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Episode Description:James reconnects with entrepreneurs Michael and Kass Lazerow, whose journey spans selling Golf.com for $24 million, launching and pivoting Buddy Media into a $700 million Salesforce acquisition, and now investing in breakout brands like Liquid Death. This episode isn't about startup clichés—it's about emotional resilience, firing with kindness, how marriage can (barely) survive co-founding, and how to spot a trend before the world does.They break down their “Go Gauge,” the six-part test they use before investing in a company. They talk about the trauma of being betrayed by family. And they reveal the surprisingly simple cheat codes they've used to keep building—and keep loving each other—across decades of risk. Whether you're building a business, looking for one good idea, or wondering what failure really feels like behind closed doors—this episode will give you a few new answers.What You'll Learn:Why transparency—not optimism—is a founder's best crisis toolThe six traits every idea needs to pass their “Go Gauge”How to fire someone with empathy and still tell them the truthWhat to do when your startup fails and the investors vanishWhy the best startup strategy might be launching a pizza shopTimestamped Chapters:[00:00] Bacon, milkshakes, and a first meeting[03:00] The Golf.com collapse and family betrayal[07:30] The psychology of failure and the will not to quit[12:00] Buddy Media's pivot: from Facebook games to SaaS[15:00] Why failure sucks—but trends are your friend[21:00] Surviving marriage while surviving a startup[26:00] Emotional awareness, therapy, and not “shining the turd”[33:00] The $500M pizza truck startup fail[38:00] The truth about hiring, firing, and reorganizing[44:00] The death of venture capital—and rise of bootstrapping[50:00] Investing in pets, ice cream, and par-3 golf[54:00] Why Liquid Death is a billion-dollar brand[57:00] The Go Gauge: 6 filters for a fundable idea[01:02:00] Friendship, failure, and why they finally wrote the bookAdditional Resources:
Text us, We would love to her from YOU!Say Goodbye to Pain... WITHOUT Pills! In this jaw-dropping episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with the legendary Dr. Njideka Olatunde, a true wellness warrior on a mission to end the global pain crisis with nothing but the power of touch. No opioids. No side effects. Just ancient healing wisdom, modern science, and results that will blow your mind. What You'll Discover:The shocking truth behind pain and stress, and how they secretly work togetherHow reflexology activates your body's natural painkillers (yes, really!)Why TOUCH is the most overlooked yet powerful healing toolThe devastating link between chronic pain and the opioid epidemic, and how we fight backHer soul-shaking journey from social work to shamanic healing in Nigeria and Native American vision questsA free gift that could save your life, or someone you loveWhether you're a caregiver, a wellness seeker, or someone silently suffering, this episode is your wake-up call. Dr. Njideka's wisdom, warmth, and radically simple healing techniques could change how you see pain forever.Download your FREE gift from Dr. Njideka:
Text us, We would love to her from YOU!Say Goodbye to Pain... WITHOUT Pills! In this jaw-dropping episode of Happy Hour for the Spiritually Curious, Dr. Sandra Marie sits down with the legendary Dr. Njideka Olatunde, a true wellness warrior on a mission to end the global pain crisis with nothing but the power of touch. No opioids. No side effects. Just ancient healing wisdom, modern science, and results that will blow your mind. What You'll Discover:The shocking truth behind pain and stress, and how they secretly work togetherHow reflexology activates your body's natural painkillers (yes, really!)Why TOUCH is the most overlooked yet powerful healing toolThe devastating link between chronic pain and the opioid epidemic, and how we fight backHer soul-shaking journey from social work to shamanic healing in Nigeria and Native American vision questsA free gift that could save your life, or someone you loveWhether you're a caregiver, a wellness seeker, or someone silently suffering, this episode is your wake-up call. Dr. Njideka's wisdom, warmth, and radically simple healing techniques could change how you see pain forever.Download your FREE gift from Dr. Njideka:
There are so many different types of therapy—and finding the right one for you can feel overwhelming. In this episode, Holly, Kelly, and Emma are joined by somatic therapist, educator, and embodiment guide Molly Bienstock for a powerful conversation about somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), body-based healing, and how to better understand the language of your internal parts.We explore:What somatic therapy is and how it differs from traditional talk therapyHow IFS and parts work helps us connectWhy curiosity over judgment is a powerful healing toolThe connection between trauma, the nervous system, and body responsesHow somatic therapy mirrors shamanic and ancestral wisdomPlus, Molly shares their deeply personal journey of healing after a traumatic injury and how that experience shaped their work in Somatics, embodiment, and therapeutic support. This episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in deepening their connection to the body, building internal safety, and exploring healing through the lens of Somatics and Internal Family Systems (IFS).Topics Covered:What is Somatic Therapy?Understanding Internal Family Systems (IFS) and “parts work”Connecting with the Self and reparenting wounded partsTrauma and body-based responsesReframing judgment into curiosityBoundary-setting and “spicy containers” for your inner partsOrienting Practices for grounding and safetyHumor, boundaries, and curiosity in healing workDaily ways to tune into your body's languageConnect with Our Guest: Molly Bienstock (Magic with Molly) @rabbischmoolyResources:Creative Wellness E-Workbook – Use code KEEPCREATING for 15% offWaves of Creativity Retreat in Costa Rica – Nov 9–14, 2025Episode 74: Shamanism & AnimismEpisode 115: Creative Wellness @artoflovingSupport the showJoin the ~*Dream Team*~ to support the podcast!Get the 28 Day Creative Wellness Challenge E-Workbook- Use the code KEEPCREATING for 15% off! Work 1:1 with Holly through mentorship & coachingJoin the FREE *Creative Wellness Collective* to continue the conversations we have on the podcast with fellow listeners!Give the gift that keeps on giving-- Custom Meditations!Follow @howthewiseonegrows and @hollyzajur on Instagram for more and check out more offerings online.Episode sponsored by Connect Wellness. Connect Wellness empowers people with tools to connect with themselves, others, and the present moment.Be wise-- sign up to be the first to know what's next!
Summary:In this inspiring episode of Natter, Kate and Michelle chat with author Caroline Madden about her journey to publishing The Marriage Vendetta, navigating the writing process, and the power of perseverance, community, and comedy in storytelling. A must-listen for writers and book lovers seeking insight, laughter, and a dose of creative motivation.Key points covered in this episode:Why persistence is a writer's greatest toolThe challenges (and rewards) of writing humour in fictionThe value of editors, mentors, and writing communitiesWhy supporting new voices in literature mattersFrom the nuances of writing humour in literature to the crucial role of editors and mentors, this episode is packed with insight for aspiring writers and passionate readers alike. Caroline shares the importance of community, how life experiences shape creative expression, and why supporting emerging voices in writing matters more than ever.Whether you're deep in your own manuscript or simply love stories about the writing life, this conversation is a warm, honest, and inspiring natter you won't want to miss.Natter is brought to you in association with Bookstation Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
When we started Excess Returns, we wanted to come up with one way to boil down the best advice from the experts we have interviewed into one simple question. That led us to create a standard closing question that we ask all of our guests, “Based on your experience in the markets, if you could teach one lesson to your average investor, what would that be?”.Over the history of the podcast, we have asked that question to close to 200 guests ranging from great investors to academic experts to options and macro traders. In this episode, we share the answers from our 50 most popular guests all in one episode. Featured guests include Liz Ann Sonders, Cliff Asness, Guy Spier, Michael Mauboussin, Mike Green, Cem Karsan, Chris Davis, Aswath Damodaran, Jack Schwager, Rick Ferri and many others. Topics Covered:The fundamental purpose of investing: preserving and growing wealth rather than getting rich quickThe importance of base rates in investment decisionsPortfolio monitoring frequency and its impact on investment psychologyViewing stocks as ownership in actual businesses rather than trading vehiclesThe value of patience, humility, and self-forgiveness in the investment processDiversification across asset classes, strategies, and time framesThe benefits of simplicity in investment approachesThe psychological challenges of investing and how to overcome themCompounding as a fundamental wealth-building toolThe danger of performance chasing and overconfidenceThe value of a rules-based investment process
In this episode of Case Studies, Casey sits down with Corinne Stokoe, founder of Mint Arrow and a trailblazer in the influencer marketing space. Corinne shares her unconventional path from competitive pianist to entrepreneur, revealing how discipline, faith, and adaptability shaped her journey.She dives into the early days of blogging, the evolution of digital marketing, and how she built one of the most successful affiliate-driven businesses in the industry. Casey and Corinne discuss the power of personal connection in a world dominated by AI, the realities of running a personal brand, and the importance of knowing when to pivot.Corinne also opens up about the role of faith in her career, how she integrates business with purpose, and why embracing authenticity has been the key to her success. Whether you're an entrepreneur, content creator, or simply looking for inspiration, this conversation is packed with valuable insights on resilience, reinvention, and building a lasting impact.Chapters:00:00 – 02:30 | Childhood Roots & Piano DisciplineEarly lessons in hard work from her father and grandfatherBecoming a competitive pianist and the pursuit of perfection02:30 – 05:15 | Burnout & Career PivotsWhy Corinne walked away from piano performanceChoosing broadcast journalism through unexpected advice05:15 – 08:00 | The Assistant Years & Entrepreneurial SparksFrom Miss Provo to working under high-pressure execsThe persistence that led to her first key opportunity08:00 – 11:45 | Starting Over: Divorce, Recession & Rock BottomReturning to Utah during the 2008 crashFinding hope and purpose through unexpected mentorship11:45 – 16:30 | Becoming a Mom & Finding Her VoiceStruggles with postpartum depressionHow “someone go buy this” led to the Mint Arrow blog16:30 – 20:05 | Affiliate Marketing 101How a friend introduced her to affiliate linksTransitioning from hobby blogger to full-time income20:05 – 24:20 | Integrating Faith with BusinessThe conference that changed her missionLosing followers but gaining clarity in purpose24:20 – 28:00 | Building a Faith-Driven BrandSharing values in a non-polarizing wayHow Mint Arrow became both a business and a ministry28:00 – 32:10 | The Evolution of Influencer MarketingFrom curated content to the TikTok eraWhy podcasting became her most powerful medium32:10 – 35:30 | Adapting to AI & Digital DisruptionWhy Corinne embraces AI as a growth toolThe importance of authentic connection in a tech-driven world35:30 – 38:15 | From Passion to Business StrategyTeaching others how to monetize their platformsThe impact of helping others 2x their revenue38:15 – 42:00 | Faith as the Business BlueprintMorning rituals and divine guidance in decision-makingWhy success followed spiritual alignment42:00 – 45:25 | What's Next for CorinneScaling Mint Arrow by returning to its coreTeaching women how to create influence with impact Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Everyone says “burn fat”… but what really happens to it? Does it melt? Turn into muscle? Just disappear? Not even close. In this 30-minute myth-busting episode, we break down the real science of fat oxidation, how your body actually burns fat, and why most people have it all wrong.You'll learn:What fat is (and isn't)How your body uses and loses fatWhy breathing is your #1 fat loss toolThe most effective ways to maximize fat oxidation dailly.Plus, we smash the top 5 fat loss myths that keep people stuck. If you want fat loss made simple, this one's a must-listen.
Join host Nataraj as he sits down with Zach Lloyd, the founder and CEO of Warp, a company developing an intelligent terminal aimed at modernizing the command line experience for developers. Zach, a former principal engineer at Google, having worked on Google Sheets and Docs, and co-founder and CTO of Selfmade, shares his insights on the future of software development, the evolution of the terminal, and AI's role in building new products.In this episode, they discuss:How Warp leverages AI to improve developer productivityThe challenges of building an AI-powered developer toolThe future of coding and the evolution of the terminalBridging the gap between traditional terminals and modern IDEsThe current AI hype cycle and its impact on the developer communityGuest:Zach LloydFounder and CEO of WarpFormer Principal Engineer at GoogleCo-founder & CTO of SelfmadeWebsite: https://www.warp.dev/Host:NatarajHost of the Startup Project podcastSenior PM at Azure & InvestorLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natarajsindam/Twitter: https://x.com/natarajsindamEmail Updates: https://startupproject.substack.com/Website: https://thestartupproject.ioTimestamps:00:01 - Introduction and Guest Introduction00:55 - What is Warp?02:59 - How Developers Use Warp04:56 - Warp's Compatibility with Existing Developer Tools05:21 - Warp's Intelligence and Features06:31 - Integrating Existing Developer Nuances into Warp07:24 - Warp's AI-Powered Enhancements10:06 - The Future of IDEs and Terminals13:50 - The Evolution of Abstraction in Software Development16:37 - The AI Hype Cycle and Developer Productivity18:07 - Developer Feedback and Adoption of Warp20:30 - Go-to-Market Strategy and Customer Acquisition21:33 - Leveraging LLMs in Warp23:28 - The Role of AI Agents in Software Development25:49 - Cost and Sustainability of AI-Powered Tools27:17 - Warp's Pricing Model and Margins30:04 - Open-Source Models and Profitability32:43 - Key Metrics for Warp's Success34:45 - Go-to-Market Motion and Acquiring Customers37:40 - Using AI in Building Warp39:15 - The Impact of AI on Developer Demand41:00 - The Current State of AI and Developer Productivity43:31 - The Importance of Context and Knowledge in AI44:31 - What Zach is Consuming45:40 - Zach's Mentors46:25 - Lessons Learned as a FounderSubscribe:Subscribe to Startup Project for more engaging conversations with leading entrepreneurs!https://startupproject.substack.com/Tags:#StartupProject #Warp #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Terminal #DeveloperTools #Coding #Productivity #SoftwareDevelopment #DevOps #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #Podcast #YouTube #Tech #Innovation
Send us a textIn this episode of Imperfect Marketing, I sit down with Colin Hirdman, the founder of Rainmaker, to uncover how professionals can use LinkedIn as a powerful revenue-generating tool. Colin shares his journey from entrepreneurship to building a business that automates LinkedIn best practices in an authentic and transparent way.We discuss:Rethinking LinkedIn for Business GrowthWhy LinkedIn is more than just a networking platform—it's a revenue driverThe importance of authenticity and relationship-buildingWhy traditional sales tactics don't work on LinkedInBuilding a Targeted LinkedIn AudienceHow to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator effectivelyA unique “event hack” to find engaged prospectsUsing key influencers as proxies to reach the right peopleActivating Your LinkedIn ConnectionsThe step-by-step method to connecting with 25 people per dayWhy first-degree LinkedIn connections are more valuable than email listsThe right way to send messages without coming off as salesyTurning Engagement into RevenueHow to nurture connections with a non-salesy approachUsing LinkedIn live streams as a powerful marketing toolThe secret to getting people to opt into your expertiseKey Takeaways for MarketersShift from a sales mindset to an education-first approachStop chasing leads—build relationships and let them come to youWhy providing value is the most effective way to drive businessWhether you're a solopreneur, a sales leader, or a business owner looking to maximize LinkedIn's potential, this episode is packed with actionable insights you can implement right away.Are you ready to transform LinkedIn into your most valuable marketing tool? Tune in now to learn how to navigate this powerful platform the right way.
