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#GoDoFly presents Monica Buzali! She comes from a loving but traditional Mexican family, often feeling like an outsider with big dreams and a questioning mind. Seeking her own path, she moved to Barcelona, built a multicultural family, and embraced self-discovery. She also donated a kidney to her father, honoring her roots while living life on her own terms. Monica Buzali offers art therapy, therapeutic astrology, and tarot readings, along with Access Bars sessions. She provides both in-person and online sessions.  Special Mention to Playmarkers Barcelona and Mamas in Biz Barcelona. Full video on YouTube. 

Given the shameful American sacrifice of Ukraine, there will be few timelier movies than Anna Kryvenko's upcoming “This House is Undamaged”,. It will be an Orwellian documentary examining the Russian destruction of Mariupol, the Ukrainian city devastated by Putin's invasion in 2022. Krivenko, a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at CEU, explains how Russian authorities are rapidly rebuilding and selling properties there while erasing Ukrainian history and creating the big lie of Mariupol as a historically Russian city. Kryvenko, originally from Kyiv, also discusses the parallels between Putin's and Trump's lies about Ukraine, summarizing their fundamental misrepresentation of the truth as a "carnival of hypocrisy."Here are the five KEEN ON takeaways from our conversation with Kryvenko:* The Russians are engaged in a systematic erasure of Mariupol's Ukrainian identity, not just through physical reconstruction but through an aggressive propaganda campaign that claims the city was "always Russian." This reconstruction effort began shortly after the city's destruction in 2022.* Pre-war Mariupol was not characterized by deep Russian-Ukrainian divisions as Russian propaganda claims. According to Kryvenko, language differences weren't a source of conflict before political forces deliberately weaponized them.* The rebuilding of Mariupol has a dark commercial aspect - Russians are selling apartments in reconstructed buildings, sometimes in properties where the original Ukrainian owners were killed, and marketing them as vacation properties while ignoring the city's tragic recent history.* There's a humanitarian crisis unfolding as some Ukrainians are being forced to return to occupied Mariupol because they have nowhere else to live, with Kryvenko citing statistics that around 150,000 people returned to occupied territories by the end of 2024.* The filmmaker is using a unique methodology of gathering evidence through social media content, vlogs, and propaganda materials to document both the physical transformation of the city and the narrative being constructed around it, rather than traditional documentary filming techniques.Transcript of Anna Kryvenko InterviewAndrew Keen: Hello, everybody. As the situation in Ukraine becomes more absurd, it seems as if the lies of Donald Trump and the lies of Vladimir Putin are becoming increasingly similar. Trump has been talking about Zelensky and Ukraine, what is described as a barrage of lies. As CNN reports, Trump falsely called Zelensky a dictator. It's becoming more and more absurd. It's almost as if the whole script was written by some Central European or East Central European absurdist. Meanwhile, the Russians continue to lie as well. There was an interesting piece recently in the Wall Street Journal about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past. My guest today, Anna Kryvenko, is a filmmaker. She's the director of an important new movie in the process of being made called "This House Is Undamaged." She's a visual fellow at the Central European University, and she's joining us from Budapest today. Congratulations on "This House is Undamaged." Before we talk specifically about the film, do you agree with my observations that there seems to be an increasingly eerie synergy between the lies coming out of Washington, D.C. and Moscow, between Trump and Putin?Anna Kryvenko: I think the situation is becoming more crazy and absurd. That's a better word to use in this situation. For me, all of this looks like some carnival of hypocrisy. It's unbelievable that someone can use the word "dictator" in comparison with Vladimir Putin or speaking about this 4% of the people who support Zelensky when he says it's only four persons. It looks completely absurd. And this information comes from Moscow, not from actual Ukrainian statistics.Andrew Keen: The phrase you use "carnival of hypocrisy" I think is a good description. I might even use that in the title of this conversation. It's almost as if Trump in particular is parodying himself, but he seems so separated from reality that it seems as if he's actually being serious, at least from my position in California. How does it look from your perspective in Budapest? You're originally from Ukraine, so obviously you have a particular interest in this situation.Anna Kryvenko: I don't even know what to think because it's changing so fast into absurd situations. Every day when I open the news, I'm speaking with people and it looks like some kind of farce. You're expecting that the next day someone will tell you that this is a joke or something, but it's not. It's really hard to believe that this is reality now, but unfortunately it is.Andrew Keen: Kundera wrote his famous novel "The Joke" as a parody of the previous authoritarian regime in Central Europe. Your new movie, "This House is Undamaged" - I know you are an artist in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University - is very much in that vein. Tell us about the project.Anna Kryvenko: We're in work in progress. I was doing research in the archives and internet archives. This documentary film will explore the transformation of Mariupol, a Ukrainian city that was destroyed by the Russian invasion in 2022. I will use only archives and found footage materials from people who are in Mariupol now, or who were in Mariupol at the time of invasion, who were actually trying to film what's going on. Sometimes I'll also use propaganda images from Russia, from Russian authorities. In May 2022, Mariupol, after intense fighting, was almost completely destroyed.Andrew Keen: Tell us the story of Mariupol, this town on the old border of Russia and Ukraine. It's in the southeast of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: It's on the shore of the Azov Sea. It's part of Donetsk region. It was always an industrial city, most known for the Azovstal factory. In 2022, after incredible brutality of Russian war against Ukraine, this strategically important city was almost completely destroyed in May 2022 and was occupied by Russian government. About 90% of buildings were destroyed or demolished in some way.Andrew Keen: The Russians have essentially leveled the town, perhaps in the same way as the Israelis have essentially destroyed Gaza.Anna Kryvenko: Exactly. For a lot of people, we have this image of destroyed Mariupol until today. But after these terrible events, the Russians started this big campaign to rebuild the city. Of course, we know it was done just to erase all the scars of war, to erase it from the city's history. They started the reconstruction. Some people who stayed in Mariupol thought they would have new housing since they had no place to live. But business is business - Russian authorities started to sell these apartments to Russian citizens.Andrew Keen: I'm surprised Trump hasn't got involved. Given his real estate background and his cozy relationship with Putin, maybe Trump real estate will start selling real estate in Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: I was thinking the same thing this last week. It was looking like such an absurd situation with Mariupol. But now we are in this business mode again with Ukraine and all the minerals. It's only the economical part of war they look at.Andrew Keen: He probably would come up with some argument why he really owns Mariupol.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: Coming back to the Wall Street Journal piece about Russia wanting to erase Ukraine's future and its past - you're originally from Kyiv. Is it the old East Central European business of destroying history and creating a new narrative that somehow conforms to how you want history to have been made?Anna Kryvenko: I was really shocked at how fast this idea of Russian Mariupol is repeating after two years in Russian media, official and semi-professional blogs, YouTube, and so forth. As a person working with this type of material, watching videos every day to find what I need, I'm listening to these people doing propaganda from Mariupol, saying "we are citizens of the city and it's always been Russian." They're repeating this all the time. Even when I'm hearing this - of course it was always a Ukrainian city, it's completely absurd, it's 100% disinformation. But when you're hearing this repeated in different contexts all the time, you start to think about it.Andrew Keen: It's the same tactics as Trump. If you keep saying something, however absurd it sounds or is, if you keep saying it enough times, some people at least start believing it. You're not a historian or political scientist, but Mariupol is in the part of Ukraine which had a significant population of Russian-speaking people. Some of the people that you're filming and featuring in your movie - are they Russians who have moved into Mariupol from some other part of Russia, or are they people originally from Mariupol who are somehow embracing their new Russian overlords?Anna Kryvenko: The people I'm watching on social media, most of them say they're from Mariupol. But you can find journalistic articles showing they're actually paid by the Russian government. It's paid propaganda and they're repeating the same narrative. It's important that they're always repeating "we were born in Mariupol" and "we want the city to be Russian." But of course, you can see it's from the same propaganda book as 2014 with Crimea. They're repeating the same narrative from Soviet times - they just changed "Soviet Union" to "Russia" and "the West" to "European Union."Andrew Keen: You grew up in Kyiv, so you're familiar with all these current and historical controversies. What's your take on Mariupol before 2020, before it was flattened by the Russians? Was it a town where Russian-speaking and Ukrainian people were neighbors and friends? Were there always deep divisions between the Russian and Ukrainian speaking populations there?Anna Kryvenko: It's hard to explain because you need to dig deeper to explain the Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking parts of Ukraine. But it was never a problem before Yanukovych became prime minister and then president. It was his strategy to create this polarization of Ukraine - that the western part wants to be part of the European Union and the eastern part wants to be part of Russia because of language, and they cannot live together. But it's not true. For me as a person from Kyiv, from the center of the country, with friends from different parts of Ukraine, it was never a problem. I'm from a Russian-speaking family and have many friends from Ukrainian-speaking families. It was never a question. We were in a kind of symbiotic connection. All schools were in Ukrainian, universities in Ukrainian. We were bilingual. It was not a problem to communicate.Some of this division came from Yanukovych's connections to Putin and his propaganda. It was important for them to say "we are Russian-speaking people, and because we are Russian-speaking, we want to be part of Russia." But I have friends from Mariupol, and after 2014, when war in eastern Ukraine started and Mariupol was bombed a few times, it became a really good city to live in. There were many cultural activities. I know friends who were originally from Mariupol, studied in Kyiv in theater or visual art, and went back to Mariupol because it was a good place for their art practice. Ukraine is still a bit centralized, with most activity in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and the big cities, but Mariupol wasn't a city with internal conflict. It's weird that so fast after 2022, people started saying it was always problematic in wanting to be part of Russia. It was never like that.Andrew Keen: It's as if I lived for a year in Bosnia before the civil war, and it was almost as if ethnicity was invented by the nationalist Serbian regime. It seems as if the Putin regime is doing or has done the same thing in the eastern part of Ukraine.Anna Kryvenko: Yes.Andrew Keen: You talk to lots of friends still and you're from Kyiv originally, and obviously your professional life remains focused on the situation. In late February 2025, what's your sense of how Ukrainians are feeling given what Trump is now saying?Anna Kryvenko: I think a lot of people in Ukraine or Ukrainians abroad are feeling lonely, that they don't have support. Again we are in this situation where you have big deals about Ukraine without Ukraine. You feel like nothing, just an empty space on a map with minerals or sea access. We're just sitting there waiting while they're agreeing on deals. That's the negative layer. But it's important for all Ukrainians to be together and speak about the situation. After Trump's words about the 4% support for Zelensky, there were statistics from last year showing 57-55% support for Zelensky. Today, after these few days, new statistics show 65% support.Andrew Keen: Zelensky started his political career as a satirical comedian, and it's as if he's participating in his own comedy - as if he's almost paid Trump to promote him. What about the broader take on the US? Obviously Trump isn't all America, but he was just elected a couple of months ago. Are your Ukrainian friends and associates, as well as many people at the Central European University in Budapest, taking this as a message from America itself, or are people able to separate Trump and America?Anna Kryvenko: This is a hard question because we always know that you have a president or representative figure, but that's not the whole state. I spoke with someone from our university who was in Pennsylvania before the election, and he said all the people were pro-Trump. The logic was really simple - "he's good" and "he will stop this war" - though people sometimes don't even know which war or which country. They're just repeating the same talking points.Andrew Keen: It's sort of Orwellian in the sense that it's just war and it doesn't really matter who's involved - he's just going to stop it.Anna Kryvenko: It reminded me of how everyone was repeating about Lukashenko from Belarus that "he's a good manager" and can manage things, and that's why he's still president - not that he's a dictator killing his opponents. They use this to explain why he's good and people choose him. Now with Trump, they say "he's a good businessman," but we can see how this business works. Today, someone from Trump's administration said Zelensky needs to stop being arrogant because Trump is in a bad mood. In what world are we living where this is used as an argument?Andrew Keen: Coming back to real estate, he probably sees Mariupol as a nice strip on the Black Sea, like Gaza, which he sees as a valuable strip on the Mediterranean for real estate development. I found an interesting piece online about the Russian invasion, "When Buildings Can Talk: The Real Face of Civilian Infrastructure Ruined by Russian Invaders." In a way, your project "This House is Undamaged" is your way of making buildings talk. Is that fair?Anna Kryvenko: I think it's the best description you can use.Andrew Keen: Perhaps you might explain how and why.Anna Kryvenko: This name "This House is Undamaged" might or might not be the final name. For me, it's important because after the first months when it started to be a Russian city, some people were trying to sell apartments just to have some money. The reconstruction started a bit later. They were using video websites like Craigslist. It immediately became Russian, part of Russian territory. People from different Russian regions who saw this opportunity were trying to buy something because prices were so cheap. People needed money to buy a ticket and go to other cities or to relatives. In every advertisement, there was this phrase "this house has no damages" or "this house is undamaged." You had to put it there even if it wasn't true - you could see pictures where one building had a hole, but they were still saying "this house is undamaged."Andrew Keen: It's just again coming back to the carnival of hypocrisy or the carnival of absurd hypocrisy - you see these completely destroyed homes, and then you have the signs from the Russians saying this house is undamaged.Anna Kryvenko: It was also interesting why some people from Russia want to buy apartments in Mariupol, in these reconstructed buildings with weird pro-Russian murals - it's like Stalinism. They don't even know where Mariupol is - they think it's somewhere near Crimea, but it's not the Black Sea, it's the Azov Sea, an industrial region. It's not the best place to live. But they think it will be some kind of resort. They're living somewhere in Russia and think they can buy a cheap apartment and use it as a resort for a few months. This is absurd because the city was completely destroyed. You still have mass graves. Sometimes they're selling apartments where they can't even find the owner because the whole family is dead.On Google Maps, someone made an alternative version where you can see all the buildings that were destroyed, because officially you can't find this information anywhere. People were putting crosses where they knew someone died in a building - entire families. And after this, people are buying their apartments. For me, this is unbearable. You can do research about what you're doing, but people are lazy and don't want to do this work.Andrew Keen: It comes back to the Journal piece about Russia literally erasing not just Ukraine's past but also its future, creating a culture of amnesia. It's chilling on so many levels. But it's the old game - it's happened before in that part of the world and no doubt will happen again. As a filmmaker, what particular kind of political or aesthetic responsibility do you have? People have been writing - I mentioned Kundera, Russian writers, Gogol - satires of this kind of absurd political power for centuries. But as a filmmaker, what kind of responsibility do you have? How does your form help you make this argument of essentially restoring the past, of telling the truth?Anna Kryvenko: A lot of filmmakers in Ukraine, with the start of invasion, just brought cameras and started making films. The first goal wasn't to make a film but to document the crimes. My case is different - not only because my family's in Ukraine and I have many friends there and lived there until my twenties. For the last ten years, since the Maidan events in 2013-2014, I started working with archive and found footage material. This is my methodology. For me, it's not important to go somewhere and document. It's more interesting to use media deconstruction from propaganda sources, maybe from Ukrainian sources also because it's a question of ideology.One of my favorite materials now is people doing vlogs - just with their camera or mobile phone going from Russia to Crimea or back. You only have two ways to go there because airports aren't working, so you go through the Kerch-Crimea bridge. Now because of Mariupol's strategic location, you can go through there, so you have two different roads. People from different Russian cities sometimes film their road and say "what is this, is it destroyed?" This is the average Russian person, and you can hear the propaganda they're repeating or what they're really thinking. For me, it's important to show these different points of view from people who were there or are there now. I don't have the opportunity as a Ukrainian citizen to go there. Through this method, in the near future when I finish this film, we can have testimonies from the inside. We don't need to wait for the war to end because we don't know how or when it ends. It's important to show it to people who maybe don't know anything about what's going on in Mariupol.Andrew Keen: Given the abundance of video on the internet, on platforms like YouTube, how do you distinguish between propaganda and truth yourself in terms of taking some of these segments to make your film? It could be conceivable that some of the more absurd videos are put out by Ukrainians to promote their own positions and undermine the Russians. Have you found that? Is there a propaganda war on YouTube and other platforms between Ukrainian and Russian nationalists? And as a filmmaker who's trying to archive the struggle in an honest way, how do you deal with that?Anna Kryvenko: Of course, there are many people, and Mariupol is the best example because the Russian government is paying people to repeat pro-Russian ideology. Sometimes you can see just an average person from Mariupol going with a camera and shooting something without speaking - this is just documentation. Sometimes you have Russian people there for some days just saying something. And of course, you get different segments of real propaganda from some ministry in Russia with drone material and big music. I'm always trying to question myself: What am I looking at? Who is speaking? On technical aspects, why is this like this? It helps me to be holistic.Of course, I'm from Ukraine, and sometimes this is the most uncomfortable - you can hear actual people from Mariupol saying something you don't want to hear because it's not your point of view on the war. But these are people really from the city giving some kind of realistic point of view on the situation. It's sad, but there were statistics at the end of 2024 that about 150,000 people were returning to occupied territories, not only to Mariupol but all occupied territories. Maybe 40% were coming back to register their property and then returning to Ukrainian territory, but many people are returning to Mariupol because they don't have anywhere to live in Ukraine. It's not hundreds but thousands of people. As Ukrainians, we're not comfortable with this because we're all in different situations. But if something's not comfortable for my point of view, it doesn't mean it's bad or good.Andrew Keen: It's an important project. I know your artist residency at the Central European University is finishing at the end of February. You're going to focus on finishing the movie. When do you think it will be ready and what are your ambitions for the finished movie? Will you put it online, in theaters? What's your ideal?Anna Kryvenko: If everything goes well, we can finish it in a year and a half because it will be a long process of editing and working with rights. We only started working on it six months ago, and it's starting to go faster. Documentary making is a long process because of funding and everything. Even though I don't need to go somewhere physically, it's still a long process with a lot of waiting. First, we're thinking about festivals, maybe a theater release, maybe we'll have some broadcasters because it's an important topic to show to a wider audience. After a year, we'll see.Andrew Keen: If "Buildings Can Talk" is the subtitle of this upcoming movie "This House is Undamaged," it's a really important project about Mariupol. Thank you for being on the show. I'm going to have to get you back when the movie is done because I can't wait to see it.Anna Kryvenko: Thank you so much. Thank you.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Anna Kryvenko (1986, Ukraine) is a video and fine art photography artist based in Prague and Kyiv. She is a Fellow at the Artist in Residence program, Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University. She graduated from the Centre for Audio-Visual Studies at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU, Prague). Her films and performances were screened at Dok Leipzig, ZagrebDox, Visions du Reel Nyon, Fluidum Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, etc. With her found-footage film Silently Like a Comet, she won the prize for the Best Experimental Act at FAMUFEST, Prague (CZ), and a few others. Her film Listen to the Horizon won the prize for the Best Czech Experimental Documentary, Jihlava IDFF (CZ). Her first feature documentary film My Unknown Soldier won the Last Stop Trieste 2018 Postproduction Award, Special Mention at Zagreb Dox, the Special Prize of the Jury at IDFF CRONOGRAF, and the Andrej Stankovič Prize. Her newest short film Easier Than You Think won the Jury Award of the Other Vision Competition 2022 (PAF, Czech Republic).Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting the daily KEEN ON show, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy interview series. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children. This is a public episode. 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Send us a textWe chat with legendary radio personality Jim Monaghan for the podcast's first-ever virtual episode! A staple of WDHA since 1998, Jim reflects on his decades-long career in radio, his passion for music, and his enduring connection to New Jersey.The two dive into Jim's early days in broadcasting, his memorable moments at WDHA, and his role as host of All Mixed Up and Jersey Magazine. Plus, they talk baseball, independent music, and even the Newark Bears—taking listeners on a nostalgic journey through some of the Garden State's finest traditions.Whether you're a radio enthusiast, music lover, or just love a great Jersey story, this episode is packed with laughs, insights, and inspiration from one of the Garden State's most beloved voices.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Jim's Journey to WDHA: How a New York native became a notable New Jersey radio host.Radio's Enduring Appeal: Why local radio continues to thrive despite changing media trends.Memorable Guests and Moments: Jim recalls interviews, events, and pinch-me moments from his storied career.Baseball Passion: Jim's love for America's pastime and his connection to the Newark Bears.Balancing Passions: How Jim has juggled radio, music, and community throughout his career.Episode Highlights:Jim's first foray into radio as a high school student calling in football scores.Transitioning from WYNY and WNEW to WDHA and finding his voice in New Jersey rock radio.Hosting All Mixed Up, a freeform radio show where Jim has complete creative control.Nostalgic stories about the Newark Bears and independent baseball in New Jersey.Behind the scenes of Dead Air, Jim's band that blends his love for music and community.Quotable Moments:“Local radio thrives because it connects with the community in a way no other medium can.”“You can't just play your favorite songs for four hours—you have to give people a reason to tune in.”Connect with Jim Monaghan:Listen Live: Jersey Magazine (6:30-7:00 AM) and All Mixed Up (7:00-10:00 AM) on WDHA 105.5 FM.Music Playlists: Explore All Mixed Up playlists at allmixedupradio.com.Baseball Coaching: Learn more about Jim's baseball programs at baseballworkoutzone.com.Special Mentions in This Episode:Mayo Performing Arts Center: mayoarts.orgMegan Carroll of ReMax Elite: mcsellsbythec.comCheck out our theme song:"Ride" by Jackson PinesTake Action:Tune in to WDHA for Jim's Sunday shows, check out his playlists, or dive into one of his baseball programs.Subscribe & Share:If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe and share it with a friend who loves music, baseball, or Jersey radio. Let's keep New Jersey loud and proud!Episode Powered By: The New Jersey Lottery – because anything can happen in Jersey.Quote of the Episode:“Whether it's music, baseball, or radio—passion is the thread that ties it all together.” Support the show

