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Our Global Chief Economist Seth Carpenter explains the potential domino effect that President Trump's reciprocal tariffs could have on the U.S. and global economies.----- Listener Survey -----Complete a short listener survey at http://www.morganstanley.com/podcast-survey and help us make the podcast even more valuable for you. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 to the Feeding America® organization to support their important work.----- Transcript -----Hi, I'm Michael Zezas, Global Head of Fixed Income Research & Public Policy Strategy at Morgan Stanley. Before we get into today's episode, the team behind Thoughts on the Market wants your thoughts and your input. Fill out our listener survey and help us make this podcast even more valuable for you. The link is in the show notes and you'll hear it at the end of the episode.Plus, help us help the Feeding America organization. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 toward their important work. Thanks for your time and support. On to the show… Seth Carpenter: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Seth Carpenter, Morgan Stanley's Global Chief Economist, and today I'm going to talk about downside risks to the U.S. economy, especially from tariffs.It's Thursday, February 20th at 10am in New York.Once again, tariffs are dominating headlines. The prospect of reciprocal tariffs is yet one more risk to our baseline forecast for the year. We have consistently said that the inflationary risk of tariffs gets its due attention in markets but the adverse growth implications that's an underappreciated risk.But we, like many other forecasters, were surprised to the upside in 2023 and 2024. So maybe we should ask, are there some upside risks that we're missing?The obvious upside risk to growth is a gain in productivity, and frequent readers of Morgan Stanley Research will know that we are bullish on AI. Indeed, the level of productivity is higher now than it was pre-COVID, and there is some tentative estimate that could point to faster growth for productivity as well.Of course, a cyclically tight labor market probably contributes and there could be some measurement error. But gains from AI do appear to be happening faster than in prior tech cycles. So, we can't rule very much out. In our year ahead outlook, we penciled in about a-tenth percentage point of extra productivity growth this year from AI. And there is also a bit of a boost to GDP from AI CapEx spending.Other upside risks, though, they're less clear. We don't have any boost in our GDP forecast from deregulation. And that view, I will say, is contrary to a lot of views in the market. Deregulation will likely boost profits for some sectors but probably will do very little to boost overall growth. Put differently, it helps the bottom line far more than it helps the top line. A notable exception here is probably the energy sector, especially natural gas.Our baseline view on tariffs has been that tariffs on China will ramp up substantially over the year, while other tariffs will either not happen or be fleeting, being part of, say, broader negotiations. The news flow so far this year can't reject that baseline, but recently the discussion of broad reciprocal tariffs means that the risk is clearly rising.But even in our baseline, we think the growth effects are underestimated. Somewhere in the neighborhood of two-thirds of imports from China are capital goods or inputs into U.S. manufacturing. The tariffs imposed before on China led to a sharp deterioration in industrial production. That slump went through the second half of 2018 and into and all the way through 2019 as a drag on the broader economy. Just as important, there was not a subsequent resurgence in industrial output.Part of the undergraduate textbook argument for tariffs is to have more produced at home. That channel works in a two-economy model. But it doesn't work in the real world.Now, the prospect of reciprocal tariffs broadens this downside risk. Free trade has divided production functions around the world, but it's also driven large trade imbalances, and it is precisely these imbalances that are at the center of the new administration's focus on tariffs. China, Canada, Mexico – they do stand out because of their imbalances in terms of trade with the U.S., but the underlying driving force is quite varied. More importantly, those imbalances were built over decades, so undoing them quickly is going to be disruptive, at least in the short run.The prospect of reciprocity globally forces us as well to widen the lens. The risks aren't just for the U.S., but around the world. For Latin America and Asia in particular, key economies have higher tariff supply to U.S. goods than vice versa.So, we can't ignore the potential global effects of a reciprocal tariff.Ultimately, though, we are retaining our baseline view that only tariffs on China will prove to be durable and that the delayed implementation we've seen so far is consistent with that view. Nevertheless, the broad risks are clear.Thanks for listening. And if you enjoy the podcast, help us make it even more valuable to you. Share your feedback on the show at morganstanley.com/podcast-survey, or head to the episode notes for the survey link.

Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen.If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co/support.If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here.--[TRANSCRIPT]Hi, Scarlet. God, this is trippy. I guess I'm talking to Red, too, because. Well, I don't know what you all can hear of what I'm hearing, but, Red, if you can hear me. A person? Well, a person that sounded just like you reached out and says their name is Scarlet, or that's a pseudonym that they chose because of you. Well, now I don't know who I'm talking to. Two different versions of the same person speaking to me from two distinct universes. Both universes sound tough. And lonely. But universes in which the two of you have taken very different paths, had very different lives and experiences. I think about her all the time. The other me. Well, all of the other me's. What are they doing? What lives are they living? In how many universes are they already dead? In how many universes are there accompanying Harry's keeping all of those Whiskey's company. In how many universes are those Harry's driving all of those Whiskeys completely insane and vice versa? I shouldn't say that. Things have been a little better lately. The arguments fewer and farther between, but...I don't know. Now we're at the point where things are just aimless. We settled into a rhythm. For a while there, you know, in Pennsylvania. And then obviously the year I was gone...well. That was aimless in its own way, but the driving without a destination in mind was kind of the point. But I don't- I don't think we're ready to settle back down. But we need to do something. We can't just keep moving from place to place without any destination in mind or without any purpose. Harry really needs a purpose and we've gotten good at the staying alive bit that that's not going to keep her occupied for long. I'm not going to keep her occupied for long, I- How do you keep a brain active when you only hear one voice? Scarlet, you said that you've only been hearing your own voice for the last seven years, and I can't even imagine what that's like. Just having Harry to talk to - just one other person to talk to - it's not that we've...I haven't gotten sick of her. I worry sometimes that I'm not interesting enough for her, but. I don't know. Even with what we are to each other now, with what we're trying to be to each other, that hunger to find more people...it's still there. I think she feels it too. She doesn't want to admit it because she doesn't want to admit that she spent seven years cooped up in that house with me, begging me not to leave for nothing, but... We can't change the past as much as we might want to. And there's no way of knowing who else might be out there. I'm really glad, Scarlet, to have broken the silence for you, to have brought color into the life of your counterpart and I don't know, maybe brightened some other sense of some other you somewhere, but is that enough? Don't you want to find someone? Have you tried looking--? Sorry. Bad choice of words. I just mean...are you certain that you're alone? Because we weren't. Junior and Donnie have been out there this whole time and...I've tried- I've tried reaching out to Birdie again. I even called out for Fox a few times. You may have heard it. I don't know, but having some kind of guidance, having some kind of direction to go in, it was...well, it was really frustrating, but it was also helpful. And Birdie, they said something had changed, that they couldn't see the path clearly any more, that the timeline we were in was different than the timeline we started in and I-- Nothing's different. Nothing is different and I don't know if I'm terrified of finding out what's changed or if I'm dying to know. What would you do, Scarlet? If you could change your world, press a button saying that things would be different, but you didn't know in which direction, would you do it? Or would you choose to keep things the same even if it's not quite enough? It's still safe. Would that be better?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our CIO and Chief U.S. Equity Strategy Mike Wilson suggests that stock, factor and sector selection remain key to portfolio performance.----- Listener Survey -----Complete a short listener survey at http://www.morganstanley.com/podcast-survey and help us make the podcast even more valuable for you. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 to the Feeding America® organization to support their important work.----- Transcript -----Hi, I'm Andrew Sheets, Head of Corporate Credit Research at Morgan Stanley. Before we get into today's episode, the team behind Thoughts on the Market wants your thoughts and your input. Fill out our listener survey and help us make this podcast even more valuable for you. The link is in the show notes.Plus, help us help the Feeding America organization. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 towards their important work.Thanks for your time and the support. On to the show… Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley's CIO and Chief US Equity Strategist. Today on the podcast I'll be discussing equities in the context of higher rates and weaker earnings revisions. It's Tuesday, Feb 18th at 11:30am in New York. So let's get after it.Since early December, the S&P 500 has made little headway. The almost unimpeded run from the summer was halted by a few things but none as important as the rise in 10-year Treasury yields, in my view. In December, we cited 4 to 4.5 percent as the sweet spot for equity multiples assuming growth and earnings remained on track. We viewed 4.5 percent as a key level for equity valuations. And sure enough, when the Fed leaned less dovish at its December meeting, yields crossed that 4.5 percent threshold; and correlations between stocks and yields settled firmly in negative territory, where they remain. In other words, yields are no longer supportive of higher valuations—a key driver of returns the past few years. Instead, earnings are now the primary driver of returns and that is likely to remain the case for the foreseeable future. While the Fed was already increasingly less dovish, the uncertainty on tariffs and last week's inflation data could further that shift with the bond market moving to just one cut for the rest of the year. Our official call is in line with that view with our economists now just looking for just one cut–in June. It depends on how the inflation and growth data roll in. Our strategy has shifted, too. With the S&P 500 reaching our tactical target of 6100 in December and earnings revision breadth now rolling over for the index, we have been more focused on sectors and factors. In particular, we've favored areas of the market showing strong earnings revisions on an absolute or relative basis.Financials, Media and Entertainment, Software over Semiconductors and Consumer Services over Goods continue to fit that bill. Within Defensives, we have favored Utilities over Staples, REITs and Healthcare. While we've seen outperformance in all these trades, we are sticking with them, for now. We maintain an overriding preference for Large-cap quality unless 10-year Treasury yields fall sustainably below 4.5 percent without a meaningful degradation in growth. The key component of 10-year yields to watch for equity valuations remains the term premium – which has come down, but is still elevated compared to the past few years. Other macro developments driving stock prices include the very active policy announcements from the White House including tariffs, immigration enforcement, and cost cutting efforts by the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE. For tariffs, we believe they will be more of an idiosyncratic event for equity markets. However, if tariffs were to be imposed and maintained on China, Mexico and Canada through 2026, the impact to earnings-per-share would be roughly 5-7 percent for the S&P 500. That's not an insignificant reduction and likely one of the reasons why guidance this past quarter was more muted than fourth quarter results. Industries facing greater headwinds from China tariffs include consumer discretionary goods and electronics. Lower immigration flow and stock is more likely to affect aggregate demand than to be a wage cost headwind, at least for public companies. Finally, skepticism remains high as it relates to DOGE's ability to cut Federal spending meaningfully. I remain more optimistic on that front, but realize greater success also presents a headwind to growth before it provides a tailwind via lower fiscal deficits and less crowding out of the private economy—things that could lead to more Fed cuts and lower long-term interest rates as term premium falls. Bottom line, higher backend rates and growth headwinds from the stronger dollar and the initial policy changes suggest equity multiples are capped for now. That means stock, factor and sector selection remains key to performance rather than simply adding beta to one's portfolio. On that score, we continue to favor earnings revision breadth, quality, and size factors alongside financials, software, media/entertainment and consumer services at the industry level. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, help us make it even more valuable to you. Share your feedback on the show at morganstanley.com/podcast-survey or head to the episode notes for the survey link.

Our Global Head of Fixed Income and Public Policy Research, Michael Zezas, joins our Chief U.S. Economist, Michael Gapen, to discuss the possible outcomes for President Trump's immigration policies and their effect on the U.S. economy.----- Listener Survey -----Complete a short listener survey at http://www.morganstanley.com/podcast-survey and help us make the podcast even more valuable for you. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 to the Feeding America® organization to support their important work.----- Transcript -----Hi, I'm Andrew Sheets, Head of Corporate Credit Research at Morgan Stanley. Before we get into today's episode, the team behind Thoughts on the Market wants your thoughts and your input. Fill out our listener survey and help us make this podcast even more valuable for you. The link is in the show notes, and you'll hear it at the end of the episode. Plus, help us help the Feeding America organization. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 toward their important work.Thanks for your time and the support. On to the show… Michael Zezas: Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Michael Zezas, Morgan Stanley's Global Head of Fixed Income and Public Policy Research.Michael Gapen: And I'm Michael Gapen, Chief U.S. Economist for Morgan Stanley.Michael Zezas: Our topic today: President Trump's immigration policy and its economic ramifications.It's Friday, February 14th at 10am in New York.Michael, migration has always been considered an important feature of the global economy. In fact, you believe that strong immigration flows were an important element in the supply side rebound that set the stage for a U.S. soft landing. If we think back to the time before President Trump took office almost a month ago, how would you categorize immigration trends then?Michael Gapen: So, we saw a very sharp increase in immigration coming out of the pandemic. I would say, if you look at longer term averages, say the 20 years leading up to the pandemic, normally we'd get about a million and a half immigrants, per year into the United States. A lot of variation around that number, but that was the long-term average.In 2022 through 2024, we saw immigration surge to about 3 million per year. So about twice as fast as we saw normally. And that happened at a very important time. It allowed for very significant and rapid growth in the labor force, just at a time when the economy was emerging from the pandemic and demand for labor was quite high.So, it filled that labor demand. It allowed the economy to grow rapidly, while at the same time helping to keep wages lower and inflation starting to come down. So, I do think it was a major underpinning force in the ability of the U.S. economy to soft land after several years of above target inflation.Michael Zezas: Got it. And so now, with a second President Trump term, are we set up for a reversal of this immigration driven boost to the economy?Michael Gapen: Yeah, I think that's the key question for the outlook, and our answer is yes. That if we are going to significantly restrict immigration flows, the risk here is that we reverse the trends that we've just seen in the previous year.So, I certainly believe one of the main goals of the Trump administration is to harden the border and initiate greater deportations. And these steps in my mind come on the back of steps that the Biden administration already took around the middle of last year that began to slow immigration flows.So yes, I do think we should look for a reversal of the immigration driven boost to the economy. But Mike, I would actually throw this question back to you and say on the first day of his presidency, Trump issued a series of executive orders pertaining to immigration. Where are we now in that process after these initial announcements? And what do you expect in terms of policy implementation?Michael Zezas: Well, I think you hit on it. There's two levers here. There's stepped up deportations and removals and there's working with Mexico on border enforcement. Things like the remain in Mexico policy where Mexico agrees to keep those seeking asylum on their side of the border; and to facilitate that, they've stepped up their military presence to do that.Those are really kind of the two levers that the U.S. is pushing on to try and reduce the flow of migrants coming into the U.S. Still to be determined how much these actually have an impact, but I think that's the direction of policy travel.Michael Gapen: And are there any catalysts specifically that you're watching for? I mean, recently the administration proposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada around border control, but those have been delayed. Is there anything on the horizon we should look for this time around?Michael Zezas: Yeah. So obviously the president tied the potential for tariffs on Mexico and Canada to the idea that there should be some improvement on border enforcement. It's going to be difficult for investors, I think, to assess in real time how much progress has been made there. Mostly it's a data challenge here. There are official government statistics which have a good amount of detail about removals and folks stopped at the border and demographics in terms of age and, and whether or not they were working. That might really kind of help us piece together the story in terms of whether or not there's going to be future tariffs – and Michael, probably for you, to what extent there's an impact on the economy if folks are already in the labor force.But that data is on a lag, it'll be really difficult to tell what's happening now for at least several months. Maybe we're going to get some hints about what's going on for comments coming in earnings calls, for example, from companies that deal in construction and food service and hospitality. But I don't know that those anecdotes would be sufficient to really draw substantial conclusions. So, I think we're a bit in a fog for the next couple months on exactly what's happening.But based on all this, Michael, what's your outlook for immigration this year and beyond?Michael Gapen: Yeah, so we, as I mentioned, we were getting about 3 million immigrants per year between 2022 and 2024; long run averages before the pandemic were more like a million and a half a year. Our outlook is that immigration flows should slow below pre- COVID averages to about 1 million this year and about 500,000 in 2026. And again, that would be the well below the long run average of about a million and a half per year.Now, as you mentioned, understanding these flows in real time is hard and there's a lot of uncertainty around this and how effective policies may be. So, I think people should consider ranges around this baseline, if you will. On one hand, we could see a reduction in unauthorized immigration replaced by more authorized immigration. So maybe there's a benign scenario where immigration slows back to its one and a half million per year. But it's more through legal and formal channels than unauthorized channels.Alternatively, it could be the case that some of the policies, you mentioned in terms of, say, stepped up deportations or other measures, and maybe there's a chilling effect. That there's just like an externality on immigration behavior. And in fact, we slow maybe to about 500,000 this year and see a decline in about 250,000 next year.So, I think there's a lot of uncertainty about it. We think immigration slows below its longer run averages, which would represent a major shift from what we've seen over the last three years.Michael Zezas: Got it. So, lots of crosscurrents here, about how the actual labour supply is impacted. But bottom line, if we do arrive at a point where there's a significant reduction in immigration, what's the expectation about what that means for the U.S. economy?Michael Gapen: Yeah, so a lot of cross currents here. Number one, I think with a high degree of confidence, we can say reduced immigration should lead to slower potential growth, right? So, a slower growth in the labor force should mean slower growth in trend hours, right? Potential GDP is really only the sum of growth in trend hours and trend productivity.So, the surge in immigration we saw really boosted potential growth up to 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent in recent years. So, if we reduce immigration, potential growth should slow. I think back towards, say, 2 per cent this year, maybe even 1 to 1.5 per cent next year. So, you slow down growth in the labor force, potential should moderate.Second, and I think the more difficult question is, well, okay, if you also reduce growth in the labor force, you're going to get less employment, and that's a demand side effect. So, which dominates here, the supply side or the demand side? And here, I think to go back to your first question – yeah, I do think we're going to get a reversal of the outcome that we just saw.So, I think it'll moderate both potential and actual growth. So, I think actual growth slows. The amount of employment we see should decline and soften. We're not saying the level of employment will decline, but the growth rate of employment should slow. But it should coincide with a low unemployment rate, so it's going to be a very different labor market. A lot less employment growth, but still a tight labor market in terms of low unemployment.That should keep wages firm, particularly in the service sector where a lot of immigrants work, and we think it'll also help keep inflation firm. So, it could keep the Fed on the sideline for a significant period of time, for example.And I'd just like to close, Mike, by saying I think this is an underappreciated risk for financial markets. I think investors have digested trade policy uncertainty, but I'm not convinced that risks around immigration and their effect on the economy are well understood.Michael Zezas: Got it. Well Michael, thanks for taking the time to talk.Michael Gapen: Thank you.Michael Zezas: And thanks for listening. 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The down-to-the-deadline nature of Trump's trade policy has created market uncertainty. Our Head of Corporate Credit Research Andrew Sheets points out a silver lining. ----- Listener Survey -----Complete a short listener survey at http://www.morganstanley.com/podcast-survey and help us make the podcast even more valuable for you. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 to the Feeding America® organization to support their important work.----- Transcript -----Hi, I'm Michael Zezas, Global Head of Fixed Income Research & Public Policy Strategy at Morgan Stanley. Before we get into today's episode, the team behind Thoughts on the Market wants your thoughts and your input. Fill out our listener survey and help us make this podcast even more valuable for you. The link is in the show notes and you'll hear it at the end of the episode.Plus, help us help the Feeding America organization. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 toward their important work. Thanks for your time and support. On to the show… Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Andrew Sheets, Head of Corporate Credit Research at Morgan Stanley. Today I'm going to talk about a potential silver lining to the significant uptick in uncertainty around U.S. trade policy. It's Wednesday, February 12th at 2pm in London. One of the nuances of our market view is that we think credit spreads remain tight despite rising levels of corporate confidence and activity. We think these things can co-exist, at least temporarily, because the level of corporate activity is still so low, and so it could rise quite a bit and still only be in-line with the long-term trend. And so while more corporate activity and aggression is usually a negative for lenders and drives credit spreads wider, we don't think it's quite one yet. But maybe there is even less tension in these views than we initially thought. The first four weeks of the new U.S. Administration have seen a flurry of policy announcements on tariffs. This has meant a lot for investors to digest and discuss, but it's meant a lot less to actual market prices. Since the inauguration, U.S. stocks and yields are roughly unchanged. That muted reaction may be because investors assume that, in many cases, these policies will be delayed, reversed or modified. For example, announced tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been delayed. A key provision concerning smaller shipments from China has been paused. So far, this pattern actually looks very consistent with the framework laid out by my colleagues Michael Zezas and Ariana Salvatore from the Morgan Stanley Public Policy team: fast announcements of action, but then much slower ultimate implementation. Yet while markets may be dismissing these headlines for now, there are signs that businesses are taking them more seriously. Per news reports, U.S. Merger and Acquisition activity in January just suffered its lowest level of activity since 2015. Many factors could be at play. But it seems at least plausible that the “will they, won't they” down-to-the-deadline nature of trade policy has increased uncertainty, something businesses generally don't like when they're contemplating big transformative action. And for lenders maybe that's the silver lining. We've been thinking that credit in 2025 would be a story of timing this steadily rising wave of corporate aggression. But if that wave is delayed, debt levels could end up being lower, bond issuance could be lower, and spread levels – all else equal – could be a bit tighter. Corporate caution isn't everywhere. In sectors that are seen as multi-year secular trends, such as AI data centers, investment plans continue to rise rapidly, with our colleagues in Equity Research tracking over $320bn of investment in 2025. But for activity that is more economically sensitive, uncertainty around trade policy may be putting companies on the back foot. That isn't great for business; but, temporarily, it could mean a better supply/demand balance for those that lend to them. Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, help us make it even more valuable to you. Share your feedback on the show at morganstanley.com/podcast-survey. Or head to the episode notes for the survey link.

Our Chief Fixed Income Strategist Vishy Tirupattur thinks that efficiency gains from Chinese AI startup DeepSeek may drive incremental demand for AI.----- Listener Survey -----Complete a short listener survey at http://www.morganstanley.com/podcast-survey and help us make the podcast even more valuable for you. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 to the Feeding America® organization to support their important work.© 2025 Morgan Stanley. All Rights Reserved. CRC#4174856 02/2025----- Transcript -----Hi, I'm Michael Zezas, Global Head of Fixed Income research & Public Policy Strategy at Morgan Stanley. Before we get into today's episode … the team behind Thoughts on the Market wants your thoughts and your input. Fill out our listener survey and help us make this podcast even more valuable for you. The link is in the show notes, and you'll hear it at the end of the episode. Plus, help us help the Feeding America organization. For every survey completed, Morgan Stanley will donate $25 toward their important work.Thanks for your time and support. On to the show…Welcome to Thoughts on the Market. I'm Vishy Tirupattur, Morgan Stanley's Chief Fixed Income Strategist. Today I'll be talking about the macro implications of the DeepSeek development.It's Friday February 7th at 9 am, and I'm on the road in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Recently we learned that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has developed two open-source large language models – LLMs – that can perform at levels comparable to models from American counterparts at a substantially lower cost. This news set off shockwaves in the equity markets that wiped out nearly a trillion dollars in the market cap of listed US technology companies on January 27. While the market has recouped some of these losses, their magnitude raises questions for investors about AI. My equity research colleagues have addressed a range of stock-specific issues in their work. Today we step back and consider the broader implications for the economy in terms of productivity growth and investment spending on AI infrastructure.First thing. While this is an important milestone and a significant development in the evolution of LLMs, it doesn't come entirely as a shock. The history of computing is replete with examples of dramatic efficiency gains. The DeepSeek development is precisely that – a dramatic efficiency improvement which, in our view, drives incremental demand for AI. Rapid declines in the cost of computing during the 1990s provide a useful parallel to what we are seeing now. As Michael Gapen, our US chief economist, has noted, the investment boom during the 1990s was really driven by the pace at which firms replaced depreciated capital and a sharp and persistent decline in the price of computing capital relative to the price of output. If efficiency gains from DeepSeek reflect a similar phenomenon, we may be seeing early signs [that] the cost of AI capital is coming down – and coming down rapidly. In turn, that should support the outlook for business spending pertaining to AI.In the last few weeks, we have heard a lot of reference to the Jevons paradox – which really dates from 1865 – and it states that as technological advancements reduce the cost of using a resource, the overall demand for the resource increases, causing the total resource consumption to rise. In other words, cheaper and more ubiquitous technology will increase its consumption. This enables AI to transition from innovators to more generalized adoption and opens the door for faster LLM-enabled product innovation. That means wider and faster consumer and enterprise adoption. Over time, this should result in greater increases in productivity and faster realization of AI's transformational promise.From a micro perspective, our equity research colleagues, who are experts in covering stocks in these sectors, come to a very similar conclusion. They think it's unlikely that the DeepSeek development will meaningfully reduce CapEx related to AI infrastructure. From a macroeconomic perspective, there is a good case to be made for higher business spending related to AI, as well as productivity growth from AI.Obviously, it is still early days, and we will see leaders and laggards at the stock level. But the economy as a whole we think will emerge as a winner. DeepSeek illustrates the potential for efficiency gains, which in turn foster greater competition and drive wider adoption of AI. With that premise, we remain constructive on AI's transformational promise.Thanks for listening. If you enjoy the podcast, help us make it even more valuable to you. 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Head to http://www.groundupgovernance.com for more   TRANSCRIPT: Hi everyone, this is Matt Fullbrook and I'm back on the Ground-Up Governance platform after a long absence and I've got a new idea. If you're listening to this on a mainstream podcast platform and don't know what I'm talking about, head over to groundupgovernance.com and just start putting poking around. It's the only place you'll be able to check out this new idea, at least for the time being. So, long story short, I created Ground-Up Governance with the amazing Nate Schmold. He's the illustrator who effectively made this whole thing worth following. After a couple of years, Ground-Up Governance became too hard for both Nate and me.    Don't get me wrong, this is for sure at or near the top of the pile of most fun and gratifying things I've ever worked on. But it's so much very difficult work and it got to the point where each new post felt like it was less important than the previous one, but no less difficult or time consuming. Then we both got distracted by other professional and personal things and, well, lots of time passed. So here we are. Sorry about all that.    Just so you know, Nate and I are starting to work on what I hope will turn into another large scale and super fun project. Time will tell on that one. Anyone who follows Ground-Up Governance will be the first to know. In the meantime, I have a cool thing that I want to try out. I'm going to put out new episodes of the Sound-Up Governance podcast, but make them a little bit more like the format of my One MinuteGovernance show.    What I want to do is have conversations with interesting people in the corporate governance space. But instead of turning the recordings into long and heavily edited podcast episodes, I'm going to, you know, grind them up into smaller bits. Get it? I expect each episode to be somewhere in the 3-7-ish minute range. I'm also going to use them as an opportunity to craft some music. Some of it might be kind of janky because I'm not going to have a ton of time to put into it, but the goal is to have different music for each episode, even if some of it is kind of embarrassing or unfinished.    This whole thing is going to start off with someone Ground-Up Governance followers will already know: my awesome friend Andrew Escobar, who's an experienced corporate director, a big governance thinker, an open banking nerd, and one of those obnoxiously thoughtful, generous and fun dudes. He and I had a conversation recently that I think will make up the first 13 or 14 episodes of this project. I'll post the first two on January 20th so be sure to subscribe before then to stay up to date. If you like what you hear then please be bold and let me know. I'm only interested in making content that you find useful, fun or otherwise worth checking out and I only know if you think it's worth checking out if you let me know. You can like or comment on the posts or send me a note privately or whatever else you want. And if you have ideas for people who might make good guests or if you might make a good guest that would be helpful too. I'll remind you about all this when the time comes. Just be prepared to send a thumbs up or down my way so I know how you feel for now. Happy New Year and thanks for listening. It's really exciting to be back at Ground Up Governance. See you in a couple weeks. 

