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On this episode of Destination on the Left, Rob Holmes, Founder of GLP Films shares his experience and insights on sustainable tourism. We discuss how you can impact sustainability through storytelling, and Rob shares several components of storytelling and why it must focus on people at the ground level and be story-driven, not sales-driven. What You Will Learn in This Episode: Why storytelling and sustainability are integral to the tourism industry What strategic approach Rob uses for authentic and engaging storytelling in destination marketing How sustainability has evolved as a term and its significance in tourism Why targeting responsible travelers through storytelling can make a meaningful impact on sustaining a place Some of the sustainable travel campaigns Rob's team has worked on, including sustainability in the Finger Lakes Region, and rewilding in Chile How education in sustainability and involving various stakeholders are crucial for the industry's success How the Tourism Sector Can Thrive with Sustainability and Meaningful Narratives We discuss the concept of rewilding—integrating natural, wild elements back into ecosystems, and how incorporating conservation and biodiversity into a destination enriches not just the environment but increases the opportunities for visitors. Rob digs into how the tourism industry can tap into nature-focused tourism, make environmental gains, and improve economic resilience by adopting greener practices. The Power of Storytelling in Tourism We go deep into the significance of compelling storytelling. Rob shares why purpose, story arc, characters, and landscape are some of the key components of a great story, whether it's in a film or a marketing campaign. He describes why authenticity is pivotal and why he believes that stories driven by passion—rather than sales and marketing objectives—enhances sustainable tourism initiatives. Sharing memorable and emotionally resonant stories does more than attract tourists; it fosters a deeper connection to the destination and its people. When crafted well, these stories invigorate both local charm and environmental consciousness, leading to lasting impressions and repeat visitors. Real-world Applications Rob leaves us with actionable insights learned from several campaigns his company has spearheaded. In the Finger Lakes region, a two-year campaign aims to reposition this destination as a sustainable outdoor recreation hotspot. By highlighting local culture and nature-centric activities, the campaign seeks to draw responsible outdoor travelers. Another campaign in Chile promotes community tourism, encouraging travelers to immerse themselves in local life and support the community economically. Rob's examples underscore how targeted, authentic storytelling can drive sustainable tourism while benefiting the local community. Resources: Website: https://www.glpfilms.com/ LinkedIn Personal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertbholmes/ LinkedIn Business: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glp-films/ We value your thoughts and feedback and would love to hear from you. Leave us a review on your favorite streaming platform to let us know what you want to hear more o​f. Here is a quick tutorial on how to leave us a rating and review on iTunes!

In this week's episode, we kick off our series of best practice advice with Andy Banner-Price, owner of The 25 Boutique B & B and hospitality and customer experience consultancy, Neon Duck. Andy dives into customer experience, improving reviews, acting on feedback, and handling complaints. This episode focuses on addressing complaints and nipping them in the bud. New Format & Focus This season, we're launching video podcasting, and focusing on innovation, trends, and events. Upcoming Events Electric Bay Festival this weekend. Drum n Bass enthusiasts, get ready! World Rum Day on the 13th at Shoreline, featuring Mermaid Spiced Rum. Balearic Beats at the Mercure every Friday night in July, with DJ Luna V on the Latitude 50 Terrace overlooking Paignton Green. Riviera Connect EXPO for tourism, hospitality, and business sectors. Register for free at riviera-connect.co.uk. Viva's ERAS Tour Bottomless Brunch for Taylor Swift fans on 3rd August, from 2-4 PM, £35PP. Trendwatch Hiring DJs Over Live Bands Atmosphere Creation: DJs have a knack for selecting songs that resonate with your desired ambiance. Seamless Transitions: Continuous playing keeps guests engaged and the dance floor packed. Social Media Buzz: Great evenings lead to social media shares and tags, boosting visibility. Extending Business Hours Guardhouse Cafe in Brixham is open until 5 PM every day this summer. Lighthouse Cafe Bar in Torquay Harbour is open 9 AM-9 PM on weekends. Kelly's Question Corner Top 3 Skills for Front of House Staff 1. Excellent Communication: Essential for clear, effective interaction with guests. 2. Strong Interpersonal Skills: Creates a welcoming, pleasant atmosphere. 3. Problem-Solving Abilities: Essential for handling unexpected situations efficiently. Andy Banner-Price, Owner of award-winning The 25 Boutique B & B and Founder of Neon Duck Consultancy, shares his insights on dealing with anticipating and dealing with complaints and entitlement. Listen to Andy share his incredible journey in hospitality in our 2023 special episode. If you have any questions for our experts—Sean White from Soak, Rob Holmes from Allsop & Pitts, Kelly Widley, or Andy Banner-Price—drop us a line! Stay tuned for more expert advice and industry insights in our upcoming episodes. Don't forget to engage with us on social media and share your stories! Listen and Learn from the best in the hospitality industry, and let's make Torbay a top destination for excellent customer experiences. Listen to the podcast featuring John Ross and his incredible JR Shout Out community here.

