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Full Text of ReadingsSaturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 478All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint John of CapistranoIt has been said the Christian saints are the world's greatest optimists. Not blind to the existence and consequences of evil, they base their confidence on the power of Christ's redemption. The power of conversion through Christ extends not only to sinful people but also to calamitous events. Imagine being born in the 14th century. One-third of the population and nearly 40 percent of the clergy were wiped out by the bubonic plague. The Western Schism split the Church with two or three claimants to the Holy See at one time. England and France were at war. The city-states of Italy were constantly in conflict. No wonder that gloom dominated the spirit of the culture and the times. John Capistrano was born in 1386. His education was thorough. His talents and success were great. When he was 26 he was made governor of Perugia. Imprisoned after a battle against the Malatestas, he resolved to change his way of life completely. At the age of 30 he entered the Franciscan novitiate and was ordained a priest four years later. John's preaching attracted great throngs at a time of religious apathy and confusion. He and 12 Franciscan brethren were received in the countries of central Europe as angels of God. They were instrumental in reviving a dying faith and devotion. The Franciscan Order itself was in turmoil over the interpretation and observance of the Rule of St. Francis. Through John's tireless efforts and his expertise in law, the heretical Fraticelli were suppressed and the “Spirituals” were freed from interference in their stricter observance. John of Capistrano helped bring about a brief reunion with the Greek and Armenian Churches. When the Turks captured Constantinople in 1453, John was commissioned to preach a crusade for the defense of Europe. Gaining little response in Bavaria and Austria, he decided to concentrate his efforts in Hungary. He led the army to Belgrade. Under the great General John Hunyadi, they gained an overwhelming victory, and the siege of Belgrade was lifted. Worn out by his superhuman efforts, Capistrano was an easy prey to an infection after the battle. He died on October 23, 1456. Reflection John Hofer, a biographer of John Capistrano, recalls a Brussels organization named after the saint. Seeking to solve life problems in a fully Christian spirit, its motto was: “Initiative, Organization, Activity.” These three words characterized John's life. He was not one to sit around. His deep Christian optimism drove him to battle problems at all levels with the confidence engendered by a deep faith in Christ. Saint John of Capistrano is Patron Saint of: Judges Saint of the Day Copyright Franciscan Media

If You Want to Improve Your Life Through Brain Power You Should: Recognize, Reframe, Release and Retrain Your Mindset Use ‘Innercises' To Strengthen Your Mindset and Emotional Control Commit to changing your life and doing everything necessary to achieve your desired result Focus on your Mindset, Environment, Skill Set, and Actions to create predictable results   Have you been searching for a way to quiet your mind and reduce the amount of stress you experience? We are all searching for easy and practical techniques to shift our focus and mindset in just a matter of seconds. The good news is there is a way, and it all starts with your brain.   The Power of The Brain with John Assaraf John Assaraf is one of the leading mindset and behavioral experts in the world who has appeared numerous times on Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show. He has built five multimillion-dollar companies, has been featured in 10 movies, including the blockbuster hit “The Secret” and "Quest For Success" with Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama, and much more. John is the founder and CEO of MyNeuroGym.com, a company dedicated to using the most advanced technologies and evidence-based brain training methods to help individuals strengthen their mindset and emotional skills to unleash their inner power and maximize their strengths results.   Learning How to Operate Your Brain The truth is, we are just one thought away from a positive mindset, feeling calm and implementing great habits. While most people live at the level of automatic reactions, John's work proves that awareness and mastering change is needed to stop feeling triggered and start achieving the goals you want for yourself. Through John's techniques, you can learn how to become a better operator of the brain you already own so that you can stop feeling like your brain is sabotaging you and instead change your brain in order to change your life.   Finding Long-Term Results Through Patterns The reality that we live in is a direct result of the patterns we reinforce. Whether it is health, money, relationships, work, really anything in your life, you have the power to change your life and achieve the results you want if you are willing to invest time each day and build a pattern that you can use for the rest of your life.  Sustainable, long-term results are achieved through habits and the commitment to strengthening our mindset and emotional control. Most people don't realize that there is an easier, better, and faster way to change your life, and it starts with the power found right in between your ears. Are you ready to commit to changing your brain, and in turn, changing your life and achieving your goals? Share which of John's techniques you are going to implement into your daily routine with me in the comments section of the episode page.   Quotes: “I am fascinated with how powerful of an organism, bio-computer, we all own, and how little most people know about their own brain.” (5:34) “When we want to have more, be more, experience more, the key for us is to work on the cause so that the effect takes care of itself.” (10:01) “How much does our belief system drive our perception and behavior? The answer is, a ton! We have limiting beliefs even though we have so much potential.” (17:47) “Our brain is paying attention to the patterns that we reinforce. And any pattern we reinforce our brain automates.” (29:11) “The goal-achieving process requires both conscious choices and decisions, but it also requires a change in behavior.” (36:45)   In This Episode How to begin to shift your mindset and start creating your own empowered reality (6:54) Why you should focus on mastering change rather than managing disappointment (13:38) The reasons why people believe that they are a victim of their own brains (22:08) Tips for changing your brain in order to change your life and achieve your goals (30:17) Which exercises you can leverage to move in the direction of greater health and other side benefits (34:12)   Resources Mentioned: Innercise: the New Science to Unlock Your Brain's Hidden Power by John Assaraf Join the Free 9th Annual Brain-A-Thon Event Here   Other Resources: Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube Podcast production & marketing support by the team at Counterweight Creative   Related Episodes:  Essentially You Episode #210: From Overcoming Fears and Limiting Beliefs To Living A Life You Love with John Assaraf Essentially You Episode #198: How to Manage Your Brain Chemistry During Times of Stress and Worry with Dr. Kristen Race

Check out the podcast from this past Sunday as Pastor Brian continued the series on "The Gospel of John." This week we take a look at the next part of John. Through John's close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insider's view of the life of Jesus.

Check out the podcast from this past Sunday as Pastor Brian continued the series on "The Gospel of John." This week we take a look at John 10 and 11, Through John's close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insider's view of the life of Jesus.

Check out the podcast from this past Sunday as Pastor Brian continued the series on "The Gospel of John." This week we take a look at John 9 and the healing at the Pool of Siloam. Through John's close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insiders view of the life of Jesus.

Check out the podcast from this past Sunday as Pastor Brian continued the series on "The Gospel of John." This week we take a look at John 8 with the "woman caught in adultery." Through John's close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insiders view of the life of Jesus.

Check out the podcast from this past Sunday as Pastor Brian continued the series on "The Gospel of John." This week we took a look at John 7 with Jesus' visit to the Feast of Tabernacles. Through John's close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insiders view of the life of Jesus.

Check out the podcast from this past Sunday as Brad Dancel continued the new series on "The Gospel of John." Through John's close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insiders view of the life of Jesus.

Check out this week's podcast as Pastor Brian starts a new series on "The Gospel of John." The gospel of John was the last of the gospels to be recorded but emerges as the most unique of all of the gospel writings. Through John's creative phrasing and close personal relationship with Jesus, we get an insiders view of the life of Jesus.