New episodes of One Minute Governance every Monday and Thursday starting July 8th. This season's theme is "Questions boards and directors really need to answer." As usual, this podcast is written, produced and scored by Matt Fullbrook. To connect with Matt, head to www.mattfullbrook.com    TRANSCRIPT: Hi everyone, I'm Matt Fullbrook. Season 5 of One Minute Governance kicks off Monday, July 8th with episodes twice a week for the next six months or so. Ever notice that we're always telling directors to ask more questions? About seemingly everything! Wanna do an awesome job at AI oversight? Ask a bunch of questions! Wanna make sure your executives are meeting their performance objectives? Ask a bunch of questions! Want everyone in the room to think you're super smart and paying attention? You got it: more questions! This line of thinking is so super prevalent that you can type “questions boards should ask” into Google and basically every governance-related organization has put out somewhere between one and 10 million articles encouraging directors to ask questions about this or that. Here's the thing, though: asking questions doesn't really matter unless you're doing it for a good reason. Are you trying to start a conversation? Are you trying to redirect the board's energy into a more productive direction? Is something truly unclear? Because what actually matters is what the question accomplishes, not the question itself. Which brings us to the headline of OMG Season 5: “50 questions boards and directors really need to answer,” because by answering these questions, you'll get closer to good governance. Each episode will be about a single question, with a bit about why the questions – and, more importantly, the answers – matter. If you find yourself enjoying this season, please do all the normal and super helpful things that support podcasters: subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends. And if you're a director or executive and you'd like an ally in exploring some of these questions, head over to mattfullbrook.com and send me a note. It's good to be back.

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TRANSCRIPT: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the Regenerative Business Podcast with Sam Garcia, which is who I am.  And I have a special guest today. I have been saying this for weeks, but I'm so excited to have Robin Langford here from Wicked Veracity. She is a traditional astrologer. She is a stoic. She is a witchy human.I don't even know if, like, do you identify as a witch?  Oh, she's a witch.  aNd she's been on for the last few years giving our annual forecasts. For those who are into astrology but don't know traditional astrology, it is  far more accurate and impressive  when it comes to actual  I guess predicting the future.Can we just, yeah, predicting the future. So if you've worked with people who are more modern astrology or, or archetypal astrology or all the other types of astrology, and you've been like, this is bullshit. It's because it wasn't traditional astrology. So strap yourselves inand hi Robin.  Hello.  Yes. I am a traditional astrologer and it is predictive.I do believe fate's a thing. And. I do think that the other forms of astrology are exceptionally good at personality things and helping people get to know it, know themselves but they don't, they fall apart a little bit when it comes to predictive astrology in my experience.  Yeah, so let's just jump in.We were talking a little bit before and I was like, I don't,  I don't want to say things.  And Sam's like, no, say the thing. So we're just going to start off. I'm going to say this.  Go ahead.Oh, I was just gonna say, I'm, I,  Robin didn't want to say things, but I was like, no, the people listening to this podcast are like more prepper type, they're, they know that the world is going to shit and they've been sensing it, like, whether you psychically sense it or you're looking around and you're like, crossing your fingers that the American government falls apart, like, this might be our year, you guys.Not this year, but this is the last, what I would say, But it's also a pretty semi stable year for a while. Because 2027 have a variety of things that are going to be happening that are a little  unsettling and that indicate a lot of massive change. And one of the examples that I'm going to give, and there's a bunch, but I'm only going to do the one,  is that in 2025,  it Uranus moves into Gemini and Uranus has been in Gemini in American history three times, and those three times were the American Revolution, the  Civil War and World War Two and that sounds scary, which is why I'm like, I'm not really ready to have a conversation about it, but the thing to remember is, whether you like the American government or not, all three of those movements moved social justice and liberation forward unequivocally and in massive ways  and while they were war is horrible, et cetera, et cetera.People dying sucks, right?  It's generally necessary in the course of human events to have a war if you want things to change. So,  none of those were objectively bad for everybody,  period. Right? Like, there were a lot of people who made a lot of money. There were a lot of people who got more freedom. I would argue that's pretty fantastic.Yeah.  And so a lot of good things come out of war, whether people want to admit it or not,  and I'm not saying that this will be a war because each thing has looked different slightly. Right. But  it's like, there could be some.  A greater degree of instability, not this year as much. But coming up, and so the way that I'm looking at this year is like a very.almost preppery kind of year, which is what we were talking about. And a lot of my magical creatures, which is what I identify. I mean, I, my clientele tend to be entrepreneurs that are either neurodivergent or magical and sometimes both. And a lot of my magical creatures have already kind of been like, I want to solidify this.I want. I want more security here. I want less reliance there. And I think that's a lot of what you tapped into with your book. Is that feeling that the magical creatures have been, it's been building. And the reason it's been building is because the astrology is moving in that direction. Right. And.Yeah.The other thing we wanted to preface was if you hear things about this year or future years, it doesn't necessarily mean that that is going to be your personal life experience, because our, this is the astrology of the collective, not necessarily the astrology that you personally will be experiencing.If you want to know how exact things hit your chart, your personal chart, work with an astrologer because they will be able to tell you,oh,oh, oh, maybe not work with an astrologer. Work with a traditional astrologer, not just any astrologer. It doesn't have to be me, but like, you want to make sure that they're a Hellenistic astrologer or they say they're a traditional astrologer because.You just do. And if you want to work with me, that's great. But if you don't, like, that's who I would go to. And youcan't hire Robin for individual readings. She's fantastic. And I've only heard insanely positive things about having a reading with her. So her or another traditional astrologer would definitely serve you.For like a once a year check in withhow this year will look like for you.  Absolutely. Cause there's so many different things that impact whether or not a transit, which is like what the planets are doing at any given moment are going to have an impact on you. And just some of them is like, where are the eclipses in your chart?Is your chart specifically being triggered by any of the events? What is your annual perfection? There are so many things. And if it's none of those are being affected in your chart, you might not even notice it. You might be like, I don't know. I was on a cruise. It was fine.  You know, it could be nothing for you.All right. So those are all my caveats,  right? That's all of them. We can yeah. So I'm going to say that January is a really big new beginning in a way that most  calendar year, new years are not. And that's because Mercury station direct on new year's day, Jupiter station direct a couple of days before there's only one planet in the sky that is retrograde right now, and that is Uranus.And he's like. He's fine that he's retrograde, right? This January, February, specifically January though, is when, if you were gonna hustle, that's, that's when I'd be hustling and I'd be planting all your seeds and kind of getting a really good idea of what would serve you well, and  what your ideal is, and working towards that as hard as you can, so that even if there's a storm later on, that you have, you know, you have your, you have your hurricane supplies, you have your You know what I'm saying?Like you have the foundation set as an entrepreneur for what you want. You're not, this isn't maybe the best year to do wild and I don't know. Is there ever a good year to do wild and crazy things? I mean, you're going to do what you're going to do, right. But  it's a great year to really figure out like what would serve me fantastically.And to be putting that into place and trying to get the habit down. And that's pretty much from January 1st to March 15th. I don't really have a lot of bad things to say about that period. It's pretty functional. I am going to just, if you're not on my, if you're not on my email list, you should absolutely be on my email list because I break it down every week.Right. And there's some pretty significant things that are happening in January. I'm going to go over them very briefly here, January 20th, we have the last. Pluto conjunction with a planet that's in Capricorn and it happens at 59 minutes 50 or like 29 degrees 59 minutes was like as far as the very last inch of Capricorn and Pluto has been in Capricorn transforming that area of life for everybody since 2008.And that was like a lot of the banking crisis stuff that we had and the housing bubbles and like all of that the  Bitcoin the new way that we worked with money like that kind of thing was pluto and in capricorn what it looks like pluto and aquarius is going to be which he we had a little preview from like March to June of last year it looks like it's going to have a lot to do with AI and, and how AI is probably going to explode over the next 19 years.That's the best guess that we have right now. And just typically like if I look at the 200 year rotations, which I've done there's a lot of tech advancements for whatever that meant in whatever period going all tech and cultural advancements going all the way back to like 50.  So  I can go, that.That seems to be true. And so.  That's not a bad thing. It's not a scary thing. And if, and if March to June of last year, doesn't ring any bells. It's possible Aquarius isn't super active in your chart. But if March not, not March 8th, April March to June. But if you're like, what is Pluto in Aquarius? What transformation is that going to be for me?These are the dates I want you to remember.  February 5th,  February 14th. February 17th, and February 22nd, and the reasons for that is because the first three of those, we have Mercury, then Mars, then Venus conjunct Pluto at that zero degrees. Okay. And  if, if that was significant for you, I promise you, you're going to notice.And the last one, which was February 22nd is there's a Mars Venus conjunction in Aquarius at like six degrees. And so that area of life is going to be super, super obviously highlighted. The other thing I'm going to say is, as far as Aquarius previews go, I actually have a few other dates, March 30th.I'm sorry, March 31st of 2020.  There was a Mars Saturn conjunction  at the zero degree of Aquarius point, and it was probably a disagreement or warlike stance in this area of life or someplace that you encounter strong resistance or a need to change. December 21st of 2020. I know Sam's going to remember this one.It was a great conjunction. That we did a lot of work on. That was the Saturn and Jupiter conjunction. And that was at the zero degree point. And then there was a Mars Venus conjunction on March 6th of 2022. anD so if any of those dates, feel free to go back and write them all down. If any of those dates are like, Oh crap, something big happened then.Yeah. Welcome to your Aquarius era. Cause yeah, I promise you it's going to be a ride. WhatI was just realizing is like, that is exactly when I had the, cause I'd been writing. The regenerative business book, I'd been writing it for very inconsistently for, I don't know, seven months or something. And then in March of 2023, I was just like, I need this book out.I need it out now. And then like spent all of my free time writing to get it out by. May 26.SoI'm like, okay, February. What is coming with?  Yeah. And I mean, that's your   house or something. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, it's relevant  or North node. It's something like that. It's your 10th house. I mean, there might be other stuff there too. I'd have to look. But yeah, I know it's going to be relevant for you in that particular way.  And.  You have like 19 years of transformative growth that's coming and there's gonna be a lot of things that trigger it, but it's just that very narrow window of period period of time in February that it's going to get hit over and over so often that I promise you, if you have anything there, you're not even going to need to ask anybody. You're gonna be like, well, that's obvious by the end of February. Right? And I'll tell you, like, that's if you have anything in Aquaria, if you have anything around 0 degrees of Aquarius.  Leo Scorpio,  and  Taurus.  Is that right? I feel like that's right.  Big signs? Hmm, ah, I don't know. I'm, I'm not looking at anything in my, but, yeah, for sure though, Aquarius and Leo, around zero to two degrees, I'd say you, you're probably gonna notice. So that's the first part. And then, then we get, so that's January. Like, March is just kind of like,  And February is only really interesting to me because you're going to get such a good preview of all the Aquarius stuff which is,  I think, useful, since it's the beginning of a 18, 19 year thing, and if you look at your Capricorn house and think about how it's changed from 2008 until now, you'll get a, you'll get a taste of how big  and how I'm going to talk about how long Pluto transits are and like how much they can change things. Mine was in my fourth house. I had two kids, got divorced, built my own house, built my own business in my house,  right? That's all fourth house topics.   So it's Capricorn house stuff is, is what's happening. That's what you're saying? It's what's wrapping up and we're moving into the Aquarius. Okay. So like I feel like this is another caveat of like this is slightly more advanced astrology topics that we're just kind of like running through very casually. I'm just realizing that I'm like some people don't even know what a house is. That's true. That's true. But it'll just pay attention to what's new. Like what's new and exciting in February is going to be an indicator. It's going to be a trend for a longer period. How about that? Yeah, whatever seems to be very focused. Also, I think people are just going to get a lot of New insights in January and February, which is another reason that I say it's, it's not easy. It's very productive, but it is it does have, like, my green light for it, like, until March 15th. So I'm going to switch to March 17th to April 28th, which is what I call the chaos zone. And I don't have really anything nice to say about it. It's a lot of confusion and aggression. We have 2 eclipses and a mercury retrograde during that period. And a lot of very challenging aspects  pretty much the whole time. So for the business people out there, if I'm launching, it's not between March 17th and April 28th. I'm a hundred percent not doing that. And your vacations. I, or maybe not. If you want to like your family,  I mean, I've done vacate. Like when I went to Alaska, it was during an eclipse. It was during an eclipse window. Right. And you can do that, but it, I mean, ultimately it depends on like where it's going to show up in your life. I'm not saying that it's a bad time, but there's going to be a lot of chaos. Right. And so one of the things that I tell the people that I work with a lot is. There's no, there's no period. There's no point in time where you just need to stop living your life. Yeah. Right. There are points in time that you're probably going to need more help managing your mind, or that you're going to need to be more resilient and more adaptable. And so March 17 to April 28, that's what that is right there's more external chaos, and there may be more internal chaos depending on where it is in your chart. And you're probably  going to have the opportunity to  be more resilient, and I don't think that's a bad thing. Is there any chance that, like, for people who hear chaos and are like, good things actually come out of chaos for me, like, maybe that is a time to, to leverage? I'm not saying that unless I look at their chart.  Okay.  I'm gonna say, like,  There is no traditional astrologer that is ever going to say the period between March 25th and April 8th is a good time  to do something. You aren't going to find a single person that's, I, I would put money down on that if they're a traditional astrologer, they would not say that because that's between two eclipses and there's a Mercury retrograde in the house of the eclipses. No, no,  no. Now there are people who like chaos magic.  Go with God. I'm not recommending it.  Okay, but that doesn't mean like, don't do your business, right? Like, I'm still going to be running my business. I'm still going to be seeing clients. I'm still going to be living my life. I'm not going into a hole, but I'm 100 percent planning  just like, like a hurricane plan, right? Like, just I live in hurricane alley. For those of you who don't know  we plan  for a category 5 hurricane to hit and then we hope it doesn't  right. And  if I'm looking at the year,  that period is hurricane season.  I, I'm,  it doesn't look Maybe batch content ahead of time.   Well, see, but like, I don't even consider writing content difficult. So for me, like, I'm not anticipating me not being able to write, because I know where it's going to hit in my chart. I know where the drama is likely to be. And this is where like working with an astrologer and just knowing the areas of life that are likely to be more challenging is useful because it's not in my work sectors, it's in my relationship sectors. I don't have a relationship. I'm not super worried. Right. I'm like, what can't you? Oh my gosh. I can't wait to hear the behind the scenes now that you've said that publicly.  But that's not going to affect my work, right? Like, that's not a work thing. That's, that's some other form of chaos. So how do people figure out what sector it's in? It's what the house that what's what's in Aries, Aries and Libra.  Okay. I have nothing in those houses. Yeah. Like I'm not like, do we want to let's cheat and like, we'll just give a little preview of what can happen if I have your chart. Most people really like it when I talk about other people's charts on podcasts. Because they are like, Oh, I didn't know you could do that. So I'm just going to pull your chart up. I have no, no planets in Aries or Libra. Okay. But since I don't remember that, I'm not going to,  yeah,  I don't think, but  I think you're going to probably do a lot of publicity stuff. That's my guess. Okay. And have chaos. I have chaotic publicity.  Okay, but I want you to think about that, right? Like, think about chaotic social media publicity. That could be something going viral. Yeah. Because chaos isn't inherently bad, but you can't plan for it. That's why when you were like, would you try to manifest something? No. But I would expect things to go probably viral or for you to unexpectedly get opportunities from benefactors. So like somebody So this is, this is, these are conversations we've had offline plenty of like I feel as though personally and I don't know about other people but I feel like when bad things happen collectively, like. I actually like personally do really well. Like I, I, I handle it well, like, like weird miracles and opportunities pop into my life. So like when I hear chaos, I'm like, okay, things could actually be good for me.   Yes. Yeah, they could, but not planned things, right? And, and that's the difference. It's just like, that's why I say adaptable and resilient because yes, lots of opportunities. And, and eclipses aren't inherently bad. There's sudden new beginnings and sudden endings, right? And that's not bad. It's just not when I'm trying to plan something that I want to go according to plan.  You don't play.  Yeah. Just have your hurricane plan. Yeah. But even that is like, which way I evacuate is based off of which way the storm is projected to go. Yeah. Yeah. Right. I still have to be adaptable. So, so what about May?  May through June is freaking delightful. I love it.  Yeah. May is great. There are a bunch of really really lovely things that happen. I have it as a green period, May 1 to June 7th.  Especially if you have a lot of Gemini or Taurus placements. And for the people in the back, what does a green period mean? Good things. I don't really have anything bad to say. So like a green light, you're saying like green light, green, yellow, red. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I'm basically green yellowing and red. This is my other green period, so January 1st of March 15th and May 1st of June 7th are my green lights. I like them a lot. If you happen to have significant TAUs or Gemini placements. Lord, it's about to be good. You have Gemini. Amazing girl, what? Yours is about to be good. You just know how much I hate Taurus. I don't hate Tauruses, I just like Taurus season is like the bane of my existence. Yeah but there's just a lot of really lovely things happening in Taurus and Gemini, and even if you don't have anything in that area, it's still a nice period for most people. Again, when I say that there are good periods, it very much depends, like, what's happening in your chart, blah, blah, blah.  I have  June 8th through July 31st as just sort of a yellow light. It looks like working hard more than anything else. Like, it looks like there's things that people are figuring out. And, but not,  not hurricane season.  I don't dislike it. August 20, August 4th to August 28th, so Mercury Retrograde. Mercury Retrogrades, for those of you who have not been working with me forever, is just a period that's better for reviewing. So like, review your copy, review your funnels, review your website. You know, it's not necessarily the best time to start something new. Back up your systems. You know, just like, very functional. Yeah. Let's scoot back to, you said June 8th through July 31st is this yellow period.  And you're saying that it's like a working hard period. Do you mean by that, like, things don't, like, they're just taking more work or it's just a good, it's a good, like,  what is the, face the grindstone? Yeah, nose to the grindstone. Yeah, I think it could be, it could go either way. It kind of depends on the person. I think it'll either be like, it'll either show up as people wanting to do work that's a little bit harder, like feeling like, oh, I can tackle this thing. Or Like something happens and they just have to figure it out. It could go either way. But it's it's like a productive  forward kind of movement as opposed to netflix and chill   I haven't heard any Netflix and chill periods so far this year.  You're not going to hear any either.  I don't have any coming up. Not a rest year. Excellent. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I don't  know.  There's a lot of opportunities for  forward momentum, I would say. And then there's some really good opportunities, you know, like how you when you, oh, that's a really,  nobody, but you and I are going to get this, but scrum,  right? Like where you're doing sprints, there's a lot of sprint periods.  For, for those listening, Scrum, I feel like it's less popular now, but there, it had like a moment in the online business world where everyone was doing Scrum sprints. I feel like there's another, another name for it, but it's this type of,  this type of project planning and project working that was based off of, usually like app software developers and how they created apps. So like you would work for two, two weeks hard on this one very specific project essentially to try and get the next like 2. 0 version of the app and the 2. 1 version of the app and the 2. 2 and like you'd keep on doing these and then it kind of caught on for for a hot second. I don't know, maybe a decade ago in the online business world where people would work in sprints and do like have this two week. This is the only focus for two weeks. So you're, you're saying that's for the year or specifically this June, July period.   I would say like often, like I, I kind of see this whole year as there's like little chunks that people are working on one thing and they go work on the next thing. And it's like, it seems very, very distinct to me, like, Oh, you're working on X project January and February, and then March and April, there's something else you're working on. And then may and June and then June and July. And then August is it's like own little beast.  And that's that's very Mercury, like, almost all of August is Mercury retrograde. And so that, to me, feels like August is very much a reviewing what you've done kind of period, even more so than some of the others, because immediately in September, we go into eclipses again. And so September 6, September 16th to October 16th, I have as a red zone, for a couple of reasons, and now we're getting to the part of  the part of the story.  So September 17th is the first eclipse in Pisces. That's a new cycle. That's where the eclipses will be in 2025. October 2nd, we have our final eclipse. I think it's the last one in Libra. It's for sure the last one this year. And that'll be wrapping up the Libra Aries eclipse stories. And on October 4th,  Mars It's his retrograde shadow.  Mars is gonna. Here's the thing.  Mars is gonna be  in either  Cancer or Leo for like eight months.  So I mean those two signs and So it he first goes into cancer  I didn't write it down. So I'm just gonna look real quick  first goes into cancer on September 4th,  and then he goes into Leo November 3rd  And then he goes back into Cancer and then back into Leo and he doesn't leave until June 17th of 2025. What are, what's the, what are the flavors of Mars and Cancer and Mars and Leo? Mars and Cancer is like a warrior in full plate metal splashing around in the ocean trying to attack somebody.   And that's how, and we're the warriors and that's how we feel. Yep.  Great. Huh.  Yeah, it's not a fun time. It's not where we want Mars to be. So we're fighting for our lives, but it's, it's, it's almost, I, what, the picture that comes in my head is, like, I had in my dream, not so much lately actually, but I used to have this reoccurring feeling in dreams where  you're running and you can't move, like you're like, you're moving at super slow speed, almost like you're, you're trying to run through really dense water. That's Mars and cancer, and he's going to be there for like, Six months total. That's ridiculous. anD it's not a bad, like, if, if you're hearing this, you're like, well, I have Marsian cancer and I blah, blah, blah. Great.  You're gonna love it. You're gonna feel so comfortable. Maybe not love it, but like, you're gonna feel, this is gonna be familiar. Yes. And for people who don't know, don't know Mars.   Mars is action. Like, it's how you take action. It's like your, your masculine drive often, like this. Like the, the Yang part of the, yes. It was, and people,   there are political correctness things that I'm going to blow out of the water right now, but Mars is masculine energy feminine and feminine energy is Venus. And it's a polarity and every human has both. You have both in your chart, you have both in your makeup, right? Like it's, it's not that I'm saying this is female and this is male, it's literally just the masculine principle and the feminine principle. And  Mars does not like to be in cancer. He's not a fan. Passive aggressive sometimes. Not because they're trying to be manipulative, but because being aggressive feels so uncomfortable that the only way sometimes that Mars in cancer will make a move forward is, is in  think about, okay, you know, crabs actually move side to side,  but they still move forward. That's very much Mars in cancer.  Like it has trouble going directly forward because.  I love that. Yeah. And then why isn't Leo? Yeah, I was about to ask. Tell me. But you know the, the, the dude that was in Gladiator?  Yeah, there you go. Russell  Crowe? Is it Russell Crowe? Is that the guy? I don't know. I don't actually. But yeah, that movie, like, where he's like all buff and like his whole life is killing things and it's like very,  very like, warry.  So does that feel good? Like, because I know when righteousness feels good, like it might not like feel good to like be against it, but I'm like, it kind of sounds righteous to me like, but when you're feeling of righteousness, it feels good. So, so full disclosure, my Mars is in Leo, and you've seen me get angry. That's what Mars in Leo is like.  And I do get very righteous when I'm angry. Like, if I'm angry, if I really am angry, I used, I, when I was a kid, I was a Christian and I wanted to be Michael's apprentice. Not, no joke. Michael is the right hand of God. He's the sword of God. He's the justice of God. I was like, I want that job. How do I get that job?  And they're like, no, Robin, that's an angel thing. Well, but y'all said when I die, I could be an angel. Well, but not literally. And I'm like, well, then why did say it?  I thought that was a possibility.  So is this a scenario where We're going to get angry at things, and it's going to be productive. So let's look at the timeline, shall we? So the elections are in November.  Okay, so Mars is I'm just gonna I'm like, I want to make sure I'm looking at the right time lines. I feel like everyone's already upset about  they're gonna get more upset. It's gonna it's not gonna get better.  So Mars goes into cancer September 4th  and November 3rd, right around election day. Mars goes into Leo.  Wow. So, November 4th is usually Election Day, yeah? So it's like literally before. Oh my gosh. So, thinking about that righteous anger, right? That's what's going on. You think like actual violence will happen? Because you were like referencing Gladiator.   I'm not comfortable making that kind of prediction without looking at other factors. I will say  that  November 3rd is when Mars goes into Leo.  And he Stations retrograde December 6th, which is generally when, around the time the elections are actually finalized and called and everything, right?  And then he goes into,  he goes into cancer again January 6th.  So there's going to be like some weird, like, recalling the ballot thing, and  Yeah, I mean, that's what I will say, is I think there's going to be election shenanigans. And I think they're already I already like, I feel like they're already happening.   I'm just saying, like, I, I don't see how we get away from it. It looks very contentious or right around the election period with the way that Mars is stationing and a few other things are happening.  Pluto goes back into Aquarius, November 19. And main stuff happening in post eclipses. The main stuff happening on October, November is this Mars stuff, or is there also other things happening? It's mostly Mars. We also had so Mars. So Pluto goes back into Aquarius for the final time on November 19th,  and then it's full steam ahead and Aquarius. Because he spends like 2 months. So he comes back out like. end of August, beginning of September, he goes into Capricorn. The other thing in the end of the year, October 16th to the end of the year, I have a yellow. I don't even have it as red, right? Like the,  but we do have a Mercury retrograde from November 25th to December 15th. And that Mercury retrograde shadow happens right around election time. And Mars retrograde is in Leo. It starts in Leo on December 6th and ends in  Cancer on February 25th.  Yeah, I mean, the fact that we haven't, the other thing that I didn't mention about the eclipses in  March and April is that they go across the United States. One side of the other full solar eclipse. Last time that happened, Trump was elected. tHere's a lot and I don't even care what people's politics are about Trump, whether you love him or you hate him, or you think he's a devil, or you think he's a savior. Like, I don't really care. Nobody can deny that it created massive upheaval in the United States with him being elected. There's like families torn apart, you know, blah, blah. And that happened after the other great American eclipse.  Right. And so even if it's not him, it doesn't look between that and Mars, the elections don't look. Oh, easy.  No. And does that have anything to do with your business? No idea. Don't know what your business is. Might be great for business if you're a button maker and you're making buttons that say go vote for this guy and go vote for that guy, it'd be great for your business, right? Like if you're a political commentary person and you, and you make a lot of money doing that, like I can think of some Instagram influencers that I follow who are full on. It's mostly politics, right? Like I fully expect, I feel like even just, Okay, yes, with buttons and all those things, but often for online businesses, a key part of having a really solid following of people who will fight for you and your business, like, is having very controversial stances, like, or not necessarily controversial, but like  Very like I I'm putting my flag in the ground on this thing, whatever that thing may be. And it sounds like Mars and Leo can help with that. So you could actually use this time period to and use the emotion of anger. Anger fueled posts can actually be the most viral posts. You have the most shared posts. You have the most, the most the posts that actually solidify people's love for you because it's,   go ahead. Let's dial that back a tiny bit. I don't want to say anger. I want to say passion. Yeah. I actually think anger is a very useful emotion to feel posts by, not like all of them. Of course not. But, but there is anger and passion. This Mars is this action oriented thing. People will take action when they tap into their anger. There's no question about it. So it can, I want to just lean into the potential that this could be actually an amazing time period for you to actually make a name for yourself, to have people fall in love with you, to have your business do extremely well.  Sure.   Sure.  I'm calling this in for all of us. Yes. I mean, I would rather people not. I mean, I know that anger is useful and sometimes that's the only way that people can make a change. It's also because it's such a volatile period. Typically, when people are angry, that becomes an us versus them mentality that is.  dehumanizing  occasionally. And I've seen it a lot. No, you have to do it gracefully. No, but Simone Soul, a client of mine, a client of yours, she, like one of her like top 10 tips in having a, a successful business is to tap into your anger, anger and talk about things that you're angry about because you'll actually put passion behind it. It doesn't have to be this, like we're tearing down the world. Of course, I'm all for that too, but  But you actually having a stance on something is extremely useful in online business. So this is where y'all can tell if you know astrology that I have a lot of placements in Libra and Sam doesn't have any. Because I am very much. I also have Mars essentially conjunct my rising sign. Yes, she does.  Yeah. So, and I, my anger is very  I, I'm more like, you know, I am, I mean, I'm, I'm all about  total warfare. It's just that video game. I feel like it is, is what total warfare.  Oh, it is. It is a name of, it's also a war strategy, which you, we might disagree on if you were to look it up. Where was I going with this? I was going with the, I think that there's so much. contention and volatility and hate that is a possibility that if you're that I am not going to get behind, I'm just not, I am not going to say lean into your anger. I'm going to say lean into your passion and what you're passionate about while also remaining aware of the fact that even if these people have directly opposing views, they're still humans. Because there's the potential for  people to forget that. Yeah. And maybe not your people, or maybe you hope it's not your people, but.  I'm, I'm a historian first  and foremost. For those of you who don't know, that's what my undergraduate degree is in. That's what I taught for a really long time. That's what I freaking love. The divisive nature  of some of these transits makes me just want to remind people  that those people that you disagree with, those people who are doing horrible things in your opinion, or even if you want to put it as an objective fact, right?  There's still stuff going on in their brain that got them there. And they're still humans. And.  There's still a place for compassion  and  I used to use World War II as my favorite example because it was one of the periods that I focused on. Individual Germans  didn't hate the people that got put in the concentration camps, right? They got riled up because of the political situation and because they thought that somebody else would stop it. And some of them got riled up because they just wanted to feel powerful. And there are all these, all these different reasons, right? But like Germans as a whole  weren't.  Horrible people,  right?  And  I don't know, I just, I guess that doesn't mean don't fight back. It does mean that not paint  with huge broad strokes.  And it's going to be real easy to do that when Mars is pissed off in retrograde. It's going to be real easy  for people to just be like, no, you like, like, let's say you like Trump. You're the devil.  There we go. Or you're a Democrat and a woman. Clearly you shouldn't have any rights. You're too stupid to think  for yourself. I should be able to do all that. And for, and we've seen some of that happening already. It's not like we haven't. And I want you to think back to the Venus and Leo retrograde and how some of the women's issues got pulled up and how many rights we've lost. very quickly. I don't know. I just think that  there's a lot of volatility. Yeah, but sometimes, I mean, in going back to the original, or the beginning of this conversation, where Social justice and moving it forward. Yeah, and sometimes war and violence and things are necessary in order to fix some long standing, horrible things that happened during quote unquote peace. And have been happening for decades, if not hundreds of years.Ahundred percent.  Here's the thing. I just figured out how I want to say it.  There are children on both sides. The children aren't the enemies.  And so,  extremism is what I'm afraid is going to happen. It's like, you know where people get very extremist and they And they do things that even if they were on the right side of history, it was the wrong thing to do.You know what I mean? Like, I would, I would say that people would, I think most people would be like, Hey, America going up against the Nazis and ending Nazi occupation was a good thing.  And Americans,  like, bombing children in Hiroshima, maybe not a great thing.  Maybe there was a better way.  Right? But we didn't, we weren't trying.We were just trying to brute force and end it. And I guess that's the thing I'm saying. It's like, There's still  no, Iknow. I'm just it's an interesting week to talk about this because they're literally the I've been like anti federal government for a long time, but like I was pretty confident about the local government being okay up until like these last couple months where they're trying to put a toxic waste dump.Next to our farm and move the toxic waste from an already toxic area to a new place right above a mother coral reef and  do it in the stupid possible way with the 99 percent of the community vocally against it and they're still moving forward with it. So like we're about to do like straight up civil disobedience against it.So like, I'm like, oh, I'm kind of in this, this Morris stuff right now. And I'm like, very, like, I don't think it might be quote unquote extreme, but there's.  Some bullshit happening. Anyways,  we have only a few more minutes. Yeah. Did we get through everything? Because I can do a quick recap. We got through everything.Okay, so we saw January, February is a green period. It's a great time for hustling and planting seeds all the way through March 15th.  And if you have any Aquarius placements, you're going to feel it. It sounds like a pot in a positive way, right? Yeah,maybe. I think it'll be interesting. I'm not, I mean, I don't think anyway.Yeah,  it'll be interesting. You said March is pretty meh. But, but March 25th through no, March 17th through April 28th is like this, maybe the worst time of the year of chaos, confusion, aggression, and.  So hold, hold tight for six weeks, sixweeks is a long time. So like,  I mean, I, this is like, if you go to some of the traditional astrologers, there's some parts of the end of the year that not everybody's going to agree with me on.It's for me, I think it's the most  most opportunities to learn resilience and adaptability. And so I'm not saying it's not a good time to, I think you're just gonna have to figure things out. I think it's going to be a lot more of a. It's also a really, the other thing I'll say about it is there's a lot of  trying to move forward, not being able to, and there's a lot of having to review and a lot of weird fact checky things.It's like, there's just a lot of confusion around that period. Because there's some Neptune conjunctions and I mean, there's a bunch of Neptune conjunctions, which.  It's just confusion. And thenMay and June, you said are delightful. Greet period, do all the things, feel amazing. If you're Gemini and Taurus, it's going to be extra good for you guys.And then June 8th through June 31st is a yellow. Not necessarily bad, but it's going to, like, it's, it's a, it's a working hard period. It'll be productive forward momentum, but it'll definitely, like, feel like work.  Like that, but you remember, like, whenever you were writing your book, like, you were just nose down, right?Like, you were like, I'm just doing this, but you didn't, you didn't feel bad. Yeah,no, I, I like that feeling personally.  August 4th through 28th, this is Mercury Retrograde. It's just a review, reflection time, nothing else really happening. And then September 16th through October 6th. Oh, oh,oh, what?  So, okay, so July 8th to July 34th, 31st, I have is like very working focused.I would say August is challenging. Okay. I wouldn't, I mean, it's more challenging than  the months before. Yeah. And it's like leading up to the September, October eclipse zone right like August is when it starts getting challenging September, October, we just have a bunch of stuff that sort of adds on.  So that's like the red period when we really are like,  yeah, I don't think it's as bad as the first eclipse like the eclipses, the eclipses at the beginning of the year I think are harder.But it's also important to just remember that this is going to start being like where the election stuff kicks up real high. Yeah, it, there's going to be a lot of sudden information that gets changed and more aggressive stances that are going to be taken.  And then we also have a mercury retrograde and mercury shadow period like.And so it's just more,  it's less the first half of the year is more effective. I would say it's going to be easier to be effective in the first part of the year. And then, and then you said that November, December, it's. Well, after October 16th through the end of the year, it's a yellow period. So like, not, not sweet, sweet green, but it is not red.And it'll, it sounds like a very collective time with that Mars stuff and the election stuff. So stuff is going to be like  flying around.  Yeah, I think it's going to be a little chaotic. I think it's going to, yeah, between the eclipses and the Mercury retrogrades and everything else. I do think that there's going to be some.And then, overall, this is our last stable year for a while. Not to say it's going to be an easy year, but 2025, 26, 27 is going to be more instability. So this is a great year to really, oops, I just broke a pen,  to really  ground into  or lean into creating stability and using this year to create stability for and prepare and create resilience, build resilience for the future years.Absolutely.  And I mean, I don't think that's a bad thing. I think that's a lot of what the hard work looks like is like, what are you, what is it that you want to stand for? Right. And that's part of what you were saying. And I'm, I'm not disagreeing that people need to take a stand. It's just, my gosh, there's so much,  there's so much anger and there, which I'm not saying the anger is bad either.God knows, like, I have a temper. It's just.  Figure out what your, figure out where your lines in the sand are. Figure, you know how people say, I'm not going to die on that hill. Like, you know, you can plant your flag. I think this is the year people are going to figure out where their flags are going to get planted.Mm, yeah. Yeah, you have to, you have to hold, hold back. You can't, you can't fight for every cause.  All the causes are valid, not all of them, but plenty of causes are valid, but, but there's so many of them, right? Like there's so many injustices in the world. There really are. Yeah. And you can't effectively fight for all of them.Yeah. Right. And so what are you going to fight for? Yeah. And where does your family come in on that? Right? Like, how is that like you specifically, one of the reasons that this is your cause is because it's literally on your back doorstep. Yeah. Right. Right.  And there's no way that any of us who don't live there can really and truly understand the impact and the fear that comes along with a toxic waste dump being put right next to our home.Yeah, right. Yeah. And obviously that's going to be your cause. Obviously it should be. And I think that a lot of people, instead of looking globally, they are probably going to start looking more like, okay, but what about me and my rights? Like a lot of women are focused on other areas, but in some states like where I live, our rights have been ripped away from us.Like I'm literally like when  women have only had credit cards for like five years longer than I've been alive.  And I'm looking at some of the rights that are being rolled back and I'm like,  might be something I'm interested in because I would like to have a personal autonomy.  When I hit 70, you know,  and I think that'll be some of the decisions people are making it's like what.Political issues. Are you going to be voting around if you can't vote for all of them because the candidates are so dispersed, right? Like, what is your issue that you're, you know, your thing?  This isso good, Robin. Thank you so much for coming on. Obviously go to wickedveracity. com to  book a session, but at least get on the email list.Every week Robin puts out a weekly. Email that literally goes day by day of what the energy of the week is going to be, or it's also on your podcast. So you could like, listen, if you're a listener versus, oh, you don't dothat anymore. The podcast is getting relaunched later this month with an astrology thing.And it's not going to have any of my forecast. I'll be talking more about. Okay. So definitely geton the email list. What is your podcast goingto be about then? I'm going to be talking about the way to think about astrology and the way to think about the circumstances because I do get a lot of people who go, Oh, that's really good.Or, Oh, that's really bad. And I'm like, I never said that. I'm not the words that I used. Cause I don't think that any of it's good or bad. I think it's neutral and you get to experience it however you want to. And I'm going to be talking a little bit more about that and how I think about each of the planets and signs and everything.Give people a way of thinking about them. My Instagram, I also put out daily.  I hate email. So I never look at email, but I always, I tend to be like, what the fuck is happening today? This feels weird. And then I go look on your Instagram, which is wicked dot veracity. It is. Yeah. And being like, what is happening and seeing if it's similar or not than what I'm experiencing.But thank you, Robin. DM both of us to let us know what you're doing to prepare for your resilience this year.  So good. The Regenerative Business Creation Lab is open now! Join our premium digital deep-dive for modern change-makers to install the Regenerative Business Framework into your business.Learn more here: https://regenerativebusinesscreationlab.com

