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In this week's episode we speak to Jamie Bentley, CEO of Stephenson Personal Care.Jamie tells us all about how it feels to take over as fifth generation in a family firm, selling in the states looking like a cross between Tim Nice-but-Dim and Hugh Grant, the feeling when landing your first million dollar deal and how a brilliant ‘train set' analogy sparked his Eureka moment.Plus he tells us about a great opportunity to get MBA students to work on your new business idea.INTRODUCING JAMIE BENTLEYHaving studied Business and Financial Management at the University of North London, quickly followed by a brief stretch in the hospitality industry as a ski guide and water sports instructor, Jamie joined Univar on their Management Development Programme where he spent 4 years learning about the specialty chemicals and ingredients industries.In 1997, being the fifth generation of the Bentley family, he then joined Stephenson Group. Initially he began as a sales representative developing products for the personal care industry that did not exist at the company, eventually building what has become today's Stephenson Personal Care business.Slowly divesting the more mature industrial parts of the business over the years to focus completely on the personal care sector, today Stephenson Group exports personal care ingredients to 62 countries. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS[00:01:00] Introducing Stephenson Personal Care[00:02:00] Jamie Bentley's background story[00:04:10] Early learnings[00:06:00] Old school sales and a clever tweak[00:08:00] Joining the family business[00:10:00] How the personal care division started and grew[00:17:20] The first $1m sales order[00:19:30] The eureka moment[00:24:30] The process of divesting non-core business and the learnings from it[00:29:30] Using MBA students to develop a spin-out idea[00:33:00] Managing people smarter than you[00:36:00] The learnings from taking over a family businessKEY TAKEAWAYS & BUSINESS LEARNINGS• Watch. Mouth shut, ears open, eyes open. Watch and learn.• You learn most information from the shopfloor of your business and your client's business (the people who are doing the doing)• Take care of all your clients, but in the early days make sure you take most care of the big clients• Think of your business as a train set. You cant break train set, you just change it• Surround yourself with great people and learn how to manage people better than you• You need proper trusted finance advice and the same with corporate lawyers when selling a business• Strategy is as much about what you don't do, as you do do• Give staff the room to failBEST MOMENTS“I was described as lazy or stupid at school. I then did an IQ test and they determined I was lazy”“I worked out as a rep I could 8 calls a day. The trucks were doing 30 deliveries a day, so abandoned my Vectra and sat in the passenger seat of one of the wagons”“We had a Drawing Room at home that was only used for Christmas and bollockings… and my dad took me into the Drawing Room…”“If I'd had my eureka moment 10 years earlier, we'd have been 10 years ahead now”“Yours is the most complicated loss-making business I have ever seen”“He said 'come to the meeting to sell the business but don't bring any lawyers or accountants' ”VALUABLE RESOURCES FOR YOUWebsite: www.leedsbusinesspodcast.com Website: https://www.stephensonpersonalcare.com/ .LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-bentley-soap/ Instagram (business):...
TRACK LIST: 01. CAN 7 - The Promise (Allovers Sexual Remix) 02. PAUL PARSON, Tim Nice, Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Mood Dub) 03. ANDREW BAYER, ALISON MAY, GRANDFATHER MACHINE - I Would (Matt Lange Extended Mix) 04. HOTLANE - My Favourite Habit (Nils Penner & Youbi Deinas Remix) 05. ALEX KENTUCKY - Be Mine feat. Zhanna Ona (Allovers Rework) 06. SOFTMAL & LLOLITA - Friends 07. FLAMINGO PIER - Remedy (JKriv Disco Dub) 08. BAH SAMBA, VANESSA HAYNES - Save Our Freedom (Dave Lee Let Freedom Reign Mix) 09. DEON COLE, TERISA GRIFFIN - Where The Freaks At (Terry Hunter Club Mix) 10. TOM NOVY - House Music Thanks to all the labels and artist for his music. All tracks selected and mixed by Alex Kentucky www.alexkentucky.com Encoded by MUSICZONE PODCAST SERVICES.
TIM NICE guest mix + new music from RP BOO, PURELINK, ZVRRA + more on this ABSTRACT SCIENCE podcast, hosted by CHRIS WIDMAN. Chicago DJ/producer TIM NICE leads off with a mixtape-style collection of original music, remixes + sample flips–centered around instrumental hip hop + drum n bass–to showcase his latest release “Healing Sessions Vol.... The post absci radio 1269 – tim nice + chris widman appeared first on abstract science >> future music chicago.
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Tim O'Brien along with his wife Becki, have created a unique vitamin, supplement and nutrition store that is more about helping people than it is about margins and commissions. As Tim says" Souls before sales!" It was a pleasure sitting down with Tim to learn more about The Healthy Place and what products and services they have to offer. After Tim educated me, I'm definitely going to lean on him and his team in the future, to help me make better and more educated decisions when it comes to my health. I hope you enjoy this episode and you walk away with at least one snippet that either helps you in your entrepreneurial journey or with you health in general. For 30% off, please use our affiliate link as it helps us to generate a little income to produce this podcast...thx so much! https://findyourhealthyplace.com/?rfsn=5901087.08b0f6 Thanks for listening! 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He is married to Becky and together they have three children. In this conversation with Tim, I expressed how much health and wellness is important to myself and how convoluted the marketplace is and very difficult to trust who you buy from and which products you buy. I was excited to have Tim on the show so that I could learn more about the difference in what the healthy place offers over buying products at other places like GNC, Walgreens, the vitamin shop and obviously Amazon.com. So sit back and listen to the education that we get from Tim on how to buy better and healthier products in the health and wellness space. Joe: Hey, Tim, welcome to the show. Tim: Hey, hey, how you doing, buddy? Joe: I'm doing great, man, happy, what is it? Wednesday, I lost track, I just got Tim: Yeah, Joe: Back into Tim: It's Joe: Town. Tim: Hump hump day of the week, man, and Joe: Beautiful. Tim: I'm doing this to say thank you for giving me a chance to be on your show. Man, this is cool. Joe: Yeah, no, that's my pleasure, as as I mentioned before, we actually started this that I have, you know, I know that literally health is everything. Like you can have everything in the world that you ever, ever wanted. And without your health, it's just, you know, it's it's unfortunate because I know people go through things that had nothing to do with them not being healthy. They just got delivered a bad hand, Tim: Yahav. Joe: You know, so that's a different story. But those of us Tim: Jerome. Joe: That can make sure we stay healthy, there are things that we can do. But before we get into all of that, and as a lot of my listeners for the podcast and the viewers of a YouTube channel, now, I'd like to get the back story because a lot of the people who listen to the show are my hope is that these entrepreneurial spirits that are trying to figure out what they want to do are there in the midst of doing it. And they they need ideas from people that are being successful doing it. So I would like to go back as far as you're willing to go back to allow myself and the viewers to understand how you got into what you're doing today. What Tim: I love Joe: For? Tim: To share that. Yeah. Joe: Yeah, like what triggered the fact that you're now in this world of, you know, Tim: Supplements, Joe: The health world Tim: Natural Joe: And. Tim: Alternatives, Joe: Yeah, Tim: Yeah. Joe: Yeah, yeah. So I'd love to hear that and then we'll get in, Tim: I'd love to. It's Joe: Ok. Tim: A cool story, I kind of like telling it because it's just cool to see how things can work together to sort of bring you to the place that you're at. And it's sort of confirmation in some different ways. So I love to share it, man. I'd be happy to do so when my when I was like five or six years old, my mom fought through thyroid cancer. And I remember her like going through the chemo radiation and losing the hair, like seeing her at the hospital. I have four siblings, so just a lot of fear in the home, worried about mom. And then I remember this time where she came home and she was sort of like excited and sort of like filled with a little bit of hope because she had gone into this health food store in a little town called Muskego, Wisconsin, just this tiny little town that had a health food store. And she talked to this guy named John for like an hour and a half. And John shared with her all these natural alternatives that had some good science and some good reason to believe that it could help her in her process recovery, treatment of the thyroid cancer. And so she would like go in there like once a week, whether it was a refill for some supplements or whether it was some more education, because there was a lot of literature that this guy handed out as well, like books that he gave her. Tim: And I would go with her. And through this whole process, she she was benefited quite a bit from these natural alternatives that helped her and her recovery process. So I remember hearing about that as a little guy. And through that process, she got a job as a manager at this health food store. And she was there all the time, 40, 50 hours a week kind of thing. And us kids were home schooled. So we would go with mom often sitting in this back room of this health food store, doing our math problems, doing our schoolwork. And I watched over the years these testimonies produced of people coming in with chronic pain, depression, sleep issues, other folks that battled cancer, that my mom held their hand through the process, educating them. And so that was like my whole upbringing. And it really got into my DNA that there is natural alternatives out there that work and the general population just doesn't know about them, because the way our medical system set up pharmaceutical medications, you know, we have some of the best doctors in the world. And, you know, you go to them, you get a prescription, you don't Joe: Mm Tim: Necessarily Joe: Hmm. Tim: Get a natural alternative recommendation. So I got a bit passionate about that in my late teen years. So I got a job at a GNC franchise and worked for the owner who invited me to move out to Madison, Wisconsin, to manage some of his GNC stores after a little while. So I was like, man, OK, my boss thinks I'm good at this. I really enjoy helping people, encouraging people. I just happen to like like people in general. So it was it was sort of a fit. Like I got this passion for this natural alternative thing. I feel like I'm helping people. I'm impacting the world. I want to make a difference. And I was managing these GNC franchises in Madison, Wisconsin. Well, there was a corporate takeover, dude, in twenty seven where everybody lost their jobs, like corporate took over these six franchises that my boss owned. And it was like, OMG, like, what am I going to do now? And so I determined, you know, hey, I want to do something. And that's natural alternative space. I have always been sort of passionate about business in general. I had like three paper routes when I was 11 and I hired my sisters for a quarter a day. I was making bank Joe: Right. Tim: And I was so I tried a network marketing business for a little while that was suppliments and that was brutal. Multi-level marketing can be really hard. And I was like, OK, I don't want to go that route. Maybe I should open my own health food store. And at that time I had just met dating, married Becky, my wife. So we're prayerfully like thinking through this. Should we do this, put the house on the line, open up our own health food store and risk everything. And we decided to take the plunge. So our first brick and mortar store, 2010, was in a town called Fitchburg, Wisconsin, which is right outside of Madison, Wisconsin. And then twenty fifteen, it was store number two in the Madison area and then twenty nineteen with stores three and four. So that was going well. We then moved towards ecommerce where like, hey, if we're making an impact and a difference here locally, which is really exciting, we really enjoy it together. We work as a team like let's let's hit the nation. That sounds fun. And so we started to see a little bit of success there, especially ones covid hit of last year because our in-store traffic took a hit. So our pivot as a company, like a lot of smart companies, was, let's focus on e-commerce. And so that really helped us talk about a blessing in disguise, really helped Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: Us figure out the e-commerce space a little bit. So really exciting. In December, January of this last year, we got our little warehouse. So now we have a warehouse in Madison and we're shipping packages out all over the United States. And that's the story. And the mission is about impacting, empowering and educating as many people as we can to just like, learn, grow and create a lifelong foundation of health and wellness. It's like a fanning a flame. You know, somebody already just has a little spark. You know, they're putting the cigarette out outside my store, throwing the McDonald's bag in the trash and like, I need something for my chronic pain all the way up to the health enthusiasts. And no matter what, to me, it's so encouraging to just fan the flame of someone's health and wellness. Because you said it earlier, life is a gift and people need to remember that. Joe: Yeah, and so have you always, based on the background of sitting in that store with your mother and seeing what the proper nutrition and supplements and things like that did for her? Did you always pretty much lead a healthy lifestyle? Tim: Funny is Joe: Don't Tim: No. Joe: Tell me you're a fast food junkie. Tim: No, I wasn't. Yeah, I was, and I always felt very bad if I was going through that fast food line, but my diet really didn't really take a huge impact until I married Becky. So for whatever reason, I would I knew a lot about supplements, really passionate about natural alternatives. But I was I was not the guy who is eating ultra clean, raw, organic, clean. I was like, OK, I'm going to eat a basic diet cleaner than most know what kind of excuses that. And then I'd lean on supplements for nutrition. And so when I met Vecchi, this is two thousand eight, she's like, wow, this doesn't even make sense. Like you can't go eat at pizza, frozen pizza, you know, and then go take your supplements. And so she really convicted me. And it's been a pretty cool team because that's always been her passion is very clean eating. And she didn't understand or know about the supplement natural alternative thing. And my passion has always been for my mom's story of natural alternatives and supplements can change a life. And so then getting married and working together as a team to educate Madison and our social media platforms and on YouTube, it's like there has to be a marriage between nutritional deficiencies, making sure we don't have them eating well, eating clean exercise. So we should work together. And I've improved since meeting, Becky. Joe: Wow, so are you actually telling me that she was already before you guys even met, she was interested in this sort of thing or she was she was Tim: Yeah. Joe: A healthy, clean eating person. Tim: Yes, she was Joe: Wow. Tim: A health enthusiast, yeah, I mean, just health, and that's part of what drew me to her is like, man, this girl's got discipline, like extreme self-control. For me, that's been an area of struggle, just like in general, like discipline waking up early. I'm the guy that would, before I met Becky, like stay up till one and then sleep till nine till I had to quit, get to work. And, you know, he's like, man, we got some work to do. But, yeah, she sure inspired me and a few of those areas. Joe: Ok, so without prying too deeply then, because now you're really piqued, my interest is the fact that you guys are lying so well. How did you meet? Tim: Yeah, so we there was like a young adults meeting through it, through church called Metro Believers Church in Madison, Wisconsin, you know, I'm a Christian, she's a Christian, and in my early twenties, it was like, hey, I really enjoyed finding people like minded. And I think in the back of my mind, I'm like, I'm searching for a life, you know? So I would go to a couple of these different churches, young adult ministry meetings, whatever, 20 something groups. And we just started hanging out. So it was like a group of like six or seven of us. And I was about six months in. I pulled her aside one day after church and said, I still laugh at what I said. I said, Hey, Becky, I've taken a shining to you and I'd like to continue on to marriage. And she's like, oh my gosh. Like, OK, I'm kind of like you, too. It was weird way to ask, but OK. Joe: It's also that's Tim: Yeah, Joe: Old school, Tim: I don't do it right. Oh, yeah. Joe: But also Tim: Oh. Joe: All right, cool, well, that's that's great. So how did you change or why did you change the name from Apple Wellness to the healthy place? Tim: Yeah, really good question, you know, Apple Wellness was a good name, you know, in the sense of like Apple a day keeps the doctor away and we just had too many people thinking we are the Mac Apple store. So I literally get calls, at least weekly, Joe: Wow, Tim: And Joe: That's so subtle. Tim: At least I know, and then I'd see my employee across the way and he'd be talking to somebody and he'd be like, well, try turning the phone off and then turn it back on, you know? Joe: Oh, my Tim: So Joe: God. Tim: Especially after he got the e commerce thing going, I started, Becky, as the graphic designer and kind of branding expert within our company for a long time. She's like the Apple word's taken. That's just gone. And I should have consulted with her a little bit more before we chose the name. Joe: Uh huh. Tim: And so she's always kind of wanted it changed. But then I found out that Apple, the company, has an Apple wellness program Joe: Oh, Tim: For employees Joe: Of. Tim: Like it's trademarked. I mean, so I figured it was just a matter of time before I end up getting some sort of litigation letter from Joe: Yeah, Tim: Apple. Joe: Yeah, well, OK, that's interesting. Tim: Yeah. Joe: So you stole one of my questions, but it was perfect because it was actually in line with what you were talking about. But I want to go back to it because Tim: Sure. Joe: It's important, again, for like the entrepreneurs that are listening to this and what we just went through with covid, you talked about shifting. They're not shifting, but literally adding to what you've already established. Right. So you were Tim: You. Joe: You were a retail store, people walking in foot traffic. That's what you counted on to make a living. Right. So when covid hit, obviously, everyone stayed home. So there goes all the foot traffic. So did you already have the e commerce portion of this set up before this happened when you said it was a blessing in disguise? Were you already ready to go the moment like that? Tim: Really Joe: The Tim: Good. Joe: You know, Tim: Yes, Joe: The doors. Tim: Yes and no, I Joe: Ok. Tim: Mean, it's like we had the website, we had the ability to set up ship products out. We had maybe three hundred out of the four thousand products that we have in our stores on the site. So we were ready in certain ways and then not ready for a lot of things. And we had no idea on the digital side of marketing, Google ads, Facebook ads, SEO optimization, email marketing. We hadn't done text messaging. We hadn't done very much of that, very basic and each one of those areas. So it was all of a sudden like pedal to the metal once March hit, where it was like, OK, we have some of these basic fundamentals. And I always tell a business owner like you, if you don't already, you have to have a website like I mean, covid showed us all that pretty quick, like Joe: Yeah. Tim: Have to have a website and you can get free ones are very inexpensive. Wick's dotcom. I'll tell business owners, like even if you're not a photographer, don't don't try