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-Steve Berkowitz of USA Today wrote an article earlier this week about the revenue in the BIG conference for the2024 fiscal year-Big Ten members each received $63.2 million, while the SEC schools received $52.5 million. In 2025, Big Tenschools are expected to receive around $75 million, besides Oregon and Washington-Kevin Warren received a $5.75 million bonus for “his accomplishments as commissioner and for his role in the newTV rights deal”SPONSORED BY SANDHILLS GLOBALOur Sponsors:* Check out Hims: https://hims.com/EARLYBREAKAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Greg and Eli talk with USA Today's Steve Berkowitz about the changing of revenue-sharing in college sports, the class action lawsuits against the NCAA, tough decisions for the Group of 5 programs and more. Also, they talk with Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller about Ranger Suarez and the Phillies leadig the NL East, Juan Soto's potential payday, Cardinals' next man up and more.

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Tune in to hear Chad and Sarah chat about the recent ChatGPT hiccup, Google's pause on Gemini AI, a discussion with our producer Steve Berkowitz about Tyler Perry's decision to halt the $800M expansion of his studios after seeing  Sora, and our exclusive interview with Fred Schonenberg, founder and CEO of Venture Fuel and the host of the VentureFuel Visionaries Podcast. Fred highlights examples from companies that successfully leverage AI to push the boundaries of product development, marketing, and media strategies. His insights emphasize AI's potential to revolutionize business practices, and the importance in navigating the disruptions AI introduces to organizations. Vurvey.ai

USA Today's Steve Berkowitz joins the show to look back at last week's historic court ruling against the NCAA and shares his insight on the decision and where we may go from here. Plus of course more of your phone calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 3, Episode 2, AJ chats with Steve Berkowitz. A proud Brighton resident, if there is a job in the music business, this man has performed it: a teenage roadie for Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry, Tour/Co Manager for The Cars during their first 4 albums, Co-Owner of the legendary studio Synchro Sound, Concert Promoter, Agent, Musician, A&R Executive and Producer.  He has settled in nicely working with Sony Music's Legacy department working on historical reissues for Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen and Paul Simon, just to name a few. This 7 time Grammy Award winner  has made an amazing name for himself while still being proud of his Boston roots. Sit back and enjoy this conversation where a very private person allowed AJ to ask a few questions, and talk about this impactful career.