How many examples of Greek letters in pop culture can you think of? Join us alpha-quizzers to find out, but beware: This quiz is classified Omega 17. Sarah hosts trivia nights as Paris Quiz Mistress and Fred Eyangoh is a stand-up comedian based in Paris. Music by Mad98 and production by Célia Brondeau. Do you want to support us? Tip jar here!Transcript:Hi, I'm Fred. And I'm Sarah, aka the Paris Quiz Mistress. We're two friends addicted to trivia, and we're watching rewatching Alias. But this is not an Alias podcast. Every episode, we play general knowledge trivia on a theme.Five quiz questions for you to play along. And the tonic early 2000s by thrillers show starring Jennifer Garner doesn't really matter because this is not an Alias podcast.Welcome back to not an alias. Podcast. Episode 18 masquerade. What a masquerade? It is.Oh, wow. Definitely a lot of action after the recap episode. Are you ready in 60 seconds, if you can, while I jammed a signal, can you recap masquerade for us? Yes, please. All right, you're good to go.So Sydney is doing some rock climbing, which is blatant queer baiting. And then the CIA always knew that Sydney's mom was alive, and then Jack is sad about it and drinks about it. Sydney goes to a masked ball in Vienna, and the guy that was in deep cover is dead. And then the other guy is her former lover. Wow.She had former lovers. And they get the chip from the guy's throat, which was gross. And then they go to find a computer in deepest, darkest Russia, and Jack lies to the Psych. And then there's a cold chamber and a claw bit. I think that's about oh, and then they get it on Bow chicken.Perfect.It's your recap. You mentioned whatever you want. What do you think your quiz is about? No more alias. Is it about chips?Chips and microchips. Chips and dip?No, this time it's about fairly small element that I caught during the episode. Isn't it always? Yeah, I did microstate last time, which is, in a way, the biggest thing I've ever been taking inspiration from. So Sydney and Vaughn are talking, and Sydney's like, give me some information. And Vaughn says even I can't get information because the info is classified.Something something I'm not sure if you're going to remember. No, I'm not. It's classified Omega 17. Oh, it is. You're right.And it cannot have access. So I decided to do a Greek alphabet pop culture quiz. Fabulous. Very good. Question one which character, created by Stanley and Jack Kirby in 1962, owes his sometimes undesirable powers to a laboratory accident involving gamma rays?Is it Spiderman? No, he was bitten by a spider. This specific person was doing a thing in the lab, and then gamma rays blasted him, and then they all have the same story. You know, I'm not a superhero person. Wait, so gamma is the there's not a Greek letter in the answer.No.Undesirable powers. It's a character with a very specific.The. Oh, is it the Green Lantern? It's green. But the Green Hornet. The Hulk.Hey. My God. Why do you do this to Dr. Banner?Bruce. Bruce Banner. Yes. Yes. See, that I knew that I could have done exactly.Question two the name of this actress who won a Tony as well as an Oscar for her role in the Broadway adaptation, contains the name of a Greek letter that sounds like it's late in the alphabet. The Greek alphabet, but it's actually it's six letter. Very good. Okay, you're talking about Chicago and Catherine Zeta Jones. Exactly.Thanks for complimenting the question as you go. Yep. That was good. No, that was good. Unlike the previous question, which was trash.Question three which video recording format developed by Sony in 75 and somehow sold until 2016 was considered pretty much obsolete ten years after its release due to the market dominance of a competing format that became synonymous with a certain type of video recording. So I think the market dominant one would be like the VHS. Indeed. See, I was not in a sorority, and apparently if you're in Greek life, you need to learn the Greek alphabet, which would have been helpful, except then I would have had to have been in a sorority.Is it Betamax? It is.Well done. Yeah. VCRs, you had Betamax and VHS for about a second, but I think Betamax was too expensive and just not long enough in terms of recording, so it was just enough. There's a Betamax reference in what? Hot American summer.And that's all about all I know. Question four. In 1956, in reaction to a series of product returns, an Italian clothing brand decided to print a certain letter on its socks in order to signify quality. The Greek name of this letter eventually became the brand name of which Italian. Sportswear company in 1958, Italian sportswear certain letter indicating quality.They started stamping in on the socks. Boom, boom. And then they were like, oh, this letter is cool. Let's call it.What would signify quality? I mean alpha. Is it Omega again? Watches. No, no, I give, uh, the letter.Is K and the brand is oh, okay. Kappa. Yeah, Kappa. Italian brand. Again, had I been in a sorority?Indeed. Question five the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet is spelled the same way, but not pronounced the same way as the nickname of which major American city? This nickname is also the title of a TV show created by Lena Waithe about life in a neighborhood on the south side of this city. Oh, is it Kai? Indeed.And the city is Chicago. Chicago. Exactly. The shy TV show that's going on at the moment. Well done.Lovely. And await. Yeah, obviously. Cool. And this was your GAPC greek alphabet pop culture quiz.GAPC. And now let's close the trivia chapter and get ready for the ball. Put our masks on. Masquerade, go meet former lovers. Saucy, I almost wrote a quiz about skin because we got to see a lot of it.So welcome. Berkeley guy aka switchblade guy aka Noah. Yeah, Noah Peter Berg. Kind of an Ethan Hawke lookalike. Yeah, very Ethan Hawke vibey.Yeah, longer face, bow near face, but yeah, very much that vibe. Yeah. And no, I liked it because up until this point, sydney was a little bit of a Virgin Mary to be yeah, yeah. And no, it's cool. I'm like, oh, yeah, she's got a passionate side.She recently removed her engagement. Mean hot to trot. I think my favorite part of this episode was they broke up because of a spam filter. Oh, my Lord. I think she said, I set it to filter.And I was thinking, who doesn't? Who just lets the junk come through at the time? At the time, I guess it's like, you never know. Maybe it was so bad that it was also catching, like, good emails. I don't know.But yeah, tragic, tragic technology just keeping them apart. And then he ran away because he was in love. And then they go and they parse through data and they're like, have you seen these schematics? Yeah, the music is like spy rom spy.It is comedic. Not always intentionally, but yeah. We sad about dad being all about the booze. An alcoholic very quickly. I don't know if it's 03:00 P.m., but it looks like it's just like, afternoon.But he's very I said, that not decent. But he's very classy in his booze too. Oh, yeah. Got some brown booze. Exactly.He's wearing a suit. He knows how to do it. And a little bit of weird Sloan action. There's always a thing about Sloan feeling fatherly for.And I do know and there's a little moment of because she's looking for a mom now where she tells him, please help me look for my mom. And I really thought for a second he would just be like, well, actually, I'm your mother. Strange. Take a sip of water. Exactly.Evil water. But yeah, no, that doesn't happen. Yeah, pretty good episode. I mean, I really love the whole Noah thing. I liked how a -150 degrees room isolate, like insulated with a thin, thin layer of glass that you can just break if you kick it.Yeah. Oh, also, when they were like, quick, go get the hard drive from the core. She was just like, Excuse me, let me Google something real quick. She just searched. She's like, Laura Presto.M-O-T-H-E-R. Wait. There's nothing like that. Could it be in the database? Yeah, but she's taking the database anyway.She can just search it later. Drama. Drama. Sarah Drama everywhere. She's very comfortable with the amount of time she has to escape from the security guards in this underground Russian bunker.It just channels her current obsession with the subject of mama. Cool. Well, this season is building quite nicely. And by this season, I mean this season of our podcast. Obviously.This is excellent. Well, I cannot wait to see what comes next for Noah and Sydney and all the peeps. Thank you, everybody. Have a great day. You know what?Have a great day. Or night. Thanks for listening to not an Alias podca

Transcript: Hi, everyone! I'm Georgiana, your English teacher, and I'm here to help you speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. And if you want to help me, it's very simple!