In this episode of Building Texas Business, I sit down with Rob Holmes of Texas Capital Bank. Rob shares the bank's dramatic turnaround story since he became President and CEO in 2021 amid challenges, including a failed merger. Rob explains how Texas Capital improved its standing through strategic moves like fortifying capital levels and attracting talent from global institutions. We explore Texas Capital's community focus through initiatives increasing volunteerism and launching a charitable foundation. Rob highlights how their junior program brings diverse talent while nurturing a vibrant culture. Wrapping up, Rob discusses maintaining liquidity amid regional banking stress, their strong capital position, and diversification that sets them apart. SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Rob and I discuss the transformation of Texas Capital under Rob's leadership since 2021, highlighting the strategic moves that improved the bank's financial standing and attracted top-tier talent. Rob explains how Texas Capital's strong capital position and strategic diversification helped it navigate the regional banking stress of 2023. We explore Texas Capital's commitment to community engagement, including extensive volunteer hours, the founding of a new charitable foundation, and various philanthropic activities across Texas. Rob elaborates on the bank's innovative junior program, which has attracted diverse and talented professionals to Texas Capital. We discuss the importance of maintaining a respectful, collaborative workplace culture and the value of in-office collaboration for fostering a strong, healthy culture and achieving better customer outcomes. Rob shares insights on the challenges facing the banking industry, such as regulatory inconsistencies, the inverted yield curve, technology integration, and commercial real estate risks. We discuss Texas Capital's strategic initiatives to expand services, including public finance and equity research in oil and gas. Rob reflects on the lessons he has learned from his career, emphasizing the importance of candor, transparency, and servant leadership. Rob recounts personal anecdotes about his first jobs and leisure pursuits, offering a glimpse into his personal life and leadership style. We touch on the role of media in shaping perceptions of regional banks and the distinct advantages of regional banks in serving local communities and businesses. LINKSShow Notes Previous Episodes About BoyarMiller About Texas Capital GUESTS Rob HolmesAbout Rob TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Chris: In this episode, you will meet Rob Holmes, President and CEO of Texas Capital. Rob shares an inspiring story on how Texas Capital has rebuilt itself and become the first full-service financial services institution headquartered in Texas. Rob, I want to thank you for joining me here on Building Texas Business. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Let's start. I know you're the CEO Building Texas Business. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Let's start. I know you're the CEO of Texas Capital. Tell the listeners a little bit about what Texas Capital is and the type of services it provides here in Texas. Rob: Great. Well, thank you very much for having me. So Texas Capital had a very proud founding in the late 90s by Texas business people to found a bank to serve Texas businesses with local decision making. After all, the banks failed in the late 80s and they had a very proud run and 05 went public and did very well. Then about the mid teens we kind of started going a little sideways and by the time I got there the bank needed to be kind of rebuilt and so we had a failed merger with a bank about a third our size and that tells you anything, and really because of COVID. But after that they needed new leadership and so what we did was we started over and we went fast. So we raised a perpetual deferred deal with sub-debt securitization, got out of a line of business correspondent banking that attracted a lot of capital and improved the capital by about 270 basis points in about eight weeks, and that's my bet as we run the bank very conservatively. We also brought in a lot of new talent. So the entire operating committee is new. We have a new junior program we can get into that later. But then we started on the journey to build and this is kind of interesting. I think you'll find it interesting. We're the first full service financial services firm ever to be headquartered in Texas and if you think about it it makes perfect sense. So in the 80s you had Glass-Steagall and stuff. You had a lot of big banks. They failed. They were replaced by larger institutions from out of state that saw this as a very attractive market. But the in-market banks never went into the full service direction. So regional banks are made from community banks and they get bigger and they didn't have the products and services. They just had NIM banks, if you will Sure. Chris: Well, that's an impressive thing to have a claim to being the only one headquartered in Texas. I would not have thought that, you know, given some of the other Texas yeah. So I mean you're not kidding when you said a full restart just a few years ago. Rob: Full restart. So we have think about who we're able to attract, and this says more about Texas than Texas Capital. But the woman that runs treasury services for us ran treasury services for JPMorgan Chase globally. Our chief risk officer was the head of risk for JPMorgan's investment bank and then chief risk officer was the head of risk for JP Morgan's investment bank and then chief risk officer for the commercial bank and then head of risk for real estate globally. Our head of ops was a head of ops and tech for Stan O'Neill at Merrill Lynch. The CEO Started in the mailroom, ended up reporting as CEO head of ops and tech for Merrill Lynch. I think he can do it here and that so and that just kind of it keeps going. Our CHRO came from Cilindes and our CIO has an impressive background. Our head of commercial banking all of them had bigger jobs at much larger institutions. Chris: Yeah, what that tells me, Rob, is that those people saw a bright future in the business climate in Texas to make those kind of moves to join you and the Dallas headquarters. Rob: There's no doubt about it and, by the way, I wouldn't have tried this anywhere else, I mean for sure. So, as you know, texas is eighth largest economy in the world, second largest workforce, youngest workforce, fastest growing. We've created 46,. We've created more jobs in 46 last 48 months, so it's a very attractive place to be overall? Chris: What was it about just speaking to you? I know you joined in 2021, that based on the career you had built to that moment where you saw this as the right opportunity for you. Rob: I was very happy where I was. So I was primarily in the investment bank at JPMorgan Chase, but my last 10 years I ran the large corporate bank and the commercial bank ended up taking that to 22 countries. So I ran that business. Globally it was over $180 billion in assets. It was a third treasury, a third lending and a third investment banking. Great business, great people. But when this bank kind of went sideways, I had two or three people call me and say, hey, I'm thinking about this, would you come run it? And it surprised me. I'm like, why are you calling me? But then I started looking at it and, like you, I'm from Texas. I commuted to New York for 25 of the 31 years that I worked for JP Morgan. But people kind of said, why don't you come home and build something special with where you're from? And that, through more and more dialogue, became very appealing to me and I did not know and shame on me that as bad a shape as a bank was when we got there. But it ended up being a blessing because you know like today it'd be very difficult to do what we did. I mean to have a board, investor base, regulators, constituents. Let you reinvest. We reinvested over a third of our non-interest expense and then more, and we said to the investor community and the board and others that we're going to have negative operating leverage for about a year and a half. That'd be very hard to do in this climate, right? And so the other thing we had to do became a blessing because you had to do it all at once, and so I'm glad that's behind us. Today the bank is. It used to have just mono banking, like a community or regional bank. Today we have segmentation, so you have business banking for small businesses, middle market banking for a little larger businesses, a little more sophistication, and then we have a corporate banking group like a money center bank. And when you have a corporate banking group you have to have industry expertise. So we have energy, diversified FIG, government, not-for-profit healthcare, tmt and mortgage, so we have the industry expertise of any money center bank right here in Texas. And then we have private wealth and then we rebuilt all of treasury. So it's a brand new bank. We have a new payments platform, new lockbox, new card, new merchant, new digital onboarding that we came up with. And so we people say the banks can't compete on technology like with the big bank, but we can because we have one platform. Those big banks have many platforms because they're a combination of many banks. We can go in that if you want. And then we have one platform. Those big banks have many platforms because they're a combination of many banks. We can go in that if you want. And then we have, as I said, private wealth, investment banking, and we can go into as many of those areas as you want. Chris: So you basically built it like you said. As businesses are coming to Texas, you're ready to serve whatever need they have. Rob: For sure. So we want to be very relevant to our clients and we are a one-stop shop, so you won't outgrow us. We were a top 10 arranger of bank debt for middle market companies in the years. We've done about $110 billion of notional trades in about 18 months. Wow, it's profitable. Chris: So what's your vision for the future, then for Texas Capital, and kind of, how are you working to achieve? Rob: that it's actually pretty simple. It's maturing the platform that we built. So we are the number one lender to Texas-based businesses of any Texas-based bank. Now that's new. We've had tremendous success. Business owners and decision makers love the local decision making. They love the fact that when they hire us, they're getting a very talented, experienced MD working for them instead of maybe the money center bank, whatever, a VP or something assigned to it. They just like the local decision making, local access. But the go forward strategy is People ask me this all the time what's next? And they think that we have a big bang answer. The big bang answer is delighting clients and banking the best clients in our markets, and we've always said, or I've always said we'll be defined by our clients, and so we have been blessed to have clients be attracted to the strategy and platform. So we're going to just do more of what we've done. Chris: So what I like about that strategy is the simplicity. I think there's a lesson there for entrepreneurs and other business owners in what you've done in the last few years, and that to me is get the foundation right and your core right Correct, and then do the fundamentals really well. Right, it's blocking and tackling is what you're doing. Rob: It's executing now for sure. And I had one CEO of a very renowned New York financial firm ask him to come see me. They had heard about what we were doing and he wanted to understand it because we actually we took what he would say was the very best person from his sales and trading floor who had been there 18 years. He didn't understand how we could attract that person because that person drove a U-Haul to Dallas with his wife and kids before we were even open. And he said tell me your strategy. And I went through it and, to be honest with you, I was hoping he would like it because I was pretty long the strategy. And so he did. And I said what do you think? He said I think y'all are going to be very successful. And this was early on. And I said why is that? He said do you have a differentiated strategy with differentiated talent in a differentiated market? And I think that's true. But then he said what do you think? And I said well, our talent's really. This is back in 21. Now we've done all these things, but I said that the talent is really good, but we've got to do everything with this jersey on now and delight our clients with TCB jersey, not another jersey. And he said look, rob, do it once, it'll be hard, do it three times, you'll be good. The fifth time you're an expert and I kind of he kind of and he's pretty renowned. It was a pretty simple lesson but it's kind of true. And now we have done it and we are good at what we're doing. But we still can mature the platform, that treasury platform we talked about. It's literally second to none. We're doing open banking for clients. We're doing a digital onboarding. You can open a commercial account tomorrow at a money center bank. That take eight weeks or six weeks. But that platform to scale to get the most out of it, I mean we could run it without any more investment for five years. So we got to scale the business and, by the way, it's happening. So that treasury platform is it's called P times V, price times volume that's how many transactions are going through the factory or warehouse financial transactions. That's usually for a bank it's a 2% business at best. It grows the economy, it grows the GDP. We're going 17%, quarter over quarter, year, quarter after quarter. That's remarkable Because of new clients moving to the platform. So it is scaling but we just need to continue to do that Right. Chris: So you talked about the platform a couple of times. What type of I guess technology or emerging technologies do you see having the biggest impact in the banking industry over the next, say, three to five years? Rob: I think real-time payments, I think open banking, and people don't really understand what open banking is. What open banking is? It's actually very simple, so think well, here's, here's one simple way. Part of it is you don't have to leave your internal financial platform to go to our platform. We'll put an API on yours and so you can just push a button and be into our system and send ACH or wire or what. So I think AI, I think open banking and I think real-time payments. Okay. Chris: Well, I can speak from experience, as we transitioned to Texas Capital a year ago and, to your point of the ease of that transition and being able to deal with decision makers made it seamless. Good Well thank you. It's been a great relationship for us, for sure. Rob: Good Well thank you. Chris: What you're saying is true, Well, thank you. It's been a great relationship for us for sure. Good, Well, thank you. I can attest to that. What you're saying is true, Well, thank you. Let's talk a little bit about where you see corporate leadership whether that's your C-suite or just the company as it exists and community impact. What type of initiatives is Texas Capital working on to be a meaningful member of the community? Rob: Yeah, well, that's a. Thank you very much for the for the easy pitch. So I think we do. We bat way above our weight in community impact. So we do tens of thousands of hours of employee volunteer in the community. We, as part of this transformation, when we were investing in the platform, we took time to also found our first foundation. We never had a foundation before. So we have a foundation and we do volunteer hours and we just were part of the group that bought Opal Lear Newhouse. We were the first one to open a branch in West Dallas. We gave the founding seed money for Southern Gateway in Dallas. We're big supporters of Rodeo here in Houston. Last year I think we sponsored the opening night, so I think you're going to see us pretty much all over the state of Texas in terms of giving and more than just money but time, resources, expertise to philanthropies. We hosted a great event about three weeks ago. People came from all over the country and it was for veterans and we had veteran not-for-profits and we had veteran-owned businesses and we just brought them together and talked about issues and how they could work together and synergies between the two and advancing veterans on a go-forward basis, and the people that came would just blow you away and the feedback of it. I happened to be out of town on a three-day weekend afterwards out of the country and somebody approached me and I didn't know them and they didn't know me, but I guess they'd seen my picture or something and they thanked me for having that veteran event. Wow, and so it had a far, far impact. It will do things like that. We have a nonprofit event in every city, getting nonprofits together, helping them learn how to raise money and trade best practices, and we do that and we'll do that in every city during the summer. So you know, our giving is good, Our volunteer hours are fantastic, Our sharing of expertise is good. Our investment in the community is great, Good. Chris: Let's circle back to because that kind of made me think of team building, right, so you talked about basically a wholesale change with the team around you. What are some of the things that you look for to make sure you're you know, through that recruiting and hiring process, that you're getting the right person for the position? Rob: Yep, so this is a great question and this was the key to what we've done so far and how we're going to reach our 25 goals. So in September of 21, when we announced a strategic plan, which was pretty dramatic, we said we're not going to achieve our financial goals until 25. With that came a lot of change and a lot of talent. So 80% of the people at the firm are new since I got there. That's 80% of over 2,000 people. So that's a lot of change, managing through a lot of change through a transformation, through a regional quote, unquote regional banking practice that I'd love to talk about, regional banking practice, regional banking stress that I'd love to talk about transformation. So there's a lot going on there, both internally and externally, that we had to manage through. And what we did is we started at the top and the bottom, so we put new leadership with new skill sets and new expectations