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Greg Vartan, a representative of Summit Common Council, Ward 2, comes into Studio 69 to discuss about Summit's progress after the Covid-19 Pandemic. What Greg wants to see improve with the town! Greg also discuss about his current re-election campaign trail. And Greg discuss about current issues going on with Summit right now! --- 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/say-no-more3/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/say-no-more3/support

Today's guest is truly a multipotentialite with interests spanning gender nonconformity, psychology, healthy eating, photography, and the creative arts. He has discovered ways to embrace his creativity and merge his talents to offer meaningful help to others in their struggles. Join us to learn more! Greg Halpen is a food blogger and food photographer who created the food blog, Craving the Yum: Eating After Chemo. Chemotherapy can do a number on our palates, leaving our taste buds desensitized and frustrated about what to eat that actually tastes good. Greg gives chemotherapy patients the steps and practical tools to reimagine meals without compromising the YUM factor. Through his food blog, he shares the secrets to preparing meals that are simple, healthy, and extra. Show Highlights: Why Greg is intensely passionate about helping people navigate the frustrating and difficult waters of figuring out what to eat during and after chemo How Greg's personal brand of intensity covers multiple areas of creativity: music, theater, food blogging, and photography How Greg's childhood trauma spurred him into creative outlets as coping mechanisms The difficulty for Greg in not having a support system to help him grow as a creative person What Greg wishes he knew back then: “There are people in the world who WILL see you and get you.” The cultural factors that affected Greg as a gay young man with confusing feelings that couldn't be expressed and realized How digging deep into learning about homophobia and hetero-normative thinking helped Greg cope How Greg has had to purposely shrink himself down to be smaller because of his insecurity as a person How men are affected by sexuality and gender issues very differently than women Why Greg has felt out of control when he couldn't harness his creativity amidst the chaos of life How Greg uses his fire for good in being of service to others and helping people How he learned the important lesson that he isn't at the center of everything How therapy, cooking, and helping others with food relationships have helped Greg harness his intensity How Greg helps others use their fire by helping them to make small changes and understand “diet culture confusion” Up next for Greg: writing a book (the free mini-version is available on his website now!) Resources: Craving The Yum   Get Greg's FREE mini-cookbook, Eating After Chemo! Visit our website to learn more about the Embracing Intensity community and events Visit our new platform with resources and events for the 2E community

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In this episode, you will learn: • About Greg • Greg's vertical and horizontal income sources • What Greg's diet is like • What Greg does to stay fit • Greg's give back ratio • Greg's biggest business and personal goals • Some of the most poignant moments in Greg's life • Some of Greg's life's greatest hits • Plus, so much more! Greg Harrelson has been selling Real Estate full time for over 20 years and has helped more than two thousand clients buy and sell homes in the Myrtle Beach area. Greg's team has consistently been ranked the #1 Sales Team in Myrtle Beach since its inception. He is in the top 1% of all Realtors nationwide and is professionally trained by one of the nation's top coaching organizations. This keeps the team 100% focused on the real estate business and allows for consistent market condition updates. Greg and his support staff have developed a comprehensive system to maintain excellent service and client communication. They truly believe this will be your "Best Real Estate Experience."

Greg Whitworth is the Director of LWC's application and backend services. He's also the Director of Standards and Web Platform here at Salesforce. Today, I am talking with him about his long history of working with web browsers. Specifically, we get into his experience with web standards committees, discuss how these standards come about and the benefits they can have for Salesforce and it's developers.   Greg has a very unique perspective and history with these topics. Tune in to hear it and lots of great background information on web standards.   Show Highlights:   What Greg's job looks like day to day. All about web browser committees and how to join one. How something becomes a web standard. How his input on standards benefits Salesforce, its developers, and its customers. Examples of standards that are helpful to Salesforce. How standards improve developers' skills and user experience. What the composite layer is. What polyfills are and how to work with them.   Links: Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregwhitworth/ Greg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gregwhitworth?lang=en Greg on Github: https://github.com/gregwhitworth Greg's blog: https://www.gwhitworth.com/posts/ Braces to Pixels: https://alistapart.com/article/braces-to-pixels/ Braces to Pixels video: https://vimeo.com/182528420 Customizable Control Presentation: https://noti.st/gregwhitworth The story of CSS Grid: https://alistapart.com/article/the-story-of-css-grid-from-its-creators/ Open UI: https://open-ui.org/

Greg Kihlström Show Notes   Greg Kihlström is a best-selling author, speaker and entrepreneur. He is currently CEO and Co-Founder at CarrierGig, after selling his award-winning digital experience agency Carousel30 in 2017. He has worked with some of the world's top brands, including AOL, Choice Hotels, Coca Cola, Dell, FedEx, GEICO, Marriott International, MTV, Starbucks, Toyota and VMware. He currently serves on the University of Richmond's Customer Experience Advisory Board, was the founding Chair of the American Advertising Federation's National Innovation Committee, and served on the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business Marketing Mentorship Advisory Board.   Greg's newest book, The Agile Workforce (2021) explores the current and future state of the workforce and envisions a world where individuals thrive in a new world of work opportunities enabled by technology, decentralization and a shift in the power dynamics between employers and employees. His previous book, The Center of Experience (2020) talks about how customers and employee experiences can be operationalized into a cohesive brand experience.   Questions   Could you share with us a little bit about your journey. And just tell us how it is that you got to where you are today? So your book, agility is one of those words that we've been hearing bouncing around for quite a few years now. But I definitely have heard it way more since the pandemic. Could you tell us a little bit about what the book is about? Who is it for? How will it help organizations? Is it geared towards a particular industry? and How can any company or is it specific to an industry in terms of benefiting from an agile workforce? Could you maybe share with us based on your experience and your exposure on this topic maybe two or three principles that businesses must be guided by in order to be really agile? Or if they're just starting on this agile journey, what are two or three things that they need to really consider? As it relates to digital experience, people definitely have moved their businesses or some parts of their business to online, how do you think we're going to adjust after hopefully, things go back to what we used to think was normal in terms of that digital space, will that trend continue? Or do you think people would want to return back to more face to face kind of experiences? Could you share with us what's the one online resource, tool, website or app that you absolutely cannot live without in your business? Can you share with us maybe one or two books that have had the biggest impact on you? It could be a book that you read recently, or maybe a book that you read a very long time ago, but it still has had a great impact on you. Could you share with us maybe something that you're working on right now? Something that you're really excited about - it could be something that you're working on to develop yourself or your people? Where can listeners find you online? Do you have a quote or saying that during times of adversity or challenge, you'll tend to revert to that quote or saying, it kind of helps to get you refocused and just get you back on track? Do you have one of those?   Highlights   Greg’s Journey   Greg shared that he has played a few different roles over his career and depending on how you look at it, he has been a freelancer and employee, entrepreneur, executive, so on and so forth. Also, he has played roles in creative marketing technology and what he has tried to do throughout his career, some of that is he likes to learn new things and so he constantly tries to challenge himself to learn them. But some of it also is he thrive when he’s able to find connections between whether it's different disciplines or industries or things like that. And so, he has always just tried, at first it wasn't so intentional, he'll confess but towards getting a few years down in his career, it started to become more intentional that he always wanted to kind of push himself and be a little bit uncomfortable. If he was too comfortable, it meant that he wasn't learning enough, and he wasn't pushing himself to do more than he was currently doing.   So, he started a marketing agency, his first job was working at a start-up, he became head of product design there back in the early 2000s, started a marketing agency that he grew and eventually sold about 3 years ago, did a lot in the digital experience space and for a number of those brands that was mentioned, and also quite focused in the financial services industry towards the end before I sold it. And then after that really got more and more involved in the employee experience, leadership’s role in the employee experience, and HR technology and where he currently is, Careergig really flowed pretty naturally through that where he just kept seeing more and more emphasis being placed on the freelance economy, the gig economy, but there was a lot of things that weren't really being solved for. And so, he just found a new challenge to try to solve.   About the Book – The Agile Workforce and Who Can Benefit From An Agile Workforce   Me: So your book, agility is one of those words that we've been hearing bouncing around for quite a few years now. But I definitely have heard it way more since the pandemic. Could you tell us a little bit about what the book is about? Who is it for? How will it help organizations? Is it geared towards a particular industry? and How can any company or is it specific to an industry in terms of benefiting from an agile workforce?   Greg shared that it's quite broad in scope as far as industry goes. So, The Agile Workforce: Automation, Decentralization, and Their Role in the Future Workforce, it's part of a series of books that he has written on the topic of agility in business. And so, he started out focused more on the branding and marketing aspect and how to be more agile in those types of approaches and it's over time he also started a podcast called The Agile World, you can see a theme developing here. He is four books in for this series and have a podcast all talking about how do we position ourselves to be adaptive and resilient in a constantly changing world, and there's recent events with the pandemic, certainly draw attention to the need for that. But it's always been the case that we need that, we need to be agile.   So, the latest book, The Agile Workforce is really talking about this growing independent workforce where 10 years ago was really the birth of what we know as the gig economy, things like Uber and Lyft, drivers, and delivery doordash, all of those types of things really kind of grew out of the 2009 financial crisis where there were a lot of jobs kind of went away, full time jobs, there's a lot of disenchantment with getting another full time job when you could easily be laid off again at the signs of the next crisis, we're seeing that now 10 years later.   We're seeing that now in different spaces of lots of individuals needing to rely on companies to employ them, certainly the companies are the ones hiring them, but not necessarily, a lot of individuals are not necessarily keen to go back to a full time job when we've all been kind of sold on full time jobs are the source of stability, and you get your benefits and your retirement and all this stuff. And yet, we've seen it slowly go away over the years and now, he thinks some of those things are more myth than reality. And so you have this growing independent workforce that wants the freedom and flexibility to work when they want, how they want, earn as much or as little as they want.   But they need help as far as some of that, some of that the learning that they get from a company or some of the benefits like he mentioned, like health, everything from health insurance to life, disability, all of that stuff. So there's a challenge right now and there's a number of ways to solve it. His company Careergig is solving it in one way but there's some growing needs and opportunities.   Principles To Be Guided By In Order To Be Really Agile   Me: Based on your experience, because as you said, it's a theme and you've definitely found a way to position yourself as a subject matter expert in the area, ensuring that you have a podcast and then these different books that support the whole agile mindset. Could you maybe share with us based on your experience and your exposure around this topic maybe two or three principles that businesses must be guided by in order to be really agile? Or if they're just starting on this agile journey, what are two or three things that they need to really consider?   Greg shared that he thinks a big one is that agility is something that needs to be embraced company wide.   So we've seen agile really has its roots in manufacturing and software development, so we see a lot of most software development teams are using agile, you might hear things about Sprint's and Scrum masters and things like that.   There's a very formal agile methodology that teams like that are using, he uses agile in a broader sense of the term really, because some of those things apply a little bit less directly to other areas.   But in order for a company to be agile, everybody's got to be bought into it. And that's top down, that's leaders embracing new ways of doing things, that's areas of companies that traditionally have not been as agile, whether that's formal agile, or big ‘A’ agile or small ‘a’ agile as some people say.   HR departments, for instance, not traditionally the most agile and for good reason, they're taught to be very compliance focused and there's certain things that they need to always keep an eye on, but it's got to be company wide. So, that's definitely the first thing is just leaders need to embrace it and make sure that the entire company is adopting it.   He thinks the other part of this, and he goes into more depth in his book and it's kind of a theme of most of his books and writing is there needs to be more focus on individuals and individual needs.   And when you do that, it might sound counterproductive because the companies and the shareholders need to get their value but he believes there's a win-win when companies focus on making sure that individuals are happy, motivated, taking care of, that the companies reap huge benefits.   When an employee's more motivated, they are more open to change, they're more open to add activity, all of those types of things. So, it's sort of the inverse of the first point is like it's got to start top down from leaders really driving the change, but the change has to be driven almost thinking from the bottom up of what is it going to take for each individual to be more empowered and have more of what they need? And then they're going to be loyal, they're going to do what they can to support the company, if you think like that.   Digital Experience the New Normal or Face to Face Experience   Me: As it relates to digital experience, basically, we're in this space now, where everybody is pretty much online. If you're not online, I suppose you're missing out. People definitely have moved their businesses or some parts of their business to online, how do you think we're going to adjust after hopefully, things go back to what we used to think was normal in terms of that digital space, will that trend continue? Or do you think people would want to return back to more face to face kind of experiences?   Greg stated that there's always a desire, there's nostalgia. Everyone he thinks wants to return to some kind of things that they got used to, and everything like that. And in many cases, there are certain kinds of businesses, restaurants, hotels, all those things where you really can't recreate some of those experiences online, much as delivery as had a lot of support from restaurants for instance. But he does think that there has been enough time gone by just with the pandemic and things are not quite over yet. There's positive signs of progress and everything like that, but there's enough time has passed where real habits have been formed. So, if this was a 30-day thing, then people tend to go back to some sort of status or whatever. But months and months have gone by in which habits have been formed, new ways, brains have been rewired, let's just say for neuro scientist or whatever, but it's like new patterns in our brains have been created, let's just put it that way where Zoom is like a normal thing, as opposed to kind of an awkward like, “Oh, we can't get everybody in the conference room,” like Zoom meetings are now normal and stuff like that.   So, he thinks where possible, there is going to be a return to that. But he thinks the positive side of all of this, we've learned to do things a lot more efficiently in many ways. He personally spent hours and hours driving to meetings and doing all sorts of things when he had local things at least, spending all that time travelling where now, he gets on a Zoom call and it's easier and you learn how to connect with people in a different way, it's certainly different. But he thinks that we can embrace some of the efficiencies that we've learned how to do and he thinks it's forced technology to become better.   And it was inevitable that it was going to happen but all these tools that we use, it's forced some other things, some innovation in other areas that we're just kind of lagging. So, to answer the question, it's a mix and some things will go back, but he thinks some things may not and maybe that's for the better.   App, Website or Tool that Greg Absolutely Can’t Live Without in His Business   When asked about an online resource that he cannot live without in his business, Greg shared that he thinks it comes down to from a business standpoint, he thinks it just comes down to analytics and having a good way to measure and get feedback. So, if he were to choose one, that might be a little bit tough, but his company, it's an online platform. And so, using tools like Google Analytics and their CRM and stuff like that, they just couldn't, they are completely dependent on the feedback that they get from their customers. And because part of their customer base is really a volume base, they can't simply talk to a statistically significant sample on a regular basis. So, really relying on those analytics helps them make a better product and a better company.   Books That Have Had the Greatest Impact on Greg   When asked about books that have had the biggest impact, Greg shared that one that immediately comes to mind is, it's called The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers and by Ben Horowitz. And Careergig is not his first company that he started, but it's his first start-up, so product based company. And just some of the stories, he thinks the idea that there isn't a prescriptive set of guidance for every single problem that a leader is going to face.   And so, just kind of embracing that kind of like what he was saying earlier of like, you've got to just embrace being uncomfortable and it doesn't mean you have to love it, he doesn't think anyone loves being uncomfortable, but you have to be comfortable with that idea that if you're not uncomfortable, then there might be other problems going on, it's not just a relief. So, he thought that was a refreshing take.    What Greg is Really Excited About Now!    Greg shared that he has always got another book in the works. So, The Agile Workforce is actually his seventh book. And so, he just kind of set a personal goal to finish one a year, it keeps him learning. It's actually one of the biggest ways that he himself learn is just doing research for his own writing and it forces him to talk to people in targeted conversations and stuff like that. So, he just released another book, but he’s already on to the next one, which is going to focus a lot more on leadership's role and agility and things like that. So, he has talked with a number of leaders of large organizations already, interviewed them for his podcast, other things like that, and going to be compiling things into another book. And hopefully, maybe in a year's time he can join the show again and share.    Where Can We Find Greg Online   LinkedIn – Greg Kihlström   Quote or Saying that During Times of Adversity Greg Uses   When asked about a quote or saying that he tends to revert to, Greg shared that he does and he doesn’t know who it can be attributed to, but it's probably gotten him out of trouble. And it's a hypothetical, because you never know what the other side of the decision is. But it's, “Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.”   And so, he often refers to that and tell his employees or partners or whatever to think on that. And sometimes you still go out and do it and sometimes you don't, but it's something to consider.   Please connect with us on Twitter @navigatingcx and also join our Private Facebook Community – Navigating the Customer Experience and listen to our FB Lives weekly with a new guest   Grab the Freebie on Our Website – TOP 10 Online Business Resources for Small Business Owners   Links   The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz The Agile Workforce: Automation, Decentralization, and Their Role in the Future Workforce by Greg Kihlström The Agile World Podcast with Greg Kihlström   The ABC’s of a Fantastic Customer Experience   Do you want to pivot your online customer experience and build loyalty - get a copy of “The ABC’s of a Fantastic Customer Experience.”   The ABC's of a Fantastic Customer Experience provides 26 easy to follow steps and techniques that helps your business to achieve success and build brand loyalty. 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Today we are going to talk about season 1 of WandaVision on Disney+. We are going to discuss what we got right from our previous show, most shocking things from season 1 that we didn't see coming, we are going to speculate on how WandaVision will tie-in to the MCU movie, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and give a review of the season 1 overall.Please take our Survey: https://forms.gle/TEqToWGJZiXmDViu8Become a Patron at https://patreon.com/fandummiesTimeline00:00:00 Intro00:01:00 Speculations we got right for Season 1 WandaVision00:06:16 Shocking things we didn't see coming in Season 1 WandaVision00:19:34 Support FanDummies - Please Subscribe or Patreon - 00:20:15 What Greg and Erin are watching currently00:26:20 How will WandaVision tie-in to the MCU00:37:37 WandaVision Season 1 Review on Disney PlusListen to our other WandaVision episode 117. http://www.dummies.fan/wandavision1Follow us on Social MediaTwitter - https://twitter.com/fandummiesInstagram - https://instagram.com/fandummies_Facebook - https://facebook.com/fandummiesTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@fandummiesYou can watch us do this podcast episode on YouTube.Subscribe to our Youtube Channel - http://bit.ly/2C1ogLHShop FanDummies Merch: http://bit.ly/2XkMdauJoin our Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/2MNzuJtCheck out our TeePublic Curated Store: http://bit.ly/tpubStore