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Cys Bronner, BNI Executive Director, CRO and THE Constant Social Media Networker, discusses #BNI Core Value – GIVERS GAIN®We give because we understand that in a community, what we do, others will do, and we all benefit.Transcript:Hi, I'm Cys Bronner, BNI Executive Director for BNI's Greater Los Angeles regions, BNI4Success. Today, I want to talk about BNI's Core Value #1 – GIVERS GAIN®It should be no surprise that our first Core Value, is also the driving philosophy of BNI.   Over time, I've learned that Givers Gain® can mean many things to many different people. But ultimately, it's based on the age-old philosophy of “What goes around, comes around”. In my mind, it's more than a reciprocal tit-for-tat statement. It is how we lift up others around us. It's the philosophy of sharing the gratitude of abundance with our business partners. It's the benefit that even the smallest farmer knows, the garden grows best when the seeds are pollenated.When I look at our 7 Core Values, I also see that it's the strength within some of the others, like Building Relationships and even Accountability. Givers Gain® isn't just a throw away motto, it's a part of BNI's DNA. Everyone all levels understands that this is organizations guiding core value, and that's a pretty incredible thing to be a part of, isn't it?  If you're looking to gain more insights into BNI and really bring the most results to your chapter and business, let me be a part of your network.  Subscribe or follow BNIpodcast4success.com  I'm looking forward to hearing how Givers Gain® is woven into your life.  In networking: The more memorable (positive and helpful) you are, the better the results. Questions? Feel free to call Actionsteps4Success Founder and BNI Executive Director Cys Bronner 866-889-3466 or email her at Cys.Bronner@BNI4success.com Her motto: BNI, making word of mouth marketing work for youClick for more information or to join a BNI chapter in the Los Angeles area BNI4Success Podcasts The Voice of BNI Greater Los Angeles; Where we'll talk about referral networking that works!http://bnipodcast4success.com

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everyone! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of speakenglishpodcast.com. My mission is to help you speak English fluently. This week is a bit special because it is Spring Offer and all my premium courses have a 60% discount. I've received several messages with questions about the courses. I will try to answer some frequently asked questions in this short episode. By the way, you can get the offer at: speakenglishpodcast.com/courses Hurry up because the offer is only available until this Sunday at midnight. Let's start with the most frequently asked question: 1) What is the difference between the podcast and the premium courses? That's a great question! In the podcast, I talk about very diverse topics to improve your vocabulary. It's a great listening practice.  I also give a small example of a lesson in each podcast episode. It can be a mini-story of questions and answers or a point of view. Because of time limitations, I can barely develop these lessons, yet they allow you to test the method that I use in my premium courses in an easy and fun way. Instead, the premium courses are complete programs designed to improve your spoken English dramatically. These are conversation courses. You start speaking from DAY ONE with the conversation simulator. They are audio lessons that "simulate" conversations. I call them Q&A mini-stories. Unlike the podcast, the premium courses contain hours and hours of questions and answers. Imagine for a moment a podcast episode multiplied by 100. Also, the courses allow you to work much better on grammar aspects such as the plural, singular, all kinds of verb tenses, and certain common expressions of English. All of this unfolds in an interactive way, following one or more stories that provide a rich and entertaining context. For example, the Fluency Course (level II) contains more than 8 hours of audio, thousands of questions and answers (mini-stories), and almost 200 pages of transcription text. Of course, there are also many point-of-view lessons that allow you to work very intensely on aspects of grammar. One rule I always follow is to create lessons with complex characters and funny stories with unexpected endings. That way, you'll never forget what you learn best and, of course, it's a lot more fun. Another question: 2) Can I use the premium courses on the iPhone, iPad, Android, and so on? Yes, of course. You can use them without problems. It is important to keep in mind that the courses are not apps. That is, you don't install them. It's much more flexible. The courses consist of mp3 audio and text (PDF). This is much simpler and prevents technical problems. Transferring the content to any device is quite easy. However, when you buy one of the courses, I send you detailed steps to know what to do. In any case, you can contact me by e-mail with any questions. 3) Is there a monthly payment for the premium courses? No, there is no such thing. They are yours for personal use and forever when you buy the courses. 4) How many premium courses are there, and what is the difference?   There are currently four courses. I will describe them briefly: 1) 30-Day Crash Course (level 1): This course is for beginners with no knowledge of English. It is a course that works very well, and I am happy with the result because it helps a lot to start with English. In your case, I don't recommend it because if you are a follower of this podcast, you are no longer a beginner. 2) The Fluency Course (level 2):  The level of this course is a bit easier than this podcast, but there is almost no difference. This program will help you automate the most common structures when speaking. It consists of 20 units with 20 unique and fun stories. I recommend this course if you're trying to stop mentally translating when you speak English, even with relatively easy expressions.   3) The Magic Course (level 3): This course is very ambitious because it goes one step beyond the Fluency Course. The aim is to practice all the verb tenses in the context of a long and well-developed story. There is plenty of vocabulary, and grammar points are very useful. When you finish this course, you will have an advanced level of English. 4) The Business Course (Job Interview Course) With this course, you will master the 30 most common questions asked at a job interview, learn specific vocabulary, and when to use it. You will get examples of how to answer the questions. And the exclusive mini-stories will help you speak English more confidently at a job interview. 5) Georgiana, what if I don't like them or I don't adapt to the courses? That's all right. If, during the first 30 days, you are not convinced by the program, you can request a refund without any problem. 6) Are there any free samples of the courses? Yes, of course. You can get some samples at: SpeakEnglishPodcast.com/samples Very well, I think I have answered the most frequently asked questions. I hope you found this helpful. Remember that you can benefit from the Spring offer promotion at: speakenglishpodcast.com/courses If your goal is to improve your fluency, my courses can really help you. I repeat for the last time: speakenglishpodcast.com/courses Only until this Sunday at midnight. All right. That's all for today. I will see you next week! Bye! Bye!  

Transcript: Hi! I'm Georgiana, and here to help you speak English fluently. Thanks for joining me for another episode of the Speak English Now podcast.  Today, I talk about how to stop making mistakes when speaking English. And how to improve writing. – Next, we'll practice fluency with a question-and-answer exercise. If you want the complete courses with hours of audio designed to develop your fluency, don't hesitate. Visit SpeakEnglishPodcast.com/courses There are several levels.  Ok, let's start! Many students asked me over the years how to avoid making mistakes when speaking English.  And that's an excellent question. As you know, the best way to become fluent in English is by listening to plenty of content that's easy for you to understand. You should comprehend 90% of the content. Otherwise, it is too difficult for you. And even if you like novelty, the truth is that repeated listening to the same content helps you to automate your speech.  For example, listening to a story allows you to intuitively understand how sentences are constructed without having to learn grammar rules. This way, you will be less insecure when speaking because you will not have to constantly think about whether you are making mistakes. To speak fluently, you have to do it without worrying whether you speak perfectly.  So as I was saying, it is very important to listen to understandable content. That is, depending on your English level, it is necessary to select the content that is not difficult to understand. A typical mistake is to listen to content that is too complex with the idea of trying to force progress. It is always better to lower the level until it is easy to understand most of the words. This way, the brain is in “comprehension” mode. If it is too difficult, your brain eventually switches off and stops paying attention.  Students have also asked me if it's a bad idea to consult the grammar rules. And how can you improve your English writing? The typical student using my courses has already studied some English with some formal grammar and is frustrated because he or she cannot speak. That is why I insist that to improve fluency, it is necessary to listen a lot and not rely on formal rules to produce the language. Having this clear, there is nothing wrong with consulting a grammar book. Regarding writing well, it is very important to read a lot and, above all, to read text similar to what you want to write. For example, if you want to write a text that describes things that happen nowadays, reading many newspaper articles may be a good idea. That's the basis: read a lot. Of course, practicing is also essential, but I would spend the time this way: 90% reading and 10% writing. If you are really motivated, a good exercise is to read an article a couple of times and then try to write a summary without looking at the article, if possible, using expressions and vocabulary specific to the article. Then consult the article and analyze what you could have done better. On the other hand, we have to keep in mind that the process of learning a language involves making many mistakes, both spoken and written. This is normal.  As you progress, you make fewer and fewer mistakes. Over time you start speaking intuitively, just like a native speaker. Most of them speak fluently without knowing the specific grammar rule; they just know when a sentence “sounds wrong.” This is the ability that we want to develop. We can observe, for example, how children make quite a few mistakes, but after many hours of listening and reading, those diminish over time. Many teachers try as much as possible to prevent the learner from making mistakes from the beginning. But this ends up damaging spontaneous speaking, which is strongly linked to the development of fluency. It also generates unnecessary anxiety. If you have questions like this, you can send me a message through my website SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. I try to answer all messages. Maybe I will make an episode to answer your question

Transcript: Hi. I'm Team Tara Lyons with Royal Lepage, andI am here to give you your market update. So I've got a couple of numbers I'm going to give you, because you do hear about what the average is and what's going on with the market and where we're at. So I'm going to talk about Belleville and Thurlow today. So currently July, we had, on average, $588,000. Average price, sale price in August, we had $545,000. So you're seeing a decrease in pricing. It's pretty typical across the board right now. Number of days on market in July was 26, and now we're 36. We're going to see that same kind of trend happening in September. Interestingly enough, we've got Thurlow, and in July, the average sale price was 690,000, and in August it was $751,000. You're actually seeing an increase there. But the key point here, and this is the importance of you talking to one of us, is it's a smaller number of sales it's working with. So you could have one sale that was well into the millions that could skew that number up and not necessarily be realistic as to where your home is actually valued at. So it's important, yes, averages are great to give you an idea of what's happening, but you really need to dig deep into the numbers to see what that actually means for you. And that's what we do. So what I can tell you is Thurlow had a fewer number of sales for the month, and they had some higher priced homes that did sell, and that's what brought that price up. So I don't want you to be panicked about what's going on with the market. We're coming into our fall market. We're going to see a bit of activity, especially for those people that want to get into their homes for Christmas. There's always influences on selling your home. People are having babies and growing their families. People are retiring and downsizing. People are unfortunately divorcing, but they're also getting married. So all these factors and changing jobs, especially with the military and all those factors help create our market, and that's what's happening. We are probably around the activity of what we were in 2019, and 2019 was a pretty amazing year. Pricing, we're probably about a year to a year and a half ago as to where we were. So, yes, we're seeing a decrease. But that only matters to you if you actually bought in February of this year. That's when you would actually feel the pain of what was lost. Otherwise, you've got huge gains if you purchased prior to that. If you'd like some more detailed information, we've got the numbers on all the areas. We'd be happy to take that through with you. As well as talked you specifically about your home.

A SILEX Equity podcast by Emeline Ozhan, Thematic Equity Strategy Manager at SILEX -  Recorded: 10/05/2022    Transcript :  Hi everyone, I am Emeline Ozhan, Thematic Equity Strategy Manager, at SILEX. And we are the 10th of May. In April, we were forced to acknowledge that the late cycle economic phase had begun, and as such we prepared to enter an entirely new business cycle. On the back of the economic transition, this cycle could be more inflationary with both energy and labor more expensive and scarcer. The supply chain constraints and COVID crisis have paved the way for the simplification of the global supply chains from a security and environmental perspective. High inflation also prompts higher interest rates. In the short term, this has translated into high pressure on the equity markets. We expect this trend to continue for a few months before stabilizing. During this transition phase, quality - stable – and margin generative companies should be more resilient.       

TRANSCRIPT Hi everyone. My name's Jonathan with Valorous Restoration Marketing, and I've got today with me, Mike Nitz from SERVPRO of South and Northwest Grand Rapids, and today we're going to talk to you a little bit about team building and how to build a great environment at your company for a great team. We all know that hiring good people is difficult right now. Finding great people for your team is even harder. I've known Mike for many years and we've had the opportunity to work together at different companies. And I want to take this opportunity to have Mike share just a little bit about what SERVPRO is doing to build that great team environment. Mike, thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it. See full transcript at cleanuprestorationpodcast.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cleanuprestorationpodcast/message

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everybody! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help you speak English fluently. Today, we will look at some English words that are very difficult to pronounce. And with a point of view lesson, you will improve your English grammar without memorizing any boring rules. Before getting started, visit my website SpeakEnglishPodcast.com and get the transcript for free.  Also, let me say that I'm really happy because this is episode number 200!! It's been five years since I launched the first episode of the Speak English Now Podcast!! Thank you so much for your support and sharing the podcast with your friends and families. Ok, let's start. 1. Cavalry and calvary People often confuse cavalry (armed forces on horseback) with calvary, an experience of extreme suffering, especially mental suffering. We call a metathesis the change of one or more sounds within a word. And yes. Metathesis is also a hard word to pronounce. Anyway, let's practice the two words a little bit. Listen and repeat after me: [ kav-uhl-ree ] Cavalry. Cavalry. Cavalry. [ kal-vuh-ree ] Calvary. Calvary. Calvary. 2. Comfortable and Vegetable These two words are the most difficult for my students to pronounce. Most Spanish speakers pronounce comfortable, and vegetable as “comfortaibal” or “vegetaibal” and I guess it's because both words end in “table.” So, let's practice the two words a little bit. Listen and repeat: [ kuhm-fer-tuh-buhl, ] Comfortable. Comfortable. Comfortable. [ kuhmf-ter-buhl ] Comfortable. Comfortable. Comfortable.  [ vej-tuh-buhl ]  Vegetable. Vegetable. Vegetable. [ vej-i-tuh-buhl ] Vegetable. Vegetable. Vegetable. 3. Deteriorate Another word that my students find difficult to pronounce is deteriorate. Let's practice it for a bit. Listen and repeat after me: [ dih-teer-ee-uh-reyt ] Deteriorate. Deteriorate. Deteriorate.   4. Explicit Don't worry. Almost everyone sounds a little funny when they pronounce the word “explicit.” Let's practice it! [ ik-splis-it ] Explicit. Explicit. Explicit. 5. Exponentially Yes, I understand you perfectly. Sometimes exponentially gets exponentially harder to say the more you try to say it.

vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everybody! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help you speak English fluently. Today we will talk about humor in English. There are many different ways that a person can be funny, and I will give you some examples of different types of humor in English. And with a mini-story, you will improve your fluency. I will tell you a story while asking many questions that you will need to answer as quickly as possible. It's like having a conversation with another person in English. Before we get started, visit my website SpeakEnglishPodcast.com and get the transcript for free.  Ok, let's start. First, let's talk about what we call a funny person, or at least someone who tries to be funny.  1) A goofy person For example, we have the typical goofy person or goofball who does silly things, including funny dances and dressing up in ridiculous costumes. Sometimes they make funny mistakes, although those are usually on purpose. Clowns are usually considered goofy. 2) A prankster A prankster is someone who plays practical jokes on people. Practical jokes are tricks that confuse or frighten others for a short period. I, personally, don't enjoy pulling pranks, let alone being pranked. However, many people have a great time watching videos on the internet containing these practical jokes. 3) A self-deprecating person If you watch stand-up comedy, you will often find this type of self-deprecating person who makes jokes that make them look bad. They joke about their shortcomings and problems, although sometimes I find that they can even go too far with their storytelling, and I find their performance humiliating. 4) A witty person A witty person says funny and brilliant things. Witty people are also quick with their jokes. An example of witty humor would be: “Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.”  Now let's look at the different types of humor in English. Quirky sense of humor Someone with a quirky sense of humor tells strange, unpredictable jokes, and they frequently use improvisation. Dry or Deadpan sense of humor Someone with a dry or deadpan sense of humor usually says funny things with a serious, calm expression. They don't smile, laugh, or make silly faces. This type of humor is my favorite, and the people who tell these types of jokes are usually very intelligent. Warped sense of humor Having a warped or twisted sense of humor means making fun of things that many people find scary or offensive. We're talking about jokes about illness and tragic events.  And, of course, this kind of humor can go wrong in so many ways.  The truth is that there are types of humor that rarely make you laugh, such as, for example, corny humor. Corny or cheesy jokes Cheesy or corny jokes are supposed to be funny, but they're not. They're too silly or too predictable. For example, jokes involving two words that sound alike are too corny. Another type of jokes that don't make me laugh are lame jokes. Lame jokes Lazy jokes just aren't funny. A “lame” joke is actually worse than a “corny” joke. For instance, you might laugh at a corny joke even if you think it's awful, but trust me, a lame joke just isn't funny. Get the transcript at SpeakEnglishPodcast.com/podcast

In this year end episode I share some tips for creating New Year's Resolutions you'll actually keep, plus some alternative approaches from Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, authors of Designing Your Life.         TRANSCRIPT Hi everyone. I published these thoughts as an article a number of years ago, and I still believe them to be true. Here's my take on New Year's Resolutions that Work   What usually happens to your resolve in the New Year? Does it disappear before the pine needles are even vacuumed? Do you spend more energy on excuses than on execution? Can you even remember your intention by Valentine's day? Try something different this year. Take some time to think through your plan before jumping into action. Here are some guidelines that can help. Your Downstream Self  Imagine a vital, successful, and grateful you five years in the future looking back and beaming with pride at your foresight. What are you grateful for? What seeds that you planted are now flourishing? What are you looking forward to this year? What are you glad you started five years ago? Year in Review Where have you been over the past year? Look at all aspects of your life–- work, recreation, friends and family, your environment. What made you happy? What successes can you build on? What were the qualities that made them successful? Brainstorm Now make a list of all the goals you can think of. Remember the rules of brainstorming — all ideas count, repetition is okay, no judgment, repetition is okay, keep going when you come to a lull. You can prime the pump with the old standbys — eat better, get more exercise, floss regularly, then add some wild ones — try skydiving, learn to tap dance. Go for at least 26. Who Cares   Take a look at the list and ask yourself which ones matter and to whom. Is it something you really care about or is there a big should attached to it? Whose voice is telling you it's important? So That Now take only the goals you care about and structure them with a “so that” phrase — I will [blank] so that [blank]. This is a critical step. It's the rationale that gives you motivation. I will eat better so that I have more energy. I will eat better so that I don't have to take blood pressure medication. It also checks the appropriateness of the goal. Will doing this really give me that? I will eat better so that my partner will get off my case. What is your underlying rationale, and is it the ultimate one? I want to get a new job so that I can make more money? And then so what? I want to make more money so that I can feel good about myself. If you honestly identify the “so what” you can create goals that accomplish your actual purpose. Realistic and Measurable It's a whole lot more inspiring to achieve a goal and set a new one then to fail again because you've set the bar too high. Don't say you'll get to the gym every day if you know that's next to impossible. Start smaller — I'll get to the gym three times a week for a month. I'll walk in the door and get a locker. Every day for a month I'll set aside time to do my daily journaling and I'll reward myself if I do five days out of seven. Then keep track. Count them. Put a gold star on your calendar. Make a grid and put check marks. At the end of the time period stop and evaluate? If you've set realistic goals and measured them you'll have a sense of accomplishment and valuable information about how to maintain your success or make any necessary adjustments to your plan. Don't just put another paving stone on that road to hell. Turn those good intentions into accomplishments in the new year. On behalf of your downstream self we thank you. And a couple more thoughts before we close out this year.   The authors of Designing Your Life and Designing Your Work Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, propose an alternative to New Year's Resolutions. Their argument is that resolutions are a list of objectives, like a sales quota. They can quickly become “anchor problems” where there is only one form of a solution inside your problem statement and, when that particular solution isn't forthcoming, you get stuck. Here's what they say: Life is not a list of outcomes. Life is living, being alive. Alive means growing and learning and discovering and engaging. The best part of this new year is all that space and room in it to pursue interesting questions and discover ideas, people, and possibilities you knew nothing about on New Year's Eve. That's where the thriving is to be found. What if you swapped your resolutions list for a list of questions that you're curious about? Like these: Why am I so attracted to the phrase “Think Global—Act Local” and what are different ways I could actually do that at work? How did those two superstar managers at work get to be such amazing mentors? What do they know and do that I could try this year? How could I experiment with different productivity apps to find one that fits me well enough that I might even use it regularly? Why is everyone at work so jazzed about the new morning meditating sessions anyway? What might be in it for me? So maybe this year try a New Year's Curiosity List along with your resolutions. And don't forget to add a couple of things you've always wanted to try. For more information about Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans visit their website. The link is in the show notes, along with some year end review templates from mentors I admire. I'll see you in January with brand new episodes. 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https://tribus.captivate.fm/ (Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.) TRANSCRIPT: Hi everyone. And welcome to another episode of brokerage insider. This is the podcast where we interview the leaders in real estate and real estate technology. My name is Britt Chester, and I'm the host of today's episode. I'm also the director of client success here at Tribus. We're one of the largest independent prop tech companies in real estate and provider of custom brokerage technology to small, medium, and large brokerages all over. And today on the show, we're going to be talking with red Oak Realty, CEO and owner, Vanessa Bergmark. But that's a thanks for joining us. Thanks for having me. That's I'm really excited to jump right into this. I know you and I have worked a little bit together in the. Today, we actually get to kind of talk about where we are in the industry where red Oak is positioned in a lot of other exciting things. I think the first thing I kind of want to talk about is Inman connect, where you and I also just kind of met in person for the first time. I love to hear kind of your thoughts on the conference and as we're returning to conferences, kind of what that's like. So if you wouldn't mind let's, let's start with the panels you were on, what you talked about and kind of your thoughts around. Well, I think it's funny that we've worked with each other probably for about two years. And I spoke to you quite often in your former position and had never met with you in person. And I think that's the great part about it. And then connect is the, the meeting people in real life, right? So we know them in the social and digital media world. We've known them, you know, you were in Colorado and we were working on projects and PR together, but I never really met you in person. The relationship is it goes up a notch and the network goes up a notch when you actually have that human interaction. So that's something that I've always gotten from connect. I've been there going there for probably, oh God, I think it's gotta be at least 12 years and at least 10 years of, of doing panels and, and, you know, being on stage and being in those conferences and, and, and engaging with the audience and coming up with content. So do I think it's going to stay the same? Well, interestingly enough, I thought the format I've been to a couple of conferences since. I guess the pandemics are technically over, but since we, you know, got out of lockdown and I think what's interesting is they feel very much the same. You know, we're wearing masks, we've got some social distancing and some weird plexiglass and things like that. But on a whole, I don't think the content has changed too much. And I don't think. The, the values that you're taking away from the conferences has really changed. So I have, I was actually surprised to see that it was very much the same as it had been pre pandemic. I think the bigger question is how will they change moving forward? To me, the content at, at all of these events has been somewhat secondary to the relationships that are formed. You know, after the content has been shared and spread and, you know, th th the dinners or the grabbing drinks, or the meeting up in the hallway, all those things are really aware of the. Is built. And I think that in my own career and within my own brokerage, I can say so many of my very strong relationships have come from the halls of those conferences in connecting. How do you think the content could change? One of the things, and one of the things I really had as a takeaway was we kind of have an opportunity to maybe explore new ground within the content. And so you know, in the past, you know, everything has been focused on real estate and it's been focused in marketing. And I think the keynote speakers are all. That's sometimes Inman does a really good job of like pulling in these keynote speakers that are either residual or kind of

https://tribus.captivate.fm/ (Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.) TRANSCRIPT: Hi everybody. And welcome to brokerage insider the podcast where we interview the leaders in real estate and technology. I'm your host, Eric Stegemann and I'm the CEO of Travis. We're one of the largest independent prop tech companies in real estate and provider of custom brokerage technology to medium and large sized brokerages in the United States, Canada, and even around the world. In addition, I'm the managing partner of Travis' capital, a private equity fund focused on the prop tech industry. On today's episode, we have Michael Lucarelli. Now Michael is the co-founder and CEO of rent spree at leasing management tool that has been focused on the MLS industry recently. And I'll, we'll be sure to dive a little more into that, Michael. Thanks so much for joining us today and thank you so much, Eric. Really glad to be here and excited to chat with you today. Yeah, so let's dive in. So, you know, the first question that I pretty much ask all of our guests is how did you get into real estate and real estate tech? Yeah. So going back a couple of years ago is when I first actually moved. So I'm from the east coast and I moved to California. It was about 2014 or so. And so a lot of what I experienced was first originating as a renter. And so I had done it quite a bit of moving around up until that point and just saw how there's really a massive number of people that are renting. And the U S again, kind of looking at it from the renter lens and that it was just a completely fragmented process where when you're a renter, you're kind of thrown through these loops where you have to submit your application to many different properties if to pay fees over and over again, you don't really hear back. There's a question of information security with your sensitive information. So I saw all that on the renter side and then kind of combining that a little bit. I actually ended up getting my real estate license and hung it at a local Remax. And so I really put both pieces together where on one hand I was renting and saw that. And then I was working in the Remax office and I saw actually a ton of agents that were working with rentals or at least trying to, and at this office. Considering how many people were working with rentals on a regular basis? I was surprised that there was no tools. There was no resources, even like the broker didn't really have any feedback or advice to give to agents on how to handle these types of rental transactions when agents were working with lease listings and representing renters. And so I just saw a huge gap in an opportunity and given how large renting is in the us. Just like saw big chance for me to kind of come in and create a standardization that can streamline these processes for renters. But of course, also now a lot of what we do is focusing on agents, brokerages landlords, property managers, MLS. So from a high level, you know, just to, so that everybody is listening. And can you give us a high level understanding of exactly what rents Bree does for either the broker or the consumer? Yeah. W what rent-free does, is it really looks at You know, like these rental transactions, and this is not necessarily something designed for property managers. Although we do have property management companies that use rent-free it's really for agents that are mainly focusing on selling and buying, but they may have from time to time the opportunity to work on a rental, whether they have a lease listing and they're representing a landlord, or they might represent a renter. And so Given how many people, how many people are kind of working on those types of transactions and spree really seeks to streamline that process as much as possible, because we know that typically. Agents and brokers don't tend to earn as much on rental commission. And so when you have these situations where agents...