to be don't don't get some real basic a white posterboard. Put the product right over it. Just take a picture by a window. Don't don't try to get real clever with it because Vecchi tells me that it can end up looking really bad if Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: You're trying to do so. Basic things like get a website, get a social media, you know, ask your grandkid if you don't know how to set one up sort of thing. So we had all the basics, but then for us it was like, OK. Let's get live chat on our website, because we are one of our difference makers, is consultations Joe: Huh? Tim: With we change lives because we ask questions and we figure out the best products and forms and brands for their specific issues, problems. So let's get a live chat on our website so we can have those conversations. Let's get free shipping. Let's make it really easy. Even if we lose money on maybe one out of five orders, let's just like make it easy, reduce friction in any way that we can. Let's get on Google ads and Facebook ads. So we hired a digital agency for that and it's pretty cool. A year later, we had 30 percent overnight of our foot traffic was just gone once we were able to stay open, thankfully. But that 30 percent in one year's time, we were able to build that on our e-commerce platforms. We were able to replace what was lost. So I'm still head spinning, so thankful for my team able to bring that together because it's quite the operation and it takes a lot of work. Joe: Yeah, did you did you keep the stores open themselves or did you? Tim: We did Joe: You did OK. Tim: Not. Joe: Ok, Tim: We Joe: And Tim: Were Joe: Was it. Tim: Scrambling in the beginning of if we could be classified as essential or not, and my belief is that the immune system is something that can really be strengthened. I'm more passionate about terrain versus the germs so we can strengthen our terrain, strengthen our immune systems, both defense and offense. I mean, there's incredible science behind simple nutrients like sand, mucus from elderberry. The University of Sydney showing the prevention which with elderberry prevention of viruses entering the cell. I mean, it's some pretty cool science. So at the beginning of the covid thing, it was like, OK, I'm not going to tell anybody I can cure or prevent Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: Whatever, but I'm sure as heck going to yell it from the rooftop that you can strengthen your immune system and a strong immune system. Strong health is the best defense against any disease, virus, sickness anywhere. So I got pretty passionate about that a year ago. Joe: Cool. Yeah, that's great. So I'm normally pretty good at not bouncing around, but in this case, I want to go back to when you decided to do this. You know, obviously when when someone gets released from a corporate environment and they're like, oh, my gosh, I don't have control over my own destiny because these people Tim: The. Joe: Just literally rip the rug out from underneath me, which is another thing that a lot of entrepreneurs know because this is how they got to where they are there that happen to them. Like I'm not letting someone else dictate how my life is going to turn out. Right. So Tim: Yeah. Joe: But what's really crazy is I don't know if it if in Wisconsin or the places where you have these stores, obviously we know that you already brought it up at GNC is a big brand around the country. There's also where we are. There's the vitamin store. Right. Are the stuff that one of those Tim: Yeah, Joe: Is a vitamin Tim: Yeah, Joe: Shopper. Tim: Yeah. Joe: So there's a lot of these places. So it's almost like you saying you and Becky going, oh, yeah, we're going to create the next pizza delivery like pizza Tim: Now, Joe: Delivery Tim: There's already Joe: Franchise. Tim: 10 right around Joe: Yeah, Tim: The corner, Joe: Right. Tim: So let's see number 11, yeah. Joe: Right. It's we're going to be the next Pizza Hut or Papa John's or whatever. It's just like that that industry Tim: Yes, Joe: That's it takes a lot Tim: It's Joe: Of guts. Tim: So competitive. Joe: Yeah. So when you thought about it, as all entrepreneurs, do, we always come up with these ideas and then we sometimes will kill our own ideas without our spouse or partner or someone will say they'll be the sensible one and say Tim: Right, Joe: That's Tim: Right, Joe: Never Tim: Yeah. Joe: Right. But then you have all these outside influences of of friends and things. And, you know, at any moment, if you would have said, hey, we're thinking of opening up a vitamin supplement, healthy sort of Tim: John. Joe: That people would look at you. But what about all of these major brands? So tell me about how you got over the hump to make to pull the trigger. Tim: Yeah, do that's such a good question and, you know, to identify and I had some friends who opened a coffee shop, you know, and a year later, you know, the coffee shops not doing so well is unfortunate with covid timing and everything. And it's like the supplement thing where you, like, hear this and you're like, oh, I don't know, you know, I wish him well, but I don't know if that's going to work because it's just like there's a hundred of them, you know. Joe: Right. Tim: So I think for me what happened was I worked for GNC for, I don't know, five years. And you start to see good stuff. You start to see bad stuff, you start to see their model. They were purchased by China a while back. So, OK, it's all sourced from China. Forms of nutrients are in their synthetic forms or not so absorbable forms. And you start to learn like, OK, a better product would help this person more than this form of curcumin that's not absorbing into their system from China or wherever, you know, so you start to see where you could make a difference and you sort of start to see your difference makers. So in the supplement world, there's two veins of supplement stores. There's the type of stores that are all about muscle gain and weight loss, you know, weight loss, thermogenic high caffeine, ephedra, and then trim and tracks Hydroxycut. And a lot of that isn't super healthy for Joe: Hmm. Tim: People to be taking steroids or pro hormones, you know, not super healthy. So that's like one vein of supplement stores. And then there's another vein of supplement stores that just they sourced from China. They use synthetic nutrients. It's a little bit more about margin and profit than it is about quality and making a difference. And so that is something I realized pretty early on. And there's not too many supplement health food stores that have a lot of knowledge where you walk in. And there's not just like a high schooler selling the huge jug of protein because it gets a two dollar commission on it, you know. Joe: Yes, I do know. Tim: Yeah, yeah. And there's just not a lot of those out there. So then all of a sudden starting to dream about, you know, originating from my mom's story where somebody really helped her out, where I can really make a difference, because if I open my own stores or store at the time, I can bring in some of the best brands in the world. And pretty quick, in any industry, you find out, good, better, best. And I want to be in that best category. And all of a sudden you're working with some of the best brands in the world and you have the knowledge to be a to guide somebody with Crohn's disease. Let's just Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: Talk over asthma on natural alternatives that really work. And if you impact them, if you help them, if you change their life a little bit for the better, now they're going to keep coming back forever. And they tell everybody they know because there's such a vacuum, such a desperate need in this day and age for knowledgeable resources in the natural alternative space. We have a ton of medical, we have a ton of pharmaceutical drugs. We just don't have information coming to the general public on natural alternatives that work. And I get to be that resource in Madison, Wisconsin. So I think that's why we have done well in our brick and mortar stores. And I think that's probably why our attention is higher for our e-commerce is because of that customer service, that knowledgeable resource, that going the extra mile to impact their lives. And I'll give you an example. A lady might hit our live chat from California and say, hey, I'm looking for a V12. Can you give me a recommendation? And then we might ask the question like, absolutely. Here's a couple of options. Do you mind if I ask while you're while you're taking V12? Oh, my doctor said because I have really low energy, I have nerve pain and my mental clarity and focus, I get like foggy brain all the time. So then all of a sudden we say, awesome, OK, I'm actually going to encourage the method in form of V12 because it absorbs much better than this sign form that I first sent you, because I really want you to feel the difference. And since you're feeling fatigued, a little brain fog, I'd love for you to consider this adrenal boost product that has adapted genic herbs in there, like Atul Gawande wrote Rodeo Mocca because ninety two percent of fatigue is related to your adrenal glands. So then you recommend that product. They get it. And this lady two months later goes, Oh my gosh, my energy is a little better, my focus is better, my stress is reduced, which I didn't even bring up. But that adrenal product helps with stress, too, I guess. Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: Then all of a sudden they're leaving a review like, wow, that wellness consultant, Ryan, he's one of our our wellness consultants. He really helped me out. And so it's a very different sort of dynamic than a typical GNC store, health food store, vitamin shop type experience. They're Joe: Huh? Tim: All great stores. I mean, I love Natural. Anywhere you can get them. So that was like our difference maker and that's why I thought I could make a go out of it. Joe: Ok, cool. I have so much to ask you now, because you keep opening up like Kansas. So. So before again, I, I want this stuff to be helpful for the entrepreneur. And then then we're going to help the consumers that listen to this. So how when you decided on doing this and said, OK, and let's pull the trigger, how did you figure out the place where you're going to open up store number one, that you do all that extensive, Tim: Oh, Joe: You know, Tim: Good question, yes. Joe: Traffic, you know, what's going to pop up around us? What Tim: You know, Joe: Is, you Tim: Find Joe: Know? Tim: Find a good broker, a real estate broker that can find you spaces. So I had a guy named Kent in Madison, Wisconsin, and he you don't have to pay these guys. You know, it's the landlord that pays them. Joe: Right. Tim: And so as a young entrepreneur about to, like, risk everything you had, that was really important for me to know. Like, I I still am shocked by that. Like, you can just call one of these guys, try to find a reputable one, find somebody that trusts that can make a good referral. And they do all this scouting for you. They send you all the reports and you don't pay a penny. You know, I am a bottom line at the end or something, but you don't pay a penny for this. They get paid from the landlord. So he was bringing me idea after idea after idea. And he had been in the industry for a long time. So he knew the city really, really well. And he was able to guide me through, hey, this has a really strong anchor. The anchor in Fitchburg was Joe: Yeah, Tim: Target. Joe: Yeah. Tim: It was a super, super target. So I was like, oh, learning about anchors are important, Joe: Yeah. Tim: Really important. So I tell you, if you're listening, like, look for some strong anchors, because that's really going to help you for traffic. Joe: And just for the listeners and the people that don't like it, like when they talk about like a small strip mall or a plaza or something like that or even in a in a mall small, an anchor is an anchor store. That is when they go in, there's a really good chance they're not going away like they are a big thing like Target or Wal-Mart Tim: Exactly. Joe: Or Nordstrom or whatever. So I just wanted to clear that up because I didn't know at one point. But I know when you're looking at retail space like that, you want to be surrounded by an anchor store that has been around forever and is not going away. Tim: Yes, and just to further drive that point home, we have for brick and mortar stores and the one that's doing like the worst is the one that doesn't have a strong anchor by it. So just get one with a strong anchor and then look at price points and definitely negotiate. So we had that broker that was able to help us out. He was able to negotiate tenant improvement. Our big deal when you're opening a store, because you you could use money towards the build out and you can ask landlords for that. So if, again, if you have a good broker and you tell them your story, what you're trying to build out, a lot of times you can get a number of things paid for by the landlord because they're about to ask you to sign a five year lease. Joe: Mm hmm. OK. So at this point, the four locations that you have, you are in a lease situation Tim: Yes, all for you Joe: At Tim: And I've Joe: Any Tim: Looked into purchasing. Joe: Ok, so there is yeah, that's my question. It's like when do you pull the trigger on saying, OK, I want to actually start to own some of these buildings are these spaces. And that's a huge job. That's that's really put your Tim: Yeah, Joe: Neck out. Right. Tim: So in all four, I looked at them and each one has a different story, the first one I looked into though, at the Fitchburg location, the buildings were not for sale. So I was like, all this is so cool. So I looked into it and it was seven million dollars for these two buildings because it's in a strong anchor, high traffic area. So it is difficult to buy the spot by the strong anchor Joe: Maha. Tim: Because it really it would have been risking I couldn't I couldn't do it. But then the idea next idea is like, well, maybe I should move locations now that my name is established, if I can buy a strip mall down the way or something like that. So that Joe: Te. Tim: Idea is in the back of my head. But then you move away from the strong anchors. That's Joe: Right. Tim: Been called me back. Joe: Right, cool. See, that was perfect because that was like all of the things that you have to consider and Tim: Right. Joe: It's yeah, that's a tough decision, man. That's a lot of money. Tim: It is, Joe: Yeah. Tim: Dude, I Joe: Yeah. Tim: Know and I have a buddy who owns a dentistry office and he Joe: We. Tim: Was able to purchase his location and it's awesome. He's about to pay it off after ten years. And I'm super excited. So Joe: Yeah. Tim: It is depends on the situation. Joe: Yeah, OK, so now let's get into what I consider in the world that you're in and I'm a huge fan of natural like I is, it's a there's a difference between naturopathic or is. Right. Is that pronounced correctly? Is that they say it Tim: Yeah, Joe: Now Tim: Naturopathic Joe: Or Tim: Medicine Joe: Or homoeopathic. Tim: Homoeopathy yupp homoeopathy Joe: Right. OK. Tim: And integrative medicine is kind of like medical and naturopathy together. Joe: Yep, yep, so Joel and my life partner went through a battle of breast cancer where she had some lymph nodes and luckily, you know, Tim: Giese. Joe: Through through chemo and radiation, she came out on the other side and everything's great. But Tim: Good. Joe: The big thing that she also had was she had a naturopathic doctor Tim: Hmm. Joe: That went that came from the cancer world. So the advantages is that he understood the treatment that was happening with the normal medicine and he knew what to give her to not take away from what she was doing with the chemo and radiation, but at the same time helped to keep her system built up and not offset any of that. So there was a perfect marriage between the two. And Tim: That's. Joe: I swear to this day, I feel like that was the reason that she was Tim: Wow. Joe: Fairly, fairly normal through the process, like we were doing 90 X and she was in the middle Tim: That's Joe: Of chemo Tim: All Joe: And radiation. Tim: Right. Joe: Yeah, it was ridiculous. So Tim: Dude, that's Joe: So Tim: Awesome. Joe: I'm a big fan of the naturopathic side of things and natural remedies and all of that. So Tim: Not the. Joe: So that's why this was a cool episode for me, because it's hard to talk with somebody that is in this niche that you're in without it being the big stores. And so my first question, because I got so many of them Tim: I Joe: First question and the first Tim: Love Joe: Question Tim: It. Joe: Is how do you become with all of the misinformation that's out Tim: The. Joe: In the world? Right. And this is what confuses all of us as consumers. You go to Amazon and you say, I need a B vitamin of Tim: Right Joe: Some B supplement. Tim: Now. Joe: And the habit is you you click on the five star rating, things that you want. You think that's going to be the best because people are taking their time to read it, which Tim: Yeah. Joe: I think there's enough Tim: What Joe: Conversation Tim: Did he. Joe: In the world that says that's not necessarily true. Tim: Right. Joe: And then you literally are just like throwing darts at a dartboard with Tim: I Joe: A blindfold Tim: Know that, Joe: On. So. Tim: I know. Joe: So how do you get through all the misinformation that you feel so confident enough that when you when you suggest something to a client that you haven't been taken advantage of by the misinformation, like Tim: Yeah, Joe: How do you get through Tim: Because. Joe: All of that stuff? Tim: A great question and even the reviews, if a company markets really well and they're incredible at marketing, they can get a billion, five star reviews and they can be like synthetic sourced from China, not NSF certification. So over the years, you start to be able to read between the lines and you start to be able to say, hey, this is B.S. over here. This is marketing. Only not met with quality. And like any industry, you start to learn the good, better and best. So there's a few things. So first and foremost, I think everybody needs somebody on their team. Like your wife has that naturopathic doctor now as a resource that she can probably shoot an email to or make an appointment with and ask these questions. I think everybody needs somebody on their team because most people have a medical doctor and beyond that and they might have a pharmacist. Right. And they're good to have on your team, but we need somebody with. Expertise, knowledge, history in the supplement space, because even a naturopathic doctor, they know way more than I do about the human body, about maybe. Yeah, just just how to treat maybe disease. Tim: Right. When you're in the supplement space, there is you get to deal with hundreds and hundreds of brands. And over the decades, which I think 18 years now, you start to find out what brands are good and trustworthy and which ones aren't because the FDA doesn't regulate all the supplements. So you can say whatever you want on the label about me, your romantic drink here, but you can say whatever you want and. FDA isn't going to necessarily nail you if you're lying, if your label is making false label claims and this happens, there was a clinic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where not real clinical, but where they took products from a number of stores, GNC, Walgreens, Wal-Mart and Target. They took supplements from those four stores and then they had them tested at Chavannes and it was Chavannes Labs. And all four of them had discrepancies with what the label said and what was actually in the capsule. And one product was an Asia product, which is good for the immune system. And it had zero percent echinacea in there and a little bit of garlic like Joe: Oh, Tim: What Joe: My Tim: The H Joe: Gosh. Tim: Now? Yeah. So that exactly what you said. It's shooting in the dark. Is it marketing that's producing these reviews? Is it quality? Is it going to help me? Is it a waste of my money? Am I being sold. Right. So there's all those questions and the privilege that I'm so thankful for is just being submersed in the supplement world long enough. You learn a couple of things. So sourcing is vital. Where is it coming from? There is vitamin C that you can get our China, that there's some concerns there with chemicals, heavy metals, arsenic, or you can get vitamin C from Scallan, which happens to have a really rich ascorbic acid form of vitamin C clean, great place to source it from. So