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Mike Hauke sticks to his truth and exudes extreme genuinity and passion for his brand and employees. His matter of fact nature and disposition is quite evident, and is an attribution to the secret sauce of his success and many ventures into brands of olive oil, brick and mortar stores, farmers market, and much more. Thanks Mike for chatting with us, and for having your son on too! Thank you Mike (and Grayson) for being on the episode! You can follow Tony Boloney's on Instagram @tonyboloneys. You can also check out their website and order online for pickup or delivery from any of their four locations at tonyboloneys.com! Thank you to our partners: Play Out Apparel: Use code HEARTPODCAST when you check out & 20% of the proceeds will be donated to IMMIGRATION EQUALITY which is the nation's leading LGBTQ+ Immigration Rights Organization. Greek Glasses: Use code ALBE40 for 40% off your order! Shout out to our amazing sound engineer Alex Wiederock for editing the podcast! Also, shout out to Xixuan Hei for the original and beautiful soundtrack she composed (@xixuan_hei on Instagram). Please join our community and follow us on: Instagram: @coming_fromtheheartpodcast Twitter: @cfthpodcast Facebook: Coming From the Heart Podcast https://linktr.ee/coming_fromtheheartpodcast Please subscribe, rate, review, & share with the ones closest to your hearts!

Here is an unedited version of my interview on Mike Schwartz' show : 'Music Fit Podcast' ! We discussed being in a band coming out of the pandemic, the strength of having a podcast as a musician, Rage Against the Machine and many other topics. It was a great time! Thanks Mike! Definitely check out Mike's podcast at : https://anchor.fm/themusicfitpodcast Also - do yourself a favour and sign up to 'Music Fit Collective' ..a FREE introductory pass! https://unicorns.musicfitcollective.com/landing?from=https%3A%2F%2Funicorns.musicfitcollective.com%2Fprivacy-policy

A funny story with these episodes with Mike : I was set to be a guest on HIS podcast ..but we ended up just completely hitting it off and riffing for 3 straight hours! Such a wicked guy, safe to say we became instant friends. This episode is literally the first conversation we've ever had. I really dig what this guy and his crew is doing - his site is a must-see : https://unicorns.musicfitcollective.com/landing?from=https%3A%2F%2Funicorns.musicfitcollective.com%2Fprivacy-policy This is more of a free form conversation but I feel it strong enough to put on my 'cast! Hope you enjoy as much as I did! Thanks Mike! About "The Rock Doctor" Mike Schwartz I help musicians solve their problems through the magic of movement, breath and a rock star mindset. I founded the Music Fit Collective, the Official Optimization Station of the Music Industry where we're changing the game of Musician Wellness and rewriting the rules of Rock & Roll one musician at a time from the inside out. I'm the creator and facilitator of The Music Fit Method©️, and I authored “The Musician's Guide To Surviving The Rock Star Lifestyle”. With over 15 years as the Trusted Authority of Musician Wellness, I've got some stories to share.

BIG Mike was really gracious and patient as he educated me on raising capital and understanding partnerships using funds. Thanks Mike! bigmikefund.com

BIG Mike was really gracious and patient as he educated me on raising capital and understanding partnerships using funds. Thanks Mike! bigmikefund.com

Mike Stojic is the Co-owner of "Revival 1869: A Drinkery" located in downtown Clayton, NC. Mike's dream was to create something special and not be stuck in a 9-5 working a meaningless job. Thus he created Revival 1869. Rather than "just another bar," Revival has to be experienced. Then came March 2020 and everything changed. Hear Mike's story about how instead of becoming a statistic (70% restaurant closures) he and his partner Maleah adapted and overcame. Great story! THanks Mike!!! We discussed the art of entrepreneurship and surviving the past year in one of the hardest hit industries. Mikes talks about his ways of staying mentally healthy during adversity. Mike is has been a guest many times on my old podcast and it is always fun to have him in studio! I figured we'd go down some rabbit holes and we certainly did! We also have Bill Butler, co-coordinator of the Knoxville Silkies Hike, hopping on to discuss the 5/22 hike in Knoxville, TN. Visit www.irreverentwarriors.com  for a list of all upcoming #Silkieshikes! If you liked this episode or want to share you story, shoot us an email kevin@twentyonegun.net  Visit www.twentyonegun.net for everything 21 Gun Follow 21 Gun on Instagram @21gunpodcast

This movie was a PAIN in the ass to find streaming anywhere. Thanks Mike! Fortunately, Travis skimmed the Wikipedia though, so we were able to get the gist. The Good Girl (2002) does it hold up or not? Did Mike pick a terrible film? Dive into this episode and find out! As always, the gang offers their weekly quarantine viewing picks so you can be entertained while you're trapped at home. We live stream the show every Thursday evening around 7ish PM EST on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook Live. Follow our daily film musings on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Please send an email about living in the suburbs or anything else we discussed today at cinema9pod@protonmail.com

This episode originally aired on the Mike Durband Show. Thanks Mike, for allowing me to use it. Mike and I are both huge fans of the tremendous and controversial band, Guns N Roses, and we don't always agree on which songs we like and dislike. Similar to past episode reviews of Chinese Democracy and The Spaghetti Incident, Mike and I are going to take the two disc release of Use Your Illusion I and II and wittle it down to one excellent CD. Not only do we give our song choices, but this episode is also full of notes from GNR history, and personal stories of our fandom, live event attendance, and more!Please follow and support Creative Control in the following ways!Blue Chew Go to BlueChew.com and use the code CREATIVE for a free month's supply of male enhancement chewables, for only $5 shipping!Light StreamGo to Lightstream.com/creative for an additional interest rate discount on an already low credit consolidation loan at 5.95% APR Sunday Go to Sunday.com/creative for a free custom lawn analysis, and tailored nutrients to suit your lawn specifically! 20% off at Sunday.com/creativeBellwayGo to http://bit.ly/3uyvRex and use the code CCD20 to get 20% off your first order of Bellway Fiber! Stay healthy, reduce bloating, and lose weight! Amazon Wishlisthttps://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1KPG8FV3MBIZN?ref_=wl_shareCheck out The CCN on social media @TheCCNetwork1 to keep up with all the shows and new releases, and check out all the shows on their new home on Spreaker!Please check me out weekly, every Thursday on "Keepin It 100 with Konnan," and every Monday on "The Raven Effect!"

I haven't actually sold a machine in a long time! Thanks Mike!It's not so bad if you have another one of the same game! LOLAlso Pinbalm!

Lots to break down this week as we are about 10 games into the season.  The NWHL was supposed to have their Isobel Cup semifinal and final games televised on NBCSN suspended play the day before they were set to air.  Seth Jones' mom (@AmyJones_03) issued a correction on Twitter regarding Seth taking figure skating lessons...give her a follow, its worth the price of admission.  Paul Maurice defends Blake Wheeler to the press after a game, and its laced with some interesting language. Been taking lessons from Torts we think.  Connor Clifton got into a fight and it wasn't fun for Nicolas Aube-Kubel.  He play has made it easier for Cassidy to allow Grzelcyk to recuperate in Boston.  We discuss the Penguins struggles this season and if there is a fix.  We talk about the top line for the B's and introduce a new name for them (Thanks Mike!).  We break down the 5 biggest surprises for the New York Rangers and one is a player that we both liked from the start.  Trent Frederic dropped the gloves with Tom Wilson of the Caps and appeared to have won the fight.  He talked about it afterward and we have some fun with it.  Finally we discuss whether we have seen the real Dallas Stars yet and whether the Panthers are for real as well as talk about the many milestones on the horizon for the league.  An action packed episode to be sure so give us a listen and tell us how you feel.  Enjoy the Show!

This week we head to Prince George, BC to chat all this big fish with Mike Green. Mike spends a lot of time chasing fins in the Cariboo Region of British Columbia. We talk about his favorite ways to target large bows, tactics, gear and water craft. We talk beer, buddies, weekend warriors and his involvement with the movie "Still" from Wait 4 it Films. Thanks Mike for sharing your passion for all things fly fishing.

Bonus Episode with Mike Alexander of Flo AirRide, who's company just merged with Air Lift Performance.  Mike talks about the merger, and some of his plans as the Brand Manager. Check it out. Thanks Mike  https://floairride-shop.com/

Hello again everyone, and welcome to Episode Thirty!  Today's episode was recorded just before Christmas.  And I hope you are all doing well - keeping your heads down and remaining healthy. PATREONERS!  Here’s a shout-out to new Patreon contributors to the show since the last episode:  Michael Cravens!. Thanks Mike, and thank you all so much for supporting the show! I really appreciate it. To others in the listening audience, if you like the show, please consider supporting it via the So Much Pingle Patreon page. And thanks in advance! Our guest this week is Gina Zwicky, a New Orleans biologist who studies reptile immunogenetics, and leads NOLA FrogWatch trips.  I follow Gina on Twitter (she's @GinaGoesOutside) and I enjoyed getting to know her during our conversation.  We talked about her immunogenetics research (more specifically, anoles and malaria), Meatball The Tortoise, some interesting earlier work she did in the Pacific Northwest, and FrogWatch USA, which has chapters all over the place (see the link for more info), and hey, there's a FrogWatch online training seminar coming up on Feb 1st. Thanks for coming on the show, Gina, and Happy New Year folks!  Let’s stay safe and healthy!  Thanks again to all my Patreoners, and folks, if you haven’t done so yet, please take the time to rate this podcast on whatever platform you use – that goes a long way to support the show and spread the good word. And as always, please keep the comments and suggestions coming!  The show email is somuchpingle@gmail.com, and there’s also a So Much Pingle group on Facebook, for discussion, comments, feedback, suggestions, herp confessions, sulcata demolition teams, tips for herping better, etc. Cheers!  Mike  

Thanks Mike ( & Roy)! The Turkeys are back to show a lot of love and gratitude to both guys for still being Mt Rushmore performers & inspiring. #ComeCheckItOutJo TurkeysOnTheRoofPodcast is sponsored by Medicakes Bakery. #TheTurkeysSentMe Don't forget to Subscribe, Like, & Follow... @TurkeysOnTheRoof @Brolylocs (lasho) @WaffleLoudMouth (uncle trey) @Medicakes.Bakery

10 years ago Jim was on a road trip across Canada and with a phone call from a friend about his son in law returning from Afghanistan and struggling with his family and new born, Jim came up with Renos for Heroes and wanting to do something. We open the show with Mike and Dean sharing when they join the service and when they retired, the beginning as it turned out was a choice between military or prison, that old cliché. We discuss the connection between every service person and how that brotherhood and sisterhood carries on through the years. A lot of service people transition into the trades and Mike and Dean are a lot like that, they discuss the reasons behind the military and construction and how we can all help veterans transition into the workforce.We have a moment of silence for all of the military service people around the world. Thank you for your service.Thanks Mike and Dean for being on the show and sharing so much about military service and construction. Thank you Jim for starting a charity helping military service people, Renos For Heroes.You can find more info at www.renosforheroes.org and on IG renosforheroes find Jim @jimcaruk and @carukhallconstruction www.carukhall.com info@carukhall.com 416 546-8602. Find Dean at www.fast-rescue.com and find Dean at www.helmetstohardhats.ca Lastly, find Manny @hardcorerenos www.hardcorerenos.com and info@hardcorerenos.com 416 433-5737This is The Construction Lifewww.theconstructionlife.com

This episode's guest: Mike Price of Bay Area Concretes & PolishedCrete.Mike and Brian are joined by Mike Price, Owner and CEO of Bay Area Concretes & PolishedCrete. As a young man, he explored several options - from being a fighter pilot to moving to the beautiful beaches of Southern California, he made the decision to go to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and studied Financial Management. Upon graduation, he went to work for Bay Area Concretes, the company his father founded in the 1960s and started in marketing, then estimating and sales, then into the CFO position, then Vice President, and now President. Back during the 1990s, the company was around $2 million in revenue and today, they're at $20 million! You'll quickly learn, listening to Mike's story, how this trendsetting company in the concrete contracting space has become so accustomed to growth. Sidenote: Mike Price is a legit SAG Actor. So, if it sounds like he's more polished than Mike and Brian, it's because he is! Thanks Mike for joining us!

Morning podcast over coffee here in the mountains. I had a bunch of questions for Kickstart trying to unlock the secret to what makes such a rad old dude! What a strange trip he’s been on! Thumbin across the USA back in the 60’s, living with a cult, and building a successful business all after dropping out of school. He’s truly an inspiration. Thanks MIKE!DangerHelp Bill Dodge HEREHelp Buddhi and his Strays HEREBrowns Cycle-@browns_cycle——214-381-9910————-5223 Military Pkwy Dallas TXMy ADVENTURE bike front end could be your daily front end see—- GigaCycleClick Here to Become a Patron^^^^^^^^^^^^ Patreon! Giveaways from Knives By Nick, LowbrowCustoms.com, HeavyClothing, MotorcycleSherpa!!! That’s right we’re giving away a trip to Nepal!!! Thanks to MotrcycleSherpa. MCshopTs.com Your T-shirt of the month club. OLD SHOPS, NEW ART, and FRESH T's EVERY MONTH!!!! Only 25$ a month, sign up at MCshopTs.com Don't miss another month!!!SUPPORT EVERY LOCAL MOTORCYCLE SHOPGo to DangerDansTalkShop.com and become a Patreon Supporter for your chance to win!!! DangerDansTalkShop.comPatreonMCshopTs.comKniveMadeByNickChemical Candy CustomsBrown’s CycleMotorcycle SherpaGigaCycleDCD Permalink

Which fitness tracker is the best to get? Should you even spend your money on one? Dala and Sean weigh in with their research and opinions, along with how you may be able to replace them FOR FREE! Their friend and neighbor Mike Seaton plays host in this episode and asks the hard questions about wearable tech and...why they might suck.   Time Stamps:   (1:00) Thanks Mike! (2:14) Wearables (4:50) Step Counts (7:19) Pushing the Limit (10:53) CNBC Article (14:46) Apple Watch (25:40) Individual Differences (27:35) Biggest Takeaways (35:20) Wearables vs Coaching (39:50) Where to Find Mike ---------------------------- Follow Us on Instagram! @seatonstrength @fitnessshaman @dalalovesdumbbells @dldnation ---------------------------- We have helped over 1,400 people transform their lives through sustainable health! If you want to be the next, click here to apply for coaching! ---------------------------- Check out our website for freebies, amazing client results, and more! DLDNation.com

Thoughts on wearing a mask. Hopefully green is a neutral gang color. Steve's reasons for and against masks are hilarious. Putting your card in your mouth is not a good idea. One of us was to invested in a mans cleavage. Blame the mask. Bone's 5 questions to see if we're at all alike. Sometimes answers are funnier then the questions. I keep the $20! If you could make any flavor, what flavor potato chip would you make?  Bone says salt and vinegar taste like balls. Dunn wants pink popcorn. Thanks Mike and Lupe for your couple of cents.

This episode is my conversation with Mike Pearson, he is a huge success story. Mike battled a gambling addiction all of his adulthood. He has been free of his addiction for over 5 years now, and life is better than he ever dreamed. While in the midst of his addiction he lost his business, a marriage, hundreds of thousands of dollars and nearly his life. Mike attempted suicide twice on his journey of recovery. Now he wants people to realize, you can overcome, and have the life you've always dreamed of. Gambling addiction unfortunately has a high rate of suicide. Thanks Mike for being so vulnerable and sharing this important message.

Happy Friday!! This week I have another special guest for you all! Mike Brancatelli runs the podcast Mikeadelic. He is a champion of consciousness and psychedelics. We sat down and had a good chat. Please show him some love and check out his work. He is awesome. https://www.mikebranc.com/ Thanks Mike and thanks to you all! Don't forget to like and leave us a review where ever you listen to us. Enjoy! Peace and Love, I love you all! #Psychedelics #Psilocybin #consciousness #freedom #fear #realtalk #peace #love #laugh SHOW SPONSOR Get your meats and fish delivered to your door with Papa Earth. Papa Earth specializes in top quality locally sourced meats and wild Ocean caught fish. You can customize your own box at www.papaearth.ca It's free range dry aged beef Free range air chilled chicken. Vegetarian drug-free pork. 100% grass fed and finished bison. Ontario lamb. Wild Caught fish. Vacuum sealed and flash frozen. Don't forget to check out our new Sponsor Papaearth.ca Check them out and with your Fatso referral code you will receive $10 off a medium box or $20 off a large box with the choice of 2 steaks with promocode FATSOMEAT. Enter your code at checkout at mention in the delivery instructions if you prefer rib-eye steaks or top sirloin steaks. That’s www.papaearth.ca and promo code FATSOMEAT HOW TO REACH ME? Email - fatsoradio@gmail.com Instagram is - @fatsoradio Facebook is Fatso? Radio Twitter - @radiofatso YouTube -Fatso? Radio Carlo Volpe --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fatsoradio/message

This week we sit down with "Maitland Mike", Mike Verhoef. He lives on the shores of Lake Huron and runs Fly fitters in Southwest Ontario. As a long time guide for Steelhead, Bass, Trout and Muskie, Mike specializes on the Maitland, Bayfield and Saugeen Rivers. He does corporate trips, hosted trips, drift boats, walk and wade and has a refreshing take on why we love fly fishing so much and what brings us to the water. Thanks Mike for sharing your story. www.flyfitters.ca

Hello everyone and welcome back!  For Episode 2:  The Python Problem, I chat with Mike Rochford, who certainly has a unique perspective on the issue of Burmese pythons in the Everglades, and elsewhere in Florida.  I interviewed Mike back in January of 2020, and along with the skinny on Python bivittatus, he was kind enough to provide me with this photo, taken in Florida.  Burms are awesome serpents, and it's not their fault that they are where they are - the photo speaks more to human folly than anything else. Thanks Mike!  I appreciate you coming on the show! Thanks for listening everyone!  The show email is somuchpingle@gmail.com, and there’s also a So Much Pingle group on Facebook, for discussion, comments, feedback, suggestions, recipes, secret herping spots, etc. Stay tuned for more episodes! -Mike

One day, my guitarist Mike Russo was talking to me about my podcast and said he'd love to interview me for an episode! Initially hoping to record this IRL, we ended up doing the interview remotely during the COVID19 shut down. On today's episode, we talk about "Do the Bruce Campbell", ICP, punk rock and Cartel. We also reminisce about the time a Wild Cherry song inspired me to dance wildly in a Philadephia bar. Thanks Mike! Awesome talking to you!! Special Guest: Mike Russo.

Please Join us as we chat with Mike McKinnon, VP of KraftHeinz Foodservice, Canada. Mike shares what KraftHeinz is doing and he also shares with us some inspiring words towards our industry. Thanks Mike for your leadership, its very inspiring. www.kraftheinzfoodservice.ca --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/syscocanadafoodiepodcast/message

In this episode,  Mike Kitko, Executive Coach, Speaker & Author of "The Imposter In Charge!" stops by the podcast to share his journey,... going from a life out of control to be a spiritual warrior!  Seconds away from literally killing himself, something happen!   A "Critical Purpose Decision" happened!  You're going to want to listen, take notes & listen again!  Thanks Mike for sharing your life and the lessons you've gained from living it!   

Audio production expert Mike Russell joins us to talk all about his origin story, audio imaging, and his work in podcasting! You can find his work and his company at musicradiocreative.com Thanks Mike!