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everyone! I'm Georgiana, founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help YOU to speak English fluently. In today's episode: I'll be talking about one of the most celebrated holidays in the United States: Halloween. After that, you'll practice your speaking with a new mini-story, while enjoying my new Question & Answer story. Very well. Let's get started!  Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the last day of October. I would say it's very popular because everybody's excited about it, especially children. The word Halloween comes from an old English expression, “All Hallows' Eve,” and it means the day before All Saints' Day.   Children of all ages really love Halloween because they can dress up in funny costumes and knock on their neighborhood doors shouting “Trick or Treat!”. The neighbors usually give them candies. The meaning of the phrase “Trick or Treat” is interesting. In this context, “treat” means getting the candies, and “trick” implies the consequence of not getting the sweets. It's like an innocent threat children make. Of course, kids get really excited when they knock on stranger's doors in their neighborhood. Since Halloween originated as a celebration connected with evil spirits, the most common symbols are witches flying on broomsticks, ghosts, skeletons, black cats, etc. The black color is one of the traditional Halloween colors. Of course, pumpkins are also a Halloween symbol. I'm sure you've seen them in movies. People empty a pumpkin and put a candle inside to make a lamp.  How do you make a Halloween pumpkin?  · The first step is hollowing out the pumpkin. · After we use a keyhole saw to cut the hole.  · When using a candle for illumination, you can cut the hole in the pumpkin's top. · For electric lights, make a hole in the bottom or side, so you can hide the cord. The Halloween pumpkin is called Jack-O'-Lantern. It's common to see jack-o'-lanterns on doorsteps decorations before and on Halloween.  The name comes from an Irish legend about a man named Jack. He was so ungenerous that when he died, he couldn't enter heaven, but he couldn't go to hell either because he had told jokes about the devil. As a result, Jack had to walk and walk with a lantern until the Day of Judgment.

https://tribus.captivate.fm/ (Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.) TRANSCRIPT: Hi everyone. And welcome to another episode of brokerage insider. This is the podcast where we interview the leaders in real estate and real estate technology. My name is Britt Chester. I'm the host of today's episode. I'm also the director of client success here at TRIBUS. We're one of the largest independent prop tech companies in real estate and provider of custom brokerage technology to small, medium, and large brokerages all over the world today on the show, we're going to be talking about marketing and specifically digital marketing, and we're joined by Nick Markman. Principal product strategists at vocalize. Nick, welcome to the show. Hey, Britt. Happy to be here. Thanks for having me. I think digital marketing is a really exciting topic right now, as we enter this kind of like, I don't want to say post COVID, but this, this next phase. But before we get into it, Nick, tell us a little bit about a vocalize as well as a little bit about your. Yeah, absolutely. So a vocalize we're collaborative marketing platform. So we basically enable local, small and medium businesses to easily execute sophisticated digital marketing. And we do that by partnering with their, either their national brand, like their. Where we partner with technology platforms, you know, like try this or other CRM website providers. And through that collaboration of partnering with the what we call the sponsoring partner and the data that they have and, you know, getting a marketing platform, that's integrated with the tools that those agents and brokers are using. We're able to accomplish marketing outcomes on behalf of the, those users that they wouldn't be able to achieve with. That collaboration and also saved them a lot of time. You know, we'll talk about this, you know, I think throughout the conversation, but the reality is that, you know, local and small businesses some of them may be great marketers, certainly. But to be an expert in, in digital marketing, certainly requires a lot of time and resources to truly be an expert at. And a lot of those businesses that they just don't have that, right? If you're an agent or a broker, you're going to be spending most of your time selling houses and managing your relationships. So our ideas that we want to be that digital marketing easy button that allows them to still get all the performance that they want from digital marketing leads, revenue. But by spending a lot less time doing so. And doing so in a, in a really seamless way where they don't really need to set anything not bright. So by doing that, we've seen, for example, in real estate agents and brokers go from spending nine hours a week, marketing their business to nine minutes. And we've seen dramatic performance results as well, seeing 400% stronger performance than when they're doing it on. Yeah. I mean, I, I know real estate agents are there's, there's so much of an ask on a real estate agent today, right? Like there's so much expectation as to the service that they're, that they're meant to provide. And, and whenever I'm, you know, working one-on-one with either agents or brokerages, it's always a matter of looking at, you know, how much time do we have in the week and how. Can we really allocate to not just learning and understanding digital marketing, but also deploying that and seeing a solid return there. So I think, you know, tools, you know, I know at Tribus we've, we've partnered with a vocalize and I think that this partnership has been, you know, just in its infancy right now. One of our, one of our more exciting ones, just because it provides new opportunities for us. To, to put their face out there to put their name out there, to put their properties out there. So we'll, let's, we'll get into that here in a little bit. But before we do, I'd love to kind of jump back to the, the the, the...

Transcript: Hi folx! This is Arras, producer at Black Lilac Productions and voice of Elizabeth Forsyth on Para.docx. For a variety of reasons, Para.docx is going to be continuing its extended hiatus. However, we are looking to add a new show to our roster and are currently accepting pitches. We are interested in a scripted drama podcast of sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural fiction, mild horror, or similar genres, for a minimum of 1 season of about 12-20 episodes. This is a paid opportunity, so please include your rates along with a brief description of your concept. Black, indigenous, and POC writers are strongly preferred. Please email your pitches to animus.panthera@gmail.com with the subject “Black Lilac Pitch,” or send us a DM over on Twitter @BlackLilacProd. And thanks again for listening and all your support!

Transcript: Hi all, so, life keeps happening and I've been having a hard time finding time to work on this show, but just so you know there is another episode in the works. This one is an essay like the first episode of this season and it's of a personal nature and I just want to make sure I get it right so I'm spending some extra time on it. Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me! Thank you to my patrons. And also just so you know, one of the listeners of the show started a discord so if that's something that you're interested in please join, it was really cool that they created that space. So that's a new thing and I've posted the link to it on the soundcloud. Alright, just checking in and I will see you again soon. Help me out at www.patreon.com/friendlyanarchism and join the Discord at discord.gg/5msYfvZkdx thank you!

Can you guarantee your own safety around camels? Do you know what it takes to make sure that you're not going to be seriously injured by a camel? I know this sounds like a heavy topic, but hear me out, because if anything, this is the most important thing you need to consider if you have camels or are thinking of having camels in the future. TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I'm Tara, head Camel Educator at CamelConnection.com & host of this podcast all about camels! And if you're a camel owner, carer, or wanna be owner then you are in the right place! If you've been listening here for a while you'll know how much I bang on about how amazing camels are… How much they desire connection with the most familiar things in their environment and how easy they are to train & handle... My motto is ‘more camels in more lives'... but… there's a but… There are some serious things to consider when becoming a camel owner. I will tell you now, I'm not here to pull the wool over your eyes and fool you into camel ownership when you're not completely informed. The most successful camel ownership that I see to date (in other words camels that aren't being rehomed 1 or 2 years after acquiring) is when people are WELL informed about camels in their behaviours, their care and wellbeing. So, as always I'm here to help you become more informed about camel ownership. Safety first people! As cheesy as that saying can be, it should 110% be in the forefront of your thought EVERY. DAMN. TIME. you're with camels - Do not underestimate this! To this day, even with the camels that I've known for over 8 years and worked extensively with them in commercial settings as well as spending hundreds of days and nights literally living and breathing them on camel treks, I NEVER let my guard down, ever! Don't get me wrong, I'm chilled and relaxed when I'm around my most trusted camels (cos they like that, obviously!), but I've 110% made a habit of being aware that I'm constantly in a risky situation given how large the animals are. For instance, all one of my camels have to do is swat a fly - a fly people! - with their front legs (yes, cos they can lift them straight up!) and any part of my body is in the wrong place at the wrong time… Lets just say things can turn hairy real fast. I could be knocked out flat and left for dead if no one else is around! I hear stories of people being injured by camels all the time and it's deeply upsetting, because its sooooooo avoidable almost 99.9% of the time. Camels ARE gentle giants, but they don't actually know how big they are - Seriously! People get upset at their camels for doing ‘camel things' yet at the end of the day the camel has no idea of their own size, which is why it's so important to get formal training in place, so they can have a sense of identity. A camel without any form training whatsoever is a confused camel. Like dogs, if you don't fromally train them they form their own identity which is usually rich in their natural instincts and they give themselves a ‘job,' because they don't have a pack leader. This is where bad habits and unwanted behaviours stem from and it's exactly the same for the camel, they need a pack (or ‘herd') leader for them to be a safe & well behaved camel. How does one guarantee their own safety around camels…? By formally training yourself and your camels or the camels you care for. When I meet *new* camels I'm definitely not as relaxed around them as I am my own camels and I'll never let my guard down enough to let a camel think that I'm NOT on high alert until I can get to know them better, because when a camel is uncertain or scared about a situation or person they'll almost instantly react, which can lead to a dangerous situation FAST! Note: Just because my ‘guard isn't down' that doesn't mean I'm not chilled and calm, there's a big difference. And this really comes from building really good camel handling habits to the point where it's second nature every time I'm around camels. Here's the fact: You're never going to be as big as a camel. Your “job” as a handler or owner is to convince the camel that you're worthy of leadership status. This doesn't mean that you're being forceful or dominate, simply that you're proving to the camel that: #1 You'll keep them safe and.. #2 All their needs will be met. In a camel herd environment this is exactly what makes leadership status in a herd environment. You cannot undo a camel's natural insitics, instead you're required to make sense of them over time so that you can have a harmonious relationship with any camel you work with or handle. What makes a safe camel…? A trained camel makes a safe camel. But truthfully not just any training will do. It HAS to be training built upon connection and trust and if you want to get formally trained in camel training & handling I'd love to welcome you into The Camel Connection Academy where we're all about that! The best training a camel can have is from the person or persons who are in their life the most. Switching up the people who are training & handling regularly will leave you with a confused and possibly aggressive camel (for good reasons)! If you're in a commercial operation, you need a Head Cameleer / handler. Someone to advocate for the camels. The camels will look to this person for their own safety & wellbeing and any new staff, obviously must go through training protocols, for the wellbeing of the camels (if you're a commercial operator I can help you create these protocols within my consulting services, just reach out to me!). If you're a sole camel owner, mostly dealing with the camels yourself, then you are in a prime position to take on a leadership role and create security and good behaviour habits for yourself and your camels. So now you know: The way to guarantee your own safety is to get formal training for yourself & your camels - despite whether or not they are “working camels…” Pet camels are 100% included in this conversation! If you have camels (or you're become a new camel owner) and have not undergone formal training, don't wait for an accident or bad behaviour habits to form: Join The Academy and start getting yo-self educated! To see all the perks you get when you're a member of our Academy head over to camelconnection.com/membership - we welcome new members daily and we provide everything you need to be the best and most well informed camel owner, carer, handler, Camel Person!

Check us out on Twitter @AsterPodcasting and on Patreon at patreon.com/mxeliramos! TRANSCRIPT: Hi folks! Eli Ramos here, head of Aster Podcasting Network. We have a lot of stuff we're doing in August, so I wanted to give you all a rundown of it. First off, if you're not linked with us on our social media, check us out on Twitter @AsterPodcasting. We're doing Twitter takeovers from our other showrunners so you'll hear from Aidan, Callie, Inigo, and myself about our shows and the Patreon drive. We're still in the middle of it and we've got tons of stuff we want to share with you… if you can help us hit our New Patron goals at any level! You get access to art, behind the scenes, annotated scripts, early releases. You can pledge at any level, ‘cause anything and everything helps. And if you can't pledge, just boosting our Patreon at Patreon.com/mxeliramos by telling your friends and telling them to tell their friends about it, is so helpful. We don't currently have any advertising, it's all word of mouth, so whatever you can do to boost us will go to support our showrunners, editors, and actors and help us to create more content. Speaking of content, you're getting a lot of it down the pipeline, I'll go ahead and lay out the schedule of what's happening in August. First week, check our Twitter for Aidan's posts and keep an eye out for our announcement of the big showrunner's stream we'll be doing. It'll be art, commentary, and conversation and it should be a lot of fun. On Friday the 6th, you get to hear Crown Jewels Episode 4 on their feed, so check out Crown Jewels by Inigo Sherwani wherever you listen to podcasts. Or if you want to hear it early, pledge $5 and up to our Patreon! Next week, we have Callie on the Twitter and on Friday the 13th, you can check us out here for HOW TO LOSE YOUR BODY IN TEN DAYS starring August Carroway and written by Tyler Jay. Third week of August, tune in for Inigo's posts, and FIRE IN THE SNOW written by Audrey Pham on Friday the 20th releasing here. Fourth week and the last few days of August, I'll be posting about Under the Electric Stars, The Sound of Your Name, other APN Presents shows, and of course, you have the release of SkillSet by Aidan to look forward to on Friday the 27th—we'll be crossposting it here too. So yeah, you have until the end of August to pledge or tell your friends to pledge, and until the end of August to enjoy the absolute barrage of content that's coming your way. Excited to share it with you, and thanks for listening.

Welcome to the Speak English Now Podcast, your resource for practicing your English speaking and listening. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to learn English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everybody! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help you speak English fluently.  In this episode: I'll be talking about passive listening, or in other words, listening in the background.  Later on, we'll practice conversation skills with the powerful Question & Answer technique. Ok, let's get started! In the language industry, there's an approach called passive listening. This means playing some English in the background while performing other tasks. In theory, you're learning because the brain is always learning, no matter how. Interesting, huh? You just need to play some English while you're cleaning, jogging, surfing the Internet, etc. Well, although this approach may be appealing to many of you, here's the bad news: It doesn't work as a whole system for developing a complete fluency in English. The main drawback is that when we need to learn new content, our brain needs to pay attention, to be active. So, in an ideal world, we would be 100% focused all the time while listening: We'd pay attention to every tiny detail: vocabulary, pronunciation, intonation, etc. However, as you may already know, idyllic things are sometimes hard to achieve. If you need perfect conditions every time you listen: for example, feeling rested, motivated, in a quiet place, then you will never start listening. What you need is a compromise. It's ok to lose concentration from time to time.  Here's my suggestion: For new content, try to maintain your concentration as much as possible. However, when you're repeating the same content, you don't need to focus 100% of your attention anymore because, in this case, you're just remembering and consolidating. Another aspect to keep in mind: in this case, quantity is more important than quality. It means that when you listen for two hours, and you only focus on 70% of your attention, it's still more efficient than when you're listening for only 20 minutes, and you succeed to focus 100%. The accumulation of hours and hours of listening, it's what truly helps you to become fluent. Just think about children. They're not always focused when they listen, but they always learn. My takeaway for today is: Try to listen as much as you can. Being focused is essential when you're learning new content, but when you're already familiar with the material, what matters the most, it's the amount of time you spend listening.   Get the full text here: SpeakEnglishPodcast.com/podcast  

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Smart time blocking can significantly boost profits. Here's how to do it... Read full Transcript: Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. A guy I was coaching he had a color coding system for his calendar and he color coded every appointment that he--that was revenue generating in green, anything that was like administrative in another color, anything that was personal another color and he said “when I first started the exercise he goes no wonder I wasn't making a lot of money, there were so little green on my calendar like I mean like I had purple on there and I had blue and I had every color but the color I was suppose to have which was green” and it goes I work every--so percentage of calendar that in Steve's case was green or revenue generating or lead generating or sales converting or whatever metric you are going for but those are a few examples so I'm throwing out a couple of ideas, so start--so think inside your process for a moment. What is my process for time blocking for during the week? What is my process for messaging out to market who I'm looking for and how I look for that? What is it in my case? What is my process for processing those applications once I get them? Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.

