Podcast appearances and mentions of shannon hughes

In this special collaboration episode between The Lineup and The Double-Up Podcast, Dave and Double-Up hosts Rachael Tilly and Shannon Hughes dive into the evolution of women's surfing. From its scrappy QS days to the world-class performances we're witnessing today, the women's tour has undergone massive transformations, shifting locations, raising the stakes, and proving that when given the right waves, female surfers rise to the occasion. The hosts discuss how media coverage has shaped the sport, the importance of storytelling in keeping women's surfing at the forefront, and the growing depth of talent across generations. We take a close look at Caity Simmers and the conversation around her influence and whether she is the most important surfer in the world right now. The discussion also covers the ever-intensifying world title race, the evolution of rivalries, and whether younger surfers are truly pushing out the veterans or simply forcing them to elevate their game. Beyond competition, we examine the broader sustainability of professional surfing as a career for women. With more opportunities than ever, is the path to a long-term career in the sport finally viable? As the industry shifts, what role does the surf community play in ensuring continued progress? From Pipeline's proving grounds to the new generation redefining the sport, this episode is packed with insight, passion, and a raw look at where women's surfing stands today. Tune in for a conversation that challenges the status quo and celebrates the bright future ahead. Listen to The Double-Up Podcast and follow them here. Follow Rachael Tilly here. Follow Shannon Hughes here. Play WSL CT Fantasy contest and join The Lineup Podcast Mega League for a chance to win! Terms and Conditions apply. Stay tuned for the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal Presented By Corona Cero, Mar 15 - 25. Join the conversation by following The Lineup podcast with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our YouTube channel. Get the latest WSL rankings, news, and event info. **Visit this page if you've been affected by the Los Angeles wildfires, and would like to volunteer or donate. Our hearts are with you.** Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Send us a textThis week, we're diving into the Fixer Upper Mysteries: Framed for Murder—and let's just say, the writing may need a little renovation. Starring Jewel and Colin Ferguson, this 2017 Hallmark mystery had us debating its strengths, from the cozy coastal town of Lighthouse Cove to the on-screen chemistry (or lack thereof?). Was this a top-tier Hallmark whodunit or just a patchy repair job?We also chat about Hallmark's evolving mystery game, the quirks of Shannon Hughes as an amateur sleuth, and whether the sequel films might offer a stronger foundation. Plus, expect some fun trivia, unexpected cast connections, and a few familiar Hallmark faces popping up in surprising roles.And in the news—did Eric just tease some major Mystery 101 updates in an upcoming interview?

My magic is helping design leaders transform their teams and businesses by embracing an 'improv mindset.' I'm passionate about showing how practices of adaptability, bold humility, and "Yes, and..." can unlock possibility and creative partnership in every team. Through my Connective Influence Model, I share skills like creating "brave spaces" and "listening to learn", as a way to build trust, spark cohesion, and create thriving, people-first cultures. In this episode we learn: - the power of holding brave space to create psychological safety - how to foster curiosity by listening to learn - self-awareness allows you to be in the moment and present - the power of bold humility - why it's a good idea to know and challenge your patterns - how to use ‘yes, and…' to build on others' ideas instead of dismissing them Business of Design® is your blueprint for running streamline projects and building a highly profitable interior design business. Get your business blueprint at https://businessofdesign.com/membership

How To Attract Top Talent To Your Architecture FirmShannon Hughes is a consultant and facilitator with a calling to nurture 'people first' company culture with small and medium-sized firms. In her practice, Enlivened Studios, she brings strategic business mentorship and experiential teaching practices to incite easeful collaboration and embolden transformational leadership.With 20+ years of corporate marketing and HR strategy experience, plus a lifetime of proven leadership, performance and creative devotion, Shannon combines skill + heart into every Enlivened Studios session. Through this work, she's on a mission to help people live fully, lead consciously and impact the world with joy and collective aliveness.This week on EntreArchitect Podcast, How To Attract Top Talent To Your Architecture Firm with Shannon Hughes.Learn more about Shannon at Enlivened Studios, connect with her on LinkedIn. Access Shannon's free resource The 5 Tips to Inspire a People First Culture HERE.Please visit Our Platform SponsorsDetailed is an original podcast by ARCAT that features architects, engineers, builders, and manufacturers who share their insight and expertise as they highlight some of the most complex, interesting, and oddest building conditions that they have encountered… and the ingenuity it took to solve them. Listen now at ARCAT.com/podcast.Visit our Platform Sponsors today and thank them for supporting YOU… The EntreArchitect Community of small firm architects.Graphisoft + EntreArchitect Archicad BIM software enables design, collaboration, visualization, and project delivery, no matter the project size or complexity. With flexible licensing options and a dedicated support team to guide us along the way, Archicad is an ideal choice for firms and projects of any size. Visit our dedicated landing page at EntreArchitect + Graphisoft for an exclusive special offer waiting for our community of architects.

In today's episode we interview Shannon Hughes, founder of Enlivened Studios, to discuss how companies can build a "brave space" and an energetic culture through an improv mindset and practices. Shannon shares her insights on creating a culture that promotes open communication, collaboration, and trust. She emphasizes the importance of creating a safe space where team members can be vulnerable and take risks, which is crucial for building psychological safety in virtual and hybrid teams.Shannon also shares her approach to teaching communication practices inspired by the key tenets of improv theater. She believes that these practices help teams to build empathy, listen actively, and collaborate effectively as they Team Anywhere.READ THE FULL PODCAST EPISODE HERE! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Workplace culture exists whether or not it's intentional. My guest Shannon Hughes shares expert advice on building a value based culture that scales with your firm, gives everyone a voice, and opens the door for innovation. Staff engagement happens when you create psychological safety- don't be afraid of the tension that can arise between maintaining the status quo and trying something new. Decision makers are influencers of culture. Provide context for change by sharing history and lessons learned. How you communicate culture impacts both staff and the clients you are trying to attract You can keep culture and values prominent even before you have budget and strategy in place Adopt a "yes and" strategy to keep the story moving forward as you ideate. Get your spot for my free webinar: Stop the Slog: take back your time and earn more https://mailchi.mp/3bea4ef5d284/noslog CONTACT SHANNON Linked in at Shannon Hughes Website: https://www.enlivenedstudios.com/ to learn more or get your free download email: shannon@enlivenedstudios.com Stay Inspired, Angela Join the architecting community: Facebook Group Instagram LinkedIn Clubhouse Interested in sponsoring a show or having me as a guest on your podcast or community? Stop here to get information. Into/outro music Alive by Richard Wasson Copyright 2019

Shannon Hughes explains various ways to motivate your team members in a budget-friendly manner. 

Last month marked a fairly momentous occasion in Colorado, the statewide passage of Proposition 122, the Natural Medicines Health Act. Coloradoans voted, by a tally of 53 to 47%, to approve both the decriminalization of psilocybin, DMT, ibogaine, and mescaline, along with the medicalization of psilocybin, with the possibility of a medicalization pathway for the others in 2026. This is a landmark, tipping point kind of social change, and one that triggers a huge number of hopes, concerns, and questions. Here Craig sits down with Shannon Hughes, a CSU Professor of Social Work who specializes in issues of drugs, meds and society; she is also a co-founder of the Nowak Society, Colorado's pre-eminent force for psychedelic education and community.  Together Craig and Shannon explore the wide-ranging implications of decriminalization and medicalization of psilocybin and other psychedelics.Chris Johnson/Whooz Larry--  "Have My Heart" https://open.spotify.com/track/7CoXPcTsQGjIU3mEbeTMQX?si=dc6f5f06a4394b2cDr. Shannon Hugheshttps://www.drshannonhughes.com/BFTA/Dr. Hhttps://www.craigheacockmd.com/podcast-page/

Shannon Hughes, brings 20+ years of corporate marketing and HR strategy experience, plus a lifetime of proven leadership, performance and creative devotion, her work combines skill + heart into every Enlivened Studios session. Through this work, she is on a mission to help people live fully, lead consciously and impact the world with joy and collective aliveness.

Denver is the place to be this weekend with @CannaCon kicking off We have a super packed episode this week so much so that we are extending our show to pack it all in. Returning this week the Legend himself @Edrosenthal420 horticulturist, author, publisher, and Cannabis grower is back to talk shop and fill us in on his latest project aimed at getting Everyone to just grow there own. He won't have to convince our next guest @Shilohmassive to do that. We will have Shiloh “IN” Studio throwing down the heady terps with the crew from Esttech @esttech_led_colorado here to slay LED sales @cannacon2.0 this weekend. A convention wouldn't be a convention without our next guest @805Lance CMO @Grovebags Lance Lambert has lent his media expertise in the canna space to Weed maps, Boveda, Greenbroz and more he also can be found hosting Cure to Consumption on Haze Radio Network or Seed to Social with the Future Cannabis Project. Rounding out our mega show Shannon Hughes from the @the_nowak_society a psychedelic professional group based in Colorado. Shannon will fill us in on their latest project the Emergence Festival a donation based psychedelic educational festival featuring speakers , workshops, live music community building and more this is an amazing event if your interested in psychedelics please pay attention to the group @psychedeliceducationfestival So as you can see we have something for everyone this week and this is just the guests we KNOW are coming through. Be ready for anything. The best way to be prepared is to have those joints rolled, bongs cleaned and Carta Focus V2's charged and join us 9/23/22 on Youtube.com/adamdunnshow 4:20 -7:10 MT #sagemastaselect #seedsherenow #Culturedbiologix #iluminarlighting #warpt4life #davesstillhere #edrosenthal #shilohmassive #grovebags #esttech #nowaksociety #emergencefestival #flickinbeans #herbanhouse #extralongshow #cannacon #cartaclan

Shannon Hughes joins us to discuss how philanthropic work at Jeffrey's Bay lead to her commentating for the WSL, how to compartmentalize on-air anxiety, the value of abandoning preparedness, and the fiscal and ethical imperative for professional surfing to reflect the way surfing exists in the real world. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Presented by Quiksilver Jimmy, Cahill and Harry are joined by David Lee Scales, Shannon Hughes and Stace Galbraith to look ahead to the WSL Finals. An athlete by athlete breakdown of their chances, strengths and highlights from the year plus fantasy picks and odds from Sportsbet. Fuelled by Heaps Normal (and a heap of coffee) it's the must listen guide to the upcoming action.

