doesn't work, so need money from the government to make it work. And that's not how it works at all.   Sam Wilson (00:04:49) - Right. I can only imagine one of the things you mentioned there was talk to the community. What does that mean? What's a practical way to do that?   Armstead Jones (00:04:55) - Um, first thing, you should attend a community meeting. Um, get to know who's in your community. Who are you serving? Right. Those residents know people. So if they're, you know, if there's a master plan, you should go to whatever area you are.   Armstead Jones (00:05:11) - You should go to that planning department and find a master plan, vision plan, urban renewal plan, and look at it for the neighborhoods you want to work in, right? We would like homeownership on this strip. We would like commercial on this trip. And nine times out of ten, those master plans are prepared by third party individuals that are architects and traffic people. And they're they're literally telling you the best places, right from a 10,000 foot view of what you should try to do in these areas. And then those community people then get engaged and they're like, yeah, we want houses here. We want to we want a grocery store here. Okay, well, if grocery stores are, then your thing. You didn't set up a time to talk to the community association about what you propose to do. Right? Always use the word proposed because you want them to feel like they are engaged with you and they are helping to make those decisions in those communities as well. But if not, you know, you go in and you don't do that, it you know, it will it will ruffle feathers and it will slow down because the the rolling ball effect or the snow, you know, the the snowball going down the hill, it's once the community has bought in, then the politicians are bought in because the politicians serve the community.   Armstead Jones (00:06:30) - Right. The community's going to bat for you. They're supporting your project. Everything down to when construction starts, you know, those nosy neighbors will make sure people aren't breaking in your house. Right? So you've engaged the community, you talked to them, you went to their meetings, you studied their plan. You've actually put together a thoughtful response and a proposed project to them. And then they're able to then go champion that for you to kind of make it easier.   Sam Wilson (00:06:59) - That's really, really good advice. And there's very few people actually I've had on the show that probably have as in-depth, in-depth of an understanding as you do as to how that functions. I mean, because that's it's it sounds like it's as much art as it is science.   Armstead Jones (00:07:17) - Yeah.   Sam Wilson (00:07:18) - Exactly, exactly. Figuring out how to do this. And and I think one of the things I hear in all of this is that you just need to budget in a lot of patience in a lot of time.   Armstead Jones (00:07:28) - Correct development is different than investment, right? Say that all the time.   Armstead Jones (00:07:33) - So my company outside of real estate bees is a imagine think tank. We do development, but we also do investment. Right. Development is the concept that I see a vision and I'm going to carry that vision on my back and tell us complete. But I'm the first person putting in sweat equity and money equity, and I might be the last person to see my money back right? This return that I got. But it might take 2 to 3 years. But you know, just using numbers, you saw a deal, you put 50 in and three years from now it's worth, you know, I don't know, half a million of better. Right. But you didn't realize that profit until then. Investment is passive. You're trying to either by cash flowing assets or you're someone who buys and then fixed eventually. But, you know, that's why you just got to you got to know which one fits better and development just takes a while. So anybody starting a business and you're doing real estate development, get some rentals.   Armstead Jones (00:08:34) - I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of singles all the time, right? Especially if you're trying to do other things. If you're managing those yourself, you know how to do the work yourself. You're personable yourself. Great, right? Get you a couple of those. Make that your full time, you know. You know, you'll never work a day in your life, but you know, if you're investing, investment is the concept that my money needs to now work for me.   Sam Wilson (00:08:58) - So no, I like that. I like that a lot. You know, there's a lot of things in the economy right now. People are worried about. There's talk of recession. There's talk of this. There's, you know, just a lot of uncertainty. What does this look like from I mean, are there some leading indicators maybe of a changing just kind of changing grounds? Are there permit polls? Are there like what do you see on the I guess, more on the on the city planning side of things that could be leading indicators or lagging indicators? I guess either way you want to look at that of kind of where we are.   Armstead Jones (00:09:31) - Um, so there's a couple of pieces of data that you can look at. I know we've seen massive layoffs, but these aren't from the companies that kind of employ the middle to lower market. Um, these are your financial firms. Your tech firms. These people were making six figures. Hopefully they got a nice nest egg. They probably realistically have 6 to 12 months worth of money sitting around to cover themselves. So we're not looking at a rising unemployment number because those same individuals who had that kind of capital or probably investing in or, you know, trading something or doing something else to make income currently. Um, you'll see and I'm saying this in Baltimore, permits are slowing down, right? So the reason is because everybody's finance was locked in before the Treasury started hiking rates. So now they're going back and have the, you know, what they call a horse trade, right? Like horse trade and get a new term sheet. And now that interest rate on that new term sheet has made, you know, the debt to service ratios, you know, unbearable.   Armstead Jones (00:10:39) - So you're going to have deeper pocket people having to go out further. Right. Waiting for the market to turn. But we're not going to go into a recession. I think the Treasury and the Fed did. Correct. Right. Like they they raised interest rates to catch up to inflation. We've now caught up to the supply chain issues we were having in 2020. Right. So mostly right outliers here and there. You know something, a spike. But, you know, building materials are pretty much flattening out the labor cost because permits are slowing down. So labor is getting cheaper. I see subs going to primes and saying, hey, um, you know, you got some work next month. Oh, remember, put in that bid for this. I can take 10%, 15% off of that. If you give me the job now, I'll take it. Um, so you're seeing some of that, But there's no recession, right? A recession indicates a slowdown for, um, continual periods, right? Continual quarters.   Armstead Jones (00:11:41) - We haven't seen a slowdown. We have seen people putting people with capital of putting their money back in the bank, and they're waiting for everybody else's tsunami to rise. Right. So they have the money to kind of buy everyone out. I think what we'll get worst case scenario on the real estate side is that you'll see a lot of these class-A and even newly value added class B apartment multi families. Start to get foreclosed on. Delinquency rates are going up. People had a lot of money saved on Covid because they weren't going anywhere. Just ordering Amazon. Right? Maybe some GrubHub, maybe some Uber eats type stuff. Now everyone is back to vacation, right? They're buying clothes. Think about the clothing market. Slow down. Because why would I buy clothes if I got to sit in the house? Right? Like I'm not purchasing things. So now people are spending money on consumer goods. They have less savings. We're seeing delinquency rates go up. And a lot of these multifamily people haven't landlords or property owners haven't really given people mercy.   