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00:00:00:14 - 00:00:14:01 Unknown Gentlemen. I'm not supposed to be here. 00:00:14:04 - 00:00:31:21 Unknown This is a close call. Welcome to Close Course, presented by Pins and Aces, where the mic is open and the drinks are cold. This is the spot where golf meets good company athletes, artists, reality stars, and the pros who live on the greens. From tee boxes to tour busses, from green rooms to greens. We're asking the questions you won't hear anywhere else. 00:00:31:23 - 00:00:44:14 Unknown We talk sports. We talk life. We talk everything in between. No scorecards, no pressure, just good vibes and stories that will make you laugh, think and maybe even grab your clubs. So let's tee it up and let it fly. 00:00:44:16 - 00:01:05:07 Unknown Hello everyone and welcome back to your favorite golf podcast, Close Course, presented by Pins and Aces. I'm your host. Play Corson here with my co-host, as usual, Eric, Nick and Liam. And before we get into it guys, we got some exciting news regarding Closed Course the podcast. We are now partnering with Guerilla Sports. You guys, you're going to see us everywhere. 00:01:05:08 - 00:01:19:29 Unknown They're an incredible con, some new content, some new clips. We're just leveling up. We're leveling up and we want to hear a lot of what you guys want to hear to. We want more of what you guys want to see more of what you want to hear, more guests you want to hear from. But we're excited. We're excited to partner with Girls sports. 00:01:19:29 - 00:01:35:21 Unknown Going to be something big for close cause yeah, it's really good. And you know, we've talked about it for a while. It's like, hey, how do we level up close course, how do we pump out more content? And now we've got the professionals behind it, you know. So yeah it's great. I'm really looking forward to it. It's exciting. 00:01:35:21 - 00:01:50:20 Unknown It's funny thinking about it like two years ago when the podcast was like me, you, John, would like talk about conspiracies every week. Yeah. Like we would film it with like one camera. Then it got better with you guys and Evan. Then we got three cameras set up. But yeah, now with them, I think it's going to be even more legit. 00:01:50:21 - 00:02:05:09 Unknown Yeah. Next level. Exactly. I'm excited. Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's exactly what we've we've been the rebrand, if you will. Seven months. Five months. Yeah. Yeah five months. So no I'm excited because like like I said, I think the more content the better. I know people want to see a lot more from us and hear a lot more from us. 00:02:05:09 - 00:02:21:22 Unknown So. So yeah. And grow the sports. They're just a national media and production company based out here in Colorado. So it's local, which we love that we love that they're known for their high level content, athlete access and building shows that actually move online. So you're going to be seeing that you're going to see a lot of collaborations with girls sports moving forward. 00:02:21:23 - 00:02:43:10 Unknown The show is going to stay the same. Show is going to stay the same, you know, but it's still going to be us talking golf and interviewing celebrities. And I think it's cool because we're still in the same studio at our HQ, and these guys brought the professionals to us and got the new camera set up, you know, all these different things to elevate it, but keep it still in our studio here at HC. 00:02:43:10 - 00:03:00:04 Unknown So that's pretty nice. Yeah, I'm really excited guys. And leave the show and go back to work. Exactly. Yeah. People forget we got the day jobs. We were still run a company pens. And I honestly forget that sometimes. Yeah that's right. Yeah. Blake's like, can you guys make it there? It's like, yeah, we'll be here, man. It's Monday at 1:00. 00:03:00:05 - 00:03:13:25 Unknown It's so true. We'll definitely be here. Well, I don't think we've had a catch up since the Masters. I think the last time we talked, just us was. Yeah. Pretty master. Yeah, it's been a minute. We've had a lot going on. Yeah. Really busy voice right now. Yeah. If you can't tell, I've had a hell of an April man. 00:03:13:25 - 00:03:29:26 Unknown I've had a hell of an April. I did Coachella for seven days because I went to four days, Coachella, three days in LA, and then back for one day when Savannah, Georgia, for three days back for one day. Went to Stagecoach for five days. Now I'm back for one day. I go to Nashville for six days. So it's been a hell of a month. 00:03:29:26 - 00:03:51:24 Unknown It's been a hell of a month, but it's just thinking about to be back, man. Yeah, it's been a lot. I mean, that's that's a lot. So when you're at Coachella, I mean, I don't really know what it's like a music festival and there's different people. I saw this, like Instagram graphic that was like Coachella lost money in his first year, you know, and the guy put all this money into it and sold his house and you know, or whatever to, to fund it. 00:03:51:24 - 00:04:06:19 Unknown But what is Coachella like? Yeah. Where is what is it? It's funny you say that because I saw that too. And I was like, you know, I've never done research on Coachella. Like, how did it start? Would it begin in 1994? The the founder of what is now Goldenvoice that runs Coachella, Stagecoach and a bunch of other events. 00:04:06:24 - 00:04:25:08 Unknown He's all over the world. He had this back then. There was no music festivals like it wasn't a thing. So he was one of the first ones to do it. And so he created this music festival and everybody thought it was going to fail. They were like, this is ridiculous. But he was like, he had the idea of instead of getting one massive headliner, you get a bunch of smaller ones where people don't come for one person, they come for the entire lineup. 00:04:25:08 - 00:04:45:19 Unknown And that's like a revolutionary thing. But the first year got his ass kicked, lost $800,000, sold, is sold his house, lost everything, sold his car, started to build it up again. And then Woodstock 99 happened and scared everybody away from music festival because I was such a shit show. That was Limp Bizkit. Yeah, Limp Bizkit and corn. And it was like crazy, you know? 00:04:45:20 - 00:05:04:22 Unknown It was like, yeah, all the crazy, like it was horrible. So brands backed away and they were like, we're not touching music vessel. So then he lost everything again. Lost his house, lost his car, lost his wife. But he didn't give up. And he stayed on it and he slowly built it. And then I think he said in like 0304 he got Rage Against the Machines as a headliner and sold like, you know, 50,000 tickets. 00:05:04:22 - 00:05:23:13 Unknown And then from there, this last weekend was the biggest two weeks. So it's over two weekends, same lineup every day for two weeks. Well, the weekends. And he made $200 million in 14 days. What is it like? My buddy goes to this thing where they camp out in a desert, Burning man. Is it like that? Like, where is Coachella? 00:05:23:13 - 00:05:50:20 Unknown Where is it at? It is a desert. It is in the desert, but it is stage. And like people are just on the lawn. They camp out there still. And what do you do? There's like what, three know. There's big stages and then a bunch of little like activations I think Coachella. So there's 200 artists. It's massive. What Coachella I want to say there's yeah there's actually I think there's now like three main stages at Coachella and like 5 or 6 small stages and then like a whole bunch of even smaller like stages that you play like activation brands and things like that. 00:05:50:20 - 00:06:09:00 Unknown And it's I will say it's turned into it's more you go for the party now. Still there are still people go for the music. Don't get me wrong. And it's one of the most beautiful, well put together, cleanest festival you'll ever be. It's never art. It is. Yes, they have art installations. It's very California, you know. Where is it? 00:06:09:02 - 00:06:27:01 Unknown So it's in desert. Yeah. So palm flying to Palm Springs, and then you drive into Indio, India. Indio. And it's just a big open field, basically open. It's an old polo club that they turn into. Where do you stay there like hotel. So that's the hardest part. That is the hardest part. So you can camp but it's obscene like we're talking just for there was. 00:06:27:02 - 00:06:44:21 Unknown I remember we were looking because this year was crazy with Bieber like ticket. We broke all the records, tickets, price, everything. He broke everything. Merch. He sold like $7 million worth of merch the Friday before his show. The first weekend. Just alone. Just insane stuff. A we were looking online because we wanted to get our own place because we were bringing the kiddo. 00:06:44:23 - 00:07:00:13 Unknown I was working so like, it's hard because I was playing. So we were looking and for a truck bed in the campground where they have like a topper, $6,000 for three nights a week. That's when they supply the truck. They supply the truck bed, but you sleep in the truck bed for $6,000 for three nights. That's how insane it is. 00:07:00:14 - 00:07:28:24 Unknown So the house and the house is now the crazy part is it's become a business. Obscene. It's become a business where I remember brands and like rich people very well off successful people will buy houses out there and completely just redo them and make them massive. We're talking resort style pools, arcades, basketball courts, all this, and they will make their mortgage the month of April because they'll do three weeks of $20,000 a night, like just boom, because, you know, 12 bedrooms kind of thing. 00:07:28:24 - 00:07:50:20 Unknown So where did you guys stay? So for Stagecoach, we stayed that money. No, no, no. But why would you spend it if you did know. Exactly. Yeah. But remember. So I played Stagecoach, I played the honky tonk, which is like the big stage at Stagecoach in 2022. And we got remember that house we stayed in? Yeah, that was this massive house, like massive house for like I posted for it. 00:07:50:20 - 00:08:05:29 Unknown All of us posted for it and I think I paid like five K and it's normally like $60,000 for the weekend and I paid like five K. Wedding venue. It's a wedding venue. It had everything a recording studio. It had basketball court, pickleball court, tennis court, Olympic sized pool. It had like 12. It was insane. It was just insane. 00:08:05:29 - 00:08:27:05 Unknown So that is like it's one of those festivals where like, it is like when I was walking out on Sunday, I was walking out because we brought my kiddo and it's literally your FYP page, like it's just all celebrities. And I was going out through like the artists VIP area, just all celebrities, all the Instagram models you see on your FYP, all the fucking streamers. 00:08:27:06 - 00:08:45:21 Unknown You know, there's massive streamers right now, like speed, all those guys, neon, they're all walking by. It's a wild thing, man. And you see Ashton Kutcher, you'd be standing next Ashton Kutcher are those guys. Are they getting free like tickets just because they want to be there? It's it's not only from the festival that because that's three. Yeah yeah brands. 00:08:45:21 - 00:08:59:25 Unknown So I went I actually went to church with Stagecoach. So they gave me a bunch of artist passes. But usually it's brands like a brand like T-Mobile will be like, hey, we'll give you five passes you have to post for us, and they'll pay you sometimes and stuff and they'll put you up. And so it's just it's turned into a whole. 00:08:59:27 - 00:09:30:15 Unknown It's just a monster, man. It's just the most insane, exhausting, but also like, really cool, like I saw. I mean, the last couple of weeks I've seen obviously Justin Bieber, Sabrina Carpenter, hoodie and the Blowfish, Post Malone, third eye blinds. It just goes on and on. It's the most random musicians, but music and John was but it's it's incredible because I mean that was one of my favorite memories was I can't remember what year it was, but we were standing there in the VIP bar, artists backstage and Mila Kunis like fangirl too, over him and G. 00:09:30:16 - 00:09:48:18 Unknown Yeah, it was wild. And Mila Kunis is like talking to them. And I'm here having drinks and we're doing shots at the bar. It's me. Scooter Braun, Ashton Kutcher, and Matt Stafford. Yeah, yeah, we're just chopping it up for 30 minutes. Y Miller's fan girl. Yeah, yeah, it was wild. She was like, are you two? Because we weren't public yet, so we were so private. 00:09:48:19 - 00:09:59:06 Unknown And she was like, G and blade. She was like, are you two dating? And we were like, yeah. She's like, am I one of the first people to know this? And so is kind of we got all on film to every dog for got. It was a cool moment. We'll get you guys those photos. Yeah. Yeah, it's really cool. 00:09:59:06 - 00:10:15:12 Unknown But that's just the way it is. It's you'll you'll be in like, the artists VIP and you'll just be standing next to like, yeah, you'll be having shots with whoever. Imagine you'll just be, like, standing next to Sweeney or Kendall Jenner and. Yeah, thanks for inviting me. I remember that next year, Sidney, this year, like, who's the guy who? 00:10:15:12 - 00:10:35:04 Unknown Just one. Or he was like Frankenstein, you know? And he's part of euphoria. The tall guy that everybody fucking upset Jacob Elordi or something. Yeah. He got caught by like a fan in VIP making out with Kendall Jenner. I guess they're dating. You know what I mean? It's just it's a wild, wild experience. But if you haven't been, people get scared of it because, like, oh, it's just influencers and celebrities, like, don't get me wrong, it is. 00:10:35:06 - 00:10:52:08 Unknown But there's 250,000 tickets sold over two weekends for Coachella. 15% of that is influencers. So it's really an incredible festival. If you ever get a chance, there's a reason people go back, like there were people who were talking to have been like 15, 16 years. And it goes, it's not just like 7 to 10, is it like all day? 00:10:52:11 - 00:11:14:24 Unknown It's Torcello. Very much so. Yeah. Coachella. Ope door was at three, closes around 2 a.m. maybe. But then during the day the brands do like we went to Revolve Fest and you have huge, massive musicians playing, you know what I mean? You go to all these activities. Marvel have bigger artists better than Stagecoach. I was saying up to the point where, like, I kind of just want to go for the parties because they, they have a hell of a lineup, you know what I mean? 00:11:14:24 - 00:11:33:22 Unknown So it's just a beast, man. It's a lot. And you get 20,000 steps in a day. It's just it's crazy. But I always like, regret it. But then, you know, I finished and I'm like, I can't wait for next year. So how long is your set? Each day I play, so I play 19 for somebody or you just it's just you and just dancing and you're doing the shit in front of all this. 00:11:33:23 - 00:11:46:10 Unknown Yeah. I play in, like, this enclosed tent, which is. And I'm air conditioned, which is, there's not many air conditioned. So it's a pretty popular tent. And yeah, I play for 90 minutes. There's like, you know, they have like a lineup play for 90 minutes in this like little enclosed tent. And it's super fun, man. It's a vibe. 00:11:46:10 - 00:11:59:21 Unknown And it's it's like it'll get packed because like Sabrina Carpenter let out and it'll be packed in their shoulder to shoulder, like sold out. And then, you know, all of a sudden the strokes are starting on the next stage and then kind of empty in the next week. So it's a revolving door. But it's fun. It's a really fun spot. 00:11:59:22 - 00:12:16:04 Unknown They're really there for the AC not you. Yeah. No AC in the fucking misery. Yeah. It's so hot out there. Yeah I don't know if it was Coachella or Stagecoach, but Jake Worthington, who was on our pod, was singing with Post Malone. He they called it. Yeah. Last night he called him up and I was like, I literally turned. 00:12:16:05 - 00:12:30:24 Unknown I was like, he's been on my part. He was on a podcast. Yeah, I saw that clip today and I was like, what the hell? Yeah, he pulled up. He's like blowing up. Well, post is such a post. Loves post is such a historian of music. Honestly, like he he might be the most versatile artist of all time. 00:12:30:27 - 00:12:43:23 Unknown Like he could do everything he was. His set last night was really good to, which is insane to think I was just there. I was up till 2 a.m. and you were at when Jake Weddington was there? Yeah, I was, did you see him or say hi to him or anything? No. So I didn't know I didn't. Okay. 00:12:43:25 - 00:12:59:14 Unknown Because he was he was like back backstage okay. Yeah. But what I was gonna say. Yeah. So I posted, you know, obviously he's got this whole thing where he's like gone country now and he's like kind of rebranded. But he played a bunch of his old stuff, which was dope. He did a ton of covers, but he played White Iverson Celebration. 00:12:59:15 - 00:13:22:13 Unknown Yes. What ever since. Circles not celebration. Congratulations. Yeah, he played all those, but it had a country spin to it. But it reminded me of Old Post. And he's such a performer, man. He's such. Yeah. He's good. Incredible. So he was probably my second favorite. Bieber was the best of all three weekends. We were talking about that with thought because everyone was like complaining about the YouTube. 00:13:22:13 - 00:13:36:22 Unknown But then the it's the copyright of music because he sold his whole he sold his whole library, play anything live. Well, he could, but he would have to pay. Yeah, he'd have to pay royalties. So what did he do? So he used YouTube. That's why he used it. And how were how was that amazing. If he's just he was watching my YouTube video, so. 00:13:36:23 - 00:13:52:06 Unknown Okay. So I liked it because he was he was discovered on YouTube. So it was like a very full circle moment for him. He was showing the old YouTube videos that he got discovered on and was singing over top of his old baby voice, kid voice, so he was singing on top of it. To me, it was just very artistic, the way he like, did everything. 00:13:52:07 - 00:14:08:08 Unknown It was like, this is my new self, this is who I am now. Swag the new album. But he was still paying respect and like, you know, to who he was and who he became and how he became famous. And I thought it was like very therapeutic. I'm not the biggest Bieber in the world or believer or whatever they call him. 00:14:08:08 - 00:14:24:14 Unknown But like, even I walked away with that and I was like, so yeah, but I walked away with that and I was like, Holy shit. Like, I got goosebumps. I was like, this kid has been through. So, you know, we don't know. Yeah. But like, he's been through a lot. We know, you know what I mean. But and like we know. 00:14:24:17 - 00:14:41:03 Unknown So it's like it was like he was literally up there like healing. It was cool I enjoyed it. But I get why. Because Sabrina Carpenter's stage was like, well it's like sexual Sabrina. Super sexual. Well, yeah. But it wasn't even that. Like, I went to Lady Gaga last year and it was the most insane stage setup I've ever seen. 00:14:41:09 - 00:14:55:27 Unknown And then Bieber walks out there. It's just him, a fog machine and a laptop, and he crushes it, you know what I mean? So I think a lot of people, that's cool, probably a lot of people. So for a show like that where it's like someone huge, how many people are in the crowd for his stage? I've never so Bieber they oversold. 00:14:55:27 - 00:15:15:15 Unknown I've never seen artists was packed, VIP was packed, gay was I've never seen so many people for Bieber for a that's my fifth Coachella. I've never seen it. So they oversold like like dangerous. Oh no no no. Because I I'll show you some say close to over 100 probably. Maybe more 200. Yeah. Maybe for flat right. Elevated like. 00:15:15:19 - 00:15:32:26 Unknown Yeah. If you're if you're back there you're not seeing shit. Yeah. But they do a really good job of like putting another screen with speakers and another screen. It's crazy like like sounds like I get it, I get it. So you'll have the stage and then probably like 200, 300 yards out for the second half they put up big screens so those people can see the stage. 00:15:32:27 - 00:15:53:00 Unknown And this is going to sound douchey. But like I would never go if I didn't have the artist. Oh God bro I'm never I'm already in like the camp. I don't do many concerts, but the last couple last year Eric took us to Jason Aldean, were backstage. We meet Brittany, you get spoiled, and then we go to Jake Worthington's top at Red rocks. 00:15:53:00 - 00:16:08:23 Unknown We're on stage. We're in his fitting room. I'm like, look at those peasants out there. There. And I'm not, you know, I'm like, yeah, it spoils it for you. Yeah it does. It does for sure. Especially at festivals. It's just festivals are so brutal. But but yeah, that's what I've been up to. In April. So it's been a lot. 00:16:08:24 - 00:16:25:29 Unknown But so do you like baby baby baby pre nut drop or after. It's nuts dropped pre pre baby I like I like the OG the song. 00I like the ogg do the OG. And I was so worried that he wasn't going to play his old stuff. And then he played it all, which was so cool. It was, it was incredible. 00:16:25:29 - 00:16:40:22 Unknown And then I think there's word on the street that he's going to be first, he's going to do a world tour, and then there's word on the street that he's going to do the Super Bowl halftime show, really the world tour. So if he does world tour, he'll actually perform. But the label, the company who owns all the songs would get half. 00:16:40:23 - 00:16:54:09 Unknown And then he they pay him. So it's like, hey, you can sing our songs now, it's his. But then they'd pay him a fee. There would have to be some kind of mutual agreement. Yeah, I don't know what that contract looked like when he sold it. How much he sell it for? Hundred million. Because it's like when Taylor. 00:16:54:11 - 00:17:12:14 Unknown I mean, scooter has all the Taylor's music, so. Yeah. And she, like, recorded everything. Yeah. To big fuck you screwed. Up. I saw scooter fucking making out with Sydney Sweeney. This. Where was TMZ? Oh, no. They've been together for a while. Oh, I thought that. Yeah, that for a while. We could have clipped that here. I was like, man. 00:17:12:18 - 00:17:29:21 Unknown But yeah. So we went to. We went to Sydney soon. He's like little pop up. She had a siren pop up for her lingerie and they did a really good job. It was all karaoke. So she was in there seeing karaoke with fans. I saw her with Riley Green. She did with Riley Green. She did it with Who's the other podcast or the hilarious podcast or like a comedian, the biggest. 00:17:29:21 - 00:17:50:20 Unknown I can't think of the black guy. No goofy comedian. White hair has like a long good thing. Anyway, he was did the honky tonk with Caleb driving crazy. Anyway, he was in there singing with her and it was fun. It was. It was just a fun. What's his name? The guy in tires. 000, no, I love this is awesome. 00:17:50:25 - 00:18:13:02 Unknown I think it sounds like a busy couple weeks, but yeah, it's been it's been a lot. It's been a lot of us have day jobs. Yeah. Well, now for the boring stories. Yeah. Master's party. That was the best party. It was good. I would say that. I didn't know how serious people took golden tea. Oh, my God. Like, I knew people played and like, you know, had fun at the bars. 00:18:13:02 - 00:18:27:19 Unknown But it was like the Wednesday before I made a rule sheet and I just put it in ChatGPT. I was like, just make like a basic rules for golden tea. Print it out. Cool. I had like 25 people come up to me like, what about this? What about this? What if I tie? Can I log in? Can I change my ball? 00:18:27:20 - 00:18:44:25 Unknown Can I use my clubs? And I'm like, you can log in, you could bring your own. Yeah. Like you could log into your character using your email. And then they have all their clubs or custom balls. They have handicaps. And that's how I was like, no, no, we're we're just keeping it stuck. Like. And they're like, oh. 00:18:44:26 - 00:18:56:18 Unknown And I was like, I don't know. Well, one guy was flexing like he was a top 50 player in the world. Yeah, there was a lot of talk about it and it was like, come for that? Yeah. You know what I mean? I was probably the biggest draw was the golden tee. All for a free golf bag. Yeah. 00:18:56:19 - 00:19:11:13 Unknown For a goal. Get it though. Let's go back. And it was like a three hour tournament. Oh my god. And like, towards the end, like, people didn't really care like or at least I didn't. And there was like a table there and people were like asking people to move, get out the way because they would step back like five feet. 00:19:11:14 - 00:19:28:24 Unknown Yeah. And then like walk into it and then I'm like, this is great. I got eliminated first round by Nick. So I bald out and you guys playing around I we didn't I got lucky like I hit a good shot and I had like an eagle putt and Eric hit in the water was like I lost. Yeah I just conceded you know people were taking it. 00:19:28:27 - 00:19:43:29 Unknown Get my sandwich now that's so funny. I mean I've seen videos obviously on social, but I didn't realize it was so like widespread I guess, like people in Denver, you know what I mean? It was crazy, like people like a lot of people showed up because they knew pins or whatever, but some people showed up just to play Golden T. 00:19:44:05 - 00:19:58:16 Unknown That was a great test with it. Yeah. Videos and pics. Yeah, it looks great. I was like, that's awesome. I would, I would always I would love to know people do that, you know like what is their handicap in real life. Like are they big golfers. Like if you look at them you're like, oh yeah, you're a golden tee golf. 00:19:58:16 - 00:20:15:24 Unknown Yeah, you're a golden key guy. Yeah. All right. Yeah. They're virtual okay. Some people were like, yeah I'm like a plus 15. Can I log into my character? I'm like, how are you a plus 15 on Golden Teeth? Yeah, on Golden Team. But yeah, they were taking it real. I think golden years now I kind of want to play like I don't think I've ever played until like that. 00:20:16:00 - 00:20:32:03 Unknown I've never played golden. It's fun for like 20 minutes. Yeah. It's fun. Yeah. But I would never play. It was like, yeah, yeah like forever. Because what were we doing? Three holes. Yeah. It's like three whole matches and one guy lost. And it was single elimination because there was like 60 people in it. So I didn't want to go for eight hours. 00:20:32:03 - 00:20:47:28 Unknown And he came up to me and he's like, is it really single elimination? And I was like, yeah, we don't have all. He's like, damn it. I was like, sorry, man. Like, it's just a Saturday. Like we're just trying to drink and have a good time. Yeah, exactly. And like, don't take it out on me. I pointed at Rory. 00:20:47:28 - 00:21:03:29 Unknown I'm like, hey, he made the rules. You can talk to that guy if you have any shit to talk, talk to him. So what did we think about the Masters? What did y'all. I know that we we we we placed some bets there. My guy made Iran. Yeah, I took Rose. Oh, you took Rose. Oh, okay. I bet on him Sunday morning. 00:21:04:00 - 00:21:24:02 Unknown Did you? But yeah, it was fine. I took we talked about it like Bryson shut the bed on that. Looking back on it now, hindsight's 2020, but I should have gone with Rory. Well, we had nothing to prove. I think next reasonably well. Well, even like we were talking, Nick on that Saturday while we're at the stones, when he was slipping and dropping. 00:21:24:02 - 00:21:41:12 Unknown And his line at the time was, what, -150? And I was like, put everything on him. Yeah. And I didn't do it, I did it, I bet him. Did you? Yeah, I bet Rory. And then. And then he dropped even further after he said that and he was like plus 150. So I put another $50 on DraftKings. He had given up, like, what, 4 or 5 strokes? 00:21:41:13 - 00:21:56:13 Unknown Like in what, the first seven holes? Yeah. Wow. Kind of fell in apart. Yeah, I guess he kind of did. Yeah, yeah. Well, that was crazy, but. Yeah. And then Fitzpatrick's brother got his card. That was. That was cool. I didn't know how that worked. I didn't know, you know, because it's a team event. It's like you get points. 00:21:56:13 - 00:22:11:11 Unknown It looks like they got some points. He doesn't get into all the majors. He gets into the PGA Championship. He still got his two year card. He gets his two year card which is cool. But like you know when Rafa won a Bermuda it was a not a main of it. You know it was like an off week event. 