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Earl Gosick, CTO at ESTI Consulting Services Earl Gosick has been attending Dell’s annual event since the EMC World days, and the ESTI Consulting Services co-founder brought to this year’s Dell Technologies World a perspective grounded in 35 years of building deep technical expertise on the Prairies. ESTI, the Saskatoon-based solution provider that won Dell’s Data Centre Solutions Excellence Award for Canada last year, runs a pure-play Dell infrastructure practice with particular depth in storage and data center design. Earl also sits in Dell’s CTO Connect program – a small, invitation-only group of partner technologists with early visibility into Dell’s product roadmap and a real voice in shaping it. His framing for the week: AI is fundamentally a data story, and data stories are storage stories. The push toward on-premises AI infrastructure – from deskside devices up through the newly announced Exascale and Rackscale solutions – is being driven as much by data governance requirements and token economics as by raw performance. Organizations that don’t control their data, Earl argues, can’t truly control their AI outcomes. On cyber resilience, he made a point worth underlining for anyone running managed services: ransomware insurance changes the recovery equation in ways clients don’t always anticipate. When a claim is filed, infrastructure gets frozen for forensic analysis. Recovery speed from a clean, air-gapped golden image – built with technology partners like Index Engines – isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the whole game. And to close: Saskatchewan and Alberta may be poised to become Canada’s next significant data center hubs. With regulated power, guaranteed energy supply, and a provincial government that has now seen a CoreWeave-scale facility successfully built in the province and is actively pursuing more, Earl sees a real and growing opportunity – and ESTI is already working to support it. Read Full Transcript Robert Dutt: Hello and welcome to In the Channel from ChannelBuzz.ca, bringing news and information to the Canadian IT channel for the last 16 years. I’m Robert Dutt, editor at ChannelBuzz.ca, and your host for the show. We’re continuing our series of conversations from Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas. This week, we’re shifting from the Dell executive perspective to the partner perspective, and today’s guest has been making the trip to this event since the EMC World days. Earl Gosick is co-founder and senior consultant at ESTI Consulting Services, a Saskatoon-based solution provider that just celebrated 35 years in business and took home Dell’s Data Centre Solutions Excellence Award for Canada last year. Earl also sits inside Dell’s CTO Connect program, a small, invitation-only group of partner technologists who get an early look at where Dell’s roadmap is actually heading – and, importantly, a real opportunity to push back on it. Earl’s a storage specialist at his core, and that turned out to be a useful lens at a conference that was fundamentally about AI infrastructure. Because if you pull on that AI thread long enough, it leads you back to data, and data always leads you back to storage. We talked about what the Exascale and Rackscale announcements mean for real customer deployments, why the cyber resilience conversation is as much about recovery speed as backup integrity, and a genuinely interesting thread about why Saskatchewan and the broader Canadian Prairies may be sitting on one of the most underappreciated data centre opportunities in North America right now. Let’s get right into it. My chat with Earl Gosick. Earl, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate it. Earl Gosick: I appreciate you having me here. It’s always nice to talk about what we’re doing with Dell. Robert Dutt: No doubt, and you guys are doing a lot. I understand this is by no means your first DTW rodeo. Earl Gosick: No, I’ve been coming since the EMC World days, and I’ve never – I missed a year through COVID, that was about it. Robert Dutt: Well, I guess we’ll allow you that. So you’ve got this background here, you do the CTO Connect with Dell. What’s different about this year, if anything? What’s the tone or the energy that tells you something about where the industry is at right now, and not necessarily just where Dell would like it to be going? Earl Gosick: I think the driving factor of today is really the supply constraints. You can see what AI is doing and the effect that’s having across the board on every product that has memory or CPU or flash drives in it – which is everything in technology. So that’s really setting the tone. But it also shows how effective AI is as a market driver, and what people think is going to come out of that technology – which is, I think, very important for people to understand. It’s ubiquitous technology that’s going to drive a lot of change in our industry. And we’re seeing a leading edge of that. And if this is the leading edge, there’s some pretty exciting things coming, I suspect, and it’s going to do some pretty important and probably quite wonderful things for our clients. Robert Dutt: We heard from the main stage the idea of encouraging customers to get their hand up early – to get those orders, or even an inkling of where things are going for orders, in as early as possible – and that that will, in effect, Jeff Clarke was suggesting, get folks the best possible results. What’s the guidance you guys are providing your customers around that whole issue, and thinking about availability and pricing of hardware in this current super-fun environment? Earl Gosick: Our position does align with what we’re hearing from Dell when we’re dealing with Dell Technologies, so we try and pass on the messages as transparently as we can, understanding there are supply constraints coming. And we have to deal with those in the only way we have, and that is to figure out what we need. Let’s plan early. Let’s plan the budgets we have for the year, and we can make some estimates about what’s going to be happening six months from now – but they’re estimates, and they’re going to be higher. So it’s probably going to be cheaper for you to have technology that’s sitting on the floor unused for a few months and waste through some support potentially, as opposed to delaying the purchase for three months. So if we know what we’re going to buy, we should operate in a manner that allows us to order those technologies as soon as possible and make sure you’re not waiting for something that delays your business initiatives. Robert Dutt: You guys won the Data Centre Solutions Excellence Award last year for Canada. Take your victory lap. Tell me – what is it you guys are doing in the data centre space that earned that, and what does winning the award tell you about where your practice is focused? Earl Gosick: I hope it helps demonstrate our success. So what ESTI likes to do as a business – our business model is really to build highly competent experts all the way from solution architecture to implementation of those technologies at the customer site. That takes a lot of effort on our behalf, and so it’s nice to get a reward that says we’re doing the right things. Because if you can build a strong rapport with a client who trusts your experts in their field, that creates long-term relationships – which is what both ESTI and Dell are after, and what our clients want. Robert Dutt: You’re a storage specialist at a conference that has been at its core all about AI infrastructure. But at the same time, you go back to when it was – you said – EMC World, all about storage. The more I heard this week, the more it feels like the AI story is really a data story, and data stories are storage stories to at least some degree. How are you seeing that translate in terms of what your customers are actually asking about, or what they’re going to be asking you about? Earl Gosick: It’s significant. You’re right. In order for any type of artificial intelligence to derive a useful data product out the end, it’s built on the data that you have. So customers are coming to the realization that they have to store everything. So it is driving a lot of demand for storage. It’s driving storage in different ways and they just keep everything. Then there’s another product that comes after that, which is cleaning that data – building the data pipelines. When I talk about storage, it’s really about data, and AI is a data-driven product. So it’s doing great things for the storage industry. But the clients understand that they do have to have the data – it has to be there, it has to be available. And then when they build these data products, they have to protect those data products. They’ve got to make sure they’re secure. So it’s driving a lot of initiatives on both sides of the fence that are good for all of us. Robert Dutt: Especially with new or newer customers, or customers who are looking to expand what they’re doing with AI – and acknowledging there’s going to be a range from folks who have had the religion since day one and folks who’ve just been randomly shoving stuff digitally wherever they can. Where do you find those newer customers are at, generally speaking, in terms of sophistication of data management and data governance and all that kind of fun? Earl Gosick: Unfortunately, I’d like to say there’s a median in there. There is not. Everybody is at a different stage in that cycle for them. So you really have to be a little bit cognizant and ask the questions to find out where they’re at before you can really sort of hold their hands and walk them down the road. Many people who started that journey early – you can learn from them. And so they’re going to tell us to start and do something, and you may fail, there may be some things, but you’re going to learn something from that. The second time will be more successful. Then you take that information, you pass it on to the newer people who are trying to get quick value from those investments they’re making on the AI front. So it could be things about how to connect those various data sources because they’re spread everywhere, to how do they build, or select which ones they put their money and their efforts behind. And so you take from the ones that have been doing this for a while, you pass that information on to the ones that are starting on this journey, and you connect the dots. You provide value and make pain go away wherever you can. And customers appreciate that. Robert Dutt: And that sounds like that’s where you’re kind of bridging that gap that exists and trying to bring customers to the level they need to be at to get something out of this. Earl Gosick: Absolutely. Like I said, everybody’s on a journey at a different stage of that journey. And so you have to communicate well to understand where they’re at and what they’re trying to achieve. Once you know that – we don’t always have the answers, but we leverage great partners like Dell who do have somebody that knows the answer. And so building this sort of ecosystem of potential partners to bridge that gap is great. And Dell does that not just from us and the partner community, but their partner community as well, to support all the component pieces that go together to build these pretty highly complex solutions in some cases. Robert Dutt: Of all the announcements, all the stuff that we heard on the main stage and elsewhere this week, what kind of caught your attention – your major aha moment – the thing that’s going to be interesting going back to your business or going back to your customers with new opportunities or the ability to do something better, faster, more? Earl Gosick: So as we talked about, I am a storage guy. So I look at something like Exascale. They’ve been talking about this for a couple of years now in the CTO cycles that I’ve been to. To see that product sort of come to fruition, where you have something and you can just put a personality on that module and build something out – I think that could be very game-changing, especially for AI. They might want to do a lot of things with file storage today, object storage tomorrow. Being able to build up a cluster and put a personality on it that meets the needs of the day – I think that could be quite interesting. That Rackscale solution you saw on the stage with Michael Dell and Jensen the other day – for the larger clients, something like that could be quite interesting. I mean, we’re building these large data centers right now and trying to fill them. Rackscale infrastructure that helps with power and energy and doing a lot of powerful things is going to probably be a game changer for a lot of people. Robert Dutt: One of the things that struck me here is what I want to call the AI agnosticism, as long as you’re doing it on Dell infrastructure – that Dell is talking about here, ranging from, if you’ve got really basic needs, run it locally on your AI PC, moving up a bit there’s the GB10, which is more of a deskside machine, up to the big old box that Jensen signed on stage. How does that map with what you see in terms of customer needs for AI, and what do you think of that kind of approach to structuring both the data center and broader AI processing across the enterprise? Earl Gosick: I think as we touched on earlier, everybody’s on a different stage in that journey. So if you’ve got a guy that’s working at his desk and he’s trying to do some cool things, but he doesn’t have access to a million tokens – that little GB10 you put on the desk beside him and he’s going to do some development, he’s going to learn some wonderful things. Then as you move up the stack in your journey, you’ve got some big clients who are going to do small proof-of-concept type scenarios where they might want a smaller box and then move up that stack. I think it’s important to have a product that covers a diverse range of those people because nobody’s in that one sweet spot – they’re all over the map. Having that full technology set supports wherever they happen to be in their life cycle. Robert Dutt: You touch on tokens, and Jeff Clarke’s presentation was really deep into tokenomics and the kind of the trap there. I’m curious how that maps with what you’ve seen in customers as they’ve started to explore AI. Are they seeing these same challenges, and how are they thinking about it? Earl Gosick: Tokens are the buzzword of the day, but they’re out there for a reason. Everybody has finite resources to put towards the solution they’re trying to build. They may or may not know what that solution is – they’re working towards something, they need tokens to achieve that. What I find interesting is the people who are very early into the game of AI and building solutions around that – it doesn’t take them long before they’re like, “I’m out of tokens. I need to do some stuff.” So it just comes back to the fact that there are only so many resources to solve the needs you have, and you only have so many tokens, and you’ve got to learn to live within what you can get your hands on. And that’s driving the economy, whether it’s at a data center level or at an internal level for any business. Robert Dutt: And does that in turn drive – which I believe is Dell’s thesis here – does that in turn drive the interest in building out infrastructure in-house, so that the relative incremental cost of those additional tokens goes way down because it’s bought and built versus rented? Earl Gosick: Yeah. I think there’s a step along that AI journey where people have potentially outgrown what they can do in the cloud in an economic fashion. We see the supply constraints are driven by CPU and memory usage. If you look at what the cloud hyperscalers offer, when you get into highly intensive memory and CPU, it starts to get very expensive. A lot of storage, a lot of bits and bytes moving back and forth – very expensive. All those things are prevalent in AI. You’re moving a lot of data back and forth, you’re touching a lot of things, you need a lot of memory at times. So once you get to a point where you’re doing useful things with your AI and building generative models, no matter what you do with inferencing, it starts to get really expensive. Then it becomes a time where you can move those things into a data center you control. You can get some economics from it and you can get some sovereignty out of it. A hyperscaler outside of your control can turn things off – they can’t do that when it’s your data center. So you’ve got a lot of control as well as the economics behind how you’re achieving the outcomes you’re looking to achieve. Robert Dutt: I used a word which is actually where I wanted to go next, which is sovereignty. When we’re talking about data center infrastructure and moving bits around and enterprise storage, how is data sovereignty trending among your customers, especially folks who have regulatory concerns and that sort of thing? Earl Gosick: Being a Canadian company, predominantly, we have a larger focus on sovereignty and data sovereignty and sovereign solutions than maybe you’ll see south of the border here. And we find our friends in the European Union are a little bit different – they’re ahead of us even. But it’s a really big concern, especially when you have any type of government agency that you’re dealing with, or anybody that really has intellectual property that they’re looking to protect. They’ve learned that open AI models may expose things – even if it’s just from how they’re creating their algorithms. But if the data gets out there, it’s a concern. They’re protecting their assets as well. These AIs are delivering very useful outcomes for them. They need to make sure they own those outcomes and that they can actually reach them when they need them. So part of data sovereignty is not just the sovereign part of your data, but it’s the actual access to your data. We’re learning things from not just the AI piece but from ransomware – all of a sudden your data goes away. The same thing could happen with a hyperscaler for some people. Sovereign IT solutions are going to be, I think, increasingly