Podcast Summary: Building Thought Leadership with Zachary Bernard, Founder of We Feature YouIn this episode, Sacha Awwa welcomes Zachary Bernard, a 21-year-old entrepreneur and the founder of We Feature You, a public relations firm helping clients become recognized thought leaders through strategic media placements. Based in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada, Zachary has worked with hundreds of clients across North America since launching the agency in 2021. His firm's unique value lies in helping businesses—especially early-stage and underfunded ones—leverage PR and podcasting to establish credibility, build authority, and grow their influence.From landing press in Forbes and Entrepreneur to using podcast appearances as core marketing assets, Zachary explains how companies can tap into PR without needing a massive budget. He shares how he built his business by “doing what he preaches,” and why storytelling, authenticity, and consistency matter more than ever in today's media-saturated world.Key Topics Discussed:1. Zachary's Journey Into PR & EntrepreneurshipStarting as a gamer selling in-game itemsThe realization that marketing drives all businessLaunching We Feature You while still in universityLeaving school to go full-time into entrepreneurship2. Making PR Accessible for Small BusinessesWhy PR isn't just for unicorn startupsHow even a $1K investment can move the needleStarting with HARO, Connectively, and other DIY PR toolsWhy credibility matters more than traffic in the early stages3. Why Podcasting Became Central to PRPodcasting as a personal storytelling and authority-building toolThe shift from traditional PR to podcast-based brandingRepurposing podcast content for SEO, social, and salesWhy video-based podcasting is the future of founder visibility4. Building Thought Leadership That ConvertsHow to pitch value, not just a storyThe power of third-party validationDifferentiating between “first-person” and “third-person” proofUsing podcast clips in onboarding and sales enablement5. Trends in Media, PR, and Authentic BrandingAuthenticity in a post-AI worldThe rise of founder-led brand narrativesLeveraging podcasts as evergreen contentWhy transparency and credibility are becoming non-negotiable6. Overcoming Barriers to Entry in PRDebunking the myth that PR is too expensiveWhen PR is (and isn't) the right marketing investmentHow to measure success when results aren't always direct-responseWhy PR amplifies your existing marketing instead of replacing it7. Zach's Process for Onboarding ClientsStrategy-driven outreach tailored to each founder's voiceFocusing on podcasts that deliver both reach and relevanceHow he preps clients to speak to both personal and professional storiesSetting expectations and ensuring clients use the media assetsKey Takeaways for Founders & Business Owners:Start small, but start smart—you don't need a massive budget to begin building authority.Use what you create—repurpose podcast content into marketing gold.PR doesn't replace marketing—it enhances it when done right.Third-party validation builds trust faster than any sales page.Authenticity and consistency win—especially in a world where AI-generated content is on the rise.Connect with Zachary & We FeatFollow Us:
Welcome to another inspiring episode of Dream Business, Dream Life! Today, I'm diving into the power of vision boards with Lisa Williams, also known as the Vision Board Queen. Lisa is a trained Vision Board facilitator who helps women create blueprints for their dream life. She shares her personal journey with vision boarding, from overcoming challenges to manifesting her dream home, business, and even a special meet-and-greet with Gary Barlow!In this episode, Lisa and I discuss:What a vision board really is (hint: it's more than just pretty pictures!)How to use vision boards as a strategic goal-setting toolThe importance of mindset and belief in achieving your dreamsDifferent types of vision boards and how to find the right one for youHow business owners can leverage vision boards for successPractical ways to stay connected with your vision board dailyIf you've ever wanted to bring your biggest dreams to life, this episode is packed with actionable advice to help you start your vision board journey today.Who is Lisa?Lisa Williams, also known as the Vision Board Queen, is a trained vision board facilitator who works with businesses to create the blueprints for their dream life and the freedom they desire, Lisa has achieved several of her visionary dreams, from her dream wedding to her beautiful rainbow baby. Lisa is extremely passionate about Vision boards and the law of attraction. She was once that negative nelly and turned her life around by changing her mindset. Lisa is now a Best-selling Author, Podcast, NLP and journaling therapy practitioner.Connect with Lisa:https://www.facebook.com/groups/visionboardqueenwww.lisawilliams-lmg.co.ukWant to connect? Find me here:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamemmahineFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/behappybesuccessfulLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-hineWebsite: https://www.emmahine.co.ukYou Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaHineStrategy
Title:"Embracing Authenticity"Show Description:In this engaging episode of the Mostly Middle Tennessee Business Podcast, host Jim McCarthy sits down with Lyndsay Stafford, a dynamic business coach and entrepreneur. Lyndsay shares her remarkable journey from working in a tanning salon to running Stafford Solutions, offering insights into:Highlights:Her philosophy of hiring experts for tasks she doesn't enjoyNavigating business challenges in the post-pandemic eraLeveraging AI as a strategic business toolThe importance of authenticity and going above and beyond for clientsLessons learned from early career experiences in retail and customer serviceLyndsay discusses her approach to business coaching, consulting, and marketing, emphasizing the value of understanding client needs and delivering exceptional results. A must-listen for entrepreneurs seeking practical wisdom and inspiration.Follow Lyndsay:https://lyndsaystafford.com/______________________________________________________________________****SUBSCRIBE/RATE/FOLLOW the Mostly Middle Tennessee Business Podcast:www.mmtbp.comwww.instagram.com/mostlymiddletnbusinespodcastwww.instagram.com/jimmccarthyvosTiktok: @jimmccarthyvos __________________________________________________________Shoutout to Matt Wilson for lending his voice to the new intro of MMTBP.Follow him and his podcast from which I may have borrowed the *mostly* concept:https://linktr.ee/mamwmw___________________________________________________________If you like Jim's Boston Scallys, click here to shop and order yours!https://www.bostonscally.com/a/refer-a-friend/redeem/mqgpwi3u0zgm89vaxnv5crzvlolevo82rvcygsn5/1668 ___________________________________________________________***You hear Jim mention it on almost every episode, ME vs. WE and how 2023 will be 1943 all over again….order “PENDULUM:How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future”:https://a.co/d/7oKK7Ip_________________________________________________________________The co-author of Pendulum wrote a myriad of other books and started a non-profit 21st Century Non-Traditional Business School that you should really check out: Wizard Academy - www.wizardacademy.org______________________________________________________________________Curious about podcasting? This podcast (and many others) is produced by www.itsyourshow.coA Middle Tennessee Business Podcast....subscribe/follow/rate/review at www.mmtbp.com
Being compassionate with yourself can be the missing key to unlocking permanent changes with how you eat and take care of yourself but it's not always easy! Listen to learn how to cultivate self compassion so that you can enjoy the process of releasing weigh and reclaiming your health and your life. In this episode you'll learn:How self compassion is a weight loss toolThe path to self compassion: judgement, neutrality, curiosity, compassionWhat to do when self compassion feels hard to access The full transcript Instagram: @mindful_shape Free Self Coaching Resources Interested in getting coached by me? Go to my website mindfulshape.com
278 - Ever wonder what tools, products, and software I absolutely cannot live without in my photography business? From the best print labs to time-saving editing software, I'm sharing all my favorite things in this episode. No, I'm not giving away a car (sorry, Oprah vibes not included!), but I am giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the must-have tools that make my photography business run smoother and more profitably.What to Listen For:The one product I highlight in every client consultation (and why it's a must-have!)My new “classic collection” print option that's stunning and affordableThe editing software that's saved me hours (and how to get 1,500 free edits!)Why I'm switching my album vendor (and who I'm moving to!)The press print company I trust for my marketing materialsA behind-the-scenes look at my photography studio's new workflowMy secret to pre-designing albums in under 10 minutesHow to streamline client onboarding with this all-in-one studio management toolThe scheduling software update I'm super excited aboutThat's a wrap on my list of must-have photography tools and products! Whether you're looking to streamline your workflow, upgrade your print offerings, or save time on editing, I hope you found some game-changing ideas in this episode. Got a favorite product or tool you swear by? Shoot me a DM on Instagram @NicoleBegleyOfficial and let me know!
In this episode, Melissa breaks down the power of data in business and why ignoring it can create unnecessary drama. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by financials and metrics, this episode will give you a simple framework to start tracking the numbers that truly matter. Melissa reveals the five essential business metrics every entrepreneur should monitor to ensure profitability, efficiency, and long-term success.What You'll Learn in This Episode:Why data tells the truth—whether you like it or notHow ignoring financials leads to bad decision-makingThe 5 key metrics every business owner must track:1. Net Profit Margin – How much of your revenue is actual profit2. Operating Expense Ratio – Keeping expenses in check for business health3. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) – Understanding the true cost of getting a customer4. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) – How much a customer is worth over time5. Employee Productivity – Ensuring your team is efficient and effectiveWhy tracking these metrics can help you scale fasterHow to make your P&L report a powerful decision-making toolThe surprising reason why sharing financial goals with your team improves moraleResources & Links
Send me a message! Have you ever caught yourself apologizing for your website? Or not wanting to send people to it? Let's talk about how working with a website designer can completely transforms not just your online presence, but your entire business mindset and the way clients interact with you.In this episode, I'm breaking down eight unexpected ways that working with a website designer changes your business game — and trust me, most of these aren't what you'd expect.YOU WILL LEARN:How a professional website boosts your business confidence and authorityWhy strategic design attracts higher-paying clients naturallyHow to streamline your sales process through effective web designThe impact of authentic brand personality in your online presenceWays to leverage your website as a powerful marketing toolThe connection between website clarity and business successHow your website influences your money mindset
Dr. Bill Bortcosh received his Doctorate of Medicine from Albany Medical School, NY. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School followed by pediatric critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.Learning Objectives:By the end of this podcast series, listeners should be able to discuss:Why critical evaluation of a patient's acid-base status can be useful and practical in the acute care settingThe basic pathophysiology of each acid-base disturbanceThe definition of an anion gap and how to use it as a screening toolThe use of Winter's formula to identify a respiratory acidosis or alkalosisThe utility of the delta-delta to identify additional metabolic acidosis or alkalosisLink to Acid/Base HandoutReferences1. Carmody JB, Norwood VF. A clinical approach to paediatric acid-base disorders. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88(1037):143-51.2. Carmody JB, Norwood VF. Paediatric acid-base disorders: A case-based review of procedures and pitfalls. Paediatr Child Health. 2013;18(1):29-32.3. Emmett M. Approach to the Patient With a Negative Anion Gap. Am J Kidney Dis. 2016;67(1):143-50.4. Luke RG, Galla JH. It is chloride depletion alkalosis, not contraction alkalosis. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012;23(2):204-7.5. https://emcrit.org/ibcc/salicylates/Questions, comments or feedback? Please send us a message at this link (leave email address if you would like us to relpy) Thanks! -Alice & ZacSupport the showHow to support PedsCrit:Please complete our Listener Feedback SurveyPlease rate and review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!Donations are appreciated @PedsCrit on Venmo , you can also support us by becoming a patron on Patreon. 100% of funds go to supporting the show. Thank you for listening to this episode of PedsCrit. Please remember that all content during this episode is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice. The views expressed during this episode by hosts and our guests are their own and do not reflect the official position of their institutions. If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback-you can email us at pedscritpodcast@gmail.com. Check out http://www.pedscrit.com for detailed show notes. And visit @critpeds on twitter and @pedscrit on instagram for real time show updates.
Dr. Bill Bortcosh received his Doctorate of Medicine from Albany Medical School, NY. He completed his pediatric residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School followed by pediatric critical care fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital.Learning Objectives:By the end of this podcast series, listeners should be able to discuss:Why critical evaluation of a patient's acid-base status can be useful and practical in the acute care settingThe basic pathophysiology of each acid-base disturbanceThe definition of an anion gap and how to use it as a screening toolThe use of Winter's formula to identify a respiratory acidosis or alkalosisThe utility of the delta-delta to identify additional metabolic acidosis or alkalosisLink to Acid/Base HandoutReferences1. Carmody JB, Norwood VF. A clinical approach to paediatric acid-base disorders. Postgrad Med J. 2012;88(1037):143-51.2. Carmody JB, Norwood VF. Paediatric acid-base disorders: A case-based review of procedures and pitfalls. Paediatr Child Health. 2013;18(1):29-32.3. Emmett M. Approach to the Patient With a Negative Anion Gap. Am J Kidney Dis. 2016;67(1):143-50.4. Luke RG, Galla JH. It is chloride depletion alkalosis, not contraction alkalosis. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012;23(2):204-7.5. https://emcrit.org/ibcc/salicylates/Questions, comments or feedback? Please send us a message at this link (leave email address if you would like us to relpy) Thanks! -Alice & ZacSupport the showHow to support PedsCrit:Please complete our Listener Feedback SurveyPlease rate and review on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!Donations are appreciated @PedsCrit on Venmo , you can also support us by becoming a patron on Patreon. 100% of funds go to supporting the show. Thank you for listening to this episode of PedsCrit. Please remember that all content during this episode is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It should not be used as medical advice. The views expressed during this episode by hosts and our guests are their own and do not reflect the official position of their institutions. If you have any comments, suggestions, or feedback-you can email us at pedscritpodcast@gmail.com. Check out http://www.pedscrit.com for detailed show notes. And visit @critpeds on twitter and @pedscrit on instagram for real time show updates.
Ready to find out what it's like to navigate the highs and lows of growing a private practice with me in your corner? In today's episode, I'm chatting with one of my clients, Rio Richards, a therapist who transformed her practice while embracing the role of a new mother. Rio takes us on her personal journey through the challenges of niching down, adjusting fees, and stepping into the world of social media marketing. You'll discover how Rio overcame the "good therapist" conditioning to find her true calling in grief work, and learn from her experience as she shares the raw emotions behind raising her therapy fees. Plus, you'll get an insider's look at how leveraging Instagram can not only expand your reach but also open doors to offering new services like grief coaching.This episode is a must listen for any therapist looking to grow their private practice, break through barriers, and build a business that truly reflects their values and expertise. Tune in now!More about Rio Richards:Rio Richards is a licensed therapist and coach specializing in grief and trauma recovery. She is a certified Somatic EMDR practitioner and uses a blend of nervous system theory and tangible, boots-on-the-ground modern grief experience to help her clients navigate loss within the western, grief-illiterate culture. She's passionate about helping overly-responsible women struggling with the push and pull of grief & daily life heal as they rebuild. Topics covered in this episode: Rio's story of becoming a grief and trauma recovery therapist, growing her private practice, and juggling new motherhoodRio's transition from a generalist to finding her true calling in the specialized niche of grief workThe emotional rollercoaster behind Rio's decision to raise her therapy fees and the unexpected reactions from clientsRio's initial resistance to social media and how she turned Instagram into a powerful toolThe role business coaching played in Rio's journey and how it helped her navigate tough decisions and foster self-trustDifferent ways Rio is expanding her services to grow her private practiceA sneak peek into Rio's plans for creating accessible group programs that could revolutionize grief supportConnect with Rio Richards:Website: www.riorichardstherapy.comInstagram: @andthatsgrief Connect with Felicia:Get business coaching with Felicia: One on One Business CoachingRaise your fee and start earning more: The Fee FormulaGet my freebie & join the email list: The Magic SheetsInstagram: @the_bad_therapistWebsite:
