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Wine makers are welcoming the latest data showing exports are rebounding after China re-entered the market.  Punitive tariffs placed on Australian products in 2020 were lifted in march, and export values to China have increased by $604 million since then.  Talyor's Wines says it will still take some time before the full export capacity is restored.  Rural Editor Emily Minney spoke with Managing Director Mitchell Taylor about the figuresSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Moving on! Jax is on his way out, and apparently so is Dr. Nicole Martin! Plus, RHOC Jen Pedranti says her ex-husband still hasn't paid her, as she and their five kids live off Ryan! Plus, we've got a RHOP trailer! Book a personalized message on Cameo: https://v.cameo.com/e/QxWQhpd1TIb Listen to The Pop Report: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pop-report/id1746150111 Watch Disaster Daters: https://open.spotify.com/show/3L4GLnKwz9Uy5dT8Ey1VPi Join the Zack Pack Community to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs3Zs51YaK-xw2U5ypi5eqg/join Like the show? Subscribe at: https://apple.co/2DxTKe6 and listen week days. Don't forget to leave us a nice review, because you love us! Keep up the latest show happenings at @nofilterwithzack Couldn't get enough? Follow @justplainzack or @nofilterwithzack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the final hour of the show, Ramie Makhlouf is joined by Score Bears reporter Mark Grote who was at Bears practice today. A couple of notes included Jaylon Johnson being upset to the point of profanity about not being included in the NFL top-100 players & new Bears punter Tory Taylor not liking the "Crocodile Punter" nickname and being asked if he has experience with snakes.

Entertainment with SOS Report:: P Diddy on the Run P.Diddy had both his house raided by investigators. Swifty might be excited for Trailer and a docu series about their private lives. The new Joker Movie is throwing a curve ball might be a juke box musical.Make sure to also keep up to date with ALL our podcasts we do below that have new episodes every week:The Thought ShowerLet's Get WeirdCrisis on Infinite Podcasts

In this episode of the podcast Success from Anywhere, Karen dives into the entrepreneurial deep end with RJ Talyor, operating partner at High Alpha, who is both a swimming coach and a serial entrepreneur.  The engaging conversation delves into the concept of design thinking and its application in entrepreneurship. RJ shares insights about creating a safe space for entrepreneurs to overcome fear and challenges, including the use of techniques like "what if" scenarios, dreaming, and rehearsing difficult conversations. He emphasizes the importance of self-care, rituals, and setting boundaries for maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Tune in to join our discussion about the mindset, skills, and strategies that contribute to personal and professional success! Powered by Robin  #SuccessFromAnywhere #Entrepreneurs #HighAlpha #SelfCare #CareerChange #WorkplaceWellbeing #Entrepreneurship #InspirationAndInsights #RemoteWorkExpert #Coaching #Mentorship #LeadershipDevelopment #Leadership #Change #Innovation #JoinTheConversation #CareerExploration #PersonalAutonomy #DreamBig #EmpowerTeams #TransformYourWorkLife

Have you watched the David Beckham documentary? Amy has never been into soccer, but she is now!!! The doc about Becks is so good. It even motivated Amy to go to her first ever professional soccer game. Her friend Jeremiah Carter (a soccer maven) joins her this episode to chat all things Beckham & so much more! #pimpinjoy HOST: Amy Brown // RadioAmy.com // @RadioAmy GUEST: Jeremiah Carter // @jmiahcarter // @streetkings_fc // https://www.startstopsmost.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Where does your business page stand on a scale of "how can this company help me" to "this is exactly what I need, these people get me"? In this episode, Taylor Fischer joins us to unravel digital marketing secrets, talk about the power of storytelling, and teach us how to guide our clients to flow seamlessly through our funnels. Taylor is a storyteller by nature and a Sales Page Consultant and Copywriter passionate about increasing businesses' profit using powerful copy. Throughout this episode, Taylor explains why businesses' words define whether or not people buy from them, how she helps clients create copy that sells, and how she jumps into each project, depending on her clients' stage in their entrepreneurial journey. Talyor also talks about her relationship with AI as a copywriter, the art of creating stories that resonate with people, and shares tips and advice to create landing pages and funnels.Tune in to Episode 129 of the Joy Found Here podcast and learn more about the transformative power of creating stories that resonate with your audience.In This Episode, You Will Learn:A bit about Talyor's upbringing and her love for storytelling (3:00)How Talyor creates solutions for every stage in the entrepreneurial journey (9:40)Taylor shares her thoughts on the use of AI to write copy (13:00)The different strategies for digital products and online courses (16:10)Tips and advice to create smooth sales pages and funnels (19:00)Connect with Taylor:WebsiteAlignableLet's Connect:Website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Michael S. Malone and Scott Budman discuss Israeli War in Gaza, Misinformation on X & Meta Platforms, Talyor Swift Breaking the Box Office and Nintendo selling to Xbox?

Ryan Day calls out Lou Holtz after win, Talyor and Travis and Usher will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show.

This is where you can support the podcast: ⁠⁠http://paypal.me/pruchnewski⁠⁠ Thank you! Hello friends! If you want to understand how a champion thinks, what it takes to become a Hyrox World Champion at 40 years of age and what the best training strategies are to improve your Hyro performance that make sure to tune into todays episode with Talyor Haney. Taylor is the gym owner of Reach Functional Fitness and Hyrox World Champion in the Doubles category of the 22/23 season in Manchester. His traning journey goes back to his teenage years and consolidated his mindset over the years. We discussed what over 20 years of continuous training taught him and how he can implement many of these lessons in other areas of life, such as his business or family life. In the second part of the conversation Talyor shares some practical tips on how to use different training strategies to improve your Hyrox performance and become a stronger and faster athlete overall. Enjoy listening to this episode and let me know what you think! This is where you can support the podcast: ⁠⁠http://paypal.me/pruchnewski⁠⁠ Thank you! Learn more about Reach Functional Fitness: https://www.teamreachtraining.com/ Follow Taylor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reachff_taylor/ Find me on Insta: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/maximpruchnewski/⁠ My Instagram page for personal coaching: https://www.instagram.com/mp4_peakperformance/ Find me on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/MPruchnewski ⁠ More free stuff (including a free PDF-version of this book): ⁠https://linktr.ee/sapien_health⁠ Sapiens Playground on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmNDo81K7jX7Thk0_NF_xng⁠ Listen to Sapiens Playground on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6IcilHhRDVTiVxGO5uuYlp?si=ab520e5d7fc24a3a⁠ Listen on Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/sapiens-playground-a-place-for-true-health-unbiased/id1534777361⁠ You can text me at sapiens.playground@web.de for podcast inquiries or any questions you have. For Personal Coaching text me here: prperformance@web.de

Pre-Order #ExtremelyOnline here: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1982146869?tag=extremelyonlinecom  Did you know YouTube was originally a dating app?! I didn't know either but I learned that in Taylor Lorenz's new book ‘Extremely Online'.  Taylor Lorenz is a journalist who has written some of the most viral stories about the internet on New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic and more. You can learn more about her and her stories here. A few topics that Talyor and I discuss in this episode are: How Lonelygirl15 changed the internet forever Why ‘industry plants' are not actually a real thing  The origins of YouTube & the first VidCon convention The genius of Logan & Jake Paul (for better or for worse) Why does YouTube promote problematic people like Colleen Ballinger (and now Ruby Franke)? The era of Emma Chamberlain, Tana Mongeau & TanaCon Taylor Lorenz coverage of Hype House (Charli D'Amelio, Addison Rae, etc) The genius of Famous Birthdays  "Ahead of the Curve with Coco Mocoe" is a podcast about marketing, pop culture and rising internet trends + stars. You can find Coco Mocoe on your favorite socials media apps here: Instagram: @cocomocoe TikTok: @cocomocoe LinkedIn: @cocomocoe YouTube: @cocomocoe Join the Discord and chat about the internet's biggest stories here: https://discord.gg/k94JJmqc For business inquiries, email cocomocoe@whalartalent.com

00:00 – 28:12 - John starts the show by talking about the Colts, Jonathan Taylor, and what the expectations are for the team this year especially if Taylor gets traded. He also talks about how the last 5 years or so of Colts football have been so disappointing. John then discusses Talyor, and compares his situation to whats going on with Chris Jones and the Chiefs.   28:13 – 41:13 – John keeps things going by previewing tomorrow's final preseason game for the Colts! John then takes some calls from listeners about the Colts and more!  41:14 – 45:56 – John wraps up the 1st hour of the show!  45:57 – 1:13:48 – Bob Kravitz, who writes The Musings Of An Old Sportswriter on Substack, joins the show to talk about the Colts and their final preseason game! Bob talks about the Colts decision to not play Richardson when the Colts played the Bears over the weekend in their 2nd preseason game. Bob and John also discuss Bob's conversation with Hall of Fame QB Peyton Manning about Richardson.  1:13:49 – 1:24:10 – John keeps the show rolling with a quick MLB update, before talking about potential suitors for Jonathan Taylor.   1:24:11 – 1:28:25 – John wraps up the 2nd hour with another phone call!   1:28:26 – 1:52:25 – Kevin Bowen, who hosts the morning show The Wake Up Call With KB and Andy, joins the show! Kevin talks about how the first week of the new show as gone so far! Kevin and John then dive into the Jonathan Taylor situation, and the news that the Colts have give Taylor a deadline of Tuesday to find a suitable trade partner. They also get into what message it would send if the Colts go back on their word to not trade Taylor.   1:52:26 – 2:07:47 – IU football coach Tom Allen joins the show to give a preview of the upcoming Hoosier football season! John tries to get Coach Allen to tell him who the Hoosiers starting quarterback will be, without much success. Coach Allen did describe the process he used to decide that position battle, as well as what he thinks of the 2 QB's vying for the starting role. He also discusses the state of his offensive line, as well as his wide receiver room.   2:07:48 – 2:10:00 – John wraps up another edition of the show!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this heartwarming episode of My Disney Class, Ryan and Howie dive into the world of special education and autism programs. Our guest, Taylor Norton, is a dedicated special education teacher at South Mesa Elementary School in Pueblo, CO. With her expertise and passion, she leads the autism program for students from kindergarten to 5th grade. Join us as we explore how Taylor incorporates the magic of Disney into her teaching methods and creates an inclusive and nurturing environment for her students. The podcast starts off with a great story by Talyor introducing herself and talking about her journey to becoming a special education teacher at South Mesa Elementary School. Taylor truly has an inspirational story for becoming a special education teacher and staying in the education profession. She also provides us with an overview of her role in running the autism program for students in kindergarten through 5th grade as well as the other students with special needs that she takes care of.  To end our show Talyor helps us understand the importance of creating an inclusive and supportive environment for students with special needs, especially those with Autism. We also discuss what can be learned from Disney when it comes to inclusion and creating environments that work for all guests/students. Taylor also has her own Youtube page that she started during the pandemic to help capture the magic she was missing while Disneyland was closed. She expresses how this helped her during that time and how she now helps others with her videos of the parks and the atmosphere and magic they capture.  We hope you enjoyed our conversation with Taylor as much as we did and if you are looking to bring some magic into your classroom or home, check out Talyor's Youtube videos. They are great for playing in the background to bring you to your happy place when you really need a visit but can't get to Disneyland or Disney World.  Also, if you haven't already, remember to join the fun and supportive community we have in our Facebook group, Educators who love Disney and don't forget to rate and review our podcast on Apple Music. Your support and feedback will only make us better!  

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with Taylor Lint, CEO and Founder of Swantide, a go to market technology platform that's raised $7 Million in funding, about why so many companies find managing their CRM such a headache, and how Swantide plans to make every aspect of the process simpler and more straightforward. With processes designed with engineering and sales operations best practices already in mind, rigorously testing performed before they reach potential clients, Swantide brings the expertise of an in-house salesforce engineer at a fraction of the cost. We also talk about Talyor's background in software engineering and her experiences working at LinkedIn and Alphabet, her passion for improving vital processes through the power of data, the importance of the ‘go-to-market stack,' why Swantide felt the need to build upon what salesforce is capable of delivering, and why they decided to focus on problem-solving over building a brand new market category. Topics Discussed: Taylor's software engineering background, and the lessons she brought to Swantide from some of the biggest names in tech Why Taylor is so passionate about the power of data to drive change and innovation in some of the most important aspects of modern life Swantide's decision to focus on the ‘go-to-market stack,' building upon salesforce to provide better experiences for their clients Overcoming potential feelings of competition with existing consultants, and how Swantide helps them to work more efficiently The lack of a clearly defined ‘category' for what Swantide offers to clients, and why they've chosen to focus purely on problem-solving   Favorite book:  The Design of Everyday Things

Taylor Calmus, DudeDad, is back! We love hanging out with Taylor, and today we are talking about play! How do Talyor and his family find play, and is it hard when their work is really focused on family fun? How do they find rest? And is it true that they have a roller coaster in their backyard?!   This conversation is so fun, and at the end, you'll hear how hard it was for Taylor and I to get set up on todays call! I am so thankful for his patience and know you will love hearing from Taylor again! Links from Today's Show: Grab ALL things DUDE DAD https://www.dudedad.com/ Get the Brain Dump Worksheet! https://bit.ly/worksheetbraindump Check Out 1st Phorm www.1stphorm.com/jeanettet Join the email community https://view.flodesk.com/pages/621d6beb9b7136a9e313d546 Want to listen to Jeanette's other podcast?! Listen to It's Time For Coffee here! https://link.chtbl.com/sWcTEkZy Moms at Work is a part of the Christian Parenting Podcast Network. To find practical and spiritual guidance to help you grow into the perfectly imperfect parent you want to be, visit www.ChristianParenting.org

In episode 1500, Jack and Miles are joined by culture critic, author of Wannabe: Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes Me, and co-host of Pop Culture Happy Hour, Aisha Harris, to discuss… Stan Culture Is The New Religion? F*ck Oedipus Let's Talk Psychological Archetypes of Pop Culture, Kristi Yamaguccimane AKA Will and more! LISTEN: Find An Hour by Wilma VritraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Talyor and Isaac are joined by Colin and they have a little therapy session, answering the questions: What are we good at and what can we improve? Enjoy. Our Socials etc.Twitter: @BattlebroTaylor @BattlebroIsaac @TasteeTownEmail: theattackactionpodcast@gmail.comFacebook: @theattackactionpodcastInstagram: @theattackactionpodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/attackactionpodcastAffiliate link: https://www.fabfoundry.co/?ref=Attack