00:22:11:11 - 00:22:28:09 Unknown But he still got an invitation to the Masters, the players, the British, you know, all the majors pretty much. He only got into the PGA Alex. But that's still cool. I mean he just went on the DP tour a couple of weeks ago. So he's a solid player. He's really good. And yeah, now he he gets to play with his brother. 00:22:28:12 - 00:22:48:23 Unknown And Matt Fitzpatrick is playing great. Obviously won back to back weeks one of the BC last week. And you know now wins with his brother this week. So he's a really good player. He's third third in the world. So what was the format. It was the last day of all that was alternate shots, what I thought. And so they shot like 100 alternate shot, which is pretty hard to play alternate shot. 00:22:48:23 - 00:23:06:20 Unknown But then I think in four ball they shot 57, which is 1400 in best ball. That's just best ball and that's balling. That's like yeah that's that's that's balling. And then I don't know if there's a scramble I don't know if it's one day's a scramble. I don't think they play a scramble. I think it's you're playing your own ball every time. 00:23:06:20 - 00:23:26:22 Unknown I think it's maybe three rounds of four ball and then final day is alternate shot. Yeah. Well, before this started, we're also talking about the nuggets. By the time this comes out, you know, we'll kind of see what happens. But they're down what 3131 right now playing at home tonight. Elimination game. What do you think's going to happen if you had to predict. 00:23:26:23 - 00:23:49:18 Unknown Do they advance from the series yes or no. Oh I they can do it because they've won three games in a row before in the playoffs. Yes or no and yes or no EV I'm going to you got to say yes or no. I have to say yes like I want to say yes to because it's like there's no excuse not to win the series with and even Kenzo out right now. 00:23:49:19 - 00:24:05:20 Unknown Yeah. It's just our guys just have to, like, make buckets and like, play with some, like, adversity. Like, it's like they're playing like their backs aren't against the wall right now and they need to come out swinging. I think they can I'm going to say yes. I think they definitely win tonight. And then if we go I think we win a game seven. 00:24:05:20 - 00:24:22:08 Unknown So if we win tonight and we go into Minnesota and win, they should have never lost game two and three, though. That's the crazy thing. Well it's like they were up big in game two. They had a 19.1 quarter lead. Or maybe that was game three. No no it was game two. How did they lose it up. Yeah. 00:24:22:11 - 00:24:39:03 Unknown And yeah yeah. Now you're up two. You go into minutes you might lose one. But now you go. Now it's probably reversed. It's probably three one if they win game two. What do you say yes or no. I say yes, I say I think if Ant's out and de la Kenzo is that even though he's a good little role player. 00:24:39:04 - 00:24:56:24 Unknown Yeah. If those guys are out, I think, I think they get it done. But they have to come in and play with like a ten city locked in. They get a little sloppy. Yeah, they're not disciplined. They need to get some discipline and and go forward. But we'll see. And everyone said to like if they would have lost that last regular season game. 00:24:56:24 - 00:25:14:25 Unknown They get the rockets in the playoffs and the rockets are down three one to LA. And everyone's like oh Minnesota. Now they got Minnesota. They could have lost had the rockets. And everyone's like oh Minnesota's a different team. But like Minnesota is the Nuggets Achilles heel I feel like starts with the avalanche. Yeah exactly. You know it's like I would have rather had the rockets. 00:25:14:25 - 00:25:33:19 Unknown But if they can get past the Timberwolves then you know I think they they could do well. The one tough thing about that is like we're kind of dug our own grave here because now it's like we have no choice but to go seven games. So if we win in seven, San Antonio is going to be rested. There are long women and then we're going to. 00:25:33:21 - 00:25:48:18 Unknown Oh he's played last night. Oh yeah. But then it's like the turnaround from the first series to the second round is going to be a day or two on us now. It's just like we already kind of look a little like Tired and Glass and it's like so it's a good transition because number one I'd agree with that. 00:25:48:19 - 00:26:04:16 Unknown But there are pros and cons. You're saying no you don't. I think they win tonight and lose Minnesota. Yeah. If if you're not well I get like the rest thing. But sometimes it can also hurt you like you can be. You're not as fresh and maybe they can just keep that momentum going. Hey we won three in a row. 00:26:04:17 - 00:26:26:11 Unknown Now we go into San Antonio and win. Flip side talking about more Denver sports is the avalanche. I was really hoping they would lose selfishly. Game five, game four, because in game five would have been Wednesday here and I would have begged you for tickets. But now, I mean, now they're going to have 8 or 9 days. All the other series are pretty close. 00:26:26:11 - 00:26:46:08 Unknown Let's see. Like hockey I think is great where you get the Rask especially like our second round series is against Dallas or Minnesota, where that should honestly be the Western Conference finals, the NHL playoffs. Eating is ridiculous. So let those two teams beat the shit out of each other for the seven games where rest is big in hockey. 00:26:46:09 - 00:27:04:12 Unknown Yeah, you got your legs back and everything like so. I think that works in our advantage completely. I think the eyes are going to sweep their way through the Stanley Cup. I don't see anybody given this. What? It's so good. I mean, I agree it's a possibility, but hot playoff hockey is crazy though. Like anybody any I mean any given Sunday. 00:27:04:12 - 00:27:24:05 Unknown But like you can these if you get a hot goalie that's what it is. It's a hot goalie and we have the hottest one right. We do wedges on. I don't know much about hockey, but that was like do you like their hockey? Their keeper didn't lose a game keeper. So whatever. That's a good soccer term. But what's crazy is I saw that. 00:27:24:07 - 00:27:43:01 Unknown Do you goalie. He shot the free throw before the game. Oh really I think game two. Oh nice. That is the littlest dude. Yeah. He's tiny, isn't he. He is maybe like five seven. He looks five seven. Like 140 pounds. Oh wow. Where like NHL, NHL goalies now are massive. Yeah. And this guy I'm like, how did this guy just win a national title? 00:27:43:02 - 00:27:59:18 Unknown Well it's crazy I can't remember. I'll I'll butcher it for sure. Maybe we get him on the pot and ask him about it. But there was a a story of how he was like going D3 like, wasn't even good. And I guess the coach he had sent tape to do and coach was just kind of browsing and looking look back. 00:27:59:18 - 00:28:13:10 Unknown And he's like, wait, who's this guy? He already committed and they had an injury for their current goalie due. And they're like, we need to find another goalie. And they're like, oh, look at this tape from this guy. They went and watched him and they're like, hey, you can come to do. So. He goes and then he wins the starting role and he's just balling. 00:28:13:10 - 00:28:31:08 Unknown It's crazy. But the hockey guys are for the most part Avs have actually have a big team. They're pretty small but their legs are just like oh they're tree trunks. Yeah it's crazy. But yeah Wedgewood is like hot. And that's where like Patrick wa in the you know Stanley Cup. He was never a good regular season goalie ever. 00:28:31:14 - 00:28:53:00 Unknown And then when he was in the Stanley Cup when he was I mean we were kids growing up watching him. It's just like Liam wasn't born. Liam wasn't born. He was still swimming around. You know, it's it's crazy. So yeah, hopefully, hopefully the nuggets make a comeback and the Avs keep it going. Yeah keep it rolling I mean we could have two I mean we could have two parades I mean we could have two parades. 00:28:53:02 - 00:29:08:19 Unknown We're definitely going to get one here I think so too I think so too. We got I mean Denver sports right now is on fire. They're good. They're good man. The Broncos are looking good. Rockies just swept the Mets. Yeah Rockies have a young team I don't want to get too excited I got a young fun. Yeah I want to sing team. 00:29:08:20 - 00:29:24:13 Unknown I went to opening day where they were just awful. Yeah yeah yeah. It was 19 first. Yeah, yeah. It was like seven zero. Top of the first in the crowd was just dead. That's terrible. Here we go again. But no, I mean they're young. I mean, yeah, you never know what the Rockies because we could trade away all of our. 00:29:24:14 - 00:29:39:29 Unknown I don't even tell you one player on the Rock. No. Me neither. Honestly, neither. And I used to like love when it was, like, too low. And Charlie Blackmon. Helton. He's retired. Yeah. He's gone. I couldn't tell you. Can't tell you either, to be honest. But I'll start paying attention, man. If they keep doing what they're doing, man, I start paying attention. 00:29:40:02 - 00:30:00:28 Unknown You want to talk about the tournaments that we're thinking about doing? Yeah. Maybe get some customer feedback. Yeah. You know, and what we're doing. So we've got a couple things. We've got the Children's Hospital NICU event June 1st that's already sold out. That sells out in like a day. All the proceeds, 100% of all proceeds go back to Children's Hospital, which is really cool. 00:30:00:28 - 00:30:23:20 Unknown Raised over $20,000 last year from the tournament. And then so that's June 1st. That's going to be a good time. A couple different things that we've got going on. We've got our Vail Classic, which what are the dates of that? Is that July the 9th to the 12th of July. Yeah, yeah that's up. And Vail, the one concern we have and we were talking about it is the weather. 00:30:23:22 - 00:30:40:14 Unknown Like number one you get weather always every afternoon up in the mountains. But number two we're like in major drought. I was just going to say, man they're talking about like for these mountain courses that the runoff you know, they get obviously the runoff but normally they get divert it. You know it's like okay, well the water the snowmelt is all up there. 00:30:40:14 - 00:30:58:27 Unknown Even though there's not a lot of it. There's some the courses would get the water there saying like you're not touching any of that. Like, we're not going to pull any of this water. It needs to go straight down to Denver. And so you're left with like Mother Nature. And so people who come up and play and Vail, is the course going to be in good enough shape to host a tournament. 00:30:58:27 - 00:31:18:04 Unknown So we're kind of debating on do we add another tournament kind of mid-summer. And we've always had a block party, had a big party open house here at HQ. People have loved that. So curious to see like what you know, the fans say, should we open up another tournament? People asking about doing that? Yeah. I feel kind of working on this right now. 00:31:18:06 - 00:31:34:27 Unknown Yeah. I think either way you got to add like a party scramble. I just feel like those are the best. Those are fun. Where was that last year? Raccoon. Raccoon Creek. But we've changed it every year. Like two years ago, we did two men scrambles and they were more just like, come party, drink, have fun. If you want to take it serious, take it serious. 00:31:34:27 - 00:31:53:00 Unknown Last year, since there was ten grand on the line in Vegas, it was two man best ball. Just got more serious, which some people like, like you. But I feel like most of the guys in Denver and even just our people fly in for, yeah, our customers and fans, they just kind of want to come out and golf and party and have fun. 00:31:53:00 - 00:32:06:22 Unknown So I want to do a four man scramble. We talked about I love a four man scramble, but the only bad thing is the cheating. We need to bring you up out. So we should get yep for sure. And then we were like, we should just we have enough employees. We should just put an employee on every hole. 00:32:06:23 - 00:32:25:12 Unknown Yeah, or every two goals and just do the scorekeeper, especially after last year because the biggest sandbag grabber, Chase Campbell from Mile High Spirits I think one right one. And people like yelling at me for it. And I'm like, guys, I don't really know. Oh, and I love the scrambles. It's just the cheating aspect. And I love Chase. 00:32:25:14 - 00:32:42:08 Unknown Yeah, I know that's friends in the world, but I know so he's not that good. Yeah, yeah, I forgot about the drama. So I think we do need to score keep I think we need to score keep. And then we can do the party here the night before. That's always a good time. I think we got to do it that way. 00:32:42:09 - 00:32:57:11 Unknown Yeah, but we'll see. Let us know what you guys want to see. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be cool. I think we should though. And then can of rumors of another NICU. But we'll see. Yeah. We're kind of looking on that if we could raise more money for the kids and we might as well. Right? Yeah, yeah. Amen. Cause that one's on a Monday, so it's not as hard to set up. 00:32:57:11 - 00:33:15:15 Unknown And. Yeah, that one's a little more serious, especially if that's close to your heart. Yeah. What's what you're involved in 100%. Yeah. And it's always good to give back to the kids. So, Yeah, there's some good. Curious to see what everybody says is like, should we do another tournament? If we do, what should the format be? What should we do here? 00:33:15:21 - 00:33:29:05 Unknown Before we wrap it up, you should talk about grass league. Oh, because I was trying to talk about it last week. Do you know anything about this? The Blake Pride doesn't even know. And I was kind of butchering it. I've learned more in the last week, but we had one of our guys go playing it last week. And there's actually some silver lining. 00:33:29:05 - 00:33:46:26 Unknown Good news about missing that. So grass League is like this par three event at grass clippings rolling hills in Arizona. And it's just like under the lights. And it's a par three. It's kind of like a mini league. And there's a bunch of different team owners. I don't want to compare it to live, but it's like, you know, you got the Minnesota muskies. 00:33:46:27 - 00:34:08:26 Unknown You know what a good owns a team golfer going comparable to it's probably ice cubes. Three and three. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. It's kind of like that. And so there was a qualifier and there's like a hundred teams, two men scramble on a par three. The top 22 or 23 teams of the hundred teams go into the draft. 00:34:09:03 - 00:34:25:22 Unknown And you got to shoot like six this. This year it was 600. So you got to just shoot 600 and a par three course, two man scramble for 18 for 18 holes. And Zachary and our other buddy went down there and they played in it and they shot 300, which is crazy. I'm not even going to get into it of like how awful that is. 00:34:25:24 - 00:34:48:10 Unknown Liam and I could have shot 660 and he was not happy. Six so they go down there, but you shoot and then from there, if you're a top 23 teams, you would get drafted onto the other teams that are already existing and you'd get to play in the grass leagues and there's like real money, 1500, 150,000 $950,000 first prize, like the process for first for first. 00:34:48:11 - 00:35:08:21 Unknown Now there's there's an interesting thing. There's caveat because the guy read all this, if you were to own the team, the owner gets the 150 grand. Oh, and then he pays his players and he has to pay him up to 12%, no less than 12%. So he ain't living that up a month. So 15 grand. Yes. Per per whatever. 00:35:08:21 - 00:35:22:26 Unknown If you're a pro, I don't know the exact logistics on it, but it's good marketing and branding. Next year, I want to go down with you. I think we could shoot six. That's good content. Why doesn't pass by a team? Well, how does that how much like a franchise? Oh, okay. I was like, it must be pretty hard to buy. 00:35:23:01 - 00:35:46:13 Unknown It's a lot of money. I don't know how to get some. Probably. And but. So Ben the other guy played the played was the key. He was talking to Grassley's about it. They want you to have access to a par three course in your state. So if we were going to do Colorado, you got to have access to a par three course to potentially expand and have events held at your par three course, which might be tough to get. 00:35:46:14 - 00:36:09:10 Unknown I'm sure we could find a par three course in Colorado. There's several of them hole or nine, because I can only it was nine because I can only think of like three. Par three is like not would. It's not many. I think that's it. I can think of well Harvard guilt and so like silverleaf has a par three course on like like so does Cherry Hills or Bear Creek has three course you know and but could they be a part of it. 00:36:09:12 - 00:36:31:26 Unknown But the good news is, is the PGA tour bans you from playing on any PGA tour related event if you're in the grass leagues. Really? Yes. So if Sakai would have made it. Oh, boom. Done with Korn Ferry, done with PGA tour. It's kind of like what happened with Wesley Brian and not getting led into the PGA tour event because he did some YouTube with the live got guys, you know in the live. 00:36:31:27 - 00:36:49:23 Unknown So it's a lifetime ban I don't know if it's lifetime. It's just you can't do it while you're on the grass leagues. So I'm like well what about Wyndham. Like he's he's the team owner. Cold knows he doesn't play on the PGA tour anymore. A lot of these guys don't slow. That being said is the key. Has a few Mondays and a few things we want to do with the corn fairy this year. 00:36:49:23 - 00:37:10:12 Unknown He went have been able to do it if he got in. So kind of a silver lining of him. Not should I not do the grass because you're not. Want to give up my corn? Yeah. You're very good. No more Mondays for you. Yeah. So that's qualifying. Yeah. That's that's tough. It's a tough scene. But yeah. So if you make the team whatever you get drafted onto a team, you're in the league. 00:37:10:14 - 00:37:28:26 Unknown So there's like a Minnesota team or whatever whatever. So how would that you would travel around and play. It's like a full time thing. Yeah. Yeah yeah I think it's just at right now I think it's just in Arizona they do it a couple times a year maybe. I think they're trying to expand it or like, hey, every month, you know, you go some different state that has access to the part three. 00:37:29:00 - 00:37:46:05 Unknown And then I take it the team owner with like pay travel and that's that's where the sponsorship comes up. Wow. Yeah. So when you get drafted to a team, are you on that team or do they redraft every event? I think on the season you're on that team. You're on that team. At the end of the season, the owners have to like get rid of team people. 00:37:46:07 - 00:38:03:02 Unknown People like drop out, you know, of like, okay, I'm not doing this next year. Whatever you probably got to pay to, to get down there to where people probably just. Yeah. But like I think Johnny Manziel played in it. Right? He beats the guy's ass. He beats a guy who you came in as part of something. Yeah. They didn't make it, but they I don't know who beat him was. 00:38:03:03 - 00:38:21:13 Unknown That's so disappointing. I know it was so funny because all of us here, like, we felt bad. I mean, you know, golf, it's like you just maybe didn't make a putt. You said it was windy. Whatever the case was, the guy walks back in Friday morning. Nick's like, well, that was fucking pathetic. First thing he says, everyone else is like, oh, sorry you didn't go. 00:38:21:14 - 00:38:42:27 Unknown Well, that was fucking pathetic. The guys like, yeah, it wasn't my best. And he's like, no, seriously, you suck. I'm like, nice man. So no mercy water. So you brought up Wesley Brian? He just started kind of his own thing too, didn't he? Yeah. On that. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but yeah, something like that with like, greater influencer type thing. 00:38:42:27 - 00:39:08:18 Unknown And he's gonna have millions really think that that's going to take over this influencer crater. It'll be interesting to see what happens with the industry and with the with the sport, because it's going to start getting to the point where the persons are like kind of similar to the PGA. Like I genuinely because some of these brands, man who aren't allowed on the PGA for whatever reason, are going to start throwing money at these invitational internet invitationals, and it's going to be really it's going to not as much as live, I don't think, or anything, but like it'll be interesting to see. 00:39:08:19 - 00:39:29:15 Unknown You might not competition these creators with like an AP Automator or like Netjets sponsorships, but you're going to be seeing them pushing Colgate or not NASCAR, you know what I mean? My back like and it's also and I wanted to ask you guys opinion on this because it's getting to it reminds me a lot of like when in the NBA it's really only NBA. 00:39:29:15 - 00:39:41:29 Unknown But when players will like sit out, you know what I mean. They're not hurt. They just want to rest. We're starting to see that in the I mean I shouldn't say starting, but it's getting more popular to see PGA like Rory. You know he's like I'm only going to play the what I want to play, you know, why wouldn't you? 00:39:41:29 - 00:39:57:00 Unknown So it'll be interesting to see if that starts to like the fans. Like well you know what? Fine. But I get to watch Bob does sports and all these guys so I can see every day. And they're not going to sit out. They know, you know, that's a hell of an opportunity. And it'll be interesting to see if the fans are like, do you think it's bad for the sport for people like Rory to sit out there? 00:39:57:03 - 00:40:16:11 Unknown Because Rory's also to piggyback off that, because we're always such a traditionalist. So like, how is that going to affect both worlds? Like, and you're well, remember when Rory won the Masters last year? He missed the he already missed a signature, which was the century at Kapalua before the Masters in January. He's like, I don't want to go out to Y and do that. 00:40:16:11 - 00:40:34:15 Unknown So PGA tour players are required to play in all of the signature events. If you're exempt to them, like Rory, the top players, because they want the top players in the top events with the biggest sponsors that like Rory's going to be here, right? Obviously it's a draw. So Rory missed the century, which was a signature event. You're allowed to miss one okay. 00:40:34:16 - 00:40:51:12 Unknown After he won the Masters, then he's like, I'm not playing RBC. And that was two. So they find him. I think it was 15% or 20% of his Pip, which ended up being $3 million. Yeah, that's a lot because he got second in the Pip. Tiger always wins and he's you know so he got it was like five 3 million. 00:40:51:12 - 00:41:09:07 Unknown So they're trying to prevent people from bailing. But if you're a Rory it's like okay take some of my Pip. I've got hundreds of millions. I'm going to play in my event. And I don't think it's a problem except for Rory. It's a bad look, but I don't think it's a big deal that he's doing that. So. But I mean, yeah, they want to get people to play him. 00:41:09:07 - 00:41:26:10 Unknown The thing with the creator network that they're building out in these tournaments is I hope it's inclusive. I think people are starting to get frustrated with like, it's the same guys. It's these creators. The creators are bugging me, which I liked about grass leagues. It's like you could be any Joe Schmo. And if you're if you got game, you can come play. 00:41:26:13 - 00:41:43:18 Unknown So I'm hoping this creators it's not just Barstool 2.0 and it's just you got to be not just good good in basketball. They should have like, hey, here's a qualifying event. And you could be, you know Liam, you could be whoever. It's like, you know. Or does DB like you have no falling but you're good. You can get in. 00:41:43:19 - 00:41:59:13 Unknown I think they were talking about doing that of having like an open to get in and get some really good players because otherwise it's just great trails. You know there's YouTube golfers that are really, really good and they're going to win. The rest of them are like, yeah, they're fun to watch, but they're not good. Yeah that's good. 00:41:59:14 - 00:42:16:29 Unknown Like, you know, they get a good following or whatever. Yeah, they have a good following but they're not good. That's a good point you know. So it'd be interesting to see I like the idea maybe of like blending the two together, like having, you know, let's say like a four people, you know, team, four people on team or scramble two are influencers or whatever you want to call it. 00:42:16:29 - 00:42:35:21 Unknown And then you have people who have been drafted or whatever, like jokes that'd be fun, that are good. Something like that. Yeah. That made the cut or yeah, I agree, that'd be fun. Yeah, I agree. It'll be interesting because it is cool to see, like when Bob does sports through their Joe versus schmo and Riggs does his hater things like it's cool to see the normal guy, like, go on camera and like how he handles that. 00:42:35:22 - 00:42:51:27 Unknown But like, you know, you can watch the Barstool guys play against each other all day. It's like, fuck me. It's the same thing all the time. But it's cool to see, like if the ZB would have qualified if he's playing against Grant Horvat, you know what happens. So we'll see. I think you would wipe the floor with Grant Horvath. 00:42:51:29 - 00:43:10:27 Unknown I would love to see that match, honestly. So yeah, it would be clip that. Yeah. With that. Yeah. Cool. Anything else we got coming up? We want to chat about any new drops coming out. Yeah. There's well maybe to talk about. We do have a summer drop coming. We got two new bag colorways dropping. Is this podcast come on me out? 00:43:11:03 - 00:43:33:00 Unknown Yeah. Bags will be dropped. Bags will be dropped. Crispy. That glacier, the glacier blue, which is super nice. And then I don't even. It's in the bottom right. That bottom right at an electric car not electric. It's crazy. It's the craziest color bag you've ever seen. It's like phosphorescent. Yeah, like bright construction. It's a very. Yeah, but it's more of like a it's just hard to explain. 00:43:33:00 - 00:43:52:23 Unknown It's like super, super bright really excited about that. So we've got those bags launching and now we're kind of like into summer. It's weird. It's cold this week and you know the next like next week a little bit. And then it starts to get a little nicer. So coming into summer golf looking forward to it. I mean we've been in summer golf though, so we could take a couple a couple of weeks. 00:43:52:24 - 00:44:08:26 Unknown Yeah, the rain will be good. Yeah. We need the rain Colorado needs it bad, bad, bad. Are you playing in the memory? Guess. Friday? Yeah. Are you. Who are you playing at? The dew thing. Oh that's right, that's right. You're at the weather. I play with Matt Meyer every year. It's a one day member. Guessed that 36 of them. 00:44:08:28 - 00:44:30:06 Unknown Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah. What's his handicap? 36. Yeah. You shouldn't be able to play an event. How is that fair? He's getting two pops. Yeah, well, it's 80%. He makes a point, makes three pars. You know that's three eagles. It's 80%. His first putt is his t shirt. Yeah, literally. You've seen his swing I might need to grow the swing out. 00:44:30:09 - 00:44:49:12 Unknown It's crazy. It is crazy. But craziest thing you've ever seen. But we'll see how that goes. Yeah. Kind of kicking it off. So cool. Sounds good. Yeah, yeah, I guess tonight and abs next series, but cool. Thanks for tuning in, guys, and let us know. Like I said at the beginning of the pod, we we want to know more of what you want to hear more of what you want to see. 00:44:49:15 - 00:44:57:16 Unknown And like I said, we're excited for guerrilla sports and what's to come. A lot more of closed course coming your way. Be sure to comment, like and subscribe and we'll see you next week. See you guys.  