Armstead Jones (00:12:45) - They're just like, Oh, we can get it right now because there's a housing shortage. So your normal transition is you get an apartment one day, you make a decision to buy a home, whether it's because you got married or you're ready to own one. And people can't buy homes now. So multifamily has just been jacking up their rents. Right? Where are you going to go? Where are you going to go? And we're going to hit a point where people can go somewhere. We're going to see the multifamily wash out. So my thing is, anything over 120 units, you need to start realizing what you can do to set yourself apart in the marketplace. You're.   Sam Wilson (00:13:22) - That's really interesting. Would you say that even even in light of the Fed hiking rates and in light of the fact that the residential housing market is still apparently fairly hot?   Armstead Jones (00:13:35) - It's still fairly hot because the number one thing and we when was at the State Housing department we did a research like project on this. Right. What makes people buy homes.   Armstead Jones (00:13:47) - Right. And it's normally life changing decisions. I moved for my job and I want to buy home where I'm moving to. I got married, so we're buying a home. I had kids. We need more space. So I'm buying a home. I got divorced. I need less space. Right? I need to buy a home. I'm living with my significant other whether we're married or not, and we separate. I need to find somewhere to live. I end up buying a home. Right? It's normally life changing decisions that make people do that. And people. People who have it and who are still financially sound are still in the market looking for great opportunities for their American dream to buy a home with the white picket fence. But we have limited inventory. So because of that, the prices still can remain high. But you're seeing days on market increase, right? When we were in 2027 to 14 days, you had multiple offers, you had people paying over list price and then covering the difference in the appraisal and the list price in cash.   Armstead Jones (00:14:51) - We won't see those days ever again.   Sam Wilson (00:14:54) - Right? Yeah, that was that was a wild, wild time. Let's go back to I guess we talked a little bit about, you know, the the Class A and B, you think that's going to suffer? Because I'm just see if I can articulate what you said. You said class A and B is going to suffer because they've been raising rents so much over time or so much recently that people are going to start looking for other places to go. But how I guess maybe I missed this in your answer. But if the residential housing market is still hot, it seems that that would then feed that class A and B value add multifamily property. Does that make sense?   Armstead Jones (00:15:32) - So you what you're saying is those individuals should be moving their homes. All right. Right.   Sam Wilson (00:15:37) - Right.   Armstead Jones (00:15:39) - There's a lack of inventory. And so as soon as the Fed raise rates, I'll give you a case study. Someone in Maryland before the Fed raised the rates and they were given out these two and 3%, you could afford a half $1 million home in the county right now that the rates have gone up.   Armstead Jones (00:15:59) - You're saying payment is probably 400 to $600 more depending on how expensive to home is, Right. Right. That affordability gap when it comes to a monthly payment kicks a lot of people out of contention for the half $1 million home now. So now you have to find a 400,000 or 350 and it has less bedrooms. You already have three kids. You need a five bedroom, you're looking at a four, you're hesitant, you can do it. You could pull the trigger, you could become that that property owner. But a lot of people are now very picky. Right. They're like, Oh, don't even like white cabinets. And I'll be paying way more than I have to. And it's not even in the neighborhood I want, but this is the only inventory in the market, so I'll just sit on my hands until I find what I want, right? So it's not feeding it quick enough. So what you're getting is people are like, all right, I really can't afford this rent, but I can't afford to go anywhere, right? So if they can't go anywhere, they end up staying.   Armstead Jones (00:17:02) - But, you know, delinquency rates go up. And once we do figure out that levy that opens the door. All the property owners are going to do for the foreseeable future is give away one month free, two month free, $500 gift card, some beats, headphones. We'll give you free parking for three months. Right. They stuck concession in you right. To make it seem like it. But essentially they're hurting so they're giving away what they can in order to market and advertising people.   Sam Wilson (00:17:33) - Right. Right yeah and we haven't even in the stuff that we own, we haven't seen that yet. But you know, that's that's certainly something to keep keep our eyes on. We start seeing that happen happen on a on a more widespread basis.   Armstead Jones (00:17:49) - Are they above 120 units.   Sam Wilson (00:17:52) - Yes. No, that's a that's that's mistaken. One one's I don't own much multifamily on two multifamily assets but one's 106 and one 246. So yeah, one one's above it.   Armstead Jones (00:18:04) - Yeah. The 106 would probably always be okay that 240 unless it's just in an area where there are no units like in Baltimore.   Armstead Jones (00:18:10) - At one point we had 5000 apartments in the pipeline to be delivered. Right? So it's all about market saturation. So depending on where you are, if you are the asset in that submarket, you're fine, right? But if you if you're competing and you need to figure out what your edge is, that's when people start doing the month free, the two months free. Come get this gift card. They just try to market themselves differently than all the other product around them because it's too much competition.   Sam Wilson (00:18:41) - Too much competition, something else to look for. Absolutely. One one last thing I want to chat about here is since since you seem to have a front row seat to all the different asset classes and how they're performing and of course, you know, again, being being part of the state housing Department, I'm sure you saw a lot of really unique things. What where are we with the office vacancy? I mean, everybody I'm talking to you from New York City to I mean, all the way across the country, office is generally vacant.   Sam Wilson (00:19:09) - What what are we going to do about that?   Armstead Jones (00:19:11) - Um, office is going to be vacant for the foreseeable future. Um, one as a business owner, now that I know that my employees can be emailed at 6:00 after work hours because they're on their computers and their home. I don't care if you take an hour and a half lunch break. Really don't care, right? Do whatever you please. Right. I now don't also need this monument to myself of office space in my kingdom where I've hired, you know, my throne of of individuals. Right. So now everybody can hop on a zoom. Uh, Microsoft teams, We can come up with action items. I don't care if you do those action items at 10:00 or 11:00 at night. Right? As long as it's in my inbox by eight. Right. Long as you're on the call by 10:00 the next morning so we can discuss it. Right. We're starting to see that functional and flow works without having a brick and mortar location. With that said, we've built a lot of monuments, right, to a lot of wonderful people who have created jobs and help with economic development.   