In this episode, CJ "Fiery" Obasi, the visionary filmmaker behind MAMI WATA, discusses his creative journey, the cultural narratives that shape his work and the commercial and creative path of a storyteller. CJ reflects on his early influences, including a passion for Hammer Horror films and Stephen King novels, and how these elements have informed his unique storytelling approach. He discusses the challenges and triumphs of bringing MAMI WATA to life, a film that intertwines African folklore with contemporary themes, and shares insights into the significance of genre filmmaking within the African cinema landscape. The conversation also explores the business of being a storyteller and entrepreneur, the future of African screen storytelling, and the evolving role of technology and AI in filmmaking. About C.J. Obasi C.J. Obasi also known as “Fiery” or “The Fiery One” wrote and directed the feature films OJUJU & O-TOWN, both of which has screened in many festivals, including the Gothenburg Film Festival and Fantasia Film Festival, garnering acclaim from the likes of Screen Anarchy, IndieWire, & The Hollywood Reporter. He has won the African Movie Academy Awards (African Oscars), and the Trailblazer Award at the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards AMVCA). OJUJU is listed in IndieWire's Best Zombie Films Of All Time. His short film “Hello, Rain” premiered in the International Competition of Oberhausen, and in over 30 festivals like Fantasia Film Festival, where it won the Special Mention of the Jury prize, and the BFI London Film Festival where it was nominated for the Short Film Award. In 2016, he formed Surreal16 Collective with filmmakers Abba T. Makama and Michael to challenge the status quo of Nollywood filmmaking and Nigerian Film expectations. Their anthology film, Juju Stories won the Boccalino D'Oro Award for Best Film at Locarno Film Festival, and was aquired globally by Amazon Prime Video. Obasi's latest work, MAMI WATA premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2023, where it won the Jury Award for Cinematography, as well as in FESPACO, where it won the Best Image, Best Décor and the African Critics Prize. MAMI WATA was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and for an NAACP Image Award. It was Nigeria's Official entry for the Academy Awards. MAMI WATA was acquired by Mubi, and has since been distributed theatrically, SVOD and Blu-Ray, DVDs in more than 25 territories, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, France, Brazil and Australia. Obasi was recently invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to participate as a cohort of the Bellagio Residency at Lake Como, Italy with his feature film project, LA PYRAMIDE: A CELEBRATION OF DARK BODIES. He is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences (Oscars).

We do our best attempt at previewing the Women's World Cup. Srivastav Ranganathan 22:43 (0 minutes ago)to meIn this episode we go ahead and preview the Women's T20 World Cup.It's evident we are doing this for the first time and mostly for ourselves to make this World Cup a lot more easy to follow. We found a lot of useful links that helped in our research. They are as follows -Erika Morris' wonderful twitter thread - https://x.com/ErikaMorris79/status/1840344771832787311 WC Previews on CI and CB go without saying along with some on the ICC website.Special Mention to absolutely in-depth coverage by Cricket.com/tvCheck out their videos here -https://www.youtube.com/live/TehVdB7VotY?si=Q1HIpuGE5593H1tWhttps://www.youtube.com/live/B7sNiRcc9a4?si=YMdmH3v88Z9rojn0 https://www.youtube.com/live/9v-pnDlwYec?si=1yX3XbROmYDyee3N

Miles Harvey is the author of The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories, which won The Journal Non/Fiction Prize and was published by Mad Creek Books, the trade imprint of The Ohio State University Press. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Conjunctions, AGNI, North American Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Nimrod, Fiction Magazine, and others, and has received a Distinguished Story in The Best American Short Stories, 2004, a Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XXXVII: Best of the Small Presses, 2013, and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award from Mid-American Review, 2015. His most recent work of nonfiction, The King of Confidence (Little, Brown & Co., 2020), was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and was named as a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selection. He also wrote The Island of Lost Maps (a national and international bestseller for Random House, 2000) and Painter in a Savage Land (Random House, 2008). His play, How Long Will I Cry, premiered in 2013 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Harvey teaches creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago, where he chairs the Department of English and is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books, a nonprofit, social-justice publisher. 

Eli Lipshatz (AkA Lipi). Co-founder of Escala, and MultiplyMii. Today, Lipi will be discussing the most effective strategies for scaling an eCommerce business, focusing on optimizing personnel, streamlining processes, and leveraging technology to achieve growth. Highlight Bullets> Here's a glimpse of what you would learn…. Effective strategies for scaling e-commerce businessesCommon mistakes brand owners make in their businessesImportance of delegating tasks and maximizing deep workFocusing on needle-moving activities to scale the businessSystemizing processes within e-commerce businessesTools and methods for system documentationDocumenting high-level process maps, process maps, and standard operating procedures (SOPs)Meeting cadence within an organizationContinuous learning and growth in businessInfluential books, productivity tools, and individuals in the e-commerce spaceIn this episode of the Ecomm Breakthrough podcast, host Josh Hadley interviews Eli Lipshatz (Lipi), co-founder of Escala and MultiplyMii. They discuss strategies for scaling e-commerce businesses, focusing on the need for effective delegation, prioritizing needle-moving activities, and creating efficient systems. Lippy highlights common mistakes, such as not delegating tasks and the importance of systemizing processes to focus on strategic growth. The use of tools like Miro and ClickUp for documentation is emphasized, along with the significance of meeting cadence for organizational alignment. Lipi also offers insights on managing remote teams and recommends resources for continuous learning in the e-commerce space.Here are the 3 action items that Josh identified from this episode:Action Item#1 The importance of delegation and freeing up time for impactful work.Action Item#2 Identifying key levers for business growth.Action Item#3 Creating a company wiki and SOP document to streamline operations.Resources mentioned in this episode:Josh Hadley on LinkedIneComm Breakthrough ConsultingeComm Breakthrough PodcastEmail Josh Hadley: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.comTraction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino WickmanDeep Work by Cal NewportMiroClickUpEOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System)Scribe (productivity tools)Tango (productivity tools)Special Mention(s):Adam “Heist” Runquist on LinkedInKevin King on LinkedInMichael E. Gerber on LinkedInRelated Episode(s):“Cracking the Amazon Code: Learn From Adam Heist's Brand Scaling Secrets” on the eComm Breakthrough Podcast“Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” on the eComm Breakthrough Podcast“Unlocking Entrepreneurial Greatness | Insider Secrets With E-myth Author Michael Gerber” on the eComm Breakthrough PodcastSponsor for this episode...This episode is brought to you by eComm Breakthrough Consulting where I help seven-figure e-commerce owners grow to eight figures. I started my business in 2015 and grew it to an eight-figure brand in seven years.I made mistakes along the way that made the path to eight figures longer. At times I doubted whether our business could even survive and become a real brand. I wish I would have had a guide to help me grow faster and avoid the stumbling blocks.If you've hit a plateau and want to know the next steps to take your business to the next level, then email me at josh@ecommbreakthrough.com and in your subject line say “strategy audit” for the chance to win a $10,000 comprehensive business strategy audit at no cost!Transcript AreaJosh Hadley (00:00:00) - Welcome to the Ecomm Breakthrough Podcast. I'm your host, Josh Hadley, where I interview the top business leaders in e-commerce. Past guests include Kevin King, Michael Gerber, author of The E-myth, and Matt Clark from ASM. Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Eli Lipshatz, aka Lipi. He is the co-founder of Escala and MultiplyMii. And today, Lipi is going to be discussing the most effective strategies and intricate details for scaling e-commerce businesses, how to document your SOPs, and how to actually create something that is sustainable and scalable in order to grow. This episode is brought to you by Ecomm Breakthrough Consulting, where I help seven figure companies grow to eight figures and beyond. Listen, Lipi, I started my business back in 2015 and I grew it to an eight-figure brand in seven years, but I made a lot of mistakes along the way. That made the path of getting to eight figures take a lot longer than it needed to. I made a lot of bad hiring decisions. I had to take money from my own personal bank account in order to go fund payroll because of cash flow constraints.Josh Hadley (00:00:50) - There...

Welcome back to The Nichole Banks Podcast! In this episode, Nichole dives into the transformative journey from heartbreak to healing after divorce. If you're feeling lost, frozen, or weighed down by guilt and loneliness, you're in the right place. Nichole shares her personal experiences and practical steps to help you heal, rediscover yourself, and find true happiness.Stay Connected:Visit NicholeBanks.com for more resources and support.Check out Nichole's courses, women's retreats, and the Dare to Begin membership to dive deeper into your healing journey.Key Topics Covered:Personal Reflections:Nichole's heartfelt story of feeling lost after her second divorce.The struggle with guilt, loneliness, and self-destructive habits.The Turning Point:How Nichole realized she wanted to heal and rediscover herself.The importance of finding happiness within before seeking new love.Steps to Healing:Establishing a routine for grounding and stability.The benefits of therapy and coaching for emotional support and goal-setting.The power of journaling to release thoughts and emotions.Practicing mindfulness and meditation to manage anxiety.Setting boundaries to protect your energy and time.Practical Advice:Embracing loneliness as an opportunity for self-discovery.Rediscovering joy and passion through hobbies, activities, and new experiences.Tips for creating a supportive community and finding healthier habits.Encouragement and Hope:Nichole's message of hope and strength.The idea that divorce is not the end of your story, but the beginning of a new chapter.Special Mentions:30-Day Journaling Challenge: Nichole's guided prompts to help you start journaling.Boundaries Course: Learn how to set and maintain healthy boundaries.Stay Connected:Visit NicholeBanks.com for more resources and support.Check out Nichole's courses, women's retreats, and the Dare to Begin membership to dive deeper into your healing journey.Closing Thoughts:Healing from divorce is a journey, not a race. Take it one day at a time, and remember, you're stronger than you think. Nichole is here cheering you on every step of the way. Until next time, keep turning those lemons into spiked lemonade, and remember: you've got this. Cheers to thriving and leveling up!