This week's guest is Shannon Hughes, strategic communications manager at RMI, an international organization working to transform global energy production with market-based solutions. Shannon's purview is supply chain, a significant source of carbon emissions. As a communications expert she is focused on making this complex topic more digestible to a broader audience. Given the pandemic-induced salience of the supply chain in all of our lives, Shannon and her RMI colleagues have a great opportunity to raise awareness of the climate implications of how we move stuff all over the globe. In this conversation we hear about the importance of communication skills when dealing with a data intense topic, a branch of RMI and its goal of decarbonizing the cryptocurrency world and Shannon's biggest takeaway from her time at RMI thus far – that data has to be relatable. Transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LkuGKA5xrIJUIKbpjOC2DVCNpXbKE5eO-aHaTGfjiAk/edit

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I took an improv class a couple of years ago and it has been incredibly helpful to me as a speaker, so much so that I had the attendees at our recent in-person client retreat do some improv games (they appreciated it, I swear!). Improv is not only useful for getting into your body as a speaker on a stage; improv is also a philosophy of engagement, vulnerability, and co-creation. This is what I talk about with my guest Shannon Hughes in this episode. Shannon melds business strategy with improv training techniques to embolden trustful communication, belonging, and transformational leadership. Whether you have in-person or virtual speaking engagements coming up, you'll get a lot out of our conversation. Shannon and I talk about: How to use the improv “yes and” technique to push past fear Breaking the fourth wall to engage your audience in conversation Tools to get your audience engaged, especially during virtual presentations The scaffolding techniques Shannon uses to engage audiences   About My Guest: Shannon Hughes is an experiential trainer with a calling to enliven creativity, confidence and easeful collaboration in groups of all shapes and sizes. In her practice, Enlivened Studios, she melds business strategy with improv training techniques to embolden trustful communication, belonging and transformational leadership   About Us: The Speaking Your Brand podcast is hosted by Carol Cox. At Speaking Your Brand, we help women entrepreneurs and professionals clarify their brand message and story, create their signature talks, and develop their thought leadership platforms. Our mission is to get more women in positions of influence and power because it's through women's stories, voices, and visibility that we challenge the status quo and change existing systems. Check out our coaching programs at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com.  Links: Show notes at https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/278/  Get Shannon's free download on writing your manifesto: https://www.enlivenedstudios.com/manifesto  Get Shannon's free download on how to liven up your virtual gatherings: http://www.enlivenedstudios.com/download  Schedule a consult call with us to talk about creating your signature talk and thought leadership platform: https://www.speakingyourbrand.com/contact.    Connect on social: Carol on LinkedIn = https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolcox Shannon (guest) on LinkedIn = https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannondeanhughes/ Shannon (guest) on Instagram =  https://www.instagram.com/shannondeanhughes/ Related Podcast Episodes: Episode 251: What Makes Public Speaking Unique as a Medium with Carol Cox and Diane Diaz  

In this episode of Quit Bleeping Around®, awesome superachiever, author, and self-improvement expert Christina Eanes interviews Shannon Hughes. Shannon is an experiential trainer that uses improv and play-based techniques to bolster collaboration, creative resourcefulness and cross-team communication for small business founders and their teams. In this episode, Shannon introduces the “Yes, And” mindset and how you can use it to work more effectively with others. If you'd like to learn more about Shannon, visit her website at enlivenedstudios.com. For more info about Christina, visit ChristinaEanes.com Episode Credits: Series Announcer: Seth D. Meyers (sethdmeyers.com) Host: Christina Eanes (quitbleepingaround.com) Outros Announcer: Linnea Sage (linneasage.com) Intro/Outro Music: “Dangerous Dog” by Charlie J. Smith/SI Publishing

WSL Commentator Shannon Hughes joins the pod to talk about the Mid-season Cut and her journey to becoming a Championship Tour broadcaster. First, she shares her thoughts on the Mid-season Cut, what it was like to experience it on the ground in Margaret River, witnessing all the emotions, and also seeing how the pressure pushed the level of performance through the roof. She then takes us through her own personal journey in the sport, growing up in a surfing family, moving to J-Bay at 21, starting to compete in longboard events at a later age, commentating her first event in 2013, and finally getting called up to announce the CT. She breaks down the challenges of the job, describes talking live on air for full eight-hour days, discusses overcoming some unwelcoming co-commentators early in her career, and shares some key advice from Joe Turpel for aspiring announcers. Finally, Shannon talks about all the other projects she's currently got in motion, from hosting The Double Up podcast, to starting The Women's Surf Network, to working on the “Make or Break” series and commentating at the Olympics. Keep up to date with Shannon here, check out the Women's Surf Network here, and listen to the Double-Up Podcast here. Watch her next at the Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro presented by Rip Curl live May 7-15. Join the conversation by following The Lineup with Dave Prodan on Instagram and subscribing to our Youtube channel.  Stay up to date with all things WSL. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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HIGHLIGHTSShannon's background and experienceStarting up Enlivened StudiosImprovisational Mindset in EntrepreneurshipThe concept of “yes, and”Collaboration in improvisation mindsetImportance of Improvisation in communicating as an entrepreneurShannon's tips on ImprovisingApplying conversational facilitation on online platformsDeep thoughts on Tandem Talks (Special portion)QUOTESShannon: “Improv is highly structured and highly rehearsed. And so, there are a number of concepts that performers practice. One of them that most people are familiar with is the concept of “yes, and” which doesn't always mean agree, yes actually means to receive and to witness and to accept what's been offered.”Shannon: “When you think about that, on a stage, right, two people have to collaborate in order to build something from nothing. And, and when you take “yes, and” into a collaborative environment, magic can happen.”Shannon: “Get curious, because people love to tell their own stories. And if you can lean in with curiosity, and start to and I don't want to overuse the word human, but humanize the people that are in the room, ask them for their own personal stories. See, if you can engage at a level that will take a little bit of the air out of the balloon.”Shannon: “Don't forget, you can break the fourth wall. You know, you don't need to be the sage on the stage, right? You can also be the person who is saying, Does this resonate with you? How do we feel? Do we want to go in a different direction here? How's everybody doing? Do we need a break? Like what are ways that we can quote unquote, break that fourth wall to make the room more of a collective versus me behind a pedestal telling you what I know?”Shannon: “As a facilitator, I always say connect early connect often. So how can you if you are the meeting owner? How can you get people maybe into a breakout room for five minutes at the front end and give them a simple game? Like, “hey, you have five minutes to find three, you know, three things in common, go” or two truths and a lie. You know, how can you have a little bit of fun at the front end so that people come back and have connected with somebody so that they have a true north they can go back to if they get a little bit? They lose their footing in the meeting”Shannon: “I put myself into rooms with people that are a couple steps ahead of me. Because there's always something to learn.”Carrie: “Well, it's nice to have people modeling that balance, I think too. But at the end of the day, we do kind of have to trust that inner voice and turn up the volume on a bit because even if we have good models of it, like we're still living with ourselves every day”Carrie: “When you start a business like life doesn't stop, like the roller coaster doesn't stop life keeps going. But that's where I think that intuitive piece of it all is, is even more important because you don't have an employer saying you have to do this by this date. It's like, everyday like you're the boss.”Shannon: “Just remember what your vision and your mission is, rather than appealing to what you think might be needed.”Shannon: “Don't ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” (a quote from Howard Thurman)You can find out more about Shannon in the links below: Website: enlivenedstudios.comLinkedin: linkedin.com/in/shannondeanhughesTwitter: shannonhughes1YouTube: Shannon Hughes - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKplX4Aktdcpy-tcBUe9sJQPlease subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Be sure to visit our website at  https://www.tandemconsulting.co/.

Shannon works in Strategic Communications for Climate Intelligence with RMI. She talks passionately about staying true to who you are and how everyone can make a difference.  In this episode, Shannon talks about:  Her very nonlinear career and personal journey to get to RMI   What RMI does and how you can support them in their mission to fight the climate crisis  The importance of equity when creating climate change laws so as to not leaving half the world behind   What ‘applied hope' is and how you can practice it when you're feeling hopeless   Always staying true to yourself no matter what the world thinks   ...And much more!   

Aloha Everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Temple of Surf - The Podcast. We will give you full access to the best surfers, skaters, shapers, surfboards collectors, shop owners in the world! Discover with me their stories, their greatest successes, amazing behind the scenes and much more! Today with us, former professional surfer and now commentator Shannon Hughes We discussed with her about surf, the Double Up Podcast, olympic games and much more!!

I'm sure by now you've heard the advice to find and follow your genius, your superpower, to build an authentic and successful business. Sounds great. Solid advice. But, have you ever questioned what in the world that is for you? Maybe you can easily spot the genius of others, but when it comes to understanding your own, you're clueless? A lot of time this happens because whatever that genius is, comes so freely and naturally, you don't even realize it's a thing. If the answer happens to be yes for you, I definitely can relate to the idea of not seeing the label of your own jar as well and know you're going to get so much from today's conversation. Our guest is CEO of Enlivened Studios, Leadership Coach, Interactive Speaker, and Experiential Team Trainer, Shannon Hughes. Shannon combined her love for improv and experience in Corporate to create her business, Enlivened Studios. It's  facilitation practice that uses improv-inspired techniques to bolster collaboration and communication through skills like listening, spontaneity and storytelling.Inside this conversation you'll learn more about:Bringing clarity to what your inner genius is and how to use itCreative LeadershipThe benefits of an improv practice in your business (how it can help with your team, clients, and even networking with peers)The power of "yes, and..." Her morning practice What is a brave space (vs. safe space)Her story from VP of Client Strategy to burnout to Financial Ops Manager to feeling unfulfilled that eventually lead to her own business What most resonates with her as an Enneagram 7Why she started questioning if she might actually be a Type 3She also shares three powerful statements she does inside her workshops with partners:"What I heard matters to you....""What I'm curious about...""What I want to honor about you..." Listen in to find out exactly how to use these questions, how to find and connect with your inner genius, and how to infuse creativity and curiosity in your leadership, coaching, and networking skills. Grab her free guide to Enliven Up Your Virtual Gatherings!  www.enlivenedstudios.com/downloadLearn more and connect with Shannon:https://www.enlivenedstudios.com/LinkedinYouTubeInstagramIf we're not already, I'd love to connect with you as well! Find me over on Instagram or Linkedin and say hello! If you're still on your Enneagram typing journey, download your free workbook:https://www.sarahlynnco.com/enneagramtypesIf you already know your type and are looking for guidance to actually use it in your work and life: https://www.sarahlynnco.com/privatecoachingDownload your quick reference Enneagram guide: https://www.enneagrammba.com/cheatsheet

A quick tip from Shannon Hughes, founder of Enlivened Studios, on how you can apply a key tenet of improv to leadership and life.Time Stamps: [1:25] Noticing the "offers" around you [4:02] Conscious leadership --Offers:Legal Templates from Not Your Father's LawyerConnect with Shannon:enlivenedstudios.com/downloadLinkedinConnect with Alessia:Text me! 949.541.0951Instagram: @corporatedropoutofficial and @alessiacitro__TikTok: @alessiacitro__ Show Support:If you enjoy this podcast please Rate, Review, Subscribe and SHARE this out on Apple Podcasts at The Corporate Dropout Podcast Big shout out to our team that makes this show possible!If you are looking to start your own podcast or join the network, hit up @upstarterpods on Instagram! 