where a product is sourced from is really important. Number two is does the brand have NSF certification? So NZDF C, GMP grade facilities that they work with, which they're paying money to NSF to a third party test and ensure that they're having all of these practices that are healthy for supplements, they're sourcing their cleanliness. Has it been tested? Is it clean? Those questions? And NSF doesn't care about the company. They care about the reputation. So there sure as heck going to just that's a good certification is trusted in the supplement world to ensure that what's on the label is actually in the product. Tim: So sourcing No. One, NSF, GMP certification, number two and number three, which all of these take some sort of expertise or having somebody on your your team. You know, that's why I say to have somebody on your team first. But number three is the forms of nutrients. So E 12, which I gave the example earlier, Psion Kabalan and B 12 is synthetic. So your body has to convert it and you lose a lot of the content in that conversion versus a methyl form B 12, which is the natural form that your body absorbs really, really well. So four items, number one and two, saucing and NSF, you can have a very clean form of sign Kabalan and B 12 source, very clean. You could have NSF facility ensuring that you have that 50 micrograms of cyanide Kabalan B 12 in the B complex. But then it would take some expertise to know, like, OK, that's fine, that's good. But we would prefer a methyl form would be 12 because it absorbs so much better Joe: Mr.. Tim: And every single nutrient. This blows my mind because every single nutrient has good, better, best. You know, whether you're talking about vitamin C, ascorbic acid, sodium ascorbic calcium ascorbic B 12, which I'm talking about the six paroxetine hydrochloride versus toxified phosphate turmeric. You can get the the turmeric that colors your Indian curry orange and you can take that capsule and it's good for you. It just doesn't do very much for inflammation unless you extract the curcumin out and then even that doesn't have a good absorption rate. So blending it with the turmeric, essential oils and the sunflower lecithin launch the absorption where it's literally absorbing two hundred to five hundred times better than the turmeric Indian spice that you started with. And that's the form of ninety five. That's the form that Baylor University of Texas is using to literally treat cancer and chronic pain with incredible results. I mean, the cancer story is very cool. Inflammation is the root of the root system of cancer. Joe: Mm, huh. Tim: So that's an example where it's like oh man form so saucing, NZDF, GMP, great facility forms of nutrients. Those are the big three that you want to look at to know quality. Right. So that's what I always tell somebody, find somebody that you can trust. So for you guys, it might be your your doctor that your wife worked with for in Madison, Wisconsin. A lot of people trust the healthy place to help guide them, know we don't do commission so that we can just recommend what's best so Joe: Right. Tim: People can use that live chat feature on our website to just ask those questions. But find a health food store maybe that is trustworthy in your home town, that you do meet a job like my mom met John Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: Or find a store like mine that you can connect with and you can go to when health strikes, health problems strike because everybody has some conditions, some problem, something, even if it's something as simple as fatigue, you know. Ninety two percent of fatigue is related to your adrenal glands. You can strengthen your adrenal glands and you can have more vibrant energy every day. And people just don't know that. So they keep reaching for the coffee or the soda or the caffeine pills, what have you. So get somebody on your team that you can trust. Joe: So go. So you said at one point in this conversation that do you have over 4000 Tim: Products, yeah. Joe: Excuse now, right? OK, so let's just take that as an example. It's a full time job for someone like you to be the Tim: Yes. Joe: Gatekeeper Tim: Yeah. Joe: Of your of the healthy place. You have to be the gatekeeper to say, yes, this comes into our door and gets put on ourselves or in our e-commerce store or Tim: The. Joe: No, this doesn't meet the criteria. So to me, it feels like it's continuing education and literally a full time job for whoever that person. Let's just say it's you at the moment that Tim: Yeah. Joe: Is the person that says yay or nay on these products. So it's just mind boggling what is out there and what you have to do to sort of educate yourself to to say, yes, this makes the cut, not only doesn't make the cut, but it's in a product. It's not a product and not a C product, you Tim: Yeah, Joe: Know what I mean? Tim: You're Joe: So. Tim: Absolutely right. And it's like reading a book, though, you don't want to minimize what I do, it's like it's not hard for you to read English, you know, after you've learned it. But if you're learning a new language, it looks like totally confusing. Overwhelming can take me forever to learn this language. And it might take some years to learn it. Once you have that language mastered, it's just like reading a book, you know, Joe: Yeah. Tim: You just check the boxes, right. OK, where is the source from NSF? GMP, what's the forms of these nutrients? Because you start to learn and then you have experts that you follow. A lot of people smarter than me that I follow. Dr. X, Dr. While, Dr. Whitaker, Dr. Northrup. And you start Terry Lambrew and you start to follow these gurus in the southern industry that have been there for 40 years, that know so much more than you. And you're reading their literature, listening to their podcasts. They're the symposiums around the planet that are going on for this breakthrough, that breakthrough. You get the subscriptions right to the. So I just tell everyone, get plugged in at least where you're getting encouraged on a regular basis to own your health, build your terrane strength in your health and all the ways that you can inspire yourself on a regular basis and then get somebody on your team that you can trust to help guide you in the space, because it is a new language, right? Joe: It's nuts, it's just it's so frustrating. Did a three month vegan plan Tim: Nice. Joe: Because Tim: Yeah. Joe: I'm not vegan, but I loved it like it was good for me. But I Tim: Yeah. Joe: Actually I actually, in the process, lost a lot of muscle mass because I was also going always going to the gym. But all of a sudden I started to shrink both, Tim: Right, Joe: You Tim: Like, Joe: Know. Tim: No. Joe: So, yes, I'm like, I'm doing all this hard work. And it's just I needed to get on a B 12 vitamin of something. And it's funny because I don't even know what I'm taking, but it's something that I got from Amazon and Tim: Your Joe: I Tim: I can do it. I've been assigned to general Joe: I'm sure. Tim: Check that Joe: So Tim: After Joe: I'm going Tim: The program. Joe: To look when yeah. When we're done, I'm going to look and then I'm going to and then I'm going to say I need a direct line to Tim in Tim: There Joe: The Tim: We Joe: Chat Tim: Go. Joe: Room. Tim: Yeah. Joe: So have you ever thought of franchises? Tim: I have, I Joe: And Tim: Have. Joe: And I'm Tim: You Joe: Just interested you don't have to you don't have to Tim: Know, Joe: Say to. Tim: I'm so I am very interested and I have been kicking that ball around in my head for a long time because we are we specialize in education, right. So you got to find ways to duplicate yourself in a franchise. And so we created a three month curriculum that our wellness consultants have to go through. They have to pass quizzes and tests and they have to get certifications from this company, this company and MKB certification, all the enzyme certifications to understand the industry, know what questions to ask customers and how to make recommendations. So that's one of the hardest things that we've done that would make it more easy to duplicate the knowledge side of our company and our brand. And as I've talked to people who have created franchises, the the legal side to it is one hurdle and then enforcing them to actually maintain your model as representing the healthy place. What we have created is the two big unknowns for me as far as difficulty. So then the choice came, should we just keep adding brick and mortars in our own territory? Right, right. In the Madison area and then put all of our energy and focus into our brands that we've created and our website because there's infinite you can do in the business world and you kind Joe: Mm Tim: Of Joe: Hmm. Tim: Have to choose. Joe: Yeah. Tim: So we decided to park the franchise idea for now and really go after lively vitamin CO. This is one of the brands that have been borne out of our brick and mortar stores. So now we're selling that to other health food stores around the country. And the number two is build find your healthy place dotcom, because just like Amazon is a freakin mammoth, there's so much opportunity to impact and power and educate everything that I'm passionate about on that website. So currently with four kids, we are chilling on the franchise idea. But I think it's brilliant because there's not there's not the option out there, which is why it keeps coming back to me Joe: Yeah, Tim: Like Joe: Yeah. Tim: There's not that many health food stores out there that really care. Soulsby for sales. You know, as one of my Joe: Mm Tim: Saying Joe: Hmm. Tim: That, Joe: I Tim: I really Joe: Love that, by the way, I love that. Tim: Thank you. Thank you. There is a time I was praying and it was like not I it going to make my friggin mortgage. When I first opened the store, I was praying to God for sales and I was like, God to declare bankruptcy here is brutal. And it was like an arrow is like, do you care about their soul as much as you care about the sales? Joe: Yeah. Tim: And it was kind of striking. So, yeah, there's not that many stores out there that really care about the human that have knowledge to help guide them and a model that works to help people, you know. So it's still an idea that keeps coming back to me. So Joe: Right. Tim: We'll see. Joe: Yeah, well, good luck if it happens, I'm sure it'll be great. Tim: Thank you. You see one popping up next door, you'll know where to get your V12. Joe: There you go. So you hit upon this a moment ago with the whole franchising thing of how to actually create this template and create a strict thing where where the people that are talking to your customers are very educated and they're giving the right information and asking the right questions. So how have you done that with the people that are at your current stores and how have you done that with the people that are on the other end of the chat? When somebody files in to ask these questions, Tim: Yeah, so. Joe: How do you get something like when is somebody OK? You're ready to take a call, you're ready to be on the chat, you're ready to to advise a customer in the store, like, what's that process? Tim: Yeah, Joe: And you don't Tim: So. Joe: Have to go too deep. I just Tim: No, Joe: I Tim: No, Joe: But Tim: That. Joe: I'm sure somebody is going to say, like, hey, Tim, super educated on this. So every time I talk, like I just said, you know what I call him on the chat, I want him, you Tim: Right. Joe: Know. So Tim: Right. Joe: How to how do you duplicate Tim so that everyone that's coming in on the chat or walking in the store says this is just a clone of Tim like he may. He's already run them through the ringer, you know? Tim: Yeah, that's so the three month curriculum that we created is our pride and joy. I'm so thankful for that. It was brutal to create. So I created one hundred videos, having a five minute conversation where I'm explaining different parts of the world and explaining brands and what to look for and how to explain it. And then we'll go through they'll have to pass quizzes and tests based on each module. So there's nine different modules to this curriculum. They have to go through trainings with specific companies. They have to do a number of roleplaying activities with our managers where they pretend to be the customer Joe: Mm Tim: And Joe: Hmm. Tim: Coming in, hey, I'm looking for some CBDs. What do you got? And so they get tested there and they have to get these certifications from each of these brands, so they have to pass it. So there's one guy who got to the end and he is like, OK, dude, we got to rewind because you're not retaining this stuff. So either you did the last minute cramming for this quiz the night before. And like I didn't I did that in high school. Joe: Ok. Tim: And then you don't retain it, right. Joe: Yeah. Tim: So do you really care about this or not? So he had to start over. He had to go through it again. So it's a team. We have a leadership team of five. And so we have these nine modules, the quizzes, the tests. They have to pass them. They have to do the role playing. And then the leadership team of five will say, OK, this person's ready or they're really not ready. And there's still a couple of parts of our team where we're like, OK, where they can be a wellness consultant in the store, but we don't think they're ready to be on live chat. So then we'll wait maybe six months until they have a little bit more experience, because where our team learns the most is from the customers coming in asking the questions and they don't know the answers of how to treat colitis Joe: Mm Tim: With Joe: Hmm. Tim: Whatever. So then they have to go find out to get back to that customer and then they learn something. So right now, I'm proud to say our live chat feature on our website, if you go to find your other place, dotcom lower, right. You get that little live chat bubble, the seven different consultants that you might run into over there are, I wouldn't say clones of Tim because I think they're smarter than me, but they are really well equipped and able to match, kind of hit the mark of where they need to be. And they all know and are passionate enough about helping people to not. One of the first things that I'll tell them is, dude, never bullshit. Joe: Yeah, yeah. Tim: That's a real thing. And I came from a I won't say anything negative where it's just more about getting the sale, about getting that commission. And and that's part of why we don't do commissions. So it's a fun process for intense. Joe: Well, that's great, man. Yeah, so I want to respect your time. We're down to the wire. I want to make sure I didn't miss anything that you want to talk about. So you have four stores in Wisconsin. Tim: Madison, Joe: Correct. Tim: Wisconsin, the. Joe: Ok, and you have the website Tim: Find your healthy place, Dotcom. Joe: Buying your healthy place, Dotcom. Anything else that I missed that is important that we talk about? Tim: You know, dude, I mean, as I was thinking about this program and your followers, like what your mission is, you're trying to encourage entrepreneurs, trying to encourage people to be thankful for life. You don't Joe: Mm Tim: Take Joe: Hmm. Tim: To treat life like the gift it is, you Joe: Yep. Tim: Know? So I did want to offer your followers a coupon code. If they don't have you know, if you have a health food store in your own home town, that's great sport. Those guys, if you have somebody on your team, that's awesome. That's my main passion. And if you need a resource that you can trust, if you go to find your healthy place dotcom and you get something type in coupon code, Castelo, and that'll give 30 percent off the full price on anything on our whole website, we have thousands of products. So anything from V12 to something more intense. And regardless if you buy something or not, use that live chat feature to ask questions. You know, I've had people call my cell phone bill. Hey, Jim, you know, I'm in Wholefoods right now and I'm looking at three different multivitamins. Like which one do you think I should get? You know, and I get to tell them and it's fun and you can share the love. And so use that live chat feature as a resource, because more than ever, dude, we need natural alternatives. We need some education we at least need to know about, like Joel and your Joe: Yeah, Tim: Life partner. Dude, Joe: Yeah. Tim: What if she didn't have that naturopathic doctor that gave her some natural supplements through one of the most intensive crisis's that she ever faced in her life? Like, you know, in your gut that that helped her in a dramatic way because you watched her do P ninety three, the cancer experience. Joe: Yeah. Tim: I mean, that's a miracle, dude. And it took somebody reaching out and it took a resource being willing to respond to create that miracle, you know. And so that's what I want for people. Joe: Yeah, it's I can't stress it enough that Tim: Right. Joe: What I saw before my very eyes every single Tim: Right. Joe: Day and it would and then I see people that are going through cancer of some type and they're only being treated, Tim: As Joe: You know, Tim: A medical doctor, yeah. Joe: And they're their body is just being crushed. Tim: Yes. Joe: And there's and there's nothing, no nothing helping to offset the chemicals and all of the harshness Tim: Know. Joe: Of that treatment. And so. Tim: Right, and let me say, you know, you saw it with somebody you loved very much, I saw it with my mom when I was five or six. And since then, I'm getting goosebumps. I have seen it for thousands of people through the last 11 years that the healthy place has been a company, thousands of people, not always cancer, but but we're talking depression, chronic pain, Crohn's disease, asthma, like people suffering like megacorp. There's so much suffering going on Joe: Mm hmm. Tim: In the world and there is natural alternatives that people literally don't know about. They have nobody in their world telling them. So they just listen to whatever mainstream media or their medical doctor Joe: Yeah. Tim: Or their pharmacist. And there's a lot of good people with good intent in those areas. It's just there's not the voice of natural alternatives. So we need to know about this stuff. We've got to get the word out. Joe: Yeah, it's great, man, I love what you're doing, and this Tim: Think. Joe: Was exciting for me and and I think I actually have your personal email, so I'm just going Tim: That's Joe: To I'm Tim: Awesome. Joe: Going to go I'm going to go ten. I need Tim: You Joe: More Tim: Should. Joe: Energy, Tim. I think I think I have inflammation. And I'm going Tim: Yeah, Joe: To be like. Tim: I know you should, and if anyone's listening to and they because sometimes, you know, they just have a trust factor or whatever, Tim at Find Your Healthy Place Dotcom. I am happy to take emails. This what I get to do all day, dude, and it's just fun. It's so rewarding. You just get to point people in the right direction and help them out. So I love it. Joe: I wish you all the luck in the world, this is a Tim: Thank you. Joe: This is a great thing that you're doing. It's nice to have somebody who is, like you said, it's it's Soulsby before sales. It's a great it's a great way to do it. And I think Tim: Thank Joe: You'll be Tim: You. Joe: Rewarded continually be rewarded for doing Tim: Thank Joe: It that Tim: You. Joe: Way. I'll put everything in the show notes. Thank you for the coupon for the listeners Tim: Now. Joe: And I'll make sure I have all the correct links. So find your healthy place. Dotcom is the website. The company's name is the Healthy Place for locations in Madison, Wisconsin. You eventually might franchise someday, Tim: Yes, Joe: But Tim: And people on Facebook, you know, Joe: Yeah. Tim: The healthy people on Facebook, my wife's a genius as far as really caring for our community there. So you'll find a lot of good content and Instagram as well. So thank you, dear. This Joe: Yeah, Tim: Is. Joe: Tim, thanks so much, man, I really appreciate your time today and thanks for all the insight and I really do wish you the best of luck. Tim: Any time, brother, and wish the same to you. Joe: Thank you, Matt. Tim: I hope you enjoyed this episode, and I want to thank you for listening to my podcast. I know you have many options to listen to various podcasts, and I'm honored that you chose to listen to mine. I would love it if you were to rate my podcast Five Stars and write a nice review. It really helps to bring up the rankings of the podcast. Other listeners, once again, thank you so much for listening to the Joe Costello show. I appreciate you very much.