Artie Lopez joins us in this episode to share his unique journey coming from a startup coach to become a startup Founder. He also shares the incredible hustle that startups do in order to survive in an investment winter where runways are short. He also shares an amazing #FoundersOnlyTop5 brought to you by Shoppable Business.Founders Only is brought to you by PayMongo, Qapita, GoTyme, and SeekCapArtie's Top 5 FoundersRay Refundo: https://bit.ly/46hCq8rGab Benito: https://bit.ly/3soJKjbRoland Ros & Rexy Dorado: https://bit.ly/3IXZQp2Sergius Santos, Bradley Cua and Matt Levin TanJason Deniega, Adrian Dayrit & DanSpecial Mention:Don Pansacola and Aldrich LimLionel Belen Test https://plus.acast.com/s/hustleshare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Join us for our very Special LIVE Podcast from our most recent LA Industry Night! Event ft. a powerhouse panel of iconic wellness-driven Entrepreneurs and Thought Leaders in the industry! Our industry nights gather founders, influencers & creators, media, talent, tastemakers & brands for an intentional evening of good vibes, eats, drinks, goodies and live podcast! Meet your panel: David Ghiyam - Co-Founder of MaryRuth Organics and Spiritual Teacher of Kabbalah Maya J French - Co-Founder of Koia, Happy Pop & Relate Jesse Israel - Founder of The Big Quiet Lori Harder - Author & Founder of Glōci This event was our biggest and most elaborate event yet for Coffee & A Good Vibe LIVE in Los Angeles. Since the growth of the show, we have been creating a lot of Impactful events in the LIVE Events space in both Los Angeles & New York City. OUR INTENTION BEHIND OUR EVENTS: To Curate these intentional experiences to foster meaningful connections and relationships amongst Founders/ Entrepreneurs/ Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Tastemakers in various host cities. Keep an eye out for our next Industry Night / Live Event by following our IG -⁠ @coffeeandagoodvibe! ⁠ Special Mentions & Shoutout to our incredible Event Brand Partners: Retention, Alo Yoga, Goop , Remedy Place , Barry's, BLK, JS Health Vitamins , Casa Del Sol Tequila , Shipbob, Olipop , Cowboy Colostrum , Happy Pop, Koia, Relate, ALTO, Glonuts, Midday Square, MeasureMe . If you want to become a partner for one of our next events, get in touch: pr@growthesocial.com EPISODE SUMMARY: Jesse Israel: Solitude & Navigating Challenging Times Of Life  Personal insights / experience and notable takeaways from having a daily solitude practice.  How do you double down and leverage these practices navigating the hard times of life - during the adversities and storms of life i,e,, job loss, grif, heartbreak, etc.  David Ghiyam: Kabbalah & Consciousness  Ayesha will frame up the context behind this question **- backed in manifesting and creating your dream life  Ask David to explain Kabbalah to the audience, break it down.  How can one access these higher states of consciousness in order to achieve all their life's desires? Remove limiting beliefs, stop blocking themselves.   ENTIRE PANEL: Building Community How did you start building community in your respective businesses / brands?  What was the catalyst that catapulted the massive growth experienced in each of your respective communities and brands?  ENTIRE PANEL: Social Media and Growth Strategies in a digital age  How to create engaging, shareable content pieces online? How to leverage and work with various influencers / creators on the platform to amplify your brand's reach?  ENTIRE PANEL: Future Forecasting in Tech and Wellness  Digital trends in both the tech space + wellness space that you are excited about, maybe implementing into your own business / brand strategy  Areas of gaps / opportunities for founders and entrepreneurs in the audience to be aware of  ENTIRE PANEL: Relationships Question - fun closing!  LIVE Q & A with the audience Share the love & let me know your thoughts over on Instagram,⁠⁠⁠ @coffeeandagoodvibe | @ayeshasehra⁠⁠⁠ CONNECT: YOUTUBE ➟ Watch & subscribe to our channel here ➟ ⁠⁠Coffee & A Good Vibe Video Interviews ⁠⁠ To connect with Ayesha Sehra ➟ click⁠⁠ HERE⁠⁠ Check out our podcast insta ➟ click ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠ To learn about my Branding & PR Agency Grow The Social ➟ click ⁠⁠HERE ⁠⁠

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James gives his thoughts about the episode but also talks about Mamie Laverock and her tragic circumstances. There is a gofundme out there, check out various Hearties, WCTH actors and my pages for the link!

As Travis-T tries to show appreciation for the birthday wishes he received, Pacman took it upon himself to plug his new friend's Merchandise Store. After the tension cleared, Travis-T ran through the card for POWW Entertainment. Pacman gave results for Wrestle League & IPW. Nubby runs down the results for IWA Productions, CSW, & ARW Pro. Special Mentions to MCW's show this past weekend and Ohio Valley Wrestling this upcoming weekend. 2024 PPV Wins: Dizzle J: 5 Nubby/Turtle: 1 Pacman: 5 Travis-T: 8   As always, this episode was brought to you by: Carter Comics - CarterComics.Com - Use Discount Code "FreakNet" to save 10% on your order & Audible.com - Audibletrial.com/freaknet  - Get a 30 Day Free Trial of Audible!!!   Check Facebook for Dizzle J's Bi-Weekly "Freakin' 5".   Check Out Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JFWPodcast   We Have Merchandise!!!! Check out our merch at www.TeePublic.com by searching "JFW"   JFW Podcast is now part of Freak Net Studios!! Facebook: Freak Net Studios Instagram: @freaknetstudios YouTube: Freak Net Studios    Follow us on Social Media! Website: http://justfreakinwrestlin.myfreesites.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JFWPodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/JFWPodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jfwpodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGXWC9tJtbjv1ocVxbhai0g

In this episode, we will learn from Alison Bode, MS, OTR/L & Madelyn Yoo, MS, OTR/L, two of the founding members of Occupational Therapists for Environmental Action (OTEA). OTEA is composed of a group of occupational therapy practitioners and students (OTPS) from across the US who are committed to raising awareness about the impact of climate change on human health, wellness, and participation in meaningful occupations. OTEA endeavors to collaborate with like-minded professionals to address the ways in which human occupation can either contribute to or mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis. Special Mention to other members of the OTEA leadership team, Carol Myers, Kelly Carlson, Jill Clancy-Secreto and, Elizabeth Richardson. Contact & Resources:OTEA website: https://www.otenvironmentalaction.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081841489525 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/otenvironmentalaction/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/occupational-therapists-for-environmental-action/?viewAsMember=trueWe have a blog post with some information and links to key OT and sustainability documents. It's a great place to start. The post can be found at: https://www.otenvironmentalaction.com/blog/sustainability-and-climate-change-documents-and-module-resources-for-otps As always, I welcome any feedback & ideas from all of you or if you are interested in being a guest on future episodes, please do not hesitate to contact Patricia Motus at transitionsot@gmail.com or DM via Instagram @transitionsot THANK YOU for LISTENING, FOLLOWING, DOWNLOADING, RATING, REVIEWING & SHARING “The Uncommon OT Series” Podcast with all your OTP friends and colleagues! Full Episodes and Q & A only available at: https://www.wholistic-transitions.com/the-uncommon-ot-series Sign Up NOW for the Transitions OT Email List to Receive the FREE Updated List of Uncommon OT Practice Settings https://www.wholistic-transitions.com/transitionsot For Non-Traditional OT Practice Mentorship w/ Patricia: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeC3vI5OnK3mLrCXACEex-5ReO8uUVPo1EUXIi8FKO-FCfoEg/viewform BIG THANKS to our sponsors Picmonic & Truelearn USE DISCOUNT CODE “TransitionsOT” to Score 20% OFF Your Membership Today! Happy Listening Friends! Big OT Love! All views are mine and guests own.

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EPISODE SUMMARY: Join Dr. Jason Ballara and Rachel McFarlane, our investor relations guru, on a special live event episode, where they join forces to demystify the complex world of real estate syndication. They don't just skim the surface; they drill down into the pivotal roles of general and limited partners and unveil the legal scaffolding that underpins these investments. If you're ready to scale the heights of multifamily real estate or simply looking to understand what sets it apart from personal property management, this episode holds the blueprint to your ambitions. Navigating the rapids of residential versus commercial multifamily lending, we cast a line into the murky waters of financing. While discussing how a few units can shift a property's classification, we float the benefits of owner-occupied loans and weigh anchor on the financial resilience of real estate. Whether you're considering dipping your toes into larger multifamily properties or just want to anchor down your knowledge of interest rates and self-directed IRAs, our candid conversation sets sail to chart these territories for you. Steering through the regulatory currents, we reflect on the buoyancy of real estate investments amidst market fluctuations and explore the harbors of opportunity zones. With a keen eye on the lighthouse of SEC compliance, we guide you through the legal landscape of Regulation A offerings and the intricacies of 506B and 506C exemptions. While at the helm, Dr. Ballara also signals a course towards the newly unveiled LarkCapital.com and the rich repository of resources it offers to navigate your investment journey. Join us, as we share the collective 'why' that propels us and our esteemed guests forward in the dynamic seas of real estate investing. Special Mention to Song Saney, executive assistant of Dr.Jason Ballara. EPISODE CHAPTERS: (0:00:00) - Understanding Syndication in Real Estate Investing Real estate syndication structure, roles of active and passive partners, accessibility of commercial properties, and dispelling misconceptions for investors. (0:10:35) - Residential vs Commercial Multifamily Lending Multifamily real estate includes properties with 5+ units, with different financing options and benefits for larger properties. (0:26:00) - Real Estate Investments & SEC Regulations Real estate resilience, interest rates, self-directed IRAs, opportunity zones, SEC regulations, Private Placement Memorandum, and government incentives. (0:37:59) - Real Estate Investing Regulations and Interactions Regulation A offerings, 506B and 506C exemptions, accredited investor qualifications, marketing restrictions, and real estate accessibility. (0:53:36) - Updated Website and Podcast With Dr. Ballara Revamped LarkCapital.com offers blog, podcast, deal room, social media connections, and inspiring interviews on Know Your Why podcast. If you want to know more about Dr. Jason Balara and the Know your Why Podcast: https://linktr.ee/jasonbalara Audio Track: Back To The Wood by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Artist: http://audionautix.com/  

Mike McClary is Co-creator of Amazing.com's Amazing Selling Machine, which aids thousands of entrepreneurs in establishing lucrative businesses by selling products on Amazon. As an accomplished e-commerce seller, he's sold millions of dollars worth of products on Amazon via multiple established companies. Mike is dedicated to teaching entrepreneurs how to build successful e-commerce businesses using the tools available through ASM. In this episode… Higher conversion rates indicate more people are buying from your store, increasing sales and revenue. It also means that your product listing is well-optimized and can effectively compete in the marketplace. So what are some impactful strategies to escalate sales conversions? If you want to 10X your sales, Mike McClary shares his conversion bomb, a secret weapon he developed to optimize product listings. To do this, you must set up processes to manipulate Amazon's algorithm that suggests continuous sales. Mike advocates setting up strikethrough pricing, which is selling products at a higher list price by attaching a coupon or Prime-exclusive discount to the price. This is effective because the coupons do not factor into the original price. Another way to influence the algorithm is by adding numerous converting badges to the list price, such as coupons and money-off promotions. This conversion bomb will inflate your conversion rates, increase the number of units sold per transaction, and boost product rankings.  Join Josh Hadley in this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, where he sits down with Mike McClary, CEO of Amazing.com, to explore e-commerce diversification and Amazon advertising. Mike discusses the evolution of Amazon, shares seller-growth tactics to help entrepreneurs exceed seven figures, and details his conversion bomb strategy. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh Hadley: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Mike McClary on LinkedIn | Instagram Email Mike McClary: support@amazing.com Amazing.com Special Mention(s): Kevin King on LinkedIn Adam “Heist” Runquist on LinkedIn Matthew Clark on LinkedIn Alex Hormozi on LinkedIn Michael E. Gerber on LinkedIn The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life by Trevor G. Blake SellerCon Google Keep Related Episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” on the eComm Breakthrough Podcast “Cracking the Amazon Code: Learn From Adam Heist's Brand Scaling Secrets” on the eComm Breakthrough Podcast “Unlocking Entrepreneurial Greatness | Insider Secrets With E-myth Author Michael Gerber on the” eComm Breakthrough Podcast

In this episode of Under the Onion Skin, I talk to Heta Jäälinoja about her short film "Nun or Never!"."Nun Or Never!" by Heta Jäälinoja2D Computer Animation, 11'// 2023 // produced by Böhle Studios, FinlandLogline: A nun digs a man up from the ground and loses her grip on everyday life. Can secrets and harmony coexist?https://www.instagram.com/hetajaalinoja/Under the Onion Skin: https://giuliamartinelli.com/podcastNote: in the episode, I mention that Nun or Never! won the France TV Award. I forgot to mention that in the same festival the short film also got the Audience Award. In the following months, those nuns have been collecting more prizes, such as Best National Film at Turku Animated Film Festival, Grand Prix at Animatou, Grand Prize Golden Eyeball at the Sweaty Eyeballs Animation, Special Mention at Anim.est, and many more.Intro Music: "Backoning" by Telecasted from Youtube Audio Library

In this episode we have on our great buddy How Beates. He shares an experience he had at the Cossatot River before I go on my weekend backpacking trip there. Tune in for that as well as Jose's thoughts on last weeks Iron Fly event for Reel Recovery hosted by Honey Hole Hangout.Special Mentions:

This episode is part 2 of spooky stores. This time with our friends Josh and Marcos. Tune in for another round of supernatural events and some funny stories from our past.Special Mentions:

