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(Shawni, middle, as a child in London) On today's show, Richard and Linda interview their daughter Shawni, well-known blogger (71toes.com) and podcaster (In the Arena with the Eyre Sisters) about her life, her family, and the motivation behind her ongoing work to help and improve parenting and families. Briefly covering Shawni's life from childhood through her education, her mission, and her own marriage and family, the conversation stems into encouragement for all parents.
We are so excited to have our mom, Linda Eyre, join us in this week's episode as we chat about parenting through the generations. We discuss the differences and similarities between parenting when our mom had young kids, through Saren and Shawni, to Saydi, who's in the middle, and then Charity, who still has young kids. We hope you can relate as we talk about the challenges as well as the good things about our time of parenting. Hop on Instagram and let us know your thoughts! @eyresisters Show Notes: Our parents' free books
Réecoutez le FG Voyage aux jardins du presbourg de Paris du mardi 31 octobre 2023 Pensés comme un jardin d'intérieur au pied de l'Arc de Triomphe dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris par l'architecte-designer Martin Brudnizki, Les Jardins du Presbourg offrent une parenthèse onirique à deux pas de la Place de l'Étoile et de l'Avenue de la Grande Armée. Au bar, dans les salons, sous la véranda ou bien sur la terrasse, le cadre des Jardins du Presbourg se tamise au fur et à mesure de la journée pour laisser place à une ambiance animée, musicale et festive en soirée. Ce lieu végétal aux tons pastels et dorés se vit du lever du soleil à la nuit tombée. Music by Arnaud Godefroy (FG CHIC) Tracklist 1-Massiande-Dancing Is Life (feat. Diamondancer) 2-LEGATO-I'll Never Forget You (Extended Mix) 3-&ME-The Rapture, Pt. II 4-Pablo Fierro-Before 5-Rampa & Sparrow & Barbossa-Champion 6-Shad-d-Radiance (Tommyboy Tulum Mix) 7-WhoMadeWho-Abu Simbel 8-Made By Pete & Zoe Kypri-Horizon Red 9-Fake Mood-Let It All Burn (feat. Shawni) 10-Adam Port & Alan Dixon-Forms of Love 11-Michael Ritter-Rufisque
Roger Beless (Chief Operating Officer for StreetLights Residential) discusses both the value of mentoring others and the need of having a mentor in yourself. He shares examples of ways to organically make a difference in the lives of others. Apartment Life Coordinator, Shawni describes how she serves three diverse communities at the same time in Seattle, WA. Because each community has its own culture and identity, they need special attention in different ways. She also explains how to connect with local restaurants and vendors to stretch the monthly budget and to expose residents to the greater community nearby.
(Rerun from 05/28/22) After a family week in Costa Rica and a few days in LA for Richard's national tennis tournament, the Eyre's are casting today from Phoenix where their granddaughter's high school graduation. They are joined on today's podcast by their daughter Shawni, a prominent mom-blogger (71toes.com) in a discussion of UNITY in politics, in communities, in Church, and in Families. Are we more divided than ever before, and what is the path to more UNITY?
Recorded 18 June 2023 Tracklist: 1. Falling Short - Låpsley 2. Weak (Tiger Stripes Remix) - Maya Jane Coles 3. Aaaiii (Kate Simko Remix) - Eddie Richards 4. Mirrored Screen (Original Mix) - Sobek, Mulya 5. Under Dark (Innellea Remix) - Monolink 6. Jo Gurt (Stephan Bodzin Remix) - Super Flu 7. Trust feat. Bajka (Gregorythme Remix) - Bajka, Pirupa 8. Surrender (Original Mix) - ANNA 9. Concrete Jungle - Transhumanism Project (1/3) (Original Mix) - Innellea 10. Accordia (Original Mix) - Adriatique, Marino Canal 11. Circle Imfori (Original Mix) - Ikaro Grati 12. Loss Of Hope (Original Mix) - Innellea 13. Her Entrance (Innellea's Interstellar Remix) - Parra for Cuva 14. Stole the Night (Ame Remix) - Howling 15. Wizard Of Love (Modular Project Remix) - Blond:ish, Shawni
У новым выпуску Musique Kaleidoscope ад Radio Valera – порцыя летняга дыска, nu-disco і organic house ад Junior Boys, Astro Bob, Waldemar Schwartz, Zero 7, Blond:ish & Shawni, The New Age Orchestra, Rae & Christian, Alison Goldfrapp і Jaga Jazzist.
dattrax: What's going on in your world Fellow House Lovers??!! Welcome to the place where house music rests.I hope that all is well with you and your life. That you stay positive and win the tiny battles in your mind for your benefit. That you are striving to improve each day. Working and grinding at your passions. Discarding or displacing any negative thoughts or people. Surrounded by people who love and don't judge you. But they check you when you're going off the rails. You can't just do anything, right? LMAO. That's my Chinese fortune cookie for today.I hope that you enjoy this mix and that it puts a smile on your face and a bounce in your steps. Thank you for stopping by and giving us a listen. We really really appreciate you. The Podomatic dashboard analytics say that our mixes are being listened to and downloaded by thousands all over the world. We move from #7 to #35 in just the house music category in Podomatic and I believe that's over 6,000 house music podcast creators. Thank you for helping us with that.This mix starts off with much more aggressive energy. You'll feel like you just entered the club at the height of the party. [The playlist needs some scrolling down these show notes].Felt like a more thumpin' mix. I usually like a smooth journey from mellow to wherever I'd like to go and end up, but wanted something different for this one.This is a short but sweet mix. Just an hour and 8mins (not like the 3-4hr excursions I've been taking the last few years to release all the negativity from my mind, heart, and body). [I was getting myself into the mood since I was hours from DJing a private BDay party of a Toronto chef and now a friend, Jo Castrinos. WOWZERS. What a party!! Incredible event space and crowd!! I spun for 3.5hrs!!]I had to cut off the last track short because of a major trainwreck. LMAO. Yes, not DJing too frequently over the last 6mths and it's something I need to do 3X's per week in order to stay sharp.We're fanatics when it comes to house music. Ever since I was 15yrs old. Started buying vinyl records at 18. 36 crates of records later, then moved to almost 8,000 digital tracks. Compulsive and obsessive? Definitely. Enjoy my passion over the last 30+yrs. It keeps me young and I'd probably give young house DJs a run for their money. Ha ha ha.All the best to you and to your continued success or your progress toward your comeback (I'm working on my comeback from a really shitty 2022). If you're new to our brand/style of house music, then I'd recommend these 7 mixes as an intro. There are 145+ mixes on this site. The music is fresh as we've always bought cutting-edge sounds in multiple genres of house music. We love to listen, spin and dance to what's great in house, regardless of groupings. I still buy 30-60 tracks per month. Yes, still addicted to house music at 49yrs old. LMAOTo Be Near You:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2023-04-21T13_05_58-07_00House Within:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2023-03-24T09_48_24-07_00At This Juncture:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2023-01-10T19_59_15-08_00When Words Fail:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2022-11-17T21_25_26-08_00Living Off Script:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2022-11-17T20_26_29-08_00Reflected Love:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2022-10-23T21_47_08-07_00datfrotech:https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax/episodes/2022-07-26T13_12_42-07_00 ---------------How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes.Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places we've been a part of online.Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy.Isn't music such a great escape?---------------DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com---------------Any support would be appreciated if you'd like to donate or support our music addiction. This is our PayPal Donate email that you can use: dattrax@gmail.com---------------As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (on the dancefloors or even in your homes or while walking about, walking your doggies, working out, driving, or whatever you're doing) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!---------------28 Tracks in 1hr and 8mins!!Tides (Toto Chiavetta Edition 2022) Beanfield, Bajka, Toto ChiavettaNude (Rampa Remix) Adriatique, RampaFreaky Behaviour - Friction Suspence (Original) Random Groove Douglas GreedDeep Inside - MAW - special edit by Little Louie Vega on a mix cd, Ministry of Sound For The Gs (Original) Derek Dunbar and Wally CallerioLove to Me featuring Yota (Manuel Perez Remix) Hakan Lidbo0.19 (Moosefly Remix) Evans, Shawni, MooseflyLoved Shared - Detox Twins 2far Gone (Original) Guerilla ScienceBreakaway - Bassment Jaxx Beirut Boogie - Original Mix SebboYour Friend Remixes (Franky Rizardo Remix) Gregor Salto ft ChappellHoly Melancholy (Tribes) ShiprinskiTicket to Ride (Freaky Behaviour Remix) TouristCan You See My Light (Neter Supreme's Darkness Is Light Dub Instrumental) Willy Washington Starring Gary Adams, Neter SupremeCry Baby (Original Mix) Medicine 8, Kurtis HardriveUnderground Collective In Colombia Ep 2 (Main Mix) Marlon DParadise (Original Mix) CN WilliamsVenus (Sunshine People Remix) CheekRitz KB SwingMissing-Nicola Fasano ft. Paula B.- Oliver Berger rmx Kitale (Original Mix) Sam OneGiano_Feeling Good_Blatttraxx Wild Boys-Duran Duran and Magdalena-Einmusik, Stimming Re-Rub Sweet Lullaby (Justin C Justin Xara remix) Deep ForestShow Me Love vs. Be Robin S ft. Steve Angello & Laidback LukeAin't Nobody Feat. Onita Boone (Mousse T.'s Ain't No Good Man Mix) Seductive Souls, Onita Boone, Mousse T---------------Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.Or you can visit our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ and it'll automatically redirect you here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax ---------------THIS IS THE BEST OPTION to Get Our Entire Collection + Notices of Any New Mix Posted: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with an email and password, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! With the app on your cell, you'll have access to 145+ mixes, the last 30+yrs of our lives in the cracks of time between family, friends, and work. The Podomatic app will list all the mixes from newest to oldest.---------------All tracks bought from https://www.traxsource.com/ and https://www.beatport.com/This mix was created on a Native Instrument's "Traxtor Kontrol S4" controller MK3 version, a crappy PC laptop, and sometimes, we'll additionally use two Stanton 150 direct drive turntables with Traxtor's control vinyl records. That's the best for maximum fun and tactile feel and control
Summer is just around the corner! Join us for our last episode of season 2 as we discuss ideas for meaningful and do-able summer activities. We dive into ideas for little kids, elementary-aged kids, high school kids, and even your adult kids. What do you do to make summer awesome in your family? This week's challenge is to come up with the summer plan that best fits YOUR familiy. We'd love to have you share your ideas and plans with us on Instagram! @eyresisters Have a great summer, and we'll see you next season! Show Notes: Saren's post about her Do-it-Yourself Summer Camp Shawni's blog post for summer ideas Shawni's blog post on Claire's experience Shawni's blog post on summer goals with a plan Shawni's other blog post on summer goals The Parenting Breakthrough book
The call to parent in this life is one that Elder Uchtdorf said, “reflects the pattern of heaven.” The opportunity to help raise the rising generation—both as parents and leaders—can be a privilege and a responsibility. Elder Uchtdorf taught in his April 2023 General Conference message that Jesus Christ can be our strength and our guide as we try to parent and teach like Him. "In the eternal perspective, it will all work out." - Shawni Pothier This episode features two sisters—Saren Loosli and Shawni Pothier—and Kathryn discussing Elder Uchtdorf's recent message in General Conference, April 2023. They discuss this message and how small and simple efforts as parents and leaders can be magnified by the Lord. Top takeaways from this episode: God has given us an enormous amount of trust as parents to raise his children, and we need to be able to trust our children as well as we follow the divine pattern of heaven. Look for miracles that happen as parents and celebrate our children's wins! God is a god of second chances, so when we feel like we've made a mistake in parenting, it's important to remember that he always gives us more chances. Life is long, and there is so much time to recover and repair relationships in this life. An apology for your child can go a long way. Small and simple invitation: Pray very specifically for an act of love that you can do on a regular basis with your families. Search for what the mighty change of heart that we find in the scriptures might be for this love.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Shawni Davis is New York State's first African American female master electrician with more than 15 years of experience in the construction industry. She has a conversation with Vaughn Lowery (360 MAGAZINE) about NGLCC certifications, national conventions as well as small business cohorts.Read more.
dattrax: Hiya Fellow House Music Lovers. Welcome and thank you for checking in and taking this mix for a ride. Welcome to where house music lives. Obsessive is putting it mildly how I feel about house music. LMAO. Last week, I decided to book 5hrs @ctrlroom (my pals, Hubert and Ian's DJ studio - https://www.youtube.com/@CtrlroomCa/videos in the 'Junction' area in Toronto) and invited a bunch of friends old and new to DJ and dance together on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Turning 49 last Sunday would've been crap if I was home alone. What a party we had. It was wonderful and beyond fun. It made me so happy to see so many old friends and met a few new ones. We danced, drank, talked, hugged, and laughed. Everything house music is about. Good friends and good music, what more can I ask? I'm very thankful. I've been the happiest in a very long time.It's been the most challenging last 15mths, but moments like this make all the shitty times worth it. ---------------Whatever you're going through. Hang on. Stay positive. This too will pass. Go to your happy place. Displace the negative in your mind. Don't fight it. Just replace it.Music, friends, writing, reading, long walks with your doggie, whatever you do that makes you calm and happy. Go do it. Each day is a new opportunity to write a different chapter in our lives. My favourite quote that has held me through many dark times. May it encourage you:"Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit." - Napolean HillI want the best for you. But you have to decide to be happy. Thank you so much for joining me for the next three and a half hours. I'm going to take you through some of my favourite house tracks. Some may be new to you or some may bring back some great memories. I just want to put a smile on your face and take you away for a little while. ---------------Thank you to my friend, Jonathan for introducing me to "Go Deep". We heard it in his car after an amazing GUS Crew party a few weeks back. Such a gorgeous track from beginning to end. Masters at Work (Little Louie Vega & Kenny 'Dope' Gonzalez) has ruled the Toronto house scene for three decades. Every good house DJ has a few dozen MAW records in their collection. Thank you to my friend, Davidson for introducing me to "Girls Like That!". Soooooooooooo good!! What a fun and funky and bumpy track with vocal snippets that sound like some old Barbera Tucker tracks.The last track is "Gabriel" and is for my friend, Marcus' daughter, and for another special someone. Both are named Gabriela.Probably anyone over 40yrs and who lives in Toronto knows this beautiful track from 1996 by Roy Davis Jr and featuring the incredible vocals of Peven Everett.Photo Credit: Marcus Saroop, a professional opera star, a husband, father, friend, househead, and an amazing man.---------------How do we describe the dattrax sound? Always Fun, Tech-Fused, Funky-Foot Stompin', Carved Deep and Woven & Laced with Sweet Smooth Hands in the Air Vocals... Strictly House Music- always dattrax.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you've enjoyed our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy.Isn't music such a great escape?---------------DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com---------------Any support would be appreciated if you'd like to donate or support our music addiction. This is our PayPal Donate email that you can use: dattrax@gmail.com---------------As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (on the dancefloors or even in your homes or while walking about, walking your doggies, working out, driving, or whatever you're doing) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!---------------70 Tracks in 3hrs and 27mins!!Horizon Red - Made By Pete, Zoe KypriI
Parenting adult kids is a whole new ballgame, folks! We talk about how our parents approached parenting us in our adulthood then Saren and Shawni share their experiences with adult kids as they've moved from parenting to coaching to cheerleading. Saydi chimes in with a lot of great questions she's been thinking about as her oldest is about to head off to college soon. Do you have adult kids? What works for you? Share your ideas and thoughts on Instagram @eyresisters. Show Notes: Grandparenting course by our parents Shawni's post on parenting adult kids A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (book mentioned by Shawni) Quote shared by Saydi about having a child is like having your heart walking around outside of your body
Come join us for a fun discussion on traditions as we wrap up Season 1. We really enjoyed talking about traditions we had growing up around birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. We also shared evolved and new traditions we have in our homes now. Traditions don't have to be fancy or stressful - they just need to be something that connects your family. We challenge you to do a tradition inventory so you and your family can decide which traditions to keep, which to get rid of, and maybe talk about some new ones to add. We'll be doing this too! Come share with us your meaningful family traditions on our instagram account! Show Notes: Link to Saren's Simplified Easter Week Guide: https://poweroffamilies.com/easter-week-ideas/ Link to Saydi's do it yourself halloween - http://bostonshumways.blogspot.com/2011/11/do-it-yourself-halloween.html?m=1 Link to Saren's son Ashton's post about Thanksgiving - https://poweroffamilies.com/easter-week-ideas/ Link to Shawni's post about giving on Christmas eve https://71toes.com/2010/12/christmas-eve-part-2/ Shawni's version of Christmas Eve Jerusalem supper: htps://71toes.com/2015/12/christmas-eve-2015/
It can be really tricky to know how to get our kids to listen and obey. In today's episode, we discuss ways our parents helped us to "buy in" to the family legal system, how they implemented consequences, and what overall what discipline looked like in our home growing up. We also talk about ways we discipline in our own homes. After reflecting on all of this, we all agree on the key to discipline - connection! What ways do you build connections and create environments where kids want to behave in your homes? Head over to Instagram and share with us! Resources Mentioned: - Saren's "Home Environment Assessment" to help you see what more you can do to set your kids up for good behavior - Shawni's Blog Page About Mothering Tips She Loves
Today's episode focuses on the teen years! Saren, Shawni, and Saydi share experiences from their growing-up years, as well as things they're implementing in their own homes now. What do you tips do you have for the teen phase? Come share with us on Instagram! Resources We Mentioned: - How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk - The Miracle of Mindfulness
This week we continue our discussion about our family motto: broaden and contribute. Listen in as we talk about how our parents instilled a contributing-to-the-world mindset in our family growing up, and ways we're continuing that with our children. We want our kids to feel for others and feel empowered to know they can do something to make a difference. In what ways do you help your children contribute? Listed below are movies & books we recommend to help your family develop a desire to contribute: - Thirst - Kisses from Katie - The Promise of a Pencil - Shawni's blog has a post discussing these books here - The Good Lie - Queen of Katwe - The Blind Side Listed below are organizations we recommend if you're looking for ways to contribute: - CharityVision (Check out Shawni's blog post here) - Rising Star in India (blog post) - OSSO, (blog post) - Family Humanitarian (blog post) - Choice Humanitarian - Care for Life Also, if you're interested in the toolkit Saydi mentioned that her daughter made for the Children for Children Concert, click here. And read more about how to do a Children for Children concert on Shawni's blog, here.
