Podcasts about six months

JAMES R. WEBB (Jim) : Six Months Into Iran — Did Washington Ignore Every Warning?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

I'm Still Here: Told Six Months to Live, Three Times   Tom LeNoble has been given six months to live three separate times. He has lived with metastatic cancer for fourteen years. In this conversation, he explains why none of that made him slow down, and why the real work after a crisis is not recovery. It is deciding what you are going to do with whatever time is left. If you have ever scome through a hard stretch and gone right back to operating exactly the way you did before it, this conversation names why that happens and what it costs.   What was covered: Why Tom's father kept three replacement door handles for a house that only needed one, and how that scarcity belief followed Tom into a Fortune 500 career What it sounded like to sit in a car and speak directly to a cancer diagnosis in the rearview mirror The three phases of Tom's talk "Living Fully While Dying," and where most people get stuck in phase one Why Tom's coaching method assumes the client already has the answer, and his job is only to help them clear the hay What a Facebook recruiter heard when Tom hung up on the first call, and how he ended up interviewing with a nineteen-year-old Mark Zuckerberg Why Tom tells people to add "or something better" to every goal they set   About Tom LeNoble: Tom LeNoble is a confidential advisor to founders, executives, nonprofit leaders, business owners, and professionals navigating meaningful leadership moments. He is an international speaker, coach, and philanthropist. His career spans Fortune 500 giants including MCI (VZ), Walmart.com (WMT), Palm (HP), and Facebook (META), as well as multiple high-growth startups. As CEO of the Academy for Coaching Excellence and a Leadership Coach with the Miller Center at Santa Clara University, he mentors leaders and entrepreneurs worldwide. He is the bestselling author of the award-winning memoir My Life in Business Suits, Hospital Gowns, and High Heels. Tom's new book, Morning Ground, will arrive in June. He is also the creator and host of the Opening Pathways podcast, where he shares stories and insights on leadership, resilience, and reinvention. Having survived multiple life-threatening diagnoses, he lives by his conviction: "I'm Still Here!"   Links: Website: https://openingpathwayscollective.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlenoble/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tomlenoble Instagram: @lenoble.tom YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OpeningPathways   Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@richersoul Richer Soul Life Beyond Money. You got rich, now what? Let's talk about your journey to purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening! Show Sponsor: http://profitcomesfirst.com/ Schedule your free no obligation call: https://bookme.name/rockyl/lite/intro appointment 15 minutes If you like the show please leave a review on iTunes: http://bit.do/richersoul https://www.facebook.com/richersoul http://richersoul.com/ rocky@richersoul.com Some music provided by Junan from Junan Podcast Any financial advice is for educational purposes only and you should consult with an expert for your specific needs.

Why can a straightforward business decision take six months when everyone involved agrees it should happen?In this episode of Financial Judgement, Lesley Thomas walks through a real-world example of a leadership team that took six months to approve an opportunity that could reasonably have been decided in six weeks. Month by month, she shows how every delay had a perfectly valid reason, yet the decision gradually shifted from an active opportunity to an item that simply remained on the agenda.Lesley explores what happens when financial pressure makes leaders slightly more likely to ask one more reasonable question and slightly less likely to push for a conclusion. The result is not disagreement or obstruction. It is a series of small delays that quietly change the outcome and ultimately cost the business more.You'll learn:How a decision can move from an active opportunity to a repeatedly delayed agenda item.Why every individual delay can be reasonable while the overall pattern becomes costly.How financial pressure makes leaders more cautious without making them openly opposed.Why better information does not always lead to a different decision.How delays can mean businesses eventually get a worse version of the decision they originally wanted to make.Why no one person in the leadership team sees the complete pattern.A simple question to ask when someone requests more analysis before making a decision.How to identify the longest-running decision on your own leadership team's agenda.

With six months to the Super Bowl, The Drive played a game where people got sic teams to try to guess the correct Super Bowl matchup.

Six months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the same agents who caught the case are back on the strip of open desert behind it – and a retired FBI agent says the ground they are working was compromised on the very first day.SOURCES, LINKS, AND PRINT VERSION: https://weirddarkness.com/guthrie20260813Look for this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, Pandora, TuneIn Radio, and other podcast apps. Get a list of free listening apps here: https://pod.link/1078714736*No AI Voices Are Used In The Narration Of This Podcast*WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2026, Weird Darkness.LIKE WHAT YOU'RE HEARING? WEIRD DARKNESS has new episodes 7 DAYS A WEEK! Listen FREE wherever you get podcasts or visit https://weirddarkness.com/listen. • Paranormal • True Crime • Ghosts • UFOs • Cryptids • Unexplained • Want even more? Become an OFFICIAL WEIRDO for commercial-free episodes, bonus episodes, weeknight live chats, audiobooks & more at https://WeirdDarkness.com/OFFICIAL

In this raw and unfiltered episode of Something Bigger With Rodrigo Canelas, Rodrigo sits down with Col. Shivender Pratap Singh Kanwar (Retd.), an Army officer who spent over seven years commanding troops in the Parachute Regiment (Special Forces) inside some of the most dangerous counter-terrorism zones in Jammu and Kashmir. This is not a sanitized war story; it's an unflinching account of what it actually takes to hunt, survive, and eventually walk away from a life built entirely around combat.Most people who romanticize special forces life imagine helicopter extractions and clean, cinematic missions. What Col. Kanwar reveals is the opposite: real operations are built on months of quiet, grinding intelligence work, recruiting a terrified informant, teaching an uneducated grandmother in her sixties to operate a hidden radio, waiting weeks for a single call that might never come. The actual firefight, when it finally happens, is often over in four or five seconds. Everything else the six months of sleepless nights, the canceled leave, the fear that a source's cover is blown is the part nobody tells you about. And when the target finally surrenders, starving and down to his last bullet, the moral clarity of "good versus evil" collapses into something far more human and far more complicated.The episode moves through territory rarely discussed this openly: the psychological toll of constant threat-readiness, the strange intimacy of chasing the same man for a year and a half only to sit across from him afterward and ask "where were you all this time," and the uncomfortable truth that many recruited terrorists are driven less by ideology than by money and family pressure. There's a story about a district commander who had aimed his rifle at point-blank range and chose not to fire and lived to explain why, years later, as a prisoner. There's the account of three brothers from the same house split across the army, the police, and the militancy. And there's a candid look at what happens to a soldier's body and mind after nearly a decade with barely a break from the field: the cigarettes, the drinking, the identity built entirely around the next mission and what it took to walk away from all of it in 2022 and rebuild a life on the other side.This conversation isn't just about combat or counter-terrorism; it's about identity, purpose, and what happens when the structure that gave your life meaning disappears overnight. It's about how people carry extreme experience forward, what "brotherhood" and "responsibility" actually cost, and why some of the most disciplined, driven people struggle hardest with an ordinary civilian life once the mission is gone. Underneath the war stories is a much bigger question about how humans find purpose, endure hardship, and redefine themselves when their old world no longer exists.Before you scroll past this one, ask yourself what you'd actually be willing to endure for something bigger than your own comfort. Hit play and find out what that really looks like.Time Stamps:(0:00) – Introduction(0:24) – What Col. Kanwar Misses Most About Life in Uniform(2:03) – The Addiction Nobody Warns You About: Life After Combat(6:06) – Why Hunting Terrorists Felt Like a "Game" He Couldn't Quit(9:03) – The One Thing That Kept Him Going Through It All(11:00) – What Movies Get Completely Wrong About Special Forces(14:20) – The Real Story: Recruiting a Grandmother as an Informant(21:00) – Six Months, One Phone Call: Inside a Real Manhunt(24:00) – The Bullets No One Talks About(28:00) – The Enemy Who Had Already Aimed at Him and Didn't Shoot(33:30) – Three Brothers, Three Sides: Army, Police, Militant(38:40) – What Actually Drives a Person to Become a Terrorist(43:00) – The Toughest Stretch: When Motivation Runs Out(46:00) – How He Helped Soldiers Overcome Fear(48:00) – Leaving the Uniform Behind and Starting Over

Six months in and the great chats are still coming. To mark the milestone, Josh is revisiting some of the episodes that have meant the most to him and got the most of you talking. In this special, we kick things off with Jason Isaacs, who came in saying he doesn't usually go in depth on things and then absolutely went in depth on things. Then there is Charithra Chandran, whose honesty about race, representation and the industry sparked more comments on social media than almost any other episode. Jennifer Garner tells the story of running screaming down Broadway the night she first saw herself on a cinema screen alongside Maggie Smith and Albert Finney, and why thirty years later she still cannot quite believe she is here. Theo James gets refreshingly honest about toxic masculinity and what it means to be a man right now. And Katie Price opens up about body dysmorphia, the one mirror in her house, and why she says this is finally, genuinely, the happiest she has ever been.