Armstead Jones (00:20:17) - Right. Help people put food on the table. So we're going to see a lot of conversions of those spaces, right? You're going to see, um, and that was a concept and I can't remember the name of it, but you do a mixed use building, but mixed use in a sense, like. You got affordable housing or workforce housing and with some market rate housing and with some office space and with a community center or a restaurant on the top, some commercial at the bottom, a maker space, you're going to take all these different pieces and they have a model for this. In Philly, they took an old school and they gave every. Every business got a classroom. Right. Every business then could sell out of their classroom. But because this building, it was half 1,000,000ft² of some crazy number. Right. They also then use the the ground floor as like a marketplace. So Fridays, it was activated. Saturdays it was activated, Sundays it was activated. And all of the same tenants who you had up here are coming down here to sell their stuff and they're bringing people to the building.   Armstead Jones (00:21:32) - And you're mixing up the uses, not just this is a Bank of America building. They've taken 60% of it. There's a law firm here, an accounting firm here, a title company here, know it's going to be a mixture of uses in one building, right to the point where you could take an office building and you could produce the stuff upstairs to be brought downstairs to ship out loading docks. Right. Like we never thought about the concept that you could reuse that building and repurpose it. We just didn't need a whole bunch of land and some tractor trailers and you need manufacture and need some rail. Not everything needs that. Right? Right. Like we talked about manufacturing of raw material, like we're talking making t shirts and stickers and, you know, products that can be sold in the local economies. Right. Same way we see the coffee boom. Right? Every city has a signature coffee shop and several in some places, and they all get picked up by Trader Joe's and all the grocery stores and all the corner stores and mom and pops.   Armstead Jones (00:22:35) - Same concept, right? Producing these items locally, using these buildings, repurpose them. And then you've got workforce housing. Oh, wow. I can work where I live. It it you know, it goes back to that concept. Live, work and play.   Sam Wilson (00:22:50) - Yeah. No, that's a really cool concept. There's a there's a project here in Memphis that is called the Crosstown Concourse. Same idea. It was an old. Well, this is a massive undertaking, but it was an old Sears distribution facility. The same idea what you're talking about. I mean, there's everything from a school to doctor's offices to, you know, there's there's workforce housing, there is a condos there, there's swimming pools, there's workout facilities. I mean, you name it, It's I mean, you really if you didn't ever want to leave the concourse, you really wouldn't have to. I mean, everything you want is right there. So it's kind of cool. It'd be interesting to see, you know, as people as people pick up this inventory in the right markets and turn it into into higher and better use to things such as what you're describing.   Sam Wilson (00:23:34) - Absolutely. Love it. Armstead it's been a pleasure having you on the show today. If a listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you, oh, and there's one more thing I forgot to ask about your book. You can tell us about that as well. What's one of the best ways to do that? And if you can tell us a little bit about your book.   Armstead Jones (00:23:48) - Uh, elevator pitch on my book, Re-engineering Baltimore Real Estate. I'm an engineer by trade, so always re-engineer everything. I do like to kind of back into it. So the book just gives you resources. If you were to develop in the Baltimore area, why you should develop in the Baltimore area with strategies you could put together, and then from there, you know where to go out, who to pick, um, those kind of things. So just an introductory guide to kind of helping you get started. Um, that book is available on my website. Dot imagine think tank.com, um, also available on my Instagram which is imagine think tank.   Armstead Jones (00:24:35) - Um same thing for Facebook. Imagine think tank. Um, and you can just it's a digital download you go download it. Um, feel free. If you got questions, you can always contact me. I'm one of those people. You got a question or two? I have no problem answering it. But if you need an essay worth of questions, I will send you my consultation link. Um, so that you can ask me all you want. Um, I do consulting work a lot, so, you know, all the way from hedge funds to pension funds. You know, they need someone to kind of explain to them the Baltimore market at a high level. That's exactly what re-engineering Baltimore real estate does. It explains it to you bare, bare bones. What Baltimore real estate is, why you should invest, what are you looking for? And here are all the resources that you have available to you in order to get that done.   Sam Wilson (00:25:24) - Fantastic. Armstead, thank you so much for coming on the show today.   Sam Wilson (00:25:26) - Of course, we'll include all of that there in the show notes. I do appreciate your time.   Armstead Jones (00:25:31) - No problem. Nice to meet.   Sam Wilson (00:25:32) - You. Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode. Today's guest is Armstead Jones.   Armstead is a Strategic Real Estate Investing Advisor at Real Estate Bees with over ten years experience in commercial real estate. Join Sam and Armstead in today's episode. -------------------------------------------------------------- Intro [00:00:00]   Armstead Jones' background and journey in real estate [00:00:56]   Approaching city council and government for project funding [00:03:23]   The housing market and recession indicators [00:10:39]   Foreclosure and delinquency rates in multifamily properties [00:11:41]   Office vacancy and the future of remote work [00:19:11]   The concept of mixed-use buildings [00:21:32]   The example of Crosstown Concourse [00:22:50]   Closing [00:23:48] -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Armstead: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imaginethinktank/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/armsteadjones/ Web: https://www.imaginethinktank.com/itt-store/p/re-engineering-baltimore-real-estate   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Armstead Jones (00:00:00) - Is once the community has bought in. Then the politicians are bought in because the politicians serve the community. Right. The community is going to bat for you. They're supporting your project. Everything down to when construction starts, you know, those nosy neighbors will make sure people aren't breaking in your house, right? So you've engaged the community, you talk to them, you went to their meetings, you studied their plan. You've actually put together a thoughtful response and a proposed project to them. And then they're able to then go champion that for you to kind of make it easier.   Sam Wilson (00:00:35) - Welcome to the How to scale commercial real estate show. Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. Armstead Jones is a strategic real estate investing advisor at Real Estate Bees with over ten years of experience in commercial real estate. Armstead, welcome to the show.   Armstead Jones (00:00:56) - Welcome. Thanks for having me, Sam.   Sam Wilson (00:00:58) - Absolutely. The pleasure's mine. Armstead There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90s or less.   Sam Wilson (00:01:03) - Can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?   Armstead Jones (00:01:07) - I started with an idea in my apartment that I could use real estate to build wealth. Then I decided I need to get an education for building wealth. So I took a job paying less work in the state housing department in the state of Maryland, and then also then went and worked at the economic development arm for the city of Baltimore. Learned everything I could, real estate. And that took me to where I am now. Currently doing large scale projects, residential, commercial, transit oriented development, land development. So, you know, it's taken me a very long way.   