Greg is an Amazon Private Brands Program Manager and content creator. He was recently named one of LinkedIn's Top Voices in Data and Analytics for 2020 FIND GREG ONLINE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-coquillo/ QUOTES [00:10:06] "Let your curiosity be your driver." [00:13:48] "The product manager is there to take a look at the product vision...a manager is there to guide through the vision." [00:20:52] "Communication skill helps me translate that technical solution into a solution that your stakeholder relate to. One of the best ways to learn from stakeholders is to invite them into the technical solution building session." [00:28:47] "When you don't invite the business stakeholders into your model building sessions, you will miss out on capturing the level of risk that those business stakeholders are willing to take." HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SHOW [00:02:04] Guest introduction [00:02:50] An experience that shaped Greg [00:04:25] What Greg thought he was going to be when he grew up [00:06:51] The path that led Greg to where he is today [00:09:59] How Greg taught himself data science skills [00:12:43] What role does the product manager play on a Data science team? [00:15:21] What part of the Data science lifecycle does the product manager own? [00:16:47] How is a product manager different from a manager of a Data science team? [00:18:44] What can the data scientist learn from the product manager? [00:21:40] What can the Data scientists do to help make their product manager more effective? [00:22:44] How can a data scientist learn product management skills? [00:24:40] The ten dysfunctions of product management [00:26:53] How do we measure what really matters and how do we determine what matters? [00:30:40] The difference between AI and BI [00:32:42] What qualities make for a good BI leader? [00:33:16] What qualities make for a good AI leader? [00:37:40] What do you think will be the biggest positive impact that AI will have in the next two to five years on society? [00:39:30] The scariest application of AI? [00:40:46] An AI code of ethics [00:43:11] Auditing algorithms [00:45:19] Compliance as a service [00:47:06] What data scientists need to know about compliance and how they can learn about it [00:48:29] Should you be afraid of job descriptions? [00:52:22] First order and second order thinking [00:56:09] The importance of communication skills [01:00:30] It's 100 years in the future, what do you want to be remembered for? [01:03:01] The random round Special Guest: Greg Coquillo.

Elliott Wave Trading & Crushing The Market In episode 282 of the Desire To Trade Podcast, I talk to renowned Elliott Wave Trader Greg Rubin. About Greg Rubin Greg is a senior Elliott Wave trader for Global prime. He is experienced and knowledgeable with over 13 years of trading experience across various asset classes. He started his career as a prop trader trading fixed income. He then moved over to the equity side briefly before spending 10 years at a precious metals firm in London. He was Head of Trading and responsible for providing daily market analysis, writing research reports as well as executing trades. He is well respected in the precious metals space and has continually demonstrated his ability to call turns on a micro and macro basis. At Global Prime, Greg runs a mentor room where he draws on his experience and knowledge in the metals complex and stock market indices to provide a detailed service providing analysis across both sectors. Greg also provides charts for most other asset classes on request from members. Greg shares trading tips and wisdom that he has gained over the years as well as spending ample time focusing on risk management/trading psychology through the use of live videos. >> Watch the video recording! In This Episode, You'll Learn... 0:00 Interview Introduction 0:47 Who is Greg Rubin and what he does 1:52 How Greg learned about trading and got started 3:02 What was Greg learning curve in trading 4:52 How Greg learned about risk management 6:30 How has Greg trading been since he became profitable 8:17 When did Greg learn about Elliott Wave 9:02 Greg explains the basics of Elliott Wave 13:23 What type of traders does the metals market fit best 14:32 How a day in Greg's life looks like 15:58 What are the biggest habits that keep Greg a successful trader 18:11 Why some like Elliott Wave and others hate it 20:46 Where can traders learn about Elliott Wave 22:54 Why Greg sticks to his trading style over the years 25:52 What are Greg goals for growth in the next years 27:21 What makes Greg think that the S&P500 market will continue going higher in 2021 30:13 What Greg thinks of cryptos for 2021 31:40 Where to find Greg Rubin 32:53 Greg top advice for traders And much more! What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group! Desire To Trade's Top Resources DesireToTRADE Forex Trader Community (free group!) Complete Price Action Strategy Checklist One-Page Trading Plan (free template) Recommended brokers: Pepperstone (use our link to get a special bonus) AxiTrader (use our link to get a special bonus) Desire To TRADE Academy About The Desire To Trade Podcast Subscribe via iTunes (take 2 seconds and leave the podcast a review!) Subscribe via Stitcher Subscribe via TuneIn Subscribe via Google Play See all podcast episodes How To Find Greg Rubin? Global Prime MentorRooms What is one thing you are going to implement after listening to this podcast episode? Leave a comment below, or join me in the Facebook group!

https://www.biggerpockets.com/show431 Your agent is calling you to show you houses, your boss is emailing you about some work to do, your partner wants to grab dinner, and you want to take a nap. How do you prioritize things in your life when everything seems so important? The key is essentialism. Joining the podcast today is Greg McKeown, Author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Greg relates to the struggle of many entrepreneurs and investors: too many options, not enough time. Instead of telling you to wake up at 5 AM, take a cold shower and work until 10PM, he presents a far more effective (and simple) approach. What Greg suggests: pick the things you care most about, do them, and don’t worry about the rest. But how do you pick when everything seems essential? The answer: almost everything else besides your core cares/needs aren’t essential. If you begin to treat the non-essential as essential, you stretch yourself too thin, not allowing you the time to accomplish what truly is... essential. In the modern age, many of us feel like we don’t have time to accomplish everything we want. When we get laser-focused and put the principles of essentialism in our daily lives, we can accomplish more than ever. Check the full show notes here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/show431

Your agent is calling you to show you houses, your boss is emailing you about some work to do, your partner wants to grab dinner, and you want to take a nap. How do you prioritize things in your life when everything seems so important? The key is essentialism.Joining the podcast today is Greg McKeown, Author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. Greg relates to the struggle of many entrepreneurs and investors: too many options, not enough time. Instead of telling you to wake up at 5 AM, take a cold shower and work until 10PM, he presents a far more effective (and simple) approach.What Greg suggests: pick the things you care most about, do them, and don’t worry about the rest. But how do you pick when everything seems essential?The answer: almost everything else besides your core cares/needs aren’t essential. If you begin to treat the non-essential as essential, you stretch yourself too thin, not allowing you the time to accomplish what truly is...essential.In the modern age, many of us feel like we don’t have time to accomplish everything we want. When we get laser-focused and put the principles of essentialism in our daily lives, we can accomplish more than ever.In This Episode We Cover:What is essentialism?How to designate the non-essential from the essential tasksWhy having too many good options puts us in a dangerous positionHow to find out which tasks deserve delegation or deletionDeveloping the courage to say “no”Finding an accountability partner so you’re locked in for successWhy Brandon wants to spend less time on TiktokAnd So Much More!Links from the ShowBiggerPockets PodcastBiggerPockets book storeEssentialism book WebsiteStickK App. How to turn goals into a realityClick here to check the full show notes: https://www.biggerpockets.com/show431

Greg Flanagan has been in the real estate business since 2006.  Prior to that, he worked for the New York Department of Corrections for 17 years where he experienced talking to people who really didn’t want to talk to him. This taught him the valuable skill of listening - which he now uses to his advantage as a real estate agent.Today, Greg is the team leader and CEO of the Flanagan Home Team LLC.  He also founded Power Onward Mastermind and Coaching wherein as a growth partner, he aims to share the information he learned over the years and provide transformational training to help real estate agents grow their business and take it to the next level. In this episode, we talked about:(05:05) Why solo agents/small teams need to “list to last”(05:51) Which CRM Greg uses to track his leads(09:19) How Greg got through the impacts of COVID for his business(10:15) What Greg thinks of SISU’s program(12:01) The importance of understanding your P&L numbers(15:16) What Greg’s goal is for Power Onward Mastermind(19:18) How to eliminate the mindset of fear(21:25) How working in prison shaped Greg negotiating tactics (24:39) The book that turned Greg’s life around(30:58) The most important piece of advice from Greg Visit www.poweronwardmastermind.com to know more about Greg Flanagan. 

Successful business development strategies are always a hot topic when I’m talking with agency owners. That was true before the pandemic, so you can imagine how often we’re talking about it now! Business development for agencies has made a 180 over the past decade. Have you changed the way you sell to keep current? Greg Jacobs is the head of Strategic Partnerships at Schiefer Chop Shop, an Irvine-based brand transformation agency where he developed a unique recipe for successful business development strategies. He also led NASCAR’s unscripted content division and served as Head (SVP) of Monetization at Red Bull & Red Bull Media House. As you might imagine, with that background, he comes at prospecting for his agency in a very different way. During our conversation, Greg walks us through his approach to creating successful business development strategies and offers up some suggestions for agency owners who are looking to hire a salesperson for their shop. It’s never too late to re-tool your own biz dev strategies and this episode is sure to point you in the right direction. A big thank you to our podcast’s presenting sponsor, White Label IQ. They’re an amazing resource for agencies who want to outsource their design, dev, or PPC work at wholesale prices. Check out their special offer (10 free hours!) for podcast listeners here. What You Will Learn in This Episode: Greg’s approach to building successful business development strategies and how agency owners can use it in their own niches Greg’s transition from content creation to biz dev How Greg mediates between biz dev and content creation teams How to attract and retain the right biz dev talent What Greg does to differentiate his agency and make it stand out from the crowd How content plays a role in Greg’s biz dev efforts today How newcomers can be successful in an agency biz dev role “Content can be a universal language. If a brand has an interesting story and you can tell that story in a short form piece of content, the brand now has an asset they can use across their owned and operated channels.” @GregoryJacobsCLICK TO TWEET“The key metric of any piece of content is engagement. Will they click on it, will they watch it, and will they stay for a period of time?” @GregoryJacobs” @GregoryJacobsCLICK TO TWEET“There is no biz dev rep worth their salt that will do one of two things: A) Work on commission only. And B) Claim they can close business in less than six months.” @GregoryJacobsCLICK TO TWEET“Successful business development strategies give reps a window of time to figure it out, proper onboarding, some kind of retainer, and the ability to maintain relationships post-close.” @GregoryJacobsCLICK TO TWEET“Successful business development strategies are all about finding a balance between what you want to make and what fits your partner’s brand.” @GregoryJacobsCLICK TO TWEET Ways to contact Greg Jacobs: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryscottjacobs/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/schieferchopshop/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wearescs Twitter: @GregoryJacobs Twitter: @wearescs_ Additional Resources: December 17th Webinar Registration Executive Summary Money Matters Live Workshop  Build and Nurture Your Agency’s Sales Funnel Live Workshop Sell with Authority (buy Drew’s book) Facebook Group for the Build a Better Agency Podcast  

With the recent passing of Stormin' Norman Taylor, Aussie Hoopla host Dan Boyce and Norman's Illawarra teammate Greg Hubbard remember the player and the man who was the most effective scoring in NBL history. Taylor holds the Illawarra club record for most points in a game with 54, against new Hawks coach Brian Goorjian's Eastside Spectres in 1990. He finished with three MVP awards, scoring 1855 in just 67 games, as well as an average of 27.69 points at the phenomenal shooting percentage of 65, plus 10.57 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game. Topics include; Thoughts on the Hawks removing Illawarra from its team name (2:00) Thoughts and feelings on hearing of the passing of Norman Taylor this week (9:00) His debut in 1987 and winning the NBL Rookie of the Year (11:00) Memories of playing at "The Snake Pit" (14:30) 1988 - A dismal season for the Hawks... What happened? (17:30) Remembering Stormin' Norman Taylor, his career highlights and impact on the Illawarra community (21:00) The night Norman dropped 54 points on the Spectres (27:00) The impact of Stormin Norman on the Illawarra community (31:00) 1990 - Norman Taylors best season in the NBL (33:00) 1991 - Norman's last season, why was he only in the league three seasons? (40:00) 1992 - Melvin Thomas and Doug Overton join the Illawarra Hawks and the team reach the playoffs (43:00) 1993 - Greg joins the Sydney Kings (47:00) The "forgotten" 5th place Boomers finish at the 1994 FIBA World Championships (51:30) 1994 - Leon Trimmgham and Mario Donaldson join the Kings and Sydney reach the playoffs (56:00) 1995 - Greg suffers a back injury that changes the course of his career (58:00) A return home to Illawarra for Greg's final year in the NBL (1:02:00) The teams and players Greg and the Hawks loved to play the most in the 1990s (104:00) What Greg learnt from his decade in the NBL (109:00) Career Highlights (1:11:00) Visit dunk.com.au for your next set of basketball uniforms. Use promo code "hoopla" at manscaped.com/hoopla to get 20% off any purchase. Listen to our previous interviews with the biggest stars in Australian Basketball, head to Aussiehoopla.com. Check out previous podcasts featuring; Australian Basketball Legends - Luc Longley, Andrew Gaze, Shane Heal, Mark Bradtke, Leroy Loggins, David Andersen, Andrew Vlahov, CJ Bruton, Chris Anstey, Brett Maher, John Rillie, Tony Ronaldson, Brad Newley Current NBL Stars -Donald Sloan, AJ Ogilvy, Damian Martin, Daniel Kickert, Thomas Abercrombie, Jason Cadee, Bryce Cotton, Chris Goulding, Mitch McCarron, Cam Gliddon, Anthony Drmic Our Finest Coaching Minds - Brian Goorjian, Barry Barnes, Joey Wright, Adrian Hurley, Aaron Fearne, Rob Beveridge, Phil Smyth, Ian Stacker, Shawn Dennis, Dean Vickerman, Trevor Gleeson, Lindsey Gaze, Ken Cole, Will Weaver NBA Stars Past & Present - Andrew Bogut, Matthew Dellavedova, Stephen Jackson, Randy Livingston, Torrey Craig, Acie Earl, Josh Childress, Reggie Smith, Todd Lichti, Ryan Broekhoff, Doug Overton The NBL's Greatest Imports - Darryl McDonald, Ricky Grace, Derek Rucker, Leon Trimmingham, Scott Fisher, Lanard Copeland, Mike Mitchell, Darnell Mee, Isaac Burton, Adonis Jordan, Shawn Redhage, Willie Farley, Al Green, Corey "Homicide" Williams, Andre Moore, Steve Woodberry, Mike Mitchell, Dusty Rychart, Ebi Ere, Doug Overton, Kevin Lisch And the men who run things - Larry Kestelman, Paul Maley, Vince Crivelli, Jeremy Loeliger, Chuck Harmison, Jeff Van Groningen, Bob Turner All that and much more. Follow @AussieHoopla on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or email us at info@aussiehoopla.com

CBI032 - Riding the Cider Wave and Talking Picklebacks with Greg Hill   Greg Hill is the head cider maker at Urban Orchard, a first-level sommelier, and graduate of the CBI program. He has a love of post-nominals that he continues to collect, including the diploma brewing exam at the Institute of Guild Brewing and Distilling London. Greg's love of making beer led him to be part of the first graduating class of AB Tech Craft Brewing Institute. He takes his passion for trying new things and uses it to create the unique and exciting cider flavors at the Urban Orchard Cider Company.   Greg joins me today to discuss the latest cider trends and how the Urban Orchard is handling the rise in cider popularity. He shares one of the interesting new flavors he is developing and the processes he uses to create unique tastes. He discusses why they use dry-hopping techniques and why the yeast strain you choose for brewing is important. He also shares what made him decide to go into the brewing business and how he turns off the brewing mindset to enjoy alcohol on a different level when not at work.     This week on Consuming the Craft:   What's new in the world of cider and the Urban Orchard How Urban Orchard is handling the phenomenal rise in cider popularity The unique cider flavor coming from Urban Orchard that Greg is most excited about How dry-hopping affects the flavors of cider Booze Clues: Jameson Caskmates IPA Edition Whiskey Why it's essential to actually drink when doing any tasting What Greg usually drinks with a shot of Jameson Why the strain of yeast you choose is significant How your tastes in alcohol can be cyclical when you work in brewing What made Greg get into the brewing business Learning how to turn off the brewing mindset outside of work       Connect with Greg Hill:   Urban Orchard Cider Co. Website Urban Orchard Cider Co. on Instagram Urban Orchard Cider Co. on Facebook Urban Orchard Cider Co. on Twitter Cider Corner Q&A with Greg Hill           This episode is brought to you by…   McConnell Farms - Taste the Way You Remember. Enjoy homemade ciders and ice cream made from only the best produce on the market. Visit the McConnell Farms website to learn more about our seasonal inventory and delicious creations you can make with our homegrown produce.     Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of Consuming the Craft. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts and subscribe so you never miss an episode. Don’t forget to leave us a review to help us reach even more craft beverage enthusiasts!  