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We are reuniting for the 2nd AI UX demo day in SF on Apr 28. Sign up to demo here! And don't forget tickets for the AI Engineer World's Fair — for early birds who join before keynote announcements!About a year ago there was a lot of buzz around prompt engineering techniques to force structured output. Our friend Simon Willison tweeted a bunch of tips and tricks, but the most iconic one is Riley Goodside making it a matter of life or death:Guardrails (friend of the pod and AI Engineer speaker), Marvin (AI Engineer speaker), and jsonformer had also come out at the time. In June 2023, Jason Liu (today's guest!) open sourced his “OpenAI Function Call and Pydantic Integration Module”, now known as Instructor, which quickly turned prompt engineering black magic into a clean, developer-friendly SDK. A few months later, model providers started to add function calling capabilities to their APIs as well as structured outputs support like “JSON Mode”, which was announced at OpenAI Dev Day (see recap here). In just a handful of months, we went from threatening to kill grandmas to first-class support from the research labs. And yet, Instructor was still downloaded 150,000 times last month. Why?What Instructor looks likeInstructor patches your LLM provider SDKs to offer a new response_model option to which you can pass a structure defined in Pydantic. It currently supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and a long tail of models through LiteLLM.What Instructor is forThere are three core use cases to Instructor:* Extracting structured data: Taking an input like an image of a receipt and extracting structured data from it, such as a list of checkout items with their prices, fees, and coupon codes.* Extracting graphs: Identifying nodes and edges in a given input to extract complex entities and their relationships. For example, extracting relationships between characters in a story or dependencies between tasks.* Query understanding: Defining a schema for an API call and using a language model to resolve a request into a more complex one that an embedding could not handle. For example, creating date intervals from queries like “what was the latest thing that happened this week?” to then pass onto a RAG system or similar.Jason called all these different ways of getting data from LLMs “typed responses”: taking strings and turning them into data structures. Structured outputs as a planning toolThe first wave of agents was all about open-ended iteration and planning, with projects like AutoGPT and BabyAGI. Models would come up with a possible list of steps, and start going down the list one by one. It's really easy for them to go down the wrong branch, or get stuck on a single step with no way to intervene.What if these planning steps were returned to us as DAGs using structured output, and then managed as workflows? This also makes it easy to better train model on how to create these plans, as they are much more structured than a bullet point list. Once you have this structure, each piece can be modified individually by different specialized models. You can read some of Jason's experiments here:While LLMs will keep improving (Llama3 just got released as we write this), having a consistent structure for the output will make it a lot easier to swap models in and out. Jason's overall message on how we can move from ReAct loops to more controllable Agent workflows mirrors the “Process” discussion from our Elicit episode:Watch the talkAs a bonus, here's Jason's talk from last year's AI Engineer Summit. He'll also be a speaker at this year's AI Engineer World's Fair!Timestamps* [00:00:00] Introductions* [00:02:23] Early experiments with Generative AI at StitchFix* [00:08:11] Design philosophy behind the Instructor library* [00:11:12] JSON Mode vs Function Calling* [00:12:30] Single vs parallel function calling* [00:14:00] How many functions is too many?* [00:17:39] How to evaluate function calling* [00:20:23] What is Instructor good for?* [00:22:42] The Evolution from Looping to Workflow in AI Engineering* [00:27:03] State of the AI Engineering Stack* [00:28:26] Why Instructor isn't VC backed* [00:31:15] Advice on Pursuing Open Source Projects and Consulting* [00:36:00] The Concept of High Agency and Its Importance* [00:42:44] Prompts as Code and the Structure of AI Inputs and Outputs* [00:44:20] The Emergence of AI Engineering as a Distinct FieldShow notes* Jason on the UWaterloo mafia* Jason on Twitter, LinkedIn, website* Instructor docs* Max Woolf on the potential of Structured Output* swyx on Elo vs Cost* Jason on Anthropic Function Calling* Jason on Rejections, Advice to Young People* Jason on Bad Startup Ideas* Jason on Prompts as Code* Rysana's inversion models* Bryan Bischof's episode* Hamel HusainTranscriptAlessio [00:00:00]: Hey everyone, welcome to the Latent Space Podcast. This is Alessio, partner and CTO at Residence at Decibel Partners, and I'm joined by my co-host Swyx, founder of Smol AI.Swyx [00:00:16]: Hello, we're back in the remote studio with Jason Liu from Instructor. Welcome Jason.Jason [00:00:21]: Hey there. Thanks for having me.Swyx [00:00:23]: Jason, you are extremely famous, so I don't know what I'm going to do introducing you, but you're one of the Waterloo clan. There's like this small cadre of you that's just completely dominating machine learning. Actually, can you list like Waterloo alums that you're like, you know, are just dominating and crushing it right now?Jason [00:00:39]: So like John from like Rysana is doing his inversion models, right? I know like Clive Chen from Waterloo. When I started the data science club, he was one of the guys who were like joining in and just like hanging out in the room. And now he was at Tesla working with Karpathy, now he's at OpenAI, you know.Swyx [00:00:56]: He's in my climbing club.Jason [00:00:58]: Oh, hell yeah. I haven't seen him in like six years now.Swyx [00:01:01]: To get in the social scene in San Francisco, you have to climb. So both in career and in rocks. So you started a data science club at Waterloo, we can talk about that, but then also spent five years at Stitch Fix as an MLE. You pioneered the use of OpenAI's LLMs to increase stylist efficiency. So you must have been like a very, very early user. This was like pretty early on.Jason [00:01:20]: Yeah, I mean, this was like GPT-3, okay. So we actually were using transformers at Stitch Fix before the GPT-3 model. So we were just using transformers for recommendation systems. At that time, I was very skeptical of transformers. I was like, why do we need all this infrastructure? We can just use like matrix factorization. When GPT-2 came out, I fine tuned my own GPT-2 to write like rap lyrics and I was like, okay, this is cute. Okay, I got to go back to my real job, right? Like who cares if I can write a rap lyric? When GPT-3 came out, again, I was very much like, why are we using like a post request to review every comment a person leaves? Like we can just use classical models. So I was very against language models for like the longest time. And then when ChatGPT came out, I basically just wrote a long apology letter to everyone at the company. I was like, hey guys, you know, I was very dismissive of some of this technology. I didn't think it would scale well, and I am wrong. This is incredible. And I immediately just transitioned to go from computer vision recommendation systems to LLMs. But funny enough, now that we have RAG, we're kind of going back to recommendation systems.Swyx [00:02:21]: Yeah, speaking of that, I think Alessio is going to bring up the next one.Alessio [00:02:23]: Yeah, I was going to say, we had Bryan Bischof from Hex on the podcast. Did you overlap at Stitch Fix?Jason [00:02:28]: Yeah, he was like one of my main users of the recommendation frameworks that I had built out at Stitch Fix.Alessio [00:02:32]: Yeah, we talked a lot about RecSys, so it makes sense.Swyx [00:02:36]: So now I have adopted that line, RAG is RecSys. And you know, if you're trying to reinvent new concepts, you should study RecSys first, because you're going to independently reinvent a lot of concepts. So your system was called Flight. It's a recommendation framework with over 80% adoption, servicing 350 million requests every day. Wasn't there something existing at Stitch Fix? Why did you have to write one from scratch?Jason [00:02:56]: No, so I think because at Stitch Fix, a lot of the machine learning engineers and data scientists were writing production code, sort of every team's systems were very bespoke. It's like, this team only needs to do like real time recommendations with small data. So they just have like a fast API app with some like pandas code. This other team has to do a lot more data. So they have some kind of like Spark job that does some batch ETL that does a recommendation. And so what happens is each team writes their code differently. And I have to come in and refactor their code. And I was like, oh man, I'm refactoring four different code bases, four different times. Wouldn't it be better if all the code quality was my fault? Let me just write this framework, force everyone else to use it. And now one person can maintain five different systems, rather than five teams having their own bespoke system. And so it was really a need of just sort of standardizing everything. And then once you do that, you can do observability across the entire pipeline and make large sweeping improvements in this infrastructure, right? If we notice that something is slow, we can detect it on the operator layer. Just hey, hey, like this team, you guys are doing this operation is lowering our latency by like 30%. If you just optimize your Python code here, we can probably make an extra million dollars. So let's jump on a call and figure this out. And then a lot of it was doing all this observability work to figure out what the heck is going on and optimize this system from not only just a code perspective, sort of like harassingly or against saying like, we need to add caching here. We're doing duplicated work here. Let's go clean up the systems. Yep.Swyx [00:04:22]: Got it. One more system that I'm interested in finding out more about is your similarity search system using Clip and GPT-3 embeddings and FIASS, where you saved over $50 million in annual revenue. So of course they all gave all that to you, right?Jason [00:04:34]: No, no, no. I mean, it's not going up and down, but you know, I got a little bit, so I'm pretty happy about that. But there, you know, that was when we were doing fine tuning like ResNets to do image classification. And so a lot of it was given an image, if we could predict the different attributes we have in the merchandising and we can predict the text embeddings of the comments, then we can kind of build a image vector or image embedding that can capture both descriptions of the clothing and sales of the clothing. And then we would use these additional vectors to augment our recommendation system. And so with the recommendation system really was just around like, what are similar items? What are complimentary items? What are items that you would wear in a single outfit? And being able to say on a product page, let me show you like 15, 20 more things. And then what we found was like, hey, when you turn that on, you make a bunch of money.Swyx [00:05:23]: Yeah. So, okay. So you didn't actually use GPT-3 embeddings. You fine tuned your own? Because I was surprised that GPT-3 worked off the shelf.Jason [00:05:30]: Because I mean, at this point we would have 3 million pieces of inventory over like a billion interactions between users and clothes. So any kind of fine tuning would definitely outperform like some off the shelf model.Swyx [00:05:41]: Cool. I'm about to move on from Stitch Fix, but you know, any other like fun stories from the Stitch Fix days that you want to cover?Jason [00:05:46]: No, I think that's basically it. I mean, the biggest one really was the fact that I think for just four years, I was so bearish on language models and just NLP in general. I'm just like, none of this really works. Like, why would I spend time focusing on this? I got to go do the thing that makes money, recommendations, bounding boxes, image classification. Yeah. Now I'm like prompting an image model. I was like, oh man, I was wrong.Swyx [00:06:06]: So my Stitch Fix question would be, you know, I think you have a bit of a drip and I don't, you know, my primary wardrobe is free startup conference t-shirts. Should more technology brothers be using Stitch Fix? What's your fashion advice?Jason [00:06:19]: Oh man, I mean, I'm not a user of Stitch Fix, right? It's like, I enjoy going out and like touching things and putting things on and trying them on. Right. I think Stitch Fix is a place where you kind of go because you want the work offloaded. I really love the clothing I buy where I have to like, when I land in Japan, I'm doing like a 45 minute walk up a giant hill to find this weird denim shop. That's the stuff that really excites me. But I think the bigger thing that's really captured is this idea that narrative matters a lot to human beings. Okay. And I think the recommendation system, that's really hard to capture. It's easy to use AI to sell like a $20 shirt, but it's really hard for AI to sell like a $500 shirt. But people are buying $500 shirts, you know what I mean? There's definitely something that we can't really capture just yet that we probably will figure out how to in the future.Swyx [00:07:07]: Well, it'll probably output in JSON, which is what we're going to turn to next. Then you went on a sabbatical to South Park Commons in New York, which is unusual because it's based on USF.Jason [00:07:17]: Yeah. So basically in 2020, really, I was enjoying working a lot as I was like building a lot of stuff. This is where we were making like the tens of millions of dollars doing stuff. And then I had a hand injury. And so I really couldn't code anymore for like a year, two years. And so I kind of took sort of half of it as medical leave, the other half I became more of like a tech lead, just like making sure the systems were like lights were on. And then when I went to New York, I spent some time there and kind of just like wound down the tech work, you know, did some pottery, did some jujitsu. And after GPD came out, I was like, oh, I clearly need to figure out what is going on here because something feels very magical. I don't understand it. So I spent basically like five months just prompting and playing around with stuff. And then afterwards, it was just my startup friends going like, hey, Jason, you know, my investors want us to have an AI strategy. Can you help us out? And it just snowballed and bore more and more until I was making this my full time job. Yeah, got it.Swyx [00:08:11]: You know, you had YouTube University and a journaling app, you know, a bunch of other explorations. But it seems like the most productive or the best known thing that came out of your time there was Instructor. Yeah.Jason [00:08:22]: Written on the bullet train in Japan. I think at some point, you know, tools like Guardrails and Marvin came out. Those are kind of tools that I use XML and Pytantic to get structured data out. But they really were doing things sort of in the prompt. And these are built with sort of the instruct models in mind. Like I'd already done that in the past. Right. At Stitch Fix, you know, one of the things we did was we would take a request note and turn that into a JSON object that we would use to send it to our search engine. Right. So if you said like, I want to, you know, skinny jeans that were this size, that would turn into JSON that we would send to our internal search APIs. But it always felt kind of gross. A lot of it is just like you read the JSON, you like parse it, you make sure the names are strings and ages are numbers and you do all this like messy stuff. But when function calling came out, it was very much sort of a new way of doing things. Right. Function calling lets you define the schema separate from the data and the instructions. And what this meant was you can kind of have a lot more complex schemas and just map them in Pytantic. And then you can just keep those very separate. And then once you add like methods, you can add validators and all that kind of stuff. The one thing I really had with a lot of these libraries, though, was it was doing a lot of the string formatting themselves, which was fine when it was the instruction to models. You just have a string. But when you have these new chat models, you have these chat messages. And I just didn't really feel like not being able to access that for the developer was sort of a good benefit that they would get. And so I just said, let me write like the most simple SDK around the OpenAI SDK, a simple wrapper on the SDK, just handle the response model a bit and kind of think of myself more like requests than actual framework that people can use. And so the goal is like, hey, like this is something that you can use to build your own framework. But let me just do all the boring stuff that nobody really wants to do. People want to build their own frameworks, but people don't want to build like JSON parsing.Swyx [00:10:08]: And the retrying and all that other stuff.Jason [00:10:10]: Yeah.Swyx [00:10:11]: Right. We had this a little bit of this discussion before the show, but like that design principle of going for being requests rather than being Django. Yeah. So what inspires you there? This has come from a lot of prior pain. Are there other open source projects that inspired your philosophy here? Yeah.Jason [00:10:25]: I mean, I think it would be requests, right? Like, I think it is just the obvious thing you install. If you were going to go make HTTP requests in Python, you would obviously import requests. Maybe if you want to do more async work, there's like future tools, but you don't really even think about installing it. And when you do install it, you don't think of it as like, oh, this is a requests app. Right? Like, no, this is just Python. The bigger question is, like, a lot of people ask questions like, oh, why isn't requests like in the standard library? Yeah. That's how I want my library to feel, right? It's like, oh, if you're going to use the LLM SDKs, you're obviously going to install instructor. And then I think the second question would be like, oh, like, how come instructor doesn't just go into OpenAI, go into Anthropic? Like, if that's the conversation we're having, like, that's where I feel like I've succeeded. Yeah. It's like, yeah, so standard, you may as well just have it in the base libraries.Alessio [00:11:12]: And the shape of the request stayed the same, but initially function calling was maybe equal structure outputs for a lot of people. I think now the models also support like JSON mode and some of these things and, you know, return JSON or my grandma is going to die. All of that stuff is maybe to decide how have you seen that evolution? Like maybe what's the metagame today? Should people just forget about function calling for structure outputs or when is structure output like JSON mode the best versus not? We'd love to get any thoughts given that you do this every day.Jason [00:11:42]: Yeah, I would almost say these are like different implementations of like the real thing we care about is the fact that now we have typed responses to language models. And because we have that type response, my IDE is a little bit happier. I get autocomplete. If I'm using the response wrong, there's a little red squiggly line. Like those are the things I care about in terms of whether or not like JSON mode is better. I usually think it's almost worse unless you want to spend less money on like the prompt tokens that the function call represents, primarily because with JSON mode, you don't actually specify the schema. So sure, like JSON load works, but really, I care a lot more than just the fact that it is JSON, right? I think function calling gives you a tool to specify the fact like, okay, this is a list of objects that I want and each object has a name or an age and I want the age to be above zero and I want to make sure it's parsed correctly. That's where kind of function calling really shines.Alessio [00:12:30]: Any thoughts on single versus parallel function calling? So I did a presentation at our AI in Action Discord channel, and obviously showcase instructor. One of the big things that we have before with single function calling is like when you're trying to extract lists, you have to make these funky like properties that are lists to then actually return all the objects. How do you see the hack being put on the developer's plate versus like more of this stuff just getting better in the model? And I know you tweeted recently about Anthropic, for example, you know, some lists are not lists or strings and there's like all of these discrepancies.Jason [00:13:04]: I almost would prefer it if it was always a single function call. Obviously, there is like the agents workflows that, you know, Instructor doesn't really support that well, but are things that, you know, ought to be done, right? Like you could define, I think maybe like 50 or 60 different functions in a single API call. And, you know, if it was like get the weather or turn the lights on or do something else, it makes a lot of sense to have these parallel function calls. But in terms of an extraction workflow, I definitely think it's probably more helpful to have everything be a single schema, right? Just because you can sort of specify relationships between these entities that you can't do in a parallel function calling, you can have a single chain of thought before you generate a list of results. Like there's like small like API differences, right? Where if it's for parallel function calling, if you do one, like again, really, I really care about how the SDK looks and says, okay, do I always return a list of functions or do you just want to have the actual object back out and you want to have like auto complete over that object? Interesting.Alessio [00:14:00]: What's kind of the cap for like how many function definitions you can put in where it still works well? Do you have any sense on that?Jason [00:14:07]: I mean, for the most part, I haven't really had a need to do anything that's more than six or seven different functions. I think in the documentation, they support way more. I don't even know if there's any good evals that have over like two dozen function calls. I think if you're running into issues where you have like 20 or 50 or 60 function calls, I think you're much better having those specifications saved in a vector database and then have them be retrieved, right? So if there are 30 tools, like you should basically be like ranking them and then using the top K to do selection a little bit better rather than just like shoving like 60 functions into a single. Yeah.Swyx [00:14:40]: Yeah. Well, I mean, so I think this is relevant now because previously I think context limits prevented you from having more than a dozen tools anyway. And now that we have million token context windows, you know, a cloud recently with their new function calling release said they can handle over 250 tools, which is insane to me. That's, that's a lot. You're saying like, you know, you don't think there's many people doing that. I think anyone with a sort of agent like platform where you have a bunch of connectors, they wouldn't run into that problem. Probably you're right that they should use a vector database and kind of rag their tools. I know Zapier has like a few thousand, like 8,000, 9,000 connectors that, you know, obviously don't fit anywhere. So yeah, I mean, I think that would be it unless you need some kind of intelligence that chains things together, which is, I think what Alessio is coming back to, right? Like there's this trend about parallel function calling. I don't know what I think about that. Anthropic's version was, I think they use multiple tools in sequence, but they're not in parallel. I haven't explored this at all. I'm just like throwing this open to you as to like, what do you think about all these new things? Yeah.Jason [00:15:40]: It's like, you know, do we assume that all function calls could happen in any order? In which case, like we either can assume that, or we can assume that like things need to happen in some kind of sequence as a DAG, right? But if it's a DAG, really that's just like one JSON object that is the entire DAG rather than going like, okay, the order of the function that return don't matter. That's definitely just not true in practice, right? Like if I have a thing that's like turn the lights on, like unplug the power, and then like turn the toaster on or something like the order doesn't matter. And it's unclear how well you can describe the importance of that reasoning