Mark Cronin '80 and his son John Cronin join Maura Sweeney '07 to speak about how they came to found John's Crazy Socks. A serial entrepreneur, Mark passed along this passion to John.  In the spirit of Holy Cross, theirs is a company created to do good.  Through John's Crazy Socks they are living their mission to “spread happiness,” while also serving as advocates for workplace equality and voices for people with differing abilities. Interview originally recorded on March 17, 2021. Due to the ongoing effects of the pandemic, all interviews in season 2 are recorded remotely. --- Mark : It's the nature of the social enterprise, you've got to have a mission. You can't be, we just want to make money. It's got to be something larger than yourself, an impact you want to have on the world. And when you're driven by that, it's so motivating. All the petty stuff falls away. And that's how you can go and connect with people. We get asked, what's the key ingredient? What skill? A lot if it is just belief. If we have a mission to spread happiness, just believe. Maura : Welcome to Mission-Driven where we speak with alumni who are leveraging their Holy Cross education to make a meaningful difference in the world around them. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney from the class of 2007, director of Alumni Career Development at Holy Cross. I'm delighted to welcome you to today's show. Maura : In this episode, I speak with Mark Cronin from the class of 1980 and his son, John Cronin. Mark and John are co-founders of John's Crazy Socks. A company whose mission is to spread happiness, where over half of the employees have a differing ability. An entrepreneur at heart, Mark has been creating opportunities and organizations ever since his days at Holy Cross. From creating The Lunchbox Theater as a student, to running political campaigns, to founding a software company, his career path shows what can be done when you pursue an idea. Maura : Every step of the way he's been driven by mission. And every step of the way has prepared him for his role at John's Crazy Socks. Our conversation focuses a lot on the incredible work that Mark and John are doing through John's Crazy Socks, to raise awareness about people with differing abilities. They live the motto, to whom much has been given, much is expected, and they do it well. We are lucky to have people like Mark and John working hard to improve the lives of millions of others, because it's not just the right thing to do, it's also good for business. Maura : Mark and John, it is really wonderful to be here with you today. How are you today? Mark : Pretty good, right? John : Pretty good dad. Mark : Life remains interesting. Maura, thank you very much for having us on. Maura : It is my pleasure. It is my pleasure. I have been really looking forward to talking to you about Mark, about your career journey and John, about how you came to help co-found John's Crazy Socks, and the incredible work that you're doing together to really make a difference for people with differing abilities out in the world. Before we get to that, and before we get to John's Crazy Socks, because I could go down a rabbit hole there. First, I'd love to know more about you and your family. I know that you're both New Yorkers. Have you always lived in New York? Mark : So, we live in a town called Huntington on Long Island. I tell the story about that with John. He sometimes laughs at me about this. So, I grew up here on Long Island in part of Huntington, Huntington Station, and when I was 19, I set out for the world. I was leaving and I'm never coming back to Long Island. So in 1997, by that point we had three kids. Our eldest was in first grade and we had moved several times. And if you move two blocks with a little kid, their world turns upside. So we said, we'll buy a house and we'll stay in one place until you get out of college. And we wound up buying a house in Huntington Bay in Huntington, not out of college, out of high school. We said, we'll stay here. And there were a few times where boy, all I wanted to do was travel and move. Mark : There was one point I had this interesting opportunity in Hong Kong, and I sat the family down and I gave them a pitch and they all listened and they nodded and they said, "Dad, that sounds great. And why don't you send us a postcard when you get there, because we're not going." But then, so our two elders, they get up and leave and John, he got an extra three years of high school, but now he's in his final year of high school and I'm thinking, and my wife, Carol is also a Holy Cross grad. We're thinking we can move. We can relocate. Mark : Even after starting this business, we thought you could run an online business from the moon. We could go anywhere. Well, the good news is the business took off faster than we expected. So, we started with a three-year lease and now we have a bunch of employees, and I am going to die on Long Island. I'm not getting away. Maura : No. Well, and I can tell too, just from what I've seen in just the different media footage and the stories about the way you run John's Crazy Socks, is it's also a community organization. Mark : We think about community a lot, we think about the community here. I'm always wary of businesses that say, we're like a family. I don't know about that. But we're building a community there. We think about the community that we're building around here, our customers and supporters. But we also think about the local community and you've got to be good citizens. You got to be engaged in their community and giving back and involved. So, there is a lot of things we do, and that's important to us. Maura : Well, thinking about community and thinking about Holy Cross, because you're an alum from the class of 1980, I know community is a huge part of someone's time at Holy Cross. I'd love to hear about your days on the Hill and what brought you to Holy Cross from Long Island. Mark : So, a different day and age. Okay. I'm getting out of high school in 1976 and I really knew nothing. I didn't really know anything about looking at schools. At a college fair, I got a booklet that seemed interesting. I applied to three schools. I really applied to two. I applied to Holy Cross and Boston College. A third school came in and started recruiting me for football but by that point, I wasn't thinking of playing football. I got in both Holy Cross and Boston College, and was going back and forth. I didn't really know how to choose. So, Boston College had me up for a weekend with a group of students and they greeted us saying, we think you want the leaders of the class of 1980. Mark : And as soon as I heard that, I was like, well, I don't want to come here. If you think I'm one of your leaders, you're in trouble. So, I wound up at Holy Cross and there were a few points. Freshman year, where I was like, I don't know if this is really the right place. I thought of leaving, but once I made the commitment to stay, well, then you're all in. And like most things, the more you put in, the more you get out. And I was thinking, I just sent a package of socks to a guy named Father Carlson, who was my freshmen advisor. And I took him for a survey of Greek lit, but I was particularly thinking of one moment, just a small moment that altered the course of my life. Mark : It was sophomore year, second semester, sophomore year. And he called me in his office. I was trying to think, how did he get me? There was no email, there was no text. But he had me come into his office and he sat me down, and he was the head of the honors program. And he gave me a picture he said, "You should really apply for this." I was like, "Me. Nah." That's not how I thought of myself. I could talk. I was a pretty serious student, but I did a lot of other things too. I didn't do a lot of sleeping. Mark : I walked out of there and thought, oh. I still, I'm not very... I'm kind of... Not counting on it... To inviting you to an honors program. I was really not very smart because I'm thinking, well, I still don't have a chance. Not even thinking well, the head of the program asked me to do this. So I apply and got in the program. And now I spent my junior year at Trinity College in Ireland. Mark : But among the other little things, you got to take the seminars and it was so wonderful. So I took a seminar in non-Euclidean geometry with a guy named, I think his first name was Ted. Ted Cecil, math professor. It was just wonderful. Blew my mind of opening up the world and different ways of thinking. And I could tell the story a little bit, but on graduation, I wind up teaching math and religion. And first question was, did you study any math in college? Yes, I studied non-Euclidean geometry. Mark : And I got to spend a year working with Bob Cording, writing a thesis on a book-length poem by Galway Kinnell, called The Book of Nightmares. And I had met Galway because he was a visiting writing instructor, actually for the Worcester Consortium. So, I was able to take a poetry workshop with him when I was a sophomore. But to spend a year engaged in writing, I learned how to read, I learned how to write. It was so wonderful. Mark : So, just that experience and the confidence it gave me and helped me, it challenged me to think, you're really not that much of an idiot. But then jump ahead a couple of years, I'm bouncing around doing different things. I'm working for a Congressman in New York and I want to get into public policy, public affairs. He's advised me to go to law school. So I apply to some law schools, and I get something in the mail from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. And I read it and say, "This is what I should do." Mark : So, I apply there and I get in. Later, I served on the Admissions Committee at the Kennedy School and realize how the heck did I get in? And I know the crucial factor was, I was in the honors program and Holy Cross. So for some reason, Father Carlson took that time to call in this knucklehead and say, "You may want to do this." And in that way, it was just a conversation, but it had this impact on my life. And I'm 62 now and it's still blooming, and those are special moments. Maura : Well, and that's one of the things that I really enjoy is I get to have conversations with alums like you in this podcast, is to hear how many times individual people reaching out and knowing you as a person has a tremendous effect. And the fact that Holy Cross is small and allows people to get to know you and to see something in you that you didn't recognize in yourself at that moment. Mark : There were things you got to do. Some of this was day and age. So late seventies, there was so much freedom. My sophomore year, I realized that we were at this giant buffet table and it was all you could eat. You could get whatever you wanted. And so at the time, you would take four courses each semester, but you weren't limited to that. So I saw it as, well, naturally I'll take a fifth. I don't have to pay more. And then I would find out and sit in on other classes, then I would find out if you didn't see a class that you wanted, you could just make one up. Now I know Independent Studies, but that wasn't structured then, so sophomore year went to John Mayer, who was the chair of the English Department, and he taught myself and my two housemates a course on Bob Dylan, which was awesome. Maura : That's great. Mark : I remember mentioning it to my parents saying, "I'm taking a course on Dylan," and they were like, "What are you doing?" But it was awesome. Or senior year, my girlfriend, now my wife, we were college sweethearts. So she started on a course, which is not unusual at Holy Cross, of a bio pre-med and quickly wound up as an English major. But now, in senior year and she's got to make up some of her English credits. She's not seeing a lot, she can fill it up, but she needs one more course. We'll just find one. Mark : And I'm like, "Who are some of your favorite authors?" And she hits on Joseph Conrad. I said, "Great. We'll get a class on Conrad. You and I, we'll go do this." And she goes, "How are we going to do that?" "Don't worry." And so, Pat Bizzell in the English Department approached her and she said, "Sure, this would be great." So the two of us would read a book a week, and then we would meet with her, and how awesome is that to be able to have and go and do those things. There were a lot of things like that, but it's also, there were other things that were more extracurricular. Mark : So, sophomore year around Christmas, I read Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. And they would have what you would call today, a rave. And I'm reading this with the house band, The Warlocks, which changed their name to be the Grateful Dead. I'm reading this and I'm like, I would love to go to something like that. But what do I know? So then decided we'll have our own, and went off and did things, which now I look back like, wow, that was pretty good. I got a group of people together, today we could call a board. Everybody put money in, we sold tickets. We bought some things that we resold. I won't go into that even if the, what do they call it? The standards, the laws say that they can't arrest me anymore. And we had this three-day party with bands. It was just wonderful because you could go do that. Like again, different day and age. Mark : That year, I'm sleeping in Beaven, and every Wednesday night we had a cake party where we would charge money, and $1 would go to buy the cake for the next week, and 1$ would go towards this three-day party. So, I was learning to be an entrepreneur and then repeated it at a different level senior year. I came back from Ireland, wanted to do something and we created something called The Lunchbox Theater. During the lunch hour, we would put on plays and poetry readings, and concerts, and just had a blast doing this. And I'd run around and line people up and get people to agree to stage a play. What great fun. And we could go and do it. No one was going to stop you, and that it was encouraged and that was great. Maura : Well, and I can see now why you didn't sleep at all? Mark : No. Between that and work. I had a professor, Brendan Kenelly at Trinity College who would say, you go to university to find out what you don't know. And I didn't know. Eventually Father Carlson before, so I'm taking this Greek lit class freshman year, and now we come on to our first blue books, and I was in Carlin, which then was primarily a freshmen dorm. You could feel the stress level rising. And I'm like, well, I should be worried. I should do something. And that's when I realized I had no idea how to study. I had no idea how to take notes, no idea how to study. I didn't know really what to do. So I stayed up all night, re-read The Odyssey and The Iliad and I showed up with no sleep, but it's all fresh in my mind now. A lot of it, because I was so unsure of myself and insecurity that gets flipped sometimes as bravado. Mark : I remember it was a Bob Cording class sophomore year, and okay, different time and age, and I am ludicrous. It's a 10:30 or an 11 o'clock class and small class. I think everybody was a senior, I'm the only sophomore in the class. And I'm showing up in my bathrobe, sitting in the back of the class. And he turns, he hands out the first paper, and