We finally complete our mini-series on the 1980s movies released by Miramax Films in 1989, a year that included sex, lies, and videotape, and My Left Foot. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we complete our look back at the 1980s theatrical releases for Miramax Films. And, for the final time, a reminder that we are not celebrating Bob and Harvey Weinstein, but reminiscing about the movies they had no involvement in making. We cannot talk about cinema in the 1980s without talking about Miramax, and I really wanted to get it out of the way, once and for all.   As we left Part 4, Miramax was on its way to winning its first Academy Award, Billie August's Pelle the Conquerer, the Scandinavian film that would be second film in a row from Denmark that would win for Best Foreign Language Film.   In fact, the first two films Miramax would release in 1989, the Australian film Warm Night on a Slow Moving Train and the Anthony Perkins slasher film Edge of Sanity, would not arrive in theatres until the Friday after the Academy Awards ceremony that year, which was being held on the last Wednesday in March.   Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train stars Wendy Hughes, the talented Australian actress who, sadly, is best remembered today as Lt. Commander Nella Daren, one of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's few love interests, on a 1993 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, as Jenny, a prostitute working a weekend train to Sydney, who is seduced by a man on the train, unaware that he plans on tricking her to kill someone for him. Colin Friels, another great Aussie actor who unfortunately is best known for playing the corrupt head of Strack Industries in Sam Raimi's Darkman, plays the unnamed man who will do anything to get what he wants.   Director Bob Ellis and his co-screenwriter Denny Lawrence came up with the idea for the film while they themselves were traveling on a weekend train to Sydney, with the idea that each client the call girl met on the train would represent some part of the Australian male.   Funding the $2.5m film was really simple… provided they cast Hughes in the lead role. Ellis and Lawrence weren't against Hughes as an actress. Any film would be lucky to have her in the lead. They just felt she she didn't have the right kind of sex appeal for this specific character.   Miramax would open the film in six theatres, including the Cineplex Beverly Center in Los Angeles and the Fashion Village 8 in Orlando, on March 31st. There were two versions of the movie prepared, one that ran 130 minutes and the other just 91. Miramax would go with the 91 minute version of the film for the American release, and most of the critics would note how clunky and confusing the film felt, although one critic for the Village Voice would have some kind words for Ms. Hughes' performance.   Whether it was because moviegoers were too busy seeing the winners of the just announced Academy Awards, including Best Picture winner Rain Man, or because this weekend was also the opening weekend of the new Major League Baseball season, or just turned off by the reviews, attendance at the theatres playing Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train was as empty as a train dining car at three in the morning. The Beverly Center alone would account for a third of the movie's opening weekend gross of $19,268. After a second weekend at the same six theatres pocketing just $14,382, this train stalled out, never to arrive at another station.   Their other March 31st release, Edge of Sanity, is notable for two things and only two things: it would be the first film Miramax would release under their genre specialty label, Millimeter Films, which would eventually evolve into Dimension Films in the next decade, and it would be the final feature film to star Anthony Perkins before his passing in 1992.   The film is yet another retelling of the classic 1886 Robert Louis Stevenson story The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde, with the bonus story twist that Hyde was actually Jack the Ripper. As Jekyll, Perkins looks exactly as you'd expect a mid-fifties Norman Bates to look. As Hyde, Perkins is made to look like he's a backup keyboardist for the first Nine Inch Nails tour. Head Like a Hole would have been an appropriate song for the end credits, had the song or Pretty Hate Machine been released by that time, with its lyrics about bowing down before the one you serve and getting what you deserve.   Edge of Sanity would open in Atlanta and Indianapolis on March 31st. And like so many other Miramax releases in the 1980s, they did not initially announce any grosses for the film. That is, until its fourth weekend of release, when the film's theatre count had fallen to just six, down from the previous week's previously unannounced 35, grossing just $9,832. Miramax would not release grosses for the film again, with a final total of just $102,219.   Now when I started this series, I said that none of the films Miramax released in the 1980s were made by Miramax, but this next film would become the closest they would get during the decade.   In July 1961, John Profumo was the Secretary of State for War in the conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, when the married Profumo began a sexual relationship with a nineteen-year-old model named Christine Keeler. The affair was very short-lived, either ending, depending on the source, in August 1961 or December 1961. Unbeknownst to Profumo, Keeler was also having an affair with Yevgeny Ivanov, a senior naval attache at the Soviet Embassy at the same time.   No one was the wiser on any of this until December 1962, when a shooting incident involving two other men Keeler had been involved with led the press to start looking into Keeler's life. While it was never proven that his affair with Keeler was responsible for any breaches of national security, John Profumo was forced to resign from his position in June 1963, and the scandal would take down most of the Torie government with him. Prime Minister Macmillan would resign due to “health reasons” in October 1963, and the Labour Party would take control of the British government when the next elections were held in October 1964.   Scandal was originally planned in the mid-1980s as a three-part, five-hour miniseries by Australian screenwriter Michael Thomas and American music producer turned movie producer Joe Boyd. The BBC would commit to finance a two-part, three-hour miniseries,  until someone at the network found an old memo from the time of the Profumo scandal that forbade them from making any productions about it. Channel 4, which had been producing quality shows and movies for several years since their start in 1982, was approached, but rejected the series on the grounds of taste.   Palace Pictures, a British production company who had already produced three films for Neil Jordan including Mona Lisa, was willing to finance the script, provided it could be whittled down to a two hour movie. Originally budgeted at 3.2m British pounds, the costs would rise as they started the casting process.  John Hurt, twice Oscar-nominated for his roles in Midnight Express and The Elephant Man, would sign on to play Stephen Ward, a British osteopath who acted as Christine Keeler's… well… pimp, for lack of a better word. Ian McKellen, a respected actor on British stages and screens but still years away from finding mainstream global success in the X-Men movies, would sign on to play John Profumo. Joanne Whaley, who had filmed the yet to be released at that time Willow with her soon to be husband Val Kilmer, would get her first starring role as Keeler, and Bridget Fonda, who was quickly making a name for herself in the film world after being featured in Aria, would play Mandy Rice-Davies, the best friend and co-worker of Keeler's.   To save money, Palace Pictures would sign thirty-year-old Scottish filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones to direct, after seeing a short film he had made called The Riveter. But even with the neophyte feature filmmaker, Palace still needed about $2.35m to be able to fully finance the film. And they knew exactly who to go to.   Stephen Woolley, the co-founder of Palace Pictures and the main producer on the film, would fly from London to New York City to personally pitch Harvey and Bob Weinstein. Woolley felt that of all the independent distributors in America, they would be the ones most attracted to the sexual and controversial nature of the story. A day later, Woolley was back on a plane to London. The Weinsteins had agreed to purchase the American distribution rights to Scandal for $2.35m.   The film would spend two months shooting in the London area through the summer of 1988. Christine Keeler had no interest in the film, and refused to meet the now Joanne Whaley-Kilmer to talk about the affair, but Mandy Rice-Davies was more than happy to Bridget Fonda about her life, although the meetings between the two women were so secret, they would not come out until Woolley eulogized Rice-Davies after her 2014 death.   Although Harvey and Bob would be given co-executive producers on the film, Miramax was not a production company on the film. This, however, did not stop Harvey from flying to London multiple times, usually when he was made aware of some sexy scene that was going to shoot the following day, and try to insinuate himself into the film's making. At one point, Woolley decided to take a weekend off from the production, and actually did put Harvey in charge. That weekend's shoot would include a skinny-dipping scene featuring the Christine Keeler character, but when Whaley-Kilmer learned Harvey was going to be there, she told the director that she could not do the nudity in the scene. Her new husband was objecting to it, she told them. Harvey, not skipping a beat, found a lookalike for the actress who would be willing to bare all as a body double, and the scene would begin shooting a few hours later. Whaley-Kilmer watched the shoot from just behind the camera, and stopped the shoot a few minutes later. She was not happy that the body double's posterior was notably larger than her own, and didn't want audiences to think she had that much junk in her trunk. The body double was paid for her day, and Whaley-Kilmer finished the rest of the scene herself.   Caton-Jones and his editing team worked on shaping the film through the fall, and would screen his first edit of the film for Palace Pictures and the Weinsteins in November 1988. And while Harvey was very happy with the cut, he still asked the production team for a different edit for American audiences, noting that most Americans had no idea who Profumo or Keeler or Rice-Davies were, and that Americans would need to understand the story more right out of the first frame. Caton-Jones didn't want to cut a single frame, but he would work with Harvey to build an American-friendly cut.   While he was in London in November 1988, he would meet with the producers of another British film that was in pre-production at the time that would become another important film to the growth of the company, but we're not quite at that part of the story yet. We'll circle around to that film soon.   One of the things Harvey was most looking forward to going in to 1989 was the expected battle with the MPAA ratings board over Scandal. Ever since he had seen the brouhaha over Angel Heart's X rating two years earlier, he had been looking for a similar battle. He thought he had it with Aria in 1988, but he knew he definitely had it now.   And he'd be right.   In early March, just a few weeks before the film's planned April 21st opening day, the MPAA slapped an X rating on Scandal. The MPAA usually does not tell filmmakers or distributors what needs to be cut, in order to avoid accusations of actual censorship, but according to Harvey, they told him exactly what needed to be cut to get an R: a two second shot during an orgy scene, where it appears two background characters are having unsimulated sex.   So what did Harvey do?   He spent weeks complaining to the press about MPAA censorship, generating millions in free publicity for the film, all the while already having a close-up shot of Joanne Whaley-Kilmer's Christine Keeler watching the orgy but not participating in it, ready to replace the objectionable shot.   A few weeks later, Miramax screened the “edited” film to the MPAA and secured the R rating, and the film would open on 94 screens, including 28 each in the New York City and Los Angeles metro regions, on April 28th.   And while the reviews for the film were mostly great, audiences were drawn to the film for the Miramax-manufactured controversy as well as the key art for the film, a picture of a potentially naked Joanne Whaley-Kilmer sitting backwards in a chair, a mimic of a very famous photo Christine Keeler herself took to promote a movie about the Profumo affair she appeared in a few years after the events. I'll have a picture of both the Scandal poster and the Christine Keeler photo on this episode's page at The80sMoviePodcast.com   Five other movies would open that weekend, including the James Belushi comedy K-9 and the Kevin Bacon drama Criminal Law, and Scandal, with $658k worth of ticket sales, would have the second best per screen average of the five new openers, just a few hundred dollars below the new Holly Hunter movie Miss Firecracker, which only opened on six screens.   In its second weekend, Scandal would expand its run to 214 playdates, and make its debut in the national top ten, coming in tenth place with $981k. That would be more than the second week of the Patrick Dempsey rom-com Loverboy, even though Loverboy was playing on 5x as many screens.   In weekend number three, Scandal would have its best overall gross and top ten placement, coming in seventh with $1.22m from 346 screens. Scandal would start to slowly fade after that, falling back out of the top ten in its sixth week, but Miramax would wisely keep the screen count under 375, because Scandal wasn't going to play well in all areas of the country. After nearly five months in theatres, Miramax would have its biggest film to date. Scandal would gross $8.8m.   The second release from Millimeter Films was The Return of the Swamp Thing. And if you needed a reason why the 1980s was not a good time for comic book movies, here you are. The Return of the Swamp Thing took most of what made the character interesting in his comic series, and most of what was good from the 1982 Wes Craven adaptation, and decided “Hey, you know what would bring the kids in? Camp! Camp unseen in a comic book adaptation since the 1960s Batman series. They loved it then, they'll love it now!”   They did not love it now.   Heather Locklear, between her stints on T.J. Hooker and Melrose Place, plays the step-daughter of Louis Jourdan's evil Dr. Arcane from the first film, who heads down to the Florida swaps to confront dear old once presumed dead stepdad. He in turns kidnaps his stepdaughter and decides to do some of his genetic experiments on her, until she is rescued by Swamp Thing, one of Dr. Arcane's former co-workers who got turned into the gooey anti-hero in the first movie.   The film co-stars Sarah Douglas from Superman 1 and 2 as Dr. Arcane's assistant, Dick Durock reprising his role as Swamp Thing from the first film, and 1980s B-movie goddess Monique Gabrielle as Miss Poinsettia.   For director Jim Wynorski, this was his sixth movie as a director, and at $3m, one of the highest budgeted movies he would ever make. He's directed 107 movies since 1984, most of them low budget direct to video movies with titles like The Bare Wench Project and Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade, although he does have one genuine horror classic under his belt, the 1986 sci-fi tinged Chopping Maul with Kelli Maroney and Barbara Crampton.   Wynorski suggested in a late 1990s DVD commentary for the film that he didn't particularly enjoy making the film, and had a difficult time directing Louis Jourdan, to the point that outside of calling “action” and “cut,” the two didn't speak to each other by the end of the shoot.   The Return of Swamp Thing would open in 123 theatres in the United States on May 12th, including 28 in the New York City metro region, 26 in the Los Angeles area, 15 in Detroit, and a handful of theatres in Phoenix, San Francisco. And, strangely, the newspaper ads would include an actual positive quote from none other than Roger Ebert, who said on Siskel & Ebert that he enjoyed himself, and that it was good to have Swamp Thing back. Siskel would not reciprocate his balcony partner's thumb up. But Siskel was about the only person who was positive on the return of Swamp Thing, and that box office would suffer. In its first three days, the film would gross just $119,200. After a couple more dismal weeks in theatres, The Return of Swamp Thing would be pulled from distribution, with a final gross of just $275k.   Fun fact: The Return of Swamp Thing was produced by Michael E. Uslan, whose next production, another adaptation of a DC Comics character, would arrive in theatres not six weeks later and become the biggest film of the summer. In fact, Uslan has been a producer or executive producer on every Batman-related movie and television show since 1989, from Tim Burton to Christopher Nolan to Zack Snyder to Matt Reeves, and from LEGO movies to Joker. He also, because of his ownership of the movie rights to Swamp Thing, got the movie screen rights, but not the television screen rights, to John Constantine.   Miramax didn't have too much time to worry about The Return of Swamp Thing's release, as it was happening while the Brothers Weinstein were at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. They had two primary goals at Cannes that year:   To buy American distribution rights to any movie that would increase their standing in the cinematic worldview, which they would achieve by picking up an Italian dramedy called, at the time, New Paradise Cinema, which was competing for the Palme D'Or with a Miramax pickup from Sundance back in January. Promote that very film, which did end up winning the Palme D'Or.   Ever since he was a kid, Steven Soderbergh wanted to be a filmmaker. Growing up in Baton Rouge, LA in the late 1970s, he would enroll in the LSU film animation class, even though he was only 15 and not yet a high school graduate. After graduating high school, he decided to move to Hollywood to break into the film industry, renting an above-garage room from Stephen Gyllenhaal, the filmmaker best known as the father of Jake and Maggie, but after a few freelance editing jobs, Soderbergh packed up his things and headed home to Baton Rouge.   Someone at Atco Records saw one of Soderbergh's short films, and hired him to direct a concert movie for one of their biggest bands at the time, Yes, who was enjoying a major comeback thanks to their 1983 triple platinum selling album, 90125. The concert film, called 9012Live, would premiere on MTV in late 1985, and it would be nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video.   Soderbergh would use the money he earned from that project, $7,500, to make Winston, a 12 minute black and white short about sexual deception that he would, over the course of an eight day driving trip from Baton Rouge to Los Angeles, expand to a full length screen that he would call sex, lies and videotape. In later years, Soderbergh would admit that part of the story is autobiographical, but not the part you might think. Instead of the lead, Graham, an impotent but still sexually perverse late twentysomething who likes to tape women talking about their sexual fantasies for his own pleasure later, Soderbergh based the husband John, the unsophisticated lawyer who cheats on his wife with her sister, on himself, although there would be a bit of Graham that borrows from the filmmaker. Like his lead character, Soderbergh did sell off most of his possessions and hit the road to live a different life.   When he finished the script, he sent it out into the wilds of Hollywood. Morgan Mason, the son of actor James Mason and husband of Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle, would read it and sign on as an executive producer. Soderbergh had wanted to shoot the film in black and white, like he had with the Winston short that lead to the creation of this screenplay, but he and Mason had trouble getting anyone to commit to the project, even with only a projected budget of $200,000. For a hot moment, it looked like Universal might sign on to make the film, but they would eventually pass.   Robert Newmyer, who had left his job as a vice president of production and acquisitions at Columbia Pictures to start his own production company, signed on as a producer, and helped to convince Soderbergh to shoot the film in color, and cast some name actors in the leading roles. Once he acquiesced, Richard Branson's Virgin Vision agreed to put up $540k of the newly budgeted $1.2m film, while RCA/Columbia Home Video would put up the remaining $660k.   Soderbergh and his casting director, Deborah Aquila, would begin their casting search in New York, where they would meet with, amongst others, Andie MacDowell, who had already starred in two major Hollywood pictures, 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, and 1985's St. Elmo's Fire, but was still considered more of a top model than an actress, and Laura San Giacomo, who had recently graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in Pittsburgh and would be making her feature debut. Moving on to Los Angeles, Soderbergh and Aquila would cast James Spader, who had made a name for himself as a mostly bad guy in 80s teen movies like Pretty in Pink and Less Than Zero, but had never been the lead in a drama like this. At Spader's suggestion, the pair met with Peter Gallagher, who was supposed to become a star nearly a decade earlier from his starring role in Taylor Hackford's The Idolmaker, but had mostly been playing supporting roles in television shows and movies for most of the decade.   In order to keep the budget down, Soderbergh, the producers, cinematographer Walt Lloyd and the four main cast members agreed to get paid their guild minimums in exchange for a 50/50 profit participation split with RCA/Columbia once the film recouped its costs.   The production would spend a week in rehearsals in Baton Rouge, before the thirty day shoot began on August 1st, 1988. On most days, the shoot was unbearable for many, as temperatures would reach as high as 110 degrees outside, but there were a couple days lost to what cinematographer Lloyd said was “biblical rains.” But the shoot completed as scheduled, and Soderbergh got to the task of editing right away. He knew he only had about eight weeks to get a cut ready if the film was going to be submitted to the 1989 U.S. Film Festival, now better known as Sundance. He did get a temporary cut of the film ready for submission, with a not quite final sound mix, and the film was accepted to the festival. It would make its world premiere on January 25th, 1989, in Park City UT, and as soon as the first screening was completed, the bids from distributors came rolling in. Larry Estes, the head of RCA/Columbia Home Video, would field more than a dozen submissions before the end of the night, but only one distributor was ready to make a deal right then and there.   Bob Weinstein wasn't totally sold on the film, but he loved the ending, and he loved that the word “sex” not only was in the title but lead the title. He knew that title alone would sell the movie. Harvey, who was still in New York the next morning, called Estes to make an appointment to meet in 24 hours. When he and Estes met, he brought with him three poster mockups the marketing department had prepared, and told Estes he wasn't going to go back to New York until he had a contract signed, and vowed to beat any other deal offered by $100,000. Island Pictures, who had made their name releasing movies like Stop Making Sense, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, The Trip to Bountiful and She's Gotta Have It, offered $1m for the distribution rights, plus a 30% distribution fee and a guaranteed $1m prints and advertising budget. Estes called Harvey up and told him what it would take to make the deal. $1.1m for the distribution rights, which needed to paid up front, a $1m P&A budget, to be put in escrow upon the signing of the contract until the film was released, a 30% distribution fee, no cutting of the film whatsoever once Soderbergh turns in his final cut, they would need to provide financial information for the films costs and returns once a month because of the profit participation contracts, and the Weinsteins would have to hire Ira Deutchman, who had spent nearly 15 years in the independent film world, doing marketing for Cinema 5, co-founding United Artists Classics, and co-founding Cinecom Pictures before opening his own company to act as a producers rep and marketer. And the Weinsteins would not only have to do exactly what Deutchman wanted, they'd have to pay for his services too.   The contract was signed a few weeks later.   The first move Miramax would make was to get Soderbergh's final cut of the film entered into the Cannes Film Festival, where it would be accepted to compete in the main competition. Which you kind of already know what happened, because that's what I lead with. The film would win the Palme D'Or, and Spader would be awarded the festival's award for Best Actor. It was very rare at the time, and really still is, for any film to be awarded more than one prize, so winning two was really a coup for the film and for Miramax, especially when many critics attending the festival felt Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing was the better film.   In March, Miramax expected the film to make around $5-10m, which would net the company a small profit on the film. After Cannes, they were hopeful for a $15m gross.   They never expected what would happen next.   On August 4th, sex, lies, and videotape would open on four screens, at the Cinema Studio in New York City, and at the AMC Century 14, the Cineplex Beverly Center 13 and the Mann Westwood 4 in Los Angeles. Three prime theatres and the best they could do in one of the then most competitive zones in all America. Remember, it's still the Summer 1989 movie season, filled with hits like Batman, Dead Poets Society, Ghostbusters 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Lethal Weapon 2, Parenthood, Turner & Hooch, and When Harry Met Sally. An independent distributor even getting one screen at the least attractive theatre in Westwood was a major get. And despite the fact that this movie wasn't really a summertime movie per se, the film would gross an incredible $156k in its first weekend from just these four theatres. Its nearly $40k per screen average would be 5x higher than the next closest film, Parenthood.   In its second weekend, the film would expand to 28 theatres, and would bring in over $600k in ticket sales, its per screen average of $21,527 nearly triple its closest competitor, Parenthood again. The company would keep spending small, as it slowly expanded the film each successive week. Forty theatres in its third week, and 101 in its fourth. The numbers held strong, and in its fifth week, Labor Day weekend, the film would have its first big expansion, playing in 347 theatres. The film would enter the top ten for the first time, despite playing in 500 to 1500 fewer theatres than the other films in the top ten. In its ninth weekend, the film would expand to its biggest screen count, 534, before slowly drawing down as the other major Oscar contenders started their theatrical runs. The film would continue to play through the Oscar season of 1989, and when it finally left theatres in May 1989, its final gross would be an astounding $24.7m.   Now, remember a few moments ago when I said that Miramax needed to provide financial statements every month for the profit participation contracts of Soderbergh, the producers, the cinematographer and the four lead actors? The film was so profitable for everyone so quickly that RCA/Columbia made its first profit participation payouts on October 17th, barely ten weeks after the film's opening.   That same week, Soderbergh also made what was at the time the largest deal with a book publisher for the writer/director's annotated version of the screenplay, which would also include his notes created during the creation of the film. That $75,000 deal would be more than he got paid to make the movie as the writer and the director and the editor, not counting the profit participation checks.   During the awards season, sex, lies, and videotape was considered to be one of the Oscars front runners for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and at least two acting nominations. The film would be nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress by the Golden Globes, and it would win the Spirit Awards for Best Picture, Soderbergh for Best Director, McDowell for Best Actress, and San Giacomo for Best Supporting Actress. But when the Academy Award nominations were announced, the film would only receive one nomination, for Best Original Screenplay. The same total and category as Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, which many people also felt had a chance for a Best Picture and Best Director nomination. Both films would lose out to Tom Shulman's screenplay for Dead Poet's Society.   The success of sex, lies, and videotape would launch Steven Soderbergh into one of the quirkiest Hollywood careers ever seen, including becoming the first and only director ever to be nominated twice for Best Director in the same year by the Motion Picture Academy, the Golden Globes and the Directors Guild of America, in 2001 for directing Erin Brockovich and Traffic. He would win the Oscar for directing Traffic.   Lost in the excitement of sex, lies, and videotape was The Little Thief, a French movie that had an unfortunate start as the screenplay François Truffaut was working on when he passed away in 1984 at the age of just 52.   Directed by Claude Miller, whose principal mentor was Truffaut, The Little Thief starred seventeen year old Charlotte Gainsbourg as Janine, a young woman in post-World War II France who commits a series of larcenies to support her dreams of becoming wealthy.   The film was a modest success in France when it opened in December 1988, but its American release date of August 25th, 1989, was set months in advance. So when it was obvious sex, lies, and videotape was going to be a bigger hit than they originally anticipated, it was too late for Miramax to pause the release of The Little Thief.   Opening at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City, and buoyed by favorable reviews from every major critic in town, The Little Thief would see $39,931 worth of ticket sales in its first seven days, setting a new house record at the theatre for the year. In its second week, the gross would only drop $47. For the entire week. And when it opened at the Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles, its opening week gross of $30,654 would also set a new house record for the year.   The film would expand slowly but surely over the next several weeks, often in single screen playdates in major markets, but it would never play on more than twenty-four screens in any given week. And after four months in theatres, The Little Thief, the last movie created one of the greatest film writers the world had ever seen, would only gross $1.056m in the United States.   The next three releases from Miramax were all sent out under the Millimeter Films banner.   The first, a supernatural erotic drama called The Girl in a Swing, was about an English antiques dealer who travels to Copenhagen where he meets and falls in love with a mysterious German-born secretary, whom he marries, only to discover a darker side to his new bride. Rupert Frazer, who played Christian Bale's dad in Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, plays the antique dealer, while Meg Tilly the mysterious new bride.   Filmed over a five week schedule in London and Copenhagen during May and June 1988, some online sources say the film first opened somewhere in California in December 1988, but I cannot find a single theatre not only in California but anywhere in the United States that played the film before its September 29th, 1989 opening date.   Roger Ebert didn't like the film, and wished Meg Tilly's “genuinely original performance” was in a better movie. Opening in 26 theatres, including six theatres each in New York City and Los Angeles, and spurred on by an intriguing key art for the film that featured a presumed naked Tilly on a swing looking seductively at the camera while a notice underneath her warns that No One Under 18 Will Be Admitted To The Theatre, The Girl in a Swing would gross $102k, good enough for 35th place nationally that week. And that's about the best it would do. The film would limp along, moving from market to market over the course of the next three months, and when its theatrical run was complete, it could only manage about $747k in ticket sales.   We'll quickly burn through the next two Millimeter Films releases, which came out a week apart from each other and didn't amount to much.   Animal Behavior was a rather unfunny comedy featuring some very good actors who probably signed on for a very different movie than the one that came to be. Karen Allen, Miss Marion Ravenwood herself, stars as Alex, a biologist who, like Dr. Jane Goodall, develops a “new” way to communicate with chimpanzees via sign language. Armand Assante plays a cellist who pursues the good doctor, and Holly Hunter plays the cellist's neighbor, who Alex mistakes for his wife.   Animal Behavior was filmed in 1984, and 1985, and 1987, and 1988. The initial production was directed by Jenny Bowen with the assistance of Robert Redford and The Sundance Institute, thanks to her debut film, 1981's Street Music featuring Elizabeth Daily. It's unknown why Bowen and her cinematographer husband Richard Bowen left the project, but when filming resumed again and again and again, those scenes were directed by the film's producer, Kjehl Rasmussen.   Because Bowen was not a member of the DGA at the time, she was not able to petition the guild for the use of the Alan Smithee pseudonym, a process that is automatically triggered whenever a director is let go of a project and filming continues with its producer taking the reigns as director. But she was able to get the production to use a pseudonym anyway for the director's credit, H. Anne Riley, while also giving Richard Bowen a pseudonym of his own for his work on the film, David Spellvin.   Opening on 24 screens on October 27th, Animal Behavior would come in 50th place in its opening weekend, grossing just $20,361. The New York film critics ripped the film apart, and there wouldn't be a second weekend for the film.   The following Friday, November 3rd, saw the release of The Stepfather II, a rushed together sequel to 1987's The Stepfather, which itself wasn't a big hit in theatres but found a very quick and receptive audience on cable.   Despite dying at the end of the first film, Terry O'Quinn's Jerry is somehow still alive, and institutionalized in Northern Washington state. He escapes and heads down to Los Angeles, where he assumes the identity of a recently deceased publisher, Gene Clifford, but instead passes himself off as a psychiatrist. Jerry, now Gene, begins to court his neighbor Carol, and the whole crazy story plays out again. Meg Foster plays the neighbor Carol, and Jonathan Brandis is her son.    Director Jeff Burr had made a name for himself with his 1987 horror anthology film From a Whisper to a Scream, featuring Vincent Price, Clu Gulager and Terry Kiser, and from all accounts, had a very smooth shooting process with this film. The trouble began when he turned in his cut to the producers. The producers were happy with the film, but when they sent it to Miramax, the American distributors, they were rather unhappy with the almost bloodless slasher film. They demanded reshoots, which Burr and O'Quinn refused to participate in. They brought in a new director, Doug Campbell, to handle the reshoots, which are easy to spot in the final film because they look and feel completely different from the scenes they're spliced into.   When it opened, The Stepfather II actually grossed slightly more than the first film did, earning $279k from 100 screens, compared to $260k for The Stepfather from 105 screens. But unlike the first film, which had some decent reviews when it opened, the sequel was a complete mess. To this day, it's still one of the few films to have a 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and The Stepfather II would limp its way through theatres during the Christmas holiday season, ending its run with a $1.5m gross.   But it would be their final film of the decade that would dictate their course for at least the first part of the 1990s.   Remember when I said earlier in the episode that Harvey Weinstein meant with the producers of another British film while in London for Scandal? We're at that film now, a film you probably know.   My Left Foot.   By November 1988, actor Daniel Day-Lewis had starred in several movies including James Ivory's A Room With a View and Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being. He had even been the lead in a major Hollywood studio film, Pat O'Connor's Stars and Bars, a very good film that unfortunately got caught up in the brouhaha over the exit of the studio head who greenlit the film, David Puttnam.   The film's director, Jim Sheridan, had never directed a movie before. He had become involved in stage production during his time at the University College in Dublin in the late 1960s, where he worked with future filmmaker Neil Jordan, and had spent nearly a decade after graduation doing stage work in Ireland and Canada, before settling in New York City in the early 1980s. Sheridan would go to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where one of his classmates was Spike Lee, and return to Ireland after graduating. He was nearly forty, married with two pre-teen daughters, and he needed to make a statement with his first film.   He would find that story in the autobiography of Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, whose spirit and creativity could not be contained by his severe cerebral palsy. Along with Irish actor and writer Shane Connaughton, Sheridan wrote a screenplay that could be a powerhouse film made on a very tight budget of less than a million dollars.   Daniel Day-Lewis was sent a copy of the script, in the hopes he would be intrigued enough to take almost no money to play a physically demanding role. He read the opening pages, which had the adult Christy Brown putting a record on a record player and dropping the needle on to the record with his left foot, and thought to himself it would be impossible to film. That intrigued him, and he signed on. But during filming in January and February of 1989, most of the scenes were shot using mirrors, as Day-Lewis couldn't do the scenes with his left foot. He could do them with his right foot, hence the mirrors.   As a method actor, Day-Lewis remained in character as Christy Brown for the entire two month shoot. From costume fittings and makeup in the morning, to getting the actor on set, to moving him around between shots, there were crew members assigned to assist the actor as if they were Christy Brown's caretakers themselves, including feeding him during breaks in shooting. A rumor debunked by the actor years later said Day-Lewis had broken two ribs during production because of how hunched down he needed to be in his crude prop wheelchair to properly play the character.   The actor had done a lot of prep work to play the role, including spending time at the Sandymount School Clinic where the young Christy Brown got his education, and much of his performance was molded on those young people.   While Miramax had acquired the American distribution rights to the film before it went into production, and those funds went into the production of the film, the film was not produced by Miramax, nor were the Weinsteins given any kind of executive producer credit, as they were able to get themselves on Scandal.   My Left Foot would make its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival on September 4th, 1989, followed soon thereafter by screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13th and the New York Film Festival on September 23rd. Across the board, critics and audiences were in love with the movie, and with Daniel Day-Lewis's performance. Jim Sheridan would receive a special prize at the Montreal World Film Festival for his direction, and Day-Lewis would win the festival's award for Best Actor. However, as the film played the festival circuit, another name would start to pop up. Brenda Fricker, a little known Irish actress who played Christy Brown's supportive but long-suffering mother Bridget, would pile up as many positive notices and awards as Day-Lewis. Although there was no Best Supporting Actress Award at the Montreal Film Festival, the judges felt her performance was deserving of some kind of attention, so they would create a Special Mention of the Jury Award to honor her.   Now, some sources online will tell you the film made its world premiere in Dublin on February 24th, 1989, based on a passage in a biography about Daniel Day-Lewis, but that would be impossible as the film would still be in production for two more days, and wasn't fully edited or scored by then.   I'm not sure when it first opened in the United Kingdom other than sometime in early 1990, but My Left Foot would have its commercial theatre debut in America on November 10th, when opened at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in New York City and the Century City 14 in Los Angeles. Sheila Benson of the Los Angeles Times would, in the very opening paragraph of her review, note that one shouldn't see My Left Foot for some kind of moral uplift or spiritual merit badge, but because of your pure love of great moviemaking. Vincent Canby's review in the New York Times spends most of his words praising Day-Lewis and Sheridan for making a film that is polite and non-judgmental.    Interestingly, Miramax went with an ad campaign that completely excluded any explanation of who Christy Brown was or why the film is titled the way it is. 70% of the ad space is taken from pull quotes from many of the top critics of the day, 20% with the title of the film, and 10% with a picture of Daniel Day-Lewis, clean shaven and full tooth smile, which I don't recall happening once in the movie, next to an obviously added-in picture of one of his co-stars that is more camera-friendly than Brenda Fricker or Fiona Shaw.   Whatever reasons people went to see the film, they flocked to the two theatres playing the film that weekend. It's $20,582 per screen average would be second only to Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, which had opened two days earlier, earning slightly more than $1,000 per screen than My Left Foot.   In week two, My Left Foot would gross another $35,133 from those two theatres, and it would overtake Henry V for the highest per screen average. In week three, Thanksgiving weekend, both Henry V and My Left Foot saw a a double digit increase in grosses despite not adding any theatres, and the latter film would hold on to the highest per screen average again, although the difference would only be $302. And this would continue for weeks. In the film's sixth week of release, it would get a boost in attention by being awarded Best Film of the Year by the New York Film Critics Circle. Daniel Day-Lewis would be named Best Actor that week by both the New York critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, while Fricker would win the Best Supporting Actress award from the latter group.   But even then, Miramax refused to budge on expanding the film until its seventh week of release, Christmas weekend, when My Left Foot finally moved into cities like Chicago and San Francisco. Its $135k gross that weekend was good, but it was starting to lose ground to other Oscar hopefuls like Born on the Fourth of July, Driving Miss Daisy, Enemies: A Love Story, and Glory.   And even though the film continued to rack up award win after award win, nomination after nomination, from the Golden Globes and the Writers Guild and the National Society of Film Critics and the National Board of Review, Miramax still held firm on not expanding the film into more than 100 theatres nationwide until its 16th week in theatres, February 16th, 1990, two days after the announcement of the nominees for the 62nd Annual Academy Awards. While Daniel Day-Lewis's nomination for Best Actor was virtually assured and Brenda Fricker was practically a given, the film would pick up three other nominations, including surprise nominations for Best Picture and Best Director. Jim Sheridan and co-writer Shane Connaughton would also get picked for Best Adapted Screenplay.   Miramax also picked up a nomination for Best Original Screenplay for sex, lies, and videotape, and a Best Foreign Language Film nod for the Italian movie Cinema Paradiso, which, thanks to the specific rules for that category, a film could get a nomination before actually opening in theatres in America, which Miramax would rush to do with Paradiso the week after its nomination was announced.   The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony would be best remembered today as being the first Oscar show to be hosted by Billy Crystal, and for being considerably better than the previous year's ceremony, a mess of a show best remembered as being the one with a 12 minute opening musical segment that included Rob Lowe singing Proud Mary to an actress playing Snow White and another nine minute musical segment featuring a slew of expected future Oscar winners that, to date, feature exact zero Oscar nominees, both which rank as amongst the worst things to ever happen to the Oscars awards show.   The ceremony, held on March 26th, would see My Left Foot win two awards, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, as well as Cinema Paradiso for Best Foreign Film. The following weekend, March 30th, would see Miramax expand My Left Foot to 510 theatres, its widest point of release, and see the film made the national top ten and earn more than a million dollars for its one and only time during its eight month run.   The film would lose steam pretty quickly after its post-win bump, but it would eek out a modest run that ended with $14.75m in ticket sales just in the United States. Not bad for a little Irish movie with no major stars that cost less than a million dollars to make.   Of course, the early 90s would see Miramax fly to unimagined heights. In all of the 80s, Miramax would release 39 movies. They would release 30 films alone in 1991. They would release the first movies from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith. They'd release some of the best films from some of the best filmmakers in the world, including Woody Allen, Pedro Almadovar, Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Atom Egoyan, Steven Frears, Peter Greenaway, Peter Jackson, Neil Jordan, Chen Kaige, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Lars von Trier, and Zhang Yimou. In 1993, the Mexican dramedy Like Water for Chocolate would become the highest grossing foreign language film ever released in America, and it would play in some theatres, including my theatre, the NuWilshire in Santa Monica, continuously for more than a year.   If you've listened to the whole series on the 1980s movies of Miramax Films, there are two things I hope you take away. First, I hope you discovered at least one film you hadn't heard of before and you might be interested in searching out. The second is the reminder that neither Bob nor Harvey Weinstein will profit in any way if you give any of the movies talked about in this series a chance. They sold Miramax to Disney in June 1993. They left Miramax in September 2005. Many of the contracts for the movies the company released in the 80s and 90s expired decades ago, with the rights reverting back to their original producers, none of whom made any deals with the Weinsteins once they got their rights back.   Harvey Weinstein is currently serving a 23 year prison sentence in upstate New York after being found guilty in 2020 of two sexual assaults. Once he completes that sentence, he'll be spending another 16 years in prison in California, after he was convicted of three sexual assaults that happened in Los Angeles between 2004 and 2013. And if the 71 year old makes it to 107 years old, he may have to serve time in England for two sexual assaults that happened in August 1996. That case is still working its way through the British legal system.   Bob Weinstein has kept a low profile since his brother's proclivities first became public knowledge in October 2017, although he would also be accused of sexual harassment by a show runner for the brothers' Spike TV-aired adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Mist, several days after the bombshell articles came out about his brother. However, Bob's lawyer, the powerful attorney to the stars Bert Fields, deny the allegations, and it appears nothing has occurred legally since the accusations were made.   A few weeks after the start of the MeToo movement that sparked up in the aftermath of the accusations of his brother's actions, Bob Weinstein denied having any knowledge of the nearly thirty years of documented sexual abuse at the hands of his brother, but did allow to an interviewer for The Hollywood Reporter that he had barely spoken to Harvey over the previous five years, saying he could no longer take Harvey's cheating, lying and general attitude towards everyone.   And with that, we conclude our journey with Miramax Films. While I am sure Bob and Harvey will likely pop up again in future episodes, they'll be minor characters at best, and we'll never have to focus on anything they did ever again.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again soon, when Episode 119 is released.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