Hello and welcome to episode number #26 of The DJ B-12 Deep Acid House Experience. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year 2021! Time to ring in the new year in proper fashion with a 40 track, 100 minute studio mix of all brand new music with that 90’s vibe we love so much!This show contains tracks by Colour Castle, Krafty Kuts, Boston Dusk, Danny Jay, DJ Bigspin, Hot Since 82, Rowetta, SolardoAlvinho L Noise, Menorah, Juliano Maia, Deep House, Kratehead, Bitrarex, Framewerk, Audio Flora, John Clarcq & T.O.M., Tommy Farrow, Jansons, Blueprint (UK), Moon Boots, James Trysta, Several Definitions, Jonzun, Tibasko, Palavas, Shan, Jeffrey Tice, Mirida, Taiki Nulight X Jem Cooke, Steve Bug & Cle, Richie Blacker, Alexkid feat. Liset Alea), Paper Head, Gustavo Fk & Guto Fernandez, Fasto & Nissa Seych, Full Intention, Ace Vlad & Chesnokovskii, Silent Tape, Origin8a & Propa, Private Caller, Jomar Watson & Mofesta, Tim Nice, Jamore Landson, Future Funk Squad feat. The Crystal Method, and Adamski Feat. Seal. Enjoy.Please Subscribe, like and follow!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJB12DeepAcidHouseExperienceiTunes / Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dj-b-12-techno-podcast/id1465508866Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/search/DJ%20B-12%20Deep%20Acid%20House%20ExperienceTracklist01. Colour Castle - Shelter (Extended Mix) [Hot Sunday Records]02. Krafty Kuts - I Got The Feeling [Breaks] [Toast & Jam Recordings]03. Boston Dusk - Take Me Higher [SOVIETT DJ Box]04. Danny Jay - Lineage [Play Records]05. DJ Bigspin - Billyboy [Running Out Of Steam]06. Hot Since 82 - Mesmerize [Knee Deep In Sound]07. Rowetta, Solardo - Enough (Extended Mix) [Ultra]08. Alvinho L Noise, Menorah - Culture Club (Juliano Maia Remix) [Sintese Records]09. Deep House - Fashion Show [Green Leaf (UK)]10. Kratehead - We Came Alive [Bridge & Tunnel Beat Co]11. Bitrarex - White Brothers [Quadrangular]12. Framewerk - 50 Shades Of Acid [Smokin Joe Records]13. Audio Flora - Discover [Vivifier Records]14. John Clarcq & T.O.M. - Evolution [Lethal Shots]15. Tommy Farrow - Let's Just (Jansons Extended Remix) [Stress Records]16. Blueprint (UK) - Could This B (Extended Mix) [Stress Records]17. Lauer - Phaser7 (Original Mix) [Running Back]18. Blueprint (UK) - Shy Kids Get No Sweets (Extended Mix) [Stress Records]19. Moon Boots - Love Makes The Heart Grow [Pure Moons]20. James Trystan - Project X (Several Definitions Remix) [Ritter Butzke Studio]21. Jonzun - Haus [SCTY]22. Tibasko - Cultivation [W&O Street Tracks]23. Palavas - Lionel Leetchi (Shan Remix) [Future Disco]24. Jeffrey Tice - Last Dance With Dionysus [Harmonious Discord]25. Mirida - Abracadabra [Heinz Music]26. Taiki Nulight X Jem Cooke - To You [Cr2 Records]27. Steve Bug & Cle - Silver Star Stallone [Rejected]28. Richie Blacker - Summer Of Rave 89 (Original Mix) [Of Unsound Mind]29. Alexkid - Don't Hide It (feat. Liset Alea) (Acid Dub) [F Communications]30. Paper Head - Feel It [Rounded]31. Gustavo Fk & Guto Fernandez - Riding High [LW Recordings]32. Fasto & Nissa Seych - Friends & I (Full Intention Remix) [Altra Moda]33. Ace Vlad, Chesnokovskii - Party Your Body (Silent Tape Remix) [SOVIETT]34. Tibasko - Only You (Extended Mix) [Another Rhythm]35. Origin8a & Propa - Turn Me Out (Private Caller Remix) [Hardcore Energy]36. Jomar Watson & Mofesta - Lifting Me Higher (Extenden Mix) [Blue White]37. Tim Nice - Fly By (Jamore Landson Remix) [Karmabeat]38. Future Funk Squad - Lock Down (feat. The Crystal Method) [InExtinct Records]39. Adamski Feat. Seal - Over Killer [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]40. Adamski Feat. Seal - Killer [UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)]
Hello and welcome to episode number 25 of The DJ B-12 Deep Acid House Experience. I hope all of my listeners in the US had a great Thanksgiving. This month’s show is 40 tracks mixed into an hour and 45 minute long mix. Tons of great music again across many genres this month for your listening pleasure.Please Subscribe, like and follow!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DJB12DeepAcidHouseExperienceiTunes / Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dj-b-12-techno-podcast/id1465508866Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/search/DJ%20B-12%20Deep%20Acid%20House%20ExperienceTracklist01. Apockt - Recognize [Trackheadz]02. David Hasert - Der Trip [Sincopat]03. Jack Truant - 1990 (Extended Mix) [Motive Records]04. Jonzun - High Frequency [Society 3.0]05. Andrea Verona - Extasy (Cut Version) [Puro Beat]06. Jeffrey Tice - Flying High [Harmonious Discord]07. Rheinzand - Obey (SIRS Remix) [Music For Dreams08. Kocleo - Break Away [True Romance Records]09. Mason - Drowning In Your Love (feat. Jem Cooke) (Mark Knight Extended Mix) [Toolroom]10. Jacques Renault, Gerd Janson - One More Slam (Remix) [Let's Play House]11. T.O.M. - My Roots [Ultimative Music]12. Red Sugar - Wait You Tonight (House Dub Mix) [Houzier]13. GREETINGS - Discovery [There Is Love In You]14. Paul Parsons, Bronx Cheer - Don't Give A Damn (Tim Nice Remix) [Tall House Digital]15. PAX, Gorgon City - Alive (Extended Mix) [REALM Records]16. Jacques Renault, Gerd Janson - Movin' Kinda Screwy (Remix) [Let's Play House]17. Silent Tape - Raw Kiss [SOVIETT DJ Box]18. Freddy Be, Savi Leon - Endless Summer (Original Mix) [Monday Social Music]19. Axel Doorman - In a Bubble [Acid 606-61]20. Tim Nice - Lonely [Weekend Warriors Night]21. Framewerk - Freaky Chakra [Capital Heaven]22. Huxley - Who Sez (Extended Mix) [Toolroom]23. Block & Crown, Dzialach - Back In Time (Original Mix) [Next-Gen-Records]24. Funk D'Void, Berny - Junkies (Andrew Macari Remix) [Moonlight Records]25. Lush Djs - View From The Window (Original Mix) [Music UK]26. Dousk - Sometimes Shugga (Framewerk Remix) [Beat Boutique]27. Mirida - Not Over [Elly Fly]28. Club Tularosa - Pyramids [Me Me Me]29. SOSANDLOW - Wazimu [Connected Frontline]30. Trent Cantrelle - Originate [Monday Social Music]31. David Morales, DJ Gomi, Aaron K. Gray - God Made Me Funky (David Morales Kings of House NYC Dub) [Quantize Recordings]32. Oliver Schories - Mirada (Jansons Remix) [Milk & Sugar]33. Daniel Englisch, Mickey Zhang - Amsterdam Acid Session [Cosmic Disco Records]34. Red Axes, Kino Todo - Boom Shaki Boom feat. Red Axes [Life And Death]35. Zakmina - Running Amore [Futureboogie Recordings]36. Hazzaro - Good Day (Original Mix) [Azzura Trax]37. The Bongo Man - Crab Beats (Original Mix) [Telepathy]38. Andy Mac (UK) - Back To The Sound (Original Mix) [13 Records]39. Ricky Chopra - Come On (Original Mix) [Songtradr]40. Tibasko - Want You (Extended Mix) [Stress Records]
This week's edition of the “The NINE at 9” Live Podcast Show presented by Beat Refinery DJ @ Bach to Rock, we discuss how DJ's are coming up with creative ways to make money during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week's special guests are: DJ's CFLO, Excel, EvilOne, Impulse and Tim Nice! We also have the first editions of As-One's “Scratch Tip of the Week” and Sean J's “Livestream Tip of the Week”.Support the show (http://www.beatrefinery.com)
01. Distant People feat Richelle Hicks - Just Be (Original Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 02. Sy Sez feat Cleveland Jones - With You (Extended Mix) Soul Heaven Records 03. Maxdal feat Roy Picone & B.Grace - Strong Enough (George Lesley Remix) King Street 04. Spiritchaser - Paradise Row (Rework) Guess 05. Ree Morris - Blow Away (Original) House Afrika 06. Antonello Ferrari feat Dawn Tallman - Read between the Lines (Mark Di Meo Remix) Nite Grooves 07. Distant People feat Chappell - Blows You Away (Tikki Tembo Vocal Remix) Diamondhouse 08. Wez Whynt feat Elle White - Loves Taken Over (Original Mix) Quantize Recordings 09. Paul Parsons, Tim Nice feat Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch) Tall House 10. Chris Geldard - Find Yourself (Original Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 11. Gino Strike feat Earl W Green - Dont Doubt My Love (Sean Ali & Munk Julious Remix) Soulstice Music 12. Conway Kasey feat Earl W Green - Freeze the Moment (Kelvin Sylvester Remix) Merecumbe Recordings 13. Tracebeatz & Bob feat Milton Lee - Wish upon a Star (Doug Gomez Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 14. John Lundun feat Rhema Osborne - Love's Rain (Original) Chymamusiq Records 15. DJ Romain feat Jay D - Say the Word (Harley&Muscle Caio Deep Mix) Soulstar Records 16. Cuebur feat Dicklas One - Shes Gone (Original) Soul Candi Records 17. DaSoul feat Sabrina Chyld Lunar (DaSoul Re-Touch) K&D Lab 18. Darryl D' Bonneau - Lonely (Earl TuTu & John Khan Remix) Atwork Records 19. Josh Milan - It's Love (Ricanstruction Vocal Mix) Honeycomb Music 2018 **Back Of the Box track**
Hi Guys, April is upon us and so is the latest offering to the wonderful world of Buttnaked-ness. Those of you who regularly follow the show will know that I'm a massive lover of vocal tracks and his months show has some of the greatest singers ever to come out of the soulful house world. So without further delay its my pleasure to present the Aril 2020 edition of The Buttnaked Soulful House Sessions..'Mature music for mature ears.'...listen & download at the sites below. #MatureMusic #SoulfulHouse #DeepHouse #lounge #deep #soulful #vocal Tracklist 01. Distant People feat Richelle Hicks - Just Be (Original Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 02. Sy Sez feat Cleveland Jones - With You (Extended Mix) Soul Heaven Records 03. Maxdal feat Roy Picone & B.Grace - Strong Enough (George Lesley Remix) King Street 04. Spiritchaser - Paradise Row (Rework) Guess 05. Ree Morris - Blow Away (Original) House Afrika 06. Antonello Ferrari feat Dawn Tallman - Read between the Lines (Mark Di Meo Remix) Nite Grooves 07. Distant People feat Chappell - Blows You Away (Tikki Tembo Vocal Remix) Diamondhouse 08. Wez Whynt feat Elle White - Loves Taken Over (Original Mix) Quantize Recordings 09. Paul Parsons, Tim Nice feat Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch) Tall House 10. Chris Geldard - Find Yourself (Original Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 11. Gino Strike feat Earl W Green - Dont Doubt My Love (Sean Ali & Munk Julious Remix) Soulstice Music 12. Conway Kasey feat Earl W Green - Freeze the Moment (Kelvin Sylvester Remix) Merecumbe Recordings 13. Tracebeatz & Bob feat Milton Lee - Wish upon a Star (Doug Gomez Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 14. John Lundun feat Rhema Osborne - Love's Rain (Original) Chymamusiq Records 15. DJ Romain feat Jay D - Say the Word (Harley&Muscle Caio Deep Mix) Soulstar Records 16. Cuebur feat Dicklas One - Shes Gone (Original) Soul Candi Records 17. DaSoul feat Sabrina Chyld Lunar (DaSoul Re-Touch) K&D Lab 18. Darryl D' Bonneau - Lonely (Earl TuTu & John Khan Remix) Atwork Records 19. Josh Milan - It's Love (Ricanstruction Vocal Mix) Honeycomb Music 2018 **Back Of the Box track** All tracks featured on the show/mix are for promotional purposes and can be purchased through all leading download sites...please support the artist. Never miss a new mix/show join the Facebook group for The Buttnaked Soulful House Sessions m.facebook.com/groups/1764760447136853 Listen Now via SPOTIFY, TUNE-IN, DEEZER & STICHER Also available on ITunes & Google Play m.facebook.com/groups/1764760447136853 Listen Now via SPOTIFY, TUNE-IN, DEEZER & STICHER Also available on ITunes & Google Play
01. Distant People feat Richelle Hicks - Just Be (Original Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 02. Sy Sez feat Cleveland Jones - With You (Extended Mix) Soul Heaven Records 03. Maxdal feat Roy Picone & B.Grace - Strong Enough (George Lesley Remix) King Street 04. Spiritchaser - Paradise Row (Rework) Guess 05. Ree Morris - Blow Away (Original) House Afrika 06. Antonello Ferrari feat Dawn Tallman - Read between the Lines (Mark Di Meo Remix) Nite Grooves 07. Distant People feat Chappell - Blows You Away (Tikki Tembo Vocal Remix) Diamondhouse 08. Wez Whynt feat Elle White - Loves Taken Over (Original Mix) Quantize Recordings 09. Paul Parsons, Tim Nice feat Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch) Tall House 10. Chris Geldard - Find Yourself (Original Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 11. Gino Strike feat Earl W Green - Dont Doubt My Love (Sean Ali & Munk Julious Remix) Soulstice Music 12. Conway Kasey feat Earl W Green - Freeze the Moment (Kelvin Sylvester Remix) Merecumbe Recordings 13. Tracebeatz & Bob feat Milton Lee - Wish upon a Star (Doug Gomez Mix) Vibe Boutique Records 14. John Lundun feat Rhema Osborne - Love's Rain (Original) Chymamusiq Records 15. DJ Romain feat Jay D - Say the Word (Harley&Muscle Caio Deep Mix) Soulstar Records 16. Cuebur feat Dicklas One - Shes Gone (Original) Soul Candi Records 17. DaSoul feat Sabrina Chyld Lunar (DaSoul Re-Touch) K&D Lab 18. Darryl D' Bonneau - Lonely (Earl TuTu & John Khan Remix) Atwork Records 19. Josh Milan - It's Love (Ricanstruction Vocal Mix) Honeycomb Music 2018 **Back Of the Box track**
Enjoy the first offical episode of the AsapHandswell Podcast (Dj TyHandswell/AsapSwelly). My guest is Baltimore's own Dj Tim Nice!!! Tune as we discuss dj climate... likes/dislikes etc!!!
