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You've found the mythical product-market fit & are scaling fast... now what?! Bill Coughran (Partner @ Sequoia Capital; Former SVP Engineering @ Google) & David Singleton (CTO @ Stripe) cover common mistakes scaling engineering orgs make, signals to help you identify & develop good managers internally AND find great hires externally. Plus how to balance short & long term demands while scaling & more! DAVID SINGLETON, CTO @ STRIPE David joined Stripe from Google, where he was VPE, leading the Android Wear & Google Fit teams. At Google, David led teams that built some of the company's most ambitious products, including its first apps with voice search; publisher products for Google Adsense; Google Offers; and Google Mobile Search Apps. He was also one of the first engineers at Google London and oversaw much of the growth of the London engineering office from inception to the large scale it has today. Prior to Google, David spent 3 years as a senior engineer at Symbian, the pioneering mobile phone operating system, where he developed software for Nokia & Samsung smartphones & worked on both the Bluetooth stack & PC Connect software. BILL COUGHRAN, FOUNDER'S COACH & PARTNER @ SEQUOIA; FORMER SVP ENGINEERING @ GOOGLE Bill Coughran works as a founders' coach and partner at Sequoia Capital to help build spectacular technology-centric companies. Previously, Bill was Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google with oversight of Chrome, YouTube, maps, google.com, underlying infrastructure systems, and security. SHOW NOTES What are the most common mistakes scaling organizations make? (2:24) What's the best way to add managers to a technology organization? (4:40) Signals to identify potential engineering managers to develop from inside the organization (7:32) Finding the right external hires while in hyper-growth (signals & warning signs) (8:41) What questions do you ask for hiring references? (11:23) Navigating doing things that don't scale in the short term (16:17) “Second system syndrome” & avoiding the urge to rewrite your system (19:12) How to retain early employees at a hyper-growth startup (21:30) What Bill's most excited about in the tech industry right now (24:18) Tips to help turn ICs into leaders (25:20) Deciding on org structure when you're scaling fast (27:26) Navigating speed & long-term quality building your architecture at an early-stage company (29:43) Final advice from Bill & David (31:37) BROUGHT TO YOU BY... Jellyfish - Jellyfish helps you align engineering work with business priorities and enables you to make better strategic decisions. Learn more at Jellyfish.co/elc Listen to our Bonus Episode w/ Guillermo Fisher, Director of Engineering, Infrastructure @ Handshake on internal mobility, mission-driven decisions, & self-service infrastructure! Listen HERE: https://spoti.fi/3zdNnXn Special thanks to our exclusive accessibility partner Mesmer! Mesmer's AI-bots automate mobile app accessibility testing to ensure your app is always accessible to everybody. To jump-start, your accessibility and inclusion initiative, visit mesmerhq.com/ELC --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/engineeringleadership/message

Thank again for tuning in and we hope you Enjoy the show!   It's not every day, we get to welcome world record holders onto the show, and today, we are talking to not one but two of them! Cameron Pilley is a former world number 11 squash player hailing from Australia. He now lives in New York, where he is the director of junior squash at the Apawamis Club. John White, also from Down Under, the former world number one, and now works as the head coach for the men's and women's teams at Drexel University in Philadelphia. In this episode, we talk about the record John held, which Cameron subsequently broke, and the two of them share their feelings on the matter. We then dive into what some of the biggest game-changers in everyone's lives have been. From having children to the advent of the internet, there is much to be grateful for in all of our lives. Rounding the conversation off, we talk about who and what the biggest game-changers in squash have been. Tune in to hear it all!   Key Points From This Episode:   The world record that John held that Cameron broke some years after. The viral video where Cameron hit his brother in the back with squash balls. Hear about the story behind Cameron's famous watermelon video. A player that John believes hit the ball harder than him or Cameron. How John and Cameron's respective games were affected by their hard-hitting reputations. John and Cameron's take on some serious ball smashers. The possibility of an exhibition match between John and Cameron. Three of the biggest game-changers Cameron has seen in his lifetime. What Bill notes as the game-changers in his life. Notable inventions and events John highlights as game-changers in his life. How the internet has changed the way we connect and communicate. The game-changers in Connor's life. Two players that changed the game of squash, according to Cameron. Bill's insights into what changed the game of squash. Who the game-changers in squash are, as told by John. The infrastructural changes that have changed the game. How John prepares his players to play on glass courts, which they don't have at Drexel. Connor's take on the game-changers in squash. Reflecting on the challenges of having a podcast; Cameron's insights.   Tweetables:   “And then you get some young whippersnapper by the name of Cam Pilley coming up, and he throws the ball up and he hits it a little bit faster. I will say, for the record, he does hold the record for the forehand hardest hit; he does have a weak backhand.” — John White [0:06:11]   “You got to start realizing that you've got to use the pace wisely, and at a certain time, you know that you can get that ball through the court and put that person under pressure, as opposed to just hacking it. ” — John White [0:16:39]   “If I started hitting the ball a little bit harder, after one or two games, I found it hard to then revert back to how I should be playing.” — @campilley [0:18:04]   “We both hit the ball the hardest.” — @campilley [0:53:13]   Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:   Cameron Pilley The Apawamis Club John White Cameron Pilley Hitting a Squash Ball at his Brother Mohamed ElShorbagy Omar Mosaad Jonathon Power Nicol Squash Drexel University Comments From The Couch Paul Johnson Ramy Ashour Squash Radio Conor O'Malley on Twitter Bill Buckingham on Twitter   REACH OUT:  FAN FOLLOW UP > The Appendix!! In this segment, we will be sharing the feedback, comments, insights, you name it!  So reach out us on social media or email squashradio@gmail.com. As always, thanks for listening! SPONSOR SUPPORT: BIA Sports They were on a mission to develop the best court shoe EVER.  These shoes are performance ready, straight out of the Box.  Made by squash player for Squash players! The latest shoes are out BIA FORCE X, go to their website https://biasports.us/and take a look!

Bill Reich started Bright Property Solutions in 2017 at the ripe young age of 71. He and his partner, Joanne, have grown the business to over $1M per year by buying and selling residential properties on terms in the DC/Baltimore area. Bill's plan is to grow the company to $3M per year by 2020, and then will try to scale back from his 14-hour days to spend more time with his family — including nine grandchildren from his two sons — and indulging in his passions for traveling to different countries throughout the world. What you'll learn about in this episode: What big changes Bill has experienced and key lessons he has learned since his previous appearance on the podcast in episode 52 How Bill made some critical errors and poor decisions early on, and how joining the Wicked Smart community helped Bill learn real estate investing in a new way How Bill's efforts to help buyers reach the finish line have changed as he has learned important lessons and leveled up his skills What Bill looks for in buyers today, and why his down payment expectations and credit requirements have evolved Why it is important to learn real estate investing from a coach who has weathered storms and survived tough times How Bill uses his drive and self-confidence to push him to keep learning and growing, and why he refuses to quit What huge and life-changing wins Bill has experienced since joining the Wicked Smart community Why Bill thinks you should join the Wicked Smart community and attend the upcoming QLS Live event from September 14-17, 2021 Resources: Check out Bill's previous appearance in Episode 52 of the Smart Real Estate Coach podcast: https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/podcasts/bill-reich/ Additional resources: Follow Chris and Zach on Club House to learn even more about deal structures and how to get 3 paydays from your real estate investments. If looking to secure some lines of credit for your business, check out Fund and Grow – Visit our Resource page at https://www.smartrealestatecoach.com/resources Schedule a FREE Strategy Call: SmartRealEstateCoach.com/action Register for our free masterclass: www.SmartRealEstateCoach.com/mastersclass Real Estate on Your Terms by Chris Prefontaine SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/webinar SmartRealEstateCoachPodcast.com/ebook SmartRealEstateCoach.com/QLS Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast Sponsor: Paul G. Dion CPA, CTC

Bill O’Connor  is the Executive Vice President and Chief Sales Officer at Jackson Family Wines. Based in Sonoma County, the heart of California's wine country, the business is one of few family-owned and operated wineries of its kind. Founded in 1983, with a focus on artisanal and old wines with a distinct character and quality, their portfolio includes wines like Kendall-Jackson, La Crema, Freemark Abbey, Murphy Goode, Stonestreet, among many others. On the show, Alan and Bill talk about the historic partnership between Jackson Family Wines and the home of the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs, and what Bill makes about effective partnerships. In this episode, you’ll learn: What it’s like being a family-owned winery How to effectively handle partnerships The importance of refining your customer’s experience Key Highlights: [02:00] Bill’s dream job [03:30] The historic partnership with Churchill Downs [04:36] Jackson Family Wines’ tie to racing [11:50] Their wide variety of wine offerings [14:02] How Bill thinks about partnerships [16:06] Refining the customer experience  [20:30] Bill’s advice for navigating new relationships [23:15] A defining experience that made Bill who he is today  [26:54] Bill’s advice for his younger self [29:36] Bill’s recent impactful purchase [31:05] The brands, companies, and causes Bill follows [33:03] What Bill says is today’s biggest threat and opportunity for marketers Resources Mentioned:  Jackson Family Wines Bill O’Connor Churchill Downs & Kendall-Jackson and La Crema Sponsorship Stonetreet Farms Jess Jackson (Wikipedia) Barbara Banke Cardinale, La Jota, Freemark Abbey, Hartford Family Winery Grounded – Julia Jackson Subscribe to the podcast: Listen in iTunes (link: http://apple.co/2dbdAhV) Listen in Google Podcasts (link: http://bit.ly/2Rc2kVa) Listen in Spotify (Link: http://spoti.fi/2mCUGnC ) Connect with the Guest: Bill LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-o-connor-28662a22 Jackson Family Wines Twitter: https://twitter.com/jfw  Stonestreet Farm Twitter: https://twitter.com/StonestreetFarm Connect with Marketing Today and Alan Hart: http://twitter.com/abhart https://www.linkedin.com/in/alanhart http://twitter.com/themktgtoday https://www.facebook.com/themktgtoday/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/marketing-today-with-alan-hart/ Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/marketingtoday See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GUEST BIO Bill Faeth - has been involved in real estate for almost 25 years with both commercial and residential investing. In 2015 he switched the majority of his residential portfolio to short-term rentals from the long term after seeing an opportunity to increase profit and reduce risk. Bill currently has a multi-million dollar portfolio of short-term rental properties primarily located in vacation rental markets with a focus on beach, lake, and mountain properties. He has leveraged years of successful business growth strategies to specialize in maximizing vacation rental profits by turning $50,000 annual revenue properties into $90,000 properties yielding high profit via self-management. Bill shares these profit-boosting strategies along with how to self-manage, holding real estate, and so much more so you can build your short-term rental wealth while your guests make your mortgage payments. Bootcamp on June 7th and 8th, 2021 in Nashville, TN. Go to buildstrwealth.com HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE 04:22 Bill's Intro/Biography. 05:28 What made Bill start his short-term rentals from long-term rentals. 10:17 What Bill's 2nd tier location is. 11:45 What that 2nd deal looked like. 13:59 Bill's molotov cocktail for a bad decision experience. 16:24 Learning valuable lessons from mistakes and failures. 18:21 Bill's strategy and what he's focused on. 24:02 A breakdown of what EBITDA is. 25:51 A process that can increase what your property can make. 33:59 The 6 different types of buyers. 34:09 Giving more than you expect to receive. 43:18 Where can people get in touch with Bill Faeth. 44:23 Bill's number 1 secret to success in short-term rentals. Join our Facebook group! www.facebook.com/groups/STRentalsecrets BOOKS MENTIONED: Millionaire Success Habits - Dean Graziosi NOTABLE QUOTES (KEY LESSONS): "Drive-in vacation rental markets were the most recession-proof through the recession and I also think they're the ones that have been impacted in the most positive fashion during Covid when urban markets were being hit hard at this time last year." - Bill Faeth "I lost a hundred grand on that property because I didn't follow my evaluation process." - Bill Faeth "It's very important to share those mistakes that we make." - Bill Faeth "The reason why people are coming to the market is what people miss as hosts." - Bill Faeth CONNECTING WITH THE GUEST Website: https://buildstrwealth.com/ Personal Website: https://www.billfaeth.com/ Facebook Group: https://web.facebook.com/groups/284886002732508 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnheh3vx0hT5Y7uHWhBs8kA

Season 2 is a wrap! In this finale episode, Adriana, Mariah, & Bill sit down to chat about the latest baby news including; Adriana & Bill’s birth plans (and Mariah’s plans with Adriana being on maternity leave), what Bill is most excited for post-delivery, their birth playlist, & even a surprise appearance from Mariah’s Dad! Season 2 has been a blast, and we’re so grateful for every listener who has tuned in each and every week! See you all here for Season 3! Important Topics: 00:50 - Intro / Bill’s birth predictions / 05:06 - Mariah’s plans while Adriana is on Maternity leave / 10:48 - A few “Dad” questions for Bill / 17:08 - Adriana & Bill’s post birth plans & pre-delivery to-do list / 20:22 - A quick & adorable conversation with Mariah’s Dad / 23:53 - The final baby update, Adriana’s birth playlist & Mariah’s picks / 33:13 - What Bill is most excited for after the birth & Mariah’s final question for Adriana

Ryan Furstenau is back again with another episode discussing how to do retirement! Find out What Bill & Carol Weaver have to say about their experience.