and new goals of banking the best clients in our markets instead of just being a bank, etc. And we also started a junior program. It was the first junior program in the history of the bank. Chris: You mentioned that earlier, so tell us a little more about the junior program. Rob: It's awesome If you have a kid and they want to get into finance and they don't want to go to New York but they want to work at a great financial services firm to have them join us. So we post in. So I got there in January of 21. It so I got there in January 21. It's COVID Nobody's in the office. We'd just been through this internal stress with the failed merger, new CEO, the whole bit. I said we need a junior program. We posted 60 positions. We got 800 applications. We hired 60-something. A third of those had their masters. That wasn't required. The average GPA was over 374. So people love what we're doing right. The next year there's over 2,000 applicants and our junior program is great. And, by the way, I helped build one in the investment bank in my last firm and one in the commercial bank in my last firm. I thought they were both very good. This one's awesome. So you come in, you go through four or five months of training and then you go into your line of business. But we probably hired you after your internship the summer before, if that makes sense. Sure, the program has some of the diverse classes I've ever seen in banking and we didn't do that. This may be controversial. We do that on purpose. We did that because we hired the best people Exactly and they're the most diverse classes, and so we're really excited about that. And then the attrition rate there isn't nearly what we thought it would be. We built it for a higher attrition rate because those kids usually leave a large percentage after third year. Sure. They're not leaving. Rob: They like it, so that's been kind of fun. It's a good problem, right, it's a great problem and we'll use all of them. And, by the way, after that change you should just know the attrition stuff has dramatically slowed as the transformation slowed. We got all the talented people in place that we needed so we are ahead of corporate America, finance and Texas companies for attrition and excited about that in the new culture here. ADVERT Hello friends, this is Chris Hanslick, your Building Texas business host. Did you know that Boyer Miller, the producer of this podcast, is a business law firm that works with entrepreneurs, corporations and business leaders? Business law firm that works with entrepreneurs, corporations and business leaders. Our team of attorneys serve as strategic partners to businesses by providing legal guidance to organizations of all sizes. Get to know the firm at boyermillercom and thanks for listening to the show. Chris: Well that you know that low attrition rate leads to what you talked about earlier better customer experience, more stability. Rob: We need stability. Chris: Everybody needs stability. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so you mentioned regional banking stress. Tell me what you're referring to about that. Rob: Yeah, last spring of 23,. Eb failed, first Republic and the like. We were fortunate. So, november of 22, we sold a business to Truist for $3.5 billion with a very big premium on it. With the sale of that we became if you compare us to any $100 billion bank or above in the country or any Texas public bank we have the third most capital and I think in the next quarters we'll have the second most but third and we're number one in equity tangible common equity assets. So we're the least levered. We have third most capital. Our highly liquid assets are like 29% our cash and securities. Our AOCI problem, which is the mark on the bond portfolio. Banks are struggling with that. We're very good there. So our capital, our liquidity, et cetera, was very strong. So we didn't experience outflows of deposits or anything. What we did experience was a rotation, like every bank in the country, from non-interest-bearing deposits to interest-bearing deposits. So all banks if you want to call this cost of goods sold went up. But the regional banks for us the reason I wanted to come back and talk about that people call it a regional banking crisis. It was not. It had to do with certain banks were of the size that they define regional banks that had the wrong strategy, the wrong concentrations, and they failed, right. That's not because they're regional banks, right, they just happen to be that size. By the way, credit Suisse failed too. It is a global bank, right. So you know, I think this is sometimes where the media gets the message wrong and puts fear into the market, and they love it, and they love it and so I'm really proud of what the regional banks do and how they serve their clients in market and their local communities, giving back to their communities, being Main Street lenders, and I'm really proud of. You know how we do that. I think I told you before we went on the air. We're the number one lender of Texas-based businesses, of any Texas-based bank. That's a big deal because these money center banks they may be in the state or super regionals in the state or even regionals in the state but, if they decide, oh you know what, it's not okay to bank an energy company, they don't Well, guess what? We have those decisions here. We don't have somebody else deciding our social norms. Chris: Right, right, that's a great selling point. Going back to the kind of the junior program and this new team, let's talk about culture, I mean. So how would you define the culture at Texas Capitol and kind of, what do you think you've done to kind of foster that and what do you see as necessary to keep it growing? I think? Rob: the culture is transparent, curious, candid and relentless dissatisfaction, as my general counsel calls it. So, look, we've made a lot of change. We'll continue to make a lot of change. We just hired somebody to run public finance for us. We didn't have that before. Lot of change we just hired somebody to run public finance for us. We didn't have that before. We started into the foray of public equity, research and oil and gas. We're going to keep growing and building, doing things that serve our clients and our clients' needs. But the one thing that we kind of talk about a lot is and I'll say it little softer is you know just no jerks allowed. You could talk about, you can talk about Ivy League. You know culture and they have you know big words, but the simple thing is like we're gonna treat people with respect, period. Right now. You can be tough and you can be hard, but you gotta be fair, right, and you gotta be polite. And you know you can be hard but you've got to be fair and you've got to be polite and you can have high expectations while being compassionate. So we have high expectations, we are moving fast, but we do treat people with respect and we like working with one another and that's been part of the fun is, we've been in office because we think that's how you build a career and not a job, and that's how you collaborate to serve your client and that's what's best for our clients and best for employees. And we like being with one another. We don't want to work remote from a beach and not share life's experiences with our colleagues. Chris: Yeah, couldn't agree more. I mean, we got back to the office in May of 2020. I believe, and my partners here, you're a part of an organization for a reason. Organizations are a group of people together, right, correct, and we learn from each other. We can collaborate in a customer service-related industry. Like you and I are in the customer does better when we're collaborating to serve them, you and I are in the customer does better when we're collaborating to serve them, and we do that when we're together. Yep Hands down, no question. And we've been like you. We've been in office in person for a while now and you read as much as I do for the last six, seven months. You just see the pendulum swinging back because the other organizations are realizing they're losing customer satisfaction, they're losing engagement with their people. You can't have a culture if you're not together. In my view, or you can. Actually, you can have a culture. It's just not a healthy one in my view. Yeah, it's really bad, that's right. Rob: So, look, looking back, it seems like a really easy decision and, by the way, I was back in the office in 2022. But at this room, I didn't get there until January 21. Nobody's back in the office. You meant 22 as well. Yes, I did. I did. Excuse me, I did, but you know I got here in 21. We went back to office Memorial Day the Tuesday after Memorial Day of 21. And it was a harder decision then. It seems easy now Because, like even the day before, there was rumors of everybody in our ops organization that they were going to protest and walk out. You know at 901 and we decided, we made a conscious decision that this is what they're going to do and we wanted the people that wanted to be in the office right, and we may lose some people, and that's fine, and it would be harder in the short term, but the people that would be attracted to the platform and the business and us would be people that wanted careers, not jobs, and, by definition, those are the better employees, right, and I think those people attract those people and that's how we were able to transform so much while other people were sitting at home. Chris: Yeah. Now to your point. I mean, if you have a long-term strategy right, then you're willing to go through some short-term pain to get the right people that are going to help you achieve that For sure. A little bit about just your thoughts on what are some of the biggest challenges you think facing the banking industry as we sit here today and maybe for the foreseeable future. Obviously, for the last couple of years, every month everybody's watching the Fed, so that may be part of the answer. But just what do you see as the challenges? Rob: Yeah, so there's plenty for most industries though, too. So one is, and this is an excuse, but it is a challenge. The regulatory body needs to come together and be consistent and apply things consistently. That'd be helpful. We have an inverted yield curve now for the longest time, one of the longest periods in history, you know the two years four, seven something. The 10 years four two something. That makes banking very hard for a lot of technical reasons we can go into. For most banks, technology is a problem. Most banks are an aggregation of multiple banks. They're not like us that has one technology platform. That's, by the way, brand new and totally modern. Banks have not been willing to. It's been a cost cutting game because a lot of banks this is why our strategy is so good NIM banks. So net interest margin, which is loan only, the model of taking a deposit and making a loan and achieving a return above your cost of capital through cycle, I think is very difficult and that's why we supplemented our platform. You know loans, investment banking, private wealth. You know all the different things we do for a client so that we can achieve that return, because a lot of the banks to have that return would have to maybe make a riskier loan to get a higher spread or what have you? So I think the NIM banking model to get a higher spread or what have you? So I think the NIM banking model especially after spring of 23, is hard. I think the technology spend is hard. I think there's a lot of banks that have too much commercial real estate. So our commercial real estate is a very small percentage of our total capital. Regulators want you to be maybe 250 or 300%. There's a lot of banks that are 400. That's too much, yeah. And when you have that much commercial real estate, remember a lot of its construction loans, and so the construction loans. You made that decision today and you're funding it in two years. So you're going to you're that that concentration, because those paydowns are, you know, like a five-year low and commercial real estate is going to keep growing. So banks marginal loan the dollar to make the next loan. The cost just went up, so they're going to slow down their lending while the commercial real estate gets absorbed. They can't be relevant to their clients with anything other than the loan product and if they're not doing that, they're going to slow down their growth and slow down lending. They can't be relevant to their clients with anything other than the loan product, and if they're not doing that, they're going to slow down their growth and slow down lending. They don't have the margin to spend on technology. Chris: And those are some of the problems. Yeah, there's cascades, right, totally. Let's turn a little bit to just kind of you and leadership. How would you describe your leadership style today and maybe how you feel like it's evolved over your career? Rob: I think you've got to do what you want other people to do. So I'm in Houston today. We're seeing six clients we talk all the time about it's about the client, not us. Ops exists to serve a client, technology exists to serve a client. It's not for the bank. And so we have become pretty client obsessed at Texas Capital, delivering the best outcomes for our clients. I mean, like the one deal I think I told you about, we sole managed the largest debt deal in the country last year. The largest sole managed debt deal in the country last year. That's after a money center bank failed doing it. We gave the client the best advice, knowing they'd probably go with the other bank. They did. The other bank failed them. They came back to us and we did it. Now we have a client for life. So give the client the right advice, do the right thing for the client, but your people have to see you do what you want them to do. So I'm with clients. We are aggressively serving clients, but we've managed the place very conservatively. And then I think candor and transparency is really important. Chris: I think those are great qualities, anything that you could point to. I always think people I'll speak for myself, but I think I hear it in others as well a setback or failure that you encountered, that you learned from, that made you better as a leader, as a business person, anything that comes to mind, that where you look back and go, wow, that was transformational. Because of that, how long do you have? Rob: No, I think we talked about junior program, one that always comes to mind because there's early on the program of what early on my career was. When I was a junior, you know, I talked to that junior class a lot and one of the things I tell them is be careful, because you know, building your brand sometimes is too easy, like you know, if you do something great, like I had some successes early on as being a good client guy, then I was the client guy, but also my brand that I got early on was, as a junior was I wasn't very good at details and as a junior an analyst associate your only job was details Right, and so I learned the hard way that maybe I needed to focus on the details. Now I would suggest that the people that work with me think I'm too focused on the details. But that's because I learned the hard way as a junior and people corrected me Right and I'm not sure if they corrected me the wrong way or right way. That was the old days, but they certainly made an impression. So I think that was one of the things I learned is details matter and details are important, and I learned it as a junior and that stayed with me throughout my career. The other one was one I think is interesting is later on, when we were talking about a promotion, one of my bosses told me that I think this is really important for people to know, because I think it's true. He said rob, I don't it, my vote doesn't matter. The vote that matters is everybody else on the floor that works with you, because I'm not promoting you unless they want you promoted, right and so I do think that you know that's a pretty good lesson too. Chris: Yeah, kind of well servant the well, servant leadership, for sure, and that kind of team mentality For sure, team mentality. And I've said forever, I think the lessons you remember the most are the ones you learned the hard way. For sure, so the details right. Chris: So he's like I'm not going to let that happen again. For sure, that's great. Well, I appreciate you sharing those up, but I think it's a great quality leadership to have that vulnerability and humility about you for sure. So I'm going to kind of move away from the business stuff. Okay, to wrap things up, I want to know what was your first job, my? Rob: first job was uh bagging groceries and stocking grocery shelves in high school I did the same thing, did you? Chris: yeah, uh, it was hot and yeah, I tell people we had to wear like black pants. Oh, yeah, these kids get to wear shorts. Now I'm like this is going easy on them. Rob: Yeah, I think one day one of the guys got mad at me because they made me restack all the remember when people used to return the glass bottles. Yeah, and it was in a cage in the back of the alley of the grocery store. It was about 110. And nobody had organized them for about three months and I got fine job. Chris: Very good. All right, you're born and raised in Texas, so do you prefer Tex-Mex or barbecue? Rob: Both Like a brisket taco. Yeah, that's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I like that All right. And last thing if you could take a 30-day sabbatical, where would you go and what would you do? I'd probably spend half of it fly fishing in Montana and half of it quail hunting in South Texas. There you go, Just not this time of year. Not this time of year. That's right. Chris: Rob, I want to thank you for taking the time. I mean, I had no idea the details behind the transformation at Texas Capital and obviously what you and your team are doing and have done is nothing short of remarkable. So thanks for sharing that. Rob: Well, thank you, I think you know. We think Texas does deserve its own full-service financial services firm. Chris: Well, I'm glad you're delivering it. Thank you, take care. And there we have it another great episode. Don't forget to check out the show notes at boyermiller.com forward slash podcast and you can find out more about all the ways our firm can help you at Boyermiller.com. That's it for this episode. Have a great week and we'll talk to you next time. Special Guest: Rob Holmes.