Bob was so diligent and detailed notes, but very demanding. Hands this out and he announces to the class, "I'm really disappointed and they're poor. And I'm telling you now, you're going to have to rewrite these." Because the highest grade, there were like two Cs and everybody else got a D. And I'm thinking, what the hell? People are slumping. He says, "But was one paper that just hit the mark and I'm going to read it to you." And he starts reading it. And all the people, I'm like several rows back from everybody, they're all looking at each other because they all know each other. Is that yours? Is that yours? Slowly they realize it's the freak in the back of the class. Mark : Again, it was somebody, Bob coming to me and saying... It's a lesson I had to keep learning. Don't be a fool. You can do things and now that becomes an obligation. You got to make something of that. Plus, there's friendships. I was texting last night with a buddy of mine from Holy Cross. We're still close. For a long time at that house that I mentioned, we would have like 25 people come down for president's weekend, bringing their families. We had this at a mini reunion. My wife, Carol, during the pandemic at six o'clock every Tuesday night, there's a Zoom call where they call themselves the Carlin Girls. They're in their sixties. They're not girls, but they do a Zoom call and they'll get 20 people in it. And every five years, they take a trip together and they go to Miami, or I guess, The Bahamas they've been to, all because there's this rich connection that was made at Holy Cross. Maura : It is. It's a special, my best friends in the world are from Holy Cross. It is, it's a special time, and it's nice when you can make those connections. It's amazing to see them last. Mark : And there's something about the Jesuit Mission and the liberal arts that always has you asking, inquiring and asking for more. It directly feeds into the business we have, which is a social enterprise. We have a social mission, and where do you get that from? Well, you get it from some of the activism and some of the yearning that was instilled in me in college. Maura : Well, and it seems like, looking at your career, from Holy Cross, you mentioned the Kennedy School, and then fast forward to today with John's Crazy Socks. It seems like, and I'd love to hear from you, but it seems like there's this thread of entrepreneurial-ism and mission and 'striving for the more' that seemed to be woven throughout your path. Mark : I look back and I guess I've always been an entrepreneur. I didn't always have the language to use it, but early on, everything and again, I didn't always necessarily have the language, but everything was mission-driven. So, I got out, I taught school for two years. Pure happenstance that I did that, I went to graduate school for literature. I was in a doctoral program and I'm sitting in there, sitting in a class the day the US invaded Grenada. And I don't know if people remember. It was this tiny island and we had to go rescue medical students. It was crazy. And I'm like, I should be doing something. So that's how I got the job at the Congressman. I showed up at his office and said, "I want to work with you." They said, "Well, we don't have any jobs." "That's all right. I'll volunteer. I just want experience." Mark : We move into a community and you'd connect. I can remember when we moved into Greenpoint, Brooklyn, we were early hipsters. It was before it boomed, and through the church and we set up a food bank, we set up a clothing depository. We work with the local recycling program to set something up, because you go and do that. I spent much of my career in the healthcare field. I wound up running the Medicaid health service program in New York City, and then ran a series of companies that were trying to figure out, how do you better deliver healthcare to the poor? How do we better organize care? Mark : But some of that Holy Cross thing was always there of the liberal arts and how do you pursue that mission and those values and still be carrying things out? But that wide interest, it fueled a lot. I started a software company. I ran political campaigns. I did a fair amount of writing. I published some of my less than really terrible fiction. And even this enterprise, we've now been doing this for four years, but people would say, well, when did you get into it? How long have you worked in retail? How long have you been in the sock game? Got no background in it. But I'm 62 today, everything I have done has prepared me for this moment. Everything I have done in my life has prepared me for this interview. Maura : Well, and that is the perfect segue to pull you into this John too, and to talk about John's Crazy Socks, and talk about the incredible work that you are doing. Because you're making a lot of change and you're doing a lot of good in the world through this company. Mark : We're very fortunate, but what are the two things you always talk about? John : Try to do for others. Mark : Try to do for others. It sounds trite, but the more we can do for others, the better off we are. We're living a dream. We get to do what we want to do. We have no excuses. We can't blame it on the board. We can't blame it on headquarters. And it also speaks to the way we run the business and our appearance. One of the internal ambitions, and I've always wanted this to be a way, I want this to be a great place to work. I want people to love working here. We work at that and you make that happen, and that runs through... What's our overall mission pal? John : Spread happiness. Mark : Spreading happiness. Well, you got to start at home and people got to be happy, and you have to understand it can't be lip service, it's got to drive through everything you do. So, here's an easy way. When it comes to customer service, you heard the old saw, the customer is always right. Nonsense. The customer can be damn wrong. But we're not in the business of being right. We're in the business of making customers happy. So, we don't limit any time that people spend with customers. People that work with our customers know they can spend 200 hours on any customer, at any time, doing anything they want, just go and wow that customer. Mark : We had something last week. Somebody had ordered something they said they were going to pay by check. That's pretty rare, somebody say they pay by check. And what our folks did was they said, "Okay," but they didn't fill the order until the check arrived. And when they did, it was an item we had sold out. So we sat and I said, let's think about this. First, in four years, maybe we've received 15 checks. It doesn't happen. Every time somebody says, they're going to send us a check, they send us a check. So, why not just live in a world where we trust people. And as soon as we get the order, we ship it out and trust that we're going to get the check. And my colleagues are looking and saying, "Can we do that?" "Why not? We can do whatever the hell we want to do." Mark : And they were like, "Well, what if people do this or that?" I said, "Nobody does that. Would you do that? So why don't we just treat people that way?" And it's so easy. And wouldn't you rather live in that world? Maura : Yes. Mark : Now, if we get burned, if all of a sudden people are fake, but it doesn't happen. We doing the same thing with our returns. You don't have to send us anything. Just let us know. If there's any problem we're going to replace it. We're going to give you your money back. We want to make you happy. What results of that? Well, if we treat you that way, you tell other people. Aren't people happy, because we're not going through stuff. We're just trying to make you happy, and our return rate last month, our refund rate was 0.6%. Businesses would kill to do that. We give away anything we can. Maura : Well, and I know that the origin story, if you will, of John's Crazy Socks is out there for people to read and to watch. But I'd love to hear from you about that moment, because I talk to so many people who dream of starting their own business. Who say, someday, I'd love to do this, but there's a very small percentage who actually do it. So what sparked that courage to really go and make this happen? Mark : Well, first of all, it is, again, it's much simpler than you think. Worst thing that happens is, you fail. And you go on. But ours grew out of a specific situation, this particular business, and origin stories matter. Because you take your DNA and they run through everything. So ours, it's the fall of 2016, and where were you buddy? John : I'm in school dad. Mark : Which school? John : Huntington High School. Mark : So, he's in Huntington High School in the states, and this is across the country. You can remain in high school until you either graduate or turn 21. If you have a disability, you can stay until you're 21. So this was going to be John's last year at school. Like everybody else, he's trying to figure out what do I do next? What are you looking at? John : I looked at shop programs in school. Mark : See anything you like? John : No, I never saw anything I liked. Mark : Well, the answer is, there's not a lot of great choices. John grew up in a household where he saw me starting different businesses and running things. And I'd like to say he's a natural entrepreneur, because he did things like that himself in school. I remember showing up at his summer school, we've got a summer program, and came into some and the principal came out and said, "I want to talk to you about John." And that was always good. Particularly my middle guy, Jamie, the principal comes, wants to talk to me, that's not good. That's the same way with me. But with John, okay. Well, it turned out John wanted to run a talent show, and he organized a talent show at the school. Never mentioned to me. He didn't think why I have to ask permission, I just go and do this. Mark : So, he doesn't see anything he like, the natural entrepreneur doesn't see that as a problem, but as an opportunity. So what do you tell me? John : I want to go into business with my dad. This is my idea. Mark : I was starting some online businesses. He comes and tells me that, it's like, okay, let's go do this. And traditionally, what you do in a business, once you get the idea, is you stop everything to prepare a business plan. Work out your competitive analysis, your market research, your operational projections, financial projections. We did none of that. We went what's known as the lean startup route. We were bootstrapping. Let's just get something up and running. I've worked with venture capitalists before and done that. We didn't want to do that. Just get something up and running. And he's the perfect partner because he just believes, of course this is going to work. Maura : Why wouldn't it? Mark : Why wouldn't it? And so much of what we've been able to do is why not? So, I'll let you know on something that's coming up on March 30th. This is top secret information. On March 30th, we're going to introduce our unity socks, which are blue socks with American flags on them. We want them to symbolize inclusivity and unity, and we get this idea. We want to give them to every member of Congress. So on March 30th, we have two local congressmen coming, a Republican and a Democrat, to help us introduce these socks, and we're going to give them to every member of Congress. We've already been invited to come up to Albany and do it in the New York State Legislature. And we see ourselves that we can go across the country, just symbolizing look what's possible. Have John be handing out these unity socks. What a wild, ridiculous idea and yet, okay, who's going to stop us? Maura : And yet it's so perfect. What a perfect idea. Mark : And it just grows. Not every idea is a good idea. We have bad ones. We do a lot of presentations. Right before this, we were speaking virtually to a school in New York City. Last week, we got a question from a high school student, need to ask permission from to do these things. It's like, no, that's part of the power. You don't have to ask anybody for permission. Just go and do and come back to... It's the nature of the social enterprise. You've got to have a mission. Mark : You can't be, we just want to make money. It's got to be something larger than yourself, an impact you want to have on the world. And when you're driven by that, it's so motivating. All the petty stuff falls away, and that's how you can go and connect with people. We get asked, what's the key ingredient? Which skill? A lot of it is just belief. If we have a mission to spread happiness, just believe. So when you ask on the origin story, okay, we'll find a way forward and we'll go test it. And it turned out it went well, right buddy. Maura : Well, I think even more than just believe, you talked about wanting to make a great place for people to work. And I think that the fact that you care about your employees, and you care about the people, both who work with you and who you serve, that is another really big piece. Mark : It's all the whole. So yes, our mission is to spread happiness. You do that by hiring people with differing abilities and showing what they can do, by giving back and by making personal connection with our customers. When it comes to this workplace, one of the things we're trying to share with other employers, hiring people with differing abilities is not altruism. It's good business. And what do we see? Morale is way up. Productivity is high, retention is through the roof and it helps us recruit. And it makes for a better workplace. You think the benefits would mainly accrue to the people with differing abilities, but everybody is better off and everybody is happier. Mark : But I've worked over the years into, in essence, a formula on employee engagement. One, you have to start with a mission in which people can believe. It's got to be something greater than ourselves. It's got to be something that can matter. Two, everybody has to know how they fit into the mission, how their job matters. There's no leg work. There's no, I'm just a cog in a machinery. Yes, our webmaster knows, but our sock wranglers, that's what we call the pickers on our pick and pack warehouse, they know their job matters. Mark : Three, put people in a position to succeed. Don't ask them to do what they can't do. Give them the tools. If they need a special chair, get them a chair. If they need a software tool, a webmaster needs some analytical tool, get that for them. As a manager, you have to be a leader. And in doing that, what you have to make clear to people is, I work for you. My job is to put you in a position to succeed and if you have problem, if you have a limitation, my job is to try to help remove that limitation. Mark : Four, recognize what people do. People care. It's as simple as saying, thank you. I saw you doing this. What you do matters. We value. And then the last, stay the hell out of the way. Let people do their jobs and they will thrive. But some of this comes down to, it's like a Christian thing. Do unto others, treat people the way you would like to be treated. If you treat people poorly, they will respond that way. If you treat people that I don't trust you, so I have to manage and inspect and micromanage, they will respond in kind. Maura : Well, and