Behind the scenes, Angus Taylor and Anthony Albanese have been engaged in a rare level of cooperation this week but in public the opposition leader is using the melon saga to mount an all-out assault on the prime minister's character. 

Jennifer Coffindaffer thinks two different people wrote the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes. On this True Crime Today conversation with Tony Brueski, the retired FBI Special Agent makes the case note by note. The first reads like a script: deadlines, threats, she will be killed. The second reads like a person who stood inside that Tucson house and lost their nerve — we never intended to hurt her. One voice organized. One voice sorry. If Coffindaffer is right, the question becomes the man behind the second note: who is he, who hired him, and who is he apologizing to?There's a colder read on that second note too. Its language about not grasping the seriousness of her physical condition sounds less like remorse and more like a document written for a future jury, in a state that does not hesitate on the death penalty. An apology, or an insurance policy. Coffindaffer takes a side.The notes aren't the only fresh ground. Coffindaffer traced the alleged kidnapper's Bitcoin wallet after the Pima County Sheriff's Office accidentally published the address in a media release. Her trace shows no ransom was ever paid. The only deposit was roughly three hundred dollars from the FBI in February, untouched since. Messages written directly to the wallet, including the family's own on-camera words about paying, were never answered. A four-million-dollar demand met with total silence.And six months in, Sheriff Nanos describes the FBI relationship as great while conceding thousands of hours of video remain unreviewed. Coffindaffer, who spent her career inside federal investigations, tells Tony exactly what she makes of that math. Nancy Guthrie deserves better than a case explained by accident. This is the conversation that treats the evidence like it matters.LINKSJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodDISCLAIMERThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.HASHTAGS#NancyGuthrie #SavannahGuthrie #HiddenKillers #TrueCrime #Tucson #FBI #Bitcoin #RansomNote #MissingPerson #JenniferCoffindaffer

In Jerusalem, Jim Scudder hears something startling from those who want the Jewish temple rebuilt: the blueprints are drawn, the quarries are close, the funding is pledged, and they claim it could be functioning within six months — so what has to happen first, and what follows once it does?

Closer to 50.

This weekend marks six months since Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of 'Today' co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona home. The Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says he's "still positive" the Nancy Guthrie case will be resolved as investigators continue to dig through evidence. Savannah Guthrie recently released a new video plea to her mother's abductors on Instagram, urging them to "make the right choice" and tell the family where to look for her. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Donna Rotunno, FOX News legal contributor and the host of the podcast "Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno" on FOX News Podcasts, who says the investigation had a rough start with law enforcement agencies each having their own ideas on how to conduct it. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is burning through staff at a pace that would end most careers — her latest casualty is the mayor's own spokesman, the newest name on a growing list of top aides to exit an administration that can't seem to hold itself together.The analogy is blunt: if you hand the CEO role to someone who has never run anything — no real job, no executive track record, no understanding of what a city of this size actually demands — you get churn. Wilson doesn't know what she needs, so she can't hire for it, and the people who do know eventually leave. That's not a scandal. It's just management reality playing out in slow motion on Seattle's dime.Every departure takes institutional knowledge with it, and every replacement hire — a campaign ally here, an NGO friend there — resets the clock. Seattle isn't being governed; it's being staffed and restaffed while the city's actual problems compound. The blind really are leading the blind at City Hall.CHAPTERS0:00 Seattle mayor's spokesman latest to…2:19 Seattle Mayor's Staff Exodus Grows3:19 Press Secretary Leaves Wilson's City…4:30 World Cup Over, Seattle Still Sliding5:33 Sage Wilson Out at Mayor's Office7:10 Blind Leading the Blind at City Hall8:16 Comms Director Day Forced to Resign9:54 Chris Daniels' Wilson Six-Month Review10:50 Crystal Fincher Hired to Manage Fallout12:18 City Hall: Staff Turnover Is Normal13:00 Starbucks Boycott Comes Back to Haunt…14:37 Witness to a Downtown Seattle Stabbing16:14 Wilson Walks Back Starbucks Boycott17:12 Howard Schultz Slams Seattle's…19:30 Six Months of Staff Churn Under WilsonSubscribe to @reasonablenews for daily coverage of Pacific Northwest politics, Seattle's ongoing decline, and the stories the local press won't touch.#NFRP #Seattle #KatieWilsonGO PREMIUM WITH REASONABLE+ FOR UNCENSORED ACCESS

This weekend marks six months since Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of 'Today' co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona home. The Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says he's "still positive" the Nancy Guthrie case will be resolved as investigators continue to dig through evidence. Savannah Guthrie recently released a new video plea to her mother's abductors on Instagram, urging them to "make the right choice" and tell the family where to look for her. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Donna Rotunno, FOX News legal contributor and the host of the podcast "Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno" on FOX News Podcasts, who says the investigation had a rough start with law enforcement agencies each having their own ideas on how to conduct it. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This weekend marks six months since Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of 'Today' co-host Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her Tucson, Arizona home. The Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos says he's "still positive" the Nancy Guthrie case will be resolved as investigators continue to dig through evidence. Savannah Guthrie recently released a new video plea to her mother's abductors on Instagram, urging them to "make the right choice" and tell the family where to look for her. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Donna Rotunno, FOX News legal contributor and the host of the podcast "Crime & Justice with Donna Rotunno" on FOX News Podcasts, who says the investigation had a rough start with law enforcement agencies each having their own ideas on how to conduct it. Click Here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most home service businesses keep just 5 to 12% net profit, and most owners have no idea that is where they are. The best run HVAC, plumbing, and electrical shops keep 20%, and the gap almost always comes down to a few fixable mistakes. In this episode of Service Business Mastery, Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch sit down with Matthew Mooney and Raymond Gong of Profitability Partners, a fractional CFO firm that spent years on the private equity side of the table and now helps owners find the profit already hiding in their business. They break down the real gross profit benchmarks for every trade, the labor and pricing mistakes that make your P&L lie to you, why fixing your booking rate beats spending more on ads, and how one plumbing company cut 3 million dollars a year in overhead in six months. This episode is brought to you in partnership with Upfrog, one of our show partners. Upfrog turns paid ad spend into booked, sold system replacements instead of wasted leads. Learn more at upfrog.com. CHAPTERS 0:00 – The 20% Net Margin Most Contractors Never Hit 3:49 – Meet Profitability Partners: Fractional CFOs From Private Equity 7:54 – What Private Equity Looks For in an Undervalued Business 11:00 – Gross Profit Benchmarks by Trade: HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical 15:56 – The Fully Loaded Labor Mistake That Hides Your Real Margin 18:16 – The What Is Everyone Charging Trap and the Discount Price Book 20:24 – Why Discounting Costs You More Than Spending on Ads 23:36 – Fix Your Booking Rate Before You Spend a Dollar on Marketing 27:47 – What Separates a 12% Company From a 20% Company 29:55 – Switching to Commission Pay Without Losing Your Techs 36:41 – Where AI Actually Helps a 5 to 30 Million Dollar Contractor 39:12 – The Overhead Trap: Unused Software and Oversized Leases 41:56 – Case Study: Cutting 3 Million Dollars a Year in Six Months 48:22 – The Exit Math That Turns 200K Saved Into 2 Million 52:15 – The 1% Booking Rate Worth 3 Million, and Why Your CRM Lies 55:33 – Where to Find Matthew and Raymond WHAT YOU'LL LEARN - The real gross profit benchmarks by trade, and why a 50% GP can secretly be sub 40 once labor is fully loaded - Why 20% net profit is realistic, and the mistakes keeping most shops at 5 to 12% - How discounting quietly wrecks your margin, and why 2 to 3% more on ads beats 10% off the price - Why booking rate is the first thing to fix before spending another dollar on marketing - How one plumbing company cut 3 million dollars a year in overhead in six months - The exit math that turns a 200,000 dollar expense cut into 2 million more at the sale THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY UPFROG System replacement leads from paid ads, nurtured and booked into sold jobs before your team arrives: upfrog.comBREEZY About 30 percent of inbound calls in home services go unanswered, and those are customers ready to book with whoever picks up first. Breezy puts AI agents on every call, books the job, and follows up instantly, so you wake up to booked jobs instead of missed calls. See how many jobs you are losing at https://getbreezyapp.com and use code SBM for 500 dollars toward Breezy. MARKET STORM Market Storm uses AI to catch early buyer intent and put your brand in front of homeowners before they ever search. Visit https://marketstorm.ai or text 213-575-5448. CALLRAIL CallRail assigns a unique tracking number to each marketing effort, so you know which channels bring your best leads. Try it free at https://callrail.com/sbmpod. PHONETAP Your calls hold the key to growing your business. PhoneTAP gives you instant AI analysis, real customer lifetime value, and tools to coach your team. Learn more: phonetap.ai/demo COMPANYCAM Capture work, track job progress, and stay connected from the field to the office with photo documentation and AI tools that keep work moving. Start a free trial at https://companycam.com/ CONNECT WITH OUR HOSTS AND GUEST Tersh Blissett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tershblissett/ Josh Crouch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-crouch/ Matthew Mooney (Profitability Partners): https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-mooney-54b09047/ Raymond Gong (Profitability Partners): https://www.linkedin.com/in/gongraymond/ ARTICLES WORTH READING HVAC profit margin benchmarks: https://profitabilitypartners.io/hvac-profit-margins/ Plumbing profit margin benchmarks: https://profitabilitypartners.io/plumbing-profit-margins/ ABOUT SERVICE BUSINESS MASTERY Service Business Mastery helps home service owners run better, more profitable companies. Every week, Tersh Blissett and Josh Crouch break down the operations, technology, and leadership behind growing an HVAC, plumbing, or electrical business, with the operators actually doing the work. More at https://servicebusinessmastery.com/ Want the frameworks from each episode in your inbox? Join the free Service Business Mastery newsletter: https://servicebusinessmastery.com/ Subscribe on YouTube and follow us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode. If this one helped, share it with an owner who needs it. #ServiceBusinessMastery #HomeServices #ContractorProfit #HVACBusiness #FractionalCFO