There isn’t a whole lot I’m going to go in-depth with tonight, but it’s now 2020 and oddly, this will be statistically the third decade I podcast. Yes, I realize that starting in 2009 and then going through all of the 10s into the 20s is basically 12 years, but whatever. This is Short Time Shots, a mostly daily look at the wrestling scores and more from around the world of wrestling, I’m Jason Bryant.  In case you’re wondering, this will continue to be MOSTLY a weeknight show, since I also need to have some semblance of a life on weekends (but I still do the newsletter) and I figure most wrestling fans have an opportunity to consume what’s on the web on the weekend. Or, I’ll just do it on weekdays when relevant, because it’s my show. And probably nothing on Friday night, since I’m heading down to The Clash.  Minnesota Beer of the Night: I’ve been kind of holding out on this one - it’s Castle Danger’s Castle Cream Ale. This was a small brewery in Castle Danger, Minnesota, which is a real place, but now it’s grown to the point it has its own spot in Two Harbors, just north of Duluth. This is a beer that if it’s on draft where you’re at, you buy it. It’s really everything I want in a beer. Not heavy, not hoppy, just smooth, crushable and awesome. I’ll be honest, it’s almost always in my fridge.  New Patron: Mike Conley, a guy I’ve known a long time from his days wrestling at York High School in Virginia. York has a cool history and Yorktown itself is one of those places where history buffs can spend days on end and still not discover all the world-changing events that happened there. Thanks Mike for your support, but that’s the only love I’ll give to those Falcons - well, there’s that one time where I picked Jason Dye to win the state title. Jason Fulmore also jumped on, he’s the guy behind SoutheastWrestling.com. He’s trying to start something rolling there in the south when it comes to wrestling, I’d encourage you to give it a look.  The Scuffle:  Oklahoma State edged NC State 116-109 to win the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which kicked off the new year just right. Stanford was third. Oklahoma State just had one champ - Nick Piccininni at 125 pounds, while NC State crowned Hayden Hidlay the champ at 157 pounds. Stanford had three champs, most of any team, with titles coming from Real Woods at 141, unattached Jaden Abas at 149 and Shane Griffith at 165 pounds. Other titlists were Sammy Alvarez of Rutgers at 133, Penn State’s unattached true freshman Carter Starocci at 174, Lou DePrez of Binghamton at 184, West Virginia’s Noah Adams at 197 and Iowa State’s Gannon Gremmel at 285. DePrez avenged an early-season loss to NC State’s Trent Hidlay 3-2. OW went to Adams, who pinned Stanford’s Nathan Traxler in the finals. Yes, thank you Cliff Fretwell. Full results on FloArena. In Duals Light night in duals, but Fresno State hosted Cal Poly and Utah Valley to kick off the new year at the SaveMart Center. In the opening dual, Fresno State won six of ten bouts with a fall coming from Brandon Martino at 174 to beat the visiting Mustangs 24-16. While Cal Poly had a chance going into the final match, Jacob Wright’s 7-6 decision at 157 pounds closed out the win for the Bulldogs.  Fresno State rallied from a 19-12 deficit to win the last two matches to beat Utah Valley 24-19. Big match there came at 285 as Tate Orndorff knocked off Josh Hokit 3-1. Greg Gaxiola was leading 6-1 in the second period when he earned an injury default win over Brigg Hoopes. That set the stage for the final bout where Wright got up big on Jerry Rubio and finished the dual off with a fall with 40 seconds to go.   In Division II, Augustana (S.D.) upended No. 23 Western Colorado 24-12 in Sioux Falls. The Vikings won five of the last six matches to close things out.  Notables on the Docket: Long Island University heads through Pennsylvania to take on Bloomsburg, while No. 5 Virginia Tech heads to Mount Pleasant, Michigan to take on No. 24 Central Michigan.  In the NAIA, Menlo will host the Menlo duals with Arizona Christian, Northwestern (Iowa), and Simpson (Calif.). The heavy stuff won’t be coming down for an hour or so, or Saturday, if you’re wondering.  FROM THE DWN: TheMat.com released its Top 10 stories of 2019 and they mean by analytics, not the actual best stories of the year. Analytics. Yay. Math.  TheMat.com has also gone to the Rooskies! Ok, partially kidding, but Petr Pavlov, a Russian journalist, rates the strongest freestyle wrestlers of 2019.  The other Roger Moore recaps the Southern Scuffle with a good ol’ gamer for TheMat.com as well. No word on whether or not J.D. Rader actually got to go to the bathroom on Wednesday.  Trackwrestling’s Clay Sauerteig, one of the most personally prolific Twitter follows in the history of the universe, gives us a high school update from the break, focusing on Wyoming Seminary and its victory at the POWERade in Western Pennsylvania.  The Al and Josh Show, a podcast in Minnesota focusing on a number of areas of the state’s wrestling scene, previews The Clash, which kicks off on Friday down in Rochester, Minnesota. I solely listen because they constantly give me shout outs. Sadly, they also give them to Mack Reiter as well.  Samantha Scovel of NCAA.com wrote a piece a couple of days ago on the top freshman in NCAA Division I right now, I didn’t do a Shots that day, so I’ll link it back up in this episode’s show nots.  Matt Dernlan and Ben Askren are back with The Rudis Podcast, talking about The Midlands. Got some news forthcoming about that show, too.  Check out the video feature from IAWrestle.com on Keegan Shaw. They define him as a “very unique fellow.” FivePointMove.com named G’Angelo Hancock and Max Nowry its Athletes of the Year. No, I don’t need a descriptor that says Greco-Roman, you know 5PM is a Greco site.  On The Network Just this one. It should be noted that I pushed out 448 podcast episodes in 2019. How many hours of content was provided by my shows and our friends on the network? Math problems. So I did the math - the network pushed out just north of 273 hours of audio content. It would take you 34 days listening eight hours a day to finish. Or just one bowl of Colon Blow.  Not on the network, but social media donk Darren Rovell blocked me on Twitter today. Surprised it took him this long. Who’s Darren Rovell? No one, really.  You can get to read those stories and more from Mat Talk Online’s daily wrestling newsletter. 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There isn’t a whole lot I’m going to go in-depth with tonight, but it’s now 2020 and oddly, this will be statistically the third decade I podcast. Yes, I realize that starting in 2009 and then going through all of the 10s into the 20s is basically 12 years, but whatever. This is Short Time Shots, a mostly daily look at the wrestling scores and more from around the world of wrestling, I’m Jason Bryant. In case you’re wondering, this will continue to be MOSTLY a weeknight show, since I also need to have some semblance of a life on weekends (but I still do the newsletter) and I figure most wrestling fans have an opportunity to consume what’s on the web on the weekend. Or, I’ll just do it on weekdays when relevant, because it’s my show. And probably nothing on Friday night, since I’m heading down to The Clash. Minnesota Beer of the Night: I’ve been kind of holding out on this one - it’s Castle Danger’s Castle Cream Ale. This was a small brewery in Castle Danger, Minnesota, which is a real place, but now it’s grown to the point it has its own spot in Two Harbors, just north of Duluth. This is a beer that if it’s on draft where you’re at, you buy it. It’s really everything I want in a beer. Not heavy, not hoppy, just smooth, crushable and awesome. I’ll be honest, it’s almost always in my fridge. New Patron: Mike Conley, a guy I’ve known a long time from his days wrestling at York High School in Virginia. York has a cool history and Yorktown itself is one of those places where history buffs can spend days on end and still not discover all the world-changing events that happened there. Thanks Mike for your support, but that’s the only love I’ll give to those Falcons - well, there’s that one time where I picked Jason Dye to win the state title. Jason Fulmore also jumped on, he’s the guy behind SoutheastWrestling.com. He’s trying to start something rolling there in the south when it comes to wrestling, I’d encourage you to give it a look. The Scuffle:  Oklahoma State edged NC State 116-109 to win the Southern Scuffle in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which kicked off the new year just right. Stanford was third. Oklahoma State just had one champ - Nick Piccininni at 125 pounds, while NC State crowned Hayden Hidlay the champ at 157 pounds. Stanford had three champs, most of any team, with titles coming from Real Woods at 141, unattached Jaden Abas at 149 and Shane Griffith at 165 pounds. Other titlists were Sammy Alvarez of Rutgers at 133, Penn State’s unattached true freshman Carter Starocci at 174, Lou DePrez of Binghamton at 184, West Virginia’s Noah Adams at 197 and Iowa State’s Gannon Gremmel at 285. DePrez avenged an early-season loss to NC State’s Trent Hidlay 3-2. OW went to Adams, who pinned Stanford’s Nathan Traxler in the finals. Yes, thank you Cliff Fretwell. Full results on FloArena. In Duals Light night in duals, but Fresno State hosted Cal Poly and Utah Valley to kick off the new year at the SaveMart Center. In the opening dual, Fresno State won six of ten bouts with a fall coming from Brandon Martino at 174 to beat the visiting Mustangs 24-16. While Cal Poly had a chance going into the final match, Jacob Wright’s 7-6 decision at 157 pounds closed out the win for the Bulldogs. Fresno State rallied from a 19-12 deficit to win the last two matches to beat Utah Valley 24-19. Big match there came at 285 as Tate Orndorff knocked off Josh Hokit 3-1. Greg Gaxiola was leading 6-1 in the second period when he earned an injury default win over Brigg Hoopes. That set the stage for the final bout where Wright got up big on Jerry Rubio and finished the dual off with a fall with 40 seconds to go. In Division II, Augustana (S.D.) upended No. 23 Western Colorado 24-12 in Sioux Falls. The Vikings won five of the last six matches to close things out. Notables on the Docket: Long Island University heads through Pennsylvania to take on Bloomsburg, while No. 5 Virginia Tech heads to Mount Pleasant,

This week we sit down with Mike L Raether of St. Regis Montana. Mike authored a book called Fly fisher's Guide to Northwest Montana's Mountain Lakes. He fished over 130 lakes for the book, and always has his trusty pack goat and dog as he heads into the Alpine. He has written over 50 articles for publications like Northwest Fly fishing Magazine and Montana Outdoors Magazine. Mike spends a lot of time working at Joe Cantrell Outfitting and teaching people to fly fish. Thanks Mike for spending the time and sharing your passion for the alpine, fly fishing and outdoor life.