Today's episode comes to us from Paris where the Eyre's are gathering with some of their children, particularly the ones that live in Europe. Richard and Linda follow up on their Grandparenting 101 Zoom course that started last week, and are then joined by Saren, Shawni, and Saydi, three of the four daughters who have just launched a new podcast called In The Arena with the Eyre sisters. Together, they talk from Paris about "Intentional, Deliberate Parenting."
dattrax: Hiya Fellow House Music Aficionados from Toronto and around the world!! Welcome!!How has life been treating you? If not treated well, then...Are you doing what's true to you to get the most out of each situation? Are you refusing to be mauled by unfortunate circumstances? Are you choosing to stay positive? Are you choosing to get back up? I'm asking questions that I ask myself after life tries to kick me in the teeth. I hope that you choose to win as well. All the best to you and your well-being. Enough of my Chinese fortune cookie words...Are you ready for a new dattrax house music journey? This mix is just over 2hrs long and it's filled with beautiful and varied textures. There are tons of new tracks for your listening or dancing pleasure [Thank you Traxsource for the 30% discount codes]. This took one take and the track selection and mixing are hawt!! Whew!! It usually takes 3-12 these days in my old age. LMAO!!Whenever my best friend and DJ partner, Jim had deep conversations where too much was revealed. [As men, we're supposed to not reveal too much of our thoughts or feelings]. Jimmy and I call those conversations 'Open Kimomo' sessions. Always makes me chuckle the image of flashing in a kimono. Don't think that they make those for men right?This mix is similar as it's an open book in regards to the tracks chosen to bring about the feeling of contentment and sparks of joy. Lots of challenges this year so poured a lot of negative and positive energy into this mix. I love the feel of this mix from beginning to end and hope that you smile from ear to ear.---------------Reach out to us and comment if you like or love our mixes. Just Google 'dattrax' and find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with your family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances who could use a dose of musical candy.Isn't music such a great escape?---------------DJ Bookings for Canada, the US, or Global: dattrax@gmail.com---------------If you'd like to Donate or Support our music addiction, any amount of support would be appreciated. This is our PayPal Donate email that you can use: dattrax@gmail.com ---------------As always - massive thanks to the amazing vocalists, producers, DJs, and dancers (on the dancefloors or even in your homes or while walking about, walking your doggies, working out, driving, whatever you're doing) for their incredible advancement of this beautiful musical genre!! It makes us all feel young, vibrant, and extremely happy!!---------------39 Tracks in 2hrs and 4mins!!Love Can Damage Your Health feat. Angela Mcluskey - Abicah Soul & Dennis Ferrer Remix - TelepopmusikAutumn - Blanka Mazimela, KhonayeDo It Now (Deep Tech Version) Dubtribe Sound SystemFunky (Original) - Wayne GardinerFrank Amodo - So Wicked (Chris Izaak)Sometimes - Brand New Heavies-Masters At Work For This - Rampa, Chiara NorikoFix Your Love (Ralf GUM Main Mix) Ralf GUM, Bongi Mvuyana, KafeleBind (Rampa Remix - Timmy Regisford Edit) Howling, Rampa, Timmy RegisfordThinking Of You (Original Mix) Serge Devant, Damiano C, Camille SafiyaOn My Own Now (Extended) DJ Tennis, Ashee, Lady DonliTrees (Butch Stripped Mix) Tuvaband, ButchRedpath (Cioz Remix) HauyMy Joy - Quentin Harris-Ft. Leela James - Original Mix Keep The Funk Alive (Original Mix) HotmoodHeart (Original Mix) Band & DosNot U (Original Mix) Mario Bianco, AlyBeThe Game - Mega JawnsFeel (feat. Desney Baley) (Matthias Tanzmann Remix) Luna City Express, Desney Baley, Matthias TanzmannBack To Me (Alternative Mix) Luyo, Reno KaSomething Sweet (Full Version) LyndrishBrooklyn Bridge (Original Mix) JamezyBroken Blues [Feat. Andreya Triana] (Purple Disco Machine Remix) Mousse T., Andreya Triana, Purple Disco MachineManifest (Rampa Remix) Wallflower, RampaThe Wanderer (Dixon Edit) Romanthony, DixonLove Happy - Danny KaneImpossible (&ME Remix) Röyksopp, Alison Goldfrapp, &MEAll I Do Is Think - Oscar PHoly Melancholy (Tribes) ShiprinskiFrom The Inside (Henrik Schwarz Remix) Chasing Kurt0.19 (Moosefly Remix) Evans, Shawni, MooseflySoul Rise - Hyenah, Floyd LavinePainkiller (Rampa & Re.You Mix) Terranova, Rampa, Re.YouWarning Siren (Original Mix) Tiefschwarz, Matty SaferNude (Rampa Remix) Adriatique, RampaPay To Play - &ME, Rampa, Adam Port, Bell TowersHenrik Schwarz - Come Together Burning (Alan Dixon Remix) London House Cats Choir, Alana, Alan DixonBrighter Days - 2011 Remixes (Karizma And DJ Spen Deepah Dub Mix) Cajmere feat. Dajae---------------Google "dattrax" and find the Podomatic link.Or you can visit our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ and it'll automatically redirect you here: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax ---------------THIS IS THE BEST OPTION to Get Our Entire Collection + Notices of Any New Mix Posted: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with an email and password, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! With the app on your cell, you'll have access to 135+ mixes, the last 30yrs of our lives in the cracks of time between family, friends, and work. It'll list all the mixes from newest to oldest.---------------All tracks bought from https://www.traxsource.com/ and https://www.beatport.com/This mix was created on a Native Instrument's "Traxtor Kontrol S4" controller MK3 version, a crappy PC laptop, and No sync applied.Sometimes: We additionally use two Stanton 150 direct drive turntables with Traxtor's control vinyl records.---------------[If you're reading this on mobile, everything is jumbled up. The writer's intended spacing to make these show notes readable is nonexistent.You'll have to open this up on your laptop/desktop to be able to read this correctly. Podomatic hasn't come up with a solution that has been implemented yet to fix this challenge].
Dr. Shani Fox is a Physician, coach, speaker, and cancer survivor expert.In Episode 154 of In the Rising Podcast she shares how the stories of those going through breast cancer impacted her. This impact changed her views and opened her eyes to the other ways that women can be supported during breast cancer.Websites: https://drshanifox.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrShaniFox LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drshanifox Twitter: https://twitter.com/drshanifox Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cancersurvivordoc/ I invite you to listen!If you feel this Podcast is beneficial, I encourage you to share it, and I invite you to leave a 5-Star Review. It does so much for putting this podcast in the hands of those that may need it.Connect with me!Bettina@intherising.comPinterest: Facebook
After a family week in Costa Rica and a few days in LA for Richard's national tennis tournament, the Eyre's are casting today from Phoenix where their granddaughter's high school graduation. They are joined on today's podcast by their daughter Shawni, a prominent mom-blogger (71toes.com) in a discussion of UNITY in politics, in communities, in Church, and in Families. Are we more divided than ever before, and what is the path to more UNITY?
01. Jonnas B - Rainy Sunset (Original Mix) [Dreamers] 02. UNDERHER, Anaphase - Everything Goes (Monkey Safari Remix) [Renaissance Records] 03. MR.MNT, Matter of Tact, EleonoraIllusional (Fractal Architect Remix) [Cinematique] 04. Tone Of Arc,Shawni,JEI BLVCK - Mysteries (Original Afters Vocal Edition) [Stripped Recordings] 05. Anton Ishutin,Shyam P - Reasons (Extended Mix) [Magik Muzik] 06. Chicola - La Ninã Del Mãr (Original Mix) [Lost Miracle] 07. Or Sade - Love Story (Original Mix) [Vested Recordings] 08. Joe Nas,Gastwolf - Chillen (Original Mix) [Clinique Recordings] 09. Rich Vom Dorf - Since You Left Me (Original Mix) [Tächno] 10. Bodam Project - Persistence (Kazuma Akasaki Remix) [Trippy Code] 11. Geronimo Eguiguren - Eye of the Universe (Original Mix) [Transensations Records] 12. Maxim Lany feat. Freya Alley - Anymore (Extended Mix) [Armada Electronic Elements] 13. Rianu Keevs - I Hate to Love (Original Mix) [Rianu Keevs] 14. Nanofeel,Peter Csabai - Vision (Christian Monique Remix) [Pro B Tech Music] 15. Blackloud - I Swear Am OK (Original Mix) [Perspectives Digital] 16. EDLands - Epilogue (Ricardo Piedra Remix) [Star Dive Records] 17. Choopie,Tom Kin - Sound of TLV (Original Mix) [Agnosia Black] 18. Anton MAKe - Denouement (D-Nox Remix) [Proton Music] 19. Gabo Martin - Parana (VeeQue Remix) [AH Digital] 20. Nick Vierra - Love & Hate (Christian Monique Remix) [Deepwibe Underground] 21. Soul Button - God Save The Rave (Extended Mix) [Steyoyoke] 22. Greg Ochman - Someone Always Around (Original Mix) [Clubsonica Records] 23. Blanka Barbara - Knights of Orion (Original Mix) [Aviary Recordings] 24. Seba GS - After Love (Original Mix) [Soundteller Records] 25. Santiablo - Landslide (Jan Dalvik Remix) [Clubsonica Records] 26. Alfonso Muchacho - Strange Dreams (Original Mix) [Omnia Rec] 27. Keistep - Echoes of You(Original Mix) [Trippy Code] 28. Steny - Modular Bits (Extended Club Mix) [Karonga Records] 29. Paul Thomas/Katherine amy - Sweet Harmony (Luccio Extended Remix) [UV]
Today's conversation with birth doula, Shawni McCoggle, is all about the importance of having birth preferences verses birth PLANS. Because we all know that labor and birth is so unpredictable and ultimately our bodies and our babies are going to do what they are going to do! However, at the core of this topic we really believe in the power of education when it comes to what your options are for your birth experience, and how that alone can help you feel more in control. The end of the episode even includes Shawni's birth story. It is a perfect example of how even though it went completely different from her original plan, she still felt so comfortable and thinks positively of her birth experience because of the knowledge and power she had. Let's Connect!: Follow the podcast on Instagram: @milestonemamapodcast Follow me on Instagram: @chelseaallegra Learn More About The Milestone Collection Follow Shawni on Instagram: @callmeshawni Questions? Want to be a future guest on the podcast? Let's chat! Send me at e-mail at milestonemamapodcast@gmail.com. xo Chelsea
1 Tone of Arc, Shawni, JEI BLVCK - Mysteries (Club Edition) 2 Paige, Nihil Young, Sarah De Warren - Cure Or Remedy (Extended Mix) 3 Cristoph, Yotto, Sansa - Out Of Reach (Club Mix) 4 Indifferent Guy & Odyssay - Before You Go (Two Are Remix) 5 Redfield - Guidance (Extended Mix) 6 Stan Kolev - Savage Rose (Fuenka Remix) 7 Flow & Zeo - Pleasure (Khainz Remix) 9 Laroz feat. Hellogoodbye - Close (D-Formation Remix) 10 Morttagua - Dvaraka (Original Mix) 11 Nick Doker - I.C.U. (Original Mix) 12 Masaru feat. Augie - Luchadora (Original Mix) 13 G Monk - Moksha (Original Mix) 14 Leo N - Silentium (Extended Mix) 15 Tali Muss - Tulum (Almost Home Remix) 16 Kamilo Sanclemente - Boreal Forest (Original Mix) 17 York - Farewell To The Moon (PROFF Remix) 18 Pretty Pink feat. Emina Sonnad - Let You Go (Extended Mix) 19 Spada, Richard Judge - Happy If You Are (Extended Mix) 20 Harley Sanders, Rion S - Cry (Extended Mix) 21 Liquid Soul - Love in Stereo (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) 22 Basil O'Glue - Light You Can't See (Original Mix) ❤️ Come, join us on TWITCH : https://twitch.tv/cedriclass ❤️ PayPal donations are appreciated here : https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cedriclass
1 Tone of Arc, Shawni, JEI BLVCK - Mysteries (Club Edition) 2 Paige, Nihil Young, Sarah De Warren - Cure Or Remedy (Extended Mix) 3 Cristoph, Yotto, Sansa - Out Of Reach (Club Mix) 4 Indifferent Guy & Odyssay - Before You Go (Two Are Remix) 5 Redfield - Guidance (Extended Mix) 6 Stan Kolev - Savage Rose (Fuenka Remix) 7 Flow & Zeo - Pleasure (Khainz Remix) 9 Laroz feat. Hellogoodbye - Close (D-Formation Remix) 10 Morttagua - Dvaraka (Original Mix) 11 Nick Doker - I.C.U. (Original Mix) 12 Masaru feat. Augie - Luchadora (Original Mix) 13 G Monk - Moksha (Original Mix) 14 Leo N - Silentium (Extended Mix) 15 Tali Muss - Tulum (Almost Home Remix) 16 Kamilo Sanclemente - Boreal Forest (Original Mix) 17 York - Farewell To The Moon (PROFF Remix) 18 Pretty Pink feat. Emina Sonnad - Let You Go (Extended Mix) 19 Spada, Richard Judge - Happy If You Are (Extended Mix) 20 Harley Sanders, Rion S - Cry (Extended Mix) 21 Liquid Soul - Love in Stereo (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) 22 Basil O'Glue - Light You Can't See (Original Mix) ❤️ Come, join us on TWITCH : https://twitch.tv/cedriclass ❤️ PayPal donations are appreciated here : https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/cedriclass
Welcome to Showcasing House Music DJ Mixes by dattrax!! Hello Fellow House Music Fanatics and Newcomers, welcome!! We are now also available in the Google Play Store's new podcast section, and are still in the iTunes podcast section. For both, just type in the search box, 'house music by dattrax' » you'll have access to almost 100 free house mixes whether you're on Android or iOS. BOOM! It's been the longest dry spell we've every had this past year for putting up our house mixes. Our apologies, however, we have not slowed down in buying more house tracks. We're junkies!! We've bought over 200 tracks in 5 separate batches from Traxsource and Beatport since the last mix was posted on our site. Been working on two mixes, which we believe you're going to LOVE. This mix, "Ritual Healing" has gone through probably at least eight versions >> each one had some parts that were really amazing and other parts that just sucked! It has been very frustrating, but accepted as part of our ritual of growing in love with new house tracks and only having a few hours a week these days. Most weekends, we listen to about 500+ tracks on Traxsource & Beatport in the late AMs. Jim, my best friend, DJ partner and fellow house fiend takes on tracks on Beatport and I take on Traxsource. So after about 2,000-2,500 tracks, I usually have about 90-130 tracks total in my virtual crate. Then over a few weekends, I'll dwindle that down to 30-40, then try to find a 15-20% discount code or sit on the crate till Traxsource emails a discount. Then buy, then listen to the tracks in traffic to and from my day job in Digital Marketing at a downtown Toronto agency. Then make a mix on a Sat. morning, shaking the whole house for hours (it's fantastic!!), and then listen to it for a few days. If it sucks, then it gets deleted and back to the drawing board we go the next Sat. It's such a healing ritual because I usually take all my life and work stress and pour it into each mix. In the process, hopefully putting mostly negative energy with some positive and transforming it into something beautiful. Sharing my favourite house tracks in the way that I want them to sound if I was dancing my ass off at a crystal clear and loud club sound system!! Much love and respect for the following house vocalists and producers. Allies For Everyone, Howling, Hatikvah, MoodWarp, Quintin Christian, Vandermeer, &Me, Damian Lazarus, The Ancient Moons, Larse, Sue Avenue, Larse, Noir, Blaze, Palmer Brown, Solomun, Luca C & Brigante, Roisin Murphy, Luca C, Brigante, Joris Voorn, Matthew Dear, Ost & Kjex, Luka, Mz Jay, At One, Saccao, Moe Turk, Stimming, Martin Buttrich, Mathew Jonson, Laurent Leroy, Hyenah, Denis Horvat, Monique Bingham, Black Coffee, Cubicolor, Moosefly, Iain Howie, Brett Gould, Evans, Shawni, Timo Maas & James Teej, Robosonic, Jeru The Damaja, Rhemi, Hanlei, Lydia Rhodes, Andre Lodemann, Nonku, Dubfire, Hot Since 82, Habischman, Soul Button, Stee Downes, Dahu, Abicah Soul, DJ Spen, Ovijay, Gosha, Dessy Slavova, Anton Ishutin and Pete Oak --------------- Reach out to us and comment. Just Google 'dattrax' and you'll find all places online that we've been a part of. Please share with other like-minded individuals. --------------- There's a PayPal donate button on the right if you're on our Podomatic site if you want to buy us a beer to say cheers ; ) Our PayPal donation email if you are listening to our mixes on another platform. Any amount of support is welcomed. We appreciate you! dattrax@gmail.com --------------- Our main mix site: https://dattrax.podomatic.com/ or at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dattrax or Google "dattrax". THIS IS THE BEST OPTION: You can download the free "Podomatic" app, sign up with your email, then search 'dattrax' and subscribe to 'house music by dattrax'. It has a cute pic of my youngest boy when he was little and over my DJ mixer. BOOM!! 119 mixes, the last 27yrs of our lives in the crack of time between family, friends and work. --------------- All tracks bought from https://www.traxsource.com/ and https://www.beatport.com/ This mix was created on a Native Instrument's "Traxtor Kontrol S4" controller MK3 version, a crappy PC laptop and No sync applied. This mix was created on two Technics 1200s + Native Instrument's S4 Traxtor controller as the DJ mixer + Traxtor vinyl control records and a laptop. No sync applied.