After taking over in 2021 and engineering a turnaround at Texas Capital Bank, Rob Holmes is now focused on growing business relationships across North Texas. In this episode, DBJ Associate Editor Alexa Reed invites Holmes to share his vision, and what sets his bank apart from others in the region.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Church Government - Deacons Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 4/28/2024 Length: 62 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Church Government Subtitle: Confessional Baptist Dist... Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 4/14/2024 Length: 58 min.

Rob Holmes, CEO of Texas Capital Bank, joins to discuss his business and state of the banking industry. Liz Young, Head of Investment Strategies at SoFi, joins to talk about market strategies and gives her investment outlook. Dr. Lis Castillo Nelis, Biodiversity and Ecosystems Senior Manager at Ramboll, joins to discuss green investments, its strengths and controversies, and where it stands following climate week. Dave Rainey, Portfolio Manager at Hennessy Focus Fund, joins to talk markets and investing strategies and gives his outlook for a US recession. Hosted by Paul Sweeney and Matt Miller.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rob Holmes is the founder and co-owner of Eco-Cattle, a ranch in northeast Kansas that raises grass-fed meat using regenerative agricultural processes. Before founding Eco-Cattle, Rob was a biology professor at Hutchinson Community College. Rob earned a PhD in plant biology with a minor in biotechnology from North Carolina State and an undergraduate degree in botany from BYU. To learn more about Rob and Eco-Cattle, visit https://eco-cattle.com/.

Americans lost more than $10 billion in 2022 due to internet scams in 2022, a jump from $6.9 billion in 2021. Cryptocurrency and investment scams are now competing with ransomware, phishing, and other methods that criminals are utilizing to try and separate consumers from their money. We chat with Rob Holmes, founder of investigation firm MI:33, about the myriad ways that scammers, counterfeiters, and criminals are using tools to con people, and how consumers can better protect themselves. 

