Podcast appearances and mentions of Sherman Williams

On this episode of the Startup of the Year Podcast, our host, entrepreneur, and investor, Frank Gruber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankgruber) is joined by Sherman Williams, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at AIN Ventures, a pre-seed and seed-stage focused venture fund that invests in dual-use technology and veteran-led startups. Frank and Shermann discuss all things investing - from the importance of non-dilutive funding to the accelerating energy transition occurring around the globe.    Watch the podcast on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tw2CSBxSEI    We invite you all to join our Startup of the Year community today to access the support, expert advice, and resources you need to elevate your startup by going to: www.est.us/join   Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at: www.est.us   Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: https://podcast.startupofyear.com/   Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: https://soty.link/ESTYouTube …… Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their companies to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource. Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year. Check out Startup of the Year at: www.startupofyear.com   The program includes in-person and virtual events, including our annual SXSW startup pitch and competition. All of this culminates at our Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced and has an opportunity at a potential investment.   Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year. Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals. Check out Established at: www.established.us Connect with us on X - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us

In the final 24 hours until election day, media mogul Barry Diller, chairman of IAC and Expedia, discusses the state of the race and his support for Kamala Harris. He says if Harris wins, she should consider asking Elon Musk to serve on her cabinet to help with cutting government costs. Diller also weighs in on the likelihood of an Uber-Expedia deal and a Comcast spin-off. Plus, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is swapping Intel and Dow Inc for Nvidia and Sherman Williams, a Semafor report says policymakers have begun discussing whether Intel needs more assistance, Berkshire Hathaway sold another chunk of its Apple stake, and Salesforce Co-founder Marc Benioff is in talks to sell media company Time. Barry Diller - 16:34 In this episode:Becky Quick, @BeckyQuickJoe Kernen, @JoeSquawkAndrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkinKatie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

This week on Stay Paid, Krisztina Bell—Georgia real estate agent and proud owner of two staging companies—shares how working with a stager can help agents boost their clients' and help quickly sell a home for top dollar. She also explains how she collaborates with other local stagers and large companies like Sherwin-Williams to grow her referral network, build a robust reputation, enhance her credibility, and solidify the trust others have in her work. Join us to discover four timely lessons that contribute to a modern business owner's long-lasting success., the most important criterion to assess in another company before engaging in cross-promotion, and the value of collaborating with local competitors to provide education to your market. Be sure to check out the show notes at staypaidpodcast.com for a complete summary and additional insights from the episode. Connect | Resources ·      Website: novacancy-atl.com ·      Website: virtuallystagingproperties.com ·      Connect with Krisztina on social media by searching: @krisztinabell ·      FREE lead magnet: Exterior Home Projects That Increase Value You can get more free resources, including e-books, printables, and additional lead magnets to attract new leads, by visiting our Resource Library.   0:00     Introduction 1:04     Guest introduction 1:44     Kristina's backstory 3:41     Two keys to success     5:08     Golden Nugget: focus and consistency 6:58     Early collaboration projects     9:43     Choosing your collaborative partners 10:22   Covert “market analysis” 11:46   Collaboration with Sherman-Williams 15:41   Assisting agents with home staging 16:40   Collaboration with Benjamin Moore 17:49   Marketing home staging as a value add 19:44   “Working with” rather than “working for” 21:33   About virtual staging 23:41   Education to build relationships 27:16   Luke's advice for presentations 30:05  Action Item Want Josh and Luke to help you with your marketing? Visit www.remindermedia.com/StayPaidMarketing How Collaboration Fuels One Entrepreneur's Business

Join us for a special episode of Boxes and Lines, featuring Neal Freyman and Toby Howell of the wildly popular newsletter, the Morning Brew. Listen as JR and Ronan learn how they've helped re-shape business news, making it digestible for millennials and Gen Z - or should we say, Zillennials - from its humble beginnings as a cheat-sheet at the University of Michigan to becoming a digital media powerhouse under Business Insider. Neal and Toby discuss the changing habits of media consumption, the craft of simplifying complicated or niche business and financial news, and the time Toby accidentally purchased $40,000 worth of Sherman Williams stock. Tune in for a lively conversation on the impact of media in finance and the work that goes into a daily podcast and newsletter, starting with arriving to the office at an eye-watering 4:45 a.m. Recorded January 11, 2024.

Sherman Williams & Emily McMahan - Academy Investor Network, Helping Service Academy Graduates Invest in Venture-backed Startups Sherman Williams is a Naval Academy graduate. After serving as a Naval Intelligence Officer, he headed to Chicago's Booth School to study finance and landed himself in investment banking. While in banking he started investing and advising startups. This was a perfect segue to co-founding Academy Investor Network. Emily McMahan is a WestPoint Academy graduate. After her time in the Army as a Military Police Officer, she has always been focused around community and working with entrepreneurs. She has a passion to work with startup companies and founded Capitol Post, which taught military veterans how to start and grow businesses, a great foundation for beginning the Academy Investor Network. She is also the Deputy Director at the Common Mission Project, an international platform supporting mission-driven entrepreneurs. Academy Investor Network Academy Investor Network was founded in 2020. From Sherman's and Emily's own academy experience they personally saw the unique population that made up the graduates. They wanted to offer an investment syndicate for U.S. Service Academy graduates to invest in venture-backed startups. “We enable every Service Academy graduate to connect, learn and invest in the venture asset class.”  Learn More Sherman Williams Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherman-williams/ Emily McMahan Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilymcmahan/ Academy Investor Network LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/academy-investor-network/ Website: https://academyinvestor.com/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AIN_members   VeteranCrowd Network Our "forever promise" is to build the veteran and military spouse community a place to connect and engage. VeteranCrowd is simply a national network of veterans, veteran led businesses and the resources they need to prosper. Subscribe to stay in touch, or consider if Individual or Corporate Membership in the Network is a fit for you.    by VeteranCrowd Network Why do thousands of merchants put us through a bootcamp to join their loyalty program? Why do they make checkout an obstacle course? It's embarrassing. Time consuming. Intrusive. Cumbersome. Broken. Why? Because no one ever built a simple & secure way to validate our veteran status at checkout. Until now. Want to be recognized at select merchants simply by swiping your existing Visa card? Join our waitlist and be one of the first veterans to have this power in your wallet. About Your Host Bob Louthan is a VMI Graduate, Army veteran, and executive with over 25 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions and private capital formation. He founded the VeteranCrowd Network to bring veterans and veteran-led businesses together with each other and the resources they need to prosper.  

Five American hostages are on their way home as political backlash grows in regards to the terms of the deal. Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie joins to answer if he would have made the same negotiation with Iran. Also, a break in the mystery of the missing $80 million US fighter jet. Plus, the Champions for Change series spotlights Sherman Williams who went from football star to guiding hand for his community.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‍Hey guys, welcome to this week's episode of Monday Morning Marketing! In today's installment, Dr. Parthiv Mehta and I are diving headfirst into the dynamic world of dental startups, uncovering savvy strategies to save big bucks and keep overhead at bay during those crucial initial stages. We kick off by debunking the location attachment myth, urging you to explore multiple landlords' quotes to find the golden ratio of affordability and accessibility. We also uncover the fact that non-dental contractors could be your ticket to savings of up to $150,000! Additionally, Dr. Mehta shares his advice on embracing mistakes as inevitable stepping stones on your startup journey.Get ready to rethink, re-strategize, and reignite your dental startup dreams in this conversation with Dr. Parthiv Mehta!‍You can reach out to Dr. Parthiv Mehta here:Website: https://www.charmdentalcare.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/charmdentalcare/‍Other Mentions and Links:NomadChick-fil-ASirona Dental Chairs‍For more helpful tips, strategies, ideas, and marketing advice:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedentalmarketer/‍The Newsletter: https://thedentalmarketer.lpages.co/newsletter/Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2031814726927041‍Episode Transcript (Auto-Generated - Please Excuse Errors)‍Michael: Hey Parif. So talk to us about startups. What advice, suggestions, or methods can you give us that will help actually with our startup? Parthiv: So one of the, the biggest advice I could give anybody that is wanting to do a startup is before you actually do it, do as much homework as you can.Don't fall in the trap of, oh, you gotta do this billion dollar, you know, beautiful wall out there. Or like, oh, you gotta have all these top of the line equipments. Do your homework. listen to people who have done it. Maybe ask every person you don't know that has done a successful startup. What would be the one thing that you would change if you had to redo it again?And that probably will give you enough To pick up from their mistakes and, and that will, that will help you a lot. keep your overheads low. I cannot stress on that. I like my sleep at night and I've done three startups and every startup I do, my goal is to make sure from the very first month, I'm not stressed about how much bills I have to pay.And that will only happen if you keep your overheads low and not just be like, okay, I want to have that. $50,000 Sierra chair in there, or I want to have the C B C T with $150,000, whatever the top of the line stuff. I mean, if you can provide that service and if you're confident, for sure, go for it.But there's a lot of secondary market out there. There's a lot of other options out there that, that could help you save a lot. Michael: Gotcha. So then how did you do it pr, how did you keep your overhead low from the beginning phases all the way till where you're at now? Parthiv: So my first practice when I started, I had, I had no money.So what I did was I negotiated with my landlord. So I went heavy on it. And what I did is I picked five locations that I liked, to the point where I wouldn't regret if I didn't get any of those. And then I went with all the four or five landlords and I said, this is what I'm getting. I put them against each other and said, who's, whoever's giving me the high best deal, I'm going with them.I got my best offer. I started with them. What I did is I had the space for five chairs, but instead I just started with three chairs. got those running offered services that, that patient wanted. Customer service was absolutely something that I believe in a lot. So that helped a lot.And I'm in a very high saturation area and it works out great because there's so every half a mile and I have every D S O possible in Texas around me, and it worked out great because there's always patients that are upset about it and that just helped me with my building, my clientele in there.Mm-hmm. That's how.other than the chairs that I bought, everything else that I bought was used. Um, my CT was used, my, x-rays. Um, nomad was new. My sterilizer was a, a refurbished one. So everything else, pretty much, other than the chairs and the, in the, and the nomad were pretty much used in there.And then second practice that I. Was even lower because now I don't even buy brand new chairs. Mm-hmm. Now I buy used chairs as well. So, another thing that I learned in my second startup was dental contractors versus non-dental. So what I did in my second startup was I made my plan, and that's something I learned from my first startup mistake.I made my plans first. I hired an architect, paid them out of my pocket. They charged $3 a square foot to make a. Give them the money. Get your meps done, mechanical, electrical, plumbing. Pick your color, pick your, flooring. Pick your, it doesn't have to be the final one, but at least if you tell somebody that I want, let's say, call it a sandwich From, from, mm-hmm. Chick-fil-A. If you say, I want combo number four, now, it doesn't matter. With wherever you go, the price is the same. So pick your flooring and say, I want this company's and this finish and this model number.I want this paint from Sherman Williams. And that's the model number. Put all of those details in there and then give your plans. Bidding to different contractors. And what I did is I gave it to seven different contractors, three dental, four non-dental. Mm-hmm. And there was a difference of $150,000 plus between dental and non-dental.And I said to myself, and I said, is that worth it? And, and the dental contractors I gave them and showed them, look, I'm getting these. And they're like, well, they're non dental. They don't know what they're doing. Is it really worth your time? And I said, I'm like, hold on. 150,000 for two months. I think it's worth my time.I, I said, jobless and stay right there. Doing nothing. If I can save $150,000 in two months is worth my time. And. I didn't have any issues with non-dental contractors. We pay a big amount of, because of the fear. Hmm. Michael: Yeah, that is true. I feel like a, there's like a price tag sometimes, right? Like, uh oh, there's a dental price tag and then there's a contract price tag.That's a huge difference. $150,000. Parthiv: And, and that's, that was significant difference to me at least. Um, And, you know, obviously this was my second practice, so I get it. It was my second startup. So I do understand that, uh, you know, it did give me that additional leeway where I was, I knew part of it because I was a part of my first startup from the, from scratch.Mm-hmm. but that's one thing. If I had to redo my first startup, I would not go with the dental contractor. Michael: Gotcha. So your third one, you didn't go with the Parthiv: dental contractor? No, no, not even when I expanded my first one. When I expanded my first one from five chairs to nine chairs, three years later, I did not go with the dental contractor.I went with I got five chairs set up with mechanical, electrical, plumbing, AC in an expansion demo, mowing the older place, and I got everything done under a hundred k. Wow. Michael: Without going. Yeah. Yeah. That's good advice then. Okay. So just the fear is what makes us wanna go with like, okay, they know what they're doing, they know what they're talking about, things like that.Right. But Parthiv: probably not. Yeah. That's just, that's just been my experience. I mean, I've had people who love going with dental contractors and that's great. Mm-hmm. You know? Mm-hmm. Michael: and then I wanted to ask when it came to your team, 'cause this is the overhead of like equipment, right? Pretty much.Mm-hmm. Uh, chairs. How do you keep overhead low with the team? Parthiv: So what I did was when I started, we started with. Three employees. One was an experienced dental assistant that had worked with me in the past, knew exactly what we needed to do, what I did, what was my strength. I had a front desk who, knew what to do.Obviously it was a good learning curve for me because I didn't know what to do. Coming from a corporate background, I thought I knew it all, but it is a whole different animal when it's your own baby. Mm-hmm. So I had to sit with, Different people learned the process, establish my protocols, what I wanted to do, what I wanted my staff to do.And then I hired an entry-level person who I really enjoyed her conversation and customer service. I'm like, if I really enjoyed that customer service, I'm sure the patients will appreciate it. I just hired her at a base salary, like the lowest possible salary. I'm not even gonna say the salary, but.She was young. She just wanted to get into dentistry, and I was like, all right, we'll give you a job. Come on over. She stayed hang. She stayed around for like six months. Personality was great. It was kind of like a floater in between, helping turn her around the rooms, picking up the phone calls, learning whatever needed to be done.And as in when I got time, I continued to train her more and more on what I exactly needed. So that's how I kept my overhead low. And then as we started getting busier, we started adding more and more staff to it. Michael: Mm-hmm. When it came to any of your other practices, did you follow the same concept? And did anybody like leave like halfway, you're like, oh man, I was just training you and then, you know what I mean?Parthiv: Well, you know, it, it would be foolish of us as dentists to expect that any of these staff members are gonna stay forever. Mm-hmm. And it's a reality. There's several factors for that, and the most important one being, just the instability in the lives. they don't have, and at least in Texas, they don't have, the same amount of years they need to put into earn a degree that you or I did.They don't have the same amount of efforts they put into going to school to get the degree. So it's easy for them to switch careers and, and I mean, literally Ch Chick-fil-A probably offers more than what you offer in Texas for dental assistance. Mm-hmm. Or for staff, So it's, a big part is about, being prepared for that.And if you have your systems and protocols in there, it doesn't matter who comes in and who goes your systems and protocols. You establish them and you tell them, this is what I need you to do. And at that point, anybody comes in and anybody leaves, it is pretty straightforward. This is my protocol. This is what I want you to do in the interview itself.Can you do this? I'll train you, but can you do this? Mm-hmm. They say yes. Train them. They go on, they leave. That's fine. Get somebody else in the same protocol. Don't get disheartened by the fact and don't expect people to stay here forever. I. Yeah. Michael: So follow your protocols that you're making pretty much, right?Parthiv: Right, right. Follow your protocols. Uh, you set your rules. It's your baby. Mm-hmm. Yeah. You decide what they eat, what they, you know, where they play, what they wear. that's your call when you just, you make, that's why you're making your own practice. Right. That's why you're starting your own practice.'cause you want to be in charge. You may not be right Every time you may learn that, oh, you know what? Crap, I made a mistake. I should have done it this way. But that's, that's the whole point. That's the, that's the whole part that I love about startups and, and that's what I enjoy about it. That you make your mistakes, you learn from it, and you grow out of it.Mm-hmm. Yeah. Michael: That's true. Okay, so then besides the dental contractors, what would be the one thing that you would change? Parthiv: So now I have four locations. You know, everybody wants to run the race. Oh, how many locations? Uh, we're private practice, so we're not just associate driven. I work in all four locations.I work currently six days a week, and if I had to redo everything, I would probably get $1 million building in the center of Houston and just have like 30 chairs down there. But again, that's just me saying because Right. We're because of where we're at today, but no. Yeah. Um, that'd be nice. That'd be nice.That'd be, yeah. Yeah. the more you grow, the more you realize, I wish we had done it this way. Michael: why,why do you feel like you are like, oh man, instead of having multiple, just one big one. Parthiv: Doing dentistry is a piece of cake. Mm-hmm. Managing people. is the biggest headache and nobody's gonna take care of your baby the way you would, you would.So getting a manager, you could get the most experienced manager, you could get every somebody to do, take entire thing off of you. But at least I haven't met those that, take all the burden off of you and still treat it like if it's their baby and can be on the same level as. She. Mm-hmm. Michael: Yeah. So you Parthiv: feel like I haven't met those managers.Michael: You feel like right now with the, the four that you have, if you had one, you'd be there and you'd give it. You're like, I can oversee, Hey guys, I'm here. You know what I mean? Like, I'm here, don't pull any crap on me, kind of thing. Like, we're here owners here, but with four, it's like, he's not here today.Yeah. So we, we tried our best partie, but this is what happened. You're like, did you, is that how it feels? Parthiv: Exactly. And sometimes it's like some of those things where, you are like, Come on. really, but anyways, I mean, you know, that's, that's a part of our job and that's a part of the challenge of, owning a practice whether you have one or you have four, um, we're gonna come across those situations.Mm-hmm. So that's, that's definitely, uh, one of the situations. And probably another one would be, you know, I bought a brand, three brand new chairs. When I did my first startup and then I added two brand new after to match them all five. but that would be something that I would change. I would not have brand new chairs at all.I would buy used chairs, spend $500 to just change the upholstery on it get them going. I mean, it's, yeah, it's just not worth it. You know, spending $15,000 on a chair is just not worth it when you can get the same stuff for less than. Gotcha. Michael: So that's what you think, like the, the good number is like 5,000 or less on a chair, especially if it's used a good quality.Parthiv: Yeah, it's a good quality chair with all the belts and whistles, with the, uh, good l e d, light, couple stools, delivery doctors, doctor, and assistant delivery packages. and I'm exaggerating when I say five K. Typically they, cost around 3,500 on an average, a good quality one, and they come with one year warranty.And a lot of times, but, you know, if you buy directly from a doctor to doctor, it's even better. The biggest problem that I see amongst us, Dennis, is that we trust the sales people more than we trust each other. Mm-hmm. That's true. You know? So that's good if, if a doctor comes and says he, he wants to sell this to you, you're gonna be like, Hmm.But what if there's something wrong? But the same thing, a sales guy comes and sells you the exact same thing. You're like, but this guy is, is warrantying it. So we're essentially saying, I'll take a word off a sales guy, over a doctor. I Michael: don't know. Ah, I never thought about that. Interesting. Interesting.Okay. Good insight. Good insight part. I appreciate it man. Thank you much so much for your timely, and if anyone has further questions, you can definitely find 'em on the Dental Marketers Society Facebook group, or where can they reach out to you directly? Parthiv: You know, I am pretty available on my Instagram.It is Charm Dental Care. that's our company's Instagram that I manage. And also, if anybody has questions and wants to talk to me, I'm happy to get on the phone. that's absolutely available there too. the two probably the easiest ways to, to get me Instagram and phone. Michael: Awesome. All righty guys, so that's gonna be in the show notes as always. And pif, thank you so much for being with me on this Monday morning marketing episode. Hey, Parthiv: absolute pleasure. And Michael, I'll tell you this though, every time I hire somebody new that is in the forefront of it, or that's somebody who's helping me with marketing.I tell them to go up on the, on YouTube and listen to Michael Arias and, and learn from them. And I personally have learned a lot from your startup groups, even though my first startup was before you guys started the group, but I still, I'm a part of it and it's, it's an ongoing journey and you learn a lot.So thank you so much for whatever you guys are doing and, and supporting Dennis and, and we're, I'm happy if I could help anybody. I'm happy to help. Awesome, man. Michael: I appreciate your time. Thank you so Parthiv: much. Yes, thank you again. Take care.‍