I know that you've had a lot of opportunities to spread this message. I recently saw that you joined this CEO Commission on Disability Employment. And I know when we've spoken before, you mentioned going before Congress in the past. Mark : We've been very fortunate. We've had a fair amount of media coverage. We've had some viral experiences, and we go out and basically proselytize. John, you love the speaking engagements, right. John : Yeah. I love speaking engagements. Mark : So yes, we've done things. We've testified twice before Congress, we've spoken to United Nations. We're part of the State Department Speakers Bureau. So they had us take a little speaking tour in Canada. We didn't get tour T-shirts made up, next time we will. And yes, we're on the CEO Commission for Disability Employment. And I laugh. This was founded by Voya Financial and the Society of Human Resource Managers. How are we on this? Like, we're on this National Autism @ Work Roundtable with IBM and Microsoft and Ernst & Young and Warner Brothers, and John's Crazy Socks? Mark : We appreciate the opportunities and you could go back to Rome and find this motto, and you can see it with the Kennedy's and with Spider-Man. To those who are given opportunities, come great responsibilities. So I'll give you an anecdote on that. We're down on Capitol Hill, and we get a phone call here in New York in the office, from a customer in Houston who says, "I see that John and Mark are on Capitol Hill. My mother works there. She's a big fan of John's, would it be possible for them to meet my mom?" Person says, "Sure. Here's Mark's cell phone. Just text him your mom's name and contact information and he'll do it." Who's mom? Nancy Pelosi. Mark : So now, we get an audience with Nancy Pelosi and forget about right wing, left wing. We vilify our politicians too often, or deify them. They're just people. She's a grandmother. She comes in, her eyes light up seeing John, and she brings out pictures of socks that she gave former President Bush, because John had become a sock buddy with former President Bush, George H W Bush, where they exchanged letters and socks, and all this is great. We take photos, but now we have this opportunity that creates an obligation. Mark : So it's yes, but Ms. Pelosi, we have to talk about some other matters. One, we have to talk about repealing section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938, great piece of American legislation. It created the 40 hour workweek, it eliminated child labor, it created overtime. But it allows employers to pay people with a disability less than minimum wage. So, there are 400,000 people being paid as little as five cents an hour. And we are grateful that we have this opportunity, but we are now going to take advantage of this. Mark : I'll give you a recent one where, despite our best efforts, we contracted the COVID virus, John, my wife and myself. And for Christmas, we gave John a hospital stay. He was admitted on Christmas Day, it was dicey for a few days. People say it's nothing, it's just the flu. Now very healthy, got out eight days later. So, we held an event at the hospital because we know we can attract media attention. So we went back to the hospital and you got to thank everybody, right? John : I did. Mark : But we also used it to do two other things. One, to raise awareness about the risk that people with down syndrome face, they're not more likely to get the virus, but if they do, five times more likely to be hospitalized, 10 times more likely to die. So, we want to get that word out. The other thing, the hospital let me stay with John the entire time, even when he was, because things went bad for a day or two. When they moved him to the critical care unit, they let me stay. Now, Federal Regulations require that people with a disability, that they get access to their caregivers. That's not the way it's practiced, particularly during COVID. So, we wanted to highlight look, this is better for everybody. That there's always a little medicine with the sugar. Mark : So, we keep driving that mission and you can't separate the two. We'd like to make money, we'd like to live indoors, like to pay the rent. And if the business doesn't succeed, then we'll go home and all this stops. So you got to make that happen, but like the giving back. So, we baked into it from day one. We donate 5% of our earnings where? John : Special Olympics. Mark : Special Olympics. Why the special Olympics? John : I'm a Special Olympics athlete. Mark : And then we've created a whole series of products that celebrate causes and raise money for charity partners. So the first one was a down syndrome awareness sock, raises money for the National Down Syndrome Society. But more recent ones, an EMT tribute sock raises money for a local EMT squad. Last April, we wanted to thank people. We introduced healthcare, superhero socks, and they've raised over $50,000 for frontline workers. Mark : And there have been different points when very smart people have said to me, you're not making money. What are you doing making these donations. But we wouldn't have the business we have if we weren't doing that. Willingness for the long haul. So, among things that are really cool, our little business we've raised over $400,000 for our charity partners. Maura : That's amazing. Mark : John here is a special Olympic athlete, who's raised over $100,000 for the special Olympics. We make sure everybody who works here knows they're all philanthropists. It's very cool. We're so fortunate. So in the end, we are these knuckleheads running a sock business and this is a small business, and all we want to do is change the world. How much fun? Maura : And you're doing it too. That's the incredible thing. Is even if it's in small ways, as you showed all of these donations, one pair of sock here, the one conversation there, it's changing hearts and minds. Mark : That has been the thing that has surprised us the most, and it's still hard to wrap our minds around and we have to be really careful about. But people take inspiration and there is a deep, emotional connection. I could tell you all sorts of stories of things we get to see, but I'll tell you one that my wife likes me to tell because I tear up sometimes. Mark : The National Down Syndrome Society sponsors Buddy Walks around the country, but the biggest one is in New York City. Before it starts, they rent a billboard in the city in Times Square, and they want like a video with faces on it of people with down syndrome. So, we go there and John's like a rock star in that community. People are swarming him. But a woman comes up to me and just hugs me and says, "Thank you." Mark : Okay, what's going on? And she explains that she is from Curacao, an island just off of Venezuela. And she tells us that her daughter had gotten pregnant and tested that she was going to have a child with down syndrome. She explained that on Curacao, people were ashamed of people with disabilities, that they hide them. It's something they don't want deal with, talk about it. And in fact, everybody knew that her doctor said, "This is what you're going to do. You're going to get an abortion." And to me, this is not really an abortion story. This was just, this was grant. This is what's going to happen. And the family came home and they saw a news story about John and John's Crazy Socks. Mark : And she said, it changed their entire outlook. And she introduced us to her one year old son. How awesome. We get people coming up to us all the time, thanking us and telling us how they want to do this with their child, or it gave them hope. And we have to be careful. We have nothing special. We're just out doing these things and sharing. So when John stands up in front of a crowd, be it 10 people at a SEPTA, be at 22,000 people at Madison Square Garden, and they see what he can do, it changes people's minds. And we are very fortunate to be able to do that. Maura : I think you really are living that mission of spreading happiness and of doing great things with the opportunities that you've been afforded. Mark : We've been given a lot. We had our family and I could go on about my other boys and the love of my life. We'll be married 40 years. John : It's 39 years still. Mark : It's still 39, I know. Mark : There's a reasonable chance that we'll make it to June. Reasonable chance. Maura : Fingers crossed. Mark : Well, you know. I'm still a Dylan fan. There's that line, when I see you, I don't know if I want to kiss you or kill you. A lot a marriage in that. Here's just some of what we get to do, and how fortunate. We get to see minor miracles all the time. So one of our colleagues, Thomas, his mother calls us in October of 2017 and says, "I understand you hire people like my son. I need you to give him a job." We're not hiring, we'll post when we are. She calls every day and the moms are persistent. She's not the only one who's done this. So I got on the phone with her and I said, "Well, tell me about Thomas." Mark : She says, "Well, he's early twenties. He's on the autism spectrum. And he's in a very bad way. He's very depressed. We have trouble getting him to come out of his room. He won't shower or shave. He doesn't want to deal with anybody. We can't get him to join any programs or activities. It's so bad he hasn't spoken to his father in over six months." Sounds like a great employee. Mark : So, we have an opening and bring him out. And the opening is for our sock wrangler position, that's kind of our entry level position. We pay $15 an hour to start because everybody, you got to pay a fair wage. The way you get the job, you meet with John and me. We want to make sure you understand the mission and our values. Then one of our current sock wranglers will train you and they love doing it. You've trained people. John : Yes. Mark : They love doing it. And then when you're ready, you have to pass the sock wrangler test. You got to pick six orders, 30 minutes or less, show us you can do the job. Well, Thomas comes out and after an hour of training, says, "I'm ready." And he passes that test as if he was put on this earth to be a sock wrangler. Today, on the days he works, Thomas is ready, showered and shaved at 6:30 in the morning for his father to drive one hour to work. When he gets in here, the young man who wouldn't look at anybody or talk to anybody, goes around and wishes everybody in the building a good morning. Mark : I want to be really clear here. We did nothing. We did no special training, no government funding, no special programs. All we did was give Thomas the opportunity to earn a job, and how fortunate are we? And so Holy Cross, the imprint that studying and understanding the liberal arts in the way it gets you to think and prepare, the way you imbue. Some of this comes from studying literature. You imbue different levels, different things all in the same action. That runs through what we do. I've spoken to students. Mark : So, I was an English major, I got out in 1980. There was no internet. Fax machines had not come, they've come and gone. There were no cell phones. We run an E-commerce business, I couldn't have studied that if I wanted to. But the liberal arts let you understand how to learn, how to figure things out, and so this runs through what we do today. And a lot of my classmates would be shocked to think that someone would be interviewing me for a Holy Cross alumni network. You've met those friends. John : I do. Mark : Paul, you should be talking to him. Paul Miles running a charter school and John Flynn, who's got this bicycle recycling program in Hartford. Charlie Brown or Chris Potter and Sue Mack and all these good people. Maureen, lots of good stuff. Maura : John, what's the best part for you about working with your dad? John : One thing I love working with my dad, I'm so lucky to be where he is. I'm never without my dad. He always, I've changed I can, if possible. I love my dad. Third and lastly, about my dad going to Holy Cross. I am a proud son because I am so, so happy of him being my father. Mark : What about your mom? You got to speak up for her, right? John : Yeah. I'll never forget mom. I am proud son. I am so proud of my dad, my mom accomplished. They are amazing accomplished. Mark : And you like hearing the stories of how we met, right? John : Oh yeah. Dad is so romantic. Mark : Romantic? Ricky, Kevin and I were looking for beer. And I can tease something for you. I'm not going any further than this. I've read in the alumni magazine and seen references to the fingers on the Jesus statue in the quad. I can tell you I was there and I know what happened. But that's it. No names, no details. Maura : Living mystery. That's what that is. Well, and my last question, this has just been really wonderful. What is your favorite pair of socks? Mark : What's your favorite pair? John : My favorite pair, my down syndrome superhero socks. Mark : Down syndrome superhero socks. Maura : Yes, that sounds like a good pair. Mark : Whose face is on those socks? John : Me. Mark : You. Maura : Good choice. Mark : You're a funny boy. Maura : I think we'll all have to check out that pair of socks. This has been an absolute pleasure. Is there anything else you want to share with listeners before we go? John : I want to say something. It's something that I said before... Mark : Go ahead. John : I am so proud of my dad's career. I am so proud of my dad's career and college. I am a proud son. I love my dad and what he did. It's wonderful. Mark : Well, there's a late poem from Yates where he recounts his achievements and those were notable, part of the revolution, part of the day of the Senate, winning a Nobel prize. But the refrain is what then sang Plato's ghost, what then are you going to do for me next? And we get to keep doing things, right? John : I love you dad. Mark : My boy. Maura : Thank you both so much. This has been just such a pleasure. John : I'm so proud of you Dad. Mark : Well, you let us know if there's ever something we can do. You got to put the pitch in. Where do people get stuff? John : At JohnsCrazySocks.com. Mark : There you go. Maura : Perfect. Yes. And I can say, I treated the alumni relations team to a pair of donut socks last year for Christmas, and they have been a big hit. So, I am a fan of John's Crazy Socks. Thank you for everything that you do. Mark : Well, thank you. John : I'm a big fan of my dad. Mark : You're a fan of your dad. Boy, you are being nice to me today. Maura : That's our show. I hope you enjoyed hearing about just one of the many ways that Holy Cross alumni have been inspired by the Mission to be people for and with others. A special thanks to today's guests and everyone at Holy Cross, who has contributed to making this podcast a reality. If you or someone you know, would like to be featured on this podcast, then please send us an email at alumnicareers@holycross.edu. If you like what you hear, then please leave us a review. This podcast is brought to you by the Office of Alumni Relations at the College of the Holy Cross. You can subscribe for future episodes wherever you find your podcasts. I'm your host, Maura Sweeney, and this is Mission-Driven. In the words of St. Ignatius of Loyola, now go forth and set the world on fire. Theme music composed by Scott Holmes, courtesy of freemusicarchive.org.