Greg Spillane is the CEO of Fancy ( https://fancy.com/ ) a curated online retailer that provides a platform for consumers looking to discover the coolest and most innovative fashion, accessories, art, and gadgets from emerging brands and artists across the globe. About Our Partner This episode is also brought to you by Hawke Media. Hawke Media is a full-service Outsourced CMO based in Santa Monica, CA, providing guidance, planning, and execution to grow brands of all sizes, industries, and business models. Hawke Media was recognized by Inc. as the country’s fastest-growing marketing consultancy and is proudly one of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work”​, 2019 #893 on the Forbes 5000 list, UpCity Top Los Angeles Digital Marketing Agency. Hawke’s collaborative process, à la carte offering, and month-to-month fee structure give clients the flexibility they need to boost digital revenues and marketing ROI. Hawke Media The company has serviced over 1500 brands of all sizes, ranging from startups like Tamara Mellon, SiO Beauty and Bottlekeeper to household names like Red Bull, Verizon Wireless and Alibaba. Listen to our interview with Erik Huberman, Founder and CEO of Hawke Media, in episode 23 of the Just Go Grind Podcast. Some of the Topics Covered by Greg Spillane in this Episode What Fancy is, when it was started, and how Greg got involved Why Greg decided to join Fancy after it went through turmoil What Greg did initially to start turning Fancy around The business model behind Fancy and what the experience is for brands on the platform How Fancy goes about curating brands for their platform The importance of creating trust on the buyer side of a platform How content and storytelling play a role in selling products on Fancy Building community and bringing on guest curators for the platform How Greg decided to use crowdfunding to raise capital for Fancy and the benefits that came along with it Why Greg and Fancy chose to use Wefunder for their crowdfunding campaign Components involved in an equity crowdfunding campaign The customer acquisition strategy for Fancy The traction of Fancy today How Greg and his team improved conversions on Fancy How Greg has gone about building the team and culture at Fancy What Greg does to invest in himself and make sure he's performing at his best each day Books that have been helpful for Greg in his career Why Greg decided to get an MBA at USC Sign up for The Weekly Grind, for actionable insights and stories from successful entrepreneurs delivered to your inbox once per week: https://www.justgogrind.com/newsletter/ Listen to all episodes of the Just Go Grind Podcast: https://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ Follow Justin Gordon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/justingordon212 Follow Justin Gordon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justingordon8/

Really excited to release my follow up interview with Greg Benning. With 19 wins at HOCR, 4 course records, and 7 wins at SilverSkiff, I just had to get him back on the podcast, to share with us his approach to training and preparing for an event. Anyone that wants to get insights and inspiration, into how a multiple champion athlete, prepares and trains to win, you will not want to miss this episode. Highlights from my conversation with Greg How Greg plan's his season to key races How Greg measures and manages his training volume, intensity and recovery Rigging, catch angles and how to approach power application Key workouts and strength program What Greg has learnt from other sports and how these insights can be applied to rowing Coffee or tea? Coffee Racing or training? Training Crew or Single? Crew Favourite race? Head of the Charles Regatta & Heineken Roeivierkamp Links to Greg's mentions NK Empower oarlock Linz, World Masters Regatta, 2021 This podcast is brought to you by High Performance Coaching in business and sport with Bill Chambers. Find out more by clicking here. www.whchambers.com To make sure you get all the latest information, ideas and inspiration, subscribe to my newsletter and join our community on Facebook.

This is another favorite episode of mine as I interview Greg about his journey to success. This man has such a great story to tell and he'll show us that success is not a walk in the park. But by knowing your values and trusting your capabilities, you are off to a great start.Moreover, we talked about his leadership skills, failures, coming back stronger, and what his current company offers. We also touch a little bit about his kid's success and I'm sure most of you are familiar with him, so make sure you stay tuned.Where to find Greg Centineo:Email: info@centineo.comLinkedIn, IG and Twitter: @gregcentineoToday's key takeaways:[0:37] Introduction[2:25]  When Greg started his entrepreneurial journey[3:25] His first official business[5:21] Greg's different track for about 15 years[8:18] On being purpose-driven[8:56] On tapping the “why” to get great people[10:19] Balancing hiring A-players and just simply body mass[12:13] Making mistakes on hiring the wrong people[13:54] “What motivates people, motivates people”[22:34] “Synergy will create success”[24:22] On calculated risk-taking[27:02] Greg's love for banking[30:57] Greg and the Wizard of Oz[39:15] His experience with a bad distribution deal[44:29] On getting back to his feet[49:24] You need to hear this: putting Michael Jackson on stage[51:29] Greg and inertia[57:27] What Greg is doing now[1:04:00] Final takeaways[1:04:58] How to get ahold of Greg[1:05:16] On his son's successText LEADER to 617-393-5383 to receive The Top 10 Things That The Best Leaders Are Doing Right NowFor questions, suggestions, or speaker inquiries, contact me at john@lauritogroup.com.

In today’s episode, we chat about system architecture, Ruby, Elixir, and everything in between with Greg Mefford, the senior back-end engineer for the Bleacher Report. We open the conversation by asking Greg about his start in coding, leading to a story about how Greg was that bored kid pressuring a math teacher to teach him QBasic. He shares how he fell in love with Ruby before discovering Elixir and Nerves. Having faced some challenges when learning Nerves, Greg talks about how he began documenting his pain points and writing documents to help onboard newcomers. We discuss Greg’s work with Nerves, his project aspirations, and his recommended resources for anyone looking to get into Nerves or Elixir. After providing his hot take on the latest Code BEAM V conference, we ask Greg what system architecture means to him. From there we get super meta about the meaning of architecture and what it means to translate design into practice. We touch on the struggle of understanding domain-driven design and Greg’s approach to pre-code planning before delving into how the Bleacher Report is set up. As Greg goes into details, you’ll hear why their servers now run on Elixir and not Ruby. Near the end of the episode, we talk about Poncho versus Umbrella apps, and Greg shares his passion for multi-user dungeons (MUDs). Tune in to learn more about Greg and his role in the Elixir and Nerves landscape. Key Points From This Episode: Greg’s start in coding and his transition from electronics design into IT. Why Greg loves Ruby and how he discovered the magic of Elixir. Greg’s contribution to the Elixir and Nerves community by helping onboard newcomers. What Greg’s job as a senior engineer for Bleacher Report looks like. Greg recommends resources for beginners getting into Nerves and Elixir. Creating a kid’s game using Nerves and Greg’s Blinkchain library. Greg’s take on the Code BEAM V conference and hating on the Whova app. What architecture means to Greg. This one gets deep. How translating designs into software has changed over the years. Why Greg struggles with the idea of domain-driven design. The state of Extreme Programming practices and how they synergize together. How Greg views pre-code planning; something that’s become his specialty within his latest job. The many elements that contribute to how the Bleacher Report’s IT is set up. Ruby servers versus Elixir servers and why the Bleacher Report uses Elixir. Why the Poncho system was designed to fix Nerves issues not covered by Umbrella apps. Greg’s history creating multi-user dungeons (MUDs) and playing DragonRealm. Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Greg Mefford LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferggo/ SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ SmartLogic Jobs — https://apply.workable.com/smartlogic/ ElixirConf — https://elixirconf.com/2020 Blinkchain GitHub — https://github.com/GregMefford/blinkchain Justin Schneck GitHub — https://github.com/mobileoverlord Le Tote — https://www.letote.com/ James Smith — https://twitter.com/st23am Garth Hitchens, ElixirCof 2015 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpzQrFC55q4 Nerves Project — https://www.nerves-project.org/documentation Bleacher Report — https://bleacherreport.com/ Programming Elixir — https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Elixir-1-6-Functional-Concurrent/dp/1680502999 Elixir in Action — https://www.amazon.com/Elixir-Action-Sa%C5%A1a-Juri-cacute/dp/1617295027 Chris Keathley — https://codesync.global/speaker/chris-keathley/ Code BEAM V Conference — https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto/ Whova App — https://whova.com/ Amos King — https://twitter.com/adkron?lang=en Christopher Keele — https://github.com/christhekeele Steve Bussey Episode — https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s4e3-bussey/ Mark Windholtz — https://github.com/mwindholtz Extreme Programming — http://www.extremeprogramming.org/ Adopting Elixir: From Concept to Production — https://www.amazon.com/Adopting-Elixir-Production-Ben-Marx/dp/1680502522 Live Elixir Wizards - Betweenisode — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEwxhGYEGts Twirp GitHub — https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp Frank Hunleth — https://github.com/fhunleth Elixir Supervisor Behavior — https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Supervisor.html Elixir Poncho Projects — https://embedded-elixir.com/post/2017-05-19-poncho-projects/ Titans of Text — https://www.titansoftext.com/ Miriani — https://www.toastsoft.net/ DragonRealms — https://www.play.net/dr/ Justus Eapen Twitter — https://twitter.com/justuseapen Eric Oestrich — https://twitter.com/EricOestrich Special Guest: Greg Mefford.

Episode 081 - Greg Star, Co-Founder of Carvertise This week's guest is the Co-Founder of the largest ride-share/private vehicle advertising service in the United States, and the recent recipient of the Delaware SBA’s 2016 Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, as well as the 2015 Junior Achievement of Delaware's Business Benchmark award. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Preston’s March for energy, a nonprofit that provides adaptive bicycles to children with special needs.  His ride-share/private vehicle advertising company, Carvertise (https://carvertise.com/), has had 300% year-over-year revenue growth and has created a driver network of over 350,000 drivers across 48 states. Working with clients such as Discover, Lyft, EA Sports, and Buffalo Wild Wings, Carvertise has launched over 500 major advertising campaign across the United States. Carvertise was named DIW's 2015 Tech Startup of the Year and has been covered by major press outlets including Forbes, Inc Magazine, WHYY, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The NewsJournal, and Delaware Today. He is also considered a thought leader on Entrepreneurship, Marketing, and Networking, and is currently a contributor for the Philadelphia Business Journal, as well as several other regional business journals. Here for your listening pleasure are the Self Made Strategies of Greg Star. On this episode you will hear Greg discuss: The hardest part about starting Carvertise and introducing a new concept to market How Greg felt when Carvertise started to catch on, and Greg started receiving rewards and recognition for his innovative concept What Greg wishes he had known when he started Carvertise How Greg and his co-founder, Mac, came up with the concept to drive higher brand recall, better data verification, and more precise geo-targeting led to Carvertise partnering with top brands The specific roadblocks Greg advises other startups to watch out for Why innovators and startups need to surround themselves with smart advisors How conducting client surveys, and staying customer-centric, has helped Carvertise to continue growing roughly 300% year after year Greg's reasons behind why some startups fail Production Credits: This Self Made Strategies Podcast is a SoftStix Productions LLC jawn. This episode was produced and hosted by Tony Lopes, REMOTELY (because we are obeying the COVID-19 social distancing guidelines) in Philadelphia;and edited by the team at SoftStix Productions LLC. The Self Made Strategies Podcast is sponsored by Lopes Law LLC (www.LopesLawLLC.com). Make sure you subscribe to the Self Made Strategies Podcast on your favorite podcasting platform. You can find us on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, iHeartRadio, and Spreaker. Follow us on: • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram • LinkedIn

Long-distance relationships are never easy. And if you’re part of the traveling circus that is the real estate conference circuit, you may be struggling to keep your professional relationships going in a virtual environment. Would being an orc help?   On this episode of Industry Relations, Rob and Greg are discussing the current pause in the real estate conference and trade show circuit and mourning the loss of chance meetings that don’t happen in a virtual environment. They explore why massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) like World of Warcraft work to create community and how real estate might replicate that always-on culture until the conference circuit comes back.   Rob and Greg go on to cover the challenge of sustaining long-distance relationships in an online world, explaining why we just can’t duplicate face-to-face interaction at virtual events. Listen in for insight on how going virtual is impacting MLSs, associations, and vendors and learn about the possibility for a 2020 MLS Proptech Symposium (which Rob wants to rename to the “2020 MLS Herd Symposium”) that would help sponsors make decisions about the feasibility of their own fiscal events.   What’s Discussed:    The current halt to the real estate conference/trade show circuit What Greg covers in his forthcoming book, The Art of the CMA The chance meetings that don’t happen in a virtual environment Why we can’t duplicate face-to-face interaction through virtual events The challenge of sustaining long-distance business/personal relationships Why MMO games work to create community + how real estate might replicate that always-on culture When the real estate conference circuit will come back The impact of going virtual for MLS and association communities --Increased engagement and attendance --Eliminates serendipity of networking How new vendors might build trust in the absence of in-person interaction What we can do to gauge circuit response to physical events   Connect with Rob and Greg:   Rob’s Website Greg’s Website   Resources:   CMLS 2020 RESO 2020 Fall Conference Inman Connect 2020 2020 NAR Realtors Conference and Expo Cover Art Choices for Greg’s Book Charles Warnock VirBELA Second Life EverQuest Asheron’s Call MMORPG World of Warcraft Roblox Overwatch Discord Dungeons and Dragons Online ARMLS GoToMeeting Greg’s Draft Agenda for the 2020 MLS Proptech Symposium (with Rob's edits)   Our Sponsors:   Cloud Agent Suite Notorious VIP  

Greg is another awesome fellow marketer we got the chance to hang out with at Rich Schefren’s event in Florida, and luckily so as you cannot be around this guy and not have a huge smile on your face. He has amazing energy and ideas and on this show we cover a lot of ground with him. We also held a mastermind at Podfest, and the things Greg talked about there blew everyone’s mind in that room, so we wanted to share that in this show as well. Listen in as he explains how he got a partnership deal with Entrepeneur.com and his reality show onto Amazon Prime, and how he was able to make those deals with these high profile companies. He’s giving away amazing resources (one that’s so good you need to listen in to discover). Plus, while his business took a huge hit due to COVID, he reinvented his business model to create a brand new six figure business, all within a week. When you’re done listening, you can learn more about branding strategies from our talks with Steven Sashen and Marshall Wayne. “It’s really hard to build an audience and you have to work your tail off...I look at, if I want to build an audience, who already has my audience that I can tap into and add value to in some way.” - Greg Rollett Some Topics We Discussed Include: A resource that is so good, we can’t list it here (but listen to the show and you’ll find out what it is!)  Matt reminisces about his very first band (and why they needed to change their name) How Greg is documentoring his tribe (yes, we created a new word) How to partner with the big brands - Amazon, Entrepreneur.com, and others Why mailing people stuff really helps you stand out (just like our newsletter that you can get in the mail!) How to have breakfast with Larry King (which just might lead to a book deal) The right way to crowdfund for projects, whether you are just starting out or if you have an existing audience What Greg would do differently now if he was creating video content all over again From one business tanking because of COVID to creating a brand new one all within a week And much, much more! References and Links Mentioned: The Ambitious Planner.com/Hustle - Check this out to get a free copy of Greg’s planner which includes 52 weeks worth of brand building video ideas  Operation Underground and Esperanza documentaries Ambitious Adventures   Rudy Ruettiger and Rudy: Live On Broadway on Amazon Prime Charity Buzz No B.S. Marketing to the Affluent by Dan Kennedy Are you ready to be EPIC with us?! Then grab our EGP Letter here! This episode is sponsored by our go-to SEO research tool, Ahrefs.com, by Easy Webinar and Gina Horkey’s Podcast Production School. FlowchartGroup.com - be sure to hop in our Facebook group to chat with us, our other amazing guests that we’ve had on the show, and fellow entrepreneurs! Xero Shoes Takes Us Behind The Scenes Of Shark Tank - Steven Sashen How To Build A Movie Star Brand For Yourself - Marshall Wayne

In this episode, you are welcome to join Tom Vander Ark and Greg Shaw for a discussion around reprogramming the American dream.   Greg Shaw is a writer from Bellevue, Washington. He has supported the policy and communication needs of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation for more than 25 years. Three years ago, Greg worked with Satya Nadella on Hit Refresh, a book on the remaking of Microsoft as a leader in cloud computing and artificial intelligence. For the last two years, Greg has been working alongside Kevin Scott on their newest book, Reprogramming the American Dream, which takes a look at the future landscape of AI and how it can be realistically used to promote equitable growth.   In Greg’s conversation with Tom, he discusses the challenges of producing beneficial AI that serves society equitably (from rural America to Silicon Valley); how he sees the future of AI as an open platform for creativity and productivity for anyone, anywhere; the need for local conversations around AI; and what his newest book with co-author, Kevin Scott, hopes to accomplish and add to the conversation.   Key Takeaways: [:10] About today’s show with Greg Shaw. [1:00] Tom welcomes Greg Shaw back to the Getting Smart podcast! [1:39] Greg speaks about what his life has been like during the COVID-19 pandemic. [3:40] Greg tells listeners about his co-author for his book, Reprogramming the American Dream, Kevin Scott, and how they came up with the idea for the book. [6:04] Greg shares why he believes it was important for Kevin to tell his story in their newest book. [8:53] Tom shares what he likes about the book. [9:39] Greg speaks about what he and Kevin hoped the book would accomplish and what communities it would impact. [10:31] Tom shares more of what he appreciates about the book. [11:35] Greg gives his thoughts on the different ways he thinks AI needs to be on the public agenda. [14:14] What Greg thinks is different about AI between now and five years ago. [15:25] Does Greg envision AI as a set of open tools in the future? [17:20] Jessica shares an important resource with listeners: the Getting Through microsite. [18:00] Tom further explains the capabilities of AI and how the entire supply chain of every industry is rapidly being altered. [18:51] Greg shares more about the way that he and Kevin addressed how they think the U.S. will share the wealth and benefits that come with AI in their new book. [21:25] Greg speaks about how he’s seeing AI becoming an open platform for creativity and productivity beginning to happen. [25:25] Does Greg think that this current crisis will bring more awareness to the lack of access to certain technologies in rural areas and schools? [27:51] Greg speaks on the topic of preventing potential negative consequences of AI. [29:44] Greg touches on the need for local conversations and who should be leading these sorts of conversations. [32:30] What is Greg going to work on next? What other areas is he curious about? [34:12] Tom thanks Greg for joining the podcast! [34:24] Where to find Greg online!   Mentioned in This Episode: GettingSmart.com/GettingThrough The Gates Foundation Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone, by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw, and Jill Tracie Nichols Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley―Making AI Serve Us All, by Greg Shaw and Kevin Scott Kevin Scott (CTO of Microsoft) Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J.D. Vance AI4All AI4K12 Geneva Conventions Greg Shaw on LinkedIn Greg Shaw on Twitter   Want to Hear More? Tune in to this Getting Smart episode: “The Backstory Behind Microsoft Refresh” with Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols   Get Involved: Check out the blog at GettingSmart.com. Find the Getting Smart Podcast on iTunes, leave a review and subscribe.   Is There Somebody You’ve Been Wanting to Learn From or a Topic You’d Like Covered? To get in contact: Email Editor@GettingSmart.com and include ‘Podcast’ in the subject line. The Getting Smart team will be sure to add them to their list!