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•   The shopping is a big portion of it, we look at the price of the kitchen, the cabinets and the countertop, or would take up the majority of that cost... Right. So once they have that estimate, we then start show rooming, we go on a journey to find the things that they like. So second visit with American Dreamers is always in the showroom, and we kind of think of it as window shopping. Okay, so you're going to pick out what that door style looks like, the colors that you want, do you want custom colors? How custom do that you want them? Do you want them to be in the Sherman Williams pallet? We can use a code number or are you just going to bring me a Swatch or something that you found on the internet? How custom are we talking? What type of door style do you want? What kind of cabinet style do you want? We go through the whole thing. What kind of insights have you seen on Pinterest that you can't live without? (4:02)•   That is mostly the process and it is the longest process, especially because when you're looking at some sort of a CAD drawing or a 3D drawing, or something. We want it to be creative and we want people to think really in-depth about it and how it looks and what it's going to be and make edits. You know, go home, sit on it for a bit, don't just pull the trigger because we do want it to be spectacular. I have a few clients that say, Look, I only know what I know, I would like to do something different and unusual that maybe hasn't happened often or at all yet, what can we do there? And so in those instances, that gives us a chance to really be creative and there's only paper sketches and it doesn't get to go into CAD and I can't show it. (7:21)•   I think when you own a business, okay, you automatically start setting your kids up with expectations of your availability. And that's super important because we want their mindset to be that this is for them, although, that you aren't there all the time, what you're doing is building a future for them. And in order to do that, you can't be home every single day, right? And so I had the most interesting conversation, I heard amongst my kids, because I've got step kids and then I've got a daughter. Okay, so the boys were split, I have two boys, the boys were more of this belief that if you're not home all the time, then you don't love me as much. And my daughter had stepped up to bat that one day because, Brandis' youngest boy our best friends... Okay, which isn't always great to have your kids be able to team up on you, but nevertheless. And she says to him, Well, she goes, How do you think that we are going to be able to go to Disney World? And all, they call us the parents, because it's not exactly Mom and Dad, and she goes, how do you think the parents are going to afford to take us to Disney World and all these cool vacations if they don't get to work, she's like Dominic...They're out there making money so we can have nice things. (26:50)•    You can't just say, Well, I like to X, Y, and Z. Why don't we expand upon that? Okay, why do we have to focus so much on where the missteps are, because honestly, it drives us down as a whole... It does. So that has always been a really big mission of mine, it's my mission, on top of seeing more emails to be interested in construction... Right? That's always one. But yeah, I go to local tech schools and I talk about this, we want to build each other up, I said, You want to look around the room because you don't understand the person three chairs down could be a building inspector one day, right? And two chairs down, might be the foremost master carpenter in his industry and he may be looking for a job one day, and you'll have the inside scoop to scoop him up, because you know him, right? So watch what you say, try to really air on the side of being positive because it really is a reflection of our industry, not just us. (34:09) ABOUT MORGAN KUMPFMILLER:Morgan is an award-winning general contractor, interior designer, and the owner of American Dreamers Renovations – a boutique home construction and renovation company serving Pittsburgh, PA and surrounding communities. It's Morgan's mission not only to improve the construction industry through quality work and service but to build and grow the industry by inspiring women to pursue careers in trade. Morgan is rarely not working – she's either in the field, in the office, teaching classes, doing Mom things, or speaking at industry events – during that occasional down time, she's dreaming. CONNECT WITH MORGAN:• Website: https://www.americandreamersrenovations.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanDreamersRenovations• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americandreamersrenovations WAYS TO CONNECT WITH STEFANIE…• Website: https://shebuildshomes.com• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shebuildsbetter• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shebuilds.homes• YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/shebuildsshow

We are honored to welcome Sherman Williams II to the podcast. Sherman is a US military veteran that has vast experience in the world of finance and Venture Capitalism(VC). Sherman is the Co-Founder of AIN Ventures, " a seed-stage focused venture fund that invests in dual-use technology and veteran-led startups." In today's episode, Sherman details his journey, taxes, how to get started in private equity, what he looks for in founders, the different types of wealth creation investing, and much more. If you are curious about creating your own investment portfolio of companies sometime in the future, this is the episode for you! Check out Sherman: Website: ainventures.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vc_sherman Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherman-williams/ Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/sherman-williams-ii D Y F R E N T: ENTER IMAGINATION WITH GRACE THE STORE: http://dyfrentny.com THE CREATIVE AGENCY: http://dyfrentconsulting.com INSTAGRAM: @dyfrent // @dyfrentconsulting LINKEDIN: DYFRENT CONSULTING CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 INTRO 00:03:25 SHERMAN'S JOURNEY 00:07:42 FROM MILITARY TO FINANCE 00:18:00 KAUFFMAN FELLOWS AND TECH STARS 00:26:39 HOW A VC COMPANY WORKS 00:34:38 THE TAX GAME 00:46:38 HOW TO GET STARTED IN PRIVATE EQUITY 00:51:06 THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WEALTH CREATION INVESTING 01:07:54 HOW TO FIND FOUNDERS TO INVEST IN 01:18:03 WHAT SHERMAN LOOKS FOR IN FOUNDERS 01:26:48 WHAT NUMBER MAKES YOU FEEL RICH? 01:31:24 WHAT DOES DYFRENT MEAN TO YOU? 01:35:06 OUTRO

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In this episode you're going to hear a Funding Panel discussion that took place as part of our 9th Annual Startup of the Year Summit. The panel consisted of Julia Taxin from Grotech, Sherman Williams from AIN Ventures and Scout Ventures, and Heather Buffo from Republic along with Saxon Baum from Florida Funders. We live streamed our Summit, so if you were not able to attend in-person, make sure to watch it on our Youtube channel at: soty.link/ESTYouTube We are also excited to announce that we are teaming up with the founder of TaxTaker, Ari Salafia, for a special online event where Ari will discuss how you can Unlock Free Money for Your Startup. She will uncover some often overlooked accounting tricks that will help you unlock thousands (even hundreds of thousands) for your startup. The TaxTaker team will also be giving away $1,000 to one lucky attendee. Details will be announced during the event so you don't want to miss it! Join us on April 7th at 12:00 PM CT for this exclusive Startup of the Year event. You can register today at: soty.link/Webinar Lastly, we invite you all to join our community today to access the support, expert advice, and resources you need to elevate your startup by going to: est.us/join Thank you for listening, and as always, please check out the Established website and subscribe to the newsletter at www.est.us Checkout Startup of the Year at www.startupofyear.com Subscribe to the Startup of the Year Daily Deal Flow: www.startupofyear.com/daily-dealflow Subscribe to the Startup of the Year podcast: www.podcast.startupofyear.com Subscribe to the Established YouTube Channel: soty.link/ESTYouTube *** Startup of the Year helps diverse, emerging startups, founding teams, and entrepreneurs push their company to the next level. We are a competition, a global community, and a resource. Startup of the Year is also a year-long program that searches the country for a geographically diverse set of startups from all backgrounds and pulls them together to compete for the title of Startup of the Year. The program includes a number of in-person and virtual events, including our annual South By Southwest startup pitch event and competition. All of which culminate at our annual Startup of the Year Summit, where the Startup of the Year winner is announced, along with an opportunity at a potential investment. Established is a consultancy focused on helping organizations with innovation, startup, and communication strategies. It is the power behind Startup of the Year. Created by the talent responsible for building the Tech.Co brand (acquired by an international publishing company), we are leveraging decades of experience to help our collaborators best further (or create) their brand & accomplish their most important goals. Connect with us on Twitter - @EstablishedUs and Facebook - facebook.com/established.us/.

In this very special episode in honor of Black History Month we are drinking a boozy, frosty concoction that ties into TUX's scandal called the Prescription Julep. This julep dates back to 1857 and according to our friend (in our minds) barroom historian David Wondrich “it is one of the tastiest mint julep recipes he knows.” We concur because this drink is essentially an adult snow cone.