Sam Wilson (00:01:42) - Wow, that's really, really cool. What are some of the things, some of the skills you learned in the state housing Department and what was the other other job you said?   Armstead Jones (00:01:52) - Baltimore Development Corporation, we call it BDC.   Sam Wilson (00:01:55) - Okay. I bet you learned a lot about the way to navigate those organizations from the private. Now that you're on the private side.   Armstead Jones (00:02:06) - Well understand. I understand what we call both sides of the table. Right. So understand the government side of it that helps push through economic development projects that can add jobs and tax bases. Um, and also that, you know, there is a need for affordable development as well. Not all individuals can afford market rate or luxury. So what it also then showed me is how the money moves. Um, you can't just go to the government with an open hand and say, give me, give me, give me. There needs to be a P3 or a public private partnership and needs to be some leverage on your end on why you need this money from the government. And normally it's what I call the it would not happen, but for this investment from the government. So, you know, when you start to look at those things, you can identify what it's just a straight market rate deal that you don't need any government kind of subsidies in. And then what deals need help. They need get financing.   Sam Wilson (00:03:08) - Got it. Got it. What were what were some of the when you walked away from that? Some of the things that you see that people typically get wrong when they are approaching the city council or whoever else it may be when they have a project in hand.   Armstead Jones (00:03:23) - Several things. One, they've never talked to the community, right? You can't do community development if you have not engaged the community. Um, second they come in with. I know what's best for the neighborhood, right? It's never about what I know is best for the neighborhood. It's about working with that neighborhood because they might have a nonprofit or a CDC that can leverage grant funds that can help you with your project. And thirdly, some people come in and just throw money, right? Yeah, I'm going to do this. This is going to happen. But I want the government to give me money. Why? Like you're not making a compelling, compelling argument on why the government who are the stewards of taxpayer dollars giving you money for a project that essentially does not need it? Um, and that's that.   Armstead Jones (00:04:14) - But if not for statement, right? If not for the government to step in. You won't get the desired outcome of jobs, right? This office building, convention center, you're building arena. Right. If not for the government stepping in and doing it for the long term investment. Right. The 20, 30 year projection of jobs and taxes and piggyback taxes. Um, and a lot of people just come in with the thought, well, my project doesn't work, so need money from the government to make it work. And that's not how it works at all.   Sam Wilson (00:04:49) - Right. I can only imagine one of the things you mentioned there was talk to the community. What does that mean? What's a practical way to do that?   Armstead Jones (00:04:55) - Um, first thing, you should attend a community meeting. Um, get to know who's in your community. Who are you serving? Right. Those residents know people. So if they're, you know, if there's a master plan, you should go to whatever area you are.   Armstead Jones (00:05:11) - You should go to that planning department and find a master plan, vision plan, urban renewal plan, and look at it for the neighborhoods you want to work in, right? We would like homeownership on this strip. We would like commercial on this trip. And nine times out of ten, those master plans are prepared by third party individuals that are architects and traffic people. And they're they're literally telling you the best places, right from a 10,000 foot view of what you should try to do in these areas. And then those community people then get engaged and they're like, yeah, we want houses here. We want to we want a grocery store here. Okay, well, if grocery stores are, then your thing. You didn't set up a time to talk to the community association about what you propose to do. Right? Always use the word proposed because you want them to feel like they are engaged with you and they are helping to make those decisions in those communities as well. But if not, you know, you go in and you don't do that, it you know, it will it will ruffle feathers and it will slow down because the the rolling ball effect or the snow, you know, the the snowball going down the hill, it's once the community has bought in, then the politicians are bought in because the politicians serve the community.   Armstead Jones (00:06:30) - Right. The community's going to bat for you. They're supporting your project. Everything down to when construction starts, you know, those nosy neighbors will make sure people aren't breaking in your house. Right? So you've engaged the community, you talked to them, you went to their meetings, you studied their plan. You've actually put together a thoughtful response and a proposed project to them. And then they're able to then go champion that for you to kind of make it easier.   Sam Wilson (00:06:59) - That's really, really good advice. And there's very few people actually I've had on the show that probably have as in-depth, in-depth of an understanding as you do as to how that functions. I mean, because that's it's it sounds like it's as much art as it is science.   Armstead Jones (00:07:17) - Yeah.   Sam Wilson (00:07:18) - Exactly, exactly. Figuring out how to do this. And and I think one of the things I hear in all of this is that you just need to budget in a lot of patience in a lot of time.   Armstead Jones (00:07:28) - Correct development is different than investment, right? Say that all the time.   Armstead Jones (00:07:33) - So my company outside of real estate bees is a imagine think tank. We do development, but we also do investment. Right. Development is the concept that I see a vision and I'm going to carry that vision on my back and tell us complete. But I'm the first person putting in sweat equity and money equity, and I might be the last person to see my money back right? This return that I got. But it might take 2 to 3 years. But you know, just using numbers, you saw a deal, you put 50 in and three years from now it's worth, you know, I don't know, half a million of better. Right. But you didn't realize that profit until then. Investment is passive. You're trying to either by cash flowing assets or you're someone who buys and then fixed eventually. But, you know, that's why you just got to you got to know which one fits better and development just takes a while. So anybody starting a business and you're doing real estate development, get some rentals.   Armstead Jones (00:08:34) - I mean, I'm not the biggest fan of singles all the time, right? Especially if you're trying to do other things. If you're managing those yourself, you know how to do the work yourself. You're personable yourself. Great, right? Get you a couple of those. Make that your full time, you know. You know, you'll never work a day in your life, but you know, if you're investing, investment is the concept that my money needs to now work for me.   Sam Wilson (00:08:58) - So no, I like that. I like that a lot. You know, there's a lot of things in the economy right now. People are worried about. There's talk of recession. There's talk of this. There's, you know, just a lot of uncertainty. What does this look like from I mean, are there some leading indicators maybe of a changing just kind of changing grounds? Are there permit polls? Are there like what do you see on the I guess, more on the on the city planning side of things that could be leading indicators or lagging indicators? I guess either way you want to look at that of kind of where we are.   