important moving forward. Robert Dutt: On that note, you mentioned ransomware, and data resilience and protection is another area I wanted to touch on. We heard the figure that 97% of cyber attacks are now specifically targeting backup infrastructure – because of the old line about, I forget the particular bank robber’s name, but why do you rob the banks? Because that’s where the money is. Why do you go after the backup? Because that’s where all the data is. Does that match with what you’re seeing, and if so, how does that change how you’re designing and recommending data protection for your customers? Earl Gosick: It is absolutely changing people’s realization of how they need to protect their data. This one doesn’t matter if it’s AI or your regular business practices – your data has value, whether it’s to support applications that are running your critical business or you’re building AI products that you need to protect. That has value and you need to access it. What we’re seeing more and more – and we’ve built a really strong practice around this – is building things like cyber vaults and using Dell’s technology partners like Index Engines, where they come in and they can quickly identify threats inside your environment and act on those. Because these guys loiter around for potentially months at a time. They know how to get to your backups. They know they’re not getting paid if you can recover. So they’re going to do everything they can to try and disrupt that. They have AI engines just like ours, but they have a lot of money and they don’t have the constraints about how they use their AI. I mean, these people are criminals, so they act in a method that makes them money. We’re going to be facing even more potential threats in the future, and some of those are going to be AI-driven. We’re going to have to react at AI speeds. There are changes coming, but certainly people are learning to build protection mechanisms that are air-gapped and can respond very quickly to threats. Robert Dutt: When you’re sitting in front of a client who thinks they’re covered – they’ve got a backup solution, they’ve got someone who’s responsible for it – what are the most common gaps that you find between what they think they have and what they actually have? Earl Gosick: I think for many clients, they don’t really understand how disruptive it’s going to be if they run into a ransomware attack. If you’re a client that may have ransomware insurance, for example, and they get hit – you have to tell them, “Do you understand you’re not going to be able to touch any of that infrastructure? Because your insurance company is going to want to do some analysis on that to see how the threat came in.” That infrastructure is dead and gone. You’re starting from scratch. You need a golden image – you need something you know nobody has touched. Protecting the data is only the first piece. Rebuilding from that data, and how fast you can do that – that’s the very critical component. That’s where an air-gapped cyber recovery solution like Dell Cyber Recovery is critical, because you can understand what data to recover and you can recover quickly. Having the data there – that’s the great first step and that’s where you should start. But following that, that is only the first step. Robert Dutt: Your client base is different from a lot of partners I talk to. Given where you sit and who you’re focused on – not necessarily organizations that are under the same kind of pressure or have the same kind of resources to pursue AI – how do you translate and filter what you hear at a conference like this, where a lot is focused towards big enterprise, to a message that makes sense for your customers and scales to their needs and appetites? Earl Gosick: That’s one I think isn’t really that difficult – it’s not as difficult as you would think. Because everybody has the same problems. They run into the same problems. How they build solutions to those problems might change on the scale, but you just have to understand and recognize that everybody’s having the same problems. You can articulate and communicate to them that you’re not the only one that has this. We can resolve this problem at a large scale, but we don’t have to. You came back to it earlier when we talked about the product sets, from small to large – you just pick the right one to meet the solution that these guys have. How you solve that problem of the day doesn’t necessarily change for a really, really large client versus a very, very small client. It’s really just the scale of the end solution and the architecture that’s put together to solve the need. Robert Dutt: From a Titanium partner’s seat, what did the program changes that we saw rolled out – the agentification of the program, some of the incentive shifts – tell you about where Dell sees growth opportunity, and how does it align with where you’re already going or where it might take you? Earl Gosick: I think you can see very easily that Dell is putting a large focus around AI and what it can do for them to streamline their business and be successful. We, like any other company we deal with, are doing the same thing. What they’re doing with their Dell One program, and having a single operation from lead generation down to quoting and pricing and follow-up – it matches what we’re doing on the back end and trying to automate that. Because as long as we can automate that process and reduce the friction in those programs and dealing with Dell, we can spend that time focusing on our clients’ needs. You see Dell, I think, leveraging the same technologies to do that. And if we’re smart business people today, we’re looking to the people around us who are being successful and trying to do what they’re doing in a sense. That’s true for us and our clients. Leveraging AI and seeing how that’s being successful for our partners is driving what we’re all doing – to drive automation and simplification through the processes that are just painful every day that we have to do better at, to support our clients. Robert Dutt: I’m guessing you guys are pretty far down this road already because you’re pretty much a pure-play Dell on the infrastructure side, as far as I understand. But when a company like Dell rolls out these incentives focused on expanding customer footprints – getting a Dell storage customer into Dell PCs or any of the other solution lines – just curious if that moves the needle for you in terms of the incentive, or is it already baked into what you’re doing? Earl Gosick: It’s baked into what we’re doing. In the end of the day, you are trying to build a rapport with a customer based on being a trusted expert. You’re not going to flip your technologies around based on what’s going to get somebody a little bit more money. You’ve got to do the right thing for the customer today and every time you deal with them. The advantage of dealing with Dell is they typically tie their incentives to the product that they are investing in today – that they see the future growing into. So they usually coincide. They understand the pain points of the year, and the incentives usually match the requirements of the day as well. So they’re really good at that. And then they usually have a lot of tools to support that initiative of IT transformation, whatever it is for that time and place in our industry. Robert Dutt: You mentioned earlier you’re on the CTO Connect program – pretty small room, an exclusive group. Tell me about what that relationship looks like on the inside of the room, and the value that an organization like ESTI gets from sitting in there. Earl Gosick: I guess I’ll put it this way. We deal with some technology providers – predominantly Dell. Dell puts us in a room, they tell us what they’re doing for the next year or two, and they ask us if they’re on the right track. That’s telling to me – they care and they listen. They talk about the technologies that we’re going to see upcoming, so it’s helpful for us to talk to our clients about where the industry is headed. But they do sometimes say, “We’re going to do this,” and the room says, “Oh, no, you can’t do that. Our customers love this,” or, “We like this for this reason.” And they say, “Oh, okay.” And we have a dialogue about those things. So I think that’s one of the most important things that comes out of CTO Connect – we hear about industry trends, but they also ask us our opinion on whether they’re on the right track, and then they listen to that opinion. I think that’s telling for any company you deal with – one that engages not only with their clients, but with their technology partners. It’s one of the things I really like about CTO Connect. Robert Dutt: You guys just turned 35 or so, as I understand, as an organization. That’s a long time to be running a consultancy in any market – and markets move, vendors come and go. What’s the philosophy behind building something that durable in a market that changes so fast, and especially in an area of the country that doesn’t necessarily get as much headline attention from vendors as a Toronto or a Vancouver or a Montreal? Earl Gosick: I think it comes back to what I stated earlier around building strong and capable expertise across the board – and that’s building relationships with the clients, building relationships with partners like Dell to solve the solutions of the day. Our clients respect that because they know they can come back to us again and again and we’ll do the right thing together. So that’s really the crux of it. Our business model is a little different in that we support a little bit more of an entrepreneurial aspect to our business. When young, capable people come on board and they build differentiating products, they get a seat at the table – and that’s critical for ESTI and the way we operate. But it’s really about looking at modern technology solutions and being agile to support those ever-changing technologies. It makes our industry exciting. You’re never doing the same thing every day. And as long as you can recognize the fact that you won’t be doing the same thing tomorrow and you just have to find a way to deal with it – that’s how we thrive in our company, and in working with Dell as well. Robert Dutt: All right, so let’s close with asking you to do a little bit of the impossible, given that pace of change. What’s one thing that you’re thinking about today, but maybe not totally all-in on at this point, that you think is going to be shaping the business for ESTI and your customers when we’re sitting here at DTW 2027? Earl Gosick: Well, that’s a really hard question. On the investment side, we do look at some of the technologies today – and as we talked about, AI is big for us. We need to build services that our clients don’t have. So we spend a lot of focus on where they have skills and where they don’t. We’re going to build a lot of expertise around cleaning data, building data pipelines and that kind of stuff, to focus on the needs our clients are asking us to help them solve. So that’s kind of an easy one because everybody sees that going forward. Beyond that – we’re making a strong effort in Saskatchewan and Alberta to build a sort of data center economy to support a lot of these data centers that need to be built. We already have access to power infrastructure to support those things. That’s going to drive a little bit of a change in our operating model just to support our local governments as they try and take advantage of the differentiators we have. That’ll drive some change for ESTI. And then as we expand across the rest of Canada, different geographies have different requirements as well. So lots of change, lots of new people coming on board all the time – interesting but dynamic. Robert Dutt: That will be an interesting thread to pull on. I remember going to an event – God, it must have been 15 years ago now – talking about how Canada really should be a data center powerhouse. When you consider we have power, clean power in relative abundance, we have cold, which turns out to be important – it sounds like maybe there’s an opportunity to realize some of that with what you guys are doing and what governments are starting to look at more seriously. Earl Gosick: They are. Also, right outside my hometown, they just announced a very large data center which is going to house some infrastructure from CoreWeave – and we’re going to see more of that, I think, because that process went very well. I sat in on a conference a couple of weeks ago where it was government and industry getting together to talk about why they were successful, what they bring to the table. Saskatchewan is unique because they have regulated power, energy, and land. They can guarantee, “We will give you power, we can guarantee you’ll get LNG.” Those types of things are very important for anybody trying to build a data center – it’s the critical piece. And with the government having control over all of those, they can guarantee them. That’s where I think Saskatchewan is going to have a real differentiator to support that technology, and the government is well aware of that fact now. They’re going to want to do more of these things. And then our neighbors in both Alberta and Manitoba are sort of on board as well. Certainly Alberta has done a few key data centers to support AI and those are going to continue to happen. We’re sometimes slow to move because it’s government. But once they realize the differentiators they have and what it can do for the market, I think there’ll be some traction there. Robert Dutt: Should be interesting times, and sitting where you’re sitting sounds like a big opportunity. Earl Gosick: Absolutely. I think it’s a big opportunity for all of us – supporting your community around you as well as building a thriving business. Robert Dutt: Earl, I appreciate you taking the time once again. I hope this has been a good DTW for you. Earl Gosick: It’s been a great discussion and a good DTW, so thanks a lot for having me. Robert Dutt: There you have it – Earl Gosick from ESTI Consulting Services. I’d like to thank Earl for his time last week in Las Vegas. Thirty-five years building deep technical expertise from Saskatoon, in a vendor relationship game that tends to reward proximity to the bigger centres – that’s not an accident, and it came through in the conversation. A few things I’ll take away from this one. First, the AI-is-a-storage-story framing. Every AI product ultimately requires data to be collected, governed, moved, and protected. That’s not news to Earl, but it’s a useful reframe for anyone still trying to connect their existing practice to the AI conversation. The hardware gets the headlines. The data work actually gets the contracts. Second, on cyber resilience – the ransomware insurance point Earl raised is worth sitting with. The moment a client files a claim, that infrastructure gets frozen while the insurance company figures out how the breach happened. Your ability to recover doesn’t just depend on whether the backup is intact – it depends on whether you built a clean, air-gapped golden image that nobody has touched. That’s the conversation. And if you’re not having it with your clients, maybe someone else is. And third, keep an eye on Saskatchewan. Regulated power, guaranteed energy supply, and a provincial government that has now seen a CoreWeave-scale data center get successfully built in the province and wants more of them. Earl thinks that’s just the start of something, and I’m inclined to agree. If you’re enjoying the show, please follow or subscribe wherever you listen. 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(0:00) Intro, *Reference to the Boardroom Governance Summit (Aug 26-27, 2026)  (2:42) About the podcast sponsor: The American College of Governance Counsel. (3:28) Start of interview. *Reference to prior episode with Greg (E136) from 2024. (5:14) Market Boom and AI Supercycle (6:14) AI Is Changing Everything (9:06) How does a VC use AI (venture business: sourcing, selection, and stewardship) (12:13) Cloud and Startup Costs, rise of seed rounds and institutional angel investors (15:13) JSV Launchpad, a 10-week, in-person summer program in SF from JSV for early-stage student AI founders  (18:50) SaaSpocalypse Debate and AI Washing (reference to the Albert Saniger / Nate Inc case) (21:33) Growth Metrics Rewritten (when Anthropic has grown 80x year over year) "the best solution for high prices is high prices" (24:20) Sorting SaaS Risks (27:30) Defensibility in the AI Era: 1) Network effects, 2) Systems of record, and 3) Regulated workflow. (29:52) AI impact to companies: 1) Are the foundation models existential? 2) How much have you incorporated AI into your platform or your product? 3) How important is AI within your product? and 4) How much have you integrated AI into your operations? "In a world where building software is easy, one of the things that we're already seeing within our portfolio, and I think we'll see more of this, is... horizontal expansion (expanding to adjacent businesses)." (32:33) AI, Jobs, and Layoffs (*reference to this FT article: What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?) (38:28) Private Markets and IPOs. Liquidity in venture ecosystem (M&A and private equity). (42:02) SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs (45:18) Data Centers and Backlash "It's easy to demonize" (46:16) Regulation and Global Competition "AI right now has become a great bogeyman for both sides." (50:14) Board Strategy for AI (52:12) On Kirkland & Ellis' $500m bet to develop its own AI technology Greg Gretsch is a Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jackson Square Ventures, an early-stage VC firm based in San Francisco. Greg has more than two decades of experience in VC and five of his early-stage investments have gone on to exits or valuations above $1 billion. You can follow Evan on social media at:X: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__To support this podcast you can join as a subscriber of the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at https://evanepstein.substack.com/__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License

