Podcast appearances and mentions of Ryan Center

Billy and Kevin talk about their experiences at the Ryan Center -- taking a look at how the Rams pulled it out, what went wrong for the Friars, and breaking down where Providence goes from here.

One of the state's best sportswriters and radio hosts will be writing about Rhode Island sports as a freelancer for the Globe. Kevin McNamara's first story comes out today. McNamara joins Ed to look ahead to what he'll be writing about, including what he says is the biggest sporting event of the year in Rhode Island: the Providence College / University of Rhode Island men's basketball game on Saturday. Tips and ideas? Email us at rinews@globe.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Freitag der 14.April.2023 und dies ist Ausgabe 549 des Ultimate Wrestling Talk mit den Ergebnissen von Impact Wrestling aus dem St. Clair College in Windsor, Ontario, Kanada und Ring Of Honor TV aus dem Ryan Center in Kingston, Rhode Island, beide Shows jeweils vom 13.April.2023. #ImpactWrestling #Impact #ROH #RingOfHonor #UltimateWrestlingTalk --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ultimatewrestlingtalk/message

Welcome to the latest Providence Journal College Basketball Podcast. This is Bill Koch, sports writer for the Journal. I'm joined as usual by Morey Hershgordon, sports director at WPRI and Fox Providence, and Nick Coit, sports director at ABC6 and weekend co-host of Cordischi and Coit on WEEI Providence. Kvonn Cramer returned Thursday night for Bryant (2:40), completing a seven-week recovery from an illness that forced him to seek care in a Cincinnati intensive care unit. He played 14 minutes as the Bulldogs took care of NJIT. Providence lost a pair of road games against fellow Big East contenders (9:40) and returns home for a couple matchups with DePaul and Butler. Bryce Hopkins has been named to the midseason Robertson Trophy list. Tammi Reiss and the University of Rhode Island women (27:40) are rolling. The Rams are 15-3 overall after blowing out Richmond this week. URI's men (35:40) begin a three-game homestand Saturday against George Mason. The Rams could use some luck at the Ryan Center after their road struggles continued Tuesday night. Brown plays a last home game against Columbia (44:30) before hitting the road for six of its next seven. The Bears are in the thick of the race for an Ivy League playoff spot. Mike Brey and Notre Dame are parting ways at the end of the season (53:05), setting up another headline opening on the coaching carousel. More on the Fighting Irish and a course review from Professor Coit to finish the pod. Thanks as always for joining us. 

Welcome to the latest Providence Journal College Basketball Podcast. This is Journal sports writer Bill Koch. I'm joined by ABC6 sports director and WEEI Providence weekend co-host Nick Coit and WPRI/Fox Providence sports director Morey Hershgordon. Brown's men staked a real claim as state champions by winning at Bryant and at the University of Rhode Island over the past week (1:45). The Bears aim to make it five straight on the road at Michigan State over the weekend. Losing to the Bears was a gut punch for the Rams (14:05), who led by 10 points late in the second half. They're absorbing some painful lessons early in a rebuild under Archie Miller. Providence took care of URI for the 10th time in the last 12 meetings and has found its offensive rhythm (25:40). The Friars have one nonconference game left against Albany before the Big East arrives. The Bulldogs (40:25) have battled off-court health problems over the past week -- best wishes to them as they enter a Friday night game with Stony Brook. It feels like ages since they won at Syracuse last weekend. Pawtucket native Isaiah Miranda made his college choice this week, and it was a power program winning out for his services (48:05). Miranda is off to North Carolina State and will be eligible immediately for second semester. Providence's women continued their strong nonconference form by taking out Brown (54:20). The Friars lost in a thriller earlier this season to URI (57:55), who hosted Education Day against Hartford on Wednesday morning and drew a good crowd of kids to the Ryan Center. Thanks for joining us as always.

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Providence Journal College Basketball Podcast. This is Journal sports writer Bill Koch. I'm joined as always by my two co-conspirators -- WPRI/Fox Providence sports director Morey Hershgordon and ABC6 sports director/WEEI weekend co-host Nick Coit. Providence's men (2:50) are 2-0 despite feeling their way through opening games against Rider and Northeastern. The Friars are trying to thread the needle between success and growth -- it's an interesting calculation for Ed Cooley. Rhode Island's men (14:10) have endured similar struggles in their first two games. Turnovers and poor shooting doomed the Rams against Quinnipiac and Texas State. More on that here. Bryant's men (24:30) made some headlines by slaughtering poor Thomas College in a matchup against a non-Division I opponents. We get into scheduling, why the Bulldogs shouldn't have to play such a game and more. South Kingstown native Keegan Records returned with Colgate and made life tough on the Brown men (39:30). The Bears are 0-3 against a difficult early schedule -- more on how they might be able to get well soon. URI hosts Providence in a women's rivalry battle at the Ryan Center on Monday night (50:30). A look at what the game means for the Rams and Friars along with a recap of their first week. Brown women (60:30) and Bryant women (63:00) also in action shortly. Thanks as always for joining us. 

When studying the Scriptures is also part of your job, how do you manage your personal and professional study? Dr. George Guthrie is here to share how he reads with both in mind and his pastoral heart for students to be transformed internally as they read it. Dr. George Guthrie is a Professor of New Testament at Regent College and a highly sought-after lecturer, who has taught across North America and in East Asia, the United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa, and Israel. Before coming to Regent in 2018, he taught for twenty-eight years at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He served as the Benjamin W. Perry Professor of Bible and Fellow in the Ryan Center for Biblical Studies. George is passionate about equipping church leaders and laypeople to read and live the Bible more effectively. To that end, he has published a number of works designed to help the church better understand and apply Scripture.---Learn more about the Canadian Bible Society: biblesociety.caConnect with us on Instagram: @canadianbiblesocietyWhether you're well-versed in Scripture or just starting out on your journey, The Bible Course offers a superb overview of the world's best-selling book.  This eight-session course will help you grow in your understanding of the Bible. Watch the first session of The Bible Course and learn more at biblecourse.ca. Give to the Canadian Bible Society: biblesociety.ca/donate  ---Learn more about Dr. George GuthrieInstagram: @ghguthrieWebsite: georgehguthrie.com