Is that Fantasy Theatre's entrance music?!?!?!? A tribute for one of Spencer's favorites. What Greg wants to change moving forward with fantasy football. The guys break down a Best Ball draft they recently participated in. The show ends with a deep player debate between two very good young WRs: DJ Chark vs Courtland Sutton.  Email: FantasyTheatrePod@gmail.com  FACEBOOK * TWITTER * INSTAGRAM 

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Happy Holidays! This week the podcast is celebrating the Holiday season and will air this classic episode of The NexxtLevel Brands Podcast, originally aired on 9/5/19. Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy the Holiday Season! Original episode: The struggle between keeping a steady paycheck and potential future freedom of entrepreneurial life is a common one. Not everyone can make the leap. Some that do take up the challenge end up wishing they hadn’t. Such was the dilemma that Greg Keller faced. But after a long tenure at a large, successful company he decided to go for it. Despite initially having his income cut to a third of its former number, he persevered and went on to have a successful career.   Greg Keller is the founder and principal of the G. Keller Group, which helps brands realize their potential. After spending seven years early in his career at Kraft Foods, Greg left to help start Frontera Foods, which led to a successful run with the company before selling it in 2016.   In this episode, G. Steven Cleere sits down with Greg to talk about starting Frontera Foods, funding startups, and when too much business can be a bad thing. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:  [1:01] Introduction to Greg Keller [2:52] The genesis of Frontera Foods [6:15] Having a second brand, and when it is financially ideal to do so [8:00] Why Greg decided to leave Kraft [11:07] Greg’s experience at Kraft helped him to develop his own company [14:19] Too much business can be a bad thing [17:01] The strategy Greg used to choose which markets to target [24:30] What led to the idea of selling the company [28:35] The challenges of staying on with a company after selling [32:17] Funding startups and venture capital work [37:07] The funding strategy Greg and his team followed [40:30] The dynamics of culture in a small business environment [41:38] What Greg is up to now Subscribe and Listen on: iTunes Resources Mentioned in this episode Frontera Foods LinkedIn for Greg Steve’s Email Connect with Steve Kitchen 2 Shelf  About Me NexxtLevel Marketing Sponsor for this episode Our podcast was brought to you today by Kitchen to Shelf, the educational arm of NexxtLevel Brands. Kitchen to Shelf provides online and in-person courses and workshops for CPG entrepreneurs at any stage of growth. Whether you're an early-stage startup, a local growing business, or if you want to just expand your distribution to a national level, Kitchen to Shelf can help you learn what you need to know to grow.   

Listen to This Episode At Flip Hacking LIVE, we talked about “core values.”Your core values come from the people who have shaped your character throughout your life.A few years ago, I did an exercise where I wrote down the top 3 people who have molded me into who I am today…One of them was my dad, who I brought on the podcast a few days ago.Another was Andy McFarland, one of my biggest mentors in real estate.And one was the man I’m going to introduce to you today… retired Navy captain Greg Sheahan, who was the commanding officer of my squadron years ago.Greg is an incredible leader, a mentor, and a good friend.This is a guy who truly embodies values like integrity, stewardship, giving, and so many others……and I asked him to join me on the podcast today to share some leadership lessons from his decades as an officer in the Navy.Now, you might be wondering……what does this have to do with real estate investing?Well, let me put it this way…What Greg and I are talking about today is the foundational stuff that will set you up to succeed at a high level in business, whether you’re flipping or wholesaling houses or you’re in another line of work altogether.This stuff MATTERS.If you’re not in a position of leadership yet, that’s okay. This is still for you… take it in, reflect on it, let it shape you and prepare you for the future.If you ARE in a position of leadership or you’re looking to take that step soon, buckle up……and let’s dive in!Links & ResourcesMy COO Nate and I are holding a live event in Nashville in early December where we’re going to break down how to find, hire and train your COO to “run your business” the way Nate runs Blackjack Real Estate. Seats are limited… so if you want to learn more and sign up for a spot, head over to Dash2Live.com!Like what you hear? Subscribe!If you've found any value or helpful information in the 7 Figure Flipping Podcast, we’d love to hear about it! Head over to iTunes to subscribe, and while you're at it, leave us a rating (5 stars would be great!) and a review so that others who are interested in starting a house flipping business can find us and get in on the good stuff! If you have any questions or comments about this show or its contents, please post them in the comments area below and I’ll be happy to answer them!The post 7FF 292: Leadership lessons from the Navy (with my C.O. Greg Sheahan)… appeared first on House Flipping HQ. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jungle Scout founder Greg Mercer knows what works on Amazon as well as what doesn’t. If you’re learning how to run a business on Amazon or are new to the entrepreneurial world it’s hard to know where to focus your attention. In this episode of Maximizing Ecommerce, Greg lends his perspective and expertise to the conversation.  After becoming a Civil Engineer and finding the job miserable, Greg took his strong entrepreneurial spirit and forged ahead. He started selling products on Amazon—eventually completely replacing his income as an engineer. In the process of finding new products to launch, he founded Jungle Scout. Listen along as he shares his journey! Outline of This Episode [1:40] Kevin introduces Greg Mercer, the founder of Jungle Scout. [5:10] How Greg got into the software business [9:20] Developing a suite of products [13:00] The big thing that is working today [16:40] There is no cookie-cutter formula for success [17:45] What’s not working on Amazon [21:00] How to describe your product [22:30] To diversify or not? [31:00] Where you should devote your time [35:20] What Greg wishes he would’ve known [37:40] What is Pickleball? [40:45] Million Dollar Case study and other resources How did Jungle Scout come about? Back in the day Amazon was a different landscape. To gauge what products sold and how well they did, many people utilized the “999” trick. Amazon allows you to purchase a maximum of 999 units of a product. If you put that product in your cart and the inventory wasn’t available, Google would return an error message—stating exactly how many units they were actually available. When checked daily, it was an archaic way of tracking how well a certain product sold. Greg started toying around with different algorithms to solve the problem for himself. He knew there had to be a better way to track sales and gauge how certain products sold. His first attempt was crude, with 10-20 data points and a simple linear regression. He continued to develop and build a better algorithm. He started selling it in an attempt to recoup what he had spent developing it. Amazingly, Jungle Scout took off and has since grown into an empire. Greg never intended to build a software business, but ended up filling a need that existed for every seller. What is the one big thing Greg Mercer recommends doing? Anyone can make a specific niche work well. They can sell in one particular niche with a limited selection of products. Or they can focus on selling small, light, inexpensive products. Others focus on high-quality expensive products. There is an endless amount of routes you can take to find success on Amazon. The “big thing” that Greg recommends you do? Focus on making improvements to an existing product.  It doesn’t have to be a product that you even offer. Choose a product that sells well, and spend time going through the negative reviews for the product. Take those negatives and have your factory make improvements to the product. Is the fabric too thin? Find a different material. Does a certain element of the product break? Does it continue to function properly? Whatever the problem is, fix it in production—then start selling it yourself. Your positive reviews and ratings will begin to rank higher than the other products, driving traffic to the product you sell over your competitor. Build your product descriptions around what customers are saying It can be difficult to accurately describe your products. We all have certain adjectives we lean towards that we think best describe something. You may describe a towel as absorbent or moisture-wicking, but your customer describes it as “fluffy” or “soft to the touch”.  While all those words describe your product, changing the product description to use the words your customers use can make a significant impact. Why? Because that’s what they’re looking for. The terms they are searching for need to be in your product description. It helps solidify and validate that it was exactly the product they were looking for. The big debate: Do you diversify? There is a large push in Ecommerce right now towards diversification. AKA, don’t put all your eggs in the Amazon basket. Many people advocate directing traffic to your product website or other sales channels. They argue that you need to build an email list that you can market to off of Amazon. All in the off-chance Amazon may suspend your account at some point in time.  Greg argues if 90% of your sales are through Amazon, why focus your time elsewhere? Your account may be suspended at some point in the lifetime of your business, but it is rare that suspended accounts won’t get reinstated. The actual risk of an account suspension is far lower than the perceived risk. Instead, Greg recommends doubling down on what is working and focus on the things that you do exceptionally well.  Kevin and Greg discuss reinstating suspended accounts, optimization, where to focus your time, and much more—so check out the whole episode now! Resources & People Mentioned The Jungle Scout Blog Jungle Scout on YouTube Jungle Scout 8-Week Webinar Splitly Fetcher Connect with Greg Mercer Greg on LinkedIn Greg on Twitter www.GregMercer.com Connect With Kevin Sanderson www.YouTube.com/maximizingecommerce www.Facebook.com/maximizingecommerce www.Twitter.com/maxecom Subscribe to Maximizing Ecommerce onApple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, PlayerFM

Greg Norman, “The Shark,” is one of the greatest golfers of all time, winning over 90 tournaments, including two Open championships. He is a sports legend who also became an incredibly successful businessman, philanthropist, and CEO of a global corporation.  Listen to this episode and learn:   How Greg was inspired by his mother to play golf.  What Greg is most proud of from his career.  About Greg’s hidden talents and why he connects surfing skills to his success in golf.  About three attributes Greg describes as essential for success in sports and business.   Why Greg believes it is important to help children and pay it forward.

The struggle between keeping a steady paycheck and potential future freedom of entrepreneurial life is a common one. Not everyone can make the leap. Some that do take up the challenge end up wishing they hadn’t. Such was the dilemma that Greg Keller faced. But after a long tenure at a large, successful company he decided to go for it. Despite initially having his income cut to a third of its former number, he persevered and went on to have a successful career.   Greg Keller is the founder and principal of the G. Keller Group, which helps brands realize their potential. After spending seven years early in his career at Kraft Foods, Greg left to help start Frontera Foods, which led to a successful run with the company before selling it in 2016.   In this episode, G. Steven Cleere sits down with Greg to talk about starting Frontera Foods, funding startups, and when too much business can be a bad thing. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:  [1:01] Introduction to Greg Keller [2:52] The genesis of Frontera Foods [6:15] Having a second brand, and when it is financially ideal to do so [8:00] Why Greg decided to leave Kraft [11:07] Greg’s experience at Kraft helped him to develop his own company [14:19] Too much business can be a bad thing [17:01] The strategy Greg used to choose which markets to target [24:30] What led to the idea of selling the company [28:35] The challenges of staying on with a company after selling [32:17] Funding startups and venture capital work [37:07] The funding strategy Greg and his team followed [40:30] The dynamics of culture in a small business environment [41:38] What Greg is up to now Subscribe and Listen on: iTunes Resources Mentioned in this episode Frontera Foods LinkedIn for Greg Steve’s Email Connect with Steve Kitchen 2 Shelf  About Me NexxtLevel Marketing   Sponsor for this episode Our podcast was brought to you today by Kitchen to Shelf, the educational arm of NexxtLevel Brands. Kitchen to Shelf provides online and in-person courses and workshops for CPG entrepreneurs at any stage of growth. Whether you're an early-stage startup, a local growing business, or if you want to just expand your distribution to a national level, Kitchen to Shelf can help you learn what you need to know to grow.

Dr. Gregory Hill leads the Analytics function at Brightstar's Global Services division, developing and delivering their data & analytics strategy, innovation programs, and product development initiatives. He works across their lines of business, including supply chain optimization, product portfolio management, financial services, buy-back and trade-in, leasing, and omnichannel solutions. He also manages Brightstar's analytics team in support of their key global accounts with pre-sales, solution design, and service delivery. His expertise is in the application of advanced analytics techniques (including machine learning, predictive modelling, mathematical optimization, econometrics, and operations research) to commercial problems. These applications span forecasting, pricing, fraud, market segmentation, customer satisfaction, and propensity modelling. In this episode, Gregory explains how he started in the data space. He was aware of all the theoretical work being done around data but did not know how it worked in an industry aspect. The real challenge of putting mathematical models to practice lies in the organizational and people elements of it. Computer science and electrical engineering do not teach you how to overcome organizational challenges and individual motivations and incentives. Going back to get his Ph.D., Greg wanted to do something requiring qualitative research. So he targeted informational systems and economics. His fieldwork leads him to interview executives of larger banks, publicly listed companies, and government agencies. He came up with an economic framework that improved customer data quality. Enjoy the show! We speak about: [02:00] How Greg started in the data space [11:10] Leaving academics and getting involved in the industry [13:20] Greg’s work background [18:25] The four P’s of marketing [20:40] Transiting from gut instinct to a data-driven approach [27:55] Thinking through cause and effect [30:45] What Greg’s team looks like [39:00] Lessons learned from managing data scientists [42:25] Active in local data science meetups + guest speaking [44:25] Working globally + peeling back opportunities to use data science techniques Resources: Greg’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryhill/?originalSubdomain=au Brightstar: https://www.brightstar.com Quotes: “My thesis was not a project; it was a lifestyle.” “I didn’t want to be an academic, I wanted to get back into the industry.” “It was a combination of arrogance and laziness.” “At the end of the day, it boils down to if I change X, will Y change?” Now you can support Data Futurology on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/datafuturology Thank you to our sponsors: UNSW Master of Data Science Online: studyonline.unsw.edu.au Datasource Services: datasourceservices.com.au or email Will Howard on will@datasourceservices.com.au Fyrebox - Make Your Own Quiz! And as always, we appreciate your Reviews, Follows, Likes, Shares and Ratings. Thank you so much for listening. Enjoy the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/datafuturology/message

In this episode, you learn about the unconventional paths that have led each host to their most recent business endeavors. This includes how Jason quit his good-paying, mundane job and made $1 million wearing branded t-shirts and Greg going from barely graduating high school to starting his first business at age 22 before being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. Topics discussed include: What Greg and Jason learned in school versus the real-world and how it has shaped their business decision-making. Each hosts early employment days and when each discovered they wanted to be entrepreneurs. Why having great job experiences still wasn't enough for Jason or Greg to remain employed. How Jason and Greg went from mostly directionless early in their careers to focusing their energy on their respective entrepreneurial paths. Jason's experience being one of the first online and social media influencers before the term entered the general business lexicon. How both Jason and Greg reached business burnout and what they did about it. Greg describes the difference between "knowing about" business and "knowing" it. Hint: The difference lies in skin in the game. Greg and Jason each discuss the one book that inspired them to begin each of their entrepreneurial journeys. What led Jason to launch a software-as-a-service business https://www.teachery.co/ Greg discusses the difference between being self-employed and being a business owner, and the difficult lessons he learned being on the wrong side of this quadrant. What led Greg to conduct a project traveling all 50 United States helping over 500 aspiring entrepreneurs launch their business ideas. How Greg and Jason met and what brought them together to create this podcast, Move The Needle. A summary of the current projects and businesses both Jason and Greg are working on and the short-term goals they have for each. Thanks for listening! Reach Jason Zook at Hello @ JasonDoesStuff.Com Reach Greg Hartle at Online @ GregHartle.com