-Welcome to The Path Podcast. With this Podcast we plan to entertain and inform you all of the hottest anime/ manga that's out there. We also want to emphasize that hey just because some people deem anime lovers as weirdos/losers etc. Screw them! IT IS COOL TO WATCH ANIME AND ITS COOL TO BE YOU! - In this episode we went in and got to chop it up with Taylor Aka @.Favoritesenpaii. We had a great talk with Talyor who gave some good advice for anyone aspiring to get into cospaly. And believe me there's a lot more! We 'bout to go in! Opinions will clash, and laughs will be cracked but don't get it twisted, this sh**t bout to be lit!!!! Hey and if you enjoy this podcast don't be stingy spread the word and tell your friends. -Want to buy some merch from Oh my Senpai click link below! https://ohmysenpai.com/ -Want to follow our special guest Taylor click link below https://www.instagram.com/favoritesenpaii/ -Want to see the Video podcast be sure to Subscribe to our Youtube Channel to get updated as the Video version is released. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJB2cEbDUMoFNf0ahM2m-A -Want to get Tattooed By Bigwill! Visit www.spinnerinktattoos.com -Follow us on instagram to stay updated and see more related content you can't get anywhere else. https://www.instagram.com/the_pathpodcast https://www.instagram.com/thepathfindermanga https://www.instagram.com/bigwilltheartist/ https://www.instagram.com/Wizards_melody/ https://www.instagram.com/spinneralmighty https://www.instagram.com/padillabrosproduction/ Follow us on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@thepathpodcast Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/the_pathpodcast

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Taylor Loht is on a mission to teach busy professionals how they can invest in real estate without dealing with tenants, toilets, and termites. He highlights and distills the knowledge, experiences, and lessons of expert real estate investors through his podcast The Passive Wealth Strategy Show. His goal is to help his listeners and investors build lives of abundance and escape the Wall Street Casino. He believes that building passive streams of income is the best path to wealth generation, not the typical, boring, “Don't have that $4 latte you enjoy twice a week.” Enjoy your latte and buy some property! Taylor helps busy professionals passively invest in real estate syndication through his company NT Capital LLC. He started and runs the monthly Richmond Multifamily and Commercial Real Estate Investors Networking Group (now nearly 700 members). His online networking group meets every second, Tuesday at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. Taylor and his fiance, Sandra live in Richmond, Virginia. Outside of real estate investing, ​​he is passionate about Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has been training since 2015. This episode talks about: Choosing financial opportunities that align with your personal goals. How Taylor achieved his first real estate deal and the lessons learned Investing actively and passively in real estate What is real estate syndication and how does it work? Can you use a self-directed IRA to invest passively in syndication? Potential tax risks and downsides when using a self-directed IRA for real estate investments The advantage of leveraging the cash value of whole life insurance to invest in real estate from a tax perspective (avoiding UBIT) What is UBIT? (Unrelated Business Income Tax) What types of real estate deals do Talyor's team focus on? The advantages of investing in self-storage. Different ways to find good real estate deals Potential upcoming market changes in real estate To connect with Taylor Loht, please visit:

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Ramie Show 5PM: Ramie has been going at it for 2 hours, now it is time to reset the show's topics as we ask YOU to Pick a Lane! Plus, former Packers OL, Super Bowl 31 champion & CFB/NFL analyst for CBS sports, Aaron Taylor joined the Ramie Show to discuss the Packers-Aaron Rodgers dilemma, preview Rams-Bengals & more.

After a super light intro about pulling the plug on Indy if he's ever in the flesh prison of a coma, DNRs, chainsaw-handed robots, The Golden Girls, Bob Seger, Bob Saget… honestly, you could just jump to the 6 minute mark… Then Samantha reviews the novel One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid, Indy does rapid-fire recommendations of Kurt Vonnegut's early work, including The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, & God Bless You Mr. Rosewater,  and finally we preview next week's watch, the film that launched a dance franchise: 2006's Step up!  #PrincessWasted Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works, with further collections being published after his death. One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid: https://taylorjenkinsreid.com/books/one-true-loves/ Kurt Vonnegut: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut Step Up trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_kACNrF3E&ab_channel=KillerCinemadotcom

To follow the career of RJ Talyor is to understand why Indianapolis is MarTech's capital. With early chapters at ExactTarget and Salesforce, to founding two companies in Geofeedia and Pattern89. Now Vice-President of Product Marketing for Shutterstock, after the company acquired Pattern89, RJ empowers marketers through the use of artificial intelligence.In this episode, RJ talks about the history and future of marketing, the ups and downs of starting two companies, and how DE&I influenced Pattern89's core value of “building a company representative of the country”.

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Our guest for Wise Content Creates Wealth Podcast is R. J. Talyor, CEO and Founder of Pattern89, an AI platform for digital marketing. Pattern89 analyzes ads across 49,000 creative dimensions and 500 billion marketing data points to predict which creative decisions will perform for future campaigns. A 15-year tech and startup veteran, Talyor led teams at ExactTarget and Salesforce prior to launching Pattern89. Tune in for this intelligent conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Video by Going Here.Show NotesSegment 1 Joseph introduces the topic of today's episode “AI's role in predicting decisions for future ad campaigns”, and brings up an anecdote relating to wise content regarding being unaware of something is wise content until after it is created. The anecdote surrounds Joseph's other podcast Gateway to the Smokies, where he had a guest who is very influential in a niche community, causing a spike in people downloading the podcast and going to the accompanying website to learn more. Joseph then introduces his guest for today's episode R.J. Taylor, the CEO and founder of Pattern89, an AI platform for digital marketing. The two discuss R.J. 's time as a professional swimmer, where he specifically participated in swimming in open water, which as he describes is less about being the fastest and more about outlasting all of your other competitors. They also discuss the other aspects of R.J.'s daily life, specifically his hobby of bird watching, which is a very popular pastime in the Smoky Mountains. Joseph and R.J. discuss R.J.'s professional life, and how he was able to grow with a company straight out of college while at the same time also earning his masters in English.Segment 2 Joseph and R.J. discuss R.J.'s time spent helping grow the company he works at, and R.J. explains how he noticed a gap in the industry that was a lack of the creative aspect and creative decision making. R.J. found that through machine learning creative decisions are more easily and effectively made, that brings the most interactions with the ad campaign. And, that is exactly what Pattern89 does, which is figuring out which creative decisions should be made as efficiently and effectively as possible. R.J. explains the 5 billion creative data points that Pattern89 makes use of, and how Pattern89 makes use of these creative data points to figure out which aspects of the pieces of content are performing either well or poorly. R.J. explains how Pattern89 finds a variety of patterns that bring about this, including but not limited to days of the week, seasons, time of day, and many other dimensions. The two discuss how R.J. was able to obtain all of this data, and R.J. explains how he likes to compare it to going door to door to his previous clients to get all of this data, and it took him two years to obtain the amount of data necessary to make these predictions. R.J. explains how Pattern89 has been very helpful to different brands and people to help them bounce back from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.Segment 3R.J. explains where he see's AI's role in creative marketing, and how he believes that we are only seeing the beginning of what AI can do in the creative space from a bunch of different angles. Joseph and R.J. discuss a recent seven figure sale of an AI generated art piece, and whether or not the end product of the piece was what was actually purchased for seven figures or the algorithm behind the art piece. R.J. explains how he believes that humans are the ultimate creators, and AI can be used as an assistant or a tool to assist in artistic pursuits. The two discuss human's tolerance of errors, and how humans are more tolerant of errors in content, such as spelling errors when a human is creating content. But, when an AI makes a similar mistake humans are less tolerant, and expect nothing but perfect from AI generated content. Joseph brings up the social media campaign that Lil Nas X created surrounding his first song “Old Town Road” that launched him into stardom, and whether or not AI would be able to replicate something like that. R.J. continues off of that point saying that AI would not be able to replicate what Lil Nas X did, and that phenomenon is a human experience.The two also discuss ethics with AI, and how R.J. believes that ethics is the greatest risk associated with AI, as AI does not do well with ethics unless trained correctly.Segment 4Joseph and R.J. discuss where they believe successful marketing teams will be in terms of their relationship with AI in one year and in five years. R.J. brings up the point that technology has changed so much in such a short amount of time, bringing up how in 2007 with the release of the iPhone it started people to discuss their “mobile marketing strategy” but in 2021 mobile marketing is an assumed part of one's marketing strategy/ R.J. continues to explain he believes this will also happen with AI, how in five years incorporating AI in one's marketing strategy will be assumed and necessary.

Ep. 531 - Teen Mom OG - Season 9 Review - I dive into the moments that highlighted this season, Cheyanne's relationship with Cory, Taylor standing up for his wife Maci at the tell-all. Cate and Talyor find out what's next in their future. Mackenzie making the move to Florida with three children. Gary and Kristina co-parenting with Amber Don't Forget to Vote for A Little Bit Of Everything With Me! for the Latin Podcast Awards 2021 www.latinpodcastawards.com Clubhouse: @angelicavg Facebook: @alittlebitofeverythingwithme Instagram: @alittlebitofeverythingwithme Merch Line IG: @avgest2020 Website: www.everythingwithange.com Buy me a Coffee: Ko-fi.com/everythingwithange Search: A Little Bit Of Everything With Me! on 15 podcast platforms Link in Bio! Website: anchor.fm/everythingwithange #toronto #applepodcast #pandora #iheartradiopodcast #spotifypodcast #googlepodcasts #podcast #podcasting #torontopodcast #torontotalkshow #podcaster #realitytv #mtvshow #teenmom #teenmomog #teenmomogrecap #mtv --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/everythingwithange/support

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic but many agency owners wonder how, exactly, it can benefit their shop. They get how it works but they think that either a) they don’t understand it enough to deliver on it for clients or b) they can’t afford the AI tools out there for agencies. The truth is – now is the time to experiment. Most agencies are at the infancy stages of learning about AI and how to use it to serve clients better. But we have to get up to speed or we will find ourselves left behind. The good news? It’s within your grasp. It’s with these challenges in mind that I was inspired to reach out to RJ Talyor and have him on the show. RJ’s SaaS company, Pattern89, works with agencies and brands and improves their ad effectiveness and efficiency by measuring over 49,000 characteristics of a digital ad. With that data, they can provide insights on what’s working and what isn’t, as well as the predicted shelf life of any ad. Through their analytics, they’re also able to predict with over 95% accuracy whether or not a piece of creative is going to work. In this episode of Build a Better Agency, RJ and I discuss the many ways AI insights are quickly becoming a necessity for agencies of all sizes. We look at the specific data it can provide, as well as how an agency can begin to experiment while convincing even the most dubious of clients of its importance. We also talk about the way the creative life cycle is changing, how agencies approach AI wrong, and what is coming next in the world of artificial intelligence. A big thank you to our podcast’s presenting sponsor, White Label IQ. They’re an amazing resource for agencies who want to outsource their design, dev, or PPC work at wholesale prices. Check out their special offer (10 free hours!) for podcast listeners here. What You Will Learn in This Episode: The specific data AI for marketing can give to an agency Why AI doesn’t undermine creative How small to mid-size agencies are leveraging AI marketing insights Why AI is quickly becoming a need-to-have for agencies of all sizes How the creative life cycle is changing How iOS 14 is changing the way marketing will work Why the speed of change is disruption A/B testing Ways agencies can begin to dip their toes in AI Where agencies get AI wrong What is coming next in the world of AI

Our very first guest, long time friend and fellow gay goblin Aurelia Grierson joins us to preach the gospel that Taylor Swift is bisexual. We look at all the bisexual clues presented in T-Swift's canon, especially on sister records Folklore & Evermore. Is Taylor Swift bisexual? Does it even matter if she writes bisexuality authentically? Why do we as queer people search for and create queer narratives? Where is the line between T-Swift and Talyor? Do we ship trans Severus Snape and Taylor Swift? Does Pia have a shot with Caroline Calloway? All questions posed; some answered. Additional Reading: Is Taylor Swift the World's Most Powerful Psychic? by Brandon Taylor on The Cut Gay For Play Episode 2 “A Bi-Pride Flag On Acid” (Sayonara Wild Hearts) Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey (Mom needs a new iPhone case) On Liking Women by Andrea Long Chu in n+1 Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading Follow our very first guest, Aurelia Grierson The Juvenilia Collective, listen to their podcast That Do It For Ya, and engage with their personal musings at @nonbinarybutler on Twitter or @shesagoodboy on Instagram Read more of Clementine's words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia's drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song! Listen to more of her music and follow them @mirin_doja

This podcast interview focuses on product innovation that has the power to change the way that marketers create. My guest is R.J. Talyor, CEO and Founder of Pattern89R.J. has been a B2B software entrepreneur for well over 15 years. He fulfilled various roles ranging from strategist, director Product Marketing and VP of Mobile Products at ExactTarget, became VP of Messaging Products at Salesforce, and served as the VP of Product Management at Geofeedia. He’s recognized as one of the Indianapolis business Journal’s 40 Under 40.In 2016 he founded Pattern89. With this company he’s on a mission is to inspire creativity – and to build something that will change marketing forever. Their strong believe is that AI will make brands, agencies, and marketers more creative, and more human in an increasingly automated world.This inspired me, and hence I invited R.J. to my podcast. We explore what’s broken in marketing – especially on the creative side. We discuss how marketing is becoming more and more metrics driven, while we still make creative decisions based on gut-feel (often by the highest paid person in the room). We also dig into what it takes to build a remarkable software business – creating software that’s extremely sticky – software that people want to use.Here are some of his quotes:Marketers spend a ton of time on audience development, on reach, on frequency. Everyone talks about journeys, but they don't talk about creative.What I saw was that there's a better way to create what images or videos or copy that you see, and machine learning provides marketers with tools to allow them to do that, like never before. So, the big problem is how do we get more efficient at the creative process, without asking marketers to act more like machines?What they want to do is understand if their idea is going to work or not. And so marketers are kind of trained themselves into machines to try to compute that when we should say: “Hey, no, no human marketer, go create something else. You're the creator, you're the idea person, you're the idea. Machine machines can come up with ideas, let the machines simulator validate what's gonna work, and you human, you do what humans can do best.”During this interview, you will learn four things:That very often stickiness of your applications increase not by building a better User Interface to perform a task, but by making it magically happenHow you can help your customers make a difference is by avoiding the ‘highest paid person in the room’ to feel inclined to make a decisionWhy your future success and momentum can be hidden in killing your darlings i.e., get rid of those things you’re just hooked to.How Data-Coop across your customers can shift from a nice to have into your primary selling pointFor more information about the guest from this week:R.J. TalyorWebsite Pattern89 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John negs Helen. Austin forgot his microphone. And our guest Talyor (28 yo bixsexual cis lady) has been catfished SO MANY TIMES. (CONTENT WARNING: THIS PODCAST TALKS ABOUT SEX, SEXUALITY AND UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATIONS THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING OR TRIGGERING.)

RJ has spent the last 15 years creating and selling marketing software to make our lives easier and our results better. In 2016 he founded Pattern89, an AI simulation tool that predicts which creative is going to work best – before you spend a single dime on ads. Handy eh!? In this episode he lets us in on what images are working best right now -AND how to work out the perfect image 'rules' for your brand. We also get into AI image assessment, AB testing and whole lot more. Oh, and a little bit around the IOS14 changes too... Get all the links and resources we mention at https://keepoptimising.com/?utm_source=captivate&utm_medium=episodenotes (KeepOptimising.com) Episode sponsored by https://www.klaviyo.com/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=masterplan (Klaviyo) This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Join us as we do a 2020 year in review as we try to highlight our high points of the year, but of course tangents take us elsewhere. Enjoy!