To start of the second season of Cam's Corner, I am joined with University of Rhode Island (URI) Hall of Famer Carlton “Silk” Owens.Silk was a member and a captain of the teams NCAA Sweet 16 run back in 1988 and is a fan favorite to have his jersey retired and in the rafters at The Ryan Center after his outstanding performances with his time with the Rams.He also owns several Rhody records including the most points scored in program history (2,114), points scored in a single season (762), field goals made (766), 3-point FG percentage (.462).Catch the full episode to here the full story on Silk and click the links down in my bio watch on all platforms as well as the Rhody Rumble.Background music- https://youtu.be/QfyAFxzknuw

WARRIORS TALK IS LIVE...IT'S TESTIMONIAL MONDAY!TOPIC: CANCER SUPPORT: No One Fights AloneSPECIAL GUESTS:Karen Hall is a 2x breast cancer survivor, mother, caregiver, advocate, cancer care ministry leader, motivational speaker, and volunteer. Her slogan is “I have been where you are… let me help you move to where I am and beyond.” Lisa B Jones was diagnosed with breast cancer and has used her background as an advocate for SHARE. Lisa currently does outreach through SHARE'S Ambassador Program at the Ryan Center in Harlem and provides information to women about the importance of screening and prevention throughout New York City and beyond.

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Latest edition of the Providence Journal's college basketball podcast is here. Bill Koch was joined by Morey Hershgordon of WPRI12 and Fox Providence off a busy Tuesday night on the state's hoop scene. URI needed double overtime to battle past Dayton in a Senior Night Classic at the Ryan Center (1:30). The Rams came from 18 points down in the second half to snap their four-game losing streak. Fatts Russell (14:15) and his fellow pending graduates left the Ryan Center on a high. Providence suffered what likely will be the final blow to its at-large NCAA Tournament hopes in a Tuesday loss at Connecticut (26:35). The Friars appear to have no way back now other than capturing the automatic bid that accompanies a Big East tournament title. Will Bryant be able to return this weekend from its COVID-19 pause? We check in on the Bulldogs and more to finish up (46:40). Thanks for joining us. Be healthy and stay safe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Connect with Michael Moore and Bob WieremaThe Climb on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-climb-podcast/Bob Wierema: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-wierema/Michael Moore: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelpmoore/Connect with Raleigh GreenRaleigh Green: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raleighgreenv/Emerald Consulting: https://www.emerald-cp.com/[00:00:00] Raleigh Green: If I was telling anybody, you got to start with yourself, you got to start with being real, and being honest, and you have to be happy. And you've got to have a smile on your face because nobody wants to deal with a dick. You've got to humble yourself because a lot of the times for you to build relationships, you have to get through a gatekeeper. And sometimes the gatekeeper is the toughest person to get through to get to the person that you want to really impress, or you want to do business with. I watched my father go into offices for five or six years and would walk in, sometimes with a meeting scheduled, sometimes without a meeting scheduled and would say, “I'm here to talk to the office manager. I want to do your office supplies”. And they'd be like, “Raleigh, we already told you we're using staples and we don't want to use you. We're totally happy”. And he's like, “if anything comes up, just let me know. I'll come back next week”. And they were like, “no, no, no, don't come back next week,” and he never took no for an answer. And that was something that he really taught me early on is you can't take no, there is no such thing as no when you're selling yourself or selling a product – if you have the desire to talk to somebody or to meet somebody, then you have to become very creative in the way that you get to that person.And a lot of times it was just persistence and not giving in to the word ‘no'.Michael Moore: Welcome to The Climb Crossroads and Defining Moments. Today, we're joined by Raleigh Green, [00:02:00] founder and managing member of Emerald Consulting. Happy to have you here today.Raleigh Green: Happy to be here. Thank you. Michael Moore: So, before we dive in in – because I've just got a lot of questions and Bob does too, with what we do for a living and our backgrounds, what you do we find incredibly interesting. Just tell us a little about you; where are you from, where you've been, where you're headed? Raleigh Green: Yeah, so born and raised here in Fort Worth, Texas. Bob Wierema: Great. I'm outnumbered again by design.Raleigh Green: Born and raised here in Fort Worth. Went to Arlington Heights High School, went to the University of Texas on a track scholarship and came back to Fort Worth after four years of fun down at Texas, and actually finished my degree at TCU and then got married early on and thought I was mature and had the world by the balls and was ready to go conquer everything that was in front of me and after about 10 years, realized quickly that you don't have anything figured out and you're not mature and you better start figuring it out pretty quick. So, lived here in Fort Worth with my wife at the time, and ended up, unfortunately, getting a divorce. I have a beautiful boy from that marriage – he'll be nine in February. I moved after my divorce to Dallas and lived in Dallas for seven years. During that process, I put myself through business school and SMU and decided that it was time for a major change in every aspect of my life. And I met my current wife, my beautiful [00:04:00] bride as of July this year, in Dallas and moved her back to Fort Worth, which was a shocker for her, but she's a trooper and she's getting to love the community and love our neighborhood. We're both entrepreneurs by trade; she just launched a business herself in March of 2020, she actually launched it two weeks before COVID hit and was in the process of starting her fundraising campaign, which was a very rough ride. And I had started Emerald Consulting a few years back, but really started picking things back up full-time with it. I would say in early 2018. So that's kind of where we are today. Michael Moore: On the theme of your wife – because Bob, Chris Powers, who we've had on the podcast and introduced us to Johnny, she was actually on his podcast. So, you sat in this room before – tell us a little bit more about the business and what she's got going on, because it's really neat. Raleigh Green: So, her name is Meagan. Megan Green. And she started a company called The Dowery. It's an online platform that connects local artisans from all over the country to grooms and brides that she created a wedding registry for.So, she was also in a previous marriage and during her experience of registering for things, she found that things were very limited on what she could register for, and everybody went to the same big box retailers. And so, everyone for that year's home looked the same. They all had the same Pottery Barn or the same Bed, Bath, and Beyond or whatever it was. And she found [00:06:00] a hole in the market and said, “man, there's a ton of local artisans all over the country in the United States that only sell through their local retailers. And that's really their only channel. And these people aren't good businesspeople. They're artists by nature, and so, they don't have the skillsets to push their products out onto some platform, a different platform than their local retailer”. So, she started doing a lot of research and we worked on her business plan for months on end. And we decided that now is the best time to dive in and try to tackle this 10,000-pound gorilla that's out there, and the business has been great. You can find her on www.dowery.com and it is not only a wedding registry gift site, but it's also just a standard platform that you can buy