Podcasts about Robert Stephens

This week, the boys stay positive as they take a look at Ridley Scott's first proper film, “The Duelists,” from 1977! Starring Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, and Albert Finney, this self-funded film is stunning to watch, but is it interesting to endure? We drink and discuss! John and Dave also caught “The Amateur” (2025) in the cinema and offer a mini-review before John discusses some upsetting WGA hiring statistics. Grab a drink and give us a listen! Our phone number is 646-484-9298. It accepts texts or voice messages.  0:00 Intro; 10:39 “The Amateur” mini-review; 16:13 Gripes; 18:52 1977 Year in Review; 37:57 Films of 1977: “The Duelists”; 1:14:34 What You Been Watching?; 1:22:23 Next Week's Movie Announcement Additional Cast/Crew: Joseph Conrad, Gerald Vaughan-Hughes, Edward Fox, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens, Diana Quick, Frank Tidy, Tom Rand, James Hawes, Robert Littell, Gary Spinelli, Ken Nolan, Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Jon Bernthal, Nick Mills, Tiffany Gray, Hold McCallany, David Mills, Laurence Fishburne. Hosts: Dave Green, Jeff Ostermueller, John Say Edited & Produced by Dave Green. Beer Sponsor: Carlos Barrozo Music Sponsor: Dasein Dasein on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/77H3GPgYigeKNlZKGx11KZ 
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Tananarive spent more than seven years working on her new novel, THE REFORMATORY, which was inspired by true-life family history about her great-uncle Robert Stephens and the Dozer School for Boys in Marianna, FL. In this podcast, she and Steve talk about why it took so long to write, the Lifewriting tools she used to complete it, and how she's fighting to stay centered in the whirlwind of her book's publication.  LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL at https://www.speakpipe.com/LifewritingPodcast (We might play your message!) Join Tananarive's mailing list at https://tananarivelist.com Join Steve's mailing list at https://stevenbarneslist.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sixth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1969 features Josh's personal pick, Ronald Neame's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Directed by Ronald Neame from a screenplay by Jay Presson Allen (based on the Muriel Spark novel) and starring Maggie Smith, Pamela Franklin, Robert Stephens, Gordon Jackson and Jane Carr, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was nominated for two Oscars and won one.The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/03/11/specials/spark-brodiefilm.html), Variety, and Pauline Kael in The New Yorker.Visit https://www.awesomemovieyear.com for more info about the show.Make sure to like Awesome Movie Year on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/awesomemovieyear and follow us on Twitter @AwesomemoviepodYou can find Jason online at http://goforjason.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JHarrisComedy/, on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jasonharriscomedy/ and on Twitter @JHarrisComedyYou can find Josh online at http://joshbellhateseverything.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joshbellhateseverything/ and on Twitter @signalbleedYou can find our producer David Rosen's Piecing It Together Podcast at https://www.piecingpod.com, on Twitter at @piecingpod and the Popcorn & Puzzle Pieces Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/piecingpod.You can also follow us all on Letterboxd to keep up with what we've been watching at goforjason, signalbleed and bydavidrosen.Subscribe on Patreon to support the show and get access to exclusive content from Awesome Movie Year, plus fellow podcasts Piecing It Together and All Rice No Beans, and music by David Rosen: https://www.patreon.com/bydavidrosenAll of the music in the episode is by David Rosen. Find more of his music at https://www.bydavidrosen.comPlease like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1969 installment, featuring our foreign film pick, Costa-Gavras' Z.

Join Mel and Lisa as we discuss Tananarive Due's The Reformatory. When 12-year-old Robert Stephens is sent to Gracetown School For Boys, a reformatory, he finds himself in a nightmare. Like many children in Gracetown, Florida, he has a special ability to see ghosts, a “talent” which the warden exploits, charging Robbie with the task of getting rid of the “haints” of the boys who died because of the warden's cruel treatment.    NEWS: We have a Bookshop.org shop now! Find all of our favorite books at our shop–and help out small businesses.    Recommended in this episode: Stephen Graham Jones's I Was a Teenage Slasher and Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories   UP NEXT: “The Long Legged Girl” by Joyce Carol Oates (collected in Night-Gaunts) Buy our books here, including our newest Toil and Trouble.

Driven away from family disgrace and toward pursuit of wealth, Arthur Cutten grew fortunes as stocks doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in the Roaring 20's, even as his market manipulations sowed the seeds for the 1929 crash. Robert Stephens, author of “TO MAKE A KILLING: Arthur Cutten, The Man Who Ruled the Markets,” unpacks the curious life of a secretive speculator who made and lost fortunes from Chicago to New York. https://www.ice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Rita Tushingham burst onto the film scene with her debut role in A Taste Of Honey and established herself as an iconic face of the British New Wave. Ian is joined by film historian Melanie Williams to review three of her early roles. A Taste Of Honey (1961). Directed by Tony Richardson. Written by Shelagh Delaney. Starring Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin and Paul Danquah. Girl With Green Eyes (1964). Directed by Desmond Davis. Written by Edna O'Brien. Starring Rita Tushingham, Peter Finch and Lynn Redgrave. The Knack...and How To Get It (1965). Directed by Richard Lester. Written by Charles Wood from the play by Ann Jellicoe. Starring Rita Tushingham, Michael Crawford, Ray Brooks and Donal DonnellyMelanie Williams is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. A historian of British cinema, her recent books include a BFI Film Classic on A Taste of Honey (2023), Transformation and Tradition in 1960s British Cinema (with Richard Farmer, Laura Mayne and Duncan Petrie, 2019), and Female Stars of British Cinema: The Women in Question (2017). She is currently writing a book about the British filmmaker Muriel Box.