In this episode of Regulated & Relational, Tracy and Ginger welcome Dr. Lisa A. Riegel—nationally recognized educator, researcher, founder of the Educational Partnerships Institute, and author of the book NeuroWell. Together, they explore why skills like emotional regulation, connection, and self-awareness are not “soft” at all, but essential to learning, wellbeing, and long-term success.Dr. Riegel emphasizes that meaningful change doesn't happen at the classroom level alone—it requires alignment across entire systems. As she powerfully states, “If we want different outcomes, we need different systems—not just better intentions.”Drawing on neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, and systems-level leadership, Dr. Riegel challenges traditional school models and calls for a shift toward proactive, brain-aligned environments that support both students and educators.“When you attend to the human people, the academics come…a lot faster too.” Dr. Lisa Riegel

Okay okay, time to sit down and talk about one of the biggest misconceptions everrrr when it comes to money and security. Soo many ambitious women spend years & years of their lives building wealth, businesses, careers, and lives that look incredible from the outside — yet internally still feel anxious, restless, overwhelmed, and unable to truly relax, receive and recharge guilt-free.In today's episode, we're exploring the hidden cost of high achievement, why financial success alone doesn't create emotional security like most people assume, the underlying nervous system patterns that are silently driving overachievement, where the abundance conversation has become performative, and the most common subconscious fears that cause women to self-sabotage right before their next level.If you've ever felt exhausted while crushing it, struggled to slow down without guilt, or have ever found yourself constantly chasing the next milestone without feeling truly fulfilled, this conversation is for you.So babe, grab your matcha, get cozy, and let's dive in.—In this episode, I discuss:02:45 - Why financial success alone often fails to create emotional security06:05 - Emotional safety vs. financial success – and why they don't correlate08:53 - The connection between money & men (hint: masculine energy)12:10 - The illusion of security we gain through achievement (& why it's empty)18:10 - The role of money when it comes to emotional and mental well-being21:02 - Why I started redefining success beyond numbers25:38 - Rewiring relationships & self-concept aka identity32:02 - The cost of overfunctioning and self-sacrifice39:06 - Manifestation beyond aesthetics & affirmations 49:19 - Creating inner safety in success and abundance—Key Takeaways:Some women are rich in money and broke in their nervous system capacity (I can fix that ;))Achievement can create temporary emotional relief, but it cannot create lasting inner safetyIf your worth is tied to productivity, success will neverrrrrrr feel like enoughMoney amplifies what is already present within youA dysregulated nervous system will sabotage success faster than a lack of strategyManifestation is not about acting as if — it's about becoming the woman who can safely hold what she desiresExpansion often triggers subconscious fears around visibility, relationships, responsibility, and receivingThe goal is not just to become successful — it's to feel safe enough to fully enjoy the life you've created—Similar episodes: Ep 160: The hidden cost of being a 'bossbabe' - and the #1 lie women are told about Feminine Energy Ep 157: The Art of Self-Mastery: What it really takes to thrive in life, love, leadership & wealthEP 164: How to be 'that girl' who always gets what she wants - fusing 'IT girl' x 'magnetic queen' energy—Connect with Laura: Laura's Website: https://www.lauraherde.com/Laura's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura.herde/Laura's 1-1 Coaching: https://www.lauraherde.com/application-1-1Laura's Coaching Certification Course: https://www.instagram.com/embodiedcoachacademy/>> EMAIL ME TO CONNECT/ FOR QUESTIONS: hello@lauraherde.com>> FOLLOW ME ON INSTAGRAM FOR MORE CONTENT: @laura.herde Feel free to share this episode with your bestie, and tag us on IG when you listen so we can repost you.If you're a loyal listener and would like to support the show, leave us a rating/ review, it means the world!Make sure to be subscribed to UNFUCK YOUR LIFE, we publish episodes for you every single Tuesday.Thank you so much for tuning in, love xx