I read the thoughts and ideas from the rest of the sticky notes that were on my desk!  When anything seems to be a source of fear… (Lots from A Course In Miracles).  I can barely keep up with my own neuroses let alone yours.  What if views, downloads, looks, likes did not matter.  Do I talk more over women than I talk over men?  Waylon came over and ate the leftovers.  12 5x8 #10 round head Phillips…I like my full life.  I am responsible for what I see. I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself.  What is my process that I can do an episode every day?  Charlie, the episodes are helping him!  And MORE!Administrative: (See episode transcript below)Check out the Tools For A Good Life Summit here: Virtually and FOR FREE https://bit.ly/ToolsForAGoodLifeSummitStart podcasting!  These are the best mobile mic's for IOS and Android phones.  You can literally take them anywhere on the fly.Get the Shure MV88 mobile mic for IOS,  https://amzn.to/3z2NrIJGet the Shure MV88+ for  mobile mic for Android  https://amzn.to/3ly8SNjSee more resources at https://belove.media/resourcesEmail me: contact@belove.mediaFor social Media:      https://www.instagram.com/mrmischaz/https://www.facebook.com/MischaZvegintzovSubscribe and share to help spread the love for a better world!As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Transcript: Mischa Zvegintzov  00:02And hello, the sticky note episode, part two, the sticky note Episode Part Two, if you've been following me for a while and listening, you will know that I have been saying for many, many, many months, I was going to go through all the sticky notes on my desk and clear them off and just end. And so I'm there I've cleaned off my desk, I've had a stack of 20 sticky notes I'm halfway through this is part two of that episode. Okay, here we go. First, well, first episode, first. First, sticky note of the rest of the stack. When anything seems to you to be a source of fear... take this from one... Take this from one and look upon it, judging it. Oh!  take this from me and look upon it judging it for me. Let me not see it as a sign of sin and death, nor use it for destruction. Teach me how to make of it... An obstacle to... Oh! teach me how not to make of it an obstacle to peace, but let you use it for me to facilitate it's coming.  Peace is coming. So A Course In Miracles anybody who's been listening to me over the year or more or moving forward I will reference A Course In Miracles. I love it. I've been deep in the Course In Miracles for two and a half years by now. If you're catching this episode later, years later, well maybe I've been in it for a decade by the time we've been listening you you get to this episode. Anyway love the Course of Miracles it's been very powerful in my life. and helping bring me lots of spiritual peace closer to God, all that kind of stuff.Mischa Zvegintzov  02:05What else do I need to tell to say about that when anything seems to you to me to be a source of fear, say take this from me and look upon it judging it for me. In other words, Mischa doesn't need to judge this. I need to stop judging it.  "let me not see it as a sign of sin and death nor use it for destruction.  Help me look on it as peace.  I love that thought. teach me how to make of it and ops...  teach me how not to make it an obstacle to peace. but let you use it for me to facilitate it's coming. Peace is coming. I love that love that about the Course In Miracles it's constantly saying hey, this idea of sin, and this this may chap you but so be it. I love the thought, sin is not real, like forgiveness is everything. got to learn to forgive ourselves and others and on and on and on. and and how do we co-create with source? and for me right now I can still express itself through entrepreneurship. that co-creation with source anyway. next sticky.  I can barely keep up with my own neuroses let alone yours. freakin love that I wrote... there's more to this sticky... My job today is what if I want it to be... Oh what I want it to be is the... oh... what I want it to be is the amount of looks likes views downloads does not matter and that is slowing me down.  Okay, I can barely keep up with my own neuroses let let alone yours. I love that thought that's the first thought. and if I can remind myself of that or you have that maybe you'll lighten up and lighten up on your friends family and the world. You can barely keep up with your own or with any with your own neuroses let alone someone else's. Okay My job today is what if I want what I want it to be is the amount of looks likes views downloads does not matter. That's what I want. I want this to not matter. Because that's slowing me down. I love that thought. If I cannot have it about looks views, download downloads all that. So waste of time. Do I talk about the next one? Do I talk over women more than I talk over men? This is Oh, this was very q&a q&a episode. I seem to be a natural at this. A friend this was a friend that had listened to I interviewed his wife. This is this is my I interviewed Mel McClay it's such a great episode interview one of the first interviews I didMischa Zvegintzov  05:01But her husband, Kevin, Hey, Kevin, if you happen to listen to this, was like, Hey, I think you were talking over my wife. so I was like "huhh, maybe I was?" I listened to it. I was like, Oh, maybe I was. And then I was wondering, do I talk over women more than I talk over men? Turns out I perhaps just talk over everybody. And he said, I seem to be a natural this so I took that in. Thank you for that. Kevin McLave. Listen to Mel McLave's  interview, she made the claim and I talked about death. She's a death doula super fun. Waylon came over and ate the leftovers. Oh my gosh, I love that episode. I woke up and saw the Tupperware in the sink. And I did a podcast episode on this because yeah, I came out for my morning coffee and there was the Tupperware in the sink.   And Waylon had come over on a nightie usually doesn't come over. It's my 18 year old son as of this recording. And my heart was so full. It was like oh my god, he redid the kitchen. And look there's the Tupperware in the sink is proof I was so happy all my heart was so full. was blessed with a gift. You can listen to that episode. It's someone somewhere on there. I think it's literally called Waylon ate the leftovers. Alright, next 12 by five eights number 10. round head Phillips Sherman Williams, paint marker. mortar mix backsplash? I like my full life. What will I trade? Hmm, I don't know what that meant. was obviously buying Phillips. Phillips head screwdrivers for something number 10. Sure. Sherman Williams paint marker. And what else do we have mortar mix backsplash? Oh, yeah, I was working from the kitchen episodes when the kitchen and stuff was being worked on.Mischa Zvegintzov  07:11Next sticky, I am responsible for what I see. If I choose the feelings I would experience and I decide, Okay, start over I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I will experience and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me, I asked for and receive as I have asked.  I love that thought.  Well, I don't like that thought because it means I create my reality. But I love that thought because it means I create my reality and I can create it awesome. And so I've been meditating in the mornings these days. And trying to come back to it throughout the day. What are the feelings I want to feel what are the experiences that I want to have like trying to connect with source you know, the God within and the universe.  that co creation experience. And then create my reality. So love that next sticky I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself. that previous one was Course In Miracles.  This is another Course In Miracles. I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself.  I know that you will be released unless I want to use to use you to imprison myself, my gosh, this one's heavy, and the name of my freedom I choose your release. Because I recognize that we will be released together Holy mackerel, A Course In Miracles stuff I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself. I know that you will be released unless I want to use you to imprison myself. in the name of my freedom I choose your release because I recognize that we will be released together. I love that that's that forgiveness that's like that illusion of separation and then if I'm have that resentment and that contempt that judgment, on and on I can use all those terms that it's really you're just the mirror. so if I'm judging you I'm judging me. And so if I release you I released me love that thought. I could go deeper on that but there's some episodes in there. you know, the good news is the more I release you and release me the better I am at co creating this entrepreneurial stuff so I'll make that connection for you.Mischa Zvegintzov  09:50Next sticky. Three. What is my process that I can do an episode every day? Yeah, I love that. I do an episode Every day some people seem to have an issue with that not saying that everybody should want to do an episode every day but I'm very close to doing an episode every day for a year. And can't wait to see what comes after that next thought on that sticky. What is too much content? (? Waylon) Oh yeah, Waylon was like maybe you should be doing an episode every day. Maybe an episode every day is too much. I was like, Damn, that's actually a great question. But I'm committed to the episode every day to get my thoughts out there trying to be of service and I am going to do another episode is on what is my process that I can do an episode every day. I actually think I did like the 10 steps to doing an episode every day or something like that. So you can dig through their. next episode, our next sticky I've got three left. So excuse me, thank you for listening. I am not alone. And that would not intrude, intrude the past upon my guest. More Of Course In Miracles and stuff, I invited him and he is here capital H on both of those. I Need Do Nothing except not to interfere. How nice of a thought is that? I am not alone and I would not intrude the past upon my guest. Again, let that baggage go. can I see things brand new with fresh eyes moving forward and not bring the baggage of the past into this moment? I have invited capital H Him and capital H He is here. Ie God the Holy Spirit. You know, however you want to say the Infinite Intelligence whatever. I need do nothing except not interfere. We should just need to keep out of the way. Love that.Mischa Zvegintzov  12:07Oh yeah, I had a buddy. So next. Second, the last sticky note, Charlie, the episodes are helping him. I was so excited. A friend was like, Hey, I've been listening to your episodes. I love them and they're helping me. How gratifying was that? What if I had nowhere to go? And nothing to do? Oh, what if I had nowhere to go and nothing to do? I will do a meditation on that. Learn to love yourself. Then you won't care so much about the relationships you're in or not in. Oh I love that thought. So the last thought on that sticky goes without saying right? Do I need to say any more in regards to that? I'm trying to be in that space. Last sticky Rev. Interview. Who do I want to help? While I figure out who I want to help.  Oh my god that's so amazing. Who do I want to help while I figure out who I want to help? One liners. schedule interviews, Amazon affiliates. Copy.ai. Oh, hey, Jarvis.AI.  Eight dash eight eastern time chat that's just random random notes. Sort of a wha wha wha that last sticky.  anyway, all stickies done love to all. God bless we made it through the stickies. Who do I want to help while I figure out who I want to help? Thank you for listening to the 20 episodes. The 20 stickies. This is the end of the two part episode. Um, that was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun. I hope you had fun to. peace out.

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In this series called Vet to Venture, Wayne Moore, Managing Partner at Alumni Ventures Basecamp Fund, talks with veterans about their unique path in the military to a career in venture and technology. In this episode, Wayne and Sherman Williams, Managing Partner of the Academy Investor Network, a virtual platform created for U.S. Service Academy Graduates to invest in venture-backed startups in two areas of investment focus: dual-use technology startups and the veteran-led startups.