I want to thank you for listening and for subscribing to Faster Than Normal! I also want to tell you that if you're listening to this one, you probably listened to other episodes as well. Because of you all, we are the number one ADHD podcast on the internet!! And if you like us, you can sponsor an episode! Head over to https://rally.io/creator/SHANK/?campaignId=1f99a340-203f-498e-9665-24723a5f8b7a  It is a lot cheaper than you think. You'll reach... about 25k to 30,000 people in an episode and get your name out there, get your brand out there, your company out there, or just say thanks for all the interviews! We've brought you over 230 interviews of CEOs, celebrities, musicians, all kinds of rock stars all around the world from Tony Robbins, Seth Godin, Keith Krach from DocuSign, Danny Meyer, we've had Rachel Cotton, we've had  the band Shinedown, right? 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A Fortune 10 leader whose background in classics positioned him to see through the shiny objects, Scott can drill down to understand the common human needs from throughout history that still drive us all. He was ranked by The Economist as #1 atop the list 25 Social Business Leaders and Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, called him "a visionary." Scott spent six years as an executive at Ford, where he helped turn the company around with an uncanny ability to merge technology with humanity. He served as a strategic adviser across a variety of business functions, leading the company's global social media strategy. He also has a another decade and a half of experience in communications and marketing agencies. Scott's clients have included companies such as Walmart, IBM, McDonalds, Coca-Cola, and Google. He is a trustee of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, a past board member of the American Marketing Association, and has advised a number of tech companies. He writes the Timeless & Timely newsletter, to help leaders make sense of today with lessons from the past, and hosts the Timeless Leadership podcast. We're happy he's back to visit with us today. Enjoy!    ----------  In this episode Peter and Scott discuss:   2:13  -  Intro and welcome back Scott Monty!!  (You can hear Peter's first interview with Scott here)  Ref:  Our Storytelling/Public Speaking course is here 3:13  -  What have you been doing Scott?  Ref:  Chameleon's Collective 3:49  -  So is all of your family back to “normal” now?  4:10  -  What have you been doing to keep sane during the pandemic? How do you see public stages in the near future, do you see any of that coming back right away? 6:11  -  On being in the current post-quarantine mode of how/when will it all be back to some sort of normalcy and getting not only remaining vigilant health-wise, but getting our brains OK with things going back to the way they were pre-pandemic. 7:30  -  Let's talk masks & vaxxs across the world 9:00  -  On trying to stay sane during throughout the pandemic, and methods you've used to keep yourself and your mind busy.  Ref:  Timeless & Timely newsletter. All things Scott Monty here 12:41 – On social audio content.  Tell us about where you see it going and your involvement in that arena. Ref:  What is Clubhouse? 14:21  -  Where do you see social audio fitting into our future?  (Large conferences vs. smaller but w/ extensions of virtual visits for after-conference discussions, breakout rooms, etc)  17:17  -  If you've never been to a CES, or a Mobile World Congress show, it's kinda an ADHD person's dream! 19:14  -  On avoiding home distraction. What do you do, what are your steps and advice on keeping focus when you keep getting interrupted, etc? 23:00  -  Where can people find you?  Website: https://www.scottmonty.com/  Like myself, has has a crypto coin called the Timeless Coin: https://rally.io/creator/MONTY/ and the symbol is https://rally.io/creator/MONTY/   Our Storytelling/Public Speaking course is at: https://shankman.lpages.co/scott-peter-speaking-early-access/ and we're talking about it here and on the Socials: @ScottMonty on Twitter  Scott Monty Strategies on Facebook and via Email: scott@scottmonty.com 24:09  -  “pon·tif·i·cate” 24:55  -  Guys, as always, we are here for you and we love what the responses and the notes that we get from you. I got an email from someone just a couple of days ago, who said to me, let me see if I can find it, um, I probably can't of course, but I got an email from someone who said that they were just so incredibly thankful that of all the things that uh, and here it is. 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From rock stars to CEOs, from teachers to politicians who have learned how to unlock the gifts of their ADD and ADHD diagnosis, and use it to their personal and professional advantage.  To build businesses, to become millionaires, or to simply better their lives. And now, here's the host of the Faster Than Normal podcast, the man who attributes a lot of his success to his inability to sit still, Peter Shankman,  Hi everyone, Peter Shankman welcome to Faster Than Normal. We were, we were… turning on the…. zoom and got a recording in progress, I thought, which I've never heard a sound never heard before…. that was interesting, but it is lovely to be back. And it is a Monday morning here in New York City, almost almost Memorial, that is the week before Memorial Day… so people start, uh at a hundred percent, and by Thursday they just don't give a shit anymore, and then they go into the long weekend and they come back and that's pretty much it for summer.  So we should be, we should be good. So we'll see you guys in September. All right…. good show, anyway…. the person I have joining me today, I think it was my third or fourth interview back when Faster Than Normal first started, Scott Monty is an old, old friend. A great, great guy, I met him eons ago, about 400 years ago when he was working at Ford Motor Company, um, probably when I was still running heroin, uh, we stayed in touch. We've been friends ever since he is out on his own. Now he is a writer. He is a storyteller galore. He and I have put together a storytelling course. We launched several months ago, which has done really well. He does a bunch of things. He lives somewhere near Detroit.  I believe has a really cool family, has a pension for bow ties and he wears them with aplomb. Except today he's not, but anyway, it is lovely to see you, Scott…. welcome back.  Thank you, Peter. This call is being recorded just for your awareness.  Oh, lovely, lovely to have you back.  It's been a while since I've been here. Indeed. We've done some other stuff, but I haven't had you on a podcast in a while. What have you been doing, man? What's been going on? Oh, you know, the usual just living my best pandemic life. Um, you know, this, obviously the speaking business shifted quite a bit, uh, so I threw myself in the more consulting, but then that's been fine, um, I recently signed up with a, a collective of individual consultants called the https://chameleoncollective.com/ and basically we all remain independent, but we have a bunch of a hundred or so people to call on if we need other people to round out projects that we're working on, or if we want, offer ourselves up to their projects, so it's a, it's a nice arrangement.  Very very cool, so you're all back? The whole, family's all back, you're all set with that alright?  No, every... everyone except the, uh, the seven year old, yes.   Right.  Yeah. I'm in the same boat. My eight year old is a, apparently no one cares about the, about the kids from age zero to age 12. But, um, hopefully at some point in the next several months, that will, that will happen.  Absolutely.  So what have you been doing to keep up yourself sane? I mean, you had a, almost as crazy travel schedule as I did back in the day. Um, have you seen any of that start to come back or have you seen anything come back in, in... on public stages?  I mean, I did my first speech a couple weeks ago, what about you?  Well, I was never quite as a travel weary as you, but I, you know, I, I probably spent at least a quarter to a third of my time on the road.   And I mean, did you just at a certain point in your life, you just, you get a feel for it and it's like clockwork and when it stopped, it was really, really weird.  Okay. The, the benefit for me is we, we have all sorts of routines here at home and the kids in particular needed to keep their school up, even though school was shut down. So, you know, there, there was a rhythm to every day. It wasn't completely random, so I think that helped. A great deal is having some sort of pattern, some sort of regular routine, uh, to go on. And now that they're back in school, you know, I drive them every morning. Uh, so it, you know, I get a chance to talk with them. I get a chance to unwind on the way home, listen to a couple of podcasts, so it's a nice rhythm and I'm having a real difficult time trying to imagine going back to the way things were back to... quote unquote... normal, before, because I think it's going to be really difficult to reclaim the world as it was, but we're not going to remain in this kind of limbo that we've been in over the past year, either. I think, I mean, there will be definitely a point where we say, okay, it's as normal as it's going to get. I mean, I was at the gym this morning and they've relaxed the mask rule, right? I mean, I was still wearing one, but they, there were, half the people there with no masks on, so I think, I mean, I think we're getting there. I was in, you know, (indistinguishable)  last week or two weeks ago was in Texas, um, you know, fortunately, uh, the 300 people in the audience, no one was wearing a mask because, you know, I guess, you know, COVID never actually hit Texas, so that was good. But, um, it was a, uh, iIt was weird. It was weird to be in that, in that environment, and so I think that that two things have to happen is that, is that one, it has to be safe enough to do it, but the second thing, our brain has to be okay with that. It has to be okay with, you know, you don't realize 16 months, 18 months of hunkering down as it were. Um, it's kind of hard to fully open your eyes when they turn on that light.  It really is, and for me, the first trip I went on after not having traveled for over a year, it was weird trying to pack…. for one, I'm like, I've lost my muscle memory, muscle atrophy, and I'm like, oh, okay. Do I have everything in my, in my toiletry kit? And have I packed enough underwear and all the rest, but, you get to the airport and it's kind of dystopian, you know, first of all, it's not as crowded as it usually is, you look around and everybody, alot, at that time, at least everybody was wearing masks and you're like, what hell hole have I just emerged from and into? And, and as we get back, as we gradually get back, we're going to see this mix. I don't think, uh, I don't think masks are completely going away. And you think you've traveled in Asia quite a bit, right? They... they've been wearing masks when they travel and when you see them in the airport all the time. Um, and to me, it's actually makes great sense because it's great hygiene. I haven't had a cold in the past year. I wonder why that is, you know?  That's the amazing thing that I've always said is America has no idea how unbelievably stupid it looks on the world stage, right? And the amount of times I've traveled to Asia in the past 15 years where everyone's wearing a mask to the point where they give them out at the hotels, right? And, and I remember in December of 2019, I was in Bangkok and I got sick. I got violently ill. I had been in Abu Dhabi and then came home for like two days to see my daughter and then flew right to Bangkok and just the travel has got me down and it was December of 19, and I walk into this hospital in Bangkok, um, uh, a phenomenal one of the top hospital in the world I walked in and I'm like, Hey, I think I just have some sort of, uh, bronchitis or something. They're like, oh, no problem, sir, to step right this way. But please put on this mask, right? And it was like the most normal thing in the world, right? And when you realize. I think the problem was that we, we made, uh, we made putting on the masks about helping others, we should have convinced people that it was about helping themselves. And then everyone would have worn one, right? If we just said, oh yeah, if you wear this mask, you know, people will think you have much more muscles and everyone, everyone would've worn it. Have you heard the latest thing with trying to get people vaccinated? The, uh, somebody from the CDC or one of the government agencies and doing a public call, said people who write that they have been vaccinated on their profiles are 14% more likely to match with a date on Tinder and match.com and these other services. Yet. It's just yet another reason I'm so glad I don't have to be on any of those dating sites. What have you been doing to stay sane? You know, for people like us who do a million different things, part of the way we stay sane is by doing a million different things. And for a lot of the time, I mean, you know, you and I, you and I combined it let's do a course together because, uh, what the hell else are we going to do, right?  So what have you, what else have you been doing to stay sane and how has it been working?  So being able to create something that, you know, we're both passionate about that we love that we're pretty good at and being able to share it with others, people, you know, just that, that brought me a lot of energy. Right? and, and, and focus, you know, because we knew there was something that we, there was a specific outcome we were going for and, and you, and I, you know, kind of pressuring each other on a, on a schedule and a timeframe, and, um, eventually getting a really nice course out, um, you know, I've been, I'm not a huge exercise fanatic uh, certainly not to the degree you are, but, um, I've been taking walks every day, particularly with my seven year old daughter.  She loves to go out and explore, and we live in this wonderful little neighborhood where there's... there's parks and ponds and wildlife and everything, and, and she loves to walk the dog, so we go out and we make that part of the ritual, okay? Aside from that, like professionally, um, I've been creating a lot of content when I do https://www.scottmonty.com/p/newsletter.html      newsletter, that comes out twice a week, once a, in the middle of the week for everyone, that's a free version, um, a Friday version that is just for subscribers, where they get extra content, uh, links and a recommended book and a recommended podcast, and then what I've been, I've been doing a couple of other things with audio, but before I get to that, I want to say, I, I always get these other ideas. You know, a lot of times when I'm out walking or when I'm doing other stuff, I have these ideas that I want to write about, but they don't fit into, the, the broader cadence of what I want in my newsletter, so I.... I created kind of a little branch off of the newsletter, so the newsletter again is called https://www.scottmonty.com/p/newsletter.html  and I've created this other little branch off of it called https://www.timelesstimely.com/s/bonus, and it's just random thoughts that come to me, things that I think are inspirational, things that I think people might want to read, right. Uh, and I just published one on Saturday. Now I normally, normally don't publish on Saturday, but it was about the, uh, the habits of happy and successful people. And that has been one of my most popular newsletters posts of all time. People have just gobbled that up. So I feel like I'm onto something there and it makes me want to do more, okay? You should, yeah…. Um, no, I mentioned audio. So what I've done with, uh, the public newsletters, I've, I've done an audio version of it. So I basically just read it, into the microphone and distribute that to my, subscribers, because there are some people that just prefer audio, they don't have time to read or they don't like reading, and I don't know if they put me on double speed or one and a half speed or whatever, so I sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks, but hey, whatever... you know, I'm giving people options to consume content the way they want to, and I like audio. I mean, I've been doing a lot of stuff with https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294 and moreso with https://www.firesidechat.com/ and https://racket.app/ you know, some of these social audio things, um, and I started a new podcast on https://www.firesidechat.com/  called https://firesidechat.com/scottmonty where I bring on a leader every week and I interview them about one virtue of leadership, one habit of successful leaders, whether it's humility or optimism or resilience or, you know, one of those kinds of big type things, and I explore with them how they actually express that virtue in their daily and professional lives.  Very cool. Tell me about, so let's talk about audio for a second. I, you know, so many people I've been on https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294 ... I've I've, I was one of the first people to get an invite. Uh, our mutual friend Serina sent me an invite back in like November of last year or something was still in beta, and, um, I remember getting on and, and my first thought was, this is great, I don't have to be on video so I don't have to devote a lot of my brain power to it, I can just listen. And then the more I used it, the more I found it was actually the complete opposite. I had to actually listen, right because, you know, if you miss 10 seconds and someone calls your name, you're like, I have no idea what you're talking about right?  And so for me, for the ADHD side of me, it kind of drove me crazy. We're moving towards audio, there's definitely gonna be a part of social audio that will exist and continue to exist. I don't know if so many of the, of the, the apps that are out there now are gonna are going to survive. But, you know, I sorta think it's a step above podcasting, it's interactive, it's both ways. Um, but it really, you know, you come on, you have to do an hour on this thing. It really requires your attention, and I'm wondering, at what point people are just gonna sort of throw up their hands, and say okay, I can't do that, right? I can't give you, you know, right now, sure. It launched at the perfect time, what the hell else are we doing with our lives, right? We were sitting at home all day so of course I'll go and listen to a six….and getting bottled a six hour chat on audio why not? I don't have to go to the bed. I could be naked doing it, and I'm gonna have to, you know, put on pants. But I think that as we evolve, whether it's to doing more, getting outside more things like that, I think audio is going to have a place, but it's not going to be anywhere near as, Oh my God, everyone needs to write about https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294  now for the next 30 years type thing that it was. Where do you see it sort of eventually, uh, fitting in.  Well, first of all, when you mentioned being in a https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294 room, and someone calling your name and you're not paying attention, you know, flashbacks to school for me, you know, where I'm just daydreaming and suddenly called on, I'm like I missed the last…. exactly…. ….three minutes of what you were talking about and, and, you know, bright students like you and I um, know enough to be able to BS our way through and answer and sound like we know what we're talking about, even though we weren't listening. Um, you know, th th that, that happens all the time and, and your point is well-taken.  https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294  and the live social audio platforms require attention.  Look at the show we're on right now, is, is this really right for this audience? Well, look, here's, here's the deal. If you're really interested in something, you know, this, you get hyper-focused right, you, you dig down and it works really well. And when you don't have a lot of other distractions around you, particularly in a pandemic, um, it's perfect, but when we go back to a more, uh, where we approach a more normal kind of life, what we used to know, um, I think this we'll see a bit of a slide off, and we've already seen the adoption curve waning on https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294 where their, their installs have, have dropped, and I'm even seeing statistics that, uh, room numbers are lower, not as many people are participating. And here's the thing, for the majority of people, the vast majority of people, they would rather listen than talk. They would rather be an audience member than on the stage, and that's fine, that's completely okay. And not everybody has time for that. And to me, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294 has replaced the big conference, right?  All of these in-person events that we couldn't go to, where you see people up on stage where, whether it's a keynote or a fireside chat or a panel discussion, that's what https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse-drop-in-audio-chat/id1503133294 feels like. And as we get back to these in-person events, as we begin to open up more, I think a really strong use case for these social audio apps, particularly the live ones, are akin to breakout rooms or after conference follow-ups, where you can have a room of 20 people and it doesn't have to be this mass audience. You can have a room of 20 people and say, Hey, let's talk more about what we just saw at the conference. Let's take the sales team and make a custom presentation for you.  I think there will be all kinds of applications coming out of in-person events, where you go, let's grab a clubhouse room together and discuss this further.  I think that that, isn't it, because in the beginning you said, you know, it's replacing the conference, which we can't go to, and then you said no, it's replacing sort of the... after-conference events, and that's the part I agree with. I don't believe in any choice of the imagination does the, the, uh, conference world is going away. Um, it'll shift, but I'm losing my (indistinguishable)  and I hope to God that it doesn't, because for people like us, you know, for those listening to the podcast, if you've never been to a huge event, like a https://www.ces.tech/ show or, or, um, https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/attend/registration?gclid=CjwKCAjw2ZaGBhBoEiwA8pfP_mkMO14toxgCeDnMzPaPdD0J4yqwK7PdpC6uE04-CwE_UMF4C6gbcxoCOJoQAvD_BwE in Barcelona or anything like that, it is an ADHD person's dream because you can go in and you can sit down for a two hour panel on, you know, why 5G-Level 14-AB spec one, is better than 5G-Level 14-AB spec 2.0, and get all the info you want, or, you can just walk the floor and collect t-shirts right?  It's literally the perfect experience, so I don't see that going away, but I do see that our attention spans are going to have to be directed to other places when we can't get to all of you. I think that the concept of going to all of these conferences, right, is going to be put to the test. I don't think we're going to be in that many... as we used to be. I think there are going to be, you know, a couple that we still do every year, but I think the majority of them are going to be, um, are going to be either digital or virtual or in some cases audio. so I think that for people with brains like us, we're going to have to come up with a way to sort of understand and utilize those conferences or those, those audio rooms or those video rooms, wherever the presentation in the best way we can. I was talking to a company who's planning on doing a…. who's playing on doing virtual rooms at conferences, so you have a team of 200 people instead of sending 190 of them to the conference, you'll send 10 of them to the conference and they will have their own virtual room where they can have meetings and bring in other people who can then meet with you back in your office in Detroit or LA or whatever…. virtual. So I think in alot of different ways that this is going to, this is going to evolve, but I do believe that audio, is one of the good benefits, is, is one of the good benefits. Um, what are you doing to avoid home distraction? Um, I mean, I saw just, even on the call, like at some point someone came into the room, I'm not sure If it was Katie, your wife, whatever, someone, someone barged in and, or you went on mute really fast. It's like, what, what are you doing to allow yourself those times when you're like, when you have to write  https://www.scottmonty.com/p/newsletter.html   those are not.... small newsletters, those are like probably the longest newsletter. I don't subscribe to many long newsletters and is part of the longest newsletter I subscribe to.  I remember it's like, it's a Curb Your Enthusiasm, as (indistinguishable) you have to write that you can't just sit down and do it again, you have to sit down and commit to that, right. 19:39 So what are you doing to avoid the distraction?  Well, first of all, the, uh, the reason I went on mute is because my seven year old came in here to use the electric pencil sharpener, homeschooling, uh, and God bless my wife for, uh, being a teacher for the last year, um, I couldn't have done it and I couldn't have done this without her either. Right. So, I mean, you learn to live with it, you know?  We make rules around here, you see the doors closed, then you don't come in. I've actually toyed with putting one of those neon on air signs. uh, up in the, I've got a transom over my, uh, my office door here, I was going to put a, a neon sign up there so people outside could see it. They don't care. They'll still barge in any way. So, uh, to a certain extent, you just kind of resign yourself to it, you know, OK, I need to live with this, um, but I find quiet times during the day when I know I won't be interrupted for me, uh, indelibly it's after everybody goes to bed, I do some of my best work at night, I'm kind of a night owl anyway, although I love mornings, I can be a morning person if I get to bed early enough. Um, so it's either getting up early before everyone is up. I don't like waking my wife up with my alarm if I get up early, um, or it's staying up late when everyone else is in bed. Um, every day on my calendar, I have carved out two hours of quiet time of writing time. Now whether I actually write or not, you know, I could spend two of those hours doing reading, and for me, reading is a really important part of writing because it inspires me in terms of the ideas I get the source material I quote, and it's like walking right, you, you, you remove yourself from the thing you're supposed to be focused on and you end up getting more inspired along the way, and then you just find the time to, to jot something down.  I keep a notepad on me, or I put it in my One Notes on my phone, um, and I get back to it later when I can delve into it, right?  No. I mean, that makes sense. I think as long as you have, I mean, for me, you know, uh, being a recent, newly, newly, recent dog owner, um, you know, the concept of taking him to the, to the dog run because it's New York City, I can't just let him off the leash anywhere, but I can take him to the dog, run a few blocks away and, and let him sort of, you know, go crazy, and, uh, I'll sit there with my, with my, uh, my phone or whatever, and I'll, I'll read or I'll even, I'll even dictate, you know, and get some ideas down and then come home and, and, and open the computer and write them down, so, no, definitely. Um, It's definitely, uh, it's produced new ways. I went to my, my office space the other day, you know, I kept an office, a Regis space, and I went there for the first time  in like two months, right?  And I had  one whole piece of mail and, um, you know, but I was throwing stuff out because I'm getting rid of the space when...when the lease ends in July, and it was just like, I remember when I used to have to come here and that was the only place I could work, right? I couldn't because my kid was younger and now my kids at school all day, right? So I have at least from 9-3 to be able to get stuff done, um, and, and I'm finding that…. as travel starts to come back, now, I'm going to South Africa, June 1st and I have, or July 1st,  (indistinguishable)  I literally have a, a list of 14 things I want to write over the course of a 14hr non-stop flight from New York to (indistinguishable). And so I'm, I'm, I'm almost at the point where I'm putting stuff off, so that I will have nonstop, uh, time, so I'm, yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited for what's to come and hell, you know, saving $1600 bucks a month on an office space is not a bad thing, you know? Um, so you're still at https://www.scottmonty.com/  um, you, as like like,myself, have a crypto coin, um, your coin is, uh, what is your coins name?  Uh, https://rally.io/creator/MONTY/ and the symbol is https://rally.io/creator/MONTY/ on https://rally.io/ So you can find Scott's coin on https://rally.io/ and I'm sure that if a few people reach out to you, you'll drop them a few points.  Absolutely. Scott's coin like mine, and like the rest of the cryptocurrency world is currently on sale and incredibly working like a lot cheaper than ever will again, with any luck, and should be, and go... go grab some, some coins from anyone on the, on the Rally network, but, um, Scott. Thank you. I appreciate, I appreciate the time and guys, you should sign up for Scott's newsletters. It's one of the few newsletters that I actually take the time to read. It is... it is a well-worth, worthwhile read and it comes out a couple of times a week and he has a free version of papers and I subscribe to the papers and it was worth it, so Scott… as always a pleasure to have you on the podcast, man. It's good to have you back. And, uh, you are a shining example, like many of us that, that ADHD can benefit.  One thing I love about Scott is that he's a shining example that ADHD can benefit you, and it doesn't… there are cases where you don't have to speak 400mph.  Scott is one of the calmest and most pontificational, that's not a word, but I've made it speakers I've ever met in my life. You sit down and listen to him, it's like you're listening to a graduation speech, uh, produced by someone who was raised in the Taurian Era, and it's just amazing.  It's amazing to listen to you, Scott has a phenomenal speaking voice and a great storyteller, um, I'll put a link to the storytelling course in the, in the, in the, in the comments as well…. in the show notes as well, but Scott, thank you for taking the time, always a pleasure to talk to you.  Thank you, Peter. And I think you and I are like the ying and yang to each other when it comes to ADHD because it's a great reminder, there is the inattentive type, and then there is the hyperactive type and both can be as debilitating as you allow them to be, but both can also be as foundational and constructive as you want them to be, if you know how to use your superpower. So thank you, Peter, for allowing me to use mine.  A hundred percent ditto.  Guys, as always, we are here for you and we love what, um, the responses and the notes that we get from you. I got an email from someone just a couple of days ago, who said to me, let me see if I can find it, um, I probably can't of course, but I got an email from someone who said that they were just so incredibly thankful that of all the things that uh, and here it is. Okay.  Hey Peter, wanting to click you a message to say thank you.  I don't know how I went through 24 years of my life not knowing I had ADHD, but listening to your new book and the podcast had me in tears. I knew I was different, never understood, why but I'm so excited to learn how to live my best life. Using my ADHD positively. I have an hour and a half to go, an hour and half into your book and can already tell it will be life-changing for me.  Thank you so much.  Guys, we get these all the time and they just, they never stopped making me happy. So, so please continue to shoot us a note. Tell us who you want to hear on the podcast, we'd love to know  leave us a review on any of the places you get your podcasts. And if you can ever, if you ever need our help, I'm www.petershankman.com and you can reach out anytime at https://www.fasterthannormal.com/ or at @petershankman on Twitter and all of the other socials. We will see you next week as always, thank you for listening. We'll talk to you guys soon, stay safe. —— Credits: You've been listening to the Faster Than Normal podcast. We're available on iTunes, Stitcher and Google play and of course at www.FasterThanNormal.com I'm your host, Peter Shankman and you can find me at petershankman.com and @petershankman on all of the socials. If you like what you've heard, why not head over to your favorite podcast platform of choice and leave us a review, come more people who leave positive reviews, the more the podcast has shown, and the more people we can help understand that ADHD is a gift, not a curse. Opening and closing themes were composed and produced by Steven Byrom who also produces this podcast, and the opening introduction was recorded by Bernie Wagenblast. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see you next week. 

[EP 73] Love cupcakes? Love English? Want some fun listening? Let's do this! [Transcript] Hi everybody, this is Louis and you're listening to another episode of Unexpected English, your favorite English podcast! Now, you know I say that just because I like to say it, not because I think it's true. But what IS true: CUPCAKES ARE YUMMY!! ...is that this is episode 73. And in this episode, like every episode of Unexpected English, you get the practice your listening with something... a little weird ...well, I won't say weird... a little different, and fun, in under five minutes. So now that I was able to start doing interviews again, this one *is* an interview, so let's give a listen... Okay, so I was just walking here in PB, Pacific Beach, that is Pacific Beach, San Diego, and I noticed a place called Pure Cupcakes. And that sounded so good to me, so I thought I would go in and see what I could find out. So, I asked to speak with somebody and here she is! Hi, my name is Christina, I'm the supervisor for the weekends here at Pure Cupcakes, Pure Cupcakes. So, okay so what are some of the most popular... do we say flavors? Flavors, what are some of the top flavors, where everybody says, “Oh, I love this one!” I would say we have a salted caramel, that's a chocolate with caramel frosting, and a caramel drizle on top. We have a Rollo cupcake, that's going to be chocolate with caramel frosting filled with caramel and dipped in chocolate. Ohhh, can you just stop right now because the more you're talking about those cupcakes, the more I want to have a cupcake. And I hope that's not happening to you, because if you're listening and there's no place to buy a cupcake, then you're just like, oh! what can I do? Hmm. I see here in the window that you won some awards for the best cupcakes! We did, yes we won Cupcake Wars in 2013. Cupcake Wars? Yes! Its that where everybody comes out and throws cupcakes at each other? I wish! I wish! That would have been super fun! It was a TV show where different bakeries competed and the the winner had their cupcake showcased at a large event. Ours happened to win at the San Diego Zoo event. So, there was a cupcake war at the San Diego Zoo (yes!) that did not involve throwing cupcakes. No, believe it or not! It's just, just showing them and eating them. Yes. And how many people participated in this cupcake war? I believe it was four. Okay, oh it was kind of a face off, kind of a face off. Yeah, four people. I should do the dramatic music now, you know, boom, boom. [Dramatic: Cupcake makers, everything comes down to this....dramatic music.. You are the winner of Cupcake wars. Congratulations. Thank you! Thank you guys!!!] Dun dun duh! OK, so, so they had Cupcake Wars, and you won the Cupcake Wars in.... 2013 Do people buy cupcakes one by one? We can, we can do them one by one, or we can do weddings, we can do parties so as few or as many as you'd like, you can come on in and check it out. What's the biggest order, you've ever got for a single bunch of cupcakes? Probably upwards of a couple of thousand. You can make a couple thousand cupcakes?? Right just...Yes sir, anything! Right, well there you go! So now you know if you're looking for cupcakes when you're in Pacific Beach, San Diego, stop by at Pure Cupcakes, and you'll be happy. Thank you enjoy, guys! Okay thanks for your time. Yeah, of course, do you want a cupcake? [OUTRO] P.S. Like the podcast? Spread the word ~ word of mouth really helps! Follow on Spotify and Instagram, and tell your friends! And of course, thanks for listening and for your support!

https://tribus.captivate.fm/ (Enjoying Brokerage Insider? Please Subscribe Using Your Favorite Podcast Player.) The real estate industry is effectively made up of hundreds of thousands of individual agents who are all, in a sense, their own small business managers. It takes tenacity, grit, marketing prowess and flexibility to make it in this industry, and that's especially true when you're talking about red hot, super competitive New York City. Amy Herman Schechter of SERHANT knows first-hand what it takes. She's built quite a name for herself, whether through navigating New York co-ops, or helping forever-New Yorkers land a brilliant investment property in the Hamptons -- she's done it all. You may have even seen her on an episode of Million Dollar Listing New York, which, coincidentally, is how she came to work with Ryan Serhant and the rest of the agents and brokers at his prestigious brokerage. On this episode of Brokerage Insider, Amy Herman Schechter talks about what it was like starting in real estate in a post-9/11 New York, and what she's bringing to the table now with 20 years under her belt and a wealth of industry insider knowledge. TRANSCRIPT:

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. And I am here to help you speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. Today we are going to continue learning new phrasal verbs. This time with the verb TAKE. And with a point of view lesson, you will learn grammar in context without memorizing any boring rules. I'll tell you a story several times from different grammar points. I can change the tense or the person. And like that, you will learn grammar in context. Ok. Let's start! Most English learners tend to become overly concerned with how to learn phrasal verbs. A phrasal verb is just a verb and a particle. For example, “take after.” There are thousands of phrasal verbs. Sometimes they may be confusing. Also, each phrasal verb can have multiple meanings. Ok, this scenario doesn't seem very encouraging, and the million-dollar question is: How can you learn all those phrasal verbs? Here's the good news: You need to learn the most common ones. In other words, what people use most of the time. So, let's learn some common phrasal verbs with the verb TAKE: 1. Take After somebody To resemble a parent (looks or behavior) “I take after my mother so much that people think we are sisters.” 2. Take something Apart It means to disassemble or to separate the parts of something so that they are not together. “I'm going to have to take apart the remote control to clean it well.” 3. Take something Back This phrasal verb means to say that you don't really mean what you've said or written. “I take it back. You're not the worst person I've ever met. But you are the second-worst person I know.” 4. Take Down It means to separate the pieces of a structure or write something down. Examples: “We'll have to take down the cupboard if we want to paint the walls.” “I've been trying to get back to you, but I took your number down incorrectly.” 5. Take On It means to accept a job, responsibility, or to hire somebody. Examples: “I can't take on any more responsibilities; I'm too overstressed.” “By the end of the year, we plan to take on 100 more people in our company.” 6. Take over It means to gain control. Examples: “My boss told me to take over the project because my colleague was inefficient.” “When my father retired, my brother took over the business.” 7. Take somebody Up on something This phrasal verb means to accept an offer. Example: “-You're always welcome to visit us.” “-Thank you, I'll take you up on that the next time I come to Vienna.” Ok, so today, we have learned some phrasal verbs with the verb take. My advice is to learn phrasal verbs in context and never memorize them, especially because many of them have several meanings. [END OF THE EXTRACT] Get the FULL-TEXT in PDF here.