to a language model yet. I mean, I'm sure you can do it with like good enough prompting, but I just haven't any use cases where the function sequence really matters. Yeah.Alessio [00:16:18]: To me, the most interesting thing is the models are better at picking than your ranking is usually. Like I'm incubating a company around system integration. For example, with one system, there are like 780 endpoints. And if you're actually trying to do vector similarity, it's not that good because the people that wrote the specs didn't have in mind making them like semantically apart. You know, they're kind of like, oh, create this, create this, create this. Versus when you give it to a model, like in Opus, you put them all, it's quite good at picking which ones you should actually run. And I'm curious to see if the model providers actually care about some of those workflows or if the agent companies are actually going to build very good rankers to kind of fill that gap.Jason [00:16:58]: Yeah. My money is on the rankers because you can do those so easily, right? You could just say, well, given the embeddings of my search query and the embeddings of the description, I can just train XGBoost and just make sure that I have very high like MRR, which is like mean reciprocal rank. And so the only objective is to make sure that the tools you use are in the top end filtered. Like that feels super straightforward and you don't have to actually figure out how to fine tune a language model to do tool selection anymore. Yeah. I definitely think that's the case because for the most part, I imagine you either have like less than three tools or more than a thousand. I don't know what kind of company said, oh, thank God we only have like 185 tools and this works perfectly, right? That's right.Alessio [00:17:39]: And before we maybe move on just from this, it was interesting to me, you retweeted this thing about Anthropic function calling and it was Joshua Brown's retweeting some benchmark that it's like, oh my God, Anthropic function calling so good. And then you retweeted it and then you tweeted it later and it's like, it's actually not that good. What's your flow? How do you actually test these things? Because obviously the benchmarks are lying, right? Because the benchmarks say it's good and you said it's bad and I trust you more than the benchmark. How do you think about that? And then how do you evolve it over time?Jason [00:18:09]: It's mostly just client data. I actually have been mostly busy with enough client work that I haven't been able to reproduce public benchmarks. And so I can't even share some of the results in Anthropic. I would just say like in production, we have some pretty interesting schemas where it's like iteratively building lists where we're doing like updates of lists, like we're doing in place updates. So like upserts and inserts. And in those situations we're like, oh yeah, we have a bunch of different parsing errors. Numbers are being returned to strings. We were expecting lists of objects, but we're getting strings that are like the strings of JSON, right? So we had to call JSON parse on individual elements. Overall, I'm like super happy with the Anthropic models compared to the OpenAI models. Sonnet is very cost effective. Haiku is in function calling, it's actually better, but I think they just had to sort of file down the edges a little bit where like our tests pass, but then we actually deployed a production. We got half a percent of traffic having issues where if you ask for JSON, it'll try to talk to you. Or if you use function calling, you know, we'll have like a parse error. And so I think that definitely gonna be things that are fixed in like the upcoming weeks. But in terms of like the reasoning capabilities, man, it's hard to beat like 70% cost reduction, especially when you're building consumer applications, right? If you're building something for consultants or private equity, like you're charging $400, it doesn't really matter if it's a dollar or $2. But for consumer apps, it makes products viable. If you can go from four to Sonnet, you might actually be able to price it better. Yeah.Swyx [00:19:31]: I had this chart about the ELO versus the cost of all the models. And you could put trend graphs on each of those things about like, you know, higher ELO equals higher cost, except for Haiku. Haiku kind of just broke the lines, or the ISO ELOs, if you want to call it. Cool. Before we go too far into your opinions on just the overall ecosystem, I want to make sure that we map out the surface area of Instructor. I would say that most people would be familiar with Instructor from your talks and your tweets and all that. You had the number one talk from the AI Engineer Summit.Jason [00:20:03]: Two Liu. Jason Liu and Jerry Liu. Yeah.Swyx [00:20:06]: Yeah. Until I actually went through your cookbook, I didn't realize the surface area. How would you categorize the use cases? You have LLM self-critique, you have knowledge graphs in here, you have PII data sanitation. How do you characterize to people what is the surface area of Instructor? Yeah.Jason [00:20:23]: This is the part that feels crazy because really the difference is LLMs give you strings and Instructor gives you data structures. And once you get data structures, again, you can do every lead code problem you ever thought of. Right. And so I think there's a couple of really common applications. The first one obviously is extracting structured data. This is just be, okay, well, like I want to put in an image of a receipt. I want to give it back out a list of checkout items with a price and a fee and a coupon code or whatever. That's one application. Another application really is around extracting graphs out. So one of the things we found out about these language models is that not only can you define nodes, it's really good at figuring out what are nodes and what are edges. And so we have a bunch of examples where, you know, not only do I extract that, you know, this happens after that, but also like, okay, these two are dependencies of another task. And you can do, you know, extracting complex entities that have relationships. Given a story, for example, you could extract relationships of families across different characters. This can all be done by defining a graph. The last really big application really is just around query understanding. The idea is that like any API call has some schema and if you can define that schema ahead of time, you can use a language model to resolve a request into a much more complex request. One that an embedding could not do. So for example, I have a really popular post called like rag is more than embeddings. And effectively, you know, if I have a question like this, what was the latest thing that happened this week? That embeds to nothing, right? But really like that query should just be like select all data where the date time is between today and today minus seven days, right? What if I said, how did my writing change between this month and last month? Again, embeddings would do nothing. But really, if you could do like a group by over the month and a summarize, then you could again like do something much more interesting. And so this really just calls out the fact that embeddings really is kind of like the lowest hanging fruit. And using something like instructor can really help produce a data structure. And then you can just use your computer science and reason about the data structure. Maybe you say, okay, well, I'm going to produce a graph where I want to group by each month and then summarize them jointly. You can do that if you know how to define this data structure. Yeah.Swyx [00:22:29]: So you kind of run up against like the LangChains of the world that used to have that. They still do have like the self querying, I think they used to call it when we had Harrison on in our episode. How do you see yourself interacting with the other LLM frameworks in the ecosystem? Yeah.Jason [00:22:42]: I mean, if they use instructor, I think that's totally cool. Again, it's like, it's just Python, right? It's like asking like, oh, how does like Django interact with requests? Well, you just might make a request.get in a Django app, right? But no one would say, I like went off of Django because I'm using requests now. They should be ideally like sort of the wrong comparison in terms of especially like the agent workflows. I think the real goal for me is to go down like the LLM compiler route, which is instead of doing like a react type reasoning loop. I think my belief is that we should be using like workflows. If we do this, then we always have a request and a complete workflow. We can fine tune a model that has a better workflow. Whereas it's hard to think about like, how do you fine tune a better react loop? Yeah. You always train it to have less looping, in which case like you wanted to get the right answer the first time, in which case it was a workflow to begin with, right?Swyx [00:23:31]: Can you define workflow? Because I used to work at a workflow company, but I'm not sure this is a good term for everybody.Jason [00:23:36]: I'm thinking workflow in terms of like the prefect Zapier workflow. Like I want to build a DAG, I want you to tell me what the nodes and edges are. And then maybe the edges are also put in with AI. But the idea is that like, I want to be able to present you the entire plan and then ask you to fix things as I execute it, rather than going like, hey, I couldn't parse the JSON, so I'm going to try again. I couldn't parse the JSON, I'm going to try again. And then next thing you know, you spent like $2 on opening AI credits, right? Yeah. Whereas with the plan, you can just say, oh, the edge between node like X and Y does not run. Let me just iteratively try to fix that, fix the one that sticks, go on to the next component. And obviously you can get into a world where if you have enough examples of the nodes X and Y, maybe you can use like a vector database to find a good few shot examples. You can do a lot if you sort of break down the problem into that workflow and executing that workflow, rather than looping and hoping the reasoning is good enough to generate the correct output. Yeah.Swyx [00:24:35]: You know, I've been hammering on Devon a lot. I got access a couple of weeks ago. And obviously for simple tasks, it does well. For the complicated, like more than 10, 20 hour tasks, I can see- That's a crazy comparison.Jason [00:24:47]: We used to talk about like three, four loops. Only once it gets to like hour tasks, it's hard.Swyx [00:24:54]: Yeah. Less than an hour, there's nothing.Jason [00:24:57]: That's crazy.Swyx [00:24:58]: I mean, okay. Maybe my goalposts have shifted. I don't know. That's incredible.Jason [00:25:02]: Yeah. No, no. I'm like sub one minute executions. Like the fact that you're talking about 10 hours is incredible.Swyx [00:25:08]: I think it's a spectrum. I think I'm going to say this every single time I bring up Devon. Let's not reward them for taking longer to do things. Do you know what I mean? I think that's a metric that is easily abusable.Jason [00:25:18]: Sure. Yeah. You know what I mean? But I think if you can monotonically increase the success probability over an hour, that's winning to me. Right? Like obviously if you run an hour and you've made no progress. Like I think when we were in like auto GBT land, there was that one example where it's like, I wanted it to like buy me a bicycle overnight. I spent $7 on credit and I never found the bicycle. Yeah.Swyx [00:25:41]: Yeah. Right. I wonder if you'll be able to purchase a bicycle. Because it actually can do things in real world. It just needs to suspend to you for off and stuff. The point I was trying to make was that I can see it turning plans. I think one of the agents loopholes or one of the things that is a real barrier for agents is LLMs really like to get stuck into a lane. And you know what you're talking about, what I've seen Devon do is it gets stuck in a lane and it will just kind of change plans based on the performance of the plan itself. And it's kind of cool.Jason [00:26:05]: I feel like we've gone too much in the looping route and I think a lot of more plans and like DAGs and data structures are probably going to come back to help fill in some holes. Yeah.Alessio [00:26:14]: What do you think of the interface to that? Do you see it's like an existing state machine kind of thing that connects to the LLMs, the traditional DAG players? Do you think we need something new for like AI DAGs?Jason [00:26:25]: Yeah. I mean, I think that the hard part is going to be describing visually the fact that this DAG can also change over time and it should still be allowed to be fuzzy. I think in like mathematics, we have like plate diagrams and like Markov chain diagrams and like recurrent states and all that. Some of that might come into this workflow world. But to be honest, I'm not too sure. I think right now, the first steps are just how do we take this DAG idea and break it down to modular components that we can like prompt better, have few shot examples for and ultimately like fine tune against. But in terms of even the UI, it's hard to say what it will likely win. I think, you know, people like Prefect and Zapier have a pretty good shot at doing a good job.Swyx [00:27:03]: Yeah. You seem to use Prefect a lot. I actually worked at a Prefect competitor at Temporal and I'm also very familiar with Dagster. What else would you call out as like particularly interesting in the AI engineering stack?Jason [00:27:13]: Man, I almost use nothing. I just use Cursor and like PyTests. Okay. I think that's basically it. You know, a lot of the observability companies have... The more observability companies I've tried, the more I just use Postgres.Swyx [00:27:29]: Really? Okay. Postgres for observability?Jason [00:27:32]: But the issue really is the fact that these observability companies isn't actually doing observability for the system. It's just doing the LLM thing. Like I still end up using like Datadog or like, you know, Sentry to do like latency. And so I just have those systems handle it. And then the like prompt in, prompt out, latency, token costs. I just put that in like a Postgres table now.Swyx [00:27:51]: So you don't need like 20 funded startups building LLM ops? Yeah.Jason [00:27:55]: But I'm also like an old, tired guy. You know what I mean? Like I think because of my background, it's like, yeah, like the Python stuff, I'll write myself. But you know, I will also just use Vercel happily. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm not really into that world of tooling, whereas I think, you know, I spent three good years building observability tools for recommendation systems. And I was like, oh, compared to that, Instructor is just one call. I just have to put time star, time and then count the prompt token, right? Because I'm not doing a very complex looping behavior. I'm doing mostly workflows and extraction. Yeah.Swyx [00:28:26]: I mean, while we're on this topic, we'll just kind of get this out of the way. You famously have decided to not be a venture backed company. You want to do the consulting route. The obvious route for someone as successful as Instructor is like, oh, here's hosted Instructor with all tooling. Yeah. You just said you had a whole bunch of experience building observability tooling. You have the perfect background to do this and you're not.Jason [00:28:43]: Yeah. Isn't that sick? I think that's sick.Swyx [00:28:44]: I mean, I know why, because you want to go free dive.Jason [00:28:47]: Yeah. Yeah. Because I think there's two things. Right. Well, one, if I tell myself I want to build requests, requests is not a venture backed startup. Right. I mean, one could argue whether or not Postman is, but I think for the most part, it's like having worked so much, I'm more interested in looking at how systems are being applied and just having access to the most interesting data. And I think I can do that more through a consulting business where I can come in and go, oh, you want to build perfect memory. You want to build an agent. You want to build like automations over construction or like insurance and supply chain, or like you want to handle writing private equity, mergers and acquisitions reports based off of user interviews. Those things are super fun. Whereas like maintaining the library, I think is mostly just kind of like a utility that I try to keep up, especially because if it's not venture backed, I have no reason to sort of go down the route of like trying to get a thousand integrations. In my mind, I just go like, okay, 98% of the people use open AI. I'll support that. And if someone contributes another platform, that's great. I'll merge it in. Yeah.Swyx [00:29:45]: I mean, you only added Anthropic support this year. Yeah.Jason [00:29:47]: Yeah. You couldn't even get an API key until like this year, right? That's true. Okay. If I add it like last year, I was trying to like double the code base to service, you know, half a percent of all downloads.Swyx [00:29:58]: Do you think the market share will shift a lot now that Anthropic has like a very, very competitive offering?Jason [00:30:02]: I think it's still hard to get API access. I don't know if it's fully GA now, if it's GA, if you can get a commercial access really easily.Alessio [00:30:12]: I got commercial after like two weeks to reach out to their sales team.Jason [00:30:14]: Okay.Alessio [00:30:15]: Yeah.Swyx [00:30:16]: Two weeks. It's not too bad. There's a call list here. And then anytime you run into rate limits, just like ping one of the Anthropic staff members.Jason [00:30:21]: Yeah. Then maybe we need to like cut that part out. So I don't need to like, you know, spread false news.Swyx [00:30:25]: No, it's cool. It's cool.Jason [00:30:26]: But it's a common question. Yeah. Surely just from the price perspective, it's going to make a lot of sense. Like if you are a business, you should totally consider like Sonnet, right? Like the cost savings is just going to justify it if you actually are doing things at volume. And yeah, I think the SDK is like pretty good. Back to the instructor thing. I just don't think it's a billion dollar company. And I think if I raise money, the first question is going to be like, how are you going to get a billion dollar company? And I would just go like, man, like if I make a million dollars as a consultant, I'm super happy. I'm like more than ecstatic. I can have like a small staff of like three people. It's fun. And I think a lot of my happiest founder friends are those who like raised a tiny seed round, became profitable. They're making like 70, 60, 70, like MRR, 70,000 MRR and they're like, we don't even need to raise the seed round. Let's just keep it like between me and my co-founder, we'll go traveling and it'll be a great time. I think it's a lot of fun.Alessio [00:31:15]: Yeah. like say LLMs / AI and they build some open source stuff and it's like I should just raise money and do this and I tell people a lot it's like look you can make a lot more money doing something else than doing a startup like most people that do a company could make a lot more money just working somewhere else than the company itself do you have any advice for folks that are maybe in a similar situation they're trying to decide oh should I stay in my like high paid FAANG job and just tweet this on the side and do this on github should I go be a consultant like being a consultant seems like a lot of work so you got to talk to all these people you know there's a lot to unpackJason [00:31:54]: I think the open source thing is just like well I'm just doing it purely for fun and I'm doing it because I think I'm right but part of being right is the fact that it's not a venture backed startup like I think I'm right because this is all you need right so I think a part of the philosophy is the fact that all you need is a very sharp blade to sort of do your work and you don't actually need to build like a big enterprise so that's one thing I think the other thing too that I've kind of been thinking around just because I have a lot of friends at google that want to leave right now it's like man like what we lack is not money or skill like what we lack is courage you should like you just have to do this a hard thing and you have to do it scared anyways right in terms of like whether or not you do want to do a founder I think that's just a matter of optionality but I definitely recognize that the like expected value of being a founder is still quite low it is right I know as many founder breakups and as I know friends who raised a seed round this year right like that is like the reality and like you know even in from that perspective it's been tough where it's like oh man like a lot of incubators want you to have co-founders now you spend half the time like fundraising and then trying to like meet co-founders and find co-founders rather than building the thing this is a lot of time spent out doing uh things I'm not really good at. I do think there's a rising trend in solo founding yeah.Swyx [00:33:06]: You know I am a solo I think that something like 30 percent of like I forget what the exact status something like 30 percent of starters that make it to like series B or something actually are solo founder I feel like this must have co-founder idea mostly comes from YC and most everyone else copies it and then plenty of companies break up over co-founderJason [00:33:27]: Yeah and I bet it would be like I wonder how much of it is the people who don't have that much like and I hope this is not a diss to anybody but it's like you sort of you go through the incubator route because you don't have like the social equity you would need is just sort of like send an email to Sequoia and be like hey I'm going on this ride you want a ticket on the rocket ship right like that's very hard to sell my message if I was to raise