In this previously recorded episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Cassie and Shawni about their childcare journey through the Covid pandemic over this past year. Cassie is a Nurse Midwife and became a new mama only a week before the first Covid shut down last March. She openly shares about the stress and anxiety of finding and keeping a childcare provider in the wake of Covid. Shawni, a senior project manager for a construction company and second time mama opens up about her experiences with judgment around childcare and her fierce desire to keep her family safe. We also candidly talk about: Some of the assumptions that have been made regarding personal choices during Covid. My ongoing road rage issues and my toddler's growing vocabulary. The things we are proud of as mamas. New found patients with our children. And, of course, what we are looking forward to as we move into a post-Covid world Email me at dearcovidmama@gmail.com with any questions or comments about this episode and with suggestions for future episodes. I appreciate your feedback and words of wisdom. Disclaimer: Please note that these episodes are conversations with individual mamas sharing their own personal journey, experience, struggles and triumphs. The stories shared are not meant to represent everyone's journey or experience. We definitely want to hold space and honor the fact that we may not be able to represent every mama's unique and personal journey. I am, however, very interested in hearing from anyone who would like to share what this past year has been like for you and how you have been navigating the Covid Era. Also, this podcast is not meant to be a substitute for mental health services or advice. If you, or someone you know is experiencing depression or anxiety during the postpartum period please refer them to Postpartum Support International at (800) 944-4773. Or, if you are concerned about your safety or of someone you know and love, you can get help right away by calling the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at (800) 273-8255.
Shawni and I talk about siblings, high school sports, tattoos and much more. Enjoy!
1 - Tom Day & Monsoonsiren - From Afar (Makebo Extended Mix) / 2 - Sapienta - Unlock (Jose Tabarez Remix) / 3 - Marsh - Florence (Wassu Remix) / 4 - Partenaire - Modern Mantra / 5 - Morttagua - Imentet (Hernan Cattaneo & Marcelo Vasami Remix) / 6 - Urmet K- Secrets Of Your Heart feat. Shawni) / 7 - Alex O'Rion - Castle In The Sky / 8 - Garden Of Peace (Yotto Renaissance Remix) / 9 - Hicky & Kalo - Eyes of Truth / 10 - Fernando Picon - Brillante Oscuridad / Download episode on MP3 (Right click, save link as...)
In your career, are you coffee or are you Starbucks? In today’s world, you can not afford to be a commodity worker. You must have a premium personal brand that makes you stand out from the crowd. A key component defining your brand attributes and then “supersizing” them so they are words that are uniquely you and ownable. Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Shawni Chen, joining the show from Shanghai, China. Shawni is a partner at PwC with 20+ years of IT application implementation and management experience in the US and China. She is a big advocate for diversity and equality in the workplace and was recently named by Forbes China as one of the Top 50 women technologists in China. Guest Bio Shawni is a partner at PwC. She has 20+ years of IT application implementation and management experience in US and China. She is responsible for running a 1200+ members Acceleration Center in Shanghai China. Her team is providing service to 10 different countries. As the automation and innovation leader for Acceleration Centers, she is digitizing the project deliveries and providing cost effective and value-added services to her clients. Shawni is a big advocate for creating a diverse and equal work environment. She created Women in Technology program at the Shanghai center that sponsors initiatives such as Code Camp, HeForShe, LadiesWhoTech events in the local market. In 2020, she was nominated by Forbes China as one of the Top 50 women technologists in China. Links To learn more about Lead With Your Brand and the Career Breakthrough Mentoring program , please visit : https://www.leadwithyourbrand.com To book Jayzen for a speaking engagement or workshop at your company, visit : https://www.jayzenpatria.com Please connect on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayzenpatria
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I have admired Shawni's parenting from afar as I've read her blog 71Toes.com for many years. She is just about 3 years ahead of me in this parenting gig, and I felt inspired seeing how she mothered just a few steps ahead of me. I was so delighted to hear her words of encouragement for teens, words she hopes her kids will know before leaving the home and under her roof. She came up with a list of 5 all encompassing hopes for her kids, which I loved hearing her thoughts. For more on my thoughts, I shared about Episode 41 of 10 things I want my kids to know. If you are new around here, I encourage you to scroll and listen to past episode, and join the teen topic discussions on Instagram: @KristenDukeChats
On this first show after Mothers' Day, the Eyres pay tribute to Moms and their elegant fulfillment of the hardest job in the world. Linda wrote a book a few years back, with their daughter Shawni, called A Mothers Book of Secrets and the book becomes an outline or a five part text for today's show. Every mom is different, every family is different, and every child is different, but with divine guidance, all mothers can find the unique joy of their preeminent role.
o1. Thomaz - Hanin o2. Haris Kate - Khor Al Adaid (The Foreigners rMx) o3. Evans; Shawni - 0.19 (Just Emma rMx) o4. Tarek EL Haut feat. Raymond - Midaq Alley o5. Nico Fichtner feat. Bollen - Cabeza Omar o6. Pandhora & Nacim Gastli - Metanoia (Max Tenrom Rework) o7. Derrok & Biomigrant - Suen o Profundo (Just Emma rMx) o8. V-Sag - Blue Eyes o9. Neathan & Ramioul - Incepetion play ☑ like ☑ share with your friends ☑ | THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT | ****************************************************************** Daniel De Sol Music lover, Dj, Producer, Labelfounder of DeSol Record, DeHelix Records & the Podcast show Kombinat Sternradio. Here you can find him in his universe: Contact & Social Channel C&SC
Frohes neues Jahr! Letztes Jahr ist ein ganzer Haufen Spiele raus gekommen. Wir haben selbstverständlich ein paar davon gespielt und manche haben uns besonders gut gehangen. So gut dass wir in der heutigen Folge über die reden, die uns am besten gefallen haben! Shawni & Matt KANN WERBUNG ENTHALTEN
New Year’s resolutions can be ambitious and overwhelming. We’ve all created long lists and set lofty goals only to fall short come February. Why does it need to be so complicated? It doesn’t. Today Vanessa sits down with Shawni Pothier to discuss simplifying your goals for the New Year. Mindful. Guided. Discipline. Focus. Enjoy. Choose. Be Still. A resolution doesn’t have to be something that’s daunting. Make it simple. Pick one word to represent the coming year. It should be something that inspires you or helps you progress toward who you want to be. You don’t have to pick it today. Maybe it comes to you a few months into the year, or your goals change and you switch it up in time. Want to help your kids set resolutions for themselves? Give them the framework and allow them to think of what they’d like to work on in 2020. Keep track of your progress and record your goals from previous years so you can look back together and witness their growth. Join the MomForce Facebook Group and follow along on our instagram page @themomforcepodcast for more NYE inspo!
© artwork by franz zünkler ➲ contact ✉ franz@afterhour-sounds.com Robbie Akbal (@https://soundcloud.com/robbie_akbal) (Crosstown Rebels // Kindisch // Sol Selectas /Berlin) presents „The Lucid Dream“ Afterhour Sounds Podcast Nr.179 Unsere Nr. 179 kommt dieses Mal von einem vielseitigen und international bekannten Künstler, dessen Produktionen mich schon seit langer Zeit begeistern. Als waschechter Mexikaner ist ihm die Vielseitigkeit seines Sounds gewissermaßen in die Wiege gelegt worden. Zum Glück hat er einen Kanal dazu gefunden, um dies musikalisch auszunutzen. Und wie. Ich begrüße 'Robbie Akbal‘, einem Veteranen der Houseszene in Mexiko. Wie so gut jeden Künstler der elektronischen Tanzmusik verschlug es Robbie auch nach Berlin. Als Gründer des angesehenen Labels Akbal Music machte er zusammen mit seinen Produktionen auf sich aufmerksam, um von keinem Geringeren als Damian Lazarus signiert zu werden. Mittlerweile steht er bei einigen hoch angesehenen Labels wie Crosstown Rebels, Get Physical, Culprit, Kindisch, Sol Selectas, Selador und No.19 unter Vertrag. Seine Musik wurde kürzlich unterstützt von: Anja Schneider, John Digweed, M.A.N.D.Y. + viele weitere, um nur einige zu nennen. Zudem hat er hat im Studio mit vielen Szenegrößen und Giganten wie Audiofly, Kiki, Dance Spirit, Shall Ocin und mit erstaunlichen Sängern wie Cari Golden und Shawni gearbeitet. Zudem wurden seine Produktionen unter Anderem von Luca Bacchetti, Sascha Dive, Andre Homenn, Inxec, Grant Dell, Metrika geremixed. Neben dem Produzieren ist Robbie natürlich auch als DJ weltweit ständig unterwegs. Im großen und ganzen hat er eigentlich schon jede Metropole der Welt bespielt. Tendenz steigend. Für unseren Blog hat sich Robbie die Zeit genommen einen exklusiven Podcast aufzunehmen, indem er seine Version der Afterhour kreiert. So verwundert es auch nicht, wenn ich euch vorneweg verrate ( Achtung Spoiler!!!), dass das Set eine bunte Mischung aus verschiedenen Stilrichtungen geworden ist, welches aber durchweg dem verspielten, hypnotischen und teils entspannten Überbau treu bleibt. Dazu alles in einem gemächlichen Mid-tempo aufgenommen. Ein Sound der gut das wechselhafte Wetter abbildet und unglaublich viel Spaß beim Hören macht. Robbie, ich danke Dir vielmals für dieses besondere Set. Umwerfend, intensiv und überraschend gut. Wenn Tanz, dann Hier. Chapeu. Ich bin entzückt. Liebst euer arkadiusz. ✘ @https://soundcloud.com/robbie_akball (Berlin/Germany) ✘ https://www.facebook.com/robbie.akbal/ ✘ Akbal Music (Label): http://www.akbalmusic.com/ Download for free on The Artist Union
Nov. 25, 2019 – In this episode the girls sit down with long-time blogger and author, Shawni Pothier. They hear the story behind her blog’s name, 71 Toes, and Shawni shares a beautiful and positive message on how her family has been effected by the Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, both the hard and for the better. She then shares what it means to be a “Deliberate Mother” and provides some ideas on how we can implement that approach into our homes. From an in-home money system, to a family motto and mother/child interviews they offer powerful ways to have a more deliberate approach to parenting. Shawni then wraps up her time with the girls discussing what it’s like to “let go” as your children get older and start to move on. It’s a heartfelt interview with a wonderful lady! Check out Shawni’s blog at www.71toes.com. The girls then introduce their discount code on the PogoPass. Using code “themomvoice” you can save $10 off the PogoPass in the following cities: Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, San Antonio, Austin/Waco, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Chicago. Thanks so much for tuning in! Follow the girls on Instagram @themomvoicepodcast or find them at www.mom-voice.com for all details, saving codes and items mentioned throughout the show. New episodes released every Monday – so make sure to SUBSCRIBE! xo
Nov. 25, 2019 – In this episode the girls sit down with long-time blogger and author, Shawni Pothier. They hear the story behind her blog’s name, 71 Toes, and Shawni shares a beautiful and positive message on how her family has been effected by the Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, both the hard and for the better. She then shares what it means to be a “Deliberate Mother” and provides some ideas on how we can implement that approach into our homes. From an in-home money system, to a family motto and mother/child interviews they offer powerful ways to have a more deliberate approach to parenting. Shawni then wraps up her time with the girls discussing what it’s like to “let go” as your children get older and start to move on. It’s a heartfelt interview with a wonderful lady! Check out Shawni’s blog at www.71toes.com. The girls then introduce their discount code on the PogoPass. Using code “themomvoice” you can save $10 off the PogoPass in the following cities: Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, San Antonio, Austin/Waco, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Chicago. Thanks so much for tuning in! Follow the girls on Instagram @themomvoicepodcast or find them at www.mom-voice.com for all details, saving codes and items mentioned throughout the show. New episodes released every Monday – so make sure to SUBSCRIBE! xo
Manchmal gehen Dinge verloren. Props, Radiergummis, Fernbedienungen, Topfdeckel, Folgen.. Oder man vergisst einfach etwas. Oder beides! Weil niemand sicher davor ist reden wir heute über unsere Erfahrungen! Teilnehmer: Snowwolf_Creations, AK_Props, Shawni, RathalosModeration: Sebastian Technik: Mattqu Bild: Sowieso Sebastian KANN WERBUNG ENTHALTEN
In this 25-minute episode, Saren and her sister Shawni (who runs the popular blog, 71 Toes), discuss simple ways to help our children: Feel and express gratitude for every-day things that are easy to take for granted Focus on what they have rather than what they feel that they lack Work for what they get so that they will more fully appreciate it Learn about those who are less fortunate so they can see how blessed they are while developing compassion and understanding for others For full show notes, please visit poweroffamilies.com
Es gibt ja nun wirklich viele Spiele, da kann man nicht immer alle kennen und coole Fakten aus dem Hut zaubern. Wir können aber zumindest so tun als wüssten wir etwas und präsentieren euch deshalb heute ein paar besonders tolle Fakten. Oder besonders untolle. Shawni & Matt KANN WERBUNG ENTHALTEN
My OC, please don’t steal. Heute geht es um Eigenkreationen. Was sind Eigenkreationen, wer kreiert eigen und was wird kreiert? Könnt ihr alles hier hören. Heute. Jetzt. Zumindest bin ich mir ziemlich sicher dass ich das alles gehört habe. Teilnehmer: Snowwolf_Creations, Shawni, Rina Raccoon Moderation: Finalform Studios Technik: Mattqu Foto: Sebastian KANN WERBUNG ENTHALTEN
Playlist: 1. EMA - Where The Darkness Began 2. Perfume – Moonspeed 3. Manati - Whole Lotta Love vs Acid (Extended Mashup) 4. Massimiliano Pagliara ft. Matthew Morris - No More Love to Follow (Original Mix) 5. Crow - Forest Swords 6. Evil Twin – Heaven 7. The Blaze – Mount 8. Nocturnal Sunshine ft. Chelou – Believe 9. Burial - Southern Comfort 10. Shawni & 23△d – Feel Love 11. The Cinematic Orchestra feat Heidi Vogel - A Promise (Edit) 12. Lamb - The Other Shore 13. Portishead - Machine Gun 14. Maria Davidson - Your Biggest Fan Also here: https://www.instagram.com/bissauconnection/ facebook.com/bissauconnection Photo: Piotr Marcinsky (https://fineartamerica.com/featured/woman-whispering-at-ear-in-studio-silhouette-piotr-marcinski.html?product=greeting-card)
Selectro Podcast #125 w/ Fin & Stanley Dance FM Romania l 89,5 FM Every Wednesday at 11 PM (UK TIME) Listen: www.dancefm.ro/asculta-online/ Fin & Stanley: https://www.facebook.com/FinStanleyhh/ https://soundcloud.com/finstanley Dance FM: www.dancefm.ro/ https://www.facebook.com/dancefm895/ www.dancefm.ro/asculta-online/ Selectro: https://www.facebook.com/SelectroPage https://soundcloud.com/selectro-official Available on 1001Tracklists - The world's leading tracklist database of DJ mixes, radio shows & livesets from clubs and festivals. ▶️ https://1001.tl/1mfpz3d1 w/ Ido, Jonnie King, Shawni, Hubert Kirchner, dharkfunkh, Senzala, Dilby, Flaminik, Mason Collective, Lukas Grinys, Black V Neck, Beedeep, Raumlehre, Hallex, Brazzers In The House, Morgzy, Ndidi Bahru, Reelow, Dennis Cruz, Astre, Nitin, Joe Red, Flamenco Tokyo, Jason Rivas, Lobos, Emi Saez, Reblok, Shadow Child Download: http://bit.ly/2nVnUTl
Es ist so weit: der lang erwartete Shawni-und-Mattcast. Der Gaming Cocktail. Böse Zungen würden behaupten der Podcast wäre aus einem Scherz entstanden. Geboren weil Shawni und ich den E3 Podcasts an uns gerissen haben. Tatsächlich wurde dieser Podcast aber aus einer Notwendigkeit ins Leben gerufen. Wir brauchen diesen Podcast. Also Shawni und ich nicht, wir… Weiterlesen
“2018 – An Eyesight” The time for this is now. 2018 ups and downs and what we will listen in the beginning of 2019 (and more). Playlist: 1. Odesza - Intro 2. Meute - You & Me (Flume Remix) 3. AOTOA - Limbo 4. Shawni & 23d – Feel Love 5. Sevdaliza - Angel 6. Michaelion (feat. Meshell Ndegeocello) - Transmission 7. Tirzah - Devotion 8. COLOM81AN feat. Synthia - Here-I-Am 9. Kelela - Frontilne 10. Moses Sumney - Make Out in My Car 11. Midnight Sister - Canary 12. Janelle Monáe – Ghetto Woman 13. Lorde – The Louvre 14. Conan Osiris – Adoro Bolos 15. Lapis - Within All Things Also here: www.facebook.com/bissauconnection https://www.instagram.com/bissauconnection/ Photo: Bissau Connection
Baikal Nomads - Mixtape #83 by lueasa @lueasa is happy to dedicate this little set to our podcast series. growing up with musical roots from her mother and beeing influenced by the club culture - music has always been a big part of her life. with the growing interest in electronic music she spent her wild twenties in the techno capital berlin, discovering a world where time didn’t seem to exist. the love for music made her spend days listening and selecting songs, discovering new tracks and really getting into it. 2018 she finally took the step from dancefloor to the decks and started to fall in love with it immediately. with her preference for deep melodic sounds, a moving straight bassline and a little flirt with some downtempo now and then she spreads an overall feel of good vibes and tasteful tunes. lueasa is just getting started but already inbetween sounds - because everything changes when you get lost in music... Follow & Support: www.facebook.com/soundslikelueasa/ https://soundcloud.com/lueasa Germany tracklist: https://soundcloud.com/canson - Kolumbus https://soundcloud.com/kastis-torrau - Shaman https://soundcloud.com/djdunwich - Xaxoeira (https://soundcloud.com/nicolacruz Remix) https://soundcloud.com/oliverkoletzki- Tankwa Town (https://soundcloud.com/kleintierschaukel Remix) https://soundcloud.com/avemsdream - Nuages https://soundcloud.com/shkoon-music - Bushiya feat. Fruiterama (https://soundcloud.com/gallardomusica Remix) https://soundcloud.com/yorkultura - Youtan Faktor - Faith (https://soundcloud.com/yokoo Unconditional Love Remix) Nicola Cruz - Tzantza (Yor Kultura Remix) @fake_mood - Let It All Burn (feat. Shawni) https://soundcloud.com/besvendsen - Twilight in Tankwa https://soundcloud.com/arutani - Ataraxia https://soundcloud.com/vendredimusic - Part 1: Bamako Skills
“Is her power enough for you?” Power: NOUN, 2.2 Authority that is given or delegated to a person or body. Playlist: 1. Tirzah feat. Coby Sey - Devotion 2. Liston - All On You 3. Pearl City - Flames (Alice Go Remix) 4. Yaeji - Drink i'm sippin on 5. Kelela - All the Way Down 6. Shawni & 23△d - Feel Love 7. Shanki - Golden Brown 8. Nicole Willis – Gonna Get Yours 9. Svedaliza - Marilyn Monroe 10. Tsar B - Escalate 11. Son Lux feat. Lorde - Easy (Switch Screens) 12. Kid A - BB Bleu (Dolor Remix) 13. Warpaint - Feeling Alright (Daughter Remix) 14. Spellling - Blue (American Dream) 15. Mufti Day - Wild Eyes 16. Lianne La Havas - Unstoppable (FKJ Remix) 17. Reyna Biddy - 10 reasons I could never Stay Photo: https://www.instagram.com/lauracallaghanillustration/ “The weekly wash” Also here: https://web.facebook.com/Bissauconnection/
When your child is running for office at school, looking for a job, or working a school assignment, how much do you help? If you have ideas about what they can and should do, how much do you try to talk them into things? Are you OK with letting them fail sometimes? It can be so hard to know when to step in and when to step back! In this episode, Saren and her sister Shawni (blogger at 71toes.com) share some personal stories and talk about how hard it can be to know when to help our kids or push them to do certain things and when to stand back.