I'm thrilled to catch up with Rob Holmes today. Rob is the founder of GLP Films, and their mission is to help brands reach sustainability goals, protect nature, communities, culture, and heritage through the lens of storytelling and content marketing. Facebook Twitter Instagram   The Outdoor Biz Podcast   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!   Sign up for my Newsletter HERE.   I'd love to hear your feedback about the show! You can contact me here: email: rick@theoutdoorbizpodcast.com or leave me a message on Speakpipe!   Show Notes How Rob was introduced to the Outdoors My real connection with the outdoors started with my dad and going out on these crazy adventures with him and my two older brothers. The funny thing is my dad was a Southern boy. He's from Tennessee. He knew absolutely nothing about the outdoors. I mean, I, I don't know if he knew anything but someone helped him get the equipment and things that we needed, external backpacks and all that stuff from back then. Honestly, that really, if I had to celebrate my real connection to it. He had two weeks of vacation every year and those would be dedicated to taking his three crazy sons out. When he picked up his first camera I had a Pentax K 2000, so if that doesn't date me, I don't know what does. But my getting into photography, was really just my passion thing. It hit me really, I think in college, when, you're exposed to a lot of courses. I went to a small liberal arts college in upstate New York, Hobart College. And I majored in environmental studies, and wildlife management. So sort of this odd combination I had to petition the school cause they had nothing around wildlife. I took one photography class and you take that black-and-white photography class everybody takes to get your entry-level photo class. I got, I think a B, but I remember that I didn't like any of the history stuff. I just wanted to shoot the camera. That's all I wanted to do. The start of GLP Film I pretty much was doing freelance. I did some independent projects with organizations, some nonprofits out of Seattle, and one in particular called the Tibetan Nuns Project. It was a small NGO. They had a project on the Tibetan side of India. So I went there for three consecutive years just to shoot their calendar. They had an annual calendar, but that was one example of a project. But more importantly, I did a lot of solo work. When I was in Seattle, I went to grad school. At the University of Washington, I actually got into the business. So I got an MBA, which again, that was the last thing I thought I'd ever get, but I got an MBA and, after school, I started with a company, in the digital content space, in the outdoor industry. The inspiration for GLP Films I had these three different sorts of stools and the legs of the stool that I like to look at. One was this real passion for conservation. I had a real passion for the outdoors. I worked for the Appalachian Mountain Club for five years. Worked for nonprofits like The Nature Conservancy. So I had a real interest in and passion and conservation. That was one stool. I think the other was obviously media, I started in photography and got into video. I think on the video side, the turning point for me was Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. Seeing that in 2006, I think it was the number-one at that time documentary film of all time. And if you can take a slideshow and make it the highest-grossing documentary film, there's something there. And, it really was just the power of video. And, it really was just the power of video. And I saw that and I used it to go to the Seattle International Film Festival every year. And I would go to all the documentary films on international. I would just go myself, sit in the back row, buy all these random tickets, looking for the most far-flung countries in the world. So I got really into documentaries. So that was the second leg. And then the third leg was business. That entrepreneurship bug hit me as a young kid. And I ended up getting a graduate degree. I studied in India and South Africa and Brazil while going to business school. And so for me I wanna combine these three components. Rob's advice for folks that want to get into photography or shoot films? I will say though, in hindsight, because I do know a lot of very successful photographers is . . . the classic . . . focus on what you do. Find your niche and become the absolute best in what you do. Just make sure that you love what you're doing. Because at the end you're gonna work more as an entrepreneur or small business. You're gonna have to be a go-getter. And, it's tough to have that energy if you don't like what you're doing. So just make sure that you focus on whatever your niche is and your specialty. And become the absolute best, just make sure you love it. And then I think the other point though, is network network network, really leverage your local regional, national, global audience because that really is going to be the key to how you get your content out there, your work out there, your expertise out there for others to pick you up. Trade Show Banner Sustainability or Bust Daily Routines My big thing is getting outdoors. So, I run and have Qualified for Boston twice. So I'm a big runner. I love to bike, I'm in Kennebunkport, Maine. So, I'm right along the coast, I feel very, very lucky where we are. And so I'm running, biking, walking, every day. Favorite Books I'm more on the newspaper side than the magazine side. I would say on the newspaper side New York times. I mean some of the best editorial content globally. Magazines- I've always been a fan of Outside. Expedition Books- Galen Rowell Favorite piece of outdoor gear MSR Whisper Light Sustainability Storytelling Competition GLP Films has just launched its " sustainability storytelling competition" It's a global competition open to all industries, not just tourism. It could be the food industry, could be diversity, conservation, wildlife, tourism, all different sectors. There are six different categories that people can submit under. It's open to organizations, small, large, nonprofit, and bigger organizations. You can submit as many times as you want. And the cool thing is . . . for the grand prize winner, GLP will come and film your story on location! Follow GLP Facebook Instagram Twitter Linkedin Vimeo YouTube

On this episode of Future of Tourism, David Peacock interviews Rob Holmes and Casey Canevari of GLP Films about how they help destinations achieve sustainability goals through film and storytelling. GLP clients include Visit Portland, Visit Sedona, and the Tourism Authority of Thailand.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: I Am the Way, Truth, and Life Subtitle: 'I Am' Statements of Jesus Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday - PM Date: 9/25/2022 Bible: John 14:6 Length: 33 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 28 Paragraphs 3-4 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 8/28/2022 Length: 62 min.

I'm thrilled to catch up with Rob Holmes today. Rob is the founder of GLP Films, and their mission is to help brands reach sustainability goals, and protect nature, communities, culture, and heritage through the lens of storytelling and content marketing. Facebook Twitter Instagram   The Outdoor Biz Podcast   Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!

What is the strategy behind the increasing success of AVOD services and how is it driving the shift to streaming? On this special episode, we revisit some of our most insightful episodes from executives in the world of AVOD streaming platforms. Jack Davison catches up with Jim Packer, President of Worldwide TV and Digital Distribution at Lionsgate, and Jonathan Nickell talks with both Rob Holmes, Head of Programming at Roku, and Richard Jakeman European Head of Business Development at Samsung, about what makes a successful AVOD and what opportunities there are for growth. Here is a breakdown of the topics discussed in the episode: [01:10] Rob Holmes on the transition to streaming and the power of free content [06:58] Jim Packer on whether he considers AVOD to be a major growth area for Lionsgate? [12:38] Richard Jakeman on The continued importance of AVOD 3Vision Website: https://www.3vision.tv 3Vision Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3vision 3Vision Twitter: @3Vision

This week I sat down with my husband Rob to talk about spiritual attraction.We get into how we met, what attracted us to each other, and how to have discourse with friends and family that may not agree with you 100%. We believe people who model what they say and it's up to us to make sure that we're living in line with our beliefs and values.Don't weaponize your beliefs and valuesDon't judge othersLean into your curiosityAssess your own valuesFind people to hold you accountable

Kimberly is joined by a very special guest, her husband, Rob! This is the second time Rob has joined the podcast so if you missed the first episode, make sure you go back and listen to the episode about Introverts vs. Extroverts. In this episode, they both discuss what intellectually attracted them to each other when they first met. You will hear Rob and Kimberly answer questions from the listeners about working on intellectual attraction with your spouse when you have no interest in the same hobbies or likes. This is a fun episode with lots of laughs and great perspectives from both spouses on being more intellectually attractive. Today's Speaker: Kimberly Beam Holmes, Expert in Self-Improvement and RelationshipsKimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master's degree in psychology for over ten years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching how attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reach over 200,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best they can be.Website: www.PIESUniversity.comTake the Attraction AssessmentListen to the episode with Rob Holmes about Introverts vs. ExtrovertsThanks for listening!Connect on Instagram: @kimberlybeamholmes @pies_universityBe sure to SUBSCRIBE to the podcast and leave a review!You'll Learnhow to become more intellectually attractive to your spousewhat you can do to have some common interestswhat you can do to gain self-confidence Episode 87 - Staying Attracted (Intellectually) To Each Other 

Jackie Mitchell with guests Neil Long is an experienced radio DJ produces high quality podcasts for businesses for websites and social media, as well as for other platforms - www.neillong.com, Sandra Porter is managing director of the HR Dept Elmbridge, which offers HR services.She is author of “How To Be an HR Superstar” - www.hrdept.co.uk/elmbridge, Rob Holmes runs Vinegar Creative, a branding, design and digital agency, specialising in designing and building web sites - www.vinegarcreative.co.uk www.wearebiz.co.uk and Darren Seigenburg, certified trainer and coach from Elysium NLP and The Mind Corps is planning a retreat centre for veterans from the Armed Forces. Email address: dseigenberg@gmail.com www.elysiumnlp.co.uk

Growth across North Texas and a favorable business environment are among the factors drawing talent to Dallas, said Rob Holmes, president and CEO of Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc. (Nasdaq: TCBI)

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 19 Paragraphs 6-7 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 12/19/2021 Length: 60 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 19 Paragraphs 6-7 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 12/19/2021 Length: 60 min.

Top charting and award winning guitarist Ken Navarro takes you into his recording studio to show you how he took his song “Straight Out The Gate” (from his new album "I Will Still Be Here") from a demo where Ken played all of the instruments to the finished track with all of the brilliant musicians whom Ken works and records with - bassist Gary Grainger, keyboardist Jay Rowe, drummer Jay Williams, trumpeter Tyler Mire and saxophonist Rob Holmes.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 17 Paragraph 1 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 10/17/2021 Length: 52 min.

Is free ad-supported content (AVOD and FAST) driving the transition to streaming? Rob Holmes discusses Roku's content acquisition strategy for the Roku channel as well as their partnership and expansion plans. Rob speaks with Jonathan Nickell, COO of 3Vision on a wide range of topics currently impacting the TV industry. These include Roku's platform and operating system, content discovery and their role as a video service aggregator. Rob is the Vice President of Programming at Roku. He oversees the development and growth of The Roku Channel, a leading free ad supported service on the platform, as well as the overall programming strategy for America's #1 TV streaming platform. Here is a breakdown of the topics discussed in this episode: [02:52] The Roku hardware business [03:39] The different business units at Roku [04:49] What is the difference between the Roku channel and Roku platform? [07:03] What is Roku's global roll out plan? [11:22] The transition to streaming and power of free content [12:44] Roku's content acquisition strategy [14:26] Roku's acquisition of Quibi [15:35] Are there plans to do other Roku originals? [16:39] How do you aid consumer discovery of content on the Roku channel [18:40] AI and ML for content recommendations on Roku channel [21:21] Roku and its role as a video service aggregator [24:15] What are the future trends for the TV industry and streaming? Resources: 3Vision Webinar: ‘The D2C Streaming Wars: Disney, Netflix, Amazon and Beyond' on 7 October at 16:00 BST https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5816322514564/WN_D3S7D_eLTTis6XOfq9dnvA 3Vision Website: https://www.3vision.tv 3Vision Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/3vision 3Vision Twitter: @3Vision

Many of us have feared that a life of recovery is boring. Learning to navigate social scenes can be a challenge especially when the environments do not support recovery. Rob Holmes is doing his part to build a safe environment for people in recovery to PARTY SOBER at his recovery oriented multi-day music festival Soberfest that takes place during National Recovery Month. Links: https://ticotimeresort.com/tico-time-soberfest/ https://www.facebook.com/TicoTimeSoberfest

n the company's annual Human Factor 2021 report assessing how the threat landscape morphed over the past year, Proofpoint researchers scratched their heads over the reasons for so many users succumbing to malicious email attachments. Could be that threat actors jumped on our Pavlovian work-from-home security conditioning, as suggested by Proofpoint vice president and general manager of email fraud defense Rob Holmes. Check out the Threatpost podcast for his take on how the pandemic influenced the threat landscape.