LIVE on the Sport Physiotherapy Canada Facebook Page, I welcome Greg Lehman on the show to preview his lecture for the Third World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy in Vancouver, Canada. Greg is a physiotherapist, chiropractor and strength and conditioning specialist treating musculoskeletal disorders within a biopsychosocial model.  He currently teaches two 2-day continuing education courses to health and fitness professionals throughout the world.  Reconciling Biomechanics with Pain Science and Running Resiliency have been taught more than 60 times in more than 40 locations worldwide. In this episode, we discuss: -Common misconceptions surrounding the source of pain -Do biomechanics matter? -Promoting movement optimism in your treatment framework -What Greg is looking forward to at the Third World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy -And so much more!   Resources: Greg Lehman Website Greg Lehman Twitter Third World Congress of Sports Physical Therapy David Butler Sensitive Nervous System Alex Hutchinson Endure                                                                      For more information on Greg: Prior to my clinical career I was fortunate enough to receive a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council MSc graduate scholarship that permitted me to be one of only two yearly students to train with Professor Stuart McGill in his Occupational Biomechanics Laboratory subsequently publishing more than 20 peer reviewed papers in the manual therapy and exercise biomechanics field. I was an assistant professor at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College teaching a graduate level course in Spine Biomechanics and Instrumentation as well conducting more than 20 research experiments while supervising more than 50 students. I have lectured on a number of topics on reconciling treatment biomechanics with pain science, running injuries, golf biomechanics, occupational low back injuries and therapeutic neuroscience. While I have a strong biomechanics background I was introduced to the field of neuroscience and the importance of psychosocial risk factors in pain and injury management almost two decades ago. I believe successful injury management and prevention can use simple techniques that still address the multifactorial and complex nature of musculoskeletal disorders. I am active on social media and consider the discussion and dissemination of knowledge an important component of responsible practice. Further in depth bio and history of my education, works and publications.   Read the full transcript below: Karen Litzy:                   00:00                Hey everybody, welcome to the live interview tonight with Doctor Greg Lehman. And we have a lot to cover tonight. So for everyone that is on watching, oh good. And we're on. Awesome. Just wanted to make sure, for everyone that's on watching and kind of throughout the interview, if you have any comments or you have any questions or you want to put Greg on the spot, feel free to do so. We can see your comments as they come up. Greg, if you can't see them, just know I'll kind of let you know. But one thing we do want to know is if you're watching, say hi and let us know where you're watching from. And that way when you start asking questions, at least I'll have a better, kind of know who you are a little bit. Now before we get to the meat of the interview, I just want to remind everyone that if you are watching this, this is not on my page and it's not on Greg's page, but instead we are on the Facebook page for the Third World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy and that is going to be taking place on October 4th and fifth in Vancouver, Canada. Karen Litzy:                   01:20                So hopefully we're going to be doing more of these throughout the year talking to a lot of the presenters and Greg is one of the presenters at the congress. So that's why he's here. Greg Lehman:               01:31                Not just me every time Karen Litzy:                   01:35                Although I have to say, I bet people would really enjoy that. Greg Lehman:               01:39                Yeah, I'll fill in for whatever speaker it is and I'll just learn their stuff and then pretend like I know Karen Litzy:                   01:46                Okay. So I'd like to see you fill in for Sarah Haag. Greg Lehman:               01:50                Done. I’ll shake my pelvis. Karen Litzy:                   01:53                Pelvic health and stuff like that. That would be amazing. I would actually wouldn't mind seeing that. Now before we get started, Greg, can you talk a little bit more about yourself, just kind of give the listeners, the viewers here a little bit more of a background on you so that they know where you're coming from, if they are in fact not familiar with you. Greg Lehman:               02:13                Okay. Well, leading into that, I'm a generalist. I'm not a specialist. I have a background in kinesiology and then a master's in spine biomechanics and I was really into spine biomechanics for a long time. But you know, I became not, sorry, I was going to say dissolutioned. That's a little too strong. I've always been skeptical, skeptical of everything that I've known, and that's probably why I got accepted to my master's in biomechanics because they liked the questions I asked. And then my research there was in mainly exercise, like EMG and manual therapy, what manual therapy does. And I was pretty lucky because I was with Stuart McGill and two chiros named Kim Ross and Dave Breznik, who I always have to mention. And I should give a big shout out to Stu because he took on Kim Ross Dave Breznik who were chiros at the time and they did like amazing research that challenged so much of what we know about, you know, spine manipulation. Greg Lehman:               03:19                And they also challenged me to think about what I thought about low back pain at the time. So my master's was really helpful for me because it challenged so much of what I thought. And so that's when I was first introduced to the bio psycho social, not actually first, cause I used to read John Sarno when I was like 19 years old. I was a bit of a nerd when I was a kid. But definitely the occupational biomechanics at Waterloo, even though they love biomechanics, even back then they knew that psychosocial factors were important for your pain and injury. And then I went to chiro school, actually I went to, that's like in quotes. I like was registered, but I didn't go to class, but I had a research program and they were awesome. They funded me to do more biomechanical research. Then I was in practice for a long time and then I went back to physio school and then I was in practice for a long time and didn't do a lot of research. And then I just started teaching with John Sarno who's running the conference with the running clinic and they were great. And at the same time I also started teaching my course which is about biomechanics and pain science. How do we like bring them together? And you've hosted me. Karen Litzy:                   04:38                I've taken that course. Yes. Greg Lehman:               04:41                For you is like an echo chamber. Just it was confirmation bias. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We know this shit, Greg. But thanks for confirming what I already know. And my course does that a lot, which I don't mind. So that's me. There you go. That was fun. Karen Litzy:                   04:56                Excellent. Very good. And, you know, just as a side note that I spoke to John Sarno a couple of years, like when I was in the middle of like all my neck pain, I reached out to him via email and he said, you need to call me. Greg Lehman:               05:11                Oh, interesting. Karen Litzy:                   05:12                So I called him and I spoke to him. I never saw him but I spoke to him and he was like, you're a young chickadee. I was like, what? And like crying and all this neck pain. I'm like, who is this guy? And he said, well, just get my book. Read it. If it doesn't work, come in and see me. Greg Lehman:               05:30                Yeah, that's funny. I had a patient, he was very famous, very rich, and he bought like a hundred of his books and gave them out to his friends. He thought it was amazing. Sarno was interesting because and this happens, this is the issue with biomechanics sometimes is he had physios working with him for a long time and then he realized that doing physical medicine conflicted with the message he was giving about where pain came from, meaning like predominantly emotional, I'm probably bastardizing my sense in a long time since I thought about them. And so, which is funny that he had the problem that I had for a long time and so many of us do where we think it's bio-psychosocial, but often our biomechanical ideas will conflict with their psychosocial. So we have to be careful in how we navigate all the multidimensional nature of pain. Karen Litzy:                   06:26                I think that's the important part is that it's multidimensional and that you can't have that pendulum swing too far in either direction. And you know, now that we're on the topic of pain, let's go in a little bit deeper, so what would you say are the biggest misconceptions or common misconceptions around pain and it's, I'll put this in quotes, sources, quote unquote sources. Greg Lehman:               06:53                Yeah. The biggest one. And I really like to focus on this because it helps me in practice, it's this idea that, and I like this cause it's how our practice is that we don't always need to fix people, right? And I kind of mean, I don't just mean that in the biomechanical way. And I would have meant that in the biomechanical way five years ago where I would have said, well, you don't have to fix that posture. You don't have to fix that strength or that weakness or we don't fix strength. We're gonna have to fix that weakness or tightness. And I believe that although I do think strength and weakness and range of motion can be relevant sometimes, but I also don't think we need to always fix catastrophizing and depression and anxiety and worry, and so that criticism goes both ways. Greg Lehman:               07:53                It started out for biomechanical with me, but I would also say psycho social and we see that in the literature where people recover and they still have these, you know, mediators of disability and pain. It could be high catastrophizing but they still do really well because maybe they built up their self efficacy and they got a little bit of control and they were able to do something and something to control their pain or do something that they loved or they had some sort of hope. And so that's the biggest one, that idea of like fixing and if you want to be more technical or mechanical, it's the same idea. Like I don't think you have to get rid of nociception. So like your tissue irritation stuff, you can have shit going on in the tissues, but it's how you kind of respond to that stuff. That’s exciting. Karen Litzy:                   08:45                Well why would want to get rid of nociception. Greg Lehman:               08:49                Yeah. Well I mean I don't, well I know what you mean. Like, we don't, you don't want to, cause when you sit down you want to get an ass ulcer. Right. You definitely want to move around. So, but that now we get into crazy stuff with that. Karen Litzy:                   09:03                Well do you mean the sensitivity around it? Greg Lehman:               09:05                Yeah, it'd be like you definitely don't want like a raging disc herniation that's pressing on a nerve root and you have chemical inflammation, things like that. It’s worthwhile getting rid of. But you know, other things, you know, you can have tendinosis and a muscle strain and it can definitely hurt. But it's the idea that sometimes maybe what our rehab does is helps us cope with those, with those things, right? That's at a peripheral level and more central level. You can have anxiety and worry and those might magnify your pain response, but you can also cope with them as well. And so I love that message because I think it's just positive. Like people think I'm so messed up, I got scoliosis, I'll never got pain. And I'm like, dude, like it might contribute. I don't think the research actually supports that. Perhaps. Perhaps it does, but you can have that and still be doing awesome. Karen Litzy:                   10:00                Right. So just cause you have chronic, let's say persistent pain or you've had pain for x amount of time, it doesn't mean that that should be the thing that defines what you do or defines whether you're happy or sad or anxious but that it's a part of your life that perhaps you can cope with or like in my case I had many years of chronic pain. Now I have pain every once in awhile. But there are times where it's more severe than I would like it to be. And there are times when I want to fix it or I need to fix it. And then there are other times where I feel like I can cope with it and it's not horrible. Karen Litzy:                   10:45                I think it's context dependent. So like I had pain last year, like pretty severe for like a week or so, and I knew that in another couple of days I had to get on a flight to go to Sri Lanka. And so I needed it. So what I did for myself was I decided to get medication to help bring those pain levels down and that's what I needed at the time. But I felt so guilty about it. I would like say is this the bio psycho social way? Is this the way I should be handling this? Greg Lehman:               11:20                I would think so. I’m going to mansplain you for a second. Cause I'm guessing that you knew that this was just a flare it was going to go away and that you've managed it before, but you're just giving yourself a break for a few days. Yeah. I don't think there's anything wrong with taking Tylenol for a few days. I've talked off topic, but it's how you do manual therapy, I don't do a lot of manual therapy, but I don't begrudge people that do. And it's, especially at an athlete level, I brought this up with some of the people who are going to be at the congress and I'm like, I find it ironic that all of us who teach a running course, none of us really teach manual therapy at our running courses and no one would ever say that manual therapy is a strongly evidence based, you know, modality for running injury. Greg Lehman:               12:16                It's not, we would all talk about load management and exercise and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all of these things. Yet when you're a physio or a chiro training like elite athletes and you're working with them the day before their competition, what are you doing? You're probably doing some manual therapy. And so I just found that ironic that we do that, that when we're traveling with the team, I don't travel with teams, but I do have athletes come to see me the day before an event or I've been working with them for months and here I am doing what people would call low value care. But I'm like, no, sometimes it's a bandaid, but sometimes bandaids help and that's the only solution. Well, the solution that works then. Karen Litzy:                   13:08                Well again, it's context dependent, right? So if, and I saw this conversation on Twitter about, you know, what are we doing race day and race day yeah you probably are doing some sort of manual therapy. Greg Lehman:               13:30                You’re treating that little niggle and this things tight and sore and you treat and people feel better. And if fatigue is psychobiological, which it is, then our intervention is probably psychobiological and it could certainly be more psycho based. Yeah. Karen Litzy:                   13:48                Right, right. It’s still real. And you know, in the context of athletes and being, this is the Third World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy. So there'll be a lot of, we can assume, I don't know, physios there that probably work with an athletic population. And so I think it's important to bring that up. All right. I digress. Greg Lehman:               14:14                I did, you were the professional. Karen Litzy:                   14:20                So one common misconception is that we don't have to fix everything and not just the biological part, but the psychosocial part as well. Is there any other, maybe one other common misconception around pain and its sources that you hear a lot or you see a lot? Greg Lehman:               14:40                I mean if I had to say anything, it's like it's the relationship between bio motor abilities, which would be like strength and flexibility and pain. I think that it’s over sold. You know, I don't think posture is relevant. I don't think strength or motor control is irrelevant. I just think it gets over done in that, that to me is that kinesio pathological model, which I have a big issue with, which would be like your knee goes into Valgus, you're going to pay for it later and you're going to get knee pain or hip pain. And, I'm like, well if your knee hurts and it goes into Valgus it's certainly a reasonable option to avoid that for a little bit. And then you might recover cause it's an avoidance strategy and build yourself back up and you'll do great. But I think what often happens is we then say, well, you went into valgus and it hurt, therefore valgus is inherently wrong and we need to make rules for everyone on how they should function. I hardly saw you when we were in Denver together, but I gave that whole, I forgot about that. We just saw each other, sorry, I was with Betty the whole time. I couldn't hang out with you guys. And so that I gave that example of limping, like when you sprain your ankle. Karen Litzy:                   16:06                That example was great. Greg Lehman:               16:08                Yeah. You sprained your ankle and it feels better to limp. That's totally reasonable. But no one would then conclude that we all should be limping. That that's the right way to move. When I see like people I really respect, like Shirley Sahrmann or Jill Cook who will, you know, say avoid hip abduction, right? It's so horrible on the tendon, on the outside of the hip or is so bad on the knee. And I'm like, yeah, it's reasonable for symptom modification but I don't want to make a general rule and that happens too much and then we're too quick to be like, well just cause someone got better with exercises that try to change those movement patterns. That doesn't mean that's why that treatment was successful. Often those rehab programs that try to change movement patterns are like amazingly comprehensive and excellent rehab programs. And then you have like awesome therapists like you know, Stuart McGill or Shirley Sahrmann who just like build in this graded self efficacy and pump them up and they tell them you can do whatever you like. Let's just change your movement patterns and start doing this stuff you love again, may have nothing to do with the movements. It's just like the person was like, wow, I'm awesome, you're awesome. Let's do it. Karen Litzy:                   17:26                I think you can’t sort of parcel out one part of that complete treatment program and say this is the thing that worked. This is why this worked. I mean, you can't do that. I think that's impossible. Greg Lehman:               17:37                No. And it's certainly the same with the people who I really love, like Peter O'Sullivan and that whole group when they help people, like I don't really agree. I'm such a jerk. I don't always agree with their mechanisms because when I see Pete treat, he's just so confident. It's like, you can do this, you can do this and bend over and do this and do this. And like, and I would never practice that way. I just couldn't pull it off. But I can imagine how much he helps people. That's actually why I really respect him. What he does really well. When he tests RCTs, he doesn't test himself. He trains people and other people do it. So, I actually shouldn't, I'm not knocking his research. I can't get to his style because he's so confident. It's absolutely really honorable what he does where he's like, I'm not going to be the dude that's in the RCT and train people and then we'll do the studies on them, which is just, that's nice science. Karen Litzy:                   18:34                Yeah, for sure. And all of those people you mentioned also have great reputations. People are referred to them when nothing else works. And so as the patient, you're like, well I know this person's the expert. Karen Litzy:                   18:49                Right. So I think in the patient mind they're thinking, if anyone can fix me, yeah, it's going to be this person. And I think that that also plays into it. Greg Lehman:               19:00                I just opened my own little clinic out of my house. We have like a little gym. It used to be a workshop and now it's a clinic gym and I have nothing on the walls. And I'm like, how can I placebo the hell out of this? So that's my answer. I like art. I want to put up like, no, I should put up like placebo shit. Like what was like going to make me look amazing? Karen Litzy:                   19:25                Yeah. Well you can put up like awards you've gotten put up your degrees. People will be like, look at how many degrees he has. Look at all of his qualifications. He must be amazing. Greg Lehman:               19:37                Yeah. Maybe, I don't know. Karen Litzy:                   19:41                You see that a lot in the US like when you walk into an office, the degrees and the licenses and certifications, right? Greg Lehman:               19:46                All that weekend certifications, all that nonsense. After I teach, I always tell everyone, like, whenever you want me to write on your certificate, I will write levels six fascial blaster done, master Fascia blaster. I don't care. It's all bullshit. Karen Litzy:                   20:03                Biomechanics. Does it matter? Greg Lehman:               20:07                Since the sport conference let's start. They definitely matter for performance. We got to listen to our coaches and the physios. But biomechanics and technique matter for performance. So if you want to tell someone to sit up straight, yeah, it's totally reasonable to do that if you're thinking how they're going to function 30 years from now. So that's great advice. And then, it's like a question of when they matter after that. And so I kind of Parse it into a few different areas of when they matter. The big one for me is like what's more important, is it's not how you move, it's that you're prepared to do what you're doing. So make the mechanics and the loads on the person matter. Greg Lehman:               20:59                But it's the movement preparation. So my pithy expression is preparation trumps quality, right? Something like that. And then the other way or the other area where they matter is this symptom modifications. So if it hurts to do something, like if you're a runner and your knees hurt and you heel strike and you have a long stride, it's totally reasonable to shorten your stride, maybe changed your foot strike, although that's debatable, but it could serve it is certainly is an option. And if it feels better, keep running like that. So the mechanics there help but it doesn't prove, you know, the thesis that there's a right way of running. It's just that you're running differently cause another run or you're going to be like stop forefoot striking and actually lengthen your stride. I've done that plenty of times. So you're just symptom modifying. Greg Lehman:               21:45                So mechanics help a ton for symptom modification. And then you know there's probably under high high loads, there's probably better ways for your tissue to tolerate strain. You know, like if you're landing and cutting you can go into valgus but you probably don't want to go into Valgus if your knee's not flexed. Right. So high loads where the tissue gets overloaded matters. And then after that with that principal there, it gets more difficult because you start thinking of the spine and you're like, okay, is there a better way for the spine to tolerate loads? And that's where we have been debating biomechanical principles here because certainly the bio does drive nociception sometimes. And so those are the big areas for me where biomechanics matters. Sorry I went over that fast. Karen Litzy:                   22:39                I think that makes perfect sense. And I mean, I don't know if you saw this since you are probably more into tumbling and gymnastics than I am.  I haven't seen this yet. But did you see yesterday a gymnast broke both of her legs or something. Greg Lehman:               23:01                I saw that by accident. I won't see it again. Karen Litzy:                   23:02                But I don't know what happened there. Greg Lehman:               23:07                I think it may have been in a double Arabian or a double front tack and she landed and then hyper extended. And what freaked me out a little, only saw it once and I'm not gonna see it again, is I don't think she landed with straight knees. They were like bent and then they went into extension like, which freaks me out because my daughter's learning front and I'm doing them with her front tuck step outs, and you kind of land on that one leg and it's straight ish. And I was worried of extending. Karen Litzy:                   23:46                Yeah. I mean I haven't seen the footage of that, so I was just wondering if that would be a time when biomechanics mattered or just an accident. Greg Lehman:               23:55                It certainly did. But here's the problem with all the biomechanics mattering stuff, is it the mechanics mattered and caused the injury. It's just whether you can prevent it. Yeah. It's like so many ACLs. Someone might cut 10,000 times with their knee in valgus. Well, that's proof of principle, that they're safe and then they do it one way that's slightly different and then they tear their ACL. But it doesn't mean that the way they were doing it before was unsafe because they could have had less valgus pattern before and then they could have done that too. Like, yeah, I don't know. It's difficult. Karen Litzy:                   24:34                Yeah, and I think when you're talking about injury prevention, I mean that's a whole other conversation. But I think that so many factors go into that as well. It's sleep, it's nutrition. It's what did you do the day before or was the beginning of the game, the end of the game? Are you fatigued? Are you not? I mean, so much can go into that. So yeah, you can cut 10,000 times and one time you have an injury. It doesn't mean that the way you did it was incorrect. It doesn't mean that the preparation leading up to it, it could have been that day. It could have been what you did the night before. I mean, so many factors and elements that go into something, some sort of accident or injury like that, which is why injury prevention programs are difficult. Greg Lehman:               25:25                Yeah. And, and we see them running, you know, like we've been saying the same thing for years. So you don't have training errors, which just means don't do too much too soon. And then you try to nail it down in the research and you say, well, what's too much and what's too soon? And then there's no real good research on that, right? Because there's so many different variables that influence that. So my joke tonight, we're arguing not we were talking on Twitter about this. I'm like, well, we can probably all agree when it's like just looks ridiculously like too much too soon. And that's the pornography test, right? Which is your old Supreme Court justice is either pornography or obscenity and they're like, I can't define pornography, but I know when I see it. And so when a movement pattern or a training load is pornographic than maybe you avoid it or depending on your personality. Karen Litzy:                   26:17                Right. Well, you mean it just gets a point where it's so obscene. Greg Lehman:               26:20                It's so obscene. You say, ah, that's probably some of them. But it has to be that and who knows? That's the worst part is there's probably people who can handle that obscenity. And I stopped this analogy because I dunno, they're built for it. They prepared to handle. Karen Litzy:                   26:41                All right. Let's talk about being a movement optimist. Yes. So for those of people watching and listening that aren't familiar with this, can you talk about it a little bit more and how this came about? Greg Lehman:               27:02                Well, I mean, I have already, I've already said all the good stuff I've run out of material. Karen Litzy:                   27:08                I can't, I can't even believe for a second. That's true. You're not like your greatest hits album. Greg Lehman:               27:18                I was in Denmark and they gave me this little bobble head that you've pressed the top of and the whole thing like bounces. And it's funny, I was in Scandinavia three or four years ago and they gave me the same thing. It's like this thing that I would get there, but it's called a hop to mist. I loved it. My kids have it anyways, so what it means is like we need to stop vilifying like certain movements. You know, like when you look at someone's skateboarding, their knees are going to cave in and it's amazing and it's a successful movement pattern. If you rock climb and you were just at a birthday party. Karen Litzy:                   28:01                I was  at a rock climbing birthday party yesterday for my 10 year old niece. Greg Lehman:               28:05                Well, I doubt they were doing it, but there's something called a drop knee, which is what I do on a climb is, is you can do it. I'm not doing it. You put your foot up behind you almost and drop your knee down into valgus and then stand up on that and you go into that. Karen Litzy:                   28:24                There are actually some more like real climbers there and they were doing that. There are a couple of people doing that move. Cause I remember my friend that I was with was like, oh my God, look at that person's knee. How is she doing that? Greg Lehman:               28:37                Yeah. And so Alex Honnold is a famous rock climber. They just won the Oscar for Free Solo Yosemite without a rope. But I have sometimes he's in another documentary about Yosemite. I've filmed it when he's in it because he sits like me. He's like super hunched forward with the super forward head posture. And here he is climbing, you know, these massive granite walls and that's a movement optimists, it says you can do all these weird funny things with your body and still be fantastic. You can be a paralympian where you're missing a limb than have induced, you know, assymmetry that you can have scoliosis and make it to the Olympics. You can have scoliosis and lift five times your body weight. And so that's the optimism. It's this revolt a bit against the kinesio pathological model, which to me is certainly has value. Greg Lehman:               29:39                It's certainly has treatment efficacy because I like the treatments that are associated with it, but the fundamental ideas behind it that there's like bad ways to move or better ways to move for injury and pain, that's what I would challenge. I'd be like, let's be more optimistic about how we move, you know, we don't have to always fix these things right now is go and anytime someone like me talks and says to people, all you can move this way, you always want to look for exceptions, right? When you're in practice, like, when should I, you know, disregard what I think, like when you know, when is how someone moves. Like when is that important? You know that and that'll help him be a better clinician. I think. I always challenge challenging whatever you think is true. It makes it difficult. Karen Litzy:                   30:40                Yeah. But I think having that as a clinician, having that sense of doubt is not a bad thing. Greg Lehman:               30:48                Yeah. I mean, I'm going to want to agree with you. Sorry. It was like, why am I listening to this guy? It's like, but then there's those clinicians that get people better by sheer force of personality. They have that utmost belief in what they do, even when they may be full of shit. And so that's how it was hard. Karen Litzy:                   31:16                I have a great example of that, I'm not going to go into it right now. Greg Lehman:               31:25                Now you also have to wake up in the morning and be happy with yourself, so. Karen Litzy:                   31:29                This'll be an easy one for you. What is the most common question you get asked by other physio therapists? If you could say whether it's maybe they private message you or at your courses or lectures. What is the most common question that other physios or healthcare providers ask you? Greg Lehman:               31:59                Oh, that's funny. I didn't read this one before, but a few things. But usually it's like what's the paper that you mentioned? And then I have to like come up with a name and I usually know it, but the bigger one is this is what I do with people. This is not what you talked about, but tell me why it's helping them. That's, what I get a lot, they want validation and then they want to like, you know, tell me their theories of things, but really tell me they want me to tell them why it's great. It's like what the mechanism is. Karen Litzy:                   32:47                That's why it's okay. Looking for just your confirmation. Greg Lehman:               32:54                Confirmation and then like, and then trying to like find out why it works. Like they want me to do the research behind it, I'm going to go. Okay. So what do you say? I mean it depends. Like I probably do like the motivational interviewing thing where I roll a bit with towards distance and I just probably, it's pretty bad, but I probably just read say are actually depends if I've met them before, I'll just talk about the general things that help pain and I'll say maybe it's working this way, but I don't, that's all I do if I think they're totally off base. I don't think I ever really say that. I don't know if I've ever done that. Karen Litzy:                   33:49                Now, and you kind of alluded to this in your answer there, but if you could recommend one must read book or article, what would it be? And if you want to say one book and one article, but just one. Greg Lehman:               34:06                Yeah. You know what I'd go old sounds funny saying old school, but I would read David Butler's the sensitive nervous system. So good. Yeah, it is. Cause it's not only good in like a pain, but if when you read that he's just throwing out little ideas all the time. Like it would be nice for me to reread and just pull out his anecdotes and like little things that he says to do because there's things that I do and I thought, oh, this is kind of neat. And I thought I'd discovered them myself. I thought I'd, you know, you know, found it myself and then I'm realizing here at, he said it 20 years ago or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That, and then like his former partner would been Louie Gifford and I've only read parts of his books, but I've read some of his other writings and I like his stuff too. But David Butler's the central nervous system, which is just, and it's what, 15 years old, but it's still plenty accurate. Karen Litzy:                   35:07                Yeah. Yeah. And for people who are listening or watching, I can plug that into the comment section, when this is done. All right, so let's move on to the conference. October 4th and fifth in Vancouver, the Third World Congress is sports physical therapy. So can you give us a little bit of a glimpse into what you're going to be talking about? Greg Lehman:               35:32                Not really. I am talking with Alex Hutchinson who's kind of a friend of mine here in Toronto, like the same kind of know those same people. Karen Litzy:                   35:46                You run in the same crowd. Greg Lehman:               35:53                Like, you know, like we rock climb together. We've been to some similar weddings. I've known Alex for awhile and I love his stuff and I always pump up his stuff in my courses. That's what's funny. And then when they put him with me, I was like, this is awesome. Because I always talk about the psychobiological model of fatigue, which is that fatigue is kind of a nice analog for pain. That it's not just purely physiology, that there's a psychology component to fatigue. And I'm like, Whoa, we should talk about this because look how this area of function relates to pain. But so we're talking together on like this massive nebulous talk topic of pain science and athletes. Karen Litzy:                   36:44                Yeah. Yeah. That's a heavy one. I listening to his book Endure right now. Greg Lehman:               36:48                Yeah. See I like the breath holding stuff in there. Karen Litzy:                   36:55                That's the chapter I'm on now, which I can't even fathom. Greg Lehman:               37:13                So go, go online and find David Blaine's breath holding stuff. He needs to have the breath holding record. He did. But he could also do like eight minutes without that. I used to hold my breath in church all the time to pass the time. But breath holdings interesting because if you just hold your breath right now, you might make it 30 seconds, but you can train yourself to make it for four minutes. And so within like a few days if not an hour. So it means your physiological reaction to try to breathe is way over cooked. And that often happens with persistent pain. We do this protective response. So I've been talking about breath holding for years and then Alex's book came out and I'm like perfect. Now I can refer people to that way better down. But so like finding analogs between weird things about pain and then interesting things about performance or breath holding is really nice. Greg Lehman:               38:04                So we've been talking, we were probably going to go rock climbing and then we're going to try to maybe come up with something that parallels each other. I will probably, I'm guessing talk about like how we, I like doing something really practical, like instead of saying this, which might have a negative connotation to some patients, like set them up to have some, you know, less than good expectations say this instead. So, you know, like the diet stuff, don't eat this, eat this. Well it would be the same idea with explaining common running injuries. Which we'll probably talk about, cause Alex’s a runner and I'm a slow runner. So mine will probably be something like that. Just met her way to phrase things. And because everyone always says to me like, okay, well what the hell do I do then if I don't tell them that they have SI joint pain cause it's out of place than what the hell do I say? No, no, not yet. Yeah, I think. And then that's really fun and it's a nice end. We'll have time to talk about it too because there'll be a lot of wisdom in the room and hopefully we'll maybe pull that out. Karen Litzy:                   39:22                Yeah, that sounds great. And I really appreciate those kinds of conversations because then I know that I can kind of take that and use that with my patient population on Monday. Or Tuesday, whatever day. But you know, the next day in clinic. Greg Lehman:               39:38                That's the idea. I don't want to hammer people with research. I know I won't do that. That's for sure. That's easy. I could do that. And it'll be entertaining by your life. Go. Well I got some more research, but it'll probably be more practical. Right. And we're real, more practical story. Karen Litzy:                   39:52                Nice. And I look forward to, you know, the two of you speaking together, I think we'll be entertaining and educational and I look forward to that kind of play that you guys will most likely have off of each other. I’m reading his book and you brought the bread holding, which is exactly where I am. And it reminded like in the breath holding chapter, you know, he said like the people who had like, who broke these records or who could really hold their breath the longest are the people who knew that someone was there to pull them up if they needed it. Yeah. And so when I think about that as it compares to pain, like especially persistent pain, I wonder if you knew like you had an out, would that pain still be as persistent? So that's what got me thinking listening to this chapter was like, hmm, if you knew your pain had a safety net, how would that change your view of your pain? Greg Lehman:               41:03                Oh, that's interesting. No, and I think what you're talking about has actually more ramifications for the negative aspects, right? Because most people think, oh, this will pass, but there's some that think that this won't pass. And Yeah. And that's why there is no optimism. And that's of building that where, there's no reason for them to think that it will change. And that's kind of what we have to do is build that model that there's a possibility for change. Karen Litzy:                   41:35                Yeah. And before we're going to wrap things up in a second, but Kate Pratt said, well, I find one of the greatest sources of misinformation to patients about pain and biomechanics is their MD/ortho. As PTs we hopefully consistently educate our patients. Do you think it's possible to educate MD’s or orthos regarding pain and how would you begin to approach such a scenario? So I think she means as the individual clinician with, you know, the referring physician or the physician who's seeing that patient. Greg Lehman:               42:11                Yeah. I mean in general, I think that's a problem across the board of all professions. How we change our colleagues, view the docs, like our colleagues. And I'm not really sure cause you would assume that has to happen at a school level, right at the training there and at a conference level. So it's really conferences in schools who are open to, you know, providing the different messages there. But I would say, and we've talked a lot about this is when you do have patients who have these beliefs from their doctors or other healthcare providers, which is super common, there are routes that you can, you know, still address those beliefs without throwing the doctor under the bus and that’s what you have to figure out. So often it's more like acknowledging yeah, that's, you know, you have hip pain because he has OA or something you can say that's part of it. Greg Lehman:               43:15                This is the my optimism approach. Yeah. The hip OA is part of your hip pain, but you can still do great even though you have those changes on the scan. And that often really helps, especially with when physios and like we're navigating referral sources. And it's so funny that you bring, I just got, I just like 10 minutes ago before we started, I got a referral from a sport MD who was in the course. I taught with JFS school. On running five years ago and said, are you seeing patients? And like it was so funny that she was in the course because you don't normally see MDs. Yeah. You know, taking courses with the PTs. Great to do that. And so that's how we have to change. You use it somehow get into that educational system. Karen Litzy:                   44:01                Yeah, I agree. And from a one on one. I think it's difficult. I mean Karen Litzy:                   44:11                What I've done once that worked with the referring physician was, you know, I said, hey, you know, we're doing this, this, this and this, but I found this article, do you want to take a look and let me know what you think? Cause I'm thinking of incorporating it. And it was like an, I don't know, I think it was an article, Moseley or Peter O'sullivan. And so I sent them that and then he was like, oh yeah, that's really interesting. Yeah, definitely start doing that. So that's a way you can kind of maybe start. Greg Lehman:               44:44                Yeah. O he or she just rolled with your resistance maybe. No, I totally agree. Yeah. I think we're good. Karen Litzy:                   45:00                It's so hard, but it's a way to be diplomatic. It's a way to say, you know, I don't know. Greg Lehman:               45:08                I really liked that you just sold a good treatment plan and then you gave them other research behind it. That's nice. Yeah. That's probably better than saying you're an idiot. Karen Litzy:                   45:20                Yeah. Well, yeah. But I mean I also find that like I had one doctor that came back to him and he's also a good friend of mine. He was like, that's really interesting. Like we need to talk more about it. Oh, that's cool. Which is awesome, you know? But he's also a friend began, you know, we played softball together. So it's like the different opinions. Karen Litzy:                   46:01                Chris Johnson said to say thanks for carving out the time you need to stop picking your eye. Always exercise diplomacy and avoid creating a disconnect. It doesn't accomplish anything. And that's in regards to Kate's question that we just tried to answer. Like I'm bringing a course to New York City and we're going to have like a free two hour preview of it and just invite doctors. Greg Lehman:               46:44                Wow. Karen Litzy:                   46:45                That's, you know, one way to do it if you want to get them involved in the educational process with Physios, which I think is great. Greg Lehman:               46:52                One of my best course ever in Toronto here was, we had three physiatrists that came and they were fantastic. That's awesome. Go into this stuff. It was a bit, some of it seemed a bit new, but they're open and like, and then the email to everyone after and they share their experiences. I love when you have multi disciplinary people at the course. There are some, I mean I'm not throwing MDs under the bus. They certainly, it's so hard. I have a friend who was an MD and he's like the best motivational interviewer. He was so good. Like he knew this thing is that as patients had to do, but you know, in Canada you only have eight minutes with them. Yeah. And there or whatever. Anyways, so I'm off topic. Karen Litzy:                   47:42                So let's wrap things up here. Are there any presentations you're looking forward to seeing at the conference? Greg Lehman:               47:48                Rob Whiteley. Yeah. I really like is like career and that the stuff he's done and what he's doing there, you know. I'm a socialist I like exercise for everybody and I like the name to change things. But I have trouble like arguing with exercise. It's amazing. It's jam packed like there, there's so many. So that's one of the reasons I wanted to go cause you know, I would have, it'd be nice to go to that conference as well. Karen Litzy:                   49:22                Well, I am looking forward to your talk with Alex. I will obviously finish his book within the next week, so that's very exciting. And I've already taken your class and read your free resource. So I feel like I'm like ready for it. Greg Lehman:               49:39                I'll bring something new. Karen Litzy:                   49:42                I'll come armed with lots of questions. All right. So before we hop off, where can people find you? Greg Lehman:               49:49                Just my website I guess, which is Greglehman.ca. Which I hardly do anything on and then Twitter, same thing. Twitter is my favorite. I like the discussions on Twitter, even cultivate them, trying to keep them polite and nice and you know. So Facebook, Nah, it's for the trolls. Karen Litzy:                   50:15                I think. Yeah, I guess it depends anyway. Again, a whole other conversation. Yes. Greg Lehman:               50:21                No, I'm doing a big thing on Facebook right now. I shouldn't say that. Greg Lehman:               50:29                Yeah. Cause we have like a podcast with me and Oh, I have a podcast, I guess. Never. It's, well it's Adam, it's Meakins podcast, but I'm the cohost so I guess is mine. I don't know. When do you get part of that? I've done three with them. I'm just baggage. I'm a carry on. Karen Litzy:                   50:52                Yeah. I think, I think you need, you need a little bit more. I don't think that three really qualifies as like a permanent cohost. Greg Lehman:               51:01                Oh yeah, yeah. I don't think I want that. Karen Litzy:                   51:03                No, no, no. You're still like a guest cohost, give it a couple more and then I think you're in. Greg Lehman:               51:08                Okay. Well we're doing like a thing on neurodynamics like their dynamic techniques. And so I wanted to poll people and see what people thought. You know, I was curious what people thought, what the hell we were doing when we do them for that. Karen Litzy:                   51:27                I use them, I use them. And oftentimes in people who are a little fearful of movement. Greg Lehman:               51:33                Yeah. So what does that tell you what you're doing? Or you really like manipulating the nerve to, you know, feed them more oxygen or something. Getting someone moving again? Karen Litzy:                   51:45                I think you're getting someone moving again, I think you're taking them to a place where they can stay within a relative comfort zone and you can kind of see, I think what I use it is because you can see some changes pretty quickly. And so I think patients then get a little more confident that they can move because they can see those changes pretty quickly. So that's why I like to use them is to give people some hope. Greg Lehman:               52:15                It’s a modification. Karen Litzy:                   52:18                So that's why I use them, but I use them quite a bit just because I think, I think that they work very well. The only time I don't use them was really with like one person who said I was doing all these nerve glides and now it made my arm so much worse. Greg Lehman:               52:37                It's like everything. Karen Litzy:                   52:38                You know, but I don't know how many, what they were doing, why they were doing them, what explanation they were given. I have no idea that I just sort of held off for a little bit and had the move a different way. But yeah. So that's why I use them. Karen Litzy:                   52:59                So if no one else has any questions. So Agnes said that she'll play softball with me in Vancouver. Greg Lehman:               53:08                Tell her I’m going trampolining and rock climbing. Karen Litzy:                   53:15                I would go trampolining but I really just like bungee trampoline. Greg Lehman:               53:19                Let's do stuff. Karen Litzy:                   53:20                Well you're attached to a bungee and then you obviously go down and then you can go up and flip like two, three times in the air and come back down again. You can't twist, but I did do a double layout. Yeah, it was pretty cool. But yeah, I would definitely play softball. I will bring my glove and I can do some trampolining. I wouldn't have done it 10 years ago or five years ago because of my neck, but now I can do it. Yeah, totally can. Karen Litzy:                   54:14                Just so people know when Greg and I were at the align conference a couple of weeks ago in Denver, Colorado and he had his daughter Betty with him cause it was her birthday weekend and she was his personal photographer just so that it made him look better than everyone else because he had personal Paparazzi. And she was just super adorable and doing back walkovers and she probably would've done a lot more, but we were at a conference on the first day. Karen Litzy:                   55:21                She was very sweet and that's who we're talking about. All right. And I’m going to edit all of this out before I put it out on a podcast. Thank you everyone so much for listening and sorry for rambling at the end. If no one else has any questions, I just want to thank you all for listening and make sure you go and click on the link on this Facebook page. Should take you to the website for the Third World Conference in sports physical therapy. Again, it's October 4th and fifth, and Vancouver. Greg is speaking with Alex Hutchinson and I think that's going to be a highlight of the conference. You don't want to miss it. So Greg, thanks so much for hopping on the call and sorry for the technical difficulties. Thank you so much and we'll try and put all the information that we spoke about in the comments section here. So thanks everybody. And Greg, thanks again.     Thanks for listening and subscribing to the podcast! Make sure to connect with me on twitter, instagram  and facebook to stay updated on all of the latest!  Show your support for the show by leaving a rating and review on iTunes!