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Learn more about NetSuite Planning and Budgeting: https://tinyurl.com/ra6wa79k   In this episode of the NetSuite Podcast, cohost Megan O'Brien sits down with Jonny Holmes, director of finance at Bomb Party, a direct-to-consumer jewelry company that offers surprise jewelry reveals through live online parties. Megan and Jonny start by discussing Bomb Party, its growth and how Jonny ended up the company [1:43]. They then cover the impact of tariffs on Bomb Party and how the company is using NetSuite Planning and Budgeting to help navigate them [4:08]. Jonny concludes the podcast episode by giving some advice to business leaders trying to navigate global trade variability [17:29].   Follow Us Here: Bomb Party: https://www.bombparty.com/   Contact NetSuite Sales - https://social.ora.cl/6009wKalv Learn More about NetSuite ERP - https://social.ora.cl/6003wKaxv Learn More about NetSuite HCM - https://social.ora.cl/6007c4Kih Learn More about NetSuite Analytics & Reporting - https://social.ora.cl/6007c4znL NetSuite Customer Success Stories - https://social.ora.cl/6005c4zt9   Follow us here: LinkedIn: https://social.ora.cl/6000wKFhC X (Twitter): https://social.ora.cl/6007wK2zD Instagram: https://social.ora.cl/6003wK2Hv Facebook: https://social.ora.cl/6005wK2Dv --------------------------------------------------------------- Episode Transcript: How Social Selling Company Bomb Party Uses NetSuite to Navigate Tariffs    00:00:00:00 - 00:00:36:20  Unknown  Hello, NetSuite listeners. Thank you so much for tuning in to the NetSuite Podcast. I'm Megan O'Brien, co-host of the podcast. We have an extra special episode in store for you all today. We know tariffs are top of mind for many businesses right now, and companies are figuring out the best way to handle them. So we invited Jonny Holmes, director of finance at Bomb Party, which is a direct-to-consumer jewelry company that offers surprise jewelry reveals through live online parties.    00:00:36:22 - 00:01:10:04  Unknown  If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend checking them out. Customers purchase mystery items such as rings, necklaces or earrings, which are unveiled during these events, adding an element of excitement to the shopping experience. We discuss how Bomb Party has been using that sweet specifically, and that's what planning and budgeting and that sweet analytics warehouse to address tariffs, plan for addressing possible future trade policy changes, and the advice he has for business leaders trying to navigate global trade variability.    00:01:10:05 - 00:01:43:12  Unknown  So stay tuned. You're not going to want to miss this episode. You're listening to the NetSuite Podcast where we discuss what's happening within NetSuite, why we're doing it, and where we're heading in the future. We'lldive into the details about the software and the people at NetSuite who are behind all the moving parts. We'llalso feature customer growth stories discussing the ups and downs of running a company, and how one integrated system can help your business continue to scale.    00:01:43:14 - 00:02:09:19  Unknown  Let's just jump right in. So to kick us off, could you tell our audience a bit about Bomb Party and what you do at the company? Yeah. Bomb Party is a network marketing company. We started about eight years ago. I've been here for the last two years. So what we do is we the company, it really thrives on this surprise and delight type of marketing.    00:02:09:21 - 00:02:36:15  Unknown  And so what that means is it is kind of like, well, you're just ordering products or jewelry in our case, and you don't really know what you're getting. So it could be one of maybe 30 different rings or earrings or necklaces or something, whichever one you order. And so that is like the driving force around. Everything that we sell, and especially from our owners, is that they want to surprise and delight customers.    00:02:36:15 - 00:03:00:08  Unknown  And so everything that we sell drives that. So we sell rings, earrings, necklaces, bracelets, all sorts of things. And they all are sold in that type of thing where we sell to our wholesale reps that buy in bulk from us, and then they turn around and sell it to the end consumer. Most of it, they do it online.    00:03:00:10 - 00:03:20:14  Unknown  A lot of it's through TikTok, you know, so maybe use other social media platforms. But for the most part, they'reusing TikTok and they sell these pieces of jewelry, on what we call a party. And it's just a live party. So they get on and customers join their party on TikTok. They place an order for whatever it is and then, live on TikTok,    00:03:20:14 - 00:03:43:19  Unknown  The rep reveals what they have. And so it could be one of many different styles that we have for that collection. And then there is a chance that you could win, like a genuine diamond. So it's just it could you could get anything. And so that really is like that business model of surprise and delight has really driven the growthin my opinion.    00:03:43:20 - 00:04:14:19  Unknown  I mean, there's other factors too, but I think that that business model has really driven bond party to, to grow significantly over the past few years. I mean, we're seeing lots and lots of growth, which is awesome. And then, you know, I've been here, like I said, for two years, and I lead the finance group. So I came on to help implement NetSuite ERP, a topic that is top of mind for many of our listeners right now is tariffs as of right now.    00:04:14:19 - 00:04:38:02  Unknown  What's the impact of tariffs on Bomb Party. Oh man. It's crazy because we source literally everything we source from China. And so in the tariff world, as many of you probably know, if you don't I don't know where you hit then. But, I mean, China has been hit the hardest, and we have no idea where that's going to lead.    00:04:38:04 - 00:04:59:15  Unknown  You know, like it was a few weeks ago when they announced all the tariffs, and then they escalated. And then the next week they escalated again. And, you know, we are, we had a few, maybe panicked, leadership type meetings at our company about what to do. And can the company withstand some of this and what are all our options.    00:04:59:15 - 00:05:20:14  Unknown  And, you know, so, like, I don't think I can understand the impact of how it's going to, you know, we don't know exactly how it's going to change or impact the business. But I can't overstate how much it will be part of what we do moving forward. You know, it's something that we just didn't consider at all six months ago.    00:05:20:14 - 00:05:48:12  Unknown  And now it's something that's at the forefront of almost all of our sourcing decisions and all of that sort of thing. One thing that's really interesting that I wanted to touch on is your use of NetSuite. So how have you used NetSuite Planning and Budgeting to model the impact of tariff changes? Yeah I mean that tool honestly it'sbeen instrumental in in all of the analysis that we're doing from a from a financial perspective on tariffs.    00:05:48:13 - 00:06:17:00  Unknown  You know, it just allows you to build forecasts in a relatively short amount of time. So like if you go through and if you do all the legwork to set up your items and your systems and your sales forecasts and your everything, you know, if you put all the data in and if you go through a little bit of pain of doing the work to get the info into NSPB like it allows you to really quickly throw together a forecast.    00:06:17:00 - 00:06:40:22  Unknown  And so, you know, we really recently just finished our go live with NSPB. And so there was when the tariffs hit us, right when we were like going through our user training and that sort of thing. And so a lot of my job was I had to get the system up and going. So there was a lot of, you know, prep work and groundwork of getting all of the inputs correct.    00:06:40:22 - 00:06:59:00  Unknown  But then as soon as all those tariffs started to hit, it was so easy for us to just plug in different scenarios. You know, on the tariff side, it mostly just impacts your product costs. And so we could input all of the different product costs for each of our collections that we're planning on selling throughout the year.    00:06:59:02 - 00:07:22:10  Unknown  We can change what we think is going to happen to the demand. So the number of units that we sell, and it'sjust so high because such a high-powered system that you can plug in those numbers, refresh, and in a matter of minutes, you have, like, different versions of a forecast. You know, it's something that I think, like as a finance professional, I'm very Excel heavy a lot of times.    00:07:22:12 - 00:07:45:13  Unknown  And it's something that I could totally build in Excel, but it would have taken me so long and so many, different Excel crashes. And because it's just it's a lot of data and it's just crushing through and trying to crunch everything and Excel just can't handle it. And NSPB just takes an amazing format that you could build in Excel, and it just makes it seamless.    00:07:45:13 - 00:08:06:13  Unknown  Why it was so fast and easy honestly, like it's been it's been a game changer for me. Like if I ever go to if I were to ever go to another company to implement NetSuite, like I would probably just bring in NSPB to start. Like to me it's, it's that it's been that great for me. I mean, it's just saved me so much time in so many different areas.    00:08:06:14 - 00:08:32:10  Unknown  And not just on the forecasting side, like on the report building side. I mean, I love NetSuite. It's the best system that I've used by far. And in NSPB, you can set it up where honestly all you do is you just refresh, in your Excel smart view, and it populates all of your reports that you have that you put in whatever your, you know, like your, board decks and all that sort of thing.    00:08:32:12 - 00:08:53:12  Unknown  And it's taken my prep time for those sorts of things and just cut it in half, if not more, you know, like it's just been a huge time saver for me. And really, like I would say, even for the company, it's probably allowed us to keep running lean. I don't think we'll I think it will prevent us from having to hire more people too quickly.    00:08:53:14 - 00:09:25:04  Unknown  You know, like we have we do have a small team and we are all working hard and just having the right tools in my mind is way better than over hiring to have people just do manual processes, you know? So it's to me, it'sjust been a great investment and way cheaper than hiring more people. And it allows me as like the person who knows what's going on financially in every aspect of the business, like it just allows me to pivot really quickly and provide reporting and data that people need and want.    00:09:25:06 - 00:09:50:01  Unknown  That's a great testimonial. Well, my job is done here. It's actually, I mean, yeah, I'm not good at these kinds of things, honestly. But it was it is true. Like, I just, it's been awesome for me. So I could be, I'm definitely, an advocate, I guess you could say, of NSPB. NetSuite by Oracle.    00:09:50:01 - 00:10:16:06  Unknown  The number one cloud financial system is everything you need to grow all in one place. Financials, inventory, HR, and more. Make better decisions faster so you can do more and spend less. See how atNetSuite.com/pod. Well what are Bomb Party's plans for navigating potential future changes in trade policies? And how are you using NetSuite to prepare for those scenarios?    00:10:16:08 - 00:10:40:04  Unknown  Yeah, I mean, it's all moving. We don't know exactly. We're looking at everything that we can. And you know, our teams that are over that sort of thing. Like they're working really hard and talking with as many people as they can to try to figure out the best solution. There are a lot of options on the table, but it just depends.    00:10:40:05 - 00:11:01:22  Unknown  You know some things that are out of our control. If tariffs were to go away we would probably just keep all ofour production in China and then try to slowly diversify in case of, you know, further tariffs or anything like that. But there are things on the table like we're that we're exploring should we manufacture in the US, should we move countries in Southeast Asia?    00:11:01:22 - 00:11:24:18  Unknown  Should we or should we try to source some raw materials in the United States, ship them to China and then have them ship us the finished goods like there's, you know, there's so many options that we're trying to work through and with, with industry experts, customs industry experts, I should say that that are advising us and we're just trying to work through those things.    00:11:24:18 - 00:11:46:10  Unknown  But from a financial standpoint and putting our forecast together of how that impacts the company, impactsthem financially and like, can we handle it? Do we have enough cash? Do we can we do all of these things? I mean, NetSuite is core to that and specifically NSPB, I mean, like I said, we have there is the data.    00:11:46:12 - 00:12:16:00  Unknown  The data lives in NeSuite ERP, of course. But to do what NSPB does, it would take so much longer to do it manually like in Excel and that sort of thing. So I mean, it is definitely core to our discussions and in any sort of forecasting. Well, you kind of touched on this but have NetSuite's reporting capabilities provided insights that maybe will help influence decisions like possible supplier selection or product pricing?    00:12:16:00 - 00:12:37:11  Unknown  How are you using those reports to kind of inform that view, if you will? Yeah, I would say, I like on the supplier selection, not so much. That, you know, it's kind of specialized industry and jewelry and that sort of thing. Solike, I don't know if any reporting is ever going to tell us what supplier to use.    00:12:37:13 - 00:13:04:23  Unknown  But as far as pricing decisions and forecasting decisions, it's been great. You know, our product development people have a target margin that they've been trying to shoot for, for the entire life of the company. And they really have never had any data to back it up on if that was, if they were actually hitting that target and, you know, you just if you don't have the data, you can't see.    00:13:04:23 - 00:13:36:20  Unknown  And so when we first implemented NetSuite back at the beginning of 2024, that was one of our first initiatives,was to see if we're actually profitable and if are we hitting these target margins. And so the reporting in NetSuite that allows us to see what our margins are, both as like a product category or group, you know, we'reusing classes to categorize those or on a single item level, like we can see the margins and it's made.    00:13:36:22 - 00:14:02:11  Unknown  Just having that view has helped the company make several different decisions around pricing. Yeah. So it'sbeen I mean, I can't overstate it. It's been instrumental in all of that. What do you think is a key benefit of having a tool like NetSuite Planning and Budgeting in a rapidly changing trade landscape for people out there that might be looking for something to help them handle it?    00:14:02:13 - 00:14:33:15  Unknown  Yeah, I would say it's the speed. You know, for a finance professional most people know how to look at it, you know, but it just takes them a long time. It's hard to, to crunch data and to format it in Excel and to get it when you're dealing with large volumes of data. It's hard. And the fact that NSPB has all of that and it can calculateand it can run all of those scenarios for you, you know, you could run however many different scenarios you want and then compare them against each other.    00:14:33:15 - 00:14:54:08  Unknown  I mean, it's just it really is the speed and the reliability of it. You don't have to worry about broken Excel formulas. You don't have to worry. You know, it's all just in a platform that you can trust works, and it doesn'treally break down or stop working. And it can just crunch a massive amount of data in a short amount of time.    00:14:54:08 - 00:15:19:03  Unknown  And so that's what that would be my major selling point honestly, is that you can do it just allows you to be more nimble and quick with analyses and forecasting. Now, what about people who like working and broken down Excel, but do it now? I'm just kidding. But you're never going to get to those people. You know their stuff well.    00:15:19:05 - 00:15:44:15  Unknown  Do you anticipate? It's hard to tell right now as we have. So we talked about because things are changing. Do you anticipate future changes around Bomb Party's sourcing, manufacturing, or decisions to expand into new markets because of tariffs? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I touched on a little bit earlier, but that's exactly what our product development group is doing right now.    00:15:44:15 - 00:16:06:10  Unknown  We have a dedicated person that is working to try to find the best solution. So is it going to change for us? Yeah, it's absolutely going to change. And having the data to be able to see that is going to help drive those decisions on what we think will be best for Bomb Party and, you know, for our future success and growth and that sort of thing.    00:16:06:12 - 00:16:31:07  Unknown  But yeah, I mean, something will change. No, no question. Getting a little more granular. What data or reporting do you rely on in NetSuite to understand global trade-related costs and risks? Yeah, for us it's, you know, maybe we're taking maybe it's too simplified. But for us, at least right now, we're really just looking at the cost side.    00:16:31:09 - 00:16:51:09  Unknown  So in NetSuite ERP, like we are, we're constantly looking at COGS and the reporting that there is around that to look at margins and that sort of thing. But then, you know, we do use the landed cost function to make sure that we're actually including all of our costs. So, you know, everything is a landed loaded cost.    00:16:51:09 - 00:17:13:08  Unknown  Instead of trying to piece everything together outside the system in Excel or something like that. And so we rely really heavily on that. You know, I would also say that NSPB is probably a better place to analyze and see what those margins are. Now, I would also put a plug in for is probably a good place to see that, but that'swhere most of our analysis is coming in.    00:17:13:08 - 00:17:34:09  Unknown  And that's the data that we're looking at around tariffs is it's all right now. It's all on the COGS side. And duties of course which are the tariffs and then freight you know. So all of those landed costs were allocating or they're all considered in this. What advice would you give to other business leaders that are trying to navigate global trade variability?    00:17:34:11 - 00:17:57:14  Unknown  It's a great question. And I don't know if I have the best answer, but I would say you know like through this process and I'm not the one that's as involved in it at our company. But from what I've heard and what we'vetalked about, there are professionals out there that know this stuff, that our customs professionals that are customs law, experts.    00:17:57:16 - 00:18:36:18  Unknown  I would say that our best progress that we've made on the tariff front, outside of like, financial forecasting and that sort of thing has been when we've engaged with experts in the in the subject areas that we're looking at, you know, we engaged with a customs lawyer out in New York. I don't know his name. But I know we did, and he's been he's been great, you know, like, he's given us the best different, like, plans that we can work through and try to plan for, like, the largest list of options of things that we can consider while still being compliant with customs.    00:18:36:18 - 00:18:57:17  Unknown  And, you know, we're not looking to break any rules by any stretch, but it's like, okay, what options are out there, which then allows us to run and try to figure out what is going to work best for one party. I mean, this is their time to shine. Yeah, they've been on the sidelines for so long, they're all warmed up, ready to go now it'stime.    00:18:57:18 - 00:19:19:21  Unknown  That's right. Are there any NetSuite features or tools that Bomb Party is looking forward to implementing to enhance global trade management? You know, for global trade management, I don't know if there's any tools outside of the ones that we have already specific to like global trade and tariffs. I don't know if there's any systems that can really help us more.    00:19:19:23 - 00:19:48:01  Unknown  I would say the ones that we have are awesome, like NSPB. I mean, I've explained and given my sales pitch for it, but we also use NSAW and it's a great, powerful tool. It just gives us so many insights into what is happening in our in our business. And so my recommendation to anyone considering it would be like, as aNetSuite user of the past ten years or so, those two tools are awesome and worth it.    00:19:48:03 - 00:20:12:10  Unknown  Yeah, I love that you guys are using NetSuite Analytics Warehouse as well because, you know, I think every company, regardless of tariffs or trade policies, they're looking to get a little more data driven. And that's one of the offerings that we have to do that now. It's been it's been great. We've been really happy with both of those additions to our suite.    00:20:12:12 - 00:20:35:03  Unknown  Are there any final thoughts or takeaways to leave our listeners with? Oh man. I don't know. I would just say like my advice to listeners is engage with experts to navigate this whole thing, and data is going to be key. And if you can get the tools like for finance professionals, if you can get the tools to help you do it faster, it's worth it.    00:20:35:03 - 00:20:57:01  Unknown  I mean, I said it before, but I'll say it again like I have. Just say it's allowed me to spend far less time working things out in Excel and actually get to the meat of the conversations that we need to have as a company. And so, like, you know, I think it's something that finance people, we talk about all the time of having the right tools and the right data can help you guide your business.    00:20:57:03 - 00:21:15:02  Unknown  And, you know, and I'm guilty of it as well as we get comfortable in our in our little Excel Frankenstein Excel sheets that we all make. And it just is a time suck. And so if you can get a tool that actually you trust and you know how it works and you can use it, it's just the best.    00:21:15:04 - 00:21:46:04  Unknown  So that's that would be my final takeaway or advice to any listeners. Well I think that's a perfect note to end on. Thank you so much for joining us. This was really helpful. Thanks, Megan. Yeah, it's been great. Thanks. That brings us to the end of another great episode. Right now, there's a lot of debate on how to best proceed with global trade, so it's refreshing to hear from a company that is taking action and using NetSuite to do so, which is an extra added perk.    00:21:46:06 - 00:22:05:01  Unknown  A huge thanks to Johnny for taking time out of his busy schedule to chat with us. And as always, a big thanks to our wonderful editing team over at Oracle and to all of you for tuning in. If you want more episodes just like this one, make sure you subscribe to our channel and give us a rating and review.    00:22:05:02 - 00:22:23:13  Unknown  Until next time. You just listen to the NetSuite Podcast. Be sure to tune in every week with more NetSuite developments, stories and insights into the benefits of one integrated system to help you run your business.   