Today we sit down with long-time friend and mentor, Dr. William Flick, to talk about the balance between working in private practice and part-time academics. To kick things off, Bill shares a brief summary of his training and current practice setup. After hearing about his stints at the University of Illinois and in the US Airforce, Bill sheds light on how to teach residents in a surgical setting. On this topic, he tells us why it is so important to allow students to learn with their hands, and why it can be difficult to not let them make crucial errors on patients. As our conversation develops, we ask Bill to share a little bit of information on giving back to the profession of oral surgery. He tells us about the importance of jumping at whatever opportunity comes your way, as well as the need to stick to it. Later in the show, we find out from Bill why private practice professionals are so useful to the academic setting. To conclude the show, we give Bill our rapid-fire questions where we find out about the best book he’s read in the past year, which forceps he uses to extract tooth number five, who has influenced his surgery career most, and much more!Key Points From This Episode:Introducing today’s guest and our host’s long-time mentor, Dr. Bill Flick.Bill gives a brief summary of his training and current practice setup.How to teach residents in a surgical setting.The importance of letting students learn with their hands.What Bill says to those who want to give back to the profession, but might not be equipped to do so.How one can stay in academics despite red tape and poor compensation.How to achieve a balance between private practice and academics.Ways Bill has changed his practice over the years.Finding ways to communicate on a patient’s level.We conclude the show with our rapid-fire questions!Tweetables:“It’s a lot more challenging teaching students in a surgical setting as opposed to a classroom. There is this tendency to want to jump in and demonstrate but the resident only really learns if it’s their hands doing the work.” — Dr. William Flick [0:02:44]“You have to jump at whatever opportunities are available to you. And then you have to be persistent and you have to stick with it.” — Dr. William Flick [0:04:41]“For full-time academics, it’s all about accomplishing the procedure the way it should be done. In the real world, it’s doing what the patient wants to have done and how to compromise what you can do to make both ends meet.” — Dr. William Flick [0:09:17]Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Dr. William FlickUniversity of Illinois

Today I am joined by Bill Guerrero. Bill is the CFO at Ithaca College. He has some interesting background, he started in banking into the CFO role in the education area.   In this episode we discuss: What Bill looks for when hiring in his team His journey from banking to becoming a CFO in educational institutions His role as a CFO and wearing the treasurer’s hat The effect of COVID on the institution His approach to networking How mentors play a part in his career One piece of advice he wishes he knew back when he was starting his career that he’d like to pass on to the listeners What makes a successful treasurer How the role of treasury is changing

Show notes:Bill Kurzeja is the owner and founder of Professional Success South, a profession sales training and business consulting firm. Bill’s journey because in the Army where he learned the foundations of disciple and strict attention to detail. Over the next few years he excelled up the ranks and transitioned to the retail automotive industry. One of his passions is to spread knowledge to as many people as possible whether that be through his clients, social media, or his weekly podcast, Get Focused with Bill K and Gina Faye. We’re excited to have Bill talk about the sales strategy as it is a key part of any business!On this episode you'll learn:-Bill’s background and what he does-What Bill has learned from being in the sales industry-They key to building relationships-How to build a genuine relationship-Pillars of communication-Building your own brand-The abundance mindset-Bill’s move from the automotive field to consultingContact Info:Website: https://professionalsuccesssouth.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-kurzeja

Our Western civilisation essentially goes back to ancient Greece. But yes there is Egypt, Sumeria and Anatolia in Turkey. However, Bill starts with the 'Fates' that were embedded in Greek & Roman Mythology, the three goddesses who preside over the birth and life of humans. Each person was thought of as a spindle, around which the three Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos) would spin the thread of human destiny. We need to remember the word 'psyche', the ancient Greek word for Soul. This translates to a psychiatrist being, essentially a Soul Doctor - however in Western medicine Soul has been lobotomised out of the medical vernacular. Science does not educate us in the spiritual realm as - if it cannot be measured and quantified, it does not exist. If we go to Wikipedia - (which sadly is not the resource it could be) there are on earth today 7.8 billion humans of which ‘supposedly’ these numbers below show, that: 2.4 billion are Christian 1.9 billion are Moslem 1.2 billion are Hindu 0.5 billion are Buddhist .394 Million are China Traditional and                                                                              1.2 billion  Secular[a]/Nonreligious[b]/Agnostic/Atheist   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations  So with Christianity and Islam betwen them - there are 3.3 billion adherents who would beleive that they are going to live beyond this mortal life. That in scripture in the first book of the Bible in ‘Genesis’ we learn about ‘soul’. That Hindu and Buddhist also believe in an afterlife solely because they (like other minor religions and sects) believe in an essence / consciousness that leaves one body and after a time enters the baby of another human body.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterlife So there is a very considerable number of humanity who believe in a soul essence that inhabits the human body. That is most definitely spiritual in nature and that science does not want to utilise the vast number of 25,000 universities planet round to further research this perennial doctrine that has been embedded in all world religions, beliefs and cultures. Yet, there are now thousands of recordings over the last hundred years of  'Out of the body' and 'Near Death' experiences everywhere on planet earth. Even doctors and professors and hard core atheists have experienced them - however the ‘medical establishment’ only sees the human body as a physical machine made of flesh, bone and organs. So they still refuse to take this step. Science has made up its mind that ‘nothing’ exists. This subject of ‘out of the body’ and ‘near death experiences’ is one of the more divisive questions on earth.  For there are many who have been brought up to believe that we are only a body that has evolved by chance via Dawinian evolution. This idea consolidated when science  later added on the fluke of the big bang bringing all into existence. Even God was taken out of the equation. That when we reduce the human body down to its constituent components you will find no evidence whatsoever of a soul or a spirit. The non theist - better known as an atheist will argue and battle this subject out even though people who have OBE and OTB experiences can tell you what their parents were doing,  wearing and saying - even though they lived in another country at that exact time - they will argue vehemently that it is all a hallucination and that these ‘other’ facts don't matter. For some unknown reason the disbelievers will in most cases not give up until they expire on their last out-breath. Though we did not cover this in any depth at all, Bill mentioned that C S Lewis said - we don't have a soul - we are a soul - to which I heartily agreed and when looking for this quote on the web, I find that C S Lewis never mentioned it - so we apologise for this. Here is the link: https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2014/01/the-spiritualist-origins-of-you-dont-have-a-soul-you-are-a-soul  Tim mentions that we are being dumbed down as a society and a civilisation and that we are seeing the censorship of information - even that of the distant past is increasing, and it is hidden in plain sight. For example the Bible which was supposedly first written 3,400 years ago. See at the end of each quote that the word mutates from 'Soul' - to 'Being' - to living ‘Person’ - then to 'Creature.' With such a rapid change in description, will the next iteration become a - 'robot? I jest - however I trust you get the gist. www.kingjamesbibleonline.org › Genesis-2-7 The Bible "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." www.biblegateway.com  › passage › search=Genesis 2:7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7, KJV: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living person." Genesis 2:7 NKJV - And then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. https://www.bibleref.com/Genesis/2/Genesis-2-7.html Because of time constraints we did not cover anything from both Vedic and Egyptian writings. Though in the Vedas they mention Soul, because Ātman is a Sanskrit word that means inner self, spirit, or soul, being in the Hindu philosophy.  Shaman and medicine men in indegenous cultures also believe in soul as their whole cosmology is grounded in this notion. A search for ‘sole’ on the web brings up: the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, especially as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance. The only Hebrew word traditionally translated "soul" (nephesh) in English language Bibles refers to a living, breathing conscious body, rather than to an immortal soul.  This is interesting, because even Albert Einstein did not speak of the soul, unless it was in generic terms. What Bill focussed on was, what are the virtues of a soul and Bill talks of James Hillman  - who has much to say on the soul  https://thesunmagazine.org/search?search=james+hillman&with=section%2Ccategories%2Ccontributors&useShould=true&type=article                                                Have a listen to what he says ...         However in relating to today reality Bill says that the human species have in so many ways has lost its moral compass. He explains this … listen Also, Transhumanism comes up - that people who don’t believe in souls and eternal life are doing their best to build computers / robots so as to ‘house their consciousness’ - see Ray Kurzweil of Google to get an understanding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil Bill also mentions that we are in a shift of consciousness that is happening and there is a huge cycle that we are all enmeshed in and that by 2027 we will see changes that we have not planned for.  Listen There was much in this interview, Bill speaks of the challenges the human race has found itself in and offers up a way for us to heal our being. This healing Bill says is very important if we as a society are going to resolve our differences, and become well. The words karma and past lives come into this conversation - so I do suggest that you listen - it is only a 20meg download. What comes across is Bill’s duty of care and concern - he says that Bach Flower remedies are very good ways to heal our emotional realm and bring us back into our true self. Bach flower remedy tinctures  - healingherbs.co.uk  We also need to constantly remember that “we are spiritual beings having an earth experience”. There is an old First Nations saying that you can hear of in America - of an old Cherokee teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.” So it is imperative that we have the ‘correct’ thought, right words, and right actions - as we chart our course in life. Captain Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on the moon had this to say ... God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants and walks in the animal and thinks in man … And the question is - what do you intuit is man’s next evolutionary-spiritual step? 13 Best Books on Near-Death Experienceshttps://www.joincake.com/blog/near-death-experience-books/  These books will give you an inkling of a great reality - however the subject of this interview was based on what is SOUL and do we have one? Extra: There is a new movie coming out this November called ‘Soul’ - it's a blend of Soul music that the Black community of America put their heart into when singing and playing music but it also covers another unique side by having a ‘discarnate’ soul floating around telling ‘his’ story that is totally integrated with the soul music of the main black character living in America . I have not seen it in its entirety - but the three trailers are very interesting.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4zAAMpRe-Y    Next Week’s Interview: Stephen Simon Producer of the film ‘Somewhere in Time’ with Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, and Christopher Plummer. In 1998, he produced ‘What Dreams May Come’ with Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, and Cuba Gooding, Jr. On January 3, 2018, his wife and forever love Lauren suddenly passed away in her sleep. She was only 54. Six weeks later, Lauren began to communicate with him … and in October 2018, they started writing a book together. Wives, husbands, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, grandparents, and many others have experienced communication with loved ones who preceded them beyond the veil that separates life and what comes after life. Many of you are having that experience now, and many more will experience it in the future. You... we... are most definitely not alone. Love and Aroha coupled with courage are our greatest gift.

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#137 My awesome guest this week is Reverend Bill Mcdonald, a director of hearts and a tool-man of the soul. Our conversation revolves around one seemingly basic concept: “love” and how centring our lives around it can change us for the better. Rev. Bill, as his friends call him, is an author, award-winning poet, motivational speaker, and a Vietnam War veteran and in this episode, he tells us what he thinks will bring us joy. What is the effect of gratitude on our worldview and life? What does Bill think we need to dedicate our lives to? What really matters in life and how can we use it to change ourselves for the better? What is God? I know, we’re answering some really deep and personal questions. But whatever your thoughts on these questions might be, I guarantee you will not regret hearing what Bill has to add. About Bill: Rev. Bill McDonald has been on a continuous spiritual journey, spanning over 7 decades. His whole life has been a long mystical trip in search of gurus, the paranormal, self-discovery and self-realization. He has written many books about his spiritually transformative experiences and “near-death-experiences” including supernatural events during his combat tour of duty in the Vietnam War. His autobiography “Warrior A Spiritual Odyssey” takes us on a life quest for love, understanding, forgiveness and enlightenment.  His follow-up book “Alchemy of a Warrior’s Heart “continues that mystical journey including four trips to India for even more profound experiences with holy men, miracles and his personal relationship with the Divine.  He has spoken around the world including Germany, England, Wales, Bolivia, Vietnam and India. He has been involved with a dozen films and documentaries. He was a Keynote Speaker at last year's (The International Association of Near-Death Studies) IANDS 2019 Conference. He has been interviewed or talked on over 12000 radio & TV shows, Podcasts, newspaper and magazines since 1998. Some call him a mystic, a healer, a teacher, and even a psychic but he just calls himself a friend to those in need. He freely helps military veterans and their families worldwide through his Spiritual Warrior Ministries. He is also a yoga meditation teacher, an artist, a poet, a writer, actor, film consultant, SCUBA Instructor, and an international motivational speaker.  He has had 3 near-death experiences and many spiritually transformative experiences which he talks about and share with audiences. His main focus is on motivating people to love and serve others and to forgive. www.revbillmcdonald.com Email: huey576@gmail.com Facebook - Rev. Bill McDonald https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=735455761 YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCXUVf8UOT237rw2RfsB9haA Documentary on Rev. Bill’s Life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xrtyOqwr9E&list=PLQtoEMQ3knpjuNrsnQZxSIj0Xmy9jJWWs&index=13&t=0s Books:  “Warrior A Spiritual Odyssey”  "Alchemy of a Warrior’s Heart”   "Sacred Eye - Poetry in Search of the Divine”   “Purple Hearts: Poetry of the Vietnam War” Key points with time stamp: Bill’s work in his own words (5:19) What is the essence of life? (9:51) What can gratitude do for us? (12:37) How can we connect to our hearts and simply surrender? (16:41) Bill’s opinion on manifestation (18:01) Focusing on the Now and not having a victim mindset (21:44) Why is it so hard to forgive? (34:10) In the end, it all comes down to Love (40:05) The tipping point for Bill (40:38) How can we achieve deeper connections to spiritualty? (48:09) How does Bill define God? (52:11) Bill’s morning routine (1:01:21) Bill’s choice of a dinner guest, dead or alive (1:05:24) What Bill leaves us with (1:07:39) Mentioned in this episode: Wayne Dyer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder The Rainbow Body Experience The CIA Kriya Yoga Stanford University The Bible Genesis Kundalini President Jimmy Carter Ignatius of Layola Francis of Assisi Bill Gates  About me: My Instagram: www.instagram.com/guyhlawrence/?hl=en My website: www.guylawrence.com.au www.liveinflow.co

If you’re a student of the housing market, you’re going to be able to see the trends before they happen. Whether you’re a new investor or not, you absolutely need to be networking with veteran investors who can steer you in the right direction. Masterminds, courses, groups, and conferences are going to connect you with the best real estate investors out there. As a Navy pilot, Bill Allen started casually buying a rental house at every station, and today he runs 7 Figure House Flipping. Last year he bought House Flipping HQ, and for the last four years he hosted one of the premiere real estate investing conferences Flip Hacking Live. With a YouTube channel, a podcast, and a busy real estate company, Bill has a lot to say about where real estate is going right now. If you’ve hit a wall in real estate investing, Bill wants to help you figure out how to climb over, walk around, or jump over that wall. October 15th, 16th, and 17th is your chance to hear million-dollar investors give up their exact strategies that they’re using right now. And while the conference has been moved virtually for this year, Bill and his team are working hard to make sure your experience is immersive and valuable. Tickets for Flip Hacking Live are available now, but prices will go up in a week, so sign up soon. If you use the coupon code “Joe”, Bill’s going to give my listeners the chance to access the best presentations from the previous four years. What’s Inside: —How Bill is having to change his marketing because of the current circumstances. —Low inventory is having a huge, huge impact on the market right now. —What Bill anticipates with inflation and what he’s planning on investing in. —Stop strengthening your weaknesses; outsource them.

