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What if success isn't something you chase — but something you choose? In this episode of Deeper Than Dough, Bennett Maxwell sits down with Rich Walker — serial entrepreneur and CEO of Quick — for a raw, insightful conversation on aligning business with personal values, and why leadership in the age of AI starts from the inside out. Rich shares stories from his early entrepreneurial days (yes, at 12), lessons from navigating the ups and downs of building companies, and how purpose has been the north star in his business journey. From AI's impact on leadership to choosing happiness as a mindset, this episode goes deep on what really drives long-term success — and fulfillment. They also explore how today's founders can use AI not just to scale their businesses, but to grow personally, stay aligned, and build in a way that actually feels meaningful. If you're curious about what's next in business and what it means to lead from values, this one's for you. Connect with Rich Email: rwalker@quikforms.com Website: https://www.quickforms.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quikformsceo Book: "It's My Life! I Can Change If I Want To" - http://amzn.to/iKPWK0 Connect with Bennett Instagram: @bennettmaxwell35 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bennett-maxwell-703717126 Subscribe to Deeper Than Dough Apple Podcasts: https://shorturl.at/bjozA Spotify: https://shorturl.at/klE37 Don't forget to like and subscribe so you never miss a weekly episode!
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Why did you decide to own a property management business instead of working for someone else? Did you just want money, or was it something deeper that drove you to become an entrepreneur? In this episode of The Property Management Growth Show, industry growth expert Jason Hull sits down with Rich Walker, Founder of Quik! Forms to discuss adaptability as an entrepreneur and embracing change. You'll Learn [01:55] Entrepreneurial Tendancies from a Young Age [13:49] Reasons for Starting a Business [20:08] Embracing Change and Facing Adversity [30:31] The Power of In-Person Interaction Quotables “ You build something people want, they'll pay you for it.” “There's no value in worry.” “We think we want more money because we think it's going to give us more freedom and fulfillment, but we actually have less fulfillment and less freedom the more money we make.” “If everybody thinks they're right, then my beliefs can be just as right.” Resources DoorGrow and Scale Mastermind DoorGrow Academy DoorGrow on YouTube DoorGrowClub DoorGrowLive TalkRoute Referral Link Transcript [00:00:00] Rich: What do you get when you have your best work? [00:00:01] Rich: You get joy, you get fulfillment, you get productivity, you get engagement and you get the highest possible outcome from every person on your team. That's why I'm an entrepreneur more than anything else. [00:00:11] Jason: All right. Welcome DoorGrow property managers to the property management growth show. If you are a property management entrepreneur that wants to add doors, make a difference, increase revenue, impact lives, help others, and you're interested in growing your business and life and you're open to doing things a bit differently, then you are a DoorGrow property manager DoorGrow property managers love the opportunities, daily variety, unique challenges, and freedom that property management brings. Many in real estate think you're crazy for doing it. You think they're crazy for not because you realize that property management is the ultimate high trust gateway to real estate deals, relationships, and residual income. At DoorGrow, we are on a mission to transform property management business owners and their businesses. We want to transform the industry, eliminate the BS, build awareness, change perception, expand the market, and help the best property management entrepreneurs win. I'm your host, property management, growth expert, Jason Hull, the founder and CEO of DoorGrow. Now let's get into the show. [00:01:13] Jason: And my guest today, I'm hanging out with a local Austinite, fellow friend that I know locally, CEO and co founder of Quik! Forms Processing, Rich Walker. Welcome Rich. [00:01:26] Rich: Hey everybody. Really an honor to be here. Jason. Thanks for having me on your show today. [00:01:30] Jason: Yeah, glad to have you. [00:01:31] Jason: So you're doing some really cool stuff in business. And it's been great. We're in a mastermind locally together. And and you're going to be speaking to our audience at DoorGrow Live, you know, for those listening, make sure you get your tickets to DoorGrow Live. And you've written some books, like tell everybody, give us some background on Rich and how you kind of got into entrepreneurism and like, what you do. [00:01:55] Rich: So, well, boy, this could be a long story or I'll try to keep it brief. Look, I grew up very poor. I was the product of a broken household, if you will. And I learned very early on that if you make something people want, they'll pay you for it. It's amazing. So I started my first business at age 12. I took a $300 investment and turned it into over $1,100 in one day at an event. [00:02:18] Rich: And I was stunned. I was just struck with all these people handing me fistfuls of cash to buy my product. And I said, "wow, this is what I'm going to be. I'm going to be an entrepreneur. I'm going to build businesses." [00:02:29] Jason: What was the product at age 12? [00:02:31] Rich: Oh, man. So I should show it to you. I'd have to go off screen to get it. [00:02:35] Rich: But if you know what surgical tubing looks like stretchy latex tubing, and you know what a pen tip looks like, take the pen tip, shove it into the tube, tie a knot on the other end, and then get a garden hose with a cone shaped nozzle and it blows up a long tube of water. Like a squirt gun. Yeah, we called them water weenies. [00:02:52] Rich: Yeah, I made those. Yeah! Yeah. [00:02:56] Rich: So, but imagine before the super soaker came out, what were your options? You had water balloons, hand grenades, you had squirt guns that went five feet, you had the hose stuck to the house and then water weenies, which squirted 30 feet and carried gallons of water on your back. [00:03:13] Rich: So you are the king of the water fights. [00:03:15] Jason: Yeah, and you got a good workout. [00:03:18] Rich: Yeah, amazing. [00:03:19] Jason: How long were these tubes? How long would you cut them? [00:03:23] Rich: The longest cut length would be three feet, but when it filled up, it was nine feet. So imagine, draped around your neck, down to your toes, with water. [00:03:31] Jason: Nine feet of water filled hose. [00:03:32] Jason: Yeah. Yeah. [00:03:33] Rich: Yeah. So you were just a walking, like fire truck. [00:03:36] Jason: I just got back from funnel hacking live and Russell Brunson always shares a story of starting by selling potato guns online, like how to build potato guns. This sounds very reminiscent. [00:03:47] Rich: Yeah, very much. It was a really awesome experience. I mean, honestly, going from having nothing to having money in my hands. [00:03:54] Rich: And actually I saved up money at age 12, just about to turn 13. I saved it until I bought my first car when I turned 16. [00:04:01] Jason: Wow. Wow. All right. So you ever heard of the marshmallow tests they give kids? I'm not sure. It's like, it's delayed gratification versus instant gratification, right? So they put a marshmallow in front of them and they make them wait with it. [00:04:14] Jason: And they're like, you can eat this marshmallow, but if you don't eat it by the time I get back, then I'll give you two marshmallows or something like this. I think it's how it goes. And most kids fail. They're like, "Oh, I really want that." Or they'll put cookie or whatever it is, you know, showing you saving money, when there's like, you could buy video games as a kid, like whatever, right? That's some serious delayed gratification right there, so. [00:04:38] Rich: You know, Jason, I got to tell a bigger story here because really this is what happened at age eight, I went to my friend's house and my friend had a radio controlled car. [00:04:46] Rich: It was a kit you had to build yourself, but it would drive 35 miles per hour off road. It was amazing. This is the eighties, right? Yeah. And I wanted that car so bad. And we were so poor. There was no way my parents were going to buy me a $300 car. And in today's money, that's like 12 to 1500 bucks. Okay. Yes. [00:05:03] Rich: So that's not going to happen. So I started saving my money, birthday, Christmas money. I would sell candy around the neighborhood. I would rake leaves for a neighbor and make $2. Anything I could do, anything I could do to save money. It took me four years. To save up the $300. And that summer that I got introduced to water weenies was by my neighbor. He was a supplier to physicians. His son and I played all the time. And he came out and gave us these water weenies to play with, but then he took them back and all the other kids wanted one. So I was kind of observant and I said, "Hey, In your shed, I see a reel of tubing. Can I buy that from you?" [00:05:36] Rich: It was like 25 feet of tubing. "He's like, okay, how much?" It was like 12 bucks or something. Ran home, grabbed the money out of my bank account, gave it to him, went home, started cutting links, destroyed every pen in my house and started selling. And within a day or two, I had sold $50 worth of stuff. So I went and bought another 25 feet and sold another $50 bucks. [00:05:53] Rich: Then I went to summer camp and I rode my bike and squirted every kid I could find had 20 kids chasing me on my bike. And then I'd sell them all the water. So over that course of that summer, I got to the $300 mark and I bought the car. Now, my uncle saw all this behavior and said, "Rich next summer, I'm hosting fourth of July. [00:06:10] Rich: You could have a booth and sell these water weenies there. Would you like to do that?" I'm like, "yeah, absolutely." Months and months go by, go through winter, go into spring, my mom reminds me of this opportunity. And I'm like, okay, so I go to my neighbor, "How much for a thousand feet of tubing?" "300 bucks." [00:06:24] Rich: Guess what I don't have? I don't have 300 anymore. [00:06:27] Jason: Yeah. [00:06:27] Rich: So I said to him, "Hey, look, your son is about to have his birthday. Wouldn't it be cool if he had this RC car? He loves playing with it. Would you barter with me and trade me for the tubing?" And the guy's a saint. Honestly, I wish I could find him and say thank you because he did it. [00:06:42] Rich: His son got a great car. I got the tubing. I wrote a letter to Scripto pen company and said, "Hey, I'm doing a project. I need some sample pen tips. Would you mind sending me some?" They sent me a box of 5,000 pen tips for free. [00:06:52] Jason: What? [00:06:53] Rich: No cost. And so then I had all the materials to put it together and showed up at 4th of July, started selling by 7am, sold out by 1pm. [00:07:01] Rich: And this is why I said I had fist fulls of money. I had people at this, you know, long table. I had people out eight to 10 people deep lined up to buy these things. And it's all I could do is to take money and give them a water weenie. My pockets filled up with cash and my mom would pull the cash out of my pockets and put it in a safe box over and over again that day. [00:07:18] Jason: What were you selling each one for [00:07:20] Rich: Anywhere from like $1.50-4.00 or something, depending on the length. [00:07:24] Jason: Yeah. [00:07:25] Rich: Yeah. [00:07:25] Jason: Okay. [00:07:26] Rich: It was such an incredible experience. And that's why I said, man, I'm going to be an entrepreneur. So I just knew that I was bitten and I had to do this and look, I'm age 50 now, my company that I own today, Quik! Just celebrated our 23rd anniversary, and I've started 10, about 10 different business ventures and companies since age 12. So I've always just had this desire to fulfill my own sense of freedom and creativity and serve people. Yeah. So yeah, that's really the genesis of it. [00:07:55] Rich: Like you build something people want, they'll pay you for it. And it's an amazing thing. [00:07:59] Jason: I love it. You see a problem, you saw an opportunity. And lots of other people saw the problem. They just didn't see the opportunity. They're like, man, I would love that one of these. It's nice, you know, and you were able to fill that need. [00:08:12] Jason: So that's a great story. Love that story. That's how you kind of got it like, you know, bit by the bug of entrepreneurism. [00:08:19] Rich: Yeah. Now, the Quik! company started because in the nineties, I worked at other companies that worked at Arthur Anderson, for example, and I learned technology, especially from like a backend perspective of big tech. How does it all work? How does it flow together? And I decided to get out of tech consulting late in the year 2000. [00:08:39] Jason: Yeah. [00:08:39] Rich: And in doing that, I really went back to my degree in college, which was finance and said, "I really love finance. Let me help people with their money." So I became a financial advisor. [00:08:47] Jason: Okay. [00:08:48] Rich: And in doing that. You go out and get your licenses, you work really hard for all that, you work really hard to gain the trust and respect of your first client, and then they finally say, "yes, I will open an account with you," and guess what your reward is? Yeah, fine, you can make a commission that's a reward. [00:09:01] Rich: No, you get to handwrite paperwork. And I thought, man, this sucks. I am not going to make $4 an hour handwriting paperwork for people. I used to charge $200 an hour as a consultant, so how do I fix this problem? And I decided to build software, because I was a technologist, that would fill out my forms. Jason, it was a hack. [00:09:19] Rich: It was a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet with fields overlaid on