This week I am releasing my new track " Yellow Dust " on Manual Music. It is featured in this weeks mix just before the last track by Honey Dijon, John Mendelsohn, Tim K that is remixed by Rampa. Expect brand newe tunes from Compuphonic, Colle, Oliver Koletzki, Luis Junior, Nick Warren, Nicolas Rada, Kora (CA ) , Dirty Culture, Tim Engelhardt, Schwind, Evans, Shawni, Marques Toliver, TB and M.A.N.D.Y.
Breaks Of Unknown Vol. 46 - DJ D-Xtreme The 46th Volume of Breaks Of Unknown by DJ D-Xtreme TRACKLIST - Breaks Of Unknown Vol. 46 - DJ D-Xtreme 01. Fourthstate, The Element - White Light (Fourthstate Remix) 02. Cerpintxt, Shawni, Stevie R, VVerses feat. Shawni - A T O M S (VVerses Spirit Of Electro Edit) 03. DRKWTR, Lee Ogdon - Sanctuary 2017 (The Remixes) (DRKWTR Remix) 04. Teddy Killerz - Machine Heart (Original Mix) 05. Gosize - Al-Yazira (Original Mix) 06. DJ Gravity - Don't Think (Original Mix) 07. Cerpintxt, Delfin Music, Stevie R - O R B I T (Delfin's Breakbeat Interpretation) 08. Born Dirty,G Perico - Face (Dub Mix) 09. Macho - You Don't Know Me (Original Mix) 10. Mike McFly - Milliyan (Original Mix) 11. Macho - Bangin In The Club (Original Mix) 12. Nima G - Change (Original Mix) 13. Y-Dapt - Dimension (Original Mix) 14. Bombo Rosa - Rocinha (Original Mix) 15. Vulpec - Jackknife (Original Mix) 16. Bebe - All Night (Original Mix) 17. Enli5, Reflows - Owl Man (Reflows Remix) 18. Evil Nine - Only (Original Mix) 19. Aylen, Codes - Bumps (Aylen Remix) 20. Ginjahvitiz - Revolution (Original Mix) 21. Affiliate, Dakota Sixx, Das Kapital feat. Dakota Sixx - Change Your Mind (Das Kapital Remix) 22. Eztereo - Got That Bass (Original Mix) 23. Cindy - Cowgirl (Original Mix) 24. Jiro - The Deep (Original Mix) 25. Figures Of Eighty,Negativ - The Silk (Remix) 26. Docolv - Break That (Original Mix) 27. Eztereo - Reckless (Original Mix) 28. Daze Prism - Lonely Souls (Original Mix) 29. Sirkea - Yeah (Original Mix) 30. Jacq, LeftRight - Bad (Original Mix) 31. Prato, T.R.O. - The Naysayers (T.R.O. Remix) BREAKS OF UNKNOWN soundcloud.com/breaksofunknown facebook.com/breaksofunknown twitter.com/breaksofunknown HOUSE OF UNKNOWN soundcloud.com/houseofunknown DRUM & BASS OF UNKNOWN soundcloud.com/drumandbassofunknown
In this Episode of Joe Knows Madison I get to hang out with the fun, energetic, and inspiring Madison trio Gin, Chocolate, and Bottle Rockets. They just released their first full length album and are starting to get into the motivational speaking world. We talk about how the band came together, their most memorable show, their favorite venues, and my sister Shawni even shared some very embarrassing stories about me...i probably should have edited them out, but thought I would give you a few laughs. I hope you enjoy!
The weekly 50:HERTZ Radioshow is hosted by MITCH DE KLEIN, FULL ON FUNK, IGOR, DAVID LEESE, KEFFISH, STEVE MULDER, YEZPR & ENNIK. The show is broadcasted on Thursday nights on Deep Radio (NL - 20h >> 22h) and on Friday nights on Diesel FM (Washington, USA - 6PM >> 8PM). Powered by "Vision Acoustics" they're taking their edge on techno all over the world, uniting people and making new things possible. 1st Hour Host: "Full On Funk" (@full-on-funk) Last hour of my Liveset at Promisedland, Leeuwarden (09/06/18) 1. Oliver Koletski - A Tribe Called Kotori (Oliver Koletzki's Woodfloor Version) 2. Marc Holstege - Chasing Shadows (Original Mix) 3. Julian Wasserman - Sirius (Original Mix) 4. Hanna Hais - Ya Weldi (Original Mix) 5. Artbat & Dino Lenny - Sand In Your Shoes (Original Mix) 6. Shawni & Fake Mood - Let It All Burn (Original Mix) 7. Sam Shure & Niko Schwind - Shams (Original Mix) 8. Rafael Cerato & Lunar Plane - Guru (Original Mix) 9. Hidden Empire - Inga Nelke Pure (Original Mix) 10. Jiggler - Losing Me (Original Mix) 11. Artbat - Tabu (Original Mix) 12. Oliver Koletski & Niko Schwind - Wrong Is Right (Original Mix) 13. Sons Of Maria - Break Through (Original Mix) 14. Marc Holstege - Bisou (Original Mix) 15. EdOne - In The Shadow (Original Mix) 16. Township Rebellion - Dolores (Original Mix) 17. Jiggler - Rising (Original Mix) 18. Several Definitions - Female (Original Mix) 2nd Hour Guest: "Christopher Coe" (@christopher_coe) Christopher is such an amazing producer who has been sharing his knowledge in such a great way to help so many upcoming producers in their development. I got to meet him during his time when he lived in Amsterdam where he ran the ID&T / Beatport studio's where I had the honour to be able to spend some hours in the studio with him from which I gained so much for my own production process. Now he moved back to Australia where he has been doing great things lately. Together with the Techno king Carl Cox he just setup a brand new label Awesome Soundwave focussing only on live artists within the scene. Just a few weeks ago his brand new label premiered on their brand new label, through which he presents the unique deep sound he lives for. Top top off he collaborated with Carl and the amazing Reinier Zonneveld to create one of the big festival bangers at the moment called "Inferno" which has been topping all the charts since its release! Follow Christopher Coe & Awesome Soundwave: instagram.com/christophercoemusic/ facebook.com/christophercoemusic/ @christopher_coe facebook.com/awesomesoundwavemusic/ @awesomesoundwave Follow Full On Funk: info@fullonfunk.com facebook.com/full.onfunk instagram.com/fullonfunk/ twitter.com/fullonfunk youtube.com/officialfullonfunk beatport.com/artist/full-on-funk/340017 @full-on-funk Follow All The 50:HERTZ Hosts: @full-on-funk // @djdavidleese // @mitchdeklein // @igormusic // @keffish // @yezpr // @ennik Follow 50:HERTZ facebook.com/50hertz.official @50hertz-radioshow Follow Vision Acoustics: www.visionacoustics.nl facebook.com/VisionAcoustics/ instagram.com/vision_acoustics/ Follow Deep Radio: www.deep.radio facebook.com/DeepRadioNL Follow Diesel.FM: www.diesel.fm diesel.fm/technoplayer/ facebook.com/DIESELFM twitter.com/Diesel_Fm @dieselfmradio
This weeks mix contains music by the likes of Fake Moon, Christopher Schwarzwalder, NINZE & OKAZY, Shawni, Honey Dijon, John Mendelsohn, Rampa, Tim K, Danito, Athina, Innellea, Sebastien Leger, GHEIST, Ton Depth, Adana Twins, Kaiserdisco, Oxia and Diazar. One by one amazing pieces of fresh music.
In this episode, the founders of Infinite Red—Jamon Holmgren, Ken Miller, and Todd Werth—are talking about Chain React, Infinite Red’s React Native tech conference this July 11-13th in Portland, OR. Hear the story of how the conference came about, how Infinite Red's remote team worked together to create an in-person event, the value of hiring people with diverse interests and backgrounds, and all of the things that go into making the best conference possible. Show Links Chain React 2018 Derek's Food Report Episode Transcript CHRIS MARTIN: In 2017, Infinite Red started Chain React, a conference devoted to React Native. So the question that I have for the three of you to start is: why start a conference and what was the need that you saw? JAMON HOLMGREN: This is Jamon and I was on Twitter and I was looking for a React Native conference because we had been doing React Native for about a year at that point. And I was thinking, well, it'd be really nice to see if some of our team could attend a conference and potentially maybe share some of the things that we had learned along the way. So I actually put out a tweet saying, "is there a React Native conference around? I'm not seeing one." And got no responses, which partially had to do with my very small Twitter audience at the time and partially just because there wasn't one. Now, it turns out there was one over in Europe, React Native EU, put on by our friends over at Callstack. TODD WERTH: But that was after. JAMON: I believe it was after that. KEN: We didn't learn about that until after. TODD: Not at that time. JAMON: Right. I was just kinda chewing on that. Wow, I didn't get any response to that. I would normally get two or three options if I were to put out something like that. And I woke up one morning, I'm like, you know what, maybe we should do a conference? And what is funny is independently two or three people contacted me after that, that same week saying, "Do you think we should do a React Native conference?" Just independently and it just seemed like that all kind of came together all at once. TODD: And this is Todd, Todd Werth, by the way. Some background here. We've never done a conference at all. We've of course all attended conferences. We're familiar with that. Although Shawni Danner, who ran the conference had never attended a conference, which was funny, but anyways, so Jamon came up with the idea, talked to some other people in our company, they liked the idea and then pretty quickly we decided and then we started building the conference. KEN MILLER: At what point in there did Gant ... Because Gant, who is our social butterfly... TODD: Gant Laborde. KEN: ...so he asked around various people to see whether they would speak. And I don't remember if that was before we decided or after. I feel like that was before. We were kind of mulling the idea around and he was like, "hey, we're thinking about doing this conference. Would you want to speak?" And when a bunch of people were like, yeah, hell yeah. We were like, okay, sounds like the stars are aligning, and it was very much a feeling of the stars aligning to be honest. JAMON: It really was. KEN: This signal is kind of like once we started putting the idea out, it just gathered momentum from a bunch of different places and we're like, okay, and then once you commit, the momentum increases. TODD: And as far as I know, it was the first React Native conference in the world. JAMON: As far as the first one that was held, I think Callstack announced their conference before we announced ours. But yeah it was right in that same time. TODD: Correct, they announced, but theirs came after ours actually. JAMON: Yeah, theirs was in September, ours was in July of 2017. CHRIS: So when you're putting on a new venture, like a conference that you have no experience in and you start seeing the stars align and you start seeing this momentum form: how do you really go from zero to one? KEN: I don't want to say it wasn't hard because a lot of work went into it, but it wasn't super difficult. At the end of the day, the hard part about making a conference is making a good conference. You get a venue, you get speakers, you get food, you get swag. I mean, I don't mean to oversimplify it, but if you've planned a wedding, you can plan a conference, right? It's probably not even as hard as a wedding because it's not quite as emotionally wrought, but where we put the most effort into well how do we make it a good conference? And we sort of came up with a list of things, some of which I think turned out to be true. Like getting good speakers, making sure that there's at least a certain amount of diversity. I think we always want more, but there needs to be at least enough that people can kind of go, look, hey, there's someone like me there. I was big on having good food. I think that wasn't as important as I thought it was. It's important to me, but the things that people cared about it, we're actually different than what we thought. So there was definitely things that we learned from the process, but the process of getting it organized—and a lot of credit goes to Shawni for being an amazing organizer of things—but the process of getting it made, while stressful and hectic at points, went off pretty smoothly overall. TODD: Yeah. So that's all true. One thing we did do though is as a leadership team, is we decided to put a decent amount of resources into it. I think a lot of people are like, this is a little side project and it was a side project for us. But we're 26 people, so we can put a little more wood behind the arrow of a side project like this if we decide to. And we'd probably put a little too much resources in to it, to be honest. And we'll talk about this later, but the results were well worth it. JAMON: Yeah. One of the things you have to remember is back in 2016 when we were first starting to do this, we had been doing React Native for a year. We weren't necessarily quite as well known back then, we were still fairly new player in the space. We had done some things in other technical realms that we were more known for, but React Native we were still a relative newcomer. So for us this was, it was a bigger, maybe bigger deal than just necessarily putting on a conference for the revenue or something along those lines. We wanted to be connected. We want it to be in that space. And so we did put it, as Todd said, we put a lot of resources behind it. We put a lot of thought into it. As a founder team, we put a lot into it. TODD: And it was probably a half of Shawni's main job, which is a significant amount. JAMON: Absolutely. And another person I'll point out here that who was instrumental was Gant Laborde. He's typically the most active in the conference circuit from Infinite Red and he's been to a lot of conferences as both speaker and attendee and he had a really good sense, good instincts about what worked well at those conferences and what didn't. And early on I read an article about how you should really treat your speakers well and I brought it up to Gant and he absolutely agreed with that. The speakers are so key to a great conference and so we spent a lot of time, energy, and money, making sure that the speakers felt comfortable, that they had a good spot, that they were well supported all the way up to the conference and that was definitely time well spent. It was a good investment. All of the speakers that we've talked to felt like they had a fantastic experience. Some said that it was the best conference that they had ever spoke at, which was, a lot of them were very accomplished speakers so for a first time conference, we felt that was very good. TODD: That's a good example of making decisions that produce good quality products, whether they're a conference, software, whatever. A lot of people read those articles. The article says the most important thing is treating your speakers right. They read it, they think about it, they talk about it, they don't actually do it. We accept that we knew nothing about throwing a conference, so we took Everyone-on-the-Internet's advice like that very seriously and we asked our team and then we put resources behind that and we went way out of our way for the speakers. I've spoke at conferences and it is true. Some are very well organized and you feel very comfortable and it makes for a great presentation and some are not. So I definitely think the number one lesson we learned, spoiler alert, was treat your speakers well. CHRIS: Todd, I have a question for you in terms of a follow-up. When you are reading these articles and they say what to do, what is the difference between just reading them and not acting on them and choosing to act on them? Was there just a moment where you're like, okay, we're actually going to do that? TODD: We make make decisions fairly quickly. We do make decisions as a quorum of elders. All the leaders make decisions together. We have no king here at Infinite Red. So we do make decisions pretty quickly, especially if one person doesn't have a passionate opposite position. So when Jamon brought that up and then Gant and some other people, Darin Wilson, for example, other people who spoke at a lot of conferences, agreed with it. We decided almost instantly. Well, I mean there's a lot of things that get in your way. The first one is admitting you don't know anything about something you actually don't know anything about. And so listening is tough for people and especially tough for companies. The second thing is hubris. I've never done a conference. It doesn't stop me from doing the best one I can do and I'm not gonna listen to anyone and you know that happens. And the third one is making the right decision fairly quickly, listening to your team, and then actually putting no one in charge of that, giving no one actual time to work on it, and putting no money into it. This is basically Congress's full time job doing that. (laughter) So we try to avoid that. I mean, I'm not just, it sounds like I'm just cheerleading the leadership team, which is kind of self-serving as I'm on it. But it's not just us, it's just the whole team. When we say we decided, Jamon read this article, a bunch of people have talked to agree with this concept of treating speakers well. We're gonna treat speakers well. The team doesn't roll their eyes and go, "sure." The whole company culturally said we're going to do this and they're going to do it. And truthfully, the leadership, we helped the decision-making but we didn't do much of the actual work for the conference. KEN: I think there's conferences where their idea of treating speakers well is to just throw money at them. And that was not ... I mean, I don't think that's the feedback we got from speakers. I mean everybody likes money. I mean don't get me wrong, but it's about making their experience smooth because no amount of money will stop the nerves or the feeling of not being appreciated. TODD: If you make it easy for people to shine, that's what they remember. People remember the way they feel about things way more than they remember what was said or the logic to it. CHRIS: So when you're doing something that's outside normal business parameters or normal business operations, how does something like putting on a conference cause distractions or disruptions and how have you worked through it as founders and how have you seen the team work through it as well? JAMON: That's a great question and I think one of the early pain points was just in process because ... we're a consultancy and so we have a certain process that's set up for clients. And in this case we didn't have a client. We had an internal project, we had an internal champion, Shawni, but it's still a very different feel. Shawni wasn't handing us all of the requirements and saying go build this thing. We had to do it as a group, so we had to develop processes around that and that was something that was very interesting that took time to develop and in fact, we're still kind of working through some of those things, but I feel like we've learned a lot and there's a lot more shared understanding around how we make those decisions and things like that. So I think process was a pretty big adjustment for us. Another thing that comes to mind with that is allocating actual team time as a consultancy. If anytime that you're spending on that, you're obviously not billing and you're not making revenue for the company. Obviously the hope is that the conference pays for itself by the revenue that comes in for it, but we still had to put a lot of time in on speculation that this was going to work. That's a very different thing than: give us a deposit and we'll start working and we'll send you bills. Again, internal allocation of resources was another adjustment that we had to make and also planning for the future and making sure that we had the revenue, the cash flow to make that happen. And Ken was really good at kind of identifying what we could sustain and what we couldn't as a company. KEN: Part of the initial "should we do this" consideration was like okay, how many people would we need to do to break even? And we were prepared to be happy with break even and that turned out to be a smaller number than we thought. That made it something that we could grapple with and be like okay, if we can get 150 people into a room where, we think we can do that even if we have to go and individually invite 300 people in order to get that hit rate or whatever. And so it ended up being a lot more than that and that was awesome. But it gave us this margin of psychological safety when we went into it. It's kind of like, okay, yeah, we can do this, and we know at what point were losing money, what point where we're making money, at what point we can up the experienced because we've got enough margin to do that. TODD: That's super important. What Ken just mentioned is any time we have an idea we go to Ken and say the main thing is what's our worst case scenario goal to make this viable? That helps us make a decision whether or not it's even a good thing to even try. Because obviously if it was 2000 people we'd be like probably not going to do that. You can tell me Ken, but I don't think it's super accurate. You do it for a couple of hours and come back and tell us what. Is that correct? KEN: I can't predict the future. I don't actually know exactly what's going to happen, but if you can give it enough margin to be like, yeah, I think we'd be safe at this point, then you can usually get to a model like that pretty quickly. TODD: I'm a little confused, to be honest. When we hired Ken, Jamon, he said he could predict the future. JAMON: Yeah, this is a little concerning. TODD: The weird part is Ken was here before Jamon and our companies merged, but doesn't matter. It's time travel. So anything's possible. Just watch Star Trek. Knowing kind of the base goal gets us all a point to reach to. And then going back to Chris's question, how to get from 0 to 1, which is actually a very difficult problem. If you're an engineer, it's very difficult problem, if you're building a company and is just a very difficult problem period. But having a goal and then determining at least the first step direction and then you can see if it's kind of leading towards that goal is very helpful for taking that first step. I do want to mention something else, as well. We did put a lot of resources. We have a tendency sometimes to put too much resources because we're designers and because we're software engineers, we like to build things and so we put a lot of resources into our app that was used for three days. We had beautiful design done and that kind of stuff. Not to skip ahead, but we're re-doing the conference this year. We thought, well, we could just reuse a lot of our designs and stuff and just change it to 2018. We didn't do that. (laughter) We decided to redesign the whole thing again because we just simply can't help ourselves. JAMON: Yeah. And going back to the concept of if it's only 150 people, I think that was our initial number. It rose a little bit later because we had some additional expenses, but if we only had to sell 150 tickets we could literally go and individually pitch people and say, "Hey, come to our conference," and try to sell them tickets. And we kind of actually did that in some ways. We went to our community, our Infinite Red Community Slack team, which is community.infinite.red and if you're listening to this podcast you should definitely join it. And we went through and kind of just said, hey, have you heard about our conference? Is that something you'd want to look at? Individual direct messages, individually crafted. We weren't trying to like spam everybody, but it was just more, let's get the word out there and the response from that because we had built a lot of goodwill with the community up to that point by helping them a lot of times with React Native problems and by releasing open source and doing all the things that we do in that community channel that a lot of people don't realize. We had built a lot of goodwill and so the response was amazing and we were able to, in my opinion, just through the community Slack efforts that we were doing, probably sell that minimum number of tickets. We had obviously sold a lot more than that, but that was more additional beyond that. So it was definitely a factor. Well we at least know that we can go sort of virtually door to door and say, hey we have this conference. Hey, do you want to come? CHRIS: What's interesting is like you're painting this picture that everything worked out perfectly. There were no hiccups in the process at all, and so what popped up as you're going through that was like, oh my gosh, didn't anticipate that one, or was it all just perfect? TODD: Everything's perfect here at Infinite Red, Chris, any other questions? (laughter) KEN: It really was pretty smooth. We were a little surprised by that. Some of the feedback that we got, we definitely overdid it on the food in some ways. That what people want from food is like fast and convenient and not terrible and we went for good but somewhat inconvenient and nobody wanted that, really. I mean they were like the food is good, but this was a pain in the neck and that was a pain in the neck, so that was something that we screwed up. That was partly my biases to be honest. I take responsibility for that one, but in the run up, in the planning, there wasn't a ton that really went wrong. Right? We didn't get major speakers bowing out. The things that we've heard of going wrong at conferences. To some extent we may have just been lucky, but there wasn't a lot of disasters along the way. There were things that we didn't do as well as we could have