This week, I talk to producer, creative executive, entrepreneur and meditation teacher Tim Duffy, who shares some amazing tools and tips to overcome the anxiety, stress, anger, frustration, worry, and disappointment that comes in the crazy world we live in today. I also dig into the latest efforts to unionize reality TV, which is very complicated, and how streaming costs are going to keep rising and rising. Plus, I address the struggles we are facing in unscripted TV amidst the rising costs of streaming and the slow decline in broadcast viewing. For information on Tim's meditation practices or to reach him, check out his website: https://www.timduffymeditation.com And check out the amazing food biz he and his brother created as well. https://yumcrunch.com Find me on social media here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-berkowitz-5a09ab8/ https://berkreport.com https://twitter.com/steveberkowitz https://www.instagram.com/stevemberkowitz/   And if you're looking for a transcript of the episode, here it is: 00:00:00:09 - 00:00:22:21 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Welcome to another episode of the No Script No Problem Podcast on Bleav, the number one podcast network for professionals. Do you believe? Now, if you enjoy this show, please remember to subscribe and rate it with five stars. It's available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon music, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts. You also find it on Bleav.com and @bleavpodcasts. 00:00:23:01 - 00:00:48:12 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Follow me on social media, Twitter and Post News. It's @SteveBerkowitz and on Instagram and Threads @stevemberkowitz and also on Mastodon, Spill, Facebook, Snapchat and LinkedIn. If you're interested in advertising on the show, please contact believe at Leave dot com. All right, let's get started. I've got a terrific guest coming up who is going to calm your nerves and give you some great advice to weather the storm during these stressful times. 00:00:48:12 - 00:01:22:02 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ But before I chat with him, it's time for a little reality check. For the first time ever, linear TV viewership made up less than half of all TV usage in a measurement month. That is according to Nielsen's. The Gauge report for July broadcast TV accounted for only 20% of viewing and cable TV 29.6%. It was a record lows and down 5.4% and 12.5% respectively, versus the same period last year. 00:01:22:05 - 00:02:00:17 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ YouTube and Netflix lead the way in terms of your streamers. Streaming viewing rose 2.9% from June to July 2023 and was up 25.3% over the past year, accounting for 38.7% of total TV usage. That's huge. Now, the thing that's kind of interesting is that one of the shows that has kind of really given Netflix this bump, you know, a 4.2% increase in TV share over the course of June is Suits, which was a cable shows on USA Network right from 2011 to 2019. 00:02:00:17 - 00:02:21:03 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ So it's pretty wild that this show, which picked up 4000000000 minutes of viewing in one week, was on USA and virtually no one was talking about it during its nine season. I mean, a nine season run is incredible, but it wasn't like it was, you know, winning Emmy after Emmy. It wasn't a succession, you know, it wasn't a Breaking Bad. 00:02:21:05 - 00:02:52:08 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ And now it's like you look at comments people are making online and it's like suits. You'd think it's, you know, the greatest show ever. So it shows to me that it's not that people don't like broadcast programing, it's not that people don't like cable programing. They just prefer watching things on Netflix. They prefer watching things on YouTube. Now, the big irony here is that the average cost of subscribing ad free to a major streamer has jumped almost 25% in the last year. 00:02:52:08 - 00:03:20:04 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ That's according to the Wall Street Journal. All right. So after years of cheap monthly fees, right, that we all loved when we first got Netflix or we first got Apple TV Plus right where we first got that wonderful bundle of Hulu and Espn+. Right. And Disney Plus, that's all gone. Everybody wants to make money. Now. All the streamers need to make money, but they are now testing our loyalty, testing customer loyalty. 00:03:20:04 - 00:03:50:14 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ And they are all raising their prices. An average assortment of the top U.S. streaming services will be worth $87 a month come this fall, while an average cable package will be $83. All right. So just like we just talked about how streaming has surpassed broadcast and cable in viewers right now, the whole point of streaming, we didn't want to pay as much as cable. 00:03:50:14 - 00:04:16:05 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Now it's all shifting back and we're suddenly paying more money for streaming than we are for cable. Disney is raising its prices for Disney Plus and Hulu, and that follows on the heels of Peacock NetFlow, X, Max, Paramount Plus and Apple TV Plus All have raised their prices recently. It's going to keep happening. They're going to keep doing this until Wall Street is happy. 00:04:16:05 - 00:04:48:08 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ The business model hasn't worked unless you're Netflix. This is also why you're seeing a huge increase in free ad supported television. Fast channels. Right to Be is a perfect example to be doing well. Moving on to the wild world of reality television, former Real Housewives of New York star Bethenny Frankel, she's causing quite a stir, talking to dozens of reality TV talent, trying to get them to unionize and get involved in potential litigation as well. 00:04:48:10 - 00:05:22:20 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ She is encouraging reality TV stars to boycott along with SAG, is asking for residuals on her shows. You know, she thinks reality TV stars should get residuals, just like actors and actresses. We have talked about reality TV. You unions for as long as I can remember. But what she's doing is going a step further. Bethenny is throwing accusations around at Bravo about a so-called cover up, you know, during an incident that happened on set. 00:05:22:20 - 00:05:46:05 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ And she's hired two very high powered lawyers. They're accusing NBCUniversal, the parent company of Bravo, of exploitation and abuse. Among other things, they've asked NBC's lawyers to preserve discovery as part of their investigation session. It's getting kind of ugly. I can't speak to anything that has to do with the litigation or any of these things that they're accusing NBC or Bravo or the producers of doing. 00:05:46:05 - 00:06:13:01 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ But I can say that unionization when it comes to reality TV is complicated. That is a very nuanced topic that I've talked to dozens of producers and friends about. And I think Bethenny has some valid points when she talks about working hours and base pay rates. Those are valid points. But there are so many layers that come into play when you're talking about reality TV. 00:06:13:06 - 00:06:37:24 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You know, she makes a point about, you know, I think she said, you know, she only made seven grand for her first season on The Housewives. Well, Raquel, you know, as it turns out from Vanderpump Rules, made $361,000 this past season. You know, Vanderpump Rules huge hit, their biggest season ever, nominated for an Emmy. But that's a ton of money, I think, when you're talking about reality TV, it's such a diverse genre. 00:06:38:01 - 00:07:05:14 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You can't pay a contestant on The Bachelor or Survivor the same as you do a housewife in a small ensemble cast or you can't pay the same for a designer on HGTV as much as you do a family member on a TLC show or you do you pay the same for a guy who's on a boat on Deadliest Catch as you do somebody who's competing for love on 90 day fiance. 00:07:05:16 - 00:07:26:22 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ So the genre so diverse that it's really hard to just throw numbers in there. You know, for a first season show. I think there's a lot of things that you need to take into consideration. But I do think rules and regulations are a good thing. And I think it's it's very valid to bring this up that we need to have that discussion. 00:07:26:22 - 00:08:15:07 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ I don't know if a union is the right thing, but I certainly feel like a little bit more firm. Ground rules are good thing. I would be remiss, though, if I didn't mention that producers have no union as well in unscripted television. So no insurance, no overtime and no residuals, and that often goes unmentioned. It would be amazing to get residuals when the networks run reality shows all day long on E, Bravo, MTV, Lifetime, etc. In fact, the writers on Ridiculousness are asking to join the WGA, I believe, as they should, because that show runs night and day on MTV and those folks are literally writing jokes as lead ins to the clips. 00:08:15:07 - 00:08:42:13 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You know, other clip shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, 2.0, those writers are in the WGA. There's no reason why the folks on ridiculousness should be as well. But as you kind of can tell, it's a complicated issue. All right. Well, stick with reality TV, because why not? An article this past week and deadline had a lot of folks worried and a lot of people in reality TV are freaking out. 00:08:42:13 - 00:09:18:13 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ The headline to the article reads Doom and Gloom in Unscripted TV Producers battled challenging conditions As mid-sized firms face layoffs. It appropriately addresses the, quote, Slow down of green lights and cost cutting and quote, within the platforms and networks and how it has led to a slew of layoffs and a dearth of work in unscripted TV. The article references this drought hitting reputable companies like being a murray half yard hot snakes, high noon and propagate all very good companies. 00:09:18:16 - 00:09:45:08 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ One unscripted producer told DEADLINE, quote, It's the toughest time to be in unscripted that I can remember, unquote. Another said it was a, quote, brutal moment. I would agree. I would agree with both those producers. We all remain hopeful that things will rebound. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I will continue to tread water, keep my head above that water. 00:09:45:10 - 00:10:11:00 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Nobody should feel alone, though. That is for sure. If you're struggling out there, you're worried, Hang in there, man. And that's why I got Tim Duffy coming up in a minute. Tim Duffy is my guest. Tim Duffy is an extremely talented producer, creative executive. He's an entrepreneur here, he is a founder and he is a seasoned teacher of meditation and mindfulness. 00:10:11:02 - 00:10:46:15 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ And that is why I wanted him to come on the podcast, right? So along with being co-founder of Yum Crunch and Ugly Brother Studios with his brother Mike. Tim is a peak performance and productivity specialist who combines 15 years of teaching meditation with 20 years in the C-suite to help executives, employees and organizations thrive. Now, as you'll hear, his style modernizes the ancient teachings of mindfulness and adapts them for modern professionals. 00:10:46:16 - 00:11:11:08 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ So with all the chaos going on in both the entertainment industry and in the world at large, I think he's the perfect guest. So sit back, find a quiet place, relax. Tim's got some words of wisdom for you. Enjoy. Well, welcome back to the podcast, my friend, Mr. Tim Duffy. A lot has changed since the last time we talked. 00:11:11:11 - 00:11:35:20 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ We talked last time about mindfulness. But you are now big into this world of mindfulness and meditation. You're now, I would call you a guru in this space. And this amidst your your role on world shifts and being, you know, being a founder, being a co-CEO with your brother in that space, in this crazy world that we're in right now with media and entertainment. 00:11:35:20 - 00:12:02:01 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ And I've talked about that on the podcast before, how, you know, everybody's kind of stressed out. I thought it was perfect for you to talk about kind of the way you deal with the stresses of this world with mindfulness meditation. So talk to me a little bit about when when the craziness comes into your world, whether it's as a dad or as an executive, how do you use mindfulness, how to use meditation to handle all the insanity that comes into the world? 00:12:02:03 - 00:12:17:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY First of all, thank you for calling me a guru, which means teacher, right? Which is true. I am a meditation teacher, but in our Western culture it also means douche bag. So do not call me a guru. 00:12:17:15 - 00:12:21:22 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Let me rephrase. You are not a guru. What's a better word? It's a better word. 00:12:21:24 - 00:12:28:02 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I'm. I am a mindfulness teacher. I've been teaching mindfulness for the past 15 years. 00:12:28:04 - 00:12:36:07 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Okay, I agree. I will take back Guru and I will just say mindfulness Teacher. Instructor. Yes. Okay. 00:12:36:09 - 00:13:05:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Do the woo woo of the mindfulness community is so funny to me, right? Because like, the thing about mindfulness is it's, it's a practice that we can learn and it doesn't really take any special skills. Every single human being on earth has the ability to be mindful. And the the my particular set of circumstances brought me to mindfulness because of my own friend's anxiety and depression. 00:13:05:06 - 00:13:32:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And when I was growing up, I had this kind of pervasive sense that I was not well. I had a fear of death, a constant fear of death when I was growing up, a general kind of like unsatisfactory ness that was like the foundation of my experience and the world outside of my internal world didn't quite know about it, right? 00:13:32:13 - 00:14:01:08 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I wasn't like talking about it because I was, you know, a young man with the bravado of youth and I was seemingly doing pretty well in school and and in my work life. When I went to college, my freshman year, I was a psychology major. I wanted to work with kids. And I took this class called New Directions in Psychotherapy from this old hippie dude named Norman Bradford. 00:14:01:10 - 00:14:12:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY He had he was like a he was he looked like a guru. He had flowy white hair, a long flowing, like Z.Z top beard. 00:14:12:13 - 00:14:14:05 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. 00:14:14:07 - 00:14:44:18 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And he was just a hippie who was obsessed with creating different avenues towards wellness that weren't solely dependent on the methods of Western psychology and science. Right. Which is, of course, the language of the West is material science. So he kind of he started this class called New Directions in Psychotherapy. And every single week all we did was a new kind of meditation. 00:14:44:20 - 00:15:11:06 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And one week we'd be climbing up a tree outside and just sitting in a tree and listening to the wind. And another week we would be listening to poetry, and another week we would be doing African drumming, you know. So this was the privileged life of, you know, a private college in Baltimore called Gautier, where I discovered these traditions. 00:15:11:06 - 00:15:53:22 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And I never looked back. I'd meditate, meditated every single day. Since then, I've accrued well over 10000 hours of meditation time in my life. I sit every single morning for about an hour in the morning. Meditation for me and mindfulness have become really kind of the backdrop against which absolutely everything that I experience is experienced. So that kind of dual path, right, of like growing up in the world, getting jobs and careers, and also simultaneously having this meditation practice in my life. 00:15:53:24 - 00:16:33:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY It was the the job and the career and the life and the death and the sickness. All of that was grist for the mill, for the meditation practice, right? We don't recede back into a cave and become a monk for ten years. Although that exists, most of us actually have to pay the bills. Right, And has a great teacher, a guru named Ram Dass, that he said, Remember your true nature, which is awareness itself and your Social Security number. 00:16:33:15 - 00:16:59:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And so it's the pairing of these these two things where mindfulness can really help us thrive amidst whatever is happening. And I and there's a lot happening in our lives right now. Steve. You know, not just in a post-pandemic world of how do we we're continuing to figure out how do we exist together, how do we re socialize? 00:16:59:13 - 00:17:10:22 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We're pretty far on the other side of this. Yet a lot of folks are still trying to figure out, you know, how do I get out of the loneliness cycle? How do I socialize? 00:17:10:24 - 00:17:36:20 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ I think that's a great point. The re socialization, at least for me, you know, being on set, being around friends was something that you took for granted in 2019, right up until the pandemic. And then we all became Zoomers In one of your posts that I saw you, you were kind of saying when you were I think your point was that meditation and mindfulness is for everybody. 00:17:36:20 - 00:17:47:04 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ What do you feel like if you're a beginner? What is kind of that that first problem or that the first issue that people have with meditation or mindfulness? 00:17:47:06 - 00:18:36:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I think we step back even further and we go, Well, why do we need meditation and mindfulness, right, to develop an adversarial relationship with meditation and mindfulness is just a continuation of the reason why we come to meditate, meditation and mindfulness, right? Which is because we suffer the foundation of mindfulness, which of course is pulled from Buddhism. It's kind of the secular, if you will, set of practices that we're born out of a Buddhist tradition, of course, which was preceded by Hindu tradition and the Buddha, he said, We suffer because we are attached. 00:18:36:09 - 00:19:10:24 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And it begs the question, well, what are we attached to? And the answer to that is we're attached to permanence. We believe that things are going to stick around. They're going to stay that our our lives are going to stay the same when things are going really well. We want things to change when things aren't going well, but when things are going really well, we don't want things to change. 00:19:11:01 - 00:19:50:15 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So we suffer for things to change when things aren't going well. That means that when things are going well, they also have to change. This is the nature of our human life. We are born into this body and we get sick and we age and we die eventually. This is the starting point for why we suffer. We rage against the machine of our own human body and our attachment to being young or being pretty or being thin. 00:19:50:17 - 00:20:31:12 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right is creating harm in our lives. Being human is a sexually transmitted disease that always ends in death. What did the Buddhist doctor write on the death certificate as the cause of death birth? That makes sense. Yeah, right. So we we somehow think that we're going to evade this reality. Everything changes. Impermanence is a fundamental law of being human. 00:20:31:14 - 00:21:00:22 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And this is why we ask the question, how can I decrease my suffering? What is it that can come into my head that I can bring into my life and provide myself with some sense of relief? And to begin the process of relief is to acknowledge the fundamental truth of our existence, that it changes, that everything is impermanent. 