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Rick Cox has used the Sports Medicine Broadcast on his path to leadership. Through John's Leadership series Rick has been able to strengthen and improve as a leader in Athletic Training and at home. An interesting fact: Rick was wearing his Sports Medicine Broadcast shirt when he dislocated his elbow rock climbing. “The world is always full of the sound of waves. The little fishes, abandoning themselves to the waves, dance and sing and play, but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet down? Who knows the depth?” Why did you choose that line from Musashi? Well it illustrates a person's path to their given occupation or specialty. (Musashi)  We may see the outside but do we ever really know the true path that person took to get where they are now and more importantly, where they are going in the future?  Who is Rick?  Year 3 at Suffolk Head ATwas satisfied for a while as an assistantRealized that just being part of the staff was not going to be good enough, but he knew he needed to learn.I am constantly questioning “what could I be doing better” What started Rick on his path to leadership?  Had no experience Did a lot of reflection and questioning himselfMakes small changes How did he do it? A lot of reading, but not focusing on a single personSimon SinekRyan HolidayMilitary tends to lend itself to leadership “Football (soccer) is life sped up” Life / Athletics and war are not the same thing but lessons can be learned You realize people have gone through some tough situations and you are not alone. What have been some of the leadership lessons you have realized?  There are examples everywhere The election is an example What are some of the universal truths you have learned? Not placing blame Honesty “Take the blame and give out credit” - Rick Cox In my path to leadership, building relationships has been one of my strengths and it has grown our influence with our athletes and coaches. Honesty with harshness When have you had to relearn the lessons? Year on we had a baseball player in the clinic and our Ortho wanted the athlete to go to the ER. We were busy and did not communicate with each other and the coach. The following day the baseball coach was pretty upset. Rick’s first instinct was to place blame, but before he spoke he remembered the lessons…”You are right, we messed this up” Have you seen improved relationships on your Path To Leadership? Not to the point of being “buds” but there have been improvements John busted his butt to build relationships, made progress but then for some reason it reset once the season was over It is like building a garden.  You have to replant each year What have been other benefits to your Path to Leadership? I am still struggling with this at home and have not been able to transition this to home What has been the outcome?  I have become a better clinicianI am better as a leader due to this. What would you tell a Young Rick Cox? Humility Books?  Anything by Jocko Simon Sinek’s Leaders Eat Last and Start with WHY Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is The Way and Ego Is The Enemy Dare to Lead - Brene Brown https://www.facebook.com/sportsmedicinebroadcast/videos/340721383694562/ Contact Us Rick Cox - rcox2@suffolk.edu @Suffolk_AT John Ciecko - @John Ciecko Jeremy - @MrJeremyJackson Encourage them to buy more shirts for you...