done, but we didn't get major disasters. JAMON: Yeah. And obviously this is from our perspective, Chris. And Shawni and Gant and some of the others that were more deeply involved in the process may have other perspectives and I think that—no promises, but maybe this isn't the only podcast we do here at Infinite Red and if there is another one, then maybe the team can share some of those more kind of operational things that happen—but certainly from our perspective, it went super smoothly. There was an energy to it and things did kind of align. I do think we probably got lucky. We probably got lucky in a lot of ways and the timing was right and the mood was right. Everything seemed to come along pretty well. KEN: And Shawni worked really hard. I'm really trying not to swear so that Chris doesn't have to edit me as much this time, but Shawni worked really, really hard at the end of it. So a lot of it was that, to be honest. TODD: Yeah. I want to do a quick couple of shout outs. Shawni worked really hard. Gant was our emcee, he's amazing in front of audience. Frank Von Hoven, which is one of our intermediate developers, he has a background in stage, which we had no idea and he ran the stage like a clock and he took care of all the backstage stuff, getting the speakers set up. It was amazing. That was just serendipity. You don't just happen to have that person. So I do want to shout out. There's more people we can shout out later, but yeah. JAMON: And I do want to give a shout out also to the Armory - The Portland Center Stage. It's a great venue and they did an amazing job. They made our lives a lot easier. There were a lot of things where we could just kind of pay them to do it and they did a great job. That was definitely a good find. Actually, Jason Brown who lives in Portland, a developer who I have been connected with for awhile, he was the one that recommended the Armory and it was a great choice. TODD: There were some things that went wrong. The food was good, the situation and how it was served and stuff was a little bit problematic and stuff. And we learned from that. So that was a problem. KEN: That was not our caterer's fault by the way. That was how we set it up and- TODD: It was a little bit our caterer's fault (laughter), but I won't go into that. Another thing is we really tried to take the time to do a proper code of conduct and we are really going to enforce it and we took a lot of time and I think we did a pretty good job. We gave numbers out to text, if there's anything people to approach, if there's any problems. The snafu was we forgot to actually put a link on our website to it. So, that's just a really minor little thing. Another problem of course is resource allocation when you have a bunch of client work. So we had our internal people, who aren't designers or developers working on it and that's just carving off a section of time for them, but we also needed our designers and developers to do work, which means they wouldn't be doing client work. And so sometimes there was resource allocation issues where someone was really busy with a client project and so that's very challenging for a company like ours with the people you have to bring off the field. And then the last thing I would love to talk with everyone is we did have a little debate and issues around do we have our whole team there. We're 26 people. It's basically going to be a week. Do we have our whole team attend? Do we make our whole team attend? Do we ask them, do we have volunteers? What do we do? So that was one of the most challenging things in my opinion. JAMON: Especially since we're a remote team and some people are going to have to fly from Florida or Toronto or all over and so it wasn't just a matter of hey, you're here in Portland, can you make the drive down to Portland? But yeah, that was an interesting thing and I think that it speaks to how much we really cared about the experience of the attendees and the speakers that we did bring most of our team. There were a few that couldn't make it, but most of our team did go and we had roles for them. That's actually something we're going to I think we're going to do better this year where we're going to actually provide some training for our team. Some expectations around how they'll work and stuff, but they wore a specific T-shirt so people could identify them. They weren't just necessarily venue people or volunteers or something. They were actual Infinite Red employees and I actually feel pretty strongly about that representation because this is representing us to the broader technical community in a very strong way. And going back really quickly to the code of conduct. Prior to our conference, there was an incident I think at Facebook's conference, I forget what it's called, and one of our speakers was affected by it and- TODD: Was it F8? JAMON: Yeah, F8 I think. And so I kind of put a stake in the ground on Twitter saying, hey, this is not going to happen at Chain React. We're not gonna allow this sort of thing. It's gonna be a very strong stake in the ground. And so in my opening remarks I said, we have a code of conduct. You need to read it. You need to abide by it. This is not negotiable and I'm six foot four and I will find you. (laughter) TODD: And it's even more challenging because you have to guess the URL. (laughter) JAMON: And by the way, quick shout out to React Native. We were able to deploy a very quick update to our app to get that URL on there and have it working. TODD: Yeah, I think it was the app it wasn't on. Not our website. JAMON: And we're able to get that deployed in a hot fix. That was very cool. So we did stress that we made that very much a centerpiece and we were very, very happy that there were no incidents that were reported or anything like that, which was nice. TODD: I do think assigning roles during the conference for our own team was something we didn't do as well as we could and we're going to work on it this year for sure. Some of our team was much more interested in working it. I mean they've worked it, but they weren't as jazzed about talking to people and that kind of thing. For me personally, it was great because my role was photographer. This project was a project I didn't personally work on internally. Jamon and Ken did, but I didn't. I was working on other projects at that time and so I wasn't really involved. I was the photographer and it was kind of funny because people saw me for the conference as a photographer, you have to constantly get in front of people, look at them with a camera, crawl under the stage to get a good shot and that kind of stuff. I'm just an amateur photographer by the way, but I have good equipment and whatnot. So everyone saw me and sometimes people will talk to me like, Oh you're the photographer for Infinite Red. I'm like, yes, I am. (laughter) JAMON: This is our CEO crawling under the stage to get a photo. TODD: Yes, but what's very cool, I would go, well, what do you think of the conference? And they would tell me the truth because I'm just the photographer. And that was actually kind of cool. CHRIS: That is pretty cool. And now that you've blown your cover, it's not gonna happen this year. TODD: Oh no one's listening to this, Chris. (laughter) CHRIS: Jamon you touched on the fact that Infinite Red is a 100 percent remote company putting on an in-person event. What kind of challenges went into making this event happen as a remote company? JAMON: We cheated a little bit in that we held it in Portland, which is where half our team is. But I will point out that our primary champion of the project lived in ... Did she live in San Diego at the time or was it Reno? KEN: She moved from Reno to San Diego while planning it. JAMON: So this is happening. She wasn't there to look at the venue. We sent some people in-person to the venue from the local area. And then we also flew Derek up. So this was I think it was actually Todd's idea. Did you come up with this idea, Todd? TODD: Did it work out well then? (laughter) Then yes I did. JAMON: I think it actually did. TODD: Then of course it was my idea. JAMON: Talk about Derek's experience there. TODD: This is an example of putting proper resources. Derek Greenberg is one of our senior engineers, which from a business standpoint means one of our most expensive engineers, but he's a super foodie, kind of like Ken. KEN: He's way beyond me. TODD: He is beyond you. And Derek is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful chef. I've been at his house multiple times and him and his lovely family hosted me and served me ridiculously good food. So he was the obvious person to choose what food we had. Now, the question is there's a lot less expensive people. That's horrible to say, but true. And Derek does not live in Portland. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area. So anyways, well we sent him up for, I think a day or two, and he went around and tasted all the food. And then typical Derek-style, he gave us an extremely detailed information about it. And that's how we decided on the food. KEN: Amazing, he had the entire company hanging on his every word as he lovingly described this experience. It was actually pretty amazing. JAMON: I'm going to see if I can dig up the description and we can link to it in the show notes because I kind of want people to see this. TODD: If you listened to our previous podcast, we talked about this a little bit. This is one our core tenants of Infinite Red is find where people shine best and don't judge them for things they do poorly. Judging a dog by how well it climbs a tree is not an appropriate judgment for a dog. KEN: Carve the hole to the fit the peg. TODD: Yes. Now none of us are the dog in this scenario. Well, just to be clear. But anyways, having Derek do that, finding out that Frank has stage experience, of course he's going to be there being the stage manager and that kind of stuff. We have such a cool creative team that have so many different personal hobbies. We really had a grab bag of awesome resources. It's really amazing. JAMON: Even Derek with his incredible attention to detail, one of the things he brought up in one of the meetings was that he was very concerned that we make sure that there isn't garbage around during the conferences, very clean. That we make sure that we keep the garbages emptied and stuff like that. So we made sure, I think with the venue staff, that that was going to happen. So just little touches like that I think go a long way and the team really stepped up to it. They took ownership really of the conference in a way that was maybe a little surprising even. KEN: This is yet another benefit of hiring a team with with what we call nontraditional backgrounds, is that you end up with this much more interesting diversity of life experience and talents and skills, and it enables you to do things that you weren't originally planning your company to do. It's awesome. Honestly, it creates this opportunity for serendipity that is harder if you're full of Stanford CS grads. JAMON: Nothing against Stanford CS grads of course. KEN: Nothing against Stanford CS grads. They're awesome, right? But any monoculture is going to have that issue. JAMON: Like Frank's background, I think Frank was in sort of a corporate America. He has an MBA and his background, he's done a lot of, like Todd mentioned earlier in the podcast, he's done a lot of stage work and performances and things like that. And he actually started coding fairly late. Well he had, he had been coding when he was a teenager and stuff, but he wasn't coding professionally until much later in life. So a lot of times you look at someone who maybe switches careers like that and they're kind of behind in some ways in the technical realm. But what is amazing about that is that they bring all of these other outside experiences and skills to our industry. We kind of need that. KEN: That brings up a really interesting sidebar about career changers, who I think sometimes have a hard time breaking into tech because everybody wanted a cheap person straight out of college or not even college. I think we found that the career changers, the later quote unquote juniors, although it'll take them a little while to ramp up, but once they ramp up, they can accelerate. Once they hit third year, they can pull ahead of a regular junior junior because of all those other experiences that come to play. JAMON: Didn't Robin, one of our software developers, didn't she work for a paper company, like a Dunder Mifflin-style paper company? (laughter) KEN: She had a math degree and she worked as an analyst I think for a paper company for a couple years before taking a coding class and people love to rag on the coding classes. But to be honest, if you're good and you just need to learn to code, they're great. It's a very efficient way of doing that. TODD: This is totally off topic, but we'd look in nontraditional areas and we find sometimes overlooked people who are truly awesome and frankly, I'm glad other companies are blind to this. JAMON: Well, this is a reflection of certainly Todd and my background. Ken came from a little more of a traditional path in that way. TODD: Just a whee bit more? JAMON: I'm Jamon Holmgren and I did not go to Harvard. I worked in construction. I have a thousand hours on heavy equipment like dozers and excavators and stuff. Most people probably don't know that. I spent a lot of my career packing boards in construction sites before I started working in technology and so I was certainly a career changer and I think Todd, you had that experience as well? TODD: Yeah, a little bit different. I started professionally programming at 25, I think. So I did not go to school for it. KEN: Well, it helps that my own father was a career changer. He was physicist, meteorologist, like an academic meteorologist, and just kind of found his way into programming. A, I have some sympathy for that track, but B, honestly my experience with elite institutions also showed me that there's plenty of people at elite institutions who are not that good. It's actually no particular guarantee. It's not, as a gating factor, it's not all that. And when you take into account how much competition there is for those elite people, it just makes sense to look harder. TODD: Just to clarify, we really don't discriminate against elite people. We just don't stack the weight on that side of the scale. CHRIS: Ken, I have a quick question? You said your Dad was an academic meteorologist. Did he have a stage name for like all meteorologists? Like Jackson Hale, or something like that? KEN: He wasn't a weatherman. He just had, he just had a degree in meteorology. TODD: Jackson Hale. That's comedy gold right there. CHRIS: Bringing it back to Chain React a little bit. So was the conference worth it in terms of the investment that you put in and if so, what will you do differently this year? TODD: I don't know financially if the ROI was worth it. Ken can talk to that because we're a consultancy that does a lot of development in React Native, even if we lost money on it and Ken can talk to that, it would still be worth it as long as we didn't lose too much just for the marketing, the goodwill and the branding part of it. I feel we ended up selling out, for example, we never told the end of the story. JAMON: We actually did not sell out. I think we got close though and we certainly almost doubled our prediction, so that was a really good thing. This year we probably will sell out. TODD: We made every speaker wear a bunch of logos. That's how I think we sold out. (laughter) KEN: They all look like NASCAR drivers. JAMON: That's actually a good idea. I'll send that to Shawni. KEN: Financially, it worked out fine. I don't think we ever are going to treat it as a massive profit center. I think the more money we're able to make, most of that we want to pour back in. We do have to account for our own opportunity costs as well as direct outlays, but I think we're fairly confident that we can run it that way. But I would say it was a success, sort of all the way across the board. We're not doing that much different. Like I said, we've tweaked the food. We've dropped a couple of things that no one seemed to care about. So like the social, nobody wants to stick around for the social. They just want to go out and interact socially with the people that they've met or the people that came with or whatever. And so we just gonna let them do that and not waste money on that. But I can't think of anything really big that we're doing differently. Can you guys? TODD: I want to make one quick comment about the social. The cool thing about the Armory in Portland is it's smack dab on a street where you can literally go across the street to good restaurants. You can go down two blocks to good restaurants. So in that scenario, at some conferences I've been to, they're kind of out in the middle of nowhere. So you definitely want some social events. But in this case everyone wants to go out. KEN: Yeah. For those of you who know Portland, it's in Pearl District. For those of you who don't know Portland, it's one of the best sort of visitor friendly walkable neighborhoods in the country, not just in Portland. I mean it's a really, really great neighborhood and that helped. And so our little catered thing probably was not as exciting as the other opportunities out there. TODD: Now we did have a sponsor, Squarespace, who threw a before party. And that was actually a lot of fun. So that's the caveat on that. We're just talking after, I think the first day we had a social immediately after the conference. JAMON: I think bringing it back to the financial side of things, I would actually, from what I looked at, I would actually consider it a financial loss. Maybe if you just look at hard expenditures, we were probably in the black, but we also spent a ton of time and if you look at opportunity cost, we probably lost money on it. That again, like what Todd said, it wasn't necessarily the focus of what we were trying to do as far as making a profit center. And I think there's a little bit of a perception maybe in the tech industry that the conferences make tons of money. I don't think that's the case. If you think so maybe you should make a conference and see what you think. But at the same time, part of that was due to our refusal to kind of let anything be substandard, we kind of overdid it in a lot of ways. I think that this year we will probably sell more tickets. We have some things figured out already. We've sorta refined what we're doing. We might actually do okay on this year, but we're also giving more concessions to the speakers and things like that to try to make it easier for them. So there's a little bit of a mitigating factor there too. TODD: Yeah. Even if it didn't make an actual profit, that's not super relevant to me. I think the return on investment is many fold. CHRIS: Looking into the future, how does Chain React and starting your own tech conference, create a model or framework for maybe future ideas or big ideas that you might want to accomplish? TODD: One thing it did, because we're a consultancy, because we do client work, we have that process down pat. We've redone that process over the years many times and keep on refining it. Internal projects for us is challenging. We don't do that very often, so this is our very first big internal project, so purely as a training or a learning device for our team it was awesome for them. KEN: The first big project that isn't an open source project. JAMON: We actually regularly point to Chain React lessons and experiences when we're talking about other internal projects. It's actually been really good as a reference point. Do you remember this with Chain React? You remember that with Chain React? And it kind of gives a reference point for other internal projects. It exposed certain aspects of our team that we hadn't really considered before. Because it was such a different thing. I know that we as founders had a meeting after Chain React and talked about some of the lessons learned from that and I don't think we'll necessarily go through every last little detail of that, but it was very kind of eye opening to us about the way that we had structured Infinite Red. The title of this podcast is Building Infinite Red and I think that Chain React was a key forcing mechanism within Infinite Red to expose some things that we hadn't been exposed to before. If we just did consulting work, you tend to get some blind spots. So Chain React was amazing for that. It was really, really good for that because it was so different from what we had done otherwise. TODD: Worse case scenario, the team had a lot of fun doing it. JAMON: I think my favorite memory from Chain React was when it was done. (laughter) KEN: I think that's Shawni's favorite memory. JAMON: Thanks a lot, Ken. KEN: Sorry. JAMON: When Chain React was over, I think half the team went to a nearby restaurant and we were all exhausted. We had been up for two days just working from pre-dawn to dusk and there was kind of this feeling of let's just go get some food to eat and let's collapse into bed. We went to a restaurant and we sat in this booth and there were probably, I don't know, nine of us, 10 of us, something like that. And some spontaneous kind of reflective conversations started happening that were just amazing. One of our developers said, this is nothing I expected signing up at Infinite Red. This was an incredible experience to be involved in this. TODD: Was that Kevin? JAMON: Kevin was was certainly on those same vein, but the person who actually pointed this out was Frank and I remember that very clearly. His wife was able to come and help us with the conference. It was really great. TODD: Camille was awesome. JAMON: She was great. And then also my son Cedric, who at the time was 12 years old. He of course was on summer break from school and and he helped out. He had a t-shirt on. He was able to- TODD: Cedric was awesome for a 12 year old. It was amazing. JAMON: Yeah, he's a good kid. And he helped out. He was great. He would talk to people, he would give them directions. If someone needed someone to run and get something. He was very on top of things and he was there at that table as well and kind of just kind of absorbing the vibe. It's one of my favorite moments at Infinite Red. It was kind of a result of all of the work that we had done and what we had accomplished at that point. TODD: Correct. And Robin Heinze's father came and did some volunteering and we had a lot of people come and want to help. It was really, really fun in that regard. One thing I would like to bring up is the Armory is a very cool intimate setting. I'm not using that as a nice way to say small. It's actually not that small and it has a big theater, but it only holds about 500 people, which is about what we sold. So we're redoing in the Armory this year and so we have a cap on how many people can show up because it only holds 500 people. We actually had a big discussion after the first Chain React on whether or not we wanted to get a bigger venue because we could probably sell more tickets. We decided against that because we sent out a survey to all the attendees. We sent a survey to the speakers and we got some feedback. Everyone loved the intimacy of the Armory. And the Armory, just real quick, it has a bottom floor where we had vendor booths set up. It's like an atrium. There's a big hole cutout of the top floor, so the top floor is like a donut. There is a staircase in the middle of the bottom floor that circles around and goes up to the top floor. So we had the whole bottom floor. We had a whole top floor. Up to the top floor, there was chairs, there was the coffee station, an alternative food station when we were serving lunch. And there were some vendors out there as well. Even if you were on the second floor, you're always in this room where all the action's going on. You could look down and see people. So although it's large enough to hold 500 people, which is a fairly large area, you can't put 500 people in a very small area. Fire marshals am I right? Because of the structure of it now and then you left that room and went into the theater, which is more like a traditional theater, like a movie theater, but it was course has the stage and stuff because it's for presentations, but when you weren't in the theater you were always within earshot and always within line of sight to everyone in the conference and so although it was 500 people, it felt like there was 20 people there and I personally got to talk to at least half the people. Anyways, long story short, it was a big decision to say no. We want the feel of the conference to be the same, so we're going to cap on how many people we can attend, which does affect finances and that kind of stuff. Obviously when you scale higher, all of the little expenses get smaller and it's always better financially to be bigger than smaller.