00:21:00:24 - 00:21:33:08 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And I think this is very much on display in the entertainment world for us right now. The old ways of living, of the consistency of getting a job, the consistency of a paycheck, right, the consistency of the big media machine, knowing how to monetize itself and thriving, you know, and yet simultaneously continually pissing all over the people and the companies that are feeding the machine of media. 00:21:33:10 - 00:22:13:19 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right. We're in two of our deals are in strike mode right now, negotiating with this incredibly ill defined impermanent force called big media, who in and of itself, big media, doesn't know how to make a solvent business? How are we negotiating with a business that doesn't know how to monetize itself? Right. It's essential that we stand up and present ourselves back to big media and say we deserve to be paid, we deserve to be treated in equitable way. 00:22:13:21 - 00:22:48:23 GUEST: TIM DUFFY But at the same time, how are we negotiating with the machine that doesn't know how to run it? So at the core of the mindfulness, teaching is a is a concept that was derived from the US government. The Army College, I believe, created a term called VUCA at the end of the Cold War to kind of define know what is this thing that we're feeling in a term as a as a global community. 00:22:49:00 - 00:23:26:22 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And VUCA was developed and it stands for volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, right? So volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Doesn't that sound familiar? In a word, impermanence And two words don't know. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know what our future holds, right? We hold on to the past and we bring it into the present as concepts in our minds. 00:23:26:24 - 00:23:51:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And we we we carry this kind of this weight as we age. And this weight is like a suit of armor, right? The suit of armor somehow going to protect us because don't we know so much? I know who I am. I know what my skills are. I know what my what my future holds because of all these other things that I've done in my past. 00:23:51:15 - 00:24:21:22 GUEST: TIM DUFFY No, you don't. It could all end like that. And in fact, it does over and over and over again. We do not know what the future holds. The past is helpful in some regard in the present, but it cannot predict the future. And in fact, both the past and the future can only be experienced in the present moment. 00:24:21:24 - 00:25:09:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY The past as a concept in the mind. The future is a concept in the mind, and both exist only in the present moment. So what are we to do in this mind that is constantly future in itself and freaking out? And sometimes we call this anxiety. And what do we do with the present moment in mind that is also regretting things from the past, bringing statements about the solidity of what was into the present moment, which is not solid at all, at least from a mental perspective, which is the only perspective we have. 00:25:09:06 - 00:25:40:06 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So what are we to do? One of the core practices in mindfulness is derived from, again, the Buddhist teachings in mindfulness communities. There's what's called the Three Jewels, the Buddha, which is like the teacher, the idealized kind of like being, so to speak, that knows how to relate to life from the perspective of wide open space, right? That still human, but also resting in awareness from a place of non reactivity. 00:25:40:08 - 00:26:13:23 GUEST: TIM DUFFY The teachings themselves. Dharma right, is the second jewel, which is the kind of wisdom that we as human beings, the great wisdom, traditions of the world, be them, you know, the Christian desert fathers, the second and third century, the Kabbalah teachings from Judaism, Sufi teachings from Islam, right? Native American teachings about the oneness of humanity and the interconnect and the interconnectedness of us as animals with animals and the earth around us. 00:26:13:23 - 00:26:37:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY These are the great wisdom teachings of humanity, and they are not particular to any religion. So we have the kind of idealized human over here as the first jewel, and then we've got the second joy, which is the great wisdom traditions of the world. And then the third jewel is what you're building. And it's called Sangat, which means community. 00:26:37:09 - 00:27:10:20 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So every time you put out a podcast, you invite your world of people in to the shared experience of being together. And when they bring that shared experience in, they're sharing the 10,000 joys and the 10,000 sorrows. As my teacher, Jack Cornfield says, together, every person that listens to your podcast right now has a set of impermanent characteristics by definition that are rising up in their lives. 00:27:10:20 - 00:27:41:03 GUEST: TIM DUFFY They've got the transition of life, they've got a baby being born or a parent or a family member dying. They've just gotten a new job or a raise or they just got fired and they no longer have income. All right. Their digest ing the food from lunch that will give them the energy to write the emails this afternoon. 00:27:41:05 - 00:28:22:23 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right. This is all just process. We are interconnected with the world around us and Sangat is representative of community. And Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general, he writes about the epidemic of loneliness. If I don't think we should all jump in to becoming meditators and following a particular religion or or, or a particular way of viewing the world first, I think the first thing we should do is find a friend and have a conversation and then maybe find another friend and have another conversation. 00:28:23:00 - 00:28:42:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I think to recognize the suffering that exists in our world and to begin to alleviate that suffering, we should start by actually connecting with other human beings and saying, yes, I'm here for you. And by the way, also, I need help. Can we talk? Can we communicate? 00:28:42:06 - 00:29:02:15 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ I can relate to everything you're saying. And I'm I'm curious. Do you do you kind of utilize your meditation and your mindfulness, like in the morning? Do you do it right away? Or how does it kind of on a practical level, come into play for you personally? How have you found it to be effective in your life? 00:29:02:21 - 00:29:26:05 GUEST: TIM DUFFY There are two methods that I utilize in my life that are available to all of us. One is called formal meditation. We develop a ritual of sitting down in a particular way under particular circumstances that create a bit of a ritual that's signified to the body and to the mind. Now is the time when I'm going to do this, like sitting down for a meal. 00:29:26:07 - 00:29:54:17 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Some people say grace, some people hold hands, some people take a big, deep breath. Some people just dive right in and eat a meal together. It's about ritual to kind of establish that this is the safe container for this particular experience. That's what formal meditation is. And so I'll sit formally every single morning, but then periodically on an as needed basis, I'll also sit and meditate. 00:29:54:19 - 00:30:23:19 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And I begin by saying, okay, now is the time when I'm going to meditate. The second style of practice, which is called informal practice or in your life meditation. And this is like microdosing right throughout the day and all you're doing with informal meditation and is, you know, in in modern neuroscience tells us that we have a top down model of the world. 00:30:23:19 - 00:31:11:19 GUEST: TIM DUFFY What does that mean? It means that the mind is how we experience our lives. That and this is not a an overexaggeration or some kind of spiritual statement. Actually, modern neuroscience tells us that we actually are only capable of processing our experience through the mind, right? So we're not directly experiencing anything. Our mind is interpreting data as it comes through each of the five sense doors telling a story about that data and asking the question, does it match up with previous information If it does not match up with previous information, three things can happen. 00:31:11:21 - 00:31:41:16 GUEST: TIM DUFFY One, it just gets bored and moves on because it's nothing special is happening to it feels some sort of threat and it freaks out and turns into anxiety or depression. Three It gets invigorated because of the novelty of whatever this new story is coming in and that says need more, need more, need more, right? These are the three possibilities that we experience all day long, every day as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. 00:31:41:18 - 00:32:04:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right? And so mindfulness allows us to kind of experience drop into a sense and set of awareness to a place of awareness of just about our. Does this feel pleasant? Does it feel unpleasant or am I neutral? Right? We can ask that question all day long. Am I feeling pleasant to my feeling unpleasant, or am I feeling neutral? 00:32:04:09 - 00:32:27:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And it can be that simple. You can just drop that question in to the zoom that you're having while you're pitching your show. Is this pleasant? Is this unpleasant or is it neutral? You can drop it into the tasting of an orange. You can drop it into the experience of sitting with your partner and having a conversation about their workday. 00:32:27:15 - 00:33:07:24 GUEST: TIM DUFFY You can drop it into the experience of laying down at night to go to bed all day long. These three filters, so to speak, of mind, are categorizing our experience. And when we become mindful of just this simple method, pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, we loosen the grip of of reactivity so that when something is unpleasant, for instance, someone cutting us off in traffic, we're not freaking out, honking on the horn and screaming at them and creating harm in the world. 00:33:08:01 - 00:33:34:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We just have that little gap, a tiny little gap where we go unpleasant. Welcome back. Unpleasant, You know, or that person on social media that Facebook person on social media that always spouts crazy political bullshit and you're like typing up your response and you're like, citing reference points from, you know, all of your, you know, your bubble of information. 00:33:34:04 - 00:33:35:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Yes. 00:33:35:06 - 00:33:40:18 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You've got the article ready to post straight into the comment. Yes, I've been there. 00:33:40:20 - 00:34:13:15 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I've been there, too. I went on Facebook for like eight years because of this. And I came back to Facebook from the perspective of pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, right When I read someone's post that spouting some idiot bullshit that I view as idiot bullshit and I'm typing up my response. I know that I've been caught, I've been hooked into reactivity and what am I doing on Facebook if I feed the war right? 00:34:13:17 - 00:34:55:12 GUEST: TIM DUFFY How are we contributing to the benefit of humankind when we feed the war? There's a place for thoughtful opposition, right? But we can't get into the place of action of speaking and acting to the benefit of ourselves and other human beings. Unless we have a firm foundation of I know what's going on in my internal world, what is going on in my internal world, I activated, I am pissed off, I am typing this and my job is to make that person look like an idiot in front of all their friends that never, ever, ever works. 00:34:55:14 - 00:35:34:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY There's a beautiful book called How Minds Change from an author named David McCranie, who did who explored the massive transition in California's view, both politically and culturally, about gay marriage. In 2008, 70% of the population was opposed to gay marriage. In 2008, 70% of the population was for gay marriage. What happened in ten years time for that shift? 00:35:34:06 - 00:36:06:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY David McRaney talks about this. And at the core of it, spoiler alert is a method of investigation that political activists use called deep canvasing. And at the core of deep canvasing is deep listening, right? So when we come at a person with whom we disagree from the perspective of war, they will come at us with the perspective of war. 00:36:06:09 - 00:36:27:17 GUEST: TIM DUFFY But when we come at a person with whom we disagree from the perspective of I care about you and your experience in your life matter and I want to listen to you, and that doesn't mean that I have to agree with you, but it does mean that I will respect you and listen to you. That's where real change starts to happen. 00:36:27:21 - 00:36:54:03 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And that is the change that occurred in ten years time. With regard to gay marriage in California. Throughout our experience as human beings, there's that's part of the Dharma, right? That's human wisdom not coming from religion, not coming from tech, but just coming from one individual to another individual and saying, I care about you. I don't want to perpetuate the war. 00:36:54:03 - 00:37:22:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I genuinely want to connect with you. I want to build community. Our sangha is all beings on earth, and if we exclude one, we might as well exclude all of us. And it's from this perspective that we can actually take action and advance forward as a species to the benefit of ourselves and others. That's what mindfulness allows us to do. 00:37:22:15 - 00:37:28:14 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And there's tons of practices that we can explore and methods that we can explore. 00:37:28:16 - 00:37:50:00 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ So let's break down. You talk about kind of like the little moments of where you can bring thoughtfulness into your day and you use the example of somebody cut you off or somebody you know on social media. But let's talk about your on set and you have a disagreement with whether it's a colleague or a, let's say, talent. 00:37:50:02 - 00:38:08:02 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ How do you how would you or how have you kind of had that ability to go pleasant, unpleasant, right. And use some mindfulness to get yourself into a better place when you're having a disagreement or a bad moment on set? 00:38:08:04 - 00:38:37:21 GUEST: TIM DUFFY But one method that we can use is to acknowledge I love this maxim. If you can name it, you can work with it, right? And absolutely everything in our internal world is workable, right? Part of the foundation of what I help other peoples discover about themselves is our internal world is is like a dictator. Unless we recognize that the dictator doesn't need to lead the way. 00:38:37:21 - 00:39:12:11 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right? The dictator is just an aspect of being human. It's called mind. And we all have this mind and it's a bunch of thoughts that proliferate in certain situations, paired with physical experience in the body. And when we push the dictator in a particular direction, the dictator fights back. So but we gently name the internal experience and we call it anger, for instance, and we just gently name it and we develop an attitude. 00:39:12:13 - 00:39:35:12 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Anger is unpleasant in the body, although it can be pleasant, seemingly pleasant for some people. Right. And there's no denying that either. Right? Some of us do feel that sense of anger. But on the other side of anger, when there's action and and it harms other people and ourselves, we have regrets. So we drop in to the space of saying anger is present quickly, just quickly write it. 00:39:35:14 - 00:40:23:08 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Anger, I name it. Anger is present. Take a big deep breath. Thank you. Host of Game Show or actor. I hear what you're saying. And we decide within ourselves in that moment that we are not the constricted accumulation of change yield energy that is that needs to be right. All that congealed, constricted energy is present in our system as anger, and we watch it from the perspective of awareness from the witness, we say welcome back. 00:40:23:08 - 00:40:50:19 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Anger gently in our mind as an attitude. Welcome back. Anger. I know you. I've worked with you before. You will continue to be present on and off for the rest of my life. So let's be friendly here and you're welcome to come and go as you please. Anger right? I'm not going to fight you. Anger. But what I will do is I will receive you in the wide open space of awareness and I will know your character mystics. 00:40:50:21 - 00:41:27:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Because when we feel anger in our body, it's never about the other person. It's never about the external situation. Anger is always us meeting ourselves in our internal experience. Always. There's never, ever, ever a situation where anger is caused by someone else. It's caused by the feeling we have when we encounter that extreme external force. It's our relationship to that external force that creates harm in our lives. 00:41:27:15 - 00:41:50:23 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So and it's our relationship really ultimately to the only force that forces that there are in our experiences, which are internal, the only thing we can ever experience in our awareness is the internal. So we say, welcome back, anger is present, take a big ass deep breath, recognize Anger's presence in our lives. Get better at recognizing when anger is present. 00:41:50:23 - 00:42:32:05 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And from that place of recognition and wide open spaces, awareness, we go now I will respond. Right. And if we can respond from the place of helpfulness, then great. We can respond from the place of neutrality and not causing harm. Great. If we respond from the place of harmfulness, that's okay too, because it gives us yet another opportunity to recognize anger's presence in our life and to relate to it in a in a more constructive, helpful way. 00:42:32:07 - 00:42:52:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We're not receding into the cave and becoming a monk. We're living our lives and we're growing with the experiences of our lives so that we can act and speak to the benefit of self and other. This is an ideal idealized state, and that's what we're talking about. 00:42:52:09 - 00:43:19:12 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Another scenario you and I both know you put your heart and soul into developing a project. A lot of people are trusting you. You have talent, you've told them that we're know, we're pushing this forward and they're trusting you, your partners trust you. You've spent a lot of time on this and nobody wants it. 00:43:19:14 - 00:43:22:03 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Yeah. 00:43:22:05 - 00:43:45:11 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ How do you how do you use your skills to kind of not feel tense and to not feel like it? Let me now say empty, but to not feel like all that time energy in a lot of cases as a freelancer, money that was all a waste. 00:43:45:13 - 00:44:13:17 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Thank you for that question. It's a great and important question for those of us that generate from our internal experiences, ideas and concepts that we believe the world should love. My father said to me long ago when I first moved to Los Angeles, he said, If you have just one good idea, you ain't worth shit, right? I love that. 00:44:13:17 - 00:44:44:19 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And what it does is it just creates a sense of humor around it. Okay? Like, yeah, it's just one idea. You know? That being said, when we spend money and time and energy and relationships trying to get someone to finance that idea, the sting persists. So how do we relate to that Sting One way to relate to the sting is to recognize VUCA, the nebulosity of why things don't work, right? 