Armstead Jones (00:09:31) - Um, so there's a couple of pieces of data that you can look at. I know we've seen massive layoffs, but these aren't from the companies that kind of employ the middle to lower market. Um, these are your financial firms. Your tech firms. These people were making six figures. Hopefully they got a nice nest egg. They probably realistically have 6 to 12 months worth of money sitting around to cover themselves. So we're not looking at a rising unemployment number because those same individuals who had that kind of capital or probably investing in or, you know, trading something or doing something else to make income currently. Um, you'll see and I'm saying this in Baltimore, permits are slowing down, right? So the reason is because everybody's finance was locked in before the Treasury started hiking rates. So now they're going back and have the, you know, what they call a horse trade, right? Like horse trade and get a new term sheet. And now that interest rate on that new term sheet has made, you know, the debt to service ratios, you know, unbearable.   Armstead Jones (00:10:39) - So you're going to have deeper pocket people having to go out further. Right. Waiting for the market to turn. But we're not going to go into a recession. I think the Treasury and the Fed did. Correct. Right. Like they they raised interest rates to catch up to inflation. We've now caught up to the supply chain issues we were having in 2020. Right. So mostly right outliers here and there. You know something, a spike. But, you know, building materials are pretty much flattening out the labor cost because permits are slowing down. So labor is getting cheaper. I see subs going to primes and saying, hey, um, you know, you got some work next month. Oh, remember, put in that bid for this. I can take 10%, 15% off of that. If you give me the job now, I'll take it. Um, so you're seeing some of that, But there's no recession, right? A recession indicates a slowdown for, um, continual periods, right? Continual quarters.   Armstead Jones (00:11:41) - We haven't seen a slowdown. We have seen people putting people with capital of putting their money back in the bank, and they're waiting for everybody else's tsunami to rise. Right. So they have the money to kind of buy everyone out. I think what we'll get worst case scenario on the real estate side is that you'll see a lot of these class-A and even newly value added class B apartment multi families. Start to get foreclosed on. Delinquency rates are going up. People had a lot of money saved on Covid because they weren't going anywhere. Just ordering Amazon. Right? Maybe some GrubHub, maybe some Uber eats type stuff. Now everyone is back to vacation, right? They're buying clothes. Think about the clothing market. Slow down. Because why would I buy clothes if I got to sit in the house? Right? Like I'm not purchasing things. So now people are spending money on consumer goods. They have less savings. We're seeing delinquency rates go up. And a lot of these multifamily people haven't landlords or property owners haven't really given people mercy.   Armstead Jones (00:12:45) - They're just like, Oh, we can get it right now because there's a housing shortage. So your normal transition is you get an apartment one day, you make a decision to buy a home, whether it's because you got married or you're ready to own one. And people can't buy homes now. So multifamily has just been jacking up their rents. Right? Where are you going to go? Where are you going to go? And we're going to hit a point where people can go somewhere. We're going to see the multifamily wash out. So my thing is, anything over 120 units, you need to start realizing what you can do to set yourself apart in the marketplace. You're.   Sam Wilson (00:13:22) - That's really interesting. Would you say that even even in light of the Fed hiking rates and in light of the fact that the residential housing market is still apparently fairly hot?   Armstead Jones (00:13:35) - It's still fairly hot because the number one thing and we when was at the State Housing department we did a research like project on this. Right. What makes people buy homes.   Armstead Jones (00:13:47) - Right. And it's normally life changing decisions. I moved for my job and I want to buy home where I'm moving to. I got married, so we're buying a home. I had kids. We need more space. So I'm buying a home. I got divorced. I need less space. Right? I need to buy a home. I'm living with my significant other whether we're married or not, and we separate. I need to find somewhere to live. I end up buying a home. Right? It's normally life changing decisions that make people do that. And people. People who have it and who are still financially sound are still in the market looking for great opportunities for their American dream to buy a home with the white picket fence. But we have limited inventory. So because of that, the prices still can remain high. But you're seeing days on market increase, right? When we were in 2027 to 14 days, you had multiple offers, you had people paying over list price and then covering the difference in the appraisal and the list price in cash.   Armstead Jones (00:14:51) - We won't see those days ever again.   Sam Wilson (00:14:54) - Right? Yeah, that was that was a wild, wild time. Let's go back to I guess we talked a little bit about, you know, the the Class A and B, you think that's going to suffer? Because I'm just see if I can articulate what you said. You said class A and B is going to suffer because they've been raising rents so much over time or so much recently that people are going to start looking for other places to go. But how I guess maybe I missed this in your answer. But if the residential housing market is still hot, it seems that that would then feed that class A and B value add multifamily property. Does that make sense?   Armstead Jones (00:15:32) - So you what you're saying is those individuals should be moving their homes. All right. Right.   Sam Wilson (00:15:37) - Right.   Armstead Jones (00:15:39) - There's a lack of inventory. And so as soon as the Fed raise rates, I'll give you a case study. Someone in Maryland before the Fed raised the rates and they were given out these two and 3%, you could afford a half $1 million home in the county right now that the rates have gone up.   Armstead Jones (00:15:59) - You're saying payment is probably 400 to $600 more depending on how expensive to home is, Right. Right. That affordability gap when it comes to a monthly payment kicks a lot of people out of contention for the half $1 million home now. So now you have to find a 400,000 or 350 and it has less bedrooms. You already have three kids. You need a five bedroom, you're looking at a four, you're hesitant, you can do it. You could pull the trigger, you could become that that property owner. But a lot of people are now very picky. Right. They're like, Oh, don't even like white cabinets. And I'll be paying way more than I have to. And it's not even in the neighborhood I want, but this is the only inventory in the market, so I'll just sit on my hands until I find what I want, right? So it's not feeding it quick enough. So what you're getting is people are like, all right, I really can't afford this rent, but I can't afford to go anywhere, right? So if they can't go anywhere, they end up staying.   Armstead Jones (00:17:02) - But, you know, delinquency rates go up. And once we do figure out that levy that opens the door. All the property owners are going to do for the foreseeable future is give away one month free, two month free, $500 gift card, some beats, headphones. We'll give you free parking for three months. Right. They stuck concession in you right. To make it seem like it. But essentially they're hurting so they're giving away what they can in order to market and advertising people.   Sam Wilson (00:17:33) - Right. Right yeah and we haven't even in the stuff that we own, we haven't seen that yet. But you know, that's that's certainly something to keep keep our eyes on. We start seeing that happen happen on a on a more widespread basis.   