William “Bill” Berloni is an American Animal Behaviorist, Humanitarian and Author, known for his training of rescue animals for stage, film and television. Bill Berloni was a 20-year-old apprentice at the Goodspeed Opera House when Martin Charnin offered him his big break: a chance to act professionally and gain his Equity Card. In return, all Bill had to do was find and train a dog to play Sandy in the original production of Annie. What Bill didn’t know was that this was a bigger challenge than it seemed. Animal performances in movies or television can be stitched together using different takes, different camera angles, even different animals. To perform in a featured role, an animal actor would have to be trained to ignore the distraction of the audience and respond to the same cues the same way night-after-night, just like his human counterparts. It had never been done before. From Broadway to Hollywood and beyond, William Berloni's Theatrical Animals are stars of many mediums. They are beloved by many, all over the world, but most importantly...by Dorothy and Bill Berloni. The animals, most of whom are rescued and adopted, are cared for with the highest standards of medical and emotional welfare. From dogs to donkeys, pigs to parrots, llamas to lizards, scores of Theatrical Animals have comfortably lived and been trained by Bill Berloni over the past 40 years at their farm in Connecticut. There are currently 25 dogs, 3 cats, 2 horses, 2 pigs, 2 geese, 1 donkey, 1 Macaw and 1 Dwarf bunny at the farm! https://www.gofundme.com/f/animal-actors-fund

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Bill Davidow is an icon in the venture capital world having made his first $5,000 venture investment in the 1960s before starting Mohr Davidow in 1985. This week’s episode of AI and the Future of Work is a fascinating discussion with Bill about his new book "The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Lives We’ve Sold to Machines”. This is a rare opportunity to learn secrets from one of the greats who helped launch the 8086 chip at Intel before planting the seeds that became today's venture capital industry.Bill on how today's autonomous revolution relates to the previous agricultural and industrial revolutions: "If we could figure out a way to adjust in an era of scarcity we should be able to adjust in an era of abundance." Listen and learn…What Silicon Valley was like in the 80s and how it has changed. The future of labor and why we’re measuring productivity the wrong way. What Bill means when he says we’ve locked ourselves in algorithmic prisons. How Bill proposes we mitigate the impact of AI bias. What are the attributes of the best entrepreneurs Bill has coached. This is a special one. Enjoy!

For Episode 3 of the podcast we got the absolute honour to sit down with Dr Bill Tai. If you don't know Bill but you have been using Zoom Video Conferencing during isolation in these past COVID-19 impacted months then you should. Bill was one of the initial investors in Zoom. So in short Bill basically made this podcast happen. We had planned to record all the episodes in person but instead when the boarders were locked down and travel was restricted we went to Zoom. Many know him as a close friend of Richard Branson, a charitable man, an expert in blockchain, but beyond that Bill is one of the keenest Kite surfers I have had the pleasure to meet. What I admire about Bill is that he coordinates his entire life around what he loves (kitesurfing and ocean sports). Every overseas trip he does, every event he runs, any potential investing opportunities, are all brought together by his many adventurous kitesurfing trips. What Bill has done is shown how our culture has risen up and moved beyond having work and play be two separate things. In the old days, we used to hide our play. Now, we can bring our work and play together to live a life more fulfilled. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/saltyjournals/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/saltyjournals/support

Today's guest is Bill Bice, a serial entrepreneur who started his first company at age 14. Since then Bill has founded and invested in 27 companies, always seeing the same correlation: the better you are at marketing, the more significant your success. But as you know, that's easier said than done! In fact he got so frustrated in trying to get great marketing help for his own companies, that he decided to tackle the problem himself.  So as a programmer at heart, Bill began tackling marketing as a technology problem, by following the data to understand what really works. This led him to become the Founder and CEO of boomtime, which he set up to enable smaller businesses to be able to compete more effectively with their larger competitors, by creating a new approach to marketing. One that fuses technology and expertise together to deliver marketing-as-a-service platform for B2B and law firms at scale. So if you want to know more about how you can “light a fuse under your marketing”, you're gonna love what Bill shares! On this episode: The biggest mistakes in marketing How to make a reliable ROI from your marketing Why the growth you seek is probably hiding in plain sight How to boost word of mouth and drive revenue on LinkedIn The only "hack" there is for growing a business What Bill would do to grow his business if he had to start all over again And much more! Resources Mentioned In This Episode: Visit BoomTime.com Listen to the B2B Word of Mouth Podcast Connect with Bill on LinkedIn Free Video Training! How To Get 5, 10, 15, 25 or More Predictable Sales Appointments Every Month, In Just 30 Minutes A Day (Without Cold Calling, Networking, Relying on Referrals or any of that stuff...) Make sure you grab this and all the other listener goodies by visiting... The Client Catching Podcast Listener Gift Page Happy Fishing!

Today on the show I’m joined by Field & Stream editor-at-large and and author Bill Heavey for a rambling exploration of the relevance of hunting, fishing, and foraging in the year 2020 and beyond. Topics discussed: What Bill's been doing outside during the COVID-19 lockdown Has hunting and fishing become more or less important given the current health crisis? What Bill still wants to do outdoors before the pandemic or anything else gets to him What to make of the renewed urgency to eat/live closer to the land How Bill's personal journey to get more of his food from hunting/fishing/forgaging has evolved over the years Tips for foraging for wild edibles  Eating goose eggs The relevance of hunting in the future Introducing kids to the outdoors Connect with Mark Kenyon and MeatEater Mark Kenyon  on Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch

Today on the show I’m joined by Field & Stream editor-at-large and and author Bill Heavey for a rambling exploration of the relevance of hunting, fishing, and foraging in the year 2020 and beyond. Topics discussed: What Bill's been doing outside during the COVID-19 lockdown Has hunting and fishing become more or less important given the current health crisis? What Bill still wants to do outdoors before the pandemic or anything else gets to him What to make of the renewed urgency to eat/live closer to the land How Bill's personal journey to get more of his food from hunting/fishing/forgaging has evolved over the years Tips for foraging for wild edibles  Eating goose eggs The relevance of hunting in the future Introducing kids to the outdoors Connect with Mark Kenyon and MeatEater Mark Kenyon  on Instagram , Twitter , and Facebook MeatEater on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube Shop MeatEater Merch

Bill Wooditch became the top selling salesperson at Liberty Mutual (the entire company) within TWO years. How? By using his style of qualifying prospects.One key that Bill reveals: if you're treating people like numbers, you're already losing. Learn what Bill does to start winning at the sales game.Bill now owns four companies, and is an author, speaker, and sales master. His book "Fail More" is available now.Chapters:00:50 - How Bill Wooditch qualifies prospects03:15 - The ONE thing you can't qualify with a prospect05:11 - The old-school trick Bill mastered06:00 - How Bill became Liberty Mutual’s top sales pro07:32 - What Bill loves about sales - and you should, too09:10 - The big lie sales managers tell their sales staffs12:10 - What you'll learn in Bill's book "Fail More"14:32 - What is an "Intra-preneur"?16:50 - Bill's daily advice to you17:25 – If you’re in sales, this is your top priority17:57 - Covid-19 got you down? Here is Bill's advice to you20:00 - Scared to sell right now? Bill says...24:07 - Why Bill always buys from the same people25:47 – Check your ego…or elseVisit Bill Wooditch's website: https://www.Wooditch.comhttps://www.BillWooditch.comMore marketing resources from TimLeave A Review & Subscribe On iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-market-anything/id1495561926Tim’s websites: https://www.MarketingWithTim.comhttps://www.MarketAnything.cohttps://www.TimBurtMedia.comhttps://www.SpeakerTim.comhttps://www.FreeGiftFromTim.com

Bill Ramsey is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and at 59-years-old, still climbs 5.14. We talked about his coffee addiction, his legendary training days and how he uses the treadwall, replicas, and the fingerboard, his two-part climbing career, favorite articles he’s written, and the crossover between philosophy and climbing.  Support on Patreon:patreon.com/thenuggetclimbing  Show Notes:  http://thenuggetclimbing.com/episodes/bill-ramsey  Nuggets:  1:47 – Skipping breakfast, one big meal per day, and red meat  3:35 – Fueling for a big training day  4:12 – How Bill’s legendary big training days came to be  7:20 – Shocking the body, and building the stamina to go all-day   9:03 – Coffee in bed  11:02 – Bill’s two-stage climbing career, how he started training for climbing, and self-coaching for the Marine Core Physical Fitness Test  15:01 – Climbing through the existing routes at the Red River Gorge, his first 5.14, climbing Omaha Beach and Transworld Depravity and playing a roll in the development of the Red and Smith Rock  19:39 – Feeling sorry for Alan and the wrongest Bill has ever been  22:32 – Climbing at the columns, Chris Jones, the contrivance rating system (C1-C4), and some of Alan’s one-handed ascents  26:44 – Focusing on academics and missing climbing and the climbing community  28:47 – What drew Bill to study philosophy  32:45 – Moving to Vegas and why Bill has never regretted making the move  37:20 – How Bill climbed all but one of his 26-27 5.14s after age 40 and   39:23 – Bill’s warmup and stretching routines  42:28 – How Bill combines training with projecting  43:58 – Bills hangboard routine  45:37 – Replicas, practicing the crux as the warmup, and comparing to gymnastics  47:51 – How Bill builds his replicas and makes custom holds  50:43 – Training on the treadwall, and why Bill thinks the treadwall is the most underutilized training tool for route climbers  55:31 – Targeting route lengths and ARCing with the treadwall  56:39 – Using the treadwall to work on climbing faster, and keeping a training journal  58:11 – Similar ingredients in each training day, Bill’s thoughts on training different energy systems, energy system training order, and why Bill doesn’t bother with skill training  1:01:33 – Training and simulating rest positions  1:03:07 – Opposition training and why Bill thinks ~85% of your training time should be climbing-specific  1:05:06 – Fingertip pullups and “finger ups”, and why Bill thinks both are beneficial  1:07:40 – Long duration (density) hangs  1:08:48 – An example of one of Bill’s legendary training days  1:09:35 – Being a local at 6 different crags, and trends and variation that Bill has noticed  1:12:09 – How Bill thinks about balancing building his route pyramid and quick ticks with big projects, his process on Jumbo Pumping Hate, and climbers as nerds trapped in athlete bodies  1:17:47 – The hidden secrets that routes have, Apollo 13, and problem solving  1:20:13 – Tinkering with new beta, and committing to trying 100% every try  1:23:44 – Bill’s writing, his article defending chipping, ‘The Day I Sent Golden’ and writing the forward to the new Smith Rock guidebook  1:28:16 – What Bill is most grateful for  1:29:38 – Crossover between philosophy and climbing  1:30:24 – ‘The Truth and Lies of Climbing’, climbing Separate Reality, and realizing they weren’t that far off from the top  1:35:52 – Bill and Alan’s influence on one another, why Bill feels so fortunate for his path through life and climbing, and feeling like Forest Gump  1:38:52 – Plans for a round 2 interview with Bill and Alan and the welcoming Vegas climbing community  

Welcome to today’s show!   WHAT WE’LL LEARN:   Bill talks about his drinking becoming a problem at age 40 but it wasn’t until his 50’s that he reached out for help What Bill found helpful regarding the intensive outpatient program structure What Bill felt was scary about going to a support group for the first time Bill goes through the motivational tools found in Smart Recovery Bill’s wife receives a diagnosis of stage 4 cancer and he explains how the program helped him with those intense feelings like morning the loss of a  loved one Bill talks about how one can tell if SMART is right for you How does one’s faith or religious belief system fit into Smart Recovery What Bill’s message is to family members who struggle with a loved one battling addiction RESOURCES MENTIONED   www.smartrecovery.org (check out the meeting locator) Friends and Family Meetings A.I.R. Private Facebook Group        For more info, head over to atheistsinrecovery.com and subscribe to our email list. And thank you for listening!   Leave an honest review on ITUNES.  Your ratings and reviews really help and I read each one.   Subscribe to the A.I.R. newsletter where you will learn to identify patterns of dysfunctional thinking, change the dysfunctional thinking into something more positive, and find hope in recovery.