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. And I am here to help you speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. Today we are going to talk about phrasal verbs with the verb give. Many of you have asked for a new phrasal verbs episode, so I am sure that you are excited about it. Apparently, everyone wants to learn new phrasal verbs. And with mini-story, you will improve your fluency. I will ask you many questions that you will need to answer right away. It’s like speaking English with another person. But before I get started, I wanted to thank you for listening to my podcast. It’s been over four years since I released the first episode, and since then, I’ve received a lot of support. And because I want you to learn English 3 times faster, I have created a video course. Visit my website SpeakEnglishPodcast.com and get my video course for FREE. Ok, let’s get started! #1 To give something away It means to give something for free as a gift or donation. Examples: “They give away a free chocolate bar for every $100 you spend in the supermarket.” “Tina gave her old clothes away when she lost weight.” #2 To give oneself or somebody else away It means to show where somebody is or what they are doing when they are trying to keep this a secret. Or to unintentionally reveal something about yourself that you don’t want anyone to know. In short, to give somebody away means to betray them. Examples: “Mia smiled, but her voice gave her away.” “Tom gave away classified information to the competition.” #3 To give in  It means to accept that you are defeated, to surrender. Or, in some cases, to give in means to finally agree to what someone wants after refusing for some time. Examples: “After being surrounded, the enemy gave in.” “My son insisted so much that I buy a cell phone, I finally gave in.” #4 To give out  We use this phrasal verb to say that something stops working correctly or becomes weak. Examples: “After running for 30 minutes, my legs finally gave out.” “The students wouldn’t listen, so his patience finally gave out.” #5 To give something over to somebody  It means to give responsibility for something to somebody. Examples:  “Our boss gave most of his work over to his assistant.” “The assistant gave herself over completely to her work.” #6 To give up This phrasal verb means to stop trying to do something, to surrender. Examples: “Because of health problems, he was forced to give up his job.” “Everybody knows my mom never gives up.” #7 To give somebody up It means to allow someone to be captured by the police. Or surrender oneself to the police. Examples: “When he was surrounded, the criminal gave himself up.” “The private detective gave the criminal up to the police.” “She remorsefully gave herself up to the police.” Let’s listen to the phrasal verbs we learned today: Give something away Give someone away Give in  Give out  Give up Give somebody up Give something over to somebody  Get the FULL TEXT here: SpeakEnglishPodcast.com

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everyone! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help you speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. Today let’s talk about how the lockdown has affected the way we interact with other people. Are we ready to get back to normal after the pandemic? And with a point of view lesson, you will learn grammar in context without memorizing any boring rules. I’ll tell you a story twice from different grammar points. I can change the tense or the person. And like that, you will learn grammar in context. Please, visit SpeakEnglishPodcast.com to get the transcript. It’s free. After a year of living practically on the couch eating takeout while watching series on Netflix, maybe you should consider whether you’re turning into a hermit. Takeout is prepared food packaged to be consumed away from its place of sale. So, what’s a hermit? A hermit retires from society and lives in solitude, usually for religious reasons. And after a year without leaving the house, many people are in danger of becoming hermits. Although when someone lives alone and deliberately avoids other people, we call that person a recluse. I’ve always been an extrovert. But being stuck at home for so long, with no contact other than my family, is becoming a bit of an issue. And you know, I was certain that extroverted people would have a tough time during the lockdown. But it turns out that even people who were never at home are finding any excuse not to leave the house. It seems that we have adjusted to this new lifestyle, and it’s going to be hard to get back to normal. And how about getting back to work? In my opinion, the pandemic killed the traditional workplace, and I am curious how companies will deal with this situation. And I have a feeling that remote work can be mutually beneficial. Because according to one study, telecommuters work 1.4 days more per month, and that’s more than three additional workweeks per year.  And let’s face it, while working in the office has some advantages, like meeting new people, very few employees want to go back to the office. What about you? How do you feel about all this? Do you want to get back to the office, or do you prefer to stay at home and work remotely?  Before I move on to the next section, go and get the transcript of this episode at SpeakEnglishPodcast.com/podcast

This one is from the private blog post on my blog (https://dvnsh.com/category/blog), which is not yet published for the public. Please share your feedback on the matter. Also vote for me on My RodeCast competition. Transcript: Hi. My name is Devansh. It's quirky, I know. I'm from India. You can call me Dev. Welcome to Decode with Dev, a podcast where I do my favorite thing, wonder. I will also be reading my blog posts here and explain my perspective, maybe even check some words in the dictionary for you. Now today, I wonder if there are any drawbacks of having Satellite internet by Elon Musk's StarLink. What is the catch when you have 42,000 satellites in low orbit? Will they get in the way during stargazing? Will they increase the space junk? Will they obstruct the way when a rocket leaves for Moon or Mars? So I did the digging. Turns out, little did I know, there is internet shortage in most of the rural America. And internet is much more expensive than India. A bit ironic in my opinion. But are satellites really the answer? Isn't it maybe cheaper to spread the infrastructure on land? I also asked a star gazing expert, Ravi Bhoot, and he confirmed that the satellites would definitely occlude the view. Not only that, they know about this and are planning to colour them all black, so that we don't confuse their shine with stars or planets. Now I ask you this, do we really need satellite internet? We do have decent 4G and 5G is on its way. And broadband Wi-Fi is pretty common in 2021. Aren't we robbing our children of the beautiful view of natural night sky? And for what? To make the richest man on the planet richer? To quote Napoleon, “The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.” I'll leave you there with, let it sink in. Peace out. Namaste.

Listen to a new episode of Speak English Now Podcast, your favorite material for practicing your spoken and heard English. You will also learn about lifestyle and culture, language, vocabulary, and how to improve your English more effectively. Transcript: Hi, everyone! I am Georgiana, your English teacher and founder of SpeakEnglishPodcast.com. My mission is to help you speak English fluently with no grammar and no textbooks. In this episode: I will talk about video conferencing apps and the most common vocabulary and expressions used in English. Then, with a short point of view lesson, you will practice grammar in context. There’s no need to memorize anything, don’t worry. Before we start, make sure you get the transcript of this episode at SpeakEnglishPodcast.com/podcast As you know, the Internet allows us to communicate very easily. With the current situation, working from home has become customary. Teleworking is when you work from an off-site location using the Internet. And of course, to be able to communicate, we have to do it through dedicated apps like Zoom, FaceTime, Google Meet, Skype, etc. Let’s see some vocabulary related to apps for video conferences. I will use the expressions from the Zoom app, but they are more or less similar to any platform: Well, to use the Zoom app, you need an account. Usually, you visit the website and create a new account. Then you download the app to your computer or smartphone. You install it and run it. All you have to do is follow the instructions. Usually, you enter your username and password and follow the instructions. Sometimes it is necessary to select the audio and camera, but only the first time. The environment where people meet is usually called a videoconference room, or simply a room. Sometimes it’s also called a meeting. Okay, now you have everything set up. You need to join a meeting, but before that, you need an invitation. The invitation is only a link, and when you click on it, you can join the meeting. Other times the host will give you a number and password instead of a link. By the way, we call the people who attend Zoom meetings attendees or participants. You also have the option to host a meeting. This implies that you create the meeting and that you invite people to access the room. As a host, you have special permissions to control the other attendees. We can say that the host controls everything. The host usually sends an invitation to the others by email. Okay, so imagine you are in a meeting. You have to take into account two very important options. First, you have to learn how to turn audio and video on or off. It is very common to start talking and have the audio turned off. An even worse situation is to leave the audio on and make noises or say something inappropriate. You also have the option of typing text in the chat. If you are shy, this is the best option. Well, finally, when we want to leave, don’t forget to exit the meeting! So, we’ve learned quite a bit of specific vocabulary. You are now an expert in group videoconferencing 

Catch every episode - http://lovetoownyourbusiness.com/The Love to Own Your Business Podcast's fourth episode features Erik Eustice, owner of Of the Sea talking about whiskey, branding, and business.Check out the Of the Sea website - https://ofthesea.com/And if you enjoyed this episode please subscribe, leave comments and share with your friends.______________Transcript:- Hi everyone. I'm Sean and this is episode four of the Love To Own Your Business podcast. Here we learn how to grow businesses that we love to own. Each month we share great advice on how to do that, and also on how to avoid the pitfalls that make us not love our businesses so much. I think we can all agree that in order to love our businesses, we need to love our customers and to get more customers that we love, we need to communicate directly to them. Our guest today can help. This month, We're talking with Erik Eustice from Of The Sea. And among many other things, Erik is an extraordinary Brand Sleuth and communicator. So hi Erik.- Hey Sean.- How are you doing?- I am excellent, thank you.- You know, we really should have done this over whiskey, right?- You know, it's a, it's not too late and also it's not too early. What is it like 11, 11, 10 in the morning.- Lunchtime somewhere, right?- That could work.- Why don't, why don't we talk about that for a minute? Cause I didn't really mention that in the intro but that's a very interesting part of your life.- Yeah. I'm a certified whiskey sommelier through the Whiskey Marketing School out of Austin, Texas. I'm a level three. I've been at this for about four years now. And about a year and a half ago, I created Whiskey Folks which is a whiskey experienced brand. I host privates whiskey experiences that are part whiskey history, part craft, parts story and we basically just use whiskey to bring people together. So yeah, so it's a little bit of a side hustle for me that helps me to expand my network and do something that I love and it doesn't feel like work at all. But yeah. So my, my real gig though, is this is the brand story stuff the persuasive communication through the advertising agency Of The Sea.- Tell us a little bit about Of The Sea. And then I want to give a quick background as to why I wanted to talk to you much today.- Yeah. So Of The Sea is I guess a boutique style advertising agency in Buffalo, New York, we will be 10 years old on Valentine's day actually next year. Love is definitely a theme of ours, loving who you are, why you are that way and the people that you do your work with. Certainly customers are a big piece of that. We say that we, we build brands and ads that demand attention and create conversation. So it is really about getting people to pay attention but to do that in a very true and meaningful way so that you're building longterm bonds between your brand and your brand of customers.- As a quick background, I recently went through the process of what I thought was just going to be a website refresh. But with your help, it became much more than that. It was transformational for both my brand, my services, as well as me personally, right? So it was so fantastic that I felt really compelled to share this with everyone. So let's talk about this and why you think this was so powerful.- First, I would like to ask the same question of you. What did you you think was so powerful and transformation about your experience?- I think, for me, it was the process of discovering the journey between what was, what's life like for my customers before they start working with Sean.

Podcast: The Drill Down - Exploring Oil and Gas Topics (LS 26 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: The Digital Oilfield with Tony Edwards of Stepchange GlobalPub date: 2017-05-18In this episode, we welcome Tony Edwards to the podcast. Join us for this discussion on the digital oilfield, part of our Digital Oilfield podcast series. Remember, our listeners get $400 off the registration price (use code EKT400) to the Upstream Intelligence Data Driven Production Conference. It’s happening in Houston on July 6-7. Click here to learn more! About Tony Edwards Tony is a recognized expert in the application of Digital Oilfield Technologies in the oil and gas industry. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, in leading companies such as BP and BG. His core discipline is in operations management, including 5 years offshore and 3 years as Operations Manager on major Oil and Gas projects. In this episode of Drill Down, we discuss Tony’s background in the digital oilfield and current trends and opportunities in this growing space. Relevant Links: Stepchange Global Upstream Intelligence Tony Edwards on Linkedin Digital Oilfield Podcast Series: We put together this series of podcasts in conjunction with Upstream Intelligence to bring our listeners up to speed with the latest trends influencing the digital oilfield. Upstream Intelligence Data Driven Production Conference with Louis Vye The Digital Oilfield with Tony Edwards of Stepchange Global Innovations in the Digital Oilfield with Joe Perino Data Driven Production with Jim Crompton Timestamps: [1:00] Tony Edwards’ background – The field of the future [2:45] Mining vs Upstream – comparison and commonalities [3:45] What sparked an interest in the digital oilfield [7:00] Breaking down silos – colocating multi-disciplinary teams [9:10] Integrating teams and technology – impact on production platforms [12:30] Onshore & Shale Digital Oilfield – from the low cost ecosystem model to a low cost / smart hybrid [16:00] Last thoughts – Opportunity in greed-field operations to drop cost and CAPEX through digital oilfield implementations Transcript: Hi everyone. Welcome to the Drill Down with Marty Stetzer. This podcast is part of our EKTI, oil and gas learning network, and brought to you jointly today with Upstream Intelligence in the UK. Upstream Intelligence is the foremost provider of business intelligence and analysis for the upstream oil and gas community. They’re devoted to providing unique industry insight to drive efficiencies, reduce cost, and maximize production capabilities. Today our topic is data driven production. With an estimated global value of 31 billion dollars by 2020, the digital oilfield is the oil and gas industry’s hotbed of innovation, including big data analytics in the industrial internet of things, or IOT. Today I’ll be speaking with Tony Edwards, an industry veteran. This is our first podcast with Tony, an expert in this field. We are really happy to have his input on this new and important part of the upstream business. Tony, welcome. Thanks Marty. It’s great to be here. As we start, can you give our listeners your background? Yes. I joined BP as a young graduate in the late 1980’s and progressed on a pretty general career in oil and gas, mainly in petroleum and production engineering, some time in RND. Then I really ended up in operations management, and ended up working in North Sea, Southern North Sea, and as offshore as an OIM, and as an operations manager in Baku. Then my career took a bit of a shift and in 2003 I was asked to join a new program that was called field of the future, which was BP’s version of digital oilfield, and so I was part of the original team that set up the entire concept inside BP on how we were going to use real time data and information to make forms improvement inside our upstream operations. From there I moved to BG Group in 2006 and set up there a digital oilfield program from scratch, and I did that for three to four years. Then in 2009 I joined Stepchange Global and decided to do this on the outside in a consultancy firm, and we’ve been advising oil and gas companies and indeed mining companies on how to implement digital oilfield and integrated operations around the globe. Tony, that’s interesting. I didn’t realize in addition to the upstream side of the business, the mining folks are interested. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Yeah, we’ve seen that there’s an awful lot in common in oil and gas and mining in general. They’re both extractive industries, they’ve both got extended value chains in many cases, you know not kind of, an upstream or mine piece, some sort of delivery system, pipelines or rail, and then some sort of export business. If you look at it, their model is actually pretty close to some of our core operations like LNG. They’ve also got a lot in similar in the fact that they often have siloed organization. They have all the same sort of organizational people challenges of getting people to do things a different way, so we find that a lot of what we learned in oil and gas is ported over pretty easily into mining sector. We’ve done work with mining companies on iron ore mines in Australia, copper mines in Chile, and more recently on a brand new potash mine in Canada. Tony again, thanks for being part of this effort. You mentioned earlier and I understand your primary focus is the organizational impact of some of these new technologies. What in your career or in your consulting side kind of sparked your interest in this piece of the puzzle? Well I think if we dial back to the early days of digital oilfield and integrated operations when many of the big companies were kicking off with concept . There was BP, Shell, Statoil, Conoco in Norway, and in the national oil companies in particular, Saudi Aramco. We were all trying to understand what the dimensions were of this big new thing, where we can have real time data and information coming off of our assets, coming off our platforms, and it being available for use in the office, and available to experts in the office, and what were we going to do with it? Of course the initial focus was very much around, “We need to get the data.” So, how do we capture the data, how do we store the data, how do we transmit the data. Of course one of the big breakthroughs was the advent of high bandwidth communications, particularly in areas like the North Sea where fiber was laid very early on. So we could get that data, but then it was very much about, what do we do with the data? Initially the push was to get these IT data and information systems in place, and then we went through a phase of building rooms, collaborative rooms. We worked out pretty quickly that you needed teams to look at the data, or analyze the data, and look at opportunities in that data, and then convey those to the guys in the field who were going to do something different. Early on the focus was on the technology in the rooms, and we very quickly worked out that if you took the, “If we build it, they will come,” approach, they basically did. We then switched this around to thinking about it as technology-enabled transformation, and how do you change the … How do you get the people on board. Literally say, a technician or an operator offshore or onshore he’s been doing something the same for 20 years, how do you get them to do something different? Because now we’ve got data and information which can inform where they need to be at any one time. We needed to look at the processes, so when you look at process work flow, they were generally geographically constrained around a platform or a site. Now we’re saying actually we can have people looking at the data, and the process could be done remote. So how does that change? Then also the organizational alignment, how do we organize ourselves to take value from having this data and information? We quickly understood that just having the data and information was just not good enough. We needed to think of it in much broader terms, and certainly companies like BP, and Statoil, and others started thinking about this is a transformation program, or continuous program rather than a technology program. Tony, you mentioned earlier the challenge of the silos, which in our consulting and in our training programs we’re still seeing. Was there any way that this helped break down some of the silos by having disciplines, look at problems, or different ways of even setting up the remote operation centers with multi disciplines? Did that help, breaking down the silo side? Yes it did, and what we found as well is if you wanted to do something like production optimization; and you wanted to be able to optimize a molecule of oil and gas from the reservoir to an export point wherever that happened to be, and of course in gas that could be a very long value chain, in an offshore oil platform might be shorter. But whenever you looked at it, it spanned reservoir, petroleum, production engineering, facilities engineering, operations, pipelines, and maybe even commercial. We found that once you started having this real time data and information, a traditional siloed organization that was meeting-based just wasn’t fast enough, wasn’t agile enough, so we started moving towards this idea of multi disciplined delivery teams. So you would co-locate a production optimization … You would form a production optimization team, which was the co-location of representative from reservoir, petroleum, production, operations, facilities, pipeline, commercial in a room, and then they would work as a natural team to deliver the  field optimization. So that was an example. Another example would be around facilities, discipline, engineering, so instead of having mechanical, electrical, instrument automation all being separate, again we would co-locate representatives from each of those disciplines together in a room just to support the guys in the field in a non siloed, fully integrated way, if that makes sense. It does. Were there impacts say, on the production platforms as well? You mentioned the remote operation centers, and we’ve seen examples of that in our visits to some major clients, but what about on the production facilities themselves? Were there some benefits there? Absolutely. I think the one thing you haven’t got to forget about is what’s at the other end, if you know what I mean. It’s a bit like the idea of if you’re the only person in the world with the mobile telephone, well it’s actually not very useful. What we’ve seen is that if you have a collaborative environment in your office, then very much you need to have the ability for your teams in the field to collaborate as well, so that could be either by mobile working devices, which are now becoming much more available.  It was a difficult thing to implement 10 years ago although it was done in a few locations, or it was actually we need to mirror the fact that we’ve got a production optimization team in the office with some sort of team in the field. Typically we would then co-locate a production engineer and some of the production team in a room on the offshore platform, and we would have always-on video, always-on data and information exchange between the two. We see this very much as an organizational alignment, so some of the dimensions that you can think about are integrating across the silos is one dimension, and you most often do that in the office, but you want to do it in the field as well if you can. Also you’re integrating between the operational location, offshore platform or gas hub, land based operation, and your office, so you’re integrating between the field and your office. That’s one of the other big barriers. Of course there’s the big divide between sub surface and surface disciplines you want to integrate across there. The other one we see is a key dimension for integration in this approach is time. So we advocate what we call a time slice organization, where we co-locate people around the time scale of the work that they do, so typically the guys in these collaborative in environments are doing short term support work, and they’re the point of focus for the guys in the field. The guys in the field always know who they got to go to, and the guys in the office, in the collaborative environment, they’re almost triaging the issues as they come in, and they’ve got complete asset awareness, or situational awareness of what’s going in the field at the same time. It just streamlines all of those communication processes. The guys involved understand what’s going on, understand what the priorities for the day. The result of that is enhanced production, enhanced recovery –  free from unplanned events, the better implementation of maintenance practices because you’re being supported remotely by your experts in the office. There’s a whole bunch of value you can get once you put the ability to collaborate and share data in place between an operational site and an office location. Tony, we’ve talked about offshore. Is there any analogy, or any operators using these same concepts of techniques in onshore? Especially in the shale plays that you’re familiar with, where we’re drilling hundreds of wells, and it’s more like a mechanical production operation than it is like a classic drill and complete operation. Are you seeing anyone using it in the onshore side of the business as well as the offshore? Yeah, absolutely. We’re seeing a lot of effort in the onshore side, and we’ve done work with coal bed methane operators in Australia, for instance. The big coal bed methane to LNG assets in Queensland, of which there are three, all of them have gone down this route, and two of them have actually remotely controlling all of their wells and gas facilities from the center of Brisbane, would you believe. They pushed this concept really quite a long way and we’ve been involved in the forefront of this with them in Australia. We’ve seen certainly SAGD operations in the tar sands are really beginning to embrace this in Canada. In terms of shale, oil and shale gas, typically that model has been what I would call a low cost ecosystem model, so it runs very well because one, it’s been low cost, and two, the ecosystem of companies are there to deliver this in a very efficient manner. But we are beginning to see the emergence of what I would call a low cost, smart hybrid, where I think those operators are beginning to see just being low cost, especially in the current environment, it runs out of steam in terms of giving you the value you need, and you now need to go more towards a smart approach. We’ve been working with one operator in Pennsylvania, and typically the traditional mode of operation would be to send an operator to look at a well every day, and in fact the local legislation says you have to visit this well every week to look for leaks, would you believe. The whole idea of sending a person into a gas production system to look for leaks is not something I would advocate at all. We should have instrumentation to do that sort of thing. But we’re working with this operator, and we’re pushing it, we’re trying to push it to the point where we visit the well once every three months. That is going to mean that we have to challenge the legislation, but I think we can put the senses and the monitoring, the surveillance, in real time in place to make that case pretty easily. So yes, we are beginning to see shale gas, shale oil do this and indeed a number of the kind of independent land based operators, and we’re working with a few at the moment. I think it has been somewhat slower uptake in that area just because the model they’ve had, it has been different to what you might think of as a big offshore oil operation, or even a big land-based complex operation. Tony, this is terrific. I know you and I could keep this up all, but I think the insights that you’ve given our listeners on the impacts of these new systems on organization, minimum manning, and production efficiencies, and especially the relationship between mainstream oil and gas and mining, and coal bed methane, which was completely not in my radar, will be extremely valuable. Is there anything that you would like to say to wrap up to our folks, if they want to seek more information on these topics? Yes. Just one thing I would say is that historically we’ve been doing a lot of work in brownfield operations, but there’s  absolute huge opportunity in greenfields. If you take what we’ve learned in brownfields and you translate that into green- fields, we absolutely believe that we can drop operational costs significantly, and by significantly I mean 50 to 70 or 80 percent. We can also reduce capex as well, and we’ve done a number of studies on new greenfield projects where we’ve been working with this idea of radical minimum manning, and trying to inject that into the project concept up stream. So I think that’s going to be the next big thing in terms of where we go, so more automation, less manning, more safer operations because we have less people, so that’s fundamentally where I think we’re going to be heading. If people are interested in hearing more about this, or seeing more about this please go to our website. I work for Stepchange Global, which is an independent oil and gas consultancy specializing in digital oilfield and integrated operations, and our website is www.stepchangeglobal.com. I’ll be at the conference in a couple of weeks time, it would be great to see people there, so if you want to have a chat on anything I’ve been talking about please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Thanks again Tony, I look forward to meeting you when you’re in Houston, and folks who would like to learn more about the basics of the important oil and gas industry, be sure to check out our free Oil 101 series at www.ektinteractive.com. Thanks everyone for listening. The post The Digital Oilfield with Tony Edwards of Stepchange Global appeared first on EKT Interactive.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marty Stetzer, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Catch every episode - http://lovetoownyourbusiness.com/The Love to Own Your Business Podcast's third episode features Chris Edwards, owner of Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs talking about his business loves (and hates), stress and business growth.Check out the Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs website - https://neurotherapyofcs.com/And if you enjoyed this episode please subscribe, leave comments and share with your friends.______________Transcript:Hi everyone. I'm Sean and this is episode three of the Love to Own Your Business podcast. For this week's episode, Settling Your Stress, we're talking with Chris Edwards, owner of Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs. For those of you who are joining us for the first time, welcome to the show with the purpose of having a lighthearted discussion on the great advice that we've received as we grew our businesses. And also what advice we wish we'd received to avoid some of those missteps that made us not love our business so much and hope to keep you from making the same mistakes as you grow. I've started the series to compliment the work I do with business owners that feel like their businesses really own them and provide them with the experiences and supports that they need to help put things right. For this week, I was thinking that many of us have already begun navigating the return to school activities, despite already increasing numbers and looming warnings. And that also many of us are beginning to think a lot about the nearing changes in weather that will begin to soon close the great summer release valve of being outside that sort of helped keep us going with our social lives. So stress levels and anxiety are once again rising. And I wanted to have a discussion about coping in a more realistic and meaningful ways than the current gestalt of positivity that I have been coming across in my feeds. So, so Chris, this has been your wheelhouse for about as long as I've known you and I've always appreciated your ability to balance empathy with a workable, tough love approach to things. But let's start with telling us about Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs, what you do and how you started it.- So, I mean, it's a long story, but I'll keep it shorter. Neurotherapy of Colorado Springs is a practice that deals with brain rehabilitation in the biggest sense of the word. From the standpoint of ADHD, anxiety, brain injury, stroke, performance enhancement, all of these things are really budding up against an old model, an old medical model. In Europe we moved to a inflammatory model for mental health and medicine, the United States is definitely behind the times in this and so what we do in our practice is an integrative model for improving brain functioning. So we look at tools using, we use biofeedback and neurofeedback, we use cognitive behavioral therapy, we use lifestyle management and we look at nutritional levels and all the ways that they integrate in and commingle in a person. We found that, you know, as I was getting back into to mental health from our days in, from being musicians in my days doing research at the University of Buffalo, that I just wasn't really happy with the efficacy of just traditional mental health counseling and the numbers aren't pretty, you know. The reality is that a straight-up statistical analysis of it, you're just as likely to get better if you go versus if you don't go, statistics. And that's because talk therapy is not enough to get past a lot of people's issues. And so what we get at is we use brain imaging, we use quantitative EEG to do what's called brain mapping and we're looking for electrical deviations in the brain that are statistically significant. So we're looking for people who make too much of something or not enough of something. We look at the area of the brain that that's occurring in.