Join Gab and Georgie as they review all of Round 6 in the NRLW. We hear from Cronulla Fullback Jada Taylor's Father Luke, preview all the matches for Round 7 and have our inaugural Mojo Mad Minute with Sharks Centre Andie Robinson!  Check out our other shows on the Mojo Sports Network and be sure to look out for the full Luke Taylor interview dropping later this week! ROUND 6 REVIEW  Cowboys vs Eels 2:16 - 4:20Dragons vs Titans 4:21 - 8:06Roosters vs Tigers 8:07 - 10:27Broncos vs Raiders 10:28 - 13:15Knights vs Sharks 13:16 - 16:17 Quickfire Weekly Rap: 16:18 - 17:37  Jada Taylor's Father Luke has a chat with Georgie: 17:38 - 20:17 ROUND 7 PREVIEWS   Raiders vs Knights 20:28 - 21:29Broncos vs Sharks 21:30 - 22:13Cowboys vs Dragons 23:14 - 23:09Titans vs Tigers 23:10 - 24:19Roosters vs Eels 24:20 - 25:27 Team of the Week 27:34 - 29:25 Mojo Mad Minute with the Shark's Andie Robinson 29:26 - 35:22 Viewer Question of the Week 35:23 - 39:48 Special Mentions: 39:49 - www.mojosports.com.au