Bill Madder, who has been in the real estate industry for over 40 years, never thought he’d be the one giving his dog fleas. Now, instead of hosting fleas, Bill has lessons from a diverse background in real estate – and is excited to share and continue contributing positively to the industry. Bill put in the work and knows the value of a quality sphere of influence, necessary change, strong leadership, and compassion. Listen in to learn what Bill did in response to a budget-cut solution - and hear about the time his association president was asked how he liked to be spooned.  Please subscribe to this podcast in iTunes or in the Podcasts App on your phone, and never miss a beat from Leigh by visiting leighbrown.com. If you’re tired of doing real estate alone, enroll in  Leigh Brown University and be sure to use your special “CSIRE” discount code at checkout for $10 off your subscription. Time Stamped Show Notes: 01:30 – Introducing Bill; he’s been in the business for over 40 years in Manitoba, Canada 03:00 - He’s been in real estate since he left college, struggled at the beginning as a young REALTORⓇ, and moved into management, partnership, and Presidency 04:26 - He went to the association side in 1993 and excelled from there as CEO; he’s happily not working there anymore due to a merger 05:50 - He’s looking for a job and is happy to find a position on a board 07:10 – What Bill learned in his first tough years of real estate 07:17 - Your sphere of influence is critical for your success; he didn’t have one when he first started out, as his network was only young college-aged people  07:45 - He went to his friend’s parents and family friends; at that time, interest rates were at 17-21% and they found other ways to put deals together 08:30 - He cold-called and door-knocked; he did listing presentations and did the daily work 10:10 – What he thinks about moving people past the resistance to change 10:30 - Trust in leadership is necessary; a strong orientation at the beginning is important 12:15 – Bill’s answer to life 12:45 - You have to be able to get along with people, and not everyone is the same in the way they react and think 13:50 - Think of your board of directors and leadership as a team; members or clients are who you work for 16:10 – Bill’s CSIRE story 16:35 - He was showing a rental property that was a referral from his boss; a highly-respected couple needed to rent a place while theirs was being built 17:25 - He walked into the rental property and the couple started saying that there was something wrong 17:50 - They looked down, and from feet to ankles they were covered in fleas; fleas had taken over the house 18:05 - They ended up invading his house and they needed an exterminator; he still sometimes sees the man who had toured the house with him 20:00 – Lessons learned and takeaways 20:20 - He did the right thing at the time and helped the people find a rental property despite the fact that there’s not much profit in rentals 20:50 - The man who toured is an elected official now, but he was in a different place then; he was treated with compassion regardless 21:00 – Another CSIRE story 21:05 - He listed a property for $12,900; it was a house with appliances that needed work 12:38 - Less than 6 months later, the couple that bought the house referred him to their friend with a $150,000 house 22:00 – Lessons learned and takeaways 22:07 - Especially when first starting out, you should take every listing and not worry about the value; you don’t know what can become of it 22:20 – Another CSIRE story 22:45 - Volunteers put in a lot of travel time; there were two cases where the president and vice president became a couple 23:30 - One of the two couples is still together today; Bill said he wishes he would’ve known so they could save money on the room reimbursement 24:10 – Another CSIRE story 24:24 - The association was looking at expenses and looking to cut costs; he considered having people share rooms for travel 25:00 - He sent the president a comic strip that talked about cutting travel expenses and it said, “Do you spoon on the right or on the left?” 25:08 - The issue was never raised again 25:30 – How to reach Bill: email him at billmadder@gmail.com, call/text 306-220-9570, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter 3 Key Points 1.)   Are you willing to do the work? 2.) Get along with people and understand that everyone is different. 3.) Look after your people!

Bill McCormick has learned to leverage LinkedIn lead generation in a way that is both productive and efficient. In a world where it’s easy to get lost in social media and get distracted by shiny things, how does he stay focused? How does he use LinkedIn as a social selling tool and not a hindrance? Find out in this episode of Sales Reinvented! Bill McCormick and his wife launched their Digital Sales Course in 2017—geared towards helping businesses leverage LinkedIn to build relationships. Now, he is the VP and LinkedIn Strategist for Social Sales Link. He’s become a master of social selling tactics. He joins Paul to lend his expertise. Don’t miss it! Outline of This Episode [0:20] Bill McCormick joins Paul! [1:10] What is productivity? [1:45] Why aren’t sales professionals productive? [3:40] Steps to improve day-to-day productivity [5:30] Attributes of a productive salesperson [6:40] Tools, tactics, and strategies to increase productivity [9:00] Top 3 Do’s and Top 3 Don’ts [11:50] Bill’s favorite productivity story A lack of productivity is akin to being busy and broke According to Bill, “We need to put systems in place to be consistent with activities that will lead to desired outcomes”. If you’re a sales professional, that means making sales, signing contracts, and having money in your pocket. If you aren’t doing those things, you’re the equivalent of busy and broke.  Bill points out that there are more productivity tools available than ever before, but unless you use them properly, they just become further distractions. So how do you refocus? How do you make the switch from doing busywork to engaging in productive work? Improve day-to-day productivity by implementing systems Bill’s answer is to implement systems to obtain sales goals. He quoted James Clear, saying that “We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems”. Salespeople are good at setting lofty goals, but productivity will suffer if they don’t have steps in place to reach those goals.  For example, Bill shares some tips from his daily morning routine. His job is selling social selling to other companies (his speciality is LinkedIn). So every day he checks his LinkedIn notifications. He looks to see who looked at his profile or interacted with his content. He makes connections, all the while keeping his end goal in mind.  You must have boldness, persistence, and tenacity to be a productive and effective sales professional. Bill points out that without those attributes, you’ll make it a nanosecond in the sales world.  The largest enemy of a sales professional is inconsistency Bill further breaks down his systems strategy by setting daily goals that you carry out consistently. You need to get into a rhythm, a cadence. Above all, he points out you shouldn’t wing it. Don’t start your day saying, “Hmm, maybe I’ll do this today”. Write down the goals you want to achieve that day and break them down into manageable chunks. Bill prefers to set timers for various activities so he devotes a set amount of time for each thing without getting distracted. He does the same things consistently, day in and day out.  Always ask the question, “What system can I put in place to reach my daily goals?”. Do you do cold-calling? Do you have a system in place to obtain phone numbers and contacts? How will you make those calls? If you nail down each step of your process and create a system, you will become more productive.  Leveraging lead generation on LinkedIn It’s no secret that Bill is passionate about LinkedIn, after all—he’s made a career of it. When he and his wife first launched their business, they were looking for the best way to get in front of decision-makers. What Bill found was that Linked in was like having someone’s Rolodex. An endless list of connections, online, completely free. They started making connections and reaching out to businesses on LinkedIn. 30-35% of those communications led to an appt. Of that percentage, they closed 30-40% of those meetings. Bill calculated last year that approximately $450,000 of their closed sales were leads generated on LinkedIn.  LinkedIn was the key to their success. It can be your greatest productivity tool with the right systems and cadence in place. To hear their full conversation, make sure to listen to the whole episode! Resources & People Mentioned Atomic Habits by James Clear LinkedIn Connect with Bill McCormick LinkedIn Twitter Connect With Paul Watts  LinkedIn Twitter Subscribe to SALES REINVENTED Audio Production and Show notes by PODCAST FAST TRACK https://www.podcastfasttrack.com

Episode 221 takes the show to Austin, Texas. We chat with Ryan Rodenbeck, Owner/Broker of Spyglass Realty. Ryan is dominating his market with dynamic social media marketing, including live and recorded video. He is launching a new podcast called Realty Hack in early 2020. We created a dual episode, something new for me. Listen in as I get the tables turned on me and Ryan closes the episode by interviewing me!   Show Notes Episode 221 - Ryan Rodenbeck of Spyglass Realty Ryan Rodenbeck got his start in sales, pivoting as an entrepreneur, he got his start in real estate. Later, after thoughtful maneuvering, he went on to become one of the top producing agents in Austin, TX. Listen in as he shares some of the magic behind his success. Hear his best practices for social media, what CRM tools are in his tech stack and his tips on recruiting and developing talent.   "... I've been very, very careful because you know, I see a lot of these brokerages that have 50 agents and you know, half of them do zero or under $2 million. I just don't want that.” - Ryan   Top Takeaways: Ryan Rodenbeck's Advice for New Agents: New agents need 3 things: Systems Training Leads Get out & network! “Get out to conferences, man, I mean, no one dishes on the scoop of what they're doing. More than a Top Producing agent at a bar. Okay, buy someone a drink.” - Ryan   Pro hack for a winning brand name:   “If you're thinking about starting a brokerage and you want to pick a name, pick a name of a street in your city that is well known, but not too well known. “ Ryan Episode Highlights:   [00:55] Intro  [03:09] Ryan's start in real estate. [08:34] How Spyglass Realty got its name. [09:29] Developing systems & a strong team. [12:43] Ryan's thoughts on Jon Cheplak as a coach. [13:49] Mastering social media marketing. [16:12] The MLS committee board shakeup [17:51] Ryan's tech stack and top lead generation tools.  [20:00] Ryan's advice for new agents.  [21:32] Ryan's podcasting debut [22:01] What Bill does for Fidelity. [24:10] What makes a successful podcast? [26:13] What to avoid with your podcast? [28:15] Top guests & favorite episodes. [30:54] Best advice from Bill's guests. [34:19] Outro. Resources Mentioned:   Follow up Boss Broker Flow BombBomb TRES Episode 5- Sean Carpenter TRES Episode 170- Matt Beall TRES Episode 219- Mark Davidson TRES Episode 198- Paul Mydelski TRES Episode 184- Joe Rand TRES Episode 144- Jeff Sibbach and Phil Sexton TRES Episode 215- Dan Stewart     Connect:   Find | THE REAL ESTATE SESSIONS At Tresonline.com   Find | Bill Risser At bill.risser@fnf.com On Twitter On Facebook On Youtube   Find | Ryan Rodenbeck At ryan@spyglassrealty.com On Facebook On Instagram SUBSCRIBE    On Apple Podcasts On Google Podcasts On Stitcher 

About the Episode On this episode, I'm joined by exceptional lender, highly successful mortgage entrepreneur and originator, and good friend, Bill Gaylord. With almost 30 years in the mortgage business under his belt, Bill has not only built one of the most successful partnerships in the mortgage business, but his company consistently brings in as much as $55 million in a month and originate over 900 loans in a year. In our business, it's very unique for successful partnerships that aren't multi-generational family businesses or husband and wife teams. What Bill and his partner Sam Hansen have achieved is an incredible feat, and it's something so many agents and loan officers can learn from.    Bill has been in the real estate industry since 1986 and in the mortgage industry since 1993. He has always been on winning teams including being a member of the 1980 National Championship University of Arizona Baseball Team. He is nationally recognized within the mortgage industry speaking and training throughout the country. Since inception in 2009, the Gaylord-Hansen Team at loanDepot has closed over $2.8Billion in loan volume closing over 8,500 transactions.   As we gear up for 2020, and set our businesses up to grow in a market where a lot is changing; we have to think about our relationships with consumers and customers. We need to build operations that allow us to get to the consumer faster than before. This means we need to stay top of mind, and never fall asleep behind the wheel. Even when the year is ending, and it's tempting to slow down and relax, this is when we should intensify and take advantage. That way, when the new year begins, we are firing on all cylinders.  In Today's Episode, We Talk About;   - Bill Gaylord's story and journey starting in mortgage in 1992.  - Why Bill's business partnership works so well and building a business that does over 925 loans a year.  - Bill's tips for finding a good business partner.  - Strategies for building relationships in 2019.  - How Bill uses his business as a platform to help the community.   - Bill's top tips for living a kick ass life.  Guest Info   Bill is a Mortgage expert, and co-founder of Gaylord-Hanson. He has been in the real estate industry since 1986 and in the mortgage industry since 1993. He has always been on winning teams including being a member of the 1980 National Championship University of Arizona Baseball Team. He is nationally recognized within the mortgage industry speaking and training throughout the country. Since inception in 2009, the Gaylord-Hansen Team at loanDepot has closed over $2.8Billion in loan volume closing over 8,500 transactions.    Website: https://gaylordhansen.com/ 

Since the 1980s Bill Marrin has been one of supply chain’s most important thinkers. He has worked for innovative start ups as well as Eastman Kodak, and has worked closely with companies like Apple and Adobe to help improve product delivery as the print and publishing industry adopted networked services in the 1990s. As Bill says, “We were doing cloud before cloud computing was cool.” In 2007, Bill joined World 50, an invitation-only peer organization that provides a forum for C-level executives at the world’s top companies to exchange ideas in pursuit of growth. The supply chain subgroup, Supply Chain 50, was started by Bill. Connect with Bill on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bill-marrin/ ⏲️Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 – Richard's introduction to today's show and Supply Chain Next 02:00 – Bill's background as a supply chain professional 05:30 – The economic similarities between the 1980's and today 07:00 – What Bill learned from the dot-com crash 10:00 – Why supply chain wasn't integrated within the leadership of organizations until recently 13:00 – How the Supply50 group has evolved over the years 15:00 – What makes supply chain special to Bill 18:30 – How supply chain priorities have shifted toward innovation over the years 21:00 – Why the roles of supply chain professionals have expanded over time 24:30 – How Bill defines the digitization of supply chain 29:30 – The biggest factor stopping businesses from adopting digital supply chain practices 33:00 – Why supply chain functions are very similar across industries 36:00 – The security and data challenges large organizations face today 39:00 – How businesses should think about data science within the supply chain context 43:00 – Why companies struggle with the intake of accurate asset data 47:30 – Where Bill sees a massive opportunity in the supply chain of retail 50:00 – Why Bill thinks fast moving businesses will continue to win long-term 55:00 – The reason legacy workforces are holding supply chain organizations back 58:00 – How leaders can build succesful teams in 2019 and beyond