images. It was just a hack. It just made it work, but everybody around me for six months kept saying, "Rich, give me your software. I hate filling out forms," and I was in this quandary of, "wow, I have found a need. But I want to be a financial advisor. What do I do?" And after six months, I finally said, "okay, let's build the product." So we did our first install in February 11, 2002 and never looked back. I mean, we found out people really wanted this and it's changing people's lives. It was empowering them to do their best work, which is not paperwork. And today we manage a library of over 42,000 forms. [00:09:57] Rich: And we generate over a million forms every month across wealth management industry, serving well over a hundred thousand financial professionals. [00:10:05] Jason: Yeah. [00:10:05] Rich: So yeah. Yeah. [00:10:07] Jason: That's awesome. Yeah. I had a short job. I worked for a while at Verizon, like in their business DSL tech support. Like I was an internet support guy and after every call, it was a call center, after every call that we did, we had to fill out this ridiculous form it just took so much time and we were measured on the time that we were unavailable between calls and how many calls we completed. And so I found some sort of like macro tool because there was only like three, maybe four types of tickets that we would do. [00:10:40] Jason: It was always the same sort of challenges. But we had to fill out all of these fields of ridiculous, stupid stuff. And so I use this macro tool that basically if I type a certain thing, it would just spit out a whole bunch of other stuff and it would go tab from field and fill it all out. And so I set this up because I started to see these patterns. [00:11:00] Jason: And so then I, similar to what you did I solved the problem for myself. So I built this thing that I could then just do this type of ticket, this type of ticket. And then there were other people on the floor and they're like, "man, I'm going to get fired. I can't do this. I can't do this fast enough." [00:11:14] Jason: Well, so then I'm starting to help people. So now I'm like a virus on the floor and the managers didn't like me for some reason. Like my manager did not like that I was doing this. I don't know why. Because maybe he didn't come up with the idea. I don't know. Yeah. Then I'm starting to help other people so they don't get fired, and I'm showing, you know, other people on the floor, how to set this up and how to do this and giving them my formula and, you know, for the script language for how to do this. And they're able to close their tickets out like really fast. They're just like "bloop!", and it's like "vrrrrrr", and they're like, cool next. [00:11:47] Jason: Right. And what was baffling to me at the time is that it was not seen as a positive by my superiors. It was seen as a problem and I'm like you are an idiot and this is where I kind of realized Like a lot of times, you know, you've heard of the Peter principle? Yeah. Which for those listening... [00:12:09] Rich: You're at your highest level of mediocrity. [00:12:12] Jason: Or incompetence. [00:12:13] Jason: Right? [00:12:14] Jason: And so, yeah, which means basically people get promoted because they're good at a certain level and then they get promoted again, just beyond their current capacity or ability to perform well. And now they're at a level where they are no longer able to intellectually maybe rise to the occasion or be good. [00:12:32] Jason: And so businesses are just full or rife with all of these people that like, especially big organizations, cause I was at HP. You know, I just saw it everywhere. I always had idiots like above me is what it felt like that were telling me I couldn't do things or slowing me down and I'm like, "don't you see?" [00:12:50] Jason: And then what would happen is months later, that idea that I was trying to push that they were fighting me on was their new idea. They're like, "I have this new idea." [00:13:01] Rich: What you're explaining is the real truth. And it took me a while to figure this out for why I'm an entrepreneur. [00:13:07] Jason: Yeah. [00:13:08] Rich: I want to be able to do my best work and anytime I've worked for others, I've been limited and held back. [00:13:14] Rich: So I really was seeking a way to empower myself to do my best work. And in my company, in our culture, it boils down to empowering others to do their best work. I want my team to do their best work. I want my vendors and my partners and my customers to all do their best work. Because what do you get when you have your best work? [00:13:31] Rich: You get joy, you get fulfillment, you get productivity, you get engagement and you get the highest possible outcome from every person on your team. That's why I'm an entrepreneur more than anything else. I mean, yeah. Ooh, I'd like to make money. Oh, I want freedom. I want creativity, but honestly, at the core of it, how do I get to do my best? [00:13:49] Jason: I love this. So some of you listening to this episode, you've heard me talk about my framework of the four reasons for starting a business. I call it the four reasons. And this is what makes us different than everyone else on the planet. And we're rare. Entrepreneurs are rare people. We are the minority. [00:14:05] Jason: We feel like we're living on a planet as aliens a lot of times. We're like, "why doesn't everyone think this way?" It's super weird. So entrepreneurs, the reason we start businesses is we want four things. We think we want money, usually in the beginning. But what we really want is what money will give us. [00:14:22] Jason: And that's these things. It's freedom. Well, first is fulfillment. The most important is fulfillment. We want to enjoy life, enjoy what we're doing, make a difference, whatever but we want fulfillment in whatever that means to us. And then second, we want freedom. We want autonomy. Usually in the beginning, we have, we start trying to start a business. [00:14:40] Jason: We think we want more money because we think it's going to give us more freedom and fulfillment, but we actually have less fulfillment and less freedom the more money we make. And so then we start to wake up like, "Hey, this sucks. Like, how do I like be pickier about my clients or how do I change this?" [00:14:56] Jason: You know? But fulfillment and freedom are one and two. Third, once we have those, we want contribution. We want to feel like we're making a difference, having an impact and we want to benefit other people. And that's what a business is designed to do, right? Solve real problems in the marketplace. [00:15:10] Jason: It's contribution. If not, it's snake oil, right? It's taking people's money. So fourth, once we have fulfillment, freedom, contribution, the fourth is we need support. And that's why we build a business because we can't max out on fulfillment, freedom, contribution if we are wearing every hat and we're miserable. [00:15:29] Jason: Yeah. Because we don't want to do everything. Not everything is fun for us. right? There's the pieces you love and there's pieces you just don't love, right? And that's true for every business owner, but we're all different. Like some of us love accounting. Some of us don't love accounting, right? Some of us love sales. [00:15:44] Jason: Some of us don't love sales, right? Some of us love ops. Some of us are bad at ops, right? And so, there is though what I call the fifth reason. This is what makes everyone else different than us. We want this one too, but everyone else in the planet prioritizes this fifth reason over the first four. [00:16:02] Jason: It's safety and security. Oh, right. Yeah. They want that. That's more important than freedom, fulfillment. They will give up freedom. You saw this during the pandemic. Most people were like, "forget your freedoms. I want to feel safe. Give me safety and security." Right. I remember here in, I was in North Austin. I went to Costco during the pandemic and masks were kind of optional, right? They were optional. And I'm walking around Costco without a mask and everyone else has masks on for the most part. And anyone that didn't have a mask, I was like, "Hey, do you own a business?" And they're like, "yeah." And we're looking at each other like we know like the world's gone fucking nuts. Like, what's going on? We had a knowing like, "yeah, everyone's crazy." [00:16:42] Rich: Man, I wish I'd asked that question. I would have met a lot more entrepreneurs that way. Because I was out there, no mask, any chance I got. Right. I mean, I didn't want confrontation with people. [00:16:51] Jason: And for those listening, there's nothing wrong with this, right? We need both, right? Not everyone can be entrepreneurial. It would be a crazy world, right? We need people that are willing to work for us, right? We need both. And they want the four reasons too. Like nobody's going to say, "Oh, I don't want freedom." But they want safety and security first and that's most people on the planet. [00:17:11] Jason: And so psychologically, entrepreneurs, we're just wired different. We will give up safety and security in order to have freedom and fulfillment. [00:17:20] Rich: I'll tell you how I did that, Jason. [00:17:21] Jason: Yeah. [00:17:22] Rich: So imagine, I'm a tech consultant charging $200 an hour. I'm making $350,000 a year. I'm age 24 or 25, driving my dream car. [00:17:31] Rich: I have everything. Yeah. I go become a financial advisor and I make very little money. I mean, I had savings basically, and then I start the software company. I have no income. I literally say, "I'm going to start this company." I have zero income. I had no house, no wife, no kids. So, I mean, that made it easier. [00:17:49] Rich: And for the first ... [00:17:51] Jason: people will say "you're nuts". They're already saying he's crazy. But every entrepreneur listening is like we get it. [00:17:55] Rich: No, that's what you do. I cashed out my 401k. I sold the dream car, cashed out any equity I had in that. I bought a cheaper car, et cetera. [00:18:03] Rich: And then I said, "okay, I'm going to have my dream car back in a year or two." Yeah. In the first four years of my business, my income was $1,000 a month. I mean, I made $12,000 year for four years straight. And so here's the thing. A thousand dollars a month doesn't pay my rent. My rent was $1200 to $1500 during that time. [00:18:21] Jason: Right. [00:18:22] Rich: So here's the question that you'd ask yourself. How did you sleep at night? And I'll tell you this one thing. Every time I paid rent on the first of the month, I actually did not know how I would have the money in 30 days to pay rent again, right? So how do you sleep at night? I slept great. It never bothered me. [00:18:39] Rich: I didn't lose one minute of sleep over that financial burden. Okay. I just looked at it as that's another tool I've got to figure out how to make money with this. And there were things that happened. It's like sometimes a big credit card bill came through when somebody bought our software or sometimes I borrowed money off the credit card to pay the bill. [00:18:58] Rich: It was just different things happen. And you know what, in those four years? I was never late once. My wife and I contrast. She could not do that. She just cannot live that way, she could never have that kind of risk profile for me. I was just like, "yeah, whatever. I'll figure it out every single time." [00:19:13] Jason: So you trusted. You trusted yourself and maybe God, I don't know, but you trusted your ability to create, right? You knew you had confidence you could create money. [00:19:24] Rich: Yeah. And I learned that being poor. I mean, in college, I went to USC, one of the most expensive schools around, but I paid my own way to go there. [00:19:33] Rich: And during college, there were so many weeks, I can't even count them, where I'd wake up on Monday with exactly $5 to my name. That's all the money I had access to. And I had to get to Friday before I got my paycheck and I had to pay for parking and food, et cetera. I was so scrappy. I would look at what ads were in the paper and I find people doing focus groups that would pay me $10 for 30 minutes of my time to go pretend to shop and pick products. [00:19:58] Rich: So I'd go make an extra 10 bucks and now I had triple my money to get through the week. I did so many creative things. So I knew at that point, like, yeah, money is just a tool. We'll figure it out. We'll always make it work. So, you know, I want to bring this up because this is the thing, you know, you mentioned at the start of the show that I'm going to be at your event, the #DoorGrowShow, right? [00:20:15] Rich: DoorGrow Live. Yes. Okay. Yeah. And what I'm going to talk about is one of my books and it's called, "It's My Life!". I'm going to hold it up for anybody watching. "It's My Life! I can have..." sorry, there's two books. "I can change if I want to." My other book's called "It's my life! I can have the job I want," but I'm going to talk about change. Because one of the questions inherent to this problem of how do you go through these hardships? [00:20:38] Rich: How do you go through these struggles, which would stress most people out like crazy? Comes down to your ability to handle change. [00:20:46] Rich: And it starts with you. Adaptability. Yeah. Now, look, I was forced into it because. I'm 50, but I've moved 33 times in my life. I had moved 29 times by the time I was 32. [00:20:58] Rich: Wow. [00:20:59] Rich: And I was forced to move as a kid. I had no choice about that. I was forced to make new friends. I was forced to go into new schools and new cities and new states. [00:21:06] Jason: Military family or...? [00:21:08] Rich: No. Divorces. Job transfers, etc. [00:21:11] Jason: That's a lot of change, a lot of turmoil. Yeah. [00:21:14] Rich: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, really a very challenging childhood that I don't look back on with any negativity towards, but I was forced to learn how to change and adapt to change. [00:21:25] Rich: And out