anything on. So yeah, it's been a rough year for fundraising for her business and for my business. But I feel like we finished the year pretty strong and she was actually able to raise a little over a quarter of a million dollars from friends and family, and we'll continue to raise capital this coming year. Bob Wierema: Well, I will definitely be sending this over to my fiancé here. We're hopefully getting married here in May.Raleigh Green: There we go, congratulations. Bob Wierema: Yeah, we were supposed to get married last May and had the push and if she sticks around for another five months, this two-and-a-half-year engagement, we're going to get this deal done. I'll send it to her for sure. It's funny you say like that because I've talked to her and she's like, “yeah, well there's only like Crate and Barrel and West Elm and all the other ones” and whatever's kind of in style then is what everybody else [00:08:00] has. So that's exciting. I'll definitely send that over to her. That's great. Raleigh Green: It's a really cool concept and most guys aren't into it. We usually don't care what our wives pick and choose for what pottery we're using, or what ceramics are going in our house, and being a part of this company and an investor in Meagan and The Dowery, I've gotten to really dive into the details of each artist. She is very particular on what artists she allows to be on the site, because she doesn't want it to be a [inaudible] website by any means. She really wants it to be very clean and have really high-end products that are gonna look good in people's homes.Bob Wierema: Maybe you can start blog on the side for guys like me to read as you're going through this. Because like I tried the, “hey, I don't care what plate we get, if you like them,” well apparently that's not a good answer. I'm like, “can we eat off of it? Then that's good by me”. Michael Moore: Does it go in the dishwasher? Raleigh Green: As long as I can throw it in the dishwasher, I'm happy. Michael Moore: So, I got married over 17 years ago and I remember the same thing. Like, “you're going to come with me to XYZ store and we're going to register,” and I'm like, “sweetie, I love you. But just go do it. I don't care,” but she's like, “you're coming”. “Yes ma'am”. So, I think the sales lady can see my enthusiasm, and she gives me this gun that you go click on everything and it's supposed to be exciting for the guy. Well, I went bezerk with this thing. I think I registered for every single thing they had in the store, miraculously, the next time she went to a store, I wasn't invited. So, there you go.  [00:10:00] Bob Wierema: Michael, I wanted to ask him one more question. Going back a little bit, because Raleigh you'd mentioned – and first of all, Michael, we got to get his wife on podcasts – so that'll be a good takeaway. Raleigh, you mentioned going to school at SMU, and then you said, “hey, it's time for me to make a major change”. Some shift there. Is there something specifically that, in the light of this podcast, defining moments, The Climb, is there something there that spoke to you and said, “I just need to make this change?”What got you to that point?Raleigh Green: Great question. So, if you back up to right out of college, I went to work for a hedge fund in Dallas. Originally started off as the runner, grabbing mail and getting coffee and getting laundry for different portfolio managers, and the CEO was a good family friend of ours.I earned my stripes and put in the time and told him that early on that I wanted to be on the trading desk, and after about six months of running errands, I got promoted to junior trader and was on the energy portfolio team. It was a lot of fun. It was a fun experience. It was fast paced. I got a nice salary. Our bonuses were amazing, and business was booming at that time. Then in 2008, I got laid off with a bunch of other traders at our firm, along with the rest of the financial community so it seemed at the time. Luckily my father owned his own business here in Fort Worth, Texas called [00:12:00] Greenwood Office Outfitters, which was a local office supply company, I think about it like Dunder Mifflin. It was the Dunder Mifflin of Fort Worth. Had a great experience there, came in as a sales associate for my father, really got to learn the family business inside-out from him and started climbing that family business ladder and earning the respect of the employees that have been there 20 to 25 years. I grew my book of business, eventually became Vice President of sales and was hoping that one day the reigns would be turned over to me to run the company and grow the company as I saw fit. However, my dad had a business partner that was a 50% owner in the business and my father actually went through a divorce himself, and my mom owned 25% of the business, and my dad owned 25% of the business. And as we all know, divorces are extremely expensive. And so, the dreams of taking over some of the shares of that company started dwindling away and it wasn't for, I would say a couple of different mentors that I had, that had kept pushing the idea of going to business school and getting back into finance somehow.So, a couple years after my dad's divorce, I actually went through a divorce, as I had said previously and picked up and moved all my stuff to Dallas and  wanted a fresh start, looked at a bunch of different business schools in Texas, and went back to the hedge fund manager, that was a major mentor of mine [00:14:00] and asked him, “ should I go here or should I go here?” And he said, “do you plan on doing business in Texas?” And I said, “yes”. And he said, “do you plan on doing business in Dallas, Fort Worth?” And I said, “yes”. And he goes, “well, then there's no other option. You're gonna have to go to SMU”. The alumni network is huge. And it's very accommodating to everyone that graduates from the college business.I went that route and while I was in business school, I was studying corporate finance and my focus was on energy, and I thought that I was going to come out of the MBA program raising capital from a private equity group, and starting my own EMP company with a couple of other business school mates. But God had an obviously different plan and during that process He opened a couple of doors that I never thought would open. Didn't even think about these doors opening. An old family friend of mine in Fort Worth, who's in his mid-fifties and is buying a distressed molecular testing healthcare company in Memphis, Tennessee, and we started talking on a weekly basis about the opportunity at hand. And he said that he was going to pursue the acquisition. And I told him that I wanted to be a part of the  process and a part of the company. And so, during my second year of business school, I started working in the healthcare industry and started a distribution company that was distributing molecular tests for his [00:16:00] company, and got to a point where him and his partners decided, “hey, you and your team are really doing a lot of business, you're creating a lot of new revenue streams, and we'd like to actually have you on board”. So, I came on as Director of hospital development and started pouring my life into this healthcare company that we grew from six employees all the way to around 80 at the time. It's not that today, but it was a fun ride.During that process, I learned a lot about myself. I learned a lot about perseverance. I've learned a lot about integrity and doing business with people that have integrity and the importance of that. A lot of life lessons; I can tell you the last probably 15 years of my life has been a climb. You always say you take three steps forward and two steps back, and as long as you get that extra step in, you're moving in the right direction. Business school was unbelievable for me. I never really enjoyed school as a child. It was one of those things that every year you would go to go into a class, and it was the same classes: history, English, math… and you were learning new things, but it wasn't something that I wanted to learn and early on in my life, I had an entrepreneurial spirit starting at 10 years old with two of my buddies, Collins