Hello Interactors,It’s hard to miss news about global supply chain woes these days. Between Covid, natural disasters, and strained trade relations with China it seems unlikely we’ll see anything that looks like normal for some time. But companies aren’t waiting to find out. They’re taking matters into their own hands. Or so they think. As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…MARIA CANTWELL AND THE CHAIN GANG“There are some people who are saying, ‘Look, what I need is short term because this is never going to happen again,’ ” she said. “Then there are other people who are saying, ‘This is going to happen more often than we think.’ The world is a very different place, and it’s not just the pandemic. It’s natural disasters. It’s the floods down in the South. It’s tornadoes, it’s hurricanes.”These are the words of Ellen Kullman. She’s the CEO of Carbon Inc., a 3-D printing company. She’s also the former CEO of DuPont, sits on the board of directors for Goldman Sachs and Dell, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a recognized leader in global science and engineering, and once chaired the US-China Business Council.She knows a thing or two about global supply chains; which have had their fair share of attention recently. As global corporations have pushed their employees to work Harder, Better, Faster, and Stronger. They must appease shareholders demanding perpetual growth, even at the cost to people and the environment. To do so, they rely on other parts of the globe for raw materials and labor – a spatial fix.Covid has taken a 200-year capitalism strategy believed to be immune to disruption and has created a supply chain pandemic. Just as the disease is testing our body’s immune system, it’s also testing the resiliency of networked global supply chains.The onset of the pandemic showed early signs of vulnerability when global corporations were hit by governmental restrictions. Without notice borders around the world were closed, lockdowns prevented employees from working, and no sooner were facemasks recommended did we run out of supply. Dr. Gary Gereffi from Duke’s Global Value Chains Center said,“China accounted for about 60% of U.S. face mask imports prior to the pandemic, but China suspended its exports of face masks worldwide as it dealt with its own outbreak of COVID-19 cases in early 2020.”It wasn’t until late August that the supply gap was filled by U.S. producers.Gereffi was testifying on July 15, 2021, in a hearing chaired by Democratic U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell on “Implementing Supply Chain Resiliency.” The meeting was in reaction to one of Biden’s first executive orders. It launched a 100-day review identifying vulnerabilities in the nation’s supply chains and how to address them.The witnesses in the hearing included Gereffi from academia and five others from government agencies and the business sector. Their testimonies paint an accurate state of the country’s complicated over reliance on the global supply chain. They also had asks of the government that you might expect; more government funding, private-public partnerships, subsidies, or for the government to get out of the way. Or, in the case of Lex Taylor, a confusing mix of all the above.William A. (Lex) Taylor III runs The Taylor Group of Companies, Inc. It was founded in 1927 as Taylor Machine Works in Louisville, Mississippi. Did I mention the ranking member and co-chair seated alongside Cantwell was U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, a Republican from Mississippi?The Taylor Group is now a privately held holding company for Taylor Machine Works (heavy industrial forklifts), Taylor Power Systems (power generators), and Taylor Defense (remanufactured military material).Taylor complained about the lack of resiliency in the global supply chain. He said the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) had quickly come up with a plan for how to circumvent the Covid caused supply chain conundrums called operation “Floorplan”. It was modelled after what he deemed a “successful Payroll Protection Program the Congress instituted at the Small Business Administration.” A clear nod to a government success story by a devote capitalist.But he claimed operation “Floorplan“ failed “because of the political wrangling and failure of the government to understand the big-picture consequences of letting supply chains falter.” Yet the association seemed ok asking the government to bankroll his “Floorplan” program.He went on about how every private company involved in his vast and deep supply chain began raising their prices to control their limited and dwindling supplies – a tried and true trick of the free-market system. Compounding inflation among suppliers forced him to ultimately raise his prices too; all the while trying to stay afloat. He said, “we have kept our lines running but are facing 30% to 75% price increases either from our vendors or the transportation companies, or a combination of both.”What gouged him the most was unbridled free-market pricing; a practical solution driven by the private sector. At the same time, he wanted federal dollars to fix the problem with a government subsidized “Floorplan.”But while he and his employees benefitted from the government run Payroll Protection Program – and he wished the federal government would have funded his “Floorplan” – he would rather the free-market solve his problems. Even though the free market created the bulk of his financial pain.In his closing remarks he said, “My request is that this committee not act to overcorrect with solutions that may cause unintended consequences. Rather, I encourage you to support the free-market system and allow it to do what it does best and find solutions that are practical and driven by the private sector.” Price gouging is a practical mechanism of the free-market. A solution? Maybe not.BOEING BOEING GONEIn her opening remarks, Maria Cantwell said, “I would say, Senator Wicker, I'm not sure 20 years ago, if we would've had the same hearing.”Twenty years ago Cantwell was in her first year as a U.S. Senator. Amassing independent wealth from her time in the software industry, she threw a lot of her own money into her campaign against the eleven year incumbent, Republican Slade Gorton. Microsoft was her biggest donor, followed by two law firms, and the fourth largest campaign contributor was Boeing.Six months later Boeing sought their own spatial fix and announced they were moving their corporate headquarters to Chicago. By September of 2001, after being headquartered in Seattle since 1916, the Boeing corporate offices fell vacant.Eight years later, in 2009, after the 2008 financial crisis, Boeing applied another spatial fix moving an assembly plant from Washington to South Carolina. North Charleston’s economy had been devastated by the closure of a naval shipyard and the Great Recession. They were experiencing record high unemployment rates. So the state offered Boeing an incentive to move their factory. If Boeing could create 3,800 jobs and invest $750 million over the next seven years, the state would pitch in another $450 million.Boeing had already been dealing with ugly union strikes in Washington. Four of their last seven contract negotiations ended in strikes. Conservatives blamed the machinists while liberals blamed Boeing. Either way, South Carolina was union free. An unorganized labor force is attractive to corporations because they can dictate the terms of pay uncontested. Some states, and nations, will even suppress or ban unions in hopes of attracting businesses to their regions.Frank Larkin of the Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said in 2009, “It became clear early on that the company was less interested in making a deal than they were in getting more incentives out of South Carolina…The longer they sat at the table with us, the more South Carolina offered them."Just 2.7% of South Carolina’s labor force is unionized – the lowest in the United States. Since the plant opened in 2011, Boeing has been fighting attempts by employees to unionize. In 2017, 3,000 employees tried and failed to unionize. A year later they succeeded despite Boeing funding a widespread media campaign against it.So, Boeing took them to court. Because litigation slows down unionization, it buys time for Boeing to continue to use their wealth, power, and strength to disrupt the momentum of organizers. It also provides opportunities to fire employees as a way of sending a message to workers.In November of 2018 they fired air force veteran, Richard Mester and two others for failing to report a bird strike on a Boeing engine. Mester had been doing this line of work for 30 years and knows a bird strike when he sees it. The Guardian reported, “He had just bought a house and had two daughters in college when he was terminated.” Mester said, “It was easy to see it was because we were union members…Boeing has no qualms about squashing any possibility of a union down here. Unfortunately we were the result of that.”Despite the dwindling Boeing presence in Washington state, Maria Cantwell did mentioned in her opening remarks, “I can say for me in the state of Washington, aviation supply chain is something we're very proud of. More than 150,000 people work in that supply chain that continue to innovate and create new products…[this] is where the innovation is happening in the supply chain.”She’s referring to an insight offered in a testimony by Richard Aboulafia, the VP of Analysis at the Teal Group in Fairfax, Virginia. Out of the gate he exposed the realities of the aviation supply chain by talking about value, innovation, and vulnerability.He said, “For a typical Boeing jetliner, 80% of the value gets added at the supplier level…When Boeing sells a jetliner…suppliers, collectively, realize more revenue than [Boeing does].”He added, “the innovation that takes place in aviation happens at the supplier level, and not at the prime level. Boeing’s 737 jetliner [has] been in production for around half a century. But the…successful transformation of these aircraft is because of the tremendous innovation that has taken place at the supplier level.”Perhaps this explains why Washington state has not fought to win back the union heavy airplane assembly business. As Microsoft rose in the 90s and Amazon in the 2000s, the area attracted higher paying white collar engineering talent that fed into the aviation supply industry. Washington’s aviation history catalyzed a new industrial trajectory; what evolutionary economists call path dependence.Aboulafia continued, “As with most complex manufactured products, an aircraft production system is only as strong as its weakest link. The supply chain, crucial to industry success, is also its greatest Vulnerability.”China is fully aware of this vulnerability. Aboulafia said, “China, notably, is not a significant source of aircraft components, even from transplant factories. In fact, at the peak level of U.S.-China aerospace trade, the trade balance between the two countries was 17-1 in the U.S.’s favor.”This does not bode well for U.S. aviation suppliers. Aboulafia said, “The only area of serious concern, outside of Covid-19 itself, is China, the biggest single export market (and tied with the US for biggest single market). At the peak level of deliveries to China, 2018, the country took 23% of all jetliner deliveries worldwide. This has fallen precipitously, for both market reasons and due to geopolitical factors. This trade is under threat, due to slowing in-country growth rates, China’s reluctance to recertify Boeing’s 737MAX, and the U.S. Government’s decision to put Western components for China’s ambitious national aircraft programs on a possibly restrictive export list.”Furthermore, Covid put a real dent in the airlines biggest revenue generator – international business travel. It’s forced them to ground planes and halt new orders. And while business is picking up again, the companies bringing supply chains closer to home will be taking fewer overseas business trips to Asia.The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Italian apparel company, Benetton is planning to “cut its Asia-based production by half in the next 12 to 16 months and move the work to countries on the Mediterranean.” It’s an end to a decades old reliance on Asian labor and supply chains that “requires regular visits to make sure manufacturing and materials meet quality standards and some aspects, such as production timing, aren’t under the company’s control overseas.” (1)HOG TIED ON THE SUPPLY SIDEReading and watching the testimonies from Cantwell’s hearing, I couldn’t help notice the yearning for the glory days of the 20th century Fordist era when America dominated manufacturing and supply chains. The Duke professor, Dr. Gereffi, gushed over the reemergence of the furniture and textile industry in North Carolina and how his state excels at efficient pig processing.Lex Taylor sees dollars signs with a “Floorplan” that can build more trucks, generators, and recycled military parts. And while Boeing has all but ceded the airline market to AirBus, Cantwell wants the 150,000 aviation experts in Washington state to at least be supplying parts.Some of these aging, all male except Cantwell, boomers testifying at the hearing are of the age where I can imagine them reminiscing on the golden years of the nationalist “America First” sentiment that Trump tapped into in 2016. Wicker would have turned 16 in 1967, the end of the Fordism era.But there were also testimonies that looked to a Post-Fordist industrial era. IBM’s Dr. Dario Gill talked about their semiconductor lab in New York and how their public-private partnership will produce new chips out of the factory in Malta, New York. Chuck Schumer, Democratic Senator from New York, helped seal that deal with the $110 billion Endless Frontier Act; $10 billion of which goes toward hubs like those in New York. The North Carolina Research Triangle hopes to get on that money as well. Dr. Gereffi talked of how North Carolina’s booming weaving loom know-how could transmogrify from cotton into silicon.The Endless Frontier Act is a bipartisan bill intended to counter China’s semiconductor dominance. But, again, it falls victim to this outdated notion that America can return to our Fordist days. I know I’m over simplifying, but it takes a special combination of hubris and ignorance to believe you can replace 30 years of global supply networks, throughput, and intellectual property with a ‘Made in America’ stamp. Federal funding is needed to remedy our supply chain woes, but chest pounding nationalistic protectionism won’t get us there.The most reasoned testimony in Cantwell’s hearing came from James A. Lewis. He’s a Senior Vice President and Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He said, “Two things broke that global supply chain. The first is the rise of a predatory China that will use any means to displace competitors in its quest for global primacy. The second is the COVID-19 pandemic, which produced an understandable desire in many nations to reduce their dependence on foreign suppliers and instead rely on national capabilities.”He talked about how America got spooked when we realized how much we relied on China for necessary medical supplies. It prompted many in the U.S. to “want to move some critical production back onto their territories.” He’s right.Atlanta home builder PulteGroup got fed up with delays and is building an automated assembly plant in South Carolina. Majestic Steel USA is opening new facilities across the country to avoid impediments in the supply chain. Climate calamities are also forcing companies to rethink supply chains. Paint powerhouse Sherman-Williams got fed up with Hurricane delays at southern ports. They bought a company with sites in Oregon and South Carolina to handle the load.But as Lewis point out, in many ways this is just copying China and may be short sighted. Even the knee jerk reaction from Schumer and the Endless Frontier Act. He said, “This supply chain nationalism is reinforced by growing and powerful competition for technological leadership and by events like the semiconductor shortage.”He continues, “Twentieth century American innovation was national, but today’s innovation base is international, with strong research and commercial links between the United States, Europe, and Asia.” And he rightfully concludes, “A country that cuts itself off from this international innovation system will fall behind.”China has assumed America, and Europe, have been in decline since the end of the Cold War in 1989. They recognized the strategy of the U.S. and our allies was to seek regions to either invade, persuade, or buy. And then, theoretically, establish a Western style democracy to further build out a global supply chain, buy labor, and manufacture and sell goods and services.So they invested heavily in industry within China and then expanded globally investing in 70 countries worldwide in infrastructure. Their One Belt One Road initiative has been building mines, dams, ports, railroads, airports, solar installations and more around the world to control the extraction and flow of resources and capital.It’s like a parasitic super-structure on top of the West’s established global supply chain. It grows their dominance by feeding off of Western consumerism and neoliberal economic policies; all the while continuing to spoon Chinese made goods to the perpetually hungry mouths of American consumers.John A. Lewis concluded his remarks with a stern directive:“The U.S. must respond to China’s hostility, but we can no longer rely on market forces alone to advance the national interest. Defensive actions alone will not suffice. These themes all point to the need for a renewed industrial strategy, but it cannot simply duplicate previous policies because we are now in a world where the private sector leads. This means the task [for America] is to find where government intervention can best support a multinational commercial innovation base.”A renewed industrial strategy is needed, indeed. But, so is a new economic creed that doesn’t breed greed. Subscribe at interplace.io

In this Episode Carolina chats with talented artist Taylor Schultz. Known in the gram and the motorcycle community by @schultzdesignz, Taylor took a break from the daily grind to chat about his art, how he started & how it's going.  Super cool dude, lover of dogs and sweeter than honey

This is the Startup Junkie's Podcast; welcome to it!   In episode 261, we have Jeff Amerine, Caleb Talley, and Davis McEntire from Startup Junkies sit with Ryann Hartley of Hartley Flooring. From the dynamic of being a woman in the industry to the entrepreneurial spirit being in her DNA to creating an immaculate company culture, we got to hash it all out with Ryann!    Thanks for tuning in!   Shownotes: (1:24) Introducing Ryann Hartley of Hartley Flooring (3:48)) From Sherwin Williams To Flooring (5:23) Company Culture (7:31) Winning & Customer Targeting (10:39) Glass Ceiling In Construction & Contract Work (15:22) What's Next For Flooring? (19:04) Owning The Business 100% (22:02) Advice to Women in Trade Space (25:33) What's Next For Ryann Hartley? (34:33) Advice To Younger Self (37:27) Wrap Up   Links: Jeff Amerine Caleb Talley Davis McEntire Ryann Hartley Hartley Flooring   Quotes: "Working with Sherman Williams, a 150 year old multi-billion dollar business, the career ladder was forever long, as long as I wanted it to be, but there was just something attractive about small business in Northwest Arkansas."  (2:28) - Ryann Hartley   "Nothing is perfect. It just isn't. So being willing to just ride those waves and meet those challenges when they come up, there's all kinds of unforeseen things and unknown things… so when you just meet those challenges as best you can over time, you gain respect."  (11:38) Ryann Hartley   "...So [I was] running a gas pump at a liquor store. That's what small business is, it' 's not always sexy, it's hard work."  (20:25) Ryann Hartley   startupjunkie.org wlj.com

From his service as a Naval Intelligence Officer to an MBA from the University of Chicago to becoming an investor in early-stage startups in healthcare tech, frontier tech, logistics, and marketplaces, Sherman Williams has had an interesting career. Now he's also helping other U.S. Service Academy (USNA, USMA, USAFA, USCGA and USMMA) grads to invest as well. Many veterans want to get into entrepreneurship, but don't know how to access a network to help them learn and grow. The Academy Investor Network invests in veteran-led startups (as well as civilian-led startups) that focus on “dual-use technology,” or tech that has both commercial and government purposes. Or as Sherman puts it, “technologies that help make our country safer, operate more efficiently, and have a strong commercial use case.”Listen for Sherman's take on how technologies like this can have both civilian and military use cases, and how veterans can thrive in entrepreneurship. Oh, and definitely listen for David and Sherman's brief but delightful discussion of reggae. Follow Sherman Williams on Twitter @vc_sherman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sherman Williams & Emily McMahan - Academy Investor Network, Helping Service Academy Graduates Invest in Venture-backed Startups Sherman Williams is a Naval Academy graduate. After serving as a Naval Intelligence Officer, he headed to Chicago's Booth School to study finance and landed himself in investment banking. While in banking he started investing and advising startups. This was a perfect segue to co-founding Academy Investor Network. Emily McMahan is a WestPoint Academy graduate. After her time in the Army as a Military Police Officer, she has always been focused around community and working with entrepreneurs. She has a passion to work with startup companies and founded Capitol Post, which taught military veterans how to start and grow businesses, a great foundation for beginning the Academy Investor Network. She is also the Deputy Director at the Common Mission Project, an international platform supporting mission-driven entrepreneurs. Academy Investor Network Academy Investor Network was founded in 2020. From Sherman's and Emily's own academy experience they personally saw the unique population that made up the graduates. They wanted to offer an investment syndicate for U.S. Service Academy graduates to invest in venture-backed startups. “We enable every Service Academy graduate to connect, learn and invest in the venture asset class.” Learn More Sherman Williams Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherman-williams/ Emily McMahan Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilymcmahan/ Academy Investor Network  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/academy-investor-network/ Website: https://academyinvestor.com/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AIN_members VeteranCrowd Network Our "forever promise" is to build the veteran and military spouse community a place to connect and engage. VeteranCrowd is simply a national network of veterans, veteran led businesses and the resources they need to prosper. Subscribe to stay in touch, or consider if Individual or Corporate Membership in the Network is a fit for you. About Your Host Bob Louthan is a VMI Graduate, Army veteran, and executive with over 25 years of experience in mergers, acquisitions a

In this first episode of Health Law Talk, Healthcare attorneys Conrad Meyer and Rory Bellina discuss the services Chehardy Sherman Williams provides to their healthcare clients, as well as an overview of the firm practice areas. Hear about how these two attorneys got their start in the field of healthcare law and how that experience helps their clients better navigate the comprehensive, legal issues of this complex, ever-changing industry. Look for upcoming weekly episodes on Health Law Talk each Thursday. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rory-bellina6/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rory-bellina6/support

Having a Father in HOF in college basketball to his own tremendous athletic success in college to earning a Basketball Championship as Basketball Head coach, Adam J. Carswell talks about his journey. His shift to entrepreneurship started while working at Sherman Williams and realizing he is never going to get financially free working W2 job. His inspiration now is to create wealth and knowledge to 90 generations of Carswells. Adam J. Carswell is a real estate entrepreneur, LinkedIn Power-Networker, New Media Marketing Maverick, and known as the “Voice Of Liberty” for his work hosting the Liberland Show, Liberland 5th Anniversary, and the Chicago Blockchain Real Estate Collective. His expertise in social marketing and network management set him apart from the crowd. Adam is also a member of RaiseMasters, the #1 Mastermind for elite capital raisers, and is a Co-Founder of the Next Level Mastermind.Adam J. Carswell: https://carswell.io/contact/

Prison Fellowship, the nation's largest Christian nonprofit, has partnered with Life Church, Cornerstone Church, and Mt. Zion First Baptist Church to conduct a free Angel Tree Sports Camp. The one-day event will focus on football, where boys and girls ages 7 to 14, whose parents are incarcerated, get to enjoy teamwork, skills development, and mentoring from area high school and college coaches and former Dallas Cowboys players Sherman Williams and Alexander Wright! The camp is planned for Saturday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Cornerstone Christian School at 17702 NW Military Highway in San Antonio. Space is...Article Link

The color paint trends for 2021 are a combination of bold tones, some new neutrals and even a few grays thrown in. Colors trends change slightly each year, and you can often see how things might be shifting for the long haul too. Sit back and enjoy this colorful episode about the paint colors that are hot for this year. The Ben Moore color of the year is Aegean Teal. See it HERE (https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/color-overview/find-your-color/color/2136-40/aegean-teal?color=2136-40). Sherman Williams' color of the year is the gorgeous Urbane Bronze. See it HERE (https://www.sherwin-williams.com/architects-specifiers-designers/inspiration/color-forecast/2021-color-forecast/2021-color-of-the-year-urbane-bronze). The Dulux color of the year is Brave Ground. See it HERE (https://www.duluxtradepaintexpert.co.uk/content/dulux-colour-of-the-year-2021#). Behr has a a 21 color palette for 2021. See it HERE (https://www.behr.com/consumer/inspiration/2021-color-trends/). Clare Paint has two 2021 colors. See them HERE (https://www.clare.com/blog/color/clare-new-paint-colors-2021). Check out the Farrow and Ball paint colors HERE (https://www.farrow-ball.com/paint-colours) We participate in the Amazon affiliate program, so if you make a purchase thru our links we may receive a small fee from Amazon. Our participation in no way effects the price you pay. The Hot Topic is A Designer's Trick for Creating Closet Shelving That Won't Ruin Your Walls HERE (https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/a35448226/diy-closet-shelves/) Crushes Anita's crush is in the closet - shoe organizers HERE (https://amzn.to/3quKUUi) Kelly's crush is in the refridgerator - MALK Almond milk HERE (https://amzn.to/3ptJU1o). Sign up for our insider emails here on our site. Click HERE (https://mailchi.mp/8791ceb431db/dtt) and enter your address. If you have a moment we would so appreciate it if you left a review for DTT on iTunes. Just go HERE (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decorating-tips-and-tricks/id1199677372?ls=1&mt=2) and click listen in apple podcasts. Thanks in advance! XX, Anita & Kelly

Michael Burke (@dmichaelburke) joins the show this week! Dena shares her emotional week on TikTok as one of her favorite grandmas, Virginia Rose Tashjian (account run by her grandson @eddiepdoyle), passed away. We discuss the firing from Sherman Williams of famous TikTok paint mixer Tony Piloseno (@tonesterpaints). Then, we get to our hilarious interview with comedian Michael Burke. We find out how long he’s been doing improv and sketch comedy, how Nick Kroll inspired him to perform, and why he can do a New York accent so well. We all agree Gay TikTok is the best side of TikTok. Some of our favorite accounts are: Chris Olsen (@olsennchris), Ian Paget (@ianpaget_), The Coyle Twins (@coyletwins), Jimmy Fowlie (@jimmyfowlie), Minnie and Tink (@MinnieAndTink), and Pierre Boo (@itspierreboo). We also discuss the New York Times article by Alex Hawgood, “Everyone is Gay on TikTok.” Like Dena, Michael is also into Grandma TikTok. Some of their favorite TikTok grandmas are: Grandma Droniak (@grandma_droniak) and Nonna Piaa (@nonnapiaa). We shout out two of Michael’s TikTok friends and fellow comedians Karen Cassady (@karencassssss) and Erika Priscilla (@erikaxpriscilla). We end with a lightning round of Michael’s holiday faves, like ranking Christmas songs from Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, and NSYNC. Including a special mention of Harry Styles and Shia LaBeouf.