Send us Fan MailTo sit on my porch in the sun every day. But that's not reality with five kids and the end of the school year. Learn to regulate  and keep your nervous system regulated even in the busiest of times.As a former high functioning, anxious wife, come, learn how to regulate your nervous system be present and actually enjoy your life during busy season. Stay surrendered. Stay set apart. Stay Spirit led Support the showChelsey Holm | the Wife Coach "I help Christian wives surrender fully, live Spirit-led, and be set apart according to God's design in marriage, motherhood, and life."Ready for a next step? If this episode stirred something deeper and you're ready to move from insight into surrender, I created a short guided experience called From Awareness to Surrender.

Jordan Dunin is Founder of HatchPath, a platform delivering 4.2x ROI through employee wellbeing by improving resilience, decision-making, and performance across high-pressure organizations. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. Hustle culture alone does not create sustainable success; nervous system regulation is the real foundation of resilience and long-term performance. 2. Chronic stress quietly erodes decision-making, creativity, and leadership capacity by keeping the body in a constant fight-or-flight state. 3. Leaders influence their entire organization's energy, meaning their internal state directly affects the productivity and well-being of their team. Visit the website to learn more about Jordan's work - Hatch Path Sponsors HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com. Hostinger - Visit Hostinger.com/ONFIRE, use code ONFIRE for 20% off, and build your site today. Revenued - Built for small business owners who need fast, flexible access to working capital, without relying on your personal credit score. Apply now at Revenued.com/fire.

Tonight's conversation walks straight into a relational nerve most people would rather medicate with gender slogans, therapy language, or moral superiority: what happens when a man becomes happy without needing a woman to authorize, regulate, rescue, validate, inspire, approve, or emotionally complete that happiness? Alison Armstrong's provocation does not merely ask whether women “attack happy men.” That phrasing gives the room something to argue about. The deeper wound asks whether some women feel unconsciously displaced when male happiness no longer orbits around female emotional centrality. If his striving once proved devotion, if his need once confirmed her importance, if his instability once gave her a role, if his pursuit once made the relationship feel alive, then his peace may not register as health. It may register as loss of influence, loss of necessity, loss of proof. This is not an indictment of women. It is an indictment of unconscious dependency contracts hiding inside intimacy. Men do it too. Parents do it. Lovers do it. Communities do it. Entire cultures train people to confuse being needed with being loved. But tonight we place the spotlight where the clip places it: on the possibility that certain women may unconsciously experience a self-sourced man as less reachable, less governable, less emotionally available, or less relationally useful precisely because he no longer needs suffering to prove connection. The psychological question becomes brutal: do we love people, or do we love the role their incompleteness gives us? The spiritual question cuts deeper: can love survive when it no longer feeds the ego's need to matter? And the cultural question may disturb everybody: if modern intimacy has been built on pursuit, proof, emotional labor, and mutual insecurity, what happens when one person finally becomes free? That is tonight's investigation: when happiness stops needing permission, who loses power? Allison's Bio: Alison Armstrong is a relationship educator and workshop facilitator who studies relationship patterns between men and women through observation and lived experience—not through clinical psychology or psychiatry. She does not present herself as a psychologist, therapist, neuroscientist, or academic researcher. Her work focuses on how men and women often misinterpret each other's emotional signals, communication styles, and expressions of connection. Her perspective is phenomenological and experiential rather than clinical doctrine.

Dave connects with Jenna Free, author of A Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation, to dismantle the misconception that thriving with neurodivergence requires endless lifestyle hacks. Instead, they dive deep into the power of nervous system regulation and why busy professionals, entrepreneurs, and CEOs frequently find themselves trapped in a frantic cycle of high performance followed by complete shutdown. Jenna highlights how prolonged states of fight-or-flight mimic and intensify ADHD symptoms. She offers a sustainable path to step out of survival mode and provides actionable advice on thriving with adult ADHD. How adults with ADHD can embrace emotional regulation: The Vicious Cycle: Operating in a frantic, rushing state can feel highly productive but inevitably leads to stress, overwhelming burnout and in some cases physical shutdown. The Mechanics of Dysregulation: When stress tricks the nervous system into perceiving routine business challenges as life-threatening, blood physically leaves the brain for the limbs, crippling executive dysfunction and creative focus. The "In-the-Moment" Regulation Strategy: True regulation isn't about avoiding stress or taking constant breaks. It involves interrupting dysregulation in real-time by slowing your physical pace and breathing without abandoning the task at hand. Unpacking Core Beliefs: Common narrative traps, such as feeling constantly "behind" or believing rest must be earned, keep the nervous system stuck in a permanent, defensive tug-of-war. You can find Jenna's book about ADHD and regulation here. https://www.amazon.com/Simple-Guide-ADHD-Regulation-Enjoying/dp/1400254698 **Do you want to work with Dave one-on-one? Go to www.overcomingdistractions.com and book an introductory Zoom chat. Or go directly to Dave's calendar; https://calendly.com/davidgreenwood1/15min  

Trying to perform at a high level with a dysregulated nervous system is like trying to drive a Ferrari with the emergency brake partially engaged. You can still move forward. You can still produce results. But eventually… something burns out. In this deeply impactful episode, I break down one of the most overlooked reasons ambitious people stay stuck, emotionally exhausted, reactive, anxious, disconnected, and unable to sustain success: A chronically dysregulated nervous system. In this episode, you'll learn: What nervous system dysregulation actually is Why many successful people secretly operate in survival mode The hidden emotional cost of always being "on" How childhood conditioning can shape adult performance patterns Why exhaustion and overworking are not badges of honor The difference between emotional suppression vs. emotional regulation How elite performers stay calm, clear, and composed under pressure If you're successful on paper but internally feel wired, overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, reactive, or unable to shut your mind off, this is the wake-up call you need. Time Stamps: 00:00: The Ferrari analogy: performing with a dysregulated nervous system 03:05: Emotional mastery vs. emotional suppression 05:28: Why your next level requires nervous system regulation 12:53: The hidden childhood origins of survival-based performance 17:03: Signs your nervous system is dysregulated 20:10: What the nervous system actually does 22:54: Why dysregulated people become emotionally fragile 25:19: Regulated vs. dysregulated leadership under pressure 28:32: Restaurant owner story: survival mode and emotional exhaustion 35:23: Why elite performers prioritize recovery and regulation 37:48: Common warning signs you're trapped in survival mode 40:23: Why exhaustion is not a badge of honor 41:36: The highest performers stay calm under pressure I help high performers get unstuck and out of their own way to unlock their potential.  If you know you're capable of more but keep feeling stuck, private coaching may be the fastest path forward. Click here to apply to work with me. Follow me on Instagram: @thepaulsalter Watch on YouTube: @thepaulsalter

In this episode, we are joined by Shelly Antoniewicz, Chief Economist at the Investment Company Institute (ICI), for a data-rich exploration of the modern fund industry. Shelly walks us through the staggering scale of global regulated funds, how ETFs and mutual funds shape capital allocation, and why the rise of indexing may not be as disruptive as critics fear. We discuss the growth of ETFs versus mutual funds, increasing concentration among large fund sponsors, and how financial advisors are reshaping portfolios around low-cost investment products. Shelly also explains why fund fees keep falling, how 401(k) plans have democratized investing for middle-class households, and why investor choice remains central to healthy capital markets. Along the way, we unpack active ETFs, intraday liquidity, interval funds, private credit exposure, and the evolving role of retail investors in financial markets.   Key Points From This Episode: (0:00:00) Introducing Shelly Antoniewicz and the role of the Investment Company Institute.  (0:01:14) The Investment Company Fact Book and why it has become a foundational resource for fund industry data.  (0:03:31) Regulated funds globally now account for roughly $88 trillion in assets.  (0:04:47) The U.S. market contains nearly 17,000 investment companies across mutual funds, ETFs, and related structures.  (0:05:40) U.S. equity funds alone hold roughly $27 trillion in assets.  (0:06:52) More than half of mutual fund and ETF assets are now in index strategies.  (0:07:40) Why index funds still represent only a minority share of the overall U.S. stock market.  (0:09:48) What academic research says about indexing's impact on price discovery and market efficiency.  (0:13:10) There are nearly 770 fund sponsors in the U.S., though industry concentration continues to rise.  (0:13:42) ETF sponsors experienced enormous inflows in 2025, with 90% receiving net new cash.  (0:15:23) Why the largest fund complexes now control a much larger share of industry assets.  (0:16:06) Compliance costs and regulation as drivers of industry consolidation.  (0:17:31) Falling expense ratios as evidence that the industry remains highly competitive.  (0:19:28) How investor flows often reflect rebalancing behavior rather than performance chasing.  (0:22:32) Why ETF investors highly value intraday liquidity, even if most do not actively trade.  (0:23:27) Research on ETF trading behavior among younger investors and retail participants.  (0:27:11) The massive shift from actively managed U.S. equity mutual funds toward indexed products.  (0:27:51) How financial advisors increasingly use model portfolios built around ETFs.  (0:31:20) Why active ETFs exploded in popularity after the ETF rule streamlined launches.  (0:32:31) The growing distinction between ETF wrappers and investment strategies themselves.  (0:33:05) Leveraged and niche ETF products, investor choice, and financial education.  (0:35:48) More than half of U.S. households now own regulated investment funds.  (0:36:41) How 401(k) plans dramatically increased middle-class participation in capital markets.  (0:39:16) Households remain the dominant owners of mutual fund assets.  (0:40:28) The demographic profile of the typical mutual fund-owning household.  (0:41:16) ETF-owning households tend to skew younger, wealthier, and more risk tolerant.  (0:42:03) Mutual fund assets continue to grow despite persistent outflows toward ETFs.  (0:43:39) How investor risk tolerance changes with age and market conditions.  (0:46:22) Economies of scale and the continued decline in fund fees.  (0:47:51) Interval funds, BDCs, and the rise of regulated private credit products.  (0:49:36) Redemption caps and liquidity management inside interval funds.  (0:52:51) Shelly reflects on the enduring popularity of the Investment Company Fact Book.  (0:55:05) Shelly's definition of success: raising children who tell you they love you.   Links From Today's Episode: Meet with PWL Capital: https://calendly.com/d/3vm-t2j-h3p Rational Reminder on iTunes — https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-rational-reminder-podcast/id1426530582. Rational Reminder on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/rationalreminder/ Rational Reminder on YouTube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/ Benjamin Felix — https://pwlcapital.com/our-team/ Benjamin on X — https://x.com/benjaminwfelix Benjamin on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminwfelix/   Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (https://thepodcastconsultant.com)