00:44:44:20 - 00:45:27:11 GUEST: TIM DUFFY There is a network of complexity within the entertainment industry right now, and as it's been the case, you know, forever, but it's particularly apparent in today's world. We referenced it earlier as VUCA, but what is NEBULOSITY? Why did someone pass on that idea? Why didn't it work? It's in some ways it's a fool's errand, right? So we acknowledge the nebulosity of why a thing didn't work as a can, as an aspect of the experience of creating something and putting it out into the world, and then the world saying no to it. 00:45:27:13 - 00:45:58:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And we try to hold it a little less tight, right? We try to release the fist, the grip, so to speak, around what we believe to be a perfect idea that someone should buy and and give us money for right. And we reset our relationship to the idea and to the process of pitching from the firm Foundation of I don't know. 00:45:58:15 - 00:46:30:09 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right. We reset. There we go. I don't know. It's nebulous. I done there. I could try to pursue all the different patterns and paths and understand all the different forces of the hundreds and thousands of people that participate in the thing. No process or I could just say nebulous, I don't know. And then I come back to the idea and from the place of a calmer, less attached position to the idea, we can then begin to refine the idea. 00:46:30:15 - 00:47:06:10 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We can start having conversations with other folks about the idea. It might be time to just drop the idea and come up with something completely different. But often isn't it really that there's something very interesting that many people responded to when you pitched the idea? But and that thing was what everybody kept talking about, and it was maybe a particular character that you wrote about or a particular style of hero's journey in the story that, you know, began with the ending first or whatever. 00:47:06:12 - 00:47:31:21 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And we say, All right, what was the world telling me about this process that actually was kind of consistent across some of these communications that I had that I can actually lift up that aspect of the thing that I created and perhaps reform it and add new, fresh elements and perspectives into it. In Silicon Valley, this is called the pivot. 00:47:31:23 - 00:48:00:23 GUEST: TIM DUFFY You know, I've gone through multiple stages of investment for my businesses. I've watched three startups in my time in Silicon Valley, especially in Pre-seed investment. They're not investing as much in the idea as they are investing in the individuals, right? They're seeing people, founders of businesses as folks that can adapt. And here is the great word overused but still relevant. 00:48:01:02 - 00:48:34:14 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Pivot, right? What have we learned from the path we've taken to today and how do we apply those learnings to the benefit of ourselves and others with regard to this particular idea moving forward? We cannot adapt and pivot if we are stuck in the place of no one gets me or that idea was awesome and I should keep pitching that exact idea as the same way I pitched it that everybody passed on 100 times. 00:48:34:16 - 00:49:04:08 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Our life is a process. Ideas are conceptual, just like your belief that Steve is a person who is permanent and independent, when in fact really all you are is a process that's evolving over time because of impermanence concepts we bring out into the world and we try to sell our impermanent By their very nature. Children grow up because of impermanence. 00:49:04:08 - 00:49:15:01 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We don't want babies to stay, babies for babies to stay, babies which sleep in a sea of babies who can't figure it out. And then there's poop everywhere, all over the world. Yeah. 00:49:15:01 - 00:49:17:11 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You know, I don't think anybody wants that. 00:49:17:13 - 00:49:42:17 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Our ideas are like babies. We want them to grow up and to evolve. We don't want to stop them dead in their tracks. So we hold our ideas the way we hold a newborn baby. We feed it and we love it. And at a certain point, you've got to let the baby go. But also at a certain point, when the baby becomes a 14 or a 15 year old, you got to figure out what the baby's you. 00:49:42:19 - 00:49:56:12 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right. And what the world is telling you about your 14 year old and how do we support the 14 year old to proliferate forward in the process of itself? It's the same thing with ideas. 00:49:56:14 - 00:50:02:04 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ I think that's a great analogy because you can only take care of so many kids. 00:50:02:06 - 00:50:07:14 GUEST: TIM DUFFY You got to let some of those kids go. Some of your kids are assholes, right? Yeah. 00:50:07:16 - 00:50:17:02 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You can't take care of all of them. You start to, you know, you get to the Elon Musk stage. I mean, you're not the richest guy in the world. You got like ten kids. You can only take care of so many. 00:50:17:02 - 00:50:19:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So yeah, you can't rename all your kids. 00:50:19:04 - 00:50:31:03 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Ex Exactly So I think that's a great analogy as each, each concept is, is a little baby and then it grows up and you got to let some of them go at some point. I think that's that's a great analogy. 00:50:31:08 - 00:50:35:20 GUEST: TIM DUFFY This is the law of impermanence and it's so helpful in every aspect of our lives. 00:50:35:22 - 00:50:59:01 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Yeah. How do you, what, what advice would you give for somebody who's kind of nervously waiting to figure out what their role is in this kind of changing media ecosystem? That's kind of a vague question, but, you know, you and I both know if you're under 30, you're watching TikTok and YouTube and Netflix and pretty much that's it. 00:50:59:03 - 00:51:21:21 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ And if you are somebody who gets their work in the more legacy or traditional media, the cable networks or the broadcast, well, you know, life's going to be changing. And I think that's a big part of the problem with, you know, what's happening right now is people are watching content in a different way. We're still making content in a certain way. 00:51:21:21 - 00:51:45:01 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Not as many people are going to movies with the exception of Barbie and Oppenheimer. So I think we're kind of stuck in this mode of, okay, what do I do now? What do I do now? And you're right, everything you just said is right. How do you pivot? What kind of advice would you give to somebody who's in that kind of anxious mode of, okay, well, where do I fit in? 00:51:45:03 - 00:52:15:18 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Wow, what a beautiful question. I give this advice to people all day long. So, as you know, Steve, I've pivoted. I've been teaching meditation for 15 years to my friends throughout the entertainment community. And about a year and a half ago, the demand got so great and I was saying no, far too many people that I just decided that I needed to open up my my own life to support other people. 00:52:15:18 - 00:52:44:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So I, I work with executives and producers and and businesses to answer this question of how do we move forward and success in the face of VUCA, Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. So the first thing we do is we acknowledge VUCA. We don't know what is to come. 00:52:44:15 - 00:53:22:07 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We step back into awareness and we recognize let's talk about an individual, right? So we'll call this individual Bob. Bob is a show runner who's been extremely successful for 15 years. He's worked on many shows and he's not had a job for a year and a half. Bob is an expert in storytelling, but Bob is relying on external forces to validate his expertise. 00:53:22:09 - 00:53:53:20 GUEST: TIM DUFFY He's saying, I'm going to wait for those forces to signal back to me that I'm okay and that my belief in myself as being essential to the success of those external forces, big media production companies, television companies that I am essential to their success, then they will come around to me as a key element that will help them regain their success in their own worlds. 00:53:53:22 - 00:54:32:14 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Bob needs to recognize that VUCA is actually happening for them as well, and so he needs to step back and say, What is it that I'm hanging on to? What we often are hanging on to is a sense of fixed identity. We believe ourselves to be a certain thing. I am a showrunner, I am X, I am what I am a husband. 00:54:32:16 - 00:55:05:00 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I am a father. I am smart, I am, I am. Whatever it is that I've perpetuated throughout my life and felt as if I could rest in that identity. But what is that identity and where is that identity? Upon further review, we begin to understand that that identity is in our minds. It lives in the abstractions of mind. 00:55:05:02 - 00:55:37:24 GUEST: TIM DUFFY It lives in the non tangible abstraction of awareness, its thoughts, its physical feelings in awareness. It's tension, it's contraction. But yet on my LinkedIn page, it says all these things, right? Well, my LinkedIn page should be all you need to know about why you should hire me and why you should use me to solve your problems. Big Media. 00:55:38:01 - 00:56:01:16 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And we look a little deeper at our LinkedIn page and we remove our connection and our attachment to the identity of our LinkedIn page. We can start to see actually a pattern. What is that pattern? When we remove our attachment to us being a particular way, the pattern is actual skills that are useful and viable in the world. 00:56:01:16 - 00:56:41:15 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Storytelling, for instance, for Bob, is not what's going away. Stories will forever be what makes us human. There will always be demand for stories, and arguably there is more of a demand than ever for story. It's just that we are attached to the old delivery systems. So when I step back in my LinkedIn identity and I go, okay, maybe that my stories and my belief that my stories are valuable to Netflix or Amazon or to, you know, CBS or whatever, maybe I step back from that and go, Well, what is living underneath that? 00:56:41:15 - 00:57:06:14 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I'm a fucking Ph.D. in storytelling, right? And then I start thinking, Well, what else is in my resume? Well, I've always wanted to work with kids or I've always wanted to work in the wellness industry, or I've always wanted to work in. I'm obsessed with a guy. What is going on in the world, Right? A growth industry, by the way. 00:57:06:16 - 00:57:33:16 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And then we start to ask the question, what? I have this kind of life earned PhD in storytelling. What if I just disentangled it from the delivery systems with which I've grown attached to which I've grown attached? And I ask the question, are there other delivery systems that will allow me to use these skills in ways that people and businesses will benefit? 00:57:33:18 - 00:58:01:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And the answer is hell yes, there are. In fact, there's more opportunity than ever for people like us. We've been telling stories our whole lives. The only obstacle towards our ability to do so is our attachment to our own identity. Our ego. We have to let go, drop back into awareness and reposition ourselves from the perspective of, Oh, I actually have a choice. 00:58:01:06 - 00:58:51:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And in fact it's infinite. But I do not have choice if I believe myself to be this label in this world. And I can only exist in that as this label in this particular world dropped the labels dropped the world's reassess, and from the place of wide open space reemerge into the world and take action. Have conversations with folks, put the word out there that you're an expert storyteller to 50 brands that you're interested in working with, all of whom in today's world are likely to need some form of expert storytelling in order for their brands to evolve to meet the needs of their clients and their customers. 00:58:51:06 - 00:59:30:15 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So that is what that's the advice that I give and it's the advice I took my sales man. You know, I haven't launched three startups because because I felt so comfortable that television was going to give me everything that I needed. I disentangled myself from the belief that television was the only way, and I've reconfigured my own relationship to the skills that I have developed over time and redeployed them back out into the world by communicating with my sangha, with my community, which is much larger than it ever was. 00:59:30:17 - 00:59:41:01 GUEST: TIM DUFFY And why? Because I actually engaged and I asked questions and I said hello and hey, I need help, or Hey, can I help you? 00:59:41:03 - 01:00:06:10 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Dude, that's awesome. I think that's great advice. I think that is advice that a lot of people, myself included, could use. All right. Before I let you go, I have to ask you how you're feeling about your Philadelphia Eagles coming up this season. I mean, look so close last year. Is this a Super Bowl year for the Eagles? 01:00:06:12 - 01:00:27:02 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Around the birth of my second child, I had to let go of the identity as an Eagles fan. So, like so right now I have three kids now, a three and a half year old talk about letting go. So every time I engage somebody that talks about sports, I go sports. Yay! And I don't really know what's going on in the sports world. 01:00:27:04 - 01:00:37:23 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I frankly, I barely watched any Eagles games last year. Super Bowl was great, by the way. Philadelphia had a great year last year's Super Bowl, World Series, MLS Championship. 01:00:37:23 - 01:00:41:10 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ That's true. I forgot to ask. Yeah, I've got to ask about the Phillies. Yeah. 01:00:41:12 - 01:01:10:03 GUEST: TIM DUFFY The only reason I know any of that is because everyone that I used to connect with about sports from Philly was talking about it on social media. My son. Right. My community. Yes. And I couldn't I couldn't I had to pay attention when folks when they got to the to the championship games. But prior to that, frankly, I was like, you know, I've got to change a diaper. 01:01:10:05 - 01:01:32:04 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Okay. I don't know what's going to happen this year, but I can't wait to connect with with more people and maybe watch more games. And but I'm not going to stay attached to it. And now come really doesn't matter to me that much. It's really just about being able to see the joy in other people's faces. I was at Disneyland the week after the Eagles lost the Super Bowl last year. 01:01:32:04 - 01:02:09:13 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Right, with my kids. My kids were on a ride and we were with a bunch of other people. They went over to California Adventure and I hadn't bought the two pass ticket or whatever. So I'm like, You guys go over there, I'm going to hang back at Disneyland and I'm just going to get quiet. So I quite literally like the week after the Eagles lost the Super Bowl and I quite literally picked a bench at the entryway to the park and I put my earbuds in and I sat down and I started to meditate because I knew they would be gone for about an hour. 01:02:09:15 - 01:02:41:22 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So I'm sitting there, the weirdo sitting on the bench with a blank look on his face, just experiencing the presence of what was happening in front of me. And what started to happen in front of me was that bastard Patrick Mahomes and a parade of celebration. Oh, wow. Oh wow. That I had no idea was about that. And down Main Street, Disney starts happening in front of my face meditating. 01:02:41:23 - 01:03:17:03 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Wow, I have an Eagles hat off, right? And you know what? And instead of you know, and I say bastard, like, obviously. But like, what I witnessed was joy everywhere around me, right? A sea of the colors of the opposition, so to speak. And the man that right. It was Patrick Mahomes. I'm talking about it. Yeah. So. And the man that won the game literally walking directly in front of me as I'm meditating and I didn't feel hate and I didn't feel angst and I didn't feel anxiety. 01:03:17:03 - 01:03:34:14 GUEST: TIM DUFFY I felt joy because I was witnessing the joy of all these other human beings. I think that's the way we should live in the sports world, you know, And I think that's the way we should live in our lives. If we can feel joy for others, then we can actually feel joy for ourselves because everything is an internal experience. 01:03:34:14 - 01:03:50:17 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So when we feel joy for ourselves or for others, what are we actually doing? We're encountering ourselves in a joyful state, right? Waking up to that reality is a game changer. And I think mindfulness meditation can help folks in that regard. 01:03:50:19 - 01:03:58:11 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Yeah, I concur. All right. Last thing, tell me a little about Yum Crunch, your company that you have with your brother Mike. 01:03:58:13 - 01:04:18:24 GUEST: TIM DUFFY So Yum Crunch is a you know, we've won some Emmys for the food content that we've made over the years, nominated for nine Emmy and five James Beard Awards. We won two Emmys a couple of years back. Again, this is about the pivot, right? This is what's available to us. We looked at our skills and we're like, we have all these chef relationships. 01:04:18:24 - 01:04:42:18 GUEST: TIM DUFFY We have the ability to tell extraordinary food stories. Well, one of the frustrations that we experience with our food shows was big media wasn't giving our viewers the opportunity to eat what they see. So we created Young Crunch to solve that problem. So we work with some of the world's best chefs and influencers to create content that you can taste in. 01:04:42:18 - 01:05:23:12 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Go to Yum Crunch dot com. You can follow us on all of our socials at Yum Yum Crunch y you and Drew and see and experience the stories that we tell and have the opportunity to buy what you see. My consultancy is Tim Duffy Meditation Ecom. I specialize in science and mindfulness based peak performance for executives and producers and companies to re approach their lives from a firm foundation of being awake to the assets that they have available to themselves. 01:05:23:14 - 01:05:49:20 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Acknowledging the difficulties but not wallowing in the difficulties. Right. How do we advance forward in our lives if we're stuck in the old habits of mind, we can actually thrive when we let go of the old habits of mind, and we recognize the true potential of what we all bring to this earth to one another. So that's what I'm setting out to do with Tim Duffy, meditation Icon. 01:05:49:22 - 01:05:53:22 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Tim, thank you for doing the podcast one more time. I appreciate it, brother. 01:05:53:24 - 01:05:57:10 GUEST: TIM DUFFY Thank you so much. Much Love to You have a beautiful day. 01:05:57:12 - 01:06:31:19 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ Before I go, I'll recommend a couple documentaries for you. Feel up sports. Give Johnny Football a watch. That's the Johnny Manziel documentary on Netflix. Remember Big Johnny, Texas A&M, huge superstar, won the Heisman, then a lot problems when he got to the NFL. Very fun, very entertaining. And another one to check out the YouTube effect. It is a comprehensive deep dive doc by Alex Winter really shows you how powerful YouTube is and will continue to be. 01:06:31:21 - 01:07:03:01 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ All right. That is going to do it for another episode of No Script, No problem for everybody listening. Please remember to subscribe, download and show it five stars. It's available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Amazon and tune in. You can also find it at Wycombe and I Believe podcast. Follow me on Twitter and Post News @SteveBerkowitz and on Instagram and threads @SteveMBerkowitz and also on Mastodon Spill, Facebook, Snapchat and linked and yes, seriously, TikTok coming for you. 01:07:03:03 - 01:07:16:06 HOST: STEVE BERKOWITZ You can also email me any questions. You have the No script no Problem podcast at gmail.com. If you're interested in advertising on the show, please contact Bleav.com. Thank you for listening. Until next time, I'm Steve Berkowitz for No Script. No problem.      