The elements of a scary story might be exotic, super-natural, or even mundane. Tananarive Due weaves all of those things together in an ethereal world of her creation to explore the violence of the Jim Crow South.    Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is an executive producer for the documentary “Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror” and has written for “The Twilight Zone” and “Horror Noire” projects. She is co-writing a Black horror graphic novel, “The Keeper,” alongside her husband, Steven Barnes. Due's work in the Black speculative fiction genre has won various awards including an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. Her books include “Ghost Summer: Stories,” “My Soul to Keep,” and “The Good House.” She co-authored “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir” with her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Due. Her new historical fiction book, “The Reformatory,” is based on the life of her relative, Robert Stephens. Set in Jim Crow Florida, it follows twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr. who is sent to a reformatory, where he must learn how to navigate the harsh reality of the Jim Crow South. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tananarive spent more than seven years working on her new novel, THE REFORMATORY, which was inspired by true-life family history about her great-uncle Robert Stephens and the Dozer School for Boys in Marianna, FL. In this podcast, she and Steve talk about why it took so long to write, the Lifewriting tools she used to complete it, and how she's fighting to stay centered in the whirlwind of her book's publication.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's 1971 and you're at a Groovy Guy Contest. There, you set your eyes on Jimmy Hughes. Hughes would go on to win the contest and become a sought after model during the early part of the 1970's before being entangled in rape and kidnapping charges that would landed him in jail in 1974.When a feature film becomes a massive box office hit, it has the capacity of shifting the cultural landscape, putting its finger on the pulse of the day and age. And it will almost inevitably assure that a hardcore porn film parody will soon follow. Greek Lightning may just be one of the first erotic film parodies in history. But just who was the director of the 1972 gay erotic film Greek Lightning?  Robert Walters? Ken Albert?  Robert Stephens? The answer is all of them, because iconic filmmaker Scott Masters, who founded Studio 2000 and Nova Films used all of those names during his long career in gay adult entertainment. In this episode, we will celebrate Scott Masters, a guerrilla filmmaker and director who began his career in the adult industry pushing the boundaries of full frontal male nudity his film Greek Lightning, a gay porn that was meant to be a hardcore take off of The French Connection,. And Lastly, we will take a look at the short but fascinating modeling career of Jimmy Hughes, a golden age performer who achieved star status during the early to mid 70's before it all came crashing down amidst several sex crimes. Support the show

Comrades (Bill Douglas, UK, 1986) In the accompanying podcase, we discuss Bill Douglas' fourth and final film, very different from his earlier trilogy: A three-hour-long epic of the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs', a group of early 19th-century agricultural workers who band together to unite against the lowering of their wages, form The Friendly Society of Agricultural Labourers, an early form of trade union, campaign against rich landowners, end up on trial on a spurious charge ‘ swearing an illegal oath' and get shipped to serve their sentence in Australia. References to early forms of cinema structure the film's narrative; the story is told through an account of the pre-history of motion pictures: shadow play, magic lanterns, camera obscura, heliotypes, dioramas, The story is fascinating because it is a pre-history of the union movement and also pre-Marx. We discuss how the film becomes less interesting in the second half where the narrative moves to Australia partly because we lose sight of what happens in Britain: the rallying, the support, the organising. In Australia, the Tolpuddle martyrs and indigenous people are seen to share an experience of oppression. But we also see the limits of this, how some of the white oppressed themselves become oppressors as soon as they get a little power. We discuss how the might might be both an unwieldly mess and a very great film. What is beautiful about this movie is the way Douglas films working class people and landscape. There's a real tension between the narrative and the poetic. The storytelling is tortured. Interesting to compare with My Way Home, in which the Scottish bits seemed stronger than the section where he goes into the army and abroad. At it's best, the film brings to mind Chahine's The Land. At its worst it feels uncompromising and a little bit self-indulgent. The film has a very great cast with famous actors playing the upper classes (Robert Stephens, James Fox, Vanessa Redgrave) and then unknown actors playing the workers (Imelda Staunton, Keith Allen, Phil Davies).Barbara Windsor, falls somewhere in between and offers a wonderful turn. England is shown as inhospitable, unfair, unjust. It's a real condemnation. The film is available on BFI blu ray and is also showing on Amazon Prime in a very good print.

The game is afoot as we kick off a month looking at four films featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. One of the most adapted characters in the history of cinema, we've all grown up with a variety of actors and interpretations of Holmes. In this series we're looking at four from the 1970s and, in this episode, we are discussing Billy WIlder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.The film stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Watson along with Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes and Geraldine Page as the mysterious Gabrielle Valladon.Aaron Peterson (The Hollywood Outsider) and playwright and author David MacGregor join Mike all month for some Sherlockian talk.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-projection-booth-podcast_2/support.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5513239/advertisement

The game is afoot as we kick off a month looking at four films featuring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. One of the most adapted characters in the history of cinema, we've all grown up with a variety of actors and interpretations of Holmes. In this series we're looking at four from the 1970s and, in this episode, we are discussing Billy WIlder's 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.The film stars Robert Stephens as Holmes and Colin Blakely as Watson along with Christopher Lee as Mycroft Holmes and Geraldine Page as the mysterious Gabrielle Valladon.Aaron Peterson (The Hollywood Outsider) and playwright and author David MacGregor join Mike all month for some Sherlockian talk.

just loved my conversation with Robert, we're colleagues in Atlanta and when I heard his story of scaling and then deciding NOT scale and why, I knew you had to hear the story.  To scale or not to scale?  Join us for this vibrant discussion around scaling.  Robert as a Financial professional loves helping companies to scale.  But is scaling for you?  Listen into Roberts story of his own business build and his discernment on knowing whether scaling was for him and his practice and lifestyle.  We are not ALL meant to scale!!!  Listen for your own insights as Robert shares his story AND his expertise in scaling. Nuggets: When life hands you ‘bad news', make sure you listen to your mentors…..they will see the opportunity before you do. Slow growth in early business building can take longer than you think, but it doesn't mean it isn't working. We become translators as trusted advisors, Robert & Diana share their growth in learning to speak to their clients in their language. Robert is a translator of numbers for his clients, what is YOUR unique edge? Our Culture says growth and scaling is the only way to be successful as a business owner……not always the case. Scaling can take you as the owner OUT of your genius & expertise. Our businesses are meant to serves us NOT the other way around.  We need to buck our corporate culture mentality. How saying No to some clients help you to serve your clients better.   This IS a Lifestyle business in the best way ever:  With Zoom capability and acceptance Robert has worked remotely from the Grand Canyon, the beach and Colorado.  Full work days waking up to amazing locations. Robert's ‘not scale' mindset for his own business changed his lifestyle, his profitability and gave him more of a chance to do what he loves.  Robert follows the 3 R's as he builds and makes decisions in his business.  Respect, Responsibility and Relationships.   What could he have left out of his business build? Everyone else's expectations and business plan! Robert Stephens is managing partner of CFO Navigator.  As a fractional Chief Financial Officer, Robert fills a critical gap for growing privately held businesses and non-profit organizations that do not have the budget or need for a full-time CFO. Having advised over 75+ organizations during his 30+ year career, Robert strives to bring “Wall Street” worthy financial expertise to local “Main Street” companies by turning his financial insight into their business foresight.  For more information, visit www.cfo-navigator.com.  You can reach him cell phone at 404-642-2688

"Is there an abortionist on this train?" Travels With My Aunt (1972) directed by George Cukor and starring Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr, Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams and José Luis Vázquez Next Time: The Conversation (1974)