money is like you've seen my twitter my life is sick I've decided to make it much worse by being a founder because this is something I have to do so do you want to come along otherwise I want to fund it myself like if I can't say that like I don't need the money because I can like handle payroll and like hire an intern and get an assistant like that's all fine but I really don't want to go back to meta I want to like get two years to like try to find a problem we're solving that feels like a bad timeAlessio [00:34:12]: Yeah Jason is like I wear a YSL jacket on stage at AI Engineer Summit I don't need your accelerator moneyJason [00:34:18]: And boots, you don't forget the boots. But I think that is a part of it right I think it is just like optionality and also just like I'm a lot older now I think 22 year old Jason would have been probably too scared and now I'm like too wise but I think it's a matter of like oh if you raise money you have to have a plan of spending it and I'm just not that creative with spending that much money yeah I mean to be clear you just celebrated your 30th birthday happy birthday yeah it's awesome so next week a lot older is relative to some some of the folks I think seeing on the career tipsAlessio [00:34:48]: I think Swix had a great post about are you too old to get into AI I saw one of your tweets in January 23 you applied to like Figma, Notion, Cohere, Anthropic and all of them rejected you because you didn't have enough LLM experience I think at that time it would be easy for a lot of people to say oh I kind of missed the boat you know I'm too late not gonna make it you know any advice for people that feel like thatJason [00:35:14]: Like the biggest learning here is actually from a lot of folks in jiu-jitsu they're like oh man like is it too late to start jiu-jitsu like I'll join jiu-jitsu once I get in more shape right it's like there's a lot of like excuses and then you say oh like why should I start now I'll be like 45 by the time I'm any good and say well you'll be 45 anyways like time is passing like if you don't start now you start tomorrow you're just like one more day behind if you're worried about being behind like today is like the soonest you can start right and so you got to recognize that like maybe you just don't want it and that's fine too like if you wanted you would have started I think a lot of these people again probably think of things on a too short time horizon but again you know you're gonna be old anyways you may as well just start now you knowSwyx [00:35:55]: One more thing on I guess the um career advice slash sort of vlogging you always go viral for this post that you wrote on advice to young people and the lies you tell yourself oh yeah yeah you said you were writing it for your sister.Jason [00:36:05]: She was like bummed out about going to college and like stressing about jobs and I was like oh and I really want to hear okay and I just kind of like text-to-sweep the whole thing it's crazy it's got like 50,000 views like I'm mind I mean your average tweet has more but that thing is like a 30-minute read nowSwyx [00:36:26]: So there's lots of stuff here which I agree with I you know I'm also of occasionally indulge in the sort of life reflection phase there's the how to be lucky there's the how to have high agency I feel like the agency thing is always a trend in sf or just in tech circles how do you define having high agencyJason [00:36:42]: I'm almost like past the high agency phase now now my biggest concern is like okay the agency is just like the norm of the vector what also matters is the direction right it's like how pure is the shot yeah I mean I think agency is just a matter of like having courage and doing the thing that's scary right you know if people want to go rock climbing it's like do you decide you want to go rock climbing then you show up to the gym you rent some shoes and you just fall 40 times or do you go like oh like I'm actually more intelligent let me go research the kind of shoes that I want okay like there's flatter shoes and more inclined shoes like which one should I get okay let me go order the shoes on Amazon I'll come back in three days like oh it's a little bit too tight maybe it's too aggressive I'm only a beginner let me go change no I think the higher agent person just like goes and like falls down 20 times right yeah I think the higher agency person is more focused on like process metrics versus outcome metrics right like from pottery like one thing I learned was if you want to be good at pottery you shouldn't count like the number of cups or bowls you make you should just weigh the amount of clay you use right like the successful person says oh I went through 100 pounds of clay right the less agency was like oh I've made six cups and then after I made six cups like there's not really what are you what do you do next no just pounds of clay pounds of clay same with the work here right so you just got to write the tweets like make the commits contribute open source like write the documentation there's no real outcome it's just a process and if you love that process you just get really good at the thing you're doingSwyx [00:38:04]: yeah so just to push back on this because obviously I mostly agree how would you design performance review systems because you were effectively saying we can count lines of code for developers rightJason [00:38:15]: I don't think that would be the actual like I think if you make that an outcome like I can just expand a for loop right I think okay so for performance review this is interesting because I've mostly thought of it from the perspective of science and not engineering I've been running a lot of engineering stand-ups primarily because there's not really that many machine learning folks the process outcome is like experiments and ideas right like if you think about outcome is what you might want to think about an outcome is oh I want to improve the revenue or whatnot but that's really hard but if you're someone who is going out like okay like this week I want to come up with like three or four experiments I might move the needle okay nothing worked to them they might think oh nothing worked like I suck but to me it's like wow you've closed off all these other possible avenues for like research like you're gonna get to the place that you're gonna figure out that direction really soon there's no way you try 30 different things and none of them work usually like 10 of them work five of them work really well two of them work really really well and one thing was like the nail in the head so agency lets you sort of capture the volume of experiments and like experience lets you figure out like oh that other half it's not worth doing right I think experience is going like half these prompting papers don't make any sense just use chain of thought and just you know use a for loop that's basically right it's like usually performance for me is around like how many experiments are you running how oftentimes are you trying.Alessio [00:39:32]: When do you give up on an experiment because a StitchFix you kind of give up on language models I guess in a way as a tool to use and then maybe the tools got better you were right at the time and then the tool improved I think there are similar paths in my engineering career where I try one approach and at the time it doesn't work and then the thing changes but then I kind of soured on that approach and I don't go back to it soonJason [00:39:51]: I see yeah how do you think about that loop so usually when I'm coaching folks and as they say like oh these things don't work I'm not going to pursue them in the future like one of the big things like hey the negative result is a result and this is something worth documenting like this is an academia like if it's negative you don't just like not publish right but then like what do you actually write down like what you should write down is like here are the conditions this is the inputs and the outputs we tried the experiment on and then one thing that's really valuable is basically writing down under what conditions would I revisit these experiments these things don't work because of what we had at the time if someone is reading this two years from now under what conditions will we try again that's really hard but again that's like another skill you kind of learn right it's like you do go back and you do experiments you figure out why it works now I think a lot of it here is just like scaling worked yeah rap lyrics you know that was because I did not have high enough quality data if we phase shift and say okay you don't even need training data oh great then it might just work a different domainAlessio [00:40:48]: Do you have anything in your list that is like it doesn't work now but I want to try it again later? Something that people should maybe keep in mind you know people always like agi when you know when are you going to know the agi is here maybe it's less than that but any stuff that you tried recently that didn't work thatJason [00:41:01]: You think will get there I mean I think the personal assistance and the writing I've shown to myself it's just not good enough yet so I hired a writer and I hired a personal assistant so now I'm gonna basically like work with these people until I figure out like what I can actually like automate and what are like the reproducible steps but like I think the experiment for me is like I'm gonna go pay a person like thousand dollars a month that helped me improve my life and then let me get them to help me figure like what are the components and how do I actually modularize something to get it to work because it's not just like a lot gmail calendar and like notion it's a little bit more complicated than that but we just don't know what that is yet those are two sort of systems that I wish gb4 or opus was actually good enough to just write me an essay but most of the essays are still pretty badSwyx [00:41:44]: yeah I would say you know on the personal assistance side Lindy is probably the one I've seen the most flow was at a speaker at the summit I don't know if you've checked it out or any other sort of agents assistant startupJason [00:41:54]: Not recently I haven't tried lindy they were not ga last time I was considering it yeah yeah a lot of it now it's like oh like really what I want you to do is take a look at all of my meetings and like write like a really good weekly summary email for my clients to remind them that I'm like you know thinking of them and like working for them right or it's like I want you to notice that like my monday is like way too packed and like block out more time and also like email the people to do the reschedule and then try to opt in to move them around and then I want you to say oh jason should have like a 15 minute prep break after form back to back those are things that now I know I can prompt them in but can it do it well like before I didn't even know that's what I wanted to prompt for us defragging a calendar and adding break so I can like eat lunch yeah that's the AGI test yeah exactly compassion right I think one thing that yeah we didn't touch on it before butAlessio [00:42:44]: I think was interesting you had this tweet a while ago about prompts should be code and then there were a lot of companies trying to build prompt engineering tooling kind of trying to turn the prompt into a more structured thing what's your thought today now you want to turn the thinking into DAGs like do prompts should still be code any updated ideasJason [00:43:04]: It's the same thing right I think you know with Instructor it is very much like the output model is defined as a code object that code object is sent to the LLM and in return you get a data structure so the outputs of these models I think should also be code objects and the inputs somewhat should be code objects but I think the one thing that instructor tries to do is separate instruction data and the types of the output and beyond that I really just think that most of it should be still like managed pretty closely to the developer like so much of is changing that if you give control of these systems away too early you end up ultimately wanting them back like many companies I know that I reach out or ones were like oh we're going off of the frameworks because now that we know what the business outcomes we're trying to optimize for these frameworks don't work yeah because we do rag but we want to do rag to like sell you supplements or to have you like schedule the fitness appointment the prompts are kind of too baked into the systems to really pull them back out and like start doing upselling or something it's really funny but a lot of it ends up being like once you understand the business outcomes you care way more about the promptSwyx [00:44:07]: Actually this is fun in our prep for this call we were trying to say like what can you as an independent person say that maybe me and Alessio cannot say or me you know someone at a company say what do you think is the market share of the frameworks the LangChain, the LlamaIndex, the everything...Jason [00:44:20]: Oh massive because not everyone wants to care about the code yeah right I think that's a different question to like what is the business model and are they going to be like massively profitable businesses right making hundreds of millions of dollars that feels like so straightforward right because not everyone is a prompt engineer like there's so much productivity to be captured in like back office optim automations right it's not because they care about the prompts that they care about managing these things yeah but those would be sort of low code experiences you yeah I think the bigger challenge is like okay hundred million dollars probably pretty easy it's just time and effort and they have the manpower and the money to sort of solve those problems again if you go the vc route then it's like you're talking about billions and that's really the goal that stuff for me it's like pretty unclear but again that is to say that like I sort of am building things for developers who want to use infrastructure to build their own tooling in terms of the amount of developers there are in the world versus downstream consumers of these things or even just think of how many companies will use like the adobes and the ibms right because they want something that's fully managed and they want something that they know will work and if the incremental 10% requires you to hire another team of 20 people you might not want to do it and I think that kind of organization is really good for uh those are bigger companiesSwyx [00:45:32]: I just want to capture your thoughts on one more thing which is you said you wanted most of the prompts to stay close to the developer and Hamel Husain wrote this post which I really love called f you show me the prompt yeah I think he cites you in one of those part of the blog post and I think ds pi is kind of like the complete antithesis of that which is I think it's interesting because I also hold the strong view that AI is a better prompt engineer than you are and I don't know how to square that wondering if you have thoughtsJason [00:45:58]: I think something like DSPy can work because there are like very short-term metrics to measure success right it is like did you find the pii or like did you write the multi-hop question the correct way but in these workflows that I've been managing a lot of it are we minimizing churn and maximizing retention yeah that's a very long loop it's not really like a uptuna like training loop right like those things are much more harder to capture so we don't actually have those metrics for that right and obviously we can figure out like okay is the summary good but like how do you measure the quality of the summary it's like that feedback loop it ends up being a lot longer and then again when something changes it's really hard to make sure that it works across these like newer models or again like changes to work for the current process like when we migrate from like anthropic to open ai like there's just a ton of change that are like infrastructure related not necessarily around the prompt itself yeah cool any other ai engineering startups that you think should not exist before we wrap up i mean oh my gosh i mean a lot of it again it's just like every time of investors like how does this make a billion dollars like it doesn't i'm gonna go back to just like tweeting and holding my breath underwater yeah like i don't really pay attention too much to most of this like most of the stuff i'm doing is around like the consumer of like llm calls yep i think people just want to move really fast and they will end up pick these vendors but i don't really know if anything has really like blown me out the water like i only trust myself but that's also a function of just being an old man like i think you know many companies are definitely very happy with using most of these tools anyways but i definitely think i occupy a very small space in the engineering ecosystem.Swyx [00:47:41]: Yeah i would say one of the challenges here you know you call about the dealing in the consumer of llm's space i think that's what ai engineering differs from ml engineering and i think a constant disconnect or cognitive dissonance in this field in the ai engineers that have sprung up is that they are not as good as the ml engineers they are not as qualified i think that you know you are someone who has credibility in the mle space and you are also a very authoritative figure in the ai space and i think so and you know i think you've built the de facto leading library i think yours i think instructors should be part of the standard lib even though i try to not use it like i basically also end up rebuilding instructor right like that's a lot of the back and forth that we had over the past two days i think that's the fundamental thing that we're trying to figure out like there's very small supply of MLEs not everyone's going to have that experience that you had but the global demand for AI is going to far outstrip the existing MLEs.Jason [00:48:36]: So what do we do do we force everyone to go through the standard MLE curriculum or do we make a new one? 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This week we're joined by Nigel Banks, Technical Director - Zero Bills & Low Carbon Homes at Octopus Energy.Nigel joined us to discuss his recent article: Fabric Fifth, a slightly polemical riposte to fabric-first dogma, and an interesting philosophy for retrofit. As it turned out, it's an apposite follow-up to last week's episode with Fionn Stevenson.Fabric Fifth - Nigel BanksASHPs ASAPGet SmartMeasure & get comfySolar & StorageFabric FifthWe also touch on Octopus's zero-bills proposition, but we'll do a full episode about that soon.Notes from the showNigel on LinkedInThe Fabric Fifth article itselfAn article about Chris Warboys' SAP conversion toolThe academic paper Jeff mentions: UK Passivhaus and the energy performance gapNigel in the pages of Passive House Plus**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn pageJeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User ExperienceSubscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon UpfrontJoin ACANJoin the AECB Join the IGBCCheck out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way)**END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**
This inspirational episode features Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil, a former NFL player and professional athlete turned commercial and affordable housing investor. Yannik focuses on the truth about the life of an athlete, what fueled his desire to enter the real estate investing business, and his current mission to support local communities and investors through his affordable housing projects. Learn more about the rewards of affordable housing assets by tuning in today!Key Points & Relevant TopicsYannik as a former NFL player and the beginning of his entrepreneurial journey as an investorYannik's life as an immigrant that influenced his desire to become a professional athleteChallenges and realities in the life of an NFL or professional athleteWhat makes real estate a great generational wealth-creation toolThe worth of spending for mentorship and education in real estateWays to apply athletic skills and traits to business and real estate investing What is affordable housing and its difference from typical housingOperational costs and challenges involved in owning affordable housing investmentsTax benefits and other advantages of investing in affordable housing for investorsDifficulties investors and syndicators are facing in today's market The role of good communication in setting expectations for investorsMerlynn Real Estate Partners and its goalsWork-life balance managementResources & LinksDownload the Due Diligence Guide for Real Estate Investors and FREE ebook “Cash Flow is King” by visiting https://www.merlynnrep.com/guide. Apartment Syndication Due Diligence Checklist for Passive InvestorAbout Yannik Cudjoe-VirgilYannik Cudjoe-Virgil is the Managing Partner of Merlynn Real Estate Partners - a real estate development and investment management firm. Merlynn Real Estate Partners primarily focuses on the acquisition and development of affordable housing assets. Prior to real estate, Yannik played Linebacker in the NFL for Tennessee Titans, and formally transitioned into real estate in 2018. Yannik's experience in residential and commercial real estate began as an Asset Manager by trade for both retail and institutionally-capitalized real estate private equity firms, where he led the strategic oversight of large multidisciplinary commercial real estate portfolios with over $2B+ in AUM. Get in Touch with YannikWebsite: https://www.merlynnrep.com/ LinkedIn: Yannik Cudjoe-VirgilTo Connect With UsPlease visit our website www.bonavestcapital.com and click here to leave a rating and written review!