Episode Transcript CHRIS MARTIN: To kick off this episode, let's start with introductions and the hardest project you've ever worked on. JAMON HOLMGREN: Hi, my name is Jamon Holmgren and I'm one of the co-founders of Infinite Red, Chief Operating Officer. Chris asked what's a difficult project that I've worked on in the past and I think early on when I was first sort of getting outside of just building marketing websites, I took on a project for a social media platform. Of course, this was probably 2009, Facebook was sort of coming into its own and they wanted to build a social media. It was a guy that really didn't understand what social media was. He was on no social media platforms himself. He was an older dude who was annoyed that his daughter-in-law kept inviting him to the Facebook and he did not want to deal with that. So he decided instead that he was going to build his own, so he wouldn't have to join Facebook. It was ... it sounds kind of ridiculous and made up, but I swear this was an actual project that we did. KEN MILLER: Well, that is my kind of lazy. (laughter) Really, I mean I'm serious. Where you will recreate the site, from scratch, in order to not have one annoying experience. Ken Miller, CTO/CFO, founder of Infinite Red. I'm trying to think about a hard project. For me, the hardest projects are the ones where you have to keep at for years. A massive, blast through it, kind of hard project is much easier. I've always been a little ADD and I think that some people thrive on that emergency situation, but a long haul where you have to keep at something for a long time is harder. In terms of work technical things, a couple companies ago, we had a very email dependent company and so we had to get a huge number of emails sent in a very narrow window every day. That was a very long back and forth process because you have to keep up with the amount that you are sending out physically, you have to manage the deliverability, you have to monitor your changes and make sure a small change in your rendering doesn't completely blow up your delivery window. And so the process of managing that over time definitely taught me a lot about how you set something up so you can do it over time. TODD WERTH: How many emails did you send out Ken, just curious. KEN: I think we were at 3 million. This was pre-Mailgun, pre-AWS. This was, we had to actually size the hardware- TODD: Is that per week? KEN: Appropriately. Every night. And it had to be finished in about a two hour window. TODD: So you're responsible for most of the spam in the early 2000s. KEN: Yeah, that was me. I'm sorry. (laughter) My bad. Delivering legitimate email is actually pretty tricky because of all the anti-spam measures that are a necessity of modern communications. So that was probably, in terms of the technical project, that has been the most challenging. That, organizationally, was the most for me. TODD: Hi, I am Todd Werth. I'm the CEO and the founder of Infinite Red; long time listener, first time caller. So Chris asked us to talk about a hard problem we've had in the past. So I think most hard problems I've dealt with in the past haven't necessarily been technical, because even though they're difficult, they're fairly straight forward to go through. Some just take a little longer. KEN: That's true. TODD: Most of the problems have been human related. One that comes to mind, and I'm sure there are better examples but, circa 1998, 1999 or something, I did a project for the San Francisco 49ers. The scouts would go out preseason and they would scout out new people and they would go all over the country and they would take notes. Traditionally this was done on paper and then when they finally made it back to the home office they would go over their notes with whomever and what not. So we were developing a system where we gave these peoples laptops for them to take out and then when they got back to their hotel room they would hook up to the phone line and use a modem and upload the data to the database; which was hugely advantageous to the San Francisco 49er corporate office. The problem is, none of these gentlemen have every used a computer before. Didn't know how to use a mouse, didn't know how to use a laptop, so the challenging part there ...actually, a colleague of mine, his name was Milton Hare, he did the training and taught them the very basics of using a computer. That was actually quite challenging. The user interface that we designed had to be geared towards that. It had to be, not just simple, but absurdly simple. It was very fascinating. The bad part of that project was that I got to see a lot of data on professional football players, including things like their criminal records and I will not go into it, but it's not a pretty picture. CHRIS: What we're going to do in this episode is we're gonna look at the art of doing difficult work in three main areas: extreme personal support, collaboration, and transparency. But before we get there, what is difficult work? We've had a couple of different responses. We've had technical, we've had human, but what is difficult work? TODD: I would say...that's a hard question. KEN: Difficult work is work that is not easy. (laughter) TODD: Yes, Ken. That's why we have you here. It's tough to say. As far as from our culture and our perspective, difficult work is what's difficult for individual people. So for example, I'm an engineer and designer, not a sales person. Jamon is also an engineer, not a sales person, but Jamon and I for a long time did sales together. That is difficult work for us, we didn't come natural to it, we didn't have any experience with it. So one of the things we decided early on is, we have a couple of rules. One, you don't have to do something the way other people in the world do it. We're engineers, we're doing sales, we approached it from an engineering standpoint and we engineer our sales process. Later we can talk about that. Two, is anything that is difficult for individuals, they shouldn't be doing alone. They should never be alone on an island. If someone, whatever it is, talking to a tough client, dealing with a tough technical problem, doing something that's outside of your comfort zone such as sales or maybe giving a presentation or whatever it is, we do at least in pairs or more. It's one of the things I really, I beat the drum beat with our team is, if there is something you're dreading, use the buddy system and get people to be there with you because that helps a lot. For example, in our sales calls, Jamon and I would do this thing where if I'm talking and I'm starting to fumble, he would interrupt me and take over, or if I felt like I had nothing to say and I was having a particularly anxious moment or something, Jamon would take over and we would support each other that way. Eventually we became pretty decent sales people. KEN: If I were to take a crack at defining difficult, I would say, something like work where you don't already know how you're supposed to do it. As distinct from hard work, for the purposes of discussion, I would define as more you know how to do it there's just a lot of it and you need to do it quickly or intensively for some reason. One of things that we actually like to do around here is turn hard work into difficult work. Find a way to automate in terms of process or literally automate in terms of code, things that would otherwise be hard work. It's not always possible, but we try to when we can. JAMON: I have a personal example of this, wasn't done within Infinite Red per se, but on Christmas Eve I suffered a house fire and it obviously was quite traumatic but one of the things we have to deal with as sort of a fall out of this house fire is submitting personal items to insurance for reimbursement, to kind of restore what we had. It's a very labor intensive process, to go to the insurance company's website and individually type in items because most people with a normal sized home would have thousands of items. The restoration company had done a spreadsheet for us and they had done a lot of the work, where they had gone through, and I would characterize that as very hard work, where they had to go through a bunch of soot-stained things and inventory them, take pictures of them, describe them in a spreadsheet. They did a really good job with that and they put it into a spreadsheet, but to put those items in was still a manual process of transferring from a spreadsheet over to the State Farm website. I decided that, maybe what I'll do is I'll figure out some way to automate that and that took me like an hour. I could've gotten a lot of things done during that time, I could've entered quite a few items in that amount of time. It took a lot of frustration, of like going down the wrong road, and kind of reverse engineering the web app. But once I had it done, I got it to work and I ran this cURL script for like 45 minutes and at the end of 45 minutes we had 3,000 items entered into the website. So this was a situation where we could've just buckled down and done the hard work, but instead of doing that I did more difficult work of thinking of a way to automate it and that was a net positive. KEN: And if the FBI or State Farm are listening, we had no knowledge of this. (laughter) TODD: State Farm is definitely not listening. KEN: For the record. TODD: Jamon, two questions. One, do you think State Farm intentionally makes it super hard to enter items that they're going to reimburse you for? Two, how long do you think that would take you if you hadn't automated that? JAMON: You know, we've been asked that before. I don't actually think that's the case necessarily, because I've been involved in enough software projects where you're not intentionally making something difficult for users, but when you don't use it, when you are not the end user, when you are not the person sitting there whose been through a fire who has to go through it and do it. It's not as easy as it seems when you're testing it with 14 items, 14 test items. I think actually this speaks more to a lot of what we do where yes, entering 8 dummy items in the course of testing it on localhost, it's actually a pretty good experience. They've actually done a pretty good job of making that pretty decent, but the overall user experience of a real person in a real position of needing to do this- KEN: For a large loss, not just like hey someone stole my bike, but yeah ... JAMON: Exactly, it falls on it's face. So I actually don't think at all that this was intentional. I think that it's entirely within the realm of possibility that this is simply they haven't user tested. It's a fairly new system, hopefully they'll add bulk import at some point. As far as the second question which is how long do you think it would've taken to enter those items. I think I'd gotten through maybe a couple hundred in the previous hour. It was taking me probably between 15 seconds to 30 seconds to enter each item. It would've taken a long time and been very tiring. TODD: We'll give State Farm the benefit of the doubt. KEN: I think this impulse, this is exactly the kind of impulse that leads some people to computers, to programming. This allergic reaction to tedium and repetition and when you find computer programming for the first time, if you're that kind of person who hates that sort of tedium, you're like 'this is the best thing that I've ever seen in my life,' right? I only have to think in enough clarity about what's happening to describe it to the computer, and then it'll do it for me. That's a really powerful feeling and as you get into it of course you discover that you've just traded one problem for another problem, but we're the kind of people who find that to be a higher class, more interesting, better, more rewarding problem. CHRIS: There was an intriguing phrase used the other day: We make difficult things doable through extreme personal support of each other. So can you paint a picture of what extreme personal support means to you at maybe the founders level and then maybe at the Infinite Red team level? TODD: Who said that Chris? CHRIS: That was the brilliance of a guy named Todd Werth. TODD: I do not recall saying that. I wouldn't phrase it that way, even though I literally phrased it that way. (laughter) I don't remember saying that, but it makes sense. It's not only do we give people support when they're doing work that's difficult for them including all of us, and including the three people here as well. Let me tell you a little story. When I was a young man I worked in a warehouse, I drove a forklift around at a job. One thing I noticed in that job, it didn't suit me very well because I like to talk and I like to think about stuff and it was just very tedious. What I noticed a lot of the people in the warehouse, all different ages, young person like myself all the way up to older people, is a lot of people in the warehouse were not in the right job. This one gentleman would constantly get in trouble and the bosses did not like him because he loved to chat and he was really good at it and he was really personable and I have no idea why he was in the warehouse, it made no sense at all. Later on he went to become a successful real estate agent, which is completely appropriate. Now this company I worked for, it was a big company, it was one of the largest companies in the state, so it's not like they didn't have a place for this gentleman to work well, so he ended up leaving. The reason I tell that story is because you have to know everyone individually and what's hard work for one person is not hard work for another. If it's not hard work for another person, one way they can support people rather than just direct interaction is for them taking on jobs that other people find hard. So that's kind of support and of course there's just day to day, I will show up with you on the battlefield, type of support and that kind of stuff. JAMON: I think one of the ways that this manifests itself is how we deal with failure and the inability to get something done here. We're not quick to reach for blame the individual who's there. Sometimes that's the case where someone just falls down and they kind of do their own thing and that needs to be corrected and move forward. TODD: We so don't look to blame. JAMON: We don't look to blame. No it's really, let's look at this from a collaborative approach. How can we, as a group, do this better in the future? How can we adjust our systems? One of the things I don't like is to identify a gap in our system, for example, and then say that the answer is that the people involved need to just try harder. I really don't like that answer. Unfortunately that's something that a lot of lazy leadership will do. They'll just be like, 'you need to get your act together,' and that's the answer. The reality is that's often not the answer. The answer is usually to work with the system until it's at a point where doing the right thing is the easy path, where doing the right thing is the natural and intuitive path. That takes thinking, that takes understanding the problem, it's harder for leadership to accomplish that. KEN: It is occasionally the right answer though. TODD: It sometimes, sure. KEN: But not very often. It's rarely that simple, but I think one of the hard things that I've found in leadership was actually saying to somebody, 'Look, you need to step up. You have what you need right in front of you, the next part is up to you.' Actually saying that is part of it. I think what Jamon is referring to is that if the support is not there, then saying that is meaningless. JAMON: Yes. TODD: Well, I mean, it's like someone is pushing a rock up a hill and you're just saying you need to push harder, push harder. When the person's telling you and you're not listening, why don't I just walk over the hill and get the rock that's already over there? You know what I mean? So- KEN: Yeah, I completely agree with that. TODD: I do agree that asking somebody to step up in a real way, not just a nose against the grindstone type of way. KEN: When you get to the point where you've got all of the easy rocks on one side and what we actually need to do as a team is get this one huge freaking rock on the other side of the hill, and some people are not pushing with you, that has to be addressed. JAMON: Right KEN: But it's much smaller part of the pie than I think some management philosophies would tell you. TODD: I personally convince everyone that pushing rocks is one of the neatest things in the world, it's a rarity, and for a low price they can push my rocks for me. (laughter) JAMON: I think one of the things Ken has said in the past is what we want to be is a high support, high expectations company. Low support, high expectations is just toxic. KEN: That's a sweat shop. JAMON: Yeah, it's a sweat shop. High support, low expectations is a nursery and low expectations, low support that's- KEN: I don't even know what that is. CHRIS: How does this picture of extreme personal support enter your relationship as the three founders? JAMON: I can kind of personally attest to this. There are certain tasks that I'm well suited to, my personality, that I enjoy doing. There are other ones that it's like pulling teeth to get me to do and that's just been exacerbated since I had the house fire and am kind of displaced from my normal routine and I really just want to focus on the things that I really enjoy doing. What we did, actually earlier this year, up until this point we've made a lot of decisions together, we've done a lot of things together and that's was appropriate for the first couple years of Infinite Red. But we've gotten to a point where we kind of understand each other, we kind of have a lot of aligned shared goals and we've actually started to specialize. This was a way for Todd and Ken to support me, in that Todd could focus on a lot of team-oriented things and Ken's been doing a lot of things with the financial and bookkeeping side of the business, which I am not good at. I can focus more on business development and that's actually the part of the business that I find really interesting, so rather than just telling me, 'work harder at managing your projects, work harder at being an account manager, work harder at doing these other things,' which yeah, I could work harder and do a better job. Instead of doing that we've found a solution that wasn't centered around just working harder it was centered around doing things that we felt effective at. TODD: As we are three founders and we govern as a quorum of elders as it were, as opposed to a hierarchical company, supporting ourselves, each other, the three founders, is just as important as supporting the team in my opinion. When there is a financial problem, thankfully we haven't had too many of those, we all have to step up and so we tend to understand each other's personal finances, each other's personal stuff. It's almost like a pseudo-marriage in a way, although there are three of us so it'd be a polyamorous marriage in this case. It's a requirement to be more, I don't want to use to word intimate, but intimate in each other's lives and I think we're really good... What's cool about three as opposed to two or one, for example, because Jamon's done one and I've done one, I've been in another company ...but what's cool about three is, typically it's one person having a communications problem or arguing or having difficulties with another person and the third person mediates. It's either Jamon and I are having an argument and Ken mediates or Ken and I are having an argument and Jamon mediates. Hey wait- KEN: Wait, when do you mediate, Todd? (laughter) TODD: I don't think I've ever mediated, that's funny. KEN: I don't think you have actually. I'm noticing a pattern here, yeah. JAMON: That's not true. TODD: But it is totally true. But it's okay. I tend to draw lightning as well away from people and because I deserve it. I don't know if that answered your question, but I think it's uber important, sorry, it's Lyft important that we do that. (laughter) You know, it starts and then we can all support the team if we are supported ourselves. JAMON: It sets the tone, all the way down and we have to. We have no other way of working. We have to support each other and it's not just when we're having interpersonal problems with each other, but also when someone's just literally having a tough time. What I think we've done really well as a founder team is go into our shared channel and post, 'I'm having a tough time.' It can be for any reason, it can literally be like, I didn't sleep very well last night; I just am so bored with this task, I cannot get started with it. All those things are valid and the answer is never just suck it up, or if it is, it's one of those things where it's an empathetic suck it up. If that makes sense. It's like, I totally get it, I understand where you're at, we really just need to get this done. And sometimes that's what you need, you need a little boot in the rear and that's something that you can take from the other side too. It's been great, really, the last two and a half years having that. TODD: Obviously we're talking about supporting each other as founders, but it's the same with the team. One key thing is if someone is vulnerable, they say they've made a mistake, they say they're having a problem, even if you personally think 'is that really a problem?' Or whatever, it doesn't matter. Whatever your personal feelings are is irrelevant. If you stomp on that person, if you make fun of that person, if you tell them to suck it up buttercup, everyone, not just them, the entire team will contract. They will put up a little more walling around them and they won't do that in the future. They'll do it, they just won't do it around you. It is hard because we're all emotional beings and sometimes you have an emotional reaction to something. But you have to be super careful to not ...when that flame is just starting you need to be very gentle with it and not blow it out. KEN: It's more than just avoiding stomping on people, not that Todd was saying that's all it was, but you have to go out of your way to solicit, to get people to talk about what's going on with them, to check in with them, to reiterate that you're available for that. You can't say it once and assume that everyone will remember that, they won't. Right? People's own internal dialogue about how worthy they are, all that stuff will keep coming back if you don't actively do it. Also, we will make mistakes sometimes, right? So you have to keep doing the active things as well to keep the ship steered in the right direction. TODD: When we make mistakes it's important that we apologize to the team. Not fakely like 'oh, I'm so sorry.' Everyone can smell fake, but if you're genuinely made a mistake because you had an emotional moment and you didn't act appropriately, you have to apologize to them as well. CHRIS: So the interesting thing as you're talking, I get a sense that this isn't something that you just read in a book and you're like, 'I'm an expert at this.' I sense that there are some really real stories behind learning what it means to be not only