A candid and fun conversation with entrepreneur Shannon Hughes on life, business, and how she founded Enlivened Studios, which brings applied improv to help companies improve collaboration and leadership.Time Stamps: [3:35] Shannon's corporate journey and how she rediscovered improv [8:00] Shannon's exit “plan” [12:40] Elizabeth Gilbert - power of compounding and “shaving make a pile” (The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson) [16:24] Founding Enlivened Studios and tenets of improv in the corporate world [22:53] Don't be afraid to do what's already being done - pizza example [26:39] Ramping up Enlivened Studios [29:30] “We Should All Be Millionaires” by Rachel Rodgers [30:50] Gaining clients and getting over Imposter Syndrome [33:45] Managing and protecting your energy [36:25] The importance of a morning routine [42:10] Being mindful of your capacity to avoid burnout [43:18] Biggest challenge as a business owner [46:52] Staying aware of opportunity [52:12] "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman --Offers:What you track grows! Visit 90dayhabits.co and grow what matters in your business by grabbing a copy of the 90 Day Habits Journal today! Use code CITRO for 10% offClaim your FREE coaching call with Alessia that's just for Corporate Dropout listeners! alessiacitro.com/dropoutConnect with Shannon:Linkedinenlivenedstudios.com/downloadConnect with Alessia:Text me! 949.541.0951Instagram: @corporatedropoutofficial and @alessiacitro__TikTok: @alessiacitro__ Show Support:If you enjoy this podcast please Rate, Review, Subscribe and SHARE this out on Apple Podcasts at The Corporate Dropout Podcast Big shout out to our team that makes this show possible!If you are looking to start your own podcast or join the network, hit up @upstarterpods on Instagram! 

Using “yes-and”, following the flow, and focusing on the process as much as the outcomes… Is this improv or facilitation?The two share a lot in common! When we combine them, we can create amazing, immersive workshops.And that's exactly what I discuss with Shannon Hughes in this week's episode. Shannon dedicates her work to generating ‘aliveness' – helping leaders come alive and bringing confidence, connection, and creativity to teams.Now, she's sharing the lessons she's learned from bringing applied improv into corporate spaces – and how facilitators can bring a little more improv and play into workshops to amazing effect.Find out about:●     How beneficial it can be to remember that facilitators are guides, not teachers●     The multiple skills we – as communicators, colleagues, and people – learn from improvisation●     How to apply improvisation for conscious leadership (with a helpful acronym)●     Why absence has a bigger impact than presence – especially when it comes to leaders●     How we can become better listeners and help others to do the same●     The tools you might already be using in your workshops that you can apply to improvDon't miss the next show: Subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player. Click here to download the free 1-page summary.Thanks to our sponsor Deckhive. Click here to find out more about the new platform for using card decks in online facilitation. Use the code workshopswork to get the first month for free. Exclusive offer from Facilitator Cards for workshops.work listeners you can get 15% off your entire purchase at shop.facilitator.cards by using code workshopswork.Questions and AnswersPart two[01:17] What can you do when a playful exercise unexpectedly triggers something uncomfortable in a participant?[03:13] How did you react when this situation happened?[08:00] What is the meaning behind ‘enlivened'?[12:25] How can we create an environment for participants to realise what they need, rather than telling them what they need?[16:41] What experience would you create to make someone a better listener?[21:26] Discussing Michael Bungay Stanier's writing and how it applies to listening and facilitation[25:47] What's happening for you at the moment in your life?[31:52] What is the one thing you'd like listeners to take away from this episode?LinksShannon's website: www.enlivenedstudios.com Connect to Shannon:On LinkedInOn Instagram 

Using “yes-and”, following the flow, and focusing on the process as much as the outcomes… Is this improv or facilitation?The two share a lot in common! When we combine them, we can create amazing, immersive workshops.And that's exactly what I discuss with Shannon Hughes in this week's episode. Shannon dedicates her work to generating ‘aliveness' – helping leaders come alive and bringing confidence, connection, and creativity to teams.Now, she's sharing the lessons she's learned from bringing applied improv into corporate spaces – and how facilitators can bring a little more improv and play into workshops to amazing effect.Find out about:●     How beneficial it can be to remember that facilitators are guides, not teachers●     The multiple skills we – as communicators, colleagues, and people – learn from improvisation●     How to apply improvisation for conscious leadership (with a helpful acronym)●     Why absence has a bigger impact than presence – especially when it comes to leaders●     How we can become better listeners and help others to do the same●     The tools you might already be using in your workshops that you can apply to improvDon't miss the next show: Subscribe to the show with your favourite podcast player. Click here to download the free 1-page summary.Thanks to our sponsor Deckhive. Click here to find out more about the new platform for using card decks in online facilitation. Use the code workshopswork to get the first month for free. Exclusive offer from Facilitator Cards for workshops.work listeners you can get 15% off your entire purchase at shop.facilitator.cards by using code workshopswork.Questions and AnswersPart one[01:15] When did you start calling yourself a facilitator – if you do?[04:34] If you call yourself an experiential facilitator, what is the opposite?[07:34] What brought you to imrpov and facilitation? And which came first?[14:20] What is the mindset of improv that we see in facilitation, and how do you apply improv in facilitation?[15:48] How do you bring this mindset into the room – do people pick it up or do you have to explicitly explain it?[21:02] Are there building blocks for psychological safety in improv? And what does the concept really mean in improv?[27:18] Where do you see the risk of applying improv – and especially the “yes and” principle?[31:43] Exploring – and practicing – Shannon's favourite exercise: The Pride Rant.LinksShannon's website: www.enlivenedstudios.com Connect to Shannon:On LinkedInOn Instagram 

Something I'm pondering right now is how often our ideas are cemented in reality ("How would this actually work?") which can limit our capacity to dream big.My guest today inspires her guests to go against that inclination, and to start exploring possibilities. We often go through a live role-play on this call to see how we can bring this approach to exploration in our workshops.My guest today is Shannon Dean Hughes. Yes, you can never have enough Hughes' in your life!Shannon  is an experiential trainer with a calling to enliven the innate genius, creative resourcefulness and easeful collaboration in businesses of all shapes and sizes. In her practice, Enlivened Studios, she brings strategic business mentorship and experiential teaching practices to break down cross-team silos and embolden transformational leadership.With 20+ years of corporate marketing and HR strategy experience, plus a lifetime of proven leadership, performance and creative devotion, her work combines skill + heart into every Enlivened Studios session. Through this work, she's on a mission to help people live fully, lead consciously and impact the world with joy and collective aliveness.In this conversation, Shannon shares how she incorporates improv techniques into her work to enliven creativity and collaboration - I like her ideas around making your partner look good. She shares some activities she's delivered on virtual calls as well - listen in for the activity she delivers using SILENCE.Click here for show notes.Click here to leave a goodbye voice note on Episode 200!Support the show (https://buymeacoffee.com/leannehughes)

Facilitator Shannon Hughes shares how she uses improv and other experiential learning techniques to help her clients get the results they want and how to help prospective clients want to hire her to use these techniques.

How can you go about managing the cost of benefits in your organization? This and making the most of what you spend on benefits were the focus of this episode. Because employee benefits are not cheap! Shannon Hughes is a benefits broker and helps her clients get complete benefits packages that meet their needs. Find Shannon at https://www.captivatebenefits.com/

Everything's there. Main ideas, strategies, and approaches naturally emerge while developing more experience in providing a service or value to clients. How can these principles of expertise be packaged into a stand-alone product? Your very own Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch, is here to offer tips, techniques, and strategies to master your sales conversations. Discover methods to place yourself in the position to thrive in business and produce true value for your audience. Today, Shannon Hughes brings up questions and realizations around building content and trusting the power of personal perspective in an on-air coaching call on this episode of the Sales Maven Show. Shannon Hughes is an experiential facilitator at her practice Enlivened Studios. Her approach to facilitating and training is rooted in implied improv, which transfers the main structure of improv from a theater setting into a business setting. By guiding business teams with this approach, Shannon really immerses everyone in engaging dialogue among team members to hone communication, intentional listening, spontaneity, empathy-based storytelling, and more. Enlivened Studios takes care of team training for small to medium sized teams all the way up to kickoff sessions at full-out corporate team training. In this coaching call, Shannon is curious about creating content for a stand-alone product for her community, which at first seems tricky for her experience-based, real-time service. Pay attention as Nikki and Shannon discuss approaches to collecting ideas that already exist in a valuable service, and intentionally packaging the digestible principles to use as content. Speaking candidly, the two go into a conversation about using a unique standpoint to offer content that seems similar or standard to the current marketplace. Learn the power of your unique voice from your personal knowledge, which allows you to communicate general principles in a way no one else can. Nikki wants to invite you to join the Sales Maven Society, don't miss this opportunity for you and Nikki to work together. Bring your questions, concerns, sales challenges, and she provides answers and guidance to boost your confidence. Join the Sales Maven Society here, click add to cart, and then checkout and use coupon code: 47trial to get your first month for $47.00!   In This Episode: [00:42] - Welcome, and thank you for listening! [02:27] - Shannon Hughes shares the ways she provides value to teams. She explains the general concerns she addresses in team trainings. [04:07] - Shannon recalls a 3hr session she gave during a large team training kickoff for a tech company. What did she help the group focus on? [06:20] - Nikki speaks on the impact of dynamics between different teammates in different departments. Shannon adds insight about the positive results she observes while training communication skills across teams. [09:18] - What does Shannon want to discuss during the on-air coaching call? Listen to Shannon explain her thoughts on a stand-alone product and creating content. [11:38] - Nikki starts brainstorming ideas that might be helpful. She explains how the main concepts of Shannon's service can be packaged into digestible content. [14:13] - Shannon speaks through her thoughts on similar offerings in the experiential facilitator space. [16:58] - Shannon emphasizes that unique perspectives on similar topics help fill in the blanks of the topic differently. [19:39] - There's an opportunity to upgrade content as more is learned. Nikki gives her personal examples of re-recording content, and the new opportunities that arise from updated content. [22:35] - Being an entrepreneur requires  adaptability and iteration. [24:43] - Shannon explains “A.L.I.V.E.N.E.S.S.”, and the relation to getting started anywhere. [27:43] - Here is a great question to ask people in a sales conversation that can help give insight into client expectations. [30:07] - Thank you for listening. Nikki is so grateful you are here!   Find Nikki: Nikki Rausch nikki@yoursalesmaven.com @yoursalesmaven Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram Sales Maven Society To download free Resources from Nikki: www.yoursalesmaven.com/maven   Find Shannon: Shannon Hughes shannon@enlivenedstudios.com  LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube 

On this big Grand Final edition of the show this week. Steve, Buetts and Jess have a stack of guests to preview the NRL Grand Final between South Sydney and Penrith tomorrow night. Jai Arrow's dad Ray discusses his son's up bringing and history with Wayne Bennett, plus where he played his junior footy. How is he feeling ahead of tomorrows game? Plus, Dave "Pottsy" Mc Lean former Penrith played over 200 reserve grade games for Penrith and a handful in first grade. Dave provides his insights ahead of game day and how does he expect the panthers to go? Also, one of Buetts' former team mates Mark O Meley and premiership winner in 2004 joins the show to dissect tomorrow nights GF? A very special guest to talk surfing live from South America - Commentator on the world surfing tour Shannon Hughes weighs in into the conversation. As well as football chat with Adam Kwasnik and plenty more!