Join Chris as he covers a new release from our good friends at Kino Lorber. Blending elements of Gothic horror with the more contemporary ingredients of steampunk, The Asphyx has emerged from obscurity to become a cult favorite of the sci-fi/fantasy genre. Utilizing an experimental photographic device, a scientist (Robert Stephens, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) captures what appears to be the image of the Asphyx—the ancient Greek spirit of the dead. With the help of his adopted son (Robert Powell, The Italian Job), he conducts further experiments and conceives of a way to harness the Asphyx and thereby gain immortality. But, as every visionary scientist should know, defying the laws of the natural and spiritual world unleashes dreadful consequences. Sumptuously shot by director Peter Newbrook and cinematographer Freddie Young (Lawrence of Arabia), The Asphyx unfolds into one of the most unusual and haunting supernatural chillers of British cinema. This special edition also includes the extended 99-minute cut of film. Get it here: The Asphyx (Special Edition) (Blu-ray) - Kino Lorber Home Video Check us out on all our Socials! WHATEVER CREATIVE - Home (weebly.com) https://whatevercreative.weebly.com/electic-entertainment.html Facebook @electicentertainment Electic Entertainment | Facebook Instagram @electicentertainment Electic Entertainment (@electicentertainment) • Instagram photos and videos Letterboxd @electic ‎electic's profile • Letterboxd Twitter @ElecticEnterta1 Electic Entertainment (@ElecticEnterta1) / Twitter TikTok electicentertainment https://www.tiktok.com/@electicentertainment Thanks for listening! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chris-gentry2/support

In our 2022 roundup we discuss Stanshall and Lear, Ghosts, Tom Hardy, Terry and June, Never the Twain, Robert Stephens, Peaky Blinders, LOTSW, Reginald Marsh, Chris Boucher, Daleks in 4K, Pink Floyd, 60's Batman and fatigue with corrupt politicians.

Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry & Company, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator (Family Business Radio, Episode 39) On this edition of Family Business Radio, host Anthony Chen welcomed two highly regarded business advisors to the studio. Jane Gentry discussed the three biggest mistakes she sees in the companies she consults with, issues in moving a family business […] The post Jane Gentry, Jane Gentry & Company, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

A smouldering gorilla suited man racing through London on a motorbike is one of many striking images from Karel Reisz's 1966 film that starred David Warner (who had just played Hamlet at the RSC) alongside Vanessa Redgrave and Robert Stephens. Matthew Sweet is joined by Stephen Frears who worked as assistant director on the film, the director's son Matthew Reisz and film historian Lucy Bolton to look back at the talents of both Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 - 25 November 2002) and David Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022). Producer: Torquil MacLeod You can find other episodes of Free Thinking focused on key films and TV programmes in a collection called Landmarks on the Free Thinking programme website including discussions of Enter the Dragon and Bruce Lee, Asta Nielsen and a silent Hamlet, Dirk Bogarde and The Servant, Glenda Jackson and Sunday Bloody Sunday https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01jwn44

Robert Stephens is mostly know as the Founder of The Geek Squad and recently he founded his newest company, ChainList — a sort of github for checklists. You can find him on Twitter @rstephens. Website: https://www.chainlist.com   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/robert-stephens-founder-of-chainlist-part-2/ If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 150 notable creators, available in both Color or B&W on Amazon: https://geni.us/fourfavoritetools  

Robert Stephens is mostly know as the Founder of The Geek Squad and recently he founded his newest company, ChainList — a sort of github for checklists. You can find him on Twitter @rstephens. Website: https://www.chainlist.com   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/robert-stephens-founder-of-chainlist/   If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 150 notable creators, available in both Color or B&W on Amazon: https://geni.us/fourfavoritetools

Donna Beatty, Frazier & Deeter, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator (ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 36) Donna Beatty, Tax Partner with Frazier & Deeter, and Robert Stephens, Managing Partner of CFO Navigator, were Bill McDermott’s guests on this episode of Profit Sense with Bill McDermott. Donna provided timely advice about taxes, new laws, and advice for […]

Donna Beatty, Frazier & Deeter, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator (ProfitSense with Bill McDermott, Episode 36) Donna Beatty, Tax Partner with Frazier & Deeter, and Robert Stephens, Managing Partner of CFO Navigator, were Bill McDermott’s guests on this episode of Profit Sense with Bill McDermott. Donna provided timely advice about taxes, new laws, and advice for […] The post Donna Beatty, Frazier & Deeter, and Robert Stephens, CFO Navigator appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

In this fun-packed 50th edish we discuss psychotic sanding, the resentment of summer, the genius of Jeremy Brett, Robert Stephens and Michal Bryant, why we crave nice things and look at the moment Australia went colour.

Our guest this week is Robert Stephens. Robert is the founder of The Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy. The Geek Squad will turn 30 in 2024 and employs over 24,000 people. His newest company launching soon, is ChainList, a platform for re-usable checklists and was inspired by CoolTools. A native of Chicago, he now lives in the Bay Area. Robert's newest company, ChainList will enter public beta soon. It was inspired by his time building Geek Squad - which is still powered by checklists. Chainlist let's you find, make, remix, and subscribe to checklists. With NFC and QR codes — you can even store this info onto physical objects like homes and equipment. Just like CoolTools, ChainList hopes to offer everyone access to useful processes. Website: Chainlist.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/rstephens   For show notes and transcript visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/robert-stephens-founder-of-the-geek-squad-2/   If you're enjoying the Cool Tools podcast, check out our paperback book Four Favorite Tools: Fantastic tools by 150 notable creators, available in both Color or B&W on Amazon: https://geni.us/fourfavoritetools

Day 82 Today's Reading: John 14 I remember listening to one of my daughters as she was learning to count. When she got to the number eleven, what came next seemed normal to her. Unfortunately, it was wrong: eleventeen, twelveteen, thirteen . . . Why not? Seems logical. In today's reading, we see that Jesus had one of those logical moments. It happens in yesterday's reading: John 13:38. Jesus' eleventeen moment follows verse 38. It isn't supposed to, but it does: one comes after thirty-eight. John 14:1-6 is a popular passage for funerals. In fact, I have read it many times at funerals: “Do not let your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way where I am going.” Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.” (John 14:1-6) As heavenly as these words are, they were not given for a funeral, they were given to help an arrogant and self-assured disciple named Peter, who was very much alive. Always remember that the chapter and verse numbers in the Bible were never there when written. They were not added into a printed Bible until around the 1500s by Robert Stephens in the Geneva Bible. That's why I am not a fan when people try to take the verse number or chapter number and make it part of the message of the text. It just is not there. So if that's true, Jesus was right, verse 1 comes after verse 38 since there are no chapter divisions. When Jesus spoke these words in John 14, it was in response to and directly after these final words in John 13: “Jesus answered, ‘Will you lay down your life for Me? Truly, truly, I say to you, a rooster will not crow until you deny me three times” (verse 38). Here is what I love: instead of Jesus leaving it there and letting Peter know that he was about to blow it big time, Jesus gives hope. Peter says, “I will lay down my life for you." Jesus says, “You will deny Me three times.” We all know who's telling the truth. The iconic Golden Gate Bridge was completed in 1937 and was, at the time, the longest suspension bridge ever built. It was also very deadly work. “At the time, the industry standard was that for every million dollars spent, there would be a loss of life,” says the bridge's spokeswoman, Mary Currie. The bridge's estimated cost? Thirty-five million dollars. But the structural engineer, Joseph Strauss, concerned for the workers' safety—as almost two dozen men died in the first half of construction—insisted on placing a safety net under the bridge to catch any workers who accidentally fell. It was a novel idea at the time and cost $130,000. After the net was put in place, no one else died. The safety net made the difference. In John 14, we see that Peter is about to get his $130,000 safety net when he falls. Jesus essentially tells Peter, “What you say will not happen; what I say will . . . but there is more.” Here's the safety net: You won't lose when you fall, you win when you fail. Peter, you will deny Me and not keep your word, but I will keep My word. What is that word? “I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.” This is not heaven, this is restoration. The prepared place was not in the clouds but on a beach in John 21. Jesus was telling Peter that when he walks away from Jesus, he will still have a place. Jesus will receive him and they will