Find Mike:https://www.summerlovevodka.com/https://www.instagram.com/summerlovevodka/Reach out to Bryon:https://www.instagram.com/calgary_living/www.TheHowardTeam.netBryon@thehowardteam.net403-589-0005 //////////////////SHOW NOTE0:05  Everyone, my name is Bryon Howard. I'm a Calgary realtor who has sold an average of a house a week since moving to this great city in 2003. And this is Calgary living. Calgary living, real estate and lifestyle. I'm interviewing Calgary's top performers as it relates to living and lifestyle in our great city. Thanks for tuning in.0:31  On today's podcast, I have Mike Stanfield.0:34  Mike's a fifth generation manufacturer in Canada.0:37  His company start distilling creates alcohol brands0:42  such as Summer Love. I first met Mike about 1985, the fall of 1985 when we played rugby and the Katie and dikes for Katie University, Mike was one of those great guys have0:54  fast sporty guy with super leadership skills0:59  later on like travelled most of our great country and researched where he wanted to land so in 2006 his pregnant wife and he chose Calgary when Mike was done working in the head hunting business with no skills other than the desire to make something, touch something and have it held in his hand, Mike launched Summer Love vodka. I hope you enjoyed this show as much1:25  as I enjoyed interviewing my1:33  well we have my old friend Mike Stanfield on the line. Mike, thank you so much for joining us on Calgary living real estate and lifestyle. You are my fifth interview. Well,1:48  maybe my seventh interview and really enjoying the show. Welcome to the episode. Mike. We are about to have a great conversation.1:56  My absolute pleasure. I think this is a great initiative that is underway. So thumbs up, man.2:02  Thanks so much, Mike. Mike, why don't you tell our listeners how we met?2:08  Do we really want to get into that? Not all the details, but all right. All right. Well, Brian and I went to Acadia University and played rugby together. And, boy, please don't judge us on that, that I think we've both had a few concussions along the way and that's for but down on the windy fields of Acadia University is where Brian and I first met. And we may not have had the best team in the world but we sure had a good time as a lot of time in the envel pub down and wolframalpha we remember quite fondly, right?2:43  Absolutely. And like I remember you providing quite a lot of leadership to our team. You and Brad what was Brad's last name? Brad Clark, right? I was thinking,2:54  Brad Clark that you're thinking of and he's a he's a neat guy. Brad moved to New Zealand where he's been running a number he's the CEO of a couple of initiatives down there and probably a big All Blacks fan I would think3:07  did his interest in love for rugby take them to New Zealand3:12  Do you know I don't know what what prompted him to go down there? So I'm guessing I'm guessing like a lot of us you know when you leave University and your young 20s probably grabbed a backpack and ended up down there. I remember he's a pretty good looking guy and so he probably had women chasing them around or something but I don't know for sure. Brad, if you're listening maybe call Brian and let you can you can give them the New Zealand update. Absolutely.3:39  So Mike, um, maybe what did I just may started with you is what3:43  most strikes you about living in Calgary.3:47  So I may jump the gun in your questions, but I moved to Calgary in 2006. And I had been here many times professionally, I've got family here. You know Not unlike yourself, I came out west as a young man. And what I always continue to love about Calgary is the energy the optimism, the can do spirit of people that they know they can dig in their heels and make a difference. I really admire that. I know it's taken a bit of a licking these days, but I know it's still there. And that's probably my first. That's probably my first sort of point of recognition and calibre.4:26  That's, that and that's what I'm hearing over and over again, about people and what brought you here you said in 2006, um, was it the economy at the time or family or work4:38  kind of a kind of a combo, and it's, so my wife and I took a year off and travelled around the world and just the year before we moved here, and I remember we got back. We were in BC at the time we get back and sort of said, you know, where, where do we go from here, do we? You know, do we go back to Vancouver. Because we had lived there previously, do we go to Calgary to go to Toronto? What have you, right? We're literally having a glass of wine kind of sorting out life. And Calgary one and and honestly, it was part it was a good part economic in that, you know, the business was just exploding at the time and there was opportunities galore. But relative to real estate, a lot of it had to do with real estate. We were just starting a family you know, Vancouver housing was already well out of control Even then, you know, at some point we'll probably circle back and talk about Vancouver. And because I would have never guessed that it were it was going to go on to where it is today. But so it was a cost of Housing and Economic Opportunity. Combined with I already knew though I hadn't lived here that that heartbeat in Calgary was was there and that that's always appealed to me for sure.5:57  Interesting. Um, I have never met Your wife I don't believe I have and where does she come from originally? And where do you come from? Originally I'm thinking New Brunswick.6:08  Not far off. I grew up in darkness Nova Scotia, right? Remember, I knew that if you're not in Nova Scotia, I usually say Halifax is because people aren't necessarily certain more that is but it's just the other side of the harbour. My wife is from Hamilton Hamilton, Ontario. Her name is Lee Stanfield. And so we're both both Easterners of a sort. And we both been out west or whole adult lives.6:37  Until that sounds interesting, you've travelled the world. And then you came to Calgary what month of 2006. I'm curious.6:44  Yeah, no problem. I'll tell you. It's pretty good story, especially on the real estate side. Yes. And I jumped ahead and tell the story. So please, yes, I decided we decided we're moving here. So my my brother lives here and as his family they live down to Lake Bonneville So I came in and stayed with my brother. They weren't in like bonavista at that time but that's where they live today but I stayed with them and we knew we were moving here so this was gonna I'm gonna say it was approximately early April and I already had a job lined up that it was coming to work and I was coming to work there on May the first so my mission I flew in for weekend to buy a house and the so so I arrived get off the plane went to his house. Next day I get out with the realtor that I was working with at that point of time. And I can't remember how I had been introduced to Chris but good guy, also a REMAX guy. And literally Ryan there were six houses for sale in Calgary that day, like I have that wrong, but I strongly maybe it was just six in the south, more six in the, you know within the constraints of what we're looking for, but there were some Six houses for sale. So yeah, we found one that was, it was to my liking and this guy's like Mike like, I gotta tell you, like, you know, it will use a good maritime expression, you know shit or get off the pot here. Anyway, we put an offer was accepted. I owned a home before I got back on the plane and8:21  how much over list price and was there any conditions that day in April?8:27  There were they just8:29  they accepted?8:31  Yeah, you know, the pretty straightforward conditions. I think we had a home inspection and I don't recall if we had conditional financing at the time I don't really recall but was a pretty straightforward, you know, there were really no challenges physically with the house. Whatever conditions may have been on it were satisfied quite easily. And so we owned a home and so we took possession on that home June. The first and And then my wife and my now very young daughter came along to join me in Calgary and we've been here ever since. So we have we've lived in a couple different homes along the way.9:12  That's terrific. It was interesting to me to hear the sort of the month that you came to Calgary and bought that house with possession June 1, because I remember in 2006, May of 2006 in particular, when our real estate values were going up $1,000 a day in Calgary was a giddy giddy time. It really9:31  was. I remember that vividly.9:35  You know, and there's there's sweet and sour to all that, but I think everybody listening remembers 2006 and, you know, probably as far as up into 2008, late 2008, and kind of frosty over like that for a long time. Yeah.9:50  Interesting. Very good. And9:52  so what is that?9:54  Well, I guess, you tell us a little bit about what you love most about Calgary. Just I think kind of ending with Do you know positive attitude? What is it that you don't like about Calgary?10:06  Well winter goes on a little longer than I care for Yeah, you know I think to be fair, I remember in the Maritimes really summer and you remember I think you repeat yeah guy but you remember summer really didn't start until late June kind of thing and it you know it's about the same here that's not that much different but yeah you know the winter the winter blues can get me down a little bit but so there's there's that. Let's not beat on that one because anybody can come up without one. And you know, struggling.10:39  Did you realise I actually just read it today and Richard White's blog that apparently we have 333 days of sunshine per year in Calgary. Did you know that?10:50  You know, I didn't know that. Specifically, you hear these sunshine figures from time to time. And that is really a plus is a footnote. I lived in Vancouver for about 12 or 13 years and then rains like the dickens there. But you know, sunshine wise I'd like to see the numbers between Halifax and Vancouver I better not much different Halifax is a pretty great place to So, look, I know a lot of you know, the true prairie folks don't care for Vancouver much because of that grey. I have to say it never really bugged me much. So I'm guessing Vancouver and Halifax are probably similar in sunshine. Yeah, yeah. A nice sunny day. Nobody's ever complained about a nice day outdoors here, right? It's11:32  always seems to me since moving here in 2003 that we have less of those sunny days. It seems like the weather has changed. And you know, I remember those sort of cold but dry winters that we had, you know, in the mid 2000s, for example, that I don't think they're quite as cold and dry and like There seems to be a little bit moisture. Have you noticed that sort of East Coast, terrible Grizzly days like that? I mean, they come in Calgary now.12:00  You know, I don't think I've got enough of a yardstick to measure by but I do remember that our first winter here, so 2006 going into 2007 it was so mild. It was a very gentle winter. And I remember my wife and I looking at other ones, that's it. Was that that bad? Like, I don't know what people are talking about.12:21  I think the year after was just horrid.12:24  But there's certainly been, you know, they all seem to take on a life of their own. I think my memory is probably we seem to have about four weeks of ungodly cold through the winter. The rest of it's not so bad, but those four weeks when you get into the, you know, the windy and minus teens and minus 20 is our good lord. Good advertisement for Hawaii, I think. Yes,12:51  Mike, I wanted to reach out nerves. Speak to you a little bit about well, getting into what you're doing today, but before that, I'd like to elect you to maybe talk to me a little bit about how the boom bust economy of Calgary may or may not affect you. And also, I'd like you to tie that in to some of your real estate decisions that you've made. And actually, I'm curious, I don't know for sure we've had this discussion. I don't know if you're still in the same house as your first house in 2006. Or not. Maybe you can bring in weave in a little bit of a story here.13:30  Yeah, you bet all. I'm a Rambler. So you know, if I, if I get off topic, remind me but, you know, first off your question was the boom bust nature of Calgary? That that's a frustrating thing to everybody. I mean, there's nobody on earth that that doesn't impact and I'm not alone in that. When I first came to Calgary, I was in the professional recruitment business. I worked for a group called David Allen recruiting which is a fantastic organisation. run by David out London and his son Jeff has taken over in the in the interim. And then that business is truly reflected in the boom bust you know, in the busy years that that place was just hopping and optimistic and people were grateful and when it slowed down boy it was the exact opposite of that. So I certainly felt at you know, I remember the days in Calgary, I was shocked when I moved here people go to lunch at 1130 in the morning back in 2006. Mostly because you couldn't get in anywhere so it was like a competition to go 15 minutes earlier than everybody else. You know, obviously good contrast that today where it's the extreme opposite, not an awful lot of restaurant tours and people that are there to entertain us have have gone under and this very difficult last couple of years. So you know that that I have felt this thing of that, as everybody has. Housing wise we we moved to we saw and we first moved here in 2006. Give me a bit of insight into this. My my brother who's a Suncor guy commuted back and forth on train and he said geez Mike, if you're going to work downtown you, you'd want to go on the train. It's just the easiest way to get back and forth. So he said, you want to live somewhere reasonably close to the train line. Right there literally bought the first house, the closest house to the train and it could, it was about 300 yards from the one of the train stations and it was a fabulous way to get back and forth. So that was that was great. Couple of years later, my wife and I were sort of suffering what I will call a bit of suburban blues. And that you know, we pulled into your pulled into your garage at night, your life was kind of inside and if you went out was to sort of a big box shopping strip type of thing and you know, I can't put my finger on this. Surely one thing, but Lee came home one day, this would have been late 2009 and said, Hey, I looked at our new house today. Let's let's go look at it. This was completely out of the blue. And so she brought me down must have been, you know, probably the next day, I'm guessing and we bought a house in the beltline. So we live on 13th Avenue and in the beltline, not far for the two old sandstone schools are the one of them's the CBE headquarters. The other one's called cannot school. So allegedly, we're the first family to buy standalone single house in the beltline in 35 years. I can't I can't prove that but I know that most of the standalone homes that are here are commercial zone commercially. So you know they might have a law firm or a financial firm or what have you in it, but we bought a we bought a single family home 1910 home It's gorgeous. Has stained glass throughout the original wood, the original carvings. squeaks like a demon when you walk up the stairs, that's for sure. But it's just, it's a beautiful place and we've we've touched it up, done a little bit of renovation work and it's been an absolutely fabulous place for us to live. So beltline would get a checkmark, very high for the walkability score. So that's true like I our second car. If it exploded tomorrow, we would never use it again. It's I think, I don't even think we put 5000 k on it last year. We walk everywhere. Lee works downtown. I host all of my meetings in the downtown area. The kids still both walk to school. It's it's been absolutely fantastic.17:45  Well, that is that is neat.17:48  Now now Oh, hold on a sec. So to come full circle. So the house we bought in 2006. There were six houses left in the market. Yeah, we bought this house in December. 2009 where it kind of felt like today out there, like, you know exactly, yeah, 2019 is good, like it's been longer. This whole recession and cut back has been longer and much more dreary. But I gotta tell you in 2009 that was the tail end of the financial crisis globally. And at ram stack the business, the oil business here and in Alberta. So 2009 was pretty sleepy and there were countless homes like it was, you know, the home we bought, I think had been on the market for the better part of the year at that point in time. So there were risks. You know, it was the opposite of what we saw in 2006. And did you effort to purchase your belt line home did you have to sell your your other home into your first home? We did sell the home I can't remember. I think we had some bridge financing for a month or two wallet. You know, I don't think it was conditional on it, but we were able to sell it quite easily. I think a lot to do honestly because of the location beside the train line. We were by I think it's Fish Creek look home sort of fit, you know, we're just on the south side of Fish Creek. Nice and it was a very convenient type of house from getting places on the train point of view so it sold pretty easily19:22  Did you lose money on that house?19:25  We did not. I don't think we made a heap of money either but we were above your above water above the timeline when we get out of there. And I think honestly, it's just good timing i think i think things really softened up the following spring where if I'm guessing and I am there you know, there's probably a lot more properties came on the market and probably the supply and demand really got wacky that spring.19:54  Interesting. So I'm and I'm just I'm pretending to be very nice. all about timing and stats and stuff. So my thoughts is if you were able to sell your house sort of roughly, maybe fall of 2009, or early 2010, down and South there, then and make money. You bought it just before things went really Nuts in May of 2006 or June, July, and things just went up and up and up and up. So you're just like on the cusp of,20:26  yeah, we win. Yeah, we're kind of on either edge of a wave there.20:30  Yeah. You're at the front end of that wave. Yes. Because I20:34  remember December 2005 is kind of in my memory and recollection is when it started to, you know, ramp up. When I was thinking as a realtor at the time, I was thinking about, how do I get into oil and gas like I need to get into this real estate business?20:49  Oh my god. Everybody was right. Who doesn't want eight weeks of holiday and 1000 layers of bonuses and all the rest. We were all pretty green with envy on the toilet. Gas crowd for sure. Yeah, right. I got I gotta share another story about this old house of ours and this is fate would have it. There's a there was a golf course in that community. I think it was called Sean Meadows or something like that. I can't remember21:18  Honey bees. Shaughnessy? Is it showing us the meadows. I, you know, may have been21:22  I can't remember. However, the golf course failed as an entity here. You know, whoever the company running at the golf course failed. It was not a municipal golf course. So basically the land sat there right unused. And a developer bought that land and became a very contentious issue because it was the you know, a zone to be Parkland or whatever the zoning is for golf courses, right. And the developer had to get a change to develop the land and it became an absolute war down in that area. Because you know, the people that had bought to live on a golf course, didn't want to not live on the golf course. Subsequently the citizens of that community lost that that battle and the property is currently under development. Anyway, we we we knew nothing about this at the time and so we I think we definitely dodged a bullet because the folks that live down there I've had quite a battle over this development and you know, live beside a quite a sizable construction site at the same time too. So I say that because it's guts real estate intrigues. All right. I'll share that for you.22:31  That's a that's let's actually contribute that not because you're lucky but because you're really smart. Right, Mike? I'll take what I can get smart but no, no, I really, really good story along the way for sure. No, absolutely. It's I appreciate you sharing that. And part of my you know, mission in this podcast is just to share, you know, these sort of lifestyle and real estate stories and sometimes We, you know, and as I interview people, you know, everyone has a real estate story. And some people have been like extremely lucky and some have been extremely unlucky. And we all try to put an angle on it. And especially well, that we were smart. We saw it all coming, actually. And I'm curious about now getting into what you're doing now. And actually your work in the recruitment. Were you seeing are you seeing working in recruitment? What I feel like is in oil and gas, they may start to experience a slide or a drop or slow down and then we in real estate see at when, like probably a year later, so they're ahead of us in terms of a curb or what's what's happening in terms of your profession and in recruitment at the time. Like would you have seen when when are you affected? I guess probably a lot sooner than what when we see like we probably see a23:58  Yeah, okay. Let me let me talk through that in a couple ways because I don't I don't know if there's a single answer but you know, Calgary certainly was attracting people from everywhere you know, during during that time right up to till 2008 people were you know immigrating to Canada internationally you probably know many people that that you know, fit this this image that you know, maybe the husband came from an international EPC type of environment, engineering procurement construction and you know, probably were on some type of visa to work in Canada or a you know, type of temporary permit or something like that. And then the family would follows a lot of people moved here internationally a lot of very talented people. And, and certainly a lot of people move from across Canada or, you know, if they're expat Canadians, maybe they're down in the States. So, people were coming from every direction to Calgary. So, there were a lot of really good candidates coming to the market at a time where the market was quite Hungry for them. So we're certainly, you know, increased activity and just about any metric you could imagine and that time very Curiously, you know, I even breed that people are still coming to Calgary, even in this this downturn.25:16  Oh, yeah. We're having a you. Currently we have more in migration then than outmigration by I think I just read this morning, like 2000 people in the past maybe 12 months, was in migration.25:28  Yeah, I'm in wasn't there. Were there like a year or two that that was not the case. It was sort of net migration outward for? Yes. I don't know which years but I think some of those years but, you know, it's curious that Rob was doing that. You know, it's not a job rich environment, but people continue to, to come here. So that's, that's an interesting one. Back to your question. I don't know if that answers it. You know, people are always searching for opportunities. opportunities everywhere, right there. You know, just as there are people looking to hear a lot of people that are well employed here often looking to move elsewhere, internationally or, you know, if they're from other parts of Canada, depending on where they are in their life cycle, maybe they're looking to take a young family back to where they're from or something to that and to that end, so there's there's always, there's always movement and in that market, but to be sure the recruiting market is driven by you just probably a similar dynamic and real estate, who you work for, as a recruiter, you're working for a company that is that has hired you to go find people that necessitates knowing a lot of candidates and knowing specific niche pools of candidates and where they are, but it's really driven by open jobs or demand for people. So that has, obviously, I remember vividly the company I worked for in September 2008. We had our highest revenue of all time for recruiting fees.27:04  And October, it was our lowest.27:09  And I think for the next six months, it will be really, really horrible. I'm guessing Brian, I think that price of oil went that summer to be 150 bucks. Right? And then I think come October it was well on its way down and I think in January bottomed out around 20 bucks 30 bucks. So, I mean, this this was this was the economy having a heart attack, right, like this was severe. And, and, and sudden and and it literally went from one extreme to the other overnight. And the the, the recruiting business can be like that, and there's been a number of those sort of, she was my same analogy. If it was a heart monitor in the hospital, there's been a lot of blips, right, you know, in the last sold 10 or 11. Yours has been a very Blippi kind of environment and in Calgary writes two good years and a bad one. You know, another good one and another bad one, that kind of thing. Yeah, you're very clearly the last few. The last two in particular. I'm not in that business any any longer. But I talked to my colleagues that are still in that business. And really, it's been, it's night and day.28:25  Let's get into the more interesting and more interesting work of Mike stanfill. Today. Like we met, I think, critical is it like I want to say it was like, four months ago, but it could have been four years or three. while ago when you were starting up in the distillery business. Let us28:45  take us28:46  when did that start? And how's it going? And what is it that you're doing today?28:50  Yes, very good. So, you know, I always joke around a little bit, what's a good maritime boy with no skills to do go out and start making booze that's that's the right thing. Do me I just but we're that started is you and I see each other from time to time I think we did see each other a couple of months ago. But this is Believe it or not, we're three and a half years into this, that we've had our infused vodkas on the shelf so that the company is star distilling. And we have a product called Summer Love vodka, which is three fruit infused flavours that are on the shelves in both stores and in Calgary. And we've had a really fun run at this and the business continues to grow sort of 50% plus a year, which is a very fun thing to say, in context of what you and I were just talking about, of the lousy business environment here the last couple of years. So we really, you know, we and I say we it's really my wife and I are partners in this business. So it's really my quote unquote day job, if you will, Lee is Lee has broad shoulders and can be can use to earn a living life while I invest all of our money in this venture. If you were standing beside me, I would probably get punched in the shoulder right about now but, but but we'll leave that one alone and right. Anybody runs their own business, you included knows the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Anyway, so we started this. And so the reason so I was in the recruiting business for a long time. And this is very Calgary related I, you know, the, the up and down nature of it would drive people nuts. And, and I always I've always had an itch to kind of get into the making something tangible that you can hold in your hand, see it, touch it, in this case, taste that, etc. So I, I just have a wonderful wife and we were down in Disneyland. 2014 five years ago, and I had taken a job Within the recruiting firm that, you know, a year or two prior to that, that just wasn't really working out for me. It wasn't working out for the company either. And I just told her I said, Look, I'm, I'm so frustrated. I'm, you know, I don't even want to get out of bed and go to this. I'm grumpy all the time. I'm miserable to our kids and in a bad father, bad husband, bad boy, like, all the way around. And I think I reflexively said, you know, I'd like to quit. And she just looked at me in the eyes and said, Well, you know, quit then like, you know, do something, like don't just sit here and bellyache about it if you're if you're going to quit, quit and move on and, and she was very supportive of that. So I literally pulled the trigger on Canada Day of 2014. And I had a wonderful summer with the kids. We rented a little, little cottage Jodan bc on the shoe swap, and it was a lot of fun. So, the booze thing, how did that get started, so I don't know if you know this brand, but I'll tell you a little bit of background but we have a we have a family business called Star manufacturing that goes back to 1861. So I'm the fifth generation to use the star name and business and my day, so 1861 this was in Halifax right up till 2015 my father does or might have been 14 Africa 14 or 15. He, he legally dissolved the business, it did not exist anymore. The plant had closed down around 2000. And he had pension and benefits obligations to the employee base, some of which were, you know, third and fourth generation employee. So he oversaw the pensions and benefits requirements that that you know, for the men and women that work there, and I think that finally got put to rest at about that time and he dissolved the company and I'm The day he dissolved the company I bought it from him for a buck. So I sent him to you I sent him a US dollar in the mail so buck 40 so I it he was like what do you what are you talking about the device I just want I want to buy the name I want to buy the intellectual property I want to buy the history the stories and I just want to buy this thing like I want it so I bought that from him and so from that was born star my version of star so I'm the fifth generation well to take on the the star name and manufacturing in Canada. Obviously the venture with distilling is different than what they did on the east coast where they did some really cool stuff like they actually made hockey skates for 80 years like all the really nh all the early NHL star hockey skates.33:53  Of course being a manufacturing plant in in a naval harbour city during World War One and World War Two you You go on a war footing and you make what the Navy asks you so they, you know, there were secretive things that they made in the plan for those two wars. The second world war was all women working there. My dad, my grandfather and father's generation, it was much more industrial components, trains, bridges and you know, heavy foundry components that that type of things, spikes, bolts, specialty, especially the nuts and bolts, that type of thing for large construction, large scale construction, think railways, wars, buildings, etc. So building infrastructure across the country. And then to my day, so well, so we sat down and started star out here. It was at that same time that the, you know, the Alberta government changed some legislation and the same legislation that has prompted the boom and craft brewing. It's the same legislation that governs distilling of spirits or Or the making of beer, or for that matter, wine or me or, you know, any of the, you know, ciders, any of the wonderful things that are popping up at every neighbourhood in the city. So we started down that road and here we are three and a half years later, we've probably in about 200 shelves across Calgary or across Alberta. And, you know, we've been we've been, I will be mosta but we were very successful. We've, I think three times our products have been named the best flavour boxes and in Alberta, and Alberta and should Pat themselves on the back. We have a really, really, we probably have the most outstanding regulatory framework for the spirits business in North America. So it's a really good place to start a brewery, a distillery cider plant what happened like we really have a, we have the only competitive one in Canada by a mile. The rest of them are You know, crown corporations that have more protection built around them than Fort Knox. It's, it's, it's observed. Not unlike a lot of other things we Albertans might complain about, seem to have observed regulatory issues around them. But I'll steer clear of that one. So here we are, we're a few years in and I might my update is I am on the cusp of pulling the trigger to to start our project to build a distillery here in Calgary, wow. Or I should say, Lisa building and, and, you know, build it out that way I will be we will be building from scratch. So we outsource our production today to the only place I could find in 2015. that would that would take us on this decline because we just don't make much and it's down and it's down in Wisconsin. So that's so that's been really, really beneficial for us. But we're looking to to do Join the local the local movement and dig our heels in here and make it a go well, so stay tuned we'll have to talk maybe this time next year and give you an update.37:10  Well Part Two I'm looking forward to it already.37:12  Yeah. And so37:14  that I remember I haven't been following like into a terribly closely on sort of how your marketing but I remember you were having a lot of fun with the sort of the marketing of your it's called Summer Love right summer love bug it is. And,37:28  you know, it's been a lot of fun. We do a lot of you know, the large scale events that have been a lot of your listeners have been to whether it's the CO ops Great Escape show, or the Rocky Mountain wine and food show, you know, those kinds of things that are a lot of fun to attend. Taste of Calgary is an outdoor foodie experience kind of down by the riverfront why downtown Calgary. Lots of tastings in stores and restaurants and that kind of thing, but it's a it's a lot of fun, but I got to tell you if you want the recipe of making friends start giving away booze like i i don't i didn't invent that recipe but I tell you it works pretty well.38:08  That's great.38:10  Awesome. Mike, most recently, I mean, just in the past week or so, you sent me an invite to attend you know, what seemed like a  social like really a sort of promoting event promoting sustainable or interesting entrepreneurs or internet interesting entrepreneurship opportunities. I have you been in the past you know, since starting up Summer Love Have you been involved? Very much in the entrepreneurial community of Calgary and I don't know that that vibe share share a little bit with me on that I really know nothing about sort of I I sense that38:50  honestly Brian I, I didn't either and I learned more all the time. I have met a lot of entrepreneurs and in Calgary both in the You know, the beer and spirits, cider business as well as every other business under the sun. You know, small businesses is a major driver of, you know, that optimism and energy that I speak about in the city. And, you know, oil and gas certainly brings a lot of money into our economy. And I think, I think years ago, it used to be a little bit more entrepreneurial today. It strikes me that it's more driven by these enormous companies. You know, that don't fluctuate quite as much in you know, like sense. Some course fortunes go up and down, but they don't disappear. Same with cn, RL and the others. they've bought over the load at the International guys going down a tangent. Stop that Mike. Yeah, I've met a lot of people like that. And, you know, really, I have to confess I didn't, I didn't, I didn't have as good of or as strong of an understanding about the local movement when when we began the business, you know, For four years ago, I say forest because there was a lot of you know, it took a long time to figure out how to get to market you know and how to do all this so we've been in the market for three and a half years but it was a good 18 months before that have head scratching and to be fair, probably what I would call overthinking it, I was way overthinking it. But you know, you The further you get into this stuff, the more you see a really important shift happening for for everybody in our society, but the younger you are, the more prevalent that shift. It's not just environmental, or sensitivity to to environment, it's, you know, you get into understanding how your your food ingredients were grown, what how they get to Calgary, you know, there's just a lot more sensitivity to all those supply chain types of things around the food industry that for you and I at that age didn't exist like that or They're certainly weren't as prevalent, but it's very prevalent. And it gives me a lot of an enormous amount of pride to have have a business that's helping out other small businesses and in the city and buying goods and services from them and, you know, being able to interact with your customers. It's really cool. And, you know, for me personally, I get a lot of pride of doing that. And and, you know, I don't think there's I don't think we can have enough of that, I think you know, we've, we've got to support local we've got to support other Canadian businesses, we've got to get on board with being an innovative nation of doing things and not hoping that the answer is going to come from somewhere else, or or not being afraid to try and so there's as much fun as it is to be in this space and try harder and, and in our case, start this initiative with putting a distillery in Calgary You know, I'm proud of that, but you get as much good faith back the other way from from people looking for that in the community. I think there's, I think it's probably an equal and opposite reaction to globalisation in a way. Like I look at my, my dad's generation with this business, and they got absolutely crushed, you know, crushed by it by first regionalization. And then and then globalisation and right, you know, I'm the first one, I'm a free marketer, I'm the first one to say you gotta remain innovative, and you have to do all those good things and, and perhaps they stopped doing those things. But big, big it just crushed. And so the business doesn't exist there anymore, right? And the three or four generations of people that were employed, and all the good things that came out of that, that that business gone, right, like that's just gone, that's that's not returning there. And so I think particularly the You know, that the younger generation are more in tune with how important that is, even if they can't necessarily say it out loud, I think they just said a gut level understand that you've got to, you've got to have a viable, viable businesses in your community in your country to keep our lifestyle going and improving. You know, Canada has got a lot to offer, but you can only really offer when you're, you're in a position of strength. So so I'm going to say that that local initiative and that local movement, and it's very prevalent in the food and the coffee and you know, restaurants and, and and, you know, visible ownership, visible owners and Calgary, it's hugely important. And, and I'm proud to be moving in that direction with with our initiative even more.43:52  That's wonderful. And I think there's a little story there behind star manufacturing from 1861 to you know, that sort of stuff. Slow down or shut down in 2000 and then you know, the total shutdown, that there's got to be an interesting story around like globalisation. And as you mentioned it, that's where maybe that's another podcast44:12  you know, what it might be I you know it from, from a macro point of view, throw this out. So, they were really part of what you would call the second industrial revolution which which brought steam and electricity into into plants and plants all over the world looked very similar to what their plan would have been theirs was a water driven plant. So that you know, the electricity was produced from water in a turbine. And pretty simple from today's point of view, you know, you get a lot of belts and, you know, cogs and wheels turning and that's, that's what they built the business on. And that plant wouldn't look much different than any plant in New England or England itself or across Europe or, you know, into And anywhere else in the what we would call the development or the developed world. So that was that was the second industrial revolution and it kind of petered out. Around the turn of, you know, around the when railroads got started, so sort of late 1800s, like, let's say 1875 onwards. And since then we've kind of globalised it was slow. But the last half of it was pretty quick from maybe 1960 on, you know, the advent of Japanese manufacturing. And then obviously, from the 70s on the miracle that has been it been China.45:40  You know, I, I,45:43  our business and health effects will be no different from 10s of thousands of others where those jobs disappeared overnight, and they're in China today or Vietnam or wherever they are. And so, so now they call it the fourth industrial revolution, which is really Integrating, you know, you might, you might use it. People can Google that on their own, they can figure it out. But the fourth industrial revolution is, is what's currently underway. And, you know, you can read about the fifth one if you're sort of a nerd and into where these directions are going. But it's interesting and and, you know, I mean, I didn't do this as a fool's errand. I did it because I think we can be competitive price wise, I think we have a niche in the market. That's, that's advantageous for us not only to produce some candidate and selling candidate but to be able to sell internationally. I mean, you know, we are in this to win. And I'm, I'm really grateful that we have this top opportunity to do that. I, my dad's generation i don't i don't think they had that many opportunities were he was are certainly, you know, in retrospect, I guess You can go back and pull a rabbit out of a hat. But he didn't perceive that there was a lot of opportunity where he was. I perceive there's loads of opportunity now.47:09  Fascinating. Like, why or why not? Are you staying in Calgary?47:15  We are staying in Calgary. Despite the winter, if my wife was here, he might vote otherwise. You know what? So we've got two kids. They're 11 and 14, two daughters that are knee deep in schools and friends and sports and activities and all the things they do. We're not disrupting that their kids are here to go to school. we've, we've started this business and intend to grow the business so we're not going anywhere. We would you know, a friend of mine gave me some advice when I moved to Calgary. He said Mike, it's a guy named Paul warming of and he lives on a Vancouver Island today. So my calendar is a great place but you need to leave for two weeks every winter, two separate trips minimum You've got to get out of here and get to somewhere with sunshine and wants to make it through. So good advice. And I think if my wife were here, she would say, we've rarely lived up to that. But that was that was pretty good advice. But no, we're staying good place to build a business and raise kids and I still really like the energy and can do spirit of Calgary. It's it's a compliment to everybody that that hasn't been crushed out in the past decade with all the challenges we face and here in the age of gross misinformation,48:36  yes. might come in sort of coming to a bit of a conclusion on our show today. What advice would you give your younger self?48:45  start selling booze early?48:50  have more fun.48:53  A cheeky answer. I so much enjoy doing this. I really wish I had, but you can't go back and change What you did since your podcast is real estate oriented I'm maybe my advice would be to get in the game earlier. Good lord I lived in Whistler for a while I lived in Vancouver for a while. Live in Kelowna for a while like these are in my in laws live in the Okanagan and you know, I've seen what lakefront properties have done there over a generation you know, all of these communities I mentioned, the real estate market is been so buoyant and and it's crazy like I mean that Yeah, me over a 25 year perspective, those would have each of those communities would have been an absolute Grand Slam when from a real estate investment point of view. And Brian, I was oblivious to this I, I rented when I lived in Vancouver, I was a young guy in Whistler so clearly wasn't buying anything then but it wasn't even on my mind. So maybe advice to younger self would have been you know real estate like there's seems to be two ways on earth to to, you know, succeed financially and I don't for a second think there are other ways or other aspects of life that are just as important family and health and whatnot but real estate and and running your own business are the two avenues that anybody that's been financially successful is probably come from one of those two vendors. It's almost invariably one of those two, so I wish I had to pay more attention. I didn't know diddly about real estate. I still really don't. But50:42  in retrospect, I should have paid more attention.50:45  Nice. I think I hear a kitty cat.50:47  Yes, that's my cats a50:50  bluebird. Thanks for tuning in. What's your cat's50:53  name? Their name is50:55  z as in zebra but the kids couldn't pronounce the earlier in life so they call her D do so she's called the do so she is a wonderful cat but she's about 15 now and getting old sheets meals all forget night law. It is the worst. If anybody has solutions please let me know.51:18  You can find Mike's contact information in the show notes.51:22  Mike, are you social? How can people reach out to you? What are the channels people want to reach out more?51:29  Great question. All of our social media for the business is you know at summer love vodka. But surely if somebody just were to Google star distilling or Summer Love, vodka, they won't be able to find us all of our contact information is within within episode find it pretty easily.51:53  Mike, this has been fun. I really want to thank you for being a guest on our show. I'm sure our listeners listening They're gonna love this. And I think there's going to be a part two.52:04  Well, I've enjoyed this so thank you for having me on. This is number number five or whatever it is and best of luck getting to getting to 100 day I'm probably like everybody else I love listening upon saqqaq maniac dude, I'd love to do it. I listened to the podcast galore and I'm particularly when I get in the car for an hour to by myself. I love them. So well done my man.52:34  Yes. Well, thanks again. Mike. Look forward to sharing some summer love vodka with you and, you know,52:41  following the journey as you still locally.52:45  Yeah, lots of fun.52:48  Lots of fun. So we'll catch up again for sure and I'm really happy to be doing this and engaged in this these days and sometimes too much from Brian tell, we'll leave it at that, I guess and I will talk to you later on, but best of luck. Cheers. Thank you, Mike. Okay, bye bye.53:09  That's great, Mike. Thank you. So that just about wraps up today's podcast. I think I'll go get myself some summer love vodka. Thanks Mike for all you do, and bringing us a great a yet another great to spirit here in Alberta. If you have thoughts, questions, or suggestions on who should be on Calgary living real estate and lifestyle. I'd love to hear from you. You can find me on social Insta at Calgary underscore living. Or just google me Brian Howard. And of course that's a funny spelling Brian beat her ye o n. Thanks once again for tuning in.Mike Stanfield is a 5th generation manufacturer in Canada ~ his company, Starr Distilling,  creates alcohol brands such as Summer Love Vodka. Mike moved to Calgary in 2006 and bought one of 6 homes for sale in Calgary that day. Catch up with mike here: https://www.summerlovevodka.com/Find Bryon at www.TheHowardTeam.net 

Mike Moll from Social Media House joins the talk today and we get right into everything digital and online for construction and tradespeople. Mike walks us through all of the social media platforms and why Instagram is playing games with construction content, everyone's content.  Mike tells us why Google has the IQ of a 6 year old when it comes to context.  Mike tells us the best ways to actually set up Ad Words and working your SEO to actually work for you and not against. Mike tells us that it is time to go back to Facebook and make it work for your business, generate leads and build trust for your future clients and business.  We discuss the importance of LinkedIN and how that platforms reach can impact your business better than Instagram. Lastly, we get into who you as a contractor should be online and how you should position your business online. This podcast is an amazing show full of incredible information, trust us, you want to listen to this one right to the end and over and again and again while making notes. Thanks Mike for sharing such valuable insight. @smhtoronto https://linktr.ee/smhtoronto This is The Construction Life    

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He is the head of support at Blubrry and a podcaster since the beginning of the medium. Today, we talk with PodLord Michael Dell. Here are some of the websites that we referenced on the program: podcasthelpdesk.com mikedell.com blubrry.com Thanks Mike!