of that, around age 12, I developed a methodology for how I could change myself and the behaviors and the feelings I had. Because I started to look at the world. This actually comes from religion. I mean, you brought up God. My father was a minister in a church when I was born, but it was very extreme. It was considered a cult. [00:21:41] Rich: My stepfather was in the Catholic church, so we attended Catholic services. I lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. I've been to plenty of Mormon events, the LDS church. I know all about that. I've been part of other types of church. [00:21:53] Rich: I grew up Mormon actually. So I was exposed to all these different religions. And what I saw was everybody said they're right. [00:22:01] Rich: And I'm not taking issue with that. I'm not trying to say one's better than the other, but just as an observation, if everybody thinks they're right, then my beliefs can be just as right. And that empowered me to say, "what do I want to believe about the world?" How do I want to choose beliefs that will help me be the best I can be? [00:22:18] Rich: And simultaneously at age 12, my mom was going through a huge awakening in herself. She was reading books by Dr. Wayne Dyer and all sorts of self improvement books, because she wanted to get better. And she was sharing those lessons with my brother and I. So I was learning through osmosis. I was learning through observing my mom go through these changes, but I was also observing the world around me, and I realized I can make changes to myself and become better, which means I could have lower stress. So let's go all the way back to the story of how do I start a company with no money? How do I believe I don't have to be stressed out about the money? And it comes down to your core beliefs of what you actually believe about your ability to go figure it out or your ability to let it stress you out or what even stress means in your life. [00:23:02] Rich: I'm sure you've talked about this with your group here. There's no value in worry. Like worrying about a problem, what does that actually get you? It gets you anxiety and stress. It doesn't solve the problem. It doesn't add value into your life. So therefore I looked at it and said, how do you not worry? [00:23:19] Rich: How do you not stress out about things? So what I'm excited to share with your audience when I get up on stage is how to use my methodology to become more resilient, to accept change for what it is, to learn how to control the change so that you can be the person you want to become. And therefore you can go through the hardships, the challenges, the biggest potential failures or actual failures that you're going through in your business and in your life and win on the other side, because you become a better person through the whole thing. [00:23:47] Jason: Love it. Yeah. I mean, running a business can be tough. It can be very hard. Entrepreneurs go through a lot of challenges. I often joke DoorGrow was built on thousands of failures, you know? But we have that hope and we keep moving forward. And so being resilient is essential. [00:24:06] Jason: Being adaptable is essential. Otherwise it's just takes a toll. It takes a toll on our body. It takes a toll on our health. We don't make progress. We don't have as effective of decision making and there's like, if we're not in a state of worry, not in a state of stress, we make infinitely better decisions. [00:24:24] Jason: Like decisions made from fear, decisions made from stress generally are almost never good decisions. So, and if you think about all the decisions we make on a daily basis in our own business, If you just have a healthy mindset, you will be at a very different place, even in a short period of time. And I've had periods of stagnancy. [00:24:43] Jason: I've had periods of hardship and I've had periods of like dramatic growth. [00:24:47] Rich: Yeah. And transition. I love the graphic and I'm sure everybody's seen it where two guys are digging and one guy is giving up and the other guy keeps going and the diamonds are right there. The gold is right there. Okay. Right. The guy who gives up is one foot away from the gold and the guy who keeps digging hits it because he just went that one extra foot. [00:25:07] Rich: And to me, that is that point of exasperation where you're saying, "Oh my gosh, this is the worst day of my life. The worst month of my life. This is so challenging. It's, everything's wrong. And you embrace the change and suddenly things change faster." Now you may not strike the gold that you want. You may not win the biggest account you want, but I mean, look, you can read the biography on Elon Musk with his story of SpaceX and Tesla, and he was betting the farm on both of them. He was down to two weeks of payroll, I think when NASA came in with a one and a half billion dollar check to fund the rocket boosters they wanted. Like he is at the absolute lowest point and boom, the greatest thing happens. [00:25:42] Jason: You know, when we take these risks, they create great stories. And even if it doesn't work out, the risk, it still makes a great story. It does. Because we're going to figure it out. The one thing is if we're committed, if we're committed to getting the result, it's inevitable. [00:25:56] Jason: It will eventually come. It might take a little longer, but yeah, if we're committed and man, like, yeah, he took some big risks. He was committed. [00:26:04] Rich: Yeah, but it comes back to you. I've met so many entrepreneurs who do stress out. They lose sleep. In fact, one of the most common things I hear from entrepreneurs is, "Hey, what makes you lose sleep at night?" Nothing. Honestly, my three year old makes me lose sleep, but losing business, man, it doesn't bother me in the same way that I think a lot of other people do. And that's because I know who I am. I know what my beliefs are and I've challenged myself to change the ones that don't work. [00:26:31] Rich: I'll give you one other example here, Jason, to think about, and again, this is not a judgment towards anybody. [00:26:36] Rich: I was in an audience of entrepreneurs, man, I don't know, 12, 15 years ago. And the guy on stage said, "okay, everybody here, raise your hand. If you have ADHD," I was maybe one of two people who didn't raise their hands. I've never been diagnosed with ADHD and I refuse to accept the label of ADHD for whatever purpose the label means. [00:26:55] Rich: What if though, what if ADHD is your superpower? And what if the label of ADHD of treating it with drugs and you can't stay focused and still is a negative by all the other aliens on this planet? Because you said as entrepreneurs, we feel alien. What if it's everybody else's assessment of you versus your own? [00:27:12] Rich: What if your own assessment was your ADHD is actually your superpower? [00:27:16] Rich: Sure. You've got the ability to hyper focus. You've got the ability to like do something unique or exceptional. Yeah. [00:27:22] Rich: Or switch gears on 10 conversations in a day, because that's what happens during your day as an entrepreneur. [00:27:28] Jason: Yeah. [00:27:28] Rich: Right. And adaptability. So I look at that again, going back to how I view your belief systems and my book on change, is that you can take something that a lot of people look at as, "Oh, that's harmful for our relationship or whatever. I say, no, I'm going to turn it into my superpower." [00:27:44] Rich: And take a different view of it because it's you. It's not me. It's not my judgment of you. It's your own judgment of you. How do you want to be? Yeah, I'm excited to share this with everybody when we get up there. [00:27:55] Jason: Yeah, it'll be awesome to have you there. You know, the reason I'm having you come and other speakers that have nothing to do with property management, by the way, for the property managers, is I find that it's never really a business issue that's holding people back in business. [00:28:09] Jason: And I mean, I've talked to thousands of property managers, I've coached hundreds. And when I dig in it's never that they're focusing too little time on their business that's the problem. It's always related to mindset, self belief. You know, that's really what's holding them back. And so I think this, this'll, this'll be really awesome. [00:28:31] Jason: I'm really excited for you to benefit our clients that'll be at this event. And those of you that are not yet clients that are coming to DoorGrow Live, I think this'll be a game changer for them to just kind of shift their mindset a little bit and increase their resiliency. So, yeah, I'm excited for that. [00:28:46] Rich: Yeah. I am equally excited because you said one of the four pillars is contribution. And I didn't write this book for my business. It has nothing to do with software and efficiency. I wrote this book because my sister and her husband at the time were at the beginning of a divorce and they were both coming to me independently to ask me questions and I'm helping them. [00:29:04] Rich: And they both independently said, "Rich, you should write a book about this someday." And it was on Thanksgiving that year when they both tried to use me as a conduit to each other, where I said, "I'm fed up, I'm done." And honestly, Jason, I just spent the next whatever days until the 23rd of December writing the book. [00:29:20] Rich: I stopped watching TV and it just flooded out of me. I never thought I'd write a book. I don't even like reading books. I listen. So I wrote the book before Christmas and then I hand bound it and gave it to them as a gift and it went nowhere. It was lost on them. [00:29:32] Jason: Yeah. [00:29:33] Rich: And then I realized, man, I've got this thing. [00:29:35] Rich: I've got to get it out there to the world and help other people, because this is one of the ways I get to contribute in the world. Yeah. My business contributes too, and I love that, but at the core of who I am personally, I want to empower people to be their best version of themselves. Yeah. I can do that with the book. [00:29:50] Rich: I can do that with the podcast I have. I can do that with the software that we generate. There's a lot of ways to have that effect. And that is my lightning rod. So when you ask me to come speak, it's an easy yes, because this is an opportunity for me to help others become their best version of themselves. [00:30:06] Rich: Maybe by giving them a tool set that they can then use to implement for themselves and create the person they've always wanted to be, or they know is inside of them that's afraid to come out or just maybe just one behavioral change. I don't know. It's up to them. [00:30:19] Jason: I love books. I think books are awesome. [00:30:21] Jason: I read lots and lots of books. I'm reading books all the time. Like I usually have like three or four books I'm reading at a time because maybe I am ADHD, but you know, I get bored of something and I then focus on something else or whatever. I love books. What I've noticed though, because I've gotten to be around a lot of the people that have written some of these books... I pay a lot of money to go to masterminds or events. Like I just got to see Tony Robbins at Funnel Hacking Live. It was really great. I learned some awesome stuff. Right. And I think there's some magic in being able to be around and be in the energy space of the person that is giving you this idea. [00:30:58] Jason: It's not the same. Like being in person and doing stuff, I've noticed this weird thing that people absorb information different. They perceive it different. It's not the same as being on video like this. I've taught lots of people through video and over again, when they would come show up to DoorGrow Live or come in person, things would just click in a different way. [00:31:16] Jason: And I started to call it, mentally I called it the 'real bubble.' I have to pierce this bubble that it's not real. I think our unconscious mind doesn't perceive this as real. [00:31:26] Rich: Right. [00:31:27] Jason: Right. But you and I met in person, so we know we're real people. So our unconscious mind is like, "Oh Rich and Jason. We're real people." So we know this, our brain knows this, but until I meet somebody, fist bump them, high five, give them a hug, whatever, like, and they see me in person, my clients don't get as big of results. [00:31:45] Rich: Yeah. [00:31:45] Jason: Their unconscious mind is somehow like "Oh, this is that digital universe or TV universe. That's not real. I don't know." So if they come and like experience this... even if you get his book, like get his book, but I'm excited for people to be in your energy field to experience you and for you to teach this and there's something you could say the same words that are exactly in your book, but people will absorb it differently. [00:32:08] Jason: I've seen this over and over again, and they will get so much more out of this. That's why I'm excited to have you come present this. So. [00:32:14] Rich: Yeah, there's no replacing face to face. There's absolutely no replacement for the energy and the connection that's made when you're face to face. I 100 percent agree and I wish we could do more of it. So i'm glad for the event and the opportunity to do it in my hometown. [00:32:29] Rich: It's great. [00:32:30] Jason: Yeah, it'd be an easy drive not too far. So yeah All right. So, cool. I'm really excited about this. So for those of you that are listening go to DoorGrowLive.Com get your tickets. This is different than other property management events. Property management events, usually people go to these conferences and they're really there to like hang out at the bar and escape their life and their problems. [00:32:52] Jason: DoorGrow Live's different and you can go to the bar. There's bars at the Kalahari resort. You can do that and you can hang out with people. But people come to our event because they want to be around other people in that space of other people that are really growth minded. And that's who I attract in the industry. [00:33:08] Jason: We have the most growth minded property management business owners. Like these are people that are focused on being a better person, a better husband, a better father, better wife, better parent, you know, whatever. Like, and they're focused on you know, taking care of their team, making a difference in the industry. [00:33:24] Jason: And I really believe good property managers can change the world. They can have a massive ripple effect. They affect all their clients, the investors' lives. They positively impact the tenants' lives. They can have a big ripple effect. They can affect a lot of people. And that's exciting is inspiring for me to be able to, you know, Help benefit them and bring that to the table. [00:33:44] Jason: So these are leaders. These are people that affect families. And so, you know, by you coming and presenting, I think there's definitely a ripple effect and a positive impact that can happen. So if you're a property manager listening and you don't care about any of that stuff, then just don't go to DoorGrow Live, because we don't want you there anyway. [00:34:00] Jason: All right. So Rich, any quick tip that you could give to people before we wrap up our conversation and then how can people, you know, get ahold of you and, or you know, or whatever you want to plug. Floor's yours [00:34:12] Rich: I'm going to leave everybody with one of my core beliefs. That is an empowering one. [00:34:17] Rich: And it's this: confidence is knowledge of yourself. We all want more confidence, right? [00:34:22] Rich: And the reason I call it knowledge of yourself is because you should be able to take confidence and apply it to any given situation. It's not a hundred percent confident all the time. It's confident about something you're doing. [00:34:33] Rich: My typing speed's near a hundred words per minute. I have absolute confidence in my ability to type, for example, right? [00:34:39] Jason: Yeah. [00:34:40] Rich: My, my other skills may not be the same. So how do you build confidence? It's you build knowledge of yourself and it's a lot of what we've been talking about is your own personal growth and who you are and all that's going to lead to more confidence. [00:34:53] Rich: So that's just one of the things I'll share. Best way to find me probably LinkedIn. I'm the Quik! Forms CEO and that's Q U I K. There is no C in the word 'quick' for my company. You could try to email me as well. rwalker@quikforms.Com. You could spell it with a C because we own both domains, but yeah, if you reach out to me on LinkedIn, there's one thing you should do, send me a personalized note, tell me why you want to meet me because I'm very happy to meet you and share my network with you. But if you're trying to sell me and spam me, I don't answer those. So just give me a personal note and I'm very happy to talk to you. [00:35:23] Jason: Just say, "Hey, I heard about you on the DoorGrow podcast and you know, the property management growth podcast like..." [00:35:30] Rich: Yeah. And I'll look, I'll plug one little thing. I don't know how relevant it is to your audience, but my podcast is called The Customer Wins. And I talked to business leaders about how they help their customers win, how they overcome challenges of growth, how they create a really excellent customer experience. [00:35:45] Rich: And about 20 percent of my guests come in with totally different perspectives. I had a custom suit broker on, I had a golf pro, I had a magician and the majority of people in the financial services space. But I'm telling you, there's a lot you can learn about building a better customer experience from listening to people talk about it and hear about it. [00:36:03] Rich: So I've studied that a lot for several years. Like that's, it's a big deal to me. I mean, you have to, if you're running a coaching business, coaching businesses are generally high churn. Education businesses are really like a low engagement. Yeah. So I've had to figure a lot of things out to make this go really well, [00:36:19] Rich: so, yeah. [00:36:20] Rich: Yeah. Well, I mean, I really don't care about how many subscribers or listens I get on my podcast. That's not what I care about. I want people to get value. Yeah. So if you get value from it, awesome. Let me know. Awesome. Very cool. [00:36:32] Jason: 110 words per minute. It's pretty fast. Do you type on QWERTY or did you change your keyboard? [00:36:37] Rich: No, I type on a normal keyboard. At one point I was at 115. Right now I'm around 100. I bought a device called a Kara quarter, which is a totally different configuration where you can type about 300 words per minute, but I've yet to learn it new skill. I'm just not picking on yet. [00:36:51] Jason: So. I hear a lot of world typing speed records are set in Dvorak and I switched to Dvorak simply because my wrist started hurting when I was going through college. [00:37:02] Jason: So I actually pop all the keys off all my keyboards and rearrange them into Dvorak. So I know I'm a nerd. So, and you just change the setting. On Mac books and Mac keyboards, it's like doing brain surgery. It'd be really careful, but for the geeks out there. Maybe you'd appreciate this, but it has the most commonly used vowels on the home row of the left hand and the most commonly used consonants on the home row of the right hand. [00:37:27] Jason: Oh, that makes sense. And so world speed record. So, and it took me like a month to just get used to it. Like you would pick it up really fast. So how fast are you? I'm not that fast. I just did it because my wrists were hurting. I actually don't type that much. Honestly, you know, I'm like talking and drawing a lot more than I'm typing, but I'm probably faster than I would be with QWERTY. [00:37:50] Jason: So I don't know. I've never really like done a speed test or, you know, typing test to see, but I don't think I'd beat you. That's my guess, your QWERTY handicap. So, cause QWERTY was designed to slow down typewriters. [00:38:04] Rich: Like the hammer strike colliding. Yeah. Of the old type that, yeah. So I'll leave you with a fun fact. [00:38:11] Rich: The average typing speed in my company is about 85 words per minute. [00:38:14] Jason: Nice. Okay. It's pretty good. [00:38:15] Rich: Tell you there's people faster than me here. Yes. [00:38:18] Jason: Yeah. Cool. Well, Hey Rich, great to have you on here. Appreciate you hanging out with me and I'm excited to have you at DoorGrow Live. [00:38:25] Jason: My pleasure. And thank you for having me today, Jason. [00:38:27] Jason: All right. So for those that are, you know, struggling with growth, you're wanting to figure out how to grow your property management business, or you're just getting stuck in the operational challenges. You're tired of telling your team all the time, thinking, "why won't they just think for themselves" and frustrated and you're dealing with operational systems challenges to get to that next level, reach out to us at DoorGrow. [00:38:49] Jason: We might be able to change your life. So, go to DoorGrow. com. And if you'd like to join our free community and Facebook group and, you know, learn about us get access to you know, some free stuff, go to doorgrowclub.Com to join our community. And of course, go check out DoorGrowLive.Com, get your tickets. [00:39:08] Jason: It's going to be in May and we would love to see there in person. And a little bit of that DoorGrow magic is going to change your life. We'll see you there. Bye everyone.
Richard (Rich) Walker is the CEO of Quik!, which provides form automation and management solutions to help companies maximize efficiency and productivity. He has launched more than 10 companies and hosts The Customer Wins. Before founding Quik!, Rich was a Financial Planner at Cetera Investment Networks and a Business Consultant at Arthur Andersen. He is also the author of It's My Life! I Can Change If I Want To. In this episode: Most entrepreneurs experience financial anxiety, especially when first beginning. This includes facing instability, uncertainty, and decreased sales periods. How can you shift your mindset to focus on fulfillment rather than financial performance? Veteran entrepreneur Rich Walker defines prosperity as impacting individuals and finding purpose in your entrepreneurial endeavors. Rather than approaching challenges as barriers, Rich recommends embracing them as opportunities to grow, allowing you to manage uncertainty and financial instability with confidence. Creating and documenting company-specific systems and processes is also crucial to navigate sales fluctuations. Join Adi Klevit in today's episode of Systems Simplified as she chats with Richard (Rich) Walker, the CEO of Quik! about navigating entrepreneurship with confidence and fulfillment. He talks about his entrepreneurial wins and failures, the premise of his book, and how to identify your ideal customers.
On this episode of the Story Engine podcast, Rich Walker shares his journey as a serial entrepreneur and author, discussing his four-step methodology for personal change. He emphasizes the importance of wanting to change, believing in one's ability to change, and understanding the core beliefs that drive behaviors. Rich reflects on his childhood experiences and how they shaped his perspective on change, as well as the challenges he faced in his business. The conversation highlights the power of beliefs in shaping reality and the significance of storytelling in personal narratives. In This Episode You have to want to change to initiate the process. Belief in your ability to change is crucial. Childhood experiences can significantly impact your perspective on change. Navigating challenges requires a choice between stress and productivity. Identifying core beliefs is essential for meaningful change. Work on one change at a time for better focus. Your beliefs shape your reality and experiences. Storytelling can enhance the impact of personal narratives. Choosing empowering beliefs leads to personal growth. Embrace change as a constant in life. We Discuss 05:56 Understanding the Desire to Change 11:59 Navigating Business Challenges and Personal Growth 17:50 The Power of Beliefs in Shaping Reality 24:08 Closing Thoughts and Resources for Change
Die Roboterhand von Shadow ist sehr gefragt - unter anderem bei Google DeepMind - aber das britische Unternehmen will seine Hand skalieren und hat auch andere Märkte im Blick. Im Podcast erklärt Rich Walker, welche Rolle KI dabei spielt und warum er mit Hardware zufrieden ist. Danke an unseren Partner, die [Hannover Messe] Das Bewerbungsformular für den Robotics Award gibt es [hier](https://www.hannovermesse.de/de/rahmenprogramm/awards/robotics-award) Kommet alle zu unserem Event -> [Anmelden](https://forms.office.com/e/i2dVG207g1) Fragen oder Ideen zur Robotik in der Industrie? helmut@robotikpodcast.de oder robert@robotikpodcast.de #machinelearning #robots #robothand #industrialautomation #manufacturing #automation #robotics #AIbasedrobotic
How do you get out of the swirl of busyness and cynicism that it's so easy to get into these days? How do you set aside doubts and imposter syndrome?Rich Walker, CEO and cofounder of Quik!, joins us on The Courage of a Leader podcast to give us profound and practical ways to think about ourselves and our work that will have us being bold and creating the extraordinary.You'll love hearing from Rich! About the Guest:Richard Walker is the CEO and co-founder of Quik!.Having started over 10 companies since age 12, host of The Customer Wins podcast, author of two books, and father to three boys, Richard empowers people to do their best work. Prior to starting Quik!, Richard was a financial advisor with Financial Network (currently known as Cetera) and a business consultant with Arthur Andersen. He started Quik! in 2002 to help people spend less time processing paperwork and more time on what they do best. The best way to reach Richard is by email, rwalker@quikforms.com About the Host:Amy L. Riley is an internationally renowned speaker, author and consultant. She has over 2 decades of experience developing leaders at all levels. Her clients include Cisco Systems, Deloitte and Barclays.As a trusted leadership coach and consultant, Amy has worked with hundreds of leaders one-on-one, and thousands more as part of a group, to fully step into their leadership, create amazing teams and achieve extraordinary results. Amy's most popular keynote speeches are:The Courage of a Leader: The Power of a Leadership LegacyThe Courage of a Leader: Create a Competitive Advantage with Sustainable, Results-Producing Cross-System CollaborationThe Courage of a Leader: Accelerate Trust with Your Team, Customers and CommunityThe Courage of a Leader: How to Build a Happy and Successful Hybrid TeamHer new book is a #1 international best-seller and is entitled, The Courage of a Leader: How to Inspire, Engage and Get Extraordinary Results.www.courageofaleader.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/amyshoopriley/ Resources mentioned in the podcastThe Inspire Your Team to Greatness assessment (the courage assessment).How can you inspire our team to be more proactive, take ownership and get more done?You demonstrate and empower The Courage of a Leader. In my nearly 3 decades of work with leaders, I've discovered the 11 things that leaders do – even very well-intentioned leaders do – that kill productivity.In less than 10 minutes, find out where you're empowering and inadvertently kills productivity, and get a custom report that will tell you step by step what you need to have your team get more done.https://courageofaleader.com/inspireyourteam/ Richard Walker's first bookIt's My Life I Can Change If I Want Tohttps://www.amazon.com/Its-Life-Can-Change-Want/dp/0578074214 Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to The Courage of a Leader podcast! If you got inspired and/or got valuable leadership techniques you can use from this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have questions or feedback about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the...