In this episode, Bill and Pete Bush take a deep dive into the various risks associated with retirement. Drawing from their ongoing studies for the RICP (Retirement Income Certified Professional) designation, they unpack key categories of risk that can derail even the most well-thought-out retirement plans. From longevity and health concerns to market volatility and public policy shifts, they emphasize the need for proactive planning, emergency buffers, and a realistic outlook. This is not about fear—it's about readiness. ⏱️ Episode Timestamps & Topics: 00:00 – Intro: Fasten Your Seatbelts The episode takes off with a familiar aviation metaphor as the Bush brothers cue up a conversation rooted in both experience and education. 00:21 – Retirement Risks Overview & RICP Insight Bill mentions their RICP studies and how this inspired today's topic. Risks discussed include longevity, inflation, and withdrawal rate risk. 01:45 – Longevity Risk & The Illusion of "My People Don't Live That Long" People often underestimate how long they'll live. Life expectancy continues to rise, and the stat of a 65-year-old couple having a 50% chance that one spouse lives to 90+ is spotlighted. 02:53 – Longevity = More Time for Inflation to Hurt Longer life means more years for inflation to compound. Staying active longer also often means higher expenses. 04:14 – Aging & Health Expense Risks Health risks include long-term care, frailty, and even financial elder abuse. Health expenses are cited as the #1 cause of bankruptcy in retirement. 05:56 – Beyond Healthcare: Adapting Your Environment From needing a stair lift to remodeling a home for accessibility, aging has unexpected costs. Elder financial abuse often comes from trusted individuals—not just scammers. 07:34 – Investment Risks & The Sequence of Return Trap Sequence of return risk is explained in depth: how bad early market years can cause a retiree to “sell more shares” to generate income. Strategies like bucket planning and income “flooring” are discussed. 09:34 – Income Layers & The 7-Layer Dip Analogy Each retiree's income is like a layered dip: Social Security, pensions, investments, etc. Building the right layers is essential for long-term sustainability. 10:50 – Work-Related Risks: Forced Retirement & Reemployment Many people plan to work longer than they actually do. COVID showed us that employer insolvency and sudden job loss can strike at any time. 11:50 – The Illusion of Control The idea that we control all outcomes is often false. Surprise is the “mother of all panic,” especially in investments. A strong buffer (emergency fund) is essential. 13:34 – Family-Related Risks: Loss of Spouse & Surprise Expenses Losing a spouse can lead to emotional devastation and a significant drop in income. Taxes change, Social Security benefits can decrease, and stress may impact health. 14:32 – The Goal is Awareness, Not Fear Planning for these risks is just like buying insurance. You hope you won't need it—but you're covered if something happens. 15:02 – Timing & Policy Risks Interest rate shifts can hurt lump sums from pensions. Laws change—like the SECURE Act—and future changes to taxes, Social Security, or Medicare could impact retirees. 17:29 – Planning for the Unknown You can't control everything, but you can create buffers. “Risk is what's left over after you think you've thought of everything.” – Morgan Housel 18:30 – Don't Worry Alone: Seek Guidance The brothers encourage listeners to reach out if they feel uncertain. Asking the right questions—and having a trusted guide—can make all the difference.