EP015 - Director of Automotive Analysis at IHS Markit, Mike Wall http://www.vehicle2.getspiffy.com Episode 15 is an interview with Mike Wall, Director of Automotive Analysis at IHS Markit; recorded live at the Automotive Intelligence Summit in Raleigh, NC on Wednesday, July 24th, 2019. Mike and Scot discuss a variety of topics, including: His 16+ years of experience in automotive industry forecasting and trend analysis with IHS Markit. The role of IHS Markit as a leader in automotive research and insights. A realistic breakdown of EV adoption, from the US to China. Cities where AVs will likely compete with mass transit in the 2020s The true impact of changing ownership models on new car sales The rise of AV and EV partnerships between automakers in the industry If you enjoyed this episode, please write us a review on iTunes! The four pillars of Vehicle 2.0 are electrification, connectivity, autonomy, and changing ownership models. In the Vehicle 2.0 Podcast, we will look at the future of the auto industry through guest expert interviews, deep dives into specific topics, news coverage, and hot takes with instant analysis on what the latest breaking news means for today and in time to come. This episode was produced and sound engineered by Jackson Balling, and hosted by Scot Wingo.   Transcript: Scot:                      Welcome to the vehicle 2.0 podcast. We are live podcasting here from the 2019 automotive intelligence summit from Sunny Raleigh, North Carolina is Sunday today. Yesterday was rainy, so it's good to deliver that to the attendees is Tuesday the 24th and we're excited to have on the show. Mike Wall. Mike is Executive Director of automotive analysis at IHS market. Welcome to show. Mike:                    Thank you Scott. Appreciate it. Scot:                      Cool. Well uh I have I come from the ecommerce world and I wasn't really familiar with you guys, but now I've been in the auto world. You can't kind of swing a cat without hitting your research, so it was really excited to have you on the show. But for folks that haven't had a chance to check that out, maybe give us a little bit of background about yourself and then IHS and, yeah, absolutely. We'll jump in. Mike:                    Yeah. So I've been covering the auto industry for IHS over 20 years now and spent some time in the supply chain. So working with an auto supplier, large tier one supplier, but over the last really 18 years or so, really working in them more consulted consultative phase, you know, working with in forecasting realm, forecasting, late vehicle sales, light vehicle production working with suppliers, automakers, financial firms, pretty much anybody with an interest in stake in the industry. And I just market, we are a broad and diverse business intelligence from coming, covering a wide variety of, of really business verticals, energy chemical financial markets. And in one of our larger verticals is automotive as well. So we've been steeped in research and analysis and covering this industry. Scot:    Very cool. And then you have a certain cadence that you publish for things? How does that work? Mike:                    We do! It does vary depending on the, the discipline and the are the, the forecast itself. But our production forecast is an example, is updated every month as well as our powertrain forecast. We do have very wide and deep powertrain forecasts and we forecast vehicle sales down to the model level. All this is very granular and it's also global so you can see it both globally and regionally all the way down to some very minute levels of detail including model level detail call. Is your role kind of North America or do you remind goal is, I work very much with, with all of our various diverse groups around the world, but my primary background has been in North America, certainly is where I cut my teeth in the forecasting space as it were. But we have folks on the ground all around the world that do the forecast themselves and then we globally coordinate it. Mike:                    So just a great group of colleagues that are really trying to cover this ever-changing industry. And where are you based out of? I'm based out of Michigan. I'm, I'm actually on the west side of Michigan. Grand rapids. Our automotive headquarters is our, one of our major offices out of Southfield to suburb of Detroit. We have several hundred folks working out of that location. IHS market as a broad group is actually over 14,000 employees. But our automotive practices is quite large in and of itself. Scot:                      Cool. so what are you speaking about here at the show? Mike:                    So I'm basically going to kind of give everybody hopefully like a 10,000 foot view of the industry as a whole, particularly focusing on the u s market. What's the sales outlook touching on some of the mega trends that, that we've been hearing about a lot. So electrification, mobility as a service, autonomous driving where we see the market playing out for that. We'll also sprinkle in some global trends as well in some, some global dynamics because it's hard to talk just about us without having a broader context of how the market's behaving or how the industry is behaving in other markets as well. So this is a, a, it is a very interesting industry in that there are a lot of different drivers impacting it and some of them are very tactically focused. Like, you know, we've got to sell pickup trucks if we want to pay for everything we want to do in, in the next 10, 15, 20 years. So there's very tactical side of it. And then there's a very strategic megatrend side to it too. Yeah. Intersect. Scot:                      So in the vehicle 2.0 framework, we talk about four topics. We talk about changing ownership connected car and then electrification and autonomy. I'll give you kind of a toss up. Which of those do you, would you like to jump into first? Mike:                    I think electrification would be an interesting one to jump right into. Yeah. Because, that is where we're seeing the amount of, there's, there's activity in all of those categories. So I don't want to, I'm not trying to diminish any of them, but boy, in terms of electrification, if you were to ask me three or four years ago, I would say, yeah, there's a lot of talk around electrification, but you know, we still haven't necessarily seen as much of the rubber hitting the road as it were. The capital being spent. Well that's changed mightily over the last few years. And we are seeing the capital being deployed and in fact we're on the cusp of seeing a multitude of new electrified vehicles being launched. Mike:                    Now that begs the question, will there be consumers are you know, ready to buy right now? Last year, I think the market was about 1.3% was true fully electric vehicles. Now the devil's in the details there as to when that inflection really starts, but for sure there won't be a lack of offerings. And that's the interesting thing. You look at a Tesla who has really just done a fantastic job kind of assuming leadership in that, in that space. Now we'll start to see some and other initial a competitors starting to enter in. Scot:                      Yeah. And then I, I know it's a small percent, but if you start, you know, I've seen some reports where if you look at a certain slice starting to be material like you know, there's like this 50 to $60,000 where has that disrupted some of the German makers? And there's this kind of reaction. Mike:                    No, absolutely. So when you look at, when you look at that space, and again, tussle is a great example with that. They've come in and entered that in really started to disrupt the luxury category as an example. And it's not, you know, shouldn't be as a surprise that we see new players coming out, whether it be Jaguar, I pace Adi, each run new sort of existing luxury players saying we're getting into that, we're jumping into that space. We, you know, we need to have compelling offerings and they're coming to market some very, very solid offerings in their own right. But it is very material in those, I don't want to, I don't want to diminish that either by saying those was 1.2 1.3% when you start sliced slicing and dicing it down the vehicle segments. Yeah. Boy, it's, it's important in the automakers see the need for it as well, frankly, because a lot of times we can sometimes think of the u s almost in a vacuum and maybe get constrained by, Oh, you know, it's not a huge percentage rate just yet. Um too. There's growth certainly. But then when you look at Europe and you look at China, we're really other Asia, a lot of growth coming down the pike. So it behooves the automakers to have that sort of broader strategy to be thinking about it. Scot:                      Okay. And then within EV, do you guys project when will it like a 10% or number or anything like that? Mike:                    That's a good question. It depends on the market. That would be my first, my first caveat. But when we look at the u s market, the North American market as an example, we see that as probably closer to 2028, 2030 timeframe. Whereas if you look at China in and Europe, it's going to be, it'll be sooner than that. It'll be an advance of that. And part of that is we've got a government and regulatory decrees and, and rules and regs coming down the pike in Europe and in China as an example that are really helping to foster that acceleration as it worked. It's not that we're not focused on it here. We sure are. When you look at the California resources board and Carb, but at the same time we're a little bit at loggerheads between that and cafe and, and there's still that is yet to be fully vetted yet or fully decided and once we get some more resolution to that, we could see some additional acceleration on that front as well. Scot:                      Cool. Awesome. What do you want to talk about next? Mike:                    Yeah, you know, autonomous is another hot topic. Obviously when we see all of the, the, the executions out there in terms of different deployments in, in, out west and well almost anywhere really. You've got a lot of different deployments. So it's really stoking a lot of interests and frankly, the technology development going on within that space has been nothing short of phenomenal. Mike:                    I sometimes I do worry that maybe we missed the forest through the trees in that whenever we talk about autonomous, it's oftentimes as anchored by l four and l five and for any listeners in, we'll have your l four l five means that the vehicle can essentially drive itself. L four, it can drive itself, but it's still a steering wheel and pedals, l five no steering wheel, no pedals. And to be sure if you look at our forecast, we see that true call it mass deployment further down the line, 2030, 20, 35 really when we start to see mass volumes on that end, because of a lot of hurdles we still need to really surmount. Probably the least of which is technology. The more focused right now is regulatory, legislative in liability and insurance. There are a lot of things that we're going over and we will overcome those. Mike:                    But in the meantime, I don't mean to diminish that either, to say that it's not happening because it is, we're seeing it than being deployed in certainly fleets scenarios. We're seeing them deployed in, you know, obviously geo-fenced areas, controlled environments even to this day. And there is a lot of opportunity out there within that space. But the other side of that coin, which I do think sometimes gets forgotten, is what would be considered sort of the classic l two l three, you know, autopilots the, the driver assist the advanced driver assist systems. And we're seeing just a lot of development in capital, in investment in that space and technology deployment in that space. So I kind of view both, both, both sides of that coin and you'd look at automakers, automakers themselves as well are, are thinking very dynamically about that. Yes, we have to invest in think about all four oh five, but at the same time they're also looking very strategically at that l two and l three and having solutions out there for consumers to help maybe with more of that consumer pull rather than a push. Um I, and I do think we're going to see maybe a little bit of bifurcation where you see 'em, you know, a fleet environment around mobility as a service that is supported and enabled by autonomous as that technology develops further. Scot:                      And then so just make sure I understand that. You mean? So like long haul transportation maybe or? Mike:                    That's a great example too. I D I even, yeah, I wasn't even referring to that, but you're absolutely right. But yes, elements of that long haul transportation can even bridge between sort of that l two l three into l four l five and in on that medium and heavy space. So when we were thinking about that, so class eight vehicles, the big rigs, semi trucks and trailers, As they're moving freight, there are opportunities around there as well at talk to folks out in the sort of the central us when they're thinking about some of the the, the legislative bodies in some of these states are actually contemplating creating highways that are autonomous zones, autonomous lanes in being able to, so maybe it's not autonomous on the city streets, but once you hit the highway, you can enter into more of an autonomous mode. Maybe you need a safety driver for certainly a period of time, but there are those activities going on on right now as well within this, within this space that even kind of transcend sort of the consumer quote unquote consumer market or the light vehicle market. Scot:                      Do you, so in electrical it was interesting because you have China, we'll probably get there before the u s do you see other countries ahead of us in AV, maybe it's the, if the technology's there and I'm a Waymo maybe I just kind of bail on u s and go to a children's thing or another country. Mike:                    AV can enable it can enable mobility differently in different markets. I would say that that's how we're kind of envisioning that as well and sort of that disruption. So it's a fair point. I think the, the, the interest in the of intensity and investment is certainly significant here in the u s so I'm not downplaying that. But at the same time when you look at a China in, in the congested areas and it's, it's definitely an emerging market for sure. And there is a high where it's going through a bit of a rough patch. We saw a sales contraction last year. We've gotten a little more forecasted this year, but at the same time there is, we do expect there to be growth in that market, but I do think that that growth in that market will, it will resemble maybe less of a developed market as we traditionally think about it less than the sort of the u s profile and more of a mixed profile that's going to be enabled and aided by autonomous and sort of that mobility as a service. So there's no doubt we are seeing investment going on in China too in the autonomous space as well. But I, I don't see it necessarily as a zero sum game yet where we lose in China winds necessarily on this. Mike:                    It's, it's kind of going where the money is in terms of where there's the potential to move people. You look at the u s in maybe the Midwest where you've got maybe a little bit more of a suburban sprawl if you will. In rural, maybe it's a little bit more challenging, but I'll tell you, we've got a lot of very large cities and don't even have, they don't even have to be the large metropolises talking today in an area that can be very conducive to moving people like that. And so there can, there definitely can be some very profitable business cases around that. Scot:                      Well and then I was talking about changing ownership and then one of the, one of the, as I've dug into those models that the key driver is AV. So, you know, once you take that driver out, you can get from kind of $3 a mile down to dollar mile. We had a robust discussion on that. Where do you fall on the changing ownership models? Do you see us going to mobility as a service kind of a model? Mike:                    You know, I think it's, it, it is interesting because I, and I still wrestle with some of, and this even came up I think in, in, in, in your conversation yesterday as well as I've been thinking about it in terms of carrying that capital asset. You know, if we're, if we're shifting that burden, if you will, to another entity, how do we get 'em, how do we get approved, you know, the requisite cost to capital paid for return on investment. And at the end of the day we as, until we get to the point where we're kind of all writing in these moving pods that are sort of nondescript. And I'm not saying we'll necessarily ever truly get there because I'm not sure I maybe in certain, again, megaplexes larger cities, metropolises where where it's all about moving people. And I would dare I say more of a disrupter to mass transit than traditional car ownership. When you, especially when you think about the u s it's still pretty ingrained outside of those larger cities, that personal car ownership experience. But you start going into, again going back to China or in India and you think about truly the business of moving people ability as a service I think is going to play a very sizable role in that, in that discussion, in executing that strategy. Scot:                      So, so you guys have an Evie forecast Nav forecast. Do you kind of do a, you know, an ownership, do you see new car sales kind of tapering off in 2030, 2035 as those drivers. Mike:                    You had a great slide yesterday that showed countable precipitous fall off. And then there was another one that was a little bit more of a, a feathered approach. And I'll describe that and I would say we're more than that feathered approach. And what do I mean by that? I mean we're going to see very much right now, especially if we, if we look at the u s market and break it down, it's very much a, a retail based with a layer of fleet in that fleet might be daily rental, it might be commercial fleets, things like that. But clearly the preponderance is, is retail as we go forward and we start bringing in mobility as a service to a greater extent as we bring in autonomous mobility as a service. What we're going to see is we're going to see that fleet model growing and we're gonna see that retail model contracting somewhat. But net net were there is a, I would say there's an a a net maybe low single digit headwind to vehicle sales. Mike:                    All things held equal due to autonomous and mobility as service. But at the same time we don't see a cataclysmic fall off you because of other things at play. And you could say the classic cases, well we're not using vehicles as efficiently right now because they're sitting in our garage, you know, 2021 out of 24 hours a day or 23 out of 24 hours a day. So if we're using them at even 18 hours a day more efficiently, haha you know, we, we won't need as many vehicles and I would submit a couple things. I do believe we may not need as many vehicles in operation. So if you think about that 278 million vehicles on the u s roads right now, we may not need that. We definitely see there being maybe a bit more disruption in terms of vehicles on the road because we will be using them more efficiently, but they're, by using them at such a rapid clip, suddenly when we're talking about driving a vehicle 12,000 miles a year, that could go up to 90,000 miles a year, a hundred thousand miles a year. Mike:                    So we start getting into duty cycles and replacement now that the sort of the converse to that is yes, but if they're electrified, they should be able to go longer to and absolutely. That's, that's definitely, that's definitely true too. We'll see that average vehicle age stretch, we'll be able to see that, that again, duty cycle stretch as well. But we do see some pros and cons of that where we don't necessarily see it as a death of the car, if you will. From that perspective or, or to the extent we start to see more disruption, it's gonna be further on down the line as you do start to see mobility as a service. Maybe take up even or, or go on the uptake even more. Scot:                      Yeah. And then there's always unintended consequences. Like I showed a chart where ride sharing Uber and Lyft have caused people to take more trips. So it's actually cause congestions in cities. Mike:                    That is a great point though. And it was very interesting to see that because I remember, I think it was last year, maybe late last year, maybe summer of last year, that came to a head in New York. I was in New York presenting at a banking conference and it was around that time, I think mayor de Blasio had been starting to pass down some decrees about, look, we've got to reign in all of this, you know, all the Uber and Lyft and mobility as a service and taxi because it has, it's blown up congestion. But you scratched on the surface of another. And even in your talk yesterday too, when we talk about total miles traveled, that, that concept of vehicle miles travel, you know, it's over well over a trillion or what have you. In the US as an example, what we are, what we, I would expect us to be able to do is really be pushing that curve out further. Mike:                    Suddenly we're going to be introducing mobility to more of the masses. Think about you know, folks that are, you know, have some sort of impairment, maybe blow a blind person who obviously can't drive right now, but suddenly he or she can, you know, push a button and someone who card come pick them up. Whereas before they may not get out as much or maybe they're using mass, like it's gonna Force to, a lot of times this discussion around mobility as a service and autonomous gets, gets wrapped around what's the auto industry gonna do with rightfully so. It's one of the ones that could be disrupted and you know, in the process of, you know, adjusting to it. Mass transit is another one in, I don't know how we necessarily navigate that. I don't know that that story has been fully written yet because you bring up New York is that great example. We've got subways, we've got buses, we've got cabs, and already some elements of those have been disrupted somewhat. You'd look at car rental and hold that whole concept there. Those folks in the car rental business are trying to adjust and adapt accordingly. Rightfully so. And there they're doing some really interesting work in their own end. So nobody's sitting still in this. But I don't think the story's fully, fully written yet. Scot:                      Yeah. To your capital and who's gonna, who's gonna pay for all these vehicles? That's the one segment that already is comfortable buying a lot of vehicles taking on the cap x load. Mike:                    That's right. That's right though. Scot:                      OEM's aren't and you know the, the dealers aren't and you know Lyft and Uber Aren't, but, the rental car companies, they have no problem saying Y'all put a thousand, I'll drop a thousand cars and LGA. Mike:                    And that's exactly it. And in the built that expertise up over decades, you think about that in terms of being able to adjust for that risk and, and shift on the fly as it were to, to, to, you know, make sure that that load, that vehicle load is balanced out where whatever region they may be looking at. So I do think they're gonna have a role in this. I think dealers, we mentioned, I think dealers are going to have a role if you think about fleet management, fleet maintenance. We were talking in an earlier session about subscription services. A really interesting concept, particularly in the used vehicle space because if you can create a sort of a cost effective solution for a buyer, maybe it's a, maybe it's a subprime buyer or you know, somebody in that, in that sort of category where they would be paying an exorbitant interest rate. But now through through interest rate arbitrage some sort of capital provider could base and maybe it's the, maybe it's a dealer, maybe it's a buy here, pay here, date dealer that can offer a true subscription service where that buyer now is going to be almost more quasi renter or they're going to be a customer that will drive that vehicle, pay a monthly fee and that will wrap up insurance. It'll wrap up the vehicle usage itself may be maintenance and repair and all that at a cost effective basis for the, for the consumer. Scot:                      Okay. And then we're up against time. But the last, last kind of kind of wave of innovation is the connected car. And there's kind of two elements out of, there's kind of like the in-dash and improving the customer experience, but then there's also an interesting, you know, a lot of people project that that data will then be used improved infrastructure and talk to cities and that kind of thing. Mike:                    Yes. And that's what we've seen, we, we see a lot of development in that space. We've already seen, you know, some certainly, but we expect to see even more. And frankly we have to things like vehicle to vehicle communication, vehicle to infrastructure, communication. In order to make this autonomous concept really work, we've got to get these vehicles talking to each other, we've gotta get these vehicles talking to the infrastructure. The true concept around connected car on that sense needs to happen in order to enable all of this. And so automakers themselves are, are obviously working feverishly on that, on those categories as well. You know, it used to be automaker just had to design and build a vehicle, you know, and didn't break hopefully and start to form a brand around it. Now they are moving into propulsion, alternative propulsion systems, autonomous technology, connected car technology. Mike:                    And then eventually we can start talking about, and you talk about data, data usage, data ownership. If we're in a true l five self driving vehicle and you're not having to drive, can Google start running ads? You know, we'll, we'll, we'll other buyers or other ad creators if you will, by space on your dashboard, by space on your windshield. Just to, you know, sell you something or you know, if you think of the Amazon model, you know, I know you bought this last week, you might be interested in this. And, and suddenly you've got a whole other business model where that data that's being generated maybe worth a lot more than people are thinking. Absolutely. Scot:                      Cool. So where do you think happens to these different constituents are that will lay all find a home? Is someone going to be kind of the future Brontosaurus in this world? Mike:                    That's the, that's the billion dollar probably trillion dollar question right now because there is so much investment going on in this space. And like I alluded to earlier, you know, at the end of the day, if I'm an automaker, I still gotta sell pickup trucks and utility vehicles because that's paying the bills right now. And yet you've got a lot of venture capital on of Capitol in general, just flooding into this market. I guess that would be though, and it's not uncommon, don't get me wrong, but it's one of those things that I, I do look at it and I, I worry a little bit is we haven't had that, it's been 10 years really since the big recession. We're bound to cyclical industry. So capital patients has been actually pretty patient I think in the overall scheme of things. But how does that patients test it? Mike:                    If do have a downturn, does this proliferation of players, do we start to see some consolidation? I think we will. I think from an automaker perspective we're seeing a lot of collaboration and I think it makes a lot of sense. You look at Ford with Volkswagen, you look at GM with Honda as an example with autonomous, I think we're going to see more and more of that because at the end of the day, these automakers have limited buckets of money and they have to deploy that capital strategically. And I think it's a, it's, it's a much more sound solution is to partner where you can to help to spread some of those costs out. And I think the more we do that and we're doing, we're, we're executing on that strategy, I think the better. And I think inevitably you will start to see some consolidation in some of these different disciplines, whether it be, again, the subscription services and those players are connected car space and you know, even the downstream suppliers that are feeding into all of this. Mike:                    That's the thing we've seen on just speaking from the supplier perspective, we saw that we're seeing suppliers actually carving out some business where it's not strategic anymore and bringing on new business to Bolt-on to broaden the new strategy that they have. Very healthy. So all of that I think is actually very healthy, but I think we're going to see more of that too. Scot:                      Very cool. So last question if a, so really enjoyed the conversation. If folks want to learn more and follow your research. Mike:                    Yeah. Scot:                      Do you publish that out on Linkedin or Twitter or where do they Mike:                    So yeah, I'm on Linkedin under Mike Wall, IHS market. Www.Ihsmarket.Com and that's m a R K I t.com. We have a load of research on there, particularly looking at our, in our automotive practice, and certainly folks can reach out to me directly. Happy to chat on the industry anytime. Scot:                      Awesome. Thanks Mike. We appreciate you taking time out of busy day to speak with us. Mike:                    You Bet. Thank you!

This week on the podcast, I catch up with my guitarist Mike Russo, who has co-written many of my favorite songs with me, including “Do the Bruce Campbell”, “1984” and “Mike Russo Cut Your Hair” (surprise!). Mike and I reminisce on our thirteen years of friendship, our tour with mc chris, how Napster created a new wave of musicians, and the world of college music booking. Recorded on the eve of our recent Boston show with Big D and the Kids Table, we talk about “This Gigantic Robot Kills” and how Mike's Megadeth-inspired guitar playing technique helped give the live MC Lars band a live "rap metal" sound I always wanted. It gets hella real!! Thanks Mike! Special Guest: Mike Russo.

A quick sit down with the influential and social justice champion Michael DeVaul. We discuss family, youth leadership and the meaning of self-less love. Thanks Mike!!!

How much time do you spend planning an RV route? Can you trust the campground reviews you find online? Could you use some practical help in not driving too far and coming up with a comprehensive map and route that will take all the hassle out of trip planning? And do you want to save money doing so? If you could use some help in any of those areas, then stay tuned because in our interview of the week, we’ll talk about a tool Jennifer and I just used on a long trip that even allowed us to keep to our 330 Rule for RV travel. Plus, lots of RV news, your RV Lifestyle questions, and off the beaten path report from the Burketts and much more. Show Notes for Episode #248 June 26,2019 of The RV Podcast: WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK Jennifer, Mike and Bo on a hike last week in the Adirondack Mountains MIKE - We’re back now from a big trip out east, mostly in and around the Adirondack Park region of upstate New York, with a couple of days in the Finger Lakes district and then down to what has been voted the best state park in America – Letchworth State Park south of Buffalo (I was one of the travel writer judges for the USA contest that so designated Letchworth, by the way). Much of our travels and discoveries will be fully detailed in a soon-coming Seven Day Adventure Guide to the Adirondacks. And we’ll also have a couple of YouTube videos coming, too. JENNIFER - The park itself is immense, bigger in size than greater in size than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Parks combined.  It was created in 1892 by the State of New York to protect the land from too much lumbering and clear cutting. It is a constitutionally protected “Forever Wild” area. Of the Adirondack Park’s 6 million acres, 2.6 million acres are owned by New York State. The remaining 3.4 million acres are privately owned. MIKE - As such, the Adirondack Region is the largest publicly protected area in the contiguous United States. It is also home to 105 towns and villages. There is often a misperception that the Adirondack Park is a national or state park, yet the region’s mix of public and private land allows for conservation and civilization to thrive. JENNIFER - We were out in the Adirondacks to get lots of photos and information for one of our Seven Day Adventure Guide books. We hope to have it finished in several weeks and it will join a growing library of these guides that will eventually cover every region we can think of that will be of interest to RVers in North America. MIKE - We have four of our Seven Day Adventure Guides already published with many more planned. Also we want to point out that our Beginner's Guide to Boondockingand our How to Buy an RV books are very helpful for newbies and those looking to get a new RV. We now have a special page with information on all our guides and books at https://rvlifestyle.com/books  Please check them out and share the link on social media with your friends. JENNIFER - But besides the upcoming book, the best way to tell you about this area is with video and Mike is putting together an epic one of all the sights and sounds we experienced in this magnificent state. Look for it Thursday on the RV Lifestyle Channel on YouTube. In fact, there’s so much to see and do there that we think it will take two videos to adequately tell the story, one this week and one next. MIKE – We also want to give a shout out to a listener named Lily who left us this great review of the podcast on iTunes. Says Lili: “Love this RV podcast! One of a handful I listen to regularly and the only RV podcast I listen to regularly. The information is great for all kinds of RV'ers. So many helpful tips, links, and information. And best of all, it's FREE! Thanks Mike and Jennifer, for all your efforts! I travel for work a lot and look forward to each episode!" Please remember to rate and review the show on iTunes or your favorite app. It really helps new listeners find us.