Shadow's robotic hand is in high demand - among others at Google DeepMind - but the British company wants to scale its hand and is also eyeing other markets. In the podcast, Rich Walker explains what role AI plays in this and why he is happy with hardware. Thanks for listening. We welcome suggestions for topics, criticism and a few stars on Apple, Spotify and Co. We thank our partner **SIEMENS** https://www.siemens.de/de/ Our guest is [Rich Walker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/walkerrich/) #machinelearning #ai #aimodel #industrialautomation #manufacturing #automation #genai #datascience #mlops #llm #IndustrialAI #artificialintelligence
What does it take to leave a high-paying job and start from scratch? When faced with financial hardships and uncertainty, can you rebuild your life and career? In this episode of the Dreamcatchers podcast, host Jerome Myers talks with Rich Walker, founder of Quik Forms, about his courageous decision to leave a lucrative finance career and venture into tech entrepreneurship. Rich candidly shares his early struggles, financial sacrifices, and personal challenges that tested his resolve. Listeners will learn about the importance of strategic partnerships, highlighted by Rich's collaboration with his mother, and how complementary skills can drive business growth. He discusses pivotal moments that led to his company's reinvention, the power of saying no to stay true to your core business, and the importance of focusing on what truly matters. Rich's journey also covers personal growth, emphasizing his wife's vital role in his transformation and work-life balance. The episode concludes with Rich's insights on achieving high customer satisfaction, building a thriving company culture, and the ongoing journey of learning and growth. Rich's story is a testament to the power of perseverance, strategic thinking, and unwavering belief in oneself. [00:00 - 07:08] Introduction and Early Struggles Rich Walker introduces himself and expresses his dissatisfaction with his high-paying finance job Transition to entrepreneurship and the early financial struggles The inception of Quik Forms and the challenges of the first few years [07:09 - 16:32] Building the Business and Family Dynamics The formation of Quik Forms with his mother as a business partner The division of responsibilities and how their complementary skills led to business growth Early product development and the importance of listening to customer feedback [16:33 - 27:44] Overcoming Challenges and Strategic Pivots The financial hardships and personal sacrifices made to keep the business afloat The decision to reinvent the company's product and the strategic pivot to enterprise sales The role of partnerships in driving growth and the challenges of enterprise sales [27:45 - 42:16] Personal Growth and Resilience Rich's growth journey and how his wife played a pivotal role in his success The transition from working 80-hour weeks to achieving a better work-life balance Insights into how focusing on core business aspects led to substantial growth [42:17 - 55:28] Achieving Success and Future Vision The current success metrics of Quik Forms include high customer satisfaction and recurring revenue Rich's reflections on the importance of persistence and belief in oneself The ongoing journey of learning and growth and the decision not to exit the business Key Quotes: “If you can build it by yourself, it's probably not big enough.” - Jerome Myers "Life is about potential. It's about living up to that potential." - Rich Walker Connect with Rich! Website: https://www.quickforms.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quikformsceo/ LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to expand their business growth by sharing this episode or listening to our previous episodes. Dreamcatchers is a welcoming group focused on personal growth rather than fitting into a specific demographic. It attracts a diverse crowd from various backgrounds and ages, united by the desire to achieve more. Learn more at https://exittoexcellence.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this groundbreaking episode of the Close It Now podcast, Sam Wakefield sits down with the visionary Rich Walker, CEO and founder of Quik Forms, and a serial entrepreneur who embarked on his business journey at the tender age of 12. Rich, also an acclaimed author and a feature in both Slate and Inc. Magazines, shares his profound insights on the transformative power of belief systems in the realm of sales and beyond. Drawing from his rich entrepreneurial journey and the lessons encapsulated in his book, "It's My Life! I can change if I want to," Rich delves into the mechanics of effective change and how altering one's belief system can lead to monumental success in sales. This episode is a treasure trove of wisdom for anyone looking to elevate their sales game, offering practical strategies, personal anecdotes, and the motivational kick needed to embrace change and harness it for sales excellence. Whether you're a seasoned sales professional or just starting out in the HVAC industry, Rich's perspectives on belief systems, coupled with actionable advice, make this episode a must-listen for anyone aiming to transform their approach to sales and life.Book: http://amzn.to/iKPWK0LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quikformsceo/Website: www.quickforms.comPodcast: https://www.quickforms.com/podcast-blog
As a homeowner, figuring out the best way to access your home equity can be a complicated process, full of complicated jargon, long processes, scary waits for appraisals, and potentially expensive hidden costs. Here's a look at the tradeoff between HELOCs and cash-out refinances—the two most common and popular ways to tap into your home equity while maintaining and keeping the ownership of your home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We conclude our three-part podcast series on digital twins with a conversation with Ali Nicholl, Head of Engagement at IOTICS, a data company helping innovators to better collaborate on digital transformation. Ali and his colleagues are passionate about this. They're impatient too! IOTICS are on a mission to empower those dedicated to making a meaningful impact on our world. They're providing the tools to navigate the intricate landscape of data and information, enabling companies to unlock valuable insights and share data and information better. So in this episode we invited Ali into our studio to tell us about some of the organisations that IOTICS are working to create a greener and more sustainable future. Ali explains some of the complexities of data sharing between companies, and the importance of making sure digital twin technologies have the real-world impact when it comes to some of society's greatest challenges. The voices in this episode are also featuring on The IOTICS Podcast, where Ali has interviewed a number of fascinating guests to showcase the growing significance of digital twins in shaping our connected future. Featured in this episode are Elly Howe, Environmental and Sustainability Coordinator at Portsmouth International Port; Louise Donaghey, Services Programmes Director at Rolls Royce; Simon Evans, Global Digital Twin Leader at Arup; Ian Gordon, Head of Data at Houses of Parliament Restoration & Renewal; and Rich Walker, a Data and Analytics Leader in the Government and Public sector. Connected Digital Twins Summit – 22 June, 2023 The huge opportunity that digital twins offer place-based infrastructure is what guides the work of the Digital Twin Hub (which came out of the UK's National Digital Twin Programme) housed at the Connected Places Catapult. It is a network that is helping to bring people together to learn from each other and collaborate on this hugely ambitious social, environment, and technical journey. Their work is also guided by the Gemini Principles which are shaping the development of an ecosystem of connected digital twins. And they also host the weekly Gemini Call which has become a staple date in the diary for practitioners across the UK. On 22 June 2023 the Digital Twin Hub and the Connected Places Catapult hosted the inaugural Connected Digital Twins Summit. IOTICS is an active supporter of the Hub and was a sponsor of the Summit.
In this episode of Connected, we talk with Rich Walker, Founder and CEO of Quik!. Rich shares his inspiring career journey and the ups and downs that eventually led him to build Quik!. He talks about what real connection with clients is all about, and his mission to motivate and empower people to be the best versions of themselves. We also dive into technology, the challenges of standardized data collection, and the importance of automation for financial advisors. In a fragmented industry where a mere 20% of transactions are automated, Rich provides a fresh perspective on how automation can help advisors focus on what is most important. As a student of communication, Rich also provides insight into the key elements of great connections and how intentional practice can help advisors become better listeners, leading to better outcomes. Join us as we discuss: [01:07] - Rich's background and why great communication is the foundation of great connections. [10:21] - Rich's career challenges in the financial industry and what led him to the idea for Quik!. [18:30] - Why going fully digital is a challenge for many firms. [24:26] - The importance of technology, data, and automation. [32:15] - Rich's passions and interests outside the financial industry. Key Takeaways Listen to your clients and truly understand their needs, fears, and goals. This not only results in better connections but also enables financial advisors to provide more personalized services. Positivity and optimism can be powerful elements in achieving success. Mirror back to people their potential and inspire them to be their best selves. Don't underestimate the importance of technology. Data standardization can be a major hurdle for advisors. Look for ways to automate so you can focus on the most important tasks and relationships. Constantly improve communication skills. Advisors should always be students of communication. Effective communication with clients builds trust and helps advisors understand their clients better. Quotes “I'm always going to be a student of communication because it's a skill that we are constantly using throughout our life and we can always build upon.” - Rich Walker "I believe everybody can do what they set their mind to. I want people to believe in themselves more and do their best. So, I'm always the cheerleader." - Rich Walker “There are three stages of listening. There's listening for my turn to say what's next. There's listening to understand what you said. And then there's connected listening, active listening, where I'm truly digesting what's important to you.” - Rich Walker Links Rich Walker on LinkedIn Quik! The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey Aaron Klein Arbor Day Foundation Connect with our hosts Milemarker.co Kyle on LinkedIn Jud on LinkedIn Subscribe and stay in touch Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Google Podcasts Produce game-changing content with Turncast Turncast helps your company grow by producing top-quality content and fostering transformative conversations. We specialize in content generation, podcasting, digital strategy, and audience growth for fintech and financial services companies. Learn more at Turncast.com.
Hilarious Stories from Comedians John LaRochhia and Rich Walker. Hosted by Jackie Martling and Peter Bales, this side-splitting episode of Stand-Up Memories takes you on a comedic journey through the ups and downs of the comedy circuit. From legendary tales of the golden era to the fresh perspectives of rising stars, discover the trials, triumphs, and outrageous moments that shape the world of stand-up comedy. Don't miss the laughter, camaraderie, and behind-the-scenes insights in this unforgettable episode! John LaRochhia, a seasoned stand-up comic with decades of experience, steps into the spotlight and immediately connects with Jackie and Peter. John's stories transport the audience back in time as he recounts the golden era of comedy, sharing side-splitting tales about his encounters with comedy legends and the wild adventures he experienced on the road. His anecdotes highlight the highs and lows of the industry, shedding light on the sacrifices and dedication required to make it in the competitive world of stand-up. Rich Walker, a rising star in the comedy scene, walks onto the stage, igniting a spark of excitement with his youthful energy and fresh perspective. The hosts, Jackie and Peter, instantly recognize his talent and dive into a lively conversation. Rich shares his journey from small open mics to larger venues, regaling the audience with humorous accounts of his struggles, triumphs, and the unforgettable moments that have shaped his career. His stories resonate with aspiring comedians and comedy enthusiasts alike, offering a glimpse into the fast-paced and unpredictable world of stand-up. #JohnLaRochhia #RichWalker #StandUpMemories #ComedyJourney #ComedyLegends #RisingStars #HilariousStories #BehindTheScenes #StandUpComedy #LaughsAndLaughs #ComedyCircuit #ComedyPodcast #ComedyLife #ComedyCommunity #FunnyConversations #ComedicTales #ComedyInsights #LaughOutLoud #ComedyPodcastEpisode #ComedyFans #ComedyEnthusiasts #HumorFest #ComicPerspectives
Welcome to The Leave Your Legacy Podcast, where former Iowa Hawkeye and current head coach of the Cedar Rapids Prairie girls' basketball team, Kenyon Murray, shares his insights and experiences on how to live a life of purpose and passion. In this episode, Kenyon is joined by his former recruiter and friend Rich Walker, who is currently the Alumni Relations Coordinator at Florida International University Athletics.Tune in and learn how to leave your legacy on and off the court.