  Do you need help investing in real estate? Do you understand how to grow, scale, and profitably build your company into the business that you want it to be? You're in luck! I've been working for the past several years with some of the most successful real estate investors in the industry and from around the country. Names such as Andy McFarland and Bill Allen, along with myself, have built a program called "Seven Figure Flipping." This exclusive mastermind and coaching program is designed to get you and your business to the next level. Interested in finding out more? Email me at Mike@juststartrealestate.com with the subject line "help," and we'll get on a call together to see if this program is a good fit for you and your business.   In this episode, I chat with and interview a friend of mine, Bill Allen. I've had Bill on my show previously, check out my other interviews with Bill to get even more great information on real estate investing. Bill is a successful real estate investor that managed to build an extremely impressive business while working a full-time job in a very short amount of time. He's one of the smartest investors I've ever met. In addition to chatting with Bill about how he created his real estate portfolio, I'll also show you why the most common objections people use as an excuse for not being able to create a real estate-based business. Bill looked into flipping real estate for a secondary source of income and completed his first flip while he was stationed in Maryland in the Air Force. He joined the 7 Figure Real Estate group and made more money than he had ever hoped. Bill is looking for a 40% to 50% growth in numbers from last year to this year.   Bill talks about how his future goal to be around for his children and how real estate was going to be a part of his more significant goal. He talks about how you need to be passionate about accomplishing your intention to stay focused on your real estate growth. Concentrate on your why early on to stay on task to complete your goal. In the first year, he flipped over 60 homes.   Objection: I'm not able to create a real estate business if I have a full-time job. Not true! Bill was able to make a seven-figure income while working his full-time military position.   Bill looks at marketing, similar to fishing. He has a net and throws the net over a large area of the lake. To accomplish reaching many people, he spent $3000 a month for six months for a direct mail campaign. To generate the income you want, you need to go all-in, which is what Bill took action on when he started his real estate business. Bill's market is made of 350,000 people with a response rate of 3%, which is good for direct mail. One aspect of Bill's marketing was to delegate by hiring an assistant who would perform tasks needed to run the business, such as lead delegation, answering phones, and various accounting duties.   If you don't have the capital Bill has to put into your marketing, you can still run an effective marketing campaign with these suggestions: network and speak to others, go with wholesalers to deals, learn the trade and make deals, get a list that is pre-foreclosure or tax-delinquent, drive around on trash day (to see who is not putting their trash out) and write down the address of homes without owners and research these homes. You can put more time into your business if you don't have a large budget for marketing.   Listen in to find out and how Bill and I both built our teams, how and what worked for Bill and me when delegating work to other members of his team, Bill's marketing campaign plans, and when to run your company from a higher role. Also, Bill explains how and when he decided to work more at a C-level position and how he started to work smarter instead of harder.   In This Episode: [04:04] Bill introduces himself, how he started in the business. [07:22] What are the initial items or actions Bill used to get started in real estate. [10:59] Bill’s early realizations about flipping real estate transactions. [14:06] Your job is to figure out what is the best way to monetize or exit your property. [14:56] What type of marketing did Bill create in the past and what marketing is Bill currently implementing for his real estate business? [22:32] How Bill delegated his work and time for different tasks to build his real estate business. [24:21] Exponential marketing growth and how I invested in my marketing. [25:30] Bill’s suggestion for marketing on a smaller scale budget. [29:20] Reevaluate how you are spending your time if you don’t have time OR money to invest in your new business. [30:08] How Bill and I build our teams from the ground up. [35:58] Who should you hire first and what tasks should you outsource? [40:36] When working with real estate, create a company, not just a job for yourself. [43:12] At what point can you afford to work on your company instead of in your company? [46:10] What Bill’s day currently typically looks like after over three years in his business. [49:30] Seven Figure Flipping is about giving and sharing your success with others. [53:07] Come and check out Flip Hacking Live (link in resources below).   Links and Resources Just Start Real Estate on the Web Just Start Real Estate Coaching Get in Touch with Mike at Just Start Real Estate Flip Hacking Live Beyond Profit: Bill Allen Shares His Story Black Jack Real Estate

Incorporating philanthropy into your finances isn’t a requirement, but it is fulfilling and easily achievable if you happen to be charitably inclined. Today's guest, Bill Hawke, has been a financial planner for over 38 years and actively encourages practicing philanthropy. Bill shares his top strategies to get involved in giving and how to incorporate philanthropy into your family practices. To learn more about how you can charitably give and still live according to your goals, tune into this episode of Your Best Financial Life.  Show Highlights:  What Bill does and how he fell into his career  What a donor advised fund is and how it works  Instilling philanthropic ideals from childhood   Making incremental contributions over time  Transitioning from running a boys’ home to becoming a financial planner  Helping others find satisfaction and happiness in their lives  Reconciling different aspects of life to fulfill all of your goals Getting people involved in giving by asking the right questions  Helping charitably inclined people contribute to giving within in their comfortability  Why a beneficiary can be a good beneficial option  Top strategies that are put into place with new clients  Strategies that get overlooked but can be impactful  Sources that have positively influenced Bill    Links:  Sources Mentioned:  A Complaint Free World   Contact Bill:  https://cedarbrookfinancial.com

Bill started Bright Property Solutions in 2017 at the ripe young age of 71. He and his partner, Joanne, have grown the business to over $1M per year by buying and selling residential properties on terms in the DC/Baltimore area. Bill's plan is to grow the company to $3M per year by 2020, and then will try to scale back from his 14-hour days to spend more time with his family–including nine grandchildren from his two sons–and indulging in his passions for traveling to different countries throughout the world. What you'll learn about in this episode: How the 2008 economic crash left Bill starting over, after 40 years in the commercial real estate business How becoming an associate with Chris's family business has been significantly different from Bill's time in commercial real estate What Bill finds appealing about being an associate, and what support he receives from Chris and the family business Why Bill is confident that he will be able to hit $1 million dollars in his first year in business under Chris's program How Bill is able to operate in the higher-end market, and why more affluent sellers need to sell quickly too Why Bill is expanding his business by hiring others, including a former seller he completed a deal with Why Bill recommends books by Bob Proctor, Napoleon Hill, Dr. Joe Vitale, Grant Cardone, Darren Hardy, and others What big projects Bill has in the works, including launching an Airbnb rental business What advice Bill would recommend for investors who may be questioning themselves or looking to get started on the right foot Why having the right mentor is critical for helping you learn from the mistakes you're going to make anyway Additional resources: Telephone: (202) 765-0060 Chris Prefontaine's Free Webinar: www.smartrealestatecoach.com