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On Sunday, Jon Rahm won the American Express for his 9th career PGA Tour win, becoming the first player to win in back-to-back starts on tour since Rory McIlroy. Damon and Berko break down Rahm's recent dominance and what it means for the rest of his season. Meanwhile, the LPGA kicked off its season with the HGV Tournament of Champions. Brooke Henderson held off worthy chasers Charlie Hull, Maja Stark and Nelly Korda to win by four strokes. Beth Ann Nichols joins the show to discuss her takeaways from the tournament. Will LIV golfers receive Official World Golf Ranking Points? The battle wages on. Guardian's golf correspondent, Ewan Murray, explains the most recent news from DP World Tour CEO, Keith Pelley. Today, Tiger Woods announced that Marcus Byrd will receive the Charlie Sifford Memorial exemption into the Genesis Invitational. Marcus joins the show to talk about Tiger comparing his journey to Charlie Sifford and the challenges he's overcome along the way. BETH ANN NICHOLS (19:12) EWAN MURRAY (27:20) MARCUS BYRD (56:16)

Steve Berkowitz joins Paul to talk about assistant coaches in college football

John Canzano talks with Steve Berkowitz of USA Today, to get some insights on the NCAA, coaches salaries, attorneys, and how it all comes together in the sports world. Canzano asks Berkowitz how he found his niche in the sports world, what David Shaw is making at Stanford University, how he is able to compile salary information from private schools, what he thinks about the future of college football, the CFB Playoff, what is in the best interest of a school like Notre Dame, and much more. Subscribe NOW to this podcast for more great content. Follow @JohnCanzanoBFT on Twitter.

John Canzano talks to former Oregon Ducks and NFL player Geoff Schwartz about what he expects in Eugene and the rest of the Pac-12. Then USA Today's Steve Berkowitz joins the show to discuss how he broke a story on Stanford coach David Shaw's salary. We also play Punch It! Audio, the Big Splash, and the 2@2. Subscribe NOW to this podcast for more great content. Follow @JohnCanzanoBFT on Twitter.

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Greg & Eli open their final hour discussing Cole Beasley & the COVID-19 issues in the NFL. After, the guys talk NBA Draft. After, Steve Berkowitz joins the program.

USA Today's Steve Berkowitz breaks down how SEC expansion will impact the Bulldogs, the league and what it means for the state of college football. We also dive into what we learned at Media Days, and how UGA is simply rocking the Olympics this year.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul talks with USA Today's Steve Berkowitz and the St. Louis Dispatch's Dave Matter about the latest seismic changes in CFB.

Eli talk with AP's Steve Berkowitz about Supreme Court ruling on amateurism in the NCAA, NIL decision, next thing to look for with the NCAA and more. Also, they talk about Carl Nassib coming out as gay, Humdinger's Trivia and more.

Jeff is on for Bobby V as he and Nick talk some headlines and the latest with SCOTUS v. NCAA decision. Steve Berkowitz joins from USA Today to discuss the court's decision.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Paul is back from vacation and we start off with a caller feud as well as a call from Larry in Shelby. Then Steve Berkowitz from USA Today joins the show to talk about the fate of the NCAA and Name, Image, and likeness as well as supreme court's ruling on the subject.