and Walton Ward in our [00:18:00] local neighborhood. We, like any children in a neighborhood during the summertime, would get bored and we would get into mischief and we would come up with different things to create.And one of the things that we created, like every other child in America does, is a lemonade stand. But I came up with the idea of where we should put the lemonade stand, and you always hear location, location, location. Well, we started putting our lemonade stand in between the first Island and the second Island of River Crest Country Club golf course. And so, the golfers had to drive by our lemonade stand and we were at a two-way stop there. So, we had cars stopping and we had a golf carts stopping, and we knew that most of the men carried large bills and we didn't come prepared with change. So, most of the time they go, “oh, just keep the $20,” or, “oh, [inaudible] keep the hundred.So, we would walk out of there with a hundred, 150 bucks a day and we moved it around, it was great. My mom would pile up all of our tables, and our chairs, and everything into her Ford Explorer and drive us there every day and drop us off. And then we got to a point where we were actually on one of the members' pieces of property and we would hide our chairs and our table behind their bushes. Michael Moore: Bob, a couple of years ago when I really started doing a lot of research and thinking through how we bring what we do for the private equity world to the family office world, I began the rabbit holes of networking and figuring that out and called up an old friend I hadn't talked to in a while – another guy [00:20:00] we probably need to get on the podcast, Ryan Center – and he's in the consultative world with Riveron. And so, he understands our model and the way we go about thinking and asking questions and ultimately creating value.And he said, “well, do you know Raleigh Green?” And I was like, “man, that name sure sounds familiar”. And I went on LinkedIn, I'm looking at it right now. I think it's an all-time record. We have 392 mutual connections but didn't know each other. I'm like, “how is that possible?” And so, we initially got on the phone and started having lunch and so many commonalities. I'm really excited to dive into what you've created, but in looking on here, it's Raleigh Green the Fifth; I want to talk more about that family dynamic and the ultimate sale of Greenwood [inaudible], finish that part of the story. Because it's pretty fascinating.Raleigh Green: So, the Greenwood story ended in 2017.I had already started to part ways and had already started my healthcare distribution company and was kind of doing both jobs at the same time. I told my dad, “ I got to go pursue this. You're in the process of selling your business and with the new owners coming in place, they're not going to want me around” and, without having ownership, it just wasn't something that I really had passion for anymore.And so, my dad who taught me everything – he taught me everything about life, about being a good man, about respect, always trying to do the right thing because we only have one name, and your name is everything. And [00:22:00] if you hit different nicks on your name, they stay with you forever. And any of you guys from Fort Worth understand that Fort Worth is a very, very small community, and they love to talk about things that happened 25 years ago or whatever. And I grew up in this community and ran with a fun, wild group of guys, and we didn't do anything bad, we just had a lot of fun and we got into mischief and our parents were all working their tails off – and I would say weren't always around to give the discipline that we needed.And so, Fort Worth. It is the greatest small town in America, but even my wife knows today, you can't sneeze in Fort Worth without somebody knowing it. So, my dad early on in my life said, “look, you guys can keep going down this road or you can change your ways right now”. And he knew that running was an outlet for me.He was a big runner; ran at TCU in the 70s and was a big-time marathoner all through the 80s. And he really helped channel my energy to focus on running, and he poured his life into helping me be the best I could. And I was one of the top runners in the state. I was one of the top runners in the nation in cross-country and high school. I got a scholarship to University of Texas and all of those things I owe to my dad, because that was the hard work that he put in on top of the hard work of building a business and doing the daily grind with two other siblings that I [00:24:00] had, and a wife, and everything else. So, to rewind just a little bit back to  being at Greenwood and Hen(?) teaching me about sales, it always started with cultivating relationships. You want to treat each and every client like you treated the girl that you wanted to date, and it was a slow process, and you don't want to just rush into something and tell them everything that they want to hear upfront. You want to slowly build up a rapport with them.If anybody listening to this podcast knows my dad, they know that he did a great job hitting the streets every day of Dallas Fort Worth, building his business through building relationships. Greenwood never used any marketing tool, which when I came into the business, I was like, “we've got to start with billboards, and we got to get a website. We've got to get a Facebook page, we got to get all this stuff,” and they were all like, “whoa, what is this kid doing? And pump the brakes.” It was a fun ride working with my dad, and we were a great team. My dad built an amazing company with Bob Wood. Unfortunately, today that company is not what it used to be. Luckily for Bob and my dad, they got out at the right time. But I learned a lot of life lessons there, and after the sale of his business, I've tried to take those lessons with me into the healthcare world and then into my daily practice with everyone that I meet; relationships are my favorite thing.I would say for me, creating new relationships is [00:26:00] my favorite thing to do on this earth. I love adventure and I love meeting new people and I love connecting with people. And that's really what has given me the success that I've had today with Emerald and creating what I've created through the relationships that I've built. You brought up family offices; family offices are some of the toughest groups to get into, and they don't advertise, and they don't have Google pages. And if they do, it's very rare and it's still going to be very tough for you to get a meeting with the right groups and the right people that are making the decisions at those family offices.And luckily, I was able to – through the office supply world, and also through the hedge fund that I worked for – establish good relationships with people that like all of us have climbed the ladder and have gone on to do different things. And some of them have created so much wealth for themselves that they've been blessed to be able to start family offices and I've gotten to be along for the ride of that and to see people grow their businesses and also be a part of just continuing the friendship that we had when they didn't have those things. Michael Moore: Thank you, Mike, for sharing. Bob Wierema: First of all, thank you for sharing that. I love what you talked about with your dad. I'm very similar to you and we can talk about that more at a later date, but the impact he had on my life, it's similar, sounds like you had. One of the things I was going to ask [00:28:00] is about how you talk about cultivating these relationships and how you do that. Maybe expand upon how you just think about that world and maybe some advice for some of our younger listeners. Everybody hears that relationships are important, and how do you start that when you're coming into the business world? Where you're making a career change and before it wasn't as important, and now you're like, “hey, I got to cultivate these relationships”. How would you think to tell people, “here's how I started and did that to get these fantastic relationships” that are really, it sounds like, the lifeblood of your business? Raleigh Green: That's a great question. I would go back to, if I was telling anybody, you got to start with yourself, you got to start with being real and being honest, and you have to be happy. And you've got to have a smile on your face because nobody wants to deal with a dick. You've got to humble yourself because a lot of the times, for you to build relationships, you have to get through a gatekeeper. And sometimes the gatekeeper is the toughest person to get through, to get to the person that you want to really impress, or you want to do business with.I watched my father go into offices for five or six years and he would walk in sometimes with a meeting scheduled, sometimes without a meeting scheduled and would say, “I'm here to talk to the office manager. I want to do your office supplies”. And they'd be like, “Raleigh. We already told you. We're using Staples and we don't want to use you. We're totally happy”. And he's like, “ if anything comes up, just let me know. I'll come back next week”. And they were like, “no, no, no, don't [00:30:00] come back next week”. But he never took no for an answer. And that was something that he really taught me early on is you can't take no, there is no such thing as no when you're selling yourself or selling a product or trying, if you have the desire to talk to somebody or to meet somebody, then you have to become very creative in the way that you get to that person. And a lot of times it's just persistence and not giving into the word “no”. So many people today, especially this next generation – it's scary because they love doing everything online. They love Zoom. They love the whole COVID situation of, “hey, we're going to work from our office and our sweatpants and our t-shirts,” and sure. That's great. We love all that too, but we also miss – or I can say for me, I miss the personal one-on-one interaction, the face to face, having meetings in these family offices, having meetings with my mentors, having meetings with individual investors. The face-to-face through a screen doesn't do the justice that being in person and being able to sit in somebody's office looking around and going, “man, these guys created this. This is awesome”. You don't have the same respect for that person. One thing that I've had to teach myself over the last, I would say four or five years is to really respect what these people have created and how hard they have worked, and how their teams have worked to be able to get them into a place where they are now calling the shots and they can tell you, “no, I'm not interested in [00:32:00] that deal, and this is why”, or “hey, we're going to review that deal, but we'll get back to you”. And you have to have respect for the time that they are going to take to review that deal. Because a lot of the times when I'm dealing with clients of mine who are raising capital and I'm outsourcing investors, the clients are on a different timeline than the investors.They want their capital commitments very quickly. And sometimes the best investors take their time, and they slow play you for a reason, and they want to see who else comes to the table before they come to the table. And for me, I have to respect that window of time that they need, but I also in the process have to be careful with how I do follow up calls, how I approach follow up emails, et cetera.It's an art that I believe you learn through trial and error. Bob Wierema: I've learned as you talk, you can't always want it to be on your timeline, but you gotta remember at the end of the day, it's not about you, it's about your client or your prospective client. You got to make it about them or whoever that person is, whether it's someone in your network, if you're focused on you, that just you might have a couple of wins here and there, but that's not a good long-term play. Michael Moore: We've got a saying in our office that it's all about timing and priorities and neither one of them are yours. Raleigh Green: That's a great saying. Michael Moore: I appreciated the comments with your dad. I remember when I was graduating from college and my dad said, “okay, now what are you going to do?” And I said, “I don't have a clue, but if I can find something where I get to meet new people all the time and create relationships with them, I think I'll be pretty happy”. [00:34:00] And so I think we share that, I think that's probably me, even though we've gone to lunch once and met over the phone a couple of times and some Zoom calls because of COVID, I feel like I've known you for a long time. I think we both share that passion. So, focusing in on Emerald Consulting, because I do want to talk about that.Talk about that platform and how it works. Raleigh Green: So, it started off helping out a buddy of mine who created a hedge fund right out of business school. And he was a roommate of mine in Dallas for a couple of years and one of my best friends on the planet to this day. He's one of those – he's a genius.He went to MIT for undergrad, did investment banking. Right out of undergrad, went to Stanford Business School, learned his trade from one of the best quantitative hedge fund managers in the world and had that entrepreneurial spirit to go start something. And he identified very quickly that he needed help with raising capital. And he was like, “Raleigh, I haven't been in Texas for 14 years, a long time” and I had a bunch of relationships. And so, we sat down, and we started hammering out little spreadsheets of who we were going to call and, Emerald really started there. And we had some success and that was early on, that was before business school.So, I was actually just working as an independent consultant that didn't have Emerald as the company name. And that was back in late 2012 and fast forward to where I was with the healthcare company in Fort Worth. A friend of mine called me and said, “hey, a [00:36:00] very well-known oil and gas company is looking to raise $150 million and they're looking for family office money, and I've talked to them and they said that they would happily pay a success fee”. So, I met with a couple of the guys from the company and within three weeks I actually had $165 million committed from two different family offices, one in Dallas and one in Fort Worth.And it was one of those aha moments for me, because one of my mentors, who I play tennis with all the time – I remember telling Matt Johnson that I didn't really know what I wanted to do after I left the healthcare business and he said, “man, you should continue to raise capital”. And he goes, “you do a great job”.He was like, “you know everybody, you gotta be confident in your ability to continue to go down that path. And I think you've really got something here”. So, I followed his advice as I usually do, and it's been great, I've now to date raised a little over $247 million. I've gotten to work with companies in the commercial real estate industry. I've gotten to sit down with the CEO of Thor Equities, who is now a very good friend of Meagan and mine, and have helped participate in a couple of his commercial real estate acquisitions and have also had a lot of fun in the energy space being here in Fort Worth, raising different funds for different projects that these guys were working on.And I would say to date, [00:38:00] we really focus on healthcare, energy, and real estate. And I can say real estate now because we've had success with two different closings and I'm now in the process of getting my real estate license, which is a total beat down. And I never knew that there was this much information involved in getting a real estate license.So, kudos to all you guys that have your real estate license and keep it up. Michael Moore: I got my real estate license in my sophomore year in college because summer rolled around and my parents said, “well, what classes have you signed up for?” I was like, “ what do you mean? I'm not going to summer school. You take the summers off”. “No, you don't”. And they said, “you're doing something”. And I said,” well, my mom was a residential real estate person and I stopped working out. How hard could that be?” And I think it took me three times to pass the test. It was