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In this episode, we're joined by Mark Thompson and Hill Dickerson from BuilderPad. Mark and Hill co-founded BuilderPad in 2021 to bridge the trust and communication gaps often seen in construction projects. BuilderPad aims to streamline construction project management, enhance trust between parties involved, and improve overall communication, all contributing to more successful and efficient project completion. We talk about the customer experience from a technical standpoint and how BuilderPad makes the process more efficient.Some themes we cover in this episode:The background of BuilderPad and how the co-founders got startedHow BuilderPad smooths the customer experience process and creates more transparencyHow modes of communication are changing for younger generationsThe BuilderPad service as a customer relationship management and customer service toolThe specific features of scheduling, communication, selections, and filingWhat the role of the salesperson is in the BuilderPad processAnd don't miss this week's Peer Learning Question of the Week, where our guests walk through how salespeople can engage their buyers more effectively during the home building process.Connect with Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrthompson/Connect with Hill: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hill-dickerson/Learn about BuilderPqd: https://builderpad.comConnect with New Home Star: https://www.newhomestar.com
In this episode of "Your Confident Self," we explore how to defuse critical thoughts by embracing the worst-case scenario. Host Allegra M. Sinclair shares insightful strategies to help you conquer your inner critic and harness the power of adversity to propel yourself forward.Unleashing the Power of the Worst-Case ScenarioAllegra delves into the concept of the worst-case scenario as an exaggerated belief about the outcome of a situation, often exacerbating our fears and uncertainties.She highlights the tendency of our minds to gravitate towards catastrophic possibilities, leading to undue stress and anxiety, and how most worst-case scenarios never actually materialize.The power of embracing worst-case scenarios lies in leveraging past experiences to understand that our fears are often unfounded, providing valuable insights into managing future challenges with confidence and resilience.Confronting the Worst-Case ScenarioAllegra emphasizes the pivotal step of confronting the worst-case scenario by asking, "What's the worst thing that could happen?" to gain invaluable perspective and insight.By facing the worst-case scenario head-on, you can transition into problem-solving mode, enabling you to approach challenges analytically rather than succumbing to fear and anxiety.This practice empowers women to take control of critical thoughts, interrupt repetitive negative narratives, and shift into a mindset focused on practical problem-solving and forward movement.Harnessing the Worst-Case Scenario as a ToolThe act of confronting the worst-case scenario serves as an empowering tool to transform fear into an opportunity for growth and empowerment.Allegra emphasizes the shift in perspective that occurs when we consider the actual likelihood of the worst-case scenario and its potential impact, enabling us to move forward with confidence and clarity.By reframing the worst-case scenario as a tool for progress, women can overcome their inner critic and propel themselves towards their aspirations with newfound resilience and determination.Defeating the Inner Critic and Building ConfidenceThe ability to face challenging situations with a strategic mindset and analytical approach fosters a sense of empowerment, enabling individuals to navigate uncertainties with clarity and resourcefulness.Allegra emphasizes the transformational potential of embracing the worst-case scenario as a means to overcome self-doubt, build confidence, and propel oneself towards unprecedented personal and professional growth.The Path to Empowerment and Self-AssuranceBy embracing the worst-case scenario as a valuable tool in overcoming critical thoughts, individuals can cultivate a resilient and self-assured mindset, ultimately embarking on a transformative journey towards conquering their inner critic.The strategic application of worst-case scenario analysis empowers individuals to approach challenges with clarity, resourcefulness, and confidence, transforming potential obstacles into opportunities for growth and advancement.Through this empowered perspective, high-achieving women can harness the inherent power of adversity to propel themselves forward, conquer self-doubt, and unlock their full potential in both their personal and professional endeavors.In conclusion, by confronting the worst-case scenario head-on, you have the power to shift from fear to empowerment, equipping yourself with the tools that are necessary to navigate challenges and reach new heights of success. Join us in the next empowering episode of 'Your Confident Self' as we continue to provide invaluable tools and insights to help you overcome obstacles, achieve your dreams, and unleash your full potential. Remember, you are capable
Accreditation in the U.S. is unique in many ways — one reason why understanding how it works across all the various levels is so important. We spoke with André Foisy, Executive Director for Institutional Effectiveness and Strategic Planning Analytics at Excelsior University, regarding his time as a recent CHEA Fellow to get an inside look at how CHEA develops, initiates, and enforces various policies and requirements. Though CHEA is the accreditor of accreditors, institutions are also their members who they serve and support as well. According to André, embracing an anthropological lens to understanding the nuances of accreditation can help educational establishments better understand what accreditation means, how to achieve each standard, and how to best leverage accreditation for positive outcomes.Join us as we discuss:How institutional accreditation is interpreted, negotiated, and leveraged as a vital toolThe importance of Linda Suskie's five dimensions of quality and the influence of these on André's work with signals of qualityThe impact of AALHE on the assessment community
What is it about the mind that causes so much suffering?The truth is, the mind itself is not the problem. Our mind is programmed to do one job and one job only - survive and be alert to potential threats. So, in an effort to protect us from harm, the brain causes us harm by ruminating about past trauma and worrying about the future.In this episode, we'll break down the human mind and the source of all our suffering as a species. I'll also share the easiest way to experience true freedom in your life and a practical exercise to help you overcome negative thinking. What Is Covered:All you need to know about the human mind and our thoughtsWhat happens when you're trying to control the mindIs it possible to actually stop thinking?Understand that the mind is designed to be a survival toolThe benefits of writing down your thoughtsPractical exercise to destroy negative thinkingHow to gain control over the human need for survivalWays to experience true freedom in your lifeThe pros and cons of daily affirmationsThe exercise of Stoking the mindResources: Access your free gift: https://nickyclinch.lpages.co/gift-btc/Visit my website: https://nickyclinch.com/ Find me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicky_clinch/ Find me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nickyclinchmaturation Let's connect on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/company/nicky-clinch-surrender
Can you believe it?? Today is the last day of the shenanigans, and goodness it's a good one!! On today's episode of the Wake Up & Be Wealthy show, Nellie talks about the 3 C's needed to make more money!!!!She touches on:Money is a toolThe 3 C'sThe importance of setting up structure for your business.How these 3 C's can create more ease, flow and fun!If you'd like to work with Nellie one-on-one with customized support for you and your business, apply here!!https://keap.app/contact-us/6765279463762925
FF 56 - Deal Case Study - Real Time Analysis of a Mike and Dan DealOn today's Friday Focus episode, our host Dan Austin joins us to dissect a real time analysis of a deal Mike and Dan are currently in. Dan hopes to give you a full picture of how deals start out and the initial numbers that are worked out, where they will eventually share how the deal completes as it happens in the coming episodes.Dan goes over how this deal came in and the marketing involved, the type of home and seller they were dealing with, the type of financing that is out there and the hierarchy of what is best, the type of financing that was used for this deal, their thought process while running the numbers, as well as the final initial quote and deal they all agreed on.This deal case study is being presented as a tool to understand how deals go down in real time and how the initial numbers may or may not match the outcome. Either way, join us on the journey of this deal to find out how it goes!Topics discussed in this episode:How the deal came inThe type of home and its value according to Mike and DanThe key to a real estate investor's business: convenienceWhy we need to start using creative financing as a toolThe seller financing negotiation that took placeThe final initial numbers agreed onRisks and opportunities with this property and dealIf you're an established investor with money to invest, but not the time, check out the Instant Investor PRO Program! https://www.collectingkeyspodcast.com/storeCheck out the NEW Big Dan Energy shirt (and more!) in the Collecting Keys Merch Store: https://store.collectingkeyspodcast.com/Download the FREE 5-Step Guide To Generating Off Market Leads here: https://www.collectingkeyspodcast.com/freeIf you are interested in learning from Dan and Mike to receive coaching and learn how they built their business, head to https://www.instantinvestorprogram.com and see if you are a good fit for the mastermind group!Collecting Keys Podcast Resources:https://www.collectingkeyspodcast.comhttps://www.instagram.com/collectingkeyspodcast/https://www.instantinvestorprogram.com/https://www.instagram.com/mike_invests/https://www.instagram.com/investormandan/This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.com
Welcome to Wellthy Living Conversation episode 71In this episode I'm speaking a very special woman and someone I feel blessed to call a friend, Nathalie Brewer.Nathalie is a true survivor who has faced numerous cancer diagnosis and emerged stronger every time. Nathalie's journey is one of resilience, and embracing life's uncertainties while playing the 'long game' with cancer. Over the past seven years, she has experienced remission multiple times, always hopeful that the cancer had completely gone. Her story is one of such strength and grace and an inspiring testament to the power of the human spirit and the profound meaning that can be found in life's most challenging moments. For regular listeners you may remember an a conversation I had with Nathalie in July 2018 were we discussed Nathalies cancer journey from diagnosis to thriving. If you haven't listened I highly recommend you do, it's EP 12: Occupy your body: One womans cancer diagnosis and her journey to thrivingIn this epiosde Nathalie caught us up on whats been happening in her life, particularly in regards to her cancer journey, since July 2018.Spoiler alert: Her cancer came back, this time to her lungs....you'll have to listen to find out the details, the impact and the outcome.We discussed:Nathalie's most significant turning points that shaped her experienceNavigating the challenges and uncertainties of her journeyHow the power of presense was a key healing toolThe power of mindset and the role that her "attitudinal" muscle played in her healingThe importance of discipline and devotionJuggling personal well-being and professional growth and motherhoodMaintaining meaningful connections with others, while facing the ups and downs of cancerStrategies employed to bounce back from setbacksEmbracing the Beauty of Life and Deathand more....Themes included: Faith, trust, surrender, acceptance, self forgiveness, discipline, curiosity, connection, love.I hope this epiosde and it inpires you to live a well, connected and meaningful life both personally and professionally.What's your biggest insight or takeaway from todays conversation. Leave a comment and let us know. All episodes can be found HERE or on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube, or wherever you listen to your podcasts.To listen to my intial conversation with Nathalie go to EP 12: Occupy your body: One womans cancer diagnosis and her journey to thrivingPlease leave a review and share the episode with your network and consider subscribing to the Wellthy Living Conversations podcast on iTunes and Youtube so you can listen to more conversations with wonderful humans whose stories, knowledge, actionable ideas and wisdom can help you to live a meaningful, connected and well life, both personally and professionally.I'm Lisa, a facilitator and coach for life, leadership and workplace welbeing. To find out more about my services you can visit my website www.wellthyliving.com.au or connect with me on all social media channels.Until next time remember connection is medicine.
Steven Washington is a Movement Master, Author, and Recovery Advocate who is passionate about helping others navigate towards a happier, healthier life. His lifelong love and a key foundation to his own spiritual fitness is 'movement' and he firmly believes our relationship with our body is vital for emotional, physical, and spiritual health. Steven's online members' community, SWE Studio, offers 300+ mindful movement video classes and wellness resources including Pilates, Qigong, Meditation, Laughter Medicine, and more for the body, mind, and soul.Steven had a successful career as a contemporary dancer, working at New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and appearing on Broadway in Disney's, The Lion King but often used drugs and alcohol to cope with anxiety and self-doubt. Since making the conscious decision to get sober twenty years ago, he has impacted countless lives through movement and his keen ability to connect and relate to others. During his study of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Steven discovered a love for the ancient Chinese movement practice of Qigong and became a Certified Qigong Instructor. Added to that, Steven is a Pilates teacher and has taught individuals and groups for over 20 years. Steven's writings, articles, and life experiences created the inspiration for his first book, Recovering You, Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction. Published by New World Library, the book's unique self-care focus is complemented by the use of Qigong movements. Steven hosts a monthly Heart/Mind Moments YouTube series with videos on physical, emotional, and spiritual health, and his movement and mindfulness work has received over one million views on YouTube.In this beautiful conversation, we talked about:Steven's spiritual awakening and recovery pathHow humans might use addiction to numb pain and shameHis journey from a Broadway performer to a Qi-Gong masterWhat is Qi-Gong? And what is the difference between Qi-Gong and Tai Chi?Why Yoga might be more mainstream than these traditional Chinese practicesMovement as medicine: how does movement heal? How we can connect more deeply with the intelligence of our physical bodyPractical tips to start using movement and mindfulness as a healing toolThe role of the heart and mind in the healing journey ⭐ Steven's website: https://stevenwashingtonexperience.com⭐ Steven's book "Recovering You: Soul Care and Mindful Movement for Overcoming Addiction": https://tinyurl.com/recoveringyouConnect with Steven:
What about your current brand identity draws in the most people?Marketing experts say you need professional photos, brand colors, a logo, compelling content, a gorgeous website, and so much more, but these things aren't the real secret to creating a binge-worthy brand.Today's guest, Jay Jay, is trusted by some of the most notable brands in history, and he's here to reveal how you can build a brand people can't get enough of!Inside this episode, you're going to learn:How Jay created his brand identity as a magician that led him to 57 million views on YouTube Why your presence is your greatest marketing toolThe way you can build a brand people will rave aboutConnect with Jay:Ace of Spades AgencyInstagramLinkedInSupport the show_____________ Liked this episode? Pay it forward and share it with a friend. Love the show? Write a 5-star review — even one sentence helps us keep bringing you the content you want to hear. More from Courtney: Website: theeffortlesslife.co Instagram: @thecourtneyelmer
Navigating the Future of Chatbots, API Collaboration, and the Importance of Building Sustainable BusinessesIn this episode of Entrepreneurs Take Africa, our host Marc Israel sits down with Antoine Paillusseau, the CEO of fcb.ai, to discuss the power of AI in shaping the future of conversational solutions and the importance of building sustainable businesses.Key discussion points include:The benefits of AI and chatbot technology in improving customer experienceHow fcb.ai is integrating GPT-4 into their platformChallenges faced during the development and growth of the companyUpcoming projects and initiatives, including an AI-powered negotiation toolThe importance of collaboration and opening up APIs for a more inclusive approachMoving towards productizing and focusing on sustainable business modelsAdvice for aspiring entrepreneurs in AfricaMentions and Links:fcb.ai: https://www.fcb.aiGPT-4 by OpenAI: https://openai.com/IBM Watson: https://www.ibm.com/watsonIn this insightful conversation, Antoine shares the incredible opportunities presented by AI and conversational solutions, such as enhancing customer experiences and promoting collaboration. He also discusses the challenges in recruitment, sales, and building a sustainable business model.Antoine highlights the upcoming projects and initiatives that fcb.ai is excited about, including an AI-powered negotiation tool and the opening up of APIs for a more collaborative approach to their technology.Finally, Antoine shares invaluable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Africa, emphasizing the importance of storytelling, building sustainable businesses, and focusing on inclusivity and multiculturalism.Don't miss out on this fascinating discussion on the future of AI, chatbots, and the essential role they play in the ever-evolving landscape of technology and business. Listen now!