Returning to work after maternity leave is often portrayed as the final hurdle for new mothers, but what if it's actually just the beginning of a much more complex journey? In this eye-opening episode, Carina challenges the common narrative and reveals why the hardest part of motherhood may not be the leave itself, but the transition back to work.  You'll discover the concept of "matrescence," a term that captures the transformative process of becoming a mother and how it impacts your confidence and career trajectory. Carina dives into the real struggles many working mothers face, from the anxiety of returning to a workplace that has changed in their absence, to the guilt of wanting to excel at both parenting and career. We break down essential strategies for rebuilding confidence, understanding your new identity, and setting healthy boundaries at work. Carina emphasizes the importance of recognizing that your value isn't tied to your availability but to the impact you create. She also offers practical advice on how to find your rhythm and prioritize what truly matters in your life. This episode is a must-listen for any working mother feeling lost in the transition back to work. Understand that you are not alone in this journey; many women experience similar doubts and struggles. Instead of trying to revert to your old self, Carina encourages you to embrace the strengths and new perspectives motherhood has given you. Perfect for working mothers, this episode empowers you to redefine what success looks like for you and your family. Tune in for a conversation that not only validates your experiences but also equips you with the tools to thrive in both your personal and professional life.

I'm thrilled to share some valuable insights from my latest Capitalist Culture® podcast episode with Sequoya Borgman, Founder and CEO of Borgman Capital, a seasoned private equity leader with more than two decades of experience in mergers, acquisitions, and value creation.This conversation explores private equity, leadership, culture, and what truly drives long-term business success.Here are the highlights you will not want to miss:Sequoya's Journey:• From Public Accounting to Private Equity: Sequoya leveraged his accounting and transaction experience to build a career evaluating and growing businesses through acquisitions.• Hundreds of Transactions: His experience spans mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, and financings across public and private companies of all sizes.What Really Creates Value• People Over Numbers: Financials matter, but leadership quality and company culture ultimately determine whether an acquisition succeeds.• Culture Comes First: Borgman Capital evaluates cultural fit before making investment decisions because culture is difficult to change once a transaction closes.• Partnership Over Ownership: Rather than simply acquiring companies, the firm partners with founders who often remain invested and actively involved in the business.Private Equity Done Differently• Focus on the Lower Middle Market: Borgman Capital specializes in founder-owned businesses that are often overlooked by larger private equity firms.• Relationships Matter: Many of their best opportunities come from years of building trust rather than competitive auction processes.• Long-Term Thinking: The goal is sustainable value creation, not simply financial engineering.Advice for Founders• Don't Chase the Highest Price: The best buyer is often the one who will protect your employees, preserve your culture, and continue growing your business.• Prepare Before Selling: Reduce founder dependence, strengthen your leadership team, and eliminate operational risks before going to market.• Trust Is Everything: The strongest transactions begin with strong relationships.Leadership Lessons• Hire Great Leaders: Investors should never have to run the business themselves. If they do, they hired the wrong leadership team.• Servant Leadership Wins: Sequoya believes in leading through humility, transparency, and honest communication.• Focus Creates Results: Rather than chasing dozens of initiatives, exceptional companies execute one or two high-impact value creation strategies exceptionally well.The Future of Private Equity• AI as a Value Driver: Sequoya sees artificial intelligence becoming a significant source of enterprise value and competitive advantage.• Strong Culture Endures: Companies built on trust, accountability, and exceptional leadership consistently outperform over the long term.Final Thoughts• Great Businesses Are Built by Great Leaders: Leadership remains the single greatest driver of enterprise value.• Relationships Compound: Trust built over years often creates the best investment opportunities.• Legacy Matters: For Sequoya, success means keeping promises, honoring commitments, and creating lasting value for founders, employees, investors, and communities.I hope these insights inspire you to listen to the full episode. There is so much more depth in this conversation about private equity, leadership, and building businesses that create lasting value.Looking to partner with an experienced private equity firm? Visit Borgman Capital to learn more about their founder-focused investment philosophy and long-term partnership approach.Looking for your next A-player executive? KIP Search® helps companies identify, attract, and hire exceptional leaders who create lasting impact. Visit the KIP Search website and connect with us on LinkedIn to learn how we can help with your executive search needs.P.S. Be sure to subscribe to Capitalist Culture® for more conversations with world-class founders, investors, and leaders shaping the future of business and culture.Send us Fan MailConnect with Kip on LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kipknippel/Watch Bite-Sized Clips on YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@capitalistculture/shorts

On this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:Opening:• Cybersecurity Regulations: Multiple Sectors Are Subject to Potentially Duplicative Reporting Requirements — U.S. Government Accountability Office & 70% of federal cybersecurity reporting rules are duplicated, GAO finds — CyberScoop • ANCHOR-CI could fix 20 years of broken government-industry collaboration — CyberScoop • Project Pilot: Can AI models fly drones? — Anthropic — • OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation — OpenAI — • Bluesky Thread: OpenAI and Hugging Face incident demonstrates both autonomous cyber risk and defensive potential — Pwnallthethings • Hugging Face CISO Post Mortem — Cloud Security Alliance Main Topics:1 dead, 16 injured after car ramming at Berlin CSD Pride event — DW — 25 Jul 2026. One person was killed and 16 others were injured after a vehicle was driven into people attending Berlin's CSD Pride event. Authorities investigated the circumstances and potential motive behind the incident as emergency personnel treated victims and secured the area. The attack underscores the vulnerability of large public gatherings to vehicle-based violence and the potential for mass casualties within seconds. • The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack is killed in a confrontation with police • Car Plows Into Crowd at Berlin Pride Event in Suspected Terror Attack ‘Integrated' cyber and physical attacks concerned FIFA planners — StateScoop — 20 Jul 2026. Security planners for the 2026 FIFA World Cup prepared for blended attacks combining cyber disruption, physical violence, disinformation, swatting, infrastructure attacks, and interference with emergency communications. • The Gate 15 Interview EP 60 – Sasha Larkin: “I like the chaos, chaos makes sense to me.”2026H1 Threat Review: Vulnerabilities Up 51% Year Over Year — Forescout — 20 Jul 2026. Forescout reports a 51 percent year-over-year increase in vulnerabilities during the first half of 2026 as organizations contend with accelerating disclosure volumes across IT, Internet of Things, operational technology, and connected devices. Email threat landscape: Q2 2026 trends and insights — Microsoft Security — 23 Jul 2026. Microsoft detected approximately 7.6 billion email-based phishing threats during the second quarter, while monthly volumes declined modestly from April through June. Quick Hits:• Weekly ransomware & data leak landscape — eCrime.ch — 27 Jul 2026. eCrime.ch recorded 236 public ransomware and data-leak claims involving 45 active groups during the seven-day period ending 27 July, with 63 events showing public evidence of data leakage. Qilin led with 37 claims, followed by Gentlemen and Global Secret Group with 31 each, while construction was the most frequently targeted sector with 17 incidents. The United States accounted for 103 claims, and healthcare recorded 10 incidents among the 88 sectors represented. • Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices — Ars Technica • If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more • Cl0p Exploitation of PTC Windchill & FlexPLM (CVE-2026-12569) — Ransom-ISAC — 22 Jul 2026. Ransom-ISAC, eCrime.ch, and DEFUSED warn that Cl0p ransomware affiliates are actively exploiting internet-exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM systems. • Black Kite's 2026 Ransomware Report: Ransomware Accelerates 60% in Six Months and Shows No Signs of Slowing as New Ransomware Groups Emerge Weekly

As casualties mount and gas prices rise, the White House knows it may be losing its chance to resolve its war with Iran in time to prevent a midterms wipe-out for Republicans. To plumb the depth of the political damage and assess the decisive races, Harry talks with Susan Glasser, Astead Herndon, and Juliette Kayyem. The group breaks down Trump's decision to go back to war, Hegseth's worrying obfuscations about American casualties, the transformed Maine Senate race, and the no-holds-barred fight for the future of the Democratic party playing out in Michigan.Mentioned in this episode: Susan's analysis:  https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/susan-b-glasserAstead's show America, Actually:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/america-actually-with-astead-herndon/id1890552134Juliette's Substack:  https://substack.com/@juliettekayyemAstead's interview with Abdul El-Sayed:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9quwCWKuYNew Yorker reporting on former Biden administration officials and Gaza:  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/27/how-biden-emboldened-israels-aggression-toward-gaza-and-iran Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Catch up on the news from Disney and the Yodelers thoughts on the news.