Her cider journey has taken her from a HUGE commercial cidery in Michigan to a small production cidery and tasting room in North Carolina where they use pet nat processes and disgorging. And each experience feeds her passion for cider and the apples that make it. Becca Galvin joins me to share her wild cider ride and share how she has made a place for herself both behind the bar and behind the scenes. Enjoy!Special Mentions and Resources:Virtue CiderBotanist & Barrel Cidery & WineryGLINTCAP - Great Lakes International Cider and Perry CompetitionIf in Asheville, NC - Asheville Food ToursPomme Boots is now part of Pink Boots Society - Find some local alcohol industry friends today!Pet Nat - Originating from France, Pétillant Naturel, translates to mean "naturally sparkling“. This refers to the final part of the process, in which fermentation is finished off in either bottles or cans to create fine carbonation bubbles.Fortified Cider - Cider that has been strengthened in alcohol (and aroma and flavor) after fermentation by the addition of spirits is generally called Fortified Cider. A cider fortified with apple spirits is known in France as pommeau.Thank you to Tony Stuck for the awesome intro/outro music and to Mary Ann King for the amazing pod art that you see for every episode. If you've enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, rate, and review the podcast! 5 stars goes a long long way and I so appreciate your support. For more information about me and this podcast visit us online at othercwords.com or follow the podcast @othercwords. Talk to you soon! And thanks for joining me today!

Yoni Kozminski is the Founder of South Col and the Founder and CEO of Escala and MultiplyMii. South Col is an e-commerce accelerator empowering founders to reach peak potential, while Escala offers consulting services for e-commerce companies and Amazon sellers who want to scale their businesses. On the other hand, MultiplyMii specializes in affordable offshore staffing solutions and HR outsourcing for e-commerce businesses. Both Escala and MultiplyMii, however, provide different solutions aimed at taking e-commerce and Amazon businesses to the next level.  In addition to being a scaling expert and an entrepreneur, Yoni hosts the podcast Successful Scales, where he interviews leaders on what it takes to build successful businesses. He has a background in digital marketing and advertising and has worked with companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Mastercard, and Sony, to name a few. In this episode… It's fair to say that when entrepreneurs set out to go into business for themselves, the end goal is to grow it to seven figures and beyond and earn huge profits. It's also fair to say that when entrepreneurs reach this level of success, they want to be able to enjoy it. Sure, running a business comes with many stressors, but some factors can alleviate the pressures associated with growing a business.  The first step to lessen stress, according to entrepreneur and business leader Yoni Kozminski, is to simply get out of your own way. So, what does that mean, and how do you get out of your own way? You start by creating or purchasing a reliable operational system. In this enlightening episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, host Josh Hadley sits down with Yoni Kozminski, the Founder of South Col, Escala, and MultiplyMii, to discuss business operating systems and organizational structures that can help entrepreneurs scale to eight figures and beyond. Yoni explains how to build operating systems, the four core processes for a $20 million Amazon FBA Business, and the steps to take to become a successful entrepreneur. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Yoni Kozminski on LinkedIn Email Yoni: Yoni@multiplymii.com South Col Escala  MultiplyMii Successful Scales Podcast Yoni's 35% Discount Offer - Use Coupon Code: ecommbreakthrough Special Mention(s): Norm Farrar on LinkedIn Bradley Sutton on LinkedIn Kevin King Brandon Young on LinkedIn Adam Runquist on LinkedIn The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey ChatGPT Related Episode(s): “Here's All the Advice You Need to Boost Your Brand Equity With Norm Farrar” “Dominate Amazon Product Launches: Tactics & Strategies From the Expert Bradley Sutton” “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans”

Corey Apirian is the CEO of Davinci Micro Fulfillment, a full-service logistics company partnering with retailers and brands to help market, sell, fulfill, and ship its products. Corey is a 15-year supply chain and operations leader. Additionally, he has over 20 years of experience in the e-commerce fulfillment industry specializing in channel merchandising, aligning operational initiatives with corporate objectives, and building and leading high-performing teams through inclusion, collaboration, and engagement. Through his years of experience, Corey has launched over 50 different subcategories through online and brick-and-mortar channels. In this episode… With the ever-evolving needs of Amazon and the changes in logistics on Amazon, if your company isn't properly staffed with essential experts in place, your company could be at a disadvantage. If you only rely on a virtual assistant to handle all operational needs, you may have already put your company in jeopardy. While virtual assistants may be administrative experts and take direction well, they aren't considered supply chain or operations experts. So, what position hires should be a priority in today's market? Business leaders Corey Apirian and Josh Hadley strongly suggest hiring a supply chain manager or expert as quickly as possible. A supply chain manager oversees, coordinates, and manages the logistics regarding the production and distribution processes of the company's goods. Supply chain management is integral to a company's success because an expert in this field can boost customer service, reduce operating costs, and improve the financial position of the company. Those are just a few responsibilities of a supply chain manager. Want to learn more about supply chain logistics?  Join host Josh Hadley in this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast where he welcomes the CEO of Davinci Micro Fulfillment, Corey Apirian, for an in-depth discussion about global supply chain and shipping and logistics. Corey advises on how to build a shipping business, the steps to grow an e-commerce business, the role that smart merchandising plays in selling on Amazon, and more. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Corey Apirian on LinkedIn Davinci Micro Fulfillment Email Corey: Corey@Davincimfc.com Special Mention(s): Norm Farrar on LinkedIn Steve Simonson on LinkedIn Kevin King Rick Watson on LinkedIn The Fulfillment IQ Podcast Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins ChatGPT Power BI Related Episode(s): “Here's All the Advice You Need to Boost Your Brand Equity With Norm Farrar” “Actions You Must Take To Prepare Your Business for a Recession” “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans”

Will Russell is the Founder and CEO of Russell Marketing, an innovative digital agency focusing on e-commerce launch marketing. Russell Marketing has generated over $25M in revenue for over 300 rising entrepreneurs. In November 2022, Will launched the Russell Gives Foundation, a family organization offering grants and mentorship to 501(c)(3) partners committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Will's accolades include features in Forbes, Business Insider, Crain's New York, and Startup Nation, and in 2022, he released his first book, Launch in 5: Take Your Idea From Lightbulb Moment to Profitable Business in Record Time. In this episode… Launching new products is one of the ideal ways to grow a business and increase revenue. While a new or innovative product may be exciting, it comes with many stressors. As an upcoming entrepreneur, you may not have adequate financial backing, which could prevent you from investing in a launch campaign. So, what can you do in this instance? Business leader and product launch specialist Will Russell has systems in place to help guide you through your first product launch. Have you validated your product by simply engaging or enticing your customers? Do you know about and understand Amazon brand analytics that can determine your market opportunity? These are just a few steps in Russell's method to successfully launch products. Interested in learning more? Join host Josh Hadley in this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast where he talks with the Founder and CEO of Russell Marketing, Will Russell, to discuss creating powerful marketing systems to launch new products. Together, the two discuss strategies for launching new products, how to know if your product is a winner, and understanding pain points. Plus, Will gets to talk about his first book. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Will Russell on LinkedIn Russell Marketing Russell Gives Foundation Launch in 5: Take Your Idea From Lightbulb Moment to Profitable Business in Record Time by Will Russell  Special Mention(s): Kevin King Howard Thai on LinkedIn Roland Frasier on LinkedIn Michael E. Gerber on LinkedIn The E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber Related Episode(s): Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans Mastermind Level Strategies From a Former Top 50 Amazon Seller With Howard Thai Seven Acquisition Strategies to Scale to Eight Figures and Beyond

Scott Deetz is the Founder and CEO of the Northbound Group, a Minneapolis-based financial advisory firm, providing strategic finance, corporate development, and merger and acquisition services to the e-commerce industry. After selling his first business, an eight-figure brand, Scott realized his passion for helping entrepreneurs and companies sell their businesses. Northbound's 30-plus-members team is dedicated to the firm's mission of helping e-commerce entrepreneurs achieve life-changing events. Before founding the Northbound Group, Scott was the Owner and CEO of the Amazon business Entrepreneurial Advantage. In this episode… When an entrepreneur is ready to sell his or her company, an exit strategy should already be in place. This type of strategy gives the owner the option to liquidate their stake in the business, limit loss, or make a substantial profit. So, if you're planning to exit your business, what should you be doing now? Business leader Scott Deetz recommends starting with the following tactics. First, start building a data room today. A data room is simply a series of folders that will allow your potential buyer to get a quick overview of your company. Second, implement strategic financing, which gives you a better understanding of your company's valuation. Lastly, start organizing your accounting.  Want to learn more? Tune into this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast where host Josh Hadley welcomes the Founder and CEO of the Northbound Group, Scott Deetz, to discuss actions to take before exiting a business. Scott shares the various types of business exits and buyers, an exit case study, and when it's time to contact an exit strategist. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Scott Deetz on LinkedIn Northbound Group Gift from Scott - Email: Scott@NorthboundGroup.com Special Mention(s): Kevin King Howard Thai on LinkedIn Roland Frasier on LinkedIn Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins Monday Manny Coats on LinkedIn Guillermo Puyol on LinkedIn Helium 10 Related Episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” “Mastermind Level Strategies From a Former Top 50 Amazon Seller With Howard Thai” “Seven Acquisition Strategies to Scale to Eight Figures and Beyond”