Sean Fitzgerald [aka Actual Justice Warrior] joins Roberta to talk about the Innocence Project's never-say-guilty technique of continuing to push innocence long after the DNA results have implicated their killer client. Also discussed, the unbelievable facepalm moment in Kyle Rittenhouse's trial, the poor state of true crime reporting and Sean's uneasiness with televised trials. The Roberta Glass True Crime Report is produced by Ati Abdo MacDonald Thank you Patreon members- Evan Scott, Earoist, Holly from Dallas, Kenny Haines, Robert Stephens, Devon Ann, Maureen P and Toni Natalie.

Listen to Darren as he interviews councilman Robert Stephens. The councilman shares many initiatives that he's been able to roll out since the inception of his term. He also gives information as relates to onramps and opportunities for YOU to get involved.

País Estados Unidos Dirección Joseph L. Mankiewicz Guion Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman Música Alex North Fotografía Leon Shamroy Reparto Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Roddy McDowall, Martin Landau, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Robert Stephens, Margaret Lee Sinopsis El victorioso general Julio César se ve obligado a visitar Egipto para evitar la guerra civil provocada por la falta de entendimiento entre Cleopatra y su hermano Tolomeo, que comparten el poder en Egipto. César, cautivado por la inteligencia y belleza de la joven, la proclama reina indiscutible de Egipto, y tras el nacimiento de su hijo, Cesarión, la convierte en su esposa.

We get locker room access to Coach Robert Stephens and his playbook today on this episode of Six-Figure Trucker! Over his 20+ years in trucking, Coach has acquired expertise in strategic planning, communication, and people skills. These insights have paved the way for his own success and have also positioned him to help those around him. Tapping into his extensive experience coaching sports, he loves to draw up plays to help his fellow drivers succeed over the road. So, get ready because the Doc Rivers of Deck Drivers is pulling out his clipboard to coach us up!A viral moment from the road (1:05)Coach’s background in trucking and history with Norton (2:40)Coach’s Playbook to success in DeckingStrategic Planning (7:20)A Clear Head (11:03)Honest Communication (15:30)A Willingness to Listen and Learn (17:40)An extensive resume in coaching and umpiring has shaped Robert’s perspective (22:42)Current Industry Changes (26:39)Coach doubles down on the importance of good planning (31:23)The Coach Approach - interacting with and relating to people (34:02)Appreciating the healthy and cooperative culture at Norton (48:00)Gettin’ Round around the belly in San Antonio! (1:01:00)More insights from the Coach’s clipboard (1:03:00)Stay Smooth Coach! The Six Figure Trucker is a weekly conversation that shares the strategies and stories that successful owner-operators have used to build lucrative careers in the trucking industry. For more information or to subscribe, please visit https://www.six-figuretrucker.com/. 

“Real estate is not like buying a stock. It's buying a living and breathing asset that you have to work at everyday.” -Robert Levy  Today I am talking to Robert Levy and Philip Block of LBX Investments, a diversified commercial real estate firm that launched in 2018. Robert and Philip started LBX after working together at Big V Capital. At BVC, Philip a Partner and Robert, the Co-Founder and responsible for overseeing the underwriting. Both Robert and Philip have extensive backgrounds and experience in real estate. LBX Investments platform oversees property management, leasing, construction, asset management, accounting efforts, marketing and finance. I met them at this year's Intelligent Investors conference.   Robert Levy: is a Managing Partner at LBX Investments. Before he Co Founded Big V Capital, Robert was the Operating Officer at Benefit Street Partners. In 2001 he joined Centerline Capital Group and held multiple positions such as CEO, Chief Financial Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer and Director of Capital Markets. He was also a member of the Board of Trustees for Centerline’s parent company, Centerline Holding Company. He was the Vice President in the real estate equity research and investment banking department at Robert Stephens from 1998-2001. He received his BA from Northwestern University and his MBA from Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.  Philip Block: Is a Managing Partner at LBX Investments. Before LBX and before BVC, Phil was the Senior Managing Director at RealtyMogul.com. Prior to that, he was The VP of corporate finance and Capital Markets at Centerline Capital Group. He helped Dominion Capital Advisors get off the ground right before his career in real estate took off as an Investment Banker for Cantor Fitzgerald. He has a BBA, cume laude, from George Washington University and graduated from the General Course at the London School of Economics with a degree in finance.    TOPICS COVERED IN THE EPISODE LBX Investments Investing in southeast retail markets  Multi family vs retail  The role of fiduciary What are anchor tenants  Create a niche in the retail market  Local buyers Investments sitting on bad real estate  Demographic growth in souteast markets The use of retail space and what people want  Who are the right tenants  How does this investment serve the surrounding community well Investor communication  Conservatism  What is the best way to participate in multi family investing  Atlanta, GA Denver, CO Find sponsors you believe in  Why leverage is both positive and negative  Enjoying leadership    Listen now on Spotify or Apple iTunes or watch on Youtube to find out how Robert and Phil found their Real Estate Breakthrough! The Real Estate Breakthrough Show with Christina Suter is where we talk about the reality of real estate, the mindset you need and the tips and tricks to get you moving forward in investing. Join us every week and learn everything you need to know to invest in real estate education and create real wealth for a lifetime.   Find out more about Robert and Philip here:  Website lbxinvestments.com Email phil@lbxinvestments.com & Rob@lbxinvestments.com 