A very special guest to talk surfing live from South America - Commentator on the world surfing tour Shannon Hughes weighs in into the conversation. How did the surfing championships go over in the United States. Which state were they in and who won?

What is typical for employee benefits in Canada? Benefits are confusing - even for people in HR. Like, what services are covered? What percentage of those services? What is a paramedical anyhow? And benefits are COSTLY so it is to the employer's advantage to make sure that employees know what's covered, are using the services, and appreciate the value. Typically HR is the leader in this so we need to understand it first. This video explains the typical aspects of benefits packages that are often offered to employees in Canada. Shannon Hughes is a benefits broker and and helps her clients get complete benefits packages that meet their needs. Find Shannon at https://www.captivatebenefits.com/

Welcome to The Double-Up, a podcast for women who surf, by women who surf.Hosted by Rachael Tilly and Shannon Hughes, The Double-Up is your weekly update on all things women's surf.This week we take a full dive into the Olympics - Rachael and Shannon simplify the complicated dynamics of surfing's Olympic debut and introduce us to the 20 women who will be competing on the world's largest stage and break down how they arrived there.We also introduce our Hot Topics segment, sharing a few key news items from the world of women's surfing. This week discussing two new women's surf films - Surfing and Girl's Can't Surf, the Looking Sideways episode with Lucy Small, the new Surf Stadium in Japan and mainstream media's take on surfing.00:00: Intro: "Are you gonna ride it before you gift it?"07:41: Hot Topic #1: Surfing: "That just gave me chills, that was cute." 14:30: Hot Topic #2: Girls Can't Surf: "Low back, like, up the bum type of one pieces."26:55: Hot Topic #3: Lucy Small: "They just keep getting beaten through our heads." 32:45: Hot Topic #4: Surf Stadium: "I guess that's a pretty clear indication that Longboarding will not be introduced in 2024."43:39: Hot Topic #5: Mainstream media: "It's big enough for her to barrel..."47:33: The Olympics: "It's kind of been a confusing process to watch."Watch: Surfing, Girl's Can't SurfListen: Looking Sideways, Episode 158Read: The Washington Post on SurfingLearn: All things OlympicsMusic: Dry Grass, courtesy of Body TypeContact: info@womensurf.netWeb: www.womensurf.net

Welcome to The Double-Up, a podcast for women who surf, by women who surf. Hosted by Rachael Tilly and Shannon Hughes, The Double-Up is your weekly update on all things women's surf. For the introductory episode we meet our hosts, Rachael Tilly, the youngest-ever WSL World Surfing Champion, and Shannon Hughes, the 3 x Cobbles Classic Queen, to hear the stories of who they are and why they're adding their voices to the field of podcasting, before taking a quick dive into the Olympics, because one of the two will be taking part in the festivities in Tokyo. 00:00: Intro: "That's kind of strange to think about, as you're in the future."00:51: "A bit of background on how all this came to fruition."08:01: "So if remember correctly Rachael you had plans to go into nursing?"21:54: "I do know you're a three-times Cobbles Classic queen Shannon."32:21: "...and I'm going to the Olympics, which is totally crazy!"38:16: "Yeah, so in our next episode..."Watch: "My all time goal is to become the youngest world champion"Music: Dry Grass, courtesy of Body TypeContact: info@womensurf.netWeb: www.womensurf.net

Shannon Hughes founded Enlivened Studios, a coaching practice that uses connective, experiential learning practices to embolden you to live fully, lead consciously and impact the world. Gary Ware founded Breakthrough Play to help you reach your breakthrough moment while playing and having a great time. These two play rebels are making the world a better place to be!

This week Matt and Lorenzo are joined by Director of Education and Programs, Shannon Hughes and Manager of Requested Programs, Jennifer Elsworth.  Matt quickly derails the beginning by talking about Medieval Times, but they get back on track and talk about first jobs, a pony named Pony, A HA moments, earthstars, kids, programming outreach, and Summer camps. We would love to hear from you! Reach us by email: metroparkspodcast@metroparkstoledo.com

Shannon Hughes has traveled and surfed all over the world but it's only the beginning of a hopefully long career within the broadcast realm of the surf industry. We had such a blast trading off stories and dreams. Thanks for tagging along for the ride. Show notes will be available soon at www.findtheopenface.com. In the meantime be sure to sign up for my newsletter and fill out an application on the site if you're interested in being mentored. All the best! (episode transcript available upon request)

My three guests today speak from the heart about their experiences during COVID-19 as patient advocate (Lara Loverro) and healthcare workers (Shannon Hughes and Katy Gaston). We discuss the meaning of compassion “to suffer together” and how the personal and collective traumas we’re experiencing challenge us to reframe our value, how and why we practice Body Kindness for resilience and personal growth. Here’s a glimpse of what what we discussed: Human kindness and how altruism and compassion give people the biological drive to help. Gratitude to healthcare workers, Shannon Hayes a physician assistant and dietitian and Katy Gatson, a clinical registered dietitian specializing in respiratory issues. How we can best show our gratitude and support to healthcare workers and advocate for our needs as families and communities. The story behind the healthcare workers counter-protests throughout the U.S. About Lara Lara Loverro is holistic health and lifestyle coach. She works with individuals to help them reconnect with food, their bodies and their lives. She is a Certified Health Coach, Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Certified Eating Disorder Recovery Coach and Certified Personal Trainer. Website | Instagram | Facebook: Recovery from Disordered Eating and Diet Culture with Lara About Shannon Shannon Hughes, MMS, RDN, PA-C is a registered dietitian and physician assistant. These days she wears two professional hats in her career. One is as a pediatric physician assistant at a large children's hospital where she specializes in Infectious Diseases. But following her passion as a Registered Dietitian she founded The Lifestyle Nutrition RD, a nutrition and weight-inclusive private practice. Here she specializes in helping individuals transform their health and well-being through a mindfulness-based approach to self care including finding freedom with food and their bodies. She believes everyone, no matter what their size, deserves compassionate care and to live their life unapologetically. Website | Instagram About Katy Katy Gaston is a registered dietitian working as a clinical RD in a long term acute care hospital in San Francisco. She also has a private practice where she sees clients virtually with a focus on intuitive eating and healing relationships with food. Website | Instagram --- Helpful links Body Kindness COVID-19 Resources All COVID-19 themed Body Kindness podcasts --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings. In addition to my free program, I’m sending out free weekly emails of support and resources for body kindness practices and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. These will be created directly in response to requests from Body Kindness readers and podcast listeners. Sign up as a Body Kindness Insider here to get access. --- Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions --- Subscribe to the podcastWe're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendation? E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. --- Join the Facebook groupContinue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

Singer, Shannon Hughes stops by, Vigilantes Radio's "Inside The Music" Series, to chat with Dini about her love for music performing, performing at the GRM Awards Preshow and her single “Loud Voices” To find out, set your reminders, it's happening! 04/16/2020 | @9PM CDT | Call in at 701-801-9813 | You can also hop in the mix by visiting www.onlyonemediagroup.com and slapping that "Go Live" button | Please follow our show at www.spreaker.com/onlyonemediagroup & remember sharing is caring! Thanks for your continuous support!This episodes music is brought you by Shannon Hughes - “Loud Voices".If you'd like to book your own interview with Dini, email us vradio@onlyonemediagroup.comBe sure to follow us at www.twitter.com/nolongertheheroBe sure to like our Facebook page over at www.facebook.com/vigilantesradioWe can also host interviews in different countries!©2013-2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - the Only One Media Group [OOMG].

Singer, Shannon Hughes stops by, Vigilantes Radio's "Inside The Music" Series, to chat with Dini about her love for music performing, performing at the GRM Awards Preshow and her single “Loud Voices” To find out, set your reminders, it's happening! 04/16/2020 | @9PM CDT | Call in at 701-801-9813 | You can also hop in the mix by visiting www.onlyonemediagroup.com and slapping that "Go Live" button | Please follow our show at www.spreaker.com/onlyonemediagroup & remember sharing is caring! Thanks for your continuous support!This episodes music is brought you by Shannon Hughes - “Loud Voices".If you'd like to book your own interview with Dini, email us vradio@onlyonemediagroup.comBe sure to follow us at www.twitter.com/nolongertheheroBe sure to like our Facebook page over at www.facebook.com/vigilantesradioWe can also host interviews in different countries!©2013-2020 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED - the Only One Media Group [OOMG].

This is A-State Connections on KASU. I’m Johnathan Reaves. This is the weekly segment called “A-State Connections and Create@State: Making Connections That Count”. In this interview, we talk about mechanical engineering research with Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Arkansas State Dr. Robert Fleming and Civil Engineering major Shannon Hughes. Fleming starts the interview. Click on the Listen button to hear the entire interview. To hear more interviews like this one, you can subscribe to the Create@ State Podcast at the Create@State podcast page on KASU.org. It is also available on Spotify, iTunes or Google Play, or you can listen on the NPR app. Please tell others about the Create@State Podcast, also leave us a review. We would love to hear from you. You’re listening to A-State Connections on KASU.