Josh Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, designer, and creative strategist, but at his core he is a Storyteller. When he's not writing a book/screenplay, putting images on film, or working on one of his personal creative endeavors, he helps companies in the midst of pivotal change/transformation moments, discover, craft and share their own stories, through creative content, experiences, and workshops, in order to help their employees and customers build a stronger emotional engagement and human connection to the business, its narrative, and its journey through change. He's also channeling some of his personal curiosity in the form of a new Podcast that he co-created and co-hosts which will release its first season end of Decemeber/early January called the Swell Podcast. The podcast asks three key questions "What does it take to create something that never existed before?" "What does it take to challenge the status quo" and "What does it take to change the world" and it features thought-leaders, world-builders, game-changers, disruptors, and other pleasantly rebellious humans and their stories, journeys, and experiences that shaped them, while they set out to shape the world. We talk about the reasons we tell stories. Ironically this interview became and interview of the interviewer at times. Fun chat. He can be found on Facebook @joshingtaylor and Instagram @joshingtaylor --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/parrishthethought/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/parrishthethought/support

January 1st, 2021 marked the first day of the UN's Decade of the Ocean, where every country will participate to launch programs and collect data to better understand how humans interact with the Ocean and determine how we can all live for a better Ocean.  I speak with Talyor Goelz, who works for NOAA and is a KNAUSS Fellow, on her journey to help build this program for the US and inform other government departments and major partners about the Ocean Decade.  We also talk about Talyor's venture into podcasting with the launch of her podcast called The Ocean Decade Show, on The American Shoreline Podcast Network.  Check out Taylor's podcast here (or subscribe to her show on your favourite podcast app. : https://www.coastalnewstoday.com/all-podcasts NOAA's website on the UN Decade of Ocean Science For Sustainable Development: https://research.noaa.gov/UN-Decade Want To Talk Oceans? Join the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Speak Up For Blue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakupforblue/ Speak Up For Blue Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakUpforBlue Check out the Shows on the Speak Up For Blue Network: Marine Conservation Happy Hour Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k4ZB3x Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2kkEElk Madame CuriosityApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2xUlSax Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2V38QQ1 ConCiencia Azul: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k6XPio Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k4ZMMf Dugongs & Seadragons: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lB9Blv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lV6THt Environmental Studies & Sciences Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lx86oh Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lG8LUh Marine Mammal Science: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k5pTCI Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k1YyRL Projects For Wildlife Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Oc17gy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/37rinWz Ocean Science RadioApple Podcast: https://apple.co/3chJMfA Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3bnkP18 The Guide To Mindful Conservation: Dancing In Pink Hiking Boots:Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/31P4UY6 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3f7hDJw  

Think about the last ad you saw an ad that had an image of someone’s living room. What color was the throw pillow on the couch? Was there a dog present? How many people were pictured? You might not know the answer to those questions, but the marketers who put that creative together sure do, and you better believe that they thought long and hard about each of those aspects and dove deep into some data to decide exactly what to include in the adThose minuscule details may seem frivolous to the naked eye, but the data proves that every decision you make in your creative process has an impact on the bottom line, and the ecommerce businesses that pay attention to the data while still putting their own spin on the creative aspect are the ones that are rising to the top.R.J. Talyor is the founder and CEO of Pattern89, which uses A.I. and machine learning to analyze advertising and guide marketers toward the performance metrics that matter. On this episode of Up Next in Commerce, R.J. takes us through the most recent trends report that Pattern89 put out, which includes some important information about why businesses should be paying particular attention to copy and hashtags. Plus, R.J. gives tips on how to avoid the trap of following “best practices” and why creativity will always win.Main Takeaways:Big-Time Creative, Small Time Dimensions: Marketing creative is made up of tens of thousands of dimensions, all of which can be measured and distilled into performance metrics. And when those metrics are measured, you can utilize that data to inform the decisions you make about what elements are more beneficial to include in your ads (like an orange pillow versus a blue pillow and a cat versus a dog).#WorthIt?: Including hashtags in your marketing copy is a method to improve performance. The flip side of that argument is that hashtags have a cost, particularly if you overlay a hashtag on an image or video. The Same… But Different: When developing creative, marketers are often looking at the same data, trends and industry reports, and they are following the same “best practices.” The trick is to take the information and make it your own in order to develop creative that stands out rather than just gets lost in the sea of “what works.”For an in-depth look at this episode, check out the full transcript below. Quotes have been edited for clarity and length.---Up Next in Commerce is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Respond quickly to changing customer needs with flexible Ecommerce connected to marketing, sales, and service. Deliver intelligent commerce experiences your customers can trust, across every channel. Together, we’re ready for what’s next in commerce. Learn more at salesforce.com/commerce---Transcript:Stephanie:Welcome back to Up Next in Commerce. This is your host, Stephanie Postles. Joining us today is R.J. Talyor, the CEO and Founder at Pattern89. R.J., welcome.R.J.:Hey, thanks for having me. Appreciate it.Stephanie:Yeah, I'm excited to have you on the show. I just downloaded your report, as you saw, right before the interview and I feel like there's some good juicy stuff and the things that you guys are doing and we'll have a lot to talk about today.R.J.:Yeah. Great.Stephanie:So tell me a bit, what is Pattern89 and how did you go about creating that?R.J.:Pattern89, what we do is we predict creative performance with machine learning and AI, and I've worked in digital for almost 20 years now. I worked at ExactTarget and then at Salesforce and then at another social startup, and learned quickly that marketers are spending so much time creating journeys and figuring out who their audience is, but still use a lot of their gut on what creative to put in front of those audiences, or in the places in the journey. While data is being used to figure out what and who, it really is on the creative side, still kind of a gut decision. And so set out about four years ago to help marketers use AI and machine learning, to predict creative performance, and now we're a 25 person strong scale up and serving customers all over the globe.Stephanie:That's awesome. I was reading a bit about your data co-op and how many brands you have that you get to look through all the data, so give me a little bit of like the behind the scenes of what kind of brands do you have in there, if you can share, how many do you actually have, and how do you go about looking at all of their data?R.J.:Well, when we started the business, we knew we needed a giant data set in order for the machines to find patterns and outliers that would actually help creatives, and so we started offering a free scorecard or creative assessment in exchange for joining the co-op. We're almost at 2000 brands who-Stephanie:Wow.R.J.:... have connected their accounts to Pattern89. And our machines, they don't actually look at anything that's identifiable. Instead, they're looking at 49,000 different creative dimensions of a piece of creative and tying it to a performance metric. As an example, it might look at a picture of a living room and say, "All right, there's a couch, plants, window. Is there a human or not? What color is the couch? Is there a blanket on the couch? Is there a dog in the picture?"R.J.:Then associate that with a performance metric, like, did it drive X purchases or Y video views or X views, so then we can understand in aggregate what are the patterns and outliers that we're seeing across massive amounts of data, so that we know living rooms actually perform better when there's an orange throw pillow on the couch, for example, like the one small detail. So massive amounts of brands, massive amounts of data, and really granular creative insights.Stephanie:Very cool. How do you go about, if you're looking at that kind of anonymized data and you see something doing well, how do you know it's doing well? Maybe because it's a Nordstrom where it's like, well, of course they have brand recognition, it's very easy to buy from them, versus a brand new D2C company where maybe one of their ads is doing well, or it's not doing well and it's kind of getting skewed because they don't have that brand recognition.R.J.:Yeah. That is a big question. The first thing to know is that our data science team uses a set of statistical tests to kind of ferret out what is actually driving the performance or not driving the performance, so that we're not chasing after kind of red herrings. The other thing is from an audience perspective, the history of that audience use, so is it a brand new audience or is it a legacy audience? Is it a customer loyalty audience or something else like that? Those are all the components that are also taken into account so that we can distinguish between maybe the brand legacy of a Nordstrom versus an up-and-coming D2C startup and still provide statistical significance at over 95% competence.Stephanie:Got it. What things do you think are going to work in 2021? I mean, I was just going through the report that I mentioned earlier and I mean, it was cool because it's all the way down to "Here's certain emojis and colors and imagery is up, but maybe with multiple people or one person and video's down." So tell me a little bit about what you guys are seeing and predicting to work well when it comes to advertising and copy in 2021.R.J.:Yeah. Well, the first thing that it's important to notice, the creative lifecycle has shrunk and rom a creative life cycle perspective, it's just a lot shorter than it's ever been. In addition to the creative life cycle shortening, what is performance in those creatives is changing as well, so the best advertisers have a 2:1 image to video ratio. While video performs a lot better in general, image to video 2:1 is the best performer for top performers in the dataset, and we're seeing more and more emphasis on video and video performance, but videos tend to be more expensive, so 2:1 is a good framework.R.J.:Then taking a look at what's trending and what's forecasted to be a performant in 2021, we see things like TVs and electronics really improving cost per clicks, also spas and massages, those types of things. And then maybe not surprising, we're seeing a lot of isolated people, so one face in creatives and those people are reading or studying or doing something by themselves, which kind of reflects the world that we're living in, especially as we head into 2021.R.J.:One of the surprising things, and sorry for all the cat lovers out there, is that pets typically do very well, dogs and cats, but we're actually seeing cats driving performance down. So it's more expensive to advertise with cats in 2021, so just keep that in mind as you're here.Stephanie:That's funny. Don't put a cat in your ad.R.J.:Yes, exactly. Yeah. But consistent performers, things like images or videos of those people exercising, phones, images of cities, those types of things are really staying flat. This is all going to change by audience and by brand, but in aggregate, those are the things that we're seeing rise, staying steady, and then underperforming in terms of predictions.R.J.:The other thing that we analyze is color and the importance of color driving performance in 2021. In December, we're really seeing kind of teal colors and blues perform best, but what's trending up in 2021 are, it's kind of this peachy color, and I can give you the exact hex code for the designers out there, but peach and dark green are really trending up and they've been trending up over the last three years, while kind of a pinky and a brown color are really trending down for the last three years and will continue to trend down. It's kind of funny as we think about what background colors or what shirt colors our models should be wearing, or how we should stage a photo shoot, or even what stock photo or image or video to pull, these types of decisions can impact your CPMs, your CPCs, and your click-through rates and ultimately your performance, so it's good to have the data on your side.Stephanie:Yeah, that's great. The one thing a lot of guests have mentioned is that more organic videos, iPhone videos, even iPhone photos have been performing better for them then-R.J.:Yes.Stephanie:I mean, because a lot of them couldn't stage things anymore in their studio, or didn't really want to use the stock photos. Are you seeing the same thing?R.J.:Yes, and especially selfies, really driving performance up. So when influencers take a selfie video, which might've seen sort of not have been as polished as in the past, but selfie videos in the data is actually spiking in performance as well as popularity, so yes is the answer to that.Stephanie:Cool. Any other trends in that report that stood out to you that were maybe a bit surprising and you were like, "Why is that happening" or "Why is the data showing that" where you had to dig in a bit deeper?R.J.:One of the other things that's really surprising when you deep dive into the report is copy and the impact of copy alongside your creative. Oftentimes we spend a lot of time developing what the creative would be, and then maybe we'd just go with a standard message, but the impact of performance when you have copy that's like 5 to 15 characters long, that's what's going to drive the best performance for awareness or top of top of funnel campaigns, whereas body copy needs to have between like 40 and 60 characters and should include a hashtag.R.J.:What's a little bit surprising about hashtags specifically, is that including a hashtag overall improves your performance, but it's going to be a little bit more expensive. And then even further, if you put a hashtag as a text overlay on an image or on a video, you're going to see the costs go up even more. So it's funny how best practices intersect with performance in good and bad ways, and what we're kind of distilling down is how the algorithms at the individual platforms prioritize or deprioritize content, based on supply and demand, like what's popular and what's actually performing.R.J.:If you think about it from the platform perspective, they want creative diversity. They want you to be producing something that creates more thumb scrolling and more content engagement. So they're looking at how much of X do we have, how much of Y do we have, and then prioritizing content that favors newness and differentiation and engagement. Anyway, some of these things are like, need to put a hashtag in there because that's actually going to drive your performance up, but it might also drive your cost up so you've got to kind of weigh the pros and the cons of each creative dimension.Stephanie:Cool. I'm thinking about all this data and feedback that you're giving to customers, and how do you make sure that they don't all start doing the same thing where it's becoming like a self-fulfilling prophecy? Because I know a couple of guests prior who've been on the show previously have mentioned, like, "Don't go in the Facebook ad library and try and get inspiration from there, go to the books from the 1960s and check out what was happening back then. Don't just look at what your competitors are doing, because the second you start just doing what they're doing, you lose." So how do you make sure that your clients aren't just all doing the same thing, driving the same trends, driving the rates up or down because they are all hearing like, "Oh, the color green is like the way to go"?R.J.:Yeah. Well, I love what you're saying there because I have really railed against "best practices" as a way of doing marketing, and so much is changing that I think a lot of marketers go to "best practices" and then look at a creative forecast from Pattern89 or some sort of other data source and say, "All right, that's what we should do." The problem is exactly what you're saying, which is that if we all do the same thing, then the advantage goes away. Instead, we need to think about data and creative AI as a recipe. Every chef gets the same... I love watching food TV, like Food Network and all that stuff, and you can give Michelin star chefs the same recipe and they all make something different, even though the recipe components might be the same.R.J.:I think that that's how we have to think about creative. How does our brand interpret these recipes? How do we make it distinctly ours and so our brand message shines through while also honoring those creative elements that the algorithm cares about? A good example is we know that 40 to 60 body copy characters, so we should have a 40 to 60 characters in our body copy, and a hashtag. So don't go copy paste some body copy from a competitor and just change the brand name. Instead, what's the unique message that you want to tell in that? And then what hashtag can you use that actually spells out your brand message? Or if we know that images of people studying or reading books are important, what is the way that we can tell that brand story in a funny way, an engaging way, in a serious way? However it reflects your brand.R.J.:I've used this slide in a presentation where I actually have five different brands, Instagram posts, where they're all advertising athleisure wear, and they literally all look the same. It's all a woman who looks fit, who is exercising in her sort of ethereal-looking inside apartment. It's like literally the same creative and you can't distinguish between those ads, and I think that's where we're seeing kind of the "optimization to best practices" cause problems. Instead, we need to figure out how do we take this creative recipe and put our humanness or human creativity to tell that story in a new way? So be aware of best practices is the summary there, and instead use it as a recipe and create from there.Stephanie:Cool. Are you kind of guiding your clients when you're like, "Okay, we see these emojis are trending, these colors are trending, here's the copy limits that are trending, but here's maybe how to apply this to your brand" or like, "These photos are trending, like you said, but here's a funny spin that you can put on it individually." You're kind of giving like one-to-one advice instead of just like, "Everyone try that and figure it out for yourself." How do you go about guiding your clients?R.J.:Pattern89 is a platform, so we serve as a data service, effectively. When we get on a call with a customer, our creative agency will often say, "Here's what's trending up and here's how your data matches or doesn't match that trend. And then also, here's the counter-trend to it." Some customers are like, "No, we just want to kind of play it safe and go with the trend." Others say, "Hey, what's the counter trend? What's the outlier? What is the opportunity there?"R.J.:It just depends on if the brand likes to play it safe and predictably, or they're willing to take some creative risks, and it actually depends on their level of risk tolerance there, because some people just want the sure thing and, "We can follow the trend or the best practice." But then others say, "Hey, we're willing to take a risk. Our brand is about risk-taking or about X." So it depends based on that. Then sometimes we work through creative agencies and digital agencies and coach them to say, "Hey, here's the risk of going with the trend versus here's the counter trend" or "Here's how your data intersects or conflicts with that."Stephanie:Yeah, very cool. What kind of variables do your models look at to see? I mean, not only the cost behind things, or maybe what's doing well, but how do you know something's doing well? Is it engagement? Is it people clicking through on an ad? What's the success rate in figuring out what a trend is based on? One good example is someone was talking about influencers on the show and they said someone can get like a billion likes on their posts, but that doesn't mean they're an influencer. You need to look in the comments and see are people in there asking like, "Hey, where can I buy that shirt from" and actually consumers who are ready to convert and do what that person's saying. So what things are indicators to you in ads doing well and actually will create a conversion or a new customer?R.J.:Every prediction in Pattern89 or in the platform has two factors. One is who's the audience, and then two, what's the objective? The audience can be net new customers, it could be loyal customers, it can be previous purchasers, whatever the audience makeup is. Then the objective is what the machine understands. Are we trying to drive the lowest CPM? Are we trying to drive app downloads? Are we trying to drive purchases? Are we trying to drive likes and follows? Whatever that overall objective is, so the machine knows, "This is the audience, this is objective, and then this is the candidate set of creatives that we want to drive for one of those objectives for that audience."R.J.:So if the objective is purchase, then we can tell you exactly what's going to drive purchase. We can't predict sentiment of comments. As you're suggesting with influencers, that's just a limitation. But a good point to note that what the AI can do and can't do, so that you can set the engagement up for success.Stephanie:Is there any new advancements in tech data you're looking at to kind of gauge that sentiment? Or anything else where you're like, "We aren't there yet, but we're looking at this because we think it's an important field going forward"? I mean we just had yesterday, the VP of data science at Stitch Fix on, and she was kind of mentioning just that there's a new demographic coming on the market, they speak very differently, and so they need different types of natural language processing to figure out who this person is to then be able to respond to them how they want to be responded to. So is there anything like that that you're watching right now or looking into?R.J.:Well, just on that comment, I need some natural language processing to handle my 12 and 13 year old nieces who I'm like, "I don't... " When we text with them, I don't know really what they're saying and I thought I was cool. So I'm just using that to-Stephanie:Oh yeah, my-R.J.:Yeah.Stephanie:I feel that. My mom sends me screenshots that her students, because they're all doing Zoom calls right now, she's a teacher, and she's like, "These kids just talking, they're like 'NVM,' what's that mean? And then there's a U and then there's a two" and this and that. She's like, "I don't know." And apparently they gave her the acronym for "Pony hair, don't care," but they just put PDC or something and she's like, "What's that mean?" I'm like, "I honestly don't know." I don't think that means anything. And she was like, "I found it out. They were making fun of my ponytail." I'm like [inaudible 00:18:44].R.J.:I imagine Urban Dictionary is getting a lot of site traffic from people like me these days.Stephanie:Yeah. I mean, yes.R.J.:Well, I'll tell you, we've heard a lot of customers ask for sentiment, like you're describing. The other thing that's of particular interest is the multi-touch journey. With Pattern89, we can predict what people are going to do, like a one hop. So I can tell you if they're going to download the app, but I can't tell you if they're going to use it, or I can tell you that they're going to put something in their cart, but maybe not purchase it.R.J.:What marketers really want to understand is how do we actually predict creative against each of the steps of the marketing journey that they're setting up for the customer, versus like a point in time? That's what we are really locked in on, is how do we predict creative performance across that life cycle, versus just, they did one action on a social site or one action on as a result of seeing your ad on Google or something? So it's this multi-touch attribution issue.Stephanie:Where do you see the future of attribution going? Right now I'm interested in it because I was just listening to a bunch of podcasts about attribution with TV and other types of media and how it's very slow to evolve, but it's something that people are going to be very eager to figure out over the next couple of years, about how to like measure things. Is there anything that you guys are looking into in that area or just keeping tabs on?R.J.:Well, I'm keeping tabs on kind of there seem to be two counter trends going. One is that everyone's going to new payment options and new conversion options on their phone, and there just seems to be more and more like mobile payment, fractional payments, mobile wallet, Afterpay, all that type of stuff that I think is going to create even more data that we can understand the ultimate conversion especially in retail.R.J.:The counter-trend is a cookie list future and a highly-private world and GDPR, et cetera. Those seem to be counter trends to me where we could get to a fully anonymized world where you just have no idea what happens, or to whom, I guess. And then the opposite is we can know everything. So I don't know that I have an official prediction, but I'm certainly interested in those paths, diverging and where we end up. Yeah, I think that that's going to be super interesting as it accounts for attribution.Stephanie:Yeah, I'm definitely paying attention to the cookie list future, and I mean I think Facebook's fighting pretty hard at that so it seems like it might be a long process if it were even go through, because a lot of people are against it. That seems like a scary place though if you really can't show what you're doing.R.J.:It is, but I think... I have a creative background, I majored in English, I have a master's in creative writing, and I came into technology kind of thinking creative is the actual differentiation. But so many liberal arts people, so many marketers have been told to act like machines and just make only data backed decisions, and of course that makes a lot of sense, but I think we've kind of over-indexed under the data side and it kind of left creativity out to dry as kind of like, "Those are the crazy creative people over there" or something.R.J.:I think that the cookie-less future and all this, because ultimately we're going to lose some of the sight of the data that we were able to pull before, and instead, creative is going to win. Personally, I believe that as the CEO of Pattern89, creative is going to really matter as we head into the next 5 or 10 years, because we don't want to... To the earlier question about isn't AI or machine learning just optimizing to the same exact thing, well, yes is the answer. How do you diverge from that while you introduce new creative ideas? You differentiate your brand, you tell a different story, and I think that's super exciting. I think we're in this a reemergence of creativity that I nerd out on and I'm optimistic about.Stephanie:Yeah, I'm optimistic. I'm just wondering how would you know it wins? How do you know what does well if you can't even tell what happened?R.J.:That's true.Stephanie:When you can't track it?R.J.:That's true, that's true. That's fair.Stephanie:So as a creative, how do you go about sparking creativity? What does your process look like to maybe not only help you know yourself at your company, but also the brands you work with to try and also get them to think creatively?R.J.:Well, I mean, I guess ironically, it does start with data. We look at trends on a monthly basis and we forecast our monthly trends to understand what is it that's trending up, trending down, and then move that into, how we... I mean in startup land, we're always trying to figure out what is the counter trend? How do we stick out? Because we don't want to say the same things that big, big companies are saying. We want to see something different and something risky.R.J.:So that's what we kind of analyze the trends and then go against them to figure out how can we stand out? I'm a big proponent of running and swimming. I grew up swimming, I swam in college and I still swim, and running, swimming I think that provide that kind of meditative or that space to kind of let your brain sort of turn off, but still be on, you know? And then come back from a run or a swim or after you've looked at some of that data and then new ideas start to emerge, and start pitching them and then figure out if those ideas might work or not.Stephanie:Yep. Do you ever look through historical things, since what's old is always new again, eventually? So you go back to the archives and be like, "Here's something that worked in the 20s, let's try this."R.J.:Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're actually doing some 20s based stuff for 2021 and the kind of Roaring Twenties is coming back. We just did a cool campaign called DonDraiper.com, that was D-O-N D-R-A-I-P-E-R. So like putting the AI in the Don Draiper, and looking at all these 50s campaigns and 60s campaigns to understand what actually would be predicted to win now, and it is kind of amazing to see like copy as well as imagery that was being used at the time and in-color, and how those were resonating using REI to predict whether they would resonate with this audience in today. Yeah, I think that's a definitely a good place for inspiration.Stephanie:That's cool. Do you see some of those more vintage ads and photos and things like that working over the next couple of years?R.J.:Well, I don't know about the next couple of years, to be honest. I think in 2021 alone, we're going to see a lot of nostalgia and I think that that is going to be a big factor because we're all looking for comfort after 2020. I can tell you on 2021, yes, nostalgia I think is going to be a big, big trend.Stephanie:2021 will be nostalgia for 2019. "Ah, the good days. What happened in 2019? Let's bring back those vintage memories."R.J.:That's funny.Stephanie:Are there any new consumer shopping behaviors that you guys are watching right now that you think are going to continue post-COVID?R.J.:I think touchless everything, even in store, is a big one. And the one I mentioned earlier about mobile wallet, I think mobile wallet adoption is just going to spike, and then I think all sorts of augmented reality capabilities are also going to, because going to a showroom for example, to see a couch may or may not be something that an individual is willing to do anymore, to make that separate trip. So, "I want to see it in my space. I don't want to buy it without seeing it and then return it, have a hassle with the return, especially with a large purchase item for a home."R.J.:So I think that mobile wallet is going to explode. It already has, but coming from mobile land in my previous roles, it's amazing to see how that's taken off. Then I think augmented reality apps, they're just going to be driving the future of commerce.Stephanie:Cool. All right, well let's move over to the lightning round. Lightning round is brought to you by Salesforce Commerce Cloud, but this is where I'm going to ask you a question and you have a minute or less to answer.R.J.:Okay.Stephanie:Are you ready, R.J.?R.J.:I'm ready.Stephanie:All right. We'll start with the hard one first. What one thing will have the biggest impact on ecommerce the next year?R.J.:Creativity is going to be my answer, because actually our data shows it. For example, masks in ads, this is an interesting thing. So masks in ads are being more popular, but they don't perform as well because people don't want to see kind of the ugly truth when they're viewing creative. How do we creatively manage and creatively work through a situation that everyone is tired of feeling? I think the breakout brands and the commerce brands that find a way to tell an empathetic but inspiring story creatively are going to win.Stephanie:Yep. I like that. Yeah, that's a good point too, of just because it's happening doesn't mean people want to see it-R.J.:Right.Stephanie:... everywhere they look like. Sometimes people might want to see what the future could look like and inspiration.R.J.:Yes, exactly.Stephanie:What's up next on your Netflix queue?R.J.:Ooh, let's see. Mandalorian. It's not my Netflix queue, it's my Disney queue. I'm just like, eagerly awaiting each episode of Mandalorian, which is interesting because I'm not a big Star Wars fan, but I love that show. It's imaginative, it's creative, it's kind of melancholy. It's-Stephanie:I actually don't know that one. I need to check it out.R.J.:I'd recommend it, and I'm excited about that show.Stephanie:What age group is it for?R.J.:Well, they say that Star Wars fans love it.Stephanie:Okay, I like Star Wars, I guess.R.J.:Yeah. But like my eight year olds' buddy Charlie was like, "Man, that's my favorite show." So it also not only 40 year old men, but eight year olds like it. So it's a family favorite.Stephanie:Big range. Good. So they did well creating a show for all overall.R.J.:Yes, yes.Stephanie:Good. What topic or trend do you not understand today that you wish you did?R.J.:TikTok.Stephanie:Yeah.R.J.:I don't understand TikTok.Stephanie:I've gotten that answer a lot.R.J.:Yeah, I don't understand it. It feels very voyeuristic and it feels... I'm all for fun, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't... I don't understand why you would spend hours rehearsing a dance, for example, and then take a video of yourself doing a sort of ridiculous dance.Stephanie:I feel like your kid is probably listening and it's like, "Dad, anyone who says 'I'm all for fun' is not fun." If you have to start a sentence that way, you might not be all for fun.R.J.:I think you're right.Stephanie:Yeah. But I have had a lot of people say they don't understand TikTok.R.J.:Yeah. I think it's the age group.Stephanie:But that would be an interesting data set to pull in data and see what's engaging from there, because I have also had a lot of people say it converts really well and that there's a lot of [inaudible] that platform.R.J.:Yes. Yeah. We've got customers who use our data on Snapchat, but we've not moved into TikTok just yet, but it is interesting to see what trends might apply there. I think that again, personally why you do that, I feel like that's like a PhD or something that I could do is like, understand the motivation there or something. I don't know.Stephanie:Yeah. Well, you let me know how that research goes. We'll bring you back for your PhD on TikTok. What is a favorite book on business or creativity, or just one that you refer back to quite often?R.J.:Hm. My favorite author is a British author named Julian Barnes, who I love. I often try to not read a bunch of business books. I mean, I find some of them to be really good, but I like to look outside for inspiration, so I'm a big fan of Julian Barnes. His books are really creative and strange and weird, and he's a well-known British author but maybe not known as well in the US.R.J.:Then on the maybe non-fiction side, I read that book Evicted, which is again, not a business book, but just in regards to kind of some of the social issues we're after, I find that Matthew Desmond's book is really, really good as well. But I look to those for inspiration or to kind of take my brain outside of business.Stephanie:Cool. All right, and then the last one, what's up next in your travel destinations when we can travel again? Where are you and your family headed? Or just you if you're like, "Peace, family."R.J.:I don't know that my wife would be okay with that, but we actually had the good fortune, we went out to Idaho for about five weeks this summer and rented an Airbnb and loved it, and we want to go back.Stephanie:Where'd you go? Because I was just looking at Coeur d'Alene, which I think is in Idaho.R.J.:Yes, yes, yes.Stephanie:It's really pretty.R.J.:We were in Driggs, Idaho, which it's on the west side of the Tetons, about an hour from Yellowstone, and it is beautiful. I mean, it was wonderful and we're going to go back. We had all sorts of international travel ideas that my wife and I wanted to do with our kids, but I mean, we just had such a nice time out there that want to head back this summer and spend some time out there exploring the mountains.Stephanie:Oh, that's great. I want to check that out too. Idaho is such an undervalued area. No one talks about it, but when I started looking at the pictures, I'm like, "This place is pretty, come on people."R.J.:It is. It's wonderful. Yeah, it really is.Stephanie:All right R.J., well, it was a pleasure having you on. Where can people find out more about you and Pattern89?R.J.:Sure. Yeah, just Pattern89.com or I'm on Twitter @rjtalyor and would love to hear from you, or come on to Pattern89.com and check us out.Stephanie:Awesome. Thanks so much.R.J.:Thank you.

Did you know that even some the most well-know national newspapers are using AI to write some of their articles? It’s true. And you probably didn’t even notice. So how can Marketers leverage AI as part of their Marketing strategies? We’ve all undoubtedly encountered a chat bot a few times in the past few years, and that is certainly using AI technology. But RJ Talyor, AI platform founder & CEO at Pattern89, reminds us that the key is to make sure you’re not losing that humanness in the process. Machines are great with data, but it still takes a human to differentiate the nuances of those gray areas that test ethical or inappropriate boundaries. After all, an eggplant emoji is just an eggplant to a machine, but humans know better.

R. J. Talyor likes to keep it real. He doesn’t pretend 2020 has been easy, and he tries to let his employees know that he has struggled through moments just like anyone else — so why not let loose a little during the workday? “I try to actually get on [Zoom] with bedhead in front of our own internal team, just to demonstrate like ‘Hey, I'm living my life here, there's a kid on my lap.’ I'm real, too. We're all real. We're all dealing with this crazy thing. And we're also working.” R. J. is the CEO and Founder of Pattern89, a startup that helps e-commerce retailers understand what paid social ads work and why. In this episode of Human Resolve, R. J. discusses why a company culture molded by core values is crucial, how you can use it to recruit exceptional talent “representative of the country,” and what future workplaces may look like.

We're pumped to be kicking off our Brovember series with sex educator and relationship coach, Taylor Johnson. Every year throughout the month of November we place a spotlight on men's health, particularly men's sexual and mental health. We absolutely love taking this time to celebrate men, and explore the many factors that enable them to establish rocking health, not only in their bodies but in their minds and hearts as well. Taylor and Mason share openly about  sex, tantric and Daoist sexual practice, maintaining harmony in relationships, pleasure and the use of male sex toys. It's always potent and juicy when Talyor comes on the show and today's episode is no different, a great listen for all. Mason and Taylor discuss: The deification of semen retention practices, Taylor stresses that semen retention is just one part of a holistic lifestyle practise, along with diet, movement, sleep, rest etc. Taylor's semen retention courses and his personal journey with the practice. How to approach the topic of sex and establish a safe environment in which to share your experiences with friends and practitioners. The connection between mental health, sex and relationships. The dysfunctional ideology around twin flames. The tools Taylor uses to create harmony in his relationships (plutonic and romantic). Relationships as systems, cyclic and regenerative in nature. Sex toys for the boys. Anal sex.    Who is Taylor Johnson? Taylor Johnson is a sex educator and coach. Taylor helps men master their sexual energy and use it to supercharge their entire life. Taylor's programs and coaching synthesise elements of Tantra and Daoist sexuality with western practicality - in a grounded, accessible and powerful way.   Resources:  Taylor's Website Taylor's Instagram Taylor's YouTube Taylor's Fleshlight Article     Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Mason: (00:00) Taylor, brother, how are you, man?   Taylor: (00:02) Hey, man, I'm great. Thank you so much for having me back. It's awesome to be here with you.   Mason: (00:06) Yeah. Absolute pleasure. It's been a year. I like the habit of meeting up in November for Brovember, Men's Health Month, coming to have a chat about all things men's sexual health and we've got an overarching theme of men's mental health and as always you're not going to be able to separate sexual health and mental health ever. I'm sure we'll touch on that here but how you doing?   Taylor: (00:36) Yeah, yeah. Absolutely, man. There's this whole illusion that sex lives in a separate little box down in our genitals and doesn't impact the rest of our lives and that obviously couldn't be further from the truth. So I'm stoked to be talking about just men's mental health in general because it's a topic that I don't think gets enough attention and it's something that we all deal with. We all have mental health and it's... Yeah, so I think it's super important to be talking about it and I'm happy to go into sex and mental health together as a topic.   Mason: (01:12) Well, before we jump into all these new topics let's just pick up where we left off last time. So we did a whole podcast about semen retention and just to what was really nice is that I feel like that podcast and your work in general is really, it's grounded and approachable, because quite often as you said sexual health for men as well gets boxed. So if you start to engage with your sexuality you start engaging with say practises that are in the direction of say semen retention, all of a sudden there's this stigma about the kind of person you need to be and the things that are going to start coming up but I'm liking the fact that... Well, let's talk about first idealism around semen retention, about the expectations that we have of it now that it's been a year that the men listening to this or that maybe there's some guys that their girlfriends or partners you have to listen to this podcast. I assume that's happened because... It's top two most listened to podcast we've had.   Taylor: (02:23) Awesome.   Mason: (02:24) And we have mostly women listening but I want to talk about first of all, how there's various ways of approaching this. You don't have to be that typical image that we've been programmed to think that if you're someone a man that starts engaging with your sexuality that you have some stigmaed person. You can be anyone and do it and also the expectations around semen retention and how to manage those, how do we get the best out of this practice.   Taylor: (02:54) Yeah. Yeah. Man, that's an awesome topic. I'd love to dive into that. And to say that if you go on YouTube right now or pretty much anywhere on the internet the topic of semen retention and NoFap, it's on fire. It's up. Everyone's talking about it. And, since we did our podcast a year ago I've actually created a whole semen retention course. I've had a bunch of guys go through it with great successes and I've done coaching with guys around this and I've created a lot of YouTube videos and I've gotten a tonne of questions about it too. And the interesting question that keeps popping up and that I keep seeing out there is some people will say something like this, so imagine a guy he says, “Hey Taylor, I've been retaining for 40 days but I'm not feeling amazing. What's up? Why is that?”   Taylor: (03:48) And I see in the semen retention world there's this deification of the practise of semen retention as if it's the only thing you need to do in order to achieve optimum health and optimum mental health and optimum life goals and all this stuff. And so, with this person I would go through a process of questions and be like, okay cool. So you have retained for 40 days but when's the last time you exercised? When's the last time you did something nice for yourself? When's the last time you took time to breathe? What type of foods are you eating? Are you drinking enough water? All this stuff. And then turns out, oh, actually yeah, I haven't exercised in about three weeks and yeah, last night I ate a bunch of macaroni and cheese and I went to sleep at two in the morning. It's like, okay. There's some other things we need to be looking at here too in addition to the practise of semen retention.   Taylor: (04:45) In all of the old traditions, like yogic and tantric traditions they all say that it's part of a holistic lifestyle practise. There's so much more to it than just retaining.   Mason: (04:56) Well, it's a long game as well, right? It's like, for instance, with the medicinal mushrooms or a breath practise when you start out there's people who just get absolutely blown out of the atmosphere taking these mushrooms and feeling so fantastic, doing a breathing practise and then they're like, wow. I have to have that breathing practise in my life every day to feel energised. That honeymoon period, same with semen retention you may feel really good in the beginning, and then you go, wow. It's going to keep on going up and you seemingly hit this plateau of how good you feel. But it's like with all these things you feel good in the beginning because you've been doing something that's maybe unsustainable or you've had a deficiency and you're returning to normal, so you get that spike in energy and you get a big cathartic experience.   Mason: (05:44) But then the plateau is quite often like, awesome, now you're in the real cultivation stage where over years and years of committed practise and exploring, you're going to actually be increasing your Essence and your Kidney Jing, and you're going to be giving yourself energy for more subtle aspects of your evolution. And so that's where the good stuff comes in but then it's just a long stamina game then. I'd imagine it's the same with semen retention.   Taylor: (06:12) Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely and there's this term actually, in the semen retention world called flatlining. I think it in NoFap too, like semen retention flatlining. And people say, oh I've had these amazing benefits for the first two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, five weeks, six weeks, and then nothing. And yeah, it's because you're not... I have this one video called The Benefits Of Not Ejaculating for 30 Days, and it's reached a tonne of people on YouTube. And one of the gems of this video are the comments underneath. And people will say things like, “Day 636. I sold my car because I've retained so much I can teleport.” And all this shit. And it's like, no, you don't gain new abilities the longer you go, you just reach a new homeostasis that's more optimal for general life function. And it's vastly more optimal in my opinion but it's a new level of homeostasis.   Mason: (07:09) Man, I'm so glad you brought that up. And before we touch on these other points, I just want to give that follow up. I really enjoyed your course. Do you do those all just live or is there courses around the semen retention that people can purchase and go through at all times? How have you set it up at the moment?   Taylor: (07:30) Yeah. So a couple times we have gone through as a big group of guys all together and we have a Facebook group. Right now, it's set up to where people can go through on their own. It's a self-study option and they'll get an email every day and get to do all the same exercises and have access to all the live calls from the past. But that way you don't have to wait until four months from now when I do the next big group or something like that.   Mason: (07:54) Yeah. I think it's good. I've had a lot of people asking me about it just in the last month. And so it's probably good reminder that coming up to Christmas and all that stuff and so I think it's a nice present to buy for people. But, just in what I was going to say there in terms of the intention that you go into the world and then all of a sudden there's idealism around the fact that the ability to retain for 30 days must be there or that this ideal that you need to get to. It's about the destination. And for me I feel like I was struggling with it and sharing about it on the last podcast in terms of the way my intent lies and the way I'm relating to myself when I approach my own sexuality because I'm so hard on myself. If I don't do something perfect then I just throw the baby out with the bathwater. But I feel like having time around my sexual practise is something and I still do intend for myself require to do more.   Mason: (08:56) But, when I was going through the course not focusing on the retention and really focusing on that journey of those 20 minute self pleasuring sessions that weren't about coming and they weren't about any kind of arrival towards any place or anything like that, that was probably the most transformational aspect of that at the end the happy accident of semen retention and multiple orgasms or not even, just the beginnings of experience of these internal explosive orgasms rather than that external cold driven, you've got internal sustainable energy orgasm starting to come about. It was really the juice of it for me which was nice. So yeah, just wanted to put that out there as well as you were saying semen retention is not going to be only everything and it doesn't even have to be your major focus going into this course. It doesn't have that pressure I'd say even there, but the practises are really beautiful. So yeah, I really dig it, man.   Taylor: (10:02) Yeah. Thanks for saying that. And that brings up a good segue. I don't know if you were about to go in a segue but I'm feeling-   Mason: (10:08) Segmen, seg away.   Taylor: (10:11) All right. Actually let's all take a deep breath, I'm going to invite everyone listening to you just to take a quick deep breath into your belly. Yeah. So men's mental health and sex. You said this piece about how that when you were approaching your sexuality, approaching this course even in different aspects of your sex life, that you were approaching it from this perfectionist lens and having to get it done. And it's almost like a performance based thing which is ironic because it's anti performance is what we're going for. And I think it's like, this brings up a really big point for men in general.   Taylor: (11:06) A huge piece of programming that men get in this society is that we need to always know exactly what's going on. We need to have our shit together. We need to be self sufficient without needing anybody's help or anybody's guidance. We have to be like leading the way at all times and do it well and provide. And that doesn't leave a lot of room for vulnerability, that doesn't leave a lot of room for asking for help and for questions. And then when you bring sex into the mix almost all of us have grown up with a very poor education about sex and what's possible, sexual health, sexual relationships, romantic relationships, et cetera.   Taylor: (11:50) So when guys... And when I started on my sexuality and my sex life and sexual performance health all this stuff, I remember starting it too with that same lens like, oh, I'm going to rock this out, I'm going to hit it with all I got, I'm going to work on it every day and I'm going to just hit it really hard. And this is how I've done a lot of other things in my life, like business projects, personal creative projects, just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. And it didn't work that way, it doesn't work that way, it's you approach sexuality. And-   Mason: (12:23) If you don't mind explaining there where you would bump up against the glass ceiling or the limitation of that, maybe it's an aggressive confidence or an alpha confidence which obviously is still useful. And I love because we need that capacity. But were you just tapped into something more subtle since you were endeavouring on this path? Was it the actual sexual practises? Was it the fact that you had a more loving intention that you'd then hit that glass ceiling of that perfectionist Taylor and had to go searching for other ways to approach say developing a more meaningful confidence that was based on something other than external performance? What was the process there if you don't mind me asking?   Taylor: (13:17) Yeah. Well, it's a good question. It was a mix of things and one of them was this whole idea of the lone wolf and got to do it all yourself. And I did, I read a lot of books and I did some courses and I did a lot of self study and practise and I found myself feeling isolated with that. And I didn't have community, I wasn't talking with my other guy friends about this stuff. I wasn't even really talking about it with my girlfriend I was just having this internal experience. And there was a glass ceiling that came from that, because there was almost a shame in talking about it. I didn't want to be seen as the guy who was really studying sex at first. I didn't want to be seen as the guy who was really invested in improving this part of my life because that would inherently mean that it was not good enough to begin with, so that's why I was working on it.   Taylor: (14:15) And it was this weird head fuck of like, wow! I'm so fascinated by this and I'm getting results but I can't talk about it because people would think I'm weird and I've got to be perceived as doing it all right. And so that was one of the ceilings that I had to break through and realise no, actually it's really important to talk about this stuff. If you have close friends you can talk to about it great, but if not talking to a therapist or something. Getting it so that it's more than just you. So it was more than just me spreading that sphere of awareness out to where it started to become actually of my life in general and not just this little bubble inside my head and my body.   Mason: (14:56) Yeah. The two gears around sex. I know a lot of people in the circles will probably take for granted the fact that people have a little bit more liberal with the way that they're able to actually share themselves but still the of aussie culture is either one of bravado and just sharing and we have the steel curtain and bamboo curtain of Russia and China I feel like there's a velvet curtain around sex when we talk where it's just... And that way that we just imply a bravado of decide it's amazing. It's great and quite often it is, or you in Australia or you take the piss out of yourself in terms of there's a faux pride in the fact that you only lasted two seconds and you can laugh it off and have a joke about it.   Mason: (15:52) Which is to be honest I find for comedic purposes it's really fun and..   Taylor: (15:57) Yeah. Totally.   Mason: (15:58) And I like talking about sex in both those ways. But what I'm finding more and more is the extent of how uncomfortable it is for a guy to start talking about sex. I think the fact that you brought up a therapist is really great because sometimes that's what I desire. I want to sit with someone who's just going to receive, not try and fix me or give me suggestions a lot of the time. But when you come down to talking to other guys around sex, what's the path of least resistance? What are some of those divots that the water runs into that is slightly uncomfortable that you can ease into having a conversation that's relevant for a friendship, is going to be able to start breaking the ice around that topic that you see as useful to a useful direction to take.   Taylor: (16:54) Yeah. Yeah. That's a damn good question. And I would say approached with great intentionality especially if you're somebody who's feeling sensitive about this stuff, you want to be really intentional with who you open up to and share at first. We'll tell you build this foundation of confidence and support with it. And I would say if you are feeling vulnerable or are struggling with something, before you just dive into it with somebody ask a buddy of yours, hey man, you could say something like, hey brother, I've been having this thing happened in my life it's around sex and I've been wanting somebody to talk to you about it. I'm wondering would you be willing to have a conversation with me about sex? And just without judgement , just to hear me out as a brother, as a friend. Just like an icebreaker are you open to doing that? And generally the answer you get is going to tell you a lot.   Taylor: (17:51) Most people who are friends are going to say yes, absolutely and because you've approached with such intentionality you're setting the framework for a really great conversation to happen. And then it's your job after that to be vulnerable. But I always find that first asking the question and setting the container, setting the frame, if you will, for that conversation is a really big plus and then agreeing, to confidentiality upfront too.   Mason: (18:18) Then you said again at the start of the process so we boxed out our sexuality, right? We've segmented the way which as we start to open up whether we're doing the practises that are in your course, whether we start sharing the therapist or a friend or a lover, slowly opening that box since it's got a lot of dust on it a lot of the time or it's just been got a big steel door that stops you from getting to it. As you slowly open that door, is it just going slow and being dedicated to inviting this part of you back in your life that will help it integrate with the rest of your body. Because I feel like there's a divide between really feeling how we've got this emotional self and this spiritual self and then sex is over here.   Mason: (19:16) But that process of allowing our sexual energy, and sexual self, and our sex life to start integrating and bringing another dimension to our emotional self, to our spiritual self, our physicality, the way that we approach life in general, not that it has to dominate but this is more of a subtle question. So it's okay if you don't really have much to share on it but is there some just subtle tips because I feel like that divide, I think people are scared of having their sexuality all of a sudden come out and dominating their personality or their persona at times.   Mason: (19:57) It's got an, how can you be sexual while still being socially appropriate, because there's nothing worse than someone, was talking the other day some people around the area and you meet them and shortly after they just can't wait to tell you about how they love being promiscuous and they love doing this and they love doing that. And then sometimes it's appropriate and other times it's just like, man, this just feels like peacocking and showboating. This is like another attempt to have an identity with like an external identity that people think is exotic. And again, I feel like it's a way of abusing your sexuality if you get attention. So how do we integrate sustainably this sexual energy without it being a huge jump in like how we're perceived or seen?   Taylor: (20:48) Man, you just asked about 20 really good questions.   Mason: (20:52) Sorry about that.   Taylor: (20:53) No, it's great. It's great. I appreciate it, man. So many things to think about. One thing I wanted to touch on is you mentioned this fear of potentially being perceived as too much, too bravado in the sexuality department. There's also a fear of a lot of guys if you start doing tantric practises and you start doing Daoist practises, there's a fear that you're going to over feminise yourself as a term a lot of people use. You're soft and then you're not going to be able to show up with that fierceness in the bedroom that's so attractive and so healthy and so beautiful and awesome. So both of those fears are real.   Taylor: (21:31) And when you talk about integrating the spiritual and the sexual this is something I've been thinking a lot about recently actually. And I would imagine a number of people listening to this, if you're listening you've probably heard of breathwork at least, right? Probably you've even tried a little bit of it-   Mason: (21:52) Most likely everyone listening to this tribe you can quote breathwork, yeah.   Taylor: (21:56) Awesome. Great. So three things here. Breathwork is in one little circle right here. You can't see it if you're listening but I'm holding up my hands in the Zoom and making a Venn diagram of sorts over here. And the other one is self-pleasure. And one thing I've been exploring is integrating breathwork into my self pleasure sessions. And so if you think about when you do a breathwork session, especially if it's any holotropic breathwork or Wim Hoff oriented thing or something more activating you feel a lot of sensations in your body, you might feel a shift in consciousness, you might feel feelings of oneness with everything, you might get downloads of ideas and inspiration that come from seemingly nowhere, and you feel expansive and connected with everything, right? That's that, you could call that the spiritual domain, if you will, you could call that the energetic domain.   Taylor: (22:49) Over here in this other circle is sexuality and self-pleasure and sexual arousal and erotic energy and that sort of thing. And those two circles don't often get mixed. And when you develop a self pleasure practise and you're touching yourself and you're masturbating and you're exploring those sexual sensations, generally you're not having these same mind blowing expansive experiences that you do when you're doing a breathwork practise or you doing a long meditation or some sort of yogic thing or something like that. But if you start to play with integrating the two of them you can have some wild, wild amazingly beautiful experiences that are expansive and full of sexual pleasure at the same time.   Taylor: (23:34) So all of a sudden you're experiencing this orgasmic sensation in your genitals, that's spreading through your body while you're also experiencing the expansiveness of this activating breathwork. And something about that, it's just creates a bridge and it starts to anchor that in your body. It started to anchor in my body and it really started to shift some things on a fundamental level integrating those two.   Mason: (23:58) Man, yeah. I was just going through my own little internal journey there when you were sharing and just the realisation of, that it's such an obvious one. But what I can see for you, you need to repeat and you choose to repeat again and again and again, because it almost seems too simple to just continue to bring the breath and self-pleasure or lovemaking or just fucking wherever you are together. But that was actually what I'm realising. See in my mid '20s when I first started really diving into this world I really embraced, like hook line and sinker and that was my personality I was exploring. And so probably I went really far into but maybe becoming that person that was a little bit caught up in the identity of it and bringing that breathiness constantly not able to quite integrate with and be, multi-dimensional just like I'm just living in that sexual energy.   Mason: (25:08) And so after a while I guess I've scared myself off it and especially running in a spiritual raw food community getting, looking at myself going, fuck, I'm a douchebag man. I'm just like, I don't want, why am I being like this all the time? There's that breathiness always there, I'm always trying just... I don't know what it was, but I just had that typical persona that I was expressing that really scared me off for a while because I just didn't feel there was so many parts of me that was being suppressed. And after the course we did I realised how uncomfortable I was mostly in my self pleasure but then as well in lovemaking, how uncomfortable I was to really connect to the deep breath and make sound.   Mason: (26:00) That was probably the biggest breakthrough I had because then in lovemaking with that deep breathing which is 101 in tantric and Daoist practice, it just opened up this other world of connection with myself and with Tahnee that I just, it had been really been quite forgotten and it was really uncomfortable. I realised I needed to do everything I could to connect back with that part of myself. That's probably why I started getting a little bit into comedy on my own personal Instagram and literally taking the absolute piss out of myself when I was that person developed a whole character called the conscious cucumber and just tore him another one.   Mason: (26:47) And it's funny people don't realise that's my process too.. So I can actually balance it out for as long as I need. So then I can integrate that part of me back in so I can continue to explore integrating my sexuality. So, yeah. Thanks for bringing it up man. And sorry for the long share everyone. I'll get back to letting Taylor talk.   Taylor: (27:10) It's great, it's a good topic. And you said breath. Yeah. Yes. Breath is 101 but it's also 201, 301, 401-   Mason: (27:17) Yeah you're right.   Taylor: (27:17) ... and above.   Mason: (27:21) Yeah. Well, go on man. Yeah.   Taylor: (27:26) There's so many different aspects to mental health and sexuality for men. And you mentioned one that I'd love to go into a little bit too. You mentioned your relationship and I think relationship is a really big one, it definitely affects mental health, the success, or non-success of your relationship has a huge impact on your daily state of being. So I'd love to go in that direction if you're down to that. Cool. Alright. So just, personal, personal story, I'm in a relatively new relationship right now, we're about... Let's see, what month is it? It's October Jesus! It's October. So about six months in. Six months into this new relationship and it's beautiful and I'm under no illusion that it's going to be a cakewalk for the rest of our lives, but I'm definitely approaching it differently now than I have ever approached a relationship in the past. And from the very beginning treating it like a system that I'm putting energy into regularly.   Taylor: (28:31) I think of it like you wouldn't drive a car for years without changing the oil or doing maintenance on it. So you need to put energy into a relationship. And so I find that the more energy I put into this relationship the more I get back in terms of my general mental health and my general mental wellbeing. And it's really beautiful feedback loop and feedback cycle. And I think back to other relationships, even shorter ones that I was in where I didn't have such a focus of intentionality that drained me in some ways or it took a lot of my awareness because I was focusing so much I don't really... I do I want to say that, I guess I'll just back up and say, it feels really good to treat the relationship as a system and regularly put energy and get energy out from that. And I'm guessing you had a similar experience when you were approaching lovemaking with your partner while working on your sexuality.   Mason: (29:27) Mm-hmm (affirmative). Absolutely. I'm interested to hear... I know you bumped up against like, all right, how do I describe this? But I am slightly interested if you want to take some time to explore how you feel like you had approached it. The relationship even though they weren't bad. Now approaching it as the system or a living system, but what were the key differences there and how you approached a relationship and sex before that was in contrast.   Taylor: (29:58) Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. So a big one, a huge one and I still have little pieces of this in me that I'm working to get rid of but, a big one is I used to have this huge belief that, oh, if you find the one, then the relationship is just going to be great and it's just going to work and you're not going to argue, and it's going to be beautiful for years and years to come. And that myth is... And you laugh. Yeah. And I laughed too and probably if you're listening, you're laughing too, but you better damn well believe you've been programmed with that idea too.   Mason: (30:33) Well, that's for me even though I'm not abandoned to the idea of twin flames, so on and so forth, but that is inherently at the marketing soul of the twin flame is you can rest on your laurels a little bit because you guys have a soul contract and connection. And that's why there's so much dysfunction in relationships in spiritual circles.   Taylor: (30:57) Mm-hmm (affirmative). God, man. I feel at the risk of tangenting I'll just say this briefly, the whole twin flame concept bugs the shit out of me, honestly. I see it mostly because when I see people talk about it, it sounds like they're coming from this really codependent place. Just like what you were saying, oh, our two souls are one and they're not having any sovereignty in their own relationship. At least what I've seen, maybe if you're listening and you're in a relationship you would call it twin flame, you feel it's totally balanced and everything that's great. But I don't think there is this one entity that you have a soul contract with. I think there's a lot of really amazing humans out there that you could have a beautiful loving relationship with should you choose to do so. Should you choose to put in that work.   Taylor: (31:48) And I think you're right, in a lot of spiritual communities you see a lot of relationship dysfunction, a lot of spiritual bypassing and I think part of it is because this whole romanticised idea of there being a one partner for you gets mixed in with these grandiose spiritual ideas of oneness also. And it gets like all sorts of muddy.   Mason: (32:13) It gets so muddy, doesn't it? Okay. There's someone I can talk to the fact that Tahnee and I, when we first got together we had some experiences that were huge and we felt cosmic and there was a feeling of, how did we find each other in this big wide universe? There's something right about this and magical about this and what I feel I was able to do yet. I had to detox that attachment to that and a using of that to validate the fact that I didn't have to work. And this extreme disappointment when things just didn't work out beautifully, I've realised that what I'm not saying to do when I poo poo through the long term twin flame justification or whatever other thing you want to talk about is, can you have that experience, allow it to be beautiful and felt, and then as that starts to fall away, and some of those initial hormones, neurotransmitters start to fall away, we hit the plateau about next as we've talked about with semen retention, that next space can you not in retrospect judge and put meaning onto what that experience was.   Mason: (33:33) Can you leave it exactly where it is and then allow yourself to move on, get over yourself, let that be there, it was beautiful. And then just go and start from scratch in terms of realising you are not entitled, it doesn't mean anything, it was meant what it meant back then, now get to fucking work. You're a human, you're in a relationship and that doesn't affect how you're going to have to work and love and evolve in your relationship long term.   Taylor: (34:02) Yeah and spiritual practise is not always blissful. And this is another big thing I see for people who are in the consciousness communities, spiritual communities. There's this idea that if you're on your spiritual path you're going to be having blissful experiences all the time. And like, no. Some of the least happy people are the people I see who regularly seek bliss, who regularly seek enlightenment and don't dive into the depths of their challenges and work through them. It's like, you're not talking about the hard stuff because the hard stuff is not blissful but that leads to a lot of isolation and at least to a lot of depression.   Taylor: (34:45) And I'm one of my best friends actually committed suicide about 10 years ago. And he was seen as this huge light being was a word a lot of people use to describe this guy. He was a huge bright light of consciousness, always blissful in public, always blissful, always singing songs, always the centre of attention in the party and that thing. And what people didn't see was when he went into his dark spaces, because then he just went to bed in his room and locked himself in there for four or five days until he could come out and be blissful again. And that's some real shit. Spiritual practise is not just the bliss, it's being real with yourself. What's actually happening in your life? What are you actually dealing with? What are you suffering with? Don't hide it from anybody but more importantly, don't hide it from yourself. And if something is going on find somebody to talk to you about it, find somebody to connect with about it, because life is short and it's not worth it.   Mason: (35:53) Yeah. Life short but then you're going to take that as you're saying, not looking constantly for the peak experiences get back into that. It's a long game as well. It's short and that you play the long game chop wood, carry water-   Taylor: (36:09) Chop wood.   Mason: (36:11) Yeah. Sorry to hear about your mate as well. It's always been that close to that experience because we can laugh off the fact and I think in the community, there's so many people around, there's so many influences around that they get caught up in the public persona. For me I used to refer to it as my stage persona and that's what I became immeshed with. We immeshed in our social media persona, how we're seen in the community at our dance events, just the people in corporate, how you turn up in the office, whatever it is then everyone's like yeah cheering, you're so good when you're like this. And you're like, all right, I got to be like that all the time.   Mason: (36:54) We laugh about it and I feel like a little bit of satire is necessary to help shake people out of it and not take themselves too seriously but it gets serious. It can get really serious really quick when you get a inmeshed in that external identity. And then you feel the pressure to obtain that all the time and then that becomes unsustainable. It's a huge issue and needs to constantly be addressed. So thanks for sharing that and bringing it up.   Taylor: (37:20) Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. I was just like, oh, where to go from here?   Mason: (37:37) Yeah. If you want to just take it in any direction, you're your vibe and go for it.   Taylor: (37:44) There's a couple of things I wrote down that I think would be fun just to put in here, just maybe even bullet points for people who are listening to go experiment with these things and try things out. In the context of relationship, one tool that I've found that has completely transformed all of my romantic relationships and my relationship with my family is studying nonviolent communication and practising that and putting it into use in my relationships. And yes, it might sound and feel clunky at first. And yes, there's potential for misuse of nonviolent communication, but it's also so fucking effective. It's unbelievably effective. If you put in the time to learn it and use it, it just opens up so much.   Taylor: (38:30) And like to make the analogy and some people say, oh, don't learn NBC because you could misuse it or something like that. But don't people don't say to not use knives because they're sharp and you could accidentally cut yourself. A knife is a very useful tool. And when used intelligently it makes your entire life much easier. And non violent communication could be one of those things.   Mason: (38:57) We've had our whole crew trained at SuperFeast. We took two days out to do a workshop and what I would tell everyone is just to keep on going through that clunky stage when you're getting used to the process of looking past what are they actually feeling? What are they actually wanting to communicate? Because it can feel a little uncomfortable using this scripted language at first to get to what you're actually feeling. And you feel a bit of... Sorry to use the word douche but that's the only word. That's how I felt it at times lame, but if you stay consistent the framework remains, but you find the languaging, it's very effective. You find your own language in your own unique way to express it. So I just like, yeah, thought I'd throw that in there as well and I'm with you man, because otherwise it just remains confusion in the relationship.   Taylor: (39:59) Yeah. That's a big one for sure. And another thing that I love doing that I didn't used to do, so I'm heterosexual and I'm in relationship with women. And I find that if I'm in tune with my partner's menstrual cycle and I connect with her around that and talk about it even. That brings a whole another beautiful level of connection to our relationship and it adds to my life, it creates more generative energy from the relationship because we're not using any hormonal birth control or the pill or anything like that. Only condoms, very occasionally right around the ovulation time, but somehow being aware of her cycle and being aware of those tides in some ways makes us both more reverent to the power of life that lies within us and to the beauty of our connection as animals. The potential for procreation even though we're choosing not to right now it adds reverence to that.   Taylor: (41:00) And I can tell ,whenever I mentioned something about her cycle like, oh, wow! So you're about to be ovulating in a couple of days or you're about to start your cycle. I see her reaction of one being like, oh, wow! You're paying attention to this important part of my life and maybe no other partner has ever done that before. And it feels amazing and yeah, just wanted to put that out there too. That's a really fun thing to do.   Mason: (41:26) Yeah. It's so funny you bring that up as well. I've been thinking about it, it's something I consider myself... Again, if I jump into my identity I'm like, somewhat understand that cycle, I've learned a bit about it and the seasonality of it. But I found myself going, where are you at, at the moment? And she had a laugh about how I wasn't aware of where she was at and well, not in a mean way but just have a little bit of a fun little jab of how we ignorant I was to something that was so avert and affects our life so much.   Mason: (42:12) And after my pride got a backhand and I felt I was like, dude, I talk about being tapped into seasonality of the nature around me and I'm not tapped into the seasonality that's there in my own house. And therefore able to have seasonality in the way that I'm approaching sex or affection with Tahns stuff. Yeah. Thanks for bringing that up again, because there's another thing I didn't mean to say that there's another thing that I'm doing, but that thing is actually an absolute pleasure. And I think you're right. You drop that one on Valentine's Day in terms of, I know where you're at and I know what mood you're going to be at different times of the month and how we're and generally how we're going to approach it. That's maybe write a poem about it.   Taylor: (43:06) Yeah. It's just a good thing to be aware of. And yeah, I like what you said about the cycles of things. God, yeah. It all ties into mental health. Yeah, this all ties into mental health. One other thing that I'm really excited about that I'm working on right now for couples is, well, I'll start this by saying, I've done a lot of workshops around tantra and Daoist sexuality and sacred sexuality and just sex in general around the world. And some of them I've done with various partners at the time. And I remember sometimes when there's 30 or 40 or 50 people in a room and I'm sitting there with my partner and we're learning these techniques, there's no way I'm going to utilise them to the fullest extent possible with her in this room. It's not happening, not happening at all.   Taylor: (43:56) And I've gotten a lot of requests for stuff for couples to explore their sexuality together. So I've been working on recently this course and I'm calling it the ecstatic lovers course, and it's basically a guided workshop for couples to do in the privacy of their own bedroom to explore practical tantra and erotic touch and different touch and conscious objectification and taking a pleasure and expressing desires and practising expression desires and all this stuff in a really beautiful ritualistic container that... Yeah, I'm super stoked about, I'm really, really stoked about. And I see this as something that people could do. If you're wanting to add to your relationship do something generative that's going to bring the two of you together because a relationship is a system. You could do something like that.   Taylor: (44:51) An intentional date night where you set three hours aside and you go through a process together intentionally for the sake of your relationship and deepening your connection and learning and growing together. Maybe that's this course, or maybe it's something else, but the idea of setting aside an intentional time to do something for your relationship will add a lot to your life too.   Mason: (45:13) I'd throw in there just in case I just got the spidey sense that someone might be sitting back there gone, oh, maybe that's something I can't do right now, because I'm nowhere near semen retention and I haven't really done much before. You just want to talk to about what the intent of the course is and the levels of where people would need to be at.   Taylor: (45:29) Got it. Yeah. So the course has absolutely nothing to do with semen retention and it could be for two female relationship, two male relationship, any gender, any sexual orientation for that course. But basically I'm creating it because I've found that even still into my early '30s I had a lot of trouble being aware of what my real desires were and actually asking for them in relationship. Really getting in touch with what I really wanted to try, sexual fantasies, sexual desires, experiences that I wanted to have. And I had some shame around asking for those things. And so part of this course is to help you and your partner really get in touch with what is it that you're actually desiring and how can you share it with each other in a way that will be received well and a way that will be exciting. And then how can you actually do those things in a fun way?   Taylor: (46:30) So that's one main part of it. And another main part of it is exploring two different fundamental kinds of touch. And it's hard to say just how revolutionary this was for me without actually experiencing it in your body. But if you think about it when you're massaging somebody's shoulders, right? You're obviously giving to them, they're obviously receiving the touch and that's great. It feels good, you feel good because you're giving to them, they feel good because they're receiving the touch. But what if you slide your hands down their back and you start to grab their ass, that's a different touch, right? And if you don't talk about it with the person it will probably feel weird that the person whose shoulders you're massaging because that's usually a boundary for people unless you're in relationship.   Taylor: (47:19) And even if you're in relationship it could feel weird, but so this course goes into the differences of those two things and then how to fully own the desire of ass grabbing. And how to own the desire of fully ravishing your partner for your own pleasure. A lot of women's fantasies generally speaking, are to be just taken and ravaged and ravished in a safe way. In relationship they want this to happen in a safe way and so this course goes into how to do that and how to receive that also on all sides of the gender and... Yeah, sex.   Mason: (48:03) So good.   Taylor: (48:04) That's a lot of words. It's really amazing when I learned this stuff it fundamentally changed my entire sex life forever, it is incredible.   Mason: (48:15) I'm going to be jumping on board, man. I think I've mentioned to you earlier that's something since I don't have to be there for live calls on it which is what really works for me. I'll hook this up for the honeymoon thing. That'd be something great to take in there late in November this month when we're putting this out there Brovember. Just to take a tone, I just want to quickly touch on a topic which we might need to jump on to for another podcast later down the track. But there's been a huge embracing of sexual toys, sexual tools for women. I feel like crystal wands, dildos in general and even in just sexual health tools like jade eggs, et cetera. It's quite alright, it's been embraced.   Mason: (49:10) Not for men though. It's in your course and your same retention course you do touch on the tools and toys for the boys. And I just thought if you're happy just to touch on that there, how long is gonna be, is it time for that to become something a little bit more accepted in your eyes? Is it worth the guys getting on for the toys and what are some of the toys that you prefer?   Taylor: (49:44) Yeah. That's a damn good question. Thanks for bringing that up. It is crazy, man. And as you were saying that I was thinking to myself, I was trying to imagine a crystal vagina and I was like, that wouldn't really work as well. It wouldn't be the same. But you're right, there has been this whole embrace and celebration of toys for women's pleasure and nothing like that for men. And there's almost this ew weird gross idea around men's sex toys. Even still in a lot of conscious communities that's kinda crazy. So without hypothesising why that is, I just want to say fuck that, and I want to break those stories and just say, man, get yourself a sex toy, get yourself a Fleshlight, get yourself a butt plug, get yourself a vibrator-   Mason: (50:37) Fleshlight for a second.   Taylor: (50:38) Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. I think Fleshlight might actually be a brand versus some people call them pocket pussies, but you call it a male masturbator. So basically there's a tube and on the end of it is this nicely shaped silicone pussy with the insides and you can have sex with it. You can put your penis inside it, move it in and out, and it feels much better than your hand could ever feel. And I'm a huge fan of these things. I sent out an email and I even have an article on my website, five reasons to own one of these things taylorjohnson.life, go check it out. But yeah, it feels amazing and fun story.   Taylor: (51:26) I took one of mine to a party once in Asheville last year. And if you don't know what I'm talking about go look up an image of one of these things just so you have an idea of what I'm talking about. I took one to a party and this theme of the party was show up as somebody's like, it's really uncomfortable. And so I showed up with a Fleshlight tucked into my belt sticking out for everybody to see and a six pack of really shitty beer and an ugly ass, polo shirt and short shorts and all this stuff and it was amazing actually. I was expecting people to be grossed out, even in Asheville I was expecting them to be grossed out by this Fleshlight. And some people initially were, there was this fascinating layer where at first people were like, oh, nasty, have you had sex with that? And I was like yeah, actually. I have, it's been great.   Taylor: (52:22) But after that hump, people were fascinated by it. And I could say 99% of the people that were at that party put their fingers inside it and wanted to touch it. One woman put it up to her lips and tried to play it like a trombone. There was this huge fascination by it. And so I'd like to think that that's indicative of how people really feel about male sex toys. Maybe there's some layer of shame or weirdness at first, but I think underneath is this like deep excitement and fascination for everything that people might just be afraid to say upfront. And I really learned that at that party everybody was super stoked to see it and touch it and learn about it. And I talked for a long, long time about it.   Mason: (53:10) Man. I reckon that's a good step for guys to be taking again, maybe good Christmas present. I think it's a bit different. The taboo is a bit different because when I bought mine what you're inundated with is poket pussies designed around the porn industry. So I think it's a little bit more that space is a little bit more dominated or has the infiltration of that porn energy rather than we're seeing such an embracing of say more of a conscious sexual approach to the women's toys now more and more coming about. But anyway, that's kinda shifting, I think I can see it changing a bit.   Taylor: (53:53) Yeah. And I think it's important to treat it like it's an item, right? It's a tool, this thing doesn't show up to your doorstep imbibed with the energy of porn. This thing is just physical particulate matter that's in a shape that you can use, right? So in my course I encourage people to bring their intentionality and bring their conscious awareness into their self pleasure with one of these pocket pussies. Use it in a specific way while you're doing the microcosmic orbit, while you're breathing and practise circulating your energy while you're thrusting your hips in and out in a way that you could never do with just your hand. So it has utilitarian value as well. And you can bring your consciousness to it and just to [crosstalk 00:54:36]... Go on.   Mason: (54:38) I was just affirming. Go for it.   Taylor: (54:40) Yeah. Yeah. It's good. And just to do a quick plug for butt plugs, yeah. Yeah man, anal pleasure. There's so much pleasure to be had in that region. And there's so much shame and so much baggage it but I'm all for it. And if you're a guy and you've never received a blow job while somebody is stimulating your prostate internally you're missing out on one of the most incredible sexual experiences you could possibly have. Just try it. It's fucking amazing. Make sure they've trimmed their fingernails first and do a little bit of research beforehand just so what you're doing and so they know what they're doing, but wow. It's incredible.   Mason: (55:24) Yeah. Yeah. And there is a lot of baggage around that topic which is why I think it's nice. When you bring it up again, it's like a long game. I feel every '90s sitcom has got these intense jokes about if you're touching or your ass touches another guy's ass just how much of a taboo thing that is to do. And that is funny but something seeped into the psyche of the generation that if you have go anywhere near your ass it's just... People who aren't homophobic, but nonetheless there's something of just like, well, what does this mean about me? If I enjoy that, to lean into that area whether it's something you want to do or not I think it's definitely worth breaking that knee jerk reaction around that area and creating a little bit more freedom and less story for yourself. I love that you bring that up, man.   Taylor: (56:25) Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And yeah, it is funny to laugh about it and I do laugh at those jokes too. And there is a subtle shame or subtle fear that has snuck in with all that stuff too. And it has deeply affected my life and it's deeply affected the lives of a lot of guys to like, how fucked up is it that somebody feels fear and shame for touching a part of their own body in a pleasurable way. Really, what kind of society does that? That's just so unfortunate to me that one area of our body is off limits because it's bad or because it's going to mean something about your sexuality, when it doesn't mean anything, it just means you're touching your body in a way that feels good. And you're a human with pleasure receptors everywhere and there's actually, there's a nerve that runs down to your anus that's connected to the nerve that runs to the tip of your penis. I believe it's the pudendal nerve and it's those same pleasure waves get stimulated up the same nerve pathway to your brain. So there's just so much potential there to be explored.   Taylor: (57:33) And obviously you don't have to, if you don't want to, but like, why not?   Mason: (57:39) Yeah. A lot of meaning placed a lot of religious thought, that's a good thing that we've got a hang over of, a lot of Catholic guilt. So if there's a lot of people it's going to be a journey to free us all from ideology and find your own sovereign connection to yourself and life.   Taylor: (58:02) Absolutely. So let me just give you listening just one example, it's going to a little auditorily graphic, but just for me personally, I love women. I find women so incredibly attractive. I'm in relationship with a woman right now and also I love receiving anal pleasure. I love that my girlfriend puts her finger inside of me, I love using anal toys, I love exploring that side of myself. I even got my girlfriend as a present, I got her a strap on a month ago and we've tried it having her actually fuck me. And it felt incredible and it felt amazing. And it wasn't this her dominating me in this... How do I want to describe it? Some people fear strap on sex to receive because it'll mean that they're less of a man or that I don't know something weird.   Taylor: (58:59) It was this really amazing way of just energetically receiving my girlfriend and to be laying on my back having her penetrate me with her breasts and my face and her hair like falling all over me. And it was incredible and it felt magical and super erotic and sexy. And I can say clearly that after all this anal pleasure, I still absolutely love going down on and having sex with women and I'm super attracted to them. And it hasn't changed my sexual orientation at all. If anything it's made me so much more comfortable and confident because now I'm not afraid that something is going to happen if I do this thing.   Mason: (59:37) Proof is in the pudding, as they say man yeah thanks for bringing it up. It seems like such a huge taboo and such a massive leap like "Oh my god I can't believe I'm even thinking or talking about this" And it's like, oh it's actually not that big of a deal. It is in terms of freedom of thought and freedom from ideology. Again, whether it's something you do or not it's not like an ideal thing to do or ideal thing not to do, but yeah. Yeah. You can take the charge away from it all of a sudden, it's just a little bit freer potential to have pleasure is increased and connection is increased a little bit. So a lot to me that you're on their, lot for everyone to chew on I imagine.   Mason: (01:00:29) But dude I really appreciate it, I love our chats. Yeah. Obviously everyone loves our chats as well, I do encourage. I'm really looking forward to the ecstatic lovers course. I think it's a beautiful time for everyone to be jumping on board of that as well especially post Covid, we've all been taken away from the world a little bit and coming back to our homes, and human connection, and it's worth not losing that as the world opens up more and more. This is a great way to ensure that we're maintaining that connection riding off the back of it. Yeah, taylorjohnson.life, did you say?   Taylor: (01:01:09) Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah, taylorjohnson.life/ecstatic-learners-course, but there is a link to it on my main website too.   Mason: (01:01:17) Yeah. Cool. And we'll have all the show notes there for people to find your website, man, thanks so much.   Taylor: (01:01:25) Yeah. Thank you. This has been awesome. I love our chats, I love round two. Maybe we'll have around three another year from now but-   Mason: (01:01:31) Yeah. Well I hope so. Let's see how we go. Let's see what comes up. Is there any last little message you want to leave everyone with?   Taylor: (01:01:43) Last message I want to leave people with right now for Brovember. Yeah. I just want to say be real with yourself, be real with your desires, be real with your suffering, be real with your pain, just be real. Don't hide anything from yourself and feel free to fully explore every part of you because you are an amazing human that's alive on the fucking planet that's floating through space like, holy shit! Explore everything you want to explore because life is short and yeah, it's worth living to the fullest.   Mason: (01:02:22) I love it, man. Thank you so much.   Taylor: (01:02:23) That's it. Thank you brother, thank you all, peace.

Breonna Taylor. Nuff said.

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In Part 2 of this Feature, R. J. Talyor, CEO & Founder of Pattern89, continues telling the story of this unique AI-based platform that explores billions of data points in the paid social universe and helps you discover winning patterns in your own social ad data.   In part 2, RJ discusses How they mostly work on your Paid Channels, Why they created a Do it For Me button, Who Pattern89 works with, Why it was important to make the platform Plug and Play, The Lids.com case study, Why creativity is at the center of their technology, How COVID has created a pattern interrupt, How they solve the Cold Start problem, and so much more.    Join us while Ramon Vela interviews RJ in Part 2 of this episode and listen to him share the inside story of his startup.   For more on Pattern89 visit: https://www.pattern89.com/     Justuno -  justuno.com/ramon Pattern89 - pattern89.com/pod Retention Science - RetentionScience.com

For R. J. Talyor, CEO & Founder of Pattern89, starting a new company was riskier than usual. He had a family, a mortgage, and kids. But he knew that if he didn't try to make his idea come to life, he'd regret it. What was his idea? Use Artificial intelligence to predict what Ads work on Facebook & Instagram. So you can reduce marketing waste and increase your ability to win more often. Here's the story of RJ and Pattern89.   In part 1 of this feature, RJ discusses How he pitched a VC over coffee and got funded, His process for making big decisions, Why he was convinced that AI could predict how your Ad creative was going to win or lose, What data Pattern89 uses to make its predictions, Advice for startup entrepreneurs, Why COVID-19 has increased usage of Pattern89's platform,  How AI can detect patterns and outliers that Human's can't spot yet, Why instead of testing your Paid Ads, Pattern89 can simulate it instead, How the platform has achieved 95 percent accuracy, and so much more.    Join us while Ramon Vela interviews RJ in Part 1 of this episode and listen to him share the inside story of his startup.   For more on Pattern89 visit: https://www.pattern89.com/   Justuno -  justuno.com/ramon Pattern89 - pattern89.com/pod Retention Science - RetentionScience.com

R.J. Talyor, CEO and Founder of Pattern89, joins the Social Pros Podcast to discuss how you can optimize social media advertising based on real-time data. Please Support Our Sponsors: Huge thanks to our amazing sponsors for helping us make this happen. Please support them; we couldn't do it without their help! This week: Salesforce Marketing Cloud SocialMedia.org Full Episode Details Tired of spending marketing dollars on under-performing ads? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way you could predict what works and reduce wasteful marketing spend? R.J. Talyor, CEO and Founder of Pattern89, leverage AI’s power and deep dives into creative analytics to help advertisers optimize top-performing social media ads. Most marketers focus on their brand, which is understandable. However, creative is responsible for 47% of ad performance. So, it makes sense that you spend more time (and fewer dollars) optimizing the creative elements of your ads to drive the most engagement. With more data than there are stars in the galaxy, Pattern89 can predict what will work best with over 95% accuracy. Of course, the creative recipe that works for one advertiser may not work as well for the next. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use data and artificial intelligence to predict what will work, optimize ads, and get more clicks. In This Episode: 04:10 – How Pattern 89 uses AI to predict the success of social media ads 07:06 – Why you can’t always depend on best practices to work for every brand 09:30 – Surprising usage data that has been released amidst the COVID-19 crisis 16:15- How companies are shifting their marketing spend in the middle of this pandemic 18:42 – How ideal publishing windows have changed 23:09 - What the data from Pattern89 tells us in terms of marketing messages as we transition to a ‘new normal’ 31:13 – What type of ads and ad formats are performing best right now 34:36 – How AI has improved dramatically in just 18 months Resources: Get the new State of Marketing report for free from Salesforce Find out more about the community at SocialMedia.org with a special form for Social Pros listeners Take Salesforce’s quiz to identify the best AI use case for you! Learn more about Pattern89 Listen to ep.351 of Social Pros with R.J. Talyor Visit SocialPros.com for more insights from your favorite social media marketers.

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Taylor Steele and the Love Preachers.During these strange days, it is with great pleasure that I present to you this wonderful band from Effingham, Illinois. This recording is pre the current madness. As you can see by the videos, it was a much happier time. I hope you enjoy this show and it brings joy to your hearts. Click here to see the videos from the show

Taylor Steele and the Love Preachers.During these strange days, it is with great pleasure that I present to you this wonderful band from Effingham, Illinois. This recording is pre the current madness. As you can see by the videos, it was a much happier time. I hope you enjoy this show and it brings joy to your hearts. Click here to see the videos from the show

R.J. Talyor who recently founded Pattern89 an AI-driven platform that analyzes ads to predict which ads perform the best on social media – joins us in this episode of The SalesStar Podcast to share his experience and insights in technology sales and marketing while discussing the impact of AI in this segment. Key topics covered in the episode: Impact of AI-powered tools in the demand and use of new salestech / martech products Top best practices for adtech/ad and marketing teams to follow The evolution of sales technologies and martech and how it has changed the way sales and marketing is approached as a task How sales people / marketers should plan their outreach today Predictions for Sales and SalesTech in 2020

Episode 54: We spoke with RJ Talyor, Founder & CEO at Pattern89. We discuss how RJ helped pioneer the concept of SMS marketing in 2002, his time as VP of Messaging Products at Salesforce, and how what he's building at Pattern89 is changing marketing for brands like Fabletics, LIDS, Finish Line, and more! Enjoy! R.J.’s career started at ExactTarget, where he was the mastermind behind the company’s mobile strategy. He would eventually create the concept of SMS marketing in 2002, leading to Bank of America to sending its first SMS text. His leadership was instrumental when Salesforce later acquired ExactTarget for $2.5 billion in 2013, where he would become the vice president of mobile products for the company. A couple years later, he wanted to take his knowledge on marketing, social media and analytics to create a company that would easily integrate Artificial Intelligence with social media marketing, and launched Pattern89. Since its founding in 2018, the company already has more than 700 customers, specifically within the e-commerce industry, with customers such as Fabletics, LIDS, Just Fab, Finish Line, and more. Customers seeing an ROI as high as 65% in as little as 15 days. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/besttechie/support

On this week's episode, Dan reviews Dayseeker's "Sleeptalk" and Talyor reviews Dolemite Is My Name. The guys talk about the box office failure of Charlie's Angels and Elizabeth Banks comments, Sonic's massive budget due to fan backlash, a Joker sequel in the works, Nicholas Cage playing Nicholas Cage in a movie, this week's top 10 songs on iTunes, the Grammy nominees, and our week 12 NFL picks. All that and more on Episode 78 of You Watch, I Listen!

Interview with R.J. Talyor, CEO & Founder of Pattern89

In this episode, I talk with R.J. Talyor, of Pattern89. This startup is an artificial intelligence, AI, platform for marketers, that acts as a to-do list Instagram, Facebook, and Google ads to the next level. It runs algorithms across the 29,000 dimensions of the client’s data on a daily basis and provides them with a to-do list to help them drive their performance.Pattern89 uses a combination of action items within the daily to-do list, broken down into 2 categories. One of which is a list of things the customer can actually do, such as create a video for social media, including a bird and a bike. The other type of task is called an approval task, and once the customer gives Pattern89 the approval, the platform with do these items on their behalf, tasks such as reallocating a budget, change audiences or change placements.Topics in the episode:Efficacy of the platformTypical customersBuilding their co-op in order to create the data through which they would build the platformDigital marketing agencies both as a competitor and as a partnerDirect sales strategyMarketing dinners as a way to gain customersWhy it is important to not rely solely on AI as a businessContact Info:Website: pattern89.comEmail: rj@pattern89.com9:54 A free pilot gets them their data in a view that they can then see the power of the platform. We’ve made it super easy, it’s literally two clicks, to get it up and running

39# - The 5G controversy - Hazardous to our health or future of communications? This week we talk about the up coming launch of 5G, Are the frequencies used for 5g harmful to our health or is it just a lot of worry over nothing?. We discuss the concerns and information people have regarding this new untested technology, and the potential effects of exposing the human body to the ever growing range of signals surrounding our body's on a daily basis. We also take a look at this week's NASA News headlines. How the new Mars Hellicopter is crushing the bench tests and how NASA plan a real world simulation of an global killing asteroid and how it would handle the situation. We also has a very special report from Talyor on location at Donington Race track and loads more news and opinions from us hear at the NASA bunker. If you want to get your tickets for pint of science #pint19 then head of to pintofscience.co.uk/events/Manchester --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/neverastraightanswer/message

The Golden Stallion is bringing one of his LIVE talks to you, only hours after he has given it at PorcFest 2017. Joined by Ryan Taylor and the inimitable Paige Peterson, they talk mesh networking, the future of the internet, and more! Guaranteed to never hear anything like this anywhere else! Live to tape, baby! Brian Sovryn will be releasing his other talks as well over the coming days! Patreon-only!APPENDIX: Paige Peterson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ioptio Ryan Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdjyLeak Brian Sovryn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sovryntech =========================https://www.zog.email

The Golden Stallion is bringing one of his LIVE talks to you, only hours after he has given it at PorcFest 2017. Joined by Ryan Taylor and the inimitable Paige Peterson, they talk mesh networking, the future of the internet, and more! Guaranteed to never hear anything like this anywhere else! Live to tape, baby! Brian Sovryn will be releasing his other talks as well over the coming days! Patreon-only!APPENDIX: Paige Peterson on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ioptio Ryan Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdjyLeak Brian Sovryn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sovryntech =========================https://www.zog.email

Richard Clark has never fit into a specific role while becoming a writer or an artist, and that is why he has done so many amazing things. He joins the show to talk about his career in comics and beyond, writing and drawing for titles like Batman, Happy!, The Boys, and House of Gold and Bones, which he did with Corey Taylor of Slipknot. On episode 86 hear about how he worked with HBO on projects with Dennis Miller and George Carlin, and details on his newest creator-owned series, Star. Check out the weekly companion TV Show, along with more audio, video, links and transcripts at deathwishcoffee.com/richardclark

In this week’s episode of CURE Talks Cancer, we spoke with lung cancer survivor Taylor Bell Duck about her cancer journey and celebrating survivorship. At the age of 21, Taylor, who was a never-smoker and a division I soccer player, was diagnosed with lung cancer, and has since fought to stomp the stigmas surrounding the disease with [Your Cancer Game Plan](http://www.yourcancergameplan.com/people-living-with-cancer). Today, as she recently celebrated her 10-year anniversary, Taylor talks about how she embraces her new life, and how others can relish in the big victories of ever day life, big and small. “Celebrate big and do the things that you love,” she said. “It is important to have a day to celebrate your life, and the journey patients go through is so important…so go eat cupcakes and have champagne!” To read more about Talyor’s cancer journey, visit: http://www.curetoday.com/link/105

On this time ever All American Show Podcast your host John Burk is joined with special guests Washington State Rep. Jacquelin Maycumer (R) 7th Legislative District & Rep. David Taylor (R) 15th Legislative District for a savage gun debate. They also weigh in on the story the entire country is talking about the Parkland High school tragedy. You don't want to miss this.

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Make a new friend today, The Taylor Tibbits story is a blueprint for any young person, parent or anyone of us who wants to succeed in life. Taylor grew up in a small town in Idaho, He received his Law degree from The University of Virginia. After school he clerked for a federal Judge and now owns his own Law Practice. Taylor is also an Entrepreneur and part owner of Got Game Tech. Taylor lists as his greatest success, family, his wife Kayla and 4 children. Taylors story is the "can do story".

It's always great to have guests stop by the studio to do a podcast with us, and this week was no different as we were joined by R.J. Talyor and Liz Prugh. R.J. Talyor is the CEO & Founder of Quantifi.ai, the digital marketing R&D platform for social ads. R. J. previously led product teams ExactTarget (we worked together on a couple of projects!) and Salesforce. R.J. always carries chapstick with him.  Liz Prugh is a tech geek, geek in general, and always aspiring #fiercefemale. Liz is managing editor for The New New Thing and previously worked for ExactTarget and Salesforce in marketing and customer success. Liz is also the co-creator of pop culture site PureFandom.com and channels her inner-nerd by hosting and moderating comic cons across the country. In this episode, we discuss marketing experimentation and its challenges. Quantifi is a marketing R&D platform for social media ads, unleashing the power of artificial intelligence to discover the audiences, channels and creative needed to drive growth for brands. The platform currently supports Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Reddit and is open to ecommerce companies who are serious about their social advertising. The plethora of targeting options, ongoing changes to social advertising platforms, and the number of social advertising channels are all challenging marketers. It's not a surprise that most aren't able to keep up and are not seeing the return on social advertising campaigns they could be realizing. Quantifi is the solution to turn this around, providing a chatbot experience that's always up on the latest changes to the social ad platforms it serves. The bot utilizes artificial intelligence and machine learning to run experiments for its users. Special Guests: Liz Prugh and R.J. Talyor.

This week on PKA, Richard Ryan is back everyone! The guys talking about having fun with money, like gambling & cryptocurrencies, why alarge % of Japanese Millenials are virgins, some crazy cop shooting showdown and Talyor regales us with a few tales from the bible. On an all new, low fat, discounted episode of Painkiller Already!

It's a huge night of darts in the Premier League with Lewis and Wright both aiming for fourth spot and Talyor facing off against van Gerwen to finish top of the pile. Sky Sports' Rod Harrington joins Mark Walton to look ahead to the action in Rotterdam, previewing all four matches and offering his best bets. Enjoy. http://serve.williamhill.com/promoRedirect?member=audiobooUK&campaign=DEFAULT&channel=will_darts&zone=1480323151&lp=0

Curtis Taylor 3rd is a comedian from San Jose. Jorge rambles about paying his credit debt. Curtis rambles about the similarities of track and stand up, the LA comedy scene, and performing stand up at a funeral. Music by Bensounds.com

Mike & Billy were back LIVE in the ESPN 1280am studio!  Billy discusses his golf club fitting experience at the Taylor Made Kingdom.  Dave Schimandle, Owner and Operator of www.slickstix.com calls in to discuss golf club fitting and how it can benefit all golfers.Golf Talk Radio with Mike & Billy is brought to you by Slickstix.com, Adams Golf, The Links at RiverLakes Ranch Golf Course , Microfiber Greens Towel, True Aim, McPhees Grill, Golf Tournament In A Box, Avila Beach Golf Resort and Paso Robles Golf Club. Visit Golftalkradio.com for the latest show information, contests, videos, iPhone and Android Apps and more! If you are interested in advertising with Golf Talk Radio with Mike & Billy email us at info@golftalkradio.com.

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