supporting others but to feel supported. TODD: Yes, for sure. Ken actually is super good at advice in this kind of thing, having been a leader in the past. Typically, leader of only senior people in the last two jobs. Actually, the last one I had some more junior. Infinite Red, when we first started, we had quite a few junior people, so that was a little new to me. One of the things you have to learn ...leadership is hard by the way, I just want to interject that. Leadership is very difficult, it's hard work and that's why we get the support of each other. We not only get the support of the three founders, but the entire leadership team here at Infinite Red and there's a variety of people: Gant Laborde, Shawni Danner, Jed Bartausky, Justin Huskey. It's difficult and not only are we supporting each other, we're coaching them, especially the more junior leaders on how to do it and one of the things Ken said and it's just one of the great gems of wisdom that he gives, is he goes "you have to remember you have very wide arms, when you swing them you hurt people." So you don't have the luxury to be how you were when you were as an employee. I could say things as an employee, I enjoy making people laugh, it's one of my things. I can do a lot of things as an employee that I simply can't do as a leader because when I say something it's taken much more seriously, whether I meant it or not. When I hear other managers, let's call them, say something like employees suck, it's like, 'no they don't, you suck.' Employees don't suck. That's crazy, that's like the coach of the San Francisco 49ers saying my players suck. Well, you chose the players, you're coaching the players, so they don't suck. KEN: One of the things that we do when we're working on a difficult project as a team is make sure there's an owner. One of the things that will kill any difficult project is diffuse responsibility. Partly what we're striving for is that everyone can take responsibility for something. Everyone can be like, 'I'm going to execute my part of this as skillfully as I can,' but if there's not one person who owns the whole vision, it's going to fail. Almost guaranteed. Creating an environment where it's okay for that owner to say, 'hey I need your help to get this done.' Where the culture is like, somebody needs something from you and they specifically ask you, that you try to do it. And that makes ownership less scary. One of the things that I've seen go wrong, if someone is given responsibility but no power, no ability to actually follow through on that responsibility- TODD: That happens all the time. KEN: That is the most demoralizing position, possible. TODD: That's toxic. KEN: Yeah, so that's how you kill your budding leaders by saying 'hey get this done and by the way, all these people over here have their own priorities and they're not going to help you.' That is the worst. So, assign ownership and then back them up. That's been one of the keys to getting certain things done. Chain React is a good example of that. Chain React is our conference for React Native in Portland this July 11-13. So we did it first last year and now we're doing it again this year. Shawni, who basically runs it, had ever run a conference before, had never been to a conference before, but is good at just marshaling resources and taking charge and that's a great example where she could pull on whoever she needed for help. When it came to actually knowing specifically what to do for other peoples' expertise, like we flew somebody up who was a serious foodie, to go and test the caterers, for example. JAMON: That was our team member Derek Greenberg and Derek is such a foodie and it was just a joy to watch him work on that. KEN: He had the most comprehensive report for that kind of selection process that I have ever heard. It was amazing, anyway. None of these things that we're saying are we perfect at. We're not, we don't hit this every single time and I hope that we're not saying that's the standard. What we're saying is here's our guiding star, here's what we try to do, here's how we evaluate whether we're doing the right thing or not. So this is how we nurture leadership within the team, is to say 'here's what we need you to do, and by the way, the team is your oyster.' You can go and pull in what you need in order to make this happen. **CHRIS: This is really bringing up a really interesting point now, we've got this extreme personal support but then when you add the component of leadership and helping each other out, it introduces the layer of collaboration. So how is collaboration different from extreme personal support? TODD: You can have a group of people who hate each other and they can collaborate if they're given the proper motivations. This happens all the time in corporations every day. Sadly, many people work at those corporations. So I don't think those are necessarily required for each other. I do want to digress just for one second. So Ken was saying how we try to give people in leadership positions or in a leadership role in a particular project, whatever it is. We try to do empowering stuff, but we're not perfect at all. One of the coolest things about having Ken and Jamon around is when I do something boneheaded, typically Monday-Friday, they let me know and they help me get through it and they identify it and on the flip side for whatever reason the team is pretty comfortable talking to me. It's just my personality, I talk to people a lot. And so if they have a problem with say Ken or Jamon, they'll let me know, and then I go talk to that person or we talk and try to do it in the most supportive way possible with the goal of improving that person's, how they're performing as a leader and that's awesome because we're all human so having the support. For the team it's the same way. A lot of programming, I wouldn't say design because design's a little different, we do design and development. A lot of development shops are kind of little dog eat dog, kind of situation. People can be arrogant, they can make fun of other people's work, and that kind of stuff. We really hire and try to promote a, you can be critical and explain problems, but do it in a supportive way and that can't be in a mission statement, it can't be something you announce in a meeting. They have to live it every day and especially new people, it takes them awhile to get deinstitutionalized and understand that you can make mistakes, you can put your head above the fray and it will not get chopped off. Every once in a while someone does and I have a private conversation with them and let them know how they were really not being supportive and our team's awesome, they all want to be. It's almost never malice, it's always just they miscommunicated and they didn't understand what they were doing. KEN: Well people are messy, right? That's just the nature of the beast. JAMON: This highlights one of the aspects of almost everything within Infinite Red and that's where we try to design things for iteration over perfection. So even things like support, supporting our people we are iterating on how to do that. We're trying to have a feedback loop, there has to be some level of learning from our mistakes and then continually getting better. There are some things where someone will take on a task as a group that we decide, were going to do this thing and it's actually a very difficult technical thing or it's a very difficult societal thing, where we're going to build a new AR system or something and the tools are not there and we have to build all that. So there are hard technical things that are... KEN: There are, but- JAMON: But I think you're right Ken, in the interpersonal stuff kind of always comes back to that, as far as the things that end up feeling very difficult and very hard. KEN: So just to take that, so let's take like, the Manhattan project. TODD: Why not, take it... JAMON: And of course that was the project in World War 2 where they were developing the nuclear bomb. KEN: Right, so definitely some complicated ethical angles on that one, but how do you do that? Well, you attract the world's greatest scientists and put them in one place in New Mexico, and then you give them the tools that they need to work with and you give them a goal that you can align on. In this case, win the war. TODD: Kind of like Breaking Bad. KEN: Boy, our examples ar going really dark here. (laughter) TODD: Well they brought world class scientists to New Mexico- KEN: Let's pick a better one because it still works, right? If you're not just one person sitting in a room, working on something hard. Not to take anything away from that because a lot of amazing things have come out of one person sitting down with a problem. I think that's a different question than what we work with ever, right? I think we could probably have a whole podcast on how do you recognize a good engineer for example and I think that's an interesting question but it's a little different from the question of how do we as a company work on that. Because that really is about: how do you set up an environment where people can do their best work? And how do you hold people accountable? But also make sure that they are not held back by lack of resources. And those resources can be physical, tangible but in many cases they are emotional resources or organizational resources. Especially in a software business, I think that it's exaggerated in a software business and that dynamic also is worth a whole podcast because of the dynamics of software and how they're different. Because there's nothing to buy, right? Once you have the computer, you're done. What that leaves is all these other kind of softer, squishier resources that people need to do their best work. JAMON: One example of this is an internal tool that we've been working on that is intended to increase the efficiency of certain types of tasks. It's not something that's open source at this time, so I'm not going to go into a lot of detail, but I asked the team that was behind it why we weren't necessarily realizing some of the gains that we had anticipated to start with and interestingly, a lot of the responses were, really had nothing to do with technical issues or anything like that. It was policy related things. Some things that we were doing that were sort of handcuffing them in some ways and there were reasons behind those, there were sort of organizations reasons, strategic reasons behind some of those policies, but it allowed us to look at the end result of this difficult problem that we were trying to solve, and make some decisions based on values and trade offs that were more strategic in nature that we didn't realize were holding them back as much as they were. So that's an example where we had a hard problem and, unbeknownst to us, we were making some decisions that were making it more difficult for them. CHRIS: When does extreme personal support diverge into collaboration? Todd mentioned that you can hate the people that you're with and still collaborate, but what does successful collaboration look like? TODD: I would say successful collaboration is a multi-faceted thing. One, is the stress level of the people doing the collaborating. Two, the most obvious, is a successful work output of that collaboration. Meaning you accomplish your goals, hopefully in a creative, high quality way. And then three, from a business standpoint, that it was the return on an investment of that collaboration was good. JAMON: I think those are good kind of high level metrics that you can use. Another way to do this from a more granular level is to watch how people interact. So some people, for example me, may come into a meeting and may want to kind of expose that this other person is not doing their job or something like that and that's not a very particularly constructive way to approach this. But if you watch the successful collaborations that happen, they go into the meeting with a question and they go into the meeting, we have a challenge in front of us. How can we solve this? They get the people involved that need to be involved and don't make the meeting too big, but they make it just big enough and that's a characteristic of a good collaboration when everyone can go into it with an understanding of a problem, be able to provide their perspective and then the group can come to a conclusion. It's part of this overarching concept of psychological safety that we talk about a lot at Infinite Red that leads to better and better work. CHRIS: We've got extreme personal support, we've got collaboration, what about transparency? How critical is transparency in difficult work and in doing remote work? JAMON: One of the things about transparency that's important, or why transparency is important is this idea of trust. Because trust underlies a lot of dynamics within a company and if people feel like you're being purposefully opaque, they may feel that you're hiding something, they may feel that you don't trust them with the information, you don't trust their opinion, you don't trust ...and then when you don't have a high level of trust than a lot of other things fall apart. You don't get that collaboration, you don't get a lot of other things that you really need. So transparency is a prerequisite to building that trust. When we're able to be open and honest with our team about struggles or how we approach things or issues, were not necessarily saying wide open, everything is just hanging out there, but at the same time we do want to have a high level of transparency and ultimately we have to actually trust our team in order to do that. It can't just be something artificial, it has to be something where we actually do trust our team. Again, it's like there's not this formula where you just say do a whole bunch of transparency and everybody will trust you. No, what you have to do is do the hard work to build that trust. The transparency is a part of that and then that is something that you continue to do. There was a situation where we implemented some new business policies, business way of doing work. Todd was intimately involved with that throughout and all of us were really and some feedback we got afterward was that they didn't feel that there was quite the transparency that they had expected. Felt like a bit of betrayal of trust, and we heard that, we heard that loud and clear. We told people we heard that loud and clear and we changed the way that we implemented larger company-wide changes in that way. It can be a little difficult, just being wide open sometimes will expose you to knee jerk reactions, or a lot of different things that can sometimes bite you, but it's worth it in the interest of establishing that sort of trust. TODD: In what ways are we transparent and what ways are we not transparent? JAMON: Well one obvious way is that for most of our engineers and designers, we actually have a transparent pay scale. People actually know what other people make salary-wise. We get this feedback sometimes, someone will say, 'I think this person is leveled too low, I think they need to level up, I think they've been doing good work.' Without that level of transparency we'd never get that feedback because people wouldn't know and you could easily have a situation where someone is underpaid and we're not getting the feedback that that's the case. KEN: Chronically underpaying someone can be extremely expensive. TODD: Ironically. KEN: Because you can lose your best people that way. So we try to be super involved and see everything. Of course, we try, but that stops being scalable after a while so we have to have mechanisms in place that encourage the right information to come forward. TODD: Jamon mentioned our transparent pay scales. If your company is telling you not to talk to your co-workers about how much you make; A, it's ridiculous because you're going to do that anyways, especially with people you're close with and B, it's a red flag because why? I know why they do it because it's easier. Having a pay scale, everyone can look at a spreadsheet to see where everyone is placed and that kind of thing. It's much more challenging from our perspective because you can't just, such and such you know we want to give them more money for whatever reason, maybe a political reason or whatever, it doesn't matter. You can't just give them that because that's not the level they're at, so it's very fair and the transparency is nice but, I'm not going to go into it right now but we've had many situations where that's been difficult for us. Would've been easier just to have a normal secret pay for everyone, but not all of our team enjoys that as much as some other people. Some people really enjoy that and it also gets rid of problems like inequity between say genders, or race or anything like that because everyone knows what everyone makes. So that kind of transparency is great. Some transparency, I don't think we are transparent, not because we don't want to be, we'd love to be, I personally am a very open book person. Literally if someone asks me a question I'll answer pretty much anything. I won't answer about someone else, like if someone's told me something in confidence, or I won't talk about my wife or whatever but anything about me I'm very open. But, I know not everyone is that way and there are various reasons why but as a company, we try to be as transparent unless it's actively going to hurt people and sometimes that happens. You have to weigh hurting people against transparency sometimes. Sometimes people really, it's not good if they see how sausage is made, just because they may not have the full information. Let me give you an example. So let's say, this is hypothetical, this isn't really what's happened, lets say we're going over financials once a month and we understand what's going on and we've had lots of conversations about financials and then one month we're going to be drastically under and us founders are going to have to put money into the company to keep it rolling. That's one of those things where, if you just announce that we're doing really poorly, we're going to put money in so we can pay payroll, it can make people very nervous. Not because they're not smart enough to understand, they just haven't been sitting in those meetings and they don't understand the big picture. You can say all you want that it's totally okay, it's fine don't worry about it, but when someone's doing a bank robbery with a gun, you don't pay attention to what their wearing, you're looking at the barrel of the gun. It's just situations like that where we choose specifically not to be transparent. We default to transparency, but there are time when we choose not to be. KEN: The first time I really extensively used what I would call social media at work was at Yammer, who semi-invented that. JAMON: Ken, what was Yammer? What was the product? KEN: Yammer was, I think it began life as basically Twitter for companies and it kind of turned into Facebook for companies. It's very similar to that, so it's, you have threaded conversations and notifications and likes, but it was aimed at organizations. It's still going. They were bought by Microsoft, it still exists. Slack pretty much came in and sucked all the air out of that market, but, nevertheless, they had some pretty good norms for how you use a tool like that in business. One of them was, they had private groups, but they would always ask the question: Why is this private? Why is this conversation happening in private chat and not in a channel? Not that you couldn't have things private, because there are certainly cases where you'd want that, but those cases had to argue for themselves, whereas, the prevailing mindset before had been private by default unless you needed to collaborate and so our default is: default to open, default to open channels and we do that in Slack too. The things that we keep private are: client channels are private so that they don't have to worry that random drive-bys are coming in and looking at their stuff. Few things like HR and finance are private and anybody on the team can make as many private groups as they want for themselves. In terms of the official channels, they're as open as we can make them and that's been part of that ethos is that it's not all transparent, it's transparent by default. JAMON: But that even extends outside the company. On my Twitter I'll answer questions and I'm often quite transparent about some of the challenges that we face. This podcast being another outlet for it, where we talk about what we do. It's even outside of the company itself and I think that helps, it's a part of who we are. Todd, Ken, and I initially started on some open source software and that's the height of transparency there. CHRIS: So kind of bringing this episode to a close; What advice would you give to other founders who are looking to build a culture of doing difficult work together as a team? TODD: I would say the number one tip is just try, and keep on trying. There's no magic bullet, I don't know of any particular books you can read, every organization's different and different type people and different type jobs have different needs, but if you just keep on trying and keep on making an effort towards it, if you stumble and you have an emotional moment and you swing your arms too strongly, get back up, apologize, and keep on trying. JAMON: How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. You start there and you start in a way that is, you don't have this master plan where you have to follow it exactly all the way through. You design something that has a feedback loop. Feedback loops are extremely important. You'll hear us talking about that more, very often. You start with the first thing, then you start with the next thing and you keep working at it. We've never done a podcast together, for example, so we start with the first episode and we iterate on it and we look at what we've done and we see what we like and what we don't like. We provide feedback and we provide feedback in a way that hopefully is constructive and is something that we can learn from. Todd mentioned another time when he and I collaborated on sales and how we would engineer the process. We did it that way. We started with the first sales lead and we evaluated how we did and we continue to chip away at it. Any company that is going to take on a hard problem like that, start with the first bite and see how you did, and have a feedback loop and have a way of iterating, getting better and by the end of that elephant, you're going to be pretty dang good at eating elephants. KEN: That's terrible. TODD: Yeah, we apologize to the elephants out there. KEN: Can we eat Republicans? (laughter) TODD: Can we eat people at Google? JAMON: I get the reference: elephants and GOP. TODD: I don't understand... KEN: See, this is why we had to bring Jamon on because Todd wasn't smart enough to get my jokes. (laughter) TODD: This is all going to be cut anyways so ... I know Chris. JAMON: I hope not. (laughter) TODD: We eat Republicans, really? KEN: Yeah, no you're right. They're probably tough. (laughter) TODD: It's all the wrinkles from too much makeup.