This episode was recorded on may 25th 2019. It's our first episode with no real organization, so its more of a "prologue". listen for yourself and enjoy! hosts: Raf, Erwin, Jonas, Daniel HUGE SHOUT OUT TO DJ MIKE RIZZY for providing the intro and outro beat to our podcast. Thanks Mike for your support, we'll be sure to shout you out on the next episode!

Beer and Sports!April 3, 2019EP 36 Part 1 – Today on Strikeout Beer, Allen and Rapid Dave discuss the Beer of the Week; "Nowhere but Texas" from Legal Draft Beer Co. recommended by Mike Graham. Thanks Mike! Allen will get you a koozie and sticker for the effort!Join us weekly on Facebook to interact during our live show. Follow us on FaceBook, Instragram and Twitter. Subscribe/Follow on Spreaker, iTunes, iHeartRadio and YouTube.The drawing for the Yeti Mug will be between shows tonight so stay tuned!#podcast #beer #sports#drinkup #listen #beeroftheweek #legaldraftbeer #arlington #arlingtontx #texas #texasbeer #drinklocal #localbeer #spreaker #itunes #iheartradio #spotify #instagram #facebook #youtube #strikeoutbeer #beerreview #facebooklive #live #brewery #breweryreview #localbrewery #breweryoftheweek Please take a moment to rate us on iTunes and FaceBook. Thank you!----------------------------------------Connect with Strikeout Beer:Web: http://www.strikeoutbeer.comSpreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/user/strikeoutbeerFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/strikeoutbeer/YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegiprjz2qtNqK2hOURSpwAInstagram: @strikeoutbeerTwitter: @strikeoutbeer----------------------------------------Intro/Exit Music Info:“Fast Modern Rock Song” by Royalty Free Music on Rock Instrumentals for Use in Production Vol. 3 TV Productions, Podcasts, Movies & Jingles from Amazon Music.

Mike Follett is the CEO of Lumens Research. They create eye-tracking software to understand human behaviour and intentions. He has a wealth of experience from a background in Marketing and advertising before he started his own marketing business to really provide scientific solutions. They have some fantastic research into the behaviour of humans. Both understanding the users and the marketers to get them to communicate in a better way. Why listen? This episode is a fantastic educational piece for anyone struggling to create content that connects with people and gets attention and is the sort of thing I wish I'd known years ago. Thanks Mike for his insights! Lumens Research www.lumen-research.com Postary www.postary.com

Ross Brand with your Livestream Universe Update for Tuesday, February 19th, 2019. Our discussion of podcasting microphones tends to focus on either inexpensive USB mics for beginners or those heavier, more expensive studio mics in the $300+ range. But there are good microphone options available for those who have a mixer, audio interface or recorder…and don’t want to spend over $100 on a microphone. Mike Murphy works on the support team at Simplecast and sings the praises of the affordable, versatile and durable Shure SM58. Thanks Mike. You can learn more about Mike Murphy and his gear recommendations at MikeMurphy.co. Later this week, we will look at another solid option in the same microphone class: the Sennheiser e835. Updates on Tuesdays and Fridays. For LivestreamUniverse.com, I’m Ross Brand. Have a great day!

Why Dave Decided to Talk to Mark Lack: From Pro Paintballer to Personal Brander Extraordinaire, Mark Lack has developed lots of skills and strategies that just might be of interest to you. From how to establish your own brand with a budget to how you can score interviews with the celebrities in your industry, Mark and Dave hit it all. This podcast will help you on your journey to perfecting not only your brand but also towards fulfilling your dreams. As Russell always says, “You’re only one funnel away.” Now with this episode you could only be one play away. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business (1:30) Pain Pushes Until the Vision Pulls (5:00) Your Personal Branding is Your “Trojan Horse” (9:24) Do You Create Your Audiences? (11:28) A Personal Brand that I can Afford (13:08) Become the Next Celebrity with Mark’s Celebrity Secret (18:20) Why Dave Loves Mark’s Business (20:03) You Can’t Ask If You’ve Never Given, Just Try and Ask Chase Bank (21:54) Shows = Success Quotable Moments: (1:59) “It was so cool being like a glimpse of a rockstar in my own paintball world. But Monday through Friday I was miserable at school. I just couldn’t wait to get out and go back to the place that made me feel significant.” (5:14) “Direct response marketing is how we get started with people, but as soon as you get started with people that personal brand becomes extremely critical.” (12:14) “That’s the best part and what I love about Entrepreneurship: we don’t need qualifications, we don’t need any of that stuff, we just need results” (21:49) “Interviews is like one of the secrets to a lot of big names success. How many big name people have their own show Other Tidbits: People rarely go onto social media to get sold something, BUT they do go onto social media do buy someONE There is never any better dollar spent than the one that helps your omnipresence Transparency helps you to develop more LASTING and TRUE fans Important Episode Links: ShortenTheGap.comFunnelHackingLive.com FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- [00:00] Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. [00:17] Everybody. Welcome back to funnel hacker radio. I'm your host, but most importantly, the person who I'm bringing on happens to be the personal branding guy and he has his own TV show, business rock star. So without any further ado, mark, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. He rock. I'm so excited to have you. This is been a ton of fun. We were just talking about, uh, he, I actually used to live not too far from where you're at right now. And one of my favorite places in the world down there in southern California. Indeed. Beautiful view of the ocean up on the mountains. I'm jealous. It's where it is here in Boise, but that's how I want to make sure we kind of dive right into this. First of all, congratulations on business rockstars. That's a massive, massive TV show for those of you guys have flown Delta. [01:03] You've probably seen it on there. If not, they've got podcast, they've done a ton of crazy things and mark's had the opportunity of interviewing Louis, some of the world's most profound and influential entrepreneurs and everything else out there, but the cool thing for me is kind of your whole story. I was a kind of go through some of this stuff prepping for the podcast today and one of the things mark I loved was, I think it was the quote from Tony Robbins that you use that pain pushes until the vision pulls us. If you don't mind to expound on that a little bit and then I'm going to dive right into this whole personal branding thing. Yeah. So you know, for me it's one of those things in life where I think you hit that moment where you just know you're going to make that change and if you're not there yet, you're probably experienced that at some point. [01:47] But for me, it was when I looked at my life and I realized Monday through Friday was miserable in school and the weekends I felt like a rockstar because that was one of the top professional paintball player traveling all over the world. It was so cool being like a little glimpse of the rockstar in my own little tiny paintball world. But Monday through Friday I was miserable at school. I hated it. I just couldn't wait to get out and go back to the place that made me feel significant. And so what I realized was I had to figure out how to make money to Friday, phenomenal. And I went on youtube and Google because I'm so lucky that I grew up in an era where the Internet exists and I can do that. And I came across Tony Robbins, of course, right? Trying to improve your life and get motivated. [02:27] You're going to cost the guy. And so I just started watching his videos and he said so many incredible things. You've got to be come the best version of yourself. You've got to always grow. You've got to contribute beyond yourself. And one of his quotes as well as, you know, pain pushes until the vision pulls. And so for me, I never actually had a vision for the life that I wanted to create. And so it wasn't until I decided that I thought the coolest thing ever would be to be a professional athlete. And so weirdly enough I got into paintball doing it and I only wish it was a different sport or I would have made a lot more money. But, uh, it ended up being paintball. I learned a lot of lessons, but I, as I started studying Tony Robbins, that led me into entrepreneurship and to this whole new world of how you can literally create the life you want impact so many people through business and have an uncapped earning potential and the entrepreneurial world. [03:16] And I was like, oh my gosh, I want to become a pro at that. Like created this vision for my life. And that ended up pulling me into the direction that I am today. And most people have to push themselves, right? Pain pushes. You have to push yourself to do the mundane tasks that you don't want to do. Oh, I gotta go to the gym today. You have to push yourself, motivate yourself with the pain until you have a vision. I'm going to the gym everyday now having to get into the best shape of my life because I have a vision. I'm creating the most successful abundant team and business that I possibly can because I have a vision and the vision pulls me. It motivates me to want to become my best. So it's powerful quote and it's led me to creating the life that I have. [03:55] Oh, I love it. It's funny, last night I was with the boys and my wife and the, uh, they were watching the new rocks. A shell. The titans. Yeah. Yeah. I love that thought. I was watching it too, these crazy guys on there and all of a sudden we felt so it was kind of like watching a rocky movie or something like that. That's my vision. I'm going to get on there. I'm going to do this. I think it's really cool because I believe that's so important these days, especially with. You may have mentioned that in your earlier life kind of feeling bullied and everything else, just not fitting in and I think that's the hardest thing for a lot of entrepreneurs. They don't really have a circle of friends that supports them. They don't have people who are there encouraging them and so there's that, that aspect as far as the need for the vision and I think it ties in so well to what you become so good at and that's that whole personal branding thing and I think the vision and would that personal brand. [04:46] I've seen it here with click funnels and some of the things that we've been doing and and the large that vision gets, the easier it is to create a personal brand around where you want to go. And so with that I'd like you to of share a little bit about. Because I hear all the time, you know, branding and I was one of those guys I grew up in the direct response marketing things. You know, who cares about branding. Branding doesn't matter, right? It's all about direct response marketing and it's been fun for me to see how important that branding has actually become a. I think when I look at marketing these days, direct response marketing is, is how we get started with people, but as soon as you get started with people, that personal brand becomes extremely critical. Again, I call it, I call it the Trojan horse. [05:25] It is. I'll get into that. Let's, let's dive right in and they don't care to hear from me. They want to hear from you, so let's dive right in. So the reason why I call it the Trojan horse and you hit it on the head, it's like direct response marketing is the ideal scenario. Puts something out, see the data instantly in real time and know if it's working. We're branding is kind of like you're really betting on the long term success. You're not going to get any short term benefit from branding. So trust me, I come from the direct response marketing world, probably half the books behind me, our marketing books, and because who doesn't want to put something out that they created and get instant gratification or at least results to make a pivot. I'm all for that and I think a lot of people should start there, but I also think we live in this new era where you know, nobody's going on, for example, they have no one goes on facebook with a credit card and says, Hey David, do you want me to get you anything? [06:16] Right? Absolutely right. Hey, by the way, I'm going on youtube. Did you want anything? No one says that. And so although billions of dollars are, you know, invested from advertisers and people like us in the direct response marketing space, we get to make a lot of money online hopefully. And it's fantastic, but we all know that it's incongruent to why the person's going on there. And so you and I can go to church and somebody could come up and try to sell us something. And if they were really good, we feel good about it. And we would lie, but the regular person who tries to go into the church and sell people, it's going to be weird. We're going to look at each other like why is he selling this at the church? But a really good person would make us feel good about it and we would like that the process. [06:58] And so most people, when they see ads on social media, they hate it because they're not on there for ads. Most people are very upset and in fact, I'm sure you know, you can see all the hate and the comments on ads. I'm getting so much hate and all my comments on ads from half of them. Right? And so you got to have thick skin. My point is people don't go on the platforms to have ads put in front of them, let alone to buy something. Now, obviously if you build a funnel and click funnels, you can do it really effectively. And clickfunnels has played a huge role in our success because of the back end systems and processes. But the reason why I call it the Trojan horses, because people go on social media for content, so here's the crazy thing, a business and we can agree with this, is that a business is going to be as successful as the problems it solves, and so if you can solve bigger problems at scale, you're going to get paid more money and businesses solve problems through products and services. [07:55] Right now when you go on social media, you might have a problem that a product and service can solve for you, but you're not on there to buy and so you have to be really good with your process and your campaign and your retargeting, your funnels to get them to buy and to do it in a cost efficient way. Here's the crazy thing. You can also solve a problem with content and you can do that with a personal brand because it's arbitrage. It's, it's the they're on. They're seeing a person with a person's name, not a company name. They're seeing a person with a person's name just providing content with no links, no pitch, no call to action, no nothing. If you're interested in weight loss, I could sell you products on weight loss or I could just give you education on the right food to eat the right exercises to do the right habits and mindset shifts you have to do to commit to the goal, and I could give you all of that information for free so as you start to know me like me and trust me because I've been giving you education and content for free and I've been paying to put it in front of you just like I can pay to put an ad in front of you, but the difference is you receive my content so much better because it's educational in nature, not salesy, and then I can pixel you and I can retarget you with more content and as I see you engage more with my content, I can create a custom audience bucket and only retarget my advertisements to the people who have been consuming my content. [09:23] I love that. I think that I'm going to stop you right there because I think I love what you're talking about because I. I mean, we become a content mill and we joke around all the time here in the office, well, you know, what's the cost of the b roll? It's all about. Got to find some way. How can we set this up? So because it doesn't. It has to be engaging, but I think the part that I love what you said is so important. Session for people who are just getting started. We're, we're funds are tight. A lot of people throw all this money to facebook and they get frustrated and it doesn't work. I'm like, it doesn't work because you don't have the right audience and so if you can create the correct audience by retargeting them and creating that bucket of a look like audience and things where people have actually consumed your content and who people who are like those other types of people, it allows those ad dollars to go so much further. So I think that's great. I love that Trojan horse approach [10:11] between our clients and our own companies. We've tested tens of millions of dollars and the advertising and the content marketing space and we've found that on average content, meaning you uploaded on facebook or instagram and you pay the platform to put it in front of a targeted audience, but you do not add a link that takes them off the platform. Soon as you add a link, it's considered an ad and it costs 10, five to 10 times more to run an ad than a piece of content so we can cut up a 62nd clip from this interview. I could upload it on instagram or facebook and I can put it in front of anyone on the Internet and it'll cost five to 10 times less to just have people see that and then as they start to know me and I can reach. So if you and I had the same budget and you only ran ads, hopefully you know what you're doing or you're going to go through your budget quick. I could spend half my budget reaching 10 times more people and then only run my ads to the people that saw me at scale. [11:10] I love that. I think it's the part where people miss the boat so much. We're under a lot of people are just producing a ton of content that is just content for content sake and I think it's one thing that you've. I love the content. I see that you're producing out there. It's high, high value, you know, even if you take a look at your facebook page on impact and influence, they're just the interviews and the things that you've done with people and you're providing so much value out there, whether it was whoever was with, um, but I think that the part that people need to understand is you can provide massive content without having to spend a whole bunch of money to create that content. So if you don't mind, talk a little bit about how can a person build their own personal brand on a limited budget but create massive content. Has fantastic [11:54] question. One of the best things you can do when you're starting your personal brand, and this is really anything. This is what most people try to aspire to get down the road. But it's so funny. And entrepreneurship. I think a lot of people wait until they feel qualified, they wait until they feel like they have permission or an invitation, and that's the best part about what I love about entrepreneurship is we don't need qualifications. We don't need any of that stuff. We just need to get results and so what you have to understand and how this relates to personal branding is the best thing you can do with a personal brand to collapse five years of time into your first year of personal branding authority positioning, how to become the expert, truly attend in one year as you align yourself with people who have 10, 20 years of credibility and authority, and you do that in the form of a show. [12:44] Just like you and I are doing interviews now. I align myself with Daymond John from shark tank, grant Cardone, Russell Brunson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tony Robbins, Tai Lopez, Lewis House, and all the other amazing men and women that I can name that you most of those names you might recognize because they've built 20, 30 year personal brands. Very successful. So if I align myself with them not selfie at an event with the backdrop and a name tag, I'm talking about aligning myself with them in an intimate environment and the form of an interview where we're having a dialogue and sharing a conversation and value for an audience after doing that enough times, sometimes even once, I will be then perceived as the next celebrity just because I've been around all the celebrities and you've seen me with all the celebrities and I'm the next person. Right? And so you can become so big from your own show, but how do you get a big celebrity person to say yes is your first guests. [13:39] Now I don't think maybe you should get your first guest is a celebrity. I think you should get good first with some smaller interviews, but when you're ready, just so you know the ace up the sleeve anytime you want, the way that you get a big person to say yes to your show is you say, grant Cardone, Russell Brunson, whoever. I'd love to have you on my show and whenever it makes sense this year that you want lots of pr and awareness because it's all about timing. For the big name people. It's all about timing. If they say no, it's because you ask during the wrong season the wrong time, so don't ask. How about next month? Say when this year all big dogs have their year mapped out. When this year do you have something coming up, a book launch and event, a charity, anything that you want lots of attention and pr and awareness on because when, when so and so grant cardone or Tony Robbins, you've ever comes on my show, I'll guarantee they get 200,000 views from entrepreneurs, from college students, from millennials, from baby boomers and no one ever asks the question with how big is your audience? [14:40] Where are they going to lose? Because they're like, wow. He picked a number and set it, and so when you get the interview, you upload it on facebook and instagram and you just pay money. Promote the interview to the targeted audience of your choice and then plugging engagement pixel on it, so all the people that see you with Tony Robbins or Gary Vaynerchuk, grant Cardone, you can retarget them with your next big name, interview and your next big and memory, so eventually you become omnipresent. You're everywhere in the same industry. Have the same people and you become a big fish in a small pond. Wait a minute, you're dave, the guy who interviews all the big name people. I love your show and then you retarget them later with your products and services because now they know, like, and trust you. Think Ellen Degeneres, Oprah Winfrey, all those people have blown up from just interviewing people and having a show and then it creates your content and in an authoritative way and then it forces you to have to promote it to lots of people and you're probably more comfortable investing the money to do that because you know it's going to be valuable when it's you with an authority figure than just promoting your own content to that many people. [15:44] So that's, that's something that'll blow your brand up. [15:49] I love it. I think the part people have to understand is there's no better dollars to spend than to spend on producing content like that and actually promoting that content. If you, again, if you can go to someone. I love that as far as I'll get this in front of 200,000 people. They're like, holy smokes, how are you doing to me because I just say, okay, a million and I got it. Trust me, I got to shell out the bucks, but like [16:11] I got the interview and I'm building a brand and over the long haul that will pay me 20, 30, 40 x in the long run. So [16:21] I love it. I think. I hope people are, as you guys were listening to what I love that you said right there, mark is over the long haul and I think that's. You have to understand you're in this for the long game. Everyone's out there just trying to make a quick buck real fast. Yeah. That never ever works on branding, but more importantly you can't. I think that you're going to get to the status that you want in life for the significance or whatever term you want to use without playing the long, blonde game. I don't care. You got to put in your 10,000 hours on here what term or an analogy you want to use. To me, that's the most important thing is to realize you're in this for the long haul, so awesome. [16:55] I try to tell people, look, if you want the achievement and the destination, that's fine. I think we all do in some level, right? We all, we want the achievements, the destination. That's what keeps us going. You got to set the bar and keep growing and keep going forward, but I think that if you fall in love with the process and you fall in love with the journey, then any achievement at any destination will happen. Like all these guys talk about scaling your business to millions, but what they don't talk about is that scaling is a byproduct of building, testing, reviewing the data and optimizing and never stopping. Building testing, looking at the data and optimizing scaling as the byproduct and all these guys tried to jump straight to scaling. They think they're going to build something. Once I'm going to build one click funnel, I'm going to test it and I'm going to just scale this thing to millions. [17:41] It's like come on guys, you have to build tests, look at the data and optimize constantly nonstop. And then scaling happens as a byproduct and you might scale for a week or a month and then it's going to draw and you got to go back to building and testing. And so yeah, I mean everything. Branding, even direct response marketing, click funnels. It's all a long game and everyone can have their, you know, eight figure, you know, Comma club like you have behind you if they just play the game long enough. Like I was telling you, I said I'm going to have that in 2020 no questions asked because I just, I'm in the game. I'm in the process. I mean the journey and everything [18:17] and I think that's the part I love so much about, especially about what you teach them, what you do is you're actually teaching exactly what you do on a regular basis and for me that's where that can grow and see comes in, especially from a branding standpoint. One of the great things about social media these days is people can pick out a fake real fast and if you're not authentic and you're not transparent and you're not congruent with your message, you might get people at first, but they will not stick. They will not engage. They will not buy the. And I think that for me has been some of the fun stuff as biggest social media's become as the transparency that's out there. I think the other thing I love about what you said Mark, and that is when you're doing those interviews with people, you're providing value to them and it's. [19:01] It's cool for me to see, yeah, you've interviewed a whole bunch of people. More important than that. You've actually developed a friendship with them and that to me is where the long game really comes into play. It's a matter of who you know and and who knows you and and the value that you provide to them. It's so much easier to go and do something with someone after they know that you've already sent them a ton of value, that 200,000, a million, whatever it might be, but when they know that you're playing the long game and your planet for them, man, it just helps you so much for what helps you sleep better at night, but more important that it allows you the opportunity to really grow something that's got legs because when the, when everything falls and it doesn't work, those relationships, at least for me, I know I've fallen back on some of those relationships multiple times when things didn't go exactly the way I want it to, so I love that. That's like [19:49] if people could understand you have to add value first. Right? I love this analogy, like looking at relationships like a bank account, like you couldn't go up to a person or a bank account and ask for a withdrawal if you've never made a deposit first. Like if I walked into chase bank that I don't go to and I'm like, let me get some withdrawals. They're like, you don't, you've never made a deposit. And like that's how people treat relationships is they're like, okay, how am I going to get something from this person and for my business, for my thing, and I look at it the opposite way. Like if you're going to add value, there's so many ways to do it. The obvious one for successful people just pay them money by their program, by their thing, go to their charity and donate. Give them a quick deposit in the form of cash because that's actually deposited, right? [20:31] Like, you know, likes and comments and shares. Those aren't, those aren't deposited at the bank. So just give people money if you can afford to, if you can't, the next commodity that you know, big name, people in business world and celebrities are willing to exchange time for it, right? They'll change, they'll exchange their time for money. Everybody will some price or they'll exchange their time for attention because attention is the new commodity. How much does superbowl charge for a ten second commercial, $5, million bucks, 10 seconds, because so many people are watching. There's so much attention and on social media, we're fighting for attention. It's costing more and more and more every year to get people's attention, and so if you can just figure out how to get anyone in the world's attention and through the form of a show and then pay money to promote that, it's usually a lot cheaper to buy a million views than to buy an hour of a big name person's tone, for sure. [21:27] Think of it that way. It's cheaper for me to buy an hour of your time for my show to promote it than it is for me to pay you to sit down with you and talk to you anyways, and it's the same outcome, but an interview is like a backdoor way to make you feel great because I'm at, I'm talking about you and everyone loves to talk about themselves and then I'm edifying you and doing it in a spotlighted way. So yeah, I mean, interviews is one of the secrets to a lot of big name people. Success. Look at how many big name people have their own show. All of them because we all know you can all you can slop. No, it's funny. You know, Russell and I were talking about this multiple times. It kind of goes back to the whole Arsenio Hall thing back on with trump when he was on the apprentice, and I don't know if you remember that whole story nor centennial hall was, was sitting there and he was trying to. [22:17] Everyone's out trying to raise money and he had all these crazy huge Rolodex, but no one returned his call because he didn't have a show, but when he had a show, the old arsenio hall show years and years ago, everybody would return his call because they knew they were going to get something out of being on a show. Exactly the. That's the part that you need to start and there's nothing better than starting with the show. And I know you've. You've done an amazing job with business rockstars. How in the world did that come about? So business rockstars, thank goodness, has these incredible co founders and investors that have built the whole thing and put it all together and I'm lucky, kind of like a Ryan seacrest of American idol and now k SFM, right? Uh, I get to be the host and the face of the whole show for the primary segment of the show, which is amazing. [23:05] And then I've been able to, because I think like an entrepreneur structure myself as a partner in the company, help kind of direct the social media part of the business which almost never existed before and then actually make them think about different monetization components from the show that they had never thought of. And now it's led to them looking at the business and a whole different way. We're actually acquiring a bunch of membership companies and doing a roll up in an IPO. Crazy, crazy stuff. I'm not dude, I who's the one writing the stuff like the contracts and the checks. These guys are [inaudible], they're in their sixties and they got multi hundred million dollar net worth and they come from the radio, television space. And so the cool thing is is I get to learn from them from their experience and they're looking at this in a way I never would have. [23:52] I was like, we should monetize it like this, this, this, this, this. And they're like, that's great, let's do that. And let's roll up and acquire companies and do an IPO. And I was like, okay, this sounds awesome. So yeah, so it's really cool because we get, I get to like, you know, the ying and the Yang. I got like my younger online social media, digital marketing mindset combined with hey, it's a lot faster to just buy a company than to build it and I'm like that's one way to look at it. So we're just buying companies and then building them with social media and online marketing and that's helping us get to our run rate that we want to do before we go crazy though. And most people think of it as just a shop, but it's so much more than that. Started off a branding kinda like clickfunnels. [24:35] It's so much more than what people probably think. They just think of clickfunnels as I'm having some fun on some acquisitions myself right now. So it's been a crazy stuff. Exactly. Well, as we kind of get close to wrapping things up, I, I know people are going to be dying to find out more of how do they get more from you? What, what's the best way for them to get ahold of you? So whether it's social media, you want to connect with me there, you want to watch a ton of our free content, you want to get free resources and watch some of my interviews, all of that is that shorten the gap.com, Jordan, the gap.com and then you guys have a a course. There's won't masterclass or something. What's that? We've ever, you know, if this fun kind of banter and dialogue has been good for people to choose to tune into and listen to and they want to know more about how they can really position themselves as an authority figure within their industry and then actually monetize that authority. [25:23] I'm just go check out our website@shortenthegap.com slash masterclass and we have a whole 90 minute free training that we put together. Kind of like you guys have so many different incredible free trainings. We've got one ourselves and it's 90 minutes long and anybody who wants a deep dive on personal branding can check that out. No, I love it. Well mark, I appreciate so much your time today and congratulations on all your success. It's super, super excited. I can't wait to, uh, basically presenting the big award to you, uh, next year at funnel hacking live. You cross the state board. I'd love that. Nothing would make me happier. I'm looking forward to appreciate you coming on here and jam with your tribe and uh, always a pleasure to connecting with you. Thanks Mike. We'll talk soon. Thanks again. [26:03] Hey everybody. Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to podcasts. If you don't mind, could you please share this with others, rate review this podcast on itunes. It means the world to me. We're trying to get to as a million downloads here in the next few months and just crush through over 650,000 and I just want to get the next few 100,000 so we can get to a million downloads and see really what I can do to help improve and, and get this out to more people at the same time. If there's a topic, there's something you'd like me to share or someone you'd like me to interview, by all means, just reach out to me on facebook. You can pm me and I'm more than happy to take any of your feedback as well as if you'd like me to interview. I'm more than happy to reach out and have that conversation with you so I can go to itunes rate and review this, share this podcast with others, and let me know how else I can improve this or what I can do to make this better for you guys. Thanks.