Greg & Gabe open the second hour talking with Jay Privman about horse racing & the Preakness. After, Steve Berkowitz joins the program to talk CFB & the business of college sports.

Steve Berkowitz of USA Today talks to Paul about matters surrounding college sports and name, image, and likeness. Paul talks to callers as well.

A fresh teaser for ya! "NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM" is the podcast that takes you behind the curtain of non-fiction entertainment like never before with insight from some of the best in the business of documentaries, reality TV, competition shows, true crime, game shows, docu-series, and much more. From "Big Brother" to "The Last Dance" to "Love is Blind" to "All In"… If it’s non-fiction, we’ll get into it.

College athletics has experienced a turbulent period over the last 12 months. In that time, Steve Berkowitz - Sports Project Reporter for USA Today - has covered coaches' compensation, COVID-19, NIL, and more. He brings his unique perspective on the sports industry to this week's episode of Navigating Sports Business. In this episode, Steve gives his outlook on the next few years of college sports, and how NIL fits into that equation. He and AJ also discuss journalism in the 21st century and the relationship between the speed and accuracy of reporting.   Details 2:15 - Steve's Background 3:05 - Coaches' Compensation 8:05 - The impact of social media on journalism  10:55 - The future of the NCAA 30:30 - NIL 43:40 - Rapid Fire Questions

On Tuesday's edition of The James Crepea Show on Fox Sports Eugene, a somber note on the passing of friend of the show Terez Paylor of Yahoo Sports, recapping the Super Bowl with Mike Szvetitz of the Richmond Times Dispatch, Andy Staples of The Athletic returns to discuss the looming scholarship crunch and potential remedies, Oregon women's basketball doing soul searching, USA Today's Steve Berkowitz on finances at UCLA and Cal, the Alston case and latest on NIL

USA Today's Steve Berkowitz returns to discuss the finances at Cal and UCLA, Pac-12 commissioner search, Alston case and name, image and likeness

Josh Neighbors discusses the Mike Stoops situation at Texas with Patrick Conn of Locked on Longhorns. Then he speaks about the NCAA's 2020 revenue losses with USA Today's Steve Berkowitz.sponsors: betonline.ag & builtbar.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Steve Berkowitz of USA Today joins Paul to talk about college football storylines. Callers also weight in and talk to Paul about college football.

Josh Neighbors discusses the Mike Stoops situation at Texas with Patrick Conn of Locked on Longhorns. Then he speaks about the NCAA's 2020 revenue losses with USA Today's Steve Berkowitz. sponsors: betonline.ag & builtbar.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Join Patti Katter and her guest, Steve Berkowitz, as they talk about his journey of how he overcame his challenges and hardships in life and achieved success! Steve is an Executive Producer, Director, Podcaster, and writer. He is known for his notable works and famous shows, such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Pros vs. Joes, and Outback Nation. In this episode, you’ll learn: · What are the shows he has worked on and is currently working on? · The story of his journey on how he became a great producer! · Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is a great show that touches people’s hearts. · Steve shares his fondest memories that he had the most fun time as a producer. · At a young age, Steve started suffering from seizures caused by his epilepsy. · Unless you take care of yourself, you won’t be able to focus on your career and loved ones. · And much more! ~ About Steve Berkowitz: Steve Berkowitz has been producing, developing, writing and directing groundbreaking and riveting unscripted TV, digital content, documentary series, and sports for over 15 years, working with everyone from ABC to TLC to Netflix, Nat Geo, Discovery, Bravo, YouTube, MTV, ESPN, Snapchat and Lifetime. As a showrunner, Steve executive produced HGTV’s successful outdoor renovation series, “Backyard Takeover,” TLC’s hit family docu-series, “OutDaughtered,” and Esquire’s acclaimed youth football docu-series, “Friday Night Tykes,” which is now streaming on Netflix. He also directed Season 5 of Bravo’s popular fashion docu-series, “The Rachel Zoe Project,” oversaw the story team on season 2 of ABC’s epic robot competition series, “Battlebots,” and supervised seasons 7 and 8 of the original “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” on ABC. Additionally, Steve has interviewed, directed, or collaborated in some way with many of the biggest celebrities, personalities, musicians and athletes in the world, such as: James Harden, Damian Lillard, Ashley Graham, Shaquille O’Neal, 50 Cent, Anthony Anderson, Macklemore, Dennis Rodman, David Duchovny, Emma Roberts, Snoop Dogg, Fetty Wap, KISS, Dane Cook, Jewel, Jamie Chung, Eddie Huang, Ariel Winter, Christie Brinkley, Randy Couture, Roy Jones, Jr., Goldberg, Rachel Zoe, Howie Mandel, Nick Cannon, Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Jim McMahon, Too Short, Jerome Bettis, Bo Jackson, and former Pittsburgh Steelers’ head coach Bill Cowher. Steve currently is writing, directing and executive producing a powerful documentary film with international production company Cineflix Media and consulting on a new series for Netflix. He also hosts and executive produces a podcast called “No Script, No Problem” for the Bleav Podcast Network and is developing multiple projects under his Big Play Productions banner. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Steve spent four and a half years cutting his teeth as a local sports anchor, reporter, shooter and producer at TV stations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee. In his free time, he enjoys yoga, hiking and rooting for the LA Clippers and Dodgers. You can find Steve Berkowitz on… Website: https://berkreport.com/ Twitter: @steveberkowitz Instagram: @stevemberkowitz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/ Connect with Patti Katter! Website:http://pattikatter.com/#podcast Instagram: @thepatrioticmermaid Follow Wake Up With Patti Katter on Instagram and Facebook! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wakeupwithpattikatter/message

Bruce Springsteen volvió a reunir a la E Street Band para su última entrega, el álbum Letter To You, donde hace balance de sus prioridades, desde su familia, sus creencias, la política y guiños a su pasado con canciones que compuso hace casi medio siglo pero que ha retomado en el presente, como si estuviera cerrando el círculo y repasara fotos de los tiempos jóvenes en los que todo parecía mucho más brillante. No le asusta hablar de la mortalidad, como hace en “Song for Orphans", donde habla de los perdedores y de quienes buscan sus orígenes en los que ya no están, arropándose en sonoridades que recuerdan “Shelter From The Storm” de Dylan, a quien a veces recuerda en ciertos quiebros vocales. El álbum fue grabado en tan solo cinco días en su estudio casero de Nueva Jersey y cuenta con la E Street Band al completo tocando en vivo, sin overdubs. Desde la gira de 2016 no había tenido a su lado a sus compañeros de siempre. En la primavera de 2018 se editó Johnny Cash: Forever Words, un álbum con poemas y textos desconocidos hasta entonces de El Hombre de Negro a los que pusieron música y grabaron un elenco de artistas que incluían a los Jayhawks, el desaparecido Chris Cornell, Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, John Mellencamp y Brad Paisley, entre otros. Con la producción de John Carter Cash y Steve Berkowitz, el material se sacó de innumerables cartas manuscritas, poemas y documentos descubiertos por su hijo. Las 16 canciones que formaron parte del primitivo disco fueron grabadas principalmente en el Cash Cabin Studio de Hendersonville, en Tennessee, en los dos últimos años. Hemos dicho primitivo disco porque John Carter Cash tiene prevista una edición de lujo con la incorporación de 18 nuevas canciones que se sumarán hasta la próxima primavera en distintas "oleadas" que se sumarán a las 16 de entonces. Marty Stuart, Jamey Johnson, Ronnie Dunn, Hard Working Americans, Runaway June, Jewell, los Lumineers o Shawn Camp son algunos de los que han puesto música a los escritos de Johnny Cash. Este último, también nativo de Arkansas y un brillante compositor e instrumentista, ha elegido “I’m Comin’ Honey” para resucitar aquel legendario boom-chica-boom. El pasado verano anticipamos en TOMA UNO que el nuevo álbum de Sturgill Simpson estaría dedicado al bluegrass y ese trabajo, Cuttin ’Grass Vol. 1, ha debutado en la segunda plaza de las listas de country, situándose en la cima de las de bluegrass y Folk/Americana y dejando aún más claro que no es imprescindible formar parte de la actual industria de Nashville para tener el apoyo de los aficionados. Este trabajo ha sido publicado en el sello del artista de Kentucky, High Top Mountain. En Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1, Sturgill Simpson ha incluido canciones de todos sus álbumes, excepto el último, y hay un par de ellas que compuso hace alrededor de 15 años. El mejor ejemplo es "I Don’t Mind", que se ha convertido en nuestro tema favorito de todo este año. En eso, además coincidimos con la mujer de Sturgill. La magia de la carretera, de los espacios abiertos y la añoranza de los buenos tiempos es el principal argumento de “Asheville Nashville Austin”, una de las grandes canciones que The Band Of Heathens han incluido en su último álbum, Stranger, que en cierta forma resume su frenética actividad en estos tiempos de pandemia y relata el temor existencial del presente. Destiny Hotel ha sido un regalo en forma de álbum que Cordovas nos hicieron llegar en pleno confinamiento, con ese equilibrio que parece calculadamente inestable entre The Band y Grateful Dead que ya dio origen hace un par de años a That Santa Fe Channel, uno de los mejores trabajos de aquella temporada. Una fusión lógica que recuerda en ocasiones a las jambands de los últimos 60 y primeros 70. Aún recordamos su visita del pasado año y esperamos un regreso para que un disco como Destiny Hotel se escuche sobre un escenario y, como sugiere “I’ma Be Me”, todos volvamos a ser nosotros. La industria musical se esfuerza cada vez más por mantener viva la mística. Es muy posible que sea debido a la carencia de la misma en estos días. 1970 fue un año clave en la carrera de Grateful Dead. A finales de aquella primavera se publicó Workingman´s Dead y ese otoño la banda lanzaba American Beauty. Medio siglo después, en un año tan raro como 2020, hemos podido celebrar esas publicaciones históricas con lujosas ediciones de su 50 aniversario en diferentes formatos. En su momento, en TOMA UNO recordamos Workingman’s Dead y hoy es el momento de deleitarnos con American Beauty, el disco más reverenciado de los californianos, convertido en trascendental para la historia de la música popular en general y, por supuesto, de la Americana en particular. El nombre "Grateful Dead" apareció escrito en un diccionario y fue sugerido por Jerry Garcia cuando los Warlocks, que era como se llamaban en sus comienzos, tuvieron que cambiar de nombre porque otra banda ya lo usaba, aunque después aquellos pasaron a ser The Velvet Underground. Grateful Dead comenzó su andadura en Palo Alto, California, y ha pasado a la historia como el grupo definitivo de la Costa Oeste. Como pieza suprema de American Beauty y canción de apertura hemos querido escuchar “Box Of Rain”, un tema que Phil Lesh quería cantarle a su padre moribundo. Robert Hunter le ayudó con la letra y escuchamos al bajista por primera vez como vocalista principal. Con Lesh como cantante solista y guitarra acústica, las armonías de Bob Weir y Jerry García en el piano, Grateful Dead contaron con dos invitados de excepción: Dave Torbert en el bajo, y David Nelson (de New Riders of the Purple Sage) con la guitarra solista. Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann y Mickey Hart grabaron American Beauty entre agosto y septiembre de 1970 en los Wally Heider Studios de San Francisco contando con la producción de Stephen Quinn Barncard. Pero también contaron con invitados tan especiales como David Nelson, Ned Lagin, Dave Torbert o Howard Wales. Con David Grisman en la mandolina y Phil Lesh como vocalista, “Friend Of The Devil” era una de las más deliciosas piezas de American Beauty, demostrando que fue cuando mejor fundieron bluegrass, rock and roll, folk y country. El 1 noviembre de hace 50 años salió al mercado American Beauty, el disco más reverenciado de Grateful Dead, el quinto álbum oficial y el segundo publicado allá por 1970, un año especialmente prolífico para la banda californiana. De los momentos más relevantes de American Beauty debemos destacar “Sugar Magnolia”, que se repartieron en su autoría el desaparecido Robert Hunter y Bob Weir, haciendo referencia a la novia de este último, Frankie Azzara. Además del álbum original remasterizado, la edición de lujo del 50 aniversario de American Beauty incluye el concierto completo e inédito grabado en directo en el Capitol Theatre de Port Chester, en el estado de Nueva York, el 18 de febrero de 1971. Publicado el primer día de noviembre de 1970 y reeditado ahora para celebrar su medio siglo, American Beauty es la más potente representación de la perspectiva filosófica de los Dead, inclinada a la meditación y a la introspección. Workingman's Dead ya había dado un giro casi radical con respecto a sus álbumes precedentes, acercándose al bluegrass y el folk que habían cautivado a Jerry García en sus inicios, con influencias de Buck Owens y Merle Haggard, los dos grandes baluartes del Bakersfield Sound. En el concierto de Port Chester se pudo escuchar esta versión de “Mama Tried”, que dio nombre al séptimo álbum de Haggard con los Strangers de 1968. Para impenitentes Deadheads, también se edita American Beauty: The Angel's Share en el que se reúnen grabaciones de estudio descubiertas recientemente con un buen número de tomas alternativas y maquetas. El disco permite ver la evolución de las canciones desde su idea inicial. Así ocurre con “Ripple”, que en sus comienzos se titulaba “Hand Me Down”. Al parecer, Robert Hunter escribió el texto en Londres en una tarde especialmente inspirada y como era habitual en aquellos tiempos, este nativo de la ciudad californiana de San Luis Obispo hacía referencia a textos sagrados, en este caso a un salmo de la Biblia. "Truckin’", fue la canción encargada de cerrar aquel álbum y hoy también lo hace con nuestro programa. Era una oda a la carretera con una visión tranquilizadora de un atasco. La voz solista de Bob Weir la convirtió en un himno para los Deadheads y para la gente de la época. American Beauty supuso la última grabación de estudio del teclista y vocalista Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, ya que en 1973, cuando la banda estaba pensando en su nuevo álbum, Wake of the Flood, murió con tan solo 27 años por complicaciones relacionadas con su consumo excesivo de alcohol. Escuchar audio