On today’s episode, Greg Duncan is joining the podcast! Greg has been developing eDiscovery software applications since his days at the now-defunct, Arthur Andersen. And he continued to develop eDiscovery applications over the next 10 years at KPMG, a time of continuous change and innovation in the world of eDiscovery and information governance. As a Microsoft and Visual Studio .NET MVP and certified Scrum master, Greg has been blogging and podcasting substantive technology information for many years. His dedication for research in tandem with his vast experience brings forth relevant and useful information that could be applied to all aspects of legal technology. And, you may recognize him as a host on Radio TFS!   Greg has been putting a lot of effort into the Ops side of DevOps. In this episode, he gives his wisdom and thoughts around the Ops side of DevOps, what he sees going on across teams and his suggestions on how to fix these all-too-common problems, how to influence the combining of Dev and Ops at your organization regardless of your control (or lack thereof), and much, much more! Tune in!   Topics of Discussion: [:48] About today’s guest, Greg Duncan. [1:43] Jeffrey welcomes Greg on to the podcast. [3:09] Greg gives a rundown of his career journey! [9:10] The story of how Radio TFS got started. [11:02] What Greg sees in the Ops side of DevOps across teams. [18:47] If it’s out of your control to combine the Dev and the Ops, what can you do? [22:45] Discussing the third way of DevOps: continuous learning, and why it is so crucial. [26:45] Discussing AIOps and Alexa. [30:05] Talking about the benefits of utilizing Azure Application Insights. [32:41] Discussing the concept of, and movement of, separating a deployment from a release. [35:41] Jeffrey and Greg speak about implementing feature flag services. [37:51] Greg gives his recommendations for those looking to improve their Ops and DevOps.   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Clear Measure (Sponsor) — Reach out if you have a user group or conference and would like some free copies of .NET DevOps for Azure! Greg Duncan (LinkedIn) Radio TFS Microsoft Build Conference .NET DevOps for Azure, by Jeffrey Palermo The Azure DevOps Podcast Episode - “Party with Palermo at the Microsoft MVP Summit” The Azure DevOps Podcast Episode - “Edward Thomson on All Things Git, libgit2, and Azure DevOps” “DevOps: Is AIOps Just Yet Another Almost Meaningless Acronym?” by Greg Low Azure Application Insights Datadog DevBlogs.Microsoft.com/DevOps — Visit for Ed Thomson’s ‘Top Stories’ from the past week Azure DevOps Labs   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