Armstead Jones (00:17:49) - Are they above 120 units.   Sam Wilson (00:17:52) - Yes. No, that's a that's that's mistaken. One one's I don't own much multifamily on two multifamily assets but one's 106 and one 246. So yeah, one one's above it.   Armstead Jones (00:18:04) - Yeah. The 106 would probably always be okay that 240 unless it's just in an area where there are no units like in Baltimore.   Armstead Jones (00:18:10) - At one point we had 5000 apartments in the pipeline to be delivered. Right? So it's all about market saturation. So depending on where you are, if you are the asset in that submarket, you're fine, right? But if you if you're competing and you need to figure out what your edge is, that's when people start doing the month free, the two months free. Come get this gift card. They just try to market themselves differently than all the other product around them because it's too much competition.   Sam Wilson (00:18:41) - Too much competition, something else to look for. Absolutely. One one last thing I want to chat about here is since since you seem to have a front row seat to all the different asset classes and how they're performing and of course, you know, again, being being part of the state housing Department, I'm sure you saw a lot of really unique things. What where are we with the office vacancy? I mean, everybody I'm talking to you from New York City to I mean, all the way across the country, office is generally vacant.   Sam Wilson (00:19:09) - What what are we going to do about that?   Armstead Jones (00:19:11) - Um, office is going to be vacant for the foreseeable future. Um, one as a business owner, now that I know that my employees can be emailed at 6:00 after work hours because they're on their computers and their home. I don't care if you take an hour and a half lunch break. Really don't care, right? Do whatever you please. Right. I now don't also need this monument to myself of office space in my kingdom where I've hired, you know, my throne of of individuals. Right. So now everybody can hop on a zoom. Uh, Microsoft teams, We can come up with action items. I don't care if you do those action items at 10:00 or 11:00 at night. Right? As long as it's in my inbox by eight. Right. Long as you're on the call by 10:00 the next morning so we can discuss it. Right. We're starting to see that functional and flow works without having a brick and mortar location. With that said, we've built a lot of monuments, right, to a lot of wonderful people who have created jobs and help with economic development.   Armstead Jones (00:20:17) - Right. Help people put food on the table. So we're going to see a lot of conversions of those spaces, right? You're going to see, um, and that was a concept and I can't remember the name of it, but you do a mixed use building, but mixed use in a sense, like. You got affordable housing or workforce housing and with some market rate housing and with some office space and with a community center or a restaurant on the top, some commercial at the bottom, a maker space, you're going to take all these different pieces and they have a model for this. In Philly, they took an old school and they gave every. Every business got a classroom. Right. Every business then could sell out of their classroom. But because this building, it was half 1,000,000ft² of some crazy number. Right. They also then use the the ground floor as like a marketplace. So Fridays, it was activated. Saturdays it was activated, Sundays it was activated. And all of the same tenants who you had up here are coming down here to sell their stuff and they're bringing people to the building.   Armstead Jones (00:21:32) - And you're mixing up the uses, not just this is a Bank of America building. They've taken 60% of it. There's a law firm here, an accounting firm here, a title company here, know it's going to be a mixture of uses in one building, right to the point where you could take an office building and you could produce the stuff upstairs to be brought downstairs to ship out loading docks. Right. Like we never thought about the concept that you could reuse that building and repurpose it. We just didn't need a whole bunch of land and some tractor trailers and you need manufacture and need some rail. Not everything needs that. Right? Right. Like we talked about manufacturing of raw material, like we're talking making t shirts and stickers and, you know, products that can be sold in the local economies. Right. Same way we see the coffee boom. Right? Every city has a signature coffee shop and several in some places, and they all get picked up by Trader Joe's and all the grocery stores and all the corner stores and mom and pops.   Armstead Jones (00:22:35) - Same concept, right? Producing these items locally, using these buildings, repurpose them. And then you've got workforce housing. Oh, wow. I can work where I live. It it you know, it goes back to that concept. Live, work and play.   Sam Wilson (00:22:50) - Yeah. No, that's a really cool concept. There's a there's a project here in Memphis that is called the Crosstown Concourse. Same idea. It was an old. Well, this is a massive undertaking, but it was an old Sears distribution facility. The same idea what you're talking about. I mean, there's everything from a school to doctor's offices to, you know, there's there's workforce housing, there is a condos there, there's swimming pools, there's workout facilities. I mean, you name it, It's I mean, you really if you didn't ever want to leave the concourse, you really wouldn't have to. I mean, everything you want is right there. So it's kind of cool. It'd be interesting to see, you know, as people as people pick up this inventory in the right markets and turn it into into higher and better use to things such as what you're describing.   Sam Wilson (00:23:34) - Absolutely. Love it. Armstead it's been a pleasure having you on the show today. If a listeners want to get in touch with you or learn more about you, oh, and there's one more thing I forgot to ask about your book. You can tell us about that as well. What's one of the best ways to do that? And if you can tell us a little bit about your book.   Armstead Jones (00:23:48) - Uh, elevator pitch on my book, Re-engineering Baltimore Real Estate. I'm an engineer by trade, so always re-engineer everything. I do like to kind of back into it. So the book just gives you resources. If you were to develop in the Baltimore area, why you should develop in the Baltimore area with strategies you could put together, and then from there, you know where to go out, who to pick, um, those kind of things. So just an introductory guide to kind of helping you get started. Um, that book is available on my website. Dot imagine think tank.com, um, also available on my Instagram which is imagine think tank.   Armstead Jones (00:24:35) - Um same thing for Facebook. Imagine think tank. Um, and you can just it's a digital download you go download it. Um, feel free. If you got questions, you can always contact me. I'm one of those people. You got a question or two? I have no problem answering it. But if you need an essay worth of questions, I will send you my consultation link. Um, so that you can ask me all you want. Um, I do consulting work a lot, so, you know, all the way from hedge funds to pension funds. You know, they need someone to kind of explain to them the Baltimore market at a high level. That's exactly what re-engineering Baltimore real estate does. It explains it to you bare, bare bones. What Baltimore real estate is, why you should invest, what are you looking for? And here are all the resources that you have available to you in order to get that done.   Sam Wilson (00:25:24) - Fantastic. Armstead, thank you so much for coming on the show today.   Sam Wilson (00:25:26) - Of course, we'll include all of that there in the show notes. I do appreciate your time.   Armstead Jones (00:25:31) - No problem. Nice to meet.   Sam Wilson (00:25:32) - You. Hey, thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.  