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For those of you that don't already know Mike Jackness, he runs an ecommerce business approaching 10m a year in revenue, and is the co-host of the EcomCrew Podcast. On the Podcast Mike shares his direct experience with listeners to help them grow their ecommerce businesses. If you've tuned in to our Podcast regularly, you've heard Mark and I talk about how multiple revenue streams increase the overall value of your business (by de-risking it). So…if you want a more valuable business why not expand it to include email? But email marketing is dead right? All junk mail and spam. If that's true why does Mike get an open rate of 30% on his emails…and generate over 52% of his revenue for ColorIt from email? Because it works…and he does it in a “helpful”, customer friendly way. On today's Quiet Light Podcast Mike shares his process with email marketing using Klaviyo, and talks about how their Facebook synchronization feature enhances his customer reach and overall return on investment. The Facebook ads produce a whopping 1500% return on investment! You can learn about Klaviyo through their online training feature, and listen in to the EcomCrew Podcast and pick up additional tips and strategies. Mike and Dave also offer specific training such as importing from China, Launching on Amazon and finding your product niche. Episode Highlights: Using Klaviyo email marketing software to produce over 50% of revenues Add on the Facebook Synchronization piece and boost your ROI (1500% in Mike's case) Email marketing should be “helpful”. Treat the customers the way you want to be treated. The “trifecta” as a marketer includes an email address, a facebook messenger list and have the customer pixel'd. Google, Yahoo, AOL etc. look for a high open rate. Remove customers who don't open emails after 13 weeks. There are no “secret 10 step plans” that work for every model. Know your business variables and apply them to increase your success. EcomCrew Podcast has produced over 150 Podcasts. And yes..the best episode is #88. Knowing the value of your business and planning for an exit – is the smart thing to do. Transcription: Mark: Oh welcome back from Italy. Joe: Thanks man, it's good to be back. Mark: Ah is it really? Joe: Yeah that's a good question, I don't know. Mark: Well welcome back all the same. I'm sure everybody's glad to hear you instead of me for a change. Joe: I'm a little tanner and a little fuzzy. I haven't shaved in a couple weeks. Mark: Yeah. Joe: Haven't trimmed it a couple of weeks I should say. Mark: Haven't trimmed … are you missing the espresso and the- Joe: Oh man café, ginseng, the views of the ocean. We were at the coast for most of the times as you now we're in Rome as well but up in the north and coast of Italy is absolutely gorgeous. Mark: Hey I got a business idea for you. I think you and I need to start a podcast about traveling to Italy and of course, you would have to go onsite for that. Joe: I think it's a great idea. Let's do it. Mark: All right you guys we're going to shut down Quiet Light Brokerage and move on to a new business, new venture; a podcast about Italy but stay tuned for that. But in the meantime, we do actually have something related to Quiet Light Brokerage and that is … and to buying and selling online businesses; you talked to a mutual friend of ours, somebody who's been a friend of Quiet Light Brokerage for a while Michael Jackness. Joe: Mr. Mike Jackness from EcomCrew. Mike and I go back to him at e-commerce shield presentation he did on email marketing and a Klaviyo on what he does within his ColorIt Company, the adult coloring book company. And you would think email marketing is dead but this guy generates 52% of his revenue from email marketing. Has like a 30% open rate and just nails it, hammers it down and produces a ton of revenue that way and does Facebook synchronization. He talks about it all, on his Facebook synchronization that's part of Klaviyo, don't want to get too technical but he gets a 1500% return on investment. You and I have talked about this all the time, diversification of revenue streams does what to a business other than add more revenue; it's more valuable, right? Mark: It absolutely reduces the risk, increases stability, yeah. Joe: That's right. So we talked about that. We talked about the ability to expand beyond your typical just one source of revenue e-commerce business whether it be your Shopify store or your Amazon FBA site using tools like Klaviyo and Facebook Messenger, things of that nature. And then we talked a little bit about EcomCrew what they do there. EcomCrew is yes a podcast Mike and Dave have been doing it for almost three years now and they just simply help people. They've got a … my favorite subject is the under the hood section where they actually talk to an e-commerce owner about the problems within their business and try to help them right there right on the podcast sharing a lot of detailed information for people to help themselves. Mark: That is pretty cool. He has a ton of knowledge absolutely. The podcast they have is fantastic. I think the topic itself is really fantastic especially as people are trying to build up more integrated marketing systems. You know this idea of having their email coincide with a live Facebook audience and the marketing that you're doing there. Really really kind of advanced stuff but really good stuff and those numbers are staggering; 1500% ROI on Facebook. Joe: Yeah, huge. Mark: Incredible. Joe: Huge and he started small. He started testing little things just like everyone else. It's not like he had all this knowledge, he figured it out along the way. And just to put some numbers behind Mike and his expertise he's hoping that 2018 will be the year when his business overall hits the 10 million dollar revenue mark. So he's not a small player, he's doing a great job. Somebody that is now traveling around the world doing presentations and speaking on E-commerce Group Podcast subject and on email marketing and e-commerce in general, so definitely somebody worth listening to. Mark: You know one thing I do want to say before we jump into the episode, when people are listening to these numbers and hearing things like 1500% ROI, 10 million dollars breaking this year, I think it can be really intimidating for some people that are maybe at the beginning stages to hear this and to see all the opportunity and see so many advanced stuff these people are doing. We did an episode with Dan from Science of Skill who pulled about two million dollars of revenue from an email list of about 11 or 12,000 people. We've talked to Bjork Ostrom from Food Blogger Pro who is completely dominating that world. And I think the one thing just to keep in mind if you're hearing these episodes and seeing what some of these people are doing don't be overwhelmed by it and understand something that you alluded to Joe; he's done this over time. Focus on this continual improvement every day, small little group improvements and you can work yourself up. These guys didn't jump up to this in one month they did this over time. Joe: Yeah and on the podcast EcomCrew, he'll talk to and work with people that are doing 50,000 dollars a year in revenue and that's what they do under the hood and they help that. He'll also do it for folks that are doing half a million in revenue or five million in revenue but you know at all stages there's different tools and resources that can be used to help people grow their business. And bottom line is Mike's just a really nice guy. He's an expert in the arena. He's sharing the information. He's not afraid of competition. He says if I share information about my business and competition comes up and bites me in the heels it's because I didn't do a good enough job in promoting my own products. Mark: That's awesome. All right let's get to it. Joe: Hey folks it's Joe from Quiet Light Brokerage and today I've got Mike Jackness on the line with me. Hey Mike how's it going? Mike: Good man, it's good to be here. It's good to see you, I wish it was in person but it's … at least we're actually … we're in the same room. Joe: I agree. Good to see you as well and I know you've been traveling the world, good to be back in San Diego I hear right? Mike: It is man, like I can live anywhere in the world I want. At least we could at the time when we moved here I was like we had a virtual business but it's we're kind of anchored down here now but I want to be here and I feel sad whenever I had to go somewhere because it's San Diego, it's a pretty awesome spot. Joe: Well you got good problems. You're kind of a big shot now; you're travelling the world [crosstalk 00:06:51.0] all over the place. For those folks listening that don't know you why don't you, as you know we don't do formal introductions here at Quiet Light. Why don't you share a little bit of background on yourself? So what your history is, what you're doing now so that they understand who we're talking to today. Mike: Yeah no problem it's always [inaudible 00:07:07.3] to talk about yourself but I'll give it a shot. I've been doing this online marketing stuff for … this dates me for about 15 years. I actually quit my job back in 2004 and I've been doing this stuff ever since. Like some I retired in between a couple businesses that we were doing for a couple years and RVed around the country and got bored of being retired so we got sucked back into the business again and it was an e-commerce this time and we started doing that a few years ago. It's been almost five years now and are on the road to build an eight figure business this year. We'll get to crack eight figures this year or next year and along the way we've been documenting all that on EcomCrew. So it's been a much different environment than what I was doing before which was affiliate marketing where everybody was really guarded; you never talked about anything you did because everyone was kind of a competitor and going after the same traffic. But in e-commerce, it's like this multi-trillion dollar industry and you're never going to be the one selling all the things in your niche. And one of the things that we do is coloring for adults and I always say like I'm never going to select all the gel pens in the world. So talking about what we do and being open about it I think has been cool and yeah it might create some competitors but if they can catch me I feel like it's my fault. It's kind of been my philosophy plus I'm just more secure about everything I do now that I'm a little bit older. And I look at the things that come out of it positively, which is getting to meet people like you which would never happen if it wasn't for EcomCrew and speaking and all these things. So and for the most part like 99% of what we do; helping other people doesn't adversely affect us and for the one [inaudible 00:08:41.9] that does you know so be it whatever. Joe: Well you just touched on it what you do believe and I'm … for people listening EcomCrew is just that. It's what we do at Quiet Light, it's helping other people. Help them first then things come back to you. And I've seen you do presentations on the adult coloring books and the email marketing behind it. I've listened to the EcomCrew podcast; I worked with Dave as you know as well. So I want to talk about both but let's just answer the simple question first about email marketing; you know I'm an old school direct marketer, I've been self-employed since 1997 believe it or not. Mike: Nice. Joe: It was radio direct marketing back then and then the next evolution at that point was email right? As old isn't email marketing dead, are you making any money with it? Mike: Yeah and it's a trick question right, or it's a blue question, it's a softball question. You know when I first got into doing email marketing for e-commerce I felt the same way and I had drug my feet forever and it's probably one of my bigger regrets in this business for a couple reasons. Number one, I think its human nature to approach stuff in life and in business the way that you think about it yourself. So for me, I flipping hate email. It's my biggest nemesis. I cannot get to Inbox 0 no matter how hard I try. It … I'm unsubscribing for more things than I'm subscribing to just to try to get email under control and I just viscerally have this negative hatred in reaction towards email. So you know I didn't want to get into emailing people because I … you know how I am I like to treat others like I like to be treated. So for me, that was the conflict more than anything. It's like I'm going to start emailing people and I wouldn't want to even receive these emails myself. So that was the basis for the whole thing to start with so I was slow at doing it. But listening to other people talk and going to other you know a lot of these conferences and you still hear email as a prevalent thing and it's important; you should be doing email etcetera etcetera. So eventually I started dipping my toes into it and what I realize now many years later first of all email is 52% of our revenue. I was just looking before doing this podcast; it's 52% of our revenue for ColorIt. So it's a massive amount of our business. But our open rates- Joe: That's 52% of nearly an eight figure business. Mike: So just to … yeah [inaudible 00:11:07.1] that's just on ColorIt.com so we also sell on Amazon and Amazon is two thirds of our business so … but it's two thirds of a million dollar business because ColorIt.com does about a million dollars a year. And as a business overall ColorIt is bigger than that because you add in the Amazon component. But yeah what we do on ColorIt.com like when it's our own website and we control all of our own destiny; email marketing is a mass sort of part of that and it has a massive halo effect that you can't directly determine. But it has a massive halo effect on our Amazon business as well. Because people are reading these emails and they eventually go buy on Amazon. We have a lot of data on this but you can't … it's not empirical, you can't tell definitively like exactly what's going on there. But I mean totally you can look at the numbers and say okay by doing these things over here that it's affecting the stuff over here. So it definitely makes a big difference. Joe: Yeah for sure and then we're going to talk about open rates there in the email before I interrupt. Mike: Yeah. So our open rates are close to 30% so they hover somewhere 28 to 32% depending on what stage we are on scrubbing or list. So one of the things that we work really hard on is email deliverability; making sure things end up in the primary inbox, not in spam; that we are providing value to people so they want to open our emails. So that's been a really big angle for us so we kind of use the 80-20 rule here where at least 80% of our emails are helpful and they're not hitchy in any way of what we're trying to sell you something. And it's really more like 90-10. The vast majority of what we send out is helpful tips and tricks or things you want to know. So for instance in the coloring space; how to blend your shade with colored pencils, how to blend with markers or something like that, how to sharpen your pencils. Here's a time lapse video of how to draw this particular drawing and here's a free copy of it. Here's some stuff from our community other people submitted you might want to like it out as well. We're doing a giveaway this month or fan of the month contest. All these types of things that add value and every now and then once every six weeks or so or eight weeks we're releasing a new product and that will be a part of the sequence. Or maybe there's a Mother's Day sale or the month it's going to be come up soon it'd be a 4th of July sale. But very few of our emails are in that realm and most of them are in here are some helpful tips and tricks. So let's apply that to something besides coloring let's like it like tactical.com, your emails will be 10 things to bring on your next hiking adventure, how to prepare for an emergency, things to put in your bug out bag, what to do when the lights go out; whatever the types of things that we're doing in tactical world. Things that are like truly helpful for people especially I mean right now we're getting into hurricane season so we're going to be releasing a lot of content about that. And you know the fact of the matter is that most people just aren't prepared. Like a hurricane comes or an earthquake, a tornado comes whatever and you have no food and water or a flashlight that are is or all dead whatever it might be. It's actually quite helpful to people to bring us the forefront of their mind even if you just think about it for a second you can actually help save someone's life in this case. So these are the types of things we'll provide and every now in that cycle he check out on your products this might help you as well. So the vast majority we do is trying to train people to want to open our emails, to kind of like … you know and humans are very habit forming creatures. It only takes a few times of doing something to make it a habit. So we try to make this a habit for them and that's our approach. Joe: Yeah it seems to have worked with your open rate which is pretty phenomenal. Let's back up a step, what email software are you using; what do you prefer? Mike: So we're using Klaviyo for almost everything at least in the e-commerce space. You know Klaviyo is just heads and tails above everything else when it comes to e-commerce. It has a direct integration with Shopify, you can build segments within Klaviyo, people that have done particular things and then generate emails based off of that. And probably the feature that it has that's most valuable is the ability to then take those segments and synchronize those segments with a Facebook audience and then you can … it can currently run Facebook Ads to that group of people which is highly effective. And the thing that really got me going with this was actually a really funny story because I had just got done presenting at E-commerce Fuel; I think you might have actually been there. I was talking about email marketing and I was like- Joe: That was Savannah? Mike: Yeah. I think it was in Savannah. And I was like gloating about email marketing and all these cool things that we're doing and at the time that I was really … all I really focused on was mostly email marketing. And what I had said there was at the time our open rates where between 20 and 25% which is still double industry average and we've since improved that. But I was really proud of that fact and someone came up to me after the show. A good friend of mine, Kevin Stucco and he was like well what about the 75% of people that aren't opening your email? And I was just like … it was an instant like aha moment. It kind of knocked me down a peg because I was like all … kind of like in that gloating mindset but it was actually a really good point. Even … you know I was looking at it from one perspective of we're double or more than double the industry average on open rates on email. But what he made me think about was what about all these people that aren't opening email. And one of the things that Klaviyo at the same time was coming out with was that synchronization feature. So we started getting really heavy into Facebook Ads. And what you can do is if for instance there's like someone … let's say your average order frequency is 80 days so what we do as a win back sequence at 90 days we offer them a coupon; the comeback as an email. Well, why not run an ad to them, a Facebook Ad at the same time and Klaviyo makes that really easy. So yeah there's going to be basically three things that can happen; either they're going to open your email, they're going to see your Facebook Ad, or they'll do both. Some people going to see both of your email and your Facebook Ad. But either way, throwing the Facebook stuff into it is a much more effective approach. So it's been really successful for us and now we have these Facebook Ads that run 100 or 1500 to 2000% return on Ad Spend. Joe: Wow. Mike: But the most effective ads that we run are- Joe: It's incredible. Mike: Yeah. Because if you think about it I mean it's a super small audience, we're putting a really small budget together and these are like highly primed people. These are someone that's already bought from us. They kind of maybe forgot about us, you send and ad to them 10% off of course they're much more likely to convert than someone that's called traffic. It's way … this is what people forget about in e-commerce; it's way easier to sell someone something the second time than the first time. But the problem is that we all get our high off of getting new customers so that's what we always focus on is those angles. But what really brings the profitability to e-commerce is nurturing the existing customer. Joe: Lifetime value of a customer. Mike: Yeah. Joe: Repeat customer acquisition all that good stuff. So Klaviyo is the software of choice. Your emails separate yourself out from the mass emails that we get just by being as helpful as possible. So you don't wind up in the unsubscribe section and then combine and sync with Facebook which is great to go back out to those folks. On the emails themselves, how many are you sending on a day or week or things of that nature, and do you have any concerns about people opting out and do you make it easy enough for them to unsubscribe? Mike: Yeah. So we were sending millions of emails a month now literally; the number is actually crazy. We were just looking at our Klaviyo account the other day and it shows you the number of emails you've sent out. And in this particular account we're looking at it was actually just yesterday and it was 200,000 emails we had sent out and we were just like four days into the billing cycle. And I was like uh-oh like oh excuse me something might be wrong with … I think they were sending like … maybe people are getting two emails of the same thing or something. We kind of dug into it for a few minutes and realized just like the actual frequency, the number of emails we're sending is like in the millions a month now and it's actually accurate. And that's what we want to be happening it's just that we didn't quite have our … even have our heads around it. Joe: At the millions a month, how many is one individual getting? Mike: It really depends. It depends on how they came in to our system and what part of the sequences that they're in. There are some situations where someone might get an email from us literally every single day. So if they are coming in to one of this new lead magnet flows that we have which is basically I call this this the trifecta; this might be like a little bit of a version of what we're talking about today because we're talking about email but just as a real quick side note the trifecta to me as a marketer is getting them on a Facebook Messenger list, getting them Pixeled so I can also have their Pixel data, and getting their email address. So to me like- Joe: What's the Pixel part? Mike: So the Pixel part is just it when someone visits your website that's a piece of code that you have on your website that the Facebook Pixel or the Google Pixel and by having this script on your website you now know that someone has visited you and you know that they visit a particular pages or that they took particular actions. You don't know individually who they are like I don't know that Joe Valley visited my website today but I … you are in a bucket that I can say like I want to know all the people that did X, Y, and Z and you'll be in the bucket and I can then advertise to you in a particular way by being in that bucket. So what we do for Facebook campaigns or most of our campaigns is this whole … again the provide value first angle. So we'll offer people something for free whether it's free downloadable content, free drawings, a lead magnet whatever might be or offer them a free plus shipping off or maybe … so we start with these really compelling low friction offers and then send them to a Facebook Messenger flow. Which is basically are you definitely interested in this; yes or no. If they say yes we give them a link to a page and when they get to that page they're now Pixeled. So we have them on our Facebook Messenger list I can market to them that way. I have them Pixeled so I can remarket to them that way. And then that landing page will have a spot to give us their email address and I can market to them that way. And when they come through one of these flows for free downloads let's say we don't just give them all the free downloads in one day. We give them an email every single day for 30 to 45 days. It's actually a very long sequence where … so it's a 20 free download program or promotion I would say. And so we're giving them a download every other day and in between that we're giving them some other value. So and we tell them we're going to send you 20 free downloads, you're going to get one every other day. We don't tell them they are going to get another email every other day in between but they still open those as well. Joe: Yeah. Mike: And those other emails are still value, it's the how to blend or shade kind of emails or things like that, here are some stuff from our community and in it dispersed within there is here's a coupon for the book that you were just downloading these drawings from and things like that. So in that circumstance, their getting emailed incredibly frequently but the baseline minimum that people are getting email from our company is six times a month. That's the absolute minimum, someone, what would get. Joe: And that's fine. I've seen people … I've seen your presentation and I've heard people say man that's a lot of emails but if they don't want then they opt out. Mike: Yeah so- Joe: And your open rates- Mike: Exactly let me let me hit on that just real quick because it's a really important point. Again treating people like I'd like to be treated; I don't … if I don't want the email like I want to be able to number one at least [inaudible 00:22:39.8] easily unsubscribe so we make that easy for people. And I want them to be able to easily unsubscribe. What people … the shady email marketers don't get is you're actually hurting yourself more by trying to jam it down their throat because you want the open rates to be high. And Google and Hotmail and Yahoo all the different email platforms look at your stats of your open rates just like Google is looking at click to rates in inorganic search. And if your open rates are high, way higher than average; they're gonna say though this is content that people probably want we're going to put this in the main inbox. If you dip below a certain point you'll end up in the in the promotions tab, if you dip below even a certain point from that you'll end up in spam. And there's like no way to get yourself out of there. So we want to keep our open rates as high as possible probably for our own best interest right? So it's- Joe: Yeah. Mike: We make it easy to unsubscribe and if you don't open one of our emails for 13 weeks we unsubscribe you for yourself. So we figure after 13 weeks you know which is going to be probably something that range of 20 emails that we've sent out if you haven't opened one of those emails in that longer a time period you're probably just done with us and we'll just stop emailing you. And in that way … that's one of the reasons why our open rates continue to be as high as they are and we keep on adding our net gain every month is way higher than our unsubscribes or people we're removing. We've got something like 60,000 active emails on ColorIt where you know some people might look at that list and they would say it's 200,000 or something because we're not constantly scrubbing it. Our emails are active; these are 60,000 people that are actively open … we have 60,000 people that have opened at least one of our emails in the last quarter which is a much better stat in my mind than looking at the total number of people we've ever signed up. Joe: I totally agree. We're constantly asking that question in our client interviews and trying to drill down into the relative usefulness of those total emails. Yeah for those that are listening can you touch on, I mean it's probably overwhelming for both buyers and sellers that are listening in terms of if they've never done email marketing if they don't know how to do any Facebook marketing. I want to ask a question; let me first touch on the fact that for those that are not doing these now, for those that are getting revenue from one channel your business is going to be 20 to 30% less valuable than one from multiple channels and you also … and that's because of the risk. You're at a greater risk of a catastrophe if you're 100% Amazon business or 100% email marketing business, or 100% Facebook. You want to spread out and do all of them and have more sort of legs on the stool to balance out the business. Buyers will love that. They'll pay more for it. Mike: Yeah. Joe: And figure how to do it so what kind of training would you recommend for anybody looking to learn Klaviyo, anybody learning Facebook marketing? Mike: I mean we obviously do ourselves some I mean that's a kind of a loaded question but- Joe: It's funny, wasn't actually for people listening it wasn't a loaded question because I didn't know that. I know that you're doing … I know I've listened to EcomCrew you know I know Dave well, I know you well know and I love your Under the Hood sessions and I didn't really hear that you're actually doing the training sessions on Klaviyo and email marketing so let's … on Facebook so let's move to that. Let's talk- Mike: So we have a new thing called the EcomCrew Premium and what we were doing is like releasing a course every couple of months and charging 500 to 1,000 dollars per course depending on what the course was on. We did one on importing from China. Then we did another one on how to launch products on Amazon the white hat way without doing any black hat tactics. And as we kept on releasing courses we were getting emails of people just like this is getting expensive. It's like our core fans are like they're just buying everything we do, it was getting expensive and I also felt like starting to feel like a kind of a used car salesman in some respect because you're just constantly trying to sell them something different every couple of months. So we just said you know what like … because you know how Dave and I are like and we just we're not like that so- Joe: [inaudible 00:26:36.0] Mike: Well, thank you. Thank you very much. Joe: [inaudible 00:26:38.4] Mike: Okay well that makes more sense though he is Canadian so like by default he's just like already 40% nicer. Joe: It's it. Mike: Yes so we came up with this subscription model which is you just pay once a month, then you get access to everything that we've already done; everything that we're going to do in the future. And it includes webinars twice a month and the training we're about to release depending on this podcast will be released. The next one we're doing is on Facebook Messenger and we actually have a webinar later today as recording this on that topic as well. So we give those webinars to our EcomCrew Premium members as well. So we're constantly talking about this stuff and whatever's going on more current. The Klaviyo we don't actually have a course on yet I mean that was something that I learned on my own. I'm not really sure if there's one out there. We are going to be doing one on that but as a part of our subscription model, you also get access to us to ask questions so you can just email questions if you're having a hard time with Klaviyo as if for instance we would just help you with that as well. It's any type of e-commerce stuff we would help with. But Klaviyo is simple and it's complicated at the same time. Like I can understand why it would be overwhelming. I'm kind of a tech guy so I naturally kind of gravitate towards the stuff and figure it out. When I realize when it's complicated is when we hire a new employee and I had to explain to them how to do it and I see their eyes kind of glaze over. It's like I'm trying to explain the difference between a segment and a list or a flow and a campaign or how to synchronize something to Facebook and they're just like … you've been kind of giving that look and I … and then I understand that some things come harder to certain people. It'd be the same look I would give somebody if you asked me to do rock climbing or something. I'd be like yeah that's not going to happen. I'm not going to be able to do that. So yeah I don't know besides just Klaviyo's own website for that like what the best way to go about that is. Joe: So yeah you sell a very visual product you know with ColorIt and the tactical gear stuff you know common sense makes sense, between your connections with the EcomCrew and the Under the Hood Segments what's the strangest … I don't want to say, I don't want to call somebody's product or service strange but the thing that you would think would not necessarily work via email marketing that or Facebook that they get a shot and actually made a difference in their business. Mike: Yeah I mean let me start by saying give you like a whole another kind of answer to this real quick. What I always say when I when I speak at events or do these podcasts, whenever wherever I'm talking about and this comes up, one of the things that drives me crazy I mean you're in the same industry I'm in there is a lot of people out there that are like follow my secret 10 step plan, do these exact things and sprinkle this special dust in your business and you'll be a millionaire overnight. Those ads are on our Facebook feed like nonstop. We also go to events where some of these people speak and it drives me nuts. So I'm always cautious and tell people look like you have to use … you know your business better than anyone else and there's like all these variables that kind of go into it. You have a different margin than I might have or maybe there's a Facebook audience site that directly matches up with what you're doing. Maybe you have the ability to get user generated content really easily or you can make a lead magnet or a free plus shipping offer. If you have a lot of repeat business opportunity maybe you don't like I mean … so I try to talk about all these different types of businesses that we've been involved in and how we've approached it. And the thing that's cool about us now is we have four brands. We're doing things in coloring and hot and cold therapy we have a baby brand and we have a tactical brand. I'm gonna start talking a lot more about like our different approach for each brand but what your … the question you're asking is and I think that the answer to it really is that every business is unique. You have to follow maybe a basic outline of what people … like I'm doing with email marketing, here is like the different approaches we've taken with our different niches but you know it's hard to just say like do these exact 10 things. I mean there's a couple of things you want to do by default with email. You want to definitely have like an abandoned card sequence; that applies to everybody. You want to have a win back campaign; that applies to everybody. But what doesn't apply to everybody is 20 free downloadable coloring pages. That doesn't make sense for anybody else except for us. Joe: Right. Mike: Or like here's how to prepare for an emergency that probably doesn't apply to most businesses. You have to think out of the box and more importantly than anything is try a bunch of different concepts and don't be afraid to fail. This is where I think people get hung up like the human nature which I'm different in this regard for whatever reason. I'm wired differently. I just don't care about embarrassing myself or doing something that doesn't work. So you know I'll try 10 or 20 different things until I find the one that resonates and gives some traction where you know somebody else might try something once or twice and just give up. You have to keep on trying different concepts until you find the one that really seems to resonate and then with something in the world of Facebook when you find the thing that resonates or in email marketing it really seems to work. You'll get stats that are completely different than what you've done to that point. I mean 10 times better, 20 times better and you'll kind of hit that thing that kind of … that really works and I'm hoping that kind of answers the question. I mean I'm always reluctant to talk about other people's business specifically that we've run into at EcomCrew because I'm always pretty protective of the things that they're doing. Joe: Yeah. Mike: I never want to break anyone's confidence but I think that that is probably the best approach. And one last thing that I'll mention is when we got started in e-commerce with treadmill.com and I always talk about this. So it's like that's the most different thing that we've done compared to the other things that we're doing now. The approach there would be way different than selling something like a coloring book because you're only going to sell someone one treadmill. You've got no chance at a second sale. In fact, you just hope that they don't return it because it turns out to be like the most expensive clothes rack they ever bought right? Joe: Exactly. That's right. Mike: So I mean you have to take a different approach with that. And it's a much longer term sale cycle that you're not going to spontaneously sell somebody a 2,000 dollar treadmill. This is sort of like well long thought out, multi-year struggle with weight or whatever it might be that drives them to buying this treadmill, much different way to approach it so you've got to take a different approach there than selling somebody a sort of coloring pens or something. Because like yeah you can put an ad up, they're 30 bucks. Someone won't think twice about buying that and it can be a very spontaneous purchase versus the other way around. So you got the like … it's kind of like what you do, I mean people … like it's a very long sell cycle when you are trying to get someone to sell their business or purchase a business. That doesn't spontaneously just happen. So you're having to take a different approach with your email and your marketing than someone else that's actually selling widgets that are something that people just want to buy like that so- Joe: And it's interesting; it's the exact same approach you take in email marketing which is help as many people as you can. Be [inaudible 00:33:45.2] as you can and it generally is it's the right way to do it number one. But it generally works. You build relationships with either customers or clients like you sell from whatnot that they come around and work well. Mike: [inaudible 00:33:57.3] that works pretty well in life too by the way. Joe: That is [inaudible 00:34:00.6] life lessons from Mike Jackness. Mike: Yeah. Joe: We're running short on time but I want to talk about just EcomCrew briefly. I want people to now how to listen in because if you're in the e-commerce world you got to listen to Mike and Dave on EcomCrew because all they do is help people. Talk about that for just a minute; when did you start it, how do they download, listen to it, that kind of thing. Mike: We started it I guess it's been three years ago, three or four years ago. It's kind of hard to … I lose track of time. And we're out at Episode 150 something on the podcast as of recording this. My favorite episode we ever did was Episode 88 though, which was the Joe Valley EcomCrew podcast so- Joe: [inaudible 00:34:37.6] we talked today. Mike: I did. I just I was just looking on this great. But it's been a weekly podcast and we've now gone to twice a week. So twice a week we are talking about e-commerce stuff because between Dave and I we have plenty of things to talk about. We might even go to three times a week I just don't know if I have the time to do it. But as you're growing a business with the speed that we are there's plenty of talk about and I love talking about it because it produces a lot of cool stuff. I mean like I said it helps me meet people like you know but it also … it's really embarrassing to have to get on a podcast and start like you were … because I talk about my goals and the things that we're like looking to do. When you have to get on the podcast and say like I didn't get this done it's like there's nothing better than peer review and peer pressure. So I keep on pushing it till I get stuff done. So it's been very helpful for me as well. So yeah there's the podcast component so on iTunes E-C-O-M-C-R-E-W but we also have a blog which Dave does almost all of that content, EcomCrew.com all of that stuff is free. We even have actually a free … three free courses under the My Ecom Career Area none of that requires giving us a penny. It's just kind of us giving back. And you know I hope our long term strategy just like you is if we help people in they get an affinity towards the things that we're telling them and teaching that eventually they would want to become a premium member. But even if they don't like you were pretty financially secure and happy with what we're doing and all the other stuff is free. So definitely come check us out. Joe: It's awesome. Thanks Mike. I appreciate it. Anybody listening I would highly highly recommend you go to EcomCrew and check it out, download, listen to the podcast; definitely Episode number 88. Mike: Best episode ever. Joe: Ever. Mike: It actually was one of our best or highly rated episodes. And people are always interested in buying and selling their business. I mean it's something you should always be thinking about it's just I think people often wait too long to be thinking about these things and- Joe: Nine times out of 10. Mike: Yeah. Joe: Planning in advance should be probably number five. Mark doesn't like it but plan in advance you're going to understand the valuations and you do things like we talked about today which is [inaudible 00:36:41.1] email marketing and you'll [inaudible 00:36:43.6] business and get high value profit so [inaudible 00:36:46.6]. I appreciate your time today Mike I know you're a busy guy. Mike: No problem, thanks. Links: Ecomcrew.com EcomCrew Premium Episode 88 Klaviyo.com Klaviyo Facebook Snyc