Catch up on the news from Disney and the Yodelers thoughts on the news. Includes our original Good News song.

Send us a question/idea/opinion direct via text message!Residential property transactions across New Zealand have recorded six consecutive months of year-on-year declines. This week on the New Zealand Property Market Podcast, Head of Research Nick Goodall and Chief Economist Kelvin Davidson unpack the latest monthly Chart Pack data, revealing that first-half 2026 sales volumes reached 43,183 - down 4.2% compared to the same period in 2025. We explore why high listing stock and broader economic caution are keeping buyers and sellers in a stalemate, while noting that a lack of distress selling continues to keep the market anchored.The guys also dissect the Q2 CPI inflation release, which landed at 4.1% annually. While slightly above the Reserve Bank's revised 3.9% forecast, the print landed directly in line with commercial bank expectations. We break down the stark divergence within the data: tradable inflation spiked to 4.9% off the back of global fuel pressures, while domestic non-tradable inflation eased slightly to 3.4%. Furthermore, annual rental growth has slowed to just 0.5% - the weakest rate of increase in more than two decades.Finally, we discuss Stats NZ's official roadmap to introduce a monthly CPI release by August 2027, preview the upcoming July Home Value Index, and evaluate why the RBNZ remains firmly on track for an Official Cash Rate increase at the September 2nd statement.This week we discuss:Six Months of Falling Sales: Why H1 2026 transaction volumes contracted 4.2% year-on-year, missing early expectations of a 5% to 10% recovery.Regional Sales Dynamics: Analysing the rolling three-month volume trends, from Dunedin's 7.4% rise to Auckland's 7.8% drop.The 4.1% CPI Reality Check: Breaking down the Q2 inflation print and why headline numbers drive consumer inflation expectations.Tradable vs. Non-Tradable Divergence: How fuel costs drove tradables to 4.9% while non-tradable domestic pressures softened to 3.4%.20-Year Low for Rent Growth: What annual rental growth of just 0.5% means for residential landlord yields.The Path to September 2nd: Why the Reserve Bank is expected to push the OCR closer to its neutral target (~3.25%) despite weak consumer activity.Official Monthly CPI Roadmap: Stats NZ's timeline to transition from quarterly inflation tracking to monthly Tier-1 reporting by August 2027.Sign up for news and insights or contact on LinkedIn, X @NickGoodall_CL or @KDavidson_CL and email ngoodall@cotality.com or kdavidson@cotality.comThis podcast is for educational and entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal, or tax advice. The hosts are not licensed Financial Advice Providers in New Zealand. All information is of a general nature and does not take into account your personal situation or goals. Please consult a qualified professional before making any financial decisions.

Kwabenya District Police Command has announced plans to launch a major enforcement exercise targeting unroadworthy vehicles, invalid vehicle documentation, and dangerous driving practices following a sharp rise in road accidents within the district

What happens when you realise alcohol has become more than just a social habit?In this episode of One for the Road, Harriet shares her powerful journey to six months sober, reflecting on the experiences that shaped her relationship with alcohol and the decision to embrace an alcohol-free life. From a childhood marked by family illness and divorce to becoming a mother while navigating postpartum depression, Harriet speaks openly about the emotional challenges that led her to use alcohol as a coping mechanism. Receiving an ADHD diagnosis later in life helped her understand years of masking, overwhelm and drinking to fit in.Together, Dave and Harriet explore how motherhood, mental health, and the normalisation of mummy wine culture can make it difficult to recognise when drinking has become a problem. They also discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced unhealthy drinking habits and why building a supportive recovery community has been essential to Harriet's sobriety.Whether you're sober curious, thinking about giving up alcohol, supporting someone in recovery, or simply interested in honest conversations about addiction and mental health, this episode offers hope, encouragement and practical insight.In This EpisodeHarriet's journey to six months of sobrietyGrowing up with childhood adversityLiving with undiagnosed ADHDAlcohol as a coping mechanismMotherhood, postpartum depression and isolationThe reality of mummy drinking cultureHow COVID-19 changed drinking habitsWhy stopping drinking transformed Harriet's lifeBuilding confidence without alcoholFinding purpose through recoveryWhat You'll LearnThis conversation explores:Why alcohol problems often develop gradually rather than overnight.The connection between ADHD and alcohol use.How social expectations can influence drinking behaviour.The impact of postpartum mental health on substance use.The importance of self-awareness in recovery.Why community support plays a vital role in long-term sobriety.How life can improve after choosing an alcohol-free lifestyleThis episode is for anyone interested in:Sobriety and alcohol recoveryWomen's recovery journeysMental health and wellbeingADHD in adultsMotherhood and alcoholSober curiosityAddiction recovery storiesPersonal development and resilienceHarriet reminds us that recovery isn't about perfection—it's about understanding yourself and making choices that support your wellbeing.One for the Road is a podcast exploring sobriety, alcohol recovery, mental health and the real stories behind giving up drinking. Through honest conversations with guests from all walks of life, the podcast challenges drinking culture while sharing practical advice, lived experiences and inspiration for anyone seeking a healthier relationship with alcohol.If you want to connect with me via Instagram, you can find me on the instahandle @Soberdave https://www.instagram.com/soberdave/or via my website https://davidwilsoncoaching.com/Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice.www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-serviceshttps://nacoa.org.uk/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Host Jason explores the complicated emotional terrain that follows rejection in non-monogamous and group-sex settings, examining consent, boundaries, and the personal histories we bring into play. This episode unpacks how being "unchosen" can cut deeper than the act itself, why clean takeaways rarely exist in the lifestyle, and how to honor autonomy while managing real feelings.     Check out my Patreon Buy me a cup of coffee!   My links: www.thatotherlifestyle.com https://benable.com/ThatOtherLifestyle Single Men's Guide to the Lifestyle Course Risque Lifestyle Parties SDC.com STDHero.com Hellowisp.com

I'm digging into something that's genuinely changed how I spend my free time: using AI to build the tool I've wished existed for decades, one that helps me read the world's great literature in its original language. I tell the story of a chance dinner with a Hertz Fellow who turned out to be a major figure at Anthropic, and how that connection eventually led me back to a project I'd tried and abandoned before, a computer-assisted reader for Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts. Six months ago, the AI models I tried couldn't get past writing a single working line of code. This time was different, and I walk through exactly what changed, what these models are actually good at, and where they still fall apart.I also get into the weeds a bit, sharing my process for getting better results out of these tools, why my public writing on Quora turns out to matter, and a wild multi-round debugging session with Gemini that kept insisting it had "finally" found all the bugs. I close with a personal aside into a physics insight I've been chasing since the 1970s, and how an AI helped me push it further, even if I lost most of the conversation to a very avoidable software glitch. Along the way I make my case for why AI right now is best thought of as a tireless, brilliant, but occasionally hallucinating army of interns, not a replacement for human judgment.In this episode you will learn:(00:00) How a chance dinner with a Hertz Fellow connected to Anthropic changed my skepticism about the current state of AI(03:37) Why I've always wished a computer could do the tedious lexical lookup work of reading Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic texts(06:35) What large language models actually are under the hood, and why they can "spout like an idiot" and "pontificate like a sage" with equal ease(08:57) The multi-round debugging saga where Gemini kept insisting it had found the last bug, and the last bug, and the last bug(11:48) What gets lost in translation, using the hidden joke behind Don Quixote's horse Rocinante as an example(14:43) Inside the Andrew Winkler Reading Room, from the Septuagint to Shakespeare, and why computers and humans make a great reading team(17:10) My feature requests for Google and Apple after losing valuable AI conversations to a silent clipboard failure(19:36) Why I think of AI right now as an army of knowledgeable but wisdom-less interns, and what that means for companies rushing to replace workers with it(22:01) The physics insight I've been sitting on since the 1970s, and how AI helped me extend it into the standard model(24:28) What was lost when my breakthrough AI conversation on unit-free physics vanished, and why I'm sharing the story anywayLet's connect!linktr.ee/drprandyRead, with computer assistance, the best literature the world has ever producedandrew-winkler-reading-room.overskill.appLove Quotient: Stop Dying of Thirst in an Ocean of Love Kickstarterhttps://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amwphd/love-quotient Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Six months ago, it was the height of Operation Metro Surge and Minnesota was at the center of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement campaign. Observers were sharing videos daily of violent arrests and confrontations. Since then, there's been a shift in leadership and optics — and immigration enforcement has become less visible. Nick Miroff covers immigration and the Department of Homeland Security for The Atlantic. He's been tracking the shift nationwide and shared more of his reporting with MPR News host Nina Moini.