Bill D'Alessandro believes that one of the most fulfilling things in life is working on hard things with smart people. The allure of the 4-hour work-week mentality can easily take over when starting out as an ecommerce entrepreneur, but might not be the smartest tactic for all businesses. There is now a trend gearing businesses towards something more lasting. Bill was living the 4-hour work week dream until he decided to change it up and “grow up” in his business. Since having made the decision to hire, Bill has seen business grow as his company, Element Brands, grows. He's now able to step away less often but more easily because he runs his business with quality people, that he pays well, and who are motivated to help him grow. Bill is based in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently owns a portfolio of nearly 10 e-commerce sites primarily focused on household goods and personal care. Though Bill started the entrepreneur life as a digital nomad, he recently made the the switch to a corporate warehouse/office location in Charlotte and has 22 full time employees. Episode Highlights: The building of the Elements portfolio and how that process came about. Using in-house vs. a broker for brand acquisition. How Bill came to the choice of creating this more traditional business style. What Bill's typical day is like. An example of when an employee saved Bill money as a result of their loyalty to the company. How the structure allows Bill to disconnect thanks to the competent team he has in place. Tips on hiring, vetting, and finding the cream of the crop. Bill's own hiring process. Preferences for outsourcing people vs in-house training them. Noncompetes Bill has in place and how they work well for him. There are plenty of people out there interested in not being entrepreneurs but are interested in helping build great brands. Transcription: Mark: Okay one of the most popular business books that I can remember coming out in the past 15 years has been the 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. And I'm going to admit I was a little annoyed when this book came out because all of a sudden everybody tried to become Tim Ferriss juniors where they were having their 2-hours per week that they were setting aside to answer e-mails and take phone calls. And so if I needed to reach out to them they would explain to me … they would say well I only answer e-mails during this time or I only take phone calls during this time and of course if it didn't work with my schedule tough luck because they had their 4-hour workweek and they only had half of that dedicated to e-mails. And I think a lot of people went to that 4-hour workweek. During that time there was this allure of I can sit on the beach, I can take vacations and have this business that's completely automated. That still has some allure today but more and more I hear people talking about being grownups in their business. Changing the way that they're going about their business, hiring staffs instead of just doing pure outsourcing, building something that's a little bit more lasting than what we've seen with some of that 4-hour workweek sort of business structure. So, Joe, I know you talked to a friend of ours Bill D'Alessandro. He was living that dream of the 4-hour workweek for a long time and then so to speak and Bill I would not say that you are a kid by any means but he grew up in business. Joe: Yeah, he did and let me say right now folks that I'm having my house power washed so you're going to hear the people in the background. Mark: That's why I was talking so long I was hoping that it would stop but it did not stop. Joe: We're all entrepreneurs, right? Life of an entrepreneur, I'm working from home. These guys already took a lunch break and they're back and so you're going to hear them every now and then. Anyway lunch … I had lunch with Bill D'Alessandro. He lives in Charlotte … I live just north of Charlotte a couple of months ago and we were talking … Bill just got married and we were talking about the honeymoon and he said yeah no it was great because I hardly checked in. I was gone for two weeks and I hardly checked in at all. And then he goes back when I was a digital nomad I went to the same country, the same beach, but I felt like I had to work all the time because it was me and me only. I had to tell my VAs what to do and I had to do certain things every day. On this vacation I turned it all off because I had good quality people working for me, running my business while I was away on my honeymoon and I was making money. And it just sort of clicked. Like you said, you just said grown up right? And that's really… I mean it is what it is but you don't mean it to be and I don't mean it to be offensive to those that choose not to run a business that way. I've sold many businesses where there's one owner operator and that's it doing his thing. Look at that you can actually see the people power washing in my window in the background. Mark: You know what it looks like? It looks like a scene from Oceans 12 where the guys on the background can really be is just setting up a big con on you Joe. You better look out. I hope you did a background check on these guys. Joe: It's hilarious they actually have giant trash bags on and just the holes cut out for the sleeves. And literally, I've got a house … the entire house right now they're choosing to do right in front of my office in the windows outside. So if you want to see it and see the trash bag folks go to the actual video instead of just listening to the audio. Mark: And we'll make sure we put this one video up; at least this clip. Joe: At least this clip. Anyway, it just sort of … it was an epiphany with … Bill has an interesting story. I first learned about him back in 2015 in Savannah at the eCommerceFuel event and Darren was there with us; Darren Harden a former broker at Quiet Light. [inaudible 00:04:19.8] Joe you got to meet this guy he's raised like 20 million dollars and he's building a portfolio of e-commerce companies. I don't know if that dollar amount was right. I didn't feel the need to ask but I got a tour of Bill's facility down there in Charlotte. He's got an actual warehouse. He ships it all himself. He's got rack space, he's got staff, he's got warehouse employees that he pays really well and they found ways to make him more money by cutting costs. And that's really what this is all about, it doesn't make sense to outsource all of this stuff two of 3PL, two VAs or does it make more sense for you in your business to bring it out in-house and run it and go to work every day, take vacations and not worry about it because you've got good people in place to do the job for you. Mark: Yeah, he talked on this topic if I remember right at eCommerceFuel last year and let's give a shout out to Andrew Youderian from eCommerceFuel Live. Anybody that is in e-commerce I always recommend, take a look at eCommerceFuel as a community to join. That's a fantastic community. But he gave this talk in eCommerceFuel Live and I remember being struck by it because it was something that we haven't been hearing. And I'm going to double down on what you said, Joe, if you choose that lifestyle sort of business which was the business where you are running just remotely and maybe not four hours but maybe eight hours a week that's a really good and viable option as well. I think a lot depends on your personal priorities but sometimes we'd look down at those businesses that require an office and going in and having employees and stuff like that. It is a really good alternative as well for a lot of people. I'm interested to listen to this one. Again hear what Bill has to say about this and kind of how he made that transition over to a fully staffed business. Joe: I'll tell you right now there's no doubt we'll have Bill back on some day and we'll be talking about his 50, 60, 70 million dollar exit because that's the path that he's going down. Now quickly before we go to that Mark we talked about eCommerceFuel, we talked about Rhodium, right now I'll just name three or four other conferences that we're going to and then we'll go right to the podcast. Mark: We can actually name them. So Prosper Show is coming up if you do anything with Amazon … that's in March and if you do anything with Amazon go to Prosper Show for sure. We're going to have a presence at T&C at Traffic & Conversion. Joe: San Diego in February. Mark: That's right and then we're going to be doing Blue Ribbon Mastermind with Ezra Firestone; an awesome marketer. Everybody knows who Ezra is. We're going to be at that event as well. Joe: Miami in January, there's one more in there right? Mark: Capitalism.com absolutely … Ryan Moran's conference. We're going to be there and I'm looking forward to that as well. That's in Texas right? Joe: Yes, it's going to be in Dallas. So we've had Ryan on, we've had Ezra on, we've had [inaudible 00:07:01.8] on, we've had James on; we've had them all on. They're great folks and we'll be at each of those conferences and we'd love to get together with you guys for dinner, for an event that we might put on, something along those lines. Please let us know if you're going to go to those conferences so we can connect. Mark: Sounds great. Joe: All right, off to the podcast. Joe: Hey, folks, it's Joe Valley from Quiet Light Brokerage and on today's podcast, I've got Bill D'Alessandro. A lot of folks from eCommerceFuel know Bill very well. Bill is from the Charlotte area right here in North Carolina and owns a portfolio of e-commerce sites and is a regular guest on the eCommerceFuel podcast. Bill, how are you today? Bill: Doing well Joe. Good to see you, man. Joe: You too man, you too. So I saw you a couple of months ago, I got a nice tour of the warehouse and you're moving to a much much bigger one. And we talked a little bit about your experience and what you've gone through over the last several years but I want you to tell the folks that are listening who you are and what you do and give them a little bit of background. So we can start with that and then we'll go from there. Bill: Yeah, sure. So for the folks that don't know me … Hi, my name is Bill D'Alessandro. I'm the CEO and founder of Elements Brands. Elements Brands is a portfolio of consumer products brands. We focus on what we call household goods and personal care. So that's everything from sunscreen, shampoo, body lotion, lip balm, laundry detergent; all sorts of things like that. We own nine brands today and are under LOI to acquire a 10th. I started life as sort of your classic 4-hour workweek digital nomad entrepreneur but since then the business has evolved and I've kind of made a conscious choice. And now we're located … Elements Brands is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. We have as of this day of recording 22 full time employees and growing. And as Joe mentioned we are moving into a new 51,000 square foot office/warehouse kind of facility. So it's a far cry from my early digital nomad days. Joe: Yeah, it's definitely a far cry but one of the things that was interesting is that you kind of have more freedom in terms of when you want to take off from work. You can take off, turn your phone off and you've got a great staff there. So let's talk a little bit about that. I want to talk a little first though Bill about how you managed to build a portfolio of nine brands and you've got one under LOI. Did you start with one small brand and kept adding them on? Did you raise some funds? Did you go to family and friends? How did that work out for you? What was your process? Bill: Yeah. So I started the 1st brand in 2010. I got it up to low hundreds of thousands of revenue; basically just enough to fund my digital nomad lifestyle. And at that point … you know I kind of did that for a while, and I realized that as I wrote on my blog Thailand will not make you happy. And I realize that it was fun but you go to Thailand, you sit on the beach and you're still you. You're sitting with you on the beach and all of your hopes, dreams, aspirations, problems, demons; all those things come with you to Thailand. And I also felt like I was kind of wasting my potential. So I thought all right how do I make this thing a lot bigger? And I come from an investment banking and M&A background so my thinking was I know how to run an e-commerce brand, I also know there are a bunch of people out there selling e-commerce brands, why don't I go buy … I mean roll them up onto a single platform. So that led to our 1st acquisition in 2013 for which I basically used my entire life savings at the time and borrowed some money. And we bought that company and then in 2015 basically based on cash flow from the 1st one and we bought the 2nd one in 2015. And then we bought two in 2016. Then we bought another one in 2017. And then as I mentioned we'll do another acquisition this year. So … and then also I was fortunate enough doing work with you to sell one of my other distracting side businesses too so I can focus on Elements Brands full time. Joe: Yeah. You know it's funny because I don't think we've mentioned that at all when we had lunch a few weeks ago. You've built these brands and we have a relationship … Quiet Light Brokerage is a business brokerage firm but we haven't sold any of these to you. You've sourced most of these deals on your own through building networks and buying smaller troubled brands and turning them around directly for the most case wouldn't you say? Bill: Yeah for the most part we … you're always number one in my heart Joe but we do talk occasionally with some other brokers who shall not be named. And we also have fulltime staff here at Elements that is going out calling brands all the time to see if they're interested in selling and to see if Elements Brands would be a good home for them. I have a guy and he's an ex private equity guy and he spends his all day every day talking to new brands. Joe: So let me say right now, anybody that's listening, you can go to ElementsBrands.com and find Bill and his staff. If you've got a household brand of … what size Bill? Does it matter what size if they've got something that might be a good fit do you think they should reach it out to you? Bill: Yes, so we look at basically between half a million to a million in revenue in the low end to probably about 10 million on revenue on the high end. Joe: Got you. Now if you want to save Bill the trouble call me and I'll put together a great package and then I'll call Bill. Bill: Exactly which we actually love Joe. Because on a lot of times when the seller does have a broker, it makes the whole thing go a lot more smoothly so call Joe first. Joe: The guys at 101 commerce, RJ Jalichandra from 101, they're buying literally 101 FBA businesses. He said the same thing on a panel of buyers a couple of months ago at the Brand Builders Summit. He said look we've done this, we've done a lot, we'd prefer to work with a broker because all the vetting is done, the package is put together. It makes our buying process much smoother and much quicker. So please go with a broker and they're going to choose a select few that they'll work with and that's it. It does make it quicker for you guys for sure. Why don't we talk about a little bit of the advantages of a guy like yourself who I have to classify as a grown up in a sense. And I say that in the nicest possible way in putting myself down because I'm sitting here in my home office and I have no employees. None of us do at Quiet Light. We're all independent contractors brokering from different parts of the country in some cases we all live here talking to Bryan. He's usually in a different location. You, on the other hand, you've got 21, 22 employees that you are responsible for. You have a warehouse, you have offices. You are building a real business that maybe someday components of it will be sold off to private equity or the entire thing will be. How was that choice other than you just saying you're limiting your potential by not doing it, how has that choice come to and what has it been like for your lifestyle as opposed to that 4-hour workweek that you started off with. Bill: Yeah so it was very intentional. I'm sitting here in my office right now and to my left here are 22 folks. I've just got my door closed in recording with you but I come in every day. I'm in typically before nine o'clock and I leave at six-ish. I take lunch. I only work about a mile off from my house. I kind of … the realization came to me while I was doing the digital nomad thing that one of the most fulfilling things in life is working on the hard things with smart people. And you know just as humans we love to solve hard challenges and it's really rewarding to succeed with other people. And I realize that as a digital nomad a lot of the times I was working with VAs or contractors who were basically just pictures on Upwork profiles to simplify but I didn't really have a relationship with these people and they … even if I had a full time VA I couldn't grab a beer with them after work. And frankly when you're hiring VAs oftentimes you're operating on a shoestring and there's a language barrier and you're generally … and I will generalize here but I will say if you are operating a whole business on VAs and you may love your VAs but there's a whole other level of caliber of employee that is out there that you've closed yourself off to because you're not willing to give them a W2 and health insurance and their office that they're meant to. A lot of really really brilliant people want that. Joe: Can you give an example of that? I know that we talked a little bit about your warehouse workers and how you pay them higher than average, there's no turnover and they find ways to save you money and increase your profit. Can you give an example of maybe what we talked about there? I don't remember the specific details … a thing to do with honestly this cardboard boxes so- Bill: Yeah. Joe: [inaudible 00:15:12.13] I might have tuned out a little but the overall picture was you took care of your people and you paid them well. They appreciated it and I think that they saved you a fair amount of money just by being loyal to you. Bill: Yeah so Joe what you're referring to is we do all of our own warehouse and logistic. So instead of using a 3PL, we've got a warehouse and we've got a crew here that packs boxes. We ship them out of here. And if I talk to other e-commerce entrepreneurs either A. they outsourced their 3PL and complain about how much their 3PL sucks. Or they operate their own warehouse and complain about turnover and how hard it is to manage a warehouse. So going into it we pay our folks here in the warehouse easily 30 to 40 or more percent more than the minimum wage that they can get somewhere else. And occasionally we bring temps in and they go oh my God for less money I was putting chickens in bags in an unconditioned warehouse last week this is amazing. And we've had … unfortunate to say because we pay well we have had zero turnovers in our warehouse. And our warehouse crew they're not packing Elements Brands orders in between packing other companies orders. So they're thinking about our problems all day. And we had our warehouse manager, she came to me and said I've been looking at the way all the laundry detergent comes in on pallets and I think it's not optimal. If we switch from eight packs to 12 packs I can fit X% more bags on a pallet and stack it higher and use more the footprint and it's going to save us 20 plus percent shipping per bag. And we did it and we saved five figures because of that. And a 3PL would never do that for you or a VA that is not physically present could never see that stuff and even notice it. What I love about having employees is having people that think about Elements Brands all day every day. Like they think about it in the shower, think about it on their commute to work, like it's the thing that they do. It's their job and their career and they want to be good at it so I just love it a lot. Joe: So by taking care of them and putting a good environment together, a good employment package for them what does it do for you and the other folks that are focused on building the brands and building a larger portfolio? Are you able to put more focus on that and less nitty gritty on some of the other things? Bill: Yeah I mean I at this point … so I just went on my honeymoon that for two weeks we went ironically to Thailand. Joe: You sat on the beach but you weren't alone, that's good. Bill: Yeah so I'm not alone I was [inaudible 00:17:39.6] yeah thanks. And while I was there you know I was halfway around the world and spotty cell service and I was basically fully disconnected and the team ran the business in a fully … to use a digital nomad term fully automated way. But it's not automated because I've got 22 people that come in here and they want to be good at their jobs. And they've got their own managers who come in to work every day and see them and if they don't come and there's … everybody says hey where are you I didn't see you today, is your stock end gone? So for me, I found that when I was working with VAs because there is no senior person who the buck stops with, that person is you. You can never really unplug. You might be able to travel or you might be able to unplug for a week but when you unplug for a week everything kind of stops; like nothing moves forward. It might be in stasis but nothing moves forward. So when I was gone for two weeks I came back and we had launched the targeting marketing campaigns and we wrote a new product and it had progressed pipe on. Stuff actually moves forward without me because we've got senior people with accountability and a bonus structure that incentivizes them. As such they come into work every day without me. So I think in a way being really committed and put down some roots and commit to not just being in one place but also commit to your people they commit back to you and it lets you have even more freedom than if you pursued this digital nomad thing hardcore. Joe: And the reality is that it's not just the digital nomad thing where you're having more freedom because you're not doing that. You can disconnect and recuperate on your honeymoon in Thailand on the beach for instance. But the beautiful thing is that while you are away you're not stressed about it and other people are working hard to make money for you. Bill: Yeah. Joe: They're getting paid for it and getting paid well for but that's really truly a beautiful thing. So you have 21, 22 people on staff. That can be one of the hardest things to do; it's to find good people. Do you have any secrets or tips on your process on how to find the right people and your interview process or techniques or just vetting them in getting to the cream of the crop? Bill: Yeah so as you alluded to hiring is the most important thing in business. And the more people I hire the more I realize how critical it is. Like the bigger, we get every time we hire somebody if I introduce one toxic person or one slacker into this group it poisons the whole well. So it gets harder and harder to get a job here as we get bigger and bigger which I don't know if I would get hired at my own company today. So we do a series of written application with there are some gotchas in there where you have to follow directions extremely precisely and if you don't you are disqualified. If you make it through the written application without stepping in it you get a phone screen. I try to keep those phone screens to 15, 20 minutes and during that time what I'm trying to figure out is A. do you really want this job or do you just apply to everything on the internet, B. are your salary expectations in line with what we intend to pay for this job, and C. are you somebody just off the top that I think has a positive personality that I want to work with. And you can do that in 15, 20 minutes if you would cut out the small talk; if you get right to it. Joe: And are you making every hiring decision or do you do the initial vetting or somebody else does it? Bill: So it used to be that I did everything. Now where at a point where my employees do the written application, phone screen, and the next bit of the process is a written assignment where it will say like in the case of if we're hiring somebody to work on Amazon we'll say here's one of our Asense what do you think could be improved? No length limit, go and we'll see when you get back. Or if we're hiring a graphic designer we'll say something like make an info graphic about go … something anybody can do, something that's pretty broad but you're going to know if somebody is a good graphic designer based on the effort that they put in and then the quality of that work output. And make sure homework assignments are good we typically bring in two to four for in person interviews and I sit in on the in person interview. And if you do well in the in person interview you're hired. And my message to the team is I'm never going to tell you we have … I'm never going to force you to hire someone you don't want to work with but I might veto somebody that I don't think is right for the company. Joe: Okay, so you get that certain veto power for sure. If they're not reporting directly to you, you let others make the decisions. Bill: Well up to the final interview, yes. Joe: Up to the final interview; got you. So if you're sitting with a group of e-commerce entrepreneurs that have physical products are you generally advocating bringing on staff and having your own warehouse as opposed to outsourcing or are you simply saying it's got to be right for you and you got to do what's right for your situation? Bill: Different models are good for different people. I think the … what I see myself as doing and the model that I've become convinced is very good in a lot of situations and people don't fully give a fair shape to is hiring full time employees and not hiring gig based contractors. And those full time employees … I think it's awesome if they're in the same physical location as you but even if they're not, if they're full time and you have video with them one on one every day and you create this personal relationship such that they don't have any other clients and such that they begin to build up a confidence about your business so you don't have to explain to them the task you want done at the beginning of every task. You want to build up this surf of confidence where they just know about your business and you can say hey do that and so much as widen it because they already work for you. So what I tend to advocate for is people really want to create this web of outsourcers or gig based people, I can say find a person … like you probably live in a town or near a town of a sizable amount of people and sizeable would be 100,000 or 200,000. Try to find somebody … consider finding somebody locally that's talented that's not a bottom of the barrel price type of person. Find a quality person locally and it will unlock you as a CEO because your time is way too valuable to be spent typing into at a box on Upwork in describing to someone how they should scrape locations from a website that you should not be doing that. So if you're willing to pay somebody $50,000 a year which if you're in the in the freelance world they're like holy crap it is like [inaudible 00:23:49.8] the money, right? But $50,000 a year buys you a college educated American in your town likely or less even who is probably pretty smart and got a good GPA. And he will come in every day and you can teach them. That's a good requirement. Joe: And be very very well. What about finding experts in certain areas that may not be available in your town? If you want to outsource your Facebook advertising and your Google advertising are you training and doing that in-house and putting them through courses and programs or are you hiring agencies to do that type of work? Bill: Yeah, so we … the answer is both with the preference for hiring and training. So when we're absolutely pinched we use agencies but we have hired and trained a bunch of people in Amazon specifically. I've put people through courses on Amazon. I put people through courses on Facebook ads. I put people through courses on YouTube because if you hire a smart person who did well in school you just say guess what this is graduate degree. I'm going to spend a couple thousand dollars, I'm going to put you through these courses, and I'm going to train you then on the fly. You're going to do … you're going to learn for 4 hours in the course and you're going to learn from the person you report to for 4 hours a day and before you know it you're up the curve in a month, maybe two. I find about two months is before is the curve until someone can be dangerous. Joe: Is there any particular online programs and courses that you always dwell that you go to? Bill: I've used Ezra's courses a fair bit; Ezra Firestone. I've used the guys at amazing.com, they operate a 40 bucks a month kind of subscription and there's a bunch of courses in there so I picked out a few. I've used the copyrighting course by [inaudible 00:25:29.4] for some people to just kind of learn and write e-commerce copy that converts. Those are ones that come to mind. Joe: Yeah for the folks that are- Bill: I basically look- Joe: I'm sorry Ezra's course is the Smart Marketer. We sat Ezra on the podcast. We actually just had a podcast go off, it will be a few weeks back once this airs with Bret Curry who created another course with Ezra on monetizing YouTube; smartmarketer.com you can find a lot of great courses there. I'm sorry, continue. Bill: There are others but if you invest a couple of thousand dollars in hiring someone you can create talent that you can't find in almost any city. I mean we live in this world where there is incredible amount of information available on the Internet in courses and it's relatively cheap. I mean a few grand you can … if you … people complain oh there's no Amazon expert, you can't hire them anywhere. Well, you can you should train them though. Joe: I love what you just said; you can create talent that you can't find by spending a couple thousand dollars on a course and finding the right person to go through it essentially getting their graduate degree. And you know what it does? It makes them employable for the rest of their life either with you or remotely if they decide to move on some day or maybe they'll become an entrepreneur themselves. That last point though, become an entrepreneur themselves, what do you do if anything in regards to non-competes? Because you're teaching a lot of people how to compete with you and they could step out of Elements Brands and perhaps go and launch their own business that might be competing with similar products. Do you have NDAs in place when you hire people? Bill: Yup, we do. We have non-competes and NDAs. I view it as once I train them and make them great it's now my responsibility to make sure they want to keep working for me. I want to give them access to nine soon to be 10 brands that they can work on. I mean I'm sure all the entrepreneurs out there listening remember you're like God I read all these articles but I can't do AB testing when I have 100 hits a week. Well I can teach them how to AB testing on a site that has 100 hits a minute. And you can do … pull in big leverage is just fun. So I got to make sure that they're having fun with me. And if somebody wants to go out and do their own thing I mean at this point nobody is running the whole business. My marketing folks are running marketing, they have no idea how the warehouse works. They have no idea how supply chain works. So it's harder than you would think for some of your employees to kind of see the whole business. And also … and this is the thing that I've really come to realize, I used to be of this mind that entrepreneurship is for everyone and everyone should be an entrepreneur and it is the best thing you could possibly do with your life. And I've started to realize that that's not true. There are a ton of people out there that don't want any part of this entrepreneurship thing and think it's stressful and uncertain and lonely and all these and they're just not cut … I don't even want to say they're not cut out for it. I'm saying their personality type is not fulfilled by it. So there's lots of really bright excellent people out there that are not entrepreneurs and they want to be employees and they want to be employed by a great company. And sometimes I interview people that I think they're to entrepreneurial and it makes them not a good fit. Joe: Right. And you know just to summarize everything I think you've done just that Bill, you've sort of … you're pulling big levers but you've checked all the boxes I think to someday have a sizable exit if you ever choose to do that. It could be 40, 50 years from now. It will be the one in buffet of the e-commerce world right there at Charlotte, North Carolina. But you're building amazing brands. You're really focused on building brands with great quality products and you're taking control of the whole process from beginning to end from the marketing to the fulfillment of it and you're taking care of your people. You're creating a local base of people that are going to focus on and think of your company first and helping building more value for the company, profits for the company that I have the feeling you go ahead and pay them back for through better facilities and more vacation time and bonuses and benefits and all that type of thing. You seem like a great guy to work for. If I ever decide to move on I might just try to fill up one of those applications but I think you'll probably stump me and I'll get thrown into the trash. Bill: We got a room in [inaudible 00:29:34.9] Joe. Joe: I won't pass. I won't pass, I know for sure. I'll just come down and have lunch with you instead. Bill, listen I know you've got to jump to another call. I appreciate your time thanks for sharing your story, your success on building a great brand, company environment, and not living that digital nomad lifestyle and creating more freedom for yourself. Hopefully, the folks will take some nuggets from this and do that as well. Bill: Yeah thanks for having me on Joe. Good to see you, man. Joe: Talk to you soon.   Links and Resources: Element Brands Bill's Blog Bill's Twitter Upcoming Quiet Light e-commerce conference attendance: Prosper Show T & C Summit Blue Ribbon Mastermind CapCom Conference