This is an old recording I did from last year. It was the 4th episode I ever did but I think it might be one of the most important ones. Michael is an indigenous policy coordinator for the government of Alberta and he came on to discuss indigenous history and culture. He spoke a lot to his own experience and about the trauma that these communities have faced in the past and how that affects forest management today. He was incredibly honest and truthful about his personal experiences and a very down to earth guy. This is my favorite episode ever. Thanks Mike

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Welcome to Finance & Fury, Say ‘What’ Wednesdays! where we answer your questions on finance and economy. Today’s question comes from Mike – ‘Hey mate, loving the show, what’s your view on Private health insurances, I keep seeing my premiums going up and am wondering if you think it is worth having or not’. Thanks Mike! Hikes in premiums over the past few years   Media articles are stating that Australians are dumping their covers ...but are they? Roy Morgan Research – 265,000 Australians have dumped their covers for Private Health Industry body – Private Healthcare Australia say that more Australians have private health than ever An extra 50,000 Australians have taken out covers in 12 months – 13.58 million with hospital, extras or both Up from 13.52 million What is true? The percentages are down, but the number of Australians are up 55.2% in March 2017 to 54.6% in March 2018 Why are people dumping it? Getting too expensive obviously – not enough value in it unless you claim that value back…and how much will it pay back? Premiums have gone up an average of 72% in the past decade – greater than inflation and wage growth Looking for someone to blame? The greedy companies, or the system setup? Premiums rose 4% to $23.75 billion in 12 months Benefit payments rose 3% to $20.1 billion Gross margin - $3.65 billion Expenses - $2.21 billion Tax $441,000 and state ambulance levies of $226,000 Profits = $1.38 billion Why do a lot of younger people have it? The Government is this industry’s enforcer One reason - If you are likely to claim on it Another reason - If you are going to be charged the additional tax Customers are pushed through the door – the cattle prod here is tax penalties Medicare Levy – Introduced 1984 at 1%, now 2% Lifetime loadings – Introduced in 2000 Lifetime Loading – Increase premiums by 2% each year above 31 Take it out at 35 – 10% loading, take it out at 65 – 70% loading Most people don’t really start using it until their 50s Medicare levy Surcharge – 1997 MLS is levied on Australian taxpayers who do not have an appropriate level of private hospital insurance – Earning more than $90k, or $180k for families. Tax – 1% to 1.5% It is designed to ‘encourage’ individuals to take out private hospital cover and to use the private system rather than the public health But the Medicare levy they still pay…2% Over the years, as taxes go up, people have less money to spend on their own health, as they are paying for others. So, people rely more on Public than private in the end Behind the scenes Moral hazard – Economic definition for transaction costs, it has an incentive to take unusual risks in a desperate attempt to earn a profit Theory of if you get covers, you will change behaviours Try to maximise your use Behave in ways you wouldn’t otherwise Example – phone insurance – Case/Protection or not? If you are sick – Are you more likely to get cover or less? Subsidising the sick – if you are going to claim, you get it and are willing to pay more The total costs are the same regardless of your health hazards, ages, extracurricular activities. A heroine junkie (if they haven’t spent their money on the tar), would pay the same as you. Premiums are based on the likelihood of claims – But at the industry level! Claims go up – premiums go up Costs of health goes up – premiums go up As the number of people paying in decrease – premiums go up. The more that people ditch it, and the more the system is run with inefficiencies, the more that the price of insurance will increase. ESPECIALLY: with no incentives for companies to make it better, as there is the cattle prod provided by the government to round you all up. How to fix it: Healthier Australians…or change the process of getting cover - needs based on how healthy you are. Underwriting in the same way as Life, TPD or Trauma insurance covers to assess individual levels of risk Pre-existing condition exclusions Focus is always on insurance companies – greedy CEOs looking to make money If they can’t, they go out of business though. To answer Mike’s question - Is it worth it to have private health cover? If you are likely to claim on it If you are going to be charged the additional tax

Episode 221 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Photographer and Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Mike Olbinski In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Photographer and Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Mike Olbinski opens the show. Thanks Mike! Sponsors: - Get 20% off your order at PhottixUS.com using code PetaPixel20. More at LensShark.com/deals. Stories: Adobe finally gives Lightroom a speed boost and forks the road with hints about its future...and what I think they can do to help the cause. (#) Sigma gains news fans while helping those in a way it didn't need to. (#) A well-known tripod company expands with a new brand via a Kickstarter campaign. (#) Canon goes big with its G1 X Mark III. (#) A drone collides with a commercial airliner in Canada. (#) Outtake A reminder about my new show with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

Episode 219 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Olympus Visionary, Mike Boening In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Show Opener: Olympus Visionary Mike Boening opens the show. Thanks Mike! Sponsors: - Get 20% off your order at PhottixUS.com using code PetaPixel20. More at LensShark.com/deals. - 5DayDeal's "The Complete Photography Bundle 2017" giveaway and bundle. Stories: A classic scam targets photographers...and it obviously works! (#) Yashica's "unprecedented" camera comes out and I'm speechless (no, I'm not). (#) Samyang releases its fourth AF lens....the AF 35mm f/1.4 FE. (#) CBS features the 30th Eddie Adams Workshop and why truly seeing matters. (#) An app to control Lightroom emerges, but would you find it useful? (#) EyeEm introduces a useful feature to save photographers time. (#) Outtake A reminder about my new show with Brian Matiash, the No Name Photo Show. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

Please keep this podcast around for the next time you get so OUTRAGED that you're tempted to do something you'll regret. "Wind your watch" Mike said...between clenched teeth. Mike was my first flight instructor all those decades ago. His teeth were clenched because I had the plane stalled. It was pointed straight down and it was starting to spin, and I was reaching like a mad man for buttons and switches and pulling on levers...instead of THINKING. Mike was teaching me a pilot saying that goes: "When you notice that one wing just fell off, the first thing to do is to wind your watch." It's a reminder that it's not a good idea to just throw a bunch of switches and pull a lot of levers until you take a breath, and actually understand what needs to be done...THEN DO IT. Remembering to wind your watch is one way to break the momentum of fear, and it gives you a chance to get things back under reasoned control. It was a hard lesson well learned. Thanks Mike. Mike probably had to wind his watch at least ten times to keep from just grabbing the controls that day. I think we're at a "Wind your watch" time in America right now. This never was, isn't now, and never will be a political podcast. I don't like politics. I mentioned a few podcasts ago, that "Politics" is a "Fortune cookie word." You can break open a fortune cookie word, and read the message inside. Break the word "Politics" apart and you get "Poli" which means many, and "Ticks" which are small blood sucking insects. In many cases the message inside the word politics fits lots of folks in Washington very well.

Please keep this podcast around for the next time you get so OUTRAGED that you're tempted to do something you'll regret. "Wind your watch" Mike said...between clenched teeth. Mike was my first flight instructor all those decades ago. His teeth were clenched because I had the plane stalled. It was pointed straight down and it was starting to spin, and I was reaching like a mad man for buttons and switches and pulling on levers...instead of THINKING. Mike was teaching me a pilot saying that goes: "When you notice that one wing just fell off, the first thing to do is to wind your watch." It's a reminder that it's not a good idea to just throw a bunch of switches and pull a lot of levers until you take a breath, and actually understand what needs to be done...THEN DO IT. Remembering to wind your watch is one way to break the momentum of fear, and it gives you a chance to get things back under reasoned control. It was a hard lesson well learned. Thanks Mike. Mike probably had to wind his watch at least ten times to keep from just grabbing the controls that day. I think we're at a "Wind your watch" time in America right now. This never was, isn't now, and never will be a political podcast. I don't like politics. I mentioned a few podcasts ago, that "Politics" is a "Fortune cookie word." You can break open a fortune cookie word, and read the message inside. Break the word "Politics" apart and you get "Poli" which means many, and "Ticks" which are small blood sucking insects. In many cases the message inside the word politics fits lots of folks in Washington very well.

Mike Carr discusses how he found success as the Area Design Manager for Kimball Office starting with door-to-door sales of car tuneup certificates. He then discusses how he first got into the A&D industry, became a person of importance to others and talks about his most valued mentors. Mike also talks about his faith and how it influences his daily practices in the areas of leadership, building great teams and managing conflict. Mike provides great insights and true honesty; I know he will be a regular and he is truly a wonderful person and a friend. Thanks Mike!

Episode 144 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. Download MP3 -  Subscribe via iTunes, Google Play, email or RSS! Featured: Rock photographer Mike Corrado In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Rock photographer Mike Corrado opens the show. Thanks Mike! Stronger rumors and potential specs of a full-frame Canon mirrorless body that is said to be coming in 2017 along with a DSLR version. Photoshop alternative GIMP looks to take things to a new level. (#) Fujifilm announces its X-T20 with nice improvements over its predecessor. (#) A very nice Fujinon XF 50mm f/2 WR for Fujifilm X-mount bodies. (#) Canon is granted thousands of patents in 2016. (#) PPA's grassroots program to establish a small claims copyright court. (#) Fujifilm's mirrorless medium format GFX 50S is aggressively priced and may woo photographers otherwise at the higher end of the DSLR market. (#) Time is running out to snag the 5DayDeal Complete Photography Business and Marketing Bundle 2017. (#) A drone video production company in Chicago gets a stiff penalty from the FAA. (#) Outtakes Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. We’d love to answer your question on the show. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget, comment below or via social media. But audio questions are awesome! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

BTR Episode 2 Sour Hour with Brewer Mike Vondrachek. Mike V stops by Better Than Ronyay to give us the low down on sour beers! Thanks MIke

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Hey everybody it's Dustin here with another episode of the IBC podcast! We are so excited that we received a gift from listener Mike Soto that should totally elevate the quality of our show going forward. A new microphone! We couldn't be more appreciative of this great new addition to the show and going along with our increased social media presence, t-shirts, and new home on the Google Play store we are proud of where the show is going. Thanks Mike! Incredible. We start off the show with shout outs and a recap of fantasy football week 5, plus some MLB playoff discussion and then Hellesen takes off for the night (we recorded late.) Sean and I discuss powder beer (wtf), Donald Trump and the craziness that is the election, Sean delivers Quick Hits, we list our top 3 favorite drunk foods, and end the episode discussing Samsung's future after the huge Galaxy Note7 recall. It's another fun episode and even though Matt doesn't stick around for the whole thing we hope you enjoy. Be sure to continue the conversations in the WhatsApp chat and social media, leave us a 5 star review on iTunes, and thanks for listening!