On this episode of Community Cocktails with Kimberly, Shannon Hughes of The Shops at Legacy in Plano tells us all about what amazing events are coming up for the holiday season.From delicious food to fantastic facepainting, the Shops at Legacy will be ringing in the new year by celebrating this year's holidays in style, on and off the rack. With shops and events that are friendly for the whole family (including your dogs!) you can knock out your shopping while also enjoying the holiday spirit.For more information please visit:https://shopsatlegacy.com/@ShopsAtLegacy on social media

Created in 1995, Intuitive Eating has exploded in cultural awareness in recent years. In this episode, I sat down with co-creators Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch to talk about intuitive eating’s origins, the evolution toward weight inclusive wellness and why they reworked the material for the newest edition (to be released June 2020) as anti-diet. Plus I read letters from four fellow dietitians at various stages of their careers to share the impact it has made on them personally and professionally. Body Kindness 100% embraces Intuitive Eating as the way to work with your body and heal your relationship with food. (It’s what saved me at my diet “rock bottom”. Research backs this up too with over 100 studies involving intuitive eating that have shown to help people psychologically and physically support their bodies and well-being. Visit bodykindnessbook.com/podcast for links and show notes. Links mentioned Intuitive Eating book Intuitive Eating workbook The Intuitive Eating Workbook For Teens A big thank you to dietitians Carrie Dennett, Ayana Habtemariam, Shannon Hughes and Kimmie Singh for sharing your intuitive eating stories. About Elyse Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD-S, Fiaedp, FADA, FAND, is a nutrition therapist in private practice in Beverly Hills, California, with over thirty-seven years of experience, specializing in eating disorders, Intuitive Eating, and Health at Every Size. She is the author of The Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens, the co-author of Intuitive Eating and The Intuitive Eating Workbook, a chapter contributor to The Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, and has published journal articles, print articles, and blog posts. She also does regular speaking engagements, podcasts, and extensive media interviews. Her work has been profiled on CNN, KABC, NBC, KTTV, AP Press, KFI Radio, USA Today, and the Huffington Post, among others. Resch is nationally known for her work in helping patients break free from the diet mentality through the Intuitive Eating process. Her philosophy embraces the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating. She supervises and trains health professionals, is a Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian, a Fellow of the International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, and a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook About Evelyn Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD is an award-winning registered dietitian, with a nutrition counseling practice in Newport Beach, California. She has written nine books including the bestsellers Healthy Homestyle Cooking and Intuitive Eating (co-author). Her newest book is the Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food. Evelyn was the nutrition expert for Good Morning America, appearing from 1994-’95 and was a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association for 6 years. She was contributing editor for Shape magazine where her monthly column, Recipe Makeovers, appeared for 11 years. She is often sought by the media for her nutritional expertise and has appeared on hundreds of interviews, including: CNN, Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, USA Today, Wall St. Journal and People magazine. Website | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook --- Get the Body Kindness book It's available wherever books and audiobooks are sold. Read reviews on Amazon and pick up your copy today! Order signed copies and bulk discounts here! --- Donate to support the show Thanks to our generous supporters! We're working toward our goal to fund the full season. Can you donate? Please visit our Go Fund Me page. --- Get started with Body Kindness Sign up to get started for free and stay up to date on the latest offerings --- Become a client Check out BodyKindnessBook.com/breakthrough for the latest groups and individual support sessions --- Subscribe to the podcastWe're on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Enjoy the show? Please rate it on iTunes! Have a show idea or guest recommendation? E-mail podcast@bodykindnessbook.com to get in touch. --- Join the Facebook groupContinue the episode conversations with the hosts, guests, and fellow listeners on the Body Kindness Facebook group. See you there! Nothing in this podcast is meant to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Individuals should consult a qualified healthcare provider for medical advice and answers to personal health questions.

This Friday Fill Up episode is to help you get moving so you can create momentum and reach mastery. Author, success coach, and radio show host, Shannon Hughes shares his inspiring story to help you look for and realize your own awakening moment! He shares how he has been unleashing his heart over the last 25 years! From a voluntary music teacher to a motivational speaker, Hughes found himself in an identity crisis when his music school closed after 20+ years of teaching there! After his awakening moment, Shannon accepted his gifts as a teacher and has turned his passion into his evolving business. He now interviews other leaders on his radio show, The Movement. ​If you wait for life to give you what you pray for, you might only see it coming after it hits you upside the head. In today's episode, Shannon reminds us all to get moving before fate jolts us out of our stillness. Check out everything Shannon is up to at https://www.shannondhughes.com/

https://hollyporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/part-2-holly-audio.m4a Shannon Hughes began volunteering teaching music to kids in 1996 and did so for 21 years.  Then from there branched into merchant processing and real estate whole selling in Chicago.  In 2016 he began doing motivational videos on social media. From there he launch a daily Motivational Minutes where it garnered a lot of attention.  That led to Shannon being asked to speak to at risk teens and support groups. He also got a chance to speak in a few cities in the United States. In August of 2017 Shannon launched his first book Your Motivational Manual Vol. #1 .  In 2018 was certified by the highly recognized John Maxwell program as a Speaker Coach and Business Consultant. Also in 2018 Shannon launch is fastly growing internet show The Movement on VoiceAmerica which can be heard every Wednesday at 2pm eastern and 11 am pacific.  His 2nd book Your Motivational Manual Vol. #2 will be launched in August 2018. Lastly his 3rd book will be launched late in 2018 Like us on FaceBook Connect on LinkedIn Follow on Twitter Shannon D Hughes’s Movement Instagram YouTube Pinterest Listen on Stitcher Channel Homepage Bookmark This Show Subscribe to RSS Feed Listen in iTunes www.shannondhughes-themovement.com Learn more from Holly Porter at www.HollyPorter.com. Email questions & inquiries to Holly@HollyPorter.com   https://youtu.be/P3_46Q7dUVo

Dr. Shannon Hughes and I talk about constructs surrounding spiritual experience and connection to Source. We touch on the scourge that is capitalistic, fundamentalist, power-hungry conditioning through our everyday social systems and how we can "deprogram" ourselves to live more fulfilling lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shane-lemaster/support

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00.30 Pilar talks about MOOCs and the use of technology in learning. 12.43 Shannon introduces Udemy and the story of its founder.16.30 What people are seeking to learn and how the way in which we interact with online learning is changing. 26.00 Udemy for Business and how corporate learning is evolving. 39.50 Pilar introduces her own Udemy course on Leadership and Change. For show notes, visit wlpodcast.com and look for episode 12.

Welcome to a tiny episode of 21st Century Work Life. I was actually just going to release a note saying that there wouldn’t be an episode today, but as I was about to do that, I got thinking about some work life related stuff and I thought, why not share some of it with you and make a mini-episode out of it. I’m currently away from my usual base but I’m still able to have a presence in social media for example, thanks to the way that some of these applications allow us to create content one moment and release it the other. Blog posts can be scheduled, podcasts can be pre-recorded and scheduled in advance so that they come out when I want them to, I can automate my tweets so that it looks like I’m active, when I might actually be completely unplugged and doing something completely different… To be honest, I didn’t schedule many tweets during the Christmas period, and that also made me think, I don’t really celebrate Christmas, I’m self-employed, and the kind of work I do means that I can pretty much set my own hours, and yet I still seem to follow conventional working patterns. If I don’t do any work over these days, I don’t feel that guilty and I just say to my employees, that’s myself, it’s fine, take a break, everyone else seems to be taking time off. What’s even more baffling to me is that even though I’ve been living in the UK for more than half my life now, I still take the Christmas period as ending on the 6th January, which is when it ends in Spain, on epiphany. So for me, I think it’s all right to take a break until then. Again, even though none of my clients expect me to work all the time, and even if I schedule a lot of my own work, there is this voice in my head that keeps saying, there’s a time to work and there’s a time when it’s ok not to work. Maybe it’s because still, the majority of the workforce works for 8 hours a day, on 5 days of the week, that the self- employed also seek some kind of structure by following the more conventional timetable. For example, yesterday I was listening to a podcast, the Rocking Self Publishing podcast (which by the way if you’re a writer or inspiring one, is well worth a listen) and the guest, Libby Hawker, said that every day, she sits down and writes for eight hours, as it’s her job. Very interesting that she didn’t say, I aim to write 5,000 words a day as that’s my job. Or, I work 2 hours in the morning, 2 in the afternoon and 2 in the evening. And it’s true, that I’ve heard many writers, especially those who’ve moved from full time employment, saying this kind of thing. There are also those who have a more flexible approach of course and in the end, everyone finds different patterns that work for them, but I find it interesting that even when you follow what might be considered a less conventional career, you still, or should I say, I still, follow the more conventional work patterns. I suppose, it’s still what I grew up with and it’s still how most of the world works, so it’s easier to find some kind of structure to adapt to it. So this is probably as much as I’m going to say today. I just wanted to say hello as it’s Friday, and I do like following a schedule with my podcasts, as in, the podcast comes out on Fridays, as is the case with this one, or Tuesdays, with the Spain Uncovered. This gives me a deadline, and so gives my work structure which is even more important when you’re organizing your own work. It also means that you listening and looking forwards to the podcast, know when to expect it. Of course, last week was a bit different as I didn’t want to release a podcast on boxing day for some reason (I suppose I’m going back again to conventional schedules) and so I released the retrospective on Tuesday. And talking of this episode, which by the way was great fun to record as it was only myself and Lisette talking about certain aspects of work and the future of work that had caught our eye during 2014, talking of this episode, thanks very much to David Roswell for the comment on the blog and also, thanks to Robert Svenson for the lovely tweet about that same episode. He described it as “an engaging conversation on workplace dynamics and trends” – I really liked the way you summarized that, Robert, thank you. So, see you next week. If you don't fancy popping onto this site every week to listen to the podcast,  just look for the 21st Century Work Life on your podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, whatever you use and Subscribe. Over the next few weeks, look out for interviews with Marta Texidor from Yammer and Shannon Hughes from Udemy, and of course, for more virtual coffee with Lisette. Have a great start to 2015!