Can Alabama be stopped? Dan Wolken and Paul Myerberg break down what went right for the Crimson Tide against Georgia, whether the Bulldogs could turn the tables down the road and break down all the other action from Week 7. Plus, USA TODAY Sports reporter Steve Berkowitz and sports attorney Bob Lattinville join the show to discuss the annual college coaching salary database  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep. 371 - Steve Berkowitz - Reality TV Producer & Podcaster - Steve shares 15 years of behind the scenes of Reality TV, I share my passion for reality tv. You will hear about how much of work is involved, creating a scene, pre-planning, travel and what he thinks when I cast members says "they made me look bad" - Thank you, Steve, for your time, you have informed me with amazing information and thank you for creating reality tv! His Shows: Lace Up: The Ultimate Sneaker Challenger OutDAUGTHERED OUTBACK Nation Spark'D Extreme Home Edition Steve's Links: Podcast: Bleav In No Scripts No Problem https://art19.com/shows/bleav-in-no-script--no-problem Website: https://berkreport.com Socials: Twitter: @steveberkowitz https://twitter.com/steveberkowitz IG: @stevemberkowitz https://www.instagram.com/stevemberkowitz/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/support

"I hope that out of these tragedies there is an opportunity not only to express the intensity of our reactions but to get back down to the detailed business of understanding and unpacking the nature and contributions to the problems. We also can revisit and learn new solutions and achieve greater mastery. This is as much about the work that we do in our psychoanalytic consulting rooms as it is about the work that we attempt to do in the community.”   Description: Dr. Harvey Schwartz welcomes Dr. Steven Marans, a psychoanalyst who has devoted his career to understanding police departments, the community, and the interface between both with a psychoanalytic perspective.   Dr. Marans is a child and adult psychoanalyst and is the Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry at the Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He is the director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence and the founder of the Child Development-Community Policing Program.   Dr. Marans is also co-developer with Dr. Steve Berkowitz of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention, a brief, early treatment that has proven effective in reducing post-traumatic disorders in children exposed to traumatic events. Under the auspices of a SAMHSA grant, this intervention is being rolled out nationally through the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.   Over the past 20 years, Dr. Marans has worked closely with the White House, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Educations, and members of Congress on issues related to responding to the trauma associated with violence in homes and communities, on terrorism and natural disasters and has served on national advisory groups and commissions regarding these issues.   Dr. Marans also continues to see children, adolescents, and adults for clinical consultations, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. He teaches and supervises child psychiatry, psychology, and social work fellows in psychodynamic evaluation and treatment.   Key takeaways: [9:05] Dr. Marans talks about the clinical phenomenon in times of crisis. [12:05] Dr. Marans shares what goes through his mind when hearing the news about police violence. [15:52] The police see aspects of our community that civilians don´t see. [17:55] The challenges of entering the professional role of someone else. [18:55] Narrowness of thinking prevents us from understanding what it is like to be a community member who is afraid of the police, as well as it obstructs our ability to appreciate what is like to be policemen and women involved in dangerous situations. [19:50] Our thinking becomes oversimplified when we are most upset. [21:55] Dr. Marans explores the implications of the idea of “us vs them”. [25:55] The way in which the community perceives the police has shifted. [29:31] Dr, Marans explains what happens when reality confirms the negative pre-conceptions of others. [33:31] Vulnerability, anxiety and stress can narrow the sense of options and responses on both ends. [36:02] “The best way to begin the job is to meet as many people as you can.” [40:30] When we are at our most overwhelmed, we have the least amount of resources available to bring the level of distress under control.   Mentioned in this episode: IPA Off the Couch www.ipaoffthecouch.org Childhood Violent Trauma Center, Yale School of Medicine   Recommended Readings: Phenomena of Childhood Trauma and Expanding Approaches to Early Intervention. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 10(3): 247-266 (2013)   Listening to Fear: Helping Kids Cope from Nightmares to the Nightly News. NY: Henry Holt and Co. (2005)   Psychoanalysis on the Beat: Children, Police, and Urban trauma. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Vol 51: 522-541 (1996)

USA Toady's Steve Berkowitz joins the show to discuss the College Athlete Bill of Rights, NIL legislation and the financial fallout of no college football season

On Friday's edition of The James Crepea Show on Fox Sports Eugene, James discusses the Blazers clinching a play-in spot, Portland beat reporter Aaron Fentress returns to review the win over Brooklyn and matchup with Memphis. Follow the money among the Stubborn 6, Oregon OL George Moore gets a 6th year of eligibility. USA Today's Steve Berkowitz breaks down the College Athlete Bill of Rights framework, NIL and fallout of no college football season. NDSU postpones and Week 0 is no more.

Paul goes over the headlines of the day, then welcomes in the first callers of the show. Plus, Steve Berkowitz from USA Today joins.

As uncertainty is growing about what will happen with college football this fall the financial ramifications could be massive. Steve Berkowitz joins the show to talk about what is at stake for college football, and what a delayed season could mean for universities.

Four of the top producers in REALITY TV join host Steve Berkowitz for a candid discussion about RACE in the unscripted genre and the powerful, dramatic, life-changing events taking place in our country right now. CARLOS KING (Styling Hollywood, The Real Housewives of Atlanta), JODI BASKERVILLE (The Bachelor, The Bachelorette), TIFFANY MILLS (Rhythm and Flow, Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta) and SUN DE GRAAF (Summer House, Vanderpump Rules) each provide tremendous insight and share personal experiences about racial issues they've dealt with in our industry and where they believe this movement in our nation will go from here. Recorded on 06/10/20.

Acclaimed producer, journalist, musician, author and documentary filmmaker SACHA JENKINS talks with host Steve Berkowitz about the explosion of DOCUMENTARIES in recent years and why they've become so popular. The talented director of "FRESH DRESSED" (CNN), "WORD IS BOND," and "WU-TANG CLAN: OF MICS AND MEN" (Showtime) breaks down his unique evolution as a storyteller, the keys to his success as a filmmaker, and what we can expect from his upcoming RICK JAMES doc.

Calls plus Steve Berkowitz of USA Today.

Steve Berkowitz of USA Today discusses the NCAA President Mark Emmert saying no students on campus means no sports while some commissioners are saying different. Also, who gives the final say-so about college sports coming back?

On this episode of "No Script, No Problem," host Steve Berkowitz is joined by the co-presidents of LIGHTHEARTED ENTERTAINMENT, JEFF SPANGLER and ROB LAPLANTE, producers of such hits as MTV's "ARE YOU THE ONE?" and OWN's "READY TO LOVE". The talented duo explain how they are adapting to the pandemic, describe what goes into making a successful relationship show, and share some great stories from VH-1's "DATING NAKED." Plus, Rob talks about his time producing "THE APPRENTICE" with TRUMP.

Calls plus Steve Berkowitz of USA Today.