Today's episode is brought to you by ThePICoach.com. There you can find info about my PI Coaching services and my books, both of which will help you take your PI business to the next level.Rob Holmes is Founder & CEO of MI:33 (formerly known as IPCybercrime). Raised in New Jersey in a family of private investigators, Rob worked his first case at the age of twelve. While aspiring as a comedian in Los Angeles in the early 90s, he was employed at a premiere investigative firm. Here, he found himself assigned to a new breed of faceless perpetrators: cyber criminals. Rob conducted some of the world's first IP-related cyber investigations, and pioneered the study of the “virtual crime scene”. His regular clients include 20 of the 100 Best Global Brands. Rob is a private eye, funny guy, blogger, Libertarian, Freemason, Prius owner, and a Gene Hackman Fan.https://mi33.co/Make Sure to Subscribe:Apple Podcasts:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast/id1507578980?mt=2&app=podcastSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3XyqgbdrlWbBpnTBYvFYDk?si=SP9VDO0XS4KielIdWLWMyQStichter:https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/duckman-production-services/how-to-rocket-your-pi-business-podcast Thank you for listening. If you have a moment to spare please leave a rating or comment on Apple Podcasts as that will help us expand the circle around our campfire.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 9 Paragraph 1 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 5/23/2021 Length: 64 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 8 Paragraphs 9-10 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 5/16/2021 Length: 56 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 8 Paragraphs 9-10 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 5/16/2021 Length: 56 min.

We’ve recently partnered ForgeNow (www.forgenow.com), an organization that provides professional training for HVAC, Medical Coding, and Electrical Wiring. These trades represent some of the fastest growing and most essential segments of the US Economy. ForgeNow’s training programs are built with input from top employers, structured for both the business and employee to have a successful long-term partnership. While the training programs are located in Dallas Texas, ForgeNow allows students to participate from anywhere in the United States. If you aren’t local to Dallas, Forge Now will even pay your travel and lodging expenses to bring you onsite to complete the hands-on portion of the training! Co-founders Rob Holmes and Marvin Key join the podcast to discuss ForgeNow’s training programs and why you should consider a career in these trades. Topics include: • Why they founded ForgeNow • What their programs offer to students • The essential nature of careers for HVAC technicians, medical coding professionals, and electricians

What happens when you bring engineers together with landscape architects and their students to work on real coastal resilience challenges in the field? What can the disciplines of engineering and landscape architecture learn from each other? And what kinds of solutions will they produce when faced with very real coastal risk management issues following a hurricane?   In this episode, we’re talking with Rob Holmes at Auburn University, Sean Burkholder at the University of Pennsylvania, and Brian Davis at the University of Virginia. They are landscape architects who have joined forces with Engineering With Nature® to explore innovative solutions to coastal resilience. Jeff King, deputy lead of the Engineering With Nature program at the US Army Corps of Engineers, shares his excitement about bringing these disciplines together and discusses the synergies, opportunities, and potential for advancing the practice of EWN.   This partnership started in the summer of 2017; Jeff and his EWN colleagues hosted a workshop at ERDC in Vicksburg, MS, and invited Rob, Sean, Brian, and other landscape architects. Jeff recounts how that visit really set the stage for collaboration amongst these practices to advance EWN. According to Sean, “the idea that these two disciplines have been parallel for so long and actually are coming together now is a pretty exciting time for us.”   Following the initial workshop, the Galveston District, an EWN Proving Ground, hosted a workshop with students from Brian and Rob’s studios to show them the work being done to create more resilience and ecosystem restoration along the Texas coast. The timing was just after Hurricane Harvey. Jeff recounts taking the students to a house surrounded on three sides by water and their being aghast at the flooding they were seeing: “You could tell they were thinking, ‘Hey, this is real and it deserves real attention’. I just loved seeing that on their faces.”   For the students, getting out of the classroom and into actual landscapes and learning from the District experts about dealing with the fundamental aspects of flood control and risk management was, as Brian notes, “an extraordinary opportunity for the students to build on the great work of others and apply their expansive thinking as landscape architects.” Their ideas and concepts were shared with the Galveston District and, according to Jeff, were very well received. “The integration of natural features, the students’ innovation really resonated. My colleagues and I truly benefited from the novel way the landscape architects addressed some of the coastal resilience challenges we are working on.”   The shared experiences of the students and the engineers—working in the field on real and existential threats to the Gulf coast—really highlights the intersection of shared values between the practices of EWN and landscape architecture. Both focus on producing outcomes that benefit the environment and society.   The Engineering With Nature approach of leveraging natural process to accomplish the desired engineering outcome, while creating environmental and social benefits aligns well with the discipline of landscape architecture where landscapes are co-designed by humans and natural processes. Rob recalled the Army Corps’ Horseshoe Bend project featured in the first season of the EWN Podcast where the island is being “self-designed” by natural processes. “By stepping back and relinquishing some control over how the landscape is shaped, we gain landscapes that are more resilient, more functional, more ecologically healthy, and provide better opportunities for human interaction and engagement. They become better places.”   We discuss the power of combining the practices of landscape architecture in the work Sean, Rob and Jeff are doing with colleagues at the Philadelphia District along the New Jersey coast. As Sean notes, the challenges in New Jersey are vast. The area is experiencing sea level rise and habitat loss and has a population that lives quite close to the coastline. “The primary composition of that landscape is a barrier Island, and a back bay, where you get flooding from the land side and storm surge coming from the sea. We are trying to develop a series of strategies—alternative ways to look at coastal storm risk management—that could achieve cultural, social, and ecological benefits while still serving as proper coastal infrastructure.”   The synergies between landscape architecture and EWN are significant, and the possibilities for collaboration to create new, innovative solutions to coastal resilience challenges seems unlimited. According to Rob, Sean, and Brian, finding out the Corps was solving the basic problems of flooding while also trying to work with in concert with natural systems, for the benefit of society was “like a bolt of lightning for us—it was really striking and exciting!” The opportunities to learn from each other, advance their respective practices, and motivate and challenge future engineers and landscape architects, while they work together on critical coastal resilience projects, is the focus of this podcast.  We hope you enjoy it.   The EWN Program is grateful to the Dredge Research Collaborative (DRC) for their collaboration and partnership over the years and with development of this podcast. As members of the DRC, Rob Holmes, Sean Burkholder, Brian Davis, Justine Holzman and Gena Wirth have contributed greatly to the success of this EWN collaboration.   Related Links: EWN Website ERDC Website Jeff King at LinkedIn Jeff King at EWN USACE Galveston District Rob Holmes at Auburn Sean Burkholder at UPenn Brian Davis at UVA Seven Mile Island Innovation Lab Landscape Architecture on the EWN Website New Jersey Back Bays Landscape Architecture Report Sabine to Galveston Landscape Architecture Report  

Molly & Jeff share embarrassing stories and ruin the life of podcaster & comedian Rob Holmes of Oh! the Horror! Podcast ( facebook.com/ohthehorrorcast )! Help support us and become one of Mommy's Little Worms: patreon.com/HowEmbarrassing Official site: HowEmbarrassingPodcast.com iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-embarrassing-podcast-with-molly-jeff/id1476548191 Facebook: fb.me/HowEmbarrassingPodcast Instagram: @HowEmbarrassingPodcast Twitter: @EmbarrassingPod E-mail us: HowEmbarrassingPodcast@gmail.com Graphics by Jeff Beaulieu ( @jtb757 ) Music by Jeff Beaulieu ( @jtb757 ) Produced by Matt Cole of Go On Productions ( fb.me/GoOnProductions ) Special thanks to Push Comedy Theater, Norfolk, VA & Brian Garraty  PushComedyTheater.com

Rob Holmes is the Founder & Chief Strategist of GLP Films, an award-winning content marketing agency dedicated to authentic storytelling and mission-driven campaigns for the travel and sustainability industry.  Since 2008, GLP's work has spanned five continents and 40+ countries, creating 200+ short-films. GLP Films has spearhead campaigns centred around wildlife, ecology, sustainability, community and most importantly, the people.  In this episode, Rob shares how he and the GLP Films team bring stories to life, showing that stories really are our lives in language. Their work celebrates the majesty and the diversity of the world around us, while their stories are equally mechanisms for change. Rob touches on differences of sustainable travel and over travel and how COVID might actually be the stimulus for a more sustainable travel industry. Most recently, their new video series campaign, #TourismStrong, celebrates the resilience and adaptability of the travel industry amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic.  So if you want to be swept away to foreign lands and be uplifted about your future travels and adventures, tune in to this episode with the Storyteller of Storytellers, Rob Holmes. Love the show? It means the world to us that you listened to the show! If you loved this episode, please share it with a friend or in your Instagram stories with the tag @theinspiringco, @robertbholmes and @glpfilms. We love hearing what you think about the episode and all the topics we cover, and so, send us a note with your feedback. Please, also take a moment to write us a review to help us grow and touch more lives!  We truly value your input and support! Lastly, remember to subscribe so that all new episodes automatically show up in your feed each week. Until next time…   CONNECT WITH ROB Website: glpfilms.com LinkedIn: Rob Holmes Instagram: @robertbholmes Facebook: @glpfilms Green Destinations Awards, March 12th - Free virtual event sign up here.    CONNECT WITH DANA Find all episodes of The Inspiring Co at: theinspiringco.com, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher Instagram: @theinspiringco For 1:1 intuitive wellness coaching and to access Dana's FREE meditation library: danareadings.com or on Insight Timer. You can also check out The Inspiring Co's Conscious Buying Guide - 50+ socially-driven, ethical, environmentally-conscious and wellness-focused brands that we love; a list of our fav his and her fashion, beauty, fitness, home, books...and more!