Join us for our very Special LIVE Podcast from our most recent LA, LIVE Coffee & A Good Vibe Event ft a powerhouse panel of iconic Brand Names, Experts and Entrepreneurs in the industry! Meet your panel: Jake Karls - Founder of Midday Squares  Jessica Sepel - Founder of JS Health  Montana Tucker - TikTok Star ⁠Dylan Barbour -⁠ Co-Founder of Vizer App, Former Reality TV Star  Michael Chernow - Founder of Kreatures of Habit This event was our biggest and most elaborate event yet for Coffee & A Good Vibe LIVE in Los Angeles. Since the growth of the show, we have been creating a lot of Impactful events in the LIVE Events space in both Los Angeles & New York City. OUR INTENTION BEHIND OUR EVENTS: To Curate these intentional experiences to foster meaningful connections and relationships amongst Founders/ Entrepreneurs/ Aspiring Entrepreneurs, Tastemakers in various host cities. Keep an eye out for our next Industry Night / Live Event by following our IG - @coffeeandagoodvibe! Special Mentions & Shoutout to our incredible Event Sponsors: Route, AMASS Botanicals, BiOptimizers, Shipbob, JS Health, Dream Pops, KOH, Midday Squares If you want to become a partner for one of our next events, get in touch: pr@growthesocial.com EPISODE SUMMARY: PANEL QUESTIONS How do you continue to strengthen your self-awareness on your purpose that allows you to show up in the way that you do and use your platform for purpose?  What roles do you think authenticity and transparency play when building a successful brand community on social media? How does JS Health approach product innovation?  What do you think are the most important factors when trying to differentiate a brand, and why? Networking & Relationship Building: How to build beneficial relationships for your brand Mental Health: How to get yourself out of a rough mental health / the lowest moments and periods in your life to completely transform your life What is the ultimate for of success and fulfilment in life? What brings you fulfillment? LIVE PANEL Q & A with the audience Share the love & let me know your thoughts over on Instagram,⁠ @coffeeandagoodvibe | @ayeshasehra⁠ EPISODE MENTIONS: Route's free mobile app helps you track, discover and experience the world's brands through a reimagined e-commerce network that connects and empowers both consumers and merchants. Their platform also offers a full suite of features on the B2B side of their business - from helping with their post-purchase experience and offset the carbon of their online orders. Route has built a network of over 20 million app users and 20,000+ brand partners. Download Route for FREE in the App Store! Or if a brand founder / team interested in learning more, email pr@growthesocial.com and we will get you connected with the team! CONNECT: YOUTUBE ➟ Watch & subscribe to our channel here ➟ ⁠Coffee & A Good Vibe Video Interviews ⁠ To connect with Ayesha Sehra ➟ click⁠ HERE⁠ Check out our podcast insta ➟ click ⁠HERE⁠ To learn about my Branding & PR Agency Grow The Social ➟ click ⁠HERE ⁠ To connect with this week's guest click  ➟ ⁠HERE

In this episode, we are highlighting the wonderful Jennifer Scully-Thurston, also known as Rogue Dancer.  Frameform listeners may already know this friend of the podcast and fellow panelist at last year's Screendance Symposium. Enjoy this conversation with Scully and Jen Ray including experiences producing  festivals online and in person, creative approaches to curation and the pursuit of solutions instead of obstacles.  Jennifer Scully-Thurston (Scully) is a choreographer, dance filmmaker, curator, journalist, and video installation artist. She is founder and director of FilmFest by Rogue Dancer, a monthly thematic on-line event devoted to dance. She has curated and adjudicated for EnCore: Dance on Film, James River Film Festival, and Screen Dance International.Her dance films have been featured in Core Dance presents… REEL ART (commission), ADF Movies by Movers, Golden Earth Film Award (Best Female Director 2021), Direct Monthly Online Film Festival (Best Female Director 2019), DepicT! (Special Mention), and numerous other prestigious international festivals. She has been an administrator with Grasshorse (character animation studio), HOU & ATL Core Dance (performance company), and NC Arts in Action (in-school public dance program) and is currently Manager of Studio Programs and Community Engagement at the American Dance Festival.More about Rogue Dancer: We believe dance exists outside the walls of a proscenium stage.  It can exist in the wild with mischievous playfulness.  A person or organization can create work anywhere that wanders and behaves in unusual ways.  The creation and presentation of Dance Film is a great representation of these ideas.  We are dancers who have gone off grid to create work in our own way, with our own rules.–Thank you to Scully for being our first ever Frameform Fan and all of the wonderful support and engagement over the years. We are thrilled to share about your dynamic body of work and we're looking forward to having Frameform be part of ADF's Movies by Movers this season!–Listen to Season 3 Screendance Symposium Panel EpisodeWatch and Submit to FilmFest By Rogue DancerBecome a Rogue Dancer Patreon SupporterAmerican Dance Festival's Movies By Movers Follow on IG @roguedance @amerdancefest –Got a question? Email us at frameformpodcast@gmail.com–Follow us @frameformpod

Afolabi Oyerokun is the Co-owner of Honu Worldwide, a Pennsylvania-based company that streamlines business practices for optimum efficiency and profitability. Afolabi's 20 years of experience as an expert in logistics and streamlining strategies and relationship building led him to found Honu Worldwide. Because he has such a talent and passion for finding high-quality products at bargain prices, Afolabi spends his time helping seven-figure Amazon brands increase their profits. Additionally, Afolabi is the CEO of Trillion Source, a business consulting firm for new product development. In this episode… Depending on the industry niche, e-commerce runs the risk of becoming oversaturated. Additionally, it doesn't help you as a seller to create or market products that are overproduced. So, what must you do to succeed as an Amazon and e-commerce entrepreneur? Business leader Afolabi Oyerokun advocates for innovation. Instead of gauging the market to see what's selling, do your due diligence to discover what consumers need so you can bring something new to the market. As a veteran e-commerce entrepreneur, Afolabi offers a wealth of knowledge and experience. In this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, host Josh Hadley welcomes the Co-owner of Honu Worldwide, Afolabi Oyerokun, to discuss starting an Amazon business. Afolabi shares how he entered the world of Amazon, strategies for starting and exiting a business, seller lessons to avoid, and more. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Afolabi Oyerokun on LinkedIn Honu Worldwide Afolabi's special gift — email: Savings@HonuWorldwide.com Special Mention(s): Kevin King Steven Pope on LinkedIn Norm Farrar on LinkedIn Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki Kajabi Click Funnels Russell Brunson on LinkedIn Related Episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” “Four Critical Pillars for Amazon Listing Optimization” “Here's All the Advice You Need to Boost Your Brand Equity With Norm Farrar”

Brian Johnson is the Co-founder of Canopy Management, a full-service digital advertising agency for Amazon brands. In addition to Canopy Management and his 20-plus years of experience, Brian has helped over 20,000 brands grow $1 billion in Amazon sales via his Amazon advertising consultancy. As a result, his products and services continue to keep him in high demand with small and large market companies globally.  In this episode… Amazon is not only a best-selling e-commerce channel, it has also become a trustworthy product advertising platform. Positive advertising provides product visibility, increasing sales and profitability. So as a seller, what must you do before creating a successful advertising campaign? Entrepreneur and business leader Brian Johnson recommends taking these steps into accountability. Consider how to differentiate your product listing and constantly be innovative, conduct a top 20 term search, and understand why customers purchase your products.  In this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, host Josh Hadley welcomes the Co-founder of Canopy Management, Brian Johnson, to discuss Amazon advertising and product optimization. Brian shares his first experience with Amazon changed his life, how he launched his first course, his advice on how Amazon sellers can grow beyond eight figures, and the most common images brands use for product optimization. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Brian Johnson on LinkedIn Canopy Management Brian's Gift: Free Strategy Session Email Brian: Brian@CanopyManagement.com Special Mention(s): Steve Simonson on LinkedIn Kevin King Steven Pope on LinkedIn Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss Review Monitoring Acquisition Alex Hormozi on LinkedIn Leila Hormozi on LinkedIn $100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No by Alex Hormozi Related Episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” “Four Critical Pillars for Amazon Listing Optimization” “Actions You Must Take To Prepare Your Business for a Recession”

Steven Yates is the CEO of Prime Guidance, an agency providing Amazon, Walmart, and eBay sellers and vendors with coaching and advisory services to help them grow their businesses on marketplaces faster and operate smarter. He is also the Founder of All Industry Consulting, which offers expert advice to clients regarding merchandising, purchasing, sourcing, sales, and business development. Before founding Prime Guidance and All Industry Consulting, Steve developed well-rounded expertise working for multibillion dollar Fortune 500 retailers such as Amazon, Dick's Sporting Goods, and eBay Enterprise. In this episode… Are you an Amazon seller? Which levers do you need to pull in your business to increase sales and grow on Amazon and other marketplaces? With the high competition on Amazon, sellers need to up their game and try to stand to sell more. To increase their conversion rate in any marketplace, sellers need to optimize product pages, keyword research, internal and external traffic generation, and content creation, including A+ content and infographics. Learn how Steven Yates helps shoppers win with all these and more through Prime Guidance.  Tune into this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast with host Josh Hadley as he sits down with Steven Yates, CEO of Prime Guidance. Steve talks about Prime Guidance and what it does, other marketplaces Prime Guidance helps sellers thrive in apart from Amazon, considerations for migrating to other marketplaces, and levers sellers can pull on Amazon that can influence sales and help them grow their brands. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Prime Guidance  Call Prime Guidance on 972-885-9262 All Industry Consulting  Steven Yates on LinkedIn  Special Mention(s): Kevin King Steven Pope on LinkedIn Helium 10  Splitly Reviews Anker   Nozzle.ai  James Thomson on LinkedIn  Prosper Show  Past episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” “Four Critical Pillars for Amazon Listing Optimization” "Seven Acquisition Strategies To Scale To Eight Figures and Beyond"

evening people!we hope you've had a blessed week thus far -- we're here to get you thinking and/or engaging again as we discuss the idea of idols, whether people or things, and the prevalence we allow them to have in our lives.hope you enjoy this one! God bless you allINSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/thevisionspod/SPECIAL MENTION:https://theholyclub.co.uk/Go find yourself some God-inspired, top-quality, Christian clothing here!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/visions-podcast/donations

Kris Gramlich is the Account Executive at Sellozo, a comprehensive suite of intelligent tools that helps Amazon Sellers grow and manage their businesses. Insights and analytics with financial reporting offered by Sellozo provide Amazon Sellers an enhanced and complete view of their sales and product data, paired with both organic and sponsored sales and performance data, in an easy-to-use, intuitive dashboard. Kris is a professional FBA seller and a podcast host of Two Amazon Sellers and a Microphone, where they discuss everything related to selling on Amazon. Enjoying the thrill of selling items in the garage as a kid to selling clothes on eBay, Kris learned how to sell physical products on Amazon in 2013 and launched his first product in 2014. He has four brands and enjoys helping other sellers achieve success on Amazon. In this episode… Amazon is a massive platform with hundreds of millions of products posing high competition. So, how can you stand out as an Amazon seller to make sales?  It entails a lot for Amazon sellers to succeed. They need to understand product launches, marketing, listing optimization, keyword research, ranking, reviews, and working strategies they could implement in their businesses — which they might not have the expertise to execute successfully. They need software and experts knowledgeable on the entire Amazon platform who can help them grow, manage, and scale their Amazon brands efficiently. Learn how Kris Gramlich helps Amazon sellers thrive with Sellozo.  Tune into this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast with host Josh Hadley as he sits down with Kris Gramlich, Account Executive at Sellozo. Kris talks about the mistakes Amazon sellers make, tips for successfully launching new products on Amazon, how to build an audience with insert cards and free samples, and the importance of leveraging influencer marketing. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Kris Gramlich on LinkedIn Sellozo Two Amazon Sellers and a Microphone  Special Mention(s): Kevin King Steven Pope on LinkedIn Nozzle.ai Refersion Adam Heist on YouTube  Books Mentioned: Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow   Past episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” “Four Critical Pillars for Amazon Listing Optimization” "Seven Acquisition Strategies To Scale To Eight Figures and Beyond"  "Increase Organic Amazon Ranking Through Google Ads"

Chad Rubin is the Founder and CEO of Profasee, a pricing platform that enables Amazon brands to predict ideal product prices. He leads Profasee's operations and overseas IT strategy. Chad often speaks about e-commerce, Amazon, and leveraging AI strategies on webinars and conferences worldwide. He is also the author of the Amazon bestseller, Cheaper, Easier, Direct. Before Profasee, Chad founded Think Crucial and co-founded Skubana and the Prosper Show. In this episode… Are you an Amazon brand that relies on traditional pricing strategies alone? There's a chance you leave lots of money on the table that could increase your profit margin. So, how can you optimize your Amazon sales, increase your profits, and incorporate AI into your e-commerce businesses? According to Amazon expert Chad Rubin, many brands have great products and even bigger ambitions but leave pricing strategies up to fate. It was the same for Chad with his e-commerce brand. As he looked for new ways to unlock huge profits, he discovered that pricing is the most relevant lever that flows to the bottom line, and it's a huge blind spot to many. Because there are few tools in the Amazon space to test prices, he built a world-class AI model that analyzes hundreds of real-time data points to help e-commerce brands pinpoint the perfect price for them to start profiting.  Tune into this episode of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast with host Josh Hadley as he sits down with Chad Rubin, the Founder and CEO of Profasee. The two discuss how pricing is a challenge to many, how to change prices to maximize profits without sacrificing your BSR, and the importance of leveraging AI as an e-commerce business. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Profasee Chad Rubin on LinkedIn Chad Rubin's Email: chad@profasee.com Chad Rubin on Twitter   Cheaper Easier Direct by Chad Rubin and Frank Turner  Prosper Show  James Thomson on LinkedIn Skubana Think Crucial    The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss  The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson  The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building by Matt Machory, Alex MacCaw, and Misha Talavera  Notion  Brandon Young on LinkedIn Steven Pope on LinkedIn   Special Mention(s): Kevin King My Amazon Guy Past episode(s): “Kevin King's Wicked-Smart Tips for Building an Audience of Raving Fans” “Four Critical Pillars for Amazon Listing Optimization” "Seven Acquisition Strategies To Scale To Eight Figures and Beyond"

QBA Sessions Vol 25 - Cause and Effect is a collection of some amazing tracks and remixes that show off the Progressive genre of house music at its best. Special thanks to @alex_kogan to who several tracks on here were made possible! Special Mention to @eran-hersh Miami's own making some amazing music as well!1. Black Coffee, Sun-El Musician, Maxine Ashley You Need Me feat. Maxine Ashley feat. Sun-El Musician (Original Mix) 2. Juan Deminicis Samhadi (Original Mix) 3. Max Freegrant, Slow Fish Garden Of The Heart (Extended Mix)4. Alex Kogan - Marrakesh 5. Awka, Baya & LENN V - White Sand feat. LENN V (Extended Mix)6. Panama, Tinlicker - Fade Into Black (Extended Club Mix) (Original Mix)7. Rauschhaus - Kaiju (Original Mix)8. WhoMadeWho, Rampa - UUUU (&ME Remix)9. Cubicolor Summer & Smoke (Original Mix)10. Nacho Varela, Cruz Vittor, Cocho Could Be (Original Mix)11. Dave Rice & Ashley Mazanec - Dream (Alex Kogan Remix)12. Frannz - Wild (Original Mix)13. SAAND Wake Up (Eran Hersh Remix)14. Franky Wah - I Know You (Extended Mix)15. Alex Kogan - Imagine It (Intro Edit16. Azzecca Other Side (Extended)17. Tinlicker, Thomas Oliver - Soon You'll Be Gone (Extended Vocal Mix)18. Avira feat. Dan Soleil - Surrender (Extended Mix)19. Alex Kogan - Santa Monica20. Dizzy, Nora En Pure, Claptone Queen of Ice (feat. Dizzy) (Nora En Pure Extended Club Mix)21. DOMA - Past Adventures (Original Mix)22. Space Motion - Lose Myself (Original Mix)23. dEVOLVE - Running up That Hill (Extended Mix)24. In The End (feat. LIINKS) [Extended Mix]25. Miss Monique, Cherry (UA) - Plato (Extended Mix)26. Nora En Pure -  Stop Wasting Time (Extended Mix)27. Alex Kogan - Afterlife

“Shout out to god for protecting me from things I thought I wanted. “ We are grateful for a year full of new connections and old connections re-kindling. We are however even more grateful for all the missed connections of this year. Life has been humbling to say the least and this year has been full of acceptance and following our intuition. This last episode of the year is dedicated to expressing gratitude to life, ourselves, and everything that didn't kill us and made us stronger. This Podcast is by two people simply sharing their experiences in dealing with mental health, you are learning as they learn, they aren't the professionals! Follow Mental Chillness on Instagram @Mentalchillnesspodcast - Khanh @megakhanh -Jules @lotsofjuless - Special Mentions @studiosyx , @blakestakes_, &@ally.jewels Editor - Jonathan @figsshit_ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/khanh-le9/support

Part One. Dan is a Microsoft employee in desperate need of ‘a life'. His world can be summed up as eat, sleep, code, repeat, and he's not quite feeling himself. So when the chance comes along for him and his friends to leave Microsoft to form a Silicon Valley start-up, will they take the risk and leap into the unknown? A brand new take on Douglas Coupland's funny, classic 1995 novel which takes a microscope to working culture in the early days of the Silicon Valley tech boom. Part of Radio 4's Working Titles season looking at the changing world of work. You can find Part Two of Microserfs on BBC Sounds from the 4th December. CAST Dan ….. Will Merrick Karla ….. Samantha Dakin Bug ….. Matthew Needham Michael ….. Freddie Meredith Todd ….. Chris Lew Kum Hoi Susan ….. Chloë Sommer Abe ….. Hughie O'Donnell Ethan ….. Tom Kiteley Dan's Mum ….. Joanna Monro Dan's Dad ….. Roger Ringrose Written By Douglas Coupland Dramatised By Theo Toksvig-Stewart Directed By Anne Isger Sound by Cal Knightley, Pete Ringrose, David Gregory, Billy Godfrey Production Co-ordination by Luke MacGregor Writer and artist Douglas Coupland has written thirteen novels (including Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture, JPod, Generation A). Microserfs was published in 1995. Theo Toksvig-Stewart is a writer for Stage, Radio, Television and Film. The radio version of Theo's acclaimed theatre play Endless Second was shortlisted for the best radio drama at the Prix Italia 2022 and received a ‘Special Mention'.