This week on Sports Night, Dalton and Corey discuss everything going on in the Collegiate and professional sports worlds with guests Randy Burgan and Sherman Williams.

South Alabama's football program took a big step backward Thursday night and took one on the chin against UAB. As the SEC season begins, the Pac 12 and Mountain West have joined the fall college football party. Guests include, former Alabama RB, Sherman Williams, Cottage Hill Coaches and Administrators, including Head Football Coach Chris Brazell, John Racciatti, and South Alabama Head Coach Steve Campbell. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/david-schultz/support

Why suffer crappy holiday movies alone? Suffer them with The Rewinders Podcast! Or, in this case, just Joe. This week's delve into Netflix Holiday movie madness is The Knight Before Christmas. Staring Vanessa Hudgens of The Princess Switch fare (knew she looked familiar!) and Josh Whitehouse apparently from the show Poldark (haven't watched it).   It's a movie about a knight vaping himself into the future to learn how to be the best medieval knight ever. Only to get hit by a car - which imbues him with the knowledge how to drive them... and stuff... He bakes a lot of bread... and stuff happens... Then he remembers he has a quest - and even though he says it is important - I don't know how much I'm buying it. Anyway, he save a kid and beats up a slightly older kid and heals an elderly kid, but none of those things fulfill his quest. BUT kissing a lady does - and he vapes back to the past where he instantly wants to return to the future (and another continent). He does - and happily ever after. [I left out all the lady boners - you need some reason to watch I guess]   Unlike past years, these riffs will not be super-cut. Sync up the audio track with the sound of the Netflix logo and have a side-by-each riffing experience! hop on your own Sherman Williams and gallop along with me, wont you?

Adding Value to a Property: 2:30: every time you look at a property in your mind should be, “How can I add value to this property, this situation?” And sometimes you're adding value by rectifying a problem. 4:40: Different people respond to different things. Perhaps try a direct mail campaign directly from the realtor? 6:00: It's a good idea to go out and take a look at what the new builders are doing and see what you can add to your properties that people want. 9:10: We pay Sherman Williams $150 to advise us on the colors and trends anytime we flip a house to a retail buyer.  Selling to Retail Buyers: 13:00: One thing that's really cool about older properties and why they are so desirable for flips is especially in the pacific northwest is that they tend to be on bigger lots while new construction is crammed together. 15:40: The longer you hold a property you intend to sell to a retail buyer, the more expensive it is. There's a lot for a limited payout. Get contractors there quick and limit your holding costs. 18:53: For something that's being wholetailed, Ryan looks for little to no work required, builder grade or something that needs a major systems update like a roof. Maximizing Value Add: 20:30: The most obvious form of value add is to see if you can easily go from a 2-bedroom to a 3-bedroom.   21:45: With basements, we don't usually finish them unless it's a walkout. Egress windows are incredibly expensive. 23:18: Always ask if a garage conversion is permitted. If it's not, you've got to take it out. 25:17: The way people live changes, it's cyclical. ADUs, Title Companies, Narrowing Focus: 26:10: Cites are particular with ADU's and we get around it by renting out the entire property and leaving it up to the renters to decide what they do with the additional unit. 30:19: If a title company ever tells you that there's a glitch, you need to pay very close attention to what that glitch is. 32:00: We're really talking about rentability here, by adding value and making sure you're meeting the market demand, you're going to be able to rent to quality tenants. 34:45: As Stephen Covey would say, begin with the end in mind. Connect with the Good Stewards: Visit Our Website and Subscribe Email | Ask@TheGoodStewards.com Twitter | @TheGoodStewards Instagram | @GoodStewardsPodcast Facebook | @GoodStewardsPodcast

What a perfect time to embrace the perfectly imperfect! Today we explore the concept of Wabi Sabi as a trend, attitude & approach. Wabi Sabi goes deeper than just being chill. It is an an attitude & approach to living that dates back to ancient times. In recent years the term has crept into the home deocr venacular. Today we discuss what it mean to approach life & home in a Wabi Sabi way, the hallmarks of the Wabi Sabi in decor and specific ways you can incorporate it in your home. Items with patina - graceful aging - are very Wabi Sabi. This post by Kelly explores why we love things bearing the patina of age. Read it HERE (https://mysoulfulhome.com/patina-like-old/). Listen in for other decor elements & choices that evoke Wabi Sabi. The Sherman Williams color Kelly mentioned is Pure White. See it HERE (https://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/products/SW7005-pure-white). After listening if you want to learn more about Wabi Sabi get the book Wabi Sabi Welcome HERE (https://amzn.to/2RANokn). Hot Topic - is this the moment for eDesign. Listen in to hear what we think. Read the article HERE (https://businessofhome.com/articles/is-this-e-design-s-moment). Thanks to our listener Kimalee for introducing us all to Priceless Pets Rescue. It is great time to adopt a new BFF. Go HERE (https://pricelesspetrescue.org/) to see who is available! Crushes: Anita is loving the Knock Knock plant delivery service. Check it out HERE (https://justknockknock.com/?cmp=kid/knockknock/google/subscription/427562980519/&gclid=CjwKCAjwvtX0BRAFEiwAGWJyZHB_jVI0s-yC43nAmBaNlKfTLcxuunZuUQ2amB1v-xrQIld3E0RZvRoC1R8QAvD_BwE). Kelly & her dgggies love Paw Ramp. Have a look HERE (https://pawramp.com/). Our listener question is one that plagues many home owners. Maybe you too? Listen in.... As always to take advantage of our brand sponsor special offers click thru the boxes on the right and use the promo codes. Sign up for our insider emails here on our site. Click HERE (https://forms.omnisrc.com/signup/v1/5cd5e2198653ed3e50c95d71_5cd9abc28653ed76f6e71b27.html) and enter your address. If you have a moment we would so appreciate it if you left a review for DTT on iTunes. Just go HERE (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decorating-tips-and-tricks/id1199677372?ls=1&mt=2) and click listen in apple podcasts. Thanks in advance! We hope you & yours are safe, healthy & happy, xx, Kelly & Anita

Sherman Williams, a 25-year veteran of the United States Army, is an entrepreneur, a business owner and a proud graduate of Syracuse University's Institute for Veterans and Military Families' (IVMF) Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans. A mechanic in the Army, Williams saw how our troops were struggling to fuel their bodies with healthy beverages that could both survive the harsh conditions of Iraq and provide essential vitamins and minerals, so he created Body Aqua. Williams discusses how his service to country helped him discover his own greatness, and shares the lessons learned from his time in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans.

Sherman Williams visits the show to discuss his all-natural beverage Body Aqua. The first-ever functional beverage, Body Aqua is diabetic friendly, contains no caffeine, contains no electrolytes, contains no colors, all Natural and Disabled Veteran owned and created.

Today I have new author Sherman Williams on the podcast discussing his book called The Search. I ask him a few questions and we get to learn a little bit more about him and the reason behind why he wrote his book.

(https://atgridiron.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ATG-Sherman.png) Sherman enjoyed a 5 year NFL career all with the Dallas Cowboys.  He played lots of sports growing up, but football was his favourite.  In his home state of Alabama, football is king.  His high-school career was legendary, becoming the first player in Alabama history to rush for over 3000 yards in a season!  They went on to also win the State Championship that year as well.  Heavily recruited, he initially committed to LSU, which was his favourite team growing up.  However after a visit to Alabama he decided to stay in State and play for the Crimson Tide.  Being a national power program, he played with great players while there and he certainly fit in with the group.  He ended his college career in spectacular fashion having an outstanding game in the Citrus Bowl verses Ohio State.  They had lots of future NFL stars as well but Sherman stood out above them all.  He had 100+ yard rushing and receiving in the game and scored the winning TD with only 42 seconds left in the game.  He was the 1st pick of the Cowboys in the draft the following year, in the 2nd round.  Growing up a Cowboys fan, it was a dream come true to play for America’s Team.  Playing with guys like Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin was a huge thrill for him!  He backed up Emmitt as a rookie and capped off the season in Tempe Arizona with a Superbowl victory!  His career took a steady decline after that due to bad decisions and associations that he maintained from his youth.  That led to him being imprisoned for 15 years.  His life is now dedicated to educating youth to make wise decisions and help them avoid the mistakes he’s made in his life.  He started the Palmer Williams Group whose mission is to make a positive impact in the lives of youth.  He teamed up with his former teammate, David Palmer for this initiative.  He’s also written Crimson Cowboy, a series of books that chronicle his life and discuss the impact of his poor choices and how to avoid making the same mistakes he made.  For more information on the Palmer Williams Group and to buy his books, please go to the links below. website: www.palmerwilliamsgroup.org/ (http://palmerwilliamsgroup.org/) Links to buy his book: Crimson Cowboy Volume I: www.amzn.to/2MBYPVm (https://amzn.to/2MBYPVm) Volume II: www.amzn.to/2Uor5xj (https://amzn.to/2Uor5xj) Instagram:  www.instagram.com/crimsoncowboy/ (https://www.instagram.com/crimsoncowboy/) Twitter: www.twitter.com/crimsoncowboy20 (https://twitter.com/crimsoncowboy20?lang=en) Facebook:  www.facebook.com/Palmer-Williams-Group (https://www.facebook.com/Palmer-Williams-Group-759788070712177/) Resources www.atgridiron.com (https://www.atgridiron.com) www.symfonies.ca (http://www.symfonies.ca) www.audible.com (https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Free-Trial-Digital-Membership/dp/B00NB86OYE/?ref_=assoc_tag_ph_1485906643682&_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=pf4&tag=gridiron-20&linkId=66d68bff364d9d0d09064e459c476170)  

Sherman Williams, from Pritchard, AL, played Running Back at the University of Alabama and for the Dallas Cowboys. He won both a National Championship in college and a Super Bowl in NFL. While in the NFL, a series of bad choices led to Sherman being incarcerated for 15 years. While incarcerated, he renewed his relationship […]

The Corporate Champ and the Angel of Death are back to talk about Odell Beckham's record-setting payday and what it means for the talented crop of young receivers behind him. Who is the next guy to get paid?Also on the show:• Nick Foles is having a poor preseason. What should the Eagles do? And why didn't Foles use his leverage while he had it?•The strife between Khalil Mack and Oakland could lead to a mega-trade. But do they ever work out?.(Listen to this segment for some sweet talk about Pat Swilling and Clinton Portis!• Younger under-the-radar players who are impressing us•An interview with former Dallas Cowboys RB and Alabama national champion Sherman Williams, who did 15 years in prison after his playing career and has now turned his life around.• NFL uniforms that we'd change for the good of humanityEnjoying the show? Take us to your tailgates and tell a fellow fan! Thanks for listening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jake and Chris welcome marketing expert Taylor Hawkins to help out with promotion, and acupuncturist/friend of the show Dr. Sherman Williams joins to try to get out of his slump. They cover Jack White's new LP, potential IANOI 'Best New Artist' Kississippi and more.

Jake and Chris welcome marketing expert Taylor Hawkins to help out with promotion, and acupuncturist/friend of the show Dr. Sherman Williams joins to try to get out of his slump. They cover Jack White's new LP, potential IANOI 'Best New Artist' Kississippi and more.