Give a warm welcome back to Therapist, NYT Bestselling Author, and Relationship Expert, Nedra Glover Tawwab—with another beautiful conversation. Family dynamics are complicated, but Nedra and Jessica's inspirational conversation will give you advice for identifying dysfunctional family patterns and choosing the best path to breaking the cycle and move forward. Whether that's in your own family relationships, in-laws, or, blended familes. They go deep into breaking generational trauma and enmeshment and understanding what we can learn about adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). If you're ready to hear actionable advice and game-changing reframes on exactly how you can start to strengthen your own family systems, this episode was recorded for you. We're talking about taking accountability for your own behavior, using anger as a healthy emotional tool, the ways in which we're all always mirroring each other, and more mind-blowing familial concepts. Nedra even gives us an overview on her new book that goes way deeper into managing family relationships. Nedra, we are so thrilled to have you back.Find the Complete Show Notes Here -> https://tobemagnetic.com/expanded-podcast In This Episode We Talk About:A beautiful conversation about healthy relationships, change and authenticity with return guest Nedra Glover Tawwab!How to develop and maintain healthy family dynamicsGenerational trauma, enmeshment, emotional maturityAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and what we can learn from themMaking shifts to stand in your own boundariesHow relationships with parents and partners mirror each otherFocusing on our own behavior as opposed to changing othersThe power of friendship & mentorshipBreaking cycles in family dynamicsReframing anger into a healthy emotional toolThe energetics of ghosting THEMES / TIME STAMPS:An overview of Nedra's new book and how to manage unhealthy family relationships! (00:08:25)Generational trauma and how it can affect us in the present day (00:18:00)Breaking cycles in family dynamics and creating change (00:41:55) Resources: Text Us: +1-213-423-5226 - (texting is only for US, Canada, & Puerto Rico)Alexis Smart x TBM EXPANDED Flower RemedyTBM Manifestation Journal Start Your Manifestation Process with the Pathway Membership? - Use code EXPANDED for $20 off your first month of The Pathway or $20 off any a la carte workshop. Did you Finish the Manifestation Challenge?Share your experience with us! Bon Charge - 15% off with code MAGNETICInfrared Sauna Blanket KajabiTry Kajabi all in one business platform free for 30 days with TBM link! Find all workshops mentioned inside our Pathway Membership!Expanded x Ep. 147: Nedra Glover Tawwab on Setting Boundaries & Honoring ThemDrama Free: A Guide To Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships - Nedra Glover Tawwab (book)Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide To Reclaiming Yourself - Nedra Glover Tawwab (book)Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Quiz Where To Find Nedra!@NedraTawwabNedraTawwab.comSet Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide To Reclaiming Yourself - Nedra Glover Tawwab (book)Drama Free: A Guide To Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships - Nedra Glover Tawwab (book) SubmitSubmit to Be a Process Guest
Are your customers satisfied? Yawn.Show Notes:[00:02:00] PART1:The concept of customer satisfactionThe importance of satisfying customersThe issue of using satisfaction as a metricThe evolution of customer satisfaction measurementsThe early days of customer satisfaction measurementsThe rise of the Net Promoter Score (NPS)[00:10:00] PART2:Critiques of the NPSThe problems with using NPS as a sole measurement toolThe challenge of interpreting and acting on NPS scoresAlternatives to NPSThe 1-to-5 rating scale and its benefitsThe importance of focusing on the experience rather than the score[00:22:50] PART3:Critiquing the NPS methodologyThe arbitrary nature of the 1-to-10 scaleThe limitations of measuring intentions rather than actionsImproving customer satisfaction measurementThe value of consistency in measurementThe importance of actionable insights from survey dataThe power of unexpected, exceptional experiencesThe difference between satisfying and delighting customersThe significance of being proactive in creating memorable customer experiencesConclusion:Thank you for listening to the B2B Marketing and Sales PodcastEncouraging listeners to subscribe, rate, and review the podcastPlease note that the time indications are approximate and may not correspond exactly to the actual podcast content.=============Follow Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidloomis/Follow Steve:https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveamiller/
Get a FREE “Fake News Stops Here” mug when you buy an annual subscription to The Texan: https://go.thetexan.news/mug-fake-news-stops-here-2022/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=weekly_roundup The Texan's Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email editor@thetexan.news — they just might be answered on a future podcast. This week on The Texan's Weekly Roundup, the team discusses: Various bills filed to strengthen the Texas Legislature's power, including over local authoritiesA judge ruling that Attorney General Ken Paxton cannot prosecute out-of-state abortionsTwo lawmakers proposing a legislative committee to defend “Texas sovereignty”Speaker Dade Phelan releasing more House priorities, including a revival in some form of Chapter 313A Texas lawmaker filing a bill to let teachers refuse a CDC LGBT inclusivity training toolThe majority of House members signing on as co-authors of the “Save Women's Sports Act”An update to the state's infrastructure plan, increasing its budget from $85 to $100 billionIncumbent Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson running unopposed in the city's upcoming electionThe divide over property tax reform between the House and SenateThe University of Texas system pausing its Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiativesA San Antonio man sentenced to three years in prison for human smugglingThe West Texas Bobcat Competition that has run for 15 years with over 700 teams in 2020
What's the hottest topic right now out in the online business space? If you said “ChatGPT” or another AI program, you are correct! It's what everyone is talking about. We are kicking off our Time Saving Tools series with 4 ethical ways you can use ChatGPT to make the most of your time. Curious? Keep listening!It's not very often that something dominates the conversation the way ChatGPT has the last few months. Since it came out late last year, everywhere you turn, people are talking about the AI-powered chatbot that generates human-like responses to written inputs. Opinions are strong ... people either love the idea or hate it.In this episode, I'm going to share four ways that I'm using ChatGPT.1. ChatGPT can be used as a research toolThe program is conversational ... you ask it questions or make a request, just like you would ask a person, and it responds.You do have to be careful about using ChatGPT for research, because it does not quote its sources unless you ask, and it will state things that are opinions with so much authority, that you think it is a fact, especially when you are dealing with cultural or political-type topics.2. ChatGPT can modify the tone of your writingIt's still your voice, but ChatGPT helps you change the tone to be more appropriate for your audience.3.ChatGPT can help you repurpose your contentInput your podcast episode script or blog post, and ChatGPT can create social media posts or an email promotion from the content you've already written. 4. ChatGPT helps you get off the blank pageIf the blank screen and blinking cursor are big barriers keeping you from making progress, ChatGPT can help you get started until your creative juices get flowing.Let me close with a few tips for using ChatGPT. Remember that the chatbot is not really writing original content. It's aggregating existing content from the internet, and what it comes up with can be a fairly generic composite of the available information.It works better when you make small, incremental requests.The more broad and general the question, the more broad and general the answer.ACTION STEPGo to chat.openai.com and give it a try! Let me know what you think and how it works for you. This is just the beginning of our Time Saving Tools series. Over the next few episodes, I'll share some of my favorite ways that Canva, Trello, and Gmail streamline things for me so I can spend more of my time on the work I really love. Be sure to subscribe or follow the podcast wherever you listen so you don't miss a thing.RESOURCESThese are some of the resources that helped me think through the pros and cons of ChatGPT:AI Made Easy for Christian Business Owners –Free mini-class from Katie HornorChatGPT Has A Bias Problem –Business Insider articleHow to Use ChatGPT and Still Be A Good Person –New York Times article.++++++++++Are you tired from trying to share your God-inspired message while working your full time job? Do you wonder if it's worth it, or even possible, to build a ministry or business on the side?I have good news for you. It is possible. It is worth it. You can do it. Download the Honor System Guide, to help you honor all the work God has given you to do.
In a very special episode this week, we're joined by two experts from the manufacturing industry who are using Parsable to power their digitalization efforts — Jim Carroll, Director of Land and Environment at Holcim, and Steve Switzer, Plant Manager at CEMEX. What's unique about this conversation is that these two leaders from two competing organizations have found common ground in their effort to improve the day-to-day experiences for their frontline workers. By sharing their experiences and exploring common problems that need to be solved, they're helping drive innovation within the industry.Join as we discuss: Factors driving digitalization on the frontlinesThe inefficiencies that occur when using paper-based processesFinding and implementing a digitalization toolThe power of partnering with ParsableResults and impacts they've accomplished with their team
Clarissa has always lived more in the world of daydream and fiction than in reality. In her writing she explores purpose and belonging across worlds. Having never found an actual portal to faeryland, she creates her own fantastical worlds where dragons, fae and other magical creatures rule.She now lives in the Netherlands with her family, where she writes as much as they will let her. When not reading or writing, she drinks too much tea and has a burgeoning obsession with Bundt cakes.Clarissa is the author of the "Dragons of Kaitstud" and "Lost Princess of Starlight" YA fantasy series, and the "Expat Life" series of non-fiction guides for families moving, and living, abroad.She is an admin for the 365 Writing Challenge, an international group that supports people to build the habit of writing. And she is one of the co-hosts of the Reading Queens podcast, which discusses mainly young adult fantasy books and their major tropes.In this episode, you'll learn:Why accountability can be a great motivational toolThe downsides to NaNoWriMoIdeas for flexible writing habits you could tryLinksClarissa's website
This week we are joined by Dr. Diana Gordon, a licensed psychologist, coach, and content creator specializing in Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size (HAES). In this episode we talk about: Diana's story with her relationship with food and bodyThe social justice element of Intuitive Eating and HAESWhy emotional eating gets a bad reputation How emotional eating can actually be a helpful toolThe intersection of Intuitive Eating and spiritualityHow wellness culture seeps into the spirituality world and how to steer clear of these sneaky form of elitist threadsBooks referenced in the episode:Fearing The Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina StringsThe Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorConnect with Diana on instagram @drdianagordonApply to The Embodied Method, my 1:1 coaching programSubmit your question(s) here for chance to have it answered on an upcoming podcast episodeFollow me on Instagram for more intuitive eating content @leahkern.rdVisit my website to learn more about my coaching offeringsSubscribe to my weekly newsletter to get a nugget of intuitive eating inspiration delivered to your inbox each week.
Today's incredible guest is Alexandra Tucker, who is a fellow travel business owner, and Co-Founder of Sequense, an up and coming project management tool for fellow travel pros. She is one of the brain children bringing to life a new tech tool that is being purpose built for travel business owners to help increase their efficiency and take back their time in their businesses.In this episode, we discuss:How you can save up to 5 hours in your week by using a project management toolThe difference between a CRM, Itinerary Builder, and SequenseHow you can save time and brainpower by automating your business processesand so much more!Enjoy (and take action)!---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sign up for the Sequense Wait List: https://sequensesoftware.com---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------⚓⚓Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE for more episodes:INCREASE THE VISIBILITY of your Business with Monthly Support:https://takethehelm.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1117728Sign up for a RAPID CONSULTING Session:https://calendly.com/ritaventures/rapid-consultingFIND YOUR SECRET SAUCE and Better Articulate that in your Content:https://calendly.com/ritaventures/secret-sauceSay HI on Social:Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/takethehelmvbsInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/takethehelmvbsGroup: https://www.facebook.com/groups/529490048073622Enjoy this episode? Buy Me a Tea to say Thank You!https://takethehelm.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1134180Direct EMAIL:takethehelmva@gmail.com
We will play a bit of the numbers game today in this latest Outbound Sales No Fluff episode.Ryan goes old-school whiteboard demonstration today as he talks about the important metrics to note in the Math of Sales and the conversion rates you need to watch out for. Join Ryan and learn more about why you shouldn't be simply following benchmarks and averages when cold calling.Episode Highlights:A hint of a slick new toolThe four metrics in the Math of SalesThe three conversion ratesSample computation of conversionsAn average rep doesn't meet the quotaReverse engineering the dataQuotes:Do more than just benchmarks:“If you are following benchmarks and averages, and that's where you're at is average, you need to do more.”The 4 metrics to keep an eye on:“There are only really four things that I should be looking at the number of activities dials that I'm making, how many connected conversations, this is where the money's made. How many connects lead to scheduled meetings, they say they want to meet with me, and how many of those show if we're getting to hold? These are the four metrics that matter.”The 3 conversions to always check:“On these metrics, there are three conversion rates, my connect rate, how many dials does it take to connect with somebody? My scheduled rate when I connect with somebody, what percentage of those say they'll take a meeting? And my show rate when they say they're going to meet? Do they actually show up?”Connect with Ryan and follow him with the links below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salesdevelopmentrepresentative/Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/outbound-sales-no-fluff-the-podcast/id1551086628Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1in8poGtsAQvucRaUX2YUBOrder a printed copy of Outbound Sales No Fluff, download it on your Kindle, or download the Audiobook here: https://www.amazon.com/Outbound-Sales-Fluff-millennials-something-ebook/dp/B077Y49KF4Subscribe and hit that notification bell!
There's a lot of talking going around on social media about innovative architecture, some of it is true...some not. So how do you decipher what is fact and what is fiction? In this episode Leslie, Breck, and Claire, share their insights and experience with social media, and how to find correct information online and on social media. Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn from us in today's episode: How the internet sets unrealistic expectations for clientsUsing social media as a toolThe issue with DIY plansNot all buildings you see on the internet are real Breck's project highlight of the week: Container Collective!To learn more about who we are and our projects head over to our instagram! Click here for the full show notes for Episode 24.
Glam & Grow - Fashion, Beauty, and Lifestyle Brand Interviews
Having been a bridesmaid six times herself, Grace Lee saw an opportunity for aspirational bridesmaid dresses at affordable prices, and so she created Birdy Grey. Birdy Grey is a direct-to-consumer bridal brand on a mission to change the way women shop for their big day.In today's episode, Grace gives insight into the idea behind the brand and her goal to take the pain points out of the bridesmaid dress shopping experience.Grace also shares:What has been the brand's greatest prospecting toolThe timeline from launch to category expansionNavigating the challenges and opportunities brought on by the pandemicYou'll also hear about Birdy Grey's partnership with the Princess Project, Operation Prom, and other charities as well as what's next for the brand.This episode is sponsored by AttentiveAttentive is a personalized text message marketing platform that lets you communicate with your customers in real-time, engage them with timely campaigns, and help your business drive revenue. Thousands of brands like CB2, Pura Vida, and Coach have created magical customer experiences and driven over 20% of their online revenue using Attentive-powered personalized text messages. And you, too, can turn SMS into one of your top-three revenue channels in just a few months. Visit attentivemobile.com/wavebreak to learn how you can try it for free.This episode is also brought to you by WavebreakLeading direct-to-consumer brands hire Wavebreak to turn email marketing into a top revenue driver.Most eCommerce brands don't email right... and it costs them. At Wavebreak, our eCommerce email marketing agency helps qualified stores recapture 6-7 figures of lost revenue each year.From abandoned cart emails to Black Friday campaigns, our best-in-class team of email specialists manage the entire process: strategy, design, copywriting, coding, and testing. All aimed at driving growth, profit, brand recognition, and most importantly, ROI.Curious if Wavebreak is right for you? Reach out at Wavebreak.co
In this episode we explore the complex topic of health inequalities which are being exacerbated by the pandemic and cost of living crisis. We discuss the social and economic impacts as well as some ideas about how these inequalities can be addressed. Interviewees:Michelle Morris, Consultant Speech & Language Therapist SRO, Greater Manchester Early Years Pathway for Speech, Language & Communication.Sahar Nashir, specialist speech and language therapist - CCPNR (Cambridge Centre for Paediatric Neuropsychological Rehabilitation)Berenice Napier, Policy Adviser, The Royal College of Speech and Language TherapistsUseful links from RCSLT:RCSLT Online Outcomes Tool - 'ROOT' Health inequalities resourceHealth inequalities audit toolThe interview was produced by Jacques Strauss, freelance digital producer.