tough. It was absolutely tough.Raleigh Green: It's a lot tougher than we than what I expected. That's for sure. Bob Wierema: One of the things I was gonna maybe go down Raleigh was that as you get potential opportunities in, how do you think about those deals? Because obviously your reputation is a little bit at risk. You gotta be able to bring good thoughtful opportunities to your investor. You don't just want to throw a bunch of stuff at them that mates make and hope it sticks. How do you think through that and how do you evaluate some of those opportunities on your end before you bring it to those folks?Raleigh Green: That's great question. My reputation in this business is everything, Emerald Consulting is not a licensed broker dealer, and we don't want to be, what we are is a registered finder.We've got two jobs. In my left hand, I have to go source deals [00:40:00] that I think are legitimate, and I have to do a lot of analysis and background checks on who these entrepreneurs are, who the companies are, and to see if it's a good fit for the investor pool that I have the relationships with. And then, in my right hand, I have to go make sure that I'm not sending a real estate deal to a family office that only invests in energy and healthcare. That process is a lot of fun and it's a lot of work and the best part about our job is the investors that we bring these deals to our astute investors  and they understand that I am not providing advice on any of the deals that I bring to them and they don't want me to give them any advice. They either have teams that are going to evaluate it, or they're going to evaluate it themselves. And they are confident that they have the background and have had extra historic success in analyzing each one of these deals that comes across their table. And these guys look at hundreds of deals sometimes a month, I'm one of hundreds of different groups that send deals to these family offices and individual investors.What I try to do is really cherry pick the best possible, not always the best possible return or the best possible idea, but the best possible management team. And I learned that from a couple of [00:42:00] astute investors that I really have a lot of respect for, and I've sat in meetings with them and they said, “we don't invest in ideas. There are a million good ideas. What we do is we invest in the management team and we want to make sure that they have what it takes to get this company to the next level”. Some family offices look at pre-revenue companies from a venture standpoint, some don't, some told me, “don't even bring those deals our way”. And I would say, “my team and I are very particular in making sure that our database is up to date with each family office and each investor, what their risk tolerance is and what avenues of investment they're looking for so that we're not bringing them the wrong stuff”. Michael Moore: If you go back to that word ‘reputation.'Bob and I take that very seriously too. There are a lot of peers and competitors in our space calling on the same potential clients that we are, and then once you bring them over as a client, your role is still very much involved, but we also have teams that then interact the day to day financing and management of risk.So, all of a sudden, you're relying on what they're saying to carry on that reputation and make sure that that's not damaged. So, I think if you think back to the maturation of everything you've talked about today on this podcast and getting to where you are today, I got to think that when you're sending potential deals to these family offices, they don't need you to explain it because your reputation is that this is something we need to look at. Raleigh Green: A hundred percent. Most of the time they know that if I'm not just sending them every deal that comes across our desk, that we are very particular in [00:44:00] what we send them and that they are going to want to look at it. Even if it's something that is way outside of their realm, as far as what they invest in, if it is something that we don't have in our database, a lot of times they'll still look at it. Right now, if you take solar and wind energy, those are like the two hottest things that are flying across every family office desk right now, and there's so many opportunities that a lot of times the family offices have to hit pause and they have to say, “wait a minute, what do we actually know about wind? What do we know about solar and which deal is the best deal?” One of my investors who I love to death, he's here in Fort Worth and has been just another amazing mentor of mine, he told me a couple of weeks ago, “Raleigh, I've seen 10 solar deals. And I don't know what's a good solar deal and what's not, and I've got plenty of experience investing in energy. So we're hitting the pause button and it's pencils down, but we're going to take our time to do some research and really figure this out before we pull the trigger on anything”. It's interesting,  if you read today in the Wall Street Journal and online, if you Google ‘family offices' and look at news, family offices over the last five, six years have been the latest, greatest thing because individuals that have created wealth for themselves now understand that they don't need to pay all these fees to money managers.They don't need to pay the fees to private equity companies. They don't need to pay the fees to hedge funds. They don't [00:46:00] need to pay fees at all. What they need to do is, and if they're wealthy enough, they can go hire their own teams that specialize in all of that and create it themselves. And you walk into a lot of these larger family offices and I always say family offices should be considered a family office if you're managing over $300 million, if you're under $300 million and you have a family office that's a lot of overhead that you actually don't need. And if you're managing over $300 million, you can afford to give a piece of the pie to your CIO and  have a well robust staff that can analyze each of these deals, can analyze your stock portfolio. When you walk into some of these offices, you're just blown away by how amazing they are and what everybody's doing in these offices. You've got different portfolio managers in certain managing these individuals' capital , and a great example is Tailwind Advisors here in Fort Worth. You've got a group of individuals down there that are extremely smart and they're extremely well-rounded and what they each oversee for Tailwind. You've got a real estate arm, you've got an energy arm, you've got a finance equity arm and so on. And when I talk to some of those different investors down there, it's amazing to see how their minds work and how they all ask different questions on a different, individual deal. We learn a lot that way about how to present certain deals to these groups. [00:48:00] Michael Moore: When you started taking that advisory role that we find ourselves into maybe a heightened level, and I know you've talked about with me your passion for travel and seeing this great big world that we live in. In looking at the news coverage last night bleeding into today and in Georgia and what that could mean for the U.S. Senate, what are you seeing on the forefront now in regard to tax laws and estate planning and where that could be headed?Raleigh Green: To be a hundred percent honest, I haven't really dived into it too much. I can speak from what I know and what I've been told over the last eight months during COVID. What I saw was a lot of family offices were protecting themselves and they were getting ready for a change of the guards, whether they wanted it or not.And whether the election turned out in favor of their candidate or not, 2021, they've already put 2020 behind them. 2021 they're geared up and ready to go. And I think we're gonna find out a lot with these two Senate seats. And if the Republicans hold the Senate, I think we're going to see a lot of additional capital flow into the market.However, I've been saying for the last 10 years that the market is due for a correction and I've been wrong. And I had business school buddies of mine in 2014 and 2015 saying