Buyers are becoming more cautious in New Zealand's housing market. Cotality's Monthly Housing Chart shows property sales fell 4% in June compared with a year ago, marking six straight months of declining activity. It finds first home buyers remain one of the most active buyer groups, while activity from mortgaged multiple property owners has eased. Cotality Chief Property Economist Kelvin Davidson told Mike Hosking the drop in sales may be linked to the labour market. He says if people can see some job security, and a bit more employment growth emerging they can get a bit more confident. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emily Stewart at Business Insider joins Dave to talk about the increase in Gen Z drinking.

Amarillo's Lucho Lawless and Cru Hefnir join Viktor Devonne to talk about their start in burlesque just months ago, and what they have learned thus far--from cheering on stars at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender to crafting group acts with Pistol Holliday under the name Homo Erectors.  A real-life couple embarking on this at the same time, they discuss relationship dynamics, Burlypicks, gay voice, and being entertainers in the state of the world today. This chat was recorded on July 4, 2026.  Give love to the folks… Cru: https://www.instagram.com/cru.hefnir/ + https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587911923123  Lucho: https://www.facebook.com/rodahcul/ + https://www.instagram.com/the.lucho.lawless/  More Viktor: @viktordevonne  More WEBurlesque: @weburlesque FOOTCLOTHES! Get 10% off your order with the code VIKTORDEVONNE at FOOTCLOTHES.COM @footclothesofficial

“We have a Justice Department which is now 100% the political pawn of the president,” warns Brookings senior fellow Jonathan Rauch. “He points, and they shoot.” Point and shoot. Like an old Kodak camera. Not exactly assuring words, you might think, from a man who begins our conversation looking back at the first six months of 2026 by announcing that he's significantly less alarmed than he was a year ago. Yes, Rauch acknowledges, Trump's approval ratings have sunk, the courts have pushed back, Elon Musk's DOGE rampage has petered out. And yet the pointing and the shooting goes on. Rauch, who only months ago diagnosed eighteen “distinct and unmistakable signs” of an American fascism in a much touted Atlantic piece, now admits he may never crack the Trumpian code. Every time you nail it to the wall, he says, it morphs, creeps or sails away. Like an Iranian gunboat in Hormuz. Slippery stuff for the liberal Brookings analyst. Fascism one month, McKinley-style imperialism the next, then Gilded Age plutocracy — although without those ontologically undeniable Carnegie libraries. Meanwhile, America's 250th birthday party fizzled into what Rauch calls a “damp squib,” its reflecting pool turning an opaque green rather than a clarifying blue. A muddy madness in DC. Still, amidst all the opacity, Rauch remains a defiantly optimistic liberal. In contrast with yesterday's guest, the reality hallucinating Turi Munthe, Rauch believes not only that there is an ontological reality, but that it's good. Frank Fukuyama was right, Rauch insists. Liberalism is not only the only political system that creates wealth, produces knowledge and settles disputes, but also establishes an undeniable reality. Liberals just need to relearn how to clearly tell its story. Perhaps. Though storytelling is certainly simpler when nobody is waving a gun at you. Five Takeaways •       Less Alarmed, Still Scared. Rauch opens with the good news: he is significantly less alarmed than he was a year ago, when the administration was running rampage, putting agencies out of business and demanding Greenland. Approval ratings have dropped, so Trump has less political space; the courts have pushed back, so he has less judicial space; Stephen Miller has vanished from view. And then comes the caveat that gives the episode its title: the Justice Department is now 100% the political pawn of the president — he points, and they shoot — and Trump has shown that as his ratings fall, he becomes more willing, not less, to use those tools. •       I May Never Crack the Code. Only months ago, Rauch diagnosed eighteen distinct and unmistakable signs of a modern American reinvention of fascism in The Atlantic. He doesn't regret the essay — but he has gone back to being confused. The Trump phenomenon is slippery: every time you nail it to the wall, it morphs, creeps or slides away. Fascism one month, McKinley-style imperialism in Venezuela the next, an Iran war with no rationale at all. Trump is such an improviser, and so disorganized, that Rauch concedes there is an element of randomness he may never decode — though he accepts Andrew's suggestion that attention is now the coin of the political realm. •       Not the Gilded Age — No Carnegie Libraries. The new inequality, Rauch argues, is different in kind: a class of people almost superhuman in the wealth they control, and strangely narcissistic and nihilistic toward the broader society. The Gilded Age tycoons did some bad things, but they also built — Carnegie's libraries, Mellon's National Gallery, Rockefeller's University of Chicago, Stanford's university. This group builds rockets and sounds, in the case of Marc Andreessen, like a parody of an Ayn Rand novel — or, as Andrew corrects him, not a parody at all: they simply repeat what they've read. Even so, Rauch is not sorry to see politics reacting to a world where Musk can casually drop $300 million into a presidential race. •       The Gloves-Off Court and the Accelerating Presidency. The Supreme Court term brought the clearest statement yet of the conservative agenda: Humphrey's Executor overturned after eighty years, making it far easier for presidents to fire agency heads at will; what remained of the Voting Rights Act effectively gutted; birthright citizenship surviving by a shockingly narrow margin. The imperial presidency is not new, Rauch notes — what's new is the speed. A president can now simply refuse to run a congressionally mandated agency, and the Senate, forty quietly nixed nominations notwithstanding, remains lacking in spine. The Todd Blanche nomination, he says, is the next test of whether any line exists at all. •       Fukuyama Was Right — and Liberals Should Say So. Rauch sees a moral vacuum and, for the first time, a craving to fill it: the pope's AI encyclical, multi-faith clergy bearing witness in Minnesota, the Episcopalians and Latter-day Saints finding their voices. His prescription for the second half of 2026 is a liberal one, in the nineteenth-century sense — science, markets, constitutions, rule of law. Fukuyama, widely misunderstood, was right: there is only one system that produces knowledge, peace, freedom, and wealth on a global scale, and it's ours. It needs fixing — he cheers the bipartisan housing bill Trump refused to sign — but liberals must relearn how to tell that story, and how to brag. About the Guest Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of nine books, including The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth (2021), Cross Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy (Yale, 2025), and Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. A recipient of the National Magazine Award, he serves on the boards of Heterodox Academy and Civic Life, and is a longtime friend of the show. References: •       Rauch's Atlantic essay identifying eighteen “distinct and unmistakable signs” of a modern American reinvention of fascism — the piece he stands by, even as he admits the phenomenon keeps morphing. •       His recent essays for The UnPopulist on why liberal societies need grand stories about themselves, and why liberals must relearn how to brag about liberalism. •       Jonathan Rauch and Peter Wehner in The New York Times — the earlier argument, which Rauch says still holds, that the Republican Party is more dangerous to the constitution and the rule of law than the Democratic Party. •       Tim O'Reilly in The Economist — on Elon Musk building a form of capitalism that Adam Smith would hate. •       Francis Fukuyama — whose widely misunderstood The End of History thesis Rauch defends: there is only one system that creates wealth, produces knowledge, and settles political disputes on a global scal...

New eSafety data shows online sexual extortion is increasingly targeting young Australians, particularly males. More than 2,000 complaints were recorded in six months, with Instagram and WhatsApp most frequently cited. The report also warns generative AI is being used to deceive victims, while exposing gaps in reporting systems. It's also prompted renewed demands for big tech to do more to prevent young people being blackmailed on digital platforms.