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Meet John Elegant....yes, that's is real last name! John is the Founder of MidEngineCorvetteForum.com. He is also a Lifetime Member of the National Corvette Museum. Through John's connections with the Corvette Team, John is able to put out real truths about the C8 mid-engine Corvette. His website is a wealth of information about the newest generation of Corvette. You'll love to listen to Steve Garrett talk with the man simply called...."Elegant" on CORVETTE TODAY.

Get ready for an exciting study through the Book of Revelation!   Of all the books for today, Revelation is the one book in particular that should be read and studied!  It gives us clearer detail about the future than any other.  Through John, the glorified Christ describes the temporary government operation (and their ultimate end) of the Satanic trinity (Satan, Antichrist, False Prophet); the horrible and deadly events of the 7-year Tribulation Period,  the Glorious Appearing of Christ at His Second Coming, and Israel's repentance.  We also learn about Church history (amazingly given prophetically through Christ's seven letters of chapters 2 and 3), as well as where we are today in that history.  Then, too, we learn about the future position of the saints (of all ages), and are given a most beautiful description of our eternal dwelling place with the One Who made it possible for us to live there with Him forever!

Part 2: Can I Trust the Bible as Relevant to the Church Today? No one reads all of the Bible literally. We all make choices about what to not take out of its original contexts. Proverbs 13:24; 1 Peter 3:3; Numbers 5:14-16 The parts that we read differently - more or less literal - than others should be areas we discuss and allow the Bible to open the door to greater relationship with Jesus Christ and others. Those discussions and interpretations became the Midrash to the Jewish people and continue to evolve with time. The point of the Bible is not to give us all the laws but to open the door to the salvation of the WORD of God, Jesus Christ. The Bible includes less ‘laws’ to make life perfect and get us to Heaven and more invitations to understand God, God’s Love, and grow in our image of God. This helps us mature in God’s love. How do we read the Bible? We ask 3 Questions when trying to understand the Bible. Question #1 - What did this passage mean to the first people who heard it? To understand what the Bible literally means we must know what it literally meant to the first people who heard it. Did John 1:1-29 mean more to 1st century Christians than Jesus Christ was God who became one of us, loved us, and died to take away our sins so we could be part of his family? YES! Through John 1 Christians followed Jesus Christ into physically loving the good creation, creatures, and people He created. He was now one with them all. Question 2: What does it still mean to the Church today? I believe the more the Church asks Question #1 the more fascinating and relevant the Bible and the Living Body of Christ becomes to the world in 2020. Let’s review from 1/19/2020… Part 1: ...As the WORD of God? What does the Bible say about Jesus Christ? The Bible identifies Jesus Christ as the WORD of God that was in the beginning, God with us in the water of our lives, and the crucified, resurrected redeemer of all creation. (John 1:1, 1:14; Genesis 1:26-27; Acts 6:7; Hebrews 4:12-13; Revelation 19:13). What does Scripture say about itself? Scripture and Creation can be trusted to connect us to the WORD and to our neighbor. (Psalm 1:2-3, Psalm 19:1-4, Romans 1:20, 2 Timothy 3:15-17, Matthew 7:12, Matthew 22:37-40) In reading Scripture, we keep our eyes on the message and our relationship with the WORD. Do not get distracted with the facts and details. They are important but not the priority. (Hebrews 12:1-2) Jesus Christ uses the Bible to knock at the door of your heart and through the Bible wants to come in and camp out with you! (Revelation 3:20)

Through John 4:7-15, we look at the story of Jesus and Samaritan woman, at the well. Pastor Nathan discusses marriage & divorce and Living Water that God can bring into our own lives.

The Spirit honors Mary- Through John- Through ElizabethTime:AfternoonMinister:Rev. James ZekveldTexts:Luke 1:39–56Luke 1:39–452 Samuel 6:12–23Isaiah 66:1–14Series:Luke

Contract Killer Mad Dog Joe Sullivan - Part 1...Contract killer “Mad Dog” Joe Sullivan started out life as a good Irish Catholic boy in a squarehead family in Queens. In part one of this two-part special, we cover how the sudden death of Joe's detective father, and the horrendous effect it had on his family broke something inside young Joe. And when Joe broke, he broke bad. Mad Dog Sullivan spent most of his teen years in Juvenile Detention for petty crimes, before graduating to armed robberies and murder. After escaping from Attica maximum security prison, in 1971, Joe hit up made man John Sullivan for a job. Through John, Joe became a contract killer for “Fat Tony” Salerno and the notorious Genovese crime family. He is said to have disposed of Jimmy Hoffa's body for them and murdered two of Mickey Spillane's top gunman Tommy Devaney and "Eddie The Butcher" Cummiskey.Under the tutelage of his murder mentor, George Barone, over the next several years Joe would go on to murder an estimated 30 people.See our website! bloodymurderpodcast.com for all our socal media links, contact details, a gallery, fabulous merchandise (check out our new Bloody Murder SHOES! and now STICKERS and BACKPACKS and DUFFEL BAGS!!) and much much more.Become a Bloody Murder Patron (for as little as $1 per month, which you cancel at anytime) and have access to dozens of Patron only episodes (including our whole first season!) with new patron only content added every month!Go to https://www.patreon.com/bloodymurderAlso Levels $5 and over go into our monthly merchandise draws and get FREE stickers and hand-made Barney Badges!Wanna buy us a drink? Here's a donate link.True Crime Nerd Time, a segment on Bloody Murder, needs your help because it stars you! We want you, our listeners, to submit your recommendations for anything true cime related! It could be books, TV shows, movies, documentaries, exhibitions, graphic novels, art, music etc. So send us your brief story (we’ll read it out) or record your story (it can just be a recording on your phone, and we’ll play it!). We will also publish it on our website. Keep it to about 2 mins please or 200 words. Email here! bloodymurderpodcast@gmail.com. Oh and if you give us your postal address we'll send you some stickers as a reward!Aussie As: Carl William's widow's hopes for a glamorous reality TV show are jeopardised when she and her gang allegedly bash and blackmail the producer.Sources Joe Sullivan: Mobsters; Mad Dog Sullivan. www.biography.com. Tears and Tiers The Life and Times of Joseph"Mad Dog" Sullivan the only man to escape Attica Prison, the true story of a legend by Gail Sullivan. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English. streetlogicblog.com June 16, 2017, Death of a Mad Dog, by T.J. English.Village Voice, Secrets of the Mob by Tom Robbins, May 8, 2007. Notorious Rochester mob hit man 'Mad Dog' Sullivan dies in prison. Gary Craig and Sean Lahman, Democrat and Chronicle Published, June 15, 2017. Salt Lake Tribune, Ex-mob hit man 'Mad Dog' Sullivan dies in NY state prison, June 16, 2017. The Irish Mob, Joseph Sullivan The Only Man To Escape From Attica by Owen Forsyth, February 21, 2019. britannica.com; Attica Correctional Facility by Linda Dailey Paulson. Archive.org; Attica Uprising, Official Report. mafia.wikia.org; Tony... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

John, the only remaining member of the Twelve Disciples of Christ, had been sent away to the island of Patmos for preaching about Jesus. The book of Revelation was written while he was exiled. As John is worshipping on the Lord's Day, he sees Jesus, who gives him a message for seven churches. Through John's account of what Christ reveals to Him, one message is clear, Jesus loves the Church. We know Christ died for His people and all the people to come, but He actively loves us today and is commanding us to reach those who do not know Him or His great love. He is above all and is completely sovereign in all things. He lacks nothing, yet chooses to use us to further the gospel and bring Him glory. He stands with His church, strengthening and leading for the world to see Him. We, like John, are the vessels in which He has chosen to use to proclaim His wondrous and mighty Name. Because God is our refuge and strength, we can take heart in the face of calamity of any kind, just as John did. We speak and move through life on the authority of the One who is sovereign over all.   Revelation 1:9-20 Kenny Nix, Pastor

Speaker: Pastor Bruce Newman We are journeying 100 days to Easter Sunday. In this journey we are going to discover how you can connect to community here at Bethesda and live missionally. It's an opportunity for anyone to be a part of a community of people as we Follow Christ, Grow Deeper, Serve Others and Give Generously to the mission God has called us to. About this Message: This week we have group of people who were already following Jesus and had a certain expectation and that expectation wasn't met. Through John 11 we are going to discover, even though we may have a certain expectation on how God should answer our prayers and intervene in our lives, that His perspective and purpose is far greater than our unmet expectations. Connect with us: www.bethesda.ca