Agent 251 (Jason Will) talks with Corey Martin and former Crimson Tide & NFL player Sherman Williams. Sherman Williams, author of "Crimson Cowboy", shares his story from rising college football star and Super Bowl player to 15 years in a federal prison. Sherman and Corey use this rise and fall real-life journey to help young boys (9-14 years old) learn some hard lessons about making the wrong choices in life with the Palmer Williams Foundation. Sherman's story can be a cautionary tale and one of inspiration to all people of any age. Sherman reminds us that it’s much simpler to make responsible decisions from the start. Buy "Crimson Cowboy" Guests & Main Topics: Corey Martin, a long-time volunteer with Fairhope Rotary Youth Club promotes the speaking engagement: April 27, 2018, Fairhope High School, 6-8pm Event will be featuring "Crimson Cowboy" author Sherman Williams Local businesses have been challenged to each sponsor 20 boys at the cost of $20 per boy. The goal is to get Sherman’s book into the hands of every boy in the club. Contact info@palmerwilliamsgroup.org for tickets, donations and more information. Sherman Williams is a former football hero who is local to Mobile, Alabama. Sherman graduated from Blount High School and then attended the University of Alabama. At the University of Alabama, Sherman was a star running back. Sherman later played in the Superbowl with the Dallas Cowboys. In 2000 Sherman Williams was sentenced to 15 years in Federal Prison. He now works to help mentor young people and to keep them from making the poor decisions he made. Sherman Williams details his story of redemption in his book “Crimson Cowboy” The purpose of Sherman's book "Crimson Cowboy" is to entertain the readers as well as helping to nurture young people to make good decisions no matter their background. > FAIRHOPE YOUTH ROTARY PROGRAM’S “LEADERSHIP BOYS CLUB” COREY MARTIN: Every Friday morning, at Fairhope High School, I mentor 75 boys through the “Leadership Boys Club”. I bring community leaders in to speak to these boys and help them become leaders themselves. Most of the boys in the leadership club are of a lower socioeconomic standing and have reading deficits. Sherman’s book is an opportunity to present these boys with not only a story that they can relate to, but they also are motivated to read the book thanks to an interest in sports. > CRIMSON COWBOY - Parts 1 & 2 SHERMAN WILLIAMS: The message of my book is that your choices create your outcome. In a poor, urban community many children grow up without good examples of what it means to be successful and how your choices dictate your actions and outcomes. - Sherman Williams   >CHOICES Choices are the direct result of your actions. Choices create your consequence, good or bad. If you choose to make poor choices, you are going to have to suffer consequences. If you choose to make good choices, you are going to have good things happen as a result. I have been to the pinnacle of life - winning the Superbowl - and my poor life choices put me at rock bottom of being incarcerated. - Sherman Williams > SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN YOUR PROFESSIONAL LIFE Making good decisions, sacrifice, and hard work will create success in your professional life, not in just in sports. Failure is a consequence brought on by making bad decisions, running with the wrong crowd, and trying to “take the easy way out”. > PATHWAY TO SUCCESS Success is measured by your individual personality and goals. You can obtain success by naming your life goals and then creating a pathway of steps to reach your goal.   > POOR CHOICES HAVE A CUMULATIVE EFFECT JASON WILL: You worked a lifetime of practice and sacrifice to become a superstar athlete. In a split second one, bad decision-- or several small bad decisions-- can take your success away as a consequence SHERMAN WILLIAMS: yes, one major bad decision can take everything you have worked for away. However, in reality, those small instances of making poor choices add up and have a snowball effect. That snowball effect has a much bigger impact on the big picture of your life than one decision. Small decisions have a cumulative/snowball effect Leadership Boys Club is a program geared towards kids ages 9-14 because bad decisions as a kid can impact your entire life SHERMAN WILLIAMS: My path to Federal Prison was not the result of one poor choice, but of many smaller bad decisions. I lost many opportunities and awards because I consistently made the poor decision to run with the wrong crowd and consistently decided to be involved with an alcohol distribution ring that led to my expulsion. Don't become complacent with being irresponsible. Creating a pattern of bad decisions sets you up for failure in the future. I had become used to doing the wrong thing and making bad choices, even though I knew what I should have been doing and what good decisions to make.   > LET YOUR HIGHER VOICE BE YOUR GUIDE COREY MARTIN: We all have a higher voice inside of us, even when we are surrounded by chaos. Some of us choose to listen to that voice and it brings them through life. I tell the boys that I mentor that Not having a father isn’t an excuse. We all have a conscience and that is your heavenly father talking to you. You can choose to listen to that voice inside of you or not. But don’t use your situation as an excuse for your bad behavior > PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY Responsibility vs Irresponsibility vs Ignorance Responsibility is knowing the right thing to do and then doing the right thing. - Sherman Williams Irresponsibility is knowing the right thing to do and then doing the wrong thing/not doing the right thing. - Sherman Williams Ignorance is not knowing what is right. - Sherman Williams No matter your situation, you will have people who will nurture you and push you towards the right direction. Even kids in the hood. Just because you are poor in the hood doesn't mean that you can’t do the right thing. - Sherman Williams Give a child a platform to express themselves. SHERMAN WILLIAMS: If I had been nurtured into being a writer while he was young, may have never played football. YOU are the person stopping YOU from succeeding > WEALTH You are only as good as the impression you leave here on the earth. - - Sherman Williams You will die eventually, but what survives us all is our reputation. - - Sherman Williams When you help another person, that’s more important than any monetary wealth you may ever gain. - Sherman Williams Sharing and showing love with others is more important than making money - - Sherman Williams INSTANT GRATIFICATION ISN’T WORTH IT - Sherman Williams “The fast lane is fun, but it isn’t worth the cost” Bad choices may have a temporary instant gratification, but the consequences of those bad decisions are far-reaching and far greater than any temporary gain they may have brought in the short term. - - Sherman Williams There is a process to everything -- enjoy the process Money is a motivator, but wealth isn’t instant - - Sherman Williams Making bad decisions may bring money, but it will not bring you true wealth. - Sherman Williams Contact Jason Will Real Estate Prompt and professional service is our guarantee. JWRE's goal is to be informative and helpful. Through our service we hope to earn your business with our exemplary level of service and extensive local knowledge of the Mobile & Baldwin County area. Agent 251 is recorded and produced at Deep Fried Studios. Producer: Johnny Gwin

On this edition of Thursday Night Tailgate our guests are: former Alabama and Cowboys RB Sherman Williams, former Patriots Pro Bowl RB Tony Collins, former Falcons WR Brian Finneran, former Steelers Tackle Craig Wolfley, and former Colts DB Doug Nettles. Sherman Williams talks about his experience of being in a Federal prison and the work he's doing today to help keep kids not make the same mistakes he did. He also shared stories from helping Alabama win the National Championship in 1992 and what it was like playing for Gene Stallings. Tony Collins helped us define what a catch should be. He also talked about  Rob Gronkowski and the beating his body has taken over the years. We turned that back on Tony and asked, knowing the toll the game would take on him inlcuding the potental for CTE, would you do it all again? Brian Finneran played his college ball at Villanova and he said his thoughts on Villanova basketball, what it was like winning the FCS Division 1-AA Walter Payton award, that division's version of the Heisman Trophy, and being inducted into the Villanova Hall of Fame. Brian also shared his insights on the Falcons and if they can get back to where they were in 2016. Craig Wolfley shared great insights into the gaps the Steelers need to fill this off season. He shared specific thoughts on their recent top draft choices, Bud Dupree, Artie Burns and Sean Davis. He also shared memories of playing in Terry Bradshaw's last game, a game which also closed down Shea Stadium. Doug Nettles played for the Colts back in the mid 1970's. They went to the playoff from 1975-1977 led by Bert Jones, Lydell Mitchell, Roger Carr, and a storng defense led by Mike Curtis. He said Mike Curtis was as crazy as legend has it and shared some of those stories including how O.J. Simpson didn't start games against them because he wanted Curtis to be winded before he would come into games.

Talking about his new book 'The Crimson Cowboy'

ICFF with Chad James On this episode of The Lounge, Nick meets with Chad James at ICFF NYC to talk about long time client, friend and country singer-songwriter Luke Bryan; PR; and Chad's progress since their last interview about a year ago. It's Chad's first time at ICFF and he is very excited about the unique vendors and getting small glimpses into each one's best work. Later, Nick talks to Shell Broadnax of RESA who will be speaking at Las Vegas Market about whether or not you might want to become a home stager. Special thanks to Benjamin Moore for making this week's show possible. Walls By Design exclusively uses Benjamin Moore paints which can be bought online at Guiry's. This week in the office we did a paint test between Benjamin Moore and Sherman Williams' four lowest end products, as they're the most commonly bought paints. Hang tight for a link to the video on the Walls By Design Facebook. Also, Lindsay Paoli of Design Manager just featured us in her article, 11 Binge-Worthy Design Shows That Aren't on HGTV, which talks about the top design movies, TV shows, books and podcasts to check out this summer. Design Manager is the best way for your business to stay organized, get rid of spreadsheets and Microsoft documents, and put all your projects, accounting, and inventory in one place. Catching up with Chad Currently, Chad is on a 12-week travel schedule so he hasn't spent much time at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. When he does make it to his lakehouse though, he enjoys wake surfing from his boat. Chad is always very private about who he works with but once a client's project is published, he's able to talk about it. Two years ago he designed Luke Bryan's Florida beach home and recently, his work was picked up and put on the cover of Traditional Home, so Nick dug in to learn all about it. Check out the article here. His photographs (featured below) were done by architectural photographer Alyssa Rossenheck who will be on the show this month! Chad gives us some insight into the pros and cons of PR in the interior design industry and how he is able (or unable) to get his work out there. He tells us, after spending so much time on a beautiful project, often times the only people who get to see and enjoy it are the homeowners. From the very beginning of a project, he and his client talk through his photographic rights and come to an agreement about what this means. He will always respect a client's privacy even if he is disappointed he doesn't get to show off his work. His firm never talks about a project due to the fact that with social media and digital press, information spreads quickly... no one wants what they're doing and spending to be in the public eye. All of his employees sign a confidentiality agreement. Occasionally though, he get's to take photos of a project and send it out to multiple avenues in order to see who will 'bite,' just like with Traditional Home and Luke Bryan. Last time Nick and Chad chatted, at Highpoint, he told us that he hired a PR company to encourage his business and his work. Before that, Chad just kept his head down, took pictures, put them in his portfolio, and that was it. He never was a self-promotor so his PR took away the burden and discomfort of having to promote himself. Now, he's has participated in speaking engagements and has traveled to Italy, to Paris, and all over the U.S. His PR handles all online and print media, gained him name recognition, and created a BRAND- the only way to make your business grow. Lastly, Chad talks about his new house, which he closed on his birthday, but is only just now starting to design the space. He has decided to publish his home when 's finished because this house is very different than anything he's ever done before - it's contemporary! He describes it as a 'modern box' and so, he wants to let his pendulum swing in the other direction and show off this new side. Chad predicts that after a 7-year span of bright,

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Dallas Cowboys Superbowl Champion & Bama Legend Sherman WIlliams joins us for a Charlie Chat! He talks lessons learned from Jerry Jones & Emmit Smith, going to prison and turning his life around & his upcoming Gala! Buy the Book | CrimsonCowboy.com After Sherman we are joined by West Ashley High School (SC) Offensive Line Coach Hood and he fills us in on his #EmbraceTheCulture movement! RaiderLife.com Twitter | @RaiderLifePod Facebook | www.facebook.com/RaiderLifePodcast Special Thanks, Sherman Williams Coach Hood Game Changers Corp