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It is getting hot in California, which has us thinking about the massive carbon footprint of healthcare. The emergency department is famously resource-heavy, but can we save lives and reduce waste? Dr. David Barnes joins us to explain how going green isn’t just about being a “tree hugger”—it's about saving money, cutting waste, and making our hospitals resilient against supply chain chaos. Defining Healthcare Sustainability Balancing Safety and Footprint: Sustainability in healthcare means delivering efficient, affordable care that minimizes resource waste while remaining clinically safe and meaningful. The Power of Resiliency: A sustainable healthcare system is inherently a resilient one. Reducing reliance on single-use items and utilizing local renewable energy sources (like microgrids) protects hospitals from supply chain disruptions caused by geopolitical conflicts or weather-driven power grid failures. The Three Scopes of Emissions Scope 1 (Direct): Emissions directly produced by hospital operations, such as idling fleet vehicles and leaking anesthetic gases. Scope 2 (Indirect): Purchased energy used to power and heat the facilities (e.g., local electricity and steam lines). Scope 3 (Supply Chain): The largest bucket, making up 60% to 80% of healthcare emissions. This includes employee commutes, medical waste incineration, manufacturing of disposable devices, and food production. Clinical Traps: Where We Waste the Most Pre-packaged Kits: Studies show 75% to 80% of items inside specialized kits (like central lines) go completely unused and are thrown away. Over-Preparation: Opening multiple single-use items (like various ET tube sizes) or donning full trauma PPE for minor injuries creates an immediate, unnecessary trash stream. Pharmaceutical Waste: Standard packaging size leads to heavy drug wasting (e.g., using 5 mL from a 100 mL propofol bottle). This regulated medical waste is costly and energy-intensive to incinerate. The Glove Epidemic: Glove overuse skyrocketed during COVID-19 and became a habit. Most routine encounters carry no contamination risk, making glove use clinically unnecessary. Shifting the Culture “Take What You Need, Leave What You Don’t”: Avoid opening supplies you may not need or bringing extra gauze or syringes into a room. Due to infection safety protocols, these often end up in the trash. Watch Where You Toss: Keep coffee cups and paper out of the red biohazard bins. Regulated medical waste costs six times more to process and must be incinerated, creating massive greenhouse gas emissions. Embrace Reprocessing & Reusables: Support partnerships with companies that safely clean and reuse devices historically labeled “single-use” (like EKG leads or waffle mattresses). Swap disposable plastic gowns for reusable cloth gowns that survive 90 washes. Model the Behavior: Culture change takes patience and persistence. Instead of finger-wagging or shaming colleagues, visibly adopt sustainable habits to drive grassroots practice changes. Key Takeaways for the ED Clinician Speak up on bad design: Clinicians are on the front lines of waste. Advocate for local sustainability initiatives to grab the attention of hospital executives who handle major purchasing contracts. Normalize virtual alternatives: Protect staff well-being and slash commuting emissions by offering Zoom or Teams options for short, solitary administrative meetings. Keep it in perspective: Healthcare sustainability is about finding the sweet spot where clinical safety, resource utilization, and environmental impact meet. Hosts: Dr. Julia Magaña, Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Dr. Sarah Medeiros, Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Guest: Dr. David Barnes, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of ED Sustainability, and Member of the Sustainability Committee at UC Davis Health Resources: Practice Greenhealth Health Care Without Harm Green ED (Royal College of Emergency Medicine) *** Thank you to the UC Davis Department of Emergency Medicine for supporting this podcast and to Orlando Magaña at OM Productions for audio production services.

Maria O'Dea from The Event School London explains the school's new ATHE level 4–7 regulated event management diplomas, created to tackle UK industry recruitment shortages by offering a structured, vocational route into events. The episode covers the school's hands-on, industry-led teaching, flexible course options from short masterclasses to degree alternatives, and how it prepares students and career changers for real-world challenges including AI, corporate events and weddings. This episode of the Event Industry News Podcast is sponsored by Present Communications. Present provides broadcast-quality live, hybrid and virtual event production, trusted by organisations where reliability really matters. From corporate town halls and conferences to high-profile live streams, they design and deliver fully resilient systems that work first time. To keep up to date with all the news, subscribe for free here. If you would like to take part in a podcast, then please complete our submission form.

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Your sense of safety might be compromised without you even knowing. Sam Skelly is an award-winning speaker, author, podcaster, entrepreneur, and Founder of Pause Breathwork. Through her business, she helps female founders use breath as a tool for personal transformation, peak performance, and nervous system regulation. In this episode, we talk about how breathwork came to play such a significant role in her business and personal life. We also chat about "sister wounds" and how a regulated nervous system can heal them, along with the importance of feeling safe. In this episode, you will learn about: Why our sense of safety is so heavily compromised these days. What people are really craving today in connection with each other. How our bodies respond to stress and what breathwork trains us to do. What the different levels of safety are and what they each feel like. Where you can find the medicine if you have sister wounds (and move past them). What women are designed to do and how embracing each other helps us do that. Why you need to go all in on what matters to you, both personally and professionally. What it means to be a wild woman: Letting your soul play effortlessly with reality and dancing with life.     Check out The Pink Skirt Project, happening July 9-10, 2026 in Kelowna, BC, Canada.   Want to get unstuck, feel more confident and surround yourself with women ready to help you climb? Join The Pink Skirt Society.   Got a minute? I would love a review! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Click here, scroll to the bottom, tap, and give me five stars. Then select "Write a Review." Make sure to highlight your favorite bits. Subscribe here. Connect with Sam: @samanthaskelly www.samanthaskelly.com www.pausebreathwork.com  Connect with Renée: @renee_warren www.reneewarren.com

This week on Regulated & Relational, Ginger Healy and Julie Beem welcome a very special guest: educator, speaker, and viral content creator, Jere Chang.Known to millions online as “Ms. Chang,” Jere brings humor, honesty, creativity, and deep compassion to conversations about education, inclusion, belonging, and what she calls radical kindness. With more than 20 years in education and a global social media following, Jere has become a powerful voice for teachers, families, and children navigating today's educational landscape.In this conversation, we explore:Jere's journey into teaching and gifted educationWhy social media became a platform for advocacy and connectionWhat “soft activism” and radical kindness really meanThe changing realities facing both students and educators todayThe power of authenticity, curiosity, resilience, and belongingHow laughter and connection can become pathways to healingMs. Chang's new book on Amazon! Becoming the Teacher I Needed: Lessons in Radical Kindness and Resilience https://www.amazon.com/dp/1394357621 Find Ms. Chang on social mediaMs. Chang Gifted Official Website (mschanggifted)TikTok: @mschanggifted on TikTokInstagram: @mschanggifted on InstagramYouTube: Jere Chang (@mschanggifted) on YouTubeFacebook: Ms. Chang Gifted on FacebookLinktree (all socials): Ms. Chang Gifted Linktree (Linktree)

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“Is your nervous system stuck in overdrive?” In this episode, Dr. Mariza sits down with Jenna Free, a counselor specializing in ADHD and nervous system regulation, to discuss why so many women in midlife feel overwhelmed, scattered, and exhausted despite their best efforts to stay organized. Together, they explore how the nervous system gets stuck in a chronic fight-or-flight state, the role of dysregulation in ADHD symptoms, and why traditional productivity hacks simply don't work when your nervous system is running on empty. Jenna breaks down her approach to resetting the nervous system and explains how small, consistent changes can lead to massive improvements in mental clarity, energy, and overall well-being. This conversation offers new insights on how to break free from the cycle of rushing, crashing, and feeling burned out—and provides tangible steps to reclaim control over your brain and nervous system. JENNA FREE Jenna Free is a counselor specializing in ADHD, nervous system regulation, and mindfulness practices. She is passionate about helping women overcome the chaos of constant overwhelm and hypervigilance by teaching them how to regulate their nervous systems and achieve sustainable productivity. Jenna is the author of The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation and offers support to those struggling with ADHD and chronic stress IN THIS EPISODE How a dysregulated nervous system contributes to ADHD-like symptoms in midlife The link between survival mode (fight or flight) and chronic overwhelm Why traditional productivity hacks fail when your nervous system is stuck Practical tips to help interrupt dysregulation and shift into a more balanced state The importance of slowing down and creating space for mindful action How to reframe beliefs and thoughts to support nervous system regulation Why a regulated nervous system leads to more sustainable energy and better overall functioning QUOTES“Being in survival mode is a primal mechanism, but it's not meant to be how we live in 2026.” “If you believe that being frantic and rushed is the way to be successful, you will never change.” “Regulation work isn't about feeling nice—it's about functioning better.” RESOURCES MENTIONED Use code ENERGIZED and get 10% off on your MitoQ Order https://www.mitoq.com/energized  Order The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation https://www.jennafree.com/book ⁠Order my newest book: The Perimenopause Revolution⁠⁠Jenna Free https://peri-revolution.com/ Jenna Free Website https://www.jennafree.com/ Jenna Free Instagram Jenna Free Youtube RELATED EPISODES  744: The Midlife Brain Reset: How to Protect Your Memory, Focus & Mental Sharpness Starting Now 728: Why Brain Fog Isn't Random: The Hormone Shift Behind It 717: “I Don't Feel Like Myself Anymore”: The Mental & Emotional Reality of Perimenopause 693: Tired All the Time? It Might Be Hidden Problems With Your Mitochondria with Siobhan Mitchell