Our guest co-host on Episode 186 of Trick or Treat Radio is none other than Stephanie Wiley from The Elm Street Kid's Movie Club podcast! Stephanie joins us to review the horror anthology flick, Southbound and to speak with Cody Meirick, the producer of an upcoming documentary about the controversial children’s book, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! We get a metric crapload of feedback, MZ pays up on a debt, Dynamo has a serious announcement and we announce another contest! So dial 9-1-1, grab your barf bag, and strap on! Stuff we talk about: Children's literacy, Southbound, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, the FIB, The Signal, Talk Without Rhythm Episode #307, cock rings, MonsterZero’s fatality, the appropriate amount of lorazepam, the tuck video, Bob Seger, Gore Shriek, baby nipples, Grindhouse Releasing, Valentine's Day, The Chayn Gang, MZ showing up naked, the kiiiid Tim Nice, the most controversial children's book, Guillermo del Toro, Creepshow, MZs nipples, Paul L Smith, Stephen Gammell, Dynamo’s friends scaring each other, Alvin Schwartz, I Am A Knife With Legs, Larry Fessenden, wars and conflicts, Buffalo Bill, Goodbye Horses, the shocker under the stairs, Cult of Muscle love, The Loved Ones, Lesson of the Evil, Versus, naming your nipples, Radio Silence, wraiths, purgatory and limbo, Devil’s Due, V/H/S, living the 70s pro wrestler lifestyle, Wicker Man, Oldboy, Soda Stream, Silence of the Lambs, Bennett Jones, Nina Forever, and bologna gumdrops.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)
Episode 185 of Trick or Treat Radio is jam packed! First up, our in studio guest is our good buddy Derek Rook of Rough House Publishing. Then we have a rare media appearance by the godfather of FantaCo comics and the creator of Gore Shriek, Tom Skulan! This discussion covers everything from the origin right up to the 30th Anniversary revival and the Kickstarter campaign to bring Gore Shriek back! If all that wasn’t awesome enough for you, we have the world premiere of the horror surf superstars, Genki Genki Panic's new jam "Two Girls, One Coffin!” All that and we review the Belgian flick, Alleluia and play a ton of amazing voicemails and feedback from you guys! So grab an issue of Gore Shriek, fix your rabbit ears, and strap on! Stuff we talk about: Trick or Treat Radio record-breaking Alex de Campi, the Alien franchise, Shout Factory’s Image Comics documentary, what political party dynamo registered for, unboxing videos, The Spice Channel, Student Bodies, Cody Meirick, Stan Lee, “Two Girls, One Coffin”, The Lonely Hearts Killers, Night of the Living Dead London, Cub, Avatar Press, Gore Shriek, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, Southbound, Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark, remake vs sequel, Tom Skulan, Jerry Ordway, Greg Pulido, censorship in the 80s, Faces of Death, Bruce Spaulding Fuller, radioactive animal comics of the 80s, redundant film writing, Bub the zombie origin book, Putrid, Malbert, Metallica, We Are Still Here, The Hills Have Eyes, Alleluia, The Thing, Dawn of the Dead remake, Batman v Superman, Derek Rook, Greg Capullo, the ginormous raffle, stirring the sauce, Semiautomagic, Der Samurai, Cult of Muscle, onesies, Tim Nice intro, The Ghastly Ones, onesies, MonstersZero’s impressions, Dick Grayson, Bone Sickness, WWE Hall of Famer Donald Trump, what the director of Bone Tomahawk had to say about the director of Fetus, MonsterZero’s HorrorHound article, DVDs not fitting on Blu Ray shelves, 90s Image characters with star in their name, Dynamo’s AM radio days, French directors working on American films, Inside, Rock n Roll comics, Halloween, what Derek wishes they had left out of Alien Resurrection, Pat Patterson, black and white comic revolution of the mid 80's, Tiny Wight’s cooking prowess and the Derek Rook sketch giveaway!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/trickortreatradio)
Hi Guys (I know,I know I always say that lol) I’m Back once again with the SUPERB soulful stuff you would expect from me Buttnaked style and it just in time for you Halloween party. I would just like to say massive respect to all that download and listen in and an extra sprinkle of thanks to everyone that also downloads my more Laidback podcast ‘The Mature Music Sessions’ (See Below). So once again I hope u all enjoy…'Mature Music For Mature Ears' ...Soulful House Tracklist 01. Paul Parsons feat Tim Nice & Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch)(Tall House)02. Gabor Deutsch feat N'dea Davenport - Love With Desire (Ricky Inch Nusoul Remix)(Dublife)03. Electric Empire - Always (Joey Negro Classic Mix)(Z Records)04. Diamond Dealer feat Sacha Williamson - Ain't No Pressure (Groove Assassin Vocal Mix) Groove Odyssey05. Dolls Combers Present Venger Collective - I Want To Live (Dolls Combers Vocal Mix)(Dolls Combers)06. Bhaku Jr feat Maxwell - Change (Berny Remix)(Gotta Keep Faith)07. Chymamusique - Jazz According To House (Gabbanas Soulful Enterpretation)(Chymamusiq Records)08. Joe Buhdha feat Terri Walker - Feel Right (Reel People Vocal Mix) Reel People Music09. DJ Romain feat Jay D - Say the Word (Harley&Muscle Caio Deep Mix) Soulstar Records10. Eloni Yawn feat Paris Toon & Mothers Favorite Child - No Excuses (The Layabouts Vocal Mix) Reel People Music11. C MeSoul feat Cosmiq - Summer Nights (Classical Vocal Journey) House365 records12. Groove Junkies & Michele Chiavarini feat Carolyn Harding - Play (Groove Junkies Original Mix) MoreHouse13. Abel Daizer feat Busi-N - The Last Dance (Original Mix)(A Deeper Groove)14. Fiona Yorke - Gone But Not Forgotton (E2TO Classic Mix) Stomp Music(PROMO)15. Carla Prather - Annie Mae (Torin Edmond's Rework Mix) King Street16. Sheila Ford - Everyday Of The Week (Joey Negro Remix) Quantize Recordings17. BKT feat Marie Tweek - Let Me Love You (Chymamusique Remix) Vibe Boutique Records18. Darryl D' Bonneau & Viola Sykes - Imagine Me (Original Mix) Atwork Records19. Kenny Bobien – Dance For Life (Little Bee Mix) Soundmen On Wax 2001 **Back Of The Box** All tracks featured on the show/mix are for promotional purposes and can be purchased through all leading download sites...please support the artist. Feel free to get in touch with meTwitter @djiainwillishttp://www.facebook.com/iain.willisOr e-mail me at djiainwillis@hotmail.comAlso available free and subscribe to via ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iain-willis-pres-buttnaked/id422656236?mt=2
Hi Guys (I know,I know I always say that lol) I’m Back once again with the SUPERB soulful stuff you would expect from me Buttnaked style and it just in time for you Halloween party. I would just like to say massive respect to all that download and listen in and an extra sprinkle of thanks to everyone that also downloads my more Laidback podcast ‘The Mature Music Sessions’ (See Below). So once again I hope u all enjoy…'Mature Music For Mature Ears' ...Soulful House Tracklist 01. Paul Parsons feat Tim Nice & Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch)(Tall House)02. Gabor Deutsch feat N'dea Davenport - Love With Desire (Ricky Inch Nusoul Remix)(Dublife)03. Electric Empire - Always (Joey Negro Classic Mix)(Z Records)04. Diamond Dealer feat Sacha Williamson - Ain't No Pressure (Groove Assassin Vocal Mix) Groove Odyssey05. Dolls Combers Present Venger Collective - I Want To Live (Dolls Combers Vocal Mix)(Dolls Combers)06. Bhaku Jr feat Maxwell - Change (Berny Remix)(Gotta Keep Faith)07. Chymamusique - Jazz According To House (Gabbanas Soulful Enterpretation)(Chymamusiq Records)08. Joe Buhdha feat Terri Walker - Feel Right (Reel People Vocal Mix) Reel People Music09. DJ Romain feat Jay D - Say the Word (Harley&Muscle Caio Deep Mix) Soulstar Records10. Eloni Yawn feat Paris Toon & Mothers Favorite Child - No Excuses (The Layabouts Vocal Mix) Reel People Music11. C MeSoul feat Cosmiq - Summer Nights (Classical Vocal Journey) House365 records12. Groove Junkies & Michele Chiavarini feat Carolyn Harding - Play (Groove Junkies Original Mix) MoreHouse13. Abel Daizer feat Busi-N - The Last Dance (Original Mix)(A Deeper Groove)14. Fiona Yorke - Gone But Not Forgotton (E2TO Classic Mix) Stomp Music(PROMO)15. Carla Prather - Annie Mae (Torin Edmond's Rework Mix) King Street16. Sheila Ford - Everyday Of The Week (Joey Negro Remix) Quantize Recordings17. BKT feat Marie Tweek - Let Me Love You (Chymamusique Remix) Vibe Boutique Records18. Darryl D' Bonneau & Viola Sykes - Imagine Me (Original Mix) Atwork Records19. Kenny Bobien – Dance For Life (Little Bee Mix) Soundmen On Wax 2001 **Back Of The Box** All tracks featured on the show/mix are for promotional purposes and can be purchased through all leading download sites...please support the artist. Feel free to get in touch with meTwitter @djiainwillishttp://www.facebook.com/iain.willisOr e-mail me at djiainwillis@hotmail.comAlso available free and subscribe to via ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iain-willis-pres-buttnaked/id422656236?mt=2
This week, we have a brief discussion about how third party ad networks affect performance on news sites before talking with Sophie Shepherd. Sophie is a Senior Designer at Ushahidi, a non-profit software company that develops free and open-source products for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping. We discussed the challenges of designing for international users with minimal data speed, how Ushahidi brings data and information to regions with nearly no connection, designing with task completion in mind, and more. ##Show Links: Sophie Shepherd Follow Sophie on Twitter Ushahidi Lara Hogan - A List Apart - Showing Performance Global Mobile Book Eric Meyer Crisis Design Rust Belt Refresh ##Transcript Katie: Welcome. You're listening to Episode 8 of The Path to Performance, the podcast dedicated to everyone to make the web faster. I am your host, Katie Kovalcin. Tim: And I'm your other host, Tim Kadlec and yeah, you nailed it; this is Episode 8. Well done! Katie: I was like, oh yeah, I totally know which episode it is. Wait: no, I don't. This is Episode 8. Tim: I mean, it's understandable; the numbers are getting higher, it's getting harder and harder. Katie: Totally out of control it's on more than one hand now! Tim: Yeah, once you've thrown that second hand, things get really complicated. It gets worse when you have to start taking off the socks and using your toes as well! That's where I always get hung up! Katie: You can wear flip-flops and then you don't have to worry about it. Tim: True, true. Katie: How are you, Tim? Tim: I'm doing OK; I'm actually wearing flip-flops right now! Yeah, I am! Katie: It's warm in Wisconsin? Tim: It is warm, for once. Yeah, I'm doing good; enjoying my day. And you? Katie: I'm good as well. The sun is shining here, which is a very rare thing in Ohio this summer and I feel like I have been whining about it for so long but today, I'm not whining. Tim: That's good! That's good! I'm guessing, we could maybe one of these times maybe we'll have an episode where we just kind of whine all the way through, but otherwise I think people probably enjoy the non-whining better. Katie: We can just have a bummer episode! Tim: Yeah, just a downer of an episode where we just air all our grievances about everything… Katie: We just talk in emo voice, just like…mwww…yeah, the web does actually kinda suuuuck… Tim: Yeah, exactly! I think this goes over well, I think this is maybe like a special Christmas edition. Katie: That is a really good idea. Tim: Right in time for the holidays. Katie: Christmas Bummer Episode! Tim: This is brilliant. That has to happen; I'm writing this down. Anyway, but glad to hear you're doing good now on this totally not Christmas at all episode. That's good. Katie: Yeah, on this summer-sunshine flip-flop fun-time episode! Tim: Yay! Katie: So, on the note of cool things, there's this episode from the Washington Post where in kind of a similar fashion, I know we talked a couple of months ago about Vox sort of declaring performance bankruptcy, Washington Post kinda did the same thing and talked about in an article the other day and that was pretty cool. They mentioned it sort of being in response to the instant articles and talking about just ads on news sites generally kind of sucky for performance, but I really liked this quite that it ended on that we have very little control over ads that load late or slowly but we wanted to make the core use experience as solid as possible because that is what we have control over and that's kind of a cool way to think about performance, just focusing on making good the core part that you do have control over. Tim: Yeah, and I think that's just generally awesome advice for anybody, because the ad work stuff comes up a lot and you have very little control over those third party ad networks and unfortunately a lot of them are super-slow right now but also essential for business but I like that they made the clear distinction between their core experience and understanding that the ads is just something you're going to have to tack on afterwards but mitigate the issues as much as possible. I think that's just really solid advice for any publisher. Katie: Yeah, absolutely. It's a nice article, it's a quick read; I recommend giving that a little skim or browse. Tim: Definitely. And then of course, Lara Hogan, who has made a habit out of writing good things over and over and over again or providing good performance advice in general, she wrote a post for A List Apart about showing performance; basically getting into some of the things she talked about way back in Episode 1 with us and also in her book about the importance of making performance visual: going into the dashboards and things like that, that they have up at Etsy and making sure that people can actually see the difference in performance. Katie: Yeah, she tweeted a little quick video a while ago and it might actually be in that article, I haven't had a chance to read it yet; it's on my to-do list but she posted a video of their video systems and it's really cool, it's really awesome to see that. Did I tell you that Lara, she talks about donuts all the time and donuts being her reward for good performance, achievements, good things like that, and when I saw Lara in New York a couple weeks ago, she took me to The Donut Spot that's in her neighborhood and I was so excited! Tim: Yeah, you told me. She's never taken me to The Donut Spot. I'm a little disappointed. I'm excited for you though: that sounds really cool. That's kind of… Katie: You know what? It was a really good donut because she says she's not a fan of the hipster donuts with a bunch of stupid toppings like cereal and candy bars and crap. Tim: Like the voodoo donuts thing in Portland? Katie: Yeah. These are just some straight-up home-town donuts in Brooklyn; I guess not really home-town but they were good! Tim: That's good. This is just like plain glazed? I want to know how far down the rabbit hole you went. Katie: We got banana…no, not banana: they were like custard-filled ones with the chocolate icing. I'm not a donut expert but those good ones! Tim: Gotcha, OK. That's a safe choice. Katie: Not the white sugary whipped cream-filled, the kind of yellowy-custard cream-filled ones; those are good ones. I don't know the distinction: is one cream and one custard? Is one icing and one cream? I don't know. Tim: I think it's usually like an icing and cream thing. Depending on where you go, it's almost like pure frosting is what it tastes like you're eating… Katie: Yeah, like you bite in and you're just like, oh my… Tim: Yeah, it's like there's frosting on the outside of the donut and frosting shoved down the inside as well and you just feel the cavities forming as you're eating them. It's great. It's a really good experience. But that's good. No, I did not…you did tell me this and that's very awesome, very cool. It's kinda like… Katie: Sorry; I'm obviously still thinking about that. Tim: I don't blame you. Katie: It was an experience. But, back to today's episode! We are talking to Sophie Shepherd and the big reason we wanted to get Sophie on here is not only because she's an awesome designer but because she has experience with working on products that are primarily used in developing countries that typically have the less than ideal device scenarios that we kind of always talk about in theory but she has some really great insight on talking a bout it in practice and actually designing for those devices and scenarios so it's going to be really interesting. Tim: Yeah, it'll be a nice fresh take, a different perspective than we usually get. Very cool. Katie: Cool. Well, let's go hear from Sophie. Katie: And we're back with Sophie Shepherd from Ushahidi. Sophie; can you tell us a little bit about Ushahidi and what exactly that is? Sophie: Sure. So, the what exactly it is, it's a Swahili word that means "Testimony". A lot of people are like, "Usha-what?" so it's not English so don't feel bad if you can't say it. And the company was founded in 2008 in Kenya so in 2008 what was happening in Kenya. there was an election that was fairly corrupt and there was quite a bit of violence broke out and some bloggers who were in Kenya and living in Kenya realized that they needed to do something to help out as well as just writing about what was happening, so they made a product in which people could submit reports of different places where the election was happening, different polling stations and this way they could say, there's been violence here, someone was killed here or this is a safe place where you can go to vote, or there's fraud happening. And what Ushahidi does is it takes all of these different reports and collects them into one place and provides a list and a map for them. So that's how it was founded; it's now a number of products but the name of our main platform is still Ushahidi and the purpose of it is still too collect data, crowd-source data. It's oftentimes gets mapped but isn't necessarily, we're re-doing the platform right now so that it's not only map data; it can really be anything that users submit. Katie: Awesome. So, spoiler alert, I know Sophie really well so I know the details of what she does and what really struck me and why I wanted to get her on the podcast so bad is because you