In this segment, anarchist and primitivist philosopher John Zerzan and I discuss the root of the pervasive neuroses, destructive addictive behaviors, and outbursts of violence in modern society — all of which stem from the alienation produced by the community-destroying elements present in civilized life today. Through John’s examination of anthropological evidence of humanity’s pre-historic past, we can understand that much of what we take for granted to be “normal” human behavior and development is really, in the scope of things, a rather recent product of the logic of technological and economic progress inherent in capitalist development — the most recent phase in global civilization’s aim to expand and protract itself into every aspect of the human experience on this planet. John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought and the concept of time. His most recent books are ‘A People's History of Civilization’ and ‘Time and Time Again,’ both released this year (2018). Learn more about John’s work at his website http://johnzerzan.net. Purchase John’s book ‘Time & Time Again’ from Detritus Books: http://bit.ly/TTAgain This is a segment of episode #149 of Last Born In The Wilderness “Time & Time, Again: The Neuroses Of Domesticated Life w/ John Zerzan.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWzerzan WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON DONATE: Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL Ko-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI FOLLOW & LISTEN: SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD iTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES Google Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE Stitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB YouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK Twitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER Instagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

In this episode, I speak with anarchist and primitivist writer and philosopher John Zerzan. We discuss his deep analysis of the roots of Time as we understand it to be in the modern sense (explored in a collection of essays titled ‘Time & Time Again’), the roots of agriculture and the domestication of life, the detrimental impact this transition has had on human health and physical development, the neuroses of mass society (alienation, depression, anxiety, etc.), the wholesale disappearance of community, and the threat technological advancement poses for complex life on the planet. As mentioned above, we begin the discussion by examining the concept of Time, as expressed in John’s collection of essays ‘Time & Time Again,’ published by Detritus Books. As John writes in his essay ‘Time and its Discontents’: “The further we go in time the worse it gets. We inhabit an age of the disintegration of experience, according to Adorno. The pressure of time, like that of its essential progenitor, division of labor, fragments and disperses all before it.”❂ Everything, as John points to his writing, becomes subject to the will and tyranny of Time, a process that continually disempowers us in the service of technological advancement and economic growth — ideological constructs that serves the continuation and legitimization of “Civilization” more broadly, regardless of the detrimental impacts this structure has on human life and the complex living systems of this planet. John and I also discuss the root of the pervasive neuroses, destructive addictive behaviors, and outbursts of violence in modern society — all of which stem from the alienation produced by the community-destroying elements present in civilized life today. Through John’s examination of anthropological evidence of humanity’s pre-historic past, we can understand that much of what we take for granted to be “normal” human behavior and development is really, in the scope of things, a rather recent product of the logic of technological and economic progress inherent in capitalist development — the most recent phase in global civilization’s aim to expand and protract itself into every aspect of the human experience on this planet. What can we learn from this examination of human life before the rise of symbolic thought and agriculture? We discuss this and more in this episode. John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of hunter-gatherers as an inspiration for what a free society should look like. Some subjects of his criticism include domestication, language, symbolic thought and the concept of time. His most recent books are ‘A People's History of Civilization’ and ‘Time and Time Again,’ both released this year (2018).✧ ❂ Source: http://bit.ly/TimeDiscontents ✧Source: http://bit.ly/WikiZerzan Episode Notes: - Learn about John’s work at his website: http://johnzerzan.net - Purchase ‘Time & Time Again’ from Detritus Books: http://bit.ly/TTAgain - Purchase ‘A People’s History of Civilization’ from Feral House: http://bit.ly/APHCiv - Listen to John’s weekly produced ‘Anarchy Radio’: http://bit.ly/AnarchyRadio - The song featured in this episode is ‘Carbon 7 (161)’ by Jlin from the album Black Origami. - WEBSITE: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com - PATREON: http://bit.ly/LBWPATREON - DONATE: Paypal: http://bit.ly/LBWPAYPAL Ko-Fi: http://bit.ly/LBWKOFI - FOLLOW & LISTEN: SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/LBWSOUNDCLOUD iTunes: http://bit.ly/LBWITUNES Google Play: http://bit.ly/LBWGOOGLE Stitcher: http://bit.ly/LBWSTITCHER RadioPublic: http://bit.ly/LBWRADIOPUB YouTube: http://bit.ly/LBWYOUTUBE - SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook: http://bit.ly/LBWFACEBOOK Twitter: http://bit.ly/LBWTWITTER Instagram: http://bit.ly/LBWINSTA

Have you ever felt as though you didn't quite fit in? It's not easy standing out apart from the rest of the crowd, but Jesus calls us to do exactly that. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Why am I here? People of all walks of life wrestle with this question. There is a passage of scripture that will help answer that question. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus gives us a pretty simple, but difficult assignment, but He also provides a tremendous source of help to accomplish the task. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

There are 4 claims that Jesus made over two thousand years ago that speak into our lives today. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Did Jesus interact with his close friends He knew were about to betray Him in the same way that we would? Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

What does true greatness look like? Jesus' lesson to His disciples is still true and relevant for all of us. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

In what area of my life is God calling me to “come out” of a dead situation? Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

We're big fans of practicality at The #HCBiz Show! Don't get me wrong... we love disruptive innovation and cutting age tech as much as anyone, but we love getting things done RIGHT NOW a lot more. We're glad there are smart folks out there building the tools that'll change the game in 10-20 years, but our job is to give you the information you need to get things done when you go to work on Monday. That's why you'll see us touch just lightly on the cutting edge, and then dig incredibly deep on the here and now. So, it should come as no surprise to you that we're excited about today's guest and topic. On this episode, we talk with John Lynn, founder of Healthcare Scene and the brand new Health IT Expo happening May 30 – June 1, 2018 in New Orleans. The Health IT Expo is a conference that's focused on practical innovations that you can implement today as opposed to moonshot ideas that may affect you 10 years from now. That's beautiful. Isn't it? John's a great interview and we cover a bunch, including: What is the Health IT Expo? What is practical innovation? Why is it so hard to spread practical innovations across the healthcare industry? How does practical innovation create space for a disruptive and break-through future? What are you doing differently for vendors at the Health IT Expo? How do you plan to facilitate collaboration among all the attendees and the vendors? What is the "No BS Principle"? What are you doing to ensure attendees get actionable takeaways and not just insights? What does it mean to "go beyond the EHR"? Why are health systems suddenly talking about ERP systems? How can we keep the conversation practical, while still addressing the cutting edge tech that may someday drive disruptive innovation?     About John Lynn John Lynn is the Founder of Healthcare Scene. Healthcare Scene is a unique healthcare IT network which consists of 10 EHR and Healthcare IT blogs containing over 11,000 articles published over 11 years. Of those articles, John has written over 5500 of the articles himself. These EMR & Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 18 million times and John has over 80k social media followers & 53k email subscribers who follow him as a thought leader in the EHR & Healthcare IT space. John also led Healthcare Scene's acquisition of the leading Health IT Job board, Healthcare IT Central. This included the acquisition of Healthcare IT Today, a unique career resource for healthcare IT professionals. In 2014, John launched the first of its kind Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference (HITMC). Through John's leadership, this conference has become the premiere venue for health IT marketing and PR professionals to learn and network with their peers. Plus, out of this conference, John has organized a strong community of marketing and PR professionals who are working to improve healthcare. John has given keynote speeches and taught workshops across the country and around the world. John has spoken at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual conference 6 times and at conferences like CES (Consumer Electronics Show), SXSW, and CTIA – The Wireless Association along with keynote speeches at EHR user conferences include Modernizing Medicine's EMA Nation and the gMed Summit to name a few of his speaking engagements. John has also taught multiple EHR workshops in Dubai with attendees from throughout the Middle East and Asia. John co-founded Influential Networks and Physia and is currently a formal advisor to three healthcare IT companies. John was previously an advisor to docBeat which was acquired by Vocera. John has 4 children and a beautiful wife that keep him grounded and remind him of what's important in life. John loves to play competitive ultimate frisbee and dance. His love of dance is reflected in his Reality TV blog network which covers shows such as Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Got Talent. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn. If you'd like to have John Lynn be a keynote speaker at your conference, please reach out to him with details and budget here. You can hear more from John on this great episode of the Relentless Health Value podcast. About Health IT Expo The Health IT Expo is a community of healthcare IT professionals focused on sharing, collaboration, and support. This event is focused on practical innovations that you can implement today as opposed to moonshot ideas that may affect you 10 years from now. The five main themes for the conference will be: Security and Privacy Analytics Communication and Patient Engagement IT Dev Ops Operational Alignment and Support The conference is happening May 30 – June 1, 2018 in New Orleans. Learn more at https://www.expo.health/ and register here. Special Offer - Free Registration: If you're from a provider organization (hospital, health system, ambulatory practice, etc.), you can use the "HCBiz" promotional code for 100% off your registration. But hurry, the offer is only good for the first 10 people that use the code in the next 30 days. Subscribe to Weekly Updates If you like what we're doing here, then please consider signing up for our weekly newsletter. You'll get one email from me each week detailing: New podcast episodes and blog posts. Content or ideas that I've found valuable in the past week. Insider info about the show like stats, upcoming episodes and future plans that I won't put anywhere else. 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Because of unbelief, many will miss out on the forgiveness and healing that only Christ can offer. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey already knowing the discomfort, pain, and suffering He would experience on our behalf. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus calls people to believe in Him, not just because of what He says, but because of what He does. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

We discover why the animal the Bible compares us to the most is the sheep. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus restored the sight to a man born blind but this account is about so much more than just physical sight. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Do you love Jesus? Do you hear and accept His words? Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

There are lies that keep you in bondage, but there is Truth that will set you free! Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

So often we judge others on their ACTIONS and ourselves on our INTENTIONS. There's no place for that among God's people. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Who do people say Jesus is? We all have limited time to discover who He is. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus' message isn't hard to understand; it is hard to accept. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

It is God, not us, who plays the most active role in our salvation. God does the urging; we decide whether or not to believe. We will observe the Lord's Supper (communion) today. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Physical food only satisfies our hunger temporarily. Jesus invites us to feed our REAL hunger, which is spiritual. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus already has in mind how he is going to meet the needs in your life. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

One statement from Jesus can overcome a lifetime of hopelessness. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Pastor Keith looks at the life of John the Baptist. As a Jewish prophet, John preached a baptism for the forgiveness of sins and died for challenging King Herod’s willful disobedience to God. Through John's example, Keith explores the relationship between healing and obedience - and the role of doubt in our lives.