Aired Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 2:00 PM ESTPGS - Intuition Your Personal Guidance System with Bill BennettWhat would you do if you heard a voice telling you what to do? Would you listen to that voice or ignore it?For Bill Bennett, listening to a voice he heard while rushing to the airport early one morning literally saved his life. As he approached an intersection, the voice told him to slow down. Fortunately Bill listened because a huge truck ran a red light on a cross street right in front of him, missing him by inches. If it were not for that voice and Bill’s willingness to listen and follow the guidance of that voice, Bill Bennet would have been killed.Determined to find out what that voice was, where it came from, and why his life was saved caused Bill Bennett to embark upon a 3-year long journey to sacred sites around the globe and meet with holy men, mystics, research scientists, quantum physicists, and psychiatrists. What Bill uncovered has now been made available in his remarkable movie called PGS – Intuition Is Your Personal Guidance System now available in cinemas in the United States and around the world.Interviewees in this film include: Caroline Myss, Paul Selig, James Van Praagh, Dr. Judith Orloff, Lee Carroll, Dr. Dean Radin, Michael Tamura, Dr. Jeffrey Fannin, Foster Gamble, Dr. Francesca McCartney, H.H. Pujya Swami Chidan and Saraswati, and the Prince of Bhutan.Join Sylvia and her guest, acclaimed movie director, Bill Bennett for a very informative conversation about intuition, the role that it plays in our lives, and how you can best tap into your own intuition and personal guidance system.About the Guest: Bill BennettIn a career spanning more than thirty years, Bill Bennett has made numerous feature films and documentaries and won many awards, both in his home country of Australia and internationally.Bill Bennett has won Australia’s equivalent of the Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director, and has been nominated an additional twelve times. Twice he’s won Australia’s equivalent of the Emmy for Most Outstanding Documentary.Bill Bennett’s films have been distributed through several Hollywood studios, and been have screened at some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals. He’s been in Official Selection at the New York Film Festival, and has had two films in Official Selection at the Cannes Film Festival. He has won the Crystal Globe for Best Picture at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, and had three major international retrospectives, which includes the Chicago Museum of Art’s Film Centre.PGS – Intuition is your Personal Guidance System is being shown in theaters located in the US, Australia, and New Zealand. And, is available for private group viewings.To learn more about PGS – Intuition Your Personal Guidance System and how you can watch it, visit: www.pgsthemovie.comTo Contact Sylvia HendersonVisit: www.IntuitiveTransformations.netEmail: sylvia@IntuitiveTransformations.netTwitter: @NaturalNtuitiveLike Me On Facebook at: www.facebook.com/IntuitiveTransform

Bill Spitz was the longtime head of Vanderbilt University’s endowment before retiring, for the first time, in 2007. He has received numerous lifetime achievement awards for his work and is one of the legends in the business.  After failing in his retirement, he joined Diversified Trust Company, a wealth manager with $6.5 billion in assets under management that he co-founded back in 1994. Our conversation discusses managing an endowment in the early years, implementing unconventional investments, creating an edge as an allocator, selecting managers and conducting due diligence, exiting managers, challenging current landscape, and working with families. For more episodes, go to capitalallocatorspodcast.com/podcast Follow Ted on twitter at @tseides Show Notes 1:21 - (INTERVIEW STARTS) 1:30 – Early days at Vanderbilt and the landscape for university investment offices 3:17 – Career before working at Vanderbilt 3:59 – Transition from Wall Street to going back to his alma mater 4:48 – Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment 5:23 – Out of the box ideas when he first got started 6:25 – Convincing the board to approve unconventional ideas 8:28 – Why Bill retired             9:28 – Diversified Trust White Papers 9:31 – What is the edge that allocators have when it comes to investing             9:33 – Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin podcast episode             9:35 – Pitch the Perfect Investment: The Essential Guide to Winning on Wall Street             10:05 – Gaining an Edge in Investing  12:30 – Where can skill from an allocator perspective be applied 14:32 – Judging the skill of managers as an allocator 15:16 – Looking out to the future, how will the endowment model stack up against the traditional 60/40 portfolio  17: 47 -  How do you manage clients when your strategy may not be keeping up with the S&P 500 in the short term  19:15 – Thoughts on bitcoin  20:00 – How Bill was able to get involved with Diversified Trust while working at Vanderbilt  21:47 – Differences in managing endowments vs taxable pools of capital  23:22 – Stories that either derail an investment process or educate someone to stay the course  24:23 – Manager selection process and what Bill looks for when choosing the right one  28:01 – Bill’s view on exiting managers  29:55 – How do you measure the evolution of a manager’s investing strategy, especially as the market changes  31:41 – What is different today about investing vs when Bill first started  33:56 – Do alternative and emerging investment streams deliver the returns that many hope for  35:13 – Why don’t endowments, foundations, or pension funds feel comfortable with moving chunks of their portfolio to cash  37:00 – How does Bill think about the balance of investments with higher return potentials against their higher costs  38:13 – Any categories that really pique Bill’s interest  39:22 – What does the asset management industry look like in 10-20 years from now  41:56 – What should aspiring money managers think about as they move forward in this business 43:09 – What Bill is most proud of in his career 43:54 – Favorite sports moment 45:01 – What teaching from Bill’s parents has most stayed with him             45:14 – Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother             45:18 – The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America 46:10 – What information does Bill read that he gets a lot out of             46:20 – The Economist             46:33 – Wall Street Journal             46:34 – Bloomberg 46:45 – Life lesson that he wished he knew a lot earlier 47:29 – In his waning days, what advice would Bill give himself today

No cash or a rich uncle to fund your business dream? What if there was an option to get the funding you need without having to borrow money from family or get turned down by the banks? Bill shares how his business helps entrepreneurs nationwide get the funding they need for their business. Instead of turning you away, he is passionate about helping you get to where you need to be to be successful! A few highlights from this interview include: - How Bill got into the financing industry. - Bill shares what he has learned in the first year of building his business. - How Bill started scaling his business and how he started an affiliate program nationwide. - The benefits of working with Pathway Financial verse going to the bank for a loan. - What the whole process looks like when looking for funding. - How you can use other people’s credit to help get you the funding you need. - Bill shares how there can be some misinformation in your credit report. - What Bill hopes for the future of Pathway Financial.

Bill Ayers is a co-founder of the radical left-wing organization, the Weather Underground. He is a self-described “small-C” communist, an activist, and a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Bill and Jamie discuss a wide range of topics, including Bill’s political views, Bill’s dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency, and Jamie’s own dinner with Bill in 2012. Show Notes About Bill Ayers’ political alignment, his views on voting, and who he has voted for in the past On Donald Trump’s appeal as a leader and his authoritarian tendencies Why Bill admires Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela How he describes his ideology: “small-c communism” His opinion of the Antifa movement What Bill’s agenda would be if he was elected president Why he thinks that Barack Obama and every other American president are war criminals About abolition of the prison system On Bill’s dinners with Barack Obama before his presidency His opinion of Dinesh D’Souza The historical leaders Bill admires the most Bill’s favorite authors On Jamie’s dinner with Bill Ayers, Matt Labash, Andrew Breitbart, Tucker Carlson, and others. On Andrew Breitbart’s proposed road trip with Bill Links Bill Ayers’ Website 28 Jamie Kirchick – On Trump’s NATO Stance and Weakening of Europe The Fire Next Time The Autobiography of Malcolm X Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

In Episode 60, we welcome the great William (Bill) Bernstein. Bill starts by giving us some background on how he evolved from medicine to finance. In short, faced with his own retirement, he knew he had to learn to invest. So he studied, which shaped own thoughts on the matter, which led to him writing investing books, which resulted in interest from the press and retail investors, which steered him into money management. After this background info, Meb jumps in, using one of Bill's books "If You Can" as a framework. Meb chose this as it starts with a quote Meb loves: "Would you believe me if I told you that there's an investment strategy that a seven-year-old could understand, will take you fifteen minutes of work per year, outperform 90 percent of financial professionals in the long run, and make you a millionaire over time?" The challenge is the "If" in the title. Of course, there are several hurdles to "if" which Meb uses as the backbone of the interview. Hurdle 1: "People spend too much money." Bill gives us his thoughts on how it's very hard for a large portion of the population to save. We live in a consumerist, debt-ridden culture that makes savings challenging. Meb and Bill discuss debt, the "latte theory," and the stat about how roughly half of the population couldn't get their hands on $500 for an emergency. Hurdle 2: "You need an adequate understanding of what finance is all about." Bill talks about the Gordon Equation, and how investors need an understanding of what they can realistically expect from stocks and bonds - in essence, you really need to understand the risks. Meb steers the conversation toward investor expectations - referencing polls on expected returns, which are usually pegged around 10%. Using the Gordon Equation, Bill's forecast comes in well-below this (you'll have to listen to see how low). The takeaway? Savings are all the more important since future returns are likely to be lower. This leads to a great conversation on valuation and bubbles. You might be surprised at how Bill views equity valuations here in the U.S. in the context of historical valuation levels. Bill tells us to look around: Is everyone talking about making fortunes in stocks? Or quitting good jobs to day trade? We don't see any of these things right now. He's not terribly concerned about valuations. Hurdle 3: "Learning the basics of financial and market history." Meb asks which market our current one resembles most from the past. Bill tells us it's a bit of a blend of two periods. This leads to a good discussion on how higher returns are more likely to be coming from emerging markets than the U.S. Hurdle 4: "Overcoming your biggest enemy - the face in the mirror." It's pretty common knowledge we're not wired to be good investors. So Meb asks the simple question why? And are there any hacks for overcoming it? Or must we all learn the hard way? Unfortunately, Bill thinks we just have to learn the hard way. He tells us "The more comfortable you are buying something, in general, the worse the investment it's going to be." Bill goes on to discuss the challenge of overconfidence and the Dunning-Kruger effect (there's an inverse correlation between competence and belief one has in their competence). Meb asks if there's one behavioral bias that's the most destructive. Bill answers with overestimating your own risk tolerance. You can model your portfolio dropping 30% and think you can handle it, but in when it's happening in real time, it feels 100% worse than how you anticipated it would. Hurdle 5: "Recognize the monsters that populate the financial industry." Basically, watch out for all the financial leeches who exist to separate you from your money. Bill tells us a great story about being on hold with a big brokerage, and the "financial porn" to which he was subjected as he waited. There's way more in this episode: Bill's thoughts on robos... What Bill thinks about any strategy that moves away from market cap weighting (Bill thinks "smart beta" is basically "smart marketing")... How buying a home really may not be a great investment after all... Cryptocurrencies... and even Meb's "secret weapon" of investing. All this and more in Episode 60.