deal a lot with users that are in places that have really poor connectivity and the products that you're designing are really crucial information that they need to get to. Can you talk a little bit about all of that and the challenges that you face when designing for that? Sophie: Sure. So, I think something that's really interesting is that it's not only poor connectivity but the kind of contexts in which people are using our products are unique. Not exclusively, but oftentimes they're used in crisis situations, so people don't have a whole lot of time. A lot of the time, the power could be down or internet could be down, so it's not only we have to think about connectivity but also ways that people are submitting information. This has been the first project I've worked on where it's not just, when we talk about performance, it's not just people needing to load something fast but it's about access and accessibility so, built into our product is people can anonymously text stuff in and that'll become a part of our system so it's really thinking about this whole ecosystem of access and ways of submitting information rather than just a website. Katie: Can you talk a little bit about what that means exactly, more than just a website? How else are you working around those connectivity and accessibility issues? Sophie: Yes, well, Ushahidi as a whole, not only with our platform but we have a lot of other companies that have spun out from the product itself, so there's a company Brick which is really, really awesome. It was founded by someone who was also a founder in Ushahidi and they make wifi devices that are super-rugged; they work off 3G connections so you can take those anywhere. We were in Kenya and they have all these attachments so it can be solar-powered wifi, so we had a group meeting in Kenya and we were all accessing the internet in the middle of nowhere on a beach from this device we had. So, it's thinking more about getting people information. Similarly we do a lot with SMS so if someone only has a phone they can text in a report or receive a response saying, OK, this has been confirmed, through their phone. Tim: This is fascinating stuff. I always think it's very interesting to hear the perspective outside of what we're used to in the little bubble that we get to live in here in the United States tech industry. This is taking everything in terms of the importance of building something that is going to work on different devices and the importance of building something that's going to perform well and this is really scaling up the importance of doing that, the vitality of doing that from just business metrics to, like you're saying, people's lives at stake in some of these cases. I'm curious; you mentioned being in Kenya and using those devices to get access. You can't obviously develop all the time in Kenya, so how are you finding ways to get that experience here, when you're building stuff from the United States so that you're feeling what it's going to be like on those, a 2G or a 3G connection or whatever it happens to be? Sophie: It's definitely a challenge for me because not only am I working every day on a really good connection but I've never really not had that; maybe five years ago my connection was not as good as it was now but I think I've always been as far as connection speeds in the one per cent, but we have a really great user advocacy team at Ushahidi so this is not only thinking about performance and website metrics, but we have a whole team that is dedicated to making sure that our users are satisfied, listening to what their needs are and responding in that way and also helping them, because this is a product that then gets extended and they can download it and set up their own deployments to use the product so we have a team that works really closely with people who are actually using it, which is terrific because we get a lot of feedback through that. Tim: I was going to say, are some of the team members in Kenya? Sophie: Uh-huh. Yeah, we have one person in Kenya, one person in Canada and then we have as part of, we have a specific user testing wing that's in Kenya but what they do is, since they are so in touch with people who use this stuff all over the world, they're good at being able to not only test it in Kenya but test it elsewhere and talk to…we have a large group using this stuff in Nepal right now because of the earthquake so they're in touch with them, checking that everything's working OK, getting any feedback from them. Katie: Do you tend to look at what specific devices the majority of users in these areas are using and start building and testing there or how does that work out? What's the size of an iPhone, that tends to be our default? What devices are you really thinking about in those areas? Sophie: It's interesting because right now, we are in the midst of re-building this product and so a lot of the people out there who are using it right now are using Version 2 which is the older version and at this point I don't even know how many years old it is but it's fairly outdated. It still works really well but it's not responsive; it's hard, we've noticed that quite a lot of people are using it on a desktop but that's only because it doesn't work very well on a phone so it'll be really interesting, we're launching the new one which is fully responsive and a lot more modern in this way to see how people end up using it. But it's tough because we can't say, iPhone users use this because it's used really everywhere in the world so maybe if it's used in the US it is going to be on an iPhone more, whereas elsewhere, it's Android but we try to cast a really wide net so there's an Android app that will be used for collecting information, you can submit by SMS. The new version's going to be totally responsive so what we try to do is not really focus on one but make sure that everyone can use it. Katie: So, you've been working on a responsive re-design and everything we've talked about has been the poor connectivity and all of that. How has performance played into those decisions when building this site or the product again for this new version? Sophie: It's a continuous consideration and process of checks and balances. One thing is that, thinking about images: part of this new system is we're able to have people submit images as part of their reports so that's something that we still have not quite figured out how we should work with how to then deliver those back to people and also thinking about different JavaScript libraries that we're using. It's a constant balance, so I think we're still figuring it out. We've done quite a bit of user-testing but more UX user-testing but the application itself is not totally done, it hasn't been built yet, so I think that's to come in terms of optimizing how it's going to work exactly. But from the design and front-end, we've definitely been keeping things really light and really the only question that we have is how we're going to treat images. Tim: Is it primarily a matter of using them or not using them or is it a degree of compression in terms of getting them to a point where maybe they're a little pixilated and ugly but they're balanced: the trade-off is that they're going to perform well on those types of networks? What are you battling with, with the images? Sophie: Well, I think basically every single image that is ever going to be on the site is going to be submitted by a user, so we don't know exactly the sizes of images that are going to come in and then at what point we are then going to compress them or shrink them and how we're going to do that and then how they're going to then be delivered back out. Yeah. Tim: So it's getting a system in place for all the user-generated content? Sophie: Exactly, yes. Tim: Gotcha. OK. Katie: So, you talk a lot about style guides and patter libraries and Sophie I know that's how you like to design and work. What is that process looking like? Do you do testing as you go on designs and see how performing it is or how fast it's loading under those different circumstances? Can you just talk a little bit about your design thinking? Sophie: Yeah. What we have been doing is we did all the UX fairly separately, thinking about just user flows and how things were going to be laid out and how things should work and then we did some visual design and then we started combining these by building the pattern library, so we took out patterns from visual design and eventually we've just started building templates and designing in the browser because we have enough of these patterns to build upon and it's been really great; this is the first time that I've worked in this way and what I really love about it is that each of our patterns and components basically stand on their own so it's really easy to look at them and understand exactly where certain weights are coming from. By designing modularly, we can pull those out rather than seeing a page as a whole and not really understand what's causing what. Tim: In a prior episode, we were talking to Jeff Lembeck of Filament Group and he mentioned what he called the "Jank Tank" which is this big box of basically ugly, horrible, slow devices. Considering how wide the net you're spreading, do you have anything similar? Is there a Ushahidi Jank Tank that you guys go to? Sophie: There isn't, but I love that idea. Tim: Yeah, I think we were fans of that too. Sophie: Is it like…what does he mean exactly? Tim: The idea was having… Sophie; …lowest common denominator kind of devices? Time: Yeah, basically grabbing cheap devices or old devices and firing those up: things that are going to be maybe a few years old and are probably going to be a huge challenge to make things feel fluid and work well on those and you have those handy to test them out and see what honestly might be a more typical user would experience than the high end stuff. Sophie: Yeah, we don't have that here in the States; I feel bad calling it a Jank Tank because that's negative-sounding, but in the office in Kenya, they have…they all work in a building and there's quite a few tech companies that work in there and they have something like a Mobile Device Lab and I think it was sponsored by a mobile company there but I was there earlier in the year and it kind of blew my mind; I put a picture of it on Twitter that we can refer to in the Speaker Notes. But that was all of these phones that were phones that I hadn't even necessarily seen, that they don't sell in the States, and they're all used for testing so at some point probably now that I'm talking about it, I'm realizing we should do it sooner rather than later, they have a whole testing lab there that we can test this product on. Tim: Nice. A mobile device lab does admittedly sound a little bit more ??? serious. Katie: Everything that you're saying sounds like, just tying in that accessibility and performance are going hand in hand and it sounds like you've just learned a great deal of empathy in your time there. Is that true and has that influenced your design? Sophie: Yeah, definitely. I think something that has really changed in my mind is thinking about when doing the design, what actions are people going to want to take, so I think that goes with performance too: if we can only load this one button that says "submit a report" and skip all of the images then that's the most important thing, so, really thinking about where to guide people and what the most important and crucial actions are before loading and everything else, so as a designer that's been definitely something that, previously I was doing client work and it was like we had this long list of requirements that we had to fit in and now it's kind of re-assessing and re-prioritizing what requirements actually are and having different levels of this is the one thing they need to really use this app and then here's all of this other helpful stuff that could be called crucial but isn't actually life or death crucial. Katie: That's really interesting. Do you think that there's any way that, for those of us still working on client projects, to have those conversations with the client to try to be like, "no, really, but the marketing video isn't truly required"; exercises in priority and stuff: do you have any tips for paring down those requirements? Sophie: I think it's tough if your talking to a marketing person because they'd be like, "no, literally I'm going to die if I don't get this on there." Katie: And you're like, "no, literally, people are on our products like…" Sophie: Yeah. I think any time it's easier to say, "does this go above this in the priority list" people are willing to answer that question rather than either or. So, in general, communicating and deciding things I would recommend ordering rather than choosing people to sacrifice things. Tim: And it seems like that's clarified too in, I would guess one of the reasons why it works so well where you are is because that task, if you're looking at what the most important thing for the user to do is, it's so very clear and so very critical whereas on maybe on a more traditional thing where you're working with marketers or whatever, they may not have as clear a sense of, what is the ultimate purpose of this site? And then it becomes a lot harder to do the prioritization without that. Sophie: Yeah; it's funny because we're in the process right now of re-designing the company site as well as re-designing the product itself and it shouldn't be, because there's no life or death, but it's so much more complicated to prioritize stuff on the company site because there's so many different types of audiences and services that it needs to provide whereas on the app itself, it's pretty clear to say, what's the most important action for someone to take. Tim: Within the new site, do you still have to take into consideration a lot of the same sort of constraints in terms of the different devices and connectivity because that's who your audience is that you're marketing to, or are you marketing to a different group through the site? Sophie: Yeah, the site will be, well that's up for debate; that's I think what we're still trying to figure out. I think by default it's a good idea to not ever say, "oh well only people in the States with nice phones are going to look at this" just because that's a dangerous attitude to have, but it's possibly less of priority for the site itself. Tim: So, going back to prioritizing performance within the actual apps and stuff that you're doing: did you have set targets that you were looking at when you were working V3 of this? Were there hard-set goals; we are not going to go over this amount of weight or we are not going to take longer than this for the map of data to appear or anything like that? Sophie: Yeah, so we set a performance budget and we've set a few of them; we set one for the front-end so what we've done is build this pattern library and we have all of our, we're calling them "weight-outs" which are basically our different views within the app itself. So we had an initial goal for that, that we've met and then we set a separate one for the build itself and that's still in process, so hopefully we can get around that target. I like this too because instead of having one end-goal we can really check as we go. Tim: Yeah, it's nice to have it broken down like that. Can we ask what the targets are, just out of curiosity? Sophie: I can look them up but I don't know them right now. Tim: That's fine. Just curious. Was it in terms of the weight or is it a different sort of, more like an experience-focused metric or anything like that, that you're targeting? Sophie: Yeah, we did a weight and a load time. Tim: Gotcha. OK. Katie: It sounds like you've worked in some of the perceived performance thinking too when you're saying, what's the critical information to load first. Sophie: Yeah, for me as a designer, that's definitely something that I can relate to more and I think in some ways it's possibly more important. I think they work as a team but… Tim: I think it is. And I think that's…I think or I hope that that's what, within the performance community, the people who really that's what they do focus on, I think that that's where everything is starting to, we're starting to wake up to that and certainly to shift towards understanding that it really is about the experience and making sure that the critical things are coming in, whatever the top task, whatever the most important features are on the page or coming in and measuring those sorts of things, instead of this blind race to the finish that we've kind of had in the past. Sophie: Yeah. I'm curious to see how that thinking changes because I love the idea of a performance budget but I think sometimes it can be a little limiting and you wouldn't want to sacrifice certain things just to fit into the performance budget. Not limiting, but I think it's very concrete whereas it should be a fairly fluid depending on context of the site itself. Tim: Sure, yeah, it doesn't dictate what goes on; it's another consideration or it's part of another piece in the puzzle. Sophie: Right. At the same time, it's the easiest way to communicate goals. Tim: True. It's hard to without it having a hard set thing, it's very hard, yeah. Sophie: Yeah, until you have the design done, you can't say, OK, our goal is that this is going to load and then this is going to load this much later. It helps to have a number that everyone can refer back to. Katie: So, when you say for everyone to communicate, who is that? Is that between you and the developers? Is this something that your leadership is really that's close to their heart as well? Sophie: Yeah, I think when I said that it was more coming from my experience with client work, where you're using this number as a kind of tactic to force a client to decide on certain things. For us, since we're all working internally, I think definitely any…basically, everyone wants to see it be as fast as it possibly can, so we're all working towards the same thing. Katie: Is there ever a push-back to even like, "OK, now that we've hit that, let's try another goal that's even faster"? Sophie: Not yet, because we haven't launched it, but I wouldn't be surprised if we launch it and get certain feedback that it wasn't loading or it