Check it out on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/33Z4VsE Check it out on Apple: https://apple.co/3AHc2DT How to Meet Anybody with Steve Buzogany Episode: https://apple.co/3zuud1y Brandon is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of HOA.com - the #1 Referral Network for Home Service Professionals. While a single dad in 1997, Brandon was an early technology innovator featuring real estate property listings from Realtors he partnered with and promoted. After learning the art and science of referrals, Brandon increased his annual income 10X in 18 months from $20k to $200k. Brandon has since closed over $500 million in transactions by referral and has founded multiple online referral platforms and networks, connecting more than 5 million members in 195 countries. Brandon served as CEO of Codebreaker Technologies AI, the world's first personality-based AI for sales. Brandon is passionate about empowering business owners and professionals with a step-by-step system for attracting profitable prospects and expanding their income, influence, and impact. Dreams: Exit HOA.com at More than 10 Billion Dollars Check off all the Bucket List Activities Write down Victory Next to the goal. Introduce Them to: Elon Musk Favorite Book, Movie, or Podcast: Favorite Movie is the Matrix Favorite Book is the One Minute Millionaire Contact them at: https://ravingreferrals.com/brandonbarnum/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/timothy-douglas0/support

Check it out on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/33Z4VsE Check it out on Apple: https://apple.co/3AHc2DT How to Meet Anybody with Steve Buzogany Episode: https://apple.co/3zuud1y Brandon is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of HOA.com - the #1 Referral Network for Home Service Professionals. While a single dad in 1997, Brandon was an early technology innovator featuring real estate property listings from Realtors he partnered with and promoted. After learning the art and science of referrals, Brandon increased his annual income 10X in 18 months from $20k to $200k. Brandon has since closed over $500 million in transactions by referral and has founded multiple online referral platforms and networks, connecting more than 5 million members in 195 countries. Brandon served as CEO of Codebreaker Technologies AI, the world's first personality-based AI for sales. Brandon is passionate about empowering business owners and professionals with a step-by-step system for attracting profitable prospects and expanding their income, influence, and impact. Dreams: Exit HOA.com at More than 10 Billion Dollars Check off all the Bucket List Activities Write down Victory Next to the goal. Introduce Them to: Elon Musk Favorite Book, Movie, or Podcast: Favorite Movie is the Matrix Favorite Book is the One Minute Millionaire Contact them at: https://ravingreferrals.com/brandonbarnum/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/timothy-douglas0/support

@taylorawelch moved out of 2 large companies and he shares with us the reasons behind leaving those companies, his regrets and how he re-engineered his life in a way that is more aligned to the things that he wants to spend time on. EnjoyIF you enjoyed the show please leave us a review to help push this message to more listeners around the world!Please visit Taylorawelch.com to access all of Taylor's socials and content Text Taylor: 615-326-5037Chapters:(00:41) Intro (Rebuilding)(01:48) Bigger goals, longer runway(02:42) Winning to soon(03:11) Season of setback(03:52) Discipline will not get you to the destination(04:27) There is more money in the world(05:05) You got plenty of time(05:30) "Too easy" things(06:10) You are going to live a long time(06:53) The right thing is also the scary thing(07:57) Trading family(09:07) Energy is elastic(10:20) The moral of the story

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) treats people of faith “as though they carry an infectious disease [that] needs to be cured … ‘Reeducation' is a code word for human reengineering,” says Nury Turkel, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). He was born in a reeducation camp in China during the Cultural Revolution. It's been 19 years since he last saw his mother, who remains in China.We discuss the CCP's high-tech tyranny, its war on religious faiths—detailed in a new USCIRF report—and the influence of Chinese lobbying in America.What was America's greatest strategic blunder in its relationship with the CCP? And how can it be rectified now?

‘Reeducation Is a Code Word for Human Reengineering'- Nury Turkel on the CCP's War on Faith

This is a crossover episode with The Bioverge Podcast, hosted by Neil Littman. Neil is joined by Vineeta Agarwala, general partner at a16z Bio + Health. Together, they chat about Vineeta's dual role as a clinician and investor, the adoption curve of digital therapeutics, how Vineeta thinks about platforms and a modular, engineering-driven approach to biotech, and much more.

Vineeta Agarwala, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz's Bio + Health Fund, sits down with Neil to discuss their investment process, how technology is transforming biotech and healthcare, and why she thinks drug development is becoming more and more like software development.