they were pulling out their 401ks. They were going straight to cash. And I hope that they're still not there. And I remember in 2008 when [00:50:00] the, or 2007, when the stock market was at 12,000, the hedge fund manager that I worked for said that I would never see it break 12,000 again, and that it was monumental. And so, who knows; today's politics, it's a scary world that we live in and I've never seen our country this divided. And I think that that's a serious problem. There's a lot of people that don't know what they're talking about and they're supporting different people just because it's cool. And what they're not understanding is the ripple effect that it's going to have on generations to come. And the issues that we see today, there are definite issues that need to be addressed. This whole Black Lives Matter is something that hits home with me because I'm not racist by any means. I grew up running track with every race there is, and I showered with every race, and I loved everybody that I ran with and it really breaks my heart that there are people out there that have hatred still, hatred and racism is just uncalled for, and it's not something that I would ever stand with. I understand why these black communities are coming together, and I stand with them. However, I don't 100% support the Black Lives Matter movement. I do believe that racism needs to be ended and we are in a generation that still flies the Confederate Flag from time to time. I think that those people that are flying those flags are just ridiculous because they don't understand history. [00:52:00] The Confederates lost, it's over. No flags should ever be flown and it's a sign of immaturity, and it's a sign of people that are just ignorant and it's something that – I really think God is pulling everyone together in this country and He's putting an end to a lot of things that our government has shunned away from, and I think it's wrong that our government hasn't removed flags from different state flags, removing the Confederate Flag from these different state flags that should've been done years ago.I understand that there's a bunch of people saying, “well, you're just erasing history” and nobody's erasing history. The history was erased when the Confederates lost, and the flag needs to be erased and burned. We need to stand up as a community and stand up for each individual that's out there that needs our help. It's a wild world, it's a sick world that we live in, and we live in the greatest country in the world, and we abuse each other on a daily basis. It's just not necessary, and it needs to end. Michael Moore: Maybe a way to look at it is, in that example, it wouldn't be erasing history. It would be creating history by correcting something that should have been corrected a long time ago. I hear you on that.Raleigh Green: I didn't mean to go down that rabbit hole. Sorry guys. But that is definitely something that has been popped up recently. I just watched the 30 for 30 on the first NASCAR, or not first NASCAR, but the current NASCAR black [00:54:00] driver, and they found a noose in his garage at Talladega after the government said, “hey, no, no more state flags. We got to take out the Confederate Flag off all state flags,” and NASCAR came out and said, “we're not flying the Confederate Flag anymore”. And you're just going, “who are these people?” These are the most ignorant people there are. And it's an issue of generational stupidity and it's our job to get into these schools and to get with these parents in these next generations coming up and to say that is not right. And we've got to put an end to it. And today I'm sorry, but I feel like our schools have just become too weak and nothing's socially acceptable anymore.I think that they need to bring back the paddle because even when I was in high school, you did something wrong, you would get paddled. And those are things that we've lost sight of. America has gotten weak  and I hate to say it, everybody wants to be glorious and glamorous on, TikTok, and Snapchat, and Facebook, and Instagram, and they don't want to deal with today's issues, and they want to portray themselves as perfect. And they're really just running away from themselves and running away from the issues at hand that we all need to be addressing as humans. Michael Moore: No, we're glad you brought it up. Thinking back Bob, to when we were coming up with this idea, a big passion of this is getting thought provoking people that give a shit on this podcast to tell us what they think, because the message needs to get out.Doing nothing is worse than the alternative. [00:56:00] You don't have to look back far in any great time in any nation or empire or culture or history to realize that this is what breaks it down. So, no, we appreciate you bringing that up. Bob and I have had a lot of talks; living in Chicago right now is tough.Bob Wierema: We had Chris Lee on the podcast. Hearing his story, growing up being African-American and some of the stuff he's gone through, Harvard and Columbia educated and some of the stories you shared, to your point, the amount of ignorant people out there in what he shared was just, – you couldn't even imagine being in his shoes or that that would even happen, but it still has and did to him. And that's crazy. Raleigh Green: Yeah, it's really sad. Some of my best friends today are African Americans that I ran track with, that I went to high school with and I love those guys. I love everybody, it's something that my parents instilled in me at an early age was that it doesn't matter what color you are, everybody's a human and it was something that I feel has been starting to get addressed within the churches of America. Today, I go to a great church in Fort Worth, Christ Chapel. Cody McQueen is an amazing pastor and he's had to address the issues as well in front of the congregation and has gotten emotional talking about it. Because it's real. It's so easily just pushed aside. And it's [00:58:00] the movement that we saw a couple of years ago with women's rights and the abuse that they were tired of taking within the office place, and at the time I remember pushing it aside and laughing about it and you look back on it, and it's not something that needs to be laughed about. It needs to be something that's addressed because it's an issue. Michael Moore: That's good stuff. So, we got one more for you, Raleigh. There's the saying it's not what you know, it's who you know, and then we flipped it around and say, it's not who you know, it's who knows you.So, in thinking about the medium of this podcast and our listeners, and just all the passion that you share today about growing up with such an amazing dad and  maybe not getting marriage right the first time, but certainly nailing it the second and a wonderful kid along the way; what do you want people to know about you?Raleigh Green: Wow. That is a loaded question, man. I just want people to know that I'm a very loving human that just wants the best for everybody. And I'm a total adventurer. I love to travel and see the world. And if I see you out there, or if you see me out there running or playing tennis or traveling, don't be a stranger, always say hi. My door is open to everyone and I hope that this podcast shed some light on any dark time that you might be having, or gives you confidence in your ability to pursue your dreams and to go door knocking because [01:00:00] in the saying, it's not what you know, it's who you know, you got to go knock on a lot of doors to meet some people. Michael Moore: Great answer. Raleigh. We've really appreciated you coming on. This has been a phenomenal conversation. We thank you so much and we'll be sure to reach out to Meagan, get her on here as well.Raleigh Green: I appreciate it guys.  Bob Wierema: And thank you, Raleigh. It's been awesome. Raleigh Green: Absolutely. Thank you so much.Michael Moore: Thanks so much for tuning into this episode of The Climb. If you enjoyed the episode, please consider subscribing. And if you know someone who you would think would enjoy the podcast, feel free to share this with them. Thanks again, and we'll see you on the next episode. 