Whats going on everyone!! Off the Cuff is back with a new episode! This week I have special guest Chris from @greenmoneyfab who is a talented / intelligent maker and mechanic. We chat about his smoker fabrication business and also alot about diesel mechanic stuff. Being a diesel mechanic myself I may have gotten a little lost in the weeds with how far we went but it was a great time and I could have talked to Chris for hours just about the diesels he works on. I hope you enjoy this episode and let me know what you thought of it! Next time chris is on we will dive a little deeper into his smokers and maybe even get some super secret recipies! Check out Chris and his talented work on instagram @greenmoneyfab lets show him some IG love and support! Special Mentions: @mannmadeinma @craftswithdre @blackthornconcepts @jimmydiresta @themakercamp @makeeverythingshop If you would like to be on the next episode or know someone who should, send me a DM on instagram @craftedinnj or email me Craftedinnj@gmail.com See ya on the next one!

Happy Saturday everyone!! Episode 14 is packed full of Maker Camp discussions, knife talk and a whole bunch of questions that were sent in. A couple of the questions were a little out there but thats the fun of being all Off the Cuff. Tom is a talented Knife maker who is bringing his own style and flair to the knife world. Follow Tom @knives_by_nuge on Instagram and also check out his website Knivesbynuge.com if you chat with Tom tell him you heard him on the best podcast out there!! If you have any questions, topic ideas or if you want to be a guest/know someone who would be perfect on the pod please send them to Craftedinnj@gmail.com or DM me @Craftedinnj Questions sent in by: Trevor - moorewoodworx - https://www.instagram.com/moorewoodworx/ Keith - blackthorneconcepts - https://www.instagram.com/blackthornconcepts/ Special Mentions: thewizardforge black_flag_survival black_flag_outdoor_academy Federknives Makeeverythingshop nj_steelbaron bp_custom_knives Finleygoods hot_shot_ovens evenheatkilns themakercamp rustland_revision

We are kicking off our July 2022 series of AMiNDR with this episode and are so glad you are tuning in. If you're interested in changes to neuronal function in AD, we'll be covering the entire spectrum in this episode. Starting big with network changes, we scale all the way down to molecular changes that may underlie AD pathology, so if that's what you're interested in, stay tuned!  Sections in this episode:  Special Mention of Blots in a Field? (3:39)  Network Dysfunction (4:53)  Synaptic Dysfunction (12:09)  Molecular Changes (22:33) -------------------------------------------------------------- To find the numbered bibliography with all the papers covered in this episode, click here, or use the link below:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Unjf1FfijEAvwPEa7o9Z2aNHJVTemom8/view?usp=sharingTo access the folder with ALL our bibliographies, follow this link (it will be updated as we publish episodes and process bibliographies), or use the link below:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bzSzkY9ZHzzY8Xhzt0HZfZhRG1Gq_Si-?usp=sharingYou can also find all of our bibliographies on our website: www.amindr.com. --------------------------------------------------------------Follow-up on social media for more updates!Twitter: @AMiNDR_podcastInstagram: @AMiNDR.podcastFacebook:  AMiNDR  Youtube: AMiNDR PodcastLinkedIn: AMiNDR PodcastEmail: amindrpodcast@gmail.com  -------------------------------------------------------------- Please help us spread the word about AMiNDR to your friends, colleagues, and networks! And if you could leave us a rating and/or review on your streaming app of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcast), that would be greatly appreciated! It helps us a lot and we thank you in advance for leaving a review! Don't forget to subscribe to hear about new episodes as they come out too. Thank you to our sponsor, the Canadian Consortium of Neurodegeneration in Aging, or CCNA, for their financial support of this podcast. This helps us to stay on the air and bring you high quality episodes. You can find out more about the CCNA on their website: https://ccna-ccnv.ca/. Our team of volunteers works tirelessly each month to bring you every episode of AMiNDR. This episode was scripted, hosted and edited by Anusha Kamesh, and reviewed by Judy Cheng and Ellen Koch. The bibliography was created by Lara Onbasi and the wordcloud was created by Sarah Louadi (www.wordart.com). Big thanks to the sorting team for taking on the enormous task of sorting all of the Alzheimer's Disease papers into episodes each month. For July 2022, the sorters were Sarah Louadi, Eden Dubchak, Ben Cornish, Ellen Koch, Dana Clausen, Christy Yu, and Elyn Rowe. Also, props to our management team, which includes Sarah Louadi, Ellen Koch, Naila Kuhlmann, Elyn Rowe, Anusha Kamesh, and Lara Onbasi for keeping everything running smoothly.Our music is from "Journey of a Neurotransmitter" by musician and fellow neuroscientist Anusha Kamesh; you can find the original piece and her other music on soundcloud under Anusha Kamesh or on her YouTube channel, AKMusic.   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMH7chrAdtCUZuGia16FR4w   -------------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested in joining the team, send us your CV by email. We are specifically looking for help with sorting abstracts by topic, abstract summaries and hosting, audio editing, creating bibliographies, and outreach/marketing. However, if you are interested in helping in other ways, don't hesitate to apply anyways.  --------------------------------------------------------------*About AMiNDR: *  Learn more about this project and the team behind it by listening to our first episode: "Welcome to AMiNDR!" 

Floor van der Meulen is regisseur. Dit jaar debuteert ze met de speelfilm Pink Moon, over een dochter die weigert te accepteren dat haar vader niet meer wil leven. Voor de film kreeg van der Meulen een Special Mention op het Tribeca Film Festival in New York: de ereprijs voor een veelbelovend regiedebuut. De regisseur studeerde af aan de Willem de Kooning academie en debuteerde in 2014 met de documentaire Paradijsbestormers, over Nederlandse jihadstrijders in Syrië. In 2019 volgde The Last Male on Earth, over de allerlaatste noordelijke witte neushoorn op aarde. Lotje IJzermans gaat met Floor van der Meulen in gesprek.

This episode has been published and can be heard everywhere your podcast is available. https://www.stagroar.co.nz/ In these Mini-Podcasts we explore the 400 Club from D.Bruce Banwell's "The Wapiti and The Moose" New Zealand Big Game Records Series With Permission of The Halcyon Press.

Director Chie Hayakawa sat down with HFPA journalist Yong Chavez to discuss her feature film debut, Plan 75, which soon after their conversation would go on to receive the Camera D'or Special Mention prize. They go into her writing, directing, and cinematography, what inspired her to do the film, how its premise of free euthanization for Japan's elderly population functions as an allegory for what she sees as a growing authoritarian atmosphere in Japanese society, and much more.  

Intro Banter - This is the (mostly) unscripted intro to the show! We catch up, play games, talk about games that perhaps did not make the main show, and just gab, Welcome!    Not just Good, but SUPER Good - Top 3 lists themed by genre this time: Favorite Art from a game artist   Alex:  Artist - Beth Sobel   Art LOTR The Card Game Wingspan Arboretum    Larry Artist -  Kwanchai Moriya   Art Galaxy Trucker Piece Days of Ire Cover to Overlight Bonus, Favorite Games featuring their art!   Alex:  Games:  Viticulture by Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone Published by Stonemaier Games Released in 2013 Subastral by Ben Pinchback, Matt Riddle Published by Renegade Game Studios Released in 2021 Coldwater Crown by Brian Suhre Published by Bellwether Games Released in 2017   Larry: Games Dinosaur Island by Jonathan Gilmour, Brian Lewis Published by Pandasaurus Games Released in 2017 Kepler 3042 by Simone Cerruti Sola Published by Renegade Game Studios Released in 2016 Bosk by Daryl Andrews, Erica Bouyouris Published by Floodgate Games Released in 2019 ******************************** Larry Special mentions: Artist: Ian O'Toole   Art On Mars Cover Lisboa  Cover Nemo's War Cover   Games On Mars by Vital Lacerda Published by Eagle-Gryphon Games Released in 2020 Lisboa  by  Vital Lacerda Published by Eagle-Gryphon Games Released in 2017 Nemo's War by Chris Taylor (I), Alan Emrich Published by Victory Point Games Released in 2020 *********************************** Special Mention and worth looking into: Artist: Milan Vavron   Art Prophecy original cover Underwater Cities  Lost Ruins of Arnak Cover   Games Prophecy by Vlaada Chvátil Published by Z-Man Games Released in 2002 Underwater Cities by Vladimír Suchý Published by Rio Grande Games Released in 2018  Lost Ruins of Arnak by Elwen, Mín Published by Czech Games Edition Released in 2020 ************************************ MORE special mentions:   Antonis Papantoniou - Among the stars and 79 others! (Epic, Hero Realms) Odysseas Stamoglou - Among the stars and 50 others! (Teotihuacan: City of Gods) Game Gab - The hosts take a more in-depth look at game related topics specifically related to Hobby Board Games in other areas of popular culture.   This time we expand our ART discussion from the supergood lists!   The Name on the Box - Favorite board game by designer. We go through a list of our personal top designers, covering a few titles that personify why we love them, then we name our personal favorite of their designs and talk about why!    Alex: Lords of Waterdeep Peter Lee Larry: John Werner   Zombie State: Diplomacy of the Dead  by John Werner Published by  Zombie State Games  released in 2010   Quick Hits:  We each detail a game that we can endorse to run out and get to play in the near future, just some quick notes on why you should get it and what we like about it.   Alex: The Red Cathedral by  Isra C. , Shei S. Published by Devir Released in 2020   Larry:  Res Arcana by  Thomas Lehmann published by  Sand Castle Games 2019 art by Julien Delval Links:  Podstudio1  BGG    Music:  As always from the amazing community of gifted musicians, arrangers, and composers over at ocremix.org go visit and support them for the full project and so much more amazing music!   Outro :  De Nuit / by mv feat. Jeff Ball Original Track - The Phantom Forest Album - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin Project Page - Final Fantasy VI: Balance and Ruin | OC ReMix Content Group - Final Fantasy VI Original Copyright - Square Enix Original Composers - Nobuo Uematsu  

As owners of a fast growing company, we heard time and time again the importance of a brand. And how it should be figured out to a tee. We thought we had it all together when it came to our brand, until we realized that we didn't. And it took us well over a year and a half to get it dialed in. Man, did we learn a lot!! Hi! We're Margaret and Stetson, the mother-daughter team and CEOs of Everything Envy. As content creators for home styling and home organization, we LOVE sharing our tips and tricks on running a successful business. One of our favorite topics, marketing yourself through social media, is something we talk a lot about on this podcast as well as a whole host of other business like topics. Have a listen and if you like what you hear, do us a favor and give us a 5 star review and tell us what you love about the podcast! xo, Margaret & Stetson Things we make reference to in our episodes: Special Mention in this episode: SMASH Creatives (Not sponsored) Website Our RESOURCE PAGE Our Amazon Live: Follow Us! Watch the Everything Envy Livestream on Amazon Join us on IG: @Everything.Envy Stetson's Social Media Monetization Class: Here https://www.thegramgrowthclass.com/sales-pagettqafl2z Relocations Class: Join the waitlist Click Funnels: 14 Day FREE Trial Canva: Free 30 Day Pro Version --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingenvypodcast/support

Join us for a Special LIVE Podcast recording from our second LIVE Coffee & A Good Vibe Podcast event ft a powerhouse panel of iconic Male Entrepreneurs in LA. Meet your panel: Jake Kassan - Founder of MVMT Josh Kaplan - CEO of Menlo Club & Melrose Place David Greenfeld Founder/CEO of Dream Pops Steven Borrelli, Founder/CEO of CUTS Nate Forster - Founder/CEO of NEOU At this event we will have founders, entrepreneurs and influencers in LA to come out, network, connect and enjoy various brand activations from our incredible sponsors! As well as an open bar sponsored by Nosotros Tequila and refreshments / treats from various trending CPG Brands in Los Angeles. Special Mentions & Shoutout to our incredible Event Sponsors: Clearstem Skincare, Drink Barcode, Hiyo, Dream Pops, Elavi, RVIVL, Toto Foods. EPISODE SUMMARY: PANEL QUESTIONS Scaling without investment ~25K to start their brand, most tactical places to place their money for the largest ROI Best tips/practices on the path to attaining funding / investors for their brand Personal Experiences - The biggest adversity / curveball you've experienced in your business and how you overcame it Product Innovation & Scaling - adding skews and diversifying new lines in your brand without diluting Internal happiness and fulfillment- attaching your identity to your business in entrepreneurship Non-negotiable habits & tools for life Name the season of life you are currently in right now & why LIVE PANEL Q & A with the audience Share the love & let me know your thoughts over on Instagram, @coffeeandagoodvibe | @ayeshasehra EPISODE MENTIONS: Clearstem Skincare - Check out the incredible products of Clearstem Skincare and use code, GOODVIBES for an exclusive discount at checkout! SHOP OUR MERCH - Coffee & A Good Vibe did an exclusive Merch drop with Melrose Place! CONNECT: YOUTUBE ➟ Watch & subscribe to our channel here ➟ Coffee & A Good Vibe Video Interviews To connect with Ayesha Sehra ➟ click HERE Check out our podcast insta ➟ click HERE To learn about my Branding & PR Agency Grow The Social ➟ click HERE To connect with this week's guest click ➟ HERE

Have you met my girlfriend Aimee? (Ameweeeebikes of TikTok) Join us this episode to listen to dating stories from TikTok and share a couple of stories of our own. Grab a drink and join the chat. Special Mention to TikTokers @sam_d0ll @masononthemic @dutchdeccc @singlemomsdoitbest @alexa.play.my.favorite @lynsey_melissa @iliveonvacation and yours truly @leheyeziks.Ad linksNBA Store - https://nbastore.vwz6.net/kj9ANdPump Pals - https://topgripgear.com/?rfsn=6172592.f349c6Please make sure and give a rating and review. To support this podcast and keep my dream alive  go to Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/LesbianspeakingSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/Lesbianspeaking)

Stephen Dexter is an actor, writer, audiobook narrator, and activist based in New York City whose work can be seen on both stage and screen. He has appeared on Off-Broadway and International stages and is a lifetime member of the legendary Actors Studio. He has worked steadily in film and TV, most recently appearing on "Evil" on Paramount Plus, "Dr. Death" on NBC Peacock, and "Billions" on Showtime. He is also an award-winning audiobook narrator with over 200 titles to his credit. His most recent film "American Morning", which he wrote, produced and stars in alongside Emmy-winner Richard Schiff ("The West Wing", "The Good Doctor"), deals with the aftermath of a school shooting and the desperate measures a survivor resorts to to reconcile his guilt and affect change. The film is currently on the festival circuit and has been lauded both here and abroad receiving a Spirit Of Cinema nomination and Special Mention for Best Short Film at the venerable Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany.