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David resumes the conversation with Steven Shapiro and Nancy Shapiro Rapport on designing Our Family Culture. Nancy and Steven explain how Our Family Culture shapes the way conversations are taking place between parents and children, and why repetition matters when parenting with purpose.

What does it mean to be the Culture Architect of one's family? Over the past year, David has worked with brother-sister duo and lifelong educators Steven Shapiro and Nancy Shapiro Rapport to explore this question. In this episode, they recount the story of coming together and collaborating on Our Family Culture, a system designed to help parents be more purposeful in creating a healthy culture for their families.

Mean Girls, directed by Mark Waters and written by Tina Fey, is a cult classic teen comedy based on Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The film humorously yet accurately portrays the harsh realities of high school social dynamics, focusing on cliques, peer pressure, and the impact of popularity on self-identity. The story follows Cady Heron, a homeschooled girl navigating the cutthroat social hierarchy of public high school life after moving from Africa. As she infiltrates "The Plastics," the school's most popular clique, Cady faces a moral dilemma that tests her values, self-image, and relationships. Though often comedic, the movie sheds light on serious issues like bullying, conformity, and the challenges of adolescence. In this episode, Kevin Stoller, Nancy Shapiro Rapport, and Steven Shapiro discuss the movie through the lens of parenting and education. They explore the challenges faced by kids and parents in today's society, particularly focusing on the mental health crisis and the breakdown of family structures. The conversation delves into character analyses, the impact of school environments, and the importance of emotional health in raising children.   Takeaways: Consistent, intentional conversations about values and behavior are essential for raising resilient, emotionally healthy children. Small, deliberate actions can lead to significant, long-term results. A strong family culture, built on open communication and shared values, can help children navigate social pressures and define their identity. Parents need to engage in ongoing discussions about kindness, respect, and self-worth. Technology has fundamentally changed how teens communicate and form relationships. Setting boundaries around device use and fostering in-person connections can help counteract the isolating effects of screen time. Adolescence is a time of self-discovery, and social interactions can be intense and confusing. Understanding the pressures teens face helps parents provide better support. Schools can support parents by reinforcing positive behaviors and values, while communities can provide a support network for parents navigating the challenges of raising children. Comedy can be an effective way to connect with teens, understand their world, and initiate meaningful conversations. Movies like Mean Girls use humor to highlight real issues in adolescence.     About Steven Shapiro: Steven Shapiro is a veteran school reimaginer, with over 30 years of K-12 classroom teaching experience, 15 concurrent years as a high school humanities program director, and four years as a district leader of experiential learning. Steven is the host of the acclaimed podcast Experience Matters. He delivers keynote presentations on topics including supporting parents in the digital age, addressing the youth mental health crisis, and designing authentic learning experiences. Steven and his wife Susan are the proud parents of three adult children.   About Nancy Shapiro Rapport: Nancy spent the majority of her 34-year public-education career as a school counselor, supporting students and parents in navigating the challenging “middle years.” Her leadership roles in professional development and crisis management showcased her ability to identify needs, empathize with various stakeholders, and deliver results. As a certified Hudson Institute coach, Nancy has extensive training in coaching and human development. She has taught courses on learner mindset and question thinking, helping adults pursue a life of curiosity, inquiry, and possibility. Nancy brings a wealth of experience in both child and adult learning to her role as co-founder of Our Family Culture. Most importantly, she is the proud parent of two adult children, Emily and Jacob.     Learn More About Our Family Culture: Website: https://ourfamilyculture.org/     Connect with Steven Shapiro: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-shapiro-experience-matters/   Connect with Nancy Shapiro Rapport: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancysrapport/   Connect with host, Kevin Stoller: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinstoller/     Episode 226 of the Better Learning Podcast Kevin Stoller is the host of the Better Learning Podcast and Co-Founder of Kay-Twelve, a national leader for educational furniture. Learn more about creating better learning environments at www.Kay-Twelve.com.     For more information on our partners: Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) - https://www.a4le.org/ Education Leaders' Organization - https://www.ed-leaders.org/ Second Class Foundation - https://secondclassfoundation.org/ EDmarket - https://www.edmarket.org/ Catapult @ Penn GSE - https://catapult.gse.upenn.edu/ Want to be a Guest Speaker? Request on our website

In this episode Kerry Guard chats with Steven Shapiro, who has been a marketing leader at companies such as Qualys, Informatica, Weaveworks and more. At each company he has set the stage for how to build Generate Demand. Given his track record Kerry asked him to walk through his secrets of where he starts and then builds upon it to create a pipeline generation machine. Demand Generation is the new Lead Generation. If you haven't thought about your demand generation efforts, you could find yourself playing catch up in 2022 and Steven talks through exactly where to start so break out that note book and take notes. Let's go! https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenshapiro/ Spotify Playlist

If you're a consultant or member of a C-suite, you take a different approach to writing a book than an academic or fiction writer. Your primary goals are to increase your business and to help your clients increase theirs. That means you need to see your book not as an end product but as one aspect of your overall business strategy. You want to implement a holistic approach that integrates innovative business tools with a book's content. Traditional and hybrid publishers published Steven Shapiro's books. He also published independently and is an expert on leading from a holistic perspective. He's a generalist in the best sense, for he brings what he's learned from a range of businesses to each new consulting position. Unlike some authors, who move from subject to subject in each new book, Stephen advises going deeper in a way that creates more value for the reader. He also feels strongly that a book's purpose is not about royalties; it is about impact. A book's impact has a ripple effect on all the other services and products one offers. If you want to explore the possibility of getting the maximum impact from a book and build your business, study this podcast carefully. Listen in to this episode of Writing to Get Business to discover • How can an author best choose between traditional, independent, and hybrid publishing? • What are the advantages of writing and publishing books for particular clients? • Why can a brand color be a powerful marketing tool? • What are the three basic realms of products and services? • When is it better to create a new product instead of a new book? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

See more episodes at HTTP://www.jftalks.comConnect with me at Yac.com/JustinFHere is a rough transcript:0:00Hey this is Justin Friday morning January 15, and just got the inspiration in Russell challenges one funnel away. 30 day challenge right now and we started going with accountability partners on Monday, and I reached out to a guy just to say hello, my name is Steven Shapiro, who does a lot of the same work I do inside of the innovation space and inside of that he shared with me that he was able to produce a book in a couple of weeks. Two weeks and I've been wanting to write a book for a while. I think it is a I speak about a lot that books are people's access like like you need some expertise to be able to write a book and it is, and it also takes some work to get a book over aligned way that way that's consumable He's like, Look, I know how to get a book in your hands in two weeks to be able to start having people, you know, read it and edit it and look at it and all that good stuff. I was like cool let's do it so we started that yesterday and we're off to the work. I had a meeting with my friend Brennan Decker yesterday and I asked him at the end of it I was like look like if I were to write a book just for you based on what you know about me, what would you, what would it be called and he said shipped shit, and it's just like means a couple of different things like ship it like put it out the door and I know that's like MVP and there's a lot of language about that. But what I mean is like really ship shit I've sent audio message out there they're complete blanks. I've said audio messages, I've sent podcasts out there that are like you can't even hear what's actually going on the audio quality on this one might not be good I'm just required recording this on my iPhone right now. And when people actually hear this in the Ross forum, it might not be good. When you see this like in the podcast form the transcripts can have typos in it I'm going I'm recording this on otter directly and it's not going to make sense, originally as is, but I'm putting it out there because if it is if it lives as an idea rattling around inside the head, it doesn't do anything and it doesn't make a difference it's just those ideas rattling around inside the head, they just keep on looping around. And if we have multiple things that are occupying our mind at this point in time we're completely failing and getting paralyzed so I put my ideas out there and they're done, and then one of three things happens. Maybe it's one of four things I don't know what the number is. I put it out there and something amazing happens like somebody listens to it and it changes their lives in some way i'm not saying like they're live is 100% transformed and everything's different and, you know, say pigeons and that does get released and all that stuff but it has some impact on them. That's great. People listen to it and just another thing that they do during the day which is cool right people are gonna waste some time on some other stuff. Nobody listens to it. that's really good feedback right nobody listens to it. Is there a distribution issue, are we just putting out real crap that people are working on AI and then what happens there there's from my perspective. That's exciting. I want to do more work with that. If we want to do more work with that we move into a sprint and Sprint's can be five minutes right like ship shit right what can you get done in five minutes, then improve that thing that you worked on a little bit, and then maybe you spend 25 minutes 25 minutes to significance that's the Pomodoro method for me that's the amount of time that I could focus on one task. You know, for a period of time just the way that I work and then it was just like at that point in time if you get some momentum you move on to something else. But the reality is, or you move on and do more work with it. But the reality is 99% of the people, 99% of those ideas that are out there aren't necessarily going to make a difference, out there in the world if they're not going to be beneficial they're not going to be, you know, they're not going to be great, they're not going to be amazing. And they deserve to be moved on to but when you get the combination of the market wants this and people want this out in the world and it actually makes a difference out in the world it's something that you want to work on. That's where you know you have the Holy Grail but you're never gonna know what that thing is, until you actually put that out there so that's what the book is, and we're going to do, I'm going to put these things out here.

The following is a conversation between Steven Shapiro, Author of Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving. To find better solutions, you need to first ask better questions because the questions you ask will determine which solutions you'll see, and which ones will remain hidden. That is a topic of a fascinating new book by Stephen Shapiro, titled Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems.

Steven Shapiro is a master at breaking down the problem and figuring out the best way to solve it. My favorite part of this interview was how Steven dug into how we think and solve problems. He gives tools that you can use to bust your assumptions so you can find the best solution to a problem.  Here are some of the highlights from our interview: 0:35 - Steven Shapiro's gratitude list. 1:49 - How has the pandemic helped him. 2:04 - Feeling the anxiety of the pandemic. 3:45 - Dealing with a low response from a live audience. 5:02 - How a speaker can perceive the wrong thing from a live audience. 7:00 - How we perceive ourselves and others view us. 9:19 - The importance of doing something special for your client after the event is over.  10:35 - Digging into his processes. 11:01 - The importance of simplifying a complex problem. 11:45 - How the pandemic is changing how we work. 13:02 - Having fun with nerding out. 14:50 - Starting his business after being at Accenture Consulting. 16:30 - The first step to finding a solution is to not focus on finding a solution. 17:25 - Why we need to challenge our assumption. 19:02 - Past success is a predictor of future failure because we have blinders on. 19:50 - How we become more aware of the blinders that we create for ourselves. 22:07 - Sometimes the best solutions come outside of your industry. 24:30 - Figuring out how to apply these creative problem solutioning at work. 27:05 - Understanding what business you are in. 30:02 - Why curiosity is so important to avoiding mistakes. 33:11 - Understanding the fear within the culture of a business. 34:58 - NOW (Need, Opportunity, Will) model. 37:48 - How to check your ego at the door. 41:04 - How to combine strengths with other people at work. 42:21 - The importance of pausing before you take action. You can learn more about Steven Shapiro from his website. I would suggest picking up his book, Invisible Solutions, to help you be a better problem solver. And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest that you think would be amazing for my show just reach out and I'll do my best to get them on.

Dr Steven Shapiro of UPMC joins the show to talk about President Trump's positive Covid-19 test and the importance of wearing masks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk Text LEARNERS to 44222 For full show notes, go to www.LearningLeader.com #370: Steve Herz: Don't Take Yes For An Answer Notes: Sustaining excellence = Curiosity - Genuine interest A desire to learn and grow Finding uncommon commonalities: His parents went to Ohio University (which is where I graduated) Do your homework prior to meeting someone (as Steve did on me) Be actionable and intentional Meet someone on their turf. ACKNOWLEDGE them. Turner Smith: "Don't Take Yes For An Answer" -- Beware of the counter-fit yes. They are not helpful. "Don't live in an echo chamber of Yes." Seek feedback - Turner Smith not only didn't give Steve an offer... He gave him specific feedback as to why. Changed his life. Tough love with kindness Read the book: Seabiscuit. Knowing when to use carrots vs. sticks. Taking his shot with Alfred Geller - "I met him in a elevator and only had a few seconds. I asked to work with him... He said, 'meet me in my office at 8:00am tomorrow.'" "I downloaded his brain." "You need to perfect your A. W. E." Authority Warmth Energy John Kasich didn't use his voice properly. "Change your voice, change your life." Mid-level manager advice: "Act like you've been there before (like Barry Sanders)." Internalize it. "When you're walking your dog, who is walking who?" Providing feedback to his clients: "Joe Tessitore couldn't figure out how to modulate his voice." Don't get into the "vortex of mediocrity:" The most painful thing in the world is unfulfilled potential. Find the people who are able to give you critical feedback and listen. When he started his company, he called it IF after Rudyard Kipling’s poem by the same name which says, “If you can dream-- and not make dreams your master… yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” We are ALL in sales: Steven Shapiro, member of the board of overseers of University of Pennsylvania Law School, “We have a saying at the firm: You can buy a pound of brains at the butcher. I walk through the halls of the university, and there are many brilliant future lawyers. But they can’t look you in the eye in the hallway. In 15 years, this person may be writing law on the tax code, but they’re probably not going to have a lot of clients.” You know where lawyers, or salespeople, or consultants go when they don’t bring in business? Neither do I. Because you rarely hear about them ever again."

We’re often asking our teams to come up with better solutions and innovative ideas by “thinking outside the box,” but what if we really need to be thinking about moving to a different box entirely? Steven Shapiro is an expert in pushing people to consider alternative perspectives, changing the questions, and challenging the assumptions.   Word-renowned innovation keynote speaker and author Stephen Shapiro has presented his provocative strategies on innovation to audiences in 50 countries for over 20 years. During his 15-year tenure with the consulting firm Accenture, he led a 20,000-person innovation practice. He is the author of six books, including his latest Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems, where he shares his systematic approach to deal with any problem by asking better questions.   So how do we ask better questions? Steven shares more about why it’s important to take what we think is the opportunity or problem and look at it through different perspectives, and why questions have such a powerful impact on innovation. We also discuss how to identify solutions masquerading as questions, addressing explicit vs. implicit questions, and how to avoid assumptions. Find out more about the challenges with brainstorming, and how to work within the constraints we have.   If you are ready to: get buy-in from key decision makers on your next big idea be a high-impact, high-value member that ignites change foster a culture of innovation where everyone on your team is bringing innovative ideas that tackle challenges and seize opportunities… Join us on LaunchStreet — gotolaunchstreet.com   Mentioned in This Episode: Innovation is Everybody’s Business: How to Ignite, Scale, and Sustain Innovation for Competitive Edge, by Tamara Ghandour (Pre-Order) Steven Shapiro Accenture Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems, by Steven Shapiro  

UPMC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Steven Shapiro joins Marty to explain that it's alright for businesses to open up again if they do it safely.

Which part of the buyer's journey is arguably most important and often the least integrated into your team? Content. I had a stellar conversation about marketing ownership over the entire customer journey with Steven Shapiro, VP of Marketing at CleverTap. What we talked about: The 4 Ds of taking a hiring chance Integrating content is just one example of how marketing has ownership over the whole customer journey Exercise makes 80 hour work weeks doable Check out this and other episodes of The Marketer's Journey at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or our website.

**BUSINESS POD ALERT** Business Manager STEVEN SHAPIRO stops by to celebrate the 30th episode of INDUSTRY TOWN. Steven is a Founder and Partner at Summit Business Management. He was kind enough to have me over to his office to chat about Actor Taxes (14:40), LLC's and Corporations (18:40), Unemployment Insurance (40:00) and much more around the world of actors and money. Please subscribe and write us a review on Spotify or iTunes! We want your FEEDBACK. Email us at: IndustryTownPodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Social Media: Instagram: @IndustryTownPodcast Facebook: @IndustryTownPodcast Twitter: @IndustryTownPod For More on Steven Shapiro and Summit Business Management Email: sshapiro@summitbusinessmgmt.com Phone: 818-981-3115 Web: www.summitbusinessmgmt.com For More On Brian: Instagram: @TheBrianNorris Twitter: @TheBrianNorris IMDB: imdb.me/briannorris Presenting Sponsor John Rosenfeld Studios. Industry Town is sponsored by HORRIBLE HAIKUS. Visit www.HorribleHaikusGame.com and use the code INDUSTRY TOWN to get 50% off a copy of the game!

Remember Enron? A company that went to the highest highs only to have a dizzying fall in 2007. One of the values that Enron had put on the wall was Integrity. In hindsight no one would associate Enron with anything remotely close to integrity. As you heard in the intro, how you reach your objective matters, the end doesn't justify the means and you have to be intentional about doing it the right way when it comes to people. As it turns out, putting values on the wall means nothing.This week on the SaaS Revolution Show we bring you a session from our recent SaaStock West Coast conference where a stellar panel discusses how to nail Company Culture & Mission and How to Build an Environment Fit for Scale. What this means is creating a sustainable company with healthy culture, good demeanor and authentic behaviours exuded by everyone. Moderated by Solu Nwanze, Director, Business Operations, Zendesk it features Sonja Gittens Ottley, Head, Diversity & Inclusion, Asana, Emma Eschweiler, VP, Silicon Valley bank, Steven Shapiro, VP Marketing (Americas), Clevertap and BJ Lackland, CEO, Lighter Capital.   They talk in detail how to prepare for a more dynamic workplace and build a more productive and engaged workforce and touch on important topics such as hiring, culture add, rather than culture fit, how to run a company and why you should act as a parent to your team. As we are just days away from our flagship conference in Dublin, we want to make sure you think about these softer topics as much as you do about product market fit, go to market and outbound sales strategy. Culture, inclusivity and equality matter far more than you think and if you don't spend time on them you could find yourself in Enron's shoes, with empty words hanging off your walls. If you still haven't, grab a last minute ticket for SaaStock19 where 230 speakers will bring useful and thought provoking content across seven stages.

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, Fortune, and Inc. magazine, she is the author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of 2015 by Inc. magazine and one of the Top 10 Business Books of the Year by Forbes.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  “The biggest lesson that I draw from it…It’s really hard for anyone, to in the moment, understand the macro forces at play…Change can happen overnight, and we are not able to see it at the time. So, we need to be as resilient as possible to prepare for these unexpected situations. And be willing and excited to reinvent ourselves.”  “As we have all seen in a lot of different areas of our lives, clearing out the stuff that doesn’t work makes room for the stuff that does.”  “I value trying to bring people together in a way that makes them feel comfortable and included…Community building is really important, but a lot of people do it in a way that is exclusive.”  “What are the assumptions that people are making in my field and what circumstances might have changed that would alter or impact those assumptions.”  “Whatever you are, be a good one.”  “I’m a big believer in what gets measured gets done.”  “We need to think how to scale our efforts. How to do it once and share it with the world. If you want your ideas to have maximum impact, we need to figure out how to make our voices go louder and further, with the same amount of effort. If we can scale our ideas, that is where we can start to make a difference.”  “The framework for how you can build a following around your ideas: First you build a network, then you build an audience, then you build a community.”  “Carve out more white space because that’s where ideas grow.”  FINAL FOUR  What have you done differently in your life to stand out?  I’ve been out as a gay person since I was 14. If you can just be like, ‘Yeah, that’s my deal…’, that kind of sends a message to other people too that they can be themselves.  What makes someone stand out in business or in life?  I’m a huge proponent of content creation…. One of the most important things you can do if you want to become a recognized expert, is you have to create content. Otherwise people literally just won’t know what your ideas are. And so, therefore, they can’t tell if you are an expert that should be recognized.  What’s the best advice you’ve received?  Not getting an office.  How do you want to be remembered?  As somebody who helped other people figure out how to crack the code to get their best ideas heard. I would really like to improve society by getting talented people to contribute and to have their ideas appreciated and recognized rather than just the people with the loudest voices in the room.  Links:  DorieClark.com  Stand Out Book  http://dorieclark.com/join  Schedule Once   Calendly  Hit Makers by Derek Thompson  Contagious by Jonah Berger  Revisionist History  TEDxNASA by Steven Shapiro   Entrepreneurial You  Reinventing You  Help Us Stand Out:  Find Your Yellow Tux Book  FindYourYellowTux.com  Subscribe And Leave Us A Review On iTunes  Like Us On Facebook    Co-Produced and edited by Podcast On The Go 

Steven Shapiro offers provocative strategies on Innovation. He Leads a 20,000-person innovation practice, author of five books, creator of high-performing innovation teams, featured in National Magazines, Board Member of the NSA, Certified Speaking Professional, Speaker Hall of Fame Inductee, Mentor & Judge of TLC’s Girl Starter. Hear today: Innovate where you differentiate – companies can’t be the best at everything so they need to focus on what helps them stand out. Don’t think outside the box, find a better box. The questions we ask have a profound impact on the range of possible solutions Expertise is the enemy of innovation. When people are cut from the same cloth, you rarely get breakthroughs.    Quote: It always seems impossible, until it gets done.  www.stephenshapiro.com inquiries@stephenshapiro.com Premium binge worthy content. Up or Out with Connie is reaching over 2.5m listeners per episode. And we’re not done  yet…  We can be heard on… ·       C-Suite Network ·       iTunes ·       iHeartRadio ·       Stitcher ·       Multiple online networks, and ·       1,900 analog stations in 145 Countries. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes, because you don’t want to miss any of the good stuff.   Let us know what you would like and need to hear on a future episode. We are here to mentor leaders who are ready to develop high-performance habits, achieve excellence and Be Unstoppable Together.   Register to be a guest at www.uporout.com   Book Connie to speak at your next event: UnstoppableSpeaker.LA Are you an executive looking for a mentor to help you develop High-performance Habits and achieve excellence? Give Connie a call at 570.906.4395, she just may be what you’re looking for! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fact they are both from Australia has nothing to do with how Alix Nardella, our guest today, feels for Mr. Black. Her first love may have been whisky but now she only has eyes for this smooth and sexy coffee liqueur. Download the audio     Born in 2012, Mr. Black is the love child of Tom Baker and Philip Moore. After tinkering for nine months, they came upon the perfect combination of coffee beans to produce their sublime elixir, immediately winning a gold medal from London International Wine and Spirits that year. Alix has been winning awards as well, coming second in The Glenfiddich Malt Mastermind competition before joining Mr. Black. After traveling the world, lucky for us, she settled in London and is set on teaching us all that there is more to a coffee drink than the White Russian and the Espresso Martini. (no matter how good they both are!) She even converted me to the wonders of the Negroni, which I am not a big fan of, after making me one of her creations, simply called the Coffee Negroni, which she made for me at Every Cloud in Hackney. Check her out here on our YouTube channel: Mixology in a Minute     Next week, we travel back in time to the Roaring Twenties, when London’s Theatre District was the place to be. Jason Vickers and Pablo Moreno Garcia have the Champagne on ice for us at the Waldorf Astoria’s Miss Homage Bar. Did you miss Flavian Joubert's incredible story?  Check it out on Itunes!   Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)

Was it the flair, the fans, the fame - a mixture of all three - that made our guest today watch Tom Cruise in Cocktail and say “I want to do that”? Yes...and Vincenzo Sibilia is wowing them in Chelsea’s only speakeasy, but you need to know the password to see him in action. From Italy’s first capital city, Torino, to London wasn’t such a long journey. After a stint at catering college, Vincenzo knew the front of house suited him much more than the back of the kitchen. Mixing his natural flair for invention with his innate sense of creativity, our guest today helms Barts London with a combination of Italian bravado and international charm. Nestled in one of the major arteries of Chelsea, Barts rules the scene with its tongue-in-cheek, irreverent speakeasy style and its superb cocktail creations. Trying to find it in one of the 1930’s built apartment buildings can make you thirsty enough, your Barts experience begins when you ring the bell. From that moment on, you’re in Vincenzo’s hands, as he takes you to Chicago and back in one drink. The menu tells the story of the bar’s “founder,” Uncle Bart, in comic book style, and, since technically alcohol was illegal from 1920 - 1933, all the drinks sound like sodapop! Don’t worry, though your choice might be called “Uncle Jack’s Cola,” there’s definitely whiskey hiding in there somewhere. Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise’s character for those not well-versed in the film Cocktail) would be way proud of Vincenzo!   Catch Vincenzo shaking up a healthy cocktail on our YouTube channel: Mixology in a Minute   Next time, we meet Alix Nardella, the UK Brand Ambassador for Mr. Black. Come back to find out why the flat white never tasted so good! Did you catch up on the podcasts you may have missed last year? Well, they're on ITunes and can be heard at anytime! Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)    

From a family full of fisherman comes our next guest, Tiago Serrão. His rapid rise from Bar-back to Bar Manager shows an innate knack for, not only conceiving creative cocktails, but also, chatting up the customers. Galvin at Windows at first sight. Located on the 28th Floor of the Hilton Park Lane, it’s not hard to see why. The views over London are staggering - from wherever you sit, you could swear you hear the subtle strains of Chim Chim Cher-ee (from “Mary Poppins”). Galvin at Windows is not only the perfect date place, but also a Michelin starred restaurant and home to the Galvin Cup - one of the most prestigious mixology awards in London. Although still quite young, Tiago has climbed the 28 floors with ease, after working several years in a series of luxury hotels in his home country, Portugal, and the famous Ritz’s Rivoli Bar on Piccadilly. As Bar Manager of Galvin at Windows, he has created one of the most romantic menus in London, which you can hear all about on the podcast. Watch Tiago make his take on the Vieux Carre on our Youtube Channel Next time, we meet Vincenzo Sibilia, the man who made a tiny spot in Chelsea the place to be. Did you catch up on the podcasts you may have missed last year?  Well, they are still on Itunes and can be heard at anytime! Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)

One is from India and the other Spain, but together they have conquered the Doha cocktail scene. Thor de Mendoza, Venue Manager, and Gary Jones, Bartender, of the Hunters Room & Grill at the new Westin Doha Hotel & Spa have drawn local and foreign crowds to their happy hour, thanks to their creative cocktail & mocktail menu. Inspired by the best grill rooms around the world, the Hunters Room's meat-heavy menu deserves to be accompanied by the best cocktails there are. Thor and Gary have used their ingenuity to create what they call their Grilled Mixology Collection. Grilled fruits are the basis for many of their iconic cocktails, such as the Grilled Pineapple Mojito and the Grilled Citrus Margarita. Also on trend is their Gin Infusion Bar - pick your choice of Gin, infuse it with your favorite ingredients, like cucumber, green apple or even thyme, and it’s yours and only yours. If you don’t drink, there are loads of equally creative mocktails. With Hunters being only a few months old, it will be exciting to check back with Thor and Gary it get all the Doha gossip! Watch Thor make the infamous Grilled Pineapple Mojito on our Youtube Channel This coming year we will be covering new bars and old classics - come back next week to find out who’s serving what! Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)

From life guarding on an Italian beach, to bartending at one of the most iconic bars in London is not a logical career step unless you are Riccardo Vecchio. It was sink or swim and, thankfully for us, he’s safe behind the bar at Brown’s Hotel. The famed stained-glass window of St. George stares down at the bartenders from above as if to keep them on their toes. One wrong step and, like the dragon itself, out they go. Riccardo doesn’t have to worry. With the way he is going, he’ll be slaying the dragons soon. As cool and hip as Terence Donovan’s iconic black and white photos that lines its walls, Riccardo, the Head Bartender, reigns over the Donovan Bar at Brown's Hotel and we are the ones to revel in his wake.   “Around the Globe” is the theme for his latest cocktail creations. Seven cocktails for one of each of the seven continents. You just don’t order these as usual, you are handed seven scratch & sniff cards and you must order them by scent. Antarctica? You’ll have to listen to the podcast find out how that snowy continent smells!     Watch Riccardo conquer Europe here on my Mixology in a Minute Series on Youtube   [content_boxes class="" id="cheat-sheet"] Find Grey Goose VX Vodka in our Liquor Cabinet! [/content_boxes] This is the last Best Sips Podcast for 2016. Have a wonderful holiday! Hope you have enjoyed the Best Sips podcasts you’ve heard this past year. To catch up on the ones you’ve missed, please visit ITunes or YouTube where they are at the ready! We start 2017 in the Arabian Peninsula. Come with us to discover what Thor and Gary are mixing and shaking at the Westin Doha’s Hunters Room & Grill! Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)

No one drinks vermouth on its own, do they? As UK Brand Ambassador for Belsazar Vermouth, our guest today, Fliss Gransden, is on a mission to right that wrong. Not only does it taste fantastic, but its low alcohol content means you could drink it all night! Founded in 2013, Belsazar Vermouth wants to change everyone’s opinion of what vermouth could be by making it all about the wine.  Vermouth has been around since the inception of the cocktail itself and almost always used as a mixer. Using the best wines from the South Baden region of Germany, the product is a complete transformation from the old stuff. It’s Fliss’s job to educate, not only the public, but the bartenders as to how to serve it. She reveals how she does it on the podcast today. Her background working in the most cutting-edge bars in town and her knowledge and passion for Vermouth make her the perfect person for the job.   Watch Fliss make the Rose Winter Tonic at Dirty Bones, Shoreditch here on our Youtube Channel   [content_boxes class="" id="cheat-sheet"] Find Belsazar Vermouth in our Liquor Cabinet! [/content_boxes] The cocktail menu at the Donovan Bar in Brown’s Hotel in London is one of the most creative in town. We have Head Bartender Ricardo Vecchio to thank for that. He is with us for our last podcast before the holidays, talking Snowflake Martinis and other Christmas Cocktails. Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.) PS: Thanks to Dirty Bones Shoreditch for letting us film Fliss in their restaurant!

You go to Paris for the food and wine, but do you ever ask if there are French products in your cocktails? Well, under the tutelage of Soizic le Mercier, the team of the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand is promoting a whole new type of cocktail making in the City of Lights.   Soizic almost chose a career in sport, but with a whole family in hospitality, she really was destined to work exactly where she is. After twenty years behind the bar, she has seen it all and now is Bar Manager of one of the busiest hotels in Paris. You’ll find her team at the Intercontinental Paris Le Grand creating cocktails using Dubonnet, Chartreuse and Cointreau, but never Champagne! At least, not if Soizic can help it. As a true Frenchwoman, it pains her to see the good stuff being used as a mixer.   While raising a glass to Soizic, take a gander at the incredible ballroom, built 150 years ago, that was a contemporary of Claude Debussy, Auguste Lumière, Victor Hugo and the incomparable Sarah Bernhardt.   [content_boxes class="" id="cheat-sheet"] Find Dubonnet, Chartreuse & Cointreau in our Liquor Cabinet! [/content_boxes] Fliss Grandsen may have started her career in fashion, but was quickly seduced by the spirit world. Now as UK Brand Ambassador of Belsazar Vermouth, she is pulling it out of the mixer category and drinking it all on its own. Catch that next time on Best Sips Worldwide. Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)

We think we all know the legend of the Odyssey after reading Homer. Today we meet a modern day Odysseus whose journey from the Philippines took a different turn and landed him in the world of Mai Tais, Pineapple and Bamboo.   On today’s podcast, we discover how our Odysseus was anointed with the moniker Tiki Man! Holding court at Trader Vic’s at the London Hilton Park Lane for almost a decade could be the reason. Cocktail trends have come and gone, but Vic Bergeron’s (the founder of Trader Vic’s) concept of finding a Polynesian paradise, wherever you are in the world, has never waned. Trader Vic’s in London celebrated its 53rd birthday this year and it’s still going strong. Odysseus clues us into the how and why the Mai Tai is still its number one order! Watch Odysseus rustles up an original 1944 Mai Tai for my Mixology in a Minute Series on Youtube There is one ballroom in Paris that cannot be missed - the one in the Intercontinental Le Grand. While you’re there gazing at the 19th Century masterpiece, make sure to have a very 21st century cocktail in their bar. On the next podcast, we hear how Bar Manager Soizic Le Mercier has gone from Brittany to the city of lights. Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)

“Remember, gentlemen, it’s not just France we are fighting for, it’s Champagne!” was Winston Churchill’s cri de guerre.  Only gentlemen…what about the ladies? Didn’t he know that, throughout history, women were responsible for making some of the great Champagne houses of France famous? Virginie Taittinger, our guest today, is one of those women! Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin gave us Veuve Clicquot, Louise Pommery invented Brut, and Camille Olry-Roederer understood that celebrity and business go hand-in-hand!  Now, Virginie Taittinger has joined the sorority. Her bloodline sparkles. It’s no wonder, as her mother is a Piper-Heidsieck and her father ran Taittinger for 45 years. Trained by the best, Virginie is out on her own, following in those celebrated footsteps, doing what she was born to do - bottling bubbly. After six years aging, it’s time to pop the cork of Virginie Taittinger’s first special cuvée, Champagne Virginie T, a combination of Pinot Noir, Chardonnay and Pinot Meunier. Not only is her champagne delicious, but the packaging is divine. The red-hot box transforms into an ice bucket. Pop the bottle into the bucket with ice and, when the label turns red, it’s ready to drink! We know that Churchill ‘s drink of choice was his Pol Roger. Maybe if Champagne Virginie T, had been around then, he might have switched camps. [content_boxes class="" id="cheat-sheet"] Pop the cork at home with a bottle of your own - Find it in our Liquor Cabinet! [/content_boxes] Pu-pu platters, flaming cocktails and, of course, the original Mai-Tai should evoke just one name: Trader Vic’s, the home of the Tiki Cocktail!  Come back next week to find out how one man named Odysseus found his home, not in Greece, but at Trader Vic’s in the London Hilton Park Lane. Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)  

One man in London is tasked with keeping famed actress Gertrude Fogg’s legacy aflame. That man, Filippo Previero joins us today directly from Mr. Fogg’s Tavern in olde New Row, Covent Garden, to explain how her gift to the neighborhood has been charming punters for more than a century. (wink, wink)   All of Soho mourned when Gertrude Fogg tread the boards for the very last time. Of course, it was in her nature to think of others, even after she had passed. Thanks to her generous nephew, Phileas (Around the World in 80 Days), her dying wish of transforming her humble Covent Garden flat into a tavern downstairs and a gin parlour upstairs was fulfilled. At least, that’s how Filippo Previero tells the tale. On this week’s podcast, we discover how Filippo found the courage to take the leap onto that mongolfiera, heading west from Italy, to become a master of "Mother’s Ruin" (as gin came to be known in the 18th C) here in Londontown. Beginning his career making Negronis, Filippo was perfect for the task. Today, Head Barman Filippo reigns over the extensive Gin Parlour at Mr. Fogg’s Tavern. A few brands may have been around since the days of Hogarth, but, with over 300 different gins, they’re not just home-brewed anymore. Ordering a G&T is an art here. Choosing from so many gins could be a bumpy road, but Filippo and his team are there to ease your own voyage of discovery through some of the best gins worldwide.     Watch Filippo Previero of Mr. Fogg's Tavern, London make The Hills Are Alive for us: [embed]https://youtu.be/dd1IfR0fVgI[/embed]   Even if you don’t know much about champagne, the name Taittinger conjures up all romantic visions of New Year’s Eve in Paris. Champagne has been in Virginie Taittinger’s family for more than 300 years and now she has a label of her own. Hear her story next week on Best Sips Worldwide.    Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive! (ok, I said that last part.)  

If it hadn’t been for a Mr. Bearsley in 1692, what the heck would we be drinking with our Stilton? Thank goodness, he had the foresight to create Taylor’s and that the world would catch on to the merits of Port. The Head of PR for Taylor’s, Ana Margarida Morgado, let’s us know what they’ve been up to for the past 324 years.     I had never sipped port until I was a grad student at Cambridge. Dining Clubs were aplenty and dinner always ended in cheese and port. My college even had its own label! I really felt I had missed out on all those years as an undergrad in the USA, drinking watery beer when Port had been available all the time.   Who knew there was a whole culture, full of rules and regulations, surrounding this one drink? It must be decanted, the decanter must be passed to the left and you must never forget to put that said decanter back in its hoggit.     I am sure the Brits in 1692 also felt the same way, the first time Port landed on their shores. Mr. Jack Bearsley tapped into that need and we are still enjoying the fruits of his labor so many years later. While in Porto, a visit to the Taylor’s Port Wine cellars is a must. Ana guided me through a short history of the brand, and a description of each of its many offerings: Vintage, Tawny, Late Bottled Vintage, even White! She also answers my burning question, what do the Portuguese eat with Port!?     Watch Andy Mil of Cocktail Trading Company, London make a Port Wine Sour with Taylor's Port: [embed]https://youtu.be/pD__kGvfU_s[/embed]   We are so lucky that Phileas Fogg honored his dying Aunt Gertrude’s wish to transform her tiny Soho flat into a tavern. To this day, the tavern welcomes punters from near and far and provides them with enough sustenance to brave Covent Garden - groggs, punch, pies. Upstairs though, Gertrude’s has been transformed into a Gin Parlour with 300 different brands of gins. Next week, Head Barman Filippo Previero takes us on a tour around the gins in 15 minutes! Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive (ok, I said that last part.)

Spending years in the hallowed libraries of Oxford pouring over the ins and outs of Quantum Mechanics might lead you to drink! It certainly happened to George Economides. One stag do in Sifnos and his whole world changed from investigating particles in a box to those in a glass. Harking back to his native land of Greece, our guest today is reviving the local spirit, Mastiha, and introducing it to the rest of the world - one cocktail at a time.   George has the hardest time describing the flavor of Mastiha to those who have never tried it - bubble gum, pine, woods, a combo of all. It’s truly tough to pin down to just one word. Tasting is the only way to describe it. “Grown” on the island of Chios in the Northern Aegean, Mastiha has a rather quirky production process. The resin from the tree drops on the ground, hardens and then is collected, cleaned and reconstituted into the nectar that has made its benefits famous throughout history. The list of drinkers range from Hippocrates, the Romans, Columbus, Italian popes, Arabic Sultans and me!. After my first sip with the Cypriot, I was converted. Now thanks to Mastiha World, it’s coming to a cocktail bar near you, so look out for Enosis or Kentos and give it a try. Photo source: Mastiha World Watch Christian Sirica of Opso, London make a Greek Spritz with Enosis Mastiha: [embed]https://youtu.be/fXwruvEjrfU[/embed] Filmed at Opso, London   Only one thing to drink when in Porto, that’s right - Port! One company has been making sure the Brits have their fill since the 17th century - Taylor’s.  Next week, Ana Margarida Morgado sits down with me for a history lesson on how one very entrepreneurial Brit made it our must-have with Stilton. Thanks for listening to Best Sips Worldwide, a spin-off of Best Bits Worldwide. For more information and links to everything that piqued your interest on the podcast, plus a bit more, please visit Best Bits Worldwide.com. Follow me on Twitter at @BestBitsWorld.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Best Sips is produced by Evo Terra. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive (ok, I said that last part.)

Benoit Provost - The Stafford Hotel What’s a Frenchman doing overseeing the most American Bar in London? Benoit Prevost has been making Manhattans for 23 years at The Stafford Hotel.  He reveals what’s kept him here all this time. On today’s program, I sit down with Benoit Provost, the Frenchman who heads up the most American of Bars in London. Ben invited me for drinks over lunch and talked me through his journey from the Loire Valley to the Stafford - his home for 23 years. If you haven’t been to the American Bar, you are in for a real treat. Order the White Mouse and toast to one of the great heroes of World War Two.  Don’t forget also to toast to the man who brought you that drink, Benoit Provost. On the next Lush Life podcast, Alessandro Palazzi, the guardian of the myth of the Martini at Duke’s Hotel London, Ian Fleming’s second home, joins me here. Thanks for listening to Lush Life. For more information and links to everything you heard about plus a bit more, please visit ALushLifeManual.com. Follow me on Twitter at @ALushLifeManual.  My theme music is by Steven Shapiro and used with permission. Always remember the wise words of Oscar Wilde, “All things in moderation, including moderation” and never drink and drive (ok, I said that last part.)

"Steven Shapiro, Legal Director of the ACLU, lectures on globalization in the wake of September 11th. Marian Engelman Lado, granddaughter of Lillie and Nathan Ackerman, introduces Mr. Shapiro; Stan Altman, Dean of the Baruch College School of Public Affairs and Marcellos Andrews, the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman visiting professor in Justice and Equality in America, discuss Mr. Shapiro's remarks. This is the second lecture in a two part series organized in 2002 by the Baruch College School of Public Affairs to celebrate the contributions of Lillie and Nathan Ackerman to the realization of the American Dream."