wasn't working quite right on something. I'm really curious to see once it's out there and people are using it, how people respond. Katie: Yeah, I'm really curious to see what metrics you find out from that. Tim: Did you make a distinction…there's the cutting the mustard approach that the BBC popularized which is the core experience goes to maybe older, less capable browsers/devices and the enhanced experience goes to everybody else. One of the things that that fails at, or that doesn't take into consideration which seems like it would be really important for Ushahidi is the situation where you have somebody is on a very nice device but the connectivity is really awful. Did you have to make any distinction between different experiences or do you just have one experience and that experience itself is extremely lightweight, no matter what the scenario is? Was that enough for you to accomplish or you needed to do? Sophie: Yeah, that's funny; we had our company retreat in Kenya so it was I think maybe about half, maybe a little less of our company is in the US so we all went there with our snazzy iPhones and still couldn't connect to anything and it really, I think in terms of empathy, made us realize: oh, wait a second. But in terms of yeah, I think we're just going to try to make it fast for everyone. We don't have a whole lot of enhancements for people on quicker systems yet. Katie: When you were in Kenya, were there any things that were especially awful to try to load, like you're used to just being part of your everyday life? I'm just curious. Sophie: I remember reading Twitter, on the Twitter app and everything loaded except for the pictures and it made you realize just how often people supplement their tweets with pictures; I remember getting really frustrated about it. Katie: That's interesting. Sophie: But I didn't even really try to do a lot of stuff because it really didn't look very well. Same thing on Instagram; it's like sometimes this progressive loading thing; I would rather it not load at all than, oh, I see all of these people posted great pictures that I can't look at. I'd rather not know than… Katie: Or like the tweets having fomo, oh, you had a joke and I can't see the punch-line! Sophie: Exactly! Katie: That's really interesting because when we're just designing here in a bubble it's like, "well I think that would be fine for you to just know that it's there but not see it" but then when you're actually using it, you're like: no, this sucks. Sophie: Yeah, it's like actively frustrating. Tim: How often do you get to Kenya? Sophie: I'm new to the company; I've only been here since the beginning of the year but I think they do a retreat every year but not necessarily always in Kenya; I think every other year it's in Kenya. And I think other people on the team, it depends, we'll do these what we call Hit Team Meetings because everyone is remote and then mini-teams will get together and all work together for a week so those have been all over the place since people live on opposite ends of the world, depending on who's meeting they usually choose a place that is fairly central for everyone to get to. Katie: We'll start to have a list of sites, Sophie, how much is this really crappy, wherever you end up going… Sophie: How long does this take? Katie: Look it up and tell me how much it sucks. Sophie: It is cool to have people on the team everywhere for that reason. Tim: Sure, I bet that gives you a really nice overall picture of a whole bunch of different landscapes from a technical perspective. Sophie: Yeah. Katie: I know, I didn't prepare a list of questions like I should have! Tim: It's all right, I'm actually having a lot of fun just going off the cuff on this, knowing almost nothing. I did a little bit of research and I had heard of Ushahidi from this big fat book about mobile on a global scale that was put out a couple of years ago. Sophie: That's cool. What was that book? Tim: It's called Global Mobile. It's six hundred pages and each chapter is written by a different author on a different topic and I think Ushahidi came up twice… Sophie: Oh, that's awesome. Tim: …in the book. Sophie: Do you know what they referenced or what it was…. Tim: One was just talking about how…I don't remember one of the references in much detail. The other one I know that they were talking about a variety of different mobile technological solutions that were out there; I think they were focused primarily on Africa in that chapter or similar areas and they were talking about the different services that are making use of technologies that we might consider a little bit more simple, but they're doing really powerful things with it and so I think that they were focused on the SMS aspect, if I remember right. Sophie: Yeah, it's been definitely challenging, but also interesting that designing a product that is not used for one specific thing; it's very much user-focused and people will download it and decide how they use it, so it's been a challenge to design for that and to keep it well designed but also really, really flexible. Tim: Which is why I guess it's so important I guess that you are getting a chance to experience at least a little bit every once in a while because everybody talks about front-end design perspective, from a development perspective, how important it is to put yourself in your user's shoes and when you're talking about what Ushahidi is dealing with, and it's not just the devices or the browser or the connections: it's the situations; it's just so hard. It's so hard to put yourself in those sorts of shoes and understand what it must feel like to use the application or the site in those sorts of scenarios; that's such a huge challenge. Sophie: Yeah, there's no way that, well it sounds selfish saying it, but hopefully there's no way I would ever actually be able to experience that but I think that is why we have such a strong and valuable user advocacy team so that they can really communicate with them when people are in those situations and as they're using it in those situations. Tim: Do you get feedback from the users that are pertaining directly to things like how quickly they're able to report something or how quickly they're able to get access to the data that's been reported, in terms of it takes too long sort of a thing, not just a usability thing but from a performance perspective? Sophie: We haven't. Or not that I know of. Tim: Well, maybe that means you're doing an awesome job! Sophie: We'll see. It's also tough because the new version is yet to be used on a wide…by a lot of people, so we'll see, but it is great because we have the product is also open source, so we have a lot of community submissions and ideas so this is again the first time I've worked on something like that where I'll just be in my normal task list that we use internally as a team and I will get one from…I'm in Katmandu and this thing is not working; can you add this? So it is really cool to see that people care about improving the product. Tim: That's awesome. Katie: Is there anything that you've learned from going through this process and being hit with all of these pretty heavy design constraints that are just, oh man, there's no way I can ignore that. Has that changed your view on design, even outside of this product in particular? Sophie: I think that this has, compared to how I used to design, I'm keeping things a lot more simple, not even necessarily visually; visually as well but also just in how they work and not trying to dictate how something should work. Oftentimes we'll, with other people in my design team or sometimes with our developers, we'll discuss how something, spend hours doing flows and then just realizing, why don't we just let people do what they want to do and take a step back and not define so much how this should be used, so I think just the fact that so many different people are using it for different ways, I've found that it's often best to leave things open and then to not over-complicate them. Katie: Is that kind of freeing? Sophie: Errr….it's been difficult because I'm so used to not being like that. But yeah, kind of. For me as a designer it's been kind of hard to let go of control. Katie: Yeah, that's usually I think our downfall as designers is wanting to control everything and that's kind of a big part about embracing performance too: it just sounds boring to design for performance, even though it's not and it's just like anything else. Sophie: Yeah, I think that I talked to ??? about this a long, long time ago and I remember it's stuck with me in terms of performance but also it's kind of user advocacy side of design, which is that it's not in conflict with the design; you shouldn't think of performance as taking away from visual design but it's just a piece of design so it's just another aspect of UX and if it loads faster, then that'll make the design better. Katie; It means you did your job well! Sophie. Yeah, exactly. Tim: At the end of the day it's about, especially in your case, but at the end of the day it's really about how quickly can the people using the site or the application get the task done that they came to the site to do and so that makes performance comes right up front and center along with any other bit of the process really, information architecture, clear content structure and good visual design; it all contributes. Sophie: That's what design is, right? Getting people to be able to do what they want as easily as possible. Katie: Is this something that you were thinking about before having these experiences in these other parts of the world, or was that the eye-opener of, oh-whoa, my designs should encapsulate this? Sophie: Yeah, I think it's always something theoretically that I could be like, your designs have to load really fast, of course, but selfishly I've always wanted them to look really cool or try out some latest thing that's trending on the web. So I think it's helped me step out and realize I'm not designing this for me. If I want to try something, I can just do it on my own site. Katie: So, I'm wondering if that's maybe the first step for designers that are not wanting to think about it… Sophie: Make them design something for someone in crisis. Katie: Yeah! Sophie: At an agency, every junior designer has to design for… Tim: Oh man! Sophie: …life or death situations. Katie: It's part of the interview process, you need to whiteboard a crisis design. Sophie: Yeah! Tim: Talk about no pressure right off the gate, that's what you're dealing with! Sophie: Have either of you seen Eric Meyer's presentation? Tim: I have not, but I've heard it's excellent. Sophie: I really want to. Katie: I want to see it as well. Sophie: It sounds really… Katie: Everything you are talking about is making we think of that. Sophie: I would really, really love to hear, I don't know if he would…he could be a good guest on the podcast just to talk about his experience. Tim: Yeah, I'd love to talk to Eric. I've heard the presentation is just fantastic but I haven't had a chance to catch it live. I don't know if it's recorded or not anywhere but if so, I haven't seen it. Katie; I think if any of you want come hang out in Ohio, I believe I would have to double-check, but I think he's giving that Rustbelt Refresh in Cleveland in September. Tim: I do like that conference. I did that last year, it's a lot of fun. Katie: So, you want to come hang out in Ohio and see it? Tim: Sunny Cleveland! Katie: Where the lake caught on fire! Sophie: Oh my God! Tim: I don't think I heard this. Katie; I think it was before I ever lived in Ohio, ten or so years ago. It may have been the river, it may have been the lake, I can't remember. One of them was so polluted that it caught on fire at some point. (45:11) Tim: That sounds a lovely! Sophie: That's terrifying! Tim: My only knowledge of Cleveland, which I think is probably upsetting and insulting to all people who live in Cleveland… Katie: Drew Carey Tim: Yep. So, I apologize for that! Sophie: I've been to Cleveland; I spent two weeks in Cleveland. Katie: What? Sophie: I was going through, you know, being young and wanting to work for Obama during the election but even then, I don't know what's in Cleveland, even after spending time there. Katie: I have been to Cleveland twice and I don't know. I live two hours from it; I couldn't tell you what's in Cleveland. Sophie: Really cheap houses if I remember; lots of empty, cheap houses! Katie: One time I tried out to be on The Price is Right this is when Drew Carey was the host and because I am really bad at being like, wooow, cookie-crazy person to be on The Price is Right, they interview every person that goes through the process and like, "why should we pick you?" and my only response was just like, "I'm from Ohio. Just like Drew. Cleveland Rocks, right?" Sophie: Certainly good for TV. Katie: Yeah, well, we'll talk about Ohio. Obviously I did not make it! Tim: That's sad! Sophie: There's still hope; you could try again. Tim: Don't give up on that. Katie: No, that was actually…. Sophie: Don't give up on your dreams. Tim: No, you've got to follow through. Katie: That was horrific; you're just like cattle being herded for six hours through this line as they interview every single person that goes in the thing, so if you're ever in LA and thinking, it would be fun to go on The Price is Right: it's not. Sophie: Think again! Katie: Sophie, you never did that when you lived there? Sophie: A lot of people I knew did. Katie: Did anyone ever get picked? Sophie: They did it…I grew up in LA and they filmed Jeopardy I think right next to my High School and they would do it as a fundraising thing where you would…they'd get a group things of tickets to Jeopardy and then the cheerleading squad or whoever would try to sell them individually. Katie: Whoa! Sophie: That's the closest I've gotten. Katie: Growing up in LA sounds wildly different from anywhere else! Was it? Sophie: We didn't have any lakes that lit on fire! Katie: Wasn't your High School the one from Grease? Sophie: Yep! Katie: Oh man. Sophie: And Party of Five. Is that what that show was called? Katie: Yeah. Tim: That's kinda cool. Katie: I'm more interested in Rydell High though. Sophie: I think they filmed it in partially different schools but the stadium was our stadium. Katie: The track where Danny's trying to be a jock and running around? Sophie: Yeah, yeah. Katie: Aw man, that's the worst part when Danny's trying to be a jock! Sophie: Wonder Years. Wonder Years, that's the block I grew up on. Katie: Really? Sophie: Yep. Katie: Dang, you have Wonder Years, Alison has Dawson's Creek. Sophie: Dawson's Creek. Way before my time. Katie: I want to grow up on a teen drama! Sophie: The Yellow Brick Road was also the street, from the Wizard of Oz. Tim: Where was the Yellow Brick Road? Sophie: Before the houses were built, they filmed it on the street that my house was on. Tim: What? Sophie: And then years later, they had a reunion for all of the oompa-loompas that I accidentally walked on and I was sort of….what? Katie: Were they dressed up? Sophie: No. Tim: Wait, wait, wait…you just said oompa-loompas, but isn't that…that's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, right? Sophie: Not oompa-loompas. Munchkins! The Munchkins! Tim: I was like, wait a minute… Katie: Glad you got that 'cos I didn't! Sophie: I didn't either, I was like, this sounds right. Tim: Yeah, OK, I just wanted to clarify which movie it was. Sophie: Can we cut this out? We're going to get complaints from Little People of America organization. Tim: Yeah, that's fine. Actually we could use a few complaints. We haven't got many or any yet. Katie: Thanks for bringing it up. Now we're going to….well, if you're looking for feedback, let me tell you...you can lay off the chit-chat. Tim: We've gotten plenty, plenty of negative feedback and complaints so please don't bother sending those emails or letters. There, that should… Katie: I'm going to write you a strongly worded letter about your podcast! Tim: It happens. Sophie: This really went off the rails! Tim: It did, but you know what? That's cool. That's all right. I feel like… (50:03) Katie: It was getting really heavy, so you know we to lighten it up. Tim: It was, we had to lighten it up and I feel like it's kind of weird that we had gone this far without talking about Drew Carey so, you know, however many episodes we're into this and Drew Carey had never come up; seems wrong. Katie: Really? Sophie: Give us some Drew Carey facts, Katie! Katie: Actually, well I don't know any Drew Carey facts but I'm sure Tim has lots because that seems like that's your era of TV. Tim: I'm not that old, all right? Katie: Yeah, but Everybody Loves Raymond, you'll never… Tim: Yeah, I actually had…. Sophie: Are you Everybody? Tim: No, no. Am I? Sophie: Do you love Raymond? Tim: I do love Raymond; I do. It was a good show, all right? It was a good show. Under-appreciated by the current generation! Sophie: It was the most popular show ever at the time. Tim: It was really popular; really popular. Sophie: Did you just watch it on multiple TVs over and over again to up the ratings? Tim: Errr…. Katie: He had it going on every TV in the house, the whole day and night! Sophie: The syndication too so they're getting those checks, all from Tim! Katie: Tim loves Raymond! Sophie: New TV show! Tim: All right, all right; neither one of you are ever invited back on this podcast; even you, Katie. That's it, that's the end of it. I'm going to go start my own podcast where we're going to talk about Everybody Loves Raymond and The Drew Carey Show and things like that. Katie: Indiana Jones Tim: Indiana Jones, yep. This really did get off the rails. My gosh! Sophie: Yeah, feel weird going back to talking about crisis. Tim: So, well, you know, maybe we don't, there was a lot of really good, like Katie said, it was getting really serious and really awesome discussion, I think, around performance and it was really cool to hear somebody who is coming at it from that global perspective which, it's just not something that we commonly think about a lot, for most of us aren't dealing with on a day to day basis, so it's really interesting to have somebody come in and burst the bubble a little bit and give us a broader perspective. Katie: Yeah, it's great because I think like you said, Sophie, earlier: in theory everybody's like, it's nice and stuff and obviously we talk a lot about performance and everything and it's one of those things that I think everybody is like, yeah, yeah, in theory yeah, we want it to be fast because we don't want to be shamed by Twitter, but… Sophie: Other web designers! Katie: Yeah, basically. So it's great for you to come in here and give us the perspective of what that actually means and hopefully shed some light on that empathy. Sophie: Yeah, thank you for having me. Katie: Yeah, thank you so much for joining us. Tim: Going forward, it anybody wants to follow along and hear more about what Ushahidi's doing or about what you're doing, how do they do that? Sophie: For Ushahidi, I would recommend following Ushahidi on Twitter, ushahidi.com for a lot of information about all their different products and blogposts and then for me, my website is sophieshepherd.com Tim: Very cool. Katie: What about any social media that you may have because, I might be biased, but I think Sophie you have a pretty good account that's pretty funny! Sophie: My Twitter unfortunately is sophshepherd, because there's a British teenager named Sophie Shepherd who took that from me. So, don't follow her unless you want to hear a lot of complaining about tests and boyfriends. Katie: Do you follow her? Sophie: Occasionally! Then I get too mad about it and then I think, what if they think it's me? Katie: Is she also blonde and kind of looks like you? Sophie: Yeah, I've sent her a message; she does kind of. I sent her a message on Facebook once and she went, what are you freak? And then that was it. Katie; Really? Sophie: Yep. Katie: She called you a freak? Sophie: Yeah. I'll put a screenshot in our speaker notes! Katie: OK, well follow the real Sophie Shepherd then. Sophie: Yep. Tim: Well, thank you and we'll definitely have to have you on again to discuss because I feel like there's a lot more we could get into in terms of Drew Carey and Ray Romano, so in a future episode. Katie: You can do that on your separate…Everyone Loves Ray. Tim: And Tim Loves Raymond. Yeah, that's good. It'll be the initial episode. Sophie:: Tim and Ray. All right. Thanks. Bye. Tim: Thanks; bye. Katie: Thanks. Bye. Tim: Thank you for listening to this episode of The Path to Performance podcast. 