The online education industry is lava hot, with tens of millions of adult students around the globe eagerly enrolling in paid digital courses, ranging from how to write computer code to knitting.   Founded in 2010, Udemy, based in San Francisco, is on the cutting edge of this new educational marketplace, having already enrolled more than 3 million students in its 18,000 online courses.  This week on Monday Morning Radio, Shannon Hughes, Udemy's senior director of marketing, reveals the numerous ways that small business owners and entrepreneurs can get straight A's and profit from the online education marketplace. Shannon is interviewed by Wizard Academy faculty member Dean Rotbart.  Dean and wealth management expert David Biondo are co-hosts of Business Unconventional. The one-hour radio newsmagazine debuted in October 2011 on News/Talk 710 KNUS AM in Denver. Be sure to follow B. Unconventional on Twitter: @BUnRadio and subscribe to Roy H. Williams's Monday Morning Memo.  The best things in life really are free!   Photo: Shannon HughesPosted: July 21, 2014Monday Morning Run Time:  34 minutes  39 seconds  

Discuss this episode in the Muse community Follow @MuseAppHQ on Twitter Show notes 00:00:00 - Speaker 1: Also something that makes it very unique is this like you’re you’re basically floating through space and you’re zooming deeper into your hierarchy and all of this is like a perfect illusion of seamlessness when it’s actually not seamless at all. 00:00:22 - Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Meta Muse. Use a software for your iPad that helps you with ideation and problem solving. But this podcast isn’t about Muse, the product, it’s about Muse, the company and the small team behind it. My name’s Adam Wiggins. I’m here today with my colleague Mark McGranaghan. Hey Adam, and my colleague, Julia Rogats. Hi, Adam. And Julia, you have now made 2 have 2 years in a row to spend the entire winter in a sunny location away from your home in Germany. How’s that working out for you? You can repeat that again next year? 00:00:56 - Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean, I guess we’ll see about next year and what traveling is going to be like in the future. Um, but at least for the past 2 years, I’ve really enjoyed that. I think, I mean, I love my hometown, Berlin, um. And I love being here in the summer, but in the winter it can get quite gloomy and dark and cold, uh, and I’m very much a sun person, so, um, yeah, I’ve really been making good use of this remote company set up and you know, make your own work hours for the most part. So spending lots of time in Adventurous places, kind of splitting my workdays in half, which is something that I really like to do, get some work done in the morning and then do something nice outdoors and then work some more hours in the night. Um, it’s been really been a really nice balance for me throughout the winter time. 00:01:42 - Speaker 2: You have a very impressive ability to get stuff done while also interleaving it with adventure. You’ll, you’ll ship some major new feature and then go whale watching. 00:01:57 - Speaker 1: And then fix a bunch of bugs and then go kayaking or I’d be like, guys, I’m going to be 20 minutes late from the meeting. I’ve just got back from a scuba dive. 00:02:04 - Speaker 2: That’s yeah, absolutely. But it’s also a reflection of the kind of work environment we built. Mark and I talked about this on a previous episode of trying to make a space that is flexible. For all of the the people on the team to live the kind of life they want to live. And for you apparently scuba diving and uh whale watching and kayaking is is the life you want to live. 00:02:23 - Speaker 1: Yeah, it’s definitely been amazing to not have to separate your life so much between like work and traveling. Like usually traveling for me always happened on vacation, um. And I actually find the mindset that I’m in uh when I travel, when I’m in a different country to be extremely stimulating in many ways and actually that to make me more productive. So being able to mix that has been quite a blessing. 00:02:47 - Speaker 2: So our topic today is iOS development, and then from you specifically, kind of our gesturerer system and why that’s so challenging to implement. But I thought maybe for contexts for people that don’t know how IS development works either because they know about software development generally, but not necessarily kind of mobile development, or even people who aren’t necessarily that familiar with how software gets built. They might like to know, what does it look like for you? You sit down in the morning or maybe the afternoon to work on some features or fix some bugs, you’re going to start crafting muse out of artisanal ones and zeros. What does that actually physically look like? What devices are you using? What software are you using? 00:03:31 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so in terms of devices, I use a MacBook first and foremost, as far as I know, you still can’t develop iOS or Mac software on any other platform. So that’s where everything starts and it comes with the with the IDE basically to develop for the iPad or iPhone, which is called X code. 00:03:51 - Speaker 2: IDE being integrated development environment. 00:03:54 - Speaker 1: Yes, correct. Uh, so basically it’s kind of the entire tool kit that you need to write software for the iPad or the iPhone. You write all your code there, you compile it there, you debug it there. So what I usually do um is that I plug in the actual physical iPad. The XO also comes with a simulator and you can run all of your um iOS apps in the simulator itself. So basically just brings up a little screen on your computer that looks like an iPad or an iPhone and you can do most things there. But for an app like ours, which is extremely gesture driven and we use the pencil for many things, it’s a bit tedious to actually um work with the simulator and some things aren’t possible at all. So I work with the physical device plugged in. You can actually also build to it wirelessly as of a couple of years ago, but it is a little bit unstable, so I try to just depend on the cable there. Um, and yeah, then I just write some code, like click one button and then it runs on the device and then I can test everything there. 00:04:59 - Speaker 2: And this is the SWIFT programming language. Uh, we’re storing our data, or sort of the persistence layer is core core data. Do we use any other fancy libraries or APIs or is it mostly just kind of the Apple gives you a pretty complete kit for development, everything from the editor through to the language and all that stuff, the simulator like you said. Uh, whereas like I come from Mark and I actually both come from more of a web development background, there you’re putting together more mix and match, uh, the tools, the language, and the different pieces. But here you get this one kind of, it’s the Apple style thing, you get this one pretty complete kit. 00:05:33 - Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. Um, so I think. It’s fairly rare for an IOS project to have no like zero dependencies to any sort of third party libraries, but ours are actually quite minimal. I think we have something in there, for example, for like zipping and unzipping files. That’s something that as far as I know is not built into the IRS kind of standard library. But for the most part, really like the IOS SDK is extremely comprehensible. You can do all kinds of things with it. They over the years they’ve added um much more stuff, especially from kind of open source third party frameworks that were very successful, have often been integrated in one way or another into the um IOS ecosystem or they’ve basically rolled their own, their own version of it. So our dependencies on on external frameworks is actually quite small. 00:06:28 - Speaker 2: And at one point we were doing the, maybe this is back when Muse was still a lab project or a persistence layer was Firebase, which is this kind of mobile back end data service from Google. Um, what was our, I think you like we like that pretty well, developer experience wise, but what, what led to us kind of replacing that with the Apple standard on device storage? 00:06:49 - Speaker 1: Well, I think the main motivation here was that we basically didn’t want to be dependent on Google and kind of giving giving our users data um to be stored on Google servers. So I think that was that was the main motivation. 00:07:02 - Speaker 3: Yes, speaking of Sending or not sending user data to Google. I’m really proud that we don’t have any third party analytics libraries integrated into Muse because these are notorious for scraping all kinds of data and sending it to a bunch of third parties. You saw this recently with Zoom, for example, where they had, I think it was the Facebook SDK integrated and apparently unbeknownst to them was sending all kinds of user data to Facebook, presumably for advertising purposes. Um, so I think that’s a really healthy thing that we have with our current minimal dependencies. 00:07:30 - Speaker 2: We do have analytics, but this is a, a system built by you or, or it’s sort of a roll our own type thing. 00:07:37 - Speaker 3: Yeah, and it’s it’s extremely minimal and deliberate. So every single field, which is like basically like 3 or 4 that we send this analytic service, are handpicked by us. It’s in our code, it’s it’s explicit versus a dependency that’s updating every week and it’s scraping new random things from the OS and sending it to third party servers where you have no control over it. 00:07:58 - Speaker 2: Mark, you end up building the back side of things. Ya, you do the client side of things. How do you coordinate around that API? How do you, how do you figure out how to make those two ends meet? 00:08:08 - Speaker 1: I think um for the most part, it’s been pretty lightweight. We chat on Slack about what’s needed for a certain thing. Um, often Mark ends up kind of drafting a notion document or something that like API docs or design specification kind of thing. 00:08:24 - Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So, so typically these notion docs will have first the mental model, which I think is really important, like what’s the shape of the domain here, what are the key objects and key verbs, and then a sketch of the HDP API which again is usually very simple, and then a discussion of the behaviors that are behind that. 00:08:41 - Speaker 1: And then as soon as we get into implementing that, um, it’s usually we end up being online around the same time and I’m telling him, OK, I’ve just implemented this API. Uh, is it deployed yet? Can I, can I start hitting it and then I’ve just, you know, depending on what it is, I send some sort of event and mark checks in the logs if you see if he’s seen the right thing and you know, often there’s a few things from there that we need to fix like something is not encoded in the right way, but we basically just tackle that together via Slack or a video call. 00:09:12 - Speaker 2: Be just to round out the tech stack discussion since we referred to the front end there with, you know, SWIFT and core data on the back end we’re basically doing Ruby postgrass and Hiroku, which for Mark and I is kind of our very standard tool kit. I think they say, you know, we came out of this research lab where our goal was to push the boundaries of technology and what what we can do there and try lots of Weird and interesting cutting edge things. But once you have, once you’re moving into the realm of production and commercial products, they say, choose boring technology. Choose the boring things that are workhorses that have worked really well. I’ve used Postgrass, for example, for, I don’t know, now 15 or 20 years, um, and there’s always a shiny new thing, but the stuff that’s really reliably and the stuff that is performed reliably for you for a long time is often just the thing to do. 00:10:02 - Speaker 3: Yeah, I’m really happy with our back end stack, and of course, Hiroku, but also Postgrass in particular, such a great database, super rock solid, super flexible, and now we can use it for both our sort of online um data as well as our analytics data. 00:10:16 - Speaker 2: Yeah, and a quick shout out on that kind of from the product perspective to data clips, which is a little way to bundle up a SQL query in a form that you can share it as a, um, as a web page. We use that quite a bit as our kind of our ad hoc analytics sharing system. Right, well, let’s get into the media part. I hopefully that gives some good context for um technical or um less technical folks about exactly what the pieces are here. Now getting into something that is pretty, and all of that I think is fairly sort of standard stuff that you might see in a in an iOS app or an iOS app that has a small back end. But getting into Muse, which is trying to really push the boundaries on what you can do with a tablet app, with these unique gestures, the different treating, treating the pencil differently from the the hands, that there’s multi-handed gestures and all this. So we have quite a bit of both design and engineering effort that has gone into our, our gesture system. But maybe we can start at the very beginning. Julia, what is a gesture? 