Summary: We sit down with Kelly, our friend and co-founder of Wild Within, to discuss the recent craziness and lessons learned after leading two powerful retreats on Lake Atitlan, in Guatemala during a COVID surge. Listen and explore:What it was like leading a 20-person, week long New Year's retreat and a 13-person Kambo retreat in GuatemalaThe challenges leading up to and on retreatAlasdair throws three vertebrae out of alignment on the second day of the retreatThe experience on retreat as a facilitator vs. a participantThe importance of setting the space and holding spaceThe surprising results we are seeing from our cacao ceremoniesThe power of travel as a consciousness-expanding toolThe importance for a team to know what they are in service ofViewing Wild Within as a multi-layered platform for changeMentioned on this episode:The Yoga Forest YemanjoThe Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Space, Ritual Process and Personal Transformation by Robert L. MooreFAR OUT #72 ~ Don't Ask 'Why Me?' Ask 'For What?' with Mayan Entrepreneur Anita Cortez ChacZero to One: Notes on Startups , or How to Build the Future by Peter ThielBraving the Wilderness : The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brené BrownFAR OUT #64: The Power of Gathering w/ Kelly MargerumConnect with us:Website: www.thefarout.lifeEmail us at info@thefarout.lifeWild Within @ www.thewildwithin.orgSupport this podcast:Discount link to purchase organic, raw ceremonial-grade cacao ethically sourced in Guatemala (a portion of proceeds support this podcast)Become a patron at: https://www.patreon.com/thefaroutcoupleMake one-time donation with PayPal (our account is aplambeck22@gmail.com)Leave a review on iTunes!Share this episode with a friend! :DCredits:Intro music: "Complicate ya" by Otis McDonaldOutro music: "Running with wise fools" written & performed by Krackatoa (www.krackatoa.com)
I'm all about simplicity, because simplicity scales. If you want to grow your business and avoid a lot of stress in the process, keep things simple.For many of you who have been listening to the podcast for a while, my affinity for simplicity should not come as a surprise. I talk about it often.On today's episode I'm going to give you an inside peek at how I run my business. I'm going to share with you the tools that I use to run the backend of The Art of Online Business. The tools that keep things simple around here, and keep things running smoothly.The first few years of the business were way more complicated than they needed to be. For one, I thought that having more offers was a good idea. More offers equals more revenue, right? Well, I've learned the hard way that that's not always the case.All the complexity was causing me to burnout. The business was doing well, but I wasn't happy in it.So, today I'm going to show you the tools that have really simplified the way we do things around here. I know you're going to get a lot out of today's show, and I hope you hit me up on Instagram and let me know what you learned from this episode, and what things you'd like to learn more about.In this episode, you'll learn:The best solutions for team member communicationsMy favorite project management toolThe online file storage solution we use at The Art of Online BusinessMy go-to note taking appHow we track and manage our membership forms. Questionnaires, and applicationsMy favorite customer service solutionA great tool for connecting automating our systemsThe software we use to record the podcastWhat we use to for our trainings, courses, and our funnelsLinks & Resources:SlackVoxerClickUpNotionAirtableGoogle DriveCalendlyConvertKitEcammHelp ScoutLoomZapiervideoaskCanvaRiversideDaily Content MachineGrain10XPRODM me on InstagramVisit my YouTube channelThe Art of Online Business ClipsThe Art of Online Business websiteThe Art of Online Business Podcast websiteFull show notes are available here
Cristy's Story with Autoimmune diseaseThe Power of Meditation and focusStarting with mindset and why it's an underrated health toolThe power of positive words and beliefsApplying your personality strengths towards living a healthier lifestyleThe importance of writing it down on paperOverly focusing on the negative aspects of a diet changeLeveraging your natural strengths for wellness successForgiving yourself ….proactivelyWhy Cristy's program is generally 100 daysAdvice : Energy Starts the night before. Respect the wind down processWhen you are eating complex vitamins and minerals, your body is also more satisfied.Research Note :”A 20-ounce bottle of mtn dew has a whopping 77 grams of sugar”Creating and personalizing the ‘Why' = Lasting ChangeBe creative in the kitchenCristy's bloghttp://powersbeing.com/Cristy's book - Roadmap to Autoimmune Remissionhttps://www.amazon.com/Roadmap-Autoimmune-Remission-naturally-exploration/dp/1674537328/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=roadmap+to+auto-immune+remission&qid=1639513909&sr=8-2Recipe - Old World Chocolate Truffles https://powersbeing.com/old-world-truffles/Recipe - Sweet Strawberry Breakfast Porridgehttps://powersbeing.com/strawberry-porridge/
Do you have a lead magnet? Lead magnets help you reach your ideal audience and get them to sign up for your email list. Sure, it's free for them, but it's the perfect way to get them to join your customer journey while getting to know you and your expertise. That's why episode 62 of the VIP Access Podcast is about creating a lead magnet that converts.You've written a book...now what? If you're ready to become a thought leader in your space, you need a simple content marketing strategy that creates excitement around your book and your brand and helps you make a big impact. Schedule your complimentary Strategy Call with Melanie at contentstrategycall.com today.In this episode of the VIP Access Podcast, I'm sharing the benefits of lead magnets and how to create ones that will appeal to your ideal audience. Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:What a lead magnet isWhy it's a great marketing toolThe benefits of including a quick win in your opt-inThe ideal structure of your opt-inPeople always want to know how to grow their email lists, this is THE way. Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical marketing tips and to hear even more about the points outlined above.Thank you for listening!If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!CONNECT WITH MELANIE HERSCHORN:Schedule a Call with Melanie!Are you showing your AUTHOR-ity online? Take the quiz to find out!Follow me on InstagramJoin the Sparkles and Strategy Facebook group
Get ready to learn from the “Video Ninja” herself, Rebecca Saunders.Described by her clients as a “Video Ninja”, Rebecca is a sought-after video strategist who builds brands with impactful video content and live virtual events. At the age of 22, Rebecca packed a small bag and booked a one-way ticket to Sydney with her laptop and just $500 in her pocket as she boarded the plane. She had a dream of living in Australia and building her own company to sponsor herself to stay here. Fast forward a decade, Rebecca has built a global production company, has a purpose-built film studio in Sydney where she produces live virtual events and education content, and has a selection of online courses including her signature program "The Video Accelerator" to help make our video journey's just that little bit easier.In this episode with Rebecca, we unpack:How video has changed as a sales and marketing toolThe importance of storytelling and it's power in videoWhy personalization is the key to building and maintaining your client relationshipsThe hottest video trend of right nowWhere to find Rebecca:Website - http://rebeccasaunders.com/Socials - @therebeccasaundersThe Video Accelerator - https://www.rebeccasaunders.com/thevideoaccelerator
When beauty executive Caroline Fabrigas was suddenly widowed with two small children, she found herself at a crossroads: to go the safe route with her corporate job or become an entrepreneur, carrying on the young company her late husband had started. Now she is at the forefront of the emerging field of scent marketing and scent branding.Caroline Fabrigas is CEO of Scent Marketing, Inc. a company that creates proprietary scents for hotel chains and retail stores as an integral part of their branding, as well as Scentfluence Aroma Design Studio, a retail store in Scarsdale, New York.Topics included:How her early career experiences prepared her to be an entrepreneurHer visionary late husband who saw scent as a branding toolThe power of scent to create mood and memoryHow she recovered from the loss of her husband at a young ageMoving from a corporate job to taking over an entrepreneurial businessHer newest venture, Scentfluence Aroma Design Studio, for homesHow volunteering has been an important part of her life and careerListening to advice, but doing your own research.Resources:Scentfluence Aroma Design StudioScent Marketing, Inc.Tree House, a program of the Bereavement Center of WestchesterYoung Presidents OrganizationFashion Group International
Get ready to learn from the sales master himself, Larry Levine.Larry Levine is the best-selling author of Selling from the Heart and the co-host of the Selling from the Heart Podcast. With 30 years of in-the-field sales experience within the B2B technology space, he knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional.In this episode with Larry we unpack:How selling from the heart came to lifeThe fundamental difference between sales reps and sales professionalsLearning how to fish digitallyHow to use content as a prospecting toolThe keys to high performance salesMeet Larry Larry Levine is the best-selling author of Selling from the Heart and the co-host of the Selling from the Heart Podcast.With 30 years of in-the-field sales experience within the B2B technology space, he knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional.In a post trust sales world, Larry Levine helps sales teams leverage the power of authenticity to grow revenue, grow themselves and enhance the lives of their clients.Larry has coached sales professionals across the world, from tenured reps to new millennials entering the salesforce. They all appreciate the practical, real, raw, relevant, relatable and “street–savvy” nature of his coaching. Larry is not shy when it comes to delivering his message.Larry is leading a revolution and a movement of authenticity, integrity, and substance in the sales profession.Larry believes people would rather do business with a sales professional who sells from the heart as opposed to a sales rep who is an empty suit.Where to find Larry:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larrylevine1992/Website: sellingfromtheheart.net/Podcast: sellingfromtheheartpodcast.com/Larry's Book: amzn.to/2Mvdrd1Twitter: Larry1Levine
Martins Sulte is the co-founder and CEO of Mintos marketplace. Mintos is the leading loan investment platform in continental Europe with more than 7bn EUR of loans funded. Recently Mintos ran a successful crowdfunding campaign, netting around 7mEUR from its community. On top of that, they have just announced receiving an investment broker license from Latvian finance watchdog FKTK.In this episode, we talk about the evolution of the Mintos product and the P2P lending/loan investment platform industry as such. We also cover what it takes to run a successful crowdfunding campaign. Finally, we talk about the Mintos achievement of securing an investment broker license and the state and outlook of the Latvian financial services marketThe topics covered in this episode with Timestamps[02:20] - INTRODUCTION AND THE ORIGINS OF MINTOS[06:00] - ON MINTOS PRODUCT AND THE P2P LENDING INDUSTRYThe chicken and egg problem of supply/demand for a marketplaceGrowth opportunities within the industryThe majority of people in Europe are not investing as a wholeBuilding a great product as the main customer acquisition toolThe evolution of the P2P lending industryEducation of the retail investor baseThe role of crypto in the lending and investing markets[26:00] - ON CROWDFUNDING AS AN ALTERNATIVE FUNDING METHODConsiderations for choosing crowdfunding as a fundraising methodStructuring a crowdfundPre-requisites for successful crowdfundingLiquidity of crowdfunding investmentsVC investment environment in European FintechSecondary markets for crowdfunding investorsImpact on the company of publicly traded “private shares”[39:25] - ON GETTING INVESTMENT BROKER LICENCE AND THE LATVIAN FINANCIAL MARKET OUTLOOKThe regulatory status of P2P lending over the yearsConsiderations for obtaining an investment broker licensePeculiarities of working with the Latvian regulatorPR of the national financial sectorEvolution of the fintech and general tech space in LatviaAvailability of talentPromising areas of FintechWhat's next for MintosTo reach out to Martins use:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinssulte/ Find out more on https://www.pursuitofscrappiness.co/ Support for this episode comes from Nexpay > https://paynexpay.com/===See the video content exclusively on Linkedin > https://www.linkedin.com/company/pursuit-of-scrappiness/ Questions/suggestions? Join our Telegram group > https://t.me/pursuitofscrappiness The full interview with Martins is available NOW on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Google Podcasts Find out more on https://www.pursuitofscrappiness.co/
Do you know there are now over two million podcasts on iTunes, as compared to about one million in 2020? That goes without saying that it is one of the fastest-growing media content formats. A podcast is often long interviews that offer the opportunity to show your personality and expertise, while a blog has only a few hundred or a couple thousand words. Not only it offers the time to explore, explain and expand on a topic, the conversation in a podcast often goes deeper as it progresses and since it can't be fully scripted, it flows organically and may even have a few surprises. My interview this week is with Mary Chan, the creator of Organised Sound Productions, a Podcast Strategist and Voice-Coach. She has over 20 years of experience in the radio business as a Commercial Producer and a Voice-Over Artist. Mary is based in Victoria, BC, Canada. Mary said "A podcast is essentially an extension of your brand or business." and I completely agree with her. It helps me to connect with my audience in a more personal way and it is always fun to share a conversation that can uplift, inspire or inform others who are listening. Interview Highlights Why your voice is the No. 1 instrument you have For audio books, should you use your voice or get a narrator?Audio book and podcast are great marketing channelsHow to better connect with your audience with your voiceEmotion and passion in your voice is a key factor to attract your audience to pay attention Why is it important to discover your true voice by uncovering your past“Code switching” emulating the speech depends on who you are talking toWhat to consider if you want to start a podcast, the basics and fundamentalsPodcast discoverability on Google With Google podcast manager, you can look up what people are searching for when they click "play" on your podcast.Content, Transcript, AI and how to rank higher on Google with your podcastUsing podcast transcripts to pull quotes or use it to put together a bookOr reversely, record a chapter of your book and share it on podcast as a marketing toolThe future of podcast, monetisation, endorsement and more If you would like to connect with Marh Chan, please visit her website www.organizedsound.ca Video https://youtu.be/ZZJ7U8uEAM0 Transcript Sze Wing (00:03): Hello, everyone. I am so excited to introduce you, Mary Chan who is today's guest. So so I met her through a women network and actually she's over in Canada. I'm really honoured to have her today as my guest for this podcast. A little short introduction on Mary Chan. She is the creator of Organized Sound Productions. She is a podcast strategist and voice coach. She has over 20 years of experience in the radio business as a commercial producer and a voice over artist. So you will hear it for sure. And Mary is based in Victoria, BC, Canada. So welcome to my show Mary! Mary (00:47): Thank you, Sze Wing. This is so great. We can finally connect. Yes! Sze Wing (00:52): And so obviously podcast is such a hot topic these days, so I'm really excited to ask you. I've got a bunch of questions, but first of all, I wanted to ask you, so on your website, you mentioned that your voice is your number one instrument. Can you elaborate on that? What do you really mean by that? And when you say instrument, it felt like, you know, when you practice it'll probably get better, but sometimes we just say, oh God, I have a terrible voice. So what then? Mary (01:20): Yeah. So what I mean about your number one instrument is you are always talking, selling yourself, meeting people, networking, whatever it may be, your voice is the thing that carries with you, wherever you go, whether you know, you are actually trying to make a sale in a business sense, or if you're just meeting someone new for the first time, even, you know, talking with other parents when you're dropping your kids off at school or something like that, right? It's your instrument,
Amanda Goetz is the founder & CEO of House of Wise, a luxury CBD brand empowering women to take purposeful control over their lives. Before launching the House of Wise, Amanda served as the Vice President of Marketing at The Knot, where she gained experience in operational excellence and overseeing brand and product marketing. In addition to leading the House of Wise, Amanda is the part-time Chief Marketing Officer of Teal, a platform that equips job-seekers with the tools, resources, and communities they need to manage their career. Amanda joins us today to discuss why she believes in helping women take control of their sleep, sex, stress, and wealth, and how the House of Wise aims to make that possible. She describes how watching her father build his company showed her what it means to be an entrepreneur and parent. She explains what “conversational breadcrumbs” are and why they're the realistic path to transforming an idea into a business. Amanda also shares her tips for prioritizing the fundraising process and underscores why creating a community around your brand is the best launch strategy. “Who's going to be in the trenches with you is important. They need to have skin in the game and feel like it's their brand, too.” - Amanda Goetz This week on the Entreprenista Podcast: Amanda's non-traditional path to the founding of the House of WiseAmanda's first failed start-up and the challenges she faced as a female founderUsing Twitter as a business and marketing toolThe best time to start a company, a family, or anything in lifeWhy Amanda didn't leave her full-time job right after founding the House of WiseFollowing the breadcrumbs to capitalHow Amanda advertised her brand by building a communityThe biggest mistakes and lessons Amanda learned from her first start-up and how it prepared her to lead House of WiseSome guidelines to follow when working on a business with friendsWhy Entreprenistas need to write down the mistakes they make during their journeyAmanda's tips for Entreprenistas who have amazing ideas but need investorsWhat the valuation process was like for House of WiseHouse of Wise products and how the company empowers women to be in the driver's seat of their livesWhy setting an intention for every part of your day is key to work-life balanceHow Amanda decides where to spend her time and effort and how to foster autonomy in your team Resources Mentioned: Carta Our Favorite Quotes: “The right time to start a company or a family has no one answer; you'll figure out how to navigate it.” - Amanda Goetz“I don't view anything as a true mistake. It's always been ‘failing forward.'” - Amanda Goetz“Founder mental health is critical. Not just for you, but for the entire company.” - Amanda Goetz Connect with Amanda Goetz: House of WiseHouse of Wise on LinkedInHouse of Wise on InstagramHouse of Wise on TwitterAmanda Goetz on LinkedInAmanda Goetz on InstagramAmanda Goetz on Twitter Join the Entreprenista League! Hey Entreprenistas! We're launching the Entreprenista League, our very own members platform and community just for you! We listened to your feedback and the support you're looking for to start and build your business, and we're here to provide you with all of the resources you'll need! As part of the Entreprenista League, you'll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day. You'll find special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, and the opportunity to have your story featured on our website and social channels!
Flower essences are the new essential oils, and today, Katie Hess is here to chat all about them and more! She shares her professional knowledge and wisdom on the power and uses of flower remedies, and explains why you should start incorporating them in your life. And be sure to listen till the end, where Katie gives Dr. Taz her own personal flower essence reading! Today on Super Woman Wellness:The connection between flower essences and traditional Chinese medicineWhy flower remedies are an up-and-coming health toolThe power that flower essences holdThe history or flower and herbal remedies Utilizing floral remedies for mental maladiesFollow Katie:Take the flower essence quiz!Lotus Wei websiteCheck out Katie's book Flower EvolutionKatie's Instagram Lotus WeiThis show is produced by Soulfire Productions
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In this episode, feminist writer + educator Amelia Hruby shares about breaking up with diet culture, learning to love herself, her new book Fifty Feminist Mantras and the non-neutrality of technology and social media.WE DISCUSSThe process of re-visiting her writing and working on a new edition of her bookLearning from our past selves and using the process of review to evaluate our growthRe-aligning with cyclical growth and slowing downHer healing journey from diet culture and how feminist principles helped her embrace embodimentHow she has been practicing rest and learning to trust her own flow instead of pushing past resistanceHow to be on your phone and not hate everything — her thoughts on the pros and cons of interacting through social mediaHow technology is not a neutral toolThe pressure social media puts on everyone to be an aspiration and/or a personal brandLINKSSupport the Podcast on Patreon + get monthly video astro forecastsGet FREE monthly prompts for the current astrologyGet your free guided meditation for strength + resilienceSign up for this month's group healing circle Mary Grace's IGJoin our FREE group away from social media and talk about the podcast with like-minded others/ / Amelia's websiteAmelia's IGGet a sneak peak of Fifty Feminist Mantras for F R E EGet your copy of Fifty Feminist MantrasListen to my episode on her podcast Fifty Feminist StatesJoin us for a free class on Taking Care : Pillars for Creation, Circularity + Support — tools to help you design your life with more support and care built in, especially during difficult times. This free class is Friday, March 18 at Noon ET/ 9:00a PT. Sign up here to attend and/or get the replay. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/mgallerdice)
Topics CoveredAdrienne Tom - International Award Winning Resume Writerwww.Careerimpressions.caSocial: Facebook, Twitter Instagram: @career_impressionsLinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/adriennetomwww.JobSearchSecretWeapon.comAdrienne's path to career storytellingWhy are resumes important?A resume alone won't get you a job but is a useful toolThe importance of showing your personal value on your resumeThe challenges of writing a resumeResumes should be results focusedShould you be customizing your resume for each job?The recruiter is looking at your resume with the view "What's in it for me?"Quality vs Quantity in your job searchHow a bad resume can hurt youTips for good resume design?Sending your resume on a sandwich...Moving from a flat resume to a dynamic resumeHow your resume can impact your earning potentialWhat is personal marketing/personal brandingWhy the "spray and pray" approach to job searching doesn't workStrategies to get through a job search slumpShould your resume be different earlier in your career vs later in your career?What resumes might look like 50 years from now"Slow burn"
On this episode we explore:Giving context to the spiritualTrusting yourselfEgo deathImprov for healthDealing with old storiesPlayfulness as a toolThe psychosomatic element http://www.andrewkippen.com/
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