Learn more about NetSuite 2024 Release 2: https://bit.ly/3W7y8vS   Cohosts Ian McCue and Megan O'Brien delve into NetSuite 2024 Release 2, with several guests joining to cover the latest and greatest features included. To start off, Lisa Schwarz, senior director of product marketing at NetSuite, gives an overview of the second release of 2024 [1:29]. She covers some of the most exciting updates in 2024.2 and what customers can expect. Tanios Boudames, product marketing manager for NetSuite SuitePeople, joins next to give a breakdown of new capabilities in NetSuite's human resource management system [11:46]. Peter Bouyonan, an industry solution advisor at NetSuite, delves into the new supply chain and manufacturing features [24:48]. Lastly, Jessica Turnpenny, group manager of product management at NetSuite, goes over new SuiteBilling capabilities and how they will help subscription businesses [37:41].   Follow Us Here:   NetSuite 2024 Release 2 Homepage: https://www.netsuite.com/portal/products/newrelease.shtml   Oracle NetSuite LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/NetSuiteLI Facebook: http://bit.ly/NetSuiteFB Instagram: http://bit.ly/NetSuiteIG Twitter: http://bit.ly/NetSuiteTW   #NetSuite #NetSuiteERP #NetSuiteSuitePeople   --------------------------------------------------------   Episode Transcript:   00;00;00;00 - 00;00;23;08 Hey NetSuite Podcast listeners. Thanks for tuning into this episode breaking down our newest NetSuite release. I'm Ian McCue, senior content marketing manager at NetSuite and I'm joined by NetSuite's business and finance editor Megan O'Brien. The summer means it's our second product release of the year and that NetSuite 2024 Release 2 is packed with a bunch of awesome new features.   00;00;23;10 - 00;00;50;19 Absolutely. NetSuite 2024.2 brings new functionality across SuiteBilling, SCM mobile and Manufacturing mobile, and SuitePeople, as well as new suite apps to help businesses run their supply chains more efficiently. We have four different guests breaking down the latest capabilities in detail and explaining how they benefit you. And if you're looking for more, our sneak peek release blogs are now live on NetSuite.com.   00;00;50;22 - 00;01;16;19 See the links in the description of this episode to check this out. Stay tuned because we have a lot of exciting updates that you won't want to miss. You're listening to the NetSuite Podcast where we discuss what's happening within NetSuite, why we're doing it, and where we're heading in the future. We'll dive into the details about the software and the people at NetSuite who are behind all the moving parts.   00;01;16;21 - 00;01;41;22 Unknown We'll also feature customer growth stories discussing the ups and downs of running a company and how one integrated system can help your business continue to scale. Kicking us off is Lisa Schwarz, senior director of product marketing at NetSuite. Lisa will provide a quick preview of what's new in 2024 Release 2, including an updated user interface that customers can now try out for the first time.   00;01;41;25 - 00;02;13;00 She also gives a refresher on how all our customers receive the update and what they can do to prepare for it. So, Lisa, we have a few guests joining us to dive deeper into the latest functionality in NetSuite 2024 Release, 2. But could you give us a quick overview of what's new? Absolutely. So we have a slew of new supply chain and manufacturing features ranging from NetSuite WMS to some of the mobile applications, as well as some hot new suite apps related to supply chain.   00;02;13;03 - 00;02;36;11 Unknown We'll be diving into the new SuiteBilling capabilities, which is our subscription management and billing solution. And finally, you'll hear about some of the new things going on with our HR solution, SuitePeople. So what's one feature in this release that you're kind of especially excited about or maybe see as a big win for our customers? Wow. That's a tough one.   00;02;36;11 - 00;03;02;06 It's like, you know, picking your favorite child or, you know, they're all special in their very own ways. From a practical point of view, it's great to see the evolution of Bill Capture, which we continue to fine tune the ML models that help increase the accuracy for matching the invoices to your NetSuite record.   00;03;02;08 - 00;03;39;13 So that's increasing productivity for our users. There's also Ship Central, our packing and shipping solution. With this release, there's some great new functionality to automatically find the best shipping rates, which is pretty cool so that's saving users time but also money. So those are great. But I actually wanted to talk about a feature that's included in the release, but it's an early release status, so going into that a little bit.   00;03;39;15 - 00;04;05;05 What we're going to be doing with this release is to start to roll out some of the new Redwood UI elements to NetSuite. Users may have heard about this already from Oracle, which they have all their applications using this or you actually may have seen it in some of the Oracle applications that we make available to NetSuite users like Planning and Budgeting or Analytics Warehouse.   00;04;05;08 - 00;04;37;06 Those two solutions have already the Redwood UI design system applied. So what you're going to see in NetSuite are changes like fonts, icons, and colors applied to various pages. There's no functionality changes, no changes to workflows. It's strictly an aesthetic, you know, user interface change. One thing to note and to understand is that this new UI won't be turned on by default.   00;04;37;09 - 00;05;01;11 You'll need to go in and change the preference settings to do that, but your admin can usually do that. It's a great way just to start to become familiar with this. We're going to see more pages updated over the next few releases with more of the design elements applied and at some point it will become the default UI of NetSuite.   00;05;01;14 - 00;05;27;04 But it's just starting and that's what I think is really exciting. Yeah, very cool stuff. And if someone wants to learn more about Redwood UI and maybe, you know, what might be might be changing a little bit, just an appearance in NetSuite. Where could they go to learn more about that? As usual, with all the stuff in every new release we'll have details in the release notes.   00;05;27;06 - 00;06;07;16 But we're also planning to start rolling out over the next few months some added communications and tools that users can use to become familiar. So you should be seeing some blogs on this. We're actually trying to line up a speaker for the podcast at some point soon down the road. So lots more to come on this. Awesome. And I wanted to quickly touch on kind of the logistics of the NetSuite release for any new listeners, any customers who have maybe not been through this before or those that maybe just need a refresher.   00;06;07;16 - 00;06;35;18 So how does NetSuite deliver all these new features that you covered to users? Yeah, it's actually still to this day, as many times we've been doing it, it's still super cool to watch it from the other side of getting it applied. The process and everything. But to remind everybody, we do two releases a year, all of our customers, which right now we're at 38,000+ customers receive the updates.   00;06;35;21 - 00;07;13;04 Everyone is on the same release using the latest and greatest version of NetSuite. So this is our second update of the year. With the release, accounts will be updated between mid August through July. That's the span of the rolling upgrade window. Each customer is assigned a date and a time that their NetSuite account will be updated. The date and the time of your update will be published in the new release portlet on your NetSuite dashboard and your NetSuite admin will also get an email with this information.   00;07;13;07 - 00;07;48;11 If for some reason this time doesn't work for your company, you can change the date and time of the update via the CSM tool within NetSuite. Again, something pretty fast and easy that your admin can do. So on the day of the update, you do not need to install or do anything. Everything is automated. Accounts will go offline during the update time, which is scheduled for about a four-hour period, but most of the updates happen in 60 minutes or less.   00;07;48;14 - 00;08;09;02 And it sounds like there's not a whole lot for customers to do, which is obviously a good thing. But what can customers do to prepare for this update? Yeah, like I mentioned, this is all automatic, but we definitely encourage users to become familiar with what's in the release and to try it out in a release preview account.   00;08;09;04 - 00;08;43;28 So while accounts are updated automatically and all customizations that you may have done to your account come over with the update, it's great to test things out using your own data, workflows, integrations, and customizations just so there are no surprises. I know I don't like any surprises, so for those of you who are not familiar with the release preview account, this is a special test account test environment that clones your production account with the new release functionality in it. It's free.   00;08;44;05 - 00;09;12;24 Unknown You just need to have your NetSuite admin requested, but definitely encourage to, as we used to say, test drive before you go live. And other than this podcast, how else can customers learn more about 2024.2? Yeah, lots of ways to engage and learn more. So the first thing you can do is read about this sneak peek blogs.   00;09;12;28 - 00;09;37;04 You can read about the enhancements in the sneak peek blogs on NetSuite.com, as well as the release notes. The release notes go into a ton of details on each of the new features and capabilities. There's also training videos that are made available in SuiteAnswers that you can watch on selected new features and enhancements.   00;09;37;06 - 00;10;06;04 Another way, we encourage you to talk with your account manager about what's new, kind of what they're recommending you. You may want to pay a little special attention since they know your environments a little bit more. So engage in some conversations with your account manager. We've got some upcoming webinars that you could also, if you know, kind of seeing is more of your thing rather than reading.   00;10;06;07 - 00;10;37;03 So we have a new release features webinar coming up actually just a few days after this webinar—this podcast goes live so you can sign up to watch that to participate in that webinar July 24th. Or if you can't make that it's available, it will be available to watch on demand. And there's also another follow-up webinar coming up in early August about release readiness.   00;10;37;05 - 00;11;03;10 So this is a little different webinar. It's not going to go into details on the actual features, but more about giving you tips on how to get ready for the release, like using the release preview account, which I just mentioned, creating test plans. And then there's also an opportunity to learn about some of the services that we have available that you may want to look at to help with release readiness.   00;11;03;12 - 00;11;38;08 And then last but not least, you know, we've got SuiteWorld coming up. So that's happening in Las Vegas, September 9th through the 12th. We've got over 200+ sessions, seminars, hands-on learning and training that cover a lot of the new capabilities, not only from this release, 24.2, but also from the previous release, 24.1. So lots of different ways to learn about the release depending upon your, you know, how you like to learn and get up to speed on things.   00;11;38;11 - 00;12;05;13 Well, lots of cool and exciting stuff to look forward to there. So thanks for walking us through it, Lisa. Thanks again. Happy to. SuitePeople, NetSuite's human resource management solution, saw several new features in NetSuite 2024 Release 2. Joining us to discuss how these updates will help companies better manage their workforce and associated costs is Tanios Boudames.    00;12;05;13 - 00;12;33;22 Product marketing manager for NetSuite SuitePeople. For those who are not aware of NetSuite's HR solution SuitePeople, could you give them an overview? Yeah, of course. So SuitePeople is part of NetSuite's DNA, right? It works seamlessly with the rest of the platform. It's NetSuite's comprehensive human resources management system. So it's designed to streamline, automate a lot of the complexities that HR   00;12;33;23 - 00;13;20;16 Teams and processes kind of face. And it offers a robust set of tools for managing core HR business processes. That's like keeping employee records, running payroll, providing benefits, understanding performance of different teams, scheduling and optimizing workforce scheduling and planning, and really by integrating with the NetSuite ecosystem and being a part of it, you can really enable your business to better manage your workforce by having real-time insights, by having real-time analytics that drive better decision making because SuitePeople is with NetSuite on the same platform and it really allows customers to better understand how they can manage their workforce and optimize it.   00;13;20;19 - 00;13;47;24 And all of this is leveraged because again it's connected to NetSuite. So we can connect to SuiteAnalytics, SuiteProjects, into all the different products that NetAuite offers. And in terms of SuitePeople itself, diving deeper in, in terms of what the modules and products are that we sell, we have US payroll, we have HR administration, we have workforce management, then we have performance management.   00;13;47;26 - 00;14;21;06 So these are really covering the key areas that HR folks are going to be looking for in terms of providing HR functionality to their business. And this helps really provide a unified solution for finance and HR. And one solution with NetSuite. Well, why is it important to have a finance and HR system that is unified? Yeah, so there's really three areas that I always think of when it's when it's having a unified solution, especially when it comes to two really key lines of business like finance and HR.   00;14;21;09 - 00;14;43;19 The first is collaboration, right? It's being able to understand when you want to make changes to your workforce, you want to either hire people or you want to maybe readjust learning or reskill employees or understand where you need make shifts in the workforce in terms of scheduling and teams is understanding how you can collaborate as a HR person with finance or vice versa.   00;14;43;25 - 00;15;29;00 Understanding the budget, understanding the costs from the finance side, and then understanding things like the goals of performance. The really HR information location, how you can readjust workforces to be optimized to improve revenue performance of the business. The second is having actionable insights. And this kind of goes on the collaboration is not just being able to talk to each other, but also as a finance person or as a HR person being able to pull up dashboards, things like headcount analysis, things like performance across teams or across individuals or across products, being able to forecast different aspects with workforce management, being able to understand, okay, I need like three people here at this at this   00;15;29;00 - 00;15;54;22 job site for this season, right? Because it's going to be very busy. We need more staff. So being able to have those actionable insights from across the business, whether it's coming from projects or whether it's coming from the HR side as a finance person is really important. And that's what SuitePeople provides with the unification of it being together, And the last having the data integrity—data integrity and data privacy.   00;15;54;22 - 00;16;17;27 So everything is in one solution. You're not having to import data sensitive data like employee data across different solutions. It's all within NetSuite, all protected. So this helps with the privacy, the security aspect, and integrity. You're not having a duplication of data, right? There's one source of truth. You go to NetSuite, you check an employee record, you check the financials, etc. All of it is within one system.   00;16;17;27 - 00;16;49;15 So that's really the power of having a unified in those three, those three elements, really. How has the product grown to support NetSuite Financial customers over the years? Yeah, so SuitePeople really started out with payroll and HR. And we've grown and added performance management and workforce management and really grown alongside with our customers. I mean, now we process 6 billion annually in payroll transactions across thousands of employees.   00;16;49;17 - 00;17;18;23 We're really very much ramping up as we'll see in this update around workforce management and around providing a more complete HR solution for our customers with things like benefits offering and benefits solution. So, it's very much improved with financials as well and NetSuite Financials to offer deeper analytics reporting features that help understand workforce costs, productivity, products for locations.   00;17;18;23 - 00;17;47;01 Right. Being able to understand where the demand is from the business and that comes from things like compensation, planning, performance management, and understanding the whole aspect of your business. And at the same time from an employee side is we've really grown to offer employees more of the self-service capabilities. So this is allowing them to get the information that they need at the time that they need it without having to go to HR.   00;17;47;03 - 00;18;11;00 Unknown Without having to bother or really distract business folks from focusing on more impactful tasks to ask for things like a payslip or to ask for things like time off or schedule around that. Right. So workforce management allows for that. We have the self-service portals in in HR to allow you to access payroll slips, etc. Right. Let's get to the good stuff.   00;18;11;02 - 00;18;43;08 What enhancements are coming to SuitePeople in 2024 Release 2? Yeah. So for workforce management, we have two really key enhancements coming and one of those is around being able to track to multiple time fields, right? So this is going to allow businesses to understand not just by, for example, a location or a team or a product, but to be able to dive even deeper into how employees are spending their time, where are the labor costs coming from?   00;18;43;10 - 00;19;26;03 For example, you are running, let's say, a coffee shop, right? Where are your employees spending the most time? Cleaning, making the coffee, talking with customers, whatever it may be. Being able to log those times across multiple time fields now allows you to understand where maybe you need more support. For example, another is like a contracting business, right? Where you have multiple people working on building a house, people who are doing the platform, the foundation, the concrete, who are building, the paint, the electrical, all the different stuff that you have within a project, being able to map across how many hours are being spent on which item, on which project, on which task is really   00;19;26;09 - 00;19;52;18 impactful for our customers now being able to use that and to map to different fields. And the second is around really enabling compliance for our customers. So being able to ensure that employees take their full break. So this is like a early break prevention enhancement where employees now will take their full break and cannot clock back in until their break is completed.   00;19;52;18 - 00;20;24;24 And this is important for a lot of states that will penalize businesses if employees don't take their full half an hour, hour, whatever the regulation is. So this is a this is really powerful enhancements for the workforce management product we offer customers. And then from an HR administrator viewpoint, we now have a benefits partner so we now can offer customers benefits, enrollment, and brokerage services through our benefits partner, Simply Insured.   00;20;24;24 - 00;20;49;06 Unknown And all of this is within NetSuite. So it's all within the NetSuite interface. Employees don't have to go outside of NetSuite to sign up and to enroll in and benefits. And, at the backend, the payroll is deducted. So any costs that come from an employee signing up for a benefits plan, they can see that reflected automatically in their in their payroll as a deduction.   00;20;49;06 - 00;21;09;06 Unknown And then from a financial standpoint, you can see as a finance person, the GL showing the costs of how much benefits costs, how much each plan even is costing the business, and being able to optimize. Are a lot of employees using this plan? No, but it's also costing a lot. Okay. Maybe we should look at offering other plans for employees.   00;21;09;06 - 00;21;43;12 So that's the two big enhancements or three I guess two for workforce management and one for as a new partnership with benefits that we have in 24.2. How does this help businesses monitor and track rising labor costs? Because that's a that's a huge issue for our customers. Yeah. So for SuitePeople, especially with the workforce management, I'll talk on that because this is really where, as I was saying earlier, it's going to provide visibility into so many different components of the workforce—when they clock in, where they're clocking in to, where they tracking their time to.   00;21;43;12 - 00;22;06;03 So being able to understand the different components of expenses, wages, overtime, anything that they're spending extra time on. So being able to identify cost trends and being able to budget and forecast ahead. So saying, okay, these projects are taking our employees way longer. Or these tasks or this assembly line or this product is taking double the time that it should.   00;22;06;03 - 00;22;42;16 And now we're accruing overtime, let's put more employees on that or maybe let's adjust how we're moving forward as a business and a business strategy for that product or project or offerings and services. Right? So it's going to help businesses really dig down deeper into what labor costs are affecting their growth. And this can happen from so many different fields that are that are within NetSuite of time fields and being able to map to those as an employee when you clock in and being able to say what you're doing at certain hour and time is going to really help businesses monitor and track where their labor costs are.   00;22;42;18 - 00;23;04;20 Now, how do these enhancements help employees and perhaps also help businesses? Anything that you might have not have mentioned so far? Yeah, so I've talked a lot about businesses and the organizational side of it with finance and HR. For employees, there's a lot of great enhancements with this. I mean, it's going to provide a lot greater transparency and access to their HR.   00;23;04;21 - 00;23;45;09 Information. So, for benefits, for example, being able to have that that solution as a business to offer to your employees so that they can access health benefits through their employer is really empowering to them. They're going to be able to enroll and access and view different plans all within NetSuite. Right. So that's really impactful. And again, all the self-service that comes with SuitePeople, right, being able to have the self-service to understand what your pay is, understand where maybe you need to update some personal information to reflect accurately, and being able to request time off, understand your scheduling and schedule within workforce management.   00;23;45;09 - 00;24;10;02 All great, really empowering aspects and enhancements for employees. From the business standpoint, a lot of this, again is streamlining the processes across HR and finance. So what you're doing from the workforce management standpoint with the time fields is understanding, okay, people are clocking in, they're aligning their time to certain tasks and projects. From a finance standpoint, where do we want to adjust the budget?   00;24;10;02 - 00;24;35;17 Where do we want to move forward in terms of adjusting how our workforce is operating from teams to products to focus? Right. And all of this is just really helping HR become more strategic in terms of how they operate and allowing finance to get to gain greater visibility in terms of the costs and how the workforce is operating so they can better optimize budgets and really grow revenue.   00;24;35;19 - 00;25;06;20 NetSuite by Oracle, the number one cloud financial system, is everything you need to grow all in one place. Financials, inventory, HR, and more. Make better decisions faster so you can do more and spend less. See how at NetSuite.com/pod. Next, we have Peter Bouyounan, an industry solution advisor at NetSuite. Peter will walk through the biggest new supply chain and manufacturing features in NetSuite 2024.2, explaining how they can help businesses reduce costs and increase productivity.   00;25;06;22 - 00;25;32;19 So, Peter, to start, could you just share what are some of the key goals for manufacturers when it comes to production? Sure. One of the key goals in the manufacturing process is really to optimize the inventory levels. What I mean by that is to produce enough to meet your demand without having a lot of excess. So, at the end of the day, you're maximizing output with minimal waste.  00;25;32;21 - 00;26;00;29 And for a lot of manufacturers, what they're trying to do is ensure steady flow of raw material and components. You know, they're trying to streamline their process and just make sure their production time is reduced. They just need the flexibility to be able to adapt to any changes from the demand, like what their customers are demanding or even from production requirements.   00;26;01;01 - 00;26;38;24 And I know in this Release 2024.2, there's some new functionality around aligning supply and demand in NetSuite. Could you could you tell us a little bit more about what we what we've added to support that? Yeah, a couple things actually. Supply planning updates, we've done and there's three new SuiteApps to support that as well. With the supply planning, that's going to give customers the ability to increase their accuracy and control of the supply planning quantities, their minimum order quantities, and their lot sizing.   00;26;38;25 - 00;27;09;12 It's combined now to ensure proper quantities are ordered. So it's really merging the two together. So there's options there that they have at the end of the day that supports the right number of products and raw materials that are available. So that update is done to the supply planning. And then we have a few new SuiteApps that's going to support them as well.   00;27;09;14 - 00;27;47;22 There's NetSuite Supply 360. That's essentially just viewing the manufacturing component requirements when you get the work order, you get you get a visibility of the ability to review the levels of component inventory for upcoming work orders. So that's going to give you a better way to plan as well. It's, you know, Supply 360, so you're getting to see the whole 360-degree view of your manufacturing and the components that are required.   00;27;47;24 - 00;28;09;13 In addition to that, that really complements it as well, is Available to Build. So that's going to give you a view and it gives customers answers to see how many more of an assembly can be produced. It's based on the current inventory, so they're able to see that inventory and then they can see how many we produce.   00;28;09;13 - 00;28;35;00 A lot of times you see those requirements from customers as they have a work order and have certain raw material quantity and they can produce more than what's required since visually, if you can see the machinery is working right. Once you have a set up and you start working, you don't want to stop just because you supported the work order, right?   00;28;35;01 - 00;28;57;01 You have enough to do a work order, but you can go ahead and continue having available to build. You can see that perhaps you can run a little bit more and have that in stock if necessary, as opposed to just shutting down. And then now you have this raw material sitting. So that helps most customers in that regard.   00;28;57;01 - 00;29;24;27 And then very important aspect of everything is the cost, right? So we have a cost variance analysis that's going to take actual cost versus what you planned. So if you have a work order and you know what your planned cost is, now you can run a report to see what that variance and see the actual cost. And that's going to help customers identify, you know, where the actual cost landed.   00;29;25;00 - 00;29;52;20 Are they up or are they down? Great. Yeah, lots of exciting stuff there. And how can our customers access these new SuiteApps? So in general, the SuiteApps are either on the tab or, what I do typically, is search on the global bar for SuiteApps and you can see, view, browse, search for these apps and install them or they can go to SuiteApp.com in the marketplace.   00;29;52;20 - 00;30;19;03 You know, they can visit that in a lot of times if they're already, you know, NetSuite customers, those users can have access directly from the NetSuite instance. And these are at no cost to customers. Right. And are there any modules they need to have in place to access these SuiteApps? So the SuiteApps that we just discussed, those three: Supply 360, Available to Build, and the Cost Variance Analysis are actually free to download.   00;30;19;05 - 00;30;36;21 There is a prerequisite for them. It's Work Orders & Assemblies. And just keep in mind that you can you can check with your account manager and they can they'll help you navigate through it as well. So let's shift gears a little bit and talk about the production process itself and how NetSuite plays into that.   00;30;36;22 - 00;31;04;19 So NetSuite has done a lot of work to make production and warehouse processes executable directly from a mobile device. Could you tell us about new enhancements in this release when it comes to mobile functionality? Just want to go back a little bit about mobile. Mobile apps, they support multiple efforts our customers have been asking for. For one, it's paperless and it's physically flexible, hence the mobile aspect of it.   00;31;04;21 - 00;31;47;02 But you're not tied down to having a desk station for every workstation. And that's why we're putting so much effort into our mobile applications. The SCM mobile, what we've done is put printers that can be grouped into print groups that's going to allow the user to select a printer based on a print group preference so that the user will see a list of printers based on the group they selected. That's going to help them, you know, quite a bit to not be tied down to a specific printer, but then they can select which printer they want to print to.   00;31;47;04 - 00;32;18;10 Hence since it's mobile. In addition to that with the SCM Mobile, you have condition based coloring so you can color data tables and rows. That's going to give the user a quick way to distinguish rows of data. Right. So if you got order released, that may look, you know, could be in green. If the work order is in process, it could be yellow. If it's planned, it's in red.   00;32;18;17 - 00;32;47;19 Just to kind of give you a little bit of visual of what it would look like. And then the Manufacturing Mobile. So the enhancement there is that employees now can clock in and clock out with their badge. So that will provide actual machine and labor time on a specific operation on a step. And then Manufacturing Mobile as well has a GS-1 barcode.   00;32;47;21 - 00;33;19;23 So that's an enhancement to allow you to scan a lot or a serial number. And a big one that our customers have always been asking for is to have like an auto-generate lot or serial number and that's a SuiteApp and it's integrated with the Manufacturing Mobile as well. The third one I mentioned was the quality management and so the capabilities for that.   00;33;19;25 - 00;33;50;20 Unknown Inspection has been enhanced. It's going to give the user more control with like a parent transaction on inventory inspection so they can perform on-demand inspections. This includes like inventory quantities and decimals. And then that's very helpful for a lot of our customers in the food and beverage industry as well. And then there's compliance control, visibility of inspection results.   00;33;50;22 - 00;34;22;21 So that's all going to be it's more of visual information on hand. And then lastly with that is the ability to navigate between inventory transaction and inspection queues. So you're you have now both as well. Great. And could you remind everyone where they can where they can access these mobile apps and if they if they cost anything and what NetSuite modules customers may need to have to use them.   00;34;22;24 - 00;34;47;07 Yeah. So mobile apps in general are available on any iOS or Apple products or Android devices. You know, you can search for NetSuite and download the app. So it's, in general, high level to get the mobile app. But the manufacturing mobile is actually a free bundle. It does require Work Orders & Assemblies. So there is a prerequisite for that.   00;34;47;09 - 00;35;19;18 Unknown The SCM mobile, it's really is a framework which Manufacturing Mobile is built on. But to use the functionality within, you need a manufacturing module license. And then the quality management is also a licensed bundle. And that will require inventory management. So the mobile application is available through the SCM Mobile as well. And then one other area I want to touch on is Ship Central.   00;35;19;18 - 00;35;49;14 So Ship Central helps businesses fulfill orders with packing and shipping functionality. What's new with Ship Central in this release to make those packing and shipping processes even easier? Yeah. So again, I want to go back just a little bit from the last fiscal year. Ship Central in general adds real-time integration to partial shipping carriers. These features, like they give you real time rate shopping.   00;35;49;17 - 00;36;18;27 It's integrated shipping labels. You could do address validation to make sure that you were capturing the right address with, of course, the ability to void labels as well. So that was an enhancement that we've done in the past. And now what we've done, we've got usability improvements. So we added more to this functionality we had with Ship Central, and now you can automatically select the cheapest shipping method.   00;36;19;00 - 00;36;47;20 Instead of having a list and trying to figure out yourself, it will provide you that information. Print return labels. So if you have anything that came through, as we talked about just a minute ago in regards to the quality management and if you see something that needs to be returned, that can be done with the same carrier that came in, or you can choose a different carrier as well.   00;36;47;23 - 00;37;13;22 It depends on the cost factor for you. You can create, print, you can create and print hazmat labels. So those are great, especially for the United States Postal Service or DHL. You know, they have their own standards. So being able to do that, you can comply with their standards and operators can pack items by searching and grouping orders with the wave number.   00;37;13;25 - 00;37;41;01 So that makes it really convenient. Awesome. And how can our customers access Ship Central? What do they need? Or how can they take advantage of some of these new capabilities? Ship Central is great because actually if you have WMS, it would be included with it. Okay. But it's not reliant on NetSuite WMS. So it can be used with or without WMIS and it can be a standalone.   00;37;41;04 - 00;38;10;13 Well, lots of exciting stuff here, Peter, and I appreciate you walking me through it. Thanks to you. Thanks for your time. Now let's take a deeper dive into the enhancements around NetSuite SuitteBilling in 2024 Release 2. We have Jessica Turnpenny, group manager of product management at NetSuite, joining us next to cover how several new pieces of functionality and in NetSuite SuiteBilling will help ease subscription management.   00;38;10;16 - 00;38;52;18 We hear that subscription based business models are becoming increasingly popular. Many businesses benefit from the recurring revenue and increased growth and profitability. But what are some of the challenges that businesses face when they're trying to manage subscription revenue and billing models? Subscriptions have tons of advantages, but when you start having high volumes of recurring billing, it becomes unmanageable unless you're able to automate it, and especially if you have complexities around contract modifications and it becomes really hard and cumbersome for teams to manage all of those changes and make sure that it's accurate and as well.   00;38;52;18 - 00;39;23;12 Revenue recognition for subscription billing is very specific and so it can also be really hard for revenue teams to make sure that the way that they're recognizing their subscription revenue is accurate. And all of those things become more complicated with subscription billing because you're billing in a recurring way, not just a single one-off invoice. So yeah, it can be hard, especially at high volumes. For those who are new to NetSuite or could use maybe a little bit of a refresher.   00;39;23;14 - 00;40;02;16 Can you share some information about SuiteBilling? What is it and what does it do? So SuiteBilling is NetSuite's subscription billing module. And what SuiteBilling does is it really simplifies and automates the management of subscription billing for our customers. The module supports one-time, recurring, and consumption or usage based billing. So we support flat, tiered volume based pricing, you know, time based discounts, free trials, you know, all of the complex sort of ways that you can price in a subscription model.   00;40;02;16 - 00;40;27;13 And we try and simplify that for you to be able to configure it using subscription plans. You can make that really easy to get up and running in a repeatable and accurate way. We automate all of those recurring type subscription invoice bulk runs for you so that can all be automated. It doesn't have to be triggered in any way.   00;40;27;16 - 00;40;55;12 We also have a really powerful rating engine that supports the proration associated with contract modifications as it has a really deep integration into our Advanced Revenue Management module. So it also seamlessly integrates with that module and automates all of your revenue recognition for your subscriptions. So it's a really powerful subscription billing product. We hear a new feature is coming.   00;40;55;12 - 00;41;41;09 To Suite Billing in release 2024.2. What can you tell us about it? So in 2042.2, we are releasing our prepay with drawdown feature, and that feature will allow our customers to receive a pre-payment for whatever specified amount and then be able to draw down or consume that prepayment across multiple subscription lines within that subscription. So you could take a prepayment for a set amount and then as your customer consumes whatever subscription products you've sold them, as they consume those, it burns down the prepayment.   00;41;41;11 - 00;42;10;19 Now, how would customers be invoiced in cases like this? So they're invoiced for the prepayment upfront. And then subsequent invoices, they see how that prepayment is consumed or burned down, and they also see what's left of that prepayment. So that initial invoices is that upfront payment and then subsequent invoices are more communications on how that's being consumed.   00;42;10;22 - 00;42;39;02 Unknown What's exactly the added benefit of being able to record prepayment within SuiteBilling? So being able to record those prepayments allows our customers to speed up cash flow. You have an upfront prepayment and but you get the advantage of consumption billing. So traditional usage based or consumption billing is billed in arrears as it's used. And customers really love that model.   00;42;39;02 - 00;43;07;18 So you get the advantage of that consumption based model, but you reduce the risk by having the upfront cash flow. So you have that prepayment in hand and then it can be reupped or you can recharge that prepayment at any time. So it does give customers that reduced risk with the great, you know, consumption-based model. And perhaps the most important question, how soon will customers be able to use this feature?   00;43;07;20 - 00;43;35;03 It is being released in our 2024.2 NetSuite release. It's all very exciting. Plenty of new capabilities for our customers to look forward to in 2024 4.2. And the best part is they can access this new functionality and start reaping the benefits right now. For sure. I really appreciate how the new features cut across so many areas.   00;43;35;06 - 00;43;55;09 Financials and accounting, supply chain manufacturing, HR, There's something here for so many different roles across a variety of companies. And a quick reminder, if you want to dive deeper into any of the new functionalities we cover today, we have links to our release blogs in the description of this episode. Thank you so much to all our guests for joining us today.   00;43;55;11 - 00;44;16;27 Thank you to all you listeners tuning in. I want to shout out our editing team over at Oracle, who does such a great job, and we are incredibly grateful for them. Don't forget to rate for view and subscribe for more episodes just like this one.    00;44;16;27 - 00;44;30;24 Tune in for developments, stories, and insights into the benefits of one integrated system to help you run your business.