Highlights from my keynote speech at Affiliate Summit. On today's episode Russell talks about going to the Affiliate Summit and trying to get 150 affiliates excited about Clickfunnels. He explains what he told them, and tells you how to be a part of his affiliate bootcamp program. Here are some of the cool things you should listen for in this episode. Find out why Russell had a booth at the Affiliate Summit, even though he hates booth events. Learn some tips and tricks Russell has that will help you be successful as an affiliate. And find out how you can follow sign up as Clickfunnels super affiliate to make a ton of money and be able to retire in 100 days. So listen below to find out what affiliatebootcamp.com is all about. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell. Welcome back to Marketing In Your Car. I just got out of the airport, back to Boise Idaho, sitting in my car and it is so cold, I am dying. It's literally, I think zero degrees, maybe negative one or two right night. I have a light jacket on so if I'm chattering during this episode, that's why. I'm driving back to the office, then back home and I just wanted to talk to you guys for a little bit. So I was at Affiliate Summit yesterday, which some of you guys were there. Which is kind of fun, I met some of you guys there. Affiliate Summit is a really strange event. It's an event, it's not even an event, I don't even know. The events I go to, that we put on, Funnel Hacking Live, for those of you coming to Funnel Hacking Live, it's like a rock concert. Tons of energy and emotion and it's a really, really fun thing. Here it's like, a whole bunch of people have booths, we had a booth. Then there's probably like 500 other booths. Then people come and pay to walk around the booths. Then they have little break out rooms of 100 people at a time, and you can go to the break out room to hear the little speakers. So I don't normally speak much, but Affiliate Summit was a big deal because a long time ago I went to it and I was like, “This is so cool, these guys are affiliates who are making money.” I thought it was really cool so I wanted to, I thought it would be cool to speak at. I didn't realize what exactly that meant until we got here. I was like, oh wow so there's 6 thousand people at the event, but the biggest room they have holds about 150 people. They're like, “Yep.” And people have to pay extra to come to your session. I'm like, this is the stupidest business model I've ever heard of. Anyway, whatever. So the first day we walked around the booth and I walk by and this little guy comes and grabs me, and I'm like, “Hey, how's it going?” and I recognized him, you know that feeling when you're like I know you somehow, but I don't know how I know you and it's kind of awkward. I'm trying to not awkwardly look down to your nametag to read your name because then you know that I forgot who you were. So I'm just like, “hey!” We were talking, and after a while I realized who he is. He was the media buyer we used for Neuracel, he's the one who took Neuracel and blew it up over. I was like, “oh man, how's it going?” and he's like, “I left that company, I went over here to this other company. Dude, I gotta thank you for introducing me to Trey.” I'm like, “What do you mean?” and he's like, “Trey Lewellen.” and I'm like, “Yeah?” and he's like, “When you introduced him to us, he had this really weird flashlight offer that no one thought was going to work and I tried to blow him off four or five times, but finally he was so persistent. He prepaid all this stuff, so I had an affiliate run his offer and dude, you probably don't know this, it was the biggest affiliate offer in the history of affiliate marketing. That offer did over $10 million in the first 90 days. There's never been an offer that big.” I was like, “Dude, that is insane. It's interesting, I didn't get a piece of any of that, I introduced you. I could introduce you to a lot more people, but man if you don't, I got nothing out of that.” I'm just kidding, I was joking with him. But it's kind of true. At least you should have sent me a Christmas present or something, I don't know. Anyway, that was kind of cool. He looked at me and said, “Dude, Russell, do you understand what you guys have done with Clickfunnels?” “What do you mean?” “You've changed marketing forever. You've changed affiliate marketing. You've changed everything.” I'm like, “What do you mean?” He's like, “Pre Clickfunnels, I had maybe 5 or 6 guys come to me that had an offer that we could run. Now I've got 16 year old kids with offers that are converting and they're making millions of bucks. That never happened. You've literally given everybody the ability, everybody equal playing ground, everybody can be in this business.” And I was just like, dang. That was two cool compliments in one thing. I was like, “You don't have to pay me any percentage of that 10 million bucks now, because that was awesome.” So that was kind of cool, I wanted to share with you guys. Then we had our Clickfunnels booth that was really, really cool. We're not a big booth company yet. I hate booths, this is why. Every other type of marketing on planet earth, we are very big on. If we can't see the ROI, the immediate return on investment, track able, then we don't do it. Booths you can't. It's like, okay we have this booth. But it's like, all our competitors are at these shows and if we're not there, they're talking trash about us, we assume. So we gotta kind of be there, it's frustrating. So we had the booth, it was awesome. Bunch of my favorite people were there working the booth, it was pretty cool. Then I had a chance to speak, the topic they gave me was affiliate funnels. I had 18 minutes to speak. I think they're trying to be ted talks except they're not. So I had 18 minutes to speak on this thing, so everyone comes into the room initially. The speaker right before me, I was sitting in the room because I wanted to see what was going to happen, and there were literally two people sitting in the room. I was like, are you kidding me? No one's going to be coming to hear me, this is so awkward. Because people had to pay extra. You pay to go to the booths, and pay extra to hear to a speaker. Anyway, I'm like, no one's going to come. So my whole team is trying, I'm like tell everyone. Try to get people to come to my thing. Because I don't want to be the only talking to myself, that's really awkward. But luckily, they went and got some people. We ended up with probably close to 100 people in the room. They said it was the biggest audience of any of the breakout sessions, so that was kind of cool, I guess. Of 5 or 6 thousand supposed attendees, we got 100 to sit in a room for 18 minutes. So then I get in this room and it's set up so weird. There's this stage, but there's a pole, there's all these chairs, it was so stuffy and corporatey. Ugh. I hate this corporatey, crappy stuff. So I start my slides up and jump down off the stage and come out in the front. I'm like, “I'm not standing behind there guys. We're hanging out down here.” And I started it and give my whole presentation, and it was funny because I was trying to get this audience to be excited about life and the fact that we're in the greatest time in the history of the world. I'm like, “You guys are affiliate marketers. Do you realize what that means? You can and should be making millions of dollars. And you don't have to go to college, and you don't have to have annoying bosses and all the crap that comes. You guys are living the dream.” And they're all just sitting there like, “Blah.” So unexcited. So I spent the 18 minutes trying to get them to smile. I'm telling jokes trying to get fun and exciting. I hate when people's energy is that low and it's hard to get them to, I don't think it's the people. I think it's the environment. The whole event is so corporatey and it just kind of ruins it. I was telling people, “you come to one of our events and it's a lot closer to a rock concert than it is this, at all.” I hated school, so we're not doing school. We are doing something that's actually conducive to learning and emotional, I want people crying in our audience. We have that. I want transformations, and that doesn't happen with school. I don't know about you but, I cried at school but it wasn't because I had a life changing moment, it was because I wanted to kill myself because all the crap they taught was useless. So that's my…where this whole thing happened. So I'm trying to think with these guys. There's two slides and I showed my first slide. I was like, “I have kind of a unique angle.” At an affiliate summit, just so you know, there's the vendors who have products or there's the networks, the affiliate networks, where they're selling a bunch of products. And then there's the other side, which are the actual affiliates. So I knew there were two audiences. So I was like, “How many of you guys are affiliates, how many of you guys are networks, how many are both?” It was kind of split down the middle. I was like, “I come from a unique perspective, because first off, I'm a really successful affiliate. This is a Ferrari I won in an affiliate contest.” I showed them the Ferrari I won, “But I'm also a really successful vendor, network. In fact, that same Ferrari I gave away two years later. I won a Ferrari as an affiliate and I've given away that Ferrari to an affiliate. So I've been on both sides of this game. So I have a kind of unique perspective.” And I wanted to show them, this is how simple this business could be. So this is the moral for this for you guys. Those of you guys who are listening and who want to be affiliates. I talked about simple affiliate funnels and I said basically, this is the process. The first thing is you got to find a hot offer. Find what people are already buying. So let's just say, for you it could be whatever. Something you're excited and passionate about because potentially you're going to be writing about it and hopefully someday if you are a good affiliate and make money there, you're probably going to set up camp there and build an actual business and create your own products and services. But you have to figure out, find a hot offer. So boom, people are buying this thing, maybe it's weight loss supplements or maybe it's info product on dating or whatever it is you're passionate about. You find the hot offer that peope are already buying and that's kind of the first step. And then let's say they have a video sales letter. They got some way they're selling it, I want to watch that video and try to figure out what's the one most interesting curiosity based thing in this sales process. So I'm watching it trying to figure out. So I watch the whole video. Maybe in the video they talk about, the example I showed was the diabetic, way to end diabetic pain. So I watched the video and in there they're talking about this shake they make that diabetics can drink in the morning and make it so their hands don't tingle. I'm like, boom. That's the one thing, intriguing and interesting. So I took that one thing in the video, pulled it out and made a headline. “Discover the weird shake you can drink in the morning that will kill diabetes nerve pain for the first four hours of the day.” Something like that. So for diabetics that saw it would be like, “That's kind of cool.” So I turned that headline, the unique thing I pulled out of the video, make it a headline and put it on a squeeze page. “If you want to know this one weird shake I make, give me your email address.” So that's the funnel's one page. So then I go and advertize on Facebook or whatever. “Hey diabetics, here's one weird shake that you can….” And they see the ad and click on it, go to my landing page, see the headline, put their email address in. And after they put the email address in, guess what happens. It redirects them to the affiliate offer, they ten watch the video that gives them that one cool thing. And if I set it up right in Clickfunnels, it attracts my affiliate links, when they buy it, I get paid from the product. It's so simple. Yet, we all try to over complicate affiliate marketing. So the one other thing that kind of, I guess it's the layer of complexity, but it shouldn't be. A lot of times, you're not going to be profitable up front, because you're an affiliate. So an affiliate, you're making half the money. That means the other half, the vendors getting, so unless their offer is really converting high, which sometimes they do, you may not break even immediately. You might spend a dollar on Facebook ads and make 50 cents. So what you gotta do next is then that person gave you their email address, now you build an email sequence. So maybe the first three email in the email sequence are like, “Hey, did you watch the video about the cool shake? Watch it here.” And your second one is like, “Here's a testimonial of some dude who took the magic shake and their feet don't hurt anymore. Watch the video.” Keep pushing back, two or three emails, pushing back to that original video. And every email in that sequence will some to come back and actually watch the video and increase your conversions. And it'll increase how much money you make off of that, off of each person you got to come through. Then after two or three emails you transition to a secondary product. One thing I do if I'm going as an affiliate in a new market, I'm not going to just find one hot offer. I'm going to find 4 or 5 that complement each other. So we have the supplement, an info product, coaching program, an ecommerce physical product, whatever. I find 5 or 6 different things that that client would want. And then in this email sequence I'm introducing different products. “Okay, you tried the supplements, you saw the video about the weird shakes. Hopefully you bought that info product, because it will help you a lot. But the next thing is there's these really cool supplements over here that have been known to lower nerve pain, you should buy these.” I have two or three emails talking about the nerve pain supplements. Then from there. transition to “If you're still suffering from nerve pain you may need ‘blah'” and I find 5 or 6 different products to serve them and I build email sequences that sell each of those products. When I was showing everybody the thing, the cool thing is when somebody comes in, and hopefully you guys are able to visualize this. If not, I have a way for you guys to kind of see this in action here in a second. If you're getting lost, that's okay I'll show you where to go to see this. Hopefully you're seeing this. You pay a dollar in Facebook ads, they come in and opt in. Somewhere in the sequence on day one, on average I make 30 cents per offer, day two I'm up to 45 cents. Day three I'm up to 60. Day 5 I'm up to 80 cents. Day 7 I averaged 90 cents. And by day 8 is my breakeven point. That's where I've made my dollar back. So what's cool is you gotta figure out, where's your breakeven point? We'll look at that and say, on average in this funnel we're spending a dollar on ads on Facebook or Youtube, or wherever you're buying your ads from. But by day 8 I've made my buck back, it's breakeven. Then guess what happens after day 8? Day 9 and beyond? Day 9 is magic because anything you make from day 9 and beyond is pure profit in your pocket. And that's the magic in affiliate marketing. It's like building, it's like an ATM machine. I want to create some money. I put a dollar in advertising in, I get two dollars back out. Sometimes it doesn't always happen immediately, at point of sale. It might happen over 3 days, or 7 days or 10 days, but find out what's your breakeven point. Now I know, hey I'm going to put a dollar in on Monday, by Friday I'll have my dollar back and then everything I make Saturday, Sunday, Monday and the rest of my life, pure profit. That's affiliate funnels. That's what I showed those guys. Pretty cool right? So for those of you guys who may have gotten lost in the explanation, it's easier when I have a whiteboard because I can draw pictures, and circles and arrows. Those of you guys who have been with me for a while know that that's what I like doing. There's that. If you want to see me kind of sketch this out, I did a video that kind of explains this. You can see it for free if you just go to affiliatebootcamp.com. Oh I almost got hit by a Sherman Williams paint truck. I survived. No worries, you guys. Alright, if you go to affiliatebootcamp.com, there's a video that talks about how to become a Clickfunnels super affiliate, and I walk through how to basically sell, because if you get 100 people to sign up for Clickfunnels, your commission on that is $4000 a month recurring, and it's a car payment. So the whole video is how you're going to retire as a Clickfunnels affiliate within the next 100 days. How to sell, basically get one person a day to sign up for Clickfunnels for 100 days, at that point you got a $4000 a month residual check from us, and you've got a car, which is amazing. So affiliatebootcamp.com will show you that process. So when you opt in for free the next page is a video from me where I kind of explain this, I just talked about. I talked about creating the squeeze, talking about opting in, talking about that sequence that's happening, what your breakeven points are. It'll kind of map the whole thing out for you. If you need, even if you don't need more details, you should still go through that. In fact, if you have an affiliate program, or you want to run an affiliate program, you should go funnel hack that. That funnels been building our affiliate program really well for us. It's at affiliatebootcamp.com. Yeah, that's just kind of another way if you want to look at this a bit deeper. So that's the magic guys. That's what I shared this weekend, the affiliate bootcamp. If you guys are, if you listen to this right away, you will find this video. If you listen to it 5 years from now it will be hard. But I did Facebook Live it, so if you go to my Facebook page, which is facebook.com/russellbrunsonhq there is a video, we Facebook Lived the presentation, so you can see it there too if you want. See me trying to get these tired, non-excited affiliates as excited as humanly possible by walking them through this process. But yeah, it was pretty fun. Anyway, I'm back home. I'm almost to the office, I'm going to get a couple of things done and head home, see my wife and kids and get back to the real world. So appreciate you guys all, thanks so much for listening. If you're enjoying Marketing In Your Car, please go to iTunes and subscribe, share, comment, all that fun stuff. And if you do that, I'd really appreciate it. So thanks everybody, and we'll talk to you all again soon. Bye.