Erica uses this mid-year recap to reflect on her business's recovery from a difficult year to a 56% revenue increase. She emphasizes the necessity of professional financial management, such as transitioning to a W2 payroll and hiring a dedicated bookkeeper to understand cash flow. The transcript highlights the importance of investing in infrastructure, including specialized communication software and overhiring to find high-quality staff. Beyond logistics, Krupin discusses the value of physical strength training for long-term health and the functional ability to handle business demands independently. She also promotes ScoopCon, an industry event designed to foster networking and provide advanced training for pet waste removal entrepreneurs. Comments and Questions are welcome.   Send to: thescooppodcast22@gmail.com

The leftist cultural critic David Masciotra isn't happy with the state of America in the first half of 2026. His dislike of the MAGA crowd goes without saying. But his anger at the state of progressive politics is more noteworthy. So far, he says, 2026 has been — to borrow from Antonio Gramsci — a time for monsters both on the left and right. With its “Epstein class” vocabulary, knee-jerk Luddism and AIPAC litmus tests, the left, Masciotra argues, is mimicking MAGA in its paranoid bigotry. The year's most disturbing story so far is Graham Platner, the erstwhile Maine Senate candidate who, Masciotra suggests, is either an idiot or a Nazi. Equally disturbing were the “progressives” who blindly defended Platner until the most recent rape accusations. So how to slay these monsters on the left? What's missing, Masciotra argues, is the kind of positively benevolent Jacksonian (Jesse) vision which seizes the moral high ground of American politics. We are still waiting for the next Bill Clinton, Obama, or even Bernie able to imagine a new dawn for the left in America. Maybe we'll see the early shoots of a more optimistic progressivism in the second half of the year. In the manner of a football (soccer) match, let's hope 2026 turns out to be a year of two halves. Five Takeaways •       The Old Gods Return. Masciotra's answer to the what-time-is-it question is that 2026 has seen the old gods stumble back onto the landscape: nationalism, male chauvinism, paranoia and conspiracism. Borrowing from Zygmunt Bauman, he argues that we have moved from a solid age to a liquid one, in which nothing feels stable — and instability inculcates a nostalgia that is usually irrational and ill-informed. People are reaching for the resurrection of manufacturing, the male-headed nuclear family, even a return to religion, with young Americans reportedly turning to Catholicism. Quality of life is objectively better than in our grandparents' era, and yet we live in an age of doom-scrolling and pessimism. •       The Epstein Class and the Left's New Litmus Tests. The criticism of Israeli conduct after October 7 has morphed, for many on the left, into an all-encompassing paranoia in which AIPAC, Zionists, and “the Epstein class” control everything. Graham Platner coupled those terms constantly in his stump speeches — antisemitic conspiracy-mongering 101, in Masciotra's phrase — and declaring Israel genocidal has become a litmus test in Democratic primaries from Maine to Denver to California. Masciotra, who saw Jesse Jackson spend decades atoning for Hymietown, calls this the most important story of 2026 to monitor: the collapse of parts of the progressive left into bigotry, misogyny tolerance, and purity tests. •       Luxury Beliefs and Streamer Politics. Voter turnout used to be organized bottom-up — black churches, the NAACP, Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition — around the issues of actual neighborhoods. Now streamers like Hasan Piker mobilize thousands of calls into districts they know nothing about, amplifying what Masciotra calls luxury beliefs: positions whose consequences never touch the people who hold them, from making every race about Israel to defunding police in neighborhoods the believers don't live in. Whether it's Piker on the left or Nick Fuentes on the right, national streamers will always champion luxury beliefs, because they lack the knowledge to champion local ones. •       Working-Class Drag Doesn't Work. Platner looked like he had just changed a tire and talked like a pro wrestler cutting a promo on Susan Collins — and the polls showed Collins beating him even before he dropped out over credible accusations of rape and domestic violence. White working-class voters, Masciotra argues, are not looking for someone in the right costume with the right gravelly voice; they have real beliefs, and they respond to people who speak directly to their concerns rather than in the nomenclature of consultant firms. Nobody in Maine piecing together a living as a farmer or a home-health aide has AIPAC first and foremost on their mind. •       Waiting for the Benevolent Vision. What the half-year lacks, from Washington to Westminster, is what Jesse Jackson had even for his critics: a benevolent vision. Masciotra finds it today in Bryan Stevenson and the civil rights tradition he calls the moral center of American politics, and in Senator Raphael Warnock, who preaches from King's old church. His policy candidate for the next Clinton-or-Obama moment is a self-employment manifesto — politics for the millions piecing together gig work who appear in nobody's rhetoric, not the manufacturing nostalgia of the right nor the union nostalgia of the left. And on AI, he sees an opening: oppose the secretly-dealt data centers, as presidential hopeful J.B. Pritzker has, but harness the technology for the precariat rather than the moguls. About the Guest David Masciotra is a cultural critic, journalist, and lecturer. He is the author of six books, including Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy (Melville House, 2024) and I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020), drawn from his many years working alongside the late Reverend Jackson. His writing appears in UnHerd, The New Republic, Washington Monthly, The Progressive, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, and he teaches literature and political science in Indiana. He is a longtime friend of the show. References: •       Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy by David Masciotra (Melville House, 2024). Booklist, starred review: “Insight and a fresh perspective on the culture wars.” •       I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters (Bloomsbury, 2020) — Masciotra's biography of the Reverend, discussed here for Jackson's decades of recompense after the 1984 Hymietown remark. •       Zygmunt Bauman — the Polish sociologist of liquid modernity, quoted in Exurbia Now, whose move from solidity to liquidity frames the episode's diagnosis of nostalgia. •       Antonio Gramsci — the Prison Notebooks passage on the interregnum, in both its translations: morbid symptoms and monsters. •       Masciotra's recent UnHerd essays — on why Democrats gave Graham Platner a free pass, on the party's luxury belief agenda, and on Stephen Colbert as the emblem of detached establishment liberalism. •       Bryan Stevenson — founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and the legacy sites memorializing slavery and lynching; the subject of Masciotra's forthcoming piece and, in his view, the closest thing 2026 has to a benevolent vision. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brin...

Chalkbeat, What's Mamdani's agenda for K-12 education in NYC? 6 months in, it's hard to say, https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026/07/07/mamdani-education-agenda-after-six-months-as-mayor/ NY TImes, Mamdani Reverses Call to End Mayoral Control of Public Schools, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/nyregion/mamdani-nyc-public-schools-mayoral-control.html Daily News, NYC public schools puts technology purchases on hold amid heated debate over AI policy, https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/08/nyc-public-schools-puts-technology-purchases-on-hold-amid-heated-debate-over-ai-policy/?share=cowc0wthmoidhobmelde Daily News, NYC specialized high schools continue to offer few seats to Black and Hispanic students, https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/10/nyc-specialized-high-schools-few-black-hispanic-students/?share=0csowdynosdsiisneonc Leonie Haimson, The Mayor's cuts to class size funding; do they make sense? https://classsizematters.org/the-mayors-cuts-to-class-size-funding-do-they-make-sense/ Zohran Mamdani's responses to the NYC Kids PAC survey, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bjazxfsUKHrtuNnQpkxW3OGFNJdRwPVD/view David Bloomfield, Daily New oped: Troubles for Kamar Samuels & NYC schools, https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/12/troubles-for-kamar-samuels-nyc-schools/?share=mosoltmc0k0ouwds0mml

Six months into her tenure at City Hall and Mayor Katie Wilson has a message for Seattle: things are going great, actually. On this episode of Seattle Nice, hosts Erica C Barnett, David Hyde and Sandeep Kaushik dig into Publicola's two-parter with the mayor: a "spicy" interview that covers everything from whether she's the next "sweeps" mayor to whether Chief Shon Barnes keeps his job. Plus, why the council keeps finding out about Wilson's legislation the same way the rest of us do: by reading PubliCola. And what she's doing to fix the tense relationship with the council. Also: a school lunch program got ambushed the same day the mayor bragged about it.World Cup hangover / promise. Seattle's role in the World Cup is over and Sandeep is back to driving his gas-guzzler to work at Pioneer Square, but the vibes (and the Occidental Park jumbotron) haven't fully left. Will Wilson pedestrianize more of downtown for good?The Pioneer Square playbook. Sandeep makes the case that the PDA-led shelter-and-services push that cleared the neighborhood for the World Cup actually worked, and that Wilson wants to replicate it citywide. One catch: there's no money in the budget for it yet.The "Sweeps" Mayor Dilemma: Erica presses Wilson on encampment removals. Wilson's answer boils down to political triage: stop all sweeps and you lose the "political will" to build more shelter. $175 million hole. We discuss the deficit and the looming push for new progressive revenue (capital gains? JumpStart again?), and why Wilson admits there's "no silver bullet."SPD budget in the crosshairs and Chief Barnes stays, for now. Every department's been told to model budget cuts, including police, even as SPD keeps hiring at a pace the city may not be able to afford (starting pay tops $126K after six months). But will they actually cut officers? In the middle of that squeeze, Wilson confirms she's retaining Chief Shon Barnes. The council relationship: still a mess, but improving? Wilson owns some of the dysfunction from the shelter-legislation fight earlier this year, admitting her office was "slow to staff" council relations. There are reportedly efforts now to rebuild those one-on-one relationships, but meetings aren't going great yet.Looking Back: How does Wilson's first six months compare to former Mayor Bruce Harrell?Read the two-part interview in PubliCola:Mayor Katie Wilson at Six Months In: "Incredibly Proud of What We're Accomplishing" (Part 1)Mayor Katie Wilson Says She's "Doing a Reset" on Housing Agenda, "Very Hopeful" About Police Chief (Part 2)If you appreciate the in-depth, behind-the-scenes coverage of Seattle politics, help us keep the lights on. We're a bare-bones operation trying to expand into video, and we can't do it without our listeners. https://www.patreon.com/seattlenice  Send us a text! Note that we can only respond directly to emails realseattlenice@gmail.comThanks to Uncle Ike's pot shop for sponsoring this week's episode! If you want to advertise please contact us at realseattlenice@gmail.comSupport the showYour support on Patreon helps pay for editing, production, live events and the unique, hard-hitting local journalism and commentary you hear weekly on Seattle Nice. 