On this week’s episode, we are joined by Dr. Steve Berkowitz, MD Professor of Psychiatry-Child-CHC, from the Anschutz medical center in Denver, Co. With the current pandemic, Dr. Berkowitz has been tasked with the set up of a help line for staff and personal at the medical center to provide them with mental health resources to help them through this difficult time. One of the key developments he and his team have created is a 7 Day Resiliency Plan for staff to implement at the office and at home to emphasize the five components of resiliency: connectedness, laughter, eating, sleeping, and a set schedule. We also discuss what the dating experience could be like if you choose to get out there a date during a pandemic. Normally, we offer up the contact information of our expert guests but considering Dr. Berkowitz’s level of responsibility, we request that you reach out to local resources through https://covid19.colorado.gov However, if you loved his message today, please forward this episode and blog post on social media with someone you believe that would benefit from the episode. During this trying time, Dave and our community is hosting free zoom calls every Tuesday evening at 7 pm MST for you to gain extra support in your life through authentic conversations about love, family, and work! Click here to join us for free!

BELOW DECK MEDITERRANEAN showrunner NADINE RAJABI joins host Steve Berkowitz on this special COVID-19 episode of "NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM." The duo discuss why the nautical docu-soap has become a big hit for BRAVO, how she's running the show during the "shelter in place" situation, and how the coronavirus will affect the entertainment industry. Plus, Nadine describes her wild journey from comedian and writer to one of the top executive producers in REALITY TV.

On this episode of the Good Story Podcast, your host, Eric Skwarczynski is joined by Steve Berkowitz. Steve has been producing, developing, writing and directing groundbreaking, dynamic and compelling unscripted television for over 15 years, working with everyone from ABC to TLC to Discovery to Bravo, Netflix, YouTube, MTV, ESPN and Lifetime. As a seasoned showrunner, development executive, storyteller and interviewer, Steve has worked on projects all over the world across a wide variety of genres: docu-series, home renovation, competition, game, house reality, documentary and dating. Furthermore, he's interviewed and/or collaborated with dozens of the biggest celebrities and athletes in the world, such as: James Harden, Damian Lillard, Jessica Alba, Ashley Graham, Shaquille O’Neal, 50 Cent, Anthony Anderson, Macklemore, Dennis Rodman, David Duchovny, Emma Roberts, Snoop Dogg, Fetty Wap, KISS, Dane Cook, Jewel, Jamie Chung, Eddie Huang, Ariel Winter, Christie Brinkley, Coach John Beilein, Carrie Underwood, Leanne Rimes, Randy Couture, Roy Jones, Jr., Goldberg, Rachel Zoe, Howie Mandel, Nick Cannon, Jerry Rice, Michael Irvin, Jim McMahon, Too Short, Jerome Bettis, Adam & Danielle Busby, and Bo Jackson. Most recently, as SVP of Development at Maverick TV USA & IDTV USA, both All3Media companies, Steve helped sell 2 projects. Prior to All3Media, he served as executive producer and showrunner on YouTube’s sneaker design competition series, “The Ultimate Sneaker Challenge,” TLC’s hit family docu-soap, “OutDaughtered,” Esquire’s youth football docu-series, “Friday Night Tykes,” and FYI’s backyard makeover series, “Outback Nation with Jamie Durie”. Steve also directed and supervised Season 5 of Bravo’s acclaimed fashion docu-series, “The Rachel Zoe Project” and supervised seasons 7 & 8 of the Emmy-nominated “Extreme Makeover Home Edition” on ABC. Before embarking on his reality TV journey, Steve spent almost 5 years as a local TV sports reporter and anchor in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Tennessee. Steve Berkowitz: Website – https://berkreport.com/ (https://berkreport.com) LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-berkowitz-5a09ab8 (https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-berkowitz-5a09ab8) Twitter – https://twitter.com/steveberkowitz (https://twitter.com/steveberkowitz) Listen to Steve Berkowitz' Podcast: https://bleav.com/podcast-show/bleav-no-script-no-problem/ (https://bleav.com/podcast-show/bleav-no-script-no-problem/) Good Story Podcast: https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/facebook.com/goodstorypod (facebook.com/goodstorypod) https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/instagram.com/goodstorypod (instagram.com/goodstorypod) https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/twitter.com/goodstorypod (twitter.com/goodstorypod) Eric Skwarczynski: https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/instagram.com/eskwarczynski (instagram.com/eskwarczynski) https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/facebook.com/skwarczynskifilms (facebook.com/skwarczynskifilms) https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/twitter.com/eskwarczynski (twitter.com/eskwarczynski) https://open.acast.com/shows/5e49f32c3b6890fe3baf7b13/episodes/skwarczynskifilms.com (skwarczynskifilms.com) Want to start your own podcast? Schedule a free consultation today! https://calendly.com/skwarczynskifilms/15min (https://calendly.com/skwarczynskifilms/15min) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Florida moves one step closer to allowing college athletes to profit off their names, and Steve Berkowitz joins the show to give the details and how this might work. Plus he and Marc discuss the cash revenue that the NCAA has saved up in the event something would disrupt the NCAA Tournament.

What makes good food TV? Rob Petrone shares his food TV hot takes with fellow television producer and Bleav podcast host Steve Berkowitz (“No Script, No Problem”) poolside in sunny Los Angeles. Plus, Rob shares a celebrity chef dining tip.

In this episode of "NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM," host Steve Berkowitz has a lively chat with showrunner and writer, TODD HURVITZ, about a wide array of topics, including: mustaches, singing in the shower, tasing LaToya Jackson, creating comedy in reality TV, pranking celebrities on "PUNK'D" and pranking students - with celebrities - on his new NICKELODEON series, "THE SUBSTITUTE."

In this episode of "NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM," host Steve Berkowitz chops it up with CAT RODRIGUEZ, the VP of Unscripted Development and Programming at LIFETIME. The duo discuss what makes a successful dating show, the SUPERNANNY reboot, MARRYING MILLIONS, Steve's need for therapy, Cat's move from producer to network executive, and their admiration of Netflix's documentary series, "DON'T F**K WITH CATS."

On this episode of "NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM," host Steve Berkowitz breaks down the reboot and revival of legendary renovation and transformation show, EXTREME MAKEOVER HOME EDITION, with the show's executive producer and showrunner, BRADY CONNELL. The two discuss how the show has changed, moving from ABC to HGTV and with a brand new cast of designers, but how the feel-good core of the program has stayed the same.

In this episode of “NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM,” veteran producer and current Paramount Network executive CHAZ GRAY joins host STEVE BERKOWITZ to discuss the evolution of travel, food, transformation and competition television. From his early days producing "AMAZING RACE" to his time as showrunner on "TOP CHEF" to his role now overseeing "BAR RESCUE," Chaz shares some terrific stories and insight, as he has traveled the world and worked with some of the best talent in reality TV... and even Nancy Pelosi.

In this episode, host STEVE BERKOWITZ and guest ERIN RYDER examine the rise of ghost hunting, monster chasing, mystery solving, and UFO searching in REALITY TV. Ryder – the former co-host of “DESTINATION TRUTH” – is a veteran of several paranormal shows and shares numerous tales of escaping death, breaking bones, and even getting stuck on the Great Wall of China.

In this episode of “NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM,” host Steve Berkowitz examines the unscripted sub-genre of prank shows and hidden camera reality TV with producer and developer Matt Mazzant, who discusses his days as a writer, producer and prankster on “Punk’d,” a game-changing show, originally on MTV that is being rebooted for Quibi.

In this episode of “NO SCRIPT, NO PROBLEM,” host Steve Berkowitz breaks down the dynamic and unpredictable landscape of selling unscripted TV shows today with one of the reality TV industry’s best developers and sellers, Madison Merritt, the SVP of Alternative Programming at eOne in the U.S. The two will talk about the keys … Continued

In the first episode, Tutul tells the story of how the soccer tournament in the 1984 Olympics eventually led to the founding of Major League Soccer.Sources:How USA was chosen to host World Cup 94 by Michael Lewis for the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/04/usa-world-cup-94-inside-storyHow US won the World Cup by Steve Berkowitz for the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1988/07/10/how-the-us-won-the-world-cup/04eff69a-2e1b-470a-bda6-37573ef66cf9/Swiss Rolled how Alan Rothenberg became USSoccer president by Tim Froh - Howler Magazine: https://www.espn.com/soccer/club/united-states/660/blog/post/3376403/how-alan-rothenberg-became-us-soccer-president-in-1990-changed-american-soccer-howler-magazineAn oral history of major league soccer frenzied first season by Doug Sibor for Complex Sports: https://www.complex.com/sports/2015/05/oral-history-major-league-soccer-first-season

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the "Fair Pay to Play Act" on Monday, a first-in-the-nation law that will make it easier for college athletes to profit from their own name, image, and likeness.  The law doesn't go into effect until 2023, but it could be a major problem for the NCAA.  Steve Berkowitz, reporter for USA Today Sports, joins us with more. Next, we got one step closer to our self-driving car future, but there were some hiccups.  Tesla released a new feature to some of its customers called “Smart Summon” which would enable the car to leave a parking spot and navigate around obstacles to pick up its owner. The problem is that it didn't work out to well and led to some fender benders.  Andrew Hawkins, transportation reporter at The Verge, joins us for what went wrong. Finally, America's first licensed cannabis restaurant is now open to the public.  Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Café lets you eat a meal, while smoking marijuana or consuming edibles.  Budtenders will find the right pairing of weed to match your food, or you can bring your own in for a “toke-age” fee.  Jenn Harris, senior writer for the LA Times food section joins us for what to expect. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Steve Berkowitz of USA Today discusses a California bill that would allow college athletes to get paid and what it could mean in the future for everyone else.

Steve Berkowitz of USA Today discusses a California bill that would allow college athletes to get paid and what it could mean in the future for everyone else.

Insider Mike Carmin talks with USA Today's Steve Berkowitz about Purdue coach Jeff Brohm's new contract and what it means to the program

Craig discusses college football coaches' salaries with Steve Berkowitz of the USA Today!

Reporter Steve Berkowitz, the primary author of USA Today's oft-referenced coaches salary database, joined the podcast to discuss coaching compensation and much more.  

Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca discuss the Spurs’ beautiful domination of the Heat in the NBA Finals. They also look back at a goal-filled first weekend of the World Cup and talk with USA Today’s Steve Berkowitz about O’Bannon v. NCAA. Show notes at www.slate.com/hangup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The establishment of good core measure performance is good patient care, emphasizes Dr. Steve Berkowitz, president of SMB Consulting and former chief medical officer at St. David's HealthCare, which boasts a mortality index and CMS core measure ratings that are among the best in the nation. Dr. Berkowitz shares his formula for achieving 100 percent performance, describes an incentive program for drivers of the quality measures and weighs in on the need for an EHR to achieve core measure excellence. Dr. Berkowitz shared practical strategies for improving core measures, as well as modeling techniques to illustrate the impact of a hospital's failure to meet the measures during "Healthcare Performance Improvement: Exceeding Core Measure Targets for Value-Based Reimbursement," a 45-minute webinar on July 20, 2011 sponsored by The Healthcare Intelligence Network.