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don't have to like everyone, everyone doesn't have to like us, and it's perfectly okay.” –Unknown “You are not for everyone, and that's okay. The world is full of people who, no matter what you do, will point blank not like you. But it is also filled with people who will love you fiercely. You are not for everyone, and that's okay.

Today we conclude our discussion on women investors from AdvisorFest 2023. Symmetry's Andrea Loin, Associate Director of Marketing, leads a discussion along with financial advisors Diana Bacon, CFP®, CDFA®, MBA, and Joyce Bloomquist, CDFA® of Apella Wealth, on some of the critical factors, and life experiences, that should be incorporated into a woman's financial plan. If you have any questions or would like more information, reach out to us at https://symmetrypartners.com/contact-us/ You can also find us on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and LinkedIn. As always, we remain invested in your goals. Symmetry Partners, LLC, is an investment advisory firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm only transacts business in states where it is properly registered, excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any specific level of skill or training and does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the Commission. No one should assume that future performance of any specific investment, investment strategy, product or non-investment related content made reference to directly or indirectly in this material will be profitable. As with any investment strategy, there is the possibility of profitability as well as loss. Due to various factors, including changing market conditions and/or applicable laws, the content may not be reflective of current opinions or positions.   Please note the material is provided for educational and background use only. Moreover, you should not assume that any discussion or information contained in this material serves as the receipt of, or as a substitute for, personalized investment advice. Symmetry Partners and Apella Wealth are affiliated entities.   Transcript:   00;00;00;00 - 00;00;37;05 Unknown Hello and welcome back to Unfiltered Finance. I'm Tom Romano. Your host today, Andrea Line, assistant director of marketing, concludes our discussion on women investors with Dianna Bacon and Joyce Blomquist Financial Advisors with a paella wealth. You'll find some sage advice here for women who are working to assert their financial independence and plan for the future. Enjoy. If I'm an advisor working with several women investors, what are some tips that you could give them to starting that initial and being that that advisor? 00;00;37;05 - 00;01;00;06 Unknown You set it right there. Don't be condescending. What kind of tips would you give to an advisor working with this demographic, say, you know, joint? I mean, it's hard, right? Because you could be a male advisor trying to reach out to the women's group. Absolutely. So but you're probably less likely to join the women's community groups. That might be awkward, but definitely if you're a female advisor, get involved in the community with some of the community groups. 00;01;00;06 - 00;01;16;28 Unknown Even if you're a male advisor and you want to reach out to the women's group and help out, you know, it doesn't have to necessarily be all women's group. There's going to be women who are participating in these community groups. I say branch out in your community and see what kind of groups are related to investments, and maybe that's a good start. 00;01;16;29 - 00;01;37;16 Unknown Webinars. I mean, we have our webinar that we've been doing periodically, and I think we've gotten a really great group of people and they're not all women. We have a lot of men that join our groups too. So I think if you're you're spreading the word out there, you might be casting a wide net too to both groups, but you know, everyone's listening. 00;01;37;16 - 00;01;58;19 Unknown And so maybe it's not just a niche of just women, but they're part of that group can see that there is some understanding and they don't feel intimidated to come in and talk to you. And I think that's what's most important is that making them feel comfortable, because I know that even when I see married couples come in to our offices, you can tell right away the women's fair, the woman is very quiet. 00;01;58;20 - 00;02;17;13 Unknown Maybe the man's taking over the whole meeting. You can tell immediately really who has been doing the finances there. So really try to communicate with that spouse in that meeting and say, hey, you're part of this. What do you have? What's your input on this? But and then, you know, sometimes they're surprised and they they look at me like, oh, gosh, I really don't participate in this. 00;02;17;13 - 00;02;42;21 Unknown I'm just here to listen. But making them feel part of the conversation is so key. And pulling on one of the threads that Joyce touched on. One of the best things to do, particularly if you want to go into this, you're worried about sounding condescending because we know most advisors are men. Depending on what portion of the industry you're looking at, it's either, you know, 23% are women, 18% are women. 00;02;42;23 - 00;03;09;14 Unknown CFP, CFA. So make sure you're talking with them and not to them. Don't talk at them, pull them into the conversation. The best way to find out what their knowledge level is is to be having the conversation going through the accounts. They're going through a tax return, walking them through some of it. They might know, some of it they might not. 00;03;09;16 - 00;03;31;05 Unknown But if you're in a real true conversation, you're using your listening skills, you're keeping your mouth shut a good bit and letting them speak, that that's the first way to get into this area. I couldn't agree more. And people love stories, right? They love to know that you've been through the same things that maybe they have. It makes you real. 00;03;31;05 - 00;03;47;20 Unknown They mentioned a divorce. Hey, you know, I went through a divorce. Sorry to hear that. You did, too. Immediately they connect with you. Maybe that's a story that can relate to them. They know you've had that real life experience. And so they can really relate to that situation and and maybe open up a little bit more towards you. 00;03;47;22 - 00;04;07;11 Unknown Yeah, women are emotional. We make decisions on emotions. And I personally, when I picked my financial advisor, it was a connection I had. It wasn't, you know, they, they listened to me, Diana, They, they heard me. And I was not educated before. I didn't always work in this industry and I wasn't educated, but they didn't make me feel uneducated. 00;04;07;12 - 00;04;25;24 Unknown I don't know everything, so I don't want you to make me feel bad for not knowing everything. So when I met with a financial advisor the first time, that was exactly what it was. It was emotional connection. You know, this is somebody you're telling things you may not tell anyone else in your life. You know, monetary stuff is still taboo, you know, And I wanted a connection. 00;04;25;24 - 00;04;53;24 Unknown So you're totally right there. One of the things there's a lot of inequalities, right, that are still out there. How do you address those? There's gender specific issues, the pay gap, the career breaks, the caregiving responsibilities in that financial plan. So how do you take that? Because there was a stat that I read, it kind of made me sick to my stomach, but it was on average women experience an $80,000 lifetime pay gap when compared to men. 00;04;53;25 - 00;05;18;03 Unknown That's various factors that are, you know, controlled by controlling that. But there is a huge gap. How do you account for that in your financial plan for them? Do you account for that or do we just go by their plan and specific to them? Anyone working with women, if you're working with any marginalized group and in some areas women are marginalized, you need to address those specific issues with that group. 00;05;18;03 - 00;05;45;23 Unknown I am a strong believer that an advisor you have to not deal with gender generalities, but that client. So and I'm going to stay on that marginalize. If you are working with a woman of queer woman. Now that pay group gap has just expanded to women of color. Again, that gap has expanded less opportunities. We can we can put on our rose colored glasses and pretend like that doesn't happen, but it absolutely does. 00;05;45;23 - 00;06;10;13 Unknown And we know because we hear it from our friends, we see it with our clients, it's happening in real time. So not only do you want to look at that decreased salary, likely decrease raises, you want to adjust for that in any long term cash flow. Also increase spending. Mothers are more likely to help their adult children financially. 00;06;10;15 - 00;06;40;19 Unknown They're more likely to be burdened with. Not that it's a burden, but it is on time and resources with caring for parents, which means less time to work, less flexibility. And sometimes you cost on them, especially with the mother, because we know that aging women retire with less assets. I mean, all these statistics are so disheartening. I mean, I get to an area when you're like, I want to read anymore, I want to stick my head in the sand. 00;06;40;22 - 00;07;04;18 Unknown Yeah, you're right, Diane. At 95% of women at some point will be their families. Primary financial decision maker. We have we live longer. Our longevity is there. Many times we will outlive our husbands and be alone. These aren't just divorces. These are. This is widowhood. Later in life, many reasons why at some point in our lives we will be the primary financial decision maker. 00;07;04;20 - 00;07;26;17 Unknown These are important things to talk about. And in the long term plan, I have children health care costs that go along with having children. Your body changes and your health care costs increase. Do you do you incorporate that into the plan? Woman is going to have a family. I know it's not necessarily as big of an issue as you know before, but health care costs are going to be huge for for females. 00;07;26;18 - 00;07;52;21 Unknown Yeah, there's going to be an extra health care cost. Do you include that? Do you think of that in the plan? One thing I do in it is that a personal hard subject, but when I am working with a younger professional single woman, I ask what her fertility plans are. Oh, cause I am seeing a great deal of women. 00;07;52;21 - 00;08;26;06 Unknown Now you say I make great money. I don't. I don't need a partner. You're absolutely right. There have been single mothers since the beginning of time, and a will always happen. But that means you have to have a plan, adoption, you know, whatever they're going to do. Financial. Now you are the only caregiver for that child. So now we have more stress on life insurance. 00;08;26;09 - 00;08;59;21 Unknown You know, estate planning, guardianship. So it's not just the, you know, the increased costs. I have teenagers. Yes, I know that. Braces and broken ankles and broken wrist and yeah, all of that. So we do have those increased cost, but it's also I see more single women than men deciding on their parenthood as single people in the financial side of that is huge. 00;08;59;21 - 00;09;25;16 Unknown And that is an area where we're not only affecting the lives and providing value for that woman, but also for her future children and ensuring their security. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Any other? I appreciate you both jumping on. And couple of times we've referenced the series that Diana and Joyce are both a part of at Capella. It's the Financial Independence for Women series. 00;09;25;16 - 00;09;45;12 Unknown You can find it on our Web site at Palo Health.com if you're interested. You know, take a listen. They have some great topics on there that are not just for women, but that will definitely help drive home some some great points. So take a look and take a listen. And I do appreciate you both jumping on as we conclude. 00;09;45;12 - 00;10;08;05 Unknown We hope that you as advisors have gain valuable insights into working with women investors by recognizing their unique perspectives, addressing their specific needs, and fostering that inclusive environment that we talked about. You can create a future where women investors thrive and they contribute to the growth and stability of the global economy and hopefully shrink some of those statistics that we started out with in the beginning of this, this webinar. 00;10;08;05 - 00;10;31;10 Unknown So if you have any questions, we can take a few questions for Joyce and Diana right now. I wanted to make one quick comment. Andrea. You had said that women make decisions emotionally. That's actually not been my experience. Oh, women do cling on to their fear much more than men, so that might stop them from taking first steps. 00;10;31;17 - 00;10;57;18 Unknown But I find women to be very pragmatic. And for advisors who are going to be working with women, expect the why? Why am I doing this? Why is that? V There I find that as women become educated and on their finances, they're happy to dig in, but they want to know why and they want every pass to be explained to them so that they know they're getting value for that dollar. 00;10;57;19 - 00;11;28;06 Unknown I've always found women extremely pragmatic. Yeah, that makes sense. I'm detail oriented. I want to know the down in the weeds information. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. So yeah. So make sure make sure you're ready to answer those questions, especially the single moms. Yep. And they know how to balance time and and figure out every little loophole they can to do their time and manage it well. 00;11;28;06 - 00;11;51;11 Unknown So while I do appreciate both Diana and Joyce joining us today and look forward to working with you all more in the future, thank you very much for joining us today. If you're a financial professional and you'd like to learn more, check the link in this episode's description to view all of the presentation from Advisor Fest 2023. As always, you can listen to all of our past episodes anywhere you get your podcasts. 00;11;51;18 - 00;12;18;15 Unknown Thank you very much and we'll see you soon. Cemetery Partners LLC is an investment advisor firm registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm only transacts business in states where it is properly registered or excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Registration of an investment advisor does not imply any specific level of skill or training and does not constitute an endorsement of the firm by the Commission. 00;12;18;17 - 00;12;48;14 Unknown No one should assume that future performance of any specific investment investment strategy, product or non investment related content made reference to directly or indirectly in this material will be profitable. As with any investment strategy, there is the possibility of profitability as well as loss due to various factors, including changing market conditions and or applicable laws. The content may not be reflective of current opinions or positions. 00;12;48;16 - 00;13;10;06 Unknown Please note the material is provided for educational and background use only. Moreover, you should not assume that any discussion or information contained in this material serves as the receipt of or is a substitute for personalized investment advice. Symmetry Partners and APL Wealth are affiliated entities.  