Phones Show Chat 627 - Show Notes Steve Litchfield and Ted Salmon with Dan Carter MeWe Groups Join Links PSC - PSC Photos - PSC Classifieds - Steve - Ted Feedback Malcolm Bryant explains Android Doze Steve Nutt on Get Notified Quicker In Android Frank Niethardt on Samsung’s Four Year Promise Tayo Olasope on 1440p vs 1080p vs 720p Pixel 4a 5G back up to £499 Leaks about the Google Pixel Fold Device Week Pixel 5 - Pixel 3 - Pixel 4a 5G Sony Xperia 5 II - Sony Xperia 5 v 5 II Specs f(x)tec Pro1 - Lineage 17.1 Huawei Mate 40 Pro Realme X50 5G - Ted’s Review Ringke Fusion - iPhone 12 Pro Max Case Round-Up iPhone 12 Pro Max vs Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Camera Comparison QWERTY DIY Video - What Might Have Been Live Draw We make a draw for smartphone accessories each weekend. Do get involved before the next draw by joining the Virtual Pint of Beer a Month Club - It could be you! This week’s winner is Robert Stephens! stevelitchfield.com/paypal.htm & tinyurl.com/pspromo The Phones Show Tune into Steve’s YouTube Channel to watch Phones Show 415 (Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra vs Redmi Note 9T) and 416 (QWERTY Options for 2021) Photo of the Week Frozen in Time by Gavin Fabiani-Laymond using an iPhone 12 Pro Max Thanks Links Amazon Steve - Amazon Ted - PayPal Me Ted Links of Interest PodHubUK - Twitter - MeWe PSC Group - PSC Photos - FlickR - PSC Classifieds - WhateverWorks - Better Before - Camera Creations - TechAddictsUK - The TechBox - Chewing Gum for the Ears - Projector Room - PixelSwim - Gavin's Gadgets - Ted's Salmagundi - Steve's Rants'n'Raves

Episode 4 of 4 in our Sherlock Holmes theme month. In this episode we discuss the 1970 Billy Wilder written and directed The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. This film stars Robert Stephens as Sherlock Holmes, Colin Blakely as Watson, Genevieve Page as Gabrielle Valladon, and Christopher Lee as Mycroft.

NOTE: The Patreon version of this episode features 20+ minutes of bonus content near the end! Check it out! Jace Armstrong (@jacecityusa) and Robert Stephens (@rmstephens) join the Mandogs for this week's episode. They talk snow versus sleet, Jace's computer mishap, looking for Christmas gifts as a kid and college survival foods. Plus, we've got voicemails from listeners Cory and Miranda.Leave a short message on our voicemail and you too could be featured in an upcoming episode: (818) 465-8656 Special thanks to Casey Trela for the theme song and Annie Wu for our new logo. As always, feel free to check out ALL episodes on patreon.com/yourethemannowdog and follow us on twitter and instagram @mandogpod, @chosenberg, @danlippertcool.

Scale Your Business with CFO Navigator is an interview video and podcast series for business leaders who want to grow their organization, but are unsure of what they should focus on to scale it to the next level. In this episode, Robert Stephens, founder and managing partner of CFO Navigator interviews the founders of InPrime Legal, Chief Legal Officer Jonathan Page and Director of Operations Mariana Page. InPrime Legal is an innovative and successful legal outsourcing company located in Marietta, Ga. Subscribe for new episodes in this series or visit our website to learn more about CFO Navigator. www.cfo-navigator.com

We discuss the 1972 British gothic horror movie The Asphyx with  Robert Powell and Robert Stephens, followed by Mark L. Lester's Class of 1999. 

Robert Stephens started making computer tech-support house calls on his dirt bike while he was a college student at the University of Minnesota in 1994. He’d arrive to a customer’s house on time, take off his shoes, wear a clean uniform, and fix the problem. His cheeky “law enforcement” marketing theme caught people’s attention, and […]

Our sixth episode focuses on the criminally overlooked wartime saga Fortunes of War, starring Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh as newlyweds Harriet and Guy Pringle who find themselves continually evaded the German advance across Europe, from Romania, to Greece to Egypt. Directed by James Cellan Jones and adapted by Alan Plater, from as many as six books by Olivia Manning, Fortunes of War offers an epic treatise on love, commitment and the human spirit and a stunning guest cast of memorable supporting characters played by Ronald Pickup, Charles Kay, Philip Madoc, Clifford Rose, Ciaran Madden, Robert Stephens and Alan Bennett. Despite several BAFTA awards for Thompson, it's design and costumes, Fortunes rarely, if ever, makes it into books on TV drama or onto lists of the best British TV series and Andy in particular, who is a big fan of the series, wants answers! Next episode: GBH

Grab your deerstalkers, fill up your pipe from your Persian slipper and let’s talk Holmes! We discuss the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, in particular the one portrayed by Robert Stephens in the 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. This episode is a bit longer partly because it’s the first time we talk about the character in general and partly because Katy is still learning how to succinctly summarize plots. We are enthusiastic about Victorian history if not experts on the subject. Katy shares behind-the-scenes Nessie prop stories, Carrie doesn’t think Holmes is funny, Maddy laughs at farts and Mack is a Christopher Lee fanboy. We talk real-life Loch Ness adventures, monks, chloroform, and attempt likely-offensive Russian accents with varying success. Originally recorded July 2017. Please Note: There are a few instances we use an outdated and frankly derogatory term for a little person; this is the term used throughout the film itself and we slip up a few times when discussing this movie. We caught ourselves most but not all of the time. It was definitely not meant as derogatory or demeaning; however we understand that regardless of intent it was used carelessly and for that we apologize. Please visit The Little People of America website for more information and ways to support the community.. TW: derogatory and outdated term for little person Correction Section: The Baker Street Irregulars are a real thing that began in 1934 and is “[t]he literary society dedicated to the study of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Victorian world.” However, they are very, very exclusive (only 692 have ever been one, as of June 2019) and Katy was thinking of what is known as their smaller factions or “scion societies.” They are very passionate and there are a lot of fascinating rules and traditions involved; for more info or to find a local club, visit their website by clicking here. England and Wales technically decriminalized homosexuality between men in 1967 with an age of consent at twenty-one, but Scotland didn’t until 1980 and Northern Ireland in 1982. Homosexuality between women was never legally banned or criminalized by any legislation in the UK. For more information please see A Short History of LGBT Rights in the UK. Christopher Lee and Ian Fleming did know each other but way before World War II and the SOE; Lee’s mother married Fleming’s uncle when Lee was young making them step-cousins. Katy said Philip but she knows it was Albert who was married to Victoria. There are a lot of royals. Sometimes she slips up. She is sorry.

Taxes are a major expense for real estate investors, and Robert is here to explain some of the taxes that we may not know about, and how to save money on those taxes. In the short term rental area, there are lodging taxes. Much of the conversation focuses on that today. If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review! Best Ever Tweet: “A lot of people think since they’re not running a hotel that the lodging tax doesn’t apply to them” - Robert Stephens Robert Stephens Real Estate Background: Co-founder of Avalara MyLodgeTax (formerly HotSpot Tax), formed in 2002 out of his own necessity to understand and manage compliance with his rental property. Helps homeowners, hotel operators, and other businesses with short term lodging tax regulations  Based in Englewood, CO Say hi to him at Best Ever Book: The Big Short Evicting a tenant can be painful, costing as much as $10,000 in court costs and legal fees, and take as long as four weeks to complete.    TransUnion SmartMove’s online tenant screening solution can help you quickly understand if you’re getting a reliable tenant, which can help you avoid potential problems such as non-payment and evictions.  For a limited time, listeners of this podcast are invited to try SmartMove tenant screening for 25% off. Go to and enter code FAIRLESS for 25% off your next screening.