What if I told you that just about everything you think you know about wealth and prosperity is WRONG? That the platitudes you hear about ‘following your passion’ and ‘turning thoughts into things’ are, at best, misleading and may be sending you down the wrong path? So, what is it that the super-wealthy and successful understand that you and I do not? What separates a millionaire from a billionaire? And what lessons can we learn from the stories of today’s most iconic figures? Serial entrepreneur Greg Reid is a bestselling author, keynote speaker and filmmaker. Tapped by the Napoleon Hill Foundation to continue the Think and Grow Rich legacy, Greg has had the good fortune to sit down with the most successful contemporary leaders and learn how they persevered through challenging times and capitalized on unexpected opportunities. He has been named one of Entrepreneur magazine’s Top 5 Keynote Speakers and Entrepreneur of the Year by the United Nations’ Novus Summit, among many other awards and honors. Today on the podcast, Greg joins Oliver to turn conventional wisdom on its head and share the secrets he learned from interviewing the most successful people in today’s world, including Steve Wozniak, Evander Holyfield and Ferruccio Lamborghini. He explains why people in the 100 Million Dollar Club tend to be unhappy (while billionaires are content) and discusses what’s wrong with ideas like ‘thoughts are things’ and ‘pursue your passion and the money will follow.’ Listen in for Greg’s insight on turning obstacles into opportunity and learn how to apply the lessons of the wealthy to find success in YOUR life! Key Takeaways [0:06] The greatest lessons Greg learned interviewing today’s iconic figures Most important attribute = perseverance Turn obstacles into opportunities [4:23] Why ‘follow your passion and the money will follow’ is a lie Look for and capitalize on unexpected opportunity THEN use the money to finance your passion [9:10] Why people with hundreds of millions are unhappy Grinding to hit magic #, no work-life balance [12:47] What Greg learned from the Lamborghinis Create product, good or service people will save for [14:55] The value in partnering for joint ventures Do more of what feeds you Sell to few who find applications [17:49] The concept of CPC Clues, patterns + choices Accountability for everything that happens [19:29] Greg’s secret to writing a bestseller Don’t write it (partner w/ top ghostwriter, editor) Work strengths, hire weaknesses [22:14] The lessons Greg learned from Re/Max founder Dave Liniger Prove yourself right (vs. proving others wrong) Follow the knowing and DO NOT QUIT [28:04] Greg’s top takeaways from interviewing Evander Holyfield Hold yourself to higher standard Don’t focus on pain [32:43] Greg’s take on the idea that ‘thoughts are things’ 64K thoughts/day, most are ANTs Thoughts backed by ACTION become things [34:46] What Greg is investing in at present Real estate, crypto and his businesses (feature film, pharma) Invest in self with experiences [38:59] Greg’s approach to adventure trips Follow successful actions of others Seek counsel before run with bulls, climb Kilimanjaro Connect with Greg Greg’s Website Greg on Facebook Greg on Twitter Greg on Instagram Greg on LinkedIn Greg on YouTube Books by Greg Connect with Oliver Big Block Realty Oliver on Facebook Oliver on LinkedIn Resources Three Feet from Gold: Turn Your Obstacles into Opportunities by Sharon L. Lechter and Greg S. Reid Wealth Made Easy: Millionaires and Billionaires Help You Crack the Code to Getting Rich by Dr. Greg Reid Stickability: The Power of Perseverance by Greg S. Reid The Millionaire Mentor: A Simple Way to Get Ahead in Your Work and Life by Greg S. Reid Dave Liniger Jahja Ling Evander Holyfield Thoughts are Things: Turning Your Ideas into Realities by Bob Proctor and Greg S. Reid Grant Cardone John Schwartz

Podcast on the Brink is back for a new episode with hosts Jerod Morris of The Assembly Call and Alex Bozich of Inside the Hall. The show is available weekly.In this edition of the show, Morris and Bozich are joined by former IU and NBA guard Greg Graham for an in-depth conversation that covered many topics. Among them:• Greg gives an update on what he’s been doing since leaving Warren Central back in 2015• Greg reflects on his high school career at Warren Central• On going through the recruiting process back in the 80s and how it compares to going through the process now• Greg talks about the first time Indiana expressed interest in him and his first interaction with Bob Knight• What it was like being a part of Indiana’s famed 1989 recruiting class• What his expectations were going in playing for Knight and whether those expectations met reality• What it was like to be in Knight’s doghouse and why certain guys weren’t able to break through mentally• The infamous locker room tape and Greg’s thoughts on it• Greg’s relationship with Coach Knight today and one thing he makes sure to do every year• Some of Greg’s fondest on court memories at Indiana• Alan Henderson’s knee injury• Greg’s relationship with Calbert Cheaney• The toughest Big Ten road venue and the toughest player he had to guard• Greg’s thoughts on IU basketball’s current state• Knight’s return to campus over the weekend for an IU baseball game• What Greg has incorporated from Knight’s coaching style to the way he approaches the game as a coach

Today’s guest is Greg Leonardo, a Cloud Architect at Campus Management Corp. and Webonology. Greg’s main focus is to help organizations with Cloud adoption and innovation. He’s been working in the IT industry since his time in the military (1993), and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. He’s worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is the President of TampaDev — a community meetup that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events throughout Tampa. Recently, he’s written his first book, Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way — which focuses on addressing the architectural decisions that usually arise when you design or migrate a solution to Microsoft Azure. It takes readers through getting started with Azure by understanding tenants, subs, and resource groups; helping them to decide whether to “lift and shift” or migrate apps; plan and architect solutions in Azure; build ARM templates for Azure resources; develop and deploy solutions in Azure; understand how to monitor and support your application with Azure; and more. In today’s episode, Greg and Jeffrey discuss the components of Greg’s new book and dive deep into topics such as; architecture, app service environments, web apps, web jobs, Windows Containers, and more.   Topics of Discussion: [:52] About today’s guest and topic of discussion. [1:25] Jeffrey welcomes Greg to the podcast. [1:42] Greg gives a background of his career and how he originally got into software and the IT industry. [3:22] About Greg’s brand new book, Hands-On Cloud Solution with Azure. [4:49] How Greg decided what topics to cover in his book about Azure. [7:23] Where to find Greg’s book. [7:36] Greg talks about some of the highlights of his book, starting with how to think about architecture. [10:32] What is an app service environment (ASE)? [10:58] Greg gives a rundown of what listeners need to be thinking about in terms of the building blocks for web apps, web jobs, app service plans, etc. [14:21] Greg explains the architectural elements of a web application. [16:28] When should someone really spend some time learning Windows Containers? [21:29] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast’s sponsor: Clear Measure. [21:58] Greg explains the architectural options in Azure for an offline job. [25:50] Greg’s take on web jobs. [26:49] What is it that makes functions a higher price point than web jobs? [31:05] How to put an SQL server into Azure. [34:35] What a noisy neighbor is in Azure. [37:15] What Greg recommends listeners follow up on after this episode!   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Greg Leonardo (LinkedIn) GregLeonardo.com Campus Management Corp. Webonology TampaDev Microsoft Ignite Conference Vets inTech Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way, by Greg Leonardo App Service Environment (ASE) VM Backup Windows Containers .NET Core Clear Measure (Sponsor) SQL Server   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

This week's guest is Senior Master Sergeant Greg Butler. Greg shared how he and his team use lean in the U.S. Air Force, some of the barriers to success he's observed, and countermeasures you can use. An MP3 version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn: Quotes that inspire Greg (2:20) Greg's background (4:58) Lean in the Air Force (8:52) What the day-to-day looks like (10:38) Barriers to CI success (12:42) The solutions (13:53) Why things slide backwards (15:37) Finding the balance when it comes to metrics (18:17) The maintenance styles (20:13) The most important component of CI success (22:34) How CI has impacted Greg personally (23:47) Greg's advice for service men and women starting out (25:14) What Greg is most proud of (27:05) Greg's book recommendations (27:52) Greg's final words of wisdom (31:49) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com Greg on LinkedIn Lean Thinking Leading Change Subscribe & Never Miss New Episodes! Click to Subscribe in iTunes If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes. Once you're a subscriber all new episodes will be downloaded to your iTunes account and smartphone. The easiest way for iPhone users to listen to the show is via the free, and incredible, Podcast app. You can download it here. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the Gemba Academy podcast on iTunes. You can also subscribe via Stitcher which is definitely Android friendly. What Do You Think? What's the key to making lean efforts last?

Greg Sinche- From a Stroke at Age 5 to an Ironman Text DRROBBELL to 33444 for Mental Toughness Newsletter 3:28- Greg’s big HINGE moment that happened at just 5 years old. 5:58- How Greg overcame such a huge obstacle at such a young age. 7:15- Why the drive to “prove people wrong” can be such a BIG motivator for success.   8:30- “I deserve to be happy”…the battle with depression that came along with Greg’s journey. 11:50- What Greg learned about himself through pushing his limits. 13:20- “…It’s disproving that little voice in my head…”; Greg talks about the motivators that got him through the tough training days. 14:27- The physical challenges that Greg faces and how he mentally overcomes them. 18:30- THAT feeling of finishing an Ironman. 20:32- What really sticks out to an Ironman competitor looking back on the whole process. 22:14- Greg’s advice for attacking ANY challenge in front of you.   Join The Mental Toughness Newsletter and TEXT DRROBBELL to 33444 ENTER MENTALTOUGHNESS for 15% off at SOS Rehydrate ENTER DRROBBBELL at Getsom.com for 15% off.   If you enjoyed this episode on Mental Toughness, please subscribe on itunes and leave a review Dr. Rob Bell drrobbell.com

This episode Jeffrey brings you a live recording from the Microsoft Ignite event. Today, he’s talking with several people, including Greg Leonardo, an Azure MVP and Cloud Architect; Josh Gaverick, an MVP in Application Lifecycle Management and an Senior Application Architect at 10th Magnitude; Rob Richardson, a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET who also builds web properties for small and medium sized businesses; and Colin Dembovsky, an ALM MVP and Cloud Solution Architect at 10th Magnitude.   Tune in to hear highlights from each of the guest’s panels, what they have enjoyed learning about at the conference, their insights on various topics in the Azure space, their day-to-day work and projects outside of the conference, and their predictions on the future of Azure!   Topics of Discussion: [:40] About today’s episode. [:51] Jeffrey introduces his first guest this episode, Greg Leonardo. [1:55] How Greg journeyed into the Azure space. [2:49] What has been going on in Greg’s local community of Tampa, Florida. [3:59] What Greg and Jeffrey share in common: supporting VetsinTech! [4:48] Greg explains what a front door is in the Azure space. [5:40] Where to find more information about the work Greg is up to. [7:01] Greg explains some of the interesting ideas found in his book. [10:27] A word from Azure DevOps sponsor: Clear Measure. [10:53] Jeffrey introduces the next set of guests: Josh Gaverick, Rob Richardson, and Colin Dembovsky. [11:50] How the conference has been so far for the three of them. [12:23] Highlights from Rob’s talk at the conference. [14:35] What has been Josh’s highlights of the conference thus far and what his talk was about. [17:21] Colin’s highlights at the conference. [19:18] Josh’s insights on SQL Managed Instance. [20:09] About Josh’s other talks at the conference. [21:16] About Rob’s current projects at his job. [24:45] What Colin works on day-to-day. [28:18] About Josh’s current work. [35:27] Recommendations for listeners to check out after this week’s episode! [41:22] Jeffrey asks: five years from now, where are we going to be?   Mentioned in this Episode: Azure DevOps Microsoft Ignite Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure, by Greg Leonardo VetsinTech Clear Measure (Sponsor) Azure Front Door Service GregLeonardo.com SQL Managed Instance The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Fred Brooks Micro Focus Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Windows Containers   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.   Follow Up with Our Guests: Greg Leonardo’s LinkedIn GregLeonardo.com Josh Garverick’s LinkedIn RobRich.net Colin Dembovsky’s LinkedIn