Highlights from my keynote speech at Affiliate Summit. On today’s episode Russell talks about going to the Affiliate Summit and trying to get 150 affiliates excited about Clickfunnels. He explains what he told them, and tells you how to be a part of his affiliate bootcamp program. Here are some of the cool things you should listen for in this episode. Find out why Russell had a booth at the Affiliate Summit, even though he hates booth events. Learn some tips and tricks Russell has that will help you be successful as an affiliate. And find out how you can follow sign up as Clickfunnels super affiliate to make a ton of money and be able to retire in 100 days. So listen below to find out what affiliatebootcamp.com is all about. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell. Welcome back to Marketing In Your Car. I just got out of the airport, back to Boise Idaho, sitting in my car and it is so cold, I am dying. It’s literally, I think zero degrees, maybe negative one or two right night. I have a light jacket on so if I’m chattering during this episode, that’s why. I’m driving back to the office, then back home and I just wanted to talk to you guys for a little bit. So I was at Affiliate Summit yesterday, which some of you guys were there. Which is kind of fun, I met some of you guys there. Affiliate Summit is a really strange event. It’s an event, it’s not even an event, I don’t even know. The events I go to, that we put on, Funnel Hacking Live, for those of you coming to Funnel Hacking Live, it’s like a rock concert. Tons of energy and emotion and it’s a really, really fun thing. Here it’s like, a whole bunch of people have booths, we had a booth. Then there’s probably like 500 other booths. Then people come and pay to walk around the booths. Then they have little break out rooms of 100 people at a time, and you can go to the break out room to hear the little speakers. So I don’t normally speak much, but Affiliate Summit was a big deal because a long time ago I went to it and I was like, “This is so cool, these guys are affiliates who are making money.” I thought it was really cool so I wanted to, I thought it would be cool to speak at. I didn’t realize what exactly that meant until we got here. I was like, oh wow so there’s 6 thousand people at the event, but the biggest room they have holds about 150 people. They’re like, “Yep.” And people have to pay extra to come to your session. I’m like, this is the stupidest business model I’ve ever heard of. Anyway, whatever. So the first day we walked around the booth and I walk by and this little guy comes and grabs me, and I’m like, “Hey, how’s it going?” and I recognized him, you know that feeling when you’re like I know you somehow, but I don’t know how I know you and it’s kind of awkward. I’m trying to not awkwardly look down to your nametag to read your name because then you know that I forgot who you were. So I’m just like, “hey!” We were talking, and after a while I realized who he is. He was the media buyer we used for Neuracel, he’s the one who took Neuracel and blew it up over. I was like, “oh man, how’s it going?” and he’s like, “I left that company, I went over here to this other company. Dude, I gotta thank you for introducing me to Trey.” I’m like, “What do you mean?” and he’s like, “Trey Lewellen.” and I’m like, “Yeah?” and he’s like, “When you introduced him to us, he had this really weird flashlight offer that no one thought was going to work and I tried to blow him off four or five times, but finally he was so persistent. He prepaid all this stuff, so I had an affiliate run his offer and dude, you probably don’t know this, it was the biggest affiliate offer in the history of affiliate marketing. That offer did over $10 million in the first 90 days. There’s never been an offer that big.” I was like, “Dude, that is insane. It’s interesting, I didn’t get a piece of any of that, I introduced you. I could introduce you to a lot more people, but man if you don’t, I got nothing out of that.” I’m just kidding, I was joking with him. But it’s kind of true. At least you should have sent me a Christmas present or something, I don’t know. Anyway, that was kind of cool. He looked at me and said, “Dude, Russell, do you understand what you guys have done with Clickfunnels?” “What do you mean?” “You’ve changed marketing forever. You’ve changed affiliate marketing. You’ve changed everything.” I’m like, “What do you mean?” He’s like, “Pre Clickfunnels, I had maybe 5 or 6 guys come to me that had an offer that we could run. Now I’ve got 16 year old kids with offers that are converting and they’re making millions of bucks. That never happened. You’ve literally given everybody the ability, everybody equal playing ground, everybody can be in this business.” And I was just like, dang. That was two cool compliments in one thing. I was like, “You don’t have to pay me any percentage of that 10 million bucks now, because that was awesome.” So that was kind of cool, I wanted to share with you guys. Then we had our Clickfunnels booth that was really, really cool. We’re not a big booth company yet. I hate booths, this is why. Every other type of marketing on planet earth, we are very big on. If we can’t see the ROI, the immediate return on investment, track able, then we don’t do it. Booths you can’t. It’s like, okay we have this booth. But it’s like, all our competitors are at these shows and if we’re not there, they’re talking trash about us, we assume. So we gotta kind of be there, it’s frustrating. So we had the booth, it was awesome. Bunch of my favorite people were there working the booth, it was pretty cool. Then I had a chance to speak, the topic they gave me was affiliate funnels. I had 18 minutes to speak. I think they’re trying to be ted talks except they’re not. So I had 18 minutes to speak on this thing, so everyone comes into the room initially. The speaker right before me, I was sitting in the room because I wanted to see what was going to happen, and there were literally two people sitting in the room. I was like, are you kidding me? No one’s going to be coming to hear me, this is so awkward. Because people had to pay extra. You pay to go to the booths, and pay extra to hear to a speaker. Anyway, I’m like, no one’s going to come. So my whole team is trying, I’m like tell everyone. Try to get people to come to my thing. Because I don’t want to be the only talking to myself, that’s really awkward. But luckily, they went and got some people. We ended up with probably close to 100 people in the room. They said it was the biggest audience of any of the breakout sessions, so that was kind of cool, I guess. Of 5 or 6 thousand supposed attendees, we got 100 to sit in a room for 18 minutes. So then I get in this room and it’s set up so weird. There’s this stage, but there’s a pole, there’s all these chairs, it was so stuffy and corporatey. Ugh. I hate this corporatey, crappy stuff. So I start my slides up and jump down off the stage and come out in the front. I’m like, “I’m not standing behind there guys. We’re hanging out down here.” And I started it and give my whole presentation, and it was funny because I was trying to get this audience to be excited about life and the fact that we’re in the greatest time in the history of the world. I’m like, “You guys are affiliate marketers. Do you realize what that means? You can and should be making millions of dollars. And you don’t have to go to college, and you don’t have to have annoying bosses and all the crap that comes. You guys are living the dream.” And they’re all just sitting there like, “Blah.” So unexcited. So I spent the 18 minutes trying to get them to smile. I’m telling jokes trying to get fun and exciting. I hate when people’s energy is that low and it’s hard to get them to, I don’t think it’s the people. I think it’s the environment. The whole event is so corporatey and it just kind of ruins it. I was telling people, “you come to one of our events and it’s a lot closer to a rock concert than it is this, at all.” I hated school, so we’re not doing school. We are doing something that’s actually conducive to learning and emotional, I want people crying in our audience. We have that. I want transformations, and that doesn’t happen with school. I don’t know about you but, I cried at school but it wasn’t because I had a life changing moment, it was because I wanted to kill myself because all the crap they taught was useless. So that’s my…where this whole thing happened. So I’m trying to think with these guys. There’s two slides and I showed my first slide. I was like, “I have kind of a unique angle.” At an affiliate summit, just so you know, there’s the vendors who have products or there’s the networks, the affiliate networks, where they’re selling a bunch of products. And then there’s the other side, which are the actual affiliates. So I knew there were two audiences. So I was like, “How many of you guys are affiliates, how many of you guys are networks, how many are both?” It was kind of split down the middle. I was like, “I come from a unique perspective, because first off, I’m a really successful affiliate. This is a Ferrari I won in an affiliate contest.” I showed them the Ferrari I won, “But I’m also a really successful vendor, network. In fact, that same Ferrari I gave away two years later. I won a Ferrari as an affiliate and I’ve given away that Ferrari to an affiliate. So I’ve been on both sides of this game. So I have a kind of unique perspective.” And I wanted to show them, this is how simple this business could be. So this is the moral for this for you guys. Those of you guys who are listening and who want to be affiliates. I talked about simple affiliate funnels and I said basically, this is the process. The first thing is you got to find a hot offer. Find what people are already buying. So let’s just say, for you it could be whatever. Something you’re excited and passionate about because potentially you’re going to be writing about it and hopefully someday if you are a good affiliate and make money there, you’re probably going to set up camp there and build an actual business and create your own products and services. But you have to figure out, find a hot offer. So boom, people are buying this thing, maybe it’s weight loss supplements or maybe it’s info product on dating or whatever it is you’re passionate about. You find the hot offer that peope are already buying and that’s kind of the first step. And then let’s say they have a video sales letter. They got some way they’re selling it, I want to watch that video and try to figure out what’s the one most interesting curiosity based thing in this sales process. So I’m watching it trying to figure out. So I watch the whole video. Maybe in the video they talk about, the example I showed was the diabetic, way to end diabetic pain. So I watched the video and in there they’re talking about this shake they make that diabetics can drink in the morning and make it so their hands don’t tingle. I’m like, boom. That’s the one thing, intriguing and interesting. So I took that one thing in the video, pulled it out and made a headline. “Discover the weird shake you can drink in the morning that will kill diabetes nerve pain for the first four hours of the day.” Something like that. So for diabetics that saw it would be like, “That’s kind of cool.” So I turned that headline, the unique thing I pulled out of the video, make it a headline and put it on a squeeze page. “If you want to know this one weird shake I make, give me your email address.” So that’s the funnel’s one page. So then I go and advertize on Facebook or whatever. “Hey diabetics, here’s one weird shake that you can….” And they see the ad and click on it, go to my landing page, see the headline, put their email address in. And after they put the email address in, guess what happens. It redirects them to the affiliate offer, they ten watch the video that gives them that one cool thing. And if I set it up right in Clickfunnels, it attracts my affiliate links, when they buy it, I get paid from the product. It’s so simple. Yet, we all try to over complicate affiliate marketing. So the one other thing that kind of, I guess it’s the layer of complexity, but it shouldn’t be. A lot of times, you’re not going to be profitable up front, because you’re an affiliate. So an affiliate, you’re making half the money. That means the other half, the vendors getting, so unless their offer is really converting high, which sometimes they do, you may not break even immediately. You might spend a dollar on Facebook ads and make 50 cents. So what you gotta do next is then that person gave you their email address, now you build an email sequence. So maybe the first three email in the email sequence are like, “Hey, did you watch the video about the cool shake? Watch it here.” And your second one is like, “Here’s a testimonial of some dude who took the magic shake and their feet don’t hurt anymore. Watch the video.” Keep pushing back, two or three emails, pushing back to that original video. And every email in that sequence will some to come back and actually watch the video and increase your conversions. And it’ll increase how much money you make off of that, off of each person you got to come through. Then after two or three emails you transition to a secondary product. One thing I do if I’m going as an affiliate in a new market, I’m not going to just find one hot offer. I’m going to find 4 or 5 that complement each other. So we have the supplement, an info product, coaching program, an ecommerce physical product, whatever. I find 5 or 6 different things that that client would want. And then in this email sequence I’m introducing different products. “Okay, you tried the supplements, you saw the video about the weird shakes. Hopefully you bought that info product, because it will help you a lot. But the next thing is there’s these really cool supplements over here that have been known to lower nerve pain, you should buy these.” I have two or three emails talking about the nerve pain supplements. Then from there. transition to “If you’re still suffering from nerve pain you may need ‘blah’” and I find 5 or 6 different products to serve them and I build email sequences that sell each of those products. When I was showing everybody the thing, the cool thing is when somebody comes in, and hopefully you guys are able to visualize this. If not, I have a way for you guys to kind of see this in action here in a second. If you’re getting lost, that’s okay I’ll show you where to go to see this. Hopefully you’re seeing this. You pay a dollar in Facebook ads, they come in and opt in. Somewhere in the sequence on day one, on average I make 30 cents per offer, day two I’m up to 45 cents. Day three I’m up to 60. Day 5 I’m up to 80 cents. Day 7 I averaged 90 cents. And by day 8 is my breakeven point. That’s where I’ve made my dollar back. So what’s cool is you gotta figure out, where’s your breakeven point? We’ll look at that and say, on average in this funnel we’re spending a dollar on ads on Facebook or Youtube, or wherever you’re buying your ads from. But by day 8 I’ve made my buck back, it’s breakeven. Then guess what happens after day 8? Day 9 and beyond? Day 9 is magic because anything you make from day 9 and beyond is pure profit in your pocket. And that’s the magic in affiliate marketing. It’s like building, it’s like an ATM machine. I want to create some money. I put a dollar in advertising in, I get two dollars back out. Sometimes it doesn’t always happen immediately, at point of sale. It might happen over 3 days, or 7 days or 10 days, but find out what’s your breakeven point. Now I know, hey I’m going to put a dollar in on Monday, by Friday I’ll have my dollar back and then everything I make Saturday, Sunday, Monday and the rest of my life, pure profit. That’s affiliate funnels. That’s what I showed those guys. Pretty cool right? So for those of you guys who may have gotten lost in the explanation, it’s easier when I have a whiteboard because I can draw pictures, and circles and arrows. Those of you guys who have been with me for a while know that that’s what I like doing. There’s that. If you want to see me kind of sketch this out, I did a video that kind of explains this. You can see it for free if you just go to affiliatebootcamp.com. Oh I almost got hit by a Sherman Williams paint truck. I survived. No worries, you guys. Alright, if you go to affiliatebootcamp.com, there’s a video that talks about how to become a Clickfunnels super affiliate, and I walk through how to basically sell, because if you get 100 people to sign up for Clickfunnels, your commission on that is $4000 a month recurring, and it’s a car payment. So the whole video is how you’re going to retire as a Clickfunnels affiliate within the next 100 days. How to sell, basically get one person a day to sign up for Clickfunnels for 100 days, at that point you got a $4000 a month residual check from us, and you’ve got a car, which is amazing. So affiliatebootcamp.com will show you that process. So when you opt in for free the next page is a video from me where I kind of explain this, I just talked about. I talked about creating the squeeze, talking about opting in, talking about that sequence that’s happening, what your breakeven points are. It’ll kind of map the whole thing out for you. If you need, even if you don’t need more details, you should still go through that. In fact, if you have an affiliate program, or you want to run an affiliate program, you should go funnel hack that. That funnels been building our affiliate program really well for us. It’s at affiliatebootcamp.com. Yeah, that’s just kind of another way if you want to look at this a bit deeper. So that’s the magic guys. That’s what I shared this weekend, the affiliate bootcamp. If you guys are, if you listen to this right away, you will find this video. If you listen to it 5 years from now it will be hard. But I did Facebook Live it, so if you go to my Facebook page, which is facebook.com/russellbrunsonhq there is a video, we Facebook Lived the presentation, so you can see it there too if you want. See me trying to get these tired, non-excited affiliates as excited as humanly possible by walking them through this process. But yeah, it was pretty fun. Anyway, I’m back home. I’m almost to the office, I’m going to get a couple of things done and head home, see my wife and kids and get back to the real world. So appreciate you guys all, thanks so much for listening. If you’re enjoying Marketing In Your Car, please go to iTunes and subscribe, share, comment, all that fun stuff. And if you do that, I’d really appreciate it. So thanks everybody, and we’ll talk to you all again soon. Bye.

Doug Amos & Charlie Trotman sit down with former 1992 Alabama National Champion and 1995 Super Bowl Dallas Cowboys Champion Sherman Williams.

This week on Thursday Night Tailgate our guests are: former Steelers, Seahawks & Patriots Pro Bowl LB Chad Brown, former Patriots Pro Bowl RB Tony Collins, former Cowboys RB Sherman Williams, Georgia Tech Hall of Famer and former Bills RB Joe Burns, College Football Hall of Famer and former Bengals Pro Bowl NT Tim Krumrie. Chad Brown - We'll talk with Chad about his alma mater the University of Colorado, his memories of playing alongside new Hall of Famer Kevin Greene, and how he expects Bill Belichick to handle the loss of Tom Brady for the first 4 games of the season. Tony Collins - We'll talk Fantasy Football with Tony and his roster in our Thursday Night Tailgate Fantasy Football League. Sherman Williams - We'll talk with Sherman about his alma mater the University of Alabama. We'll look back to their National Championship victory over Clemson, we'll look ahead to this season plus we'll get his thoughts on Dak Prescott now that he's thrust into taking over as the starting QB in Dallas. Joe Burns - We'll hear what it was like for Joe being inducted into Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. We'll get his insights into this year's team plus his thoughts on the job Rex Ryan has done up in Buffalo. Tim Krumrie - We'll talk to Tim about his induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. Tim never missed a single game in college or the NFL as a Nose Tackle, we'll talk about his determination to keep that streak going. We'll also talk about the concussions he suffered and the experimental treatment he's going through to improve blood flow in his brain.

On this episode of Thursday Night Tailgate our guests are: Major League Football's VP of Business Development Rich Nichols, former Patriots Pro Bowl RB Tony Collins, former Jets, Bucs & Chiefs TE Anthony Becht, former Cowboys RB Sherman Williams and former Seahawks & Cowboys DB Ken Hamlin. We'll talk with them about: Rick Nichols - We'll talk with Rick about their plans for the rest of 2016 plus how their stadium negotiations are proceeding and their community development plan. Tony Collins - As a guy who went through his share of substance abuse issues during his playing days, what would Tony say to suspended Wide Receivers Josh Gordon and Martavis Bryant as well as Johnny Manziel to get them to change course in their lives? Is there anything that anyone can say to get through to them at this point? Hear Tony's thoughts and advice. Anthony Becht - Anthony played for the Jets, Bucs, Cardinals, Rams & Chiefs. Hear Anthony's thoughts on players like Josh Gordon and Johnny Manziel who repeatedly end up in trouble. He also shared his insights on the Jets missing the playoffs least season and the Bucs firing Lovie Smith after only 2 seasons. Sherman Williams - Sherman played 5 season with the Dallas Cowboys before marijuana distribution and fraud charges cost him 15 years in Federal prison and his playing career. Hear his story about how his poor judgement cost him everything but his focus now is on keeping kids from making those same poor choices.. Ken Hamlin - Ken played 8 years in the League with the Seahawks and Cowboys. Hear his stories from playing with Seahawks during their first Super Bowl appearance in 2005. Hear his opinions and insights on what's it like trying to play DB now with all of the rules changes.

We had a lovely break last week, but we're back to celebrate Christmas a couple of days early. BAMS will welcome Bryan Passink and Ken Keller to the program to discuss their take on the Crimson Tide. There will also be some talk surrounding the College Football Playoff inbetween our guests, as well as an interview with Sherman Williams. The action starts at 8 with Drew DeArmond, Cary Clark & Thomas Watts. Be there or be Auburn.

You are cordially invited to listen in as Melody and Sherman embark on the adventure of a lifetime. SMarried at Kevin's Home Studio on July 16, 2011.

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Why is the Alabama-Auburn rivalry so compelling? Who will win? Ben Tate vs. Mark Ingram. A fan's view of the 2008 game in Tuscaloosa, when Alabama won 36-0. Many forget Auburn had dominated for years before the 2008 game. (The Birmingham News files)It's Iron Bowl week, and as the cliches go, this is the game that will be talked about in this state for 365 days a year. What makes this rivalry so compelling?I'm joined by Birmingham News columnists Ray Melick and Kevin Scarbinsky as we break down the matchup, with Auburn's offense vs. Alabama's defense and Alabama's offense vs. Auburn's defense.Also, Mark Ingram vs. Ben Tate, a compelling matchup of running backs. This is only the fourth time in Iron Bowl history that Alabama and Auburn both enter this game with running backs who average 100 yards or more rushing per game. [The other years were 1986 (Bobby Humphrey vs. Brent Fullwood), 1994 (Sherman Williams vs. Stephen Davis) and 2005 (Kenneth Darby vs. Kenny Irons).] Will both Ingram and Tate run for 100 yards on Friday? Also, we'll predict the outcome. Who wins and why? Download Birmingham News Sports Podcast Nov. 25, 2009.mp3