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By Doug Green “Many companies don't even realize they're out of compliance until someone takes a close look at how customer interactions are actually being handled,” said Todd Chisholm, president of IFT Solutions. In a recent Technology Reseller News podcast, I spoke with Todd Chisholm, president of IFT Solutions, about the company's new IFT Fortitude program and why MSPs have an opportunity to bring compliance-focused customer service assessments to business clients in regulated industries. IFT Solutions operates as a business process outsourcing company, providing services that range from customer service and collections to front-end sales support. The company also brings a consulting practice to the table, helping organizations assess whether their customer-facing operations, whether handled internally or outsourced, are meeting compliance expectations in an increasingly complex regulatory environment. That consulting expertise is now being packaged into IFT Fortitude, a program designed to let MSPs offer a white-labeled compliance assessment to their end-user customers. The goal is to help businesses determine whether their in-house or outsourced customer service teams are adhering to data privacy and other regulatory requirements. The timing makes sense. MSPs are increasingly serving customers in verticals where compliance is not optional, yet many of those customers may not realize how exposed they are. A company might have solid intentions and good people in place, but still fall short because processes have evolved unevenly, vendors have changed, or customer interactions are not being reviewed through a compliance lens. In many cases, risk builds quietly in day-to-day operations until an audit, complaint, or incident reveals the gap. Chisholm explained that this is where the MSP can provide more than technology support. By working with IFT, partners can bring a practical assessment service into customer accounts and help identify weaknesses before they become business problems. That creates a new advisory conversation for the MSP while addressing a real operational need for the customer. The Fortitude program is especially relevant in markets where customer communications are tightly tied to privacy, documentation, and process controls. Financial services is an obvious fit, but the broader opportunity extends to any organization handling sensitive customer information or operating in a regulated environment. Healthcare, insurance, and other service-intensive verticals are also likely candidates. For partners, the program offers a way to add value without having to build a compliance practice from scratch. IFT provides the assessment framework and expertise, while the MSP can position the service under its own brand and bring it to existing customers as part of a broader trusted advisor relationship. The larger message from the conversation is that compliance is becoming a business operations issue as much as a legal or technical one. Customer service processes, scripts, escalation paths, and outsourced workflows all matter. MSPs that help customers see that more clearly may find a strong opening for new services and deeper client engagement. For channel partners looking to expand beyond traditional IT support, IFT Fortitude points to a useful direction: practical, white-labeled services that help customers reduce risk while strengthening the MSP's role in the account. Learn more: https://telecomreseller.com/2026/04/21/integrated-financial-technologies-launches-ift-fortitude-to-assess-customer-service-compliance/

Jen Sabella, the Director of Strategy and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago neighborhood stories. She provides details on: After Teens Killed On Scooters, City And State Push To Regulate Motorized Scooters, E-Bikes: A bill to regulate scooters and e-bikes advanced in the House this week, and the city […]

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In episode 352 of Beyond Limits, Liv sits down with Danielle Amos—The Mystic Millionaire Mentor and protégé of Bob Proctor—to unpack the real reason your income isn't expanding… even when you're doing all the “right” things.Danielle Amos is a transformational teacher and guide for ambitious, high-performing women ready to unlock their full potential and achieve extraordinary success. She blends timeless wisdom, energetic mastery, and mindset science to help women shift from feeling stuck and overwhelmed… to embodying abundance and confidently pursuing their highest goals.Her work bridges the mystical and the practical, where spirituality meets self-image, and alignment becomes the foundation for lasting wealth, purpose, and power.Inside this episode:⚡ Why your income is a direct reflection of your self-imageThe shift from external blame to radical responsibility—and how it changes everything

AI is accelerating content creation in pharma—but compliance processes haven't kept up. In this episode of the Healthcare Success Podcast, Stewart Gandolf speaks with Pushpa Ithal and Nikki Wolfert of MarketBeam about how AI is reshaping social media strategy in regulated industries. They explore the growing gap between content scale and MLR review capacity, the rise of domain-trained AI models, and how pharma teams can use AI to improve efficiency without compromising trust, accuracy, or governance.

There was a time when hunting required no permission. If you could reach the marsh, you could hunt it. In this episode, we explore how that changed—and why.   As waterfowl populations collapsed in the late 1800s, states began asking a new question: who owns the wildlife? What followed was the birth of the hunting license—an idea that sparked resistance, challenged tradition, and reshaped the future of hunting.   From early pushback in places like Minnesota to the enforcement era, the Lacey Act, and the rise of hunter-funded conservation, this is the story of how conflict turned into stewardship.   Because the hunting license didn't start as conservation—it started as confrontation. And today, it represents something bigger: The shift from taking what you can… to protecting what remains.   Thanks so much for listening and be sure to subscribe and review!   Join Flyways Hunt Club and get 1 month free! Flyways Hunt Club New Waterfowl Film out now! Out West | Waterfowl Hunting in Montana Stay comfortable, dry and warm: First Lite (Code MWF20) Go to OnXHunt to be better prepared for your hunt: OnX Learn more about better ammo: Migra Ammunitions Weatherby Sorix: Weatherby Support Conservation: DU (Code: Flyways) Stop saying "Huh?" with better hearing protection: Soundgear Live Free: Turtlebox Add motion to your spread: Flashback Better Merch: /SHOP

Anxiety and leadership often go hand in hand, whether a mom, an entrepreneur, or a corporate executive. If you are a leader, you have most likely experienced the fact that anxiety and leadership go hand-in-hand. The Dual Leadership Model™ is designed to help Christian women leaders and others break through anxiety-driven behaviors to lead with calm, confidence, and consistency. Christian Women Leaders You are capable. Driven. Accomplished. You lead a team, run a business, raise a family, or do all three at once. People look to you. You show up. You deliver. And yet, something feels off. Do you find yourself snapping at the people closest to you and then feeling a wave of shame? Maybe you lie awake running through every decision you made that day, wondering if you did enough. Perhaps you say yes when every part of you wants to say no — and then resent it later. Are you are exhausted in a way that sleep does not fix. Here is what no one is telling you: it is not a time management problem. It is not a discipline problem. And it is not a character flaw. It is a loop. And you have been stuck in it longer than you know. High-Achiever Celebration of Anxiety and Leadership What Is the Dual Leadership Loop Model™? The Dual Leadership Loop Model™ is built on a simple but profound truth: at any given moment, you are leading from one of two loops. Loop One: The Anxiety Response Loop The anxiety-driven behaviors at the center of the anxiety response loop: Perfectionism People-pleasing Need for control Defensiveness and overreacting Avoidance Imposter syndrome Comparison Loop Two: The Calm, Confident, and Consistent Leadership Loop The Calm, Confident, Consistent Leadership Loop produces: Clarity and confidence Steady, consistent decision-making Healthy, honest relationships Resilience without rigidity Sustainable growth without burnout The kind of leadership others want to follow The Neuroscience Behind the Anxiety Response Loop The Combination of Neuroscience and Faith For those of us who follow Christ, there is a layer to this that goes deeper than neuroscience. Five Shifts That Will Change How You Lead Anxiety-driven behaviors are your nervous system's way of trying to protect you. They are not character flaws — they are survival adaptations. You are not flawed. Anxiety is biological — not a personal failure. You did not choose it, but you can learn to work with it. Anxiety does not define you. Your identity is not your nervous system response. You are not stuck. You can choose a different response right now. Striving is not sustainable. Regulated leadership is. What to Expect in This Series Over the next six episodes, we are going to walk through each anxiety-driven behavior in the loop — people-pleasing, perfectionism, need for control, imposter syndrome, comparison, defensiveness, and avoidance. We will explore where each one comes from, what it is costing you, what the research says, and most importantly, how to move out of it. This is not a series about trying harder. It is a series about leading differently, better, and safer. Your Next Step as Christian Women Leaders Before the next episode, I want you to do one thing: pay attention and notice what is happening for you. Read the full show notes and access the reflection questions.