Welcome back to another Episode of the iBuyer Experiment! Today we have a fellow real estate influencer/ Web 3 proponent, Barkley Romero. Hear from our discussion today about how real estate could benefit from a community-based environment through platforms like DOW and what other possibilities it could entail. Thanks for joining us today & stay tuned for another episode. _________________________________ Barkley Romero's Socials: https://bombpop.link/realbarkley   _________________________________ Check us out on social media: Kala - https://linktr.ee/kalalaos Eliot - https://linktr.ee/eliottomaszewski/ Zoodealio - https://linktr.ee/zoodealio/   _________________________________ Check us out on Apple Podcasts & Spotify!   Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ibuyer-experiment/id1510051846   Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2e1M6C4x88OyNgIuTCZ0V8?si=51dc906935b64850

In the Best Of episode, we look back at Dan Wideaier of Bolt Threads. Dan Widmaier is a bioengineer who's taking on the fashion and beauty industries. As the Co-Founder and CEO of Bolt Threads, he's ushering in a new era of regenerative lab grown materials that can help us reverse course when it comes to the health of our planet. In this episode Dan and I talked about the science behind Bolt Threads' patented materials, and how they're being adopted by big brands like Stella McCartney and Adidas. In what was a fascinating conversation, I heard about his growth strategy, how industry disruption can be used to create social and environmental impact, and why companies that don't adopt regenerative practices could face existential problems. Dan Widmaier Dan has carefully tended Bolt's growth since 2009, using his passion and expertise to lead the company through technology development, expansion, and financing. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from UC San Francisco, where his graduate research involved designing genetic circuits to control microbial organelles. Dan has grown Bolt Threads from an incubator start-up to a biomaterials platform company with 75 employees. He has led Bolt Threads through multiple fundraising rounds, created lasting partnerships with iconic global brands like Stella McCartney, and launched commercially available materials including MyloTM – a mycelium-based leather alternative – with a select group of partners including adidas, Kering, lululemon, and Stella McCartney.   This episode of Lead With We was produced and edited by Goal 17 Media and is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify. You can also watch episodes on YouTube at WeFirstTV.   Resources Learn more about Bolt Threads at boltthreads.com Connect with Dan on LinkedIn For case studies and other free resources about purposeful business, go to WeFirstBranding.com Simon's new book, Lead With We, comes out Nov. 9th and is now available for pre-order on Amazon, Google Books and Barnes & Noble. Check it out!

Jason Bermas is back on the show after a couple of months and we have plenty going on as usual. Texas finally declares an invasion at the border; the new plan of defeating Democrats at the ballot box is to cheat just as well as they do; the planet hits population 8 BILLION; Russian missiles whoopsie hit Poland?; and the G20 Summit is already providing us plenty of hellish things to talk about. It's one of those nights I wish I could smoke a cigar in the studio, but the smell would never come out of the couches. Watch/Subscribe on Rumble: https://rumble.com/v1uplgg-re-engineering-the-planet-ft.-jason-bermas-111522.html Support Our Proud Sponsors: Blue Monster Prep: An Online Superstore for Emergency Preparedness Gear (Storable Food, Water, Filters, Radios, MEDICAL SUPPLIES, and so much more). Use code 'FRANKLY' for Free Shipping on every purchase you make @ https://bluemonsterprep.com/ Secret Nature CBD: 100% organic CBD rich cannabis flower bred so low in THC that they are legally certified as hemp and can be shipped nationwide. High-CBD, low-THC means all the benefits of full spectrum cannabinoids and terpenes without the high, or negative effects like anxiety and paranoia. Pre-rolls, Oils, Tinctures, and more - Promo Code 'FRANKLY' at SecretNatureCBD.com for 20% OFF SUPPORT the Show and New Media: Sponsor through QFTV: https://www.quitefrankly.tv/sponsor SubscribeStar: https://www.subscribestar.com/quitefrankly One-Time Gift: http://www.paypal.me/QuiteFranklyLive Official QF Merch: https://bit.ly/3tOgRsV Sign up for the Free Mailing List: https://bit.ly/3frUdOj Send Crypto: BTC: 1EafWUDPHY6y6HQNBjZ4kLWzQJFnE5k9PK LTC: LRs6my7scMxpTD5j7i8WkgBgxpbjXABYXX ETH: 0x80cd26f708815003F11Bd99310a47069320641fC FULL Episodes On Demand: Spotify: https://spoti.fi/301gcES iTunes: http://apple.co/2dMURMq Amazon: https://amzn.to/3afgEXZ SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/2dTMD13 Google Play: https://bit.ly/2SMi1SF Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2tI5THI BitChute: https://bit.ly/2vNSMFq Rumble: https://bit.ly/31h2HUg Watch Live On: QuiteFrankly.tv (Powered by Foxhole) DLive: https://bit.ly/2In9ipw Rokfin: https://bit.ly/3rjrh4q Twitch: https://bit.ly/2TGAeB6 YouTube: https://bit.ly/2exPzj4 CloutHub: https://bit.ly/37uzr0o Theta: https://bit.ly/3v62oIw Rumble: https://bit.ly/31h2HUg How Else to Find Us: Official WebSite: http://www.QuiteFrankly.tv Official Forum: https://bit.ly/3SToJFJ Official Telegram: https://t.me/quitefranklytv DISCORD Hangout: https://bit.ly/2FpkS11 Twitter: @PoliticalOrgy Gab: @QuiteFrankly Truth Social: @QuiteFrankly GETTR: @QuiteFrankly

On today's episode, Kelly is diving into part 1 of cracking the 1% wealth code: how to re-engineer your wealth and happiness goals.    She shares 5 core steps to re-engineering your goals and how to build wealth without sacrificing the most important elements of life: health, strength of family unit, purpose work, happiness, and legacy.    Catch up on the full live workshop here. Join The Inevitable Millionaires mentorship. Follow Kelly on Instagram. Grab one of Kelly's bestselling books: Unstoppable: 9 Principles for Unlimited Success in Business and Life Conviction Marketing Bigger than You: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Building an Unstoppable Team