This week after Chris' milk market report, Ben and Will are joined by Rich Walker, dairy farmer from South West Scotland and 2019 Nuffield Scholar to talk us through the findings of his Scholarship looking at ‘British Dairy Exports: The Opportunities and Challenges. We are also joined by Tom Rawson, current Vice Chair of Nuffield's trustees & a Director of Evolution Farming who along with Rich, take us through their Nuffield journeys; what the Scholarship offered them as individuals in the short-term, including the learning and travel experiences, as well as the ongoing opportunities for them and their businesses. They also discuss the inspiration they've gained from others around the globe, not forgetting what they see as the wider value for the industry. Charlotte Merson, Nuffield's Alumni Officer joins us to explain what the Scholarship involves, how it's awarded as well as the application process and deadline this year.
Rich Walker is the Co-founder and CEO of Quik!, also known as Quik! Forms, which is a company that provides forms automation and management solutions for companies looking to maximize efficiency and productivity. Prior to starting Quik!, Rich was a financial advisor with a financial network and a business consultant with Arthur Andersen. He started Quik! in 2002 to help people spend less time on paperwork and more time on what they do best. Rich has started 10 different companies since the age of 12 and authored two books. In this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast, John Corcoran interviews Rich Walker, the Co-founder and CEO of Quik!, about his entrepreneurial journey and the lessons learned from running a business with his mentor. Rich also talks about his experience working at Arthur Andersen and the challenges he faced building his software company.
Rich Walker is the mayor of Parkland, Florida. Today we discuss what it means to be a leader, and what it means to prioritize goals in a way that allows you to live your life in a way that is fulfilling.
One of our favorite episodes, the yearly recap of the Best of the Funny Bad Gigs from 2021. Comic stories from Judy Carter, Tom Anzalone, Tyler Hittner, Chris McGuire, Wes Martens, Greg Boggis, Mark Riccadonna, Al Romas, Rich Walker, Cal Verduchi, Jimmy Tingle, Brian Kiley, Richie Byrne, Paul Bond, Bobby Braciola, Chance Langton, Mo Mandel, Claudia Stavola, and Jackie Flynn.
Techstination interview: Shadow Robot enables Tactile Tele-Robot: Managing Director Rich Walker
Episode 685 is a conversation about company culture. In starting your company, growing your company, or managing the move to a virtual workplace, the culture is key to success. The guest on this show, Rich Walker, has been obsessed with culture even before he started his company. In this interview he shares 4 key tips to the culture of his organization: 1. We must design software so easy to use that it does not need a users guide. 2. We must provide outstanding customer service. 3. We love what we do and we hire people to roles they want and love. 4. We do what we say we are going to do. About Richard Walker Richard Walker is the CEO and co-founder of Quik!. Having started 10 companies since age 12, published 2 books, and father to three boys, Richard empowers people to do their best work. Prior to starting Quik!, Richard was a financial advisor with Financial Network and a business consultant with Arthur Andersen. He started Quik! in 2002 to help people spend less time on paperwork and more time on what they do best. About Quik! Quik! is the industry leader in enterprise forms automation service and provides an extensive library of fillable forms. Quik! eliminates handwriting on forms which translates to fewer errors and faster processing for paper-driven transactions. As an added benefit, Quik! saves a tree every hour of every day. For more… Visit www.quikforms.com or find Richard on LinkedIn to get a free copy of his book, “It's My Life! I Can Have The Job I Want”. Connect - http://richarddwalker.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/quikformsceo/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/quikformsceo Https://thomsinger.com/podcast/richard-walker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wreck and Cave was started in 2005 by Rich Walker, he is a full-time instructor with Global Underwater Explorers. Before that he was a scientist studying how blood flows around the body. Rich's knowledge of physiology and physics gives him a unique position as a diving instructor. https://www.wreckandcave.co.uk/ Rich has been diving since 1991. He is a wreck diver and spends most of his spare time diving the wrecks around the UK. More recently he has become fascinated by the wartime wrecks around the Norwegian coast. You'll usually see Rich heading to Norway at least once a year. Rich Walker only teaches courses from Global Underwater Explorers. GUE classes cover buoyancy, trim, equipment configuration, nitrox, oxygen, trimix, helium, decompression, teamwork and a host of other important topics. The quality of the GUE curriculum produces competent, confident and comfortable divers. This is exactly what diving should be all about! Rich offers GUE training in the UK and worldwide. He teaches Recreational, Fundamentals, DPV and Tech 1 & 2 classes. He has taught over 100 Fundamentals classes and 50 Tech 1 classes. Rich is also an instructor evaluator and takes a significant role in developing new instructors for GUE. He runs instructor training courses and instructor evaluations around the world. He sits on the Board of Advisors for Global Underwater Explorers. GUE was formed by Jarrod Jablonski and gained early prominence in association with the success of its well-known Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP), which now has the status of a nonprofit affiliate of GUE. Jablonski, the president of GUE, promoted the ideas of "Hogarthian" gear configuration and the "Doing It Right" (DIR) system of diving to a global audience. Following the WKPP's introduction in 1995 of a standardised approach to gear configuration and diving procedures, there was a significant reduction in diving incidents within the Woodville Karst Plain cave system. The standardised approach is the basis of the diver training program of GUE, marking an important difference from the programs of other diver training organisations. GUE also focuses on protecting the maritime environment. The most popular GUE course is GUE Fundamentals, which is designed to introduce the GUE system to non-GUE divers and is the pathway to technical courses. Further courses are offered in recreational, technical, and cave diving, as well as instructor courses.
Rich Walker came up through the Long Island comedy scene with some pretty big names. He not only became a regular at NY comedy clubs, he quickly became a favorite at clubs all over the country. You can tell why from his quick wit and likability. Ace had worked with Rich before but Scott had not and they quickly hit it off. Check out Rich at http://www.richwalkerlive.com/ BTF merch available at http://tee.pub/lic/btfpod
Rich joined us for our latest ex player pod to discuss his time growing up through Crewe's academy, into the first team. We then talked about his time away from the club before moving on to his current role coaching at Stoke.
This is a slightly different episode of The Weekspot. We had to record a little earlier because of the Easter weekend in the UK, and Matthew wasn’t able to come on because of prior commitments. So, instead of talking to himself for an hour and a half, Colm drafted in two lovely guests: Josh Wise of VideoGamer and Rich Walker of Xbox Achievements. It’s good he was able to call on some old pals, too, because a surprising number of things happened between last week’s episode and recording this one. Headlines & Hot Takes is full of Cyberpunk 2077 (remember that?) and Witcher chat, as CD Projekt Red published a big strategy presentation video, last week. And, the boys chat about the possibility of Alan Wake 2 after some rumours popped up online in the past few days. Also, they obviously had to celebrate the recent World Backup Day in Tech Corner. Given the fact Colm had no time to play new games for today’s show, he was extra delighted to have Josh and Rich on. Show and Tell is all them. Firstly, Josh was able to play the first 10 hours of the upcoming Nier Replicant, so he outlines how that one is shaping up. And, while we’re bending the rules a little here, Josh recently played Monster Hunter Rise on Switch, so he gives PC players an idea of what they can expect in 12 months. Also, the two guests couldn’t contain their disgust, so there’s more Balan Wonderworld chat on this week’s show. With an extra body on the pod, Colm decided to play quizmaster for a special remix edition of Mystery Steam Reviews. And they round out the show by opening The Weekspot mailbag to answer your Burning Questions on forgettable games they played for a very long time and Easter eggs.
Talking to Dr Rich Walker, from Ghost fishing UK, the well known charity that helps remove lost fishing gear that can often lead to unintentionally catching and killing marine life. Over a brew Rich explains how the charity has struggled for funding this year and is launching a scheme to help give them a healthy boost to allow them to continue into 2021 with their heads above water!Can you help, follow this link https://www.ghostfishing.co.uk/
Join Justin and Henry as they chat with Rich Walker of Solstice and guitarist Lennaert Roomer about life, literature, and lunacy. Solstice on Bandcamp.Lennaert Roomer’s Hand of Nothing.Rich Walker surgery fund.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Spotify.Be sure to visit MonstersMadnessandMagic.com to stay up to date on all horror, history, metal and mystery. The digital doors of the Sanctuary of the Strange are open to thee.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Facebook.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Twitter.Monsters, Madness and Magic on Instagram.PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/MonstersMadnessMagic By subscribing, you will be granted access to the following along with directly supporting the website:Patron-only Discord serverEarly access to podcast episodesThe ability to submit questions for future interviewsAny and all episodes will remain ad-freeAt least 1 bonus episode a monthDiscount on all future merchandiseWhere does your money go?Any and all support is deeply appreciated and will go directly into supporting the site in the following ways:Server costs and hosting feesEquipment maintenance and upgradesAdvertising costsGraphic design/Video editingContent developmentContributor compensationOverall growth in production (merch, travel expenses for con coverage, etc)Your support will help us continue creating!
Officer Rich Walker is Roshini's first guest this Sunday. Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo is finally getting mad at the Minneapolis City Council. He said no to our invitation to chat on the show. So we turned to Minneapolis Police Department Union’s Officer Rich Walker to get a take on budget woes for the department and officer departures. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Lt. Bob Kroll is the President of Minneapolis Police Officers Federation. He joins for the entire 1pm hour along with fellow Federation board member, officer Rich Walker. We get Lt. Kroll's reaction to the Minneapolis City Council’s first move toward abolishing the Minneapolis Police Department. Plus, all four officers in the Floyd case are in court Monday for a pre-trial hearing. How might this influence the Union’s next steps? Officer Walker is a 15-year veteran and Federation Board member for five years. He is the 2nd black person in the history of the Union Board (first was in the 70's). He gets into reactions the Board has to citizen complaints as well as officer grievances. Roshini, Lt. Kroll and Officer Walker take your calls and text the entire second half of the hour.
Lt. Bob Kroll is the President of Minneapolis Police Officers Federation. He joins for the entire 1pm hour along with fellow Federation board member, officer Rich Walker. We get Lt. Kroll's reaction to the Minneapolis City Council’s first move toward abolishing the Minneapolis Police Department. Plus, all four officers in the Floyd case are in court Monday for a pre-trial hearing. How might this influence the Union’s next steps? Officer Walker is a 15-year veteran and Federation board member for five years. He is the 2nd black person in the history of the Union Board (first was in the 70's). He gets into reactions the Board has to citizen complaints as well as officer grievances.
From bipedal walking to robot hands and even robots the size of a human cell – get an insight into the fascinating things robots can do, their role in the future energy system and how they could transform our lives in the future.Hosted by Angela Lamont, technology journalist, and featuring Rich Walker, Shadow Robot Company; Marc Miskin, University of Pennsylvania; Aaron D. Ames, Caltech; plus Morag Watson and Elinor Doubell from BP.