In this episode of Regulated & Relational, hosts Tracy Leonard and Ginger Healy sit down with Sage Hancock, Executive Director of GenerationAll, for a powerful and thought-provoking conversation on breaking cycles of trauma and creating systemic change.Sage shares her expertise at the intersection of advocacy, healing, and prevention—exploring what it truly means to be trauma-informed and attachment-focused when supporting children and families impacted by early childhood trauma.Together, they discuss:• What effective prevention looks like for at-risk children and families• How generational and secondary trauma show up across communities• The importance of early identification and how trauma manifests in the body• Why systems like healthcare and policy must shift toward earlier intervention• The “circle” of prevention and moving upstream to stop harm before it happens• Expanding models of care, especially in underserved and rural communities• The role of storytelling—including Hometown Betrayal—in driving awareness and changeThis episode is a deep dive into how we move from awareness to action—centering lived experience, strengthening families, and reimagining systems to better protect and support survivors.Learn more about GenerationAll: https://www.generationall.org/Follow on social: @generation.allBook referenced: Hometown Betrayalhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4KS4S4H

May is National Foster Care Month! For today's episode, we've invited author Jamie Finn to help us discover how faith and foster care are deeply connected. Jamie Finn opens up about the surprising realities that reshaped her family’s mission. You’ll hear what truly sustains foster families through their hardest seasons. Listen in for practical wisdom that applies whether you foster yourself or simply want to love foster families well. Key Takeaways: Trauma reshapes the brain. Regulated parents create safety for dysregulated children Foster families thrive when their community refuses to look away Following Jesus leads us toward discomfort, not away Mentioned in this Podcast: Ebook – What Kids Need: 4 Messages That Build Identity https://www.instagram.com/fosterthefamilyblog/ https://www.fosterthefamily.org/ https://www.filledretreat.com/ https://www.filledtogether.com/ Book – Foster the Family by Jamie Finn Book – Filled: 60 Devotions for the Foster Parent’s Heart by Jamie Finn Book – God Loves Kids: A Gospel-Centered Book About Foster Care by Jamie Finn Podcast – A Parenting Framework for Adoption and Fostering? Yes! | Ep. 157 Podcast – Parenting Adopted Children: Building Connection After Trauma | Ep. 272 Check out our website for more resources to support your parenting! This podcast was made possible by members of The Table, whose monthly support creates a ripple effect of change for generations to come. We'd love to have you take a seat at The Table! Love the podcast? Leave a review to help other parents discover the show! Guest Bio: Jamie C. Finn is the author of the bestselling book, Foster the Family, as well as Filled: 60 Devotions for the Foster Parent's Heart, and a new children's book, God Loves Kids: A Gospel-Centered Book About Foster Care. She is the founder and President of Foster the Family and founder of the Filled Gathering. She uses her social media accounts to offer a glimpse into the real life of a foster parent and provide encouragement to tens of thousands of foster and adoptive parents. Jamie is the mother to 7 children through foster care, adoption, and birth. She lives in Sicklerville, New Jersey, with her husband, Alan. © 2026 Connected Families .stk-ff19205-container{box-shadow:7px 5px 30px rgba(72,73,121,0.15) !important}.stk-ff19205 > .stk-separator__bottom{transform:scaleX(-1) !important}@media screen and (max-width:999px){.stk-ff19205-column{--stk-col-order-1:2 !important;--stk-col-order-2:1 !important}}@media screen and (max-width:689px){.stk-ff19205-column{--stk-col-order-1:2 !important;--stk-col-order-2:1 !important}} .stk-4bc716e{align-self:center !important} .stk-d485067{align-self:center !important} .stk-85db8e2 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:50px !important}@media screen and (max-width:999px){.stk-85db8e2 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:50px !important}}@media screen and (max-width:689px){.stk-85db8e2 .stk-block-heading__text{font-size:30px !important}}4 simple messages.1 simple framework. .stk-837ad59 .stk-block-text__text{font-size:19px !important}@media screen and (max-width:999px){.stk-837ad59 .stk-block-text__text{font-size:19px !important}}Get the FREE ebook, and start your journey toward better, more connective discipline in your home.

Why Does It Have To Be Hard?The Belief That's Quietly Sabotaging Your HealthThe Thrive Forever Fit Show with Jay NixonWhy do you assume this has to be hard?Why do we automatically believe that if we don't fully understand something yet, it must be difficult?If we're not masters at it yet, it must be overwhelming?In this episode, Jay breaks down one of the most limiting beliefs holding people back from real health transformation: the assumption that growth has to feel hard.And the truth might surprise you.Most of what you call “hard” is simply unfamiliar.Hard vs. UnfamiliarThe first time you stepped into a gym felt hard.The first time you changed your nutrition felt hard.The first time you looked at bloodwork felt complicated.Not because it was impossible.Because it was new.When something is unfamiliar, your nervous system activates. Your breathing shifts. Your heart rate increases. Your thoughts speed up.If you don't regulate that response, your brain labels the experience as threat.And once something feels like a threat, your instinct is to avoid it.That's where most people quit.Not because they couldn't succeed.Because it felt unsafe.The Emotional Regulation AdvantageThis episode dives into emotional regulation as an elevated strategy for long-term health success.When you can stay regulated inside discomfort, you stop labeling growth as danger.You stop dramatizing change.You stop making the unfamiliar heavier than it needs to be.And that changes everything.Because this isn't just mindset.It's physiology.The Metabolic ConnectionWhen you repeatedly interpret growth as threat:• Cortisol rises• Blood sugar rises• Sleep quality drops• Recovery declines• Decision-making weakensBraced bodies do not adapt efficiently.Regulated bodies do.The belief that “this is hard” can become a self-fulfilling loop that keeps you stuck metabolically, emotionally, and behaviorally.The Shift That Changes EverythingInstead of asking:“Why is this so hard?”Start asking:“Is this actually hard… or is this just new?”That question creates space.And space allows regulation.Regulation creates clarity.Clarity builds momentum.Momentum builds mastery.Why This MattersThe Thrive Forever Fit approach isn't about making your life harder.It's about helping you stay steady inside growth.When your nervous system is regulated:• You don't panic over scale fluctuations• You don't spiral over setbacks• You don't quit when things feel unfamiliar• You maintain equilibriumAnd equilibrium is power.The Core TakeawayMost of what you call hard is simply unfamiliar.Most of what feels overwhelming is your nervous system asking for regulation.The moment you stop interpreting growth as danger, you stop making your health journey heavier than it needs to be.And that's when real transformation begins.Because you didn't change the challenge.You changed your response to it.And that changes everything.

 Daily Shift 147: You can't pour from a regulated nervous system you don't have Everyone's heard "you can't pour from an empty cup." But what happens when the cup itself is broken? In today's episode, Celeste takes that idea deeper — into your nervous system. Because it's not just about being full. It's about being regulated. And if your system is dysregulated, no amount of rest or self-care will stick until you address what's underneath. If you keep trying to take care of everyone else while running on fumes, this one will change how you think about it. Today's shift: Do one regulation practice before you give anything to anyone today.

Rideshare Rodeo Podcast (episode 571) April 30th, 2026 Topics: NYC Delivery Tips Way Down Uber and Deliveroo/DoorDash U.K. accused of involvement in Human Trafficking Shootout at Walgreens involving DoorDasher WAYMO finally getting regulated and quickly Uber Problems mounting EVERYWHERE Rideshare Rodeo Brand & Podcast: https://linktr.ee/RideshareRodeo 

Send us Fan MailIn a culture that glorifies hustle and labels rest as laziness, many of us struggle to slow down—even when we're exhausted. But what if the real issue isn't discipline… it's dysregulation?In this episode, we're talking about the difference between being tired and being dysregulated and why rest doesn't always feel restful when your system is stuck in survival mode. We're going to break down what's really happening in your body, why slowing down can feel uncomfortable (or even wrong), and how to begin building a version of rest that actually works for you.Full episode available for VIP listeners where we go deeper into how to retrain your nervous system, practical regulation strategies, and how to stop equating rest with failure.Support the showDisclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy or professional mental health care.Want more? Subscribe now and take a seat In Session! https://www.buzzsprout.com/1679131/supportFollow us on Instagram: @insessionthepodcast Join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/insessionthepodcast/

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Liv sits down with Shermin Lakha, Founder of LVLUP Legal, co-founder of Tiger Tiger Creative Agency and Connected table, and has been featured in Vogue Business and Forbes.Shermin shares her journey from doing everything “right” in corporate law to walking away and building a business rooted in creativity, strategy, and self-trust. Together, they unpack the deeper layers behind success, from money patterns and negotiation to identity, confidence, and the internal standards that drive everything.This conversation goes beyond business. It is about the mindset, energy, and self-worth behind the results.Inside this episode:⚡ Why success alone will never feel like enoughWhat drives high performers to keep chasing more and where that pattern actually comes from

High attrition rates in Health and Illness and Pharmacology courses led the authors to develop a mid-curricular summer bridge program for students to develop their self-regulated learning (SRL) and to reduce attrition in these courses. Dr. Avallone and Samantha Tucker in this podcast and article describe their Bridge Program and its effectiveness: students developed their SRL skills, and the Bridge Program significantly reduced attrition rates.

In this episode of The Podcast Advertising Playbook, host Heather Osgood sits down with Jed Baker, former CEO of Starglow Media and now Head of Audio at SuperAwesome.Jed shares the story behind building Starglow into a leading kids and family podcast network, and what ultimately made its acquisition by SuperAwesome the right strategic move. The conversation dives into the unique challenges and opportunities of operating in a highly regulated category, and why the kids and family space may be one of the most overlooked opportunities in podcast advertising today.Why advertisers have historically shied away from kids and family podcastingThe realities of building an ad-supported network in a regulated environmentHow to position podcast advertising to brands used to digital and social channelsWhat performance metrics actually resonate in this categoryWhere the biggest opportunities lie for podcast advertising in the next 3–5 yearsIf you've ever wondered how podcast advertising works in more complex categories or where untapped opportunity might exist, this episode offers a thoughtful look at what's possible.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Liv breaks down the subtle, normalized patterns that quietly keep you stuck and why most people are unknowingly operating from fear instead of expansion. This is the kind of episode that will have you catching yourself in real time.Inside this episode:⚡ The hidden role fear plays in your decisions and how it silently blocks expansion

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Liv pulls you into a moment you can feel in your body… the edge.The place where nothing looks like it's happening, but everything is building beneath the surface.Inside this episode:⚡ What it actually feels like to be on the edge of your next level and why it often looks like nothing is working