Josh Dean describes the early days of the Lockheed Corporation and the birth of Skunk Works. After saving the company by fixing the Electra, Kelly Johnson promised a jet fighter in just six months. Operating out of a circus tent, his team produced the P-80 in 143 days. (6)1951

Six Months Left. Here's What To Do With Them. We're halfway through the year. You've got two choices: throw in the towel and start planning 2027, or actually use the six months you've got left. Glenda's picking door number two, and she's dragging you through it with her. What's in this episode July and January are the two biggest months of Glenda's year, and not because there's anything magic about them. They're the months she stops and takes stock: what did the last six months actually produce, and what needs to happen in the next six to hit the goals she set 12 to 18 months out. Throwing in the towel now and starting to plan for 2027 might feel tempting, but there's still six months of money-making time left on the table. That starts with the expense audit nobody wants to do. Glenda walks through her own process for looking at every subscription, membership, and "I'll get to it eventually" payment, and asking whether it's still earning its keep. She just cut a piece of software from her own suite, not because it's bad, but because she isn't using it right now, so it isn't doing its job. One of her favourite tools for staying on top of this is embarrassingly simple: a recurring calendar reminder on the 28th of every month that lists every payment about to come out of her account. It's not there to force her to cancel things. It's there so nothing sneaks past her, and so she can make an intentional choice about what stays and what goes. That leads into one of the bigger points of the episode: more money coming in does not automatically mean more profit. If your expenses are climbing right along with your revenue, you'll never actually feel the growth. Profit comes from knowing where the money goes, not just how much of it shows up. Glenda also talks about setting a real vision for where you want your business (and yourself) to go, and using that vision as a filter before you buy another course or sign up for another training. If it doesn't serve where you're actually headed, skip it, no matter how good the dopamine hit feels in the moment. Which brings her to a quick, honest plug for her Idea to Sold Out Groups workshop: if groups have zero place in your next 12 to 24 months, don't buy it. If they do, this is the roadmap she wishes had existed when she was building that side of her business by trial and error. Tickets are available through July 14th, and replays are included for anyone who can't attend live. The bottom line... you've got six months of opportunity left. Spend July getting clear: what's working, what's not, what's draining your account for no reason, and where you're actually headed. No vision means you're just running in circles. Links mentioned: Idea to Sold Out Groups Workshop: Groups Workshop Additional Links: Download the Essential Lessons PDF: Essential Lessons PDF Join the waitlist for upcoming workshops: Workshop Waitlist Join the Facebook Group: Facebook Group Connect with Glenda on Facebook or Instagram

"Six Months In: Lynde Rosario on Leading AJT Programming" (Season 5, Episode 3) welcomes back Lynde Rosario, Executive Director for Programming at AJT and dramaturg based in New York City, for a check-in on her first six months at the helm.Lynde reflects on what's surprised her most about the role. From the Guthrie Theater to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, she draws on her rich background as a dramaturg and how that lens has shaped her approach to programming and community-building at AJT. We dig into the evolution of the monthly Member Meet-Ups, new initiatives launched this year, and how she's stewarding the AJT Resource Guide as it continues to reach theaters across the field.The conversation also explores the partnerships Lynde has been building, her vision for supporting early-career Jewish theatre-makers, and where she sees the field heading. Lynde shares candidly about the feedback she's heard from members, the course corrections that have come out of it, and what success looks like for AJT programming by the end of 2026."On the Bimah" continues to showcase the diversity and depth of contemporary Jewish theatre, guided by your host Danielle Levsky.This podcast is an Alliance for Jewish Theatre program, produced by Danny Debner and Danielle Levsky. Our theme music is by Ilya Levinson and Alex Koffman.

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In this week's Biz Besties episode, Nicole and Kaila take a hard look at how the first half of 2026 has gone, and how to intentionally create momentum for the second half of the year. From managing time as a parent and business owner to maximizing offers and launches, this episode is all about honest reflection, planning with purpose, and making more money without losing your sanity.Whether you're juggling motherhood, a growing business, or seasonal offers, this episode will give you a framework to reflect, course-correct, and step confidently into the rest of your year.What You'll Take Away From This Episode:How to honestly assess your first half of the year and identify what's working, and what isn't.Why reviewing your calendar and your results together reveals your true priorities.How to set up your business and energy for a profitable second half of the year.The importance of aligning your offers, launches, and marketing with your audience and seasonal buying cycles.Why past experience is your best guide for designing offers your past-self would have loved.How to strategically test, iterate, and scale without burning out or feeling stuck.Insight into Cash Flow and “Six Figures in Six Months” strategies for ambitious entrepreneurs.Whether you're mid-year and feeling behind or already thriving, this episode helps you pause and create the next six months with purpose.Grab your VIP tickets to SHE LEADS 2027: https://www.myalignedpurpose.com/she-leads-2027Take our FREE quiz to discover your fastest path to business growth: https://www.myalignedpurpose.com/quiz

My guests today are Gavin Uberti and Rob Wachen, the founders of Etched.  A few years ago, when they set out to build a better AI chip than the largest companies in the world, almost everyone I called told me it could not be done. They have since done it, taping out a working chip on their first attempt and becoming the first hardware company founded after ChatGPT to do so. They already have more than a billion dollars of customer demand for their first product, and have raised eight hundred million dollars to build it.  Etched builds chips and systems designed to run AI models faster and at lower cost. They started the company in 2023, and that product is a complete rack for inference, the chip along with the boards, the power delivery, the interconnects, and the manufacturing to produce it all. We talk about the technical bets behind their architecture, how they hired industry legends and paired them with elite 22 year-olds, and why they believe inference will become one of the largest markets in the world. I think you will find the story of what they have built hard to forget. Please enjoy my conversation with Gavin and Rob. For the full show notes, transcript, and links to mentioned content, check out the episode page ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  ----- Become a Colossus member to get our quarterly print magazine and private audio experience, including exclusive profiles and early access to select episodes. Subscribe at ⁠colossus.com/subscribe⁠. ----- ⁠Ramp's⁠ mission is to help companies manage their spend in a way that reduces expenses and frees up time for teams to work on more valuable projects. Go to⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ramp.com/invest⁠⁠ to sign up for free and get a $250 welcome bonus. ----- Trusted by thousands of businesses, ⁠Vanta⁠ continuously monitors your security posture and streamlines audits so you can win enterprise deals and build customer trust without the traditional overhead. Invest Like the Best listeners get a special offer of $1,000 off Vanta when you go to ⁠vanta.com/invest⁠.  ----- WorkOS⁠ is the infrastructure B2B and AI-native companies use to sell to enterprise. It covers everything enterprise security requires: SSO, SCIM, RBAC, Audit Logs, AI governance, and more. Trusted by 2,000+ fast-growing companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Vercel. ----- Rogo is the AI platform for finance. They're building agents for Wall Street that are trained to understand how bankers and investors actually do work: from diligence and modeling, to turning analysis into deliverables. To learn more, visit rogo.ai/invest. ----- ⁠Ridgeline⁠ has built a complete, real-time, modern operating system for investment managers. It handles trading, portfolio management, compliance, customer reporting, and much more through an all-in-one real-time cloud platform. Visit⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ridgelineapps.com⁠. ----- Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant. Timestamps: (00:00:00) Welcome to Invest Like The Best (00:02:07) Gavin Uberti and Rob Wachen (00:03:54) Two 21-Year-Olds Taking on NVIDIA (00:07:52) The Two Technical Bets Behind Their Architecture (00:14:15) Why Inference Becomes the Biggest Market (00:20:23) Rob and Gavin's Origins Stories (00:28:38) How They Recruit Industry Legends (00:36:30) Moving a Dozen Engineers to Bangalore for Six Months (00:38:01) Speed Wins (00:43:58) Getting More Concurrency Out of Every Megawatt (00:52:44) Vertical Integration (00:57:43) Hardest Obstacles to Overcome (01:01:09) Raising The Largest AI Chip Series A Ever (01:06:29) TSMC (01:13:20) Designing Gen 2 for Gigawatt-Scale Production (01:16:42) Why Machines Don't Think Like People (01:20:03) A Year of Compute Compressed Into a Month (01:23:44) The Trillion-Dollar Data Center (01:26:19) The Kindest Thing

In this episode, I'm inviting you to pause for a mid-year check-in...Not from a place of guilt or shame, but from a place of curiosity. This month's focus inside my Aligned Life Membership is Balance, and one of the resources I created for the women inside the membership is a guided reflection workbook. Today, I'm sharing a few of the questions from it because I think they'll help you create an intentional second half of the year.We talk about why the stories we tell ourselves shape the results we create, and how asking better questions can completely change the direction of the next six months.We also talk about why lasting change doesn't come from mentally beating yourself up... it comes from becoming radically honest with yourself while treating yourself with compassion.Because six months from now, you could be living in a very different body... a different mindset... and a different life.It all starts with asking yourself better questions.If you're ready to stop drifting through the rest of the year and start creating it on purpose, this episode is for you.CourtneyCurrently, I work with women privately and in my monthly membership.  Click HERE to head to my website to learn more.