“He started in his little yacht” [BLAC]  There are plenty of instances of maritime transportation in the Sherlock Holmes stories. But when it comes to pleasure crafts, we're left with a scant few. The use various boats for leisure and sporting activities is present sporadically throughout the Canon, so you have to pay attention. We investigate these few instances, plus a supposition. It is of course a trifle. Have you left us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts yet? You don't need to own an Apple device, and every review helps more people find the show.  We're available everywhere you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, and RadioPublic. And please consider supporting our efforts through Patreon or PayPal.     Links / Notes This episode: ihose.co/trifles137 The Boat Race Interview with Robert Stephens in Michael Pointer's Playing Sherlock Holmes: Interviews with John Wood, Robert Stephens, and Christopher Lee. (Amazon) Get your own "Signs of Four" merchandise from our store. Over 20 designs to choose from on mugs and a variety of colored t-shirts. Special Summer sale happening now - 25% off with code SUMMER.   Sponsor The Baker Street Journal   Music credits Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: United States Marine Band Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0  

Today, Voice Summit Programming and Content Director, Janice Mandel, welcomes Shane Mac to the Inside VOICE Summit podcast. Shane co-founded Assist, a conversational solution platform for chatbots and voice applications, in 2015 with Giovanni Vatieri and Geek Squad founder, Robert Stephens, who made headlines when he sold his product support company to Best Buy and become the first CTO to integrate and mine the data from messaging support provided by over 100,000 employees. Assist became known for deploying Facebook Messenger chatbots for leading brands, including its first customer, 1-800-flowers, whose CMO will take the main stage with Shane at this year’s VOICE Summit. Last March, Conversocial, a UK-based social media management and customer service software provider, acquired Assist and named Shane its Chief Automation Officer. In this conversation, you’ll learn what led Shane to his first major exit, why he says he was “overly passionate, completely ignorant, and way too confident,” how he’s grown to collect the right people, and hear his take on the convergence of diverse players that make today’s voice community so cool.

Now for anyone that’s been listening to the podcast for awhile - you’ll know I FIRMLY believe that the days of out-spending, out-shouting and out-interrupting our competitors is over.What do I mean by that? I mean that if you want to stand out in a new age of influence - in an age where what gets talked about, what gets remembered, what (in the words of my next guest) is considered ‘remarkable’ enough to share within our networks - isn’t ‘business as usual’ - OR ‘marketing as usual’.In fact - I believe it was Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad - who said the immortal words ‘advertising is a tax paid by the unremarkable’.The challenge now is not to constantly interrupt what people are interested in - but to BECOME what they are interested in. To provide a service or information so valuable - so engaging - or so unexpected - that word of mouth - or word of mouse - literally takes care of itself.My next guest Jay Baer would describe these moments as Talk Triggers. A Talk Trigger being any strategic, operational differentiators that compel word of mouth. NOTICE THE WORD STRATEGIC THERE - NOT ACCIDENTAL - NOT HOPEFUL - BUT AN ACTUAL PLAN TO CREATE CONSISTENT AND PASSIONATE WORD OF MOUTH. Sounds simple - yet as he points out - nearly every organisation has a…. We have social media strategies, marketing strategies, sales strategies etc.Now word of mouth has always been the backbone of any business - but in a digital landscape - where voice search, reviews and algorithms all tie back to the sentiment of the crowd. If you don’t have a plan - you are missing one of the biggest opportunities available.Jay has spent 25 years in digital marketing and customer experience, consulting for more than 700 companies, including 34 of the FORTUNE 500. His current firm – Convince & Convert – provides word of mouth, digital marketing, and customer experience advice and counsel to some of the world’s most important brands.Jay’s Convince & Convert blog was named the world’s #1 content marketing blog by the Content Marketing Institute. He is also the author of three best selling books - including “Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is About Help not Hype”, “Hug Your Haters”, and his latest book with co-author Daniel Lemin, “Talk Triggers - The complete guide to creating customers with word of mouth”.It is fair to say that Jay understands every aspect of what it is to build a brand around earned influence. And the great thing about earned influence - rather than hype or the number of followers you can amass - it’s really hard to lose once you have it.Now a warning about this conversation - it’s pretty rapid fire - so grab a pen and paper now. In it we sprint our way through:Why so many people confuse influence with audienceWhy relevance is the new killer appWhy contribution takes courage - and the fears that will hold you backHow to hardwire ‘help over hype’ into your marketing strategyThe 4 requirements to designing a compelling talk triggerWhy in this day and age building a marketing campaign around earned influence shouldn’t be the Wild West - but instead driven by data, AI and machine learningAND finally - why real influence is always earned.So sit back, grab yourself a coffee and enjoy the insights of one of the most experienced thought leaders on the planet when it comes to brand influence. My conversation with the outrageously talented - Jay Baer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we get musical, with student Jesus Cortes-Sanchez, who tells us about being a DREAMer and playing clarinet on a Grammy-winning album; with Prof. Robert Stephens, who talks about social protest in the music of the Gullah people of the southeastern U.S.; and with a Daily Campus editor who had to face the music in 1960 for editing an issue of the paper deemed "obscene." 

Our guest this week is Robert Stephens. Robert is the founder of The Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy. The Geek Squad turns 25 this year, employing over 24,000 people. A native of Chicago, he now lives in the Bay Area. He has read the Cool Tools book back-to-back at least 5 times. For show notes visit: https://kk.org/cooltools/robert-stephens-founder-of-the-geek-squad

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet! For this episode, we watched and discussed: Romeo and Juliet (1936), directed by George Cukor, and starring Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer, with John Barrymore and Basil Rathbone. Watch on iTunes. Romeo and Juliet (1968), directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and starring Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, with Michael York and Robert Stephens. Watch on iTunes and Amazon. BBC Television Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet (1978), the first episode of BBC Television Shakespeare, which ran from 1978 to 1985, and attempted to film and televise the complete works of Shakespeare. This episode was directed by Alvin Rakoff, and starred Patrick Ryecart and Rebecca Saire, with Alan Rickman and John Gielgud. Romeo + Juliet (1996), directed by Baz Luhrmann, and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, with John Leguizamo and Pete Postlethwaite. Watch on iTunes and Amazon. Romeo & Juliet (2013), directed by Carlo Carlei, adapted by Julian Fellowes, starring Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld, with Stellan Skarsgård and Paul Giamatti. Watch on iTunes and Amazon. Footnotes: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. Watch it on Amazon. Seriously, watch it. Reynard the Fox Our episodes on The Princess Bride and Sherlock Holmes ADR or automated dialogue replacement You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us online at adaptorperishcast.com. If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at adaptorperishcast@gmail.com or tweet using #adaptcast.