00:11:20 - Speaker 1: A gesture is uh it’s a good question actually. I don’t think I’ve ever defined that for someone. Um, in terms of IOS development, there’s actually a whole system around gestures and gestures can be of one or more categories. So there is a pen gesture which would be just setting your finger down on a screen and moving it somewhere. You might be actually touching an item that you want to drag along, but you can also, you know, pen for any other reason, for example, to draw something. Then there are things like swipe gestures, which are also a pen in a way, but they’re like distinct here like just flipping through pages. Then there’s scrawling, which is a more of a continuous leaving your finger and scrawling something. There’s a scrawl gesture, um, there’s pinching, which is sort of you’re zooming in and out of of things and there’s a whole bunch of uh other gestures that you can. You can combine in your app to achieve different things, but they usually triggered with your finger or in our case or in some other apps cases also with a pencil. 00:12:22 - Speaker 2: Yeah, probably from a user perspective, you don’t even think that much about something like a tap, a double tap, a swipe, a pinch. These all part of the magic and the beauty, I think of multi-touch screens and why they’ve um Sort of taken over the the world in terms of interfaces, is that they do seem so natural, and it seems so obvious, the difference between, for example, a swipe, a scroll, and a pinch. But in fact, it’s quite a bit of logic to um make sense of that stuff. And I have experience with sort of mouse, um, wouldn’t call them gestures, but basically interpreting what the user does on a desktop computer with a mouse, um, in my past life as game developer, and There things are actually a lot simple because you’re a lot simpler because you generally have the X and Y position of the cursor and whether the buttons are down. And there is a time element for some things like double clicking, but it’s pretty minor. Most things are really discrete. Uh, the thing that I think really opened my eyes on this was, um, we both were at UIO last year where you gave a talk. And another talk there was, uh, Shannon Hughes, who worked for Omni Group. They make the some great productivity tools like Omnigraphle and Omnifocus. And she had worked on, I think the iPad app for one of these, and had done gone pretty far on these um these gestures and even has written an open source library for basically making a diagram. And she showed this, these kind of these gesture disambiguation diagrams, uh, in real time and you could see that actually this, there’s this huge time component where what makes a gesture a gesture is not a discrete moment in time. It’s a collection of positions and You know, touches in different places and movements of those touches over time and the accumulation of those things eventually resolves itself into the system deciding, OK, I just saw a pinch. 00:14:17 - Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And gladly we’re getting pretty much. All of that for free from the iOS SDK. So you could, if you wanted to and you, you know, you had the time or which is an interesting experiment for you. You could actually write all that yourself, so you can get just very raw touch input events from the system. If you have a screen. You can basically just implement a couple of methods that will fire whenever a finger goes down and moves somewhere just with a position and nothing else. And you could go from there and build your own, you know, this now. I think these fingers moved apart from each other, so it must be a pinch out. But um gladly the folks at Apple have gone through all of that work for us and uh developed this concept of a gesturerer that you can just attach to any view and that will make that view respond to specific gestures, for example, a pinch and just notify you when when that gesture first starts and then when it changes and also give you for a pinch, for example, it’ll give you the scale. So it starts out with a low scale and then As you pin, as you move your fingers further apart, the scale value will change and it will just notify your callbacks and uh then you can zoom or do whatever, whatever else you want to do with that pinch. 00:15:33 - Speaker 2: Now, if I was to look at the raw data, and I think I’ve seen test programs that do this, the screen or the the system that’s reading these touches, of course, doesn’t know which finger I’m setting down. So the difference between, you know, for me, where I can see my hand, it’s pretty obvious that if I, if I put down, for example, my thumb and my index finger near each other and move out, you know, that looks like a pinch gesture or put them down further apart and move in, that looks like a pinch. But the difference between doing that with my thumb and my uh pointer finger versus doing it with each thumb on each hand, which you could totally do. But the system can’t tell any difference. It just to text touches in certain locations and then those touches start moving. 00:16:17 - Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And that’s actually what makes everything so complicated that we’re trying to do. In fact, a pinch is even recognized when fingers only move. By only a very few pixels. So one example that I can give from from our app where this was a bit of a puzzle that we had to solve is we want to allow two fingers scrolling on a board. That means you sat down two fingers and you move them in, you know, either to the left or right to scroll the board. But we also have this sort of global pinch gesturerer that listens to you pinching out to zoom out back to the parent board. And that gesture is triggered by, or at least in the past has been triggered by even the most minimal movement. So we wanted to build the app in a way that is, that it’s super fluid so that it responds to your touches right away. That means that even if you set two fingers down on the screen and they converge by maybe 5 pixels towards each other, the system will consider that a pinch and will immediately start the zooming transition. So when you’re actually just using two fingers to try to scrawl, there’s basically no way that you can, you know, you’re not a robot, you’re not gonna be able to keep them completely parallel to each other. So we had to add a bit of custom disambiguation logic where. Pinche is only triggered after the fingers moved, you know, maybe by. a scale of 1.1, um, so by, you know, more than 10 or 20 pixels depending on, on where you started with your fingers, and that adds a little bit of delay to the system, you know, actually responding to your actions when you do want to pinch, which is a trade off, obviously, but it’s basically the only way that you can make these two gestures work together, um, and dis disambiguate them in some way. 00:18:13 - Speaker 3: Yeah, this delay issue is really interesting. One of our top level design goals for you is that it’s super fast and responsive. So the idea is, as soon as you touch the screen and do something, the app should respond. So you always feel like you’re directly manipulating your content. And as Julie was saying that’s really hard with these gestures that are potentially ambiguous. And in some cases we’ve taken this approach where you Uh, just try to have a very small delay, basically imperceptible delay that allows you to disambiguate. I mean, that seems to work pretty well. Another approach that I’m excited about trying is actually doing both optimistically, and then retroactively picking one once the disambiguation becomes more clear and rolling forward with that and unwinding the other one. So you can imagine with this pinch of You start doing a pinch last scroll. It’s ambiguous and it basically starts zooming imperceptibly and scrolling imperceptibly. And then once it becomes clear that you’ve done one or the other, it unwinds the thing that it wasn’t, you know, zooms out slightly, for example, and then keeps doing the thing that you were doing, scrolling, for example. 00:19:15 - Speaker 1: Yeah, we’re actually already doing some of that um in a similar, in a similar problem. So the same way that I was just talking about you can two fingers scroll anywhere on a board. Um, you can also drag any card on any board with one finger, and we deliberately, as you just pointed out, we deliberately wanted to make that instant. So most apps work in a way where you hold your finger down on something and then it sort of enters like maybe slightly lifts and enters into a movable state and then you can drag it around. Um, and that’s exactly the thing that we didn’t want, and I think one thing that makes news very unique that is like ultra responsive. So as soon as you set your finger down a card and you start moving it, you can even have your finger do a movement as you set it down. The the cart will start moving with you. And so the problem with then the two fingers scrawling here is that when you do want a two finger, you do want to use two fingers to scrawl, and in that case, we don’t want to move that cart as you sat down your two fingers, inevitably one of the two will set down first because again we’re humans, not robots. So even if it’s just a fraction of a second, that first finger that comes down and moves by one pixel will trigger the car movement. But then the other finger comes down and then the system actually recognizes, oh, it’s a scroll, and it actually cancels the car movement. So you might sometimes if you do it very fast and if your, your first finger goes down noticeably earlier than the other one, you will see your your card start dragging and then jumping, kind of animating back into place where you picked it up from and then the scrolling kicks in. So we’re using that trick already a little bit in the app, but it’s quite cumbersome to implement that. So I hope, I hope eventually we’ll have more of a unified approach for this kind of thing. 00:21:07 - Speaker 2: Can you talk a little bit about what the overall framework here is? Um, is it essentially a giant case statement or a series of statements or is it more of a state machine or what does that what does that look like? 00:21:20 - Speaker 1: Yeah, it currently isn’t really. Uh, very cohesive system, um, because of how some of the components interact. So you still want to be able to kind of give individual components the the ability to control themselves basically without writing this this global gesture handler. 00:21:41 - Speaker 2: By component to control itself, here you’re talking about. That there’s not one entry point for someone to touch the screen. It’s more you want to attach a, a snippet of code or a piece of functionality to say a card, and it, it sort of knows, so to speak, how to, um, how to manage touches that it it receives, and that can be somewhat dependent from what another card does. 00:22:04 - Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So for the cards, actually, um, we do have a bit more of a global approach because of how much the card dragging interacts with other things like zooming in and out of boards while you’re dragging a cart along. 00:22:16 - Speaker 2: So is this the maneuver? 00:22:19 - Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the maneuver that made everything so difficult for us. 00:22:23 - Speaker 2: OK. Well, in the backstory here is it’s pretty critical, right? There’s, you know, if you’re inside a board and you have one or more cards you want to take elsewhere. You can, um, you can stick it in the inbox. There’s kind of, you know, maybe you can use copy paste, but that’s kind of a hassle. Really, what you want to do is grab it and then navigate to your new location. And in fact, that’s how it works. Sometimes we call it the two-handed card carry. So you can put your finger down, you’ve kind of picked up, so to speak, that one, and then if I pinch out with the other hand, I’m essentially now I can freely navigate around and I kind of keep this other card in this floating state. Um, but that’s the thing that doesn’t work if the gesture handlers attached to the card itself. 00:23:04 - Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, because the gesture, uh, in, in order to be able to carry the card into a different space, we basically have to detach it from its parent. So before I was living on this board, and then if you had a gesture recognizer attached directly to the card, you can move it around the board, but as soon as you put it uh to a different parent, The gesture uh recognizer actually cancels and you basically lose that gesture. And so in our case, in order to be able to carry it to a different board, we basically have to put it um on the top level hierarchy, basically attach it to your window. So that you can zoom potentially many levels deep or or further up your hierarchy um until you find the board where you want to put that card and let go. 00:23:52 - Speaker 2: So many of these things that are challenging is because Muse does come from a a different set of product design principles. And one of them is this certainly the spatial zooming um interface, but also that we want to maintain this illusion of a continuous fluid space. Um, I think with many other kinds of applications, you have this sense of going to different screens or different pages, and you know that when you go to, when you, when you navigate to that new screen or page, all of the kind of stuff that was on the previous screen just goes away or isn’t relevant in this new place. And I think that’s fine for a music player or something like that, but what we’ve tried to create this space where you have this big workspace and you can move stuff around freely between it. But then the kind of libraries and the APIs that come with, certainly the iOS system or I think any kind of UI system is just not built, uh, assuming that, assuming you want to do something like that. 00:24:47 - Speaker 3: Yeah, this is, this is an aside, but I really like that there’s no loading screens in Muses. You don’t open documents or load them, they’re just there when you look at them, and that seems obvious, but when you go back and use an app where you’re constantly loading documents, waiting for them to open, it’s just a totally different experience. So I think it’s worth the effort that we go through on the technical side. 00:25:07 - Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh you know, not, not least of that um the the sort of challenging model that we chose for Muse, which is also something that makes it very unique is this like you’re you’re basically floating through space and you’re zooming deeper into your hierarchy and all of this is like a perfect illusion of seamlessness when it’s actually not seamless at all. Basically every new board that you load has to be rendered by the system. It has to be, you know, loaded into memory. And we, there’s some tricks we’re using there, but it’s uh it’s certainly not, not easy to keep up that illusion all the time. 00:25:43 - Speaker 2: Mark, I think you’ve made the comparison to video game development at various points, and this does actually remind me of, you mentioned loading screens. Video games with big continuous worlds, which is, I think, pretty common in today’s um kind of open world games. This actually has a similar technical challenge that you don’t want to interrupt the players' movement and and give them a now loading screen that really kind of is a kink in the experience or or removes that illusion of being one continuous world. But in fact, when you have this huge world that can’t possibly fit in memory, uh, you do need some way to handle that. I think there are similar, I think, I feel like a lot of the tricks that we’ve landed on to make this work, uh, for Muse actually would be quite right at home in the video game world. 