The IRS Dirty Dozen 2026 Episode 380 – The IRS has published its annual “Dirty Dozen” list for 2026. As always, scammers keep coming up with new tricks to snare unsuspecting taxpayers. It's best to know what you're up against! More SML Planning Minute Podcast Episodes Transcript of Podcast Episode 380 Hello, this is Bill Rainaldi, with another edition of Security Mutual's SML Planning Minute. In today's episode: the IRS has published its annual “Dirty Dozen” list for 2026. It's safe to say that the IRS is not exactly America's most popular government agency. But every once in a while, they do something we can all get behind. If you ever want to know the latest on what some criminals are doing to steal your money, the IRS can help. Their annual Dirty Dozen listing of tax scams provides us with a guide to some of the things we need to look out for. In publishing this list every year, the IRS is trying to encourage people to remain vigilant. As IRS Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano points out, “For more than two decades, the IRS has used the Dirty Dozen list to flag emerging scams that taxpayers should watch out for.”[1] Here is their newly published 2026 list, in order.[2] IRS impersonators. Criminals will use emails (phishing) and text messages (smishing) to trick someone into believing that the IRS is looking for them. They use intimidating language to convince someone to click where they shouldn't be clicking. They also like using QR codes to take you to a fake—but authentic-looking—IRS website. The IRS says they reported over 600 social media impersonators last year. Of course, it's best never to click on any unsolicited correspondence claiming to be from the IRS. The rise of AI spoofing. Scammers have discovered a new tool in recent years: using AI to impersonate IRS personnel. Some bogus phone calls now use AI for “voice mimicry” and “spoofed caller ID” to make them seem real. The IRS reminds us that they generally contact taxpayers by mail first, and they don't leave urgent, threatening or demanding messages. Fake charities. Crooks are ready to step in whenever there's a natural disaster or some other form of tragedy, and a phony charity is one of their most popular tools. They get unknowing taxpayers to give their money away in the hope of getting a tax deduction. When discovered, this can result in tax charges, interest and penalties once the scam is recognized. Social media “tax hacks.” Let the buyer beware when it comes to tax advice on social media. The IRS says that social media is “a major driver of tax scams.” Sometimes so-called “tax hacks” can go viral, leading people to claim credits they're not entitled to. The IRS reminds us that if you file a fraudulent tax return, you could potentially face significant civil and criminal penalties. It's best to follow trusted tax professionals and other reputable sources. Identity theft using online IRS accounts. Scammers sometimes use stolen data to get access to someone's IRS account. The IRS encourages people to set up their own accounts through IRS.gov, and to stay away from third parties who offer unsolicited help. Abusive claims involving long-term capital gains. Regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts often use IRS Form 2439. The form is used when the fund has undistributed long-term capital gains. Long-term capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income. The IRS has noticed an uptick in fraudulent claims where the filing organization is not an investment fund or real estate investment trust, and thus not eligible for this special provision. “Self-Employment Tax Credits.” Crooks are using misleading claims about “self-employment tax credits” to generate illegal refunds. The credits were available in 2020 and 2021 as part of legislation passed in the wake of the pandemic. They were actively promoted on social media, and there have been a significant number of fraudulent claims for such credits. “Ghost” tax preparers. The IRS defines a “ghost” preparer as someone who prepares a tax return but then refuses to sign it, or refuses to provide what's called a “Preparer Tax Identification Number” or PTIN. Remember that, regardless of who prepares the return, you are legally responsible for what you file. Being without a signature from the preparer or PTIN is considered a red flag. Non-cash charitable donations. Charitable donations for “conservation easements” and artwork have long been subject to scrutiny. An example of a conservation easement is a farm owner signing an agreement to permanently maintain the property as farmland, thus disallowing any future development on the property. This causes a decrease in the property's value, and the owner gets a tax deduction for doing it. Such donations are often legitimate, but they can be abused. Overstated tax withholding. This is a new entry on the list. Sometimes a scammer will suggest overstating the amount of tax withheld in order to receive a bigger refund. This is often referred to as “other withholding.” Of course, if you overstate your withholding, you can be subject to penalties and enforcement action. Spear phishing and malware. According to the IRS, criminals will go after businesses and tax pros with phony “new client” or “document request” emails. They warn people to be suspicious of unexpected requests for confidential information or urgent payment demands. The scammers use these tricks to steal personal data and/or deliver malware. “Offers in Compromise.” This one is an oldie but a goodie. An Offer in Compromise (OIC) is, essentially, a reduced settlement of a debt owed to the IRS. The problem is that so-called “OIC Mills” sometimes charge high fees, use high-pressure tactics, and make promises they can't keep. The IRS goes on to talk about some ways people can protect themselves from these scams. Some are obvious: don't click on a link you weren't expecting, and don't open an unexpected attachment. Also, if you get a phone call you weren't expecting from someone claiming to be with the IRS, simply hang up. The IRS also encourages people to report any suspicious activities. If you think your identity may have been stolen, they suggest you visit IRS.gov/idtheft. You can also take a look at IRS.gov/SubmitATip. This new online tool consolidates all the IRS fraud-reporting options into a single location. [1] Internal Revenue Service. “Dirty Dozen tax scams for 2026: IRS reminds taxpayers to watch out for dangerous threats.” IRS.gov. https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/dirty-dozen-tax-scams-for-2026-irs-reminds-taxpayers-to-watch-out-for-dangerous-threats (accessed April 1, 2026). [2] Id. 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Legacy financial systems often trap organizations in "data swamps" where AI is mistakenly treated as a magic fix for fundamentally broken manual architectures. In this episode, Juan Orlandini, CTO of North America at Insight, outlines why senior executives must distinguish between statistical AI outputs and the mathematical precision required for financial compliance to avoid significant reporting risks. The conversation provides a roadmap for building a scalable operating layer by prioritizing data engineering and leveraging established vendor knowledge to protect long-term investment. This episode is sponsored by K1x. Learn how brands work with Emerj and other Emerj Media options at https://go.emerj.com/partner

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Liv continues the conversation and breaks down the next five standards she lives by that shape how she creates wealth in every area of her life. This is part two of a two-part series.Inside this episode:⚡ The standards Liv holds in her relationships and why being fully met changes everything

Why does it feel like everyone's a fitness influencer these days?! Posting workout videos without science-based advice is one thing, but promoting supplements that aren't only mislabeled but sometimes not even legally on the market is another. And it's more common than you think. Host Maria Kestane speaks to Rohil Daliwal, an associate researcher at Mass General Brigham to discuss the highly-saturated and barely-regulated workout supplement market. We love feedback at The Big Story, as well as suggestions for future episodes. You can find us:Through email at hello@thebigstorypodcast.ca Or @thebigstory.bsky.social on Bluesky

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Liv answers a powerful audience question and unpacks the first five standards she lives by that shape how she creates wealth in every area of her life.This is part one of a two-part series, where she walks through the foundational standards that compound into long-term success.Inside this episode:⚡ Why “connection to source” isn't a morning routine, it's a way of moving through your entire day

The South American coca plant was established in 19th-century Britain as a medical product before it became a globally restricted drug. Drawing on botanical, economic, pharmaceutical, social, and political perspectives, in Coca and the Victorians: From Botanical Curiosity to Regulated Drug, 1835–1912 (Transcript Publishing, 2025), Dr. Kim Embrey analyses how the use and perception of coca changed as it was transferred to Europe. In a process of cultural dissimilation, coca was not simply adopted, but embedded into new medical, social, and scientific contexts. The study shows how a plant from the Andes was repositioned in British modernity. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. You can find Miranda's interviews on New Books with Miranda Melcher, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Hey, Survivor! What does self-regulation actually look like in a stressful, triggering environment? As I sat through intense courtroom testimony this week, I had to stay calm, composed, and grounded—without visibly reacting.  It wasn't easy, but it was necessary. I'll share the tools I used in real time, including breathwork, physical awareness, emotional processing, and cognitive reframing. If you've ever felt overwhelmed, triggered, or afraid of how you might react in a difficult moment, this episode will give you practical tools to stay in control and maintain your  integrity.

I break down why so many people feel overwhelmed, anxious, and mentally scattered in today's world. I explore how constant exposure to global information is disrupting our sense of reality and psychological stability. I also share my prediction for what's coming over the next few years and why more people may struggle to stay grounded. Finally, I walk you through the key tools you'll need to not just survive—but stay sane and resilient through massive change.SHOW HIGHLIGHTS00:00 - Why the world feels overwhelming01:30 - The problem with too much information03:20 - Consuming what you can't control04:50 - The 3 layers of reality08:30 - How reality fragmentation affects your mind14:20 - Entering the “Negredo” phase18:40 - Skill 1: Adaptability23:30 - Skill 2: Regulated resilience30:10 - Choosing who you become***Tired of feeling like you're never enough? Build your self-worth with help from this free guide: https://training.mantalks.com/self-worthPick up my book, Men's Work: A Practical Guide To Face Your Darkness, End Self-Sabotage, And Find Freedom: https://mantalks.com/mens-work-book/Heard about attachment but don't know where to start? Try the FREE Ultimate Guide To AttachmentCheck out some other free resources: How To Quit Porn | Anger Meditation | How To Lead In Your RelationshipBuild brotherhood with a powerful group of like-minded men from around the world. Check out The Alliance. Enjoy the podcast? Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Podchaser. It helps us get into the ears of new listeners, expand the ManTalks Community, and help others find the tools and training they're looking for. And don't forget to subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | SpotifyFor more, visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram

In this episode of Beyond Limits, Liv breaks down what it really takes to become the exception to the rule.Because it's not strategy.It's not branding.And it's not about doing more.Inside this episode:⚡ Why “blending in” isn't strategy… it's a nervous system response

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In today's episode I sit down with Dr. Elisha Goldstein to explore how small, practical shifts can help us break out of the constant overwhelm so many parents are living in. We talk about why knowing what to do isn't the same as actually doing it, how chronic low-grade stress impacts the way we show up with our kids, and why self-regulation is one of the most important skills we can model. We discuss simple, in-the-moment tools to interrupt reactive patterns, calm the nervous system, and move from reacting to responding, as well as how these “tiny shifts” can improve not just our parenting, but our overall health and well-being.I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! Pre-order your copy of The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans https://draliza.com/pre-order/Subscribe to my free newsletter for parenting tips delivered straight to your inbox: draliza.substack.com Follow me on Instagram for more:@raisinggoodhumanspodcast Sponsored by: Pocket Hose: Text HUMANS to 64000 to get a FREE pocket pivot and their 10-pattern sprayer with the purchase of ANY size Copper Head hose. Message and data rates may applyExperian: Get started with the Experian App now!First Day: Our listeners get up to 57% Off AND a Free Gift with code HUMANS at FirstDay.comAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Visit eatright.org/everytable to learn more and find a nutrition and dietetics professional.Little Spoon: littlespoon.com/TRYFORMULAProduced by Dear Media.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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