In this episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes! This is the second of three episodes that we’re releasing on the character. We covered The Hound of the Baskervilles here. For this episode, we watched 15 different actors portray the world’s greatest detective. Here they are in chronological order, with the piece or pieces that we watched: Arthur Wontner. He played Holmes in five movies between 1931 and 1937. We watched him in The Sleeping Cardinal (or Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour (1931). Basil Rathbone. He starred as Holmes in 14 movies between 1939 and 1946. We watched him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939). Peter Cushing. He starred in movies and television as Holmes from 1959 to 1984. We watched him in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) and multiple episodes of Sherlock Holmes (1968). John Neville. He played Holmes once in A Study in Terror (1965), going up against Jack the Ripper. Robert Stephens. He starred in Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970). Nicol Williamson. He played Holmes in the film adaptation of Nicholas Meyer’s The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), with Robert Duvall as Watson and Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud. Christopher Plummer. He played Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979) alongside James Mason as Watson. This was a Jack the Ripper story, too. Tom Baker. He played Holmes in the serialized BBC production of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982). Ian Richardson. He played Holmes in two TV movies, both in 1983: The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Peter O’Toole. He provided the voice for Holmes in three animated movies in 1983. We watched Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet. Jeremy Brett. He played the character in 41 episodes of Sherlock Holmes for Granada Television between 1984 and 1994. This show has been watched multiple times by our hosts. Charlton Heston. He played Holmes on stage (1980) and TV (1991) in The Crucifer of Blood. James D’Arcy. He played Holmes once in the TV movie Sherlock: Case of Evil in 2002. Rupert Everett. He starred as Holmes in the BBC One TV movie Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking in 2004. Robert Downey Jr. He starred with Jude Law as Watson in both Sherlock Holmes (2009) and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us online at adaptorperishcast.com. If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at adaptorperishcast@gmail.com or tweet using #adaptcast.

Advertising, Marketing, Business, Relationships, Empathy   Summary   Would you like a methodology for creating immense word of mouth for your business? If so, then I believe you're going to LOVE this discussion with Jay Baer. That and more on today's show.   Interview with Jay Baer   You'll discover:   What a talk trigger is, and why it's so important. Why the talk triggers used by The Cheesecake Factory and Doubletree Hotels are actually what turns their customers into volunteer marketers and salespeople. Why offline word of mouth is actually more persuasive than online. The difference between a talk trigger and a USP (unique selling proposition). The 4-5-6 system for building talk triggers. Why “Surprise and Delight” does NOT make for an effective talk trigger. How the magicians Penn & Teller create a memorable experience for their fans. Why empathy is the easiest talk trigger to implement, and extremely powerful. What you can learn from Dr. Glen Gorab, an oral surgeon who uses a simple but immensely effective talk trigger that has exploded his practice. The thing about Dr. Snip and his “very special” giveaway. ;-)     The 4 Requirements of a Talk Trigger   Must be remarkable Must be relevant Must be reasonable Must be repeatable       Click to Tweet   A talk trigger is a strategic operational differentiator that compels word of mouth. @jaybaer #marketing Word of mouth #marketing and talk triggers are all about giving your customers a consistent story to tell about you. @jaybaer #Advertising is a tax on the unremarkable.~Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad per @jaybaer   Interview Links   TalkTriggers.com ConvinceAndConvert.com Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth by Jay Baer Hug Your Haters: How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers by Jay Baer Youtility: Why Smart Marketing is about Help Not Hype by Jay Baer ConvinceAndConvert.com Social Pros Podcast Hire Jay to speak Free Presentation by Jay and Daniel that you can download and present to YOUR team members. You can easily customize it to talk about your own talk triggers. Connect with Jay on LinkedIn Follow Jay on Twitter Follow Jay on Instagram Jay's YouTube channel Resources   The Go-Giver Influencers Facebook LIVE Show Order The Go-Giver Influencer Sell The Go-Giver Way Audio Program  GoGiverSalesAcademy.com The Go-Giver Leader TheGoGiver.com GoGiverSpeaker.com Burg.com  How to Post a Review

Shane Mac co-founded Assist five years ago with Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens. Since then, Assist has focused on enabling the talking internet for brands; first with chat bots, then with voice apps. Mac says the company's work centers around bookings, ordering and online to offline engagement use cases. The projects always involve backend systems integration. Whether it is taking beer orders at a baseball game on iMessage, selling flowers through Google Assistant or booking beauty appointments at Sephora by chatbot, Assist attempts to work on projects that touch the core of its customers' businesses. Mac first appeared on Voicebot Podcast Ep 18 in November 2017. This episode stands on its own, but we recommend you go back and listen to one of the most insightful guests to date to hear the entire back story and vision. We recorded this episode live at Voice Summit AI 2018 to review how things have changed over the past year. Enjoy!

On this episode, we'll hear about community media in the Central District. Black newspapers, radio, and even TV, held the community together. Hear stories from Don Dudley, Vivian Phillips, Robert Stephens, Leon Carter, Frank Barrow, and others!

To kick off Series 2 of the Animas Podcast, we invited the fearless Livon Yeow to the studio to speak with Animas training Director, Robert Stephens. Livon is famously known at Animas HQ for going off at the deep end with her coaching practice by giving up her full-time job to pursue a full-time coach career...before she even became qualified. If you enjoyed this episode hit the like button or share with a friend.