00:26:29 - Speaker 3: Absolutely. Circling back to gestures, then perhaps we can talk about gesture spaces. So this is the idea of the A kind of set of gestures that is possible in the app and the the actions that you can do with that, we found that to be a really interesting challenge with Muse. the set of things that you could do with your hands or the pencil and the actions in the app that that maps to. And one of the reasons this is so challenging is it tends to be much more constrained than a desktop app. So on desktop, you have the mouse, you have the two buttons, you have the mouse scroll wheel, you have the whole keyboard, and then you typically have the menus and the pattern of a right click menu or a press and hold menu. Whereas on mobile, you know, traditionally you just have like basically one finger, and with uhm we’re trying to extend it to, you have 10 fingers and uh the pencil, but it’s still quite limited. You don’t have, for example, a menu where you can just add a bunch of stuff as you have more functionality in the app. So whenever you add a new feature, you need to find a way to invoke that with your hands, which isn’t easy because there’s a quite limited uh space um to draw from. So, so that that that results in a few concrete challenges. One is, you need to come up with particular gestures. So an example for us is we need to find a way to um pick the color of ink you’re using, and for that we have the swipe from the edge of the screen. Gesture, which is I think pretty novel, and I guess that’s something that’s built into iOS. 00:27:55 - Speaker 1: Yeah, the, the swipe from the screen with your pencil gesture is actually quite a harrowing thing that’s still an ongoing problem for us. So IOS actually does have a deliberate, I think it’s called UIH swipe gesturerer or something like that. So that there’s a way that you can attach a gesture listener to only swipes that happen from outside the device into the screen and I think iOS uses that for all of their system-wide thing like you can summon the dock from the bottom or you can. Gate back by swiping from the left. Um, and I was when I was initially implementing this menu, I was like, oh great, we’ll just use swipe gesture recognizer like that and we make it fire only for the pencil because notably those gestures, the system-wide gestures and IOS don’t work with the pencil. You can’t summon the dog with the pencil or you can’t pull in the Control center with your pencil from the top. So I thought they would just be up for grabs, those gestures, but unfortunately that edge swipe gesture recognizer does not work with the pencil. 00:29:05 - Speaker 3: Surprisingly often, we’ve run into the sort of edge of the map on the iOS APIs uh because we’re doing things that are quite unusual in Muse. 00:29:16 - Speaker 2: And what do you do for testing and debugging this stuff? You, you’ve talked about the simulator, but that’s pretty poor for uh for this kind of thing. There’s obviously you have the physical device there. How do you test this stuff? 00:29:28 - Speaker 1: Yeah, so testing gestures um is, is, you know, obviously a little bit harder than than other debugging in some cases because you can’t just put a breakpoint in the middle of a gesture to see exactly what’s going on. I mean you can but then you basically, when you then focus your attention back to the screen. And to try to see what’s going on, you have to lift your finger from the device that you were just testing on and then once you, once you continue execution, that that gesture will have ended. So what I usually do is I put a lot of logs. So if I’m trying to disambiguate some gestures and often it’s like very finicky, like which one fires first and then what what like what finger went down first and was it on a card or on the board um and then I just go manually through those locks and try to try to figure out um the the sequence in which things are happening and where I can where I can intervene and uh tweak things. Another thing that we uh that we use internally for debugging is that we have a little system that actually visualizes your touches on the screen that often helps to kind of explain to other people in the team, look, when I’m doing this gesture, um, something happens that shouldn’t be happening and there’s a way that we can activate um basically little blue circles showing up around where your fingers are and little um and different colored circle for your pencil. And then it’s really easy to kind of record a video or do a screen share where you show your um your peers what exactly you’re trying to do and what where where exactly your fingers are when certain things happen. So that’s, that’s kind of been a useful team, team. I would say. 00:31:11 - Speaker 2: Yeah, by sharing a video, you’re showing a not only a reproducible case, but then you can even kind of slow. I find it useful sometimes to slow down the video or pause it to to figure out exactly what’s happening there, where and can, can make it more reproducible. I’m sure we can get more sophisticated with those tools over time, but yeah, those colored circles have proved, combined with the screen recordings have proved, uh, remarkably useful for us in testing. Uh, you mentioned earlier the uh the operating system gestures like summoning a doc from the edge, uh, talking about the stylus from the edge reminded me of the, uh, take a screenshot by going uh stylus in from the um one of the corners. I wonder what happens in the case when we end up colliding with OS system gestures. For example, we had some some capabilities in the app when I was more in kind of beta prototype phase that did involve dragging up from below, and those would get in the often interfered or or had a bad interaction with the. Uh, with the OS summit a dock, and notably, I think when we started working on the app, it was before the dock had been introduced, so that gesture to summon the dock didn’t exist, but later it became totally foundational. Hall, now iPads and iPhones don’t have home buttons to take you. Home button you swipe up from the bottom. But then we basically had a swipe from the edge of the screen and specifically the bottom gesture, and that was colliding with that in a pretty bad way. And we, we basically had to make a make a change there. 00:32:43 - Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I think the general rule is here um that the operating systems. So this this has been a trend over the past couple of years where where um DOS is actually has been taking over more and more. gestures, particularly around the edges of the screen, and in many cases for apps that means they’ll just have to change their gesture system. There is a way that you can, you can basically override these gestures once and tell them that you know, I actually want to get this swipe first. So this is something that we we tried out when we had the the thing that you were able to pull in from the bottom. Um, you can tell the system to defer its system gesture to let your Uh, your own app, get that gesture first and what that does is that it, um, it makes your app execute the gesture, but then also brings up this like little arrow thing. Um, and if the user actually if the user’s intent was actually to pull up the dock, then they have to basically do the gesture again on the arrow and then pull up the dog. But that makes a lot of users very angry and I think rightfully so if you, yeah, if you, if you learn how to how to use your device and you kind of have muscle memory about around certain things and certainly Uh, such fundamental things as, you know, switching an app and pulling up the dock, then you don’t really want apps to interfere with that or kind of override it with their own default behavior. So you basically just have to cave in. 00:34:11 - Speaker 3: Yeah, and there’s a risk here of major gesture space reflow. So I mentioned how we’re using basically all the gesture space that we know of for the app. It’s all packed with our different features and functionality, and so, if the OS takes away just one. You could have this musical chair situation where one of the features of the app doesn’t have anywhere to sit. And so then you need to, you know, figure something totally different out for your gesture space, you know, open up a whole new room, for example. Um and we’ve gone through that a few times where we were just short of the degrees of freedom that we needed, so we need to basically rethink how all of our gestures work. 00:34:47 - Speaker 2: Just recently, a friend of mine was learning the terminal, the Unix terminal, and in the process of doing this, this was on a Windows computer, I was surprised to learn that the copy command does not work, so they’re used to pressing control C. But it turns out the Control C has a long history well predating the existence of copy paste buffers to break out of a program in the Unix command line. So typically these terminals on the Linux and and uh uh Windows will basically take over that control C because they need it for the sort of for the historical compatibility. And in fact, users are quite used to that as a way to break out of a program. But then if you’re expecting that that’s a copy, which is an absolutely crucial uh capability that people rely on all the time, uh, it’s quite confusing, distracting, annoying that that gets blocked and you need to use essentially another key command or another way of doing copy. So that sort of thing has existed since time immemorial, but maybe iOS and the iPad in particular, such of a quickly evolving. Uh, new space. And so we’re trying to push the frontier, but then the operating system maker is also trying to push the frontier and then simultaneously, of course, as we explore the space, the likelihood of collisions is reasonably high. 00:36:05 - Speaker 1: And I think we’re already trying to do a lot of things differently, um, but we can’t possibly overload the user with too many weird things. So in some cases just doing the standard thing is probably also a good idea. 00:36:17 - Speaker 2: We’re definitely pushing right up against the ceiling of a number of weird things for the for the user to learn. 00:36:23 - Speaker 3: So, Julia, looking forward, what are you excited to try in the gesture system? 00:36:28 - Speaker 1: So I’m actually still kind of flirting with this idea of um something that you you referenced earlier um talking about this uh this new icon talk by Shannon Hughes where she introduced this idea of actually building an entire state machine that manages all the gestures in your app. So that way you you have one centralized place that always knows about what’s going on and what’s possible to go from one state to the next. So if you One if you set down a finger on the screen. From there it might be possible to go into a pinch or into a drag cart and the state machine would handle all of the valid states and state transitions and that way you you have a more deterministic and consistent approach to things and you don’t have to. scatter different different um dependencies across different components of your app that I have to check, am I currently dragging a card? Do I need to cancel that drag in order to start the scroll. Um, so I think a bit more centralized approach there could actually be interesting, but it would also be a lot of work, um, so currently we haven’t. We haven’t made that a focus yet because what we have is working pretty well, but if, if, if we ever get bored or if this ever becomes a huge issue, I think that would be something that I would be excited to try. 00:37:50 - Speaker 2: While there’s way more to talk about here since we’ve invested a huge amount of time into uh this gesture system and certainly will going forward, uh, perhaps we’ll leave it there. So if any of our listeners out there have feedback, feel free to reach out to us at UAHQ on Twitter or hello at musesApp.com by email. Love to hear your comments and ideas for future episodes. You very glad that you’re uh working hard to make it possible for Muse users to have this fluid and powerful interface for interacting with their ideas. 00:38:25 - Speaker 1: Thanks. Yeah, it’s been uh obviously a lot of fighting but also a lot of fun.