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The Dive Briefs are exactly that, Shorter versions of the main episodesIn this episode we chat with Rich Walker from Ghost Fishing UK, he tells us how it all started for him and what he likes Coming up in DB #9 - Guest Host Scuba Amy - Lucky No 9
The Dive Briefs are exactly that, Shorter versions of the main episodesin this episode, Dive Brief #7 we chat with DAN Europe Vice President Laura Marroni, she started diving before she could walk and is now getting into CavesGuy thinks he will enjoy the UK Diving scene, but he's never dived here, Belgium isn't great for diving so don't go??Coming up in DB #8 - Rich Walker from Ghost Fishing UK
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Handles, twisty-tops, fiddly buttons. The whole world is built for human hands, so why don't we give robots hands, too? Well, that's exactly what Shadow Robot Company are doing. The ingenious company has developed the world's most lifelike robotic hand. It's so realistic, it even has fingernails! We talk to Managing Director, Rich Walker, about the captivating creation, and explore what its digital digits mean for automation, telepresence, and telerobotics. FIND OUT MORE Shadow Robot Company: shadowrobot.com Awesome videos of robot hands: youtube.com/user/srcteam GET IN TOUCH Questions? Comments? Fiery feedback? We’d love to hear from you! Drop us an email at wcn@granttree.co.uk FIND US ONLINE For the latest updates, and even more content, make sure you follow us online Twitter: @wcnpod Instagram: @wcnpod
In this episode of The Fisheries Podcast I chat with Dr. Rich Walker about some of the work he completed for his Ph.D. at the University of Wyoming. Rich looked at how oil and natural gas development impacted stream communities at the species, community and ecosystem level using a variety of methods. Enjoy! Main Point: Love what you do and always find the positive!
Comedians Tom Daddario & Rich Walker sit down with the NYSM to talk there entry into the comedy world, and how acts got paid in the 80’s!!
Blake Dermott, Eskimos analyst Rich Walker, Edmonton Prospects Pitcher and his perfect game
Rich Walker believes in tackling real world problems in open innovation partnerships, building dextrous robot hands with Shadow Robot Company. Robotics + AI + Society + Ethics + Technology + Open Innovation ----more---- TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 Managing Director at Shadow Robot Company RICH WALKER has worked in robotics for over 20 years and leads the team at the Shadow Robot Company which, as a leader in grasping and manipulation, is constantly developing new robots/applications in the field of cutting-edge robotics and AI. He sits on the Innovate UK “Robotics and Autonomous Systems” SIG Advisory Board, which lets him influence the direction the UK takes in robotics in a way that makes sense to SMEs and innovators. In addition, he is the Director of EuRobotics, and various EPSRC and University networks and committees around robotics. [Edited Transcript] RW: I'm from Shadow, and we're a robot technology company. We're best known for building hands for robots. When a human interacts with the world, we pick something up, we use our hands. If robots are going to do all sorts of things in the world, they're going to need hands that are quite like human hands. The high end dextrous robot hand that we built is pretty much the same dexterity as the human hand. As close as we can get it to the human hand. What do I actually need to do real world tasks? One of the nice things about working with the European research community is that it's very focused on societal challenges. The grand challenges of the sustainable development goals, the missions that the European Commission is looking at for the next generation of research. Trying to tackle real world problems, and saying broadly, 'let's see what could help for those'. So we've been involved in the past in projects as diverse as: How do you pick strawberries. What's the right sort of robot to put in the home of an elder person who's suffering cognitive impairments, dementia? And across those lines, there's always the same set of problems turn up. You need to be able to see things, reach out, grasp them and pick them up. The core technologies from our space are always the same across that. So we've been developing a suite of technology that if you want to take a robot and put it in the home to do cooking, our technology can fill one part of that jigsaw. There's a lot of it we don't - because we aren't going to be the experts in everything. We're big believers in open innovation and partnerships. We talk to our friends over there, they build the robot, our friends over there put the vision on it, our friends over they make it use correct nursing protocols to do the job right. JR: Is the singularity coming, and if so, when? RW: I think that what does happen constantly is that improvements in technology change the world, completely – and we don't notice, because it doesn't happen instantaneously. So I think that what we will see is a series of points where, everything has changed – but not in a 'suddenly there was artificial intelligence is ruling the universe' JR: So it's more like incremental shifts that over time become a larger shift in consciousness, awareness of where we are the in the world? RW: Yeah, I think that's very much it. If you can imagine taking someone from a thousand years ago and putting them here today in the conference we're in, they'd be like: 'why aren't you singing hymns? And what are these little things you keep rubbing?' But human interaction, the need to eat, the need to drink, the need to talk, the need for sunlight - those things haven't changed, and as long as we're this species, they won't. What will change are the tools and equipment we use to do that. I think that from a technology point of view we're going to see robots becoming more familiar, more common, we're going to see robots allow humans to stop doing repetitive tasks and go do things that are more valuable. As technologists, I think we need to make sure that we actually think about what could be done wrongly and badly with the technologies we develop. JR: So you're actually building into the research process a considering and concern for the ethical use and the social impact that technology will have in the future? RW: Yes, I think it's really important to have that kind of ethical perspective on what you're doing. TRANSIT LOUNGE RADIO @ LOGIN 2018 We are LOGIN 2018 – the first, largest, most uncompromising innovation bash in the Baltics. At LOGIN, the roadmap for INNOVATION is TECHNOLOGY x CREATIVITY x BUSINESS. 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Shadow of War’s microtransactions are gone, Outlast 2’s after adding a story mode, and Sea of Thieves has become Xbox One’s fastest-selling new IP. Rich Walker’s really enjoying his first few hours of Ni No Kuni 2 and been causing havoc in Far Cry 5, while Mike Harradence has been playing some Uncharted: The Lost Legacy over the bank holiday. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Chris Monty and Rich Walker sit in this week.
Dan Webb and Rich Walker of Resero Network join Colm this week to discuss the quality of Star Wars Battlefront II’s action, but also the shambles that has been the lead-up to launch. On top of that, Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment has been bought by EA, and Rich praises the Call of Duty: WW2 campaign. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Rich Walker of Resero joins us this week to compare notes with Alice on both Middle-earth: Shadow of War and the recent Assassin’s Creed Origins preview event they both played, Chris has been perfecting his swing in Golf Story, and Fortnite is doing rather well. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Colm might’ve been broken by Cuphead but has come out the other end happy, Rich Walker of Resero Network’s been enjoying NBA 2K18 and Forza 7, and we wonder what the Red Dead Redemption 2 trailer told us if anything. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Alice is back from her holiday to join Colm and XBA/PST’s Rich Walker to chat all about how Get Even’s best bits don’t involve the shooting, Perception has some interesting ideas, and Crash Bandicoot is how you remember it. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Minecraft has cross-play on everything but PS4, Beyond Good & Evil 2 is at ‘day zero of development,’ and Alice is back from her travels to E3 and is here to tell Colm and Rich Walker of Resero Network all about the games she saw, rather than played. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Rich Walker from Resero Network joins us for a podcast with a more literal title than usual because it’s E3 time and the gang have some predictions for what we’re going to see at video games’ biggest showcase of the year. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
Rich Walker and Eric Haft sit in this week.
*Apologies about the sound quality this week. We had to work hard to save this podcast, so we hope you enjoy it. Normal service will resume next week* Rich Walker joins us this week to chat some Prey with Colm as the two have been playing it non-stop, Bethesda also got someone to change the name of their game, and Assassin's Creed is in Egypt, it seems. ► www.videogamer.com for all your news, reviews, videos and features on video games! Follow us on all your favourite social networks! ► Twitter➜ twitter.com/VideoGamerCom ► Facebook➜ www.facebook.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► Instagram➜ www.instagram.com/VideoGamerCom/ ► YouTube ➜ www.youtube.com/VideoGamerTV/ ► Snapchat➜ VideoGamerCom VideoGamer Podcast theme composed by Adam Cook
First show of 2017 and it's a big one. Rich Walker joins us and Joe grills him on a number of topics. We semi mourn the death of a fellow comedian and Joe waxes poetic about his brief time as a star of Murder Mystery Theater. Brian can't believe it. Also epic rants about a certain comedian who claims to be a millennial.
Borrower Acquisition at Scale panel with Brock Blake, Founder & CEO of Lendio; Cheryl Law, Chief Marketing Officer of Prosper Marketplace; Rich Walker, Chief Marketing Officer of Datamyx; Ryan Gilbert, CEO & Co-Founder of BetterFinance; and moderator Scott Sanborn, COO of Lending Club.
Our Way Is the High Way
Getting the year started just right with hot jazz from all over the Sunshine State including a cut from the Jazz Conceptions Orchestra. Plenty of guitar this episode including Rich Walker (Orlando), Dan Heck (Naples), LaRue Nickelson (Tampa) is featured on a Herb Silverstein cut, George Grosman (Orlando) as well as killer saxophone performances from Mark Johnson (Daytona), Jeff Rupert (Orlando) and Rex Wertz. All that and a jazz n bass treat from Erik Jackson!Host: Kenny MacKenzie Our Facebook page!Kenny also hosts: "Jazz Greats" on WFCF St. Augustine every Tuesday 3-7pm EST Listen on iHeart! USA Only "Kendo's Jazz Sampler" on WNHU New Haven Mondays at 6am EST. Listen via WNHU website!Have a peek at Kendo's Top 55 Jazz Tracks for 2014.Kenny's Twitter1. Introduction - Kenny (download our theme song "In Control" on iTunes!)2. "Somerset's Mom" - Rich Walker (Orlando, FL) website Rich Walker - guitar, Rex Wertz - tenor sax,Tom Parmeter - trumpet, Richard Drexler - piano,Carlos Fernandez - percussion, Walt Hubbard - drums,Mark Neuenschwander - bassfrom the album "Lazybird Revisited"Purchase at CD Baby or Amazon!3. "A Morning Walk" - The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra (Jacksonville, FL) website; Alex LoRe's websiteAlex Nguyen - trumpet, leader; Brandon Lee - trumpet,Alex LoRe - alto, Jeremy Fratti - tenor, Matt Zettlemoyer - bari,Robert Edwards - trombone, Joshua Bowlus - piano, Paul Sikivie - bass, Ben Adkins - drumsfrom the album "The Jazz Conceptions Orchestra". Purchase at CD Baby, Amazon or iTunes!4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album Gettin' In the Groove by Ron Pirtle)5. "The Whispering Eye" - Mark Johnson (Daytona Beach, FL) websiteMark Johnson - saxesNorbert Marius - bassYaaki Levi - drumsunreleased track.Purchase more great music by Mark at Bandcamp! 6. "Esmaralda" - George Grosman & Bohemian Swing (Orlando, FL) websiteGeorge Grosman - guitar, Brandon Walker - sax, piano;Ian MacGillivray - trumpet, Rachel Melas - bass;Rafael Keren - accordian, David MacDougall - drumsFrom the album "Sydney, Mon Ami".Purchase album at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!7. Announcements - Kenny8. "Through the Storm" - Erik Jackson (Orlando, FL) websiteErik Jackson - production, rhodes, bass, synths, Akai MPCKJ Sawka - drumsJoey Crown - trumpetfrom the album "Rainy Days".Purchase the album at Amazon, iTunes or Bandcamp!9. "Blade's Groove" - Dan Heck (Naples, FL) websiteDan Heck - guitarThomas Marriott - trumpetStuart Shelton - pianoRick Doll - bassJose Martinez - drumsfrom the album "Compositionality" courtesy of Origin Records. Purchase at Amazon or iTunes!10. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album Gettin' In the Groove by Ron Pirtle)11. "Monday Morning" - Herb Silverstein (Sarasota, FL) websiteHerb Silverstein - pianoJeff Rupert - tenor saxLaRue Nickelson - guitarRichard Drexler - bassMarty Morrell - drumsfrom the album "Monday Morning".Purchase at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!11. Closing Announcements - Kenny Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at jazzploration@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2014 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