Rob Holmes has the dream job: professional traveling storyteller. He is the Chief Strategist at GLP Films, a full-service content marketing agency dedicated to authentic storytelling for the travel industry. He generously shares the way his life has been punctuated by travel, and the possibility of nature- and community-based travel.How will travel change once the pandemic lifts? What does "backyard travel" look like, and how can we keep our travel dreams alive during this slow time of travel? You'll leave this episode excited to explore and with a new view on community-based and sustainable tourism. View the film archive and be transported to GLP's featured destinations here.Learn more about Lotus Sojourns and ways to be a part of the community here.Find Lotus Sojourns on Facebook, or join the Lotus Sojourns Collective, our FB community for like-hearted women.Follow us on Instagram: @lotussojourns or @souloftravelpodcastCredits. Christine Winebrenner Irick (Host, creator, editor.) Rob Holmes (Guest). Original music by Clark Adams. Editing and production by Alex Lee-Ammons and For The Love Media, LLC.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Rejoice In Suffering Subtitle: Book of Philippians Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 2/14/2021 Bible: Lamentations 3; Philippians 2:12-18 Length: 52 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Rejoice In Suffering Subtitle: Book of Philippians Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 2/14/2021 Bible: Lamentations 3; Philippians 2:12-18 Length: 52 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Rejoice In Suffering Subtitle: Book of Philippians Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 2/14/2021 Bible: Lamentations 3; Philippians 2:12-18 Length: 52 min.

Bassist Gary Grainger, keyboardist Jay Rowe and saxophonist Rob Holmes have been working with Ken for over 20 years and so Ken sat down with each of them and talked about their contributions to his song “Summer Smiles” and what it was like to work together in the studio during the Covid pandemic.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Christ Saves and Comforts His People Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 2/7/2021 Bible: Hebrews 2:14-15 Length: 32 min.

Mitch and Danny converse about the new Detroit Lions head coach, Dan Campbell and the staff he and General Manager, Rob Holmes have assembled in Detroit. The boys also give their opinions on Matthew Stafford finally requesting a trade.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 5 Paragraph 5-6 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 1/17/2021 Length: 61 min.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 5 Paragraph 5-6 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 1/17/2021 Length: 61 min.

Introverts versus extroverts... Which one is better? We all know there is not one that is better or worse. Although, most of the time in relationships, we act like one is. In today's episode, Kimberly Holmes and her husband Rob Holmes discuss how personality types affect relationships. Listen to this episode to learn different tools to better understand people in relationships.Today's Speakers: Kimberly and Rob HolmesKimberly Beam Holmes has applied her master’s degree in psychology for over 10 years, acting as the CEO of Marriage Helper & CEO and Creator of PIES University, being a wife and mother herself, and researching the ways that attraction affects relationships. Her videos, podcasts, and following reaches over 200,000 people a month who are making changes and becoming the best that they can be. Website: www.PIESUniversity.comYou’ll LearnHow personality types affect relationshipsTips to use personality types as tools to better understand your significant otherHow to be attentive to other people's needsEp 040: Introverts vs. Extroverts, with Rob Holmes.

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: 1689 Confession Chapter 5 Paragraph 3 Subtitle: 1689 Baptist Confession Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday School Date: 12/27/2020 Length: 59 min.

Author and Illustrator Victoria Hall is back to talk with Rob Holmes about the 2017 Argentinian horror film, Terrified (Aterrados) Written and Directed by Demián Runga.One of us really likes this movie...one of us...less so...Check out Terrified on Shudder, listen to the episode and then let us know what you think of the film!

A new MP3 sermon from Grace Covenant Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: God Appoints Both the Means and Ends Subtitle: Book of Philippians Speaker: Rob Holmes Broadcaster: Grace Covenant Church Event: Sunday Service Date: 11/22/2020 Bible: Psalm 115; Philippians 2:12-13 Length: 46 min.

Sam Huston has guest co-host Rob Holmes sitting in for Sam Graham.  Rob is also an Arsenal supporter, so Producer Mel happily served him a shot of Malört.  The guys discuss all the games from week eight of the English Premier league while enjoying J. Rieger Kansas City Whiskey  Like what you hear?  Leave us a review and tell a friend.  Love what you hear?  Then support the show:https://www.patreon.com/dufootballshowwww.Dufootballshow.com Get involved:Send your questions to DUfootballshow@gmail.com  Facebook @DUfootballshowInstagram @DUfootballshowTwitter @DUfootballshow

Jackie Mitchell talks to Celia Rizothanasi is Queen Bee of Linked In and a marketing mentor - www.yourmarketingmentor.co.uk, www.queenbeeoflinkedin.com, Rob Holmes founder of Vinegar Creative, a branding, design and digital agency - www.vinegarcreative.co.uk www.yourplanc.co.uk, Louise Boardman-Rule from Ten2Two helps businesses achieve their goals finding professional talent. www.ten2two.org and Dawn Gregory is a confidence coach who helps professionals use their voice to inspire and influence - www.dawngregory.com

After a long hiatus, Oh! The Horror! is back. This week, Rob Holmes discusses the 2015 horror/comedy 'The Final Girls' and goes on multiple profanity-filled rants about the broken Hollywood studio system!

BEC, or Business Email Compromise, is when an attacker disguises themselves to look like a trusted person.   But EAC, or Email Account Compromise, is when an attacker actually compromises an email account. They can start sending emails as, well, you.   In this episode, we hear from past guests Rob Holmes, Sherrod DeGrippo, & Mike Bailey about how to access and compromise a legitimate mailbox.   What we talked about:   - BEC & EAC attacks caused more than $26 billion in losses since 2016   - Why a real estate agency is a great target for a new cybercriminals   - How to leverage people skills to make believable demands for money   Find additional content and subscribe to Protecting People on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.

In this episode, GLP Films celebrate the resiliency of the travel industry through positive tourism stories amidst the COVID-19 global pandemic.The World Nomads Travel Podcast has suspended its regular destination episodes, and in their place, sharing the thoughts of travelers who are shaping the future of the industry post COVID 19. We tap into their vast bank of knowledge to discover what can be learnt from the past as we plan a new way of traveling moving forward.

As lockdown continues, companies are focusing on how we use tech in the home and, in particular, enjoy the hours of streaming content we're all consuming. This week's podcast reflects that, with a bit of a streaming theme.There are rumours of a new Chromecast in the pipeline, codenamed Sabrina, which Pocket-lint editor Chris is here to discuss. Senior ed of news and features, Rik interviews the VP of programming at Roku to talk about how and what we're watching. And, to finish it all off, we review the Sonos Arc soundbar, which brings Dolby Atmos to the party and even supplies the dips. 00:40 - Chris and Stuart talk Google Sabrina04:50 - Rob Holmes interview21:50 - Rik gives us his verdict on the Sonos Arc soundbarVisit us at pocket-lint.com, check out our latest videos at youtube.com/pocketlintcom and sign up to our daily newsletter at pocket-lint.com/info/newsletter. *** Please also take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks! ***Hosted by Stuart MilesProduction and editing by Stuart MilesGuests: Chris Hall, Rik Henderson, and Rob Holmes. Music by Lee Rosevere - Let's Start at the Beginning and SouthsideSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/pocket-lint-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. John and Delilah discuss "Gluten-Free Pussy" with professional hitman Xavier Stevens - Ft. sketch and improv comedian Rob Holmes from the Push Comedy Theater in Norfolk, VA! Special thanks to Angel Sanchez for the topic suggestion! Donate $1 a month:  http://patreon.com/SexpertsPodcast Donate one and done:  http://paypal.me/SexpertsPodcast Official site:  http://SexpertsPodcast.com iTunes:  http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sexperts/id1212065959?mt=2 YouTube:  http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxpTS2j0Dc_uThc0_oralUw Facebook:  http://fb.me/TheSexperts Instagram:  @TheRealSexperts E-mail us questions, topic suggestions, or be a guest:  theRealSexperts@gmail.com Graphics by Derek Munn:  http://MisterMunn.com Theme song by Skye Zentz:  http://SkyeZentzMusic.com Produced by Go On Productions:  http://fb.me/GoOnProductions Special thanks to Push Comedy Theater:  http://PushComedyTheater.com