What would you be willing to walk 20 miles for? There is no amount of distance that you can put between you and Jesus to where you are beyond His reach. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Have you ever questioned God? Wondered why certain things happen that just do not make sense? Through John 7 we discover that God's plan is perfect, even when we think the plan should be different than God's plan.

One reason you may be unsatisfied in life right now is because you are pursuing YOUR will instead of God's will. You may need to see something that's been here all along, but maybe in a fresh way. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

All of us were created with an eternal soul that thirsts for something that can satisfy. While we turn to so many things to quench that thirst, there is only One true solution for our thirsty souls. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

The heart of God longs to break down the walls of division, hate, isolation, shame, addiction, loneliness, etc., that we have built and are hiding behind. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Through John the Baptist, God calls a people both then and now to return to himself, and to become part of Christ's new Kingdom project of making all things new. Luke 3

John the Baptist preached with authority and had developed a following of people. When he began to promote Jesus as greater than himself, people to followed Jesus instead. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

God's love is not just reserved for a nation, or a race, or the good people, or peope who love Him back. His love is for the lost, the broken, the wicked, hard-hearted, the unlovable, the undesirable, the sick. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

All who come to Jesus come to Him under spiritual darkness. Nicodemus knew that being a secret admirer of Jesus cost him nothing, but to come a follower would come with a high price tag. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

People view Jesus as the non-violent nice guy who turns water into wine in order to save a couple from social embarrassment. Although there is SOME truth to this characterization of Jesus… it's not the full truth. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

We're going to see Jesus at the scene of a party where the hosts run out of wine...and we're going to see how Jesus responds in an amazing way! Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

This weekend is the kickoff to another season of NFL football. All of the NFL teams have recently made their final cuts, selecting only the best of the best to play on their team. As we continue our series in John today, we are going to see Jesus select some “players” for his team, but we're going to learn that Jesus has an entirely different criteria for who joins team Jesus! Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

Jesus came to this earth to sacrifice His life for us in order to deal withour greatest problem...sin. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

When we're lost in darkness and the light finds us, we either run towards or away from the light. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

The Word of God absolutely asserts that our universe is a created one…by the One and Only True God. Although we, as sinful human beings, try our best to suppress this truth in our hearts, deep down we cannot deny the evidence of design and order all around us that point to a Creator. Through John's account of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you will be challenged to recognize that Jesus was, and IS, the very heaven-sent Son of God and the only source of eternal life.

John Pollock is the CEO of Financial Gravity.  He has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs to find legal, moral and ethical ways to lower their tax, raise profit and create wealth. The result? His clients can finally start living their American Dream – a key reason they started their business in the first place. Through John and a host of mega-talented guests, The Financial Gravity Podcast delivers more than just entertainment and good content. You will come away transformed and equipped with real-world strategies you can immediately use to solve your most challenging business problems, including the ones you thought couldn’t be fixed. John Pollock Vroom Veer Stories Didn't like college, couldn't sit through boring repeatative of stuff Learned he was good at sales; worked in corporate sales jobs Earned 500k selling insurance and then paid the staff and taxes; didn't really earn 500k Learned how to keep the 500k and only pay the taxes; A-HA! moment Started his own business and spent 50k in cash fixing the office; then learned he made a tax boo-boo Learned that CPAs are not in the saving you money on your taxes business Started Financial Gravity to help small business owners plan to optimize the tax code well before it's too late John Pollock Links Financial Gravity  

John Lynn is the Founder of Healthcare Scene. Healthcare Scene is a unique healthcare IT network which consists of 10 EHR and Healthcare IT blogs containing over 11,000 articles published over 11 years. Of those articles, John has written over 5500 of the articles himself. These EMR & Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 18 million times and John has over 80k social media followers & 53k email subscribers who follow him as a thought leader in the EHR & Healthcare IT space. John also led Healthcare Scene's acquisition of the leading Health IT Job board, Healthcare IT Central. This included the acquisition of Healthcare IT Today, a unique career resource for healthcare IT professionals. In 2014, John launched the first of its kind Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference (HITMC). Through John's leadership, this conference has become the premiere venue for health IT marketing and PR professionals to learn and network with their peers. Plus, out of this conference, John has organized a strong community of marketing and PR professionals who are working to improve healthcare. John has given keynote speeches and taught workshops across the country and around the world. John has spoken at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual conference 6 times and at conferences like CES (Consumer Electronics Show), SXSW, and CTIA – The Wireless Association along with keynote speeches at EHR user conferences include Modernizing Medicine's EMA Nation and the gMed Summit to name a few of his speaking engagements. John has also taught multiple EHR workshops in Dubai with attendees from throughout the Middle East and Asia. John co-founded Influential Networks and Physia and is currently a formal advisor to three healthcare IT companies. John was previously an advisor to docBeat which was acquired by Vocera. John has 4 children and a beautiful wife that keep him grounded and remind him of what's important in life. John loves to play competitive ultimate frisbee and dance. His love of dance is reflected in his Reality TV blog network which covers shows such as Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Got Talent. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn. 00:00 Using Technology to Improve Healthcare as an important goal. 02:00 How Technology can enable a different trajectory. 02:40 The disconnect between Expectation and Intention. 03:15 The real, original purpose behind an EHR. 05:10 The problem with imperfect Data in EHR. 05:45 “It's really a challenge for us to update that information once it's in there.” 06:00 “You have to create the tools to leverage that Data.” 06:40 Solving the Interoperability Problem. 07:00 “What tools can we provide the Doctor to better help him Process the Data.” 08:50 Figuring out what Data is useful to Doctors. 09:20 “What of this Data really matters, and why does it matter?” 10:25 Building Trust with Doctors to Trust AI components. 12:00 Pushing for other Clinical Staff to collect Data. 12:35 “The systems we use to Collect Data need to be smarter as well.” 13:00 “The real problem created by our Healthcare Culture is that Doctors are scared.” 14:10 Why current solutions are getting more uptake. 15:00 “Doctors don't get paid extra if they have the right info. 15:45 “How do you know if that Doctor is giving you good Healthcare or not?” 17:45 “How well can you track the Impact you're having on your Patients?” 20:15 Starting to think from a Value-Based Care mindset. 22:00 Meaningful Use changing the Healthcare Market overnight. 24:00 Lowering the Cost of Care. 25:20 “Tech is only an enabler.” 26:20 Making Data Actionable. 29:00 “How do I engage that Patient in a way that will cause them to change their behavior.”

John Ventre is the well known host of History Channels hit UFO series "Hanger 1". He is also the Pennsylvania State Director for the Mutual UFO Network. John has appeared on Anderson Cooper, History Channel, Discovery and many others as well as Night Fright. Tonight John will tell us of his ongoing personal experiences that UFOs and Aliens may not be from far off extraterrestrial worlds after, that they may in fact be demonic in nature. Through John's close encounters and an all too real personal haunting John paints an ominous picture of what might really be behind the proliferation of UFO sightings and Aliens.

John Beck leads the development of TrueFit’s human-centered design methodology and his team’s design research, information design, product interaction, and user interface design. Through John’s leadership, Truefit helps clients create innovative web, mobile, social media and commercial software products that have positive practical impact.   John is part of Truefit's business development team and is skilled at helping clients understand the impact of good user experience and the best practices for success drawn from years of experience working with several of the world’s most distinguished health and technology brands including Samsung, Precor, Rolls-Royce, Kodak, and BodyMedia.   Prior to joining Truefit, John served as a Co-Founder and President of Gist Design, acquired by Truefit in 2013. John has also served as a Senior Interaction Designer at wearable body monitoring pioneer, BodyMedia, which was recently acquired by Jawbone.   John’s work has been cited in many industry and commercial publications including the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, Business Week, and Engadget. John’s work has won numerous design and innovation awards including the IDEA Gold Medal sponsored by Businessweek and the Industrial Designers Society of America. He also serves as occasional lecturer and teacher. John’s Challenge; Challenge yourself to practice design-thinking by carefully examining someone completing a task.