College? 9-5 job? In today’s internet-driven world it’s perhaps more possible than ever to skip these and become an entrepreneur. I interview many of them and as an accidental entrepreneur myself, it’s a topic that’s extremely personal to me. It can’t be denied that the rules for success have changed since our parents’ generation. So how do we know how to guide our kids in a changing world? Enter Margot Bisnow, Entrepreneur and Mom Margot Machol Bisnow raised two sons who both grew up to be successful entrepreneurs (just one of her claims to fame!). Her son Elliot Bisnow founded Summit, an influential conference series promoting entrepreneurship, and her son Austin started the Indie band Magic Giant. The entrepreneurial bug bit Margot’s husband Mark too, but later in life, when he started his national newsletter company Bisnow Media at the age of 50. Margot herself, after 20 years in government and serving on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, decided to capture her ideas about entrepreneurship and parenthood in her 2016 book Raising an Entrepreneur: 10 Rules for Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, and Change Makers. Something’s up with this family! What did they do differently? Is there a “secret” to unlocking this kind of change-making potential? Parenting an Entrepreneur 101 The entrepreneurs Margot interviewed did in fact have something important in common: a parent (usually a mom!) who believed in them. For her book Margot took on the monumental task of interviewing over 70 mothers and their wildly successful offspring—entrepreneurs, activists, and artists like Eric Ryan of Method products, Robert Stephens of Geek Squad, Adam Braun of Pencils of Promise, Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes, and Tom Scott of Nantucket Nectars. The result is a fascinating collection of stories from families (with a huge variety of backgrounds, social status, and means) who somehow ended up with kids who thought out of the box, weren’t afraid to fail, and went about success in a different way. So what’s the common factor among these families? Can parents do anything to create creative kids? As the mom of 6 kids, I’m hanging on Margot’s every word! In This Episode You’ll Learn: What an entrepreneur really is (and why we’d want our kids to be one … it’s not only about money either!) The lessons learned from interviewing over 70 entrepreneurs and their moms One trait all successful entrepreneurs had in common (hint: it has to do with moms!) Why you may not want your kids to follow your path in life … especially in today's world Reasons why helping your kids may hurt them in the long run What you should never praise (success) and the thing you should (hard work) The influence of birth order on future success as an entrepreneur Higher education: is it really the best path for today’s kids? How to get comfortable with risk-taking and change as a parent And, is it even legal to raise an entrepreneur today? (you’ll see what I mean!) Resources We Mention Book: Margot Bisnow,

Robert Stephens started Geek Squad with just himself and $200 investment. He did some fascinating marketing without any money. and he grew  to thousands of employees and sold Geek Squad to Best buy for Millions. How did he do it. Let us check out.

Are chatbots the new apps? A lot of developers seem to think so. Facebook and Microsoft have both rolled out tools that make it easy for coders to create bots that you can chat with on Facebook Messenger, Skype, and other platforms including plain old SMS text messaging. I wanted to get a better sense of what chatbots are, what they can do, and why we should use them. So for this episode of the LPX Show, I interviews Robert Stephens. He's founder of the Geek Squad, he was chief technology officer for Best Buy after that company acquired Geek Squad, and now he's co-founder of a new chatbot service called Assist. Visit the LPX website to learn more about chatbots, and to find a list of some of the bots you can chat with today.  You can find the LPX Show in iTunes, on Stitcher, in Google Play Music, and just about anywhere else you get your podcasts. You can also get the latest updates by following LPX on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter or by visiting our website, LPXShow.com

We take a break from old, bad comedy and share some old, good comedy! Jacob and Justin wrote a 30 Rock spec script in 2011 and it was performed 4 years later to a live audience at UCB Sunset as part of the pilot and spec showcase Let's Table This! If you've always dreamed of Betsy Sodaro playing Tracy Jordan, today is your lucky day. Recorded live at UCB Sunset in Los Angeles. Follow @BYWFpodcast on Twitter for updates. Next Live Show: 1/9/16 at 7pm at Nerdmelt Showroom in Los Angeles.

where's offline going? Question everything. Asking questions to world leaders in art, business, music, and technology. Robert's bio: Founded GeekSquad, CTO of Best Buy.

Ben Greene interviews one of the newest additions to UCB LA’s Maude night, Robert Stephens. Robert is a writer/actor/improviser whose sketch videos have appeared on sites like TheAwesomer.com, Tastefullyoffensive.com, and Funny or Die. He is one of the hosts of the web series The State of Us, and one of the founders of the sketch team Hamilton 100. In Ben’s interview with Robert, you’ll get to hear him talk about the time his mom invaded his health ed class, how good he was at playing cats in improv scenes in college, and why he hated doing extra work in Los Angeles.

Robert Stephens and I talk about the importance of good documentation in India, communication best practices, and how to recover from offending someone. The post Episode 5: Robert Stephens appeared first on Learning India.

FounderLine host Joe Beninato and guest Robert Stephens, founder of The Geek Squad and former CTO of Best Buy, answer listener questions including: How do you split time between technology and business? Are you more passionate about technology or the business problem you are trying to solve? How did you select your executive team and what did you offer them to get them to come on board? What technological waves do you see impacting Silicon Valley over the next five years that a new startup could take advantage of? What are some of the things that venture capitalists can do to increase the number of women founders?  

Here's the Pattern: When times are tough and customers are scarce, business owners buckle down and try to become even better at the things they do well. They do this because they trust the Guide pattern, “This has always worked in the past.” Perhaps you're doing the same. But following the Guide pattern in a declining market won't take you where want to go, since staying who you are won't expand your customer base. To grow your sales volume you must increase your market share. You must attract those customers who, in the past, have chosen not to do business with you. But those customers won't make a new decision about your business until you give them new information. As long as you keep doing what you've always done (and saying what you've always said,) they'll keep making the decision they've always made. They'll keep buying somewhere else. To grow, you must expand your identity. Add to your message. Appeal to additional customers. The Challenge pattern of new circumstances demands that you choose a new Guide pattern. Leaders usually cling to old Guide patterns in times of stress. This is why challengers often overtake leaders during times of upheaval. The leaders were reluctant to reinvent themselves. For more than a quarter century I've made my living dethroning market leaders and setting my clients in their places. And in all those years I've never seen a category leader do anything but what they do best. This predictability makes them easy to defeat. The successful challenger is always willing to adopt a new guide pattern and stretch beyond the comfort zone. A few weeks ago I wrote, “If you dominate your business category and you're struggling to stay on top, my experience tells me you probably don't have the courage to make the necessary changes that would allow you to move to the next level. So you might be wasting a plane ticket to Austin.” Now you know why I wrote it. If You Feel It's Time to Reinvent Your Business: Step 1: Do exactly what you fear a competitor might do. Be your own competition. Step 2: Evaluate your advertising. If your messages have been transactional (full of facts and details) build a relational offering for your customer. If your messages have been relational (service and commitment based) create a transactional package. Step 3: Ignore those well-meaning friends who will accuse you of having lost your focus. Step 4: Release unhappy team members to go where they can be happy or they'll torpedo your plan with half-hearted implementation. Step 5: Advertise aggressively. “Aggressive” doesn't require a big budget. It requires a big message. In the words of Robert Stephens, “Advertising is a tax you pay for being unremarkable.” The more unremarkable your message, the more ad money you have to spend. Embrace a remarkable message and you'll be surprised how little money is required to spread the word. If you need some help crafting a remarkable message, http://mondaymemo.wpengine.com/?ShowMe=Private (come to Austin.) We're good at it. Roy H. Williams

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Stephens.Favourite track: Speak The Speech, I Pray You (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare Book: The collected works by Raymond Chandler Luxury: Tobacco plant

Roy Plomley's castaway is actor Robert Stephens. Favourite track: Speak The Speech, I Pray You (from Hamlet) by William Shakespeare Book: The collected works by Raymond Chandler Luxury: Tobacco plant