"These are long-term decisions that have far-reaching impacts — not just for us, but for future generations." Host Laurie Barkman sits down with Jennifer Wilson, founder of Oak Bay Coaching and Consulting and former CEO of the Canada Homestay Network — a family business her mother started in 1995 from a bed and breakfast in Toronto that has since placed over 100,000 international students across Canada.  Jennifer joined the company as an accidental second-generation leader, grew into the CEO role after completing her MBA, and spent 17 years building the organization before transitioning to chair in 2022.  She built a co-CEO structure, created a board of directors from scratch, and navigated a partial management buyout — all while keeping the family intact. Here's how she did it.   Key Insights The CEO handoff is as much symbolic as it is structural. Jennifer's mother passed her a vintage recipe box — the company's original "analog database" — in front of the entire team at a company retreat. That moment publicly transferred authority and gave the whole organization clarity about who was leading. Succession isn't just paperwork — it's a signal. A co-CEO structure can work — but only under two conditions. Different skill sets and clearly separated accountabilities are non-negotiable. Jennifer hired an HR consultant who specializes in co-CEO models, created distinct strategic plan line items for each CEO, and built separate performance reviews. When both conditions are met, both leaders say they wouldn't want to do it alone. Leadership succession and ownership transition are not the same thing — and confusing them is costly. Jennifer separated the two processes deliberately. She transitioned leadership years before she transitioned ownership, and treating them as distinct conversations gave the family time to think clearly about equity, estate planning, and sibling fairness without the pressure of an operational handover happening simultaneously. Give your successors enough time. Jennifer gave her two internal candidates 18 months of lead time before officially stepping back. That window allowed for trust-building, task delegation, and honest conversations about whether each person actually wanted the role. One of them said no — and that was crucial information to have before the transition, not after. Family-to-management buyouts require a mind shift, not just a legal agreement. The reframe that unlocked Jennifer's MBO: instead of "they're paying for the business with our revenue," think "we sold it on day one and they're paying us back." That shift changes the emotional dynamic — and the 80/20 split they landed on was driven in part by Canadian tax thresholds that required each buyer to hold over 10% equity.   Chapters: 00:04 Introduction of Jennifer Wilson 02:08 Origin Story: How Canada Homestay Network Began 04:30 Jennifer's Unexpected Path Into the Family Business 07:12 Flash Forward: When Succession Conversations Started 08:40 The Recipe Box Ceremony: A Symbolic Handoff 09:36 The Trio: Running the Business as a Family Team 12:00 Deciding to Think About Her Own Succession 13:12 Building a Self-Managed Organization 16:05 Identifying and Developing Internal Successor Candidates 18:24 The Big Reveal: A Co-CEO Structure 18:53 How the Co-CEO Model Works in Practice 21:15 Governance: Building a Board and Separating Strategic vs. Operational Plans 24:28 Pitfalls and What Went Wrong: When One Candidate Said No 25:21 COVID: Laying Off 100 People in Six Months 29:01 Ownership Transition vs. Leadership Succession 29:37 Equity, Estate Planning, and Sibling Fairness 38:17 The Management Buyout: How the 80/20 Split Was Determined 40:23 Top Takeaways for Founders and Next-Gen Leaders   Is your business truly ready—and are you? Take the Succession Readiness Assessment to get a clear snapshot of where you stand and what to focus on next. https://btsherpa.com/succession P.S. Most owners don't realize where they stand until they're already in a transition. Take a few minutes now to understand your readiness—and give yourself more options later.  

A year ago the data centre conversation was about scale. Increasingly it is about what happens when the announcements meet the physical grid. New capacity is being announced at roughly 435 megawatts a month, enough to power a city of 400,000 people, but two-thirds of that committed load tends to disappear the moment utilities ask for a financial commitment behind it. AI training facilities create load profiles that drop 30% in five minutes, or 190 megawatts in three. The grid's mechanical inertia is retiring just as hyperscaler ambition accelerates, and regulation is lagging on both sides of the meter.In this episode, interim host Bridget van Dorsten returns the microphone to host Sylvia Leyva Martinez. The two recap six months of the show through clips from Chris Seiple (Wood Mackenzie), Tom Falcone (Large Public Power Council), Akeel Bhateja (Bloom Energy), Kay Aikin (Dynamic Grid), Kristina Carlquist and Christian Payerl (ABB), Shannon Miller (Mainspring Energy) and Nick Chaset (Octopus US), and map out the questions that will shape Sylvia's return.The central tension of the past six months: announcements are racing ahead, but utilities, regulators and the physical grid cannot move at hyperscaler speed. A data centre can be built in two years. New generation takes five to ten. That mismatch is why developers have stopped waiting on the grid: 35% of US data centre project capacity announced in 2025 was planned with around-the-meter generation, and 92% of bridge prime power deals are now struck before the end tenant is signed, inverting the usual logic of infrastructure development. But collocated power is still, in Bridget's framing, a science project. The load behaviour demands a coordinated portfolio: supercapacitors and UPS catching millisecond swings, synchronous condensers supplying inertia, fuel cells and linear generators offering modular, fuel-flexible bridging power as a hedge against demand risk. Nick Chaset's intervention cuts the other way: the UK already hosts the world's largest residential virtual power plant, and the cheapest megawatt is the one you don't build. The episode closes on duelling forward views, Tom Falcone's cooperative optimism against Kay Aikin's affordability death spiral, with the question of who ultimately holds the bag if the announcements don't materialise still unresolved.Sylvia sets out what she wants to explore next: the regulatory contradiction where utilities support bring-your-own-generation but cannot guarantee protection from curtailment; renewables supply constraints and the transformer and labour bottlenecks that affect every fuel source equally; the return of energy security as a framing now that "energy transition" has fallen out of political favour in the US; and the community opposition data centre developers are only beginning to grapple with.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

"Creating a production company and filming a movie is not for the faint of heart." - Maureen Anne Meehan   Maureen Anne Meehan is a distinguished mental health court judge in Orange County, California, and a prolific author with an impressive repertoire of 25 novels. Her literary works range from 19 legal thrillers starring a compelling, strong female protagonist to a series of dating novels, including the successful "60 Dates in Six Months," which is now transitioning into a streaming rom-com. Maureen is passionate about her legal work and her writing. Her legal experience enriches her storytelling, which often explores a true crime, drawing on real-life cases to craft engrossing narratives.   Episode Summary: Welcome to another enlightening episode of "Oh, My Health… There Is Hope," where host Jana Short engages in an intriguing conversation with Maureen Anne Meehan, a skilled mental health court judge and accomplished novelist from Orange County, California. This episode offers a rich exploration of Maureen's dual career, highlighting not only the judicial realm she navigates daily but also her passion for creating engaging narratives that captivate her readers. In this episode, Maureen reveals how her profound experiences have fed into her dynamic writing journey. Inspired by a personal tragedy, she transformed her grief into creativity, authoring the Mary McIntosh legal thrillers centered on formidable female characters and true crime stories. Her transition from novels to film is significant, with the upcoming release of "60 Dates in Six Months," a rom-com that combines levity with personal hardship—the latter epitomized by Maureen's own experience dating after profound loss, even as she recovers from a debilitating injury. This conversation is an invitation into Maureen's world of true crime narrative crafting and her unique portrayal of romance that readers and viewers love.   Key Takeaways: Maureen's blending of experiences as a mental health court judge and as a fiction writer provides a unique foundation for her legal thrillers and true-crime narratives. The premier of her film, "60 Dates in Six Months," proves that real life can inspire fiction that resonates on screen, a testament to her storytelling prowess. Her journey from book author to film producer underscores the daunting yet rewarding process of bringing stories from page to screen. Maureen's fictional works, grounded in true crime, offer a gripping yet authentic exploration of crime and justice. She emphasizes the significance of maintaining realism in storytelling to highlight societal issues and provide thoughtful entertainment.   Resources: https://maureenannemeehan.com/book/ @‌60Datesinsixmonths https://facebookcom/MaureenMeehan   Get a free subscription to the Best Holistic Life Magazine, one of the fastest-growing independent magazines centered around holistic living: https://bestholisticlife.info/BestHolisticLifeMagazine.   Get in touch with Jana and listen to more podcasts: https://www.janashort.com/ Show Music 'Hold On' by Amy Gerhartz: https://www.amygerhartz.com/music. Grab your FREE gift today: https://bestholisticlife.info/BestHolisticLifeMagazine Connect with Jana Short: https://www.janashort.com/contact/