Hands down one of our best shows with hot jazz from Miami, Orlando, Clearwater & Tallahassee. Featured artists include the one and only Jeff Berlin (with Toots Thielemans), Zach Bartholomew Trio, Rich Walker (with Ira Sullivan), Martin Bejerano (!!), Jeff Rupert (with Kenny Drew Jr.) and Tim Riddle. Wow! The selections are moving, swinging and memorable. Don't miss this one! Host: Kenny MacKenzie Our Facebook page!Kenny hosts "Jazz Greats" on WFCF St. Augustine every Tuesday 3-7pm EST. Listen on iHeart! (USA Only)Kenny's Twitter1. Introduction - Kenny (download our theme song "In Control" on iTunes!)2. "MPH" - Tim Riddle (Orlando, FL) websiteTim Riddle - guitar, James D. Pappas - hammond B3Ken Gioffre - tenor sax, Dave Anderson - bassAndrea Valentini - drumsfrom the album "Between the Lines"Purchase at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!3. "Toot's Suite" - Jeff Berlin (Clearwater, FL) websiteJeff Berlin - bassToots Thielemans - harmonicaRichard Drexler - piano, keyboardsDanny Gottlieb - drums, percussionfrom the album "Lumpy Jazz". Purchase at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Second Chances" by Allison Paris)5. "No Apologies" - Martin Bejerano (Miami, FL) websiteMartin Bejerano - pianoMark Small - soprano saxEdward Perez - bassLudwig Afonso - drumsfrom the album "Potential Energy". Purchase at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes! 6. "D.A. So Far Away" - East Coast Standards Time (Orlando, FL) websiteRich Walker - guitarIra Sullivan - alto fluteCarlos Fernandez - percussionFrom the album "Impressions".Purchase album at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!7. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Second Chances" by Allison Paris)8. "Bad Moon" - Jeff Rupert (Orlando, FL) FacebookJeff Rupert - tenor saxKenny Drew Jr - pianoRichard Drexler - bassJohn Jenkins - drumsfrom the album "From Memphis to Mobile", courtesy of Random Act Records.Purchase cd at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!9. "Shades of Blue" - Zach Bartholomew Trio (Tallahassee, FL) websiteZach Bartholomew - pianoBrandon Robertson - bassMiles Bozeman - drumsfrom the album "Out of This Town". Purchase at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes!10. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Second Chances" by Allison Paris)11. Closing Announcements - Kenny Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2014 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
More of the best jazz coming from the Sunshine State, including a jazz harp quintet (with viola!) from Marathon, an all-star Latin jazz line-up in Miami, a daring jazz trio from Tampa, a legendary pianist in St. Petersburg & more. Lovely & vibrant music to accompany the loveliest month of Spring! Hosts: Allison Paris & Kenny MacKenzie pictured: Kenny Drew Jr.photograph by Ken FrancklingKen's jazz blogKen's photo gallerygive us a 'like' on Facebook!Kenny host "Jazz Greats" on WFCF Saint Augustine - every Tuesday from 3-7pm EST. Listen online here!Kenny's Twitter - @DJKendo11. Introduction - Allison & Kenny (download our theme song "In Control" on iTunes!)2. "Days of Grace" - Michael Leasure (Melbourne, FL) websiteMichael Leasure - acoustic guitar (left channel), classical guitar (right channel) & 1953 Gibson ES 295 (center)from the album "Collection No 1"purchase album at Michael's website store!3. "Arguable Promise" - Gabriel Vivas (Miami, FL) websiteGabriel Vivas - bassSilvano Monasterios - pianoCisco Dimas - trumpetTroy Roberts - saxSammy Figueroa - congasDaniel Susnjar - drumsFreddie Burgos - drumsfrom the album "Ninth Life". Purchase at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes.4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Sid's Blast From the Past" by Sid Blair)5. "This One's for Bill" - Kenny Drew Jr. (St. Petersberg, FL) websiteKenny Drew Jr. - pianoJon Burr - bassMarty Morrell - drumsFrom the album "Coral Sea" - courtesy of Random Act Records.Purchase album at Amazon, iTunes or the Random Act store. 6. "The Crosby Twins" - Rich Walker (Orlando, FL) websiteRich Walker - guitar, Rex Wertz - tenor sax, Mark McKee - piano, Mark Neuenschwander - bass,Walt Hubbard - drums, carlos Fernandez - congasFrom the album "Lazybird Revisited".Purchase album at Amazon or CD Baby.7. Announcements - Allison(background music from the album KMT I by Kenny MacKenzie Trio)8. "P.L." - La Lucha (Tampa, FL) websiteJohn O'Leary - pianoAlejandro Arenas - bassMark Feinman - drumsfrom the album "A Cup of Fuzzy Water". Purchase cd at Amazon, CD Baby or iTunes.9. "The Kite" - Scott Marischen (Marathon, FL) websiteScott Marischen - harp, Debbie Spring - viola,Ed Maina - flute, Jose Garcia or Rusty Heck - bass,Tony Verdejo - percussionfrom the album "Alligator Alley".Purchase cd at CD Baby or iTunes.10. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Live in the City" by Jack Pierson)11. Closing Announcements - Allison Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2013 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
It's our 1 year anniversary show! We celebrate with three artists who are new to the show, as well as some old friends. Upbeat latin and contemporary jazz both from South Florida, cool swing from New Smyrna Beach and straight-ahead jazz from right here in PC! photograph of Valerie Gillespie by George Lindsaycourtesy of TUNGSTEN Photography. visit our Facebook pageHost: Kenny MacKenzie ~ Kenny's Twitter - @DJKendo1Special Guest Co-host: SYBIL GAGE1. Introduction - Kenny & Sybil(background music from the album "NOLA Calling" by Sybil Gage)2. "Here We Go" - Perry Joslin Project (Parkland, FL) websitePerry Joslin - piano, keyboards, composer; Lee Levin - drums & programming, percussion, composer; Dan Warner - guitars, composer; Javier Carrion - bass, percussion; Richard Bravo - percussion, Doug Emery - keyboard overdubs,Ed Calle - saxesfrom the album "Perry Joslin Project"purchase at CD Baby or Itunes.3. "Speaking of Wes" - East Coast Standards Time (New Smyrna Beach, FL) websiteRich Walker - guitar, composer; Rex Wertz - flute, Mark Boling - guitar, Carlos Fernandez - percussion, Rusty Holloway - bass, Keith Brown - drums,Steve Davidowski - organfrom the album "Impressions"puchase cd at Itunes or at Amazon 4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Gettin' in the Groove" by Ron Pirtle Quintet)5. "O Sorriso Dela" - Jamie Ousley (Hallandale, FL) websiteJamie Ousley - double bass, composer; Philip Strange - piano, Larry Marshall - bassfrom the album "O Sorriso Dela"buy cd at CD Baby or Amazon.6. "Greg Minnick" - Distanza (Miami, FL) website currently under const.Greg Minnick - guitars, keyboards & programmingTrack will be available at Greg's website :)8. Announcements - Sybil(background music from the album "Live in the City" by Jack Pierson)9. "Once Again" - Valerie Gillespie (Dade City, FL) websiteValerie Gillespie - vocal, flute solo, composer;Rick Stueuart - piano, lyrics; Lee Ahlin - bass, guitar;Danny Gottlieb - drums, Gaby Sequeira - percussion,Central FL Studio Orchestra (V. Adams, L. Adams, Susan McGee,Jeff McGee, David Tagliarini)from the album "Once Again"Purchase cd at Valerie's website or CD Baby.10. "Another Groove" - Don Durkee Trio (Palm Coast, FL) websiteDon Durkee - pianoFrank Capek - bass, composerFrankie Capek - drumsThis and more of Don's music available at Soundcloud.11. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Live at the Warehouse" by Dot Wilder)13. Closing Announcements - Sybil Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2012 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
Bonus episode featuring some of the cream of the crop in jazz guitarists from Florida! We think this is one of our best sounding episodes ever - with ultra-fine selections from Mike Petrovich, Rich Walker, Michael Leasure, Tom Stewart, Mark Barrios (pictured) & more! Visit our Facebook pageCheck out our blogKenny's twitter - @DJKendo1 Hosts: Allison Paris & Kenny MacKenzie1. Introduction - Allison2. "Sunrise in the Land of the Pharoahs" - Michael Petrovich (Maitland, FL) websiteMichael Petrovich - guitars, charango, rain stick & programming;Tony Rios - congas, bongos, woodblock, Ed White - djembe, percussionfrom the album "The Train to San Lorenzo"purchase at CD Baby or Itunes.3. "Song for Michelle (excerpt)" - The 3 Mikes (Melbourne, FL) websiteMichael Leasure - guitar, guitar synthesizer,Michale Bocchicchio - bass, Michael Welch - drumsfrom the album "3 Mikes Live - Disc 3"puchase downloads at Michael Leasure's website. 4. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Gettin' in the Groove" by Ron Pirtle Quintet)5. "Venting the Flata" - Rich Walker Sextet (New Smyrna Beach, FL) websiteRich Walker - guitar, Donald Brown - piano, Walt Hubbard - drums, Rex Wertz - tenor sax, Charlie Silva - bass, Carlos Fernandez - congas, bongosfrom the album "Bar Hop"buy cd at CD Baby or Itunes. 6. "Sneaky Pete" - Tom Stewart (Tampa, FL) websiteTom Stewart - guitar, Mark Neuenschwander - bass, Sava Boyadjiev - drumsFrom the album "First Time Over" purchase cd at Amazon or Itunes.7. "Café con Leche" - Mark Barrios (Tampa, FL) websiteMark Barrios - guitars, Ruben Drake - bass, Allon Sams - keyboardsfrom the album "West Tampa Style"buy cd at CD Baby or Itunes. 8. Announcements - Allison(background music from the album "KMT II" from Kenny MacKenzie Trio)9. "Ojoyousone" - LaRue Nickelson (Tampa, FL) websiteLaRue Nickelson - acoustic guitar, Jeremy Powell - tenor sax,Patrick Bettison - piano, Joe Porter - bass, Steve Davis - drumsfrom the album "Dark Water".Purchase cd at CD Baby or Itunes.10. "Candy" - Ermesc Gonzalez (Plant City, FL) websiteErmesc Gonzalez - guitar,Aldemar Valentine - bass, Freddie Burgos - drumsfrom the album "Introspection"purchase cd at his website or CD Baby.11. Announcements - Kenny(background music from the album "Live at the Warehouse" by Dot Wilder)12. Closing Announcements - Allison Palm Coast Jazz closing theme by Seven Octaves.produced by Kenny MacKenzie If you are a jazz musician residing in Florida with quality recordings of your original music (new or old) and would like to submit for future podcasts, please contact us at palmcoastjazz@gmail.com All recordings and compositions are the property of their respective performers and composers, all rights reserved. This podcast copyright 2012 Kenny MacKenzie. All rights reserved.
Second of a two-part feature on the European Robotics Forum, an event jointly organized by EUROP and EURON and hosted this year in Sweden by Robotdalen. Thanks to an invitation by EUnited Robotics, we got a chance to be there and talk to some of Europe's major players in the field, from both industry and research. In today's show we speak with Bernd Liepert CTO of KUKA AG and president of EUROP and Rich Walker from Shadow Robot.
Rich Walker and Matt Groen visit Darkness Radio to weigh in on the mysterious happenings on the Skinwalker Ranch. Everything from Ghosts and Shadow People to Aliens and Cryptids have been spotted on this property!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rich Walker and Matt Groen visit Darkness Radio to weigh in on the mysterious happenings on the Skinwalker Ranch. Everything from Ghosts and Shadow People to Aliens and Cryptids have been spotted on this property!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.