In this week's episode, Saren talks with her mom and sisters, Shawni and Saydi, about how hard it can be to involve our kids in basic housework and go on to brainstorm concrete ideas for how we can get our kids to participate in housework in a positive and effective way.
In this week's brand new episode, Power of Families Director Saren and her sisters, Shawni and Saydi, and her mom, Linda Eyre discuss their thoughts, ideas and experiences about technology and screentime in today's world and in their own families. Some of the issues addressed are: How to keep from using phones as a crutch too often with our youngest children How to manage our own screen time and model good phone use for our children What we can do to keep phones from undermining real interpersonal connections When children should get their own smart phone How to help older children adopt appropriate boundaries once they have phones
Understanding how to parent using (and limiting) technology can be very confusing, so the Eyres have enlisted some additional Eyre family help for today's episode. Richard and Linda are joined by their daughters Shawni and Saydi who each have young families of their own. How much screen time is too much and when should kids get their first phone? Parenting pointers for the 21st century.
In this 25-minute episode, Saren and her sister Shawni (who runs the popular blog, 71 Toes), discuss simple ways to help our children: Feel and express gratitude for every-day things that are easy to take for granted Focus on what they have rather than what they feel that they lack Work for what they get so that they will more fully appreciate it Learn about those who are less fortunate so they can see how blessed they are while developing compassion and understanding for others
Parenting teenagers is a whole new ball game! Power of Families Founder, Saren, and her sister, Shawni, who runs the popular blog, 71 Toes, have three teenagers between them plus a couple of pre-teens. They share what they're learning about building and maintaining strong relationships with teenagers.
Deep into the vibe! My selection this week contains music by Paris Green, Be Svendsen, Kora (CA), Blond:ish, Shawni,Baime,Einmusik,Super Flu,Pablo Bolivar,BOg, Tim Engelhardt, Steve Bug, Howling,Dee Montero, Modular Project and Toto Chiavetta. Melodies and hypnitizing beats, let them take you on a trip.
Nach dieser letzen längeren Unterbrechung könnt Ihr nun wieder regelmäßig mit musikalischen News meinerseits rechnen:)Episode#75 folgt gleich nächste Woche !! Dann wird es wohl auf einen längeren monatlich.. oder 2 a 60min in Monat hinauslaufen..Hier aber zunächst Episode#74. Mit vieeel Melodei am Anfang und zum Ende. Im Mittelteil 5 echte House - Tracks in denen wirklich das versprochene steckt (wie immer sehr subjektiv betrachtet..;,) !!!Los gehts..1 Evans, Shawni 0.19 (Original Mix)2 Kotelett & Zadak Crave Dave (Original Mix)3 Marc Romboy Counting Comets (Ruede Hagelstein Remix)4 Monkey Safari On (Paco Osuna Remix)5 Matt Minimal 5AM (Original Mix)6 Flex Cop Cursed (Original Mix)7 19eighty7 Get It on (Extended Version)8 Holter & Mogyoro Step Further (Original Mix)9 Joeski It's All The Same (Mendo & Yvan Genkins Rmx10 Jesse James, Wayne Dudley The Spirit (Original Mix)11 The Florist Albatross (Original Mix)12 Bijan, Virtual V Le Voyage (Original Mix)13 Lee Van Dowski ELLE (Original Mix)
Nach dieser letzen längeren Unterbrechung könnt Ihr nun wieder regelmäßig mit musikalischen News meinerseits rechnen:) Episode#75 folgt gleich nächste Woche !! Dann wird es wohl auf einen längeren monatlich.. oder 2 a 60min in Monat hinauslaufen.. Hier aber zunächst Episode#74. Mit vieeel Melodei am Anfang und zum Ende. Im Mittelteil 5 echte House - Tracks in denen wirklich das versprochene steckt (wie immer sehr subjektiv betrachtet..;,) !!! Los gehts.. 1 Evans, Shawni 0.19 (Original Mix) 2 Kotelett & Zadak Crave Dave (Original Mix) 3 Marc Romboy Counting Comets (Ruede Hagelstein Remix) 4 Monkey Safari On (Paco Osuna Remix) 5 Matt Minimal 5AM (Original Mix) 6 Flex Cop Cursed (Original Mix) 7 19eighty7 Get It on (Extended Version) 8 Holter & Mogyoro Step Further (Original Mix) 9 Joeski It's All The Same (Mendo & Yvan Genkins Rmx 10 Jesse James, Wayne Dudley The Spirit (Original Mix) 11 The Florist Albatross (Original Mix) 12 Bijan, Virtual V Le Voyage (Original Mix) 13 Lee Van Dowski ELLE (Original Mix)
Brian Bacchus Evans, Shawni - 0.19 (James Teej Remix) Ron Flatter & Ole Biege - Salamanca David Granha - Islandia (Luis Bondio Remix) Klash Rivera - Quiero House (Original Mix) Jerome Steam - Good Morning (Original Mix) 7th Star - Clover Field (Restructured Mix) Stan Serkin & Nick Koplan - Revival (Magnetic Brothers remix) Creative 5 - 99' at Night (Original Mix) Ffunk - F.T.P. (Original Mix) Cocodrills - Bring The Heat Alexey Lisin, Aves Volare - Funny Day feat. Aves Volare (Another Audio Noir Safari) Flo Mrzdk - Tuba 16 Bit Lolitas - Sediment (Original Mix) Mark Fanciulli SECONDCITY FEAT. ALI LOVE - WHAT CAN I DO (MARK FANCIULLI REMIX) [SAVED] MARK FANCIULLI - 8 TRACK (TERRACE MIX) [SAVED] MARK FANCIULLI - SEAL OF APPROVAL [SUARA] BORIS - LISTEN ME [SUARA] CHRISTIAN VARELA - LOVE PERC (BORIS REMIX) [INTEC] [WEX 10] - TV ROOM (ROBERTO CAPUANO REMIX) [UNRILIS] ENTIK - GAMMA (RON COSTA REMIX) [NOCODE] ENRICO SANGIULIANO, MATT SASSARI - ARIES (LUIGI MADONNA REMIX) [ALLEANZA] BUTCH - LFO [DESOLAT] LUIGI MADONNA - UNCONDITIONAL BEAUTY [DRUMCODE] ADRIAN HOUR - 00005 [SUARA] DANIEL STEFANIK -JUST ONE MOMENT [BE CHOSEN] RINO CERRONE, FLAVIO DIAZ - EXTRAORDINARY WIRING (RIVA STARR EDIT) [SAVED]
Hello Fellow House Music Fanatics and Newcomers, welcome!! We are now also available in the Google Play Store's new podcast section, and are still in the iTunes podcast section. For both, just type in the search box, 'house music by dattrax' >> you'll have access to almost 100 free house mixes whether you're on Android or iOS. BOOM! It's been the longest dry spell we've every had this past year for putting up our house mixes. Our apologies, however, we have not slowed down in buying more house tracks. We're junkies!! We've bought over 200 tracks in 5 separate batches from Traxsource and Beatport since the last mix was posted on our site. Been working on two mixes, which we believe you're going to LOVE. This mix, "Ritual Healing" has gone through probably at least eight versions >> each one had some parts that were really amazing and other parts that just sucked! It has been very frustrating, but accepted as part of our ritual of growing in love with new house tracks and only having a few hours a week these days. Most weekends, we listen to about 500+ tracks on Traxsource & Beatport in the late AMs. Jim, my best friend, DJ partner and fellow house fiend takes on tracks on Beatport and I take on Traxsource. So after about 2,000-2,500 tracks, I usually have about 90-130 tracks total in my virtual crate. Then over a few weekends, I'll dwindle that down to 30-40, then try to find a 15-20% discount code or sit on the crate till Traxsource emails a discount. Then buy, then listen to the tracks in traffic to and from my day job in Digital Marketing at a downtown Toronto agency. Then make a mix on a Sat. morning, shaking the whole house for hours (it's fantastic!!), and then listen to it for a few days. If it sucks, then it gets deleted and back to the drawing board we go the next Sat. It's such a healing ritual because I usually take all my life and work stress and pour it into each mix. In the process, hopefully putting mostly negative energy with some positive and transforming it into something beautiful. Sharing my favourite house tracks in the way that I want them to sound if I was dancing my ass off at a crystal clear and loud club sound system!! Much love and respect for the following house vocalists and producers. You can buy all their tracks on Traxsource.com. Message us for the playlist for this house mix if you are really interested: Allies For Everyone, Howling, Hatikvah, MoodWarp, Quintin Christian, Vandermeer, &Me, Damian Lazarus, The Ancient Moons, Larse, Sue Avenue, Larse, Noir, Blaze, Palmer Brown, Solomun, Luca C & Brigante, Roisin Murphy, Luca C, Brigante, Joris Voorn, Matthew Dear, Ost & Kjex, Luka, Mz Jay, At One, Saccao, Moe Turk, Stimming, Martin Buttrich, Mathew Jonson, Laurent Leroy, Hyenah, Denis Horvat, Monique Bingham, Black Coffee, Cubicolor, Moosefly, Iain Howie, Brett Gould, Evans, Shawni, Timo Maas & James Teej, Robosonic, Jeru The Damaja, Rhemi, Hanlei, Lydia Rhodes, Andre Lodemann, Nonku, Dubfire, Hot Since 82, Habischman, Soul Button, Stee Downes, Dahu, Abicah Soul, DJ Spen, Ovijay, Gosha, Dessy Slavova, Anton Ishutin and Pete Oak Please comment here, share with your friends who love house and reach out to us: http://www.torontodj.biz We love hearing from you. This mix was created on two Technics 1200s + Native Instrument's S4 Traxtor controller as the DJ mixer + Traxtor vinyl control records and a laptop. No sync applied.
Hello Fellow House Music Fanatics and Newcomers, welcome!! We are now also available in the Google Play Store's new podcast section, and are still in the iTunes podcast section. For both, just type in the search box, 'house music by dattrax' >> you'll have access to almost 100 free house mixes whether you're on Android or iOS. BOOM! It's been the longest dry spell we've every had this past year for putting up our house mixes. Our apologies, however, we have not slowed down in buying more house tracks. We're junkies!! We've bought over 200 tracks in 5 separate batches from Traxsource and Beatport since the last mix was posted on our site. Been working on two mixes, which we believe you're going to LOVE. This mix, "Ritual Healing" has gone through probably at least eight versions >> each one had some parts that were really amazing and other parts that just sucked! It has been very frustrating, but accepted as part of our ritual of growing in love with new house tracks and only having a few hours a week these days. Most weekends, we listen to about 500+ tracks on Traxsource & Beatport in the late AMs. Jim, my best friend, DJ partner and fellow house fiend takes on tracks on Beatport and I take on Traxsource. So after about 2,000-2,500 tracks, I usually have about 90-130 tracks total in my virtual crate. Then over a few weekends, I'll dwindle that down to 30-40, then try to find a 15-20% discount code or sit on the crate till Traxsource emails a discount. Then buy, then listen to the tracks in traffic to and from my day job in Digital Marketing at a downtown Toronto agency. Then make a mix on a Sat. morning, shaking the whole house for hours (it's fantastic!!), and then listen to it for a few days. If it sucks, then it gets deleted and back to the drawing board we go the next Sat. It's such a healing ritual because I usually take all my life and work stress and pour it into each mix. In the process, hopefully putting mostly negative energy with some positive and transforming it into something beautiful. Sharing my favourite house tracks in the way that I want them to sound if I was dancing my ass off at a crystal clear and loud club sound system!! Much love and respect for the following house vocalists and producers. You can buy all their tracks on Traxsource.com. Message us for the playlist for this house mix if you are really interested: Allies For Everyone, Howling, Hatikvah, MoodWarp, Quintin Christian, Vandermeer, &Me, Damian Lazarus, The Ancient Moons, Larse, Sue Avenue, Larse, Noir, Blaze, Palmer Brown, Solomun, Luca C & Brigante, Roisin Murphy, Luca C, Brigante, Joris Voorn, Matthew Dear, Ost & Kjex, Luka, Mz Jay, At One, Saccao, Moe Turk, Stimming, Martin Buttrich, Mathew Jonson, Laurent Leroy, Hyenah, Denis Horvat, Monique Bingham, Black Coffee, Cubicolor, Moosefly, Iain Howie, Brett Gould, Evans, Shawni, Timo Maas & James Teej, Robosonic, Jeru The Damaja, Rhemi, Hanlei, Lydia Rhodes, Andre Lodemann, Nonku, Dubfire, Hot Since 82, Habischman, Soul Button, Stee Downes, Dahu, Abicah Soul, DJ Spen, Ovijay, Gosha, Dessy Slavova, Anton Ishutin and Pete Oak Please comment here, share with your friends who love house and reach out to us: http://www.torontodj.biz We love hearing from you. This mix was created on two Technics 1200s + Native Instrument's S4 Traxtor controller as the DJ mixer + Traxtor vinyl control records and a laptop. No sync applied.
01 The Shadow Gallery (Original Mix) Ghostlike feat. Kimono 02 Fairy Tales (Original Mix) Aaryon 03 Fixing Fires (Original Mix) Edu Imbernon feat. Archivist 04 Don't Be Afraid (Animal Picnic Remix) Nick Devon feat. Benji 05 Long Awakening (Original Mix) Artsever 06 Fantômes (Original Mix) Patrick Podage feat. Clara Richard Gostynski 07 Treibholz (Patrick Podage Remix) Florian Rietze 08 Under My Wing (Original Mix) Senseless Live 09 Every Sound (Original Mix) Tuneon 10 Out Of Moves (Kastis Torrau Remix) Escenda 11 Soul Shivers (Original Mix) Skena 12 Essenza (Original Mix) Andy Bros 13 Let the Birds Fly (Original Mix) Dean Demanuele 14 Sustained Love (Dear David Remix) Axel Bower feat. Duvchi & Esther Kirabo 15 Getting There (Talul Remix) Sakorka 16 Gold (Rauschhaus Remix) Ben Ivory 17 Roads (Motum's Interpretation Remix) Portishead 18 Back In The Taxi (Original mix) Jan Blomqvist 19 The Minute After (Day Vocal Edit) Jinadu, Mainro, Konvex & The Shadow 20 Chasing Unicorns (Extended Mix) Peer Kusiv ft. Lenny 21 Wizard Of Love (Fake Mood & Mirida Edit) Blondish feat. Shawni
#042 Deep, Tech & True House Music Podcast by Pasha Like Tracklist: 1. TCTS - Jelly (Original Mix) 2. Max Chapman - How I Work (Original Mix) 3. Koletzki & Schwind - My Vision (Original Mix) 4. Le Son Du Placard - Sushi (Original Mix) 5. Le Son Du Placard - Tadmor (Original Mix) 6. Le Son Du Placard - Fantome (Original Mix) 7. K.A.L.I.L. - Maskerade (Original Mix) 8. Maxdal - Living Yourself (Mario Giordano Remix) 9. Axel Karakasis - Subtle (Original Mix) 10. Cristian Varela - Metamorlake (Original Mix) 11. Spartaque - Breathe (Loco & Jam Remix) 12. Groove Delight - Chemtrails (Original Mix) 13. DJ Diass - In The Morning (Original Mix) 14. Danny Clark, Jay Benham, SuSu Bobien, David Penn - Wondrous (David Penn Remix) 15. Metodi Hristov - More Than Ever (Original Mix) 16. Marc Romboy - Counting Comets (Ruede Hagelstein Remix) 17. Evans, Shawni - 0.19 (Original Mix) 18. Andre Crom - Behind The Glass feat. SeIgou (Acoustronic Vocal)
Every Tuesday 5 to 6pm On VICIOUS RADIO Track list Dance Spirit Outside Hale , Manos, Tosel Don't Get Mad at Me ( Patrick Podage ) Aidan Lavelle & Robbie Akbal ft Shawni .Stars No Regular Play Serious Heat art department remix Human life Adana Twins Bleeding Nikolas Noam U got Me Reboot The Frenchie Thing Navar Moments in Life ( 16 bit Lolitas Remix ) Doorly Boogaloo Nivek Tsoy Bad Kevin Yost Remix Dance Spirit Satellite Death On The Balcony Addict For Your Love
Whether it's dinnertime, dealing with arguments, chores, having "the talk," or any other part of family life, every mother has discovered a few little secrets—ways of doing things that make everything a little smoother, more enjoyable, or even possible!World-renowned family expert Linda Eyre is joined by her daughter Shawni Eyre Pothier, herself a mother of 5, to share those little bits of wisdom and know-how that can transform a moment, a day, even the life of a family. In "A Mother's Book of Secrets," readers will find these useful nuggets organized into bite-sized pieces under 5 main headings. Plus, there's even a way you can share your own "secrets" and add to the wisdom of the world of mothering.That's this week on The Cricket and Seagull...
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