Sam Graham is still tearing up London, so Sam Huston’s cohost is former Drunkard United player and good friend, Rob Holmes.  They are joined in studio by returning guest Josh, who is a Liverpool fan and current DU player.   We go over the games, make our predictions, and check in with the club team, while drinking Oban’s Highland Single Malt Scotch Whisky from the Game of Thrones line.   Liverpool 2 - Chelsea 1 Leicester City 2 - Tottenham 1 West Ham 2 - Manchester United 0 Manchester City 8 - Watford 0 Bournemouth 3 - Southampton 1 Burnley 2 - Norwich City 0 Brighton 0 - Newcastle 0 Crystal Palace 1 - Wolverhampton 1 Arsenal 3 - Aston Villa 2 Sheffield United 2 - Everton 0   Get involved: Send your questions to DUfootballshow@gmail.com   Facebook @DUfootballshow Instagram @DUfootballshow Twitter @DUfootballshow

In this episode you'll learn: How travel can be transformational for younger people starting their careers The power of video to tell a story The danger of food becoming commoditized How authenticity is about “real people” How to find the “magic” of great storytelling Why it’s important to be persistent Rob's links: GLP Films Rob on LinkedIn

In this special chat with finance expert and property investor Rob Holmes, David finds out about some of the strategies that have made him so successful, including valuable insights into some of his most ingenious deals, and what made them work. Rob is a supporter of using bridging loans in order to take the best advantage of property deals. In this episode, he explains why and gives personal examples of how they work & how they’ve worked for him.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The importance of having a good team around you is vital. It can allow you to be able to move more quickly on potential deals. Rob gives a great example of this in an early anecdote, in which he also explains a strategy that worked for him on an auction property, as well as the potential pitfalls.   If you’re looking at a buy-to-let, it’s always wise to look at the gross bridge and the net bridge amounts, because it’s the net bridge amount that you’ll be putting in your pocket towards the purchase.   Rob talks about the importance, reality and value of bridging loans - A lot of people are scared of bridging, but mainly because they don’t understand it. Rob advises that bridging can land you in trouble if you don’t understand your deal properly. Bridging is very quick and isn’t as expensive as many people perceive it to be. There are a lot of variables that a lender will take into account, mainly based on you as a borrower.   Entry and exit fees - Rob advises that many lenders these days do not charge an exit fee for a bridging loan. If you are paying one, then it might be a good idea to shop around to see if there’s a better deal out there. An entry fee is standard, but those fees can be subtracted from the gross loan and will be deducted from the money being lent, so you don’t necessarily need to have capital upfront to pay this fee. So adjust the amount you’re asking for to account for any fees.   In an open market value bridging strategy, you are obtaining lending against the true market value of a property, instead of the agreed purchase price.   Meet the valuer when he comes back - every single time. Always meet your valuer when he comes back to value your property after a refurbishment and prepare a pack detailing the effects of what you’ve done. A fascinating anecdote from Rob’s history explains exactly why.   A cross security bridging strategy can also be beneficial. This is where you obtain the net bridge against the property you’re buying, and subsequently take a bridge against another property, essentially creating a bridge across two properties, where one property makes up the missing money needed to buy the first.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You’ve got to be in it to win it’ ‘Relationships are key in a lot of things’ ‘Know your area’ ‘Half an hour can cost you five grand!’ ‘It’s important to have a good broker that can get you access to all the good lenders’ ‘This is a little bit ninja and you need people who know what they’re doing’ ‘Always meet your valuer when he comes back’ ‘Even though a property can be unmortgageable, bridging companies may work with it’ ‘Closing a huge property deal in a pub garden is a very good place to be!’ ‘Look at your low-end values, cover your downside’     VALUABLE RESOURCES Property Sourcing Profits Podcast 10X Property Super Conference - London     ABOUT THE GUEST  Rob Holmes became interested in property investment after reading ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’. Rob began to educate himself in the field of property investment and bought his first investment property, a two-bedroom flat, at the age of 20. Since then Rob has continued to build his own personal portfolio around the South East worth over £1,500,000 by the age of 30. Further to this, Rob also has other Joint Venture property held worth over £1,000,000. Rob strengths are in creatively structuring investment deals and high cash flow strategies. Most recently structuring and negotiating a triple block purchase, comprising of 14 units of mixed commercial and residential property for £950,000. Rob specialises in utilising bridging finance in creative ways to make deals happen and helping others to do the same.   ABOUT THE HOST David is a property expert with over 25 years’ experience and his own portfolio of 26 units. His current rent roll is in excess of £10k per month. He is also a partner in a Deal Sourcing and Packaging business in the North West of England and has sourced over 250 properties for investors since 2004. In recent years he has, by necessity, had to develop an expertise in LHA strategies. This area is increasingly becoming a niche for him, and he enjoys empowering other landlords by sharing the knowledge he has gained. The ultimate purpose when sourcing properties in this sector for investors is to minimise risk while maximising profit. He has had to find answers to the challenges of Tenant Find, Management, ensuring rents are paid and the transition to Universal Credit. These are strategies he uses in his own business and also on behalf of investors. His investor clients regularly achieve annual gross yields of over 20% with high occupancy rates and voids resolved, sometimes within hours.   CONTACT METHOD LinkedIn Facebook

This broadcast is a favorite legacy show that we produced under our old name Travel'n On and before re-branding as WORLD FOOTPRINTS. The son of America’s 64th Attorney General talks with World Footprints Radio hosts Tonya and Ian Fitzpatrick about his involvement in a new documentary, Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk 3D. An environmental attorney and activist, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was named by Time Magazine as one of its “Heroes for the Planet” in 1999. RFK, Jr., also talks about work with Waterkeeper Alliance . Rob Holmes, Founder & President of Green Living Project talks to World Footprints about his work in promoting sustainable tourism projects around the globe. Finally, author Bill Raney, founder of the Nickelodeon Theatre, joins World Footprints from the road in North Dakota where he was traveling in his famous “Zerky Mobile” and sharing his book “Letters to Zerky: A Father’s Legacy to a Lost Son and a Road Trip Around the World.

Get in shape for summer fun with the new Fitbit Versa smartwatch. We catch up with Michael Polin, Director of Product Marketing at Fitbit.One of the most popular over-the-top streaming video platforms, Roku, joins us to talk about what’s new in content, devices, and partnerships. We’ve got Roku’s VP of Programming, Rob Holmes.  Learn all about the amazing work done by Crisis Text Line, to help those in distress, with a convenient and discrete way to reach out for help. We talk with Nancy Lublin, Founder & CEO of Crisis Text Line.Finally, I share some of my favorite gadgets for Small Business Week, including a sleek laptop, VoIP phone system for the office, MESH Wi-Fi network, and a cost-effective all-in-one laser printer.

Interview with Rob Holmes – Founder and Chief Strategist of GLP Films How to Identify Your Next Great Story Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast! Today we are back in business interview land where we talk with professionals who have learned the true value of story in business, and they share their knowledge and ideas with us on how to use story in our professional spaces. Today we get to talk with Rob Holmes – the Founder and Chief Strategist of GLP Films, the leading content marketing agency dedicated to authentic storytelling and digital content strategy within the travel and outdoor industry.  Robs authentic approach to storytelling helps his clients identify and develop the best way to grow their business, and usually, that’s by helping them tell their story. He has a diverse background in multimedia production, conservation, marketing, and entrepreneurship. Rob has spearheaded partnerships with global travel brands including international and domestic tourism boards in Peru, Mexico, Chile, to name a few. He’s created partnerships with media publications like National Geographic and Travel and Leisure. Rob holds an MBA from the University of Washington in International Business, Marketing, and Environment Management. So, with that introduction, stay tuned for my discussion with Rob about HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR NEXT GREAT STORY. Stories are our lives in language. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m Lori Lee, and I’m excited for our future together of telling stories, evaluating our own stories, and lifting ourselves and others to greater places because of our control over our stories. This podcast is about empowerment and giving you, the listener, ideas to work with in making your stories work for you. Story power serves you best when you know how to use it. Listen to the podcast to hear my discussion with Rob and get his tips for finding your next great story.   For more information on Rob Holmes and GLP Films:   Watch the full Mina Guli film:  www.glpfilms.com/mina-film (http://www.glpfilms.com/mina-film) Website:  www.glpfilms.com (http://www.glpfilms.com/) Youtube:  www.youtube.com/greenlivingproject (http://www.youtube.com/greenlivingproject) Facebook:  www.facebook.com/glpfilms (http://www.facebook.com/glpfilms) Instagram:  www.instagram.com/glpfilms (http://www.instagram.com/glpfilms) Twitter:  www.twitter.com/glpfilms (http://www.twitter.com/glpfilms)