Bill Engvall is a renowned stand-up comedian, author, television host, and actor with ten of his comedy albums debuting at #1 on the Billboard Comedy Chart. He is formerly a member of the widely successful Blue Collar Comedy Group.   Listen to Bill Engvall's episode and learn: How Bill took a leap of faith to pursue his dream of stand-up comedy How Bill felt making it to the finals on Dancing with the Stars What miracles in Bill’s life gave him a big break in show business The most fulfilling moment in Bill’s career Three miracles Bill would create in the world today What Bill would say to parents of hospitalized children

“For us, marketing meant polishing the apple. Not chasing people, letting them find you.” Over the past 59 years, quite a few people have found Maker’s Mark. The distinctive bourbon has grown from being the hobby of founder Bill Samuels, Sr. His son, Bill Samuels, Jr., led much of that growth. From their wax-dipped bottles to their brand ambassador program, Maker’s has built a brand as unique as their spirits. I couldn’t wait to discuss all of this and more with Bill on this week’s episode of the On Brand podcast. About Bill Samuels, Jr. Growing up on Distiller’s Row in Bardstown, Kentucky – son of Maker’s Mark Founder Bill Samuels, Sr. and godson of Jim Beam – Bill Samuels, Jr. has been an eyewitness to many milestones in bourbon history and has made history himself. As the current Chairman Emeritus of Maker’s Mark, Bill ran his family’s company for 35 years as President and CEO. Under his watchful eye, he followed his father’s stern but simple piece of advice for him: “don’t screw up the whisky,” which is the advice he passed on to his son Rob Samuels, Maker’s current COO. Before passing on the torch in 2011, Bill left quite a legacy which included the introduction of Maker’s first new expression, Maker’s 46, the brand’s beloved Ambassador program, and more. Bill’s current role is perfectly suited for the very first Maker’s Mark Ambassador: travel around the world, introduce Maker’s Mark and Maker’s 46 to folks and share a story or two about all of the incredible history he’s been an eyewitness to. Episode Highlights Commercializing a hobby sounds daunting. But that’s exactly what Bill Samuels, Jr. was charged with doing. His mandate was simple — “never compromise on the spirit.” Bill Samuels, Jr. had to carefully exploit this hobby. “We hired an agency not to do advertising.” What Bill and their agency partners did instead was building on the “discovery” process. “We didn’t want to sell something that people didn’t want to buy. It had to be something you heard about from a friend.” What about those distinct dipped bottles? “Mom was a chemist and started playing around with wax.” As a patent attorney, Bill Samuels, Jr. patented the process, cementing the red wax drippings as a key brand touchpoint. And the ambassador program? “That was the mother of necessity. All of our customers previously had been in Kentucky. All of a sudden a credible source praised our product — The Wall Street Journal. That was the moment we became a national brand. Everything we did with customers was personal — 1:1.” The ambassador program helped them identify and embrace those fans who “raised their hands.” Another benefit to ambassadors … “It’s not a story you want to tell but every once in awhile you screw up.” Like when Maker’s thought the only way to answer demand was by reducing the proof the spirit. They communicated this to their ambassadors first and were met with immediate resistance. “It took Coke nine months to see what they did (with New Coke). We knew in two days.” They took immediate steps to reverse their decision, restoring the spirit to the delight of their fans. “We like to have fun with it, too.” That’s why Maker’s sends out gifts to ambassadors at the holidays. What brand has made Bill smile recently? Bill reminded us about the story of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, a collaborative effort between competitive distilleries that’s been a big hit with tourism in the state. “Don’t try to do it all in one day,” cautioned Bill. To learn more about Bill and Maker’s Mark, check out the Maker’s Mark website. As We Wrap … Before we go, I want to flip the microphone around to our community …Recently former guest Bruce Kennedy and Rogue Jess gave the podcast a shout. Thanks for listening! Did you hear something you liked on this episode or another? Do you have a question you’d like our guests to answer? Let me know on Twitter using the hashtag #OnBrandPodcast and you may just hear your thoughts here on the show. Subscribe to the podcast – You can subscribe to the show via iTunes, Stitcher, and RSS. Rate and review the show – If you like what you’re hearing, head over to iTunes and click that 5-star button to rate the show. And if you have a few extra seconds, write a couple of sentences and submit a review. This helps others find the podcast. OK. How do you rate and review a podcast? Need a quick tutorial on leaving a rating/review in iTunes? Check this out. Remember – On Brand is brought to you by my new book — Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small. Order now at Amazon and check out GetScrappyBook.com for special offers and extras. Until next week, I’ll see you on the Internet!

Can extraordinary innovation happen in ordinary organizations? Yes, if you know how. In his latest book, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways, Bill Taylor shines a spotlight on innovation in organizations such as banks, fast-food joints, and nonprofits. And he shares how they do it. Co-founder of Fast Company and bestselling author of the books, Practically Radical and Mavericks at Work, Bill has written for the NYTimes, the Guardian, and Harvard Business Review, and he blogs regularly for HBR. In this interview, he talks about: How Silicon Valley companies make up less than 10 percent of businesses How having a compelling lighthouse identity helps ordinary organizations stand out The 4 key elements of a lighthouse identity What it looks like when innovation meets the ordinary world of banking The fact that we want to do business with companies and brands that are fun Why being ordinary is not an option for every day organizations How an investor seeks out missionary over mercenary businesses The role teaching and psychology play in a fast-food standout What happens when leaders read and discuss books together Why an every day company requires its leaders to teach What it looks like when company expansion is driven by employee growth How big and rapid growth can decrease what makes a young organization so special The incredible role thought leadership plays in extraordinary organizations What Bill learned by spending a training day with employees from Quicken Loans How being bold, exciting and compelling in the marketplace requires we be that way in the workplace How the most successful organizations prioritize ideas and people Steps experts can take to see their work with fresh eyes What jazz can teach leaders about provocative competence What it takes to find our next ideas and why that is more important than ever How a wildly successful company prioritized learning to get unstuck Needing to ask: When is the last time you did something for the first time? Why we need to spend less time being interesting and more time being interested How being interested is about seeking out big ideas and small sources of inspiration Needing to ask: Am I learning as fast as the world is changing? Why the future is shaped by tough-minded optimists The importance of asking how to help more people benefit from the wealth of the few Links to Topics Mentioned in this Podcast @williamctaylor https://williamctaylor.com/ Metro Banks Willy Wonka John Doerr of KPKB Pals Sudden Service Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award The Art of Sun Tzu The Innovation Formula by Amantha Imber Quicken Loans and Dan Gilbert Rosanne Haggerty and Community Solutions MacArthur Fellows Program Robert Wennett WD-40 John W. Gardner If you enjoy the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes - your ratings make all the difference. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. As always, thanks for listening! Thank you to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for designing the Curious Minds logo, and thank you to Rob Mancabelli for all of his production expertise! www.gayleallen.net LinkedIn @GAllenTC

Bill Mitchell is probably the number one Trump fan on Twitter. With over a hundred thousand followers, he regularly defends Trump and provides controversial opinions on polls, the state of the race, and more. In this interview we discuss what Bill thinks a Trump presidency would be like, why he thinks the mainstream polls are completely wrong, and why he is 100% certain that Trump will win on November 8th. Show Notes Bill’s background and education When he first started to notice Trump What it would be like to take business practices and apply them to government Why Bill has wanted Trump to run for a long time How he grew into a known presence just by doing well in social media What Trump’s campaign is like The Buzzfeed article about Bill Mitchell that has some lies in it How he describes his ideology Where Bill stands on social issues like gay marriage and abortion What is wrong with NATO today and what Bill thinks Trump will do about it One thing that annoyed Bill about Trump during the campaign What Bill thinks about current polling How the alt-right’s relationship with Trump has effected the campaign and social media What Bill thinks about the mainstream media What he will do if Trump loses, or if Trump wins Links Connect with Bill Mitchell on Twitter

Bill Z of the Comic Book Bears Podcast has launched a new podcast - THE UKPNW@40 PODCAST! UKPNW stands for United Kingdom Punk and New Wave and the intention of this podcast is to serve as a look and listen back at the amazing music that came out of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and Northern Ireland during the period from 1976 to 1979. What Bill will be doing with this podcast, as close as practicality allows, is to celebrate UK punk and new wave record releases, radio and TV appearances, key concerts and other events on their respective 40th anniversaries. Bill fills us in on some of his background and what to expect in the coming months on the podcast.  This first episode examines The Sex Pistols and their debut TV appearance on September 4, 1976. If you are digging what you hear, like the podcast facebook page, tell friends who you think may also be into a podcast like this and reach out to Bill at ukpnwat40@gmail.com. https://www.facebook.com/UKPNWat40-Podcast-231229423939957/ The Sex Pistols TV debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-8x6FxybOY  

In this episode of The Physical Performance Show I have a fire-side chat with 5 x World Paratriathlon Champion, Bill Chaffey. Listen in as we delve into the following: Why the Beijing race was Bill's favourite Racing in front of a home crowd Bill's accident and recovery and coming to terms with his spinal injuries What Bill's family thinks about the paralympics Competing in the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon Bill's support team The Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon Bill's training schedule Bill's best advice to perform at your physical best Why Bill admires Leighton Hewitt If you have enjoyed the show please hit SUBSCRIBE for to ensure you are one of the first to future episodes. Jump over to POGO Physio - www.pogophysio.com.au for more details Follow @Brad_Beer Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat Please direct any questions, comments, and feedback to the above social media handles.  Powered by POGO Physio, Mermaid Waters, Australia 

Yeah, this episode has a pretty bold title. But bold men are deserving of bold titles. I’ve been inspired by Bill Jamison since meeting him 3 years ago. What Bill has that made me want to record a conversation with him, is this amazing ability to surrender to what he does not know, trust in himself and the process, lead his life with purpose and conviction, love and give with all of his heart, and be an example of what a powerful 21st century man is all about. That’s someone who I want to talk to!

It's the moment you have been waiting for ... Bill DeSimone returns to Corporate Warrior, opening up a series of great podcasts for 2016. Bill DeSimone is a personal trainer and presenter known for his joint-friendly, biomechanics-based approach to fitness. He is an ACE-Certified Health Coach and Orthopaedic Exercise Specialist, with his own studio in central New Jersey. When some of the top exercise experts in the world want to brush up on biomechanics and exercise selection, Bill is often their first port of call. You may know him from his manuals, Moment Arm Exercise, and Congruent Exercise, and from his talks and videos. He has presented for Luke Carlson’s HIT Resurgence conferences, Anthony Johnson’s 21 Conventions, seminars for Adam Zickerman, Bo Railey, and other studios. In the fall of 2015, both a one hour roundtable discussion between Bill, Skyler Tanner, and Dr. Doug McGuff, and Bill’s full talk on Joint-Friendly Fitness were posted to YouTube courtesy of Anthony Johnson. In December 2015, Bill posted all his Moment Arm Exercise videos to his Congruent Exercise Facebook page and made Moment Arm Exercise available as a PDF. The best place to follow Bill for excerpts, links, and updates on his latest projects is the Congruent Exercise Facebook page. If you haven't already, please take a moment to buy a PDF of the Moment Arm Exercise Manual now. Send $10 via Paypal to optimalexercise@comcast.net. This is not affiliated. Whilst its not essential, I encourage you to buy this book and read it to understand a lot of the terminology used in this interview. This interview was epic ... we cover: Exercise selection based on congruent movement for maximum effectiveness and minimal risk. How to exercise effectively at home and with almost nothing at all. Bill's view on the exercise industry today. How to apply congruent exercise into an endurance context. What Bill has changed his mind about in the last year about health and fitness. And much, much more! This episode is brought to you by Hituni.com, providers of the best online courses in high intensity training that come highly recommended by Dr Doug McGuff and Discover Strength CEO, Luke Carlson. Course contributors include world class exercise experts like Drew Baye, Ellington Darden and Skyler Tanner. There are courses for both trainers and trainees. So even if you’re not a trainer but someone who practices HIT, this course can help you figure out how to improve your progress and get best results. Check out Hituni.com, add the course you want to your shopping cart and enter the coupon code ‘CW10’ to get 10% off your purchase! CLICK HERE FOR ALL THE RESOURCES AND SHOW NOTES

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Business coach, Bill Baren, joins us for this session of the Life on Fire Virtual Summit to talk coaching, mentorship, determination, and success!   Bill’s start in the real world came just after graduating from Stanford with a degree in computer science.   So, where did he go from there?   The music business, of course!  (Against his parents wishes!)   At his peak, he had a small, independent record label, a music store, 85 employees, and over $10,000,000 per year in gross revenue.   After realizing he wasn’t living his true calling, he sold off his business, and planned to regroup while living off of his 5 year payment coming from the sale of his business.   The payments stopped after month 4.   So, with a newfound urgency Bill was lucky enough to come across coaching.   Bill spent the next 4 years working toward becoming a business coach.   It wasn’t until he started failing even further before he finally developed a repeatable system that worked for him.   And, after making $25,000 per year for 4 years, Bill’s income jumped to 6-figures within 6 months of putting his new sales process in place.   What Bill did was become a master sales communicator.  And, in his process, his communication is 85% about listening and only 15% about speaking.   By truly understanding what it is someone desires and helping them see and feel that it’s possible, that’s how you create success with them.   As Bill says, “The person that can keep them feeling that pure place of possibility is the person they’re going to hire (as a coach).”   For Bill, what makes a great coach is fully committing to be the coach and realizing that their experience is not about you, as the coach, at all.  It’s about you being a doorway toward helping someone move forward.   And, what he finds in his clients and his own life, is that consistency and unrelenting determination are the keys to success.   “Everything we want goes through the island of doing what we don’t want to do first”, Bill acknowledges.   In addition to his honed enrollment skills, one of the things that has undoubtedly made Bill successful is the fact that profits are not the primary driver of his business decisions.   Impact on his clients comes first.   Bill reveals that he’s often knowingly made decisions that made him less money because it ultimately resulted in a better outcome for his clients.   Great stuff, Bill!   So much wisdom packed into one interview!   To get a mind map of Bill’s sales enrollment conversation process, Bill has made that available for you at BillBaren.com/fire!   If you loved Bill’s interview, please write us a review in iTunes telling us what you love about Life on Fire TV and leave us a 5-star rating.   Thank you for subscribing to our podcast in iTunes!  Never give up!