Writer and artist KATE LETH (Marvel's Hellcat) joins us to discuss the difficulties of dating if you're The Slayer, the likelihood of high school boys actually reading Emily Dickinson, and Xander's chronic case of being The Worst. This week we're discussing Buffy the Vampire Slayer s1e5: Never Kill a Boy on the First Date. If you enjoy this podcast, consider leaving us a review on iTunes! Get to know Kate better at kateleth.com, patreon.com/kateleth, or give her a shout on twitter (@kateleth). Jenny Owen Youngs is @jennyowenyoungs on twitter. You can check out all the songs she writes about non-Buffy things at jennyowenyoungs.com. Kristin Russo is @kristinnoeline on twitter. Learn more about the resources she creates for LGBTQ individuals and their families at everyoneisgay.com and mykidisgay.com. Buffering the Vampire Slayer is on twitter @bufferingcast and on facebook facebook.com/bufferingcast. Logo: Kristine Thune, kristinethune.com MEGA-THANKS to the amazing Mike Tuccillo, who saved the day by giving us some much-needed mixing support on this episode! Seriously, this episode almost perished in the flames. THANKS MIKE!

Welcome to the VERY FIRST EPISODE!! Sit back, strap in, and enjoy the scenery as we get this airship underway!! Bart, Mike an I discuss Bart's trip to MegaCon, DC Rebirth, Preacher (the comic and television show), our new blog: The Secrets of D.I.M.; where Mike reviews and shares his thoughts of every Batman Arkham game!! All this and more!!  Check out the new blog!! Thanks Mike! (Link Below) http://secretsofdim.daydreaminstructionmanual.com

We celebrate Katie's birthday and front man Mike Herrera from MxPx calls in to wish Katie a happy birthday. Then we discuss how cakes are just like muffins. Thanks Mike!!! Please visit www.mxpx.com and www.mikeherrera.netSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/thebobandkatieshow)

What's up everybody!? Dman here bringing you the newest episode of the IBC podcast. I am joined by Sean and Matt tonight and the 3 of us have some lively discussion and a lot of fun. We begin the show with a bunch of shout outs and a new iTunes review! Thanks Mike. We then delve into Dustin's bday weekend shenanigans, how we want to spice up the sports discussions, if Anheiser-Busch should open a brewery in San Diego, and Sean hits us with Quick Hits! We then list our top 3 90's movies and discuss the hyper loop and future technology. It's another great episode so thanks for tuning in. Be sure to continue the conversations in the WhatsApp chat and social media, give us a 5 star review if you haven't already, and enjoy the show!

Past Perfect Simple and Continuous with Mike Hardinge - AIRC91 If you are a new listener to this award-winning podcast, welcome! I'm Craig. I’m Reza. With over 40 years of teaching between us, we'll help you improve your English and take it to the next level.Welcome Mike! [44 years, so that totals 84 years of teaching experience between us!]   Más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  More podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  In this episode: The past perfect simple and continuous with special guest Mike Hardinge What is the Past Perfect? Use: The Past Perfect is the past before the past. When we are already talking about the past and we want to talk about an earlier past time.It can be in a Simple or Continuous/Progressive form. PAST PERFECT SIMPLE Something that happened before another action in the past. It can also show that something happened before a specific time in the past.Focus tends to be on the completion of the action/state, not the continuity of it. Form: had/ ’d + past participle (had eaten, had been, had forgotten, had seen etc) Let’s see where the past perfect simple fits in. To do this we have to look at a much more ‘important’ tense ‘the past simple’.The past simple forms the basis of a narrative; it gives us a sequence of events: Maybe last night (1) you stayed up (didn’t go to bed) to watch a film and (2) went to bed too late. In the morning, (3) you didn’t hear your alarm. (4) You woke up late. (5) You got dressed in an awful hurry, (6) didn’t have breakfast and (7) rushed out of the house. Then (8) you realised you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys. The verbs in the story have a ‘fixed’ order, except for ‘had forgotten’, which takes us back to before or during when (5) you got dressed - maybe you put on another jacket or before (7) you rushed out of the house - you didn’t check to see if you had your keys. Past perfect simple usually takes us back to a previous stage of a narrative. It is very useful for giving reasons: You couldn’t get back into your house (why?) because you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys.or obviously it could be a negative action, an action not taken, which is the case here:you couldn’t get back into your house because you HADN'T TAKEN your keys. If you had gone to bed at the right time, none of this would have happened. Examples: When Mike arrived, we had already recorded a podcastI’d never seen such an excellent system for learning phrasal verbs before I saw Mike’s CD.After she’d studied Mike’s phrasal verb CD, she understood the subject much better.We’d had our old printer for 8 years before we bought that new one. (two ‘hads’. “ ’d” = “had”) Question:(different word order) Had you ever won an award before you won in Manchester last year?Negative: (with NOT) I hadn’t/had not studied Spanish, before I came to Spain. Reza arrived late. By the time he arrived, we had already ordered our food from the waiter. As soon as he’d lit/he had lit his cigarette, the bus arrived at the stop. No sooner had he lit (OBLIGATORY INVERSION) his cigarette than the bus arrived at the stop.Reza and Craig spoke about INVERSION in episode 78 ( http://www.inglespodcast.com/2015/11/22/sentence-inversions-airc78/ ) PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS Use: Focus tends to be on the continuity of the activity/process. Something that started in the past and continued up to a particular time in the past.Can be used for more temporary actions/situations or a repeated action or a longer action interrupted by another action. Often there’s evidence that the action had been continuing more or less up to point. I HAD LIVED in Salamanca for two years before I came to Valencia. (use simple to stress the completed action)I HAD BEEN LIVING in Salamanca for two years before I came to Valencia. (use continuous to stress the continuity of an action that may, or may not, be unfinished) Present perfect simple: I HAVE READ fifteen books this year. (focus on the number of books completed)Present perfect continuous: I'VE BEEN READING the last Harry Potter book and I can't understand a word. (focus on the continuous action) Past perfect simple: Valencia HAD BEEN PLAYING very well before the new manager.Past perfect continuous: Valencia HAD WON 15 games before the new manager. Form: had/ ’d been + -ing form of the verb Back to MIke's forgotten keys story. You can’t have a bare narrative with no description and maintain interest, so: Last night....(1) you stayed up (didn’t go to bed) to watch a film. IT WAS A REALLY GREAT FILM ABOUT DRAGONS AND MONSTERS AND HEROES WERE FLYING ABOUT ALL OVER THE PLACE. As a result, (2) you went to bed too late. THE BED WASN’T MADE BUT YOU WERE TOO TIRED TO WORRY. In the morning, (3) you didn’t hear your alarm. THIS WAS HARDLY SURPRISING. (4) You woke up late. (5) You got dressed in an awful hurry, THE ROOM WAS IN A TERRIBLE MESS, THINGS WERE LYING EVERYWHERE. (6) You didn’t have time for any breakfast and you(7) rushed out of the house, like a bat out of hell. It was only after you HAD CLOSED the door that (8) you realised you HAD FORGOTTEN your keys. Description with WAS, WERE, HAD or PAST CONTINUOUS makes the narrative more palatable (rico/a, apetitoso/a). The past perfect continuous can add to this description. YOU HAD BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD AND WANTED TO GIVE YOURSELF A TREAT, so you stayed up to watch a film….you didn’t hear your alarm. You woke up late. ACTUALLY YOU HADN'T BEEN SLEEPING VERY WELL RECENTLY...YOU HADN’T BEEN LIVING IN THE FLAT FOR VERY LONG. The past perfect continuous is very useful for giving background description to a story, in a similar way as the past continuous tense. Compare: When I woke up yesterday it was raining. - The rain was falling when I woke upWhen I woke up yesterday it had been raining. - The rain wasn’t falling when I woke up. It had (recently) stopped. The ground was still wet.   Use the past perfect in 3rd conditional 'if' sentences: If I hadn't drunk so much whisky on Saturday night, I wouldn't have felt so bad on Sunday morning. If Craig HAD GOT MARRIED when he was 22, he'd have had a family at a very yound age.If Reza HADN'T STAYED in Valencia, he might have gone to Sardinia.If Mike's parents HAD TAKEN him abroad when he was really young, he would have learnt another language.If Mike HADN'T BROUGHT his daughter to Spain, she wouldn't have learnt Spanish.   ITALKI AD READ   The past perfect is also used in reported speech: "I HAD never MET Mike before I started working at the school." - Craig said that he HAD never MET Mike before he started working at the school. It's often ok to use the past simple instead of the past perfect, especially when there is a time expression: Bill had been married twice before he met Susan. (past perfect) - Bill was married twice before he met Susan. (past simple) Time expressions Mike's Basque Beret (boina) "I haven't seen Mike's beret before." / "I haven't seen Mike in a beret before." "It's the first time I have seen Mike's beret." / "It's the first time I have seen Mike in a beret." Looking back, and talking about the past, you could say, "It was the first time I had seen Mike's beret." / "It was the first time I had seen Mike in (or wearing) a beret." It's three months since I spoke English / It's three months since I've spoken English. It was three months since he had spoken English. More time expressions often used with the past perfect: by the time, before, after, as soon as, no sooner.....than....., up to then/that moment and 'because' for giving reasons: "He was very dirty BECAUSE he had just been walking in the rain." Craig went to bed early last night because he'd been exercising and he was very tired. Practice Tell a story and use the past perfect. Craig: You are a Zombie.Reza: You woke up naked on a park bench this morning. (to cut a long story short - "en resumen", "resumiendo", "y te la hago corta".....)Mike: You started speaking fluent Chinese for no apparent reason. (the long and the short of it is....."en resumen", "resumiendo", "y te la hago corta".....) Thanks Mike! You can find Mike's website and his CD on how to learn phrasal verbs at: http://mikehardinge.com/ ...and now it's your turn to practise your English. We want you to practise the past perfect and record yourself saying 4 or 5 sentences using the past perfect. Mix it up with past perfect simple and past perfect continuous and make sure the sentences are true for you. Or tell us a real or imaginary story similar to ours. Send us a voice message at speakpipe.com/inglespodcast (90 seconds - need an app for mobile) Send us an email with a comment or question to craig@inglespodcast.com or belfastreza@gmail.com. Please show us some iTunes love. 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Here’s episode 37 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS! Call 1-206-333-9308, leave a comment in this post, or use our voicemail widget for feedback/questions for the show. In This Episode If you subscribe to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast in iTunes, please take a moment to rate and review us and help us move up in the rankings so others interested in photography may find us. Photographer Michael A. Anderson opens the show. Thanks Mike! A photo project gone wrong sparks controversy and brings up ethical questions. (#) Samsung's camera business is noticeably absent from CES 2016 in Las Vegas. Is the end near? (#) Would you buy a paper camera? (#) A judge rules that a monkey can't own the copyright to its famous selfies. (#) A Leica M to Sony E mount autofocus adapter is in the works. (#) The New York Public Library puts 187,000+ old, public domain photos online. (#) Kodak looks to make film happen again with a 8mm film camera with digital tech. (#) Photographer (and listener) Michael A. Anderson wants to know if it's best to get the shot then ask for forgiveness, or ask for permission first then shoot. Connect With Us Thank you for listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast! Connect with me, Sharky James on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook (all @LensShark) as we build this community. Leave us an audio question through our voicemail widget or call us at 1-206-333-9308. Alternatively, you can comment below or via social media. But we’d love to play and answer your question on the show! You can also cut a show opener for us to play on the show! As an example: “Hi, this is Matt Smith with Double Heart Photography in Chicago, Illinois, and you’re listening to the PetaPixel Photography Podcast with Sharky James!”

A listener writes in with a question about cleaning their 1932 Ballyhoo pinball playfield. The short answer of how to do this is 'carefully'.  Ensure that you are not accidentally removing the artwork from the playfield as you remove the dirt. The second question involves how to shore up the cabinet. Thanks Mike!

In this live Q&A I answer questions about what do to when you are gaining strength but not size, how long you should stay in a calorie deficit, and more! If you want to get in on the next one and ask me questions, sign up here: www.legionsupplements.com/qa/ QUESTIONS FROM THIS Q&A: When's the sleeping product and fish oil coming out? When are the new flavors of Whey+ coming out? Mike, BLS focuses exclusively on the 4-6 rep range. But if you follow Brad Schoenfeld (who I learned about from you), his plan cycles between a "strength phase" (like BLS 4-6 rep), a "metabolic phase" (15-20 reps) and a "muscle phase" (6-8) reps. He insists that this rep cycling is how to MAXIMIZE hypertrophy. Your thoughts? How often should you do abs? In your book you recommend taking 2-3 grams of Omega-3. My question is, is it best to take all 2-3 grams at once or can I take 1/2 with lunch and 1/2 with dinner? Is it possible that I'm making strength gains, while the size of my muscles remain the same? Do you have an estimated date when we can expect a beta for Stacked on iOS? Also in regards to Stacked, are you making the app compatible with the Apple Watch? Did you go to college? If so, what was your major and how has it helped? If not, please explain why and how you came to where you are. When guys in the gym come up to you and start telling you stuff that you know is "bro-science", how do you correct them without making them mad? Or is that possible? How much will Forge cost and will it be available on Amazon? What's your favorite app to track macros? Also, do you measure your meats and grains raw or cooked? How do you feel about the Hodgetwins? Would you reached out to them at all or consider having them on your podcast? Have you heard of the vegan raw till 4 diet? (Fruits until 4 and then cooked potatoes, rice, etc. after 4.)If so, what are your thoughts? On the point of eating a lot of food/carbs when trying to get bigger, this is where I'm at and I completely agree that eating so much gets old. Would you say getting or making your own mass gainer shake would come in handy? Thoughts on mass gainers when getting tired of eating so much? What bf% test method does BLS refer to when cutting down to the recommended 10-12% to start bulking up again? How long is it safe to be in a calorie deficit for? Is it until you get to your target body fat%? When do you recommend doing HIIT? I lift 5 days a week at night and 4 HIIT session a week in the morning. Is this ideal? In 2 months I went from 104 kg to 97 kg following your custom meal plan. I haven't been able to keep following the plan because I feel tired, hungry and low sex drive, should I add more calories? Any chance of you creating the super multivitamin that you wanted to initially create but was too expensive? Or any chance of creating a fish oil product or probiotic? I never know which to select and trust your word 100%. Thanks Mike!!!! How do you feel about Layne Norton's / Matt Ogus' PHAT routines? How did you go about starting a supplement company? The business process, not the reasoning behind starting the company. What's the inspiration for the poster on the window sill? What's the least amount of protein (g/LBM) can you take to prevent muscle loss during a deficit? Want to get my best advice on how to gain muscle and strength and lose fat faster? Sign up for my free newsletter! Click here: https://www.muscleforlife.com/signup/

You know exactly who we are talking about in this episode. No it's not Jabba the Hutt.... it's the nearly asteroid sized creature that almost cuts the Empire Strikes Back short by a good hour. It's the Space Slug, also known as Exogorth... and it is massive. So massive that the Millennium Falcon can fit between two of it's teeth. Is there more to the mysterious Space Slug than meets the eye? We shall see!This is also the final episode in our Mike Matecha trilogy. Thanks Mike! Come back again sometime!Download Episode 31 - Space SlugSpace slugs, or giant space slugs, were immense lifeforms known to live in the Outer Rim Territories. At least one space slug resided in an asteroid near the planet Hoth.

Adrian David Cheok, the founder and director of the Mixed Reality Lab in Singapore, is attempting to record odors digitally, and recreate them without the use of chemicals.  While a breakthrough in the area is still a long way off, the idea of digital smells has Jeff and Anthony wondering what this technology could possibly be used for, and, moreoever, what working in a place called the Mixed Reality Lab" might be like. This show is entirely listener supported. To find out how to help AND get early episodes and bonus content, head to  http://patreon.com/wehaveconcerns Hey! If you're enjoying the show, please take a moment to rate/review it on whatever service you use to listen. iTunes:  http://bit.ly/wehaveconcerns - Stitcher:  http://bit.ly/stitcherwhc Jeff on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/jeffcannata Anthony on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/acarboni Today's Story:  http://nautil.us/blog/the-long-hard-quest-to-create-digital-smells Today's story was sent in by Mike Becker. Thanks Mike! Send in your suggestions to  wehaveconcernsshow@gmail.com

Season 6 is all wrapped up and we review our Most Valuable Friend votes for this season and bring ou up to date with the runing total. Also, shout out  to @justmike74 who gave us a drink recipe, and then we (for some reason) riff on people stealoing his drink. Thanks Mike.  Email to theonewithpodcast@gmail.com call 316-361-6081 to leave voice message follow us on twitter @JoshSolbach and @MelissaSolbach please rate and review the show on itunes, 5 stars means we love you forever. 

Is 3D dying, are movie theatres dead and is Google immortal? Our minds have been filled with many thoughts this week (for a change) and, lucky for you, a few of those thoughts escaped into this podcast. How many times have you had a bad experience at a movie theater recently? Well, if you're like us it's probably more than you care to admit and frankly we're fed up with it. And thanks to 3D it's been getting worse! Ty Burr of the Boston Globe is trying to get the word out so we thought we'd help him and add a little ourselves. Plus, Google tries to one-up Facebook with its new Plus 1 button and Michael J. Fox finally tells me 'The Secret of My Success'. Thanks Mike. All this and more is just a click of the play button away. Don't forget you can support Hungry Cliff by going to our Shop at the top of our homepage (www.HungryCliff.com) or by using our Amazon Search Box at the top-right of our blog for all your Amazon purchases. Also, Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter so you don't miss a thing! Hosts: Tony Silanskas and Andrew Silanskas; Intro and outro music: Pedro Mendoza; Email us: tony (at) hungrycliff (dot) com or andrew (at) hungrycliff (dot) com

In which we learn of the first public hanging in Oregon history.   Mike posted some well thought out, seemingly Stump apologist feedback to the podcast over on Dave’s site. Well worth a read. Thanks Mike!! And here we comment on some of the sources for the podcast.

Inspired by a track I heard over at the FearShopMetalPodcast. Thanks Mike. This new album kills! So I started thinking. How can I thank all these great podcasters? It’s called The post Metal Moment Podcast 043 – Accept Rules appeared first on Metal Moment.

Billy What is the Pinewood Derby? Did you participate? What is your favorite thing about a camp out? What made you want to become a cub scout? Do you have any shout outs?  Liam What are the differences between Cub Scouts and Boy scouts? Do you guys sell popcorn? Is there a Summer Camp just for Cub and Boy scouts? Where are some places you guys have gone camping? Do you have any shout outs?  Mike What is a cross over campout? What is a caving trip? Have you guys ever camped out at stone mountain? When you camp do you sleep in tents or do you sleep in cabins? Do you have any shout outs? Thanks Mike, Billy, and Liam for being on my show! See you guys later!!  Radio Star Max Host of Kid Power Radiowww.KidPowerRadio.com

Oscar P’s Time Machine Coming at’cha like a Mack tank, New York DJ Oscar P (originally from the Dominican Republic) just runs you over with his “Time Machine” bringing back the tribal thump and funk of the best of house music from the ‘90s. “In the story line, I build a time machine and I travel back to 1996 and hop to 2009 to visit my favorite clubs of the era... as well as the Djs that played them,” muses Oscar. Tenaglia, Morales, Vega, “It's an adventure. “Time Machine The Album” pays tribute to the club scene Oscar P came up in, before Obama, before the war, before the Internet, before the itunes store. A solid line-up of featured guests, production partners and original material breaking down the musical and cultural barriers between classic house, the big room alternative, and Latin influences, “Time Machine” is Oscar P’s first artist driven album in ten years and is actually the 200th release on Open Bar Music. “Crispified,” the first single from the album “Time Machine” (Out Feb 2009), is a party anthem about international clubbing, co-written with Alex Almeida and co-produced with Davdison Ospina. It features a stacked lineup of remixers for global consumption with vocals by…. oh yes, Oscar P himself."We wrote ‘Crispified’ in Miami at WMC 2008,” notes Oscar. “It took us about seven months to get the track recorded and released due to our schedules.” The single features a strong package with mixes by D: Fuse & Hiratzka, Benny Royal, Karol XVII & MB Valence, Dj Spin & Troy Manner, Kid Chris, Davidson Ospina, Sirkhan, Colin Sales, Scott Watson, Cortes, Sound Control, Alex Almeida, Blackliquid, Wil Alonso, Juan Kato, & Groovegetters.  "I do a lot of vocals on this album,” pointed out the writer-producer whose production and remix credits include: Physics, Gala, Kristine Elezaj, The Peech Boys, George Krantz, 2 Unlimited, Swing 52, Arnold Jarvis, Doug Lazy, Kym Syms, & The Beloved, as well as working behind the scenes with acts like Crystal Waters, 2 In A Room and Lidell Townsell back when dance artists went gold and platinum. "So even people who know me will be a bit surprised.” There’s also the much buzzed about title track of the album "Time Machine,"  which is slated to become the second single off the CD. “Today’s generation missed this entire period of NY house,” Oscar points out, “so it was an impulse track.” I heard Mike Dunn's track plugging the Chicago pioneers and it inspired me to plug the guys I grew up with and represent New York. Thanks Mike, see what you started?" The album features Jaime Lee Wilson, Christian Alvarez, Tyrah Morena, Blackliquid, Physics, Marco Petralia as well as Open Bar Music standout Ama Zedrey. Oscar's label Open Bar has also seen success worldwide combining the right artists & remixers on releases by Black Fras, Stadi, Masi & Mello, Angel Manuel, featuring the work of Tom Novy, Davidson Ospina, MTV & Mark Knight, Big World, Richard F, Granite & Phunk, Rulers Of The Deep, Groove Junkies, Knee Deep, Sueno Soul, & Solitaire. So what’s the secret? Oscar P points to a great team including, long time partner Carlos Ortiz, online specialist Jessica Bendig and in-studio collaborator Davidson Ospina credited with bringing Oscar back to the recording studio after a five-year retirement. Oscar credits Davidson for getting him excited about making music again. "I had been quiet for many years just running the marketing company, Media Services NYC and our record labels, Rumba Jams and Open Bar Music with my partner Carlos Ortiz. I was still traveling and active as a DJ, so being in the studio really didn't interest me the way it does today. " "I've worked with a lot of talented people, and that certainly rubs off on you and gives you the itch,” admits Oscarwho also highlights his twenty year production track record before folks forget that he’s a DJ and producer first before becoming a label president.

Garry speaks with the lone Kiwi on the rally, privateer moto Michael Shepherd.  Great chat on what brought him to the rally, and what it's like to get passed flat out by the cars and trucks.Thanks Mike, and good luck!

Episode 31 of PotterFicWeekly has been released! Jen, LadyChi and I are pleased to introduce guest-host Mike (OsRavan from the Poufwa forum), who graciously agreed to stand in for a highly medicated Meg as we pushed our discussion to Chapter 74 of A Year Like None Other, by Aspen in the Sunlight. Thanks Mike! We […]

Hot Rodder Review: Mike Krieger Hot Rodder from Canada and his A-100 Fargo Truck.Thanks Mike. Also Thanks to www.vintagefuel.com