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The Rams need to get hot in these last few games to secure an at-large bid for the NCAA March Madness Tournament and getting ready for an important homestead against SLU and #4 Dayton at the Ryan Center.

Could there be any other lead story to talk about in Rhode Island's college basketball world this week? It's time for Providence and URI to renew hostilities, this time at the Ryan Center on Friday night. Join Kevin McNamara and Bill Koch for the breakdown of Friars-Rams, their seasons to date and much more on this week's edition of the Providence Journal Pick and Pop podcast. 

It's Rivarly Week this week! The always anticipated matchup between URI and PC tips off this Friday at the Ryan Center. We recap the Thanksgiving Break for both teams, and preview the matchup....

Friday night presents the ideal chance to see what the University of Rhode Island has learned. The Rams match up with another Power 5 opponent when Alabama visits the Ryan Center. URI’s first meeting of several scheduled this season with college basketball’s upper crust didn’t end so well.

WATCH HERE: https://youtu.be/LVQej-XaESs Victor reviews Steven Soderberg's latest film on Netflix "High Flying Bird" and presents his Fire Pro Wrestling World Legends Ball tournament on the Codex Prime YouTube channel...Carl chats about meeting Kairi Sane and the NXT Blueprint#1 comic from Boom! Studios, Undertaker: Rise of the Deadman graphic novel, new Boondocks, and his 4 in February update...the duo discusses NXT Live at the Ryan Center...Will Smith's terrifying Genie in the live-action "Aladdin"...and a Coming to America sequel? But why? Zamunda Forever (crosses arms). GET IT! Recorded February 13, 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to uWo at: anchor.fm/uWo ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: CodexPrimePodcast@gmail.com CATCH CODEX PRIME AT: Facebook: www.facebook.com/codexprime Twitter: twitter.com/codexprimecast Instagram: instagram.com/codexprimepodcast/ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/codex…id998035389?mt=2 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDMNJNgnM6y3WB3fA1a1HA SoundCloud: @codex-prime Victor Omoayo - twitter.com/VictorOmoayo Carl Byrd - Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat: @mrbyrd1027 - bookmrbyrd1027@gmail.com SPONSORS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudio Headphones: www.sudio.com/us/earbuds We Have Merch: www.wehavemerch.com/collections/cod…x-prime-podcast

This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dr. Ray Van Neste joins me in a discussion on the pastor and the biblical languages. Dr. Ray Van Neste serves as Professor of Biblical Studies, as well as, Director of the R. C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. The post “Best of 2017” Episode 35: The Pastor and the Biblical Languages appeared first on Jason K. Allen.

This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dr. Ray Van Neste joins me in a discussion on preaching the pastoral epistles. Dr. Ray Van Neste serves as Professor of Biblical Studies, as well as, Director of the R. C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. The post Episode 68: Preaching the Pastoral Epistles appeared first on Jason K. Allen.

Dr. Ray Van Neste professor of Biblical studies and director of the R.C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University joins host Byron Tyler to discuss the 500th anniversary of the Reformation and the REF 500 Conference.

The Ryan Center for Sports Medicine at Boston University offers a range of comprehensive sports medicine services at one convenient location. The multi-disciplinary team of family medicine physicians trained in sports medicine and orthopedic surgeons, along with rehabilitation staff provide patients with advanced diagnostics and treatment for sports injuries.In this segment, Dr. Douglas Comeau, director of the Ryan Center for Sports Medicine at Boston Medical Center, discusses the most common sports injuries and the best methods of treatment offered at the Ryan Center.Learn more about the Ryan Center for Sports Medicine.

This week on Preaching and Preachers, Dr. Ray Van Neste joins me in a discussion on the pastor and the biblical languages. Dr. Ray Van Neste serves as Assistant Professor of Christian Studies, as well as, Director of the R. C. Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. The post Episode 35: The Pastor and the Biblical Languages appeared first on Jason K. Allen.

Tree of the Codex Prime hosts - Maurice, Aris and Carl - put some RESPECK on this week's episode. Listen as Aris recounts his Best Buy TV repurchasing adventure with Carl Byrd, some thoughts on Brian Michael Bendis' "Invincible Iron Man", as well as the new Power Man & Iron Fist comic. Maurice also shares his experience at the live April 22 NXT show at the Ryan Center in Kingston, RI. There's a discussion on the PS Neo and emails on whitewashing Asian roles as well as the sixth season premiere of Game of Thrones. Oh, and there's an extended conversation about football people. Is that still a thing? Are we finished or are we done? R.I.P. Prince (1958-2016) and Chyna (1969-2016). Recorded April 26, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Email: CodexPrimePodcast@gmail.com CATCH CODEX PRIME AT: Facebook: www.facebook.com/codexprime Twitter: twitter.com/codexprimecast Instagram: instagram.com/codexprimepodcast/ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/codex…id998035389?mt=2 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDMNJNgnM6y3WB3fA1a1HA SoundCloud: @codex-prime Victor Omoayo - twitter.com/VictorOmoayo - www.youtube.com/user/vomoayo Carl Byrd - Twitter, Instagram and Vine: @mrbyrd1027 - bookmrbyrd1027@gmail.com

Fresh from the Ryan Center for young artists at Chicago Lyric Opera, Kentucky native Anthony Clark Evans is a singer with a big career ahead of him. He's making his role debut as Sharpless, the American consul, in Madama Butterfly. In this interview with Nic Reveles he talks about his experience as a singer so far and assesses the role in approaching it as a young artist. 

This event is being sponsored by the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good and co-sponsored by Villanova Navy ROTC and Villanova Army ROTC.

In this episode of Listen & Learn, we talk with Dr. Ray Van Neste about the 2015 Ryan Center Bible Conference hosted by Union University, March 20-21.

Dr. William B. Allen, Veritas and Miller Senior Fellow, 2013-14, Matthew J. Ryan Center, giving a public lecture on, "To Preserve, Protect and Defend: The Emancipation Proclamation."

Dr. William B. Allen, Veritas and Miller Senior Fellow, 2013-14, Matthew J. Ryan Center, giving a public lecture on, "To Preserve, Protect and Defend: The Emancipation Proclamation."