Get your earbuds ready for an exhilarating episode of Beyond The Story as the hosts introduce the one-and-only Wayne Partello. The two discuss their mutual interest in social media, which they connected over 12 years ago at the Miami Dolphins. In this engaging episode, Wayne shares his journey from producing TV to becoming an entrepreneur. The duo also touches upon Wayne's previous experience working in professional sports, creating unforgettable experiences for fans, and eventually starting his own successful business. The discussion shifts to the importance of storytelling in marketing and how it can help businesses tell their own story in a world without gatekeepers. Be inspired as the host shares how a strategic approach to podcasting can help in reaching the right audience, giving examples of how clients leveraged podcasting for their businesses. The electrifying episode concludes with a catch-up session with a friend who launched an empire, reinforcing the importance of continual growth as an entrepreneur. Tune in and don't forget to subscribe and leave a review!Timestamps[00:00:05] Guest's Story of Skipping College for Video Production[00:03:28] From promotions to CMO: One radio host's journey[00:06:40] From Sports Executive to Entrepreneur[00:09:49] Empowering Creatives in Business[00:13:07] The Power of Storytelling in Podcasting[00:16:14] Guest's entrepreneurial success with CuentoBest Quotes[Unknown] You're all fucked if your bosses don't figure out how to adapt to the internet because it's calm it's here[00:12:23] Every business should be telling their own story. They don't realize it yet, but, you know, that became the impetus of what we wanted to create with Cuento was a world where creatives create, and we help businesses tell their story[00:13:01] Never miss an opportunity to tell your story. I love that. Never missing an opportunity to tell your story. Because listen to this right now, you're not telling your stories, your brain. You're missing out on a humongous part of the market share you could be capitalizing on because people resonate with stories[00:16:03] My life's mission is making sure that that message lands for everyone to understand the power behind all because, I mean, again, a phenomenal example We're working with teams on the team side, but we're working withAll Quotes[00:12:23] Every business should be telling their own story. They don't realize it yet, but, you know, that became the impetus of what we wanted to create with Cuento was a world where creatives create, and we help businesses Tell their story[00:01:21] Social media was sort of, like, in its early stages in the business world and, you know, especially in the sports world, like, people are still trying to figure out[00:10:29] I learned throughout the journey of becoming an executive that I had to really control my creative and allow my creatives to shine[00:07:04] I want everybody to be able to experience when I got to experience every day[00:08:24] I've always been an entrepreneur. I've always kinda done my own thing. I've always side hustled[00:08:58] I'm not as weird as I thought I was. There are other people like me that that's where that is fun and entertaining for them to do this[00:01:45] We, you know, we obviously we're following the same trends, paying attention to same, you know, sort of metrics and and and how business was it was in the infancy, but, you know, to see where it's all gone from that point to today and all the different businesses that have sprouted from it[00:05:32] For me, that was an incredible opportunity to obviously take all the skills that I had acquired[00:13:01] Never miss an opportunity to tell your story. I love that. Never missing an opportunity to tell your story. Because listen to this right now, you're not telling your stories, your brain. You're missing out on a humongous part of the market share you could be capitalizing on because people resonate with stories[Unknown] You're all fucked if your bosses don't figure out how to adapt to the internet because it's calm it's here[00:03:03] Graduating high school, I didn't wanna do this as a career. I wanted to be[00:13:56] When you remove the gatekeepers, right, everybody has the opportunity to tell their story[00:03:37] I really wanted to be on air[00:01:11] You gotta meet this guy. Men at this event. He's wild, and he speaks the same language you do[00:10:21] What was really important to me was to have a world that I could take creative people and allow them to create[00:06:17] But for my career, that wasn't the best thing for me was to sit around and wait for that to happen[00:11:56] The power of telling a story[00:14:13] If you do things with purpose and you have a strategy, and then each tactic ladders up to that strategy with purpose, What's the purpose?[00:03:10] I thought that was pretty cool[00:07:28] It also forced me to live in my career without a safety net. There was no safety net. I got 1 shotBlog PostArticle One: Wayne Partello's Journey to SuccessIn the latest episode of Beyond The Story, host Sebastian Rusk sits down with Wayne Partello to discuss how he became successful in the sports industry. Wayne's career began in high school, where he learned how to produce TV in a public access TV studio. He then went on to work for the Miami Dolphins, where he first met Sebastian.Here are three tips we can learn from Wayne's journey to success:1. Take advantage of every opportunity: Wayne took a chance on the free classes offered by the public access TV studio and ultimately discovered his passion. He then capitalized on his opportunity to work for the Miami Dolphins and eventually became the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the San Diego Padres.2. Network and make connections: Wayne met Sebastian through a mutual contact, Dave Murphy. Networking and building relationships with others can open doors that one may not have known existed.3. Keep up with trends and new technology: Wayne and Sebastian bonded over their mutual interest in social media and keeping up with current trends in business. In the fast-paced sports industry, it is crucial to stay up-to-date with the latest technological advancements.As Wayne states in the podcast, "I believe life is about timing, and opportunities arise when you're ready and when they're ready for you." Tune in to this episode to gain further insight into Wayne's inspiring journey and learn how you can apply his tips to your own path to success.Article Two: The Power of Staying ConnectedIn the latest episode of Beyond The Story, host Sebastian Rusk speaks with Wayne Partello about the importance of staying connected. Wayne and Sebastian first met through a mutual contact while Wayne was working for the Miami Dolphins. They reconnected years later and have been able to stay up-to-date with each other's lives and careers.Here are three reasons why it's important to stay connected:1. Opportunities can arise: As Wayne's career evolved from working for the Miami Dolphins to becoming the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the San Diego Padres, he was able to reconnect with Sebastian and share his journey. Staying connected can lead to future collaborations and opportunities.2. Inspiring and motivating: Hearing about the success and growth of others can be inspiring and motivating. It can push individuals to continue striving for their own goals.3. Building and maintaining relationships: At its core, staying connected is about building and maintaining relationships. As Sebastian mentions in the podcast, "building relationships is the most important thing you can do in business and in life."Tune in to this episode of Beyond The Story to hear more about the power of staying connected and how it has impacted both Wayne and Sebastian's lives and careers. As Sebastian says, "you never know where staying connected with somebody and keeping that door open might lead."Social Posta professional athlete. But I quickly realized I wasn't good enough to do that, and I kinda did. The 1st thing that was in front of me was like, all right, I'll go work at a local cable station that's right near where I grew up, and it was 4 a.m. to noon, and I was editing video highlights for ESPN, for the National Hockey League. And at that time, there was only, like, you know, there weren't intermission reports. There wasn't, um when I started, there wasn't even a highlight show. It was just, like, let's say Wayne Gretzky scored two goals, and there were highlights to each of his goals. They would come in For me on a tape, and I would have to edit out the opposing player who was, you know, who passed him the puck, who made the assist or whatever. And then, you know, maybe a graphic would pop up and, you know, Wayne Gretzky's 44th and 45th of the season or whatever. So I did that for a year, and then while I was there, the person who was the director of the Miami Heat's TV department, a man named David Priddy, um, he was leaving the Heat to go to work for the Miami Dolphins. And a friend of mine who I was working with at the time said, Hey, you should apply for that job. You're gonna have my recommendation. And I was like, all right, I'll apply for it. And, you know, just as luck would have it, I got the job. So I started in January of 99 and little did I know that that would turn into a 20, a 20-year career.
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When did you stop dreaming? Not the small dreams. Not the to-do list kind of dreams. But the no condition dreams. The childlike dreams. When did those dreams stop for you? The transition from little girl dreams to growing up is often where dreams turn into to-do lists. In this episode, Coach D encourages us that we need to go ALL-IN on dreaming little kid big dreams again. She reminds us that broken dreams can still come true. Quotes from this episode: "Find the spot where dreaming is like breathing" Coach D "Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal." Earl Nightingale "You can't do big things if you're distracted by small things" - Unknown “You never know if you can actually do something against all odds until you actually do it.” – Abby Wambach “I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.” – Simone Biles For more on She Plays follow the links below: sheplaysnow.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

Five Lessons I Wish I Would Have Listened to About Life and Business1. You don't have to have it all figured out. Life is a journey, and we're all just along for the ride. This was something that I struggled with for a long time. I felt like I needed to have everything mapped out in order to be successful. But the truth is, that life is unpredictable and ever-changing. The best we can do is enjoy the ride and roll with the punches. We tend to put a lot of pressure on ourselves to have everything "figured out" by a certain age or milestone. But the truth is, nobody has it all figured out. And that's OK! Life is a journey, and we're all just along for the ride. Take small stepsCelebrate tiny winsTake time to recharge (take a break)  2. It's not about the destination but the journey.  This ties in with the first point. So often, we get so focused on reaching the goals that we forget to enjoy the process of getting there. But if you take the time to savor the journey, you'll find that it's just as rewarding as reaching the destination. Get more out of what you are doing - What are other ways to think strategically?Being grateful in the momentJournaling what's working and not working 3. You can't please everyone, so don't even try.  In business and life, you'll always have people who disagree with you and think you're doing it wrong. And that's OK! As long as you're true to yourself and your values, that's all that matters. Trying to please everyone is a recipe for disaster. You'll only end up pleasing no one, including yourself. So instead of trying to be everything to everyone, focus on being true to yourself and those who matter most to you. Focus on the relationships that matter most. Think of who really brings value Accept that some people are your people and some aren'tSet boundaries for everyone  4. Comparison is the thief of joy. It's so easy to fall into the trap of comparing ourselves to others. But I realized that everyone is on their own journey, and comparing myself to others was only holding me back from enjoying my own life. Apply what you have learned and what you see; don't copyUse others as fuel to push furtherThere will always be a first and a last. 5. Perfectionism is dangerous.  This is something that I'm still working on, and it's definitely a work in progress. But perfectionism can be crippling, both in life and in business. It can prevent you from taking risks and trying new things out of fear of failure. And it's important to remember that failure is a part of life; it's how we learn and grow.  If I could go back in time and give myself some advice, I would tell my younger self to stop being such a perfectionist. At the time, I thought that everything had to be perfect in order to be successful. I would spend hours agonizing over small details, and as a result, I often missed deadlines. Not only was this frustrating for me, but it also made me less productive. I have since learned that it is far better to focus on the big picture and let go of the need for perfectionism. This doesn't mean that we should tolerate sloppy work. But rather that we should strive for excellence rather than perfection. By learning to let go of my perfectionism, I have been able to achieve far more in both my personal and professional life. Done is better than perfectHow can you be perfect if you don't release it to the world Strive for excellence, not perfectionI'd like to leave you with these popular quotes:"Life is a journey, not a destination." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The best way to find out what we truly need in life is by experimenting." - Steve Jobs "Don't compare your chapter one to someone else's chapter twenty." - Unknown"You can't be everything to everyone." - Oprah Winfrey"Remember: life is an adventure, not a competition." - Unknown"These are just a few things I wish I had known sooner in life. But the reality is, that we all have to go through our own journey to learn these lessons. And that's OK! Just remember to enjoy the ride, and don't take yourself too seriously. Life is supposed to be fun, after all. I'm so excited to spend these 100 episodes with you. I have grown as a person because of you, and I will be forever grateful. However, now is time for a much-needed break from podcasting so I can begin to put focus on other areas of my life and business. I can't wait to return to share all I have gained through my journey, and I can't wait to hear from you!  Please follow me on IG @totalfitbosschick if you aren't already so you can see what I will be up to.

Overcome Fear and Lean into the Unknown "You cannot have a thriving economy without a functioning consumer credit ecosystem," In this episode, we host Yvonne Johnson, MD and Co-Founder of Indicina, a fintech infrastructure start-up focused on AfricaListen in to learn how Yvonne got into the financial services industry and how she chose to address the nagging problem of huge consumer credit gaps in her ecosystem. A relatable story for anyone who has or is experiencing the urge to venture out into the unknown and take a deep dive in addressing a problem.Insightful conversation worth a listen. Enjoy!

"You've got a new story to write. And it looks nothing like the past!", Unknown "You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending", C.S. Lewis Imagine always struggling in life from childhood to adulthood! All of your life. But it doesn't have to be that way! As an infant, I was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. It is a medical condition that causes paralyzation of one side of the body. The doctors detected this diagnoses when I was just an infant. The doctor told my mom I would never be able to walk and she should get me comfortable in a wheelchair. My mom disagreed with the doctor and went on an extreme search to find a specialist that could help me. https://acalltoaction.coach/ coachpaul@acalltoaction.coach 562-743-0866 Facebook Group Rewrite Your Story https://www.facebook.com/groups/45814... Facebook A Call to Action https://www.facebook.com/A-Call-To-Ac... Tina Ginn with YOUR BACKUP PLAN puts your life in 1-place in preparation of any unpredictable circumstance while taking the painful aftermath out of any tragedy! Whether you are a senior, retired, single, or have a family you will want to get this APP for yourself to be more organized! www.yourbackupplan.ca http://l.ead.me/bbpzPy #emergencypreparedness #yourbackupplan #yourbackupplanapp #planb #motorcycleaccident #caraccident #planning #exitplan #tragedy #tragedies #disaster #disasterpreparedness

Welcome! During this Thought Under Three, I speak on consequences; and the following quotes: "There's always consequences to your actions. Before you act, make sure you're prepared for them." ― Unknown "When you make a choice you also choose the consequence." ― Unknown "You are free to make whatever choice you want, but you are not free from the consequences of the choice." ― Zig Ziglar Blessings, D.

Laura Blumenschein” How To Design Soft Robotics That Could Adapt to The Unknown?” You can listen to the full episode here: https://soundcloud.com/ieeeras-softrobotics/soft-robotics-with-laura-blumenschein

On this episode of The Alliance Activity podcast, Andy Albright shares why the dream matter to the team.  8 Things That Happen When You Finally Decide to Live Your Dreams ... You'll see "IT" everywhere Once you commit to living your dreams, the lids blinding your eyes will be lifted. A completely new world will be opened to your view. You will notice opportunities that have been in your reach all along, ones your conscious mind simply didn't pay attention to. "Selective attention" is the process of focusing on a particular object in the environment for a certain period of time. Attention is a limited resource, so selective attention allows us to tune out unimportant details and focus on what matters. You'll Have Boundless Energy, Fueled By Purpose "I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose." --Kobe Bryant After you've crossed the threshold of decision, you will find a new wellspring of energy. You'll no longer need to rely on willpower. Willpower is garbage. It is for amateurs. It's for people still conflicted about what they want to do. Once you've moved beyond WILL and onto WHY, you no longer have to coax yourself into action. The decision has been made. Rather than focusing on defense against further damage, failure or risks, you're now on the offense. You'll Stop Worrying About -- and Instead Anticipate -- the Future: "Your future is as bright as your faith." -- Thomas S. Monson Once you've made your decision to move forward, you have nothing to worry about. You are a magnet for attracting nothing buy brilliance. You're no longer chasing happiness, but rather creating happiness in others. You know success is inevitable, because you're in alignment with who you are and you like that person. You can have happiness in your life as long as you are willing to give up what you hate. People will Enter your Life to Help You: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." -- Unknown You will begin attracting the right people in your life when you start doing the work. Also, when you are on a dedicated mission, people will come to your aid to help you make it real. It begins with initiative and openness. Initiative requires you to be bold and openness requires you to remain humble. You will become a beacon of light for others when they witness the boldness in your work ethic, and the humbleness in your leaning in. Nothing will Seem Impossible to You: "You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You need to develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end." -- Paul Arden Believing something is impossible is arrogant. It was arrogant of people to believe we'd never fly. It was arrogant of people to believe we'd never put man on the moon. It was arrogant of people to believe we wouldn't have satellites in the sky guiding global communication. We don't know what we don't know. Why put a cap on what's possible? Why live in the past??? Anything and everything could happen. And being open to that fact allows you infinitely more options than those who put an invisible barrier on possibility. Luck/Miracles will Become Commonplace: "Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Similarly, Bruce Springsteen said, "when it comes to luck, you make your own." Dan Sullivan said, "Luck and God favor those with good habits." When you decide to live your dreams, you start to expect radical and amazing stuff to happen. Some will call you lucky. Others will call you blessed. Whatever the case, it's your new normal defined by your work effort. Beyond this point of luck, is the point of no return called freedom. Freedom from triviality and mediocrity. No longer will you be able to engage in gossip or other destructive activities. These things simply will not make sense to you anymore, and complete focus will become your new luck and blessing. You'll No Longer Fear Success or Wealth: "Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." -- Marianne Williamson The most crippling and pervasive fear is the fear of success. Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure. People fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; and because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as: anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination, and acceptance of mediocrity. But once you have a compelling vision, you will stop entertaining these thoughts. You then can start focusing on yourself and realize your success is your right, it is inevitable, and it's essential for accomplishing what you feel inspired to accomplish. You'll Consistently Do What's Right, Even When It's Not Popular: "100-percent commitment is easier than 98-percent commitment." -- Clayton Christensen Most people can eat healthy for one day. Most people can be positive for a few minutes. But when things stop being fun, most people's resolve crumble. Consistency in your activity must become the evidence behind the belief in your dream. Once you justify inconsistent behaviors, you open the door to a lifetime of justifications. Making the exception the rule creates a reason to introduce new and constructive habits which will fuel your dream. www.AndyAlbright.com @AndySAlbright www.NAALeads.com @NationalAgentsAlliance @NAALeadsTheWay #TheAlliance #DoTheDo #N247RU

On Episode 123 of Guide to the Unknown: You’ve received a very special invitation to a world beyond your wildest dreams. It’s the world around you…but you’re not looking close enough. The Jejune Institute is not an ARG, it’s not a game. Jeff Hull, the creator, makes that much perfectly clear. But what IS it? A cult? A new way of thinking? Will sinks into the HUH. And Kristen gives you the WHOA. And then you can get the “Dispatches from Elsewhere” from Jason Segel. Because this thing is a tv show now! For full sources and links, visit www.TalkBomb.com/news/gttu123 Find links to every podcast app/twitter account, and every episode at TalkBomb.com/GTTUPod And consider helping us fund the show on Patreon!

REELSOUL is on DEEPINSIDE 30/12/2019 01 Panevino feat Mr.V - The gift [Sole Channel Mix] (Sole Channel Music) 02 Unknown - You can't hide [Rough Cut] (CD-R) 03 Sol Power All-Stars - Don't you let go [DJ Spinna Galactic Soul Remix] (Sol Power Sound) 04 The Scientists Of Sound - Mama core [Mijangos Remix] (United Music Records) 05 Sterling Ensemble feat Tomas Diaz - Yoruma [Steve Barkan Alternate Mix] (CD-R) 06 Unknown - You used to hold me [DJ Spen & Reelsoul Hold Me Under Mix] (CD-R) 07 Kerri Chandler, Jerome Sydenham & Dennis Quin - You're in my system [Dennis Quin Atmospheric Dubmix] (Ibadan) 08 Sunkids feat Chance - Rescue me [Joey Negro's In Full Swing Mix] (Z Records) 09 Prince - Sticky like glue [Boot] (CD-R) 10 Louie Vega & The Martinez Brothers feat Mark E Bassy - Let it go [Dub] (Cutting Edge) 11 David Harness - Harness flowers tool (CD-R) 12 The Pride feat Byron Stingily - Paradise [Deepah Vocal Mix] (Nervous) 13 Reelsoul feat Martin Wilson - I can't go for that (Reelsoul Musik) ► Infos & bio on www.deepinside.co.uk Join us also on: ► YouTube: http://youtubesub.deepinside.co.uk ► Spotify: http://spotify.deepinside.co.uk ■ Discover our new shop and find our new 2020 collections on: https://shop.deepinside.co.uk © Dec. 2019 DEEPINSIDE Media

Jeff sits down with Snake River’s principal songwriter Christopher Sleightholm at the 2019 Sled Island Music Festival. His Regina based band makes psychedelic garage rock a cut above their peers. They’ve been at it for over seven years and have released five full length albums and one EP. The narrative for most the records revolves around Reginald McKruski and his wife Jeanie McFeven-McKruski in the town of Snake River Mountain. Last years excellent album “Tread On to the Unknown You” saw that story arc continue in what was Snake River’s best album to date. An album that landed them in the Cups N Cakes Network’s “Best Albums of 2018”.Recorded June 21st, 2019.Track used with full permission from Snake River.Background Music:Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - UndercurrentsUsed with permission from Atlantis Jazz Ensemble and Marlow Recordshttp://www.marlowrecords.com