Bron Webster introduces the emotion ‘fear' and how she has identified the emotion, the triggers and the impact on her behaviours. Fear … what do I need to learn about that situation that will help me let go of the fear? Listen to find a simple way of looking at your feelings and making forward progress. Copyright: Bron Webster 2020   Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/multiplesuccessCommunity Podcasts and Website: https://multiplesuccess.co.uk/podcasts.html    TRANSCRIPT: Hi, welcome. And today we're moving into a new series. We're moving into the MS feelings and Ms emotions series. But we've just finished the MS lifestyle changes which really, really focused on diets. So so far in June, we've explored some of the main ms diets and lifestyles and in particular, we looked at the world protocol. So we had the fantastic Terry walls join us for one episode. We've also looked at the best bet diet. And that was with Jerry and Kelly who joined us from Canada. Then we've had the overcoming m s or m s lifestyle with Jeff Alex before finally some key life messages from Ms better and Judy gray. And so I think it's fair to say that diet plays a really important part in our ms lives. It provides nutrients and cuts out if we decide to make changes cut out some of the things that are purported to have an impact on our disease. But secondly, and I think more importantly, changing diets adopting different ways of eating gives us a sense of control. And that's something that can be so lacking when we live with multiple sclerosis. So, coming up in this next series feelings, we've got episodes with some great guests that are covering a lot, and why we'll be talking about lost. It's really important, it's all going to become clear. I've also got guests on acceptance and resilience. And I've got a great guest talking all about mindset, and some things and steps that you can just take that can really help you get your mindset in the right place.   Did you know that there is an associated Facebook group for people with MS. It's a positive group and it encourages members to look on the positive side of life. The group is called Multiple Sclerosis UK help multiple success community. Why don't you look it up on Facebook? Answer the joining questions and take a positive step in your life.    So coming up in this next series, feelings, episodes covering loss, acceptance and resilience and mindset. But today, I want to talk about a scary emotion, fear. Fear of what you might ask. And I'm thinking specifically in relation to multiple sclerosis. So is it fear of coming out? Is it fear of coming out to other people about your diagnosis? What about fear of the unknown? We don't know what's going to happen. from day to day, week to week, month to month with Ms. So we're living constantly with fear of fear now. What about fear of being isolated? fear of losing friends, fear of people not understanding. fear of being alone. Can I get married? Can I find somebody to date? When I live with multiple sclerosis? What about looking to the future and fear of not working? fear of not fulfilling your expectations, fear of losing your dreams and fear of the reality. Fear of what is going to happen and fear is really really not easy. It's playing itself out in our lives every single day.    And I want to share with you just a small example of one of my fears. And my typical behavior. I realized that I had been invisible. I've done some of my instinctive, let's withdraw. And it's because I know that I'm feeling scared about something. But that's some things of my own creation. This was when I was heading up to the launch for this podcast back in April. And I've tried I've been trying to work out what it is, and why I felt scared. And it's because I've set myself a deadline to do something And it's something that is also in the public eye. So obviously, how big in the public eye I really didn't know. And I guess it's only going to be as big as I can make it is not necessarily going to be something that's worldwide. It's not going to be massive. But it's something that's happening. And I set myself a deadline. And deadlines are something that I really don't do anymore. I just don't work to deadlines. And I've worked out that if I do is because I start to feel really pressurized. And so I've stopped myself, setting deadlines. And I've stopped myself setting goals. And those are the first elements that I acknowledge. The second thing that was scaring me is that I've had to acquire so many new skills. I've had to Make new contacts with new people. And it's just pushed me out of my comfort zone. So I've got these two different areas. It's pushing me out because it's working to a deadline, and I don't work to deadlines. It's pushing me outside my comfort zone because I'm having to learn all these new things. And I'm having to make all these new contacts. And I think Thirdly, it's pushing me outside my comfort zone, because it's potentially really public as in potentially globally public, and that's what's making me feel scared. So I just taken a few minutes for myself, and I searched and searched and reminded myself of the cognitive behavioral therapy that I had when I had my cancer treat But still couldn't get myself through the feelings that I had. So I think it's fair to say I've had a diagnosis of MS diagnosis of cancer. And then on the MS I've had the second message, but message about being secondary progressive Ms. So that is actually a big, impactful diagnosis to get the secondary progressive label applied. So that's three set of diagnosis. And I've been struggling, but back in 2014, when I was seeing somebody to help me, I came up with the words with the help of the counselor, the CBT counselor, I can get through it. Whatever comes I can find a way to deal with it because I got To get through cancer, I got to get through whatever life health throws at me. It's not something that's totally outside of my control. And just because now the things that I'm doing, I brought these fears on myself, doesn't make it any different. I can get through this. I can get through these fears. By working out how to do it, what to do next, what skills I need to learn what information I need, what sort of mindset I need to build. And by coming here and talking about it, on some kind of medium that's out in the out in the wide world. I've now completed that circle of fear. Firstly, I've noticed the feeling and identified and I've given it a label and he tells Fear. Secondly, I've worked out my behaviors as a result of that feeling. And that's something that takes a little bit of working out, sitting back, letting your thoughts clear, and really looking at what's been going on in your life.  Thirdly,, I've worked out exactly what has triggered these feelings.  And then finally, I've admitted to other people. In this case, I'm admitting it to you guys that are listening. I think my husband is fully aware of what I live with every day. And I do tell him when I've got big challenges coming up, but to admit it publicly for me has completed that circle of fear.    So to take away - notice the feeling worked out which behaviors are being impacted as a result. Work out and be honest. What is triggering those feelings? And then admit it to somebody. And then hopefully you can take the action and reduce those feelings and reduce le anxiety. Thanks for listening to today's podcast. I've got to ask, did you know that I run a Facebook community? Get yourself over to multiple sclerosis UK help dash multiple success community UK. Click to join answer the questions and we'll see you on the other side. Thanks so much for listening to today's ms show. Please subscribe rate and review this podcast. If you'd like to get more involved with the show. Why not join our Facebook community? Just search Facebook for the MS show up soon for another dose of MS information and inspiration. You've been listening to the MS show podcast.

Transcript: Hi, and welcome to the “Chaos, managed” podcast. The purpose of this podcast is to help families facilitate learning. Many parents have been at home with their children for several weeks (or months). And, with summer upon us, children will continue to stay at-home. Summer camps are cancelled, and entertainment options will be limited as we navigate this “new" normal. For many of us, lockdown learning has been chaotic. Parents are stressed, tired and burnt out. Some schools have been better prepared and organized, than others, at setting up virtual learning. Some teachers are delivering meaningful online instruction and learning engagements while others are bombarding our kids with worksheets with little to no instruction. So, we as parents are left much to our own devices. More than ever, we have to find things for our kids to do. We are having to give a lot more support to our kids; academic support---math, writing, science. At times, our homes are filled with chaos and feel like one giant science experiment gone wrong. How can the chaos be managed, for the weeks and months ahead? We hope to answer this question, one episode at a time. Helping families facilitate learning is the mission of this podcast. Each episode will be 10 minutes or less, and the first episode will be available on Monday, May 18th. Cheers for now. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chaosmanaged/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chaosmanaged/support

This is my introduction to the world, about my new podcast. I explain who I am, give a little background, explain why I'm doing a podcast, what I hope to accomplish and the type of information I promise to deliver. Transcript: Hi everyone. I'm Joe Costello. Welcome to the Joe Costello show. I wanted to create a podcast for quite some time now, and I am beyond thrilled that it is finally happening. I'm even more excited that you have joined me and are interested in what I have to say and share. Being a professional musician for a large period of my adult life, while always scratching my entrepreneurial itch, has given me a unique perspective on both the rock and roll lifestyle and the corporate life. It's been a difficult combination to balance but at the same time, I am where I am today because of the extreme differences between the two lifestyles. As a business entrepreneur, my current and past businesses have been very successful and each day, I continue to learn more and more about myself, business and living my best life. Some episodes will include conversations with people of all walks of life that have either profoundly affected me in some way, I've learned from them or they are moving the needle in some form or fashion. Some days, I'll be talking to you directly about something I've learned or experienced, where it would simply be a crime not to share. I'll also provide a way for you to send me questions for "What do you know Joe?" episodes. At some point, I'll be hitting the road to do speaking engagements, panel discussions, and I'll be sure to let you know when those events happen. No topic is off-limits if I feel the discussion can help a single person out there, live a happy more fulfilled life. In the show, I'll dig deep into some interesting life lessons and bring you some of the most influential and interesting people in their fields, to help create extremely valuable content for all of you. Episodes of the show will be dropping every Wednesday. You can find me wherever you normally listen to your podcasts. What I wish for you, is that this podcast will have a profound impact on you and the next move you make in creating the best life you can with incredible happiness, love and integrity. You can subscribe now, invite your friends and I'm so excited to be in your ears, so thank you from the bottom of my heart! ********** Podcast Music By: Andy Galore, Album: "Out and About", Song: "Chicken & Scotch" 2014 Andy's Links:   http://andygalore.com/ https://www.facebook.com/andygalorebass ********** Subscribe, Rate & Review: I would love if you could subscribe to the podcast and leave an honest rating & review. This will encourage other people to listen and allow us to grow as a community. The bigger we get as a community, the bigger the impact we can have on the world. For show notes and past guests, please visit If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. For show notes and past guests, please visit: https://joecostelloglobal.com/#thejoecostelloshow Sign up for Joe's email newsletter at: https://joecostelloglobal.com/#signup For transcripts of episodes, go to https://joecostelloglobal.com/#thejoecostelloshow Follow Joe: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jcostelloglobal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jcostelloglobal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jcostelloglobal/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUZsrJsf8-1dS6ddAa9Sr1Q?view_as=subscriber

TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I'm your host Matt Stauffer and this is Episode 100. One, zero, zero. We've made it! I have not, I was going to say tweeted. I've not podcasted, I've hardly blogged, I thought I was back a couple months ago and then it turns out that babies don't like sleeping. Turns out, who knew? So finally back-ish, it's going to be a slow roll back--I'm not going to promise that I'm 100 percent, but I'm back enough to record Episode 100. Hurray, huzzah, there was much rejoicing. If I wasn't so lazy I'd put sound effects in here. People clapping and cheering. The Five Minute Geek Show! it's a purportedly weekly show about development and everything around it. It's purportedly five minutes long. It's really whenever the heck I can get to it and turns out it's sometimes between five and ten minutes. It's one topic per episode, that's true. About front end, back end, mobile, project management, design, entrepreneurship, whatever. If it's geeky, it fits. I'm glad to be semi back. My son is out of school, and all of a sudden my schedule is rearranged and I'm able to find pockets of time for podcasts and blogs now, so my goal is to get a podcast and a blog out this week. That's what I'm going to try and do. So this week we're going to be talking about community. Capital C community. If you are not a PHP developer this will be a little bit less relevant. If you're not a developer, it will be even less relevant, but it'll touch on some things. There is often a line that is repeated by various people within the PHP community that Laravel, the people in Laravel, the Laravel community, are elitist and that they encourage silos and that what they really needed to do (if they weren't pigeon holing themselves into just being Laravel developers) is be involved in the greater PHP community. People, hoity toity, are proud of the fact that they are just a PHP developer, and they would not be so base as to identify with a particular framework. They say, well, I hope you don't put "Laravel developer" on your whatever. "Why wouldn't you just say PHP developer?" They'll point to the wonderful efforts of people like Cal Evans, and other wonderful human beings whom I love, who do great things to encourage the PHP community to have an identity. Every single time they say these things, I respond in the same ways, and they stop responding when they realize their argument is awful and then somebody else spouts the same crap a month later. So! I'm going to say it out loud here. If you have the temptation to go ham on somebody because they consider themselves a WordPress developer, or a Symfony developer, or a Laravel developer, or whatever else developer because they should be just thinking of themselves as PHP developers... Next time you identify yourself as a PHP developer, I'm going to walk up and I'm going to say, "why are you identifying yourself as a PHP developer? Why aren't you just a web developer?" Then when you go to a web development thing, "why are you are identifying as a web developer, why aren't you just a technologist?" When you go to technologist thing I say, "why are you a technologist, why aren't you just a person?" Why aren't you just a human? Where is the line? You have made up an arbitrary line that you think is the acceptable place for someone to identify, below which is not possible. And we haven't even started talking about geographical location or anything like that. Is it acceptable for someone to identify that they're in the London PHP group? Is that unacceptable because that's a delineation? No, none of this stuff matters. All these groupings are helpful. Now remember, if you've listened to this podcast for any time you understand that a lot of the things I'm talking about come out of faith and religious background. So let me tell you about denominations. In denominations, you have the differences between people of the same faith, similar to sects and stuff like that. Where you have multiple people who ascribe to the same general thing, but are different in certain ways. There's all sorts of horrible things where people have mistreated each other, they've killed each other and all that kind of stuff, with the difference between religions. So, in general, we tend to think of unity as good and division as bad, right? So we often have this naïve concept that if we could just rid ourselves of denominations, and everyone would just be the same faith, the same religion, then all of our problems would be gone. The problem is there are perfectly acceptable, and perfectly normal and often very healthy, differences in opinion, and denominations give you space to find the other people who follow along that line in a different way, and celebrate together with them without having to separate yourselves entirely from the community that you're a part of. Or without fighting all the time. Let's say you have a particular interpretation of how something says whether its Saturday or Sunday. What's the seventh day in the bible--is it Saturday or Sunday? Well, that's going to make a pretty big difference about when your church meets and all this kind of stuff. You could fight about it all day all the time, or you could both do the same stuff on different days of the week, and just split along that line. Split has this negative connotation, but maybe you can just both do great things on different days of the week. Laravel does different things, provides different things, has different priorities and perspectives than Zend. If Zend and Laravel were to mush together into one, you would have a lot of battles because Zend has a very specific set of goals and priorities that are not the same as Laravel's. If they're allowed to co-exist separately, then it's perfectly acceptable for both of these sub groups to be a part of a larger sub group, which is a part of a larger sub group. Why PHP? Why are you in PHP and not Ruby? Well it would be very awkward to have every meet up ever be about PHP and Ruby. Let alone the differences of opinion, how are you ever going to talk about something when everything is completely different? There are healthy things about us finding natural differences in a healthy way accepting and sometimes even celebrating those differences, and also being willing to be a part of the greater community. Now, does me being in one denomination mean I'm now no longer part of the larger faith? No. Does that mean I'm incapable of participating in concepts or meetings, or whatever that relate to the larger faith? No. Similarly, does being a WordPress developer mean you now say I'm not a PHP developer? No. So chill out, take a chill pill, get off your high horse and allow yourself to be in multiples; and guess what, you could be a Laravel developer and a Symfony developer, and a PHP developer, and a Ruby developer, and a JavaScript developer, and an Ember developer, and a React developer all at the same time. It is possible! You can do it. It's like this magical thing where you can be a part of multiple communities and no community police is going to come stop you. It's fine, it doesn't matter. So just enjoy it! Allow yourself to celebrate being a part of whatever communities to get the benefits out of them. Being a part of the WordPress community means you connect with other people who are learning how to make money as a WordPress developer, and that is very different than how to make money as a Laravel developer, right? That's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Trying to learn how to really up your skills in Symfony and Laravel often looks very similar, but not always. So having differentiation in the community allows space for us to share some resources, and not share the other resources, and that's perfectly fine. Really, this is just me going on a rant. Surprise! That's what this podcast is. Here's the fact that every community has various levels that overlap, and various levels of not overlap, and that is perfectly fine. You can be a part of many communities that are a part of many other communities that are sub groups, of sub groups, of sub groups, and there's no magical line. PHP as a community is not the magical line beneath which everything is an atrocity. Within Laravel, you may find yourself a part of the DDD community, and you may find yourself a part of the Hyper Ruby inspired minimalist Smalltalk community. Those are two communities within the Laravel community and that's okay, because you don't have to do one or the other. It's fine, I'm not actually adding anything new to this conversation at this point, I'm just throwing out random things and saying its fine. Just chill out. Allow people to enjoy being a part of the communities they are. If you want to have a positive impact I think the thing that I hear from these people the most is, well, why don't you participate more in the larger PHP community? They don't say those words, but I think that's what is the inherent. Then say that in a positive, not critical way. Hey WordPress developers, did you know that there's this much larger PHP community that we want to invite you into? Here's ways that we can welcome you. It turns out the best way to welcome people is not by calling them silo'ed whatever heritics. The best way is to be kind, and to enter into their spaces and to learn from them, and to offer what you have to them, and to be nice people. It turns out that's the trick. Be nice. Take care of people. I feel like I'm making voices where I'm mimicking people more than normal, so I hope I don't get too many complaints about how snarky I was in this one. I really do love you all. This is Episode 100, I'm making the heart symbol in front of my chest right now. I also got not a lot of sleep last night, and I'm super caffeinated so that might be part of it now. All right we're almost out of time, I will not go over 10 minutes, thank you. Thank you friends for listening to 100 episodes, those of you who've been here for all 100, and if not, that's okay--thank you for being here for Episode 100 anyway. This is the Five Minute Geek Show, we're at @5minutegeekshow on twitter, fiveminutegeekshow.com. 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Small, measurable, manageable commitments help people like me move toward their goals. Transcript: Hi, I'm your host, Matt Stauffer, and this is Episode 91 of The Five Minute Geek Show, a weekly show about development and everything around it. It's one topic per episode about front end, back end, mobile project management, design, entrepreneurship, whatever. If it's geeky it fits. Today we're going to be talking about goals and commitments. I know a lot of people who really value the idea of setting goals and measuring your, long goals. I have a lot of friends who really care about analyzing others. The word that they use for it I forget but basically having metrics about everything you do, how often I eat that, how often I do that. I do some of those things. I've been tracking my food and calories through either ... I think the old one was called Calorie Counter and the new one's called My Fitness Pal for years. It really helps me have a good understanding of what my health is like and everything so I'm very thankful for those things. One of the things that I've noticed is a lot of those folks who think deeply about journaling and planning, executing, all that kind of stuff, they all talk about setting goals. If you haven't had some teacher or parent or someone at some point in your life tell you you need to set goals I'd be extremely surprised. Why is it that people like me have so much ... Okay. I have a lot of trouble setting and focusing on goals. I set them and they're really great and a nice idea but some of the things I run into are first, it's really hard to predict what my goals should be. It's like how much should I increase sales by? Well, I guess 10%. Is that realistic? Is that good? Is that bad? How do I really know, I've just kind of made up things. It's good to focus on those made up things but often it's just hard for me to really use them as motivation. Additionally, the hardest part for me is that they're not present. Unless you do a really good job of keeping them at the forefront of your mind or checking in on them regularly or whatever else which I don't do you set the goal and then you feel guilty when you had forgot about it for three months. That's not to say that goals are bad but if you're like me you might find that there's something a little bit better which is small, measurable commitments. Instead of saying, "I'm going to set a goal to lose a certain amount of weight." Instead make a commitment, "I'm going to make a commitment that I'm going to cap my food at 1800 calories a day." "The source of my calories is going to be 40% protein." "I'm going to make a commitment that I'm going to make 10,000 steps everyday." What that ends up meaning is when I have that doughnut in the morning that means in the end of the day I'm scrambling a little bit to figure out how am I going to get my protein in or the next day when I feel really bad about that it's going to motivate me to be less likely to have that doughnut. When it's the end of the day and I've only hit 7,000 steps and I want to go to sleep I say, "Hey, I made a commitment." My wife knows that I made that commitment and so she's okay when I, like a crazy person, go walk around in circles in my neighborhood for 45 minutes to get my steps. Those commitments are easy to make because I say, "I committed to do this thing, therefore I'm going to do it." It's easy to justify the decisions in response to it because it's very hard both to myself and to other people to say, "Well, I need to lose weight. Therefore, I'm going to go walk." That's definitely, it's a true thing but it's vague, it's very distant, and it's very easy to justify away. "Well, I can just skip walking this time, I can just whatever. How much is it really going to matter? I'm already making progress, blah, blah, blah"... but... "I committed to walking 10,000 steps everyday." You don't justify that away. If you don't make 10,000 steps that day it's because you're breaking your commitment. That's not like you should feel guilty or whatever but it's much closer to the wire thing to fulfill. "I committed to 10,000 steps today, I'm going to do 10,000 steps today, that's it." My hope is that I make commitments that are in line with my values. My value isn't actually losing weight, it's just being healthy. I just want to give examples of things that are maybe small, measurable, and very clear when you broke them in the moment, in the immediate space. Commitments might be a good way to reach goals. By doing that I now have to worry less about being able to predict what my goals should be in the future. I have to more just say what are healthy decisions to make that are in the same direction as that goal. With my physical health it's very easy because I know what things are healthy. With things that are a little more abstract sometimes it's a little bit tougher. What are the things ... What are the immediate commitments that you can make right now to get you to the place that you want to be in your career or in your business' growth? Well, let's say you want to become a better developer. Well, it might mean saying, "I commit that every single day I will work through my lunch break and I will watch one Laracasts video and I will read at least 10 pages of this book. Regardless of anything else I will do that or every night I'm going to work through this thing or I will spend one hour on this site app every single day so I have a portfolio piece," or whatever else it ends up being. Maybe if you're a business owner it will be, "Every single day I will put at least 30 minutes into one of 10 business development tasks. I will either blog or make phone calls or follow-up with these people or whatever. I will spend at least 30 minutes doing that every single day regardless." You didn't say, "I'm going to increase my sales," or, "I'm going to be the best developer ever." You said, "Every single day I'm going to do X amount of things to get myself ... Or every week or whatever to get myself moving in the direction I want to go." I think the primary goal of this one is just saying that if you're like me you may find that goals are nice but often just induce guilt when you forget about them. Small, measurable commitments that will move you in the right direction are a lot easier to keep fresh because you just get in the pattern of them. It's a lot harder to break them and it's a lot easier to justify doing things that might seem a little weird for the sake of them. It's a lot harder to justify not doing them when they're small. It's not as if you're like, "Well, I'm going to lose 50 lbs." Well, it's very easy to feel vaguely non-committal to that when time comes and it's family doughnut time. It's a lot easier to say, "I'm going to walk 10,000 steps today," and you're a little tired and say, "You know, it's only 2,000 more steps and I committed, I'm going to do it." I hope this helps someone. Thanks for listening to The Five Minute Geek Show. We're at Five Minute Geek Show on Twitter number five. Fiveminutegeekshow.com. You can subscribe to us on iTunes via RSS. If you like the show share it with your friends right on iTunes. Thanks. Until next time, Matt Stauffer, Five Minute Geek Show.