On Episode 68 of The Tennis Files Podcast, I spoke with Gregory Howe about how he decided to quit his job as a 34-year old to travel the world playing professional tennis tournaments in search of an ATP ranking. On top of that, Greg wrote a fantastic book called Chasing Points: A Season On The Pro Tennis Circuit detailing his pursuit of his ultimate dream. I have been reading the book and it truly is a fantastic peek into the life of professional tennis, particularly at the lower levels of the sport where people are struggling to make it to the big stage. Greg set his goal of achieving an ATP ranking almost two decades before he decided to drop everything and travel the world, playing Futures tournaments, finally doing what he set out to accomplish, and then eventually playing Challengers and even ATP Tour events while working a job. You will love Greg's story, as it is a very relatable goal for many players, and he had he stones to go through so much adversity and travel to achieve what he dreamed of doing. I highly recommend you check out Greg's book, Chasing Points: A Season On The Pro Tennis Circuit, as it is extremely detailed and a very entertaining read. It was a pleasure speaking with Greg on the podcast, and I know you'll really enjoy this episode about Greg's journey to achieving his ultimate goal of getting an ATP ranking, no matter what it took. We all dream about getting a pro ranking; even I tried my hand at a Futures event a couple years ago. You can listen to my recap of how my pro tournament experience went here (and check out my amazing cover photo skills while you're at it :) ). Let us know what you think about this episode in the comments below! Time-Stamped Show Notes [5:04] How Greg got his start playing tennis [6:00] Playing with his brother on tour [6:57] Greg’s role models growing up [8:25] The peaks and valleys of his junior career. [10:06] An early pro tournament experience that got Greg hooked on playing the Pro Circuit [11:39] The diversity of players in the Gladstone pro tournament [12:50] The difference between those who bounce back and those who give up when adversity hits [14:23] How Greg’s ultimate goal ended up haunting him throughout his life [15:35] The motivation to want to give his dream 100% effort [16:49] Why Greg quit his job to play the pro circuit, even though he had a solid life going for him and despite the risks of doing so. [18:01] How Greg quit his job and what he said to his boss [19:04] What Greg’s wife (then girlfriend) thought about his decision to quit [19:43] The perks of dating someone who works for an airline [20:58] Financial planning for Greg’s travels around the world playing pro tournaments [22:14] The number of countries Greg traveled to during his pro circuit experience that year [23:47] The difference between the different levels on tour (Futures, Challengers, ATP) and ITF vs ATP organizations [25:55] What drew Greg to the ATP Pro touring life the most [26:49] Getting shots before traveling to tournaments [27:58] How Greg managed to recount his experiences so vividly for the book [29:06] Using huge notebooks to write about his travels [30:03] How much luggage Greg brought around the world [31:45] Giving up 45 minutes into a morning training session with Roger Federer’s former coach in Thailand the day before his Futures tournament [33:21] The biggest ups and downs Greg experienced in the several months leading up to getting his first ATP point [35:42] How Greg came back from a devastating injury and his mindset [36:57] The tournament that got Greg his first ATP point [39:43] What Greg was thinking during the last point of the match that would finally earn him his ATP ranking and achieve his dream Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"Dude, if you're like a hardcore Ketofile, you're probably not going to be aware of the vast majority of research that says otherwise. If you're not spending time on Pub-med, and you're mostly spending time reading blogs and perusing social media, you find yourself in an echo chamber. Then if you get in a discussion and toss those studies out at people, it's not cherry picking, that's just being unaware of what else is out there." How Greg felt about presenting at a fitness conference. - Greg described presenting with Eric Helms and Mike Tuchscherer as a surreal and great experience. [2:00] How Greg started. - The story of how Greg got started in the industry until now, where he is invited to speak internationally. Greg didn’t feel like his formal education is really meaningful. Greg learned out of genuine curiosity as to why things are true. Greg started writing on GregNuckols.com because of the encouragement of his wife. Next, Greg started to offer online training because he was moving cities. Greg decided not to go back to school, and instead worked with his wife, Lindsay, to focus on their online business. [3:00] Greg as a speaker. - Greg doesn’t take himself too seriously, even through his material is very data driven. Greg also doesn’t feel like he is on the same level as others with a more formal education. [7:30] Contradicting studies. - Greg explains why this myth exists and how he recommends you critique research findings. Greg mentions different populations, different methods of data collection, different methods of study design, or statistical change. Greg admits that single studies can be wrong, but that’s where a larger body of research is valuable. [9:30] People caught in an “echo chamber.” - Greg thinks that people are generally not cherry picking, but instead are caught in an echo chamber. If you are not spending time on PubMed, you are simply unaware of the information that is out there. [17:15] Hanlon’s Razor. - "Do not ascribe to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." [19:00] The Dunning-Kruger effect. - What you think you know versus what you actually know. People who didn’t know much on a topic tend to overestimate how much they know. Greg thinks that more people should use the statement, “I think.” [20:30] Keeping up with research. - How crucial is keeping up with research yourself versus relying on a research review? What Greg recommends you do. Most of the time, Greg recommends to let other people model how to interpret research. If you struggle to read a paper, it is likely not relevant to you. Research reviews, such as MASS, are also available. Sometimes, Greg feels that other people’s interpretations of papers are incorrect. [27:15] Thanks for listening - Andy and Greg

This show features Greg Reid, #1 best-selling author, entrepreneur, and the CEO of several successful companies. Get an exclusive preview of his upcoming book Wealth Hack, which spills the secrets to success as told by entrepreneurs worth $100 million to 1 BILLION DOLLARS! Don’t miss out on this exciting show! A few highlights from this interview include: - Analysis of the principles behind Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. - What Greg has learned from working with billionaires. - Discussion about future market projections. - How Greg got developed and sold his first business for $1 million at the age of 39! - The impact of books like Think and Grow Rich and The Ultimate Gift. - An exclusive preview of Greg’s upcoming book Wealth Hack. - How to change your thinking to create more wealth and abundance in your life. - A consideration of passion versus practicality in market opportunities. - Why fear can hold you back from opportunities and achievements. - How what you think about can become your own reality. - Greg’s prediction for where we will be in fifty years. - How automation will have huge economic impacts on the market. - A look at Greg’s upcoming feature film Wish Man. - A debate on the number one principle for personal achievement. - Why Think and Grow Rich is a must-read book. - Greg’s greatest takeaway from his business experiences.

Greg Smith (https://www.thinkific.com/) is our special guest in today's episode of Traffic and Leads Podcast. I am your host one-click Lindsey. Today we have a very exciting guest. He is the founder and CEO of Thinkific (https://www.thinkific.com/). A software platform that makes it easy to create, market and sell online courses (http://blog.thinkific.com/online-courses-consumer-products-make-great-combo/). So today, with Greg, We are going to be talking a lot about online courses, ,  the headaches of online courses and how Greg can help us resolve these headaches. So without further ado, welcome to the show today, Greg! IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN: * What Thinkific is * The definition of online courses * What the process of receiving/subscribing to online courses looks like * Why businesses offer online courses * What Greg’s favorite online courses are * Which niches online courses can be found in * Two major hurdles of creating online courses * How to create an online course * How to get people to buy your online course * Simple solutions for the hurdles one might find * Tips on how to market your course * A list of sites that are helpful for marketing * How Greg uses his YouTube channel to his course’s advantage * What content his YouTube videos contain * How to use keywords to draw in listeners * How to make non-paid forms of advertisement work * What kind of courses Greg offers * About Greg’s LSAT course * How frequently Thinkific hosts webinars * How webinars work as a lead generation and opt-in tool * About Greg’s most successful opt-ins * How often Greg releases blog posts * SEO – how much time Thinkific puts into it * Why Greg has mixed reviews about SEO * Whether Greg does pay-per click ads, branded and non-branded search, etc. * How Greg hit a 28% conversion on one webinar * About Thinkific’s email marketing strategy

Greg Rutherford, MBE is a British track and field athlete who specialises in long jump. He won Gold and Bronze at the London and Rio Olympic Games respectively. WATCH THE FREE FULL EPISODE: http://londonreal.tv/greg-rutherford-strictly-gold/ Chapters: 00:00 Trailer. 01:55 Brian’s thoughts on the episode. 05:27 Brian’s Introduction. 06:03 Being famous. 08:08 What Greg learnt as a competitive sports person from being on Strictly Come Dancing. 19:13 Learning to manage positive and adverse social media. 20:59 Winning Gold at London 2012 Olympics. 24:53 What motivates Greg to win. 26:54 The killer edge, inherent belligerent belief. 33:51 From the red carpet to everything falling apart in 2013. 36:59 Mental strategy for possibility of career ending injury. 38:40 Building foundation for future career path. 40:54 Coping with bitter disappointment at Rio Olympics 2016. 46:42 How Greg gets his body to perform despite injury. 49:36 Taking responsibility for being a role model. 51:33 Performance level and entertainment value of Usain Bolt and Conor McGregor. 1:00:01 Re-igniting public interest in track and field events. 1:02:01 Taking inspiration from Mo Farah. 1:03:56 Carl Lewis’ negative attitude effect on sport. 1:07:31 Performance enhancing drugs use. 1:16:24 Jamaica’s success in athletics. 1:19:31 Drug taking in football and sports where vast sums of money are involved. 1:21:52 How growing up with Jehovah’s Witnesses parents shaped him. 1:26:52 Greg’s book ‘Unexpected’ shows about going off the rails. 1:30:56 Greg’s past body issues. 1:33:01 Without Dan Pfaff Greg wouldn’t be an Olympic Champion. 1:39:37 How Greg turned his life around. 1:43:50 Greg’s forays into skeleton bob and NFL. 1:49:01 Launch of Take Flight, online fitness programme, hopefully to revolutionise the fitness world. 1:58:25 Success secrets. 1:58:55 Wild parties after Olympics. 2:01:34 Why Greg spoke out about Tyson Fury’s remarks. 2:05:05 Phone call to the 20 year old Greg Rutherford. 2:07:27 Best advice ever received. 2:09:07 Advice to the young person listening who wants to succeed in sport. 2:10:29 Brian’s summing up. Show Notes: Greg Rutherford on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregJRutherford Greg Rutherford Team GB: https://www.teamgb.com/athletes/greg-rutherford Greg Rutherford on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Rutherford   Greg Rutherford's Book: Unexpected  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unexpected-Autobiography-Greg-Rutherford/dp/1471162524 FULL SHOW NOTES: http://londonreal.tv/greg-rutherford-strictly-gold/

Following on from part one of my interview with Greg Davies, this week we're bringing you the second part, and this week we get nicely practical in helping you make good decisions… Sponsor Message This podcast is brought to you with the help of Seven Investment Management, a firm of investment managers based in London. They specialise in multi-asset investing, bringing institutional investing techniques to ordinary people like you and me. 7IM put their name to my show and to my site because they believe in what I'm doing, trying to get decent, easy-to-understand financial information out to the world. I'm very grateful to them for their support. You can see what they're up to at 7im.co.uk Beeswax & Ropes: A Framework for Good Decisions Greg Davies is the founder Centapse, where he will further develop the approach to behavioural finance that he has spent years studying. his new firm works with the financial services industry to make investing decisions easier. I think you'll enjoy this chat with Greg if you haven't listened to it before. If you haven't listened to last week's show, I suggest you do that first… In this show, you'll learn: What Greg means by anxiety-adjusted returns his view on the classic investor profiles and the behaviours of each Whether better investment decision-making frameworks be learned About the concept of anchoring and its effect on financial decision-making How can ordinary investors be aware of their own decision making tendencies and adjust if necessary? Three things to look out for and do Three things to look out for and NOT do Resources mentioned in this week's show Book: Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast & Slow Website: Greg Davies' company: Centapse Website: Investment philosophy website at Barclays

Greg Jarmolowich, Co-owner of Greens and Proteins with five locations in Las Vegas, Nevada, joins the A Desire to Inspire with Manny Patrick show to discuss his approach in building multiple seven-figure restaurants and how it's important to eat a piece of humble pie when you are challenged by a customer. Breaking his business process down to a science has helped him and his partner drive steady growth. For anyone interested in starting a restaurant, and surviving in what most will call the “toughest industry,” listen closely to Greg talk about what he does to ensure that the registers are ringing and the customers are coming back. In This Episode You Will Learn About: -Greg's Journey in the food and beverage industry -What Greg's passion is -How Greens and Proteins came to fruition -How his eclectic menu came together -How Greg's exposure to the industry helped him -Greg's biggest challenge opening multiple stores -What motivates Greg -How he controls his ego -What makes his restaurants successful AND MUCH MORE!

TODAY'S GUEST: Greg Caton worked extensively in "designer foods," as well as alternative medicine and nutrition products since 1981. He graduated from L.A. Valley College ('75); am a U.S. Navy veteran ('75-'78), and is the author of 4 books, Lumen: Food for a New Age (1986, an interdisciplinary work on vegetarianism and the role of  meat analogs, with over 45,000 copies in print); MLM Fraud (1991, on corruption in the multi-level marketing industry and the tools to identify the work of its perpetrators -- since banned in the U.S.); Meditopia® (2004-2012: an ongoing project and free online read); and The Gospel of 2012 According to Ayahuasca (another free online read). In 1984 he founded Consumer Express, which later became Nutrition for Life International (briefly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange as "NFLI"). Later I founded Lumen Foods (1986), and its internet site (soybean.com, 1995), which currently manufactures the best-selling vegetarian "meat" snack on the North American continent, Stonewall's Jerquee. In 1995 he created Alpha Omega Labs (herbhealers.com / altcancer.com), which became a provider of over 300 alternative health products with 14 distributors around the world, before its closure by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration in September, 2003. It successfully re-opened in Ecuador in June, 2008. Alpha Omega Labs is best known for Cansema® -- an effective cure for skin cancer, based on suppressed formulary information dating back to the 1850's. Over a 20-year period, Alpha Omega Labs has been responsible for curing thousands of cancer cases. The corruption surrounding the circumstances of its closure (from 2003 to 2008) is one of the topics in the free book called Meditopia®. Connect With Today's guest: GREG CATON Website:  www.Meditopia.org  OR http://www.altcancer.com IN THIS EPISODE: If you took the time to listen to last week's episode - and if you didn't you can always go back and do that - you heard the amazing story of how Greg Caton was pursued and finally imprisoned by the American government because of the threat his herbal remedies became to the prescription drug industry. For many types of cancer, Greg has already found the cure and he's got story after story to prove it. You can hear a handful of those stories on this episode of the show. Once Greg was able to get out of prison he moved his family to South America and learned more about the herbal remedies and medicines that could cure cancer - and he learned how to make them available without interference or disruption from the U.S. government. Greg shares many of the things he's learned, on this episode, including particular remedies for specific types of cancer. A cure for cancer is truly within our grasp, at least for certain types of cancer. Greg Caton has found great success treating many skin cancers, prostate, and ovarian cancer, and others using the herbal medicines he has been taught about while living in South America. During our conversation, Greg and I talk about the use of one of his remedies, “Dragon's Blood,” at length. I was excited to discover all the conditions it could be used to treat. On this episode, Greg Caton and I also discuss the importance of cleansing routines and the benefits they can bring. He discusses many of the ways he's gone about cleansing and the herbal tonics he uses to get the greatest effect. If you are in need of detoxification or a bowel cleanse of any kind, this conversation should provide some additional options for you to consider. Before any of you listeners find yourself in a place where you need a cure for cancer it would be a good idea to do some preventative treatments. Greg Caton shares some of the detox routines he has prescribed for the prevention of cancer, on this episode, and finishes up the conversation with 3 of the most important things that anybody can do to improve their quality of life. I encourage you to listen to this episode, take notes, and get in touch with Greg to get some of his remedies. Outline Of This Great Episode [2:00] Deborah's introduction of this part 2 episode of the Greg Caton interview. [3:28] Why you should visit Greg's websites (in the resources below). [4:34] The important thing to understand about anti-cancer herbs. [6:23] The use of “Dragon's Blood.” [10:22] A handful of other amazing products. [18:50] A favorite book to learn about herbs. [19:55] Any experience healing neuropathies? [23:00] Detoxification and bowel cleanses. [29:40] What Greg would do if he were diagnosed with cancer. [34:28] Detox routines for cancer prevention. [44:19] 3 things Greg says you can do to improve your quality of life. Resources Mentioned On This Episode www.AlphaOmegaLabs.com www.AltCancer.net www.HerbHealers.com BOOK: Medicinal Plants of Latin America BOOK: The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs BOOK: Dirty Electricity Support (at) herbhealers (dot) com - free consultations