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Hi Guys, Welcome back for another dose of soulful House… Buttnaked style , This weeks show has a slightly deeper feel to the tracks but still retains the emotional feel that I like to put into the show, once again it is a mixture of modern classics and the newer tracks in my collection but can I just say that this weeks Back of The Box track is absolutely Beautiful to say the least…I hope u all agree and enjoy the show…'Mature Music For Mature Ears' ...Soulful House Tracklist 01. Ferry Ultra feat Nicole Russo - Live My Life (Samir Maslo remix)(Peppermint Jam)02. Less Hate - I Feel Your Heat (Original Mix) King Street Sounds03. Scott Diaz - Lovesick (Connect-d)04. Allovers feat Elliot Chapman - Psychedelic Love (Original Mix) Duffnote05. Drula feat Neo Soulsta - Love Rain (The Sunchasers Balearic Mix)(Audio Out)06. Franco De Mulero feat Alex Laviano - Floating Away (Kings Of Groove Remix) Kings Of Groove07. The Realm feat Damon C. Scott - Love U Now (Spiritchaser Vocal Mix) Papa Records08. Four7 feat Tiffany - J'adore (Original Mix) Soul Kandi09. Isobel Rose - Reflections (Frankie Knuckles And Eric Kupper Directors Cut Main Vocal Mix)10. Groove Junkies & Michele Chiavarini feat Carolyn Harding - Play (Groove Junkies Original Mix) MoreHouse11. Paul Parsons, Tim Nice feat Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch)(Tall House)12. David Anthony feat Stephanie Cooke - I Live For You (Original) Quantize Recordings13. Elements Of Life feat Anane - You Came Into My Life (Ralf Gum & Raw Artistic Soul Remix)(Vega Records)14. Dan Savidge - Revival (DJ Fudge Remix) Deepvisionz15. Natasha Watts - Go Slow (Mark Di Meo Vocal Mix)(Sedsoul)16. Choklate - Wide Open (Reel People Vocal Mix) Reel People Music17. Deejay MiMMo feat Roland Clark - Saturday (Clemens Rumpf Remix)Deep Deluxe Recordings18. Portia Monique - Ain't Scared Of You (Reel People Vocal Mix) Reel People Music19. José Padilla feat Kirsty Keatch - Dragonflies (Cantoma Remix) Seamless Records **Back Of The Box** All tracks featured on the show/mix are for promotional purposes and can be purchased through all leading download sites...please support the artist. Feel free to get in touch with meTwitter @djiainwillishttp://www.facebook.com/iain.willisOr e-mail me at djiainwillis@hotmail.comAlso available free and subscribe to via ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iain-willis-pres-buttnaked/id422656236?mt=2
Hi Guys, Welcome back for another dose of soulful House… Buttnaked style , This weeks show has a slightly deeper feel to the tracks but still retains the emotional feel that I like to put into the show, once again it is a mixture of modern classics and the newer tracks in my collection but can I just say that this weeks Back of The Box track is absolutely Beautiful to say the least…I hope u all agree and enjoy the show…'Mature Music For Mature Ears' ...Soulful House Tracklist 01. Ferry Ultra feat Nicole Russo - Live My Life (Samir Maslo remix)(Peppermint Jam)02. Less Hate - I Feel Your Heat (Original Mix) King Street Sounds03. Scott Diaz - Lovesick (Connect-d)04. Allovers feat Elliot Chapman - Psychedelic Love (Original Mix) Duffnote05. Drula feat Neo Soulsta - Love Rain (The Sunchasers Balearic Mix)(Audio Out)06. Franco De Mulero feat Alex Laviano - Floating Away (Kings Of Groove Remix) Kings Of Groove07. The Realm feat Damon C. Scott - Love U Now (Spiritchaser Vocal Mix) Papa Records08. Four7 feat Tiffany - J'adore (Original Mix) Soul Kandi09. Isobel Rose - Reflections (Frankie Knuckles And Eric Kupper Directors Cut Main Vocal Mix)10. Groove Junkies & Michele Chiavarini feat Carolyn Harding - Play (Groove Junkies Original Mix) MoreHouse11. Paul Parsons, Tim Nice feat Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Vocal Retouch)(Tall House)12. David Anthony feat Stephanie Cooke - I Live For You (Original) Quantize Recordings13. Elements Of Life feat Anane - You Came Into My Life (Ralf Gum & Raw Artistic Soul Remix)(Vega Records)14. Dan Savidge - Revival (DJ Fudge Remix) Deepvisionz15. Natasha Watts - Go Slow (Mark Di Meo Vocal Mix)(Sedsoul)16. Choklate - Wide Open (Reel People Vocal Mix) Reel People Music17. Deejay MiMMo feat Roland Clark - Saturday (Clemens Rumpf Remix)Deep Deluxe Recordings18. Portia Monique - Ain't Scared Of You (Reel People Vocal Mix) Reel People Music19. José Padilla feat Kirsty Keatch - Dragonflies (Cantoma Remix) Seamless Records **Back Of The Box** All tracks featured on the show/mix are for promotional purposes and can be purchased through all leading download sites...please support the artist. Feel free to get in touch with meTwitter @djiainwillishttp://www.facebook.com/iain.willisOr e-mail me at djiainwillis@hotmail.comAlso available free and subscribe to via ITunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/iain-willis-pres-buttnaked/id422656236?mt=2
Track Listing: 1. Mario Ferrini & Imblosion feat. Anna Rossinelli - My Eyes (Diego's Undercover Remix) 2. Mr. V - Jus Dance (Reelsoul Remix) 3. Zo! feat. Erro - We Are On The Move (Joey Negro Revival Mix) 4. Cartier Fraser - Love That You Need (Richard Earnshaw Remix) 5. One51 - Together As One (TAO Jazz Mix) 6. Red and Rosie Gaines - Release The Pressure (Rask & Salling Edit) 7. Eddie Hernandez feat. Real Element MC's - Mungavine (One51 Remix) 8. Wattie Green - Brasilia (Original Mix) 9. Paul Parsons & Tim Nice feat. Elliot Chapman - Something Good (Soul Power Remix) 10. Kiko Navarro feat. Concha Buika - Up to the sky 11. Nathan Lee - C'Mon Y'All (Original Mix) 12. Fever Brothers - Palm Beach (Original Mix)
SOUL STORIES | SOULFUL HOUSE PODCAST Spring Perfume (mixed by Max River) 01. Monocles & Slezz, Room 806, Holi - When I'm With You (Betasweet Phatgruv Mix) [Skalla Records] 02. Dolls Combers feat. Kafele Bandele - A Star Supreme (DC Supreme Vocal Mix) [Dolls Combers Records] 03. Chieko Kinbara feat. Josh Milan - Give Me Your Love (Souldynamic Remix) [King Street] 04. Colman Brothers - Some Other Wonder (Sunlightsquare Remix) [Wah Wah 45s] 05. Meropa Park - Live A Lil' (Suges Remix) [Deeper Shades Recordings] 06. DJ Roland Clark Presents Urban Soul - Until We Meet Again (Sean McCabe Remix) [King Street] 07. Soulful Session starring Leanne - My Baby (Kenny Carpenter Classic Mix) [Tony Records] 08. Seb Skalski feat. Donald Sheffey - I Am Over You (Original Dub) [Purple Music] 09. Bibi & Sami Dee pres. Konga Motel feat. CeCe Peniston - Eternal Lover (Pray For More Remix) [Mjuzieek Digital] 10. Miguel Migs feat. Lisa Shaw - Those Things (Original Mix) [Salted Music] 11. U-Ness, Jed Set, Samson Lewis - The Truth (Original Mix) [SoulHeat Records] 12. DJ Able starring Hannah Khemoh - Ain't Got Time (Original Mix) [Tony Records] 13. Simon Grey feat. Abby Joyce – Prophecy (Original Mix) [Smokin Beats] 14. Paul Parsons & Tim Nice feat. Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Mood Dub) [Tall House Digital]
SOUL STORIES | SOULFUL HOUSE PODCAST Spring Perfume (mixed by Max River) 01. Monocles & Slezz, Room 806, Holi - When I'm With You (Betasweet Phatgruv Mix) [Skalla Records] 02. Dolls Combers feat. Kafele Bandele - A Star Supreme (DC Supreme Vocal Mix) [Dolls Combers Records] 03. Chieko Kinbara feat. Josh Milan - Give Me Your Love (Souldynamic Remix) [King Street] 04. Colman Brothers - Some Other Wonder (Sunlightsquare Remix) [Wah Wah 45s] 05. Meropa Park - Live A Lil' (Suges Remix) [Deeper Shades Recordings] 06. DJ Roland Clark Presents Urban Soul - Until We Meet Again (Sean McCabe Remix) [King Street] 07. Soulful Session starring Leanne - My Baby (Kenny Carpenter Classic Mix) [Tony Records] 08. Seb Skalski feat. Donald Sheffey - I Am Over You (Original Dub) [Purple Music] 09. Bibi & Sami Dee pres. Konga Motel feat. CeCe Peniston - Eternal Lover (Pray For More Remix) [Mjuzieek Digital] 10. Miguel Migs feat. Lisa Shaw - Those Things (Original Mix) [Salted Music] 11. U-Ness, Jed Set, Samson Lewis - The Truth (Original Mix) [SoulHeat Records] 12. DJ Able starring Hannah Khemoh - Ain't Got Time (Original Mix) [Tony Records] 13. Simon Grey feat. Abby Joyce – Prophecy (Original Mix) [Smokin Beats] 14. Paul Parsons & Tim Nice feat. Elliot Chapman - Come On (Allovers Mood Dub) [Tall House Digital]
AuralCandy.Net is a House Music podcast hosted by MK-Ultra & Mesmic - a Finnish DJ duo with a quarter century of combined experience under their belt. Over a decade running, AuralCandy.Net podcasts have reached thousands of listeners all over the world. AuralCandy.Net collaborates with over 50 record labels such as Bonzai Progressive, Piston Recordings, Tall House Digital and Vision Collective Recordings.This podcast episode features music published by Dubsided, Guesthouse Music, InStereo Recordings, Tall House Digital and others.Mike Balance & DJ Dan - The Machine [Original Mix]Hazzaro - Girls And Boys [Original Mix]Phil Fuldner - Sexy Dancer [Gramophonedzie Remix]Jay Vegas - Shakin' [Original Mix]B-Sensual & No!end - Get Away [Mike Newman Remix]Swing Kings - Summer Groovin [Original Mix]Paul Parsons & Tim Nice feat. Elliot Chapman - Something Good [Soul Power Remix]Thomas Brown - Disco Magic [DJ Zimmo Remix]Lissat & Voltaxx - Release Yourself [Mr. Vasovski Remix]DJ Dan - Disco Dancing [Original Mix]Souljackerz - Fanfare Del Toro [Edy Valiant Remix]Jesse Rose - FatMan [Original Mix]
House Trek 45 25/06/2013 Andy Roda - Beautiful (Delicious Mix) Carl Hanaghan, Lashonda - Mojitos, Sunshine (Original Mix) Lenny Fontana, Dee Wiz, Universal Sounds Band - Music Makes You Wanna (Atfc Remix) Hoxton Whores - Things Happen (Original Mix) Paul Parsons, Tim Nice, Elliot Chapman - Something Good (Soul Power Remix) Kaa San Feat. Daisy Dela Diva - Show Me Love (Original Mix) Eric Sneo Feat. Chris The Voice - System (Original Mix) Dirty Freek - Someday (Original Mix) Plastik Funk, Pink Fluid - 2 Billion Dollars (Original Mix) A.C.N., Veela, Double Amp - I'm A Liar (Original Mix) Audien - Wayfarer (Original Mix) Rihanna Feat. David Guetta - Right Now (Sick Individuals Extended Mix) Disco Sugar, Futurism Feat. Patricia Edwards - Ain't Nobody (Jenya Melnikoff Remix) NERVO - Hold On (Vicetone Extended Edit)
The Seventh Instalment of the Deep Harmonic Sessions Podcast Track List Taged as Artist - Track 1. Rickzor & Rumme & Bauty - See you dancing (original mix) 2. Angelo D - Reaching the sun (original mix) 3. Dallomo - Discolento (wally stryk remix) 4. Callendula feat. Yvan - Color of consciousness (original mix) 5. DC Brown - Rendition (Original Mix) 6. Dada Inc - Seems poancep (andy tex jones remix) 7. Enky - Azul (original mix) 8. Satori - You know what weve got to do (original mix) 9. Paul Parsons & Tim Nice & Tom Leeland - From the soul (deep bass mix) 10. Cluster Bitz - Equolifer (original mix) 11. GLH & Lucio Spain - Balada dulce (original mix) 12. Hawie & Pete Frost - Syncopate (original mix) 13. Fynn Callum - Holding pattern (original mix) 14. DC Brown - Ambition (Original Mix) 15. Vincenzo Battaglia & Vinicio Melis - Deep diamond (original mix) 16. Fisherb - Deep yourself (original mix) 17. Deep Spelle & Jeff Fontaine - We go a deep way (ill cows remix) 18. David Devilla & Elisabeth Aivar - In the absence of you (original mix) 19. Andrew Hosey - Exploration (original mix) 20. The Artful - Deep instructor (original mix) 21. Helly Larson - City lights (ilias katelanos remix) 22. Martin Bro - He wants to escape (original mix) 23. Daniel Kyo- Hypnotized (original mix)
Mixed for broadcast on Energy FM1. Manyus - I’m Coming2. Paul Parsons & Tim Nice ft Elliot Chapman - Something Good (Jerico Remix)3. Antonio Olivieri - Needing You4. Marcus Knight ft Mr V & Tash Knight - Love So Strong5. Sheens - Hey You (COMON Paradise Remix)6. Late Night Almuni - Sapphire (MK Remix)7. John Jacobsen - Le Passage (Lexvaz & JJ Mullor Remix)8. David Noakes ft Shena - Little Sister (The Stereo Flow Remix)9. Graham Knox Frazier - Gettin Funky10. Empire of the Sun - Alive (Mat Zo Remix)11. CeCe Rogers & Sugarstarr - Right Now (DJ Kone & Marc Palacios Remix)12. Denis The Menace & Syke’N’Sugarstarr - World In Your Hands (Antranig Remix) Download Here
Me and Kenny sit down to discuss Episode 2 of Series 9 of The Apprentice UK!Rants, Nettle Brews, Swearing, Professionalism and Welsh Vampires are all covered this time! Listen and find out!Welcome to GET FIRED! It's an Apprentice Podcast covering the 9th Series of the UK Edition. Featuring two boys, Terry and Kenny, speaking to each other down Skype, rambling and critiquing everyone's favourite "business" show! Trust us, it's better than it sounds!Follow the podcast on Twitter http://twitter.com/apprenticefiredEmail us too at apprenticegetfired@gmail.comSearch Get Fired An Apprentice Podcast on FacebookBlog us on apprenticefired.blogspot.co.uk Hope you enjoy. Be nice. We're still learning :)(DIRECT DOWNLOAD)-T
British Public Radio (www.britishpublicradio.com) have recently launched the inaugural British Public Radio Awards, staged in association with AudioBoo. #audioboo #britishpublicradio #bpr #britishpublicradioawards #bprawards Trevor Dann speaks to British Public Radio's Managing Director,Tim Nice, and Director of Content, Matt Hopper. BPR is aiming to be Britain’s first national commercial general interest speech station, and the British Public Radio Awards are designed to encourage and reward the production of great speech radio from both established producers and those who are yet to break into the mainstream. The Radio Today Programme with AudioBoo is available every Wednesday. A TDC Production for Radio Today. Produced by Jamie Tayler Voiceover - emilychiswell.com Music - Euro Star from ostinatomusic.com
1º OMB - Sea Air (Tvardovsky Remix)2º Deep Science - Strings Talking (Original Mix) 3º Fran Ottinger - Clubbing (Manila Beach Mix) 4º Paul Parsons, Tim Nice, Tom Leeland - From The Soul (Deep Bass Dub) 5º Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep In Louise (Shadow Child Remix) 6º Recommended By Friends - Mercurial (Original Mix) 7º Mass Digital - Metro (Original Mix) 8º Fabrizio Costa - A Night In Miami (Original Mix) 9º Hamza Vipul - House Music Soldiers (Kartech Remix) 10º 4 Da People - Jersey Jan (Original Mix) 11º All Bradley - Bounce Strut (Rishi K. Uplift Mix) 12º Duke Dumont feat. AME - Need U (Joesky's Warming Up Edit) 13º Robert Rodriguez - Dance Like Nobody's Watching (Original Mix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration
1º OMB - Sea Air (Tvardovsky Remix)2º Deep Science - Strings Talking (Original Mix) 3º Fran Ottinger - Clubbing (Manila Beach Mix) 4º Paul Parsons, Tim Nice, Tom Leeland - From The Soul (Deep Bass Dub) 5º Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep In Louise (Shadow Child Remix) 6º Recommended By Friends - Mercurial (Original Mix) 7º Mass Digital - Metro (Original Mix) 8º Fabrizio Costa - A Night In Miami (Original Mix) 9º Hamza Vipul - House Music Soldiers (Kartech Remix) 10º 4 Da People - Jersey Jan (Original Mix) 11º All Bradley - Bounce Strut (Rishi K. Uplift Mix) 12º Duke Dumont feat. AME - Need U (Joesky's Warming Up Edit) 13º Robert Rodriguez - Dance Like Nobody's Watching (Original Mix) This show is syndicated & distributed exclusively by Syndicast. If you are a radio station interested in airing the show or would like to distribute your podcast / radio show please register here: https://syndicast.co.uk/distribution/registration
Mixed for broadcast on Energy FM1. Paul Parsons, Tim Nice & Tom Leeland - From The Soul (So Funky Mix)2. Karlos Kastillo - Your Mind (Tavo Remix)3. Mr Root - The God Of House (Lanfree Remix)4. Freemasons ft Joel Edwards - Dirty Organ (Something About U)5. Fantomen - Circles6. Matteo Marini ft Nuthin Under A Million - Take Me Away (Jack n Joy Remix)7. Andain - What It's Like (Loverush UK Remix)8. Black Boots - Flash Of Light9. Cristian Poow & Andrey Exx ft Dennis Wonder - I've Found You10. Chuckie & Kid de Luca - Breaking Up Waiting (Ron vd Beuken & Kid de Luca Mash)11. Fedde Le Grand - RAW Download Here
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