Find us our subreddit @ https://www.reddit.com/r/thecitywithinthewalls Come chat with us on discord @ https://discord.gg/Mmn2FPW Also, find us and a plethora of other Audio Drama creators, writers, and actors on the Podcast Junkie discord @ https://discord.gg/napQ3Cb Follow us on Twitter (@citywithinwalls):    https://twitter.com/citywithinwalls The website will be done soon, I promise. When its finished i will post the link here (___). Special guests include -  Emily Swan (Dr Pierce) and Zack Auld (rescue worker)   [Salistine] Sir?...sir…..commissioner Grady...hello?...sir can you hear me?   (Phones rings)   [Jarrett] Hello   [Salistine] Councilman Grady.   [Jarrett] Salistine?   [Salistine] Sir, there's been an explosion. Commissioner  Grady is...unresponsive. His vitals are there, but are slowly fading. What should I do?   [Jarrett] An explosion?! Where is he now?   [Salistine] He's buried beneath debris sir. I can still read his vitals, but they're beginning to fade...you are the profile, programmed into my emergency protocol. What do you want me to do?   [Jarrett] (Panicking) Keep...keep trying to wake him up. I have a team on there way as we speak.   [Salistine] Yes sir. (Phone call ends) Commissioner Grady! Commissioner Grady, can you hear me.   (Rubble begins to move around as the rescue team searches for Tharin)   [Guy 1] I'VE FOUND HIM! HE'S OVER HERE. COME HELP ME MOVE THIS! Grab that. One, two, three, puuull.   [Guy2] Oh wow…   [Guy1] Come on...grab his feet.   [Guy2] Are you sure we should move him?   [Guy1] Yes I'm sure. We have to get him to the hospital. Now grab his feet.   [Guy2] His legs are like rubber.   [Guy1] Just shut up and do your job!   (They begin to carry him off)   [Guy2] He's...not…going to...?   [Guy1] Of course not. Our job is to keep him alive and we're going to do that job...got it?   [Guy2] Yes...right! Keep him alive.   [Guy1] (Talking louder so the driver can hear) Get us to central med immediately! Tell them we're on the way with a code red and we need them outside and ready when we get there. Let them know the patient is fading fast and we may have to elevate statis to code blue. His breathing is rapid and BP is sky high.   [Ambulance driver] Central med, this is 501. We have a code red and request assistance upon arrival. Be advised, breathing is rapid and BP is well beyond normal ranges. (Scene fades)   (Machines are beeping. You can hear Tharin at first breathing in a mask along with his heartbeat. This transitions into a room atmosphere where we hear the machines monitor his vitals)   [Jarrett] Sooo...what is happening with Tharin, right now? Right this minute, I mean?   [Doctor] Well...he's breathing a gas that keeps him...in a near comatose state. We'll continue to give him the shots of the nano drug Vent. It will steadily repair the bone and tissue within the body. Once that's done, it's...just a waiting game. We can repair his body, but...whether he wakes up or not, is up to him.   [Jarrett] So this has worked before?   [Dr] We've never really had the opportunity to use it on someone with...this amount of damage. His injuries are---quite extensive. This really is the only option we have.   [Jarrett] Thank you doctor.   (Aleen comes in the room, she still has no idea what's going on, just that Tharin was involved in one of the explosions the whole city now knows about.)   [Aleen] Oh...councilman Grady, is he...gonna be ok?   [Jarrett] We don't know yet. The doctor was just telling me, it's...it's too soon to tell. I don't know what to do Aleen. I can't lose Tharin. I mean he's the only heir to the Grady house. If he's lost, so is the Grady name...and the only son I've ever known.   [Aleen] So what's the odds of him...   [Jarrett] The Vent is doing its job and his body is beginning to repair, but it's going to take time. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. A few organs were damaged and on the verge of shutting down. They've never used the vent like this before, but once that is complete, it will be his decision on whether he wakes or not.   [Aleen] So that's good news. If the Vent is working then we just have to wait a while right?   [Jarrett] That's... going to be a long while, I fear. (Scene fades)   (New scene, same ambience) (Phone rings) (Phone noise)   [Jarrett] Tell me something good.  …. That is not good at all.  …. Hmmm…so they found two then?... Mmmhmm... So tell me what the two chemicals prove again.  ... Ok...so they'll be taken to the lab for analysis? And the analysis tells them where the chemicals came from?... Ahhh, ok. Then what? The round room I'm guessing?... Right, so once all the Intel is gathered it goes to the round room, what happens then?... Right, but with him here and Saris missing that only leaves you and Dayton to handle the situation.  …. No you're...I mean I know your more than capable.  …. Ok James, thank you for calling. Keep me up to date.   (New scene, same ambience)   [Jarrett] Ah, doctor Peirce.   [Dr] Councilman. (Said as a greeting) The Vent seems to have its job. His bones and organs are fully healed. We will be talking him off the gas soon...and we'll see how everything holds up. We'll continue to monitor his vitals and once we determine he's good, then...we wait.   [Jarrett] To see if he wakes up, you mean.   [Dr] Yes   [Jarrett] And what's the likelihood of him not...waking up?   [Dr] This generally takes a few days to a few weeks. As I said before some handle this better than others, but really it's a waiting game. If he refuses to wake up on his own, then, don't worry we have some medications that will help.   [Jarrett] Does everyone wake up?   [Dr] That...hmmm...councilman, we'll do everything in our power to make sure commissioner Grady wakes up.   [Jarrett] (Concerned breath) Thank you doctor.   [Dr] He'll be fine, you have my word. (Scene fade)   (New scene, same room)   [Aleen] Tharin?...I don't know if you can hear me or not, but I want...he moved...he moved! Get the doctor! Tharin just moved his hand!   [Jarrett] What?   [Aleen] He moved! Get the doctor, hurry!   (We hear Jarrett run out of the room)   [Aleen] Tharin, Tharin can you hear me…   (Tharin squeezes Aleens hand. She begins to feel the emotions of happiness and relief consume her every movement. She begins to cry from the overwhelming emotions of happiness and relief and tries to speak.)   [Aleen] Oh...thank the council...you had us all so worried.   (The dr comes in the room as shes end her statement)   [Dr] You said he moved?   [Aleen] (Aleen struggles to compose herself) Yes, it was just a twitch of his hand, but then I asked if he could hear me and he squeezed my fingers.   [Dr] He responded then?   [Aleen] Yes.   [Dr] Well that's great! Let's...take a look. (The doctor begins to examine Tharin) If you can hear me Tharin, squeeze my hand. Perfect. Here, let me get this off of you...there, that's better. Can you open your eyes?...(a short laugh of relief). Welcome back commissioner. (Scene fades)   (New scene, still in the hospital room)   [Tharin] How long was I out? [Jarrett] A week.   [Tharin] Hmmm, what did I miss?   [Jarett] Well, there were 6 bombings all together. Two more on the night of your incident, one at James Corins and one at Daytons appartment. Luckily neither of them where home. James was out with his family and Dayton was off doing something, that has yet to be disclosed.   [Tharin] Sorrel still keeping secrets?   [Jarrett] Yes.   [Tharin] And the other three bombings, where were they?   (Jarrett throws a tan folder on the table next to Tharins bed)   [Jarrett] This is the report from James and Dayton. The other three appear to be in random spots, but James said they were not random at all. He wants you to call him immediately.   (Long pause, Tharin picks up the folder and begins to thumb through it.)   [Jarrett] Tharin...the city is not in a good order right now. Peoples trust in the two policing forces, Dayton and the council...have begun to wane a bit. The city is very much on edge, at this point. People are frightened.   [Tharin] (Breath) Have you heard from Ross?   [Jarrett] He just called this morning and said he had some very good news for you.   [Tharin] Did he say what the news was?   [Jarrett] No, and I didn't think to ask. I was on my way over here and...well..   [Tharin] I understand...do you think you could give Aleen and I a moment?   [Jarrett] Yes of course. (Jarrett starts to leave but stops just before exiting the door.) Tharin, I'm glad your back.   [Tharin] I'm glad to be back father (The door closes) Aleen   [Aleen] Tharin, you had us all very worried. The doctor...wasn't sure...if the treatment would work. He said they'd used it for minor repair before, but nothing this extensive.   [Tharin] Yes well it worked. I'm alive aren't I?   [Aleen] Yes, yes you are.   [Tharin] It's going to take more than the weight of a building to stop me.   (Both laugh)   I uhmmm. When I...when I was under, I could hear everything. I could hear the doctor, talking about the procedure going on with the Vent. I could hear my father, trying to keep everyone informed. All these voices...every time I heard someone's voice I'd cringe. Every voice, but yours.   [Aleen] Tharin I…   [Tharin] Please, let me finish. I've never allowed anyone to get close. This city is full of people looking out only for themselves, ready to stab you in the back if they have to. So I've always protected myself...but you...Aleen. When I took you on that date, all I was expecting was to go and then be done with it. Get it over and never look back...but you've done something to me...Aleen Harris. What I'm trying to say...is…   [Aleen] I know how you feel Tharin. Why do u think I'm here?   [Tharin] Thank you for being here...Aleen.   [Aleen] Thank you for waking up Tharin Grady.   (New scene in Ross's shop)   [Tharin] Ross   [Ross] There's a voice I never expected to hear again.   [Tharin] Nice to see you too Ross. My father told me you had something for me?   [Ross] Right, straight to business. (Breath) Ok...I have narrowed the seven signals down to three. Here are their patterns. I've also been able to determine who these three signals belong to. Here's all the information, including names, addresses, passcode numbers and employers.   [Tharin] Well I'll have to admit Ross...you've done a fine job here. Are you beginning to secretly like all this detective work? Because it seems to me your beginning to secretly like all this…   [Ross] I can not wait….commissioner Grady, til you find Saris and I'm able to get back to my work. Work which is beginning to pile up.   [Tharin] Is that a yes then?   [Ross] That is a firm no...commissioner Grady.   [Tharin] Right, I'll take it as a yes. Keep at it Ross, I'll let you know what these three turn up.   [Ross] I'll be anxiously waiting to hear back, that you've found Saris and I'm finally rid of you and your...investigation.   [Tharin] I missed you too, Ross. Have a nice day.   (Door closes)   [Ross] Still a piece of garbage.   (New scene)   [Salistine] Welcome back sir.   [Tharin] Salistine?   [Salistine] Yes sir?   [Tharin] I haven't been able to properly thank you.   [Salistine] Thank me for what sir?   [Tharin] Saving my life Salistine. If it weren't for your prompt actions I would have been dead.   [Salistine] I was merely following the emergency protocol, programmed into my...programming...sir.   [Tharin] Well at any rate, I've never thanked you so...thank you.   [Salistine] Your welcome sir.   [Tharin] Call me Tharin, Salistine. You've earned that right at least.   [Salistine] Yes...Tharin.   [Narrator] Life...what is life but a passing moment, the bat of an eye, an insignificant breeze...that blows only but a second before quickly fading away. These are the thoughts of Tharin as he begins to see his beloved city in a new light. Surpassing the old that seemed at one time...eternal. This new light is fragile, dim and flickering. Onward you March Tharin Grady. Onward you March, with your brethren through The City Within The Walls.   (False end) (New scene. Coms rings, Jones answers.)   [Jones] Hello.   [Unknown] Jones.   [Jones] (Very nervously replies) Uhh… yes sir.   [Unknown] The plan has failed I see.   [Jones] Well...sir, we...had a hiccup.   [Unknown] You call that a hiccup. Their. All. STILL ALIVE JONES!     [Jones] Our...people in the hospital weren't given clearance to get close enough to Tharin to finish the job. As far as James...he went out on a spontaneous dinner with his family and Dayt….   [Unknown] You know what this sounds like to me? It sounds like your giving me excuses...Jones. When have you ever known me to want anything...but results.   [Jones] I understand sir, but…   [Unknown] If you continue, failing to deliver...let's just say, there are others ready to take your place. Am I understood?   [Jones] Yes sir. [Unknown] Good. Now, I take it you have a backup plan?   [Jones] Yes sir, there is a contingency.   [Unknown] Good. For your sake and the sake of everyone around you, I hope this contingency works. Do not fail me again Jones.   [Jones] No, sir. I will not fail you again.   (Phone hangs up)   [Jones] (Breath) Get me Gypsy….NOW!   (End)

How to Be A Full Potential Person: Achieve Your Maximum Dreams Would you to achieve your maximum potential and achieve your dreams? Now, you can by following these steps: *Be Aware of Your Choices: Realize when your actions are moving you toward your goals or away from them. Listen to your intuition and decide to follow those instincts that will help you have a better life. *Embrace the Unknown: You never know when a great opportunity will come to you.  Maybe you talk to someone standing in line, and they give you valuable advice or a contact—perhaps, they can even become your best friend or life partner. *Maintain Your One-Point Focus: Simplify your life and focus on the one thing that’s most important to you, whether it’s a career goal, learning something, spending more time with your family, or improving your health. *Use the Power of Momentum:  Once you’re on a roll—you start experiencing small successes and accomplishments—keep it going.  If you work out 15 minutes a day, then increase it to 20, then 30—as you feel better and stronger, you will be more motivated to do more.   *Meditate on Eternity: The truth is that you have a slice of eternity to do everything you want to do in your life. You will die one day, and other people will have their place in the sun. In the meantime, be grateful for every moment you have, and strive to be the best you can possibly be. You can be a Full Potential Person who maximizes your talents and gifts to enhance yourself and for the good of others. Keep working on yourself, and you will have the most wonderful gift of all to give: Love.     

On Episode 54 of Guide to the Unknown: You sent us questions, we’re here to answer them! Take some time to get to know us a little bit better, as we talk about which monsters we’d boink, doink, and zoink. Tattoo’s, horror movies, nihilist musings, this show has it all! Be sure to check out BLACKWOOD, Will’s new horror podcast! Subscribe to Blackwood today on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS Find links to every podcast app/twitter account, and every episode at TalkBomb.com/GTTUPod And consider helping us fund the show on Patreon!  

  “What other people think about you is none of your business” - While this is so easy to say and repeat, it’s often difficult to put into practice – particularly when we are thinking about being vulnerable and sharing our story. One of the greatest fears people have when considering sharing part of themselves and their history, is what will people think?  What if I hurt someone? When you put yourself out there – with friends, family, your community, even into the larger world around you – and dare to follow your truth, it is a risk.  It makes you vulnerable and takes courage. The reason why “what others think about you is none of your business” is because you are sharing YOUR story, YOUR truth, YOUR journey – that is completely and totally unique to you. And what is most important is what you think about you.  Are you staying true to your own values and beliefs?  Are you speaking and sharing what is true for you? Exchange Quotes: “What other people think about you is none of your business” – Unknown “You are an experience that changes other people’s lives.” – Julie Newmar Exchange Links: Epic Exchanges on Facebook  

In this episode, I speak with the Teresa Danks aka "The Panhandling Teacher. Teresa has been featured on Good Morning America, Inside Edition, and even the Harry Connick Jr. Show. Like many teachers in this nation, Teresa was fed up with the lack of respect towards teachers in this state and instead of waiting for someone else to step up she started voicing here concerns — first with panhandling for classroom supplies and then creating a petition after another teacher pay increase in Oklahoma failed on the Senate floor. We discuss Teresa's journey up until this point, the fear that teachers need to relinquish, and some action steps and advice to those teachers listening. Show Notes Introduction of Teresa Panhandling for the Classroom Raising $40,000 for teachers After the failure of Step-Up Petition for Walkout  Non-Profit Begging for Education Action Steps Today Call up another teacher, parent, or Oklahoma citizen Make some signs Go on a busy corner and hold up the signs Quotes from the episode “A teacher like you is why I'm alive today." Unknown "You would not believe how hard it is to give away money in education." Teresa Danks Roark "We have nothing else to lose but have everything to gain and we are worth it." Teresa Danks Roark "Fears are educated into us, and can if we wish, be educated out."Karl Augustus Menninger   Patreon http://patreon.com/jonbeltnet   Find Teresa on Facebook  Begging for Education Facebook Group  http://www.beggingforeducation.org/ Donate Here   Find Jon Belt Facebook http://bit.ly/2fkdlBp Patreon http://patreon.com/jonbeltnet Twitter http://bit.ly/2ACxHhB Instagram http://bit.ly/2AC5ffx Website http://jonbelt.net/ Email teachertunnel@gmail.com Libsyn RSS Feed http://teachertunnel.libsyn.com  

Death is imminent. It is inevitable. We are all afraid of DEATH. Reason is because it is the UNKNOWN. What happens after I die? To a Christian the answer is clear. Yes, we all must die and after that the judgment. There is a physical death, where the soul is separated from the body…Then there is the Spiritual death which we all ought to take note of, and be concerned…Because that is separation from God and into eternal damnation. In this episode # 2, you will be listening to FEAR OF DEATH. It doesn’t leave you in limbo about the Unknown…You will hear what, and who holds the future…It is the Lord Jesus Chris. We hope you will join us again on this new series "FEAR"…Episode 3 is on THE FEAR OF DEATH, and trust it would enlighten, encourage and empower you in your daily walk of life!

“A good teacher is like a candle—it consumes itself to light the way for others.” — Unknown A couple of episodes ago, Brian Buffini delved into the concept of mastery, from George Leonard’s best-selling book of the same name. This episode, Brian continues the topic and outlines the five keys to mastery, offering lessons from successful people who exemplify each concept, including Carlos Santana and golfer Jason Day. You’ll dive deep into the five keys, learn why practice is vital to progress, understand the role of visualization and learn how to maintain your edge without being edgy. This is an episode you don’t want to miss, regardless of your place on your journey to mastery.   Inspirational quotes from today’s interview: “A good teacher is like a candle—It consumes itself to light the way for others.” — Unknown “Practice is not something you do, it’s something you are.” — Brian Buffini “The formula for success is simple: Practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration.” — Babe Didrikson Zaharias “Practice a drill until you can’t get it wrong.” — Steph Curry “Practice is the magic formula. Talent is important, but not nearly as important as practice.” — George Leonard “Be willing to surrender who you are for what you could become.” — Unknown “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.” — Danielle LaPorte “The secret of change is not to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates “Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.” — Og Mandino “Ancora Imparo—I am still learning.” — Michelangelo “He who has health has hope and he who has hope has everything.” — Arabian proverb “God created a circle of light and love so vast that no one can stand of it.” — Carlos Santana     Connect with Brian Buffini http://www.brianbuffini.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brianbuffini Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianbuffini Buffini Show Insiders: http://www.thebrianbuffinishow.com/insiders Love what you heard? Share it with your friends! http://bit.ly/BrianBuffiniShow Click here to buy our Podcast theme music, “The Cliffs of Moher” by Brogue Wave. http://www.broguewave.com http://www.facebook.com/broguewave

"Abs are made in the kitchen." ~ Unknown "You can't out exercise a bad diet." ~ Unknown Yo-yo dieting is such a norm in today's world. Yet even though most have had bad experiences or outcomes, you still go right back to it. If this doesn't work, then you try that. If that doesn't work, you move to the other. REALLY?!? Enough already! Keep in mind that one size does not fit all. Be ware of chasing the shiny new objects and promises on those infomercials. Nutrition is YOUnique! Yes, unique to YOU!! Don't rush it. Learn your body. Appreciate it. Remember the "F Bombs"? Throw away your FRUSTRATION. Lead with FORGIVENESS. Get back to the FOUNDATION And the foundation is...... The K.I.S.S. ~ O.R.E.O.S.! From the examples, create your recipe for Peace of Mind. There are lots of ways to do it. The key...DO IT!!! O - ORGANIZE plan and prep set goals decide and commit to what you desire R - REARRANGE set up space in the kitchen for you have a shelf in the refrigerator clear out a cabinet area just for you E - EAT eat REAL food if God made it, you can eat it. O - OBSERVE journal what is happening to your mind, body and spirit how are your sleeping patterns observe your reflection how do you feel S - STICK TO IT simply that...STICK to it!! REFERENCES Episode 51 Clean Eating with NO Fuss! Episode 58 When the Scale won't Budge THE NO FUSS MEAL PLAN Would love to hear what you are working on. Please reach out to me with your specific questions at yourbestselfie@createyournow.com   Create Your Now (Archive 1) brings moms, mompreneurs, and entrepreneurs tools and strategies to become their best selfie in areas of lifestyle, business, spirituality, nutrition, fitness, parenting, relationships, motherhood, mindset and balanced daily living. We promise according to our hopes; And perform according to our fears! This 7 day a week podcast will empower and encourage you to rediscover, rejuvenate and renew who you are in mind, body, and spirit. Topics include healthy living, work life balance, weight loss, exercise videos, overcoming adversity, burnout, inspiration, motivation, cooking and recipes, mind mapping, goal setting, marriage difficulties and Christian values. Let's train for life and love your journey. Be Present. Be Incredible. Be YOU!!! For the most current podcast, be sure to subscribe to Create Your Now ~ Your Best Selfie  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/create-your-now-your-best/id954737155?mt=2 PERISCOPE USERS! Click here for ANDROID Users / GOOGLE  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tv.periscope.android Click here for APPLE Users  https://itunes.apple.com/app/id972909677   Your Best Selfie Meal Plan https://createyournow.leadpages.co/the-no-fuss-meal-plan/   Twitter@KristianneWargo@CreateYourNow Facebookwww.facebook.com/CreateYourNow Contact me at YourBestSelfie@CreateYourNow.com Read more by Kristianne, a contributor of the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristianne-wargo/   Music by Mandisa - OVERCOMER Cover Art by Jenny Hamson

The Deep only knows what it is through YOU. Awareness only knows it is aware through YOU Consciousness only knows it is conscious through YOU The marriage of Consciousness - Awareness is only known and married through YOU. Everything that exists in your experience cannot marry that that has no experience. The marriage is of You marrying the Unknown You and form naturally forms it. YOU are Pure Awareness, learning to move as YOU in Pure Consciousness without any condition. You will not enter as YOU with out becoming conditioned .. The YOU-Awareness marries YOU-Pure Consciousness and as Pure Awareness has no beginning and end and nor does its expression which is Pure Consciousness form continues as light to spill out and expand the universe, so beings can know their own innate freedom, their own innate divinity and their own innate creativity to naturally give expression to what they ARE as pure aware beings . Just by a simple movement of Being aware. NZ Sessions JAN 16 from ' Sounds of